001e e e Mr Antonio here Mr Badger here Mr blefeld here M kovachi Mr goson here miss kikas here Dr Morris here Mr Walker here Mrs Ginsburg here Isabelle dasta here thank you all right I'm gonna have some students come up and help me with the Pledge of Allegiance very nice and Loud guys thank you it was all right so first I'd like to welcome everyone to this March 31st meeting of the whik and school board if you take a look at our agenda you'll see a list of our prior meetings February 24th we had a work session March 3rd a regular public board meeting March 10th was a finance committee meeting March 17th was RI and today we had our Communications committee prior to this meeting and then we list at our upcoming meetings
002April 7th will be a regular public board meeting April 21st we'll have both Health wellness and safety and RI April 28th will be a work session and May 5th a regular public board meeting all right so we're GNA move first to whs hicken high school monthly highlights F yeah so um a cool highlight we had for the juniors we had the financial fair that was really awesome since it was all mandatory for them and it was randomized so a lot of the Juniors Reed the paper and they would get like say an income of 50,000 like a month or maybe like 60,000 a month but then like you have your net income which could vary from like 3,000 a month or 5,000 a month and they basically had to go to all these stations housing
003pets food and it was a really cool like eye opening because a lot of the people wanted to buy their own house but a lot of them ended up living with their parents because it was much cheaper in the end so and then the Freshman they also had this career um Expo that was marvelously set up by Miss Sterling and then after schools open to saw off moris Juniors and the seniors which was pretty cool the the track team is having their first track team meet tomorrow at school right after school at home against Quaker toown so we're excited about that and then a cool thing is that minithon had one of their events on March 1st and they had like a lot of these uh St Patrick's related Day events and all of the
004money raised went towards you know curing helping to find the cure for Childhood Cancer and then another neat thing is that the robotics team we've won our competitions twice in a row which is really neat and we're having our district competition this Thursday and Friday and Saturday too it's a three-day competition very excited about that I have been nominated and selected for Dean's List semi-finalist at patora horon competition so I will be interviewed again for that at the district competition and fingers crossed I win because if I do I'll go on to the world championship which will be really neat So yeah thank you yeah hopefully the team we looking for a huge win and like a whole bunch of District points which are won through Awards so we can go to the world competition
005and represent you know wh at the world stage there in Houston Texas awesome congratulations and thank you for all of those highlights and I heard Minon they're hosting something this Friday for the middle school students also I think I believe so yeah like Spring Dance wonderful any other comments or questions so I I have one quick comment um this is my third year of volunteering at the reality Fair which is that first thing that is felt mentioned and I love this exercise and I do think it's eye openening how many of them come back around and they're like I go to live with my parents um it is a really nice exercise and it's really nice to see like um you know them understanding the finances and what they have to budget for so got
006to see a lot of my favorites a lot of my juniors that I love so much so it was fun to do it again I just want to make a quick comment that um the state championship for swimming happened two weeks ago Nora Weber who's a senior with second High School uh won the 500 freestyle she also won last year so she became with second first two-time uh state champion in swimming so thought that was pretty cool congratulations to Nora yeah congratulations Nora that's awesome anyone else have any comments questions all right well then we'll move on to our second presentation thank you Isabelle for that report um now we'll move on to our second presentation Shady girl Elementary sure thank you uh this is the sixth of six school presentations um Dr would tell
007us that we were saving the best for last I'm not allowed to say that but I not going to dispute it either so it's with great pleasure to introduce the principal of shady Gro Dr Jason thank you for having us and for picking us SL the prct sure uh but uh as you may know this year at wisan school district we've been implementing positive behavior intervention supports or PBIS and through that we've done a lot of teaching a lot of lessons a lot of modeling for our students a lot of positive behavior um in reinforcement using Bulldog bucks um we do monthly Raffles but um as we were going through the process of of initiating all these different ideas one of the pieces that we thought was important was to include student voice and have
008a student leadership um aspect so tonight I have uh Mrs Jennifer County my assistant principal here as well as our PBIS ambassadors and really the idea of the PBIS ambassadors came about as we have so many amazing students here um these are 11 of them behind me and we really wanted to find a way for them to um shine and be models for all of our kids at Shady Grove so Mrs Kennedy has been working very diligently with this group of students so tonight they're going to tell you a little bit about how they became PBI ambassadors the process they went through and some of the things that they are doing at Shady Grove this year so I'm going to introduce Mrs Kennedy and our ambassadors ambassadors the process they went through and some of
009the things that they are doing at Shady Grove this year so I'm going to introduce Mrs Kennedy and our ambassadors ambassadors the process they went through and some of the things that they are doing at Shady Grove this year so I'm going to introduce Mrs Kennedy and our ambassadors ambassadors the process they went through and some of the things that they are doing at Shady Grove this year so I'm going to introduce Mrs Kennedy and our ambassadors about that weather e all right I think we're good now so you all excited for spring break two weeks away yeah or you don't want to leave school you just want to stay now you want to go away are you liking the warm weather we're having yeah e thank you for your patience today you have in
010front of you beautiful wonderful brilliant um student ambassadors um they lead with dignity that is our motto um and so I'm just super excited to be before you to give you a little bit of um just information about all of the contributions that they make at Shady grow each and every day both Jason and I value the import of student leadership we recognize that student agency matters we recognize that student voice matters um John Quincy Adams suggested that if your actions Inspire others to dream more learn more do more and become more you are a leader and so we knew that we needed to be intentional about opportunities and access for leadership at Shady Grove and what was born of that was agency in action um today I'll be very brief um and we will
011talk a little bit about calling off fifth graders which is a little bit about our process how these wonderful students were selected um you will actually meet the leaders so some of them couldn't be here today um so we captured their um voices in a video very short video and then I will talk to you a little bit about their roles and responsibilities with our overall motto uh which is building a community of us calling all fif graders so they learned that hard work pays off it was a very rigorous process um I went to each fifth grade class in November um I went with very much intentional um wishes to excite students about this opportunity I went to um make sure that they understood that it was for everyone and I also wanted to
012make sure that they knew that they had support um there were four requirements that each of these students had to decide which two of the before they would like to present as part of their requirements as part of their application process one of them was a resume or a one pager you can see that in front of you for the board members um members here that's what's in your folder you can reference that at your leisure um these are just ways to capture the students leadership skills their achievements um much like a resume they captured their leadership abilities um we also had um the students be a to choose from a student recommendation nothing says you're a leader when your peer takes time to write about you and celebrate your achievements so that was also
