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hey [Music] you guys need to move the check festival [Music] uh thanks for everybody for being here uh if you haven't signed in please do so here on the table uh closest to the door make sure that we get everybody signed in so we know who was here uh so we'll start with approval of the agenda is there any conditions you received a sheet with editions and i need to still add one to that so it's just been a busy busy week uh in the district under f i'd like to do an fc uh wayne dewor board approval of wayne dwarf at central plains high school but other than that i think we're good with the additions just choking all myself to raise your hand motion path and approval of the april 11 regular meeting any comments or [Music] changes from the board huh entertainment motion multiplayer camera second by any public forum thank you and approval of invoices uh you know this month was a lot of school classroom orders that's really the majority of that and food of course uh we did have one on in the second check journal that's in there on page three uh each year our bus drivers have to be recertified in cpr so we had ellsworth county end come out and do that we have the on page five about three quarters of the way down you'll see the kesb a contract that you approved last month there's one in there where my credit card didn't work and you paid me back 30 dollars in gas i think it was but other than that is there anybody has any questions over because i mean a lot of them like i said teachers are in the mode of ordering right now for next school year that's the main things that you'll see in there anybody have any questions on any in particular i know they'll be approved emotional tables are safe second by the camera or favorite and treasure support the agenda doesn't work beginning balance first kansas 167 thousand one hundred forty dollars and thirty four cents deposits three hundred fifty thousand three hundred sixty one dollars two cents checks cashed four hundred ninety one thousand eight hundred six dollars and forty one cents ending bank balance twenty five thousand six hundred ninety four dollars and ninety five cents checks outstanding six hundred twenty seven dollars and twenty eight cents ending balance on hand twenty five thousand sixty seven dollars and sixty seven cents bank of hollywood beginning balance six hundred seventy eight thousand seven hundred three dollars sixteen cents deposits eight hundred twenty seven thousand six hundred eighty eight dollars and seventy three cents checks cashed nine hundred eighty three thousand two hundred forty dollars and fifty nine cents ending bank balance five hundred twenty three thousand one hundred fifty one dollars and thirty cents checks outstanding five thousand three hundred ninety dollars and fourteen cents ending balance on hand five hundred seventeen thousand seven hundred sixty one dollars and sixteen cents wilson cd is one hundred thousand four hundred thirty seven dollars and fifty cents total cash available six hundred forty three thousand two hundred sixty six dollars and thirty three cents the reconciliation report should be in your packet and on page three the cash summary report the last page you can see the ending cash balance matches the cash in the bank which also matches the treasury report so you're reconciled general fund we spent about 418 000 more than we did last last year at this time a lot of that is graduation alliance but we also have you know pay raises going into all that uh lob about 154 000 more than we did a year ago at this time capital outlay about 39 000 less than we had at this time a year ago and food service uh 28k more of course we're serving more meals it's getting more expensive so that is what resulted values thank you and principals cash balances match our reconciliation report and with the pre-k three uh going the five half days i currently have 14 that have signed up so we're planning to only offer a morning session and cap that at 19 because once i get above 19 you have to start hiring pairs every 10.
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so you should be live and broadcasting to the world to the world to the 14 people it's the millions watching around the world all right good evening everyone and welcome to our may 9th board meeting we are going to call to order uh and i will start with a reading of the open public meeting statement so the new jersey open public meetings law was enacted to ensure the rights of the public to have advanced notice of and to attend the meetings of public bodies at which time any business affecting their interests is discussed and acted upon in accordance with the provisions of this act and board of education policy 0162 the board of education of the borough of bound brook has caused notice of this mean to be posted in the board office at bound brook high school and mailed or faxed to the uh courier news bamboo borough clerk southbound board of education and any person who has requested the required fee please rise for the pledge of allegiance to the fire of the united states [Music] uh i will keep my opening comments brief um we actually just got out of a really interesting meeting uh for our operations committee i was fortunate enough to be contacted by uh councilman longo following our last meeting um and we had a chance to sit down with the borough finance committee so councilman gomez and longo and we actually had a really interesting conversation again i'll go through that i think when we get more into the operations committee but it was a positive first step so a conversation among many and i was have uh thankful to have roger and sydney there with me i think we all learned a lot um i wanted to give a quick shout out to the drama club um i don't know how many of you actually were able to attend and see school the musical over the weekend i personally saw it twice it was even better the second time gotta say it but i thought they did a really fantastic job i thought that the community was here and supporting them it was great to see everybody here again for a play after a few years off during the pandemic and the kids did a phenomenal job and i just want to make sure that gets understood and recognized um the last thing that i will mention and again i'll get into this more committee reports we had a proposal exchange with the bbea we actually did it virtually last wednesday i think it was a good and healthy opening discussion gave a chance for both sides to see who was part of each negotiating team clearly a lot of work to be done before we're in a place where both sides are really happy and satisfied but i'm happy that that progress that has actually begun to make progress i'm looking forward to working with everybody on it along the way and that is it for my president's comments uh dr gallagher for your superintendent's report anything to add yeah the only thing i want to make you aware is please check your email board members i sent you a link to the new website as well as document um with some questions that were posed um from board members that went out to the pr firm and the website company um they put some responses in there and you know a list of some of the things they did change in response to those questions so uh the big thing though is um if you guys can really take a good strong look at the layout of the website um not necessarily content but the layout of the website and give me any feedback that you have um by wednesday that would be greatly appreciated because we're hoping to have the layout complete by the end of this week and then move on transitioning to make sure we get all the other sites up uh for all the schools and make sure we get all of those things in place and hopefully have a finished product sometime in june okay now the one question that i had to ask you on that is we talked about doing focus groups potentially with some parents and other users is that not going to be possible on this timeline no it's that that's included in this timeline i think that the big thing right now is that we need to um we need to get the the okay on the layout in the format and then we can most i would say three or four school sites already built out so it's just a couple more and then from there like i said um the focus groups we can do once all that stuff is done um and like i said have a finish again we're not going live with this product until july one so you know we'd like to have a finished product out for focus groups like i said early to mid-june okay and my only concern would be that if we find something through the focus group process that actually affects the format then we're multiplying the amount of work that it takes to revise and we're locking ourselves into design detail so i just want to make sure we're not shooting ourselves in the football running too fast i don't think we are i think you know with the comments that we received so far from administration and board members that we've addressed quite a bit um i'm not sure there's really anything out there that that we kind of missed um in terms of layout i think right now i'm pretty confident that i think the layout is exactly what we had talked about what we wanted to see the vision that we had um you know obviously this week the confirmation of that and if we do have issues obviously that timeline is going to change from that point okay all right anything else you want to add no i'm good thank you members any questions for dr gallagher i'm good good all right we are on to committee reports so i believe we have notes in here from the last education committee meeting but we actually covered those uh during the last estimating right uh governance the same way we haven't met since the last portfolio correctly correct mike i don't think any of the companies have met since the last year yeah the only thing that i will add is for you know for human resources obviously we we had the committee together we exchanged proposals uh next steps on that uh we're gonna meet as a group again tomorrow afternoon right yes and then we have another uh meeting with the education association uh hopefully at that point the opportunity to ask some clarifying questions understand the intent of a variety of different things proposed on both sides and just you know further that discussion so um i expect that that group is going to actively be meeting probably on a weekly basis until we get to a place where we're all pretty comfortable uh unless we hit some kind of an impasse that causes us to break off negotiations uh on the operation side i think you know the the only color that i would add in roger or sydney if you guys want to interject anything here feel free um you know we spoke about really coming from a place of understanding uh in terms of the impact on maybe uh decisions that were being made for the town by the council or decisions that were going to be made by the school board i think what we wanted to impress upon everybody was the idea that regardless of whether taxes go up or down because of decisions we make in the schools or decisions we make at the town level you know the taxpayer is a person and they have a particular point of view so we just want to make sure that decisions are made in an informal way that everybody understands the impact of what those decisions are going to be and then to potentially start to look at some of what's happening in both cases and see where we might be able to partner better to better effect whether that's creating economies of scale through better shared services agreements whether it's a shared strategy in terms of how we're approaching the improvements throughout the town and the district the impact that the assessment of our schools has on the town's ability to bring in new and different uh people and populations you know attract people to the town and vice versa how development uh brings in different populations to the town and how it ultimately affects our work here on the school district side um we did talk a bit about pilot agreements and while i don't want to get into copious amounts of detail because i'm still learning a bit myself i think one of the things that we wanted to impress upon everybody was the idea that the school funding formula includes uh information on the town's valuation and medium income medium median income and how as those metrics improve the expectation would be that our local fair share is going to increase to some extent to compensate and that pilot programs in general are basically uh deferring some of that compensation for the community to give incentives to developers to have them come in and do the work that we want them to do and so we just want to make sure that we don't inadvertently create a crisis point where our new jersey state funding starts to decrease while we are still in a place where we're not seeing significant revenues as a town from uh these new developments in the developers um and in brief what i think i can say is that those points were well understood and appreciated and i don't think there's any ill will or intent to create that conflict where we might be potentially underfunded or have to look to the taxpayers to provide significant additional assistance but going through that process in a thoughtful and a meaningful way and in a coordinated way i think is something that everybody identified as highback i think the piggyback i was i want to first of all thank the members of the city council as well as as mr januzzi i appreciate that for pulling us together um i think the big takeaway that i had was an open dialogue and communication and an understanding of various points that were unclear and i think that if we can continue uh this open dialogue uh transparent you know communication between both entities i think not it's it's the beautiful thing about it is it's not just one-sided it'll benefit both town we are part of the town the town is part of us so it's a symbiotic relationship so but i want to again i'm very very excited that this meeting occurred and i am nothing but uh i i just i'm just tremendously uh very very positive for future meetings that's great thanks i would agree it's very positive dialogue looking forward to keeping it going yeah definitely excited about hearing that there's communication between the board and the council we need to keep that going keep the keep the rhythm going and like we're all in it together right like what's good for all of us is good for the town good for the school yeah absolutely so we've tentatively penciled in another meeting about two weeks from today just to keep the conversation going and maybe transit from some of these philosophical conversations into more tangible things that we could actually work on focus towards or start one of the original pilots was meridia great question i don't know the answer to that but i will tell you that among the conversation that we had we did talk about how there were initially 30-year pilots done and how that is not the standard operating procedure for future pilots from there so they can be a variety of things anywhere from 30 to 10 years and i think what was impressed upon us was at this point most of the pilots are geared towards either 10 15 or 20 years and there are shades of growing between in terms of how quickly uh these developers start to pay taxes and network so all good and positive things there i believe any other questions or comments yeah lisa i don't think there was a meeting of the educational services commission since no not until next quarter very good i believe we are open to the public for agenda items only at this point do we have no questions thank you sir any questions from the room all right i'm not seeing anybody run up to the microphone uh so we are up to regular business uh number five here approval of the minutes so resolve the boundary board of education approves the minutes for the following meetings regular and executive meetings minutes for april 25th 2022.
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president ms duncan president by phone mr guthrie guilt president robertson president dr dooley here dr cole here i'm boris man and laura smith is here [Music] mr hopkins aye ms robertson aye 5-0 [Music] under god indivisible with liberty and justice discussion of personnel items would be employment doctor romans altera superintendent and um contract approval um salt herrera will be here wednesday evening for the board meeting we spoke last week a couple times about that we have a certified designation uh physical education teacher mr andy williams has attended his resignation effective may 22 may 26 2022 um we have certified employment we'd like to have employee proof um wilda canel which looks like quiznell um ms pennell has been interviewing reference checks completed for the position of teacher for the 2022-23 school year she will be assigned next year for physical education education is health for high school students we also have certified personnel teacher carrie mccairo kerry is an international teacher um obviously teacher contracts just say teacher because it depends on where the need falls that she was interviewed for and um unless there's a drastic change this time will be teaching elementary at first she would be very developed and impressed by her dr goldstein a lot of that these days um very similar item item number five i'm sorry number five um again hiring approval of a uh employment of a certified teacher uh gene lee vargas magaris i'm sorry uh again a physician is an elementary elementary teacher she's certified elementary teachers again contract will say a certified teacher reference checks come back superlative on on these two lessons um we have certified employment teacher douglas sane uh when we interviewed mr saying he's currently a teacher at yonker high school in the buckeye union high school district we again offer him a position as teacher assignment looks like it would be a high school english for the 2022-23 school year and the board recalls that last name saying the last word being we hired his wife mrs sane to be an art teacher for next year so we have a couple they they like the town and the problem's greatest place to be they came last week one day and spent some time with dr bolton emailed me afterwards and i'm very pleased with what they saw and they're excited to be here um mr saint also has coaching experience and he's interested in helping us out as well the next personnel item item number seven is uh certified teacher employment anthony delara he is a special education teacher um this time we have vacancies in special education uh we hope to have all those filled out tonight by obviously the next export being um excuse me um we have a certified i'm sorry a classified resignation uh crystal pacheco ms pacheco who's the parapro here for about a month a little over a month uh submitted leather letter resignation effective last friday she's found another employment another employment that's based in ajo um resignation part-time bus driver mr jim davis mr davis has helped us out a lot for the last couple of years as a part-time driver he's driven routes here in town somewhat he's also taken a lot of our trips out of town for field trips and more athletic events he submitted his resignation effective april 27th dr chabots has interviewed and talked with the following people to help with the june summer school program this is not june of july since june it'll be june june 6th to 9th and june uh 13th to 16th summer school will be 8 30 to 1 30 every day six hours a day uh it's patriots title one lies um a current math teacher uh art meningo uh will be hired if the board of proofs is recommended for summer school math cara stalker who's in the audience science and social studies the study hall to teach sciences those days now olivia garcia will be doing online work as well as study hall for students kelly aaron khan will be working in english teaching english language arts for summer school uh mr casey will be enrichment class and it's probably gonna look like something like um computer design computer programming um mayor chu beltran special education director special education teacher will be providing services to special education students and and then we have an extra pay position one of the early resignations was our sophomore this person is also a sophomore uh class sponsored and even though there's just a matter of weeks until school is over we think it's why since the kids still have a sponsor in case we're recommending the chat should you be uh the class uh sophomore class advisor from april 11 through the end of school since this is extra paid position we're listening today for that those last few weeks from what this is actually paid position and what i thought what i plan to do was prorate the salary that ms keller received and then the balance of that mr g thank you questions do you still want to change summer school to 1 o'clock 8 o'clock to 1 o'clock yeah so uh summer school there's slight change at summer school so instead of eight o'clock to one thirty it's eight eight seven eight and one thirties that's my bad that's the cycle i'll get that change before that we vote on it mr president on your business and this is uh an item that the first item your business is something we have to do every may i believe it's december may we have to have budget revisions um ms smith welcome around board formally i've worked with her before and i enjoyed the expertise a lot she came on board in times during the may budget revision and welcome thank you so actually in december you only have to do a revision with the state notifies you there's a certain moment that you can be over under and the district gets a notification of that you can do it but sometimes you have to uh you did do your first revision in december and then you were doing a may revision and basically it's the final adjustments for your atm your average family membership and it did a few years ago they switched your maintenance and operation on your main budget into current year adm which is very difficult because you can raise a lot of kids in one year and you can make contracts so basically you have a small loss of 4.2747 kids and school finances they carry those numbers out and you always do so that was a small loss in your overall eminent budget uh but you did pick up what's called tei which is teacher experience index and that got us 23 five hundred dollars that helped offset that so your aveno was only reduced by nine thousand five hundred seventy two dollars your capital stays the same because that was on last year's and your budget was set up perfectly so i didn't make any changes in capital the changes that are in uh maintenance and operation but the big change with all the numbers is it's late in the year so it's easy for me to forecast what you need in those different areas um so that was and then i updated uh your grants for any grants that have been approved or changed since december sometimes you get a little extra allocation so it was minor changes question uh could you just talk a little bit about how the adm is determined sure um you submit your student attendance to the state you have to do it every 20 days and so these numbers change and add over the last few years improve these so that you can enter the most current month's data and so you get so much per pupil it's basically 4 45 for mno and capital changes according to what grade level they're in and so it's your mmo that we really have to watch and so uh it's all according to what you uploaded to the script and um how much time they're in the classroom okay so is that um i'm just looking for the totals so is the 388 is that am i looking at the right 3d we have well what you have is you have uh your preschool is with the weighted count which is what you're funded on is 4.35 or k aids or 382 123 and your high schoolers are 212.804 for total 597.
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parent survey results are in here for you to take a look at the one thing i wanted to point out is over the the n number is the number of respondents next year it's gone down significantly at every single campus um we've had some uh you know things going on the past couple years that have energized people and maybe they are ian you know and just chose not to respond but um anyway results are fair these results are part of our classroom site fund um requirements for the performance date so that's why we do the survey but we you guys get the results every year and it's there's a few numbers up and down but for the most part things are our purpose here just a quick question and i don't know if unfair and poor responses it in your opinion is that just typical of human nature that some people are going to be unhappy or are there any issues that are came out of those type of responses well unfortunately the we use blackboard connect which is basically they call and a couple of you i think got the call um and it's you press one two three or four there's not a a way you know to provide a response as to why their results are that way one thing that i wanted to point out but when you look at the the especially the poor the numbers are pretty small they're all less than than 10 um and in one case they're less than two percent and so the number of people that we're dealing with is relatively small especially when you look at 104 respondents in some cases um but there's it really is no way to gauge why they're giving those opinions [Music] some issue there that causes you to you know give that a rating uh and i'm just curious to know if there's any way of identifying with those issues and if yes it's very consistent time i was over yeah unfortunately there's not a way with the system that we use to follow up yeah so any other questions about the surveys all right let's move on we have the teacher and staff members of the quarter at territorial we had karen mendez who's a teacher of ours along with gina graham who's a paraprofessional at del rio school we had tracy norvell a teacher lacey barbara a paraprofessional at heritage middle school we had christine nolan who's one of our counselors and dalton morgan who's our behavior coach at heritage and we had at the high school don bryant's one of our teachers and david damon who's a paraprofessional and then in the district office was our human resources coordinator shelly daly these are again a little bit more exclusive we only did this quarterly so that means there's four from each school and then for the district office so i do want to continue to thank donald from jed's when we go she's there um gives a little goodie bag has a gift certificate in there along with the goodie and then the a little treat for them so they've always uh she's been very supportive of the program and we're wanting university for that so that's the only way that it is yeah she is she is um included in your package is the end of your calendar all kinds of events going on three that i really want to uh mention to you i think i gave the wrong date on okay so i did do it right um and so i think i told somebody in the audience it's actually june 6.
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okay we are back from our recess so welcome everyone to our may the 9th uh governing board meeting so we've got a couple things to go through and then we will hit uh the month but feel free to uh help yourself it's a slice or two of pizza and uh our first thing up is our uh pup is there anybody on the thumb do you have anyone on the line with that we have christy latham who i believe is going to talk about the recent dc trip last week come on robby so we just got back from dc on saturday we finally made it after two years so it was super exciting um everything went really well with the trip we had two days of rain but the kids trooped right through it and we went and still did our sightseeing in the rain and um i think it went it went really really well what do you think probably it was really really rough considering coped and all that stuff like we we did have like running with like the mask mandate but we're but they were able to luckily get rid of the mask mandate then your favorite part i'd say the mount vernon or smithsonian yeah and this year for the first time because of grade we did the twilight tattoo we had never done that as far as i know none of our groups and years have done it usually go see a play and i will by far every year insists the twilight tattoo instead of the play [Music] the twilight tattoo is off of the army base and they show the different eras and different wars and the complete out they come out with outfits they talk about something there's usually one person who's talking about somebody who is in that war and they talk about their experience coming from that person and the more they brought out the horses the dogs it was very very interesting i think it was one of the top um top events that we did and the parents who went a couple years ago said that's by far been one of their favorite things that we've done in their days that don't ever need to play again do this so um but i i it was it was a very awesome trip it was good to be back and now we're ready to start going for next year we're already getting ready for that so it was awesome anything else any questions about our being great [Applause] you haven't highlighted all right so we're going to get started uh thank you members of the governing board that's miranda rico um for those of you that don't know me i'm albert eines i'm the current director of technology services uh school district i've been employed here since 2010.
