001It is 6 o'clock. We will call to order the March 23rd, 20126 school director's business meeting. Is there anybody reporting to the public? >> Thank you, gentlemen. Roll call, please. Mr. Okay. Mrs. Horenza. Mr. Hershey here. Mrs. >> Mrs. Phillips here. >> Ms. Rodriguez >> here. >> Mr. here. >> Mrs. Taylor >> here, >> Mrs. Torres, Mrs. Zabinsky >> here. >> In attendance. >> That's great. If you will please join me in the pledge of allegiance. To the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> All right. We'd like to welcome our visitors and just announce some upcoming meetings. We have the finance, budget, and facilities workshop on April 8th, 2026 at 5:00 p.m. in the
002community boardroom. We have a committee of the whole meeting on April 13th at 4:45 in the community boardroom and also a board of school directors meeting on April 27th and that is here as well uh at 6 PM. Tonight we're going to have an executive session following tonight's meeting for a personnel and a legal item. So with that we are going to have a student representative report from Val Simmons and we have a fill in Miss Julia Flores. Did I get that right? >> Yeah. >> Great. >> Floor is yours. >> So we're going to talk club activities first. So the drama club received into the rehearsal process for the upcoming spring musical the Johnny chaperon. Tickets will become available on for the public on April 1st. Visit yoddrama.org to secure them at that time.
003Junior High Drama Club enjoyed two packed houses for the performance Music Man Jr. at the end of February. Minithon as always was a huge success in the battle against pediatric cancer. The event welcomed over a 100 students to the event and raised over $37,000. Great job. Model UN attended the yearly competition in Washington DC this past weekend. service club is meeting this coming Tuesday to make door decorations for the local nursing homes. The music department is heading to Boston in April for their weekend surrounded by music in in the city and to a Broadway show in May. Art Club is still working on their memory project. This year they are making portraits for children in Honduras. Student Council hosted its annual schoolwide March Madness competition, the Spartan bracket challenge. Over 50 teachers and students submitted
004their one hopefully perfect bracket to claim bragging rights for this year. Junior High Math Counts participated in the city competition this past weekend in Harrisburg. Congratulations to the students and advisor, Mrs. Santoro and Mrs. Smith. Model UN is holding its second meeting this week to prepare for the heading to heading to Harrisburg in May. Hope Squad is participating in new training abbreviated QPR. This helps students to train and assist their peers with mental health awareness. Now on athletics, congratulations to both of our volleyball teams for an incredible season. The teams won the county championship and enjoyed playing in a regional tournament. Coaches Bows and Mackoy are selling commemorative teams to celebrate this great season. Please reach out to them directly you'd like to purchase one. Boys basketball wrapped up their season in the opening round
005of the state tournament falling to Archbishop Carol. Congratulations on a great season at a deep postseason run. Lacrosse season is underway. The defending champion girls are off to a 2 and0 start with a key victory against Springfield last Thursday. Spring track gets started this week with the home meet this Thursday against BC. Boys, J and varsity baseball kicked off their season this past week. >> Great. Are there any questions for our students? >> Are you you guys are both freshman? >> Yes. >> You did a terrific job. >> Thank you for sharing the news with us. You are more than welcome to stay and attend the rest of the meeting or you can go if you'd like. Totally up to you. You won't hurt our feelings. Thank you very much. >> Okay, we're going to
006move on to a special student recognition. >> Actually, Dr. H, I will turn it over to you. Dr. >> Hi, how is everybody? >> Um, thank you for having us here tonight. So, it's um a wonderful job to be representing the junior senior high school and be able to bring students up in front of you to talk about their achievements and things that they've done. Um, I'm going to let Dr. Mangold and Dr. Johnson talk to you a little bit later about some of the cool things that our building is doing from a teacher perspective, um, anal perspective. Um, but for right now, we're going to celebrate some students. So, the first student that I would like to recognize is a National Merit Commended student. And what that means is of the 1.3 million participants
007in the PSATs, you have to score in the top 50,000. And we have two students that did that. We have one here tonight. It's Miss Lily Chen. um along with uh Leander and Gina who was not here with us tonight. So congratulations to Lily. I did say that I was going to invite her up so she can tell us a little bit about herself and some of the activities that she does um and maybe something that she's looking forward to in the future. So come on up. >> Hi my name is Chen and I'm currently a senior. Um some of the activities I'm part of is I volunteer at the hospital and I'm the president of the club and I'm looking forward to um continue studying psychology college. >> Okay. >> Any questions for Lily?