013um something that they could choose from we also asked for a um an essay um just representing their leadership abilities and then there was another essay that students could choose from where they were asked to actually choose um someone who inspired them that was a different cultural background than them and really think about the leadership qualities that that individual had that also they exemplified and these students absolutely met the task and they were selected um very honorably to be our PBIS student ambassadors let's hear from the ambassadors um what did you select to complete as part of the application process and why Elanor um um I selected the one pager so that they could really get to know me and what I do I also selected they could see what other people thought about me
014my than and and what did you learn about yourself the process this application process I learn that I can push through things and manage my time I knew that I did well but when I was writing and creating I noticed that I could what expectations I was and it showed me that I was more than enough this is our um section where you're going to meet the leader so it's a short video just um referencing the students motos and their names my name is Elanor ye and my motto is you all in this together hi my name is ky and my mot is mistakes are proof by are trying hi my name is Rowan and my motto is honesty is the best policy my name is Claire and my motto is do a good turn
015daily hi my name is Joanna and my motto is Don't let obstacles block your way from success my name is and my motto is when you have the choice to be right or be kind choose kind hi my name is tan and my motto is everything happens for a reason hi I'm Piper and I believe that all our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them hi my name is Lauren and my motto is you don't know if you like it until you try it hi my name is Chloe and my motto is they're not to you try it hi my name is Gwen and my motto is ad asra per aspar this means to the Stars through hard work my name is Liliana and I believe that you can do
016anything you set your mind to hi my name is Abby and my motto is I believe that we can turn opport obstacles into opportunities my name is Kira and I believe that attitude is everything and the models were really important to us us because it is um our way of holding ourselves accountable as individuals but also collectively holding one another accountable because they know each other's dreams the next up will building a community of upstanders I really thought about the best way to share their roles and responsibilities was to really highlight who these students are our PBIS ambassadors are noble um through acts of kindness and positive action they actually Foster a culture of kindness in our school they model and spread kindness this is an image of them in front of their very own
017creation of our kindness heart that they created they dreamed up they put up they're still putting up down ba um um and they really wanted to share um and spread kindness um throughout our school so this is just one of their initiatives that have been successful I think about ways that they spread kindness in our building hear from the ambassadors again please share some of the kindness initiatives that you have part of as a p Ambassador um we created kindness we also hand out envelopes that inspir support um such as you got this or you are amazing we do this to make inies kind is inspiring in VX kind PBIS ambassadors lead with dignity PBIS ambassadors are noble our PBIS ambassadors are Role Models um through relationship building they are also mentors um here this
018is here is an example of your left on the left of a picture of Joanna giving out one of those um just check-in cards um to just make sure somebody's having a good day to inspire and encourage and on the right you see when kind of just hanging out out with a first grade friend in the cafeteria just enjoying time together and getting to know somebody that they might not have known before what are some of the ways that you have provided mentorship to others Lauren I was a mentor to a second and going to her class every Tuesday and morning to check on how she and how I can make her better and also something that's really important is getting close and becom friendss so they can open every week we go around the
019school for about 10 minutes and we congratulate students for being our PBIS ambassadors lead with dignity our PBIS ambassadors are noble our PBIS ambassadors are role models and our PBIS ambassadors are collaborative and communicators it is this team that you see before you that creates revises and edits our parent PB newsletter there is a copy in the folder that you have um fresh off the presses is our April bulld doog buzzed it is our communication to our Shady Gro caregivers um it's our way of keeping them up to date with all the wonderful happenings related to all of our PBIS efforts please share some of the cool things that you've included in our newsletter Charlie [Music] sheper another the not the juice Miss Kass juice our PBIS ambassadors lead with dignity they are noble they
020are Role Models they are collaborators and communicators and they are also change agents so our team works together to promote what it means to be safe to be respectful and to be responsible I don't know if you can see clearly but their shirts on the front are a message to them it says I enough it's just a way to encourage their um student agency their student voice reminding them that their leadership matters and on the back is a very important message so they send leadership they send kindness they send these beautiful um gifts and talents in big ways and even very subtle Ways by just wearing their t-shirt so the back of their shirt says Dear person behind me sh Grove is a better place to be because of you you belong here you will
021do great things here we will support each other love your friendly B student what is your role as a change agent in our school tell us about your contributions to improve student behavior on our school buses and in our cafeteria Don't You canar by doing theowing using talking staying in their seats meaning five stars tiets earns in the near future we are going to demonstrate how to behave on the bus to refresh the kindergarteners to the top B fifth graders BR this is just a small way to restate common bus RS across the street so as you can see our PBIS ambassadors are noble they are Role Models they are collaborators they are communicators they are change agents and in this picture they're standing very proudly behind our pillars in our community in our hallway
022because they are pillars of our community we want to give our thank you thank you for allowing us support students and our thank you for empowering and helping us to just celebrate these wonderful student leaders that you see today thank you that is so sweet thank you so much for this card I really did enjoy your presentation and I actually have been jotting down some questions for you so I was wondering those mots you had were wonderful how did you did they want to share how they came up with their motto like what that process was like for you to come up with it I say to myself when I feel like I'm down or I feel I can't my great anyone else I thought that was a really good response though thank you and
023then um that heart image you have you said you put like special messages up there and things you can do kind for other people like what are some examples of those messages some examp messages would be like if someone's having a back day they could go up to kosart and they would read um one of the positive sticky notes like for example I say you're awesome help a teacher clean up supplies follow instructions and next to it it's like the instructions on what to do and it's like once you read sticky note ask the message on and tell other people to read the sticky not the kind of let's wait did you guys come up with the different sticky notes like what you were going to put on them so we looked up different ideas
024and on our computers and some people were hanging it up some people but most people were tracing ering writing all the sticky notes wow there's a ton of them that's like a like just a ton of positivity so I love that thank you for sharing that with your community um and the upstander agreement did you guys write that or how did you come up with the upstander agreement class theice box we like uh the class had to come up with like 10 10 like things that should be in the pledge and then this combin large and what sort of things are in that pledge um to like respect others to stand up for others that's great awesome and um I love the star system cafeteria I think that's great because it can get really loud