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i'm thank you [Music] if you guys are called in the month send your quote of the month up here you guys help yourself with pizza that's what he's here for buddy who's your teacher yes that's very long [Music] hi everyone did you all have enough pizza [Music] you guys are here for hope of the month have your quote come up here and don't forget to grab pizza if you want to press the pizza thanks for your time
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[Music] yes i'd like to pull some items from the consent agenda [Music] items e and there's items e and g gee the uh thing about travel yes [Music] and we can use those two legos items d as in echo and g as involved i would like to remove 10c and voucher number 9037 the vouchers are on report item they are yes you requested last month very good all right then just remove 10c 13. any more comments yes that takes us we have executive session on the uh agenda we need a motion too we're just going to take a recess for executive session for approximately
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school district board of education meeting for may 9th 2022. can i have a roll call please mr cerrone here miss doyle here mr gatewood president ms johnson present mr plogger present miss simonton present miss swanson president when we all stand for the pledge of allegiance i pledge allegiance of america and to the republic for which he stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all okay 4.1 public comment on behalf of the board of education i'd like to thank the public for attending tonight's meeting we value the feedback we receive from our residents and encourage everyone to take an active interest in their public school system residents interested in speaking to the board this evening are asked to have completed a comment card and presented it to the secretary of the board when the secretary calls your name i ask that you come to the microphone state your name for the public record and provide your feedback the board will read up to three student comments submitted by email please note that comments are limited to three minutes per person for a total of 30 minutes no discussion of personnel matters or responses to questions are permitted the board does not participate in discussions during public comment if your questions or concerns require follow-up a member of the administration will reach out through the contact information provided on the comment card thank you i have the privilege this evening of reading a email from a student good evening my name is lanaya robinson i am here today to ask that the school board integrate the learning about different heritages into our academic curriculum during their respective months in my 11 years of public schooling we have never formally learned about different heritages such as asian and pacific islander hispanic and native american as the world continues to advance globalization increases like never before and many of today's jobs require students to be culturally aware being culturally well-rounded will not only help students attain jobs in the future but also help students with problem-solving social skills and building compassion throughout most of the school year each month celebrates a certain heritage i understand that our school curriculum is very packed but even if in the first month first of every month first period teachers took 10 minutes of class to quickly discuss what the month was and some important people traditions and holidays it would be helpful oswego is not only my home but also a town preparing many students for success let's work to keep it that way jessica peterson yes ma'am my name is jessica peterson um i'm here from the american heart association and i'm just here to say thank you um 17 of your schools partnered with us on a kid's heart challenge or an american heart challenge program this school year to make an impact in the fight against heart disease and i just want to be able to recognize them and celebrate them for what they're doing um this program is designed to teach students in a memorable way a fun a fun way um to learn how to stay heart healthy not only physically but mentally too all these coordinators involved do a tremendous job instilling these habits and their students with this program in what works best for their school it's clear they're very passionate about the health and wellness of their students and we love seeing this come to life each year not only do they teach students to be heart healthy but they reiterate the importance of helping others and these programs offer an outlet for donations to the american heart association to go towards advancement in cardiovascular research local hospital hospitals to provide guidelines for the best care advocacy efforts and more while donations are not required to participate in this program the school community still raised a total of 75 hundred and eighty eight dollars to fight our nation's leading cause of death heart disease and had one thousand seven hundred and seventeen students uh taking it upon themselves to uh challenge themselves to keep their hearts healthy um we have lots of numbers very exciting numbers to celebrate this year um i would like to celebrate a top student that you had in your district maria flores at wolf's crossing um the highest fundraiser in the district raising two thousand three hundred and forty dollars individually on grand park with the most amount of students um 195 students challenging themselves to keep their hearts healthy wolves crossing with the most amount of dollars raised of 10 855 dollars and this year is a big milestone year for district 308 um you guys surpassed the one million total lifetime dollars rey is partnering with the american heart association okay not only that um taking this program to its fullest your community had 148 students and families who took the program one step further to learn a life-saving skill of learning hands-only cpr or learning how to spot the signs of a stroke through a special initiative called finn's mission it's a bonus part of the program rallying around a little boy named finn um he was given a fatal diagnosis in utero due to his specific heart condition um he has had his parents named him finn because the name if you guys don't know the name finn means warrior and he's been just that he's survived and thrived after 18 heart surgeries in his six years of life and just recently suffered a stroke he's an adorable animal loving and limited soccer playing little first grader but as you can imagine adding these pieces of finn's mission into our program um helps awareness for all on a personal note i've had the opportunity to closely work with these schools and these teachers for the last five years there aren't a better group of humans out there um but this literal life-saving success would not be possible without the enthusiasm and the support of dr scarlett thank you so much i'm sorry thank you guys um thank you jessica congratulations one million dollar mark for 308 that's a big deal daniella ramirez this is my first time doing this okay so can you guys hear me yesterday um i'd like to start off with presenting myself my name is daniela ramirez i am a first generation student who has worked hard to demonstrate the sacrifices of my parents this medal was not only for me it is for them they have been my driving motivation to be where i am today and it is heartbreaking to not have the proper recognition that we all deserve um so obviously this is about being part of oswego's uh summa la la group of students who made like their top 10 percent um we were all told that we were going to be getting some sort of recognition on the 17th of may um and previously most of the students would always get their medals for their hard work that they were that they put throughout their four years of high school and this year however we were told that we were not going gonna get any form of metal nothing like that we were just gonna have a little ceremony i'm not sure what else we were gonna do we're not having any more information but um i think me as long as my classmates behind me were all very upset because why us like why class of 2022 how come previously you guys were able to give these recognitions but now we're not we're very upset because like i said before we we work very hard for this it's it's been hard we've spent many nights studying we spend many nights without sleep a lot of stress especially vinyls um during covid it was very hard learning online for over a year but we persevered we kept going and i just feel like we're not getting the recognition that we deserve and i want to know why why now like why not before thank you thank you margaret lecher hi my name is margaret leger first i want to thank you for the opportunity to speak to you tonight my name is maggie leger and i'm a senior at oswego high school graduating summa laude with a 4.45 gpa my whole high school career has been spent working hard in my classes and taking part in extracurricular activities coming up on the end of our senior year many of us are collecting our various cords and awards to get ready for graduation one of these things that we are here representing the summa laude group are looking forward to was our medals that have are supposed to be given to us to represent that we were at the top of our class ohs used to do the top ten percent banquet which both kids and teachers looked forward to but that has already been taken away from us now the last thing celebrating our academic achievement has been taken away too we have all been looking forward to and working hard towards this medal and now the school has taken that away the school is so worried about making people feel equal and not hurting anyone's feelings that they are willing to push aside our academic achievements school is about academics and if you walked into our school you wouldn't know it honestly this is upsetting and we are here tonight in hopes that you will not make the same mistake next year with the kids who have worked hard for the summa laude honor i would also like to point out that the school and society pushes mental health and worrying about our emotional well-being and to be honest the kids who work hard in school like we all have and who are so involved they barely have time to get their homework done but they still do their mental health matters too myself and the rest of us here have put ourselves through a lot of stress and we put ourselves through a year and a half of online school and we still managed to earn a 4.0 or higher and now we are being pushed aside we have worked so hard for this academic achievement and you are pushing us aside i have pushed through high school i have pushed through coved i have worked hard and i find it appalling that we are being pushed aside so that other kids don't feel bad once again thank you for this opportunity to speak tonight and i hope you will fix this mistake and return to awarding the kids in the summa laude group with medals to celebrate their great academic achievement victoria trevino good evening my name is victoria trevino and i am a part of the senior class at oswego high school that will be graduating summa laude there are over a hundred ohs seniors that are graduating with over a 4.0 gpa and that is insanely impressive over 100 kids have worked themselves to their core in order to reach such an achievement and i'm sure our teachers and parents are just as proud as we are of ourselves i remember finding out our freshman year that we would no longer be having a top 10 dinner for us once we were seniors it hurt but i made peace with it and of course didn't let that decide how hard i was going to work over the next four years countless seniors that have joined me today have been through difficult hurdles over the past four years and still they made this extremely difficult academic achievement when i attended the class of 2021 graduation ceremony seeing that the top 10 percent sat in the front rows of their class gave me so much hope i always thought that the top 10 percent being recognized was so important especially when it comes to encouraging kids to reach their full academic potential when i heard that we weren't doing that form of recognition either again i made peace with it but i couldn't help but wonder why us why are we the first class to not receive that kind of recognition and finally finding out that we wouldn't receive the traditional medals for graduating summa laude we got tired of making peace with it by no means do i think hard work is defined by numbers and by no means do i want anyone who may not earn such a medal to feel bad but after four years working to earn over a 4.0 through covid aiming for the highest grades possible don't we deserve more than a pin is that what will is this what will carry on to the senior classes following us will their achievements be muted even more than ours in order to make everyone feel included i am all for the inclusion of students and i'd never want anyone to feel left out but when did an academic excellence become a participation award thank you valeria ramirez good evening my name is valeria ramirez i am here representing my sister and her classmates who have worked exceptionally hard to be able to receive this honor it seems completely unfair for the school to deny them their medals the medals in no way signify the comparison of students being better than others it is simply a symbol of recognition for the work that they have put in these students have worked hard for four years and are given one moment during graduation to demonstrate for it revoking this special distinction is completely unfair this is in no way biased what is biased is to choose this class to deny this honor biased is used for something that is unfairly prejudiced or against someone or something the students worked for this there is not any exclusion of students allowing medals is not an unfair act towards other students it is known to all that if you put in hard work as these students have done you will be rewarded therefore that has there has been no act of bias or unfairness to promote fairness you should start within the school not by taking away a medal schools are full of body shaming sexism racism bullying and much more that is what's unfair yet your solution to the unfairness is by punishing the students who have worked hard is this what the school district represents that if you work hard you will receive no recognition the only thing that this act will produce is the decline of motivation of students you are all setting an example that hard work here does not mean anything your attempted act of fairness is completely illogical and unfounded give these students their well-deserved medals one doom ten dong please hi my name is and i'm terribly disappointed to hear that my graduating class of 22 will not be receiving medals due to respect for my peers feelings my classmates and i started school normally freshman year then throughout the school year of sophomore year we got hit with the pandemic we still worked hard through and now we're going back to school normally to work with my normal status we are living proof that nothing could shake us down to the whirlwind of a high school experience that we had personally as a first-gen black student who has been part of that two-student average of black students in 18 honors classes this achievement is more for my family than for me working together with my mom i've had to care for my siblings when it comes to their homework and activities on top of mine i've worked countless hours in my ap and honors classes to keep my high gpa and maintain excellence in my extracurriculars as i'm speaking as an all-conference athlete in track and field just winning our spc conference i have sacrificed my mental health my social life but most of all my sleep for you guys to then turn around and say that our hard work deserves this pin smaller than my hoop earring it's just ridiculous i've had every reason to give up to not study to call off from work but no i made sure i had my priorities straight and made school my priority i managed to keep my 4.3 gpa and that's all i've really worked for throughout my high school career i made sure that school is my number one priority and i've kept everything straight and my classmates and i have kept a good work ethic throughout a pandemic that many students have not been able to achieve and we deserve to be respected and recognized for all of our hard work that unfortunately this year we have not been able to receive that same recognition as years prior that did not have to go through a pandemic we went through a pandemic we survived a pandemic and we have risen above that pandemic and so the feelings that you're hurting are the ones that sitting right here and the ones that are back there and the ones that are at home that we are being the voices to speak so please for the next upcoming years give them the recognition they deserve because they have also survived this pandemic and worked through thank you lanaya robinson whose email comment was read would like to make it in person since she needs it for her civics class um before i start i want to formally apologize for the misunderstanding about emailing it it was that was my fault i'm sorry but my subject was about learning about different heritages and incorporating that into the curriculum in my 11 years of schooling we haven't really learned about other heritages and how they and i feel like as students they leave positive impact helping us get jobs in the future with problem solving skills social skills and building compassion oswego is i'm just going to summarize it because she already explained it but osteo is my home and i love to call this place my home and i feel like we've always prepared children for success and do the best they can be in the world and i think we should work to keep it that way thank you 5.1 board member comments does anyone have any comments i do okay go ahead sorry um first thank you to our students for showing up your hard work has not gone unnoticed you guys have been doing amazing things throughout your four years here and i know you're going to continue to go on and do many more um i can answer i was here when we did make the decision in 2017 to remove the class ranking salutatorian valedictorian and without going too lengthy into this i will say that i'm happy to share what i remember of it but we do have it also documented through minutes and through reports in mental health and well-being and reducing stress on students who were taking huge numbers of classes in an effort to achieve those ratings was part of the conversation so i appreciate that you guys are here doing that i don't know that we participate in the conversation surrounding what the awards look like um but i'd be happy to share that with you and i know we have your contact information i can just share my own thoughts on what i remember from that time if that helps my other comment is something that i learned a few months ago and i know a lot of our school district has been struggling with is the use of cell phones during school and kids who were relying on them during the pandemic who are now exhibiting signs of addiction to using their phones during class and this is something that as a parent we also struggled with in my house and so i wanted to share that one thing i found very successful was on my family settings on my apple phone um i had family sharing available for my students and i would encourage other parents to consider utilizing that feature to shut the phones down during school hours because they can still contact their children they can put themselves on an emergency list but it can help the students concentrate and maybe achieve some of the things like the students in this room did that's what i've got thank you anyone this way okay well go ahead i don't i was just gonna say i um i was actually on the committee when that was decided and there were a lot of questions and reservations so i think it was dr miners last year with the district when that decision was made i will tell you one of the conversations was to preserve tradition um along with expanding recognition so i also would be more than willing to have a conversation with anybody about that as well um and i'll make mine sweet and simple the other piece um which is that i had the opportunity to go to bednar six twentieth anniversary and it was well done by the staff and certainly appreciated that thank you dominique i wouldn't mind having that conversation uh either um i have a couple things that i'd like to bring up uh attended the retirement and 25 year recognition uh celebration uh just was great to be there with all those people um that so much experience and contributing so much to our district it was i'm actually getting chills now it was it was great yeah i also volunteered to help build a new outdoor classroom at brokaw this past saturday i was pr it was chosen by an oswego student cameron balder and as his eagle scout service project oswego troop 31 helped with their labor and skills uh cameron coordinated efforts with principal fire garrison and received funding from the broker hsa i want to thank everybody involved just and that this is one of the many examples of the great things the volunteers in this community do for the students in the school district 308 so thank you to all the volunteers you'll probably um be able to figure out that lori and i talked about this cell phone thing so may is mental health awareness month it is the recognition that our psychological well-being is an important part of our own health productivity and happiness as well as the well-being of our communities i've been asking myself recently with my son with my husband is our phone use affecting our mental health and i think the answer is yes laurie and i had a long discussion about this and i encourage everybody such as mrs doyle said to just ask yourself is your cell phone use affecting your mental health excessive cell phone use is associated with difficulties in cognitive emotion regulation impulsivity impaired cognitive function addiction to social networking shyness and low self-esteem and i simply just wanted to bring awareness to it thank you um i had the pleasure of attending the retirement dinner for our staff and it was just astounding and an honor to hear i believe it was over 700 700 years of service and i just thought that that was remarkable so that was fun and then lastly i just wanted to give a shout out to our fine arts department had an opportunity to attend the production of newsies and it is just absolutely top-notch and so i just was so proud of our students and staff just and i've attended a few several honestly of our fine arts uh productions and they've just always been phenomenal so great job can i just i saw chicago and i just want to say the same thing they were phenomenal and the talent in our district is amazing thank you for reminding me no problem yeah i too um was at the retirement dinner and was able to speak on behalf of our board and i just wanted to say to our employees celebrating 25 years of service thank you for your dedication to the students and staff of this district it is not an easy time to be in education so we are grateful you've chosen to make a difference here in the 308 community you are seen needed and deeply appreciated and to our incredible retirees congratulations on your career achievement we honor you and the commitment you made to the oswego 308 students and staff but also to public education your role has been vital in the educational experiences of our students thank you to all our honorees for leaving your mark on district 308 and we are better because of each of you and then i wanted to address our sd 308 teachers staff and leadership it is important to the board that our staff thrive in a culture and a climate that is safe supportive and inclusive so hanover a well-respected vendor in the k-12 space will disseminate a short culture and climate survey beginning on may 16th and ending on may 20th anonymity is of the utmost importance to hanover the board and our district having a third party vendor conduct conducted survey offers you a safe space to give voice to your work life experience and was a major factor in the selection process after the survey hanover will analyze the data and work with stakeholders to craft strategies for improvement to our culture and climate we greatly appreciate you setting aside the time from from what i'm sure is an already packed end of the year to do list to share your thoughts thank you all right is that everyone so now we'll have 5.2 superintendents report well thank you president simonson i was going to mention some things about the survey but you covered it very well so thank you and i will skip over that portion of what i was going to say tonight tonight i wanted to start my cal my comments off by acknowledging national school nurses week which started last friday i want to thank all of our school nurses for everything that they do for our kids on a daily basis it's hard to believe that today is may 9th and tonight is our last regularly scheduled board meeting prior to high school graduation on may 21st that will be held at northern illinois university over the past few months during my superintendent comments i've shared much in regards to safe inclusive school climate and culture academic achievement finance and student voice so when we think about high school graduation it's a time for our graduates to reflect and it's a time for us to reflect graduation is a special time for many reasons and on may 21st we'll celebrate the successes of over 1 500 kids of our graduating seniors we'll listen to their speeches that will inspire both our students and ourselves as we reflect on what has been and what is to come so as we think about the future meaning our work in our school district i'm excited the work that we've completed and reported out throughout the school year is significant and this year will be next year we'll be entering our second year of our five-year strategic plan in vision 308 and we'll soon be talking about the ideas of revisiting the uh mission vision and core values as we work towards our current mission of educating all students to reach their highest potential this is where i was going to talk about the culture and climate survey but i'll skip that portion and uh just a couple things for uh to finish up last week we met with some of our union leadership in regards to brainstorm ways to get the many job opportunities that we have here in district 308 out and that we have available for coming for the up for next year and we're going to be putting together a concentrated effort as we uh do our best to be fully staffed as well as we can at the beginning of school year as we know we're competing against all other school districts and businesses looking to hire when we talk about climate and culture having a high quality diverse staff that is representative of our student demographics is extremely important and it's all of our responsibilities to get that the good word of the job response the job opportunities here in three to three district 308 out and as the largest employer in the county i look forward to sharing more of our efforts in the near future so that's my report for this evening thank you thank you 5.3 student ambassador reports thank you um so our student advisory committee held a meeting last thursday on the fifth to discuss the future policies and solutions to sexual harassment uh the dilemma overall that we focused on through our surveys and through the research that we conducted this school year so we analyzed the opr revised harassment policy and the code of conduct at pittsburgh public schools just to see and reference their pros and cons in order to see what could have been good models for future solutions that our student bodies could possibly benefit from specifically regarding the sexual harassment issues that our students have discussed or reached out about we further analyzed title ix and how certain programs in our district works with uh the necessities of title ix and the ex and the extent by which they can execute that looking back on the sexual harassment issues in our school and the overall physical threats that many students ranked in their top three concerns in our first student survey our committee has made a lot of progress with our goals to understand the roots of sexual harassment why students may not have been able to reach out to report it and understanding what steps may help lower sexual harassment rates in our learning environments here in sd-308 following wipar research tactics we've come to the point where we can finally discuss policies solutions and resolutions and a lot of thanks goes out to our board members our principals dr waller and dr sparlin yeah that's everything for today thank you thank you okay okay all right item 6.1 is information on financial statements are there any questions on what has been presented this evening no is this is this one of our student ambassadors list meetings before graduation well congratulations it would be his last meeting before graduation yes right so it's probably worth noting thank you for serving with us this year even though it was your senior year um and i hope you've enjoyed it as much as we've enjoyed having you thank you awesome job awesome job exceptional [Music] [Applause] okay item 6.1 are there any questions on the financial statements that have been presented item 6.2 is an informational item in regards to work that needs to be done on the cooling towers at the wheatlands elementary and thompson junior high school and structural work on supports at bednarsec junior high school we have rob allison and charlie to uh from cooper to present to us this evening good evening i can hear you okay yes all right good thank you i'm here to present our cooling tower bid to the board for consideration this project is in part of a project that was presented to the board in 2021 and subsequently rejected and tabled i'm pleased to be able to present this portion of that project for reconsideration the scope involves the base bid removal and replacement of the cooling tower at thompson junior high the alternate one is some structural steel work to be