008>> Congratulations. >> Very good. The second group I would like to honor is from our junior high and that is our junior high math team. Um as you heard the students earlier talk a little bit about um their competition. They competed in the math counts competition which is a national program where students um face challenges in uh math with speed, accuracy and um problem solving. And our team of four students um they won the competition at Penn State Burks and they will be competing this Saturday um in Harrisburg at the state level. And we also had the individual top scorer as well um here and he is with us tonight or um so I would like to introduce uh Mrs. Megan Smith who is one of our co-advisors. >> Hi. Um it was actually this
009Saturday that they competed. Oh this past Saturday I'm sorry. Um so we don't know the results yet. We just do know that we didn't win but um the kids had fun. So um what was exciting about this and sorry excuse my voice. I'm dealing with something. Um I asked Mrs. Santoro. This is my first year as the co-adviser for the junior high math team. When the last time that a team has qualified to move on to states and she couldn't be like totally sure, but she knew it was prior to co and her guest was 2017. So this is really exciting. It's not something that happens too frequently. Um we've had individuals that have gone on to states. I believe last year Leonor went on to states but it has not been a whole team.
010So it is really exciting that they got this opportunity. Um the students had a lot of fun. I believe three of them stayed overnight and got to do an engineering activity. Um dear was explaining to me it was something with tape tape and paper. Um but it was I I have loved working with these kids. Uh we meet Mondays and Thursdays with Mrs. Santoro and myself and the kids have worked really hard this whole year to prepare for the competition. So we would like to recognize them by name. So we have Deir Singal, we have Ryan Dean, Leonor D, and Araf Trebetti. >> Thank you very much. You made us very proud. >> Congratulations. And I know this is the junior high team. all eighth graders. There are seven eighth graders. Um we take I
011think we took eight kids to the P stand. We took eight kids to the Penn State BS to be able to compete individually, but we picked these four to represent us for the team and so then they did go on. Um we are looking for some more seventh graders to join the team because we are going to miss them when we move on to the high school. >> Absolutely. Well, congratulations. I know that is and it's it's an exciting event, but it's also a very nerve-wracking and pressurefilled event. So, um kudos to all of you for performing because it's on the spot. I can recall decades ago when I participated and uh I was just an alternate though. I was not I'll be honest, I was not an award winner there, but um I remember
012the pressure just being an ultimate on the team. So congratulations to all of you and you certainly made Y missing area school district proud. >> Good job. >> All right. Thank you Dr. H and congratulations again and we're going to turn to Dr. Mangle and Dr. Johnson for presentation. >> All right. Thank you everyone. Good evening. Thanks uh for allowing us to present today. Uh we're going to go through our social emotional learning plan for the district and this is going to cover grades K through eight. Remember which way which way. >> All right. Um so social just for >> have a good night. >> All right. Sorry about that. >> No, that's okay. All right. So, uh, social emotional learning, um, what is it? Just to start off with some basic background. So, it's
013really, um, our desire for our students to develop healthy identities with five core components. Self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship skills, and uh, reasonable decision making at their particular age group in development. Um and because I'm the coordinator of multi-tered system of supports for the district, SEAL is one separate arm of that. So um Mrs. Kroskovski and myself have done a previous presentation about our multi-tered system of supports and usually that focuses more on the academics, but it's not just academics. Um so what is the connection with SEAL? So MTSS is the whole child. So for those of us that have been in education for a long time, we were around the terms RTI, which was really basically just the academic component. So our SEAL curriculum and our screener is going to serve as our tier
014one support for our students, the foundation for our behavioral support plan. And so just looking at this very broadly, again, our universal is our SEAL instruction for all students. Tier two is our targeted small group maybe social skills instruction for students who need a little more. And our tier three intensive would be a combination of outside inside services, individual support plans and areas of weakness. Okay. So for our screener when it comes to MTSS we need data to identify our students and so we've been using Savers which is our social emotional academic behavioral risk screener and we've been using that at the Hills K4 and also at West Reading 56. We're going to be bringing it up to the junior high school for our grades seven eight. So we will have a nice consistent plan
015where we're using one screener K through eight with Sabers and we'll have Dr. Johnson talk a little bit more about our introduction of the second step social emotional curriculum that goes in tangent with the saber screener. So again we're moving away from guessing who needs help or who's been recommended for help and we're using that data. Now sabers includes two components. One is called sabers which is our teacher rating. So our teachers rate the students but we also know that self awareness or self assessment provides us sometimes more information. So savers also has a component called my savers and that's grades 2 through eight. Okay not our kindergarten not our first graders. And so for example in some of the questioning it's only about 19 or 20 quick questions but for example in the my
016savers and say like I do not get along with others and students rate themselves and then from a teacher perspective it might be you know does get along with others so forth and so on. So I thought I'd provide you with a little bit of data. Right now, as I mentioned, for Sabers, we are utilizing that screener K through six, but we're lacking a social emotional curriculum at this point. And in seventh and eighth grade, we don't have, you know, either. Um, but for a long story short, there's certain cutoff scores that would put kids in categories of high risk, some risk, and low risk. And right now, what we do is we administer it three times a year. We do it in the fall in October. We do it in the winter in January.