025and rowy in the cafeteria so I love that and the kindergarten so what's things um I think T you were talking about the kindergarteners what kind of things are you planning to teach the kindergarteners about the boss we're planning to teach the kindergarteners on how to and just normal like moral bus on it they were in preschool and their parents they haven't been on a bus and they need to learn all and this is just a easy way to teach that's great well I'm so glad all of you volunteered to do this position that's awesome and you're all in fifth grade yes awesome awesome I have a fifth grader also and so does deian I think Dean has some comments too I thought you were raising your hand this was wonderful and um what a
026cool idea for the school and um I can tell you guys are all amazing leaders at Shady Grove so thank you for being um those leaders really exciting and great job I want to Echo what a great job you guys did but what I especially loved was how you cheered each other on and encouraged each other throughout each other's presentation because that's what great leaders do so I love that I love that exciting stuff you're gonna be uh the the middle school is are gonna have some great leaders so thank you for this presentation anyone else from Ms or questions all right well thank you again and it's our tradition to do a picture so I'm hoping you won't mind a picture with us have another round of applause for shady Gro e everyone is
027certainly welcome to stay it won't be as exciting as this but um you're certainly welcome if not if you want to leave please take cookies and other treats with you on your way out want the cookies all right so we're now at the first public comment period and uh the board appreciates hearing from the community a maximum of five speakers will be heard on the same topic please limit your comments to three minutes in the interest of fairness and in order to treat all speakers equally it's not the board's practice to engage in dialogue with speakers when appropriate we will follow up with responses on board Docs and if you're in person um when you approach please state your name and your affiliation with the district and uh same if you're virtual all right so
028we only have one person registered in person and that's Carina Taylor you may brige I'm I've been recorded because I want to make sure my my voice doesn't get muted so since you're at the first reading of the policies I want to um ask a question about policy 2491 um why is the language shift from the safe schools report to the safe the School Safety and Security incident report and there's references to the safe School act so I just think it's important for people to understand why the shift has occurred um to this new language um then there's a mention about the annual report for this Safety and Security into the report it doesn't specify annually when that occurs I think it would be very good for parents and stakeholders to know what time of
029the year this report will be sent or presented to the community and the third question I have is who is the Title Nine coordinator I think I covered it all so I hope Marshall you'll explain um why these things are occurring I noticed that also there's a lot of Corrections in Green in terms of the pregnancy and the married student policy so I as I have been working with some parents in the district I always want you guys to think about people that have not been engaged with the school board proceedings and I think that it the sooner you can make it more digestive testable and understandable and clear the more that they can work with you as your partners to understand um why the changes are being made what's the historical context of it
030and again I just would like to know why the shift from the school safety act to the safe schools report to the new School Safety and Security incident report I've been coming here for years and I didn't even know so if I don't know I'm sure other parents don't know thank you great thank you Kina is there anyone registered online there are no hands raised online all right then we'll close public comment period and uh we'll look then to oh board president report is next and we're going to be approving next week the dates for the 2526 school year so you'll see all the dates of our meetings listed here um are there any comments or questions regarding those dates all right then we'll move on to superintendent report Jim thank you two informational items
031the first is an update for everybody on our boys Ultimate Frisbee team as you know it's a a club sport at the high school and um earlier this month some information came out on the team in terms of how it's doing it was his ranking was publicized and um turns out that the ultimate risbey team is number one which is nice number one but not in the county and also um not in the state and not in the region either but number one in the entire United States of America that is our boy Ultimate Frisbee team ranked number one across the entire 50 states which is an incredible accomplishment now something has come out more recently where they ran into some competition and now they're in now top 10 status and they have a very
032big event coming up but this as you all know this is one of my favorite activities because they're so motivated we have people coming back after they graduate to help train and help coach so this is an incredible accomplishment for the bothman Frisbee team the second item I have is uh not quite as exciting as that but it's along those lines it's District goals and ongoing priorities update which is this is number two of over the course of the Year Dr danan and I will will take turns updating the various goals that are listed there and we've gone of these before in this forum the first goal was to fill Key Staffing vacancies in District leadership positions and this is the year two of two so as everybody knows we've done that in almost full
033measure we have um Dr danan incoming superintendent we have Dr Gardner incoming assistant superintendent as it turns out we also have a existing vacancy at the middle school principal which is in in progress now so I update number three in June have that as well any questions on number one uh Dr danan I know you're on line you want to take number two yes our update um is we come to the end of year one for positive behavior interventions and support implementation in our schools we are seem to continuing to make very strong progress um most recently since our last update on this goal our elementary schools each had Fidelity walkthroughs with our um mciu Partners it's the Montgomery County Intermediate Unit we partnered with them uh for leadership and support in the in the
034process of PBIS implementation or installation um and so with those Fidelity walkthroughs at our elementary schools each of the elementary schools received feedback from the CIU which has been helpful to help them design action plans for moving forward our secondary schools will traditionally participate in Fidelity walkthroughs in year two of implementation and so they'll have the Fidelity walkthroughs next year and that's aligned with the model of implementation for PBIS in April there's going to be a series of meetings that will focus on um what's called benchmarks of quality or boq's um and that'll be in all six of our schools and the goal of that process is to help our leaders um and the leadership teams in each of our schools assess their progress and refine action plans for their schools as they look back
035at this year and look ahead toward next year um in the second week of April members of the PBIS core teams from each school will gather together here at C or there at central office um to work with Miss Lor and again our mciu partners and they'll share progress with one another they'll discuss their next steps and they'll continue with their ongoing collaboration this will be the third I believe the third um the third meeting of the Year where those PBIS core teams from each of our schools have come together where Miss Lor and the mciu partners have created a space where they can continue to learn and grow in their leadership efforts as we are working toward a Fidelity with implementation of PBIS and then of course on this topic I have to make
036sure I give a shout out and a plug for an upcoming event related to the implementation of positive behavior interventions and support and that's on April 10th we'll have a PBIS family night uh at that event um that's at 6: pm on April 10th right there at central office um representatives from each of our schools will be present and they'll share information and engage families in small group listening circles the event is going to be designed to highlight what PBIS looks like at the elementary level the Middle School level and the high school levels and they it'll be um an opportunity for families to ask questions and engage in in discussion so we're looking forward to continuing with this momentum as we wrap up this school year and as we look ahead into next school