done refurbished for the structural steel sports for the bed narcic tower and the alternate two is removal and replacement of the tower head the wheatlands and some additional structural support work there on monday may 2nd 2020 too we publicly opened and read aloud bids for this project seven contractors elected to bid and after a big qualification and scope review was conducted with siacetelli heating we feel that they have adequately covered the required work and scope for the base bit and the two alternates this recommendation to the board is to accept the base bid and alternates one and two from sea acetely heating in the amount of four hundred and forty seven thousand nine hundred and sixty dollars the original budget estimate for this project was five hundred thirty one thousand dollars and this project will be funded with decept dollars i will open the floor to questions i only have a question regarding um the concept of the structural work um refurbishing the existing cooling tower support framing um is this something that we can expect in all of the junior highs built on that model that they will all need to have that same structural work done or was this something else this this was discovered recently that tower was re refurbished in 2018 and we didn't see any problems with it um i think it behooves us to pay attention to that going forward as we do new towers um what we're basically going to do is take the take it down to the steel and put a corrosion inhibitor it's really just about okay maintaining the life and minimizing corrosion so you'll be looking at the other schools that are built okay definitely going to be something we'll want to keep an eye on okay thank you yeah mine is more of a comment because some of these buildings are not thompson obviously but the uh we're talking about um the other buildings involved here wheatlands and um bet narcic we're talking about some of our quote unquote younger buildings average life expectancy of a tower is about 20 years right that narcic was was refurbished in 2018 that bought us a few extra years thompson was refurbished in so that got us a few extra years out of that i would be recommending a refurbishing cycle at a brand new tower be refurbished every 12 years after 12 years of service that should buy us anywhere from 10 to 12 additional years the water here is kind of rough on our towers so they don't necessarily get the 15 years that the industry expects to get out of a refurbishment what about the new water the new water good question i don't know we'll have to see yeah this was something totally different than the boulder hill fiasco i just have a question about the bids yes typically we like to go with the lowest bid are you confident that this vendor can do the work absolutely okay we've used them before the spender actually did four chiller projects for us in the last three or four years okay and i've worked with them in my previous any other questions from the board on this informational item for 6.2 thank you thank you all right item 6.3 is an informational item from our demographer rob schwartz from rsp tonight rob will share information on our five-year projections for student enrollment along with other great information so when rob is up we'll welcome him to the board meeting can we get reports i mean i have a digital um [Music] because he might not know we're here yeah i want a hard copy is that is that as loud as it can go okay can we hear it rob can you give us a couple tests we're trying to get the volume right here rap can you speak up okay oh there we go i think rob oh all right great if you can hear me i think someone just chatted um if my volume is too low um say something in the chat and i'll see what we can do on our end i see that your screen is up uh with me is jenna wallace one of our planners we're going to take you through what we've been able to work and understand about your enrollments developments and your projections i'm trying to get a sense when i've looked at the board members as watching your youtube live i'm not sure many of you have heard our presentations before and so if we go too slow or too fast again just chat us and and we'll kind of sense our speed i want to make sure that you understand all the information that's in this presentation so again thank you for this opportunity to talk to you about this i'm going to turn this over to jenna and she's going to start walking through some of the core things that we saw that create the story of what's happening in your district so we'll go um into this try to hit this very high level um and going into where we're getting into we're using the main takeaways and the main building blocks that we'll get into the projection so we're rsp rob and then my name is jenna that we're both planners here with the firm overall we always give this hundred thousandths of perspective that will kind of get into the different variables that go into this page so um where we're seeing the district going into projections and how we're getting there through all these multiple variables that we'll talk through you'll see many different visuals throughout the presentation so i'll skip through a lot of those as they're more trying to focus on and kind of dig deep into the geography part but they'll be kind of in this format with the district boundary here we've got elementary attendance areas junior high high school all of this to kind of show geography wise when we get into projections and we say the number of students in each attendance area you can reference back of what those look like and how they're distributed throughout the district cleaning area is something that's unique to rfp so this is a main building block in the projection model you can see here in this visual this green outline that show different geographies throughout the district that we manually draw this gives us a very granular way to analyze the data and put projections on a scale of differing throughout the whole district so different subdivisions apartment complexes commercial boulevards are all going to be in different planning areas so we can see what the association of student data with these different areas is in this case we're showing year built by parcel just as an example of how detailed and how granular we can get in each planing area which all feeds into the projection model so each planting area is then analyzed in this model which is all going to total up into the projections that you'll see later some of the most important variables that we look at when we're going through what's the situation in the community is we look at live birth data so we have um the three different counties throughout this presentation all focus on kendall county because that's going to be the largest contributor and has the most space within the school district foundry so in this case we're going to show the number of live births and what they have been trending so in this case um trending downwards with less live births per year and a three year average of 15 less live births per year with that you can see that the number of kindergartners that are coming from kendall county have also been declining declining so we have around we had over a thousand and now we're at around 841 with this percent of libraries from kendall county declining so one variable that we're looking at for here and we provide that by will county in kane county and some overall takeaways is that we have less live verse in all three counties and the percentage of kindergartners has also been declining in all three counties that are contributing to your school district another thing that we want to focus on a lot is this past enrollment so what have the trends been the past 20 years and what are we looking at especially for these past three or so years that are going to contribute a lot to the grade decrease increases between those grade levels so and then we can see here um that we've been totaling up so we're at 16 306 for district wide enrollment and that has been decreasing we can kind of see consistently here the decrease of year to year district district-wide the largest enrollment we have is 2016-17 so we've been declining since then when we look at this at the grade level how students are moving throughout the system we show this table here for cohort student change so speaking of my class of 100 kindergartners as we move to first grade is my cross class growing is it decreasing is being the same what is this movement of students as they make their way through the system so this is really going to show us how students are moving and how we can kind of see different trends between grade levels this also goes to show kind of more of this district change so we can see that these last five years has been district-wide decreases with a very large decrease last year of 738 left students with the pandemic year and these other district choices this year when we were kind of seeing of what this looks like post pandemic we also had a decline of around 250 students as well we can kind of see in high school we see a lot of this negative cohort cohort change elementary was more of a rebound so with rebound at kindergartner and second to fourth grade with some cohort increases this year but large cohort decreases when we get to the secondary level so this is something important to keep in mind can you hang on one second can you define a cohort just for free we have some other visuals that go into how students are movement so this is going to be in versus out migration what's the consist consistency of students new students coming in and old students exiting overall we've had a positive migration in 1920 in 2021 there was a negative migration so a 506 student migration net of exiting the system and then this year with a positive migration of 38 students some visuals that kind of talk into the movement of students so we have count change here as well as heat map trying to pinpoint where students are located and where can we see um new students and where decreasing students are located hold on pause hey rob can you hear me getting into development and growth so um we want to show this correlation here between population building and students we can see what this relationship so i've paused for one second yeah pause i just could you okay they can't hear you but you're going to tell him what he just defined cohort seven slides ago yeah okay so in this case we're showing this relationship between these three variables that would be the green line um steady to increasing population building trend got some stable growth and a high increase can you unmute it um like okay here so we have the red numbers are going to be cohort decreases what's a cool so as third graders go to fourth grade for example when there's a regular thing they're just defining together were there more questions on this table we can focus on this more if this is confusing with the numbers here i just like i just want them to define for the people at home what a cohort is go ahead definition at home what is a cohort so going back a couple slides 17 yeah so the question that is being asked is what is a cohort so we are defining that as a grade so if we go back one slide to page 16 when we look at the number of kindergarteners we have that's in when 2020-21 look at first grade it's 1000 145 so the cohort is how did that age in this case a kindergartner how did that change as it went from kindergarten to first so when i go to page 17 if we look at that we increased by 71 kids from 2020 21 to 21 22 of kindergartners that now are first graders that's a great question a cohort is literally a grade good thanks rob let me see if we've got any others here at this point any other questions i have an idea but it can wait all analysis that we're giving in this section is a good tool for your toolbox on how to plan for future students so in this case the yield rate is a term thing as new units coming online and what we're looking at in residential inventory how many students are normally and what can be expected yielded from these developments so in this case we're going to show this by whole numbers so we show the number of students per 100 units before muting here okay and so in this case we have for single family units the number of students that we can typically yield from 100 units so for district total we're looking at district-wide elementary students 35 students per 100 single-family homes so this is a great way to think about when new developments come online and when you're planning for a new subdivision of x number of units what could that look like for a student in educational impact you can see here that we also break it down by elementary boundary so in this case where are the units located and this provides a different field we just gave it by the district that wouldn't speak to the differences of the location as well as this so we have here the differences of elementary boundaries where we can see a higher yield rate versus a lower yield rate for a single family unit we have lakewood and churchill being the largest single family yield rate with boulder hill being the smallest single family yield rate we also provide this for the multi-family development as well so trying to see the difference of attendance area as well as district-wide what's the difference of students coming from multi-family housing versus single-family housing in this case the district-wide average is 16 students per 100 multi-family homes we can see that the highest one we have lakewood creek as the largest multi-family yield rate with boulder hill being the smallest multi-family yield rate so just other tools that can help you plan for the future with the data we have a couple visuals that go into the residential inventory so trying to see where the units how old are they in this case average year built median home value how expensive or how affordable are the units and how where are they distributed throughout the districts when we focus on the last six years where are we seeing new clusters of development where we may we see increases of students based on the last five years of development which is leading into this case i'm saying the development over time how did we see decade by decade residential growth so 2000 2009 a ton of units were built that's going to be the majority we can see here of development moving forward just kind of helps paint a picture of the houses that are available for new families moving into the district when we look at future growth we we have multiple visuals here so we'll kind of talk through all of them and they're all in the same format where we were trying to identify where do we see potential growth where would we see new units coming online that may be indicators of more families moving in more students in this case we break it up by a timing piece as well so green areas you'll see here husband point is a green area so that's going to be current activity we know that this is currently being developed and we have best identified on this scale the orange area this is going to be one to five years so we've identified that on a scale that in a couple of years or so we'll see that area develop purple is six to ten years so on a farther out scale and then farthest out these yellow areas are beyond ten years so those were identified through conversations with city planners of where we see future development and what the timing piece as well so we're looking at the northeast corner right now it also provides us for the northwest so we can see that we have some one to five and six to ten growth areas in the northwest central we have some more of this current development so piper glenn ashcroft place has some of these current developments as well as some farther out central east so we have some more developments out here [Music] all over the timeline really following along um this is room corridor and then central west along collins road where we have some differing timing pieces of future development as well all leading into these tables if you're more of a data person than a visual person you can read through these tables that provide the same information but in a different way of the areas we've identified what their timing piece is what's the unit impact that you can use when thinking of those and then what junior high boundary for example of where they are located so we have current developments identified here one to five developments or one to five year development table here six to ten your development table with 10 plus year development here so overall over 1100 units identified as potential growth you can see this breakdown of around 2000 in current over 4000 one to five around three thousand six to ten and one thousand seven hundred beyond these ten year scopes trying to track where we're seeing the activity where do we see potential growth so this was a very robust analysis of the potential for development in the district all of this is calculated into projections we're factoring in where we look at different years of what this could be with those enrollment and demographic trends of trying to get into your projections that you're going to get now and i'll take over for the projections um i'm going to go back on some slides because there were some things from from last year that that changed and we we made some assumptions we we thought some things would be different so if i go back to page 16 this just give me a little blur as i go back a couple of things started to stand out with our data so if we go back last year when we look at the cohort changes that were occurring and you see all the negative change that occurred last year of 69 69 46 45 we lost all these kids right this is very typical saw this in almost every single school district we worked with well last year we we made some assumptions hey we'll have what we have labeled a covid recovery and so a covert recovery would be these kids left the system the previous year pandemic happened right we're all trying to figure things out we'll get these kids back well as we look at what happened this year we didn't have a full coverage recovery and i'm going to give one column of data to explain this because this this really sets like how the forecast is different for the next five years i focus on this first to second grade column and you can see in previous years we grew by 39 28 59.
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[Music] okay yes yep um oh [Music] thank you josh josh josh strong what's i so we will go ahead and get started tonight um [Music] born and raised in indianapolis mr vonnegut was a writer with 14 novels and a career that spanned more than 50 years he was a popular speaker at graduations and delivered a number of addresses between the years of 1969 all the way up to 2004. he actually has a collection of some of his graduation speeches in a book called if this isn't nice what is i'll be sharing a few of my favorite experts tonight from different speeches at one graduation he asked what should young people do with their lives today many things obviously but the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured in another speech he said i thank you all for becoming educated by becoming reasonable and informed person to make this a more rational world than it was before you got here i give you my word of honor that you graduates are near the very top of the best news i ever hear by working so hard at becoming wise and reasonable and well informed you've made our little planet our precious little voiced blue green ball a saner place than it was before you got here from a third speech thank you all and god bless those who made it possible for you to improve your minds and souls in the company of other students from across this country and from foreign nations besides most of you are preparing to enter fields which may be unattractive to greeting persons such as education or healing arts teaching may i say is the noblest profession of all in a democracy and this is the last excerpt we've got tonight mr bonigan said every graduation pep talk i've ever given has ended with words about my father's kid brother alex monica harvard educated insurance agent here in indianapolis who was well-read and wise my uncle alex is in heaven now one of the things he found objectionable about human beings was that we still rarely notice it when we are happy uncle alex himself did his best to acknowledge this when times were sweet we could be drinking lemonade in the shade of an apple tree in the summertime and uncle alex would interrupt us all to say if this isn't nice what is so i hope you will do the same for the rest of your lives when things are going sweetly and peacefully please pause a moment and then say out loud if this isn't nice what it is thank you mr stenner um i'd like now to invite those who are able to stand up of the united states um so first a lot of people in the room um but a lot more people that are outside of the room as we try to manage the number of uh individuals we are going to try to recognize here tonight but we will start off with uh just look at the recognitions on the uh powerpoint we're going to start off with one called the governor's award this is a a new situation for us i think the first time we had an opportunity to have someone in our organization given this award so i want to call senator greg walker to the podium of the state of indiana issued by the governor of the state and the award is entitled the circle reported this is in recognition of the early leaders who gathered important in 1816 to adopt the first indiana constitution and to create the state of indiana jordan was indiana's first capital and center of leadership in the early and formative years of the state like the founders of our great state there have been many others who have made remarkable contributions to the betterment of indiana and its people and therefore are deserving of consideration for membership in the indiana general assemblies circle accorded now you've made known that the illustrious benefactions of one kelly thompson for being recognized which she has demonstrated in life and in service to the people of the state of indiana the qualities exemplified by our state's greatest citizens henceforth being deemed worthy of such recognition kelly thompson is named above declared a distinguished member of the circle of court actually i just want to say that if i may have this recognition although there are many students and parents who wish to congratulate you on this award genesis 7 is really from your peers it's those you work with those who inspire those that have seen your sacrifice those who see you work above and be on call there are leaders who fulfill the role of leadership and there are those who are inspirational leaders and others follow that example not just the accolades not just the thanks for what you do but try to pattern their lives after the things that you have done and it's an inspirational leader so i want to thank you for your service to the students and parents to the faculty the staff and everyone that recognizes your great contribution to educational excellence in in our fair city very much yes oh okay thank you very much very much appreciate everything very complicated by the surprise thank you very much here jesus here all right thank you for your patience with us we want to make sure you get a photo there will kill you senator walker before we continued on and most of people don't know kelly thompson very well look back in the last couple of years in terms of helping us just kind of manage all the stuff that we had to the decisions that we had to make with code 19 and just so many other things that affect our kids so just pretty cool to be able to cover her award down here with center walker being able to present it to her so awesome stuff thank you for giving us time to do that we'll keep on rolling miss william and uh we have mr jensen that will come up and help us recognize a tremendous clovis north high school student keeping on the theme of awards from the governor's office uh the governor's stem team is probably one of the most prestigious not the most prestigious academic honor high school senior in the state of the award highlights four outstanding students in state for your exceptional efforts for accomplishments of science technology on math i think as you'll hear as i talk more about matthew he could have qualified for science just as well as his math so he is the math team member for the governor's four stem team members so we're really excited that he's a member of our community and our school district matthew's also the uh valedictorian north class of 2022.
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and um we'll start we should stand for the pledge i think um okay so i guess we'll start with that i pledge allegiance to the of the united flags of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with invisible liberty and justice [Music] okay um so luisa is not here tonight so i do need a secretary is there anybody that can be a secretary for me michelle um or theresa i mean i won't ask you the only thing is i i'm hearing a piano and it i can't sorry thank you [Music] why wouldn't you ask me lauren i mean can you do that and drive [Music] okay so so good evening everybody um thanks for joining this afternoon um certainly a nice day so we will get the show on the road here so maybe you can get a an hour of sunset somewhere as it's going down so okay so i did send out uh the slide deck you can find that slide deck in your um in your google drive so uh ralph i did not share it with you but i will do that as soon as we have a break i'll make sure that you're shared on that so just the you're welcome and so just the summary um items uh for today that were sent out through the agenda was just a brief update on the state literacy progress um just to give you an idea of where the state is is at with that um we're going to have we have some great guests tonight we have christy carboni mary jo borman who are two of our math um coaches uh two amazing uh coaches and employees for us in the district that have just done amazing work with our students at the k5 level in math they're also super essential during covid and kept uh the lesson the math lessons flowing at a very critical time so they were instrumental so you get to meet them tonight laura mead who's our math supervisor will also be presenting with them along with melissa nadew a little bit later on so we will have a math celebration and highlight segment um well kelly will talk about the updated um state mandated iep training and counseling curriculum and then i'd like to share with you just to give you an idea some of the drafting work that's happening in the background with the program of study development with the academies to give you a little snapshot of the types of things that we're working on and melissa need will take you into the medical technology pathway to use that as a great example of um to give you a sense of the work that that we're engaged in so without further ado so um right now if you've been following um and if not that's okay it is uh not a super exciting journey uh just yet the status has been a little bit slow with updating on the literacy committee progress but what they have done starting may 4th is that they've opened up um a solicitation window for schools to submit programs for consideration so in addition to some of the programs that they are are researching um districts have an opportunity to put their program of choice on the list and so danbury has begun the application process for the being a reader which is the program that we currently have although we are advocating for the being reader 2.0 version so there's a new version that's coming out that would be a simple upgrade without having to buy all new materials simply a couple components and add-ons that we would want to see um that were uh more in line um and in line with some of the components that the state is looking at and i did um this is a live linking you can get this in your powerpoint presentation i'll just pull this up very quickly this is an evidence-based rubric that the state is using as part of the review process so for districts who want to submit something they have to write descriptors so there's criterion there's indicators and the descriptions of the evidence and so in order to be to submit an application package you have to take your current program and you have to run a one-to-one on all of these the criteria the indicators and this and the descriptions and so i think right now we have pam pam dalton and i've been uh working on this pam is heavily involved um and she's she's the main driver at this point but she is i think on 25 pages of evidence that have to be written and explicated and show the direct nexus and alignment to the evidence in the in the uh in the rubric and so is quite involved um in terms of the process and uh there are a couple other districts um in the state that are using this um she's actually going to go out tomorrow to meet with with one of the schools um just to see uh where they are in their process and to to make sure that we're you know we're having some discussions about the application and about about kind of next steps so just in terms of uh collaboration with another another school district who are using it so so you can see that the rubric is quite involved we are working on that we are submitting application for our current program being the reader um 2.0 version so that's really the update we have some you know time to go before they close that window may 25th and then at that point they'll start reviewing again we don't really expect to hear anything about the list that's posted until until the summer a little bit later so as soon as we get that list i'll be happy to circle back um committee media no me no meeting and provide an update to this group uh so that they're informed of what is taking place and what the next steps are for for our groups okay there any questions on that no okay michelle i was just wondering what is the school that we're comparing it to is it similar in size or well it's not necessary yeah it's just it's really more about um so there's a school in in bridgeport um i think it's called new beginnings and this is a small company so the collaborative classroom and the being re program it's not one of those massive companies