017And then we do it again in May in the spring. And that would probably be something similar that we're going to be doing moving forward. Um but you can see up here at the top um we have the savers again. That's the teacher ratings of the particular students or the scores. And then the my savers down at the bottom. And this is overall score totals of where this puts these particular students. But I also want to explain to you guys that when we meet for MTSS groups, we also look for trends. So if we see like for example, our grade four is scoring relatively high risk in a social category. That means our kids are probably lacking with conflict conflict resolution um or having trouble, you know, relating to other students. And so with that
018being said, then maybe we put in a restorative practice like a restorative circle where kids get to work together and learn to relationship build. So we can support that in many different ways, not just directly with small group of students, but a whole group of students and across the grade level. So that's a little bit with the hills there in terms of where the data looks or where it falls off. And then this is wreck. Um this is uh grade five and grade six again fall and winter. Um again it's as the students are of course developing and they're going from overall subjective con uh topics now they're honing in on specific things um in terms of like again conflict resolution. I'll just keep using that one as an example but Dr. Johnson is going
019to talk a little bit more specifically about the curriculum. All right. So with that being said, I will turn it over to you Dr. Johnson for second step. >> Thank you, ma'am. >> So for the tier one support of MTSS, um we're looking at doing um utilizing second step. We are piloting this program right now with our seventh grade advisory students. Um we have piloted two programs this year. Um this what we're doing in the second semester. Um second step though, it's a researchbased universal SEAL curriculum that is 4K to 8. So again, that alignment all the way through, keeping it very consistent. Um, how it's broken down, K to five is more empathy, emotion. Um, six to eight gets kind of dives more into those specific challenges, the bullying intervention, the problem solving, hierarchies,
020social status. Um, and throughout using this program, we're really looking to have consistent language throughout all the buildings. as the kids grow up, the teachers know exactly what they're talking about because they're the ones instilling it and they're teaching it. So then that way as they're in, you know, real time in classes where students are having a conflict, they can utilize as well and bring into those teachings of the curriculum into their parenting classes. These are some examples of some of the things that teachers did say that they really loved about Second Step. Um they thought it was very age appropriate. They love the themes of this particular program. Um there was clear tier 2 social emotional um lessons that were given and they feel as if everyone that did pilot it felt as if
021it was better supported um the skills of our students and also it there generated more meaningful discussions and reflections with the students. It wasn't so cookie cutter. There was a lot more to utilize um and resources within this program. So just some of the benefits of an SEAL curriculum um it does have academic impact there's social cl your social climate early intervention and integrated supports and as we say it's not just one more thing on the plate it is the plate that actually holds together the academics as well this is an example of lessons just to show you um some of the seventh grade lessons that were there and their topics. So, mindsets and goals, developing a positive sense of self, thoughts, emotions, decisions, managing relationships, and conflict. And there's several lessons under each of
022these units, and again, a plethora of resources, videos, um, activities that the kids can get hands-on knowledge in the classroom and working with. So all of that said, this is a grade level team approach um K to8 that we are going to be utilizing going forward um for the district and bringing in all of the district's goals, building goals um and so on. So we'll have the sabers as our screener. We'll have second step as our uh social emotional curriculum. Uh we will also have PBIS as we do in each of the buildings K through eight. So, positive behavioral interventions and supports. There's going to be themes per month that will deal with different speakers, different activities. Um, we will also um be recognizing certain particular students who emphasize certain certain characteristics each month. Um,
023as you heard me say, I mentioned restorative circles. So, we'll be working with restorative practices, moving away from punitive, you know, hopefully not, you know, who did what and here's the punishment, but you know, who was harmed or hurt and how can we repair that relationship. Um, and then also counseling lessons in tangent um with our um school counselors will also be part of this process. So, that's what we have. Um, any any questions? And again, this is like something that will be rolled out in tears because this is um you know, several things that have to be accomplished. >> I have a couple questions. >> First of all, this is fantastic. I have a 9-year-old now. Oh my goodness. >> Okay. >> Um so, she's like right in the middle of of the age