037year uh for our tier one implementation of PBIS are there any questions on this gool so I might have misheard um if is I heard tier one and year one but it's year two right so it's tier one but year two of of this this is the second year for this goal but in terms of implementation this is year one of implementation so last year which was the first year for this District goal last year was the process that we underwent to go through the trainings our PBIS core teams were established and each of those core teams um were engaged in training modules all throughout last year and we were building infrastructure in each of the schools in order to soar into this school year with year one of installation um and so this is
038a second year for this goal but this is the first year of full implementation for PBIS across all of the schools does that help to clarify yeah that's perect and then thanks thanks for your question one other question what's a Fidelity walk through yeah is is that what you Fidelity walk through yeah that is correct yes thank you for the question so um there are specific elements of um the implementation or installation process when any district is um embarking upon um H having PBIS in place and with our mciu partners we are a part of the Pennsylvania positive behavior um support uh Network and the mciu leaders who help facilitate this process with us they actually came on site and visited each of our schools and um looked for evidence of PBIS implementation as it
039relates to um the the expectations that are um uh taught to students across various settings in the school um they actually engaged in tapping random students of course they were they were uh they were walking with a staff member um because they were a guest in the buildings but they engaged in asking students what are the expectations in your schools what does this look like in the cafeteria what are the expectations in the in the in the playground in The Recess area um what are the rules what are what what are some of the um e uh rewards that you've received for those rules and acknowledgements for those rules and reinforcers they also um tapped into random staff members to ask questions so there's a series of questions that they asked to just check and
040see how are we doing and what feedback could they give to each of the schools so that they can sure up our efforts ensuring that we are implementing with Fidelity thank you for the question does that does that answer your question yes thank you very very much thank you zy just to kind of build on that when when they talk about Fidelity of implementation they tend to be talking about um is the process being followed is the model being done faithfully um which is important and it's good um I'm looking forward though in future years for us to as a board to be able to take a look at outcomes so fidelity um is important because the assumption is that if we do this model faithfully and we put all the pieces in place appropriately
041it's to it's a means to an end right and the end should be improved student outcomes so I mean for me as a board member I'm most interested in seeing what's the impact on student outcomes um assuming that we implement this with the dollar right so in future years I expect to and look forward to seeing more about the outcome measures that are being produced by PBIS in all the schools thanks great any other questions or comments on that one anything El okay goal number three is to obtain and examine updated long-term enrollment projections and we did that with this one most recent updated set from our demographer and as we discussed first of all the um the the accuracy of those projections in depends almost entirely on their ability to accurate project kindergarten which
042is a tricky thing um also depends on how they analyze the each individual districts in our case we have three townships or one burrow two townships um zoning and development um Futures so uh whereas the reports uh that we just examined this year and and we have completed this I show one thing what we did agree also is to next year in the fall have demographer do another update as usual with actuals from this year plus Engage The Montgomery County Planning Commission they have a a very small office that does this they're very very good at what they do they're just completely overwhelmed so we have to get in their queue probably eight or even 12 months ahead of time which we've done so come Paul there will be a a second set of projections
043that we can use to kind of verify the demographers question on that okay and then the fourth goal is in partnership with the we craft a fair and reasonable successor WEA collective bargaining agreement which as we have noted and celebrated in this forum before has been accomplished and is with the B to say that that's a big accomplishment by the way uh goal number five is to cultivate a safe and inclusive School environment and I will ask invite Dr dwan back to give yes thank you we as a district we REM remain committed to um helping to Foster belongingness conflict resolution and pro-social behaviors um and we're doing that in a variety of ways one of which is through our efforts with the no place for hate program um with um from the um Anti-Defamation
044League ADL and so our school teams this year are um as it as it is the end of March beginning of April is tomorrow so they are working on Final ing their new place for hate projects they've engaged in throughout the year various activities um the submission of these projects will help to ensure our continued designation for each of our schools as an ADL no place for hate um designated school so to support the work Miss Lor um recently facilitated a virtual session with administrators and the noplace for hate coordinators from ad the anti- defamation league and during that session they reviewed lessons and activities and um took a took some got some feedback on their progress throughout this school year um each of our schools have been engaging student leaders in a variety of
045ways um across PBIS and um in thinking about no place for hate we saw an example this evening from Shady Grove and their work with PBIS student ambassadors uh so student leadership is something that we often think about in our schools um in helping to build that student agency and so um I want to highlight our high school student leaders who have been engaging in various opportunities and Partnerships with local organizations to help strengthen inclusivity five high school students attended um for the third time um this year or rather this is the third year um we had high school students attend a dreaming forward session hosted by the mciu they collaborated with peers across the county and they focused on identifying ways to help Foster belongingness and they participated in leadership development activities as student
046leaders um we also had nine students and staff members participate in adl's youth leadership conference and there they explored the impact of student L initiatives um they also focused on social media's influence as a part of that conference and that led to the high school administrative team um working with student leaders and staff to coordinate a special session for students um recently on March 28th where the focus was on belonging unity and digital wellbeing so helping students to think about some of the impacts of social media um on the the social setting and social relationships with peers um and so that happened on March 28th they had a special schedule in order for all of the students to have that experience um and then we had nine additional students attended Delaware Valley Consortium leadership conference
047and there they focused on developing strategies again with a with a focus on improving School climate so those are some examples at the high school level of student student leaders who have been participating in some training and then going back to the high school to turn around their learning with their peers and um and of course with staff our staff again um we've talked about restorative practices in our last goal update we continue to remain committed to restorative practices and social emotional learning uh Educators across all the levels continue to be engaged in restorative practices training so we have a cohort model and our cohort model has continued this year to ensure that all of our staff are having the opportunity to have that training and then each month um as you may know there's