so um so it's not like it's there's not a ton of schools big schools that have adopted it per se yet because they're a small small company um and so there are there where we have found schools that are using it um it's always important to reach out and collaborate and and talk about best practice and how are you leveraging the program what the results are you seeing are you happy with it um and then to also sit and talk to them about their process in this journey as well um just to reach out as in in partnership so we know very little about how they're using it what they're doing but it's always good to to connect on those things um especially when we're you know we're really only a year and a half into this into this program so um it's really more for informational purposes and to just to learn at that point right pitfalls and stuff this is one of the five programs that you would mention there were two and then there was the one that we were using right that you're saying is now yeah so this is the one yep this is the one that we are using and then there were two there were two editions core knowledge and art core and those are the two kind of big premiere programs that we were yeah these are going to be on the list like there's no way that they're not and and so we started to look at those um it but it changed the game a little bit when they called for an open solicitation of programs so it allowed for an opportunity to say well this is why we think being a reader is a pretty good program that you you can consider and so we'll take that under advisement um there may or may not be other districts that are using it you know widely um and and that could help or hinder it but it really depends on that evidence-based criteria you know is whether or not they will say okay it appears that there's enough evidence to meet the needs of providing a high quality foundation for students and so we just won't know what that what that will be until they drop the list to the public yes teresa thank you um so the state is going to uh mandate across the board a program for all elementary literacy programs correct so they'll post a list of five foundational programs that you can that you can use so you can choose out of the five yes yes and they may provide an alternative route and that maybe perhaps another app we had heard that there would be a waiver process we don't know if this solicitation of programs for consideration is part of that waiver process we don't know what that would look like so you can um i would imagine that if a school district i'm i'm making this up i would imagine if a school district is achieving at super high levels of reading literacy and they're using a particular program but it's not on the list but they can demonstrate that that it's working in some way perhaps a waiver might might be you know there could be a waiver that would go along with that um so we don't know what that looks like it's a little bit tricky to to speculate so i want to be be careful that we're you know i don't want to put false information out there but i could only assume um that you know there will be a potential waiver process but you know if if if a you know if the state is suggesting a particular program we should we should heed um you know heed that information okay so if i get more information i'll certainly update the group we don't have to wait for a meeting to to get that information okay all right thank you you're welcome um so now i would like to just again introduce you to chrissy mary jo borman and laura meed i'm not sure if christie's on tonight you know she wasn't feeling well but if she's not with us we wish her well she certainly has been putting in a lot of hard work amongst the other uh k5 literacy coaches as well but i do want to um allow laura meade and her team to talk a little bit about some of the great things that are happening in math there's been a tremendous amount of work um to to build teachers understanding of mathematical practices and to get students to also to be thinking like mathematicians and be thinking mathematically so i will let laura take it away to talk a little bit about the work that's going on there with our students no idea okay i'm not sure why it's not let me share you cannot mute us we're muted we are here hi we are not yet um so mary jo and i are actually in the um same room together mary jo has been helping me um i am dr laura mead i am the k5 stem supervisor and i have been in district for approximately 28 years um if you can include my subbing plus 30 uh and i have what happened you're not laura you went on you okay so mary's mary jo's computer just quit zoom [Laughter] so i'm going to continue on good thing we have both computers going um i will continue on here um and with me tonight is mary jo borman what are you there we go mary jo gorman um and and yeah if you can uh mary jo is going to try and share her screen because she has the presentation um that we have if not care i'll have you do it you got it great um um i lost something yeah we're we're we're changing screens so joey's just sharing her questions and also with me is so mary jo and i are going to do uh the presentation together um this is as charis said um the uh tools in our schools was very much chrissy carboni's um uh little child there so i'm gonna let um chrissy just introduce herself um she has not been feeling well but i'm gonna let her introduce herself and then mary jo and i will take this dream hey everyone i appreciate you saying i'm not feeling well but when it comes down to it i was inflicted with covid this weekend it was a wonderful mother's day so um i am feeling a little better though i'm happy to say uh so we did a pd and i'm sure laura might be giving you some background on that and after the pd we said we really we always like to do a follow-up because teachers don't like when pd is just an isolated event they like it to be tied to something so after our pd which was greatly based on manipulatives we asked teachers to send us videos and pictures of their kids using all kinds of tools in their classrooms in their math classes and what we got was some really great material and we decided to put it together in a slideshow and that's what we would like to share with you tonight i have been teaching in the denver public schools for 32 years i just said 320 to to laura because i was joking but i can't believe it's 32 years it it blows me away um i'm so impressed with what is going on with mathematics in this decade uh our kids are amazing every day a teacher sends me something new a new video or a new picture or a new strategy that kids have used that they are amazed with and i continue to be amazed with i'm so impressed with the pedagogy that's going on in our with our teachers and the thinking that's going on with our students and we're hoping that our little presentation today will give you um a little glimpse into what's going on thank you so much chrissy um so we're going you'll see me light up on on mary jo's because we are together so i just want to give you just a little bit of a backdrop um as to um and chrissy did a really nice job of front loading that um instructional coaching is what we're striving for and instructional coaching is an innovative professional development strategy that facilitates change improves instruction and transforms school culture we just wanted to know that coaches and teachers work together as partners and they work together for the betterment of our students and right there on the slide you can see a quote from jim knight we were fortunate enough as a coaching group to work with jim knight last week in a um a coaching workshop so just so you know some of the types of coaching that we offer um at the k5 level are there's an in-person support piece where it's very job embedded the coaches are in with the teachers in with the students they plan co-teach debrief on lessons taught and explore instructional routines and an important piece that has really come alive in the past couple of years are the math language routines which really support our multilingual language learners but also all students and then on the other side you see district needs and support and as you can see over the past three years we've had 60 plus new teachers come in in the past two years some of those teachers this was the actual first year that they were in the classroom so we really had to design our support toward a group of new teachers who hadn't been in a classroom face-to-face with kids um and also kids who hadn't been in the um you know in face-to-face and actually touching materials and paper and pencil and all of that and pd then guidance that we support in all schools we have monthly principal meetings that's all our coaches with the principals we push out at the k2 level right now content video guidance which you'll hear some of our teachers talk about and specific professional development sessions throughout the year so how did we prep for the unique needs um due to the pandemic well those guidance videos were part of it so they are always on hand for our teachers and the timely pd we definitely had issues with using materials kids weren't accustomed to it they weren't accustomed to sharing because we had a stint where kids couldn't share materials then we moved and transitioned they could share materials so it's been a very roller coaster of of the past couple years and our coaches have just done a phenomenal job of helping the teachers feel comfortable um we've definitely needed to address the academic language gaps and support those 60 plus not as teachers and meet the needs of our 5 000 plus elementary students so now is the part of the presentation where we really turn it over to our teachers and our students and we're going to take you from listening to teachers both novice and um veteran teachers a couple of principals who have actually chimed in to let us know and then really show you um where the rubber meets the road with our students hi my name is sarah cephaloni i am a first grade teacher over at pembroke school um i wanted to talk a little bit about the math department and what they have been doing for us the guidance videos and materials that are provided by the math department specifically mary jo for first grade are extremely beneficial they help give an understanding of the standards that we're teaching and they guide us for each unit and lesson coming out of a pandemic has been challenging and the video and materials provide ample activities and differentiation for to meet the needs of all of our students as individuals i am extremely appreciative of the guidance videos and the support that we receive from our incredible math department thank you each week i have been co-teaching with mary jo for the last couple years and it's really strengthened my teaching in math um and helps my students we look at the students needs and adapt the lessons and coach them in what they need i've really seen some great growth in my students and in my teaching as well i've learned ways to question my students and see what they know and found ways to just improve that math language with my students and i've seen tremendous growth i'm very thankful for mary jones and the entire math team for what they provide for the danbury public schools hi the videos that mary jo berman did were extremely beneficial in helping all of us plan the lessons for each day by watching her and her modeling is instrumental in making the math program successful this year it was also a helpful way to to share some of um some information with the student teachers that we chat to so that helped them as well it started out also mary jo did some um adjusting some of the worksheets or the black line masters and that was very helpful and also slide shows um to help streamline them because some of the some of them were sometimes a little bit more challenging and she was able to pinpoint things that she thought which was very helpful um she also uh told us like what objectives we really should be looking for throughout the lesson and when the lesson was done what we should want to see our kids um accomplish and what objectives we want to see met and if not how to adjust and what we might need to do she also told us with the planning like some of the lessons should be more than one day which was very helpful because sometimes as a teacher even a veteran teacher you're trying to get that whole lesson on and you feel that time-wise you don't and sometimes you're not meeting the objective and then you're worried they didn't meet the objective do i keep going what do i do and she was very helpful with that too so also having um carboni come in in model lessons for myself as well as the student teachers she came in a couple times this year and really helped me and the student teachers see how the program should work so the next teacher you're going to see as mary jo um goes through here the first year teacher um this is julia coelho and just to let you know julia is a product of danbury public schools she's gone k through 12 in danbury public schools and through wescon's program and transition beautifully into mill ridge primary school one of the biggest supports that i have been given as a new teacher is definitely the one-on-one support from my math coach christie carboni she is very hands-on not just with the program but also coming in and working with me and my students at the beginning of the year she spent so much time helping me prepare the math manipulatives for my classroom and helping me explicitly teach how to use those tools how to teach my students how to use those tools and that has led my students to be so successful throughout the year because they're really able to use the tools to be able to show their work and they understand how they're getting the answer they're not focused on what the right answer is they're focused on how can they show their work and use the most efficient strategy to get to that answer and i also really appreciate how hands-on and direct she is with her math videos deep diving into each unit each lesson within those sections and that alone has made the first year for me so much better because i'm not just doing it by myself i'm doing it with her help with the videos she explains within those lessons what are important points to point out to students how we should be giving them access to tools and how we can develop their re um their strategies such as number lines math manipulatives um the tools equations and without that guidance i don't think i would have been as successful as i was this year good evening my name is miss lahood and i am a kindergarten teacher at the danbury primary school we have been so fortunate to have mrs stiscano in our building and especially myself in my classroom she's helped me to really see the value of our math program with her assistance in coaching the rigorous practice of composing and decomposing numbers has been very valuable the students have been able to make a connection between math and literacy where when we try to stretch out words we use segmenting um which would be decomposing or we use blending which would be composing and it's been really cool to see the connection that the students are making i have found that the videos provided by the math department at the primary level has been excellent and not only educating me um the look fors and things that are needed in the classroom but also to support the teachers as they navigate through the curriculum and instruction for the students i have found that so the other thing that i wanted to talk about was the monthly meeting that i've been having with my coaches every month so each month i have my math my literacy and my psyop coaches come together with me and we sit down and have a monthly meeting where we talk about you know what i'm seeing in the building what we have coming up curriculum wise that we might need some support with we talked sometimes about the data and of recent assessments and we also we talked about um what challenges we're having questions that teachers have come with that they need support teachers who have reached out and said that they're struggling with certain things it's an opportunity to bring us all together um i think this is super helpful because it gives me someone to to talk to and then run ideas by sorry so here is the part where chrissy talked about we put together uh tools in our schools and this is a collection this collection is the result of our recent pd session focusing on the research about the impact of manipulatives in math education so in kindergarten this video will start you'll hear the kids so this was an activity where they had to use the materials then you have to see the work map that actually uh melissa toscano did design that was a little bit different from what the program gave the children then colored in and then they used the so they went from concrete to pictorial and wrote the number in the abstract this is up here okay that's okay this is a video of a kindergarten class actually having choice time in what they want to do experience in centers this is a huge piece of developing and independence in students and this teacher just does it so well that was it for the purple table billy are you are you from once all the chairs are filled up the [Music] let's go choose so this is the same teacher's um classroom where you see the kids actually engaging in the mathematics after they have had the opportunity to um select their own and in kindergarten in case you can't imagine this is no easy task so we really really um admire jackie and what she's done with these kids um this is so the next few in kindergarten are just some slides this is mrs capone's class up at ksp i was actually there with her and you can see the manipulatives and the students writing on the board they are learning the difference between an expression and an equation big time in math also here is um miss robertson mrs robertson she has accessible manipulatives and materials for the students no matter what they're doing and here is mrs garland's uh kindergarten class and again you can see that concrete the the manipulatives to the pictorial the students have drawn it and then they show it they write it that's the abstract so now we're gonna head into grade one um this video is is great because it's going to show our multi language learners and how with the manipulatives they can access the content and they can begin to learn the english and this one really fascinates me what do you think about continuing this to evaluate your whole number would you be able to explain to him why this is easy go for it you can do it in spanish [Applause] yes so one thing you'll notice is that our students are always working together they're always um collaborating and playing games and um that may have looked like a no no i'm going to push my hand away but there was a lot of learning there going to try to get us to the next slide and here's another counting collection with students grouping manipulatives to show tennis before we get them into that tower of ten we do a lot to establish tennis okay so here's your arrangement yeah how many do you have and is it easy to counter this one could you model for me how to count these piles to show me the total or [Music] all right now i need you to draw this arrangement okay so um one of the things that's very important are the games that students play in math and that the game is focused around the math so here we have some grade one students and they're explaining the rules of the game and how the tools are helping them depict the math that is involved [Music] supposed to pick two cards if you need help you get the amount of kids if you want to do adding or subscribing and if you need help adding or subtracting these are two big numbers what are you gonna do with them so if you want to subscribe okay [Music] [Applause] okay you're finding the difference between these two cards and you made 90.
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so if we would get more than that 19 i'd probably put them on a waiting list and if somebody would move out then we would move somebody in and also at this point we're just going to offer the morning i've listed those who are retiring this year i'll go down to the bullets we've completed our kansas assessments teachers are finishing up the end of the year testing on the students vern shetland called and asked if we would come down they've got the depot wanted to start some tours there at the hollywood depot so we're going to send a couple classes this year and then hopefully add on to that and build onto that and get our kids through that may 13th plan to take some kids out to eat for earning 100 points we have our play day cookout next monday a reading reward at the city park for our second through sixth graders on the 17th and already the last day of school 18th we'll check out of teachers the next day any questions thank you our bank statements reconciliation report all balance our state testing is complete we had uh state power lifting as you know last week or last month and had over 500 visitors in our gym it went really well we inducted six new members to national honor society on the 26th um our four our art students have been to three different shows and the second page shows you what what they've done art show they had 24 certificates of merit and hayes cpl they had 20 awards and the apartment vortex they had two awards we had three students go to the scholastic press association state competition this weekend christy weeks placed third in editorial writing fourth of digital illustration and feature writing and kylie kempke placed fourth in student life photography regional tennis was held last weekend peyton ryan was first in singles he's gonna he made it to state and that will be held the 13th and 14th at prairie village up in kansas city our high school awards assembly is this wednesday the 11th at six o'clock in the gym with the potluck supper junior high and high school track is the 12th that's this coming thursday at ellenwood junior high begins at 10 high school at 3 o'clock seniors last day is that same day on the 12th we'll have graduation practice on wednesday and maybe thursday depending on uh how well wednesday goes graduation is this sunday the 15th at two o'clock do you know if you're coming or not i just need to know how many chairs are going to be on this stage one two three four four in me okay i'll be there yeah okay junior high awards assembly and promotion is may the 16th that's monday at 2 o'clock in the auditorium that's also the 8th grade students last day last day for all of our other students is the 18th at 12 30.
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i'm not going to look in your direction but michelle's not here so no pressure can i have a motion you mr powell have a second a second [Music] you got it any discussion sorry so i'm going to stick with sydney from that you're good with that right all right can we have a roll call please mr bail yes this casino yes yes and mr dawson yes motion capture very good we are up to number six personnel resolutions for the district in high school uh resolved that the superintendent recommends for approval the resolutions is outlined in personnel resolutions under district and high school this is six point two through six point many thirteen six point two through six point thirteen i have a motion motion thank you mr powell a second second thank you mr zupko discussion and a question on the 6.9 the job description of assistant superintendent so it says facilities and operations that's going to be more of an overseeing of not only the facilities but also any construction and things like that we have some construction projects so it has the construction not so much i think the the difference would be probably more day-to-day supervision and depth of knowledge of building in grounds versus overall administrative project management support okay so the buildings would be more day-to-day directive building aggressive more day-to-day and i have a question does 6.9 interfere with 6.2 it does not they're independent okay any other questions or comments hearing none can we have a role call please mr bail yes miss casino yes mr januzzi yes miss lima uh yes with an abstention on 6.6 um abstaining from line items yes thank you mayor up to number seven approval of middle and elementary personnel resolutions resolved that the superintendent recommends for approval the resolutions as outlined in personnel resolutions under middle and elementary schools this is 7.2 two through seven point nineteen now i have a motion motion thank you mr bowell a second second thank you ms rusino discussion hearing none can we have a roll call please mr bail yes ms casino yes mr januzzi yes miss lima mr minhaus um yes but i have to abstain on 7.99 yes we are up to section eight resolve the laura brown brook board of education approves the resolutions as outlined in education resolutions under district and high school this is 8.2 through 8.8 have f motion thank you miss boston a second [Music] second thank you mr zucker discussion today okay just because you brought up field trips we got a memo from d.o.e um i would anticipate some higher covered numbers coming out shortly because they're reminding us that when we hit the red some of the things that we need to do so obviously they have more data at their fingertips than we do so i'm just anticipating that some reasons in the state are probably going to top red coming up shortly any other comments or questions [Music] yes miss lima yes mr minhaus yes mrs muscle yes mr zucker yes mr dobson yes ocean gatherings we're up to 9.1 approval middle and elementary education regulations [Music] resolved the boundary board of education approves the resolutions as outlined in education resolutions under middle and elementary schools this is 9.2 through 9.5 they have a motion motion thank you a second thank you discussion i'm john cena i do have one question and it's more for a curiosity the fifth grade trip for math statistics and averages is that are they going to a baseball game yeah my sixth grade trip is also that same day and that's singing we're also doing math statistics and averages yeah that's well you would actually know that you're there are you in sixth grade [Laughter] okay any other comments or questions about section 9.
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354 and then you add your weighted student your group b kids which is your special ed kids and your english language learning their case through your their free reading so that comes out it's just uh sorry your total right now is 597.2632 and when you say weighted that means that those there's not actually 500. exactly you actually have three preschool um and that could when the weight comes and so they're very very minor changes next month we'll do a proposed budget for the next year so this just wraps up this year and uh hopefully your agenda item reads in accordance with 905 g yes that's correct and what that means is if i estimate it wrong on one of those lines like the classroom line or less you're giving me the opportunity to spend more or less but not not this year and the navy's not having a basil second item in your business [Music] is tax credit donations [Music] as you recall last week we had a meeting on zoom with people from grad solutions grad solutions is a program to help students that for whatever reason have not been successful in a traditional high school and are not going to graduate it appears they're not going to graduate there's two benefits of grad solutions and we think there'll be more benefits if we they've they've convinced me and i had some questions initially if we have a hub here at all high school means we would have a facility for students to come in and work online with their staff or sometimes it might be a staff member but in reality mostly online we have a classroom right now that's set up that way it just depends on how many people you get um and the help that's two-fold is it helps students get the diploma and it's not a ged and the second it would help the high school you know a lot of high schools involved with the graduation with a child anytime between their first day of their freshman year and their graduation if they drop out the school that they were last enrolled in is the ones held accountable so if if we have a student that enrolls tomorrow for the first time as a senior and then they have five credits the chances of them picking up 17 credits in the next three weeks is slim enough in my opinion it could be a special special person but that's not happened so they would count against us on our graduation street so the recommendation is that we do have a hub located here with board approval so that we can provide direct services to students that have that need you have like a base number of and the ones there's a lot more students that are identified and actually show up and that may be the same thing that happens in ged programs and the answer is no i don't know exactly i would say less than 15 less than 10.
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it's a week earlier than normal not the eight i think i told you the eighth so we have um graduation hopefully all of you can be there on the 25th in the toyota center um you're ready to shake hands uh you know what 6 30 there's no reason to be there any earlier you're all pros you've been through it so you know what's going on yep so uh may 25th graduation feeling tomorrow center 7 pm for those involved 6 30 we have june 6 is our governing board meeting in the governing board room at 7 00 pm that's a change of date that would have been normally at 14. and then it for those who can make it at eight o'clock on august 1st is our all staff give up that's going to be um one of two times throughout the year that we get everybody together and um again we're going to have breakfast we'll have we have a speaker that we've already lined up kind of an inspirational rah-rah to get us picked off and the just the opportunity to kind of see everybody and things like that so we also have on the 24th at two o'clock is our end of year gathering um to recognize our retirees and five ten fifteen twenty twenty five note so stand actually at heritage correct that's gonna be a purpose that is at 2pm on tuesday to 24.