024for all of these guys, and I can definitely see where better utilize those things. Um just a verbiage thing. When we identify that they're at risk, what are they at risk for? >> So there's categories on the screener and the screener has questions that deal with social, academic, and emotional. So again, we need to look at which particular questions. First of all, number one, we look at if it's a student that has my sabers. First of all, we cross reference how the student self assess with how the teacher assesses. Okay? Then secondly, we'll look at again those specific questions to say, okay, if it's an academic situation where they're not prepared for class, then maybe that's something that we would just recommend like a peer tutor or for. Okay. Um, if it's something socially like
025I mentioned, maybe that's like a restorative practice or a small group um that they would work with a counselor or some, you know, another teacher leading something in a particular topic. Um, so yeah, risk is a little, you know, like, oh, you know, like bitey with it, but um, again, it just there's certain levels and there's score points. So I actually wrote that down just to make sure that I had that correct, but if teachers are if students score a 24 based on how they answer the questions and they're above they're above that, excuse me, they're below that score, then they're considered high risk. So again like maybe something's lacking in that particular that we have to provide support for. So giving you those specific examples um emotional it could be again do they need
026to be um referred to SAP? Do they need some support with empowerment? Is it a special education student that's already getting services but may need another layer of services or something something along those lines but it's very specific to what the student needs. >> Thank you. You're welcome. And then my second question was I'm I'm curious what involvement with parents looks like. Is there guidelines or is it more confidential or >> I'm so glad you mentioned that and I should have said that in part of my presentation but when we do the my sabers K through six we send home like it's almost like a parent support like a you know hey this is happening. If you do not wish for your student to participate in this then you know you would not be involved
027in that process and we would you know respect that and not allow that student to do a self assessment. Obviously teachers are still going to assess because we still want to make sure we're providing what the student needs. >> Um so that's part of it. Secondly, in terms of, you know, again, anything that the student does becomes part of their academic record. And so that's part of like the whole data file that, you know, we utilize when we're looking at whole child for whatever supports you need. So if you were to ask like how did my student do on this or I want to see how they were on this assessment or maybe you've been contacted for a support in the fall and you want to know did they improve? Are things getting better? Of
028course, if they're getting a support, we're updating you on that. But then of course you can say hey I would love to see you know how this particular student scored in this area. >> That's amazing. Thank you. >> Yeah. You're welcome. >> Questions have any questions? >> Have you had good buying from parents? >> Yes. >> Okay. >> Yes. Yes. Because you know again how it's explained to the parents like the overall support. There's very little um parents that say that I don't want my student to participate which is very very bad. and I saw the um feedback from teachers. What are the students saying about the different programming that they're receiving? >> Well, right now, see, this is this is where we're at. So, we had the Sabers K through six, but we didn't
029have the curriculum. >> Now, at the high school, we like you said, like we've been talking about this for a long time. We're piling the curriculum, but we don't have the screener. So um in terms of enjoying what they're getting in class, in fact you actually observed a counselor today who was doing a second step lesson specific um the counselor lessons that are in second step. So they've been going and doing their guidance lessons as part of the actual piloting curriculum. Um and along with the unit going to what you were um talking about with family communication within each unit there's um information is sent home to families. um not only just this is what your child is learning, but also here's things you can talk to your students at home about like games, resources
030for the parents as well. Um so it's kind of a holistic approach all together. >> That's great. >> Yeah. So I'm hoping we'll get more feedback when it's nice comprehensive cohesive plan for next year. >> Be interesting to see long-term data like each student. >> Are you able to track that? Oh my gosh, the data is absolutely amazing. >> I'm really excited. >> I'm really really excited about that. >> Well, thank you so much for your time here. >> All right, we're going to move on to leazison reports and we're going to start with Mr. Hershey's. >> Thank you. >> Uh we met on Thursday, March 19th. Just a couple highlights. Uh Dr. Hackman reported that uh two members of the BC creative services staff were acknowledged for their exemplary work in the Pennsylvania school