048a district theme this month's uh March theme uh is or was uh self-awareness um and our students are supported and helping them to grow socially and emotionally with a variety of activities to reinforce those skills all of these efforts are just a few to name to share this evening um that help us in our continue dedication to building a safe inclusive and supportive School Community are there any questions from the port so uh what are some of these projects that need to be completed to receive the designation as a no place for hate yeah for for ADLs no place for hate in order to have our schools to be designated um so there are variety of activities that we would have our students engage in anyway just to Center how to um mitigate some of
049the negative behaviors or negative interactions and how to lift up positive interactions pro-social interaction ctions between peers um but specifically the projects that student that our schools will engage in are ones that have students involved in the planning of activities that are turned around for um student leadership to be a part of so that's actually one of the things that ADL expects that there student engagement in sort of turning around um um lessons and activities I can certainly get a list of the exact projects that are going to be submitted to ADL at the end of this school year I'd be happy to do that um but any of the projects that are going to be submitted are going to be focused on how do we stop hateful comments hateful interactions how do we uplift
050and and and encourage positive interactions among peers how do we as bystanders or we heard tonight upstanders how do we disrupt if we're if we're a peer and we hear something or see something how do we get help how do we help to say hey that's not okay we don't do that here that's not a part of the whis way um so activities um tend to center around those types of expectations but I'd be happy to get the board a specific list of the projects that are being submitted to ADL at the end of this year yeah I would really like to see that list and um so as far it sounds like you have like a lot of student ambassadors at the high school that are participating in these activities um what about um
051like the middle school do we have middle school students also really engaged in these learning activities and taking it back to their fellow classmates in terms of the um collaboration with external organizations for sure I know that um the the Delaware Valley Consortium leadership conference did have a group of middle school students who were able to participate as well earlier in the year I think that might have been a part of the earlier update maybe not um but that would have been in the fall um our middle school students were able to participate in a similar sort of leadership conference that focused on identifying strategies to help improve School climate and then come back and turn that around with their um school council and their admin ative team and and other teacher leaders who are
052working on these goals as well um internally though even at at the elementary level um there are student leaders there's always um in our schools our principles are thoughtful about helping students to have leadership roles because we know that it's the student voice it's their perspective that's going to be most impactful to their peers but also helping to design some of the activities that they're engaging in so at each of the levels as it relates to no place for hate there are going to be student leaders who are involved even if they did not participate in an external opportunity with a with an a local organization like the mciu or um adl's youth conference yeah I would love to see if we can compile some sort of list um of some of the student Le
053initiatives uh because I think it's great to get their perspective of interactions with their peers and see what solutions they think exist for for these types of you know problems with students um and the interactions they have so I would love we could put together a list like what sort of ideas our students have to resolve issues thank you any other comments or questions I I don't have a comment on the goals but I did want to speak of the Frisbee um when I uh my children came into the high school I had heard about Ultimate Frisbee and how big it I thought it was comical and I I couldn't understand the Rave about this um my son in his senior year decided to joined the ultimate frisbee uh team and I must say I'm
054floored by by the team by like what's involved but one of the things that blew me away was it's it's a non-c contct self officiated sport it's self officiated and I saw it in action I went to a game and like they would call each other out like themselves like oh man my bad I did that wrong you know like I shouldn't have done like they call penalties on themselves not penalties but like turnovers or whatever the right term is um it is uh really really tremendous and my understanding is we have two Alum who went off um to play Ultimate Frisbee for their colleges are and are nationally ranked like in the top 5 10% of frisbee players so um I like who knew but it is actually quite a cool sport and um
055they have quite a few games coming up I suggest you go watch a couple it's they're fun to watch I I agree it's it's actually incredibly strenuous sport when played right and it does remind me a good bit of about uh of Robotics frankly in that there is a tiny bit of Cooperative I mean you want to win just like you want to do in robotics robotics might have a exceedingly impressive amount of cooperating with your FES and partnering up but same as to your point about the self officiating in Ultimate it's it's a really cool feature of it too so thank you for any other comments or questions i' said a quick question this is totally a non seiter but I know that we have two belt and snow days and I'm seeing like
056end of year activities and stuff calendar stuff and I think we haven't taken a day away yet are we doing that soon it's still march Dr Mor there could be all sorts of why are you jinxing why are you jinxing things April it is not April 1 it is March and we are not gonna jinx anything right thank you for the question just like this for parents I just think it's useful sooner rather than leater yes yeah so I'm just putting that on people's radar maybe okay any other questions all right then we'll move on to our assistant superintendent report Dr Johan thank you I don't have any informational items or action items this evening thank you a board solic report likewise then we'll move on to our board secretary report Tim I do have
057some for this month I have six committee meeting minutes the finance committee minutes from February 10th and March 10th the policy committee and the reoc committee minutes from February 18th meetings and the work session from February 24th and regular meeting on March 3D great thank you any comments or questions right board treasure report Tim sure this month we have the Fe Treasures report for your approval thank you any comments or questions right we'll move on to HR good evening uh for your review tonight are three items under Section 13 of the human resources report the first two action items include resignations retirements appointments changes of status leaves of absence extracurricular changes in volunteers and item 13.3 is for the approval of an increase to our custodial substitute rates this concludes my report great thank you
058any comments or question Danielle is that 13.3 just to keep up with uh compet competing jobs or districts that yeah the did uh director of buildings and grounds did a you know a study and and asked um other districts what they were paying we were we were low um and we haven't raised the rate since I've been here so and we we need some Subs so I don't have a question it's just a comment um when I saw Abigail test on the retiree list I let my boys know that she was retiring at the end of the school year um she was one of their all-time favorite teachers um at the middle school and U they both were saddened by the news um one of my boys said rest in power Miss Mrs Tess I
059said she's she's just retiring she's not dead thankfully but anyway she was a past teacher and she will be sure any other comments or questions all right thank you um Communications committee zie we did have a meeting right before this meeting where we talked about um some upcoming Communications that we're working through um predominantly for updating the community on our budget and so there's some um working documents that we'll be working through for the next next couple of weeks so that we can um share out to our community when they're ready as well as some other miscellaneous items most notably what DM mentioned all the endof year activities that are coming um and uh hopefully everybody will be able to join um when they see those Communications nothing really more than that thank you any