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and for the community members and some of the newer partners of little quick bio uh like i said i started working here in 2010 i grew up in freddie arizona small mining town uh northern tucson i'm a graduate of the university of arizona's albert college of physics management i have been in education for 22 years now this year and in information technology 29 years um um so just a quick background of what's going on with technology here in the district our current state is in the 27 28 2018 school year we switched to a new isp and a phone service provider we use drive communications which is what we call the cloud voip so it's a cloud voice over ip phone service which means that our phones and our phone service network runs basically over the internet um our isp service is through sun corridor which is what's called internet2 so what internet 2 is is it's a consortium of all educational research entities so they are on basically their own separate network so when we go out to the internet our internet is straight through universities and we can basically get to where everybody else can get you can get to google you can get to cnn anywhere from home but our traffic is not going to be shared with your traffic even though we're going to the same place which makes our internet a little uh quicker and it's a little more reliable more education wise uh we have a wireless network we also have some cloud security cameras which don't require the use of a box on campus which has been managed and maintained for storage our teaching staff are all they are all issued laptops and they are on the three-year refresh cycle because um those are their main that's their main tool when they are in the classroom so they are used every day all day by those teachers they take it home uh if they want we even allow attorney staff members over the summer our grades k through eight are all one to one we currently have an online payment system that most of you know already parents lunch fees that's our food service department uh two years ago went to an online menu planning it actually helps with their reporting um we also consolidated this webpage and our current notifications our notification system uh that way it's all under one system and everything runs through the same format where we're not having to go to different places to do track multiplications uh with that it also allows us a good ability to not only put content to our web page but if you do send a notice we can actually post those notices uh to our social media accounts at the same time without having to log in and move them through different places we're looking at wanting to build additional capacity for our wireless network uh arizona's current standard is the 100 bucks per student the district right now is currently 250 megabytes per student but the upcoming standard and i'll come up when we look at the future stuff for going on technology upcoming is that ideally they want one megabyte for students of uh students to be able to do what they need to do on an ongoing basis in the classroom and at school and last year we implemented and turned on a new piece of service with our information system which is our mtss which is our multi-tier support system module for our tiered intervention and positive behavior going forward for this year we've applied for e-rate funding with a federal reimbursement plan which is based on our pre-lunch counts which is why it's very important when you get when we send the papers out and those forms out that even if you don't think you qualify to spill them out because those help us one with funding or numerous it's not just your age also our title things like this so our funding uh reimbursement for this year is 70 which means that the federal government will pick up 70 of the projects that we have applied for so there are two there are two categories while the ones called category one and the other one's called category two category one is basically just our internet service anything that gets us connected to the internet category category two are all is all of the infrastructure that helps us get connected to the internet so it's all the stuff you don't see all the things that these things plug into the closets our wi-fi adapters so this is the first thing that we actually are qualifying for category two so we're going to look at what we're basically calling replacing our current backbone equipment is going on probably 12 to 13 years old and that stuff runs 24 7 and never takes a day off unless there and is the opportunity to do a number on that kind of equipment because they're just online so for our category one services we are we are upgrading our internet bandwidth of 200 megabits per second to one gig it ends up uh with this year's uh filing it's essentially the same as we're paying for 200 megs for one game with the new contracts that were working we worked out with this summer so it's not costing us anymore to go to one game uh and the federal government will pick up eight thousand four hundred dollars of that cost for google searches our category 2 services which are 10 42 equipment which i thought was earlier is uh that product is gonna is our pre-discount which is the total product of the district have paid 100 of it to come out to roughly 76 000 and our reimbursement is gonna be fifty thousand fifty three thousand dollars so the district has definitely a lot of equipment and installation uh what one thing that we also apply for that we haven't applied for in the past is something called basic maintenance of internal connections and that is uh the monitoring and assistance with the the health and stability of the backbone equipment so obviously well one person two people can't just sit all day and watch all the equipment to make sure they're going where they're supposed to be going that all of the wireless at that out of our access points are are up and stable or have all the appropriate passes so that basic maintenance is something that that helps with the management of the backbone equipment and as you can see we're at 300 19 200 which would be responsible we'll be responsible for but we're going to get four hundred 13 dollars in the reimbursement fundraising is that if that is approved we uh filed for those uh earlier in the month i actually think that that because uh earlier than fed in april so we haven't got back whether we're not going to be whether we're funded or not but more than likely our numbers and our discount rates will be funded for those those amounts um we've already talked about the internet going up to our uh increased bandwidth and then upgrading our backbone switches in the wireless network and as it is as you know with technology anytime you put something in it's usually already out of date so the wireless network is the one thing that really needs to be updated because we have more and more devices so more and more traffic goes over those devices so having newer more up-to-date software on those devices will definitely help with the students and what they can do here um some of the other things that we're also looking at and it's going to come up a little later in the agenda is so basically the quick summary of that is that they'll assist fashion teachers with their educational technology needs and integration in classrooms helping them with their products that we use like i excel bluefield new zilla et cetera those types of things which it'll take things off of my place i can concentrate on the administrative duties and the infrastructure part which sometimes that takes away takes away from differentiated instruction helping uh them plan and develop lessons for students with their different educational needs in the classrooms the next thing that we do here is we do have a program here called avid so we have middle school students they have an elective for avid uh some of the elementary kids we have currently right now a kinder a first grade a second grade and a third grade teacher who are both an avid trained now avid is what they call advancement via individual determination and avid's mission is to close the opportunity gap in preparing all students for college readiness and success in global society so what we both want to focus on is introducing college not saying you have to go to college but it's an option for college and career just giving them the introduction to colleges so if you'll notice in your teachers classrooms they'll have a board or their dorm and you decorate it with specific colleges they all picked the college that they were that was basically their sort of mascot college for the year just so that kids see that something to introduce they go in they see a college they know what it is um and that sort of thing so this year we focused on on two of those weaker strategies and then writing and organization and i'll get to exactly what each one of those is after that so for next school year uh we're going to focus on the pd is expanding on the other ones which would be inquiry collaboration and reading so this year we were looking at writing and organization so going forward for next year we'll have one avatar and classroom teacher in grades k through four one middle school science teacher and one avid elective teacher um we also have six staff members will be attending the avid summer institute this year that we're paying for our title funds and just today the avid students will take a field trip to the university of arizona to give that uh intro and field for universities we took it to the tree ring so they could learn about the different disciplines that actually use tree rings because there is no triggering major climate environmental studies physics chemistry studies biology studies all use that research in their research so somehow everything is kind of connected and not just one little piece for that so that's kind of kind of an interesting experience for the kids today so we're talking about wigger which is writing inquiry collaboration organization and reading so for writing writing is uh so what we have is a learning tool it's a personal and public communication tool and it's a record of thinking so students who write consider the audience engage in various writing processes and address specific situations they support their thinking and demonstrate understanding of what they're writing so when they call it avid curriculum it's not a curriculum as in like math and english and science it is a system of tools and strategies to help teachers facilitate the curriculum the district's president for ela so when we're talking about for writing we're talking about using pronoun notes or focus on safety strategies instead of just memorize and forget the things that help students to do their thinking learning logs quick writes process writing and fair evaluation and authentic writing so those are strategies to help kids become better writers when it comes to inquiry which is one of the ones we're going to look at for next year so we're looking at uncovering one thunders sorry i can't see today when covering one's understanding asking additional questions engaging and thinking learning and discussion so that's wanting kids to be inquiry-based they want to ask questions they want to want them to understand uh what and why to ask that sort of thing so students when it comes to inquiry they analyze and synthesize synthesized materials in class they clearly they clarify their own thinking they probe others thinking and they work through ambiguity so teaching kids to ask the questions to help them understand so what we want to try to support when it comes to the inquiry is giving the teachers the tools to ask skill questioning techniques process levels of thinking to product seminars tutorials investigations and guided questions collaboration so collaboration is pretty straightforward uh a lot of teachers already do this you know working together with groups understanding how to work in a group which is preparing them when they get into college whether they get into career you aren't essentially just alone anymore you do have to collaborate and that's one of the things when we went to uh the true reading this afternoon that they really emphasized that it's not just one discipline a lot of people collaborating with the data and research that they do they're triggering which is really really new so you know students who collaborate they work together for a common goal they develop positive interdependence they work in focused study groups and they support the learning of others looking for it so what we want to try to help with sorry sorry i wasn't in agreement with collaboration my bad so when it comes down to collaboration that's when we talk about also you know you'll see some of these kind of overlap a little bit we'll talk about some product seminars twirls philosophical chairs um group activities and projects peer editing groups and uh service learning projects the next one is organization so when we talk about we kind of what we focused on this year was organization for the kids we were talking about uh finders data binders traffic organizers things that help kids stay organized time management the kids and the other levels a little more detail than what uh probably they're getting into the classrooms so with that what we looked at and those these are the strategies down here binder organizational tools calendars planners agendas graphic organizers focus note-taking approach um that is all part of organization and then i'll just we want that helps kids prepare so that they understand how material and data and the last part is reading so we want to strategically gain knowledge gain meaning understanding and knowledge from print and other media it's purpose-driven and it is interactive so students who read understand text structure they apply prior knowledge and make connections to other texts self self and the world and they make predictions and ask questions and they create visual images as they need so with the avid what we want them is to have deep reading strategies and overtaking graphic organization vocabulary building um summarizing and reciprocal teaching which is making sure that the kids and everything understand how everything is connected within each other so that was a quick um just a quick view of wicker and i'll open it up to questions if anybody has any questions albert and i just want to add for the community that we do all these strategies we modify for kindergartners first graders second graders because it's our hope that by the time they get to middle school they are using higher level questioning they know how to operate socratic seminars they know how to organize and be prepared for high school and for college readiness we're also asking if any of you have any college or university flags that you can have your relatives send from different states or your own we would like to get our college going culture established as before you even walk in the school in our office so people look out if you travel anywhere in the summer find the college pennant to bring to school for us okay and our middle school also have the hallways identified as specific universities so we really just want to build awareness for our students at our school thank you is this an elective that a student takes yes so not all students will get this no but we are expanding it into uh offering it as a coursework class from this year we're still trying to structure how to get everybody into that class that fourth person that fourth period is a kind of a tough scheduling session with the pe and band and that third class with the current average teacher so as i looked at this program and i went back and i looked at they have a new ceo that just started last month uh they've been around for a while it's a non-profit that was started by educators um do we have to pay for this curriculum yes there's a it's not curriculum it's the membership that we paid so we've paid access to material like templates for focus note taking they provide the training on how to do what they're doing to facilitate a socratic seminar philosophical chairs so we're talking about curriculum it's not curriculum per se it's like mapping science it's triggered before utilizing these tools uh graphic organizers right yeah so i looked at the cornell note-taking and of course they have a product which they sell as well with the the queue and the notes and the summary sheet they have lots of products that they sell is that what we're doing we're buying these products the membership that we have access to all of missouri and winston membership um for all students k-8 k-8 with all the modules for producers we really worked on them when we're looking at this and we have been looking at it for a while and it can get very very expensive it's one of the things that we looked at when we tried to take out a title or something we're not thinking about which is what we did this year title funds and i work with various reps of trying to get what we call small smaller schools pricing because before a previous post we were looking at anything like 10 to 15 000 a year for this type of registration membership and we're like we're not that big and we're looking at x number of students this is what we're looking at and they and so have we done the pre and post assessment to see the impact that avid is having on our students not yet how much pre-assessment does we have of our kids our kids performed last year right and then now going through this year we sally up and look at all of the data collected for the year and then then we'll look to see which kids when they haven't liked it which gives me the average classes to see okay that i'll be interested in seeing that because that's that's not going to be without some holes in the methodology right and what to explain to their teachers this isn't one more thing to ask their place think of it as if it isn't like people want all their kids to have these skills which not only will help but i thought it was a fourth period curriculum is it across all are we are we encouraging all of our teachers to use socratic methods and filters when we're so if i could interject so we do have one designated trained teacher at each grade level like mr marianas mentioned we are training all of our teachers on the modules so we want not only just our avid trained teachers but the hope is that they will help their colleagues also in their planning because it's more it's strategies in teaching and learning so it's engagement strategies it's note-taking strategies it's coming to an agreement on graphic organizers that we're going to use at our school in order to better prepare our kids so that not every to have consistency for k-8 where it's not changing every single year in the expectation of how you take notes of how you what graphic organizers you're using how you're writing so it's a systemic way to to keep teachers and kids engaged but we are offering it started out as high school then they went down to middle school and then they went down to elementary but avid has realized that from the get-go they should have started at elementary and then impacted middle schools and high schools so we're coming in at a time where the curriculum and the methods are developed for elementary through high school so eventually you'll see school by avid is our goal and we started one teacher program and we did provide professional development in the two strategies of writing and organizations focused on taking and so that that is the goal even though we have specific teachers who have attended abbott training we when we do we do focus it for not just those teachers we open it and we provide that pd for all teachers great thank you now it's your character so we've got the principal report the superintendent report and then good evening colts and cole families get to see you all let's start with our cult celebrations our very own sebastian mercedes bear came in fourth place in the fifth grade division in our southern arizona district championship contest we're very proud of him we'd like to recognize the arizona health association state awards we're also celebrating these students third grade they created posters for for the state award so the third grade poster there was neil pavilla legarda is the third arizona arizona and overall poster winner her entry will be look forward to the alps national contest fourth grade winner was liam cordero seventh grade essay was savannah nieves so her seventh grade arizona overall essay she was the overall essay winner her entry will also be poured into the alps national contest each will receive an award and monetary award which are in preparations we're very proud of that we had our contest winners the arizona diamondbacks and the arizona department of health services sponsor and annual statewide sunwise place smart drawing contest for students to increase their awareness about sun safety and skin cancer prevention this year continental school had students from this is carried to voices art class chosen as the first and third place winners there's sophia gonzalez and audrey khan the winning art course will be displayed on the health department's sunwise skin cancer prevention school program website so we're very proud of them these are their pictures this is sophia's picture says wear sunscreen have some shades be sun wise and play sun smart which is a good reminder for all of us heading out on some great vacations this summer and then we have audrey cons which also reminds us to use sunscreen no tanning boots or sun lamps don't stay outside for too long wear sunglasses wear a hat and find some shade also the department of forestry and fire management along with partnering organizations sponsored this year's 2022 arbor day poster contest this year the theme was centered on the 150th anniversary of the holiday arbor day continental school had one student julianna mcgee from this carry the voices art class she received an honorable mention and this year's contest and her drawing is featured on the cover of the arizona nursery association april southwest horticulture magazine issue so we're very proud and she was extremely excited for this recognition and for them to see her artwork to put on that cover that's juliana mcgee our eighth grader very very proud of her she's so excited we had i don't know what did any of you see this make the k109 news or it was on all over facebook but we had letters to ukraine kickoff on wendy may 2nd we conduct our letter writing to support students refugees who are in from ukraine student letters of support will be delivered to poland to those student refugees and it was a sight to see on last monday morning because we were trying to fight through the wind and you know what we used for the flag was what we usually might use at parties it's the plastic um table covers so it was kind of hard it was teamwork and it was very interesting but when we saw we had no idea what it was going to look like but it turned out really beautiful and the kids were really excited that we did this and they're excited to write those letters of support we have made two teacher nominations one for elementary school and one for middle school to the arizona educational foundation teacher of the year and our first nominee is this is sharon flowers in third grade she's deserving of the arizona teacher of the year award she's been a teacher at continental school pre-k 8 for 23 years how many of you know mrs flowers me too through the years she's taught many students who have come through our doors she currently serves as a third grade teacher and has also assisted departmentalization program she currently teaches all subject areas she's a phenomenal colleague and teammate she's mentored and inspired many teachers who have come through the doors over the past 23 years she cares deeply about every single one of her students and without knowing it even makes her families feel extremely special and valued those of her students and all with the relationship she builds with them teaching her mrs flowers is an art and we're grateful to see the beautiful work she creates each and every year with her students we're grateful to have such an amazing teacher here at continental she truly checks all the boxes for being an amazing arizona teacher of the year so we will find out in october but we did nominate mrs flowers and the next nomination is mr ferguson we at continental elementary school are nominating mr joseph joe ferguson he's deserving of the arizona teacher of the year award he's been a teacher at continental elementary school for eight years in those eight years he has brought the music program to life for our students he's currently in the middle school general music teacher as well as jazz band director he's worked so hard to establish the musical playgrounds you see around our campus for our pre-k through eighth grade students he goes above and beyond for our students families and in order to nominate them it was 200 words we could give that they were allowing us for their nominations for 200 words was not nearly enough space for us to share how much happiness and joy mr ferguson brings to our school he's a phenomenal educator inspiring colleague and so deserving of the arizona teacher of the year now into fourth quarter benchmarks last week we had elementary benchmarks k through fifth grade we're still in the process of collecting elementary preliminary data and reading math and language usage which is grade second to eight how many of you took your tests so right now we're in the middle of doing middle school testing and we are also finishing up elementary testing for makeup and then i provided our board members with preliminary data that's in front of you there's information there state testing results aasa for third through eight we will be getting those state results may 14th electronics four reports for third grade actually it's may 13th not may 14th so that would be this friday so we will know about our third graders where are they where they place may 25th we'll get electronics for reports and student data files for grades four through eight for ela and mathematics and paper copies of score reports will be delivered to districts june 15th and we'll be getting those out to families when coffee goes to families when coffee stays in their hands the science state test was given to our fifth and eighth graders we will electronic sports corporation day of files will be available august 3rd and august 16th paper copies will be delivered to the school the important upcoming dates may 10 through 12th is our middle school benchmark testing also makeup testing for parliamentary and middle school this week wednesday may 11th is our career day and we have a spring instrumental concert so career day is 8 30 to 10 30 your children will probably be coming home with lots of information that they've learned and maybe some of you that are in here are going to be participating and sharing what your careers are for our students if so thank you very much for doing that our spring instrumental concert is our middle schoolers and that will be taking place in the gym at 6 00 pm on wednesday so if you have the time and you want to come and celebrate and see all of the work our middle schoolers have done with music this year please come and join us you're all welcome monday may 16th our third and fourth grade dance residency performance will be taking place in the gym that's going to be at 1 pm it's going to be school-wide all our students can attend and we're also extending the invitation to their parents and to our community tuesday may 17th our preschool and kinder promotions wednesday may 18th is our eighth promotion and we'll make sure we send reminders that wednesday is going to be a full day of school uh so they will get out get out at 3 p.m thursday the last day of school is splash day and that will be early dismissal friday may 20th is records day so there's no school for students and then june 6th through the 24th is summer school and just wanted to thank the governing board teachers staff and committee members for your support this school year but also wanted to take this time to answer any questions [Music] the podium um national principal day is may 1st and mrs cuevas may 1st landed on a sunday this school year so next year we'll really celebrate her because it will be on a monday but i'd like to give you these flowers and we have a card for you so thank you and you're doing a wonderful and i love getting to collaborate with all of you and i thank you for all of the support that she gave us thank you for coming okay promise i will be short and sweet okay five minutes so we can get to the exciting part of our meeting and do our quotes of the month just wanted to highlight some of the exciting things that have been happening and the quote there says you have brains in your head and feet in your shoes you can steer yourself away any direction you choose and that's from dr seuss and i'm so proud of our students because all year long you have worked so hard and you have used your brains and you can see in some of the things we're going to celebrate of all the great things that you've done not only in the classroom but in terms of contests and artwork and activities that you've participated in so thank you happy teacher appreciation week so we celebrated our amazing continental teachers and staff last week and there's some pictures um of the celebration thank you to ptc parents our governing board and leadership team for making this an extra special week and i know parents you you were asked to donate items as well and rptc puts it all together so nicely but we couldn't do it without the support of our community and our parents we also had our um the next one the coffee truck was donated by a real a real estate agency i believe and that was really extra special so our ptc works really hard to go out and solicit donations for our teachers and thank you to mr osterly for providing the nice flashlights and the roles that said thank you that we were able to give to our teachers last wednesday so we really appreciate all your support to support our teachers to do the very important work that they do we've had sonoran desert museum came to continental to work with our first graders which was exciting we also had a holocaust survivor meet with our eighth graders prior to them going to the dc trip that was miss wanda wulowski so she shared her story and thank you miss lathan for purchasing the book that she published that will be in our library as well and i also want to say that our students we get complimented all the time in how well behaved they are in dc but also on their knowledge our science our social studies teachers do a really good job at preparing our students to answer questions that the docents are asking and it's usually our kids who are raising their hands and hands amongst other schools that are there so i want to do a public thank you to mr vance for his hard work and obviously all of our middle school teachers are always um you know making things meaningful and relevant and presenting things in a way that's relevant to our kids when they can actually transfer in real life when they're in dc which is exciting um our ptc sponsored walkathon again the reward was the petting zoo so there's some more pictures and our ptc rocks and so do our students and continental's got talent so if you missed our talent show it was a fun event sponsored by our builders club and thank you to our sponsors mrs fanning and miss kelly potterton for another great talent show and you can see the variety of students that participate we really have a lot of talent and great students at our school who are willing to get up and do their thing in front of our students which is really nice student highlights and special events there's the two pictures of sophia gonzalez and audrey khan in the photo art contest winners they received their backpacks we have mr ferguson received his 13 um 13 1300 check from my america rotary for our participation in jazz in the dead desert which is exciting and we have our very own testament gibbon she was recognized as one of the most influential youths here on i-19 corridor so she was celebrated over the weekend and she couldn't make it to her celebration because she was on the dc trip but we make sure to speak with her today and we'll recognize her again and our student advisory meeting tomorrow so congratulations mr mckibben so again we're just excited hello summer and um thank you parents for all of your support this year thank you students for all of your hard work thank you to our governing board for allowing us to follow through with our mission and vision of continental and obviously our administrative staff so that concludes our report thank you all right now the fun farm asparagus is going to lead us through the uh cult of the month ceremony okay so we can have our students bring your papers and then line up here mr nathan and i will all line you up from here all the way up oh my god um and you can come up and take pictures parents if you'd like is nice to all of his peers follows the safety rules on the playground and in class he also turns in all of his work and homework on time his work is always outstanding and neatly done congratulations lillian lillian has made great improvements towards her learning and habits in class this quarter she's been respectful towards her classmates and teachers and she's used her school supplies and playground equipment safely she's completed her work correctly and in a timely manner way to go lillian keep up the good work i'm so proud my name is all right alton works hard and doesn't give up he's always so very kind to his classmates and extremely polite to all the adults around him everyone loves eldon congratulations writes rosalie cooperates consistently consistently with the teachers and other students she remains focused on the activities given to her rosalie is a kind and helpful is kind and helpful with students she's constantly reminding students to do what they're supposed to be doing rosalie is always challenging herself as well and always asks what she can improve in congratulations mrs flowers writes lincoln could be nominated for this award every month he's polite supportive of his peers caring and inclusive lincoln makes it a point to be kind to all and always finds the good in people he follows the rules but still finds ways to have fun and enjoy life i love the excitement he brings to all activities and lessons lincoln thinks just about everything we do in school is fun i'm very proud of lincoln and love his drive to do his very best daily there's a very bright future ahead for this kid and i will be the first in line to say i was his third grade teacher well done lincoln super proud of you mrs flowers my name is so miss house writes ryden has the absolute best sense of humor he's kind and a great joy to have in my classroom i have no doubt he has a bright future ahead of him congratulations right my name is sweezie and i'm in third grade all right miss kohler our pe teacher she writes swayze palmer demonstrates kindness makes safe choices and shows responsibility in physical education and health education the reason she's been chosen as cult of the month is not only to compliment her on her efforts in physical education and health but to applaud her efforts as an outstanding cult who truly demonstrates kindness throughout the day i had the opportunity to witness her leadership skills in several social settings this past quarter and then reflected back on the growth she's made this year swayze positively impacts her peers in a very selfless and mature way keep up the great work swayze my name is mrs mother all right miss montoya writes daphne is such a great girl she's kind to everyone and anyone she helps those who need help if she can definitely always works hard and when she's challenged she does not give up she tries her best she also makes sure her work's completed and turned in on time daphne you are a great example of what a cult should be keep working hard girl this is montoya congratulations my name is robbie and i'm in 8th grade [Music] so all of the middle school teachers chose robbie robbie has had such a wonderful 8th grade year he's a delight to have in the classroom and works diligently on his academics ravi is kind to everyone and brings positive energy to all his classes we can always count on robbie to do the right thing and always follow the rules he's a great role model for other students we wish robbie the best of luck as he enters the high school next year we know he will do well congratulations robbie please oh parents if you want to come up closer to get pictures we have one yeah thing we ask that the students help us so we started a few years back something that we call the golden horseshoe award which is kind of like the employee of the month so like we have the quote of the month for our students we also as an administration team like to recognize the good works that our staff is doing the first one that we're going to do is a classified staff member this individual is fairly new to our district he's been here two years now um came in in our transportation department mr lane you can come up here and talk with me too [Music] but this person came in in a little bit different role one that we haven't had here at cockpit so we had bus drivers but we didn't have a trainer and so we went we reached out to this individual who had been a trainer at a neighboring school district and they were willing to come and drive for us but also train um which is super handy to do because we are one of the only school districts this year that hasn't had to um charter the really expensive white charter buses for athletics and even just to get kids to school and i contribute that a lot to a having a transportation department where our drivers want to stay and they're not leaving and b to mr ken cruz who has started training new drivers and bringing in fresh drivers to the district um that are highly qualified and doing a great job is there anything else that i think the biggest thing is is mr cruz actually retired from the neighboring school district and a little armed twisting and negotiating um god had come over but he has done a phenomenal job and he's actually really helped me to bring our transportation department to where we are now um and not struggling with like other schools so it's a great thing to have here and he does that all for the love and compassion and safety of our students so if you get to know him it really comes from a place of safety and caring for each kid um he kind of lives by that motto that he believes the bus driver is the first base from the school that the kids see every day and the last space that they see every day and he really he wears a big old smile as he drives that bus around and all the kids see that when they get on the bus and then they leave the bus and so i really appreciate him and his temperament and his positive attitude all the time so although he wasn't able to be here tonight because he also teaches taekwondo in the community we appreciate him two children we will be giving this a staff meeting this week he did tell me today continental is his family continental very much for our certified staff member the golden horseshoe award goes to our third our second grade teacher valeria nawado she's in her third year here as a continental teacher her first year here as you can imagine being a first year teacher you learn a lot it was the year we shut down for covin so she learned a lot that year there was things that we didn't even expect that she had to jump on board and figure out how to do everything along with everybody but she's always had a great attitude about it and loves her students and she's grown so much she started as a first grade teacher this year she's a second grade teacher and she's grown so much that we've talked many times about just how effortless she makes it look the transitions in her classroom the way she's instructing to instructing her students and the love that she has for them we're very proud to have miss navado on board with us as a second grade teacher and as a continental cult so she unfortunately couldn't make it tonight either but we will make sure that we also do this presentation at our staff meeting on wednesday yesterday [Music] okay ready one two three good job thank you so we'd like to do a big round of applause for all of our global massive public health pizza okay before you leave you can take some for the road your other brothers and sisters that may be home yeah with that you're welcome to stay but look forward to seeing you guys next fall and yeah and then have a great summer [Music] um yes so report items approval of the vouchers yes sir so we took these out of the consent agenda as i've been requested so we bring these to you tonight we um not your number 9037 um there was no explanatory data as far as what the funds were spent on it just said so the the so the journal that you were looking at was the uh the check report showing the liabilities further back in there should be the journals shows everything else that was in it i i don't have access to that but i went through it i went through the entire voucher and that's all it was all it has is accounts yeah i remember looking at it um and i remember it matching up to the journal entries so under 9037 there's a thousand dollars to amazon for supplies 551 dollars to american fire equipment sales and service um department of 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last year we lost 46 kids to have a cobia recovery we would have gained all those 46 kids plus the average of the previous three years as a general rule which would have been about another 40 kids so when i look at 2020 21 to 21 22 for first to second grade we should have grown by 80 some students to have a full covered recovery you can see we grew by five that didn't happen we see this in most grades again this was something very typical with most of our illinois clients that we looked at so it was the first thing that when we started talking about projections this was something that that jumped up when we look at um live birth data even if we go back to the year when the chicago cubs won the world series we didn't see like a huge spike of new life bursts in the way that we maybe thought things would happen what we have been seeing and we're waiting for the the official 2020 data we've seen this population decline of live births that jen has showcased in all the counties it's down this impacts us the third thing that is really huge and that this could potentially turn into a positive is new development take some time look at those maps look at those tables and you'll start to see where these pockets of growth are but if i just focus because of the projections last year look 1200 units we think this 229 is going to go up there's a delay on when we get the certificate of occupancies recorded at the counties but 1200 units look at this that's way more that probably is the aggregate of every single year previous on this table equal 1200 units so this is a good sign new new activity and at a rate greater than what we've seen in years past so that that's kind of a positive thing um when we look at the building inventory my last components of before we get into the projection this decade of 2000 and 2009 more building activity than what came into that decade look at that thirteen 13 620 units came online with 11 251 coming into that decade but then 2010 to 2019 look at this only 1900 basically 2 000 units for that whole decade compared to the previous decade that's had a huge impact think about the communities that were built in 2000 and 2009 here we are at the start of that decade for 22 years later many of those families there were younger age families most of their kids go through the system go back to page 16 you see that when you look at the data of change that happened five years ago to now you see a lot of change so those are some of the things i was like okay when you get into these projections this is why we're seeing what we see so here we go back to 2000 2021 um red represents elementary blue the junior high green the high school here we're at total sixteen thousand five hundred sixty k-12 kids doesn't incur include the these few kids that are in the early childhood this is just k-12 kids we didn't have the full recovery that that we maybe hoped would happen continue to decline by about another 250 kids the 16 300.