031public relations associations hence uh excellence in education communications contest about uh so well done for them. Also coming up on April 8th is the Annie Sullivan Awards. Uh that will be on April 8th at 5:00 p.m. at the Reading Hospital School of Health Sciences. Nominations were received from all 18 Burks County school districts, uh, the two career and technology centers and the BCIU. The YMC nominee is Austin Leer >> Lecher. Thank you. Sorry. >> Student. >> Oh, student. Okay. >> They don't give us all the information. >> Congratulations. That's great. >> And then the only other thing I was going to share was that we also accepted the audited financial and compliance report um for the fiscal year ending June 30th. And our next meeting is April 16th. >> Sounds good. And we do not
032have Mrs. Torres here for the NCTC report. So we will move on unless somebody else attended that. No. Uh Mr. Boyer Burks. >> Hey. Um we had a meeting on Thursday uh March 19th. um at 6:00. Uh it was fairly short meeting. We did approve and accept the audited financial statements that I knew. That was a clean audit. Um so everything looks great there. Um collections are once again uh up which is encouraging. Um earn income tax is up 4.42%. Uh and enrollment services tax is also up 5.6%. Uh there is no real report on the business privilege tax that's being collected in about a month or two. So we'll get the information on that otherwise. Great. >> Great. Any questions? If not, Mrs. Zinski wave. >> Thank you. Wave's last meeting. Can you hear
033me? Okay. >> Yes. You're coming in great. >> Wave's last meeting was on March 16th. They approved the purchase of the plaque for the Hampshire dugout. Um Mr. Kathy will order the plaque and after well after the humpers's approve it he will order the plaque and then Waif will pay for the plaque or reimburse the district for the plaque. Um they are still soliciting business and family sponsorships for the blue and white party. They're also collecting bottles of wine in the $25 range and up if anyone would like to donate to that. and they are selling raffle tickets to win $100 gift certificates to local restaurants. The scholarship selection will be done on April 28th and the Corey Jones fund is at approximately $20,000 right now and they are holding the money and um Ally
034Jones will contact Wave when she decides how to allocate the funds. And I don't have the next meeting date down, but I think it's in another two weeks. I think that's all. >> Do you know if there's ongoing communication around um raising money for the fund for the Corey Jones fund or is it I mean is it an ongoing effort that they're communicating out to the community about? >> I do not know the answer to that question. Dr. Wonder, do you know? I wasn't at the last meeting. >> Um neither was I. I was at the job fair. Uh, however, I know they're continuing to collect it. I don't know how much communication is going out to the community to inform folks that they're continuing to collect it. That makes sense. So, um I um
035because I I know um Miss Herbine does kind of fill me in and every couple weeks she said, "Oh, we're up. We're up." You know, so money is continually being received, but I don't know how much communication is going out to the community. So we can continue I can continue to encourage her to get that word out there so that >> I think it would be helpful. We I mean we all run into people who are like what more can I do or is there anything we can do if we knew >> right >> you know the means of of contributing that would be great >> and then I'm sorry yeah sorry >> I'll ask the I will ask the question and report back at the next board meeting. >> That would be great. And
036what is the date of the blue and white again? >> April 18th. >> 18. >> April 18. >> Yeah. April 18th. >> Got it. Okay, >> thank you. >> Any other questions? If not, back to Mr. Hershey of the legislative. >> All right. >> Thank you. Uh, so a couple highlights of state news. Uh one is that in February the Department of Education issued a dear colleague communication to guide school entities regarding the implementation requirements and timelines associated with um act 47 which is related to structured literacy professional development evidence-based curriculum materials universal screening and reading intervention for students in grades K to3. School entities are required to complete a mandatory survey to report the K to3 reading curriculum materials used during the 2025 2026 school year. just some changes with how they're expecting reading
037to be taught. And another one from the state is that Governor Spear launched a new AI literacy toolkit and AI enforcement task force as a resource for schools um just because everybody's dealing with AI all the time. And then apart from that, there are 17 House bills and four senate bills making their way through and both the House and Senate reconvened according to this paper today. I don't know if they actually did. And that's great. >> Yes. >> Oh, yeah. So, Friday, um, Dr. War and I will be attending legislative breakfast. Uh, the IU hosts annually. So, I think, um, there are some representatives and senators that should be there in person. >> Oh, that's great. >> Should be exciting to kind of get a feel what they're thinking for the coming year. Yeah. So,