060comments or questions I do appreciate the list of all activities that's great it it's helpful because like we need to plan so many thank you for put that together one sorry just a reminder that the phone app for the district also has a great calendar thank I I and I love that one but not everybody gets on it all right well thank you so much any other comments or questions all right then we'll move on to curriculum and Technology Dan all right we have three items for review uh 15.1 is the 30-day public review period for recommended additions to the uh board approved list of plan courses and instructional resources so it looks like it's math business education at the high school and family consumer science at the high school level and Dr dwan you
061can jump in if that is incorrect or incomplete um next 15.2 is approval of 2.5 summer programs and 15.3 is the approval for money for I think outsourced psychiatric evaluation services to the district great thank you any comments or questions Dr danan I was excited to see that we're going to be moving on to new um math materials um name so that seems like a great new addition um did you have an opportunity Dr want to review those materials and your thoughts on them yes it's they're excellent um we're excited about the shift and um as you may recall our curriculum review process um includes an opportunity for input from families so families would have gotten a survey earlier in the year or Pro probably even last year um in this year then the team
062has been engaged with Dr Schmidt and the department of teaching and learning where they were reviewing resources and vetting resources um with various criteria for them to analyze and identify and then they um selected two uh and then had a pilot this year um and then we're able to get input from students and staff who were experiencing those piloted materials so our process is a comprehensive one here um we're excited about the shifts and um looking forward to the professional learning opportunities that are going to accompany the shift in resources in math it's not just about the resources it's all it's also about the teaching so there's going to be um also information available for families um we're thinking about family engagement opportunities for the fall so that families can learn more about what these
063shifts look like and not just the resources but also the instruction so you'll see this I apologize oh no I'm sorry I was just saying it's wonderful it is very exciting and the board will see this um it's an informational item this evening as Dr Morris explained um you'll see this again on the public board Workshop meeting agenda for April 28th because we'll be seeking approval at the public board meeting on M and on May 5th thank Youk any other comments or questions all right then we'll move on to uh facilities and transportation CH thank you um for tonight we have several change orders uh to consider the first two 16.1 and 16.2 are both change orders associated with the Blue Bell Elementary project and then 16.3 is a a change or increase increase in
064purchase order related to the wisen stadium leer Place project I had asked um Tim to just provide some additional context for these change orders and uh 16.1 and 16.2 um in total combined are about 70ish thousand in total which might seem like a fairly large amount but it actually represents um less than 3/10 of 1% of the overall project at Shady at Blue Bel so um it is a sizable change order on its own but in context with the overall construction it's it's pretty small um and then you know like likewise the increase of the purchase order for the stadium project 7500 bucks in this case also represents a very small fractional amount um less than two10 1% of the overall project um as well and Tim if you want to give any other details
065about any of those change orders feel free well the first one is when they took the walls down there was stuff he can't see behind the walls that needed to be addressed and the other one was for the lighting in the bus yard and the additional engineering was required by the township that goes along with the uh the additional items that we chose to go forward with thanks any other questions thank you thank you for that report uh finance committee St uh yeah I should have noted earlier uh when you mentioned upcoming meetings I don't think we have the budget Workshop to round night on the upcoming meeting list um just reminding folks uh that that will be our third budget Workshop this year is a very challenging year um we have had to look
066um given some of the issues facing the district some budget cuts that we will will need to be able to look at tomorrow night at the same time I'm sure that everyone has seen what's happening nationally regarding the Department of Education and other items there so depending on how that works out we may have further challenges facing uh the district so just making sure that folks areare of that uh for next week's meeting we have total of 12 items uh the first two 171 and 172 are approval of the regular Finance reports payments 173 through 176 are approval of settlements where folks mostly businesses and Tim correct me if I'm wrong have come back uh and asked for reassessment their tax rate so again in the budget perspective it's taking money away from District uh
06717.7 U and 17.8 are both just purchasing bids for structural supplies 17.9 is a retainer for our Legal Services 1710 is acceptance of donation from the Shady grow School Association 17711 is proposal to accept the north monco technical career center operating budget for this year and then lastly we'll look at 1712 to just waving the fees that we would normally charge for us use of facilities for both the uh 4th of July Carnival and the Richie Ashburn free Camp great thank you for that report any comments or questions I would just note that the bud workshops are open to the public so anyone is welcome to come and hear the process as we develop the bud coming into next year and as Steve mentioned our next tomorrow evening at 5:30 so anyone would like to
068join it's right here in the boardroom and um I also wanted to just comment on the donation from the home and School Association I think it's wonderful we have such amazing home and school associations here in Wen and they do such a tremendous job of raising funds and this is great they're G to be making this donation of flexible leading for our students so thank you to the uh study Cree Comm School Association all right meeting on next so any other comments or questions um I just have a quick question comment I mean to be clear it's not the board that decides about the property reassessment that all goes through you right Jeff property reass yes what about oh it goes through you right we're not deciding it's already been decided by the court correct
069uh property assessment determinations are made initially by the County Board of assessment and we can participate before the County Board of assessment in determining whether or not we want to challenge what they determine is the ultimate value of the property um I don't know if that's the nature of your question or not we don't independently determine the property values we decide to challenge them and provide evidence whether or not we believe it's in accordance with the market value so when we resolve those cases based upon some of the stipulations you see or settlement agreements they are based upon our valuation of the property versus the County's evaluation of the property versus the property owners and they get resolved under those circumstances or ultimately the courts will resolve the property assessment differential okay yeah that that
070that answers it I just wanted to like make clear that the board had no like hand in making any property assessment um decisions essentially we don't make the decisions we Advocate position and from our from our respect thank you thank you for that clarification any other comments or questions all right seeing none we'll move on to policy committee Mar yes thank you um we have uh for consideration um some uh reviews from our policy committee meeting on February 18th and I'll be seeking approval of the first reading of those revisions those are all psba recommended revisions so they were all discussed uh in that regard uh they have to do with areas of pregnant or married uh students um within the district um and uh the rules that pertain to them um it had to
071do with issues regarding azing uh it had to do with issues of quote unquote bullying and cyber bullying and how the use of AI can now be involved in that particular U Rule and and responsibility uh we talked about educator misconduct standard purchasing procedures reverse assessment appeals maintaining professional adult student boundaries uh use of computers and network resources again pertaining to use of AI uh and then there were several a couple regarding student records and how student records and supplemental records are dealt with um and then uh finally uh comment during uh public board meetings again these were all recommendations uh for revision by psba so next week I will be seeking approval of the first reading of those revisions which will be 18.1 through 18.1 great thank you Marshall um did anyone have any