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um throughout his high school career matthew has this is just amazing taking three dual credit mathematics courses at ball state taking several other dual credit courses outside the stem field served as a research assistant at morehouse school of medicine he believed his first authored paper while internet pioneer academic research was a national american finalist and scholarship planner other awards include u.s national chemistry olympiad two-time u.s math olympiad qualifier health occupation students of the students association national gold medal winner and medical math first place indiana high school math contest first place indiana state athlete three-time first place health occupation students competition in medical math first place state academic economy just goes on and on and on okay now we get into some of career activities president of the health occupation students association club student bike treasurer member of the student athletic board national hour society captain indiana academic team interdisciplinary teams the bay club key club student assembly triangle magazine captain the boys tennis team their four-year starter for state qualifying tennis statement championships that combination helped him win active call state honors shock and he's also the state middle award leader for the tennis state championships two-time first place scholarships this is crazy two-time first place we started betty brown awards instrumental excellence in piano and played in many piano awards also he plans to study chemistry at yale or brown now i think that what captures i think matthew's essence even beyond all these books i haven't gotten those services it'll list those pages but this is the quote that was in the republic at the end of tennessee i wouldn't say that i wouldn't say a feedback validator is my main goal my main goal academically was to go to school and have fun learning i think the most this valuatory stuff came as a result of me just being joined what i'm doing in school as much as me earning this recognition as part of the governor's step team of mathematics i would say it's not only me who deserves it i also think that there are many other people out there who also have been impactful for my life because i couldn't have done this without their help and especially the bcsc the corporation even before they gave me the opportunities for academics there were people through elementary school middle school even high school really taught me how to really enjoy what i learned and really pursue something beyond it was to try to make me a better version of myself and not only just academics but also extracurriculars whether it be in sports or also music additionally i would also like to recognize my mom and my dad i love you guys so much even though there's some place where it might be very annoying to you i really appreciate you guys for always sticking with me from day one so i love you guys so much thank you so much and also i would like to recognize all the friends or even like past whether they're in college right now or whether they're still in school they really are shaped who i really am they really encourage me in some aspects we're always there during some of my lowest moments and i think that i wouldn't have been able to do what i've been able to do if it weren't for all my friends family and faculty so as much as today is like one day to recognize this achievement i also think that these people also deserve recognition as well thank you yes congratulations matthew outstanding uh school career we now have the south side elementary safety is coming in so turn things over well thank you very much for having us we appreciate the opportunity to share our young students accomplishments so i just want to say congratulations to csa lincoln you'll see them next but i will uh stop talking and give it to our coach randy kiel who i appreciate her time and efforts thank you mr brockminer and thank you again to the board for inviting us to be here this evening i want to give a quick shout out to some folks at south side we hosted the first in-person elementary academic competition since 2019 so kudos to our fantastic custodians the wonderful group of teachers who helped things around smoothly that evening our tight crew the wonderful children who helped set up a lot of holding chairs right and mr roger for supporting us that evening when mr grimes reached out to me a few weeks ago to ask what transpired that evening and spoke at the board meeting he used the new bcsc tagline together we learned and this was a geometry focus year for us so together we learned an awful lot of geometry right together we learned things like how to use the pythagorean theorem together we learned how to find the sum of the interior angles of any regular polygon regardless of how many signs it has together we learn how to solve multi-step problems in either 30 45 or 60 seconds that's the max amount of time for any given problem together we learn also how to stay calm in kind of a pressure situation and honestly kudos to all of the children who participated in the mouthful that evening and all of the parents and coaches who supported them if you've never been to an elementary magical competition it can be quite intense these children achieved a near-perfect score by answering 31 of 32 questions correctly which is really a remarkable achievement and when we got together last friday to celebrate our end of season together and played some games and had some cake i asked them to also jot down on a note card what they were taking away from their overall magical experience and what i found out is together we also learned that math can be fun and exciting together we learn how to stay positive and support one another together we learn how to really collaborate and come together as a team and so i'd like to introduce the team members to you matt stays when i say your name if you could please raise your hand we have a couple of students who couldn't be here so in case they're watching the live stream trigger read them and darnacius arson and then we have a deal we'll just kind of leave them here okay vikram luke wu marco miller sid kasya trion batula ranjan pulan mahara dingra did i miss anybody all right that's this year's southside math goal team our state champions and the blue class the large school division um everything all right oh okay congratulations to south side elementary school mr barbarus skill and our kids who represented the school in that large class division so with with one state champion that would be pretty cool for any school corporation but we had two there were only five classes uh five divisions at the state level four math goal and so south side won the large school and csa lincoln is the small school class champion so we can make csa elementary school we would like to uh also congratulate south side as well for their championship so uh my name is brett finley and thank you for allowing us to meet today you know the csa weekend huskies and uh this is our first state championship for matt paul so i'd like to recognize his coach marissa white and i'll let her present and recognize everyone as well all right so our 2020 cse lincoln team was well 20 20 20 22.
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so what are you going to do let me take away five one two three four five and what do you have left for what what one two three four five did you have too much okay we take five away we have four four what though and what is that total that's four can you show me how you count these tens 20 34 okay and what do you do on your sheet then then if it's checked out oh don't do it so the next oh it wasn't already checked off on your sheet yup you explained that perfectly and here students are once again working and they're making corrections as they go um constantly talking about the parts of numbers that have come alive through working with our tools explain what you're going to pick yes [Applause] [Music] is [Music] oh [Music] oh [Music] what he said [Music] can you go can you put your number someplace is and now we see just some um artifacts some depictions of how students have arranged their tools and the structures that they use they have the tools in their hands and they can do some very sophisticated things if you take a look at the equations and how they match the equations to the numbers and now we're just going to take a quick look into grade two [Applause] so we want to um be very um thank you cognizant of your time um and we had a couple more videos in second grade but you will have the entire compliment of these videos and we just wanted to let you know that you know this has been a tremendous amount of work that the teachers have welcomed us into their classroom um the transitions that they've made kindergarten teachers have made probably the most amount of transitions in the past two years um but but k in one as well um and they really have um been partners um in education with us and we are so fortunate to have the teachers that we have to work with us each and every day and i am so fortunate to have the um six coaches that i have work with me so again the first link on the on on the slide where it does have the math celebrations you will have all of the videos and um and all of the pictures that we collected from teachers and we just want to thank you so much for letting us present tonight thank you so much mary jo laura and chrissy it was brought a smile to my face certainly to see uh the children and working on the math and and you know the back and forth of explaining and correcting and providing feedback it's always wonderful to see the kids doing that um the next topic that i'm going to walk the board through is um the overview of the training that's going to be rolled out across the special education and related services department um cara well i'm talking through it would you be able to put up that put back up the slides for me please um so no worries take your time um so i'm just going to provide you a little bit of background um starting july 1st 2022 so just uh two months from now um the state is requiring all districts to shift to a um two things a new iep um as well as a new platform and an online platform in which we enter the information into the into the iep um and the reason for it is for a few different things um one of the rationales uh for it is the state has done a multi-year process in which they've looked at the individualized educational plans which are the uh written formats that we provide services for special education students um and they've realized that they can be quite cumbersome difficult to understand and so they've tried to streamline the process to make it more user-friendly both for districts as well as for families the next reason um is that they've tried to beef up the quality of the iep um and you'll notice in in the new iep and i'll show it to you in a moment that they've really put an emphasis on parent input in a more strategic and systematic way throughout the plan i'm really engaging families and parents as partnering with districts on providing a special specialized instruction and related services for their um students so they want to make sure that parents and students um as the students become older have a greater emphasis and input into the process um another reason is really to help to align with standards um so you've heard cara talk a lot about across the academics the the academic standards in ela as well as mathematics um and what they're requiring for any special education student is that we consider the grade level standard in which that student is in and then break that standard down to see where the student is currently performing and how we can get them to make progress towards that grade level standard the next piece is really to look at making sure that our data reporting systems are in alignment with the state right now in my department there are four major data reporting on systems that we do for special education students there's a lot of legality laws and compliance that come with ieps and so we're required to inform the state of which students are on ieps the different types of services that they receive when a student is being evaluated there's a timeline for that and so all of those systems come with a high level of state reporting and this new system will streamline that process between districts and the state another benefit will be we frequently see students moving from district to district um so for example student moves from bethel to danbury or maybe manchester to danbury it's really going to be under this new system a click of a button to make all those special education records available and accessible to uh two districts which is advantageous so that we can immediately be aware of the students needs and start to implement a plan asap and the last the last kind of benefit of this new transition is it has a higher level of integration with our current system so right now we're using powerschool as our student information system parents have a portal that they can log into powerschool this new special education portal will provide parents that similar login experience that they can log in and view their students records across time and it will also sync nightly with powerschool so right now if a parent moves and an address gets changed and our current system it has to be updated um in powerschool it then has to be updated in the special education system um and it there's a lot of duplication of efforts on behalf of district staff and this will serve to streamline that process so with this comes a big undertaking of the special education and related services department as far as training um so i'm going to walk you through what we've been doing so far this year and then what our plans are for the next two years um so this year the special education administrative team as well as our ppt facilitators which are individuals that run and chair all of our planning and placement team meetings and those are our special education meetings for students have received training in the new system um so that remember there's two parts one is the new iep which is changing the way in which we write the document and then the second is the actual system where we enter in the information um and so that team will then continue to receive increased training over the summer um and upon the start of the school year for next year every one of your special education teachers and related services staff members will receive the three days in which they come back to school at the beginning of the year will be all dedicated to this new iep and this new online training system across the year they've been getting some information that is it's come out from the state um to prepare them for this transition but the full training will not be available to them until they return for next school year um then across the year we'll utilize the um some of our pd times so those early release half days or the after school professional development time to pick apart the sections of the iep to really talk about how to write them in a in a high quality fashion um so for example one of those areas is writing iep goals and objectives and what that is is they're specific they're measurable for each individual student and so we'll talk about how do we select those goals and objectives based on data of where a student currently is um understanding of the grade level standard where we'd like students to be um and then helping teachers to systematically and strategically measure progress across time so we understand which students are making progress towards their individual plans so this is going to be a big undertaking of of the department as i had said it will launch july 1st which is summer it'll give my department my office over the summer time an opportunity to transition in all the data um from our current vendor into the new system and make sure that we're ready to rock and roll start of start of the school year for next year um what i've done on this slide just as a reference tool um is i've put a copy um the first bullet point for the new iep template is a hyperlink and if you click on that form it'll bring you to the new iep so that you can just get a feel for what it looks like for those of you that have spent any time reviewing the current iep it does look and feel very differently i want to stress that there is there's no different information included in the document it's just the layout and the way in which it's organized um feels different so all the the legally required components of the iep are still there it just is ordered a little bit differently some things are emphasized a little bit more so than others but the components are still the same so the second document that we have is a side by side comparison of the current iep to the new iep and what it does is it walks you through page by page and i'm going to leave these there for you to look at at a later time as i could do a three-hour presentation just walking you through the two documents um but it takes the current document and the new document and it walks you through to emphasize just how they what one looks like with the other one right next to it and you'll be able to kind of take a crosswalk between the two to see some of those differences that i'm talking about so the training that we spoke about is composed of a few things it breaks the iep down into eight specific sections and what it does is each training module is about an hour and a half in length um and we'll walk these special education and related services staff members um through a state state-created presentation they want to make sure that everyone across the state is getting the same information for the rollout of this of this new system and we'll go through each component there are some case studies we'll utilize students in information and districts with individual teachers looking at their current student information so that they can digest and understand it at a deep level there's also some asynchronous modules for four of the modules there's support or compendium documents in which teachers um just go back for one second which teachers can watch and look at um so to provide some just additional clarifying information um and then uh lastly we'll do a half day training on um on the uh system itself so the online platform in which we'll enter all this information in so one is understanding the new iep and document and the other one is the usability of the online platform um i think this is going to be a very exciting time for the department i think a lot of the changes that the state has put forward for the new iep um are very student-centered data-driven um and aligned uh with with the state standards which is exciting and awesome that said it's going to be a transition right many um people like myself i was thinking about it the other day i think i've been using the current document for almost 15 years with very small tweaks and changes um and now it looks and feels very differently um so we certainly are going to develop ongoing professional development throughout the year as well as some um voluntary support sessions that teachers can go to to um you know bring current questions that they have get feedback on and information that they're providing i'm going to pause right there for a second i know i shared a lot of information and see if there's any questions so far um from the board related to the new state training okay i would encourage you when you have a few minutes to click on you know so you get a feel for what the new iep looks like um this is the document that our special education and related services staff members fill out for every single special ed student in our district and we have just over 1700 currently and they're very specific and individualized to that child's disability and individualized needs i'm going to just give you kind of a taste of what of what one of them looks like it is blank to protect student information and at a later date if you would like some samples of what one would look like for a potential hypothetical student we certainly would be happy to provide those to you care if you could advance forward to the next slide um the other piece that we'll be doing for professional development in the school counseling department is we are going to be looking at our school counseling framework and particularly our lessons that the school counselors are doing for our students so the state recently issued a comprehensive school counseling framework um from kindergarten through 12th grade um it's based on the asca model which is the national school counselor association and the themes you'll see here are very aligned with our portrait of the graduate themes they're on developing leadership equity advocacy collaboration accountability and systemic change amongst our students so it's building lessons into our academics into our school day so that students can learn these skills um so what i really like about this is that we're seeing uh threads not only in the academic classes but also through the support work of our school counselors and supporting the ultimate north star portrait of the graduate work for our district um so we've started the work this year in uh 2021-22 what we've um we've started this in the second half of the year is that we're providing training for our school counselors on the new framework that was released by the state we want to make sure that they understand it that they understand the expectations um and that they're then ready to revise our current district framework to be in alignment with that um we also in doing so we're looking at our vision and mission not the district vision and mission but the school counselor vision and mission um so that it could be in alignment with this new framework um we're having school counselors work together in teams across both the middle school and high school to work together in partnership to reimagine or re-envision what school counseling looks like in current and current day next year we'll then go into rewriting our curriculum our lesson plans there's a much heavier emphasis on this new school counselor framework on tier one instruction and what that means is how to have school counselors push into general ed classrooms and teach all students so that all students have access to the school counselor not just through the college application process but through skill building and so what we will do through the lesson planning is um pick across grades 6 through 12 what are the key or hallmark skills that we want each grade level to learn and we'll calendarize those by month so that every single student in danbury regardless of what middle school you attend or eventually what high school you attend um will receive the same instruction at the tier one level school counselors will always continue to work on the tier 2 and tier 3 levels meaning students that need extra help extra support maybe pull out from a classroom to deal with a certain situation or scenario but we want to put a heavier emphasis on pushing our counselors into classrooms to do this tier one level work um so next year we'll be all focused around writing those lesson plans and making sure that we have an aligned framework from grade 6 to 12 across the district and then the following year year 22 i'm sorry 23 24 we'll be looking at implementing the lessons on the full comprehensive lesson plan we'll do some implementation next year um getting feedback and making revisions and adjustments to that um the school counselor department myself along with cara will also align um between the curriculum administrators and and and my team to make sure that um we are also looking at what does this look like in each one of our career academies so first is getting what do we want all of our students to know and then how does that fit into the different academies and and where's the appropriate timing in place to do these push-in lessons to support all kids um so another exciting initiative across the school counselor department i'll pause there if there's any questions can i just um it's very interesting uh i applaud all the focus but what happened to academic excellence um for our students uh promoting that with all this as a backup sure so so the goal is always academic excellence for all of our students and so in specifically speaking to the school counselor framework and curriculum that is how to support with an additional layer so that all students can achieve academic excellence that we're not taking away this is not in place of that it's in addition to i'm so right right i understand but i i haven't seen academic excellence anywhere you know mention are you questioning and particularly related to the information that you've seen tonight is that what you're yeah exactly i mean it's amazing what you folks are doing it's um but to me the goal is in your goal i can but it's not stated it's not articulated um academic excellence you know towards academic excellence uh and i don't see that well i apologize if that wasn't front and center um the goal of the district is always academic excellence for all students um my particular sections is looking at the students with disabilities which we are legally mandated to write an individualized plan of how that student can achieve academic excellence right so that is really walking through that individual plans for a student that has different needs and how we can support them to ultimately achieve their best version of themselves and for different students their goals are going to be different in alignment with what is appropriate based on their disability the school counselor information is how do we support students knowing that in addition to achieving you know the best that they can in reading writing math and other academic areas how do we build them as people we know we know students need to be able to possess leadership skills they need to be able to advocate for themselves they need to be able to collaborate with one another in order to achieve academic excellence in order to be able to go on to post-secondary school or to be successful in the workforce that those are also skills and qualities that are needed for all students to be successful um so the two components tonight we're really focused on just giving you one component of um you know a piece that makes us who we are as a district insuring up and building capacity of our program so that all students can achieve to the best of their ability i just don't see how the the videos were very helpful it was uh but sat scores are they going to be judged on equity and leadership um that's what i'm getting at i don't see this theresa if i could just jump in for a second and i do understand your point in where you're where you're going um so part of to in order to we've done deep dives deep data dives on sat scores our espa scores and when you start to break down the root cause of of of issues with with student learning you could trace it right back down to some of whether or not students are able to explain their thinking in a math in a mathematics class for example to be able to build a strong mathematical understanding to be able to mentally model what it is that they're doing so that that transfers into their work and so the work for example and and that is all related to academic excellence and so you know we just keep the the the excellence piece doesn't start in in 10th or 11th grade you know when they're taking that s.a.t it starts well before that and all of the coaching and the things that you heard tonight play an integral role in helping to strengthen the pedagogy that's needed to help shape that academic excellence so how do we get best practice on the table how do we make sure that students are engaging in discourse how do we make sure that our teachers feel comfortable um and and feel efficacious in the way that they're delivering curriculum and to be able to give good feedback so that we can continue to push students along a growth continuum um to meet their needs when it comes to things like equity and advocacy and collaboration you know when we talk about i'll give you an example um there's a lot of research around uh advanced placement courses uh teresa and i'm sure you can appreciate this that says that um just participation alone in an advanced placement course um yields greater achievement for students than if they had not participated regardless of how they score on the exam for example and so dan barry wears many high schools have criteria for students to take those courses you have to have a certain gpa you have to have a certain uh you have to have a certain cut score um we're only going to offer two sections of these courses and everybody else who who doesn't meet this criteria sorry just the the top 40 kids are going to get these sections we've created a system in danbury that allows any student who wants to take an advanced placement course and to challenge themselves in that course to have access to that course and that is equity that's an equity issue because we know when students participate in an advanced placement course whether or not they score two or three or four or five that they are better prepared for college and they do better on end of course assessments and end of high school assessments such as the sat and a.c.t and so those are good examples of how we've created systems within our school system um to create to open the doors for students to take those courses so um you know i want to make sure that that you know it there's a lot that goes into what how a student achieves or whether or not a student achieves and certainly when we're tending to their social emotional needs when we're tending to other instructional needs when they're tending to students who need to be accelerated or where their intervention needs to happen then we are building a stronger student who then can achieve and so it's very it's a very complex um piece and as you can see tonight everybody has a role in that process and it kind of has to come from different angles and so achievement is really very multifaceted um process to to to get to that i think in the next slide um teresa you might see some things that maybe maybe more in line of what you're you know maybe considering as achievement or process of achievement um i'm hoping i'm capturing what you're trying to say but um i understand what you're saying but i don't see it articulated in these words it's uh commendable it's um it's really fabulous but i don't see it articulated in plain english and um and i'm sorry i didn't get this the slide i didn't see any and notice about i hadn't had a chance to review this i didn't get uh when i left work at five i didn't have this to review but most of the stuff i've seen i i still have not seen anything about the goal you know it's understood but i don't see it articulated anywhere and uh i realize this is the road to it but it's not articulated and uh well let's see the next slide and see what you're gonna have i think i think what you're referring to is our state of objectives and district goals related to student achievement um and so what's what has been presented tonight were updates in particular areas on work um that that is part of the landscape of of what we do um but i think what you're referring to more could be possibly in a strategic plan or listed out separately as goals for the district which i agree is always a goal right high student achievement and always working in that direction so um but for the next slide i'm kind of leading in to some of the places uh where i think um it might be good to clarify is that we're always working on providing opportunities and and providing mechanisms for students to achieve um and to be their their very best and to have opportunities that they may not would have otherwise so um this has been uh you may have seen this in the the task force in the last couple of presentations that we've done this is sort of a revised um graphic of just to make it a little bit easier to read because we're having some troubles with the other one revised graphic of the the different academies uh one that's located at the danbury career academy site which is the former carters building and then the academies that will be at the danbury high school main campus academy site so um the two academies that will be at the cardis location will be these two here emerging technologies and entrepreneurship and scientific innovation in medicine the four academies that will be at danbury high school site will be information and cyber security political and pro uh i'm sorry not political professional