038we look forward to getting a report. >> Uh, Mrs. Phillips, PTA, >> thank you. Um, PTA, we did not have a meeting at all this month, but we do have several events coming up and currently happening. Um, today was actually the start of the book fair over at the Wison Hills Elementary Center. that runs till Wednesday and the hours for that for the next two nights is from 400 pm to 6 pm. Um, Friday, this coming Friday is the glow dance over at the Westing Elementary Center and that's from 7 to 9:00 p.m. So, I know the kids are looking forward to that. Um, next month, uh, Friday the 10th, April the 10th, sorry, that's also Friday. That is our skateaway night. Um, so families can have another night out. Um, other than that, our
039next meeting is April 8th, 9:30 over at the Hill. >> Great. Any questions? All right. Seeing as how, unless they're hiding around in the corner, there's no members of the public, no members of the public, Mr. Arn, we will not have any comments, we will move directly the routine approval, minutes, treasury report, and payment of bills by voice. Mr. Voyer. Oh, actually I'm reading that motion. Okay, so we have a motion. It is recommended that I put on my glasses. It is recommended that the board of school directors approve the following. February 23rd, 2026 school board meeting minutes, treasures report for the month of February 2026 and payment of bills for the month of February 2026 as listed in the financial packet. Is there discussion? first and then discussion. Okay. Is there a motion first
040and then we'll open it up to discussion and move. >> Thank you. Second >> discussion. Sorry. Go ahead. >> I was wondering what the lamp Peter Strauss damage sense charge was for. >> Uh yes. So, uh, at a, uh, sporting event, we had, uh, one of our older vans, uh, I believe ran into, uh, one of their, I guess, electronic fences or gates and caused some damage, um, which happened in the fall season. So, um, after some reconciliation and some investigating, uh, we finally interpreted that we, uh, should make payment for that. We did not run it through our insurance because it was right at the brink of, uh, insurance claim. So, we just ended up paying cash >> for a check. >> Thank you. >> Yeah. >> Thank you. And sorry to be a
041pain, but I have another one. What's the excess copier usage for $26,000? >> Yes. So, in our copy agreement, which uh is actually uh the lease is up in August of this year. Um if we go over a certain a lotment of color copies in black and white, um there's overages. So we had a little bit of excessive use of uh color copies uh which was mostly that um so there's a charge per color copy. Um it if you don't if we don't go over that built into the agreement you know our lease is fairly on the low side. So if you take that over the year divide that by 12 months um it's still pretty excessive but yeah we did u set a new high copies being made which uh Mr. Harness and I
042are working on our printing and our our color copy usage which will also be addressed in the next piece also as we >> Great. Thank you. >> You're thank you. You're welcome. Okay. So, this is a voice vote and we have our second. So, all those in favor I >> I opposed. You guys have it. And that we're going to move on to our superintendent report. Back to work. >> Thank you very much, Mr. Shippers. Um, first I'd like to share a couple of words before we move into the action items. This past month has certainly been a busy one here in the Wyoming area school district. I'd like to echo the words of our uh student representatives regarding the phenomenal job the cast and crew of our junior high drama department did um in
043the uh in the show The Music Man Jr. It was incredible. I was there Saturday evening and uh standing ovation I think everybody was cheering. Um, it was exciting to see the incredible talent of our students and also the enthusiasm of all of our students who participated. So, great job to the cast and crew. Um, also a huge congratulations to all of the students who participated in any degree with our minathon. Uh, for those of you who may not know, uh, we host a community hour on the Friday evening which was held March 6th. Um it was a packed house that night. Uh lots of community members, families coming. Um and they visited different uh stations and games run by some of our student organizations in addition to some outside uh stakeholders who who ran
044some different events and all the money raised went towards the the collection for uh the the Penn State Thawn. And then Saturday evening we kicked off the thawn. Um it was a little bit different this year. Um we ended at midnight. Um so those students who were here had a wonderful time. Our attendance was a little lower. Um we're attributing that probably to not having it the entire night and some some students might not have been happy with that decision. Um but those who who were here really enjoyed themselves. Um they kept busy and they kept on their feet the entire uh time. So kudos to them and ultimately the beneficiaries are um those folks associated with Penn State and um that pediatric cancer research fund uh where all the money is is sent. So
045uh thank you again everyone who raised money and contributed and participated. Um think moving further into March on Friday March 13th it was a no school for students day but it was a a day of learning for our staff our professional learn uh educators were involved in professional learning activities throughout the day and probably everyone would agree that the highlight of the day was in fact the health fair that was um really coordinated by the efforts of Dr. Lingal and the members of the YOLO well committee. Um we have about 25 vendors representing health uh services in our local community. Um our teachers and our support staff were invited and encouraged to to walk through the fair, visit each of the vendors. They had a um kind of like a little card and they went