072comments and questions on this prop please um just one comment um Marshall in some previous years we used to get um like a document that would give just a brief summary of the nature a rationale for the changes of each policy um and we don't have this cycle is that something that um we can have in the future we did I believe we did have the summary uh didn't we have a summary at the meeting yeah yeah and uh we did have the summaries I guess they just weren't attached to the agenda but any reason they couldn't be attached typically are yeah I think it' be helpful just to provide some context I mean if you look at the documents you can see what's redlined but then it doesn't uh provide any context of like
073why the change in some cases in many cases maybe in this scenario uh there were just simply changes directly recommended by psba sometimes hard to discern not a problem and I also invite everyone they on public meeting more the welcome to show up and engage not only in discussing it as uh I don't have the next meeting in front of me do we have it scheduled yet it'll be all right thank you so much Marshall any comments all right then we'll move on to health oh oh R I'm sorry scroll down too far you can provide the ROK um I can provide a quick uh recap so on March 17th um riok had um one of its two annual listening sessions this session occurred at um the community room in Penland woods and it was
074designed to be a session to invite members of the community to come sit with board members and some administrators and just have a conversation um about their personal experiences on some of the topics that are within the scope of riok and we had a pretty active uh group that was there with us we had three different listening circles that we're arranged in and um had I think a pretty engaging discussion and again I think the most important thing for me as a board member is to hear directly from parents students and other members of our community um dealing with some of these issues uh based on their experience in our with community so um I know Paul I think is online Jean also was there as well um Olivia I think you were there too
075is that right I mean sorry Isabelle were were you there as well I was there yeah yeah yeah she read a different listing session so feel free to uh anyone can comment if they want about evening um I'll just chime in real quickly Joe I think that was a great recap um I just do want to kind of echo um Joe's point of the role that the student reps played in the session all the students who attended and participated were fantastic they voiced their truths uh based on their experiences in wi hickin and it was invaluable to the group discussion and I just want to them and uh and thank everyone who came out to participate can you about I think the listening session was really productive um and yeah I was with one of
076my friends in the circle so we took notes of everything and yeah I think that's a really important step to then you know you have that written down so that you can take effective action steps towards you know the solutions because we did s of like a whole bunch of like possibilities and you know the more possibilities you have you can see like which ones are the most effective in like which cases so we're excited honestly to implement them as soon as possible in the um District Equity planning committee meetings thank you yeah just one quick the uh the students were were credible with their um but they were talking about discussing with at the end of each uh session they were phenomenal I did a really good job and thank you any other comments
077all right then we will move on now to um Health wellness and safety team yes there are no informational items or action items at this time thank you I will'll move on to board representative reports Marshall thank you um there was a third marking period Extra Care particular committee meeting on the 27th uh it was brief as there was only one um proposal for a new group it is entitled whs Town Hall uh the purpose of the club is to gather leaders and students from various organizations whether it's Affinity groups student council or other groups within in the High School uh to share opportunities and ideas this was approved uh as an ie um and the purpose is to promote any kind of changes issues or concerns on behalf of the student class so for
078instance if we want to focus on incoming freshman and things that they may expect at the high school level or when students are preparing for the PSATs different things like that where uh different members of already existing organizations come together and uh in a town hall type setting to discuss the needs and concerns of the student body so again that was a approved in that regard there's no cost for that um and then again also in the hopper is um uh the idea of well not the idea but the the flag football club uh which is being moved next year to a pi daa Sport and we are getting ready uh to put that proposal together um as I believe 19 of the 24 school districts in PIAA have a flag football program at be
079joining so that's coming up as well uh wrap up for the extra Marshall the blackag football team that's for uh for girls right women traditionally it is yep okay thanks great thank you any other comments question yeah I just want to speak on WS Town Hall that was an idea that was created by many students Dr sorry Mr Brooks uh shout out to him he basically peace F like all of these student voices and leaders the various students that are mentioned in the U the student leadership opportunities and trips for PBS and all those and group called The Dreamers or which are freshman and then student leaders at the district Equity pending committee meetings he basically gathered all their voices and he's like okay well if you are basically advocating the same thing you want
080change you want to have a group of students gathered to talk about certain issues like why can't we just make this more tangible so he gathered us all and uh we were all like you can say like founding members and it's really a neat opportunity because it's really interesting how you have students in different types of groups and they all have like the same idea in mind and this is like much more of a unified path to achieve that so that was really cool yeah and would this town hall then lead into student council how do how do ideas filter up yeah so we're going to have student notet takers every meeting so we can make sure like if we're talking about a an issue that we the students see we can then take this
081to student council or uh we can also talk about Dr Blair because I meet with her other student board nominees every Friday but if it's more so a student related activity like preparing for Pats as briely mentioned we will still have those note takers but it's it's more so going to be related to the students themselves like via the U morning news or like a newsletter something like that or like schoy recent updates and all that so yeah pretty much Ste just as a point of clarification as well the point is also to have one to two members of each group or Club available and participating so that there's a sort of a whole group camaraderie there and everybody's involved awesome any other comments for questions all right then we'll move on to the mciu
082report we did have a meeting I'll just highlight some of the legislative issues actually before I do that I do want to comment so you know how we our comprehensive plan is Big well they put theirs into a onepage flyer um to kind of summarize it for their Community which I thought was really great and I'll share that out with everybody but just like hits on their mission their Vision their values um things focusing on um and this will be their comprehensive plan 25 to 28 so I thought that was like just a really neat idea to kind of get insights um their stakeholders and then uh as far as like legislative issues um March 20th was when President Trump signed an executive order directing uh the Secretary of Education to dismantle the education department
083so that was brought up uh there's also a couple bills um Senate Bill 27 would amend the public schol code in charter schools providing for Cyber Charter School moratorium it would prohibit the department from reviewing or acting on any application with the establishment of a new Cyber Charter School regardless of the date of when the application was um or when it when it was I guess submitted or received by the department beginning July 1st and continuing through June 30th of 2038 uh there was another Senate Bill uh 394 and that is writing an expiration of authority of school districts to Levy and collect real property tax on homesteads and farmsteads after June 30th um this the legislator shall by General law annually each School District Maintenance and support and amount at least equal to the