and public services art engineering and design and communication and design and what i wanted to show you tonight and i have melissa nadew who is our stem administrator who's been absolutely amazing in the process of helping to develop out the program of study sheets um so we could lay out a path um a rigorous path of of uh course studies so for students is to give you a snapshot of some of the work in the background granted these are drafts um but to take one of these pathways and to give you kind of illuminate some of the work that occurs that will be occurring in there so i'm going to click on so this medical technology and engineering pathway it will be our example for tonight and so as an example this would be a program of study sheet again this is we are in draft mode right now um that would articulate what the series of courses a student would take to meet their high school graduation requirements um but also to obtain some experience and and more in-depth career connected learning in the pathway that they chose and so i'm going to let melissa uh take this away a little bit to talk about these sheets um this is also hot linked into your presentation tonight so you can take some time to take a look at that but i do i would like melissa to kind of walk you through and then talk a little bit about the medical technology um program and that's kind of in development and melissa if it's easier for you for me to shrink this a little bit uh so you can see the whole thing in totality i can do that down to see if that's a little bit better you're good good okay i know these i know these pretty well yeah so um for each pathway at the high school level there will be a a program guide that assists students in choosing the right course that will make their experience within the pathway probably the most comprehensive it can be the course of study guide is developed or sorry not course of study again but the program guide is developed by examining what the graduation requirements students need in order to graduate but then also um provides students with other courses that are aligned with the cte course the career connected learning courses to really just make the most formidable experience in their high school careers when you look at the courses here that are highlighted for the medical technology pathway we have the ninth grade uh exploration seminar which is the compulsory course for all ninth grade students to go through so that they kind of get an overview and start doing some long-range planning which is part of one of the connecticut state policies on students having a career a study plan starting in sixth grade through graduation from there students would enter a 10th grade course you'll see on the program guide that there's the the yellow courses which is that career connected learning pathway but then there's also um required electives again meeting the graduation requirement needs but some of those required electives will also support the knowledge base that students are gaining through that career connected learning course so i'm going to start by describing a little bit of that 10th grade course which is called engineering essentials this is like a survey course that kids would take in their 10th grade year to learn a little bit more about the basics of engineering design that's what the first entire unit is all about it talks about just how engineers go through a process of brainstorming ideas researching ideas developing prototypes for ideas um and and that's you know that's it is pretty high level stuff but to kind of speak to the needs of the portrait of a graduate work um in order to develop this program of study my team and i have been meeting with um numerous industry partners who speak in the area of engineering whether it be in med tech whether it be um in applied engineering aerospace engineering we've been holding meetings over the course of the last three years to understand what it is that we can put into a robust curriculum experience for students to not only get to academic achievement and content but also to get to the skills needed to to flourish in any type of environment they would be in so an example in the essential engineering course would be going through the aqpq process which is a mouthful if you try to say it quickly and that's a process that engineers have shared with us is a collaborative way for for engineers to share their ideas on what they would like to develop and get feedback from others on how to fully develop that idea to fruition um so embedded within these within these courses are experiences like that to facilitate innovative thought to facilitate collaboration and communication all within core content um so throughout their engineering essentials course students will also do a cursory overview of mechanical engineering as well as electrical engineering those are two of the larger career paths that students could take in engineering in general so after the essential the engineering essentials course students would enter into their 11th grade course and this is a course that's called the intersection of innovation so while i talk about this course um cara i'm actually going to have you pull up the video that's on the last slide of the presentation there's no sound in the video because i'm gonna talk over it while it plays um but this entire course for 11th grade is designed on the narrow maker hand so we were collaborating with a company outside of boston called brain co brainco has many facets um in in neuroscience and neuroengineering and they developed um within their labs something called the neuromaker hand and that's that's what the entirety of the 11th grade course is developed on kids will actually build that hand you're seeing there um and as part of the the process understand the mechanics of our own biology and and how our tendons and our ligaments operate within our hands to make it move um and through that process they will then actually use electrical engineering to connect the circuits in the hand that they're building and that's something that you're seeing happening on the screen right now um as the kids progress into um into the process they're going to be going through that engineering design they're going to have to troubleshoot when the connections don't work um they'll they'll be going through their own design challenges as they're creating different prototypes for what they want their hands to complete and do they will have to program that hand right so attaching the electrical circuits are not enough through programming on the computer um they have to tell the hand what to do so they will actually make those fingers move they will make it grasp objects and eventually they will start using artificial intelligence so that the sensors on the hands as an object comes closer to it the sensors will automatically know that oh a cup is coming towards my hand i need to grasp it or a cell phone is coming towards my hand i need to hold it a certain way and that's that's the entirety of the components of their 11th grade experience going through developing building programming and using artificial intelligence to train that hand to do what it is it's asked to do so if you can pull up the program program guide one more time kara i'll talk about how this sets students up for their 12th grade course so what i just described was the basis of the intersection of innovation right so we're talking about medical technology pathway and they'll get a core compulsory experience throughout 11th grade where they will go through the hands the 12th grade is the application of innovation innovative design so um in this course in this 12th grade course the students are going to go through and ideate on their own interests right so they may have gone through their 11th grade course studying the hand well now it's their own turn to to find their own problem in society that they would like to solve as it applies to um the medical field and engineer something to solve that problem so um you know they're they're going to discover issues that are facing people in society or throughout the world and imagine what they can do in order to solve those larger life problems the goal for that 12th grade course of the application of innovative design is to find partnerships within industry that can set them up to meet with engineers on a regular basis so that they can um [Music] help understand what type of technologies are out there that can support whatever their that is that they're trying to solve and i'll give an example that is not from our district but was from a larger design competition where a student in connecticut actually developed bandages that turn a different color when a wound gets infected so that people knew that okay this bandage turned this color they need to seek medical attention and that's being used actually widely in in in some third world countries right now a student developed that so the goal of that 12th grade course is to have them ideate to have them develop prototypes um and refine and present whatever it is they're developing um two panels of engineers um and and also enter some some larger contests you may have seen in that video for the neuramaker they actually sponsor a larger contest designed on medical engineering which is something we hope students get involved in there's a company in terrytown new york that we've been working with that has been an advisor to us called regeneron regeneron also sponsors large competitions not only in this region but nationally and they've been instrumental in us understanding what that competitive process looks like for students um so i mean that's that's pretty much the pathway in general and some of the curriculum work we've done um throughout that yellow um block that you see up there um but it does it doesn't hurt to take notice of the courses that we're asking students to take along the way you know in that and that 10th grade course also highlighted in yellow we have two courses that would really um support um the engine the the entire pathway being medical terminology and introduction of programming right describing that they would be programming a hand an introduction into programming would be helpful and that's liaisoning computer science into this course work into this path of study and then you know it should you should not fail to notice that it's it's highly recommended that in the senior year in science at least you know you have kids to strive for taking physics um ap bio ap chemistry um but you know i'll talk about physics in particular there there's many there's many um schools in the state of connecticut um so the other thing we've done with these program guides not only working with industry to inform the curriculum design but we've also been working by understanding what the post-secondary schools are requiring of students not only for entrants but also to be successful in their programs so this medtech pathway which is um a very it's a very big program at the university of connecticut um that that physics course is one course that they would advise students have um prior to entering into their into their programs right so what you see before you is a work of not only being informed by industry and our own graduation requirements but also in connection with discussing this with the post-secondary institutions and what their requirements are that's all i have cara unless there's something else you'd like me to no thank you very much um and just to just to note too that these sheets um you know if you look down one of some of the other work that's that will be happening and and very much dependent with the counselors as well in the future this uh document has given me some [Music] some trouble here um is the the making the connections for the students um and you notice at the top though there are different levels of challenge within the academies in the pathway so a student could take a college prep level course an honors course and in many cases um because we offer so many uh advanced placement courses you can choose to take the advanced placement version so um one of the one of the you know the conversation that i had with someone recently you know there was a question you know a parent had a question about you know is this going to be you know like a technical high school and there's not going to be that same level of challenge anymore at jamboree high school and i would um argue to say that we've just upped the challenge and the rigor quite a bit in here but of also offering our regular courses in terms of college prep so a student who wants to take this physics course can take it at the college prep level on honors level or the advanced placement level and so you know the ability to um attain their high school requirements but also challenge themselves appropriate at different levels i think is very important in addition to having early college credit opportunities will be phenomenal um and so a lot of the companies too um that start that we've started to engage in also offer additional levels of expertise even outside of any of the courses that we have um as we as we work to partner with them but i did just want to highlight that some of the work that's happening now is to take these alignments so that when kids are looking at these courses of study sheets and when parents are taking a look that we start to outline the different work based learning experiences and opportunities that could be available what are the industry certifications that a student might be able to pursue as a result of engaging in some of these courses that they'll they'll have the content knowledge to do well on um identifying any dual enrollment courses that we have so what yukon courses can be substituted uh for any of the courses here what courses and articulations with wescon um would we put in here where kids can get college credit and then um understanding you know what are the different job fields out there so pre-med pre-vet pre-dental pharmd these are the types of majors you might be pursuing when you get to the college level so really providing a lot of information for students and parents to make good decision making and then outlining the high high-wage high demand careers below that align to this pathway and some of the work too when they could students come in in grade nine and i'll i'll bug out of here in a second um when students come in in grade nine and they have this grade night exploration course and experience part of that course is to review all of these with students so that they have a deep understanding about the of the opportunities that lie in front of them and the courses that they would have to engage in or and options that they have within additionally it's important to outline you know the different levels of career paths um that they can pursue and so we really you know between the counseling and the course really making sure that kids have a front-loaded experience with this to make a good decision for themselves um you know again they're not picking a college major here but they're but they're engaging in some focused electives that would help produce um something that they would not otherwise get if they had not not uh not been in a wall-to-wall academy so um we're very excited about a lot of the work that's been happening um melissa and her team have been reaching out melissa is in charge of the stem and the cte so there's quite a bit of of pathways um in here that fall into her area so she really does work 24 7 uh you know to to help develop these and we've got a lot more work to come and um so i want to thank you tonight for your presentation i appreciate the work that you guys are doing in the background any questions here um yes hi i'm wondering so you were saying that you don't have to take a course or you know get a certain grade point average to let's say go into this advanced physics course so let's say i take a math and i am not doing well you know just barely getting by and i want to take the physics class maybe my best friend's in there maybe i've always liked it but it requires a lot of math i would be able to just sign up for that course without really um you know having anyone tell me that i'm going to really like i would be able to take that course whether or not i was going to be passing it or not based on my past history or if i'm in an uh special ed program like my son was in one an iep and um like including equity and all these these you know fulfilling and and help structuring life and all that that would not really allow him the time that he needed just to learn how to write a paragraph or do regular math problem so how do you take the um the fact that we're already short on learning and teaching and put children in different classrooms where the speed of the course being taught is not at their level or perhaps their advance like my son was kind of fell in between he was almost like a a substitute teacher or a teacher's aide because he was advanced but in a regular class he struggled so in between that world you know um where does that child fall in do they get to just go into an advanced class because they choose to or you know do they focus on going into a class that really is slower and helping you um learn the foundation instead of so much of like the you know world experience like really learn it yeah so it's a great it's a great question michelle and and one that we've had before so if you're not alone in being concerned about that um but that's that is exactly where the counseling piece comes in and that is where um when a counselor builds a relationship with a student and has followed them through their through their experience and it comes time for those planning sessions around course selection um there there's a there's an honest conversation about what an appropriate level based on past performance based on let's talk about your interest let's talk about so you could have a student who could be let's say uh potentially maybe not a super performer in in mathematics let's just say right um but they are a gifted writer um you know we would we would say maybe you want to challenge yourself in this area i think you would do well or maybe this course might be a better foundational course for you to take given where where you are right now but if you want to challenge yourself here's the next level but i would warn you a little bit about this course over here you might be overwhelmed in this um we also give students um an opportunity you know there's like a two-week drop period as well um so a student we we've had students who kind of you know i think i want to try the ap i think i can do it i really am passionate about that subject area um and they can get in there and some of them soar or they get in in two weeks two weeks later they're like you know what this is way more work than i really thought it was going to be so i'd like to drop the course and and hop into a college prep or an honors course and we allow that so the first two weeks of the school year we do allow some changes but the better the counseling going in the more appropriate that those that those open enrollment um choices are and so open enrollment doesn't necessarily mean free for all it just means that we do not have barriers for students who want to challenge themselves in some areas so um again it really comes down to to a counseling piece um and helping that student make some good choices for themselves that's a that's still an appropriate level of rigor and challenge um but maybe not to the point of overwhelming so if you're going to be getting counseling right now how many hours of counseling would you say that um you would get before you were to apply for courses in freshman year and second you know your sophomore year how many hours are you looking to increase that program because um you know how many times do they meet with the counselor then now versus what you're looking to implement so so we have so right now we have uh 21 advanced placement courses now we have um a gazillion honors and and college prep courses now so so really the counseling piece really isn't any different we've had an open enrollment um system in place so these are these would just be different courses and so students may have questions more so in this enviro in this model about the about courses that they haven't heard of before so there might be some more you know some additional but that's part of what the course is in ninth grade is to go over what all these different courses are and the different career trajectories but really it's it's about making the most of the times there's they have students have scheduled opportunities with with their counselors um and at times push in to talk about those things periodically but we really had this system in place for a while um does that mean every student actually makes the best decision for themselves all the time nope um but we do have an ad drop period that has been that has been well utilized in those scenarios um so that we can you know make sure that students are performing and and thriving in the classes but with challenge so the counselors that you were talking about trying to implement them into the regular course day kind of i thought that's what you were talking about before how many more hours is there a goal to try to you know immerse them into your everyday kind of class situation you know what i'm saying um because right now we're like it's like slim pickings right for counselors and all this um implementing this as well as the curriculum at different speeds and different languages it just looks like we're taking on a lot of goals and these courses and you know just i think it's more like what theresa is saying is what about the academic like is that still the goal or is it to try to really get this whole person kind of developed in the classroom instead of like you know really pushing that academic i think that's the concern for me like how do you keep all that going in one class well if i could just answer about the uh counselor push in right now um the way that many of our counselors are are doing it is that they are for example when you're enrolling for uh your ninth grade year counselors are going into an eighth grade classroom they're talking to students about graduation requirements it's the first time they're hearing that um credits what you have to obtain to achieve a high school diploma um and so building off of the model like that is pushing our school counselors in to have conversations with group of groups of students so for example all students are taking english so pushing into those classes to have conversations whole groups so students can know what to expect come the course registration process um and then looking to do monthly for each grade level in different areas not to detract away from the academics but to support and do it collaboratively with the academic instructor so that students are aware of the information that they need come time for course registration um that they understand the graduation requirements and we're able to support with some of those other softer skills not again not to detract from academic excellence but to further support and build towards the whole student um so that students can gain additional um additional relationships with their school counselors that are key um and to continue on their academic success they need to see the school counselors as being an integral part of their school experience and one way to achieve that is to is to infuse them more into the classroom experience um certainly then there's going to be students that are going to need to have individual conversations uh with their school counselors so one of the things the school counselors currently do is to make sure when students are registering for classes and they put in their requests in elective areas of interest um that i may then follow up with kara and say i know you really like art but you've already met that art requirement and so you have not taken something um in technology or another area and so let's talk about that what would be good courses for you to explore and build upon your experiences and make sure that she's continuing to develop herself as a well-rounded individual i'm just concerned with that with the fact that um i guess i think it was some time ago we had discussed like second language learners combining those classes with regular right first language um you know that are maybe not learning english as the second language so does that speed up the um the teaching process slow it down because i'm bilingual and i've struggled with reading and writing you know just it was because i had learned spanish i was speaking spanish in kindergarten um and everyone else is speaking english so it is something but i always did have to kind of keep up maintain um but nobody kind of slowed that class down for me you know so how does that work for somebody who's really trying to push forward and maybe excelled you know excels at that um part of the course do you kind of set them apart and give them additional work is there you know how does how do you how do you do that if basically we're putting everybody in the same level i'm assuming courses care do you women yeah sure so yeah you know we we have a very much a growing second language learner population they we are a district um who now has uh a very large size uh population of second language learners and so um you know we don't uh you know we don't separate or segregate second language learners from other learners in in the district um and and like other students we talk about um classes that would be most appropriate for them to take um and you know our teachers you know as we continue to grow in our population and size our teaching strategies have to change to make things more accessible to a wider variety of students and is that challenging yes it is um but it's no different than most of our other urban districts and many districts around the state that are also growing and experiencing the same um but i will say that in many cases um you know our second language learners bring another level of uh richness to the class that doesn't you know especially you know yes in our humanities courses and all of our courses they they perform quite well um in many areas and and you and i think that you know i want to be careful that you know we're not we don't want to create a situation where we're saying um you know if we have second language learners in the classroom we're slowing down the achievement or the academics of others and and and you know that that would be the reason you know that would slow things down and um when we opened up our advanced placement courses michelle that was a a place where um there was a lot of speculation on is that is that what's going to happen we're going to slow these classes down and the teacher is going to have to differentiate in a way and while that is true um there wasn't there wasn't an enormous dip in in the overall achievement of students in those classes um the students who would get a four and a five still got a four and a five um on those assessments um but we we just happened to offer and widen that opportunity to other students and this and students benefited from that experience and i think it's really important that um you know over time we continue to grow in our ability to reach all different types of learners um and certainly we're getting more and more experience with second language learners every year um and we're and we're getting better at it so you know we are we are a district who serves second language learners this is our community and uh you know so so our program is is for all but we do we do guide students into appropriately appropriate level courses um you know that's something that that we do for everybody so that's part of the counseling piece um kelly mentioned sort of the push and model as well that's something that you know if we're going to have a meeting with 30 kids to they're all asking the same question um those are the types of you know what let me push into mrs smith's english class i'm going to explain this to all the groups that come through today um so we do we also do a lot of that as well but um but yes our courses we do have open enrollment but we do also couple that with with counseling and guidance to make to help students make informed decisions but right now currently we do have second language learning classes and like regular you know english uh learning you know students different classes but we are merging them so i know we understand that we're saying we want to teach and we teach everyone but currently we're doing it a different way right like we have correct misunderstanding uh no so so we have so what we have now so what so the academy does not change the fact that our second language learners are integrated throughout all of our courses that's happening now and so we have we have we have esl classes that's where we focus on language acquisition so we're going to develop your ability to master um you know language english language um versus you are working it you are attending and participating in other courses where the sole focus of that course is not mastering english language and we're not focused on your english language development although we work to support all students and we're getting better at that as well so so that doesn't change in this model the only thing that changes here are are some of the opportunities that we're offering in terms of the different types of courses that will be available in the academies but right now are all of our esl students are integrated um everywhere in all of our classes you'd be hard-pressed to pull up any course and not find our esl students in in the course yes right i would assume that but i was just i remember you or it being discussed that we were going to be merging different so maybe i misunderstood what you know we had talked about i think it was a couple of months ago actually that was brought up so i think maybe i misunderstood yeah no we we they're all they're in all of our classes all classes now at every level they're an advanced placement they're in college prep there they have their esl courses that they take specifically for language development uh we've got bilingual courses some of our courses are taught in spanish yep no okay so the esl programs that they take is that like considered like an elective is that during the school day that you know they're not maybe in the you know a different english course and that i guess i uh you know so my son wasn't in that i'm not really sure about how that is handled sure so so a newcomer someone who who's a new arrival who has just arrived here would spend more time with an esl teacher than in all of the core classes so until that student requires at least sort of a basic level of proficiency um it wouldn't be fair to you know drop them into five courses so we kind of grow that that out and student would spend double blocks of time in a newcomer class um as they gain more proficiency they end up taking they'll take more classes out in the in the general population if you will and um and and continue to to take on more and more over time as their language proficiency develops okay okay so that's what i wanted to make sure because i know that if you go into a class for two weeks you may not be hitting that essay until four weeks or you know what i mean and really not realize the depth of that course until you're in it so between the counseling i just want to make sure that was still you know like if we're going to be implementing that more so in the class how do you you know manage all that time as well as this esl if you're obviously taking time out to focus on that learning as well as you know mainstreaming that's what i wanted to know so thank you appreciate that welcome yes teresa i noticed the main campus academy is now called art engineering and design before it was art in theater um i'd like to make a recommendation uh the art part be expanded to visual and performing arts that would encompass more of the theater program in your musical program as long as the uh regular uh art courses um i think art is very limiting um and thinking of westcon if they're going to go on to the to that great um at west con that new school they call it visual performing arts just a suggestion just a suggestion no i appreciate that teresa just um i'm not sure that we had theater in the i think i think in one of some strategic planners something you showed uh the academy as art and theater and i was thinking that it just didn't encompass music for me yeah so so the arts music um and theater are are available for all so you know we we have we've so all of the