046around and got each vendors to stamp it and then they were entered into some raffles. Um, so it was exciting for folks who um got a chance to to meet up with different folks that are in the community um to provide a variety of different health services, but then also have chances to win um some some prizes, too. So, people were really excited and numerous folks came up to me and have come up to me since um thanking us for bringing back that health fair. It's been years since we've been able to do that. So again, trying to help our own faculty and staff understand they do need to take care of themselves as well. Um, Monday, March 16th, again, I was not able to attend the uh Waif meeting. I was up at Ktown
047University uh at their career fair and so I got a chance to meet with dozens of prospective teaching candidates uh those who are graduating in in May. I even met with a couple who who've actually graduated in December um as well and those who are planning to graduate next December. So met a variety of folks um spanning lots of different uh certification areas. So uh got a chance to to meet with them and um I didn't hold official screening round interviews um but did get a chance to really um talk to students about our specific openings and how they would certainly go about the application process. So we do have uh our vacancies posted now. Um so I encourage them to get onto the site and and look at our at our opportunities. So that
048was an exciting day and uh I really will will say that those I spoke with um seemed very dedicated and excited about entering the profession which is exactly what we need. And then finally, uh, last Thursday, March 19th, we hosted the inaugural meeting of the Y missing area Business Education Coalition. There were nearly 25 folks here, including community members representing local business and industry as well as post-secondary institutions and then some of our very own educators attending the meeting. Mr. Ber sat in as well as a representative of the finance area. Um and we had two students who we featured. Uh these are interns um and they talked all about their experiences in their various internship sessions. We have a student who started at a veterary clinic um and decided as much as she loves
049animals and love the people that's probably not the direction she wants to go which is a good learning experience. and now she is uh interning in one of our elementary classrooms and loving it and will be attending college majoring in elementary education. So that was fantastic to hear directly from the student and and how much she's gained from her internship experiences. And our other student um he is interning at the ready regional airport and um it was exciting to hear uh he actually is aiming to uh receive his pilot's license in the next couple of years and he did get his first few hours up in flight as part of his internship experience and does a lot of different uh jobs that are necessary at the airport. So kind of behind the scenes things um
050and also serving you know um the mechanics as well as the pilots. So that was really wonderful to hear um and and what his future holds and how he plans to to to proceed. So um that was a highlight of our meeting. We also reviewed the mission and the vision of WABEC and also began very in very very informally and briefly discussing some of the goals of our coalition. Um certainly I as the superintendent want to listen to the needs of the community what is ne necessary u from the perspective of business and industry. I think so often people believe that educators just keep reaching out. What do they want from us? What do they want from us? I'm really looking as the coalition to be mutual beneficiaries for one another. So, what do they
051need? What skills? I heard soft skills mentioned multiple times in our conversation. What skills and knowledge and dispositions do our students need to possess to be successful in their areas of of employment? Um, what are they looking for in employees? So, um, we talked a little bit about growing our business department. You've heard me say that's one of my goals as well. So utilizing these people to help um build a very important and effective program in the area of business. Um so it was a great conversation. There was a lot of energy in the room and we look to g get back together again in June. So um that's about what I have to report today. >> That's great. >> Any questions for Dr. Wood? >> If not we will move on. >> All righty.
052So, uh, moving into the curriculum and technology area, it is recommended that the board of school directors approve and ratify the following curriculum and technology items. That would be item number one, which is the approval of the K12 guidance plan. If you recall, this is a requirement of the Pennsylvania Department of Education. It needs to be written every five years. uh we discussed and had our counseling team here on March 9th uh to present at the committee of the whole meeting. >> Is there a motion? >> Second. >> Any discussion? Is that a roll call, Mr. Ber? >> Roll call, Mr. Ber. >> Mr. Hershey? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Phillips? >> Yes. >> M Rodriguez? >> Yes. >> Mr. Shippers? >> Yes. >> Mrs. Taylor? Yes, >> Mrs. Zinsky. >> Yes. >