084real property tax collected by the school district on homesteads and farmsteads during the fiscal year ending June 30th 2030 less than annual Debt Service legally obligated to be paid so that was um an interesting one and then another Senate Bill uh determines the amount of charter schools shall receed for each student enrolled which shall be paid to the district of residents of student for the 25 26 school year and each school year thereafter for special education student and have requires the charter school to document the cost of providing an education to the student and provide the documentation to the department and the school district of residents and um pivot payments that exceed that maximum amount so that was um another interesting one and then house spill 998 um exempts operator of 11 to 15 passenger
085vans from needing to get CDL so I guess to address the bus driver shortage um high schools um in House Bill 893 are going to be required to hire at least one credential transition coordinator for um and oh house 906 requires public school and these to provide notice um via first class mail financial information posted for the public school entity to each resident taxpayer beginning with the financial information posted on the Department's website pertaining to the 2425 school year so that's just a couple of them there's a lot of them listed here but that was just a few that I saw that were interesting we have another legislative committee meeting now coming we'll address these further but all right then moving on to North monco so to begin with uh the annual car show coming
086May 3d is great fundraiser for North we were very happy to hear at meeting 17 Pati is fantastic um I'm on the subcommittee for the capacity U committee and um we're working through looking at various um data to see what can be done from a capacity perspective so although whis doesn't have a lot of kids sending over to North Bondo other schools have much larger pops and a very large weight list in fact we have several weight lists because some of the programs are so competitive or small that you know they can't they can't contain the kids so uh we're looking at you know things like the building Footprints creative ways to kind of do the programs in different ways so it's it's a really interesting out of the box kind of assessment of what
087can be done to help with involement so the goal is by the end of the year to come up with one or two kind of ideas that um could be brought forward I think the rest was all like kind of regular b side ups that we cover every month any comments questions thank you psba um so May 13th is spring advocacy day um I don't think I'm going to entertain going this year because I been trying to meet with our Representatives here locally um most recently met with representative hbid who isn't my rep but is a rep in wi hicken uh for whis hicken families and one of the things she really um drove home to me was the importance of advocacy from all all of our community members at a federal level we are
088facing um you know a possible crisis in public education if we lose funding and you know some districts are going to be affected more than others but you know I think every student in Pennsylvania and the country matters so we have to be vocal we should be calling um calls are the most effective way to um sway our federal Representatives because they have they take like logs of what subject is called on each day I don't think emails are taken quite as seriously so calling representative fedman calling or sorry Senator F fman Senator McCormack and then I think most of our federal representative is mateline Dean I think most of us here so calling those three people asking for more Federal funding to the States because I also learned that a lot of our state
089money to school districts comes through the federal government so if that goes away a lot of our state funding goes away too this would be very bad for public education and so I think all of us anyone listening anyone um who's has a child or grandchild in public education or even if you don't your community still relies on public education as a foundation of democracy I think so we need to like advocate for this at the highest level and I just wanted to like pass that along because I also believe in this and um it's just really upsetting as to what could be coming if if we don't voice our opinion and try to make a change thank you de and thanks for taking the time to meet with our representatives to discuss these important
090issues any other comments or questions ERC uh nothing at this time thank you all right then we'll move on to our second public comment period the board appreciates hearing from the community a maximum of five speakers will be heard on the same topic please limit your comments to three minutes in the interest of fairness and in order to treat all it's not of practice to engage your dialogue with speakers when appropriate responses from board dos whether you're in person or virtually please state your name and affiliation to the district when speaking we have one person registered in person and car Taylor so I had Cain prepared to say something else um I did not see that policy 903 was on the agenda today because when I went to SPO down I didn't see everything um
091I before Marshall explained that this was the psba recommendations I was absolutely just abashed um because do uh Mr salanic knows that in 2021 the soldon school district changed policy 903 to profane from me speaking in their public comments so in the in the policy um if you can look at it when you do for the second reading or next week um there's a section where it says the board requires um public participants providing public comments be current residents or taxpayers of the district what slashed out that occurs right now is anyone representing a group in the community or School District so Mr satanic single-handedly influenced the school board in soldon to change that so I couldn't advocate for families that came out to me so prior to that I thought it was really interesting
092that you guys decided to take that out but in May 23 you know you kept it in when you had the last revision and I asked why and you said because you valued people's discussion on the heels of what deian just said how can you ask people to Advocate to make sure you guys have Federal funding but you don't let people outside of uh a resident or taxpayer to come and advocate for people here in this school Community is outrageous um but this language of having a previous graduate of wh and high school speak is new so I'd like to know behind that it's just outrageous that anybody in 2025 would limit people parents are not coming up and speaking out because they are afraid I want to talk to Steve's comment about the budget
093hearing I want to know why it wasn't on the calendar and advertized because the public needed to know that I also wanted to say in terms of the recap of the race and Equity committee I'm sure Dr Crestfield was there when one child said that black students are treated differently than white students so when you recap that meeting you did not capture what was really said that alone speaks volumes that baby doesn't talk outside of a school environment but the student that said that said black students are treated differently than white students that alone should challenge everyone to think about what was the root of what she was saying just outrageous um I will be back next week I will be bringing alumni with me community members to go against your decision because school districts
094have the discretion even though these are PSA psba recommendations each school district has the discretion to change the language of any policy and what you should say is that psba is a medic based organiz ation and it's not something that is a public organization so you pay to be a part of that and so their recommendations are not SoundCloud and every school district has an option to change black students are treated differently than white students thank you for your comments Gina is there anyone registered online there are no hands raised on that right then we'll close um public comment and we'll move on to board comments uh any board member comments Bo question I would have Jim I know it didn't make it to the agenda but the meeting tomorrow evening was advertised correct okay
095I think it was just it had time change the reason it didn't was it was initially going to be tonight we had to re advertise for tomorrow wouldn't have been upcoming meeting this agend and we have communications okay um any other board comments all right then we'll um have a motion to adjourn second all in favor iour