academies that you see here and the pathways within were developed using the national research national research on the career clusters regional uh career clusters and then local career clusters so connecticut and then connecticut has their own clusters um i did present that just recently at the task force there's a slide deck i could probably share that out if anybody's interested um but it really discusses the different areas where there's high wage high demand potential for high wage and so when putting these together an academy model you design these specifically to meet um not just student interest but also that there's a potential for for employment at the end of that so um that's one piece the second piece is that the theater that the arts and music are electives made available to all students in all of the academies and so those are part of the graduation requirements for students to select those so um because we feel that those are important for everybody to have an experience and exposure to so um there isn't one academy that for students who want to you know engage in the theater we have theater for everybody any student who wants to take theater carol i have a question um going back to the course selection for the academies any is there any opportunity for overlap in like the application of innovative design to serve as part of the capstone project or or anything like the um the medical courses can that fulfill um a health requirement uh yes we did have that conversation melissa do you want to speak to that a little bit so so we did talk about while she's unmuting um and i probably answered the same question but we did talk about that senior elective as being the capstone so whatever it is that you're choosing the in the advanced elective that that also becomes the the meat and potatoes if you will to do your capstone project so absolutely yes um and we did talk about and we still have to work through those components that there are certain classes here that would serve um as a as as a potential for so you know health um there are some other you know even in like the performance human performance uh pathway there could be potential for physical activity that could count towards a pe credit um as we as kids work through you know systems of the body and testing limits and all of that stuff so we have a lot of those types of things to to work towards but the more opportunity that we can to create flexibility for students and options um that is always the goal so it's a great question um and one that as we kind of finalize what these pathways look like once we kind of nail those pieces down then you say okay this can now this can serve as credit for that um so absolutely that's great it's it's harder and it's hard enough to uh work through the 25 requirement the credit requirement so yep great thank you i think the only thing i would add to that is um you know we're constantly advocating at the state level as well you know we come we will have conversations in the office and talk about you know well what if this can be this and and a lot of it is contacting our respective state departments asking questions planting some seeds because some of it may end up being some policy moves that we'll have to advocate for at an eventual you know point in time um i know that you know the health department and the phys ed department at the state are very stringent in their rules so we're constantly planting some seeds to go back at other points of time to advocate really what's best for our students in our community and our district right um and and and with living within the state policy um but making it what's right for us um and those are conversations we're constantly having good to know any other questions i think we lost lauren she she was having some on technical difficulties any other questions from board members um any other board members on gladys or kate i think um thank you i i don't have any questions but i just want to you know thank you for the detail that you guys dove into here and and you know really giving us a strong sense of you know where you're moving forward with this project i really appreciate that thank you i'd really like to say thank you again uh it's very informative information uh for me as a board member and to know that you are and always will continue to put excellent first for all our students and thank you for the information thank you gladys um was that it on the agenda did we touch upon everything and my my last question was was this presentation shared with committee members um and could it be shared with the whole board uh yes to the first part and yes to the second part so it's in there it's it's in your drive so you didn't see come through through email i did put um let's see who's on here i could show you right now when i click the share button um joe da silva kelly kevin yeah so i can add anybody who's not in here laura lauren louisa mary jo yeah i'll add the other board members in there but everyone is sharing on it yes great mostly thanks okay is there anything else from committee thank you thank you very much okay i'll um entertain a motion to adjourn are we there yes moved thank teresa seconded by michelle all those in 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last day for teachers is the 19th regional track the 20th in colby state track in wichita on the 27th and 28th also on the 28th jackie styles is putting on a basketball clinic at the uh at central plains high school uh sponsored by the claflin rec we'll start driver's ed next week i have 21 students signed up to from wilson so questions okay thank you thank you well our elementary here at wilson has been busy this month so april 14th we hosted the kisa visit for the district and it was successful second and sixth grades both enjoyed a pizza party for winning a reading challenge hosted by our library paris fifth grade went to old abilene to visit the abilene business sorry the buildings for a historical writing project fastbridge math and reading is complete with my savers and savers portions about 85 complete so i expect those to be complete by tomorrow usually educator appreciation week was a success with a lot of support from our local um our local businesses and individuals wilson elementary spring concert was split into two nights the families and students enjoyed the music and the dancing thursday our kindergarten through second grade students will go on a field trip to the salina history museum in the trampoline park monday may 16th is our field day and ms kiplinger has some fun field day events planned for us and then third third through sixth grades will have their reward day on may 17th wednesday may 18th we will promote the 8th grade class and recognize the students academic and athletic accomplishments questions thank you that's not going to be the last faculty and students have been extremely busy heading into the collusion of our year first of all state assessments are complete i believe students have stepped up to the challenge and showed great perseverance our seniors will conclude this week and graduate on saturday may 14th at 11 a.m i encourage all board members to attend and if you would try to let me know or mr clark know who's coming so we can get that set up final exams and projects are taking place this week in the classrooms and the staff has high expectations for those students on wednesday this wednesday mrs cook will host her annual science fair students will be demonstrating their efforts throughout the day please stop in and check this out this is an amazing feature and it's great to have that particular science fair going on throughout the day a lot of competitions and whatnot looking back over the last few weeks our ffa program is completed competing in several contests from aggie days of livestock judging career leadership development and farm bureau discussion meet success has followed these members where they have gone the chapter banker was held on april 14th during the comments and we've had two teams compete at the state cde contest in manhattan mr spears mr clark sponsor lifetime wreck fit fishing final all the students were successful over 40 fish were landed not to mention the 50 that mr clark caught himself so what did you put that in there mr clark uh presented the students with knowledge about bass fishing and demonstrating uh and demonstrated some particular fishing methods um tremendous amount of positive comments came from that day mrs gould and staff sponsored a field trip to topeka a student's tour state capitol building and a museum of kansas history uh mrs mcguire had three girls qualified for state forensics lydia heffle received a one rating on pros alex mccarter and caitlin ritchie receive the two ratings the forensics team held three forensic competition here in wilson including regional forensics on april 23rd mr shipley had two amazing vocal and band concerts in the last two weeks art students went to wichita to see glassblowing exhibit this trip was awesome the students raved about it and as soon as they got back our students will also attend the league art in four days art day juniors held prom on saturday april 23rd that visions of gold was fun for all that attended the student council held the last sunday on may 2nd at the district in salina stuco has had a fun activity for the students in each quarter this year on the downside of things the high winds have caused several more leaks in our facility here especially after last last week's rain uh guttering some pascha up front if you notice walking in is missing and also the scoreboard is severely damaged and those items will be needed attended to or replaced okay are there any questions you know all my principals do a great job holding fourth down here at the end of the year uh toby at central plains high school mrs bozier at central plains elementary and tony and sabrina have stepped up here at wilson and done a great job so i appreciate all all of their hard work they've done a great job here at the end of the year i'm trying to hurt cats a little bit at times all right uh so we have a presentation and a board discussion on the configuration and building report from sid and i pronounce your name wrong every time sweet means okay thank you apologize thank you um so some months ago um folks uh authorized greg to uh sign an agreement uh i'm just gonna hand it out it's just a copy of just as a refresher [Applause] um so this is a facility study agreement and it was for the purpose really the work is described primarily in in item 5 to discover and determine facility needs to establish establish the scope of a potential project create preliminary project conceptual designs for a project and provide preliminary estimates of problem costs for a project and the means the method that we were going to use to do that was to work with a steering committee um or facilities committee that's outlined there in in uh paragraph four uh just to members of the community to help uh us work through their needs and so that the needs were really coming organically from the community by not us telling you what we thought that things were so um shortly this was back in november shortly after that the developing discussion amongst yourselves regarding the status of the district uh came into being and uh and so effectively this the work of this agreement that we have with you has been kind of paused and um mainly i'm i'm here to for for a couple of uh a couple of uh purposes uh one um do do we need to just back off and wait uh until things settle down and you kind of have a handle on how things are going to proceed or i guess really how how would you like us what our stance towards this agreement would be at this point it's kind of what i'm i'm here looking for i don't want to drop the ball uh i don't want to fail you folks but until we can kind of get a committee established or facilities committee established and have some direction with with everything uh why uh we're just kind of on hold so i guess that would be my question to you are you wanting us to to sit back or do you want us to proceed if so how with everything that's going on i mean as far as i'm i'm concerned uh and i think that even with the changes to a couple months ago or last month it's we're still all the buildings are still you know part of the district and still functioning um and so i mean i would think that we would want to continue but i can see why we would hesitate and i'm not here to put pressure on i just i just want to make sure we're not failing you you're friendly well that's not the problem i mean i guess i feel like asking him to proceed is a little bit asking him to spin his wheels because until we figure out what we look like in two three ten years it's kind of unfair especially concerning the terms of the agreement it's kind of unfair for us to take advantage of the skills that offer until we really know what we look like going forward so i guess i would be in favor of asking you to give us a little bit of time to figure out what we look like and what buildings are going to end up being the part of it and then move forward with that we'll probably know a lot more but yeah i mean i realized but the word that needs that you know like he's talked about coming back with ideas that would require passing a bond until we feel like we are all on that same page of pursuing a bond i guess i feel like it's unfair to push that through so if we wait six months or so are you gonna have to come back in and overlook everything again or is kind of what you've had a idea is could be good for a while we've toured the facilities uh i've toured them several times actually i brought the architect uh we toured all the facilities um that doesn't need to happen again really it would you know it seems to me just outsider looking in that you know in the next six months to a year you'll have an idea a pretty good idea of what's going on and we could we can pick up readily really that the you know the thing we have to have in order to proceed is that facilities committee and that has to be a group of you know community-minded people who are wanting to wanting to really look ahead for two generations that's that's that's the approach we bring what what do the next two generations of students what are they going to need in this district and that's how we need to plan because your facility is a cliff learner approaching 70 years old and there's some upkeep that needs to happen in both here and hollywood so um that would be our our need in order to proceed and we're happy to step back and just pause i just kind of my question what happens as we move forward we do know that we'll have central plains high school senior high school we do know we'll have central plains elementary school don't know about wilson we've been there with a vote taken and they are actively looking to go to another district i don't yet see the benefit of not moving forward uh you know at least two-thirds of what could need repair i don't see the benefit in waiting when you know at least two of those facilities will need address and if by chance wilson is still in our district which i hope they are i've presented a good argument for them to stay but i know they're looking elsewhere uh could easily at the end come back and look at this building and its needs i don't see the point in waiting i don't see that i don't see how if wilson leaves or if wilson stays the only change would be that we'd have this elementary school here i i i don't know i i'm i think you move forward i i mean that's fine that's my recommendation depending on how the configuration is well and i think that if you have that steering committee right now it involves uh folks from the central plains side of the district and if it it will uh successful in a land transfer there you know they that would be what would happen we'd already have that work done if they decide to stay with central plains you bring in a facilities steering committee from wilson you know if uh if we if we would go proceed with a study and i i understand your point um what my question i guess i would pose to you would it be beneficial for for the wilson building to have the study done and at least have that information in hand whether it stays as part of the central plains or whether it goes elsewhere that that information might be helpful either way moving forward now the needs of the building are going to change where are you going yeah the building search that's a very good point i'm not i'm not opposed to that either i just i just don't feel like we can wait much longer and i mean i think we will know before i would bet we will know by at the latest december whether or not another neighboring district is interested and wilson is interested in joining with them i don't i don't i'm just we have needs that need to be addressed and that'll be good enough is just not going to be good enough we got to get some stuff done i think we should my question my request then would be you know the the formulation of the facilities committee it's really important that those folks be uh you know supportive understanding that we're not fixing problems for the next five years we're we're addressing needs for the next two generations which you know by that time we'll all be dead and you know that's our philosophy that we bring and and so we wouldn't want that facilities committee to have the same mindset not that they all have to agree on everything but that you know that's the long term that they're that they're looking to provide facilities for the education of students that folks will never have the privilege of knowing and that's kind of our approach so and i'm more than willing to have wilson in there too if that's what roger and brad won all right hey come on we'll get i'm going to give some people that i've got some names already and they don't know that i have their names but i have some names already of people that i think would be a positive positive to have on this committee that want to look at making the necessary changes that would benefit our students in our district okay we just move forward and pull some leaves just back off we'll start with them put them in there too and if they stay there so consensus okay so just keep on keeping on and go from there okay well we'll i'll just be working with uh mr clark then and and schedule meetings and that sort of thing you said i'll get with you okay appreciate you driving up tonight all right thank you very much mr president i mean excuse me six forty six forty five is that i think would that be what ten minutes is that man um um mr president i make notion that we refer to executive session for the same reasoning as previously stated to return to open session in this room [Music] at seven o'clock with mr clark and john kermit to be in attendance with sabrina boardman and freddie brokers to be on the call okay i'm looking on the table second chat we are back in open session mr president i like to move that board to get mr clark a 1500 stipend for the extra duties he's assumed the last month to the conclusion of the school year okay there's a motion on the table is there a second passes and for now we're going to table number nine we'll move into personnel uh board approval for certified positions for the 2223 school and you should have like all of wilson certified all of since plains elementary certified all of some funds high school certified list there are some openings in there i gotta find all my paperwork we're still looking for a few positions uh elementary physical education here at wilson social studies here at wilson uh central plains high school math uh we're going to add we'll fill the wag tonight for a counselor at the high school and we were issues with title one at central plains elementary school thank you board approval for classified positions for the 222 and i think some of them put uh they're classified either on the back or with the certified uh mississippi gave us a separate list these folks that are our classified employees are of utmost importance our bus drivers our cooks our custodians our parents school doesn't happen without those folks and they deserve a lot of credit for the success we have as a school district entertain a motion to approve the classified positions as a language by josh seconded by the chad all in favor of your hands and more approval for the principal's contracts for the 22 country school year mrs dozier and mr holmes uh my right and left arm thank you and i appreciate all their hard work and i would recommend that they receive a contract for the 22-23 school year for culture all right promotion by chat is there a secret secretary approval for the district office staff again they might be my arms but diane bobby and mandy are my brains keep me headed in the right direction jamie with buses and all our bus drivers and to do an awesome job for us driving thousands and thousands of miles a year and and getting kids to school safe and our technology folks that help me when my computer doesn't want to work welcome back joe sexton take and board approval for the nation ruth billinger dennis austin the cool becky literal gunner hilton darling link [Music] can we do the other if you want to yeah harlow and carlson roger um and then board approval for katie bella and uh for paris central plains elementary amanda's platinum part-time parent force situation well like a motion by josh allison and uh for approval for wayne d'or or voad for central plains and the board discussion on the district office location office all right uh four offers on the table i got those out to you this afternoon i'm still short one thing that i eventually did get we have uh the two apartments at plum creek uh which would be a thousand dollars per month if we signed a five-year deal that would be 850 a month uh you would uh they have agreed to one of the apartments has carpet one has like a wood tile vinyl flooring they would put that in paint put a door between the two apartments you have the building in bushton went over and looked at it they have three options eight year lease purchase for 850 dollars four-year lease to own uh eighteen hundred and fifty dollars a month uh we would be responsible of course for all the gas electric internet all that uh probably please do just a little bit of work in there maybe paint and new floor uh and then option three i'm sorry is just purchase out right of the building of 104 we have an offer for the claflin in the old elementary school uh there was an agreement in there that the city drew up basically a 10 year lease our cost would be 10 of the gas and electric uh to be up there average is about 250 dollars a month there are some months i did the months that were given to me you know some months it was like four hundred dollars other months it was like a hundred dollars it averages out to about 250 dollars a month uh we would need to do a little bit of work up there as far as painting and carpeting you have some vids on that one of the things on the painting i also have a district employee that i could probably hire to paint a little cheaper than the bed i received from steve hickle but he would need to do a little bit of the construction work as far as like patching anything you see the in your packet you have a folder that shows the different costs for carpet the different cop the size and the area of each of the rings the final offer we have is and it's still available i just found out yesterday that you have that portable office that's sitting in colorado they can deliver it to us for about sixty thousand dollars we would still need to put in electric water sewer that type of thing and probably some sort of a sidewalk or something out to it if we didn't put it right near the building where we already have a sidewalk those are the options that have been presented i'll be honest with you every one of them has its uh positives and its names questions from any board member one thing that i'm still working out with an architect on claflin it is on the second floor the museum on the other end has a chair lift on the stairs i'm asking an architect if we can just use that chairlift if somebody was handicapped needed to come up or if we would need to put our own in and i haven't got an answer on that yet option that wasn't presented here was the configuration committee came up with was moved to sixth grade to cleveland okay and also using one kitchen down at the south end diane you called the state on us switching counties if we went to another county whether it be rice or barton we would still be considered an ellsworth county school district correct wanted to make sure that was out there too okay i don't think you should move to sixth grade i don't i like jane what do you think about moving the sixth grade out of that school good or bad and then leaving the district office there yes what's your thoughts anyway i still won't give up by themselves self-contained because we're working in the schedule because you'll have to change the schedule hiring hardware teachers um just feel like they're not breaks regardless on the kitchen thing there's challenges with food transportation right that was what yeah we could do that but honestly i'm still probably gonna have to have the same number of people hired maybe not for as long uh it's kind of six and one half a dozen the other maybe i mean i've not sat down and said okay if we did it you know and i actually put pencil to paper dollars to send someone you still need the space to feed well i'm not them in favor of a ten year lease or putting that much money into a building on the other hand i don't feel like should be buying a building either personally i think the plum creek departments thing is probably the best way to go because we can it even said we can customize the piece a little bit so if we decided to do a three here it'll probably be a meat in the middle type of thing so in the interest of full disclosure uh i can't vote on plum creek at all because i do have a conflict of interest there because they're affiliated with hiv but um i yes that would be i think there could be a discussion is there is there a possibility of either of the facilities the other two facilities here or cloudline changing moving things around to make room for the district office actually yeah this building in high school instead of suspended toby you'd have to answer that i i don't have empty space especially two years going through people don't feel like that i have i don't have a space that's constantly advanced let me put it down i can move them from room to room if you know what i'm saying i can move them around but that's not good for business but i don't have one room that's available all the way forward i'd like to see a nice my office was the superintendent's office where the coffee machines are where the principal's office and the middle where debbie dolphins to live with the district and high school office has to wake up the i took bobby and diane and mandy and myself went and went to every location i'm smart enough to know i wouldn't try to make that decision without input from them so they wanted honestly the old central place elementary school building it's free you can we don't have to pay any rest the only thing we have to do is just paint that electric which is going to be prorated and replace the carpeting so it's and it's going to be forever it won't have to move again i only have to dry seven blocks though yeah if we went and looked at it and it would definitely house if you remember where mrs osher's office was without mr clark's where nancy's office was that would be the conference room across the hall where mrs steiner used to be that room is big enough for all three of our desks me and bobby and mandy could all be in that same room then you go down the hall there's a little nurse to the nurse's office there's a bathroom in there and the sink and all that that could be like a little lounge area so those rooms but what i can read i'm not a leased person at all uh to understand the terms of the legal jargon that it looks to me like all we need to do is pay the utilities there's no monthly event no messaging please but it does need a little bit of updates and i could probably get some of that down a little bit i mean um mr sure we do have two folks here from claflin i know josh you're from bush and any anything uh you'd like you two would like dad i don't know you tell me [Music] i don't care if there's anything you'd like to add josh i know you're with questions so i would encourage uh proponents and and we went that route like right away could be july first would be the day we would actually be able to okay pretty much movement ready other than the uh i know that the ada part two there's i don't know up there there's a museum on the south side of this floor and the offices we're talking about the wall partitioned off that door stays locked but during the day could be opened with access to that chair lift if it's viable to you and i know the contract says that if pretty close enough it does include water sewer trash but that's zero right it's not actually charged that's the same language that's in the links agreement we're using with the gymnasium access and the other advantage is that is the district's already paying for part of the roof uh taught to prepare the roof maintenance based on the currency police agreement plus already paying your i mean confidence insurance that's probably true we would have to carry a little extra insurance for the contents not for the bill right so he's paying for the building insurance john have you had a chance to look into that the study would be the original whether the entry needs required and whatever other costs you have i think those calls thoughts from the boys are there any fees or costs to any changes or anything that needs to be made there as far as like we have forty thousand dollars here in carpeting [Music] we um the flooring that needs to be changed so there's two apartments side by side which if anybody would like to look at the space that would happen but the one has already upgraded fully the one next to it it's easy to change and then i think the only modification diane was a doorway between the two would be nice to not have to go outside so it would be able to kind of be a corner of the building would be this is the district office but then putting a doorway between the two apartments next to each other so they can without leaving their office space get back and forth so there's also like a couple of kitchenettes in there eight-day bathrooms and it's all aba accessible ground level elementary um what would if it's like the one and i've read through it but i think any any one of us the city or the school district can give notice that they want to get out of the leaks and i think it lasts was it was it two years or am i am i thinking of the other one yeah what two years now i'm not sure if that's after november of 2031.
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yes we are up to section 10. this is the district high school policy resolutions resolved that the bound brook board of education approves the resolutions as outlined in policy resolutions under district and high school this is 10.2 have a motion ocean thank you mr bob second zach thank you mrs casino any discussion yes on p2415.04 try the one district why parent family engagement i think um it would be great if we could show how the district is responding to this policy so in other words when we talk about um how we're engaging parents how we're engaging them in their students performance we do that twice a year we do a annual parent meeting okay two times per year uh once in october and again um closer to the end of the school year in june and then there are parent committees in each building from kindergarten through eighth grade that also participate in stakeholder conversations okay so you feel that that follows this policy yes it's all yeah and that's what the policy actually does is it outlines okay all that we do in district to keep parents informed okay okay great that was my only question very good any other questions or comments [Music] would the record keeping um health care settings and school buildings covered i guess yeah yeah okay okay thank you are there any additional state aid measures planned to offset the costs that are associated with each of these changes no all right uh any other comments or questions all right can we have a roll call please mr band yes miss casino yes mr januzzi yes miss lima yeah mr manhattan yes this month yes mr zipko yes and mr dawson yes special guest thank you we are up to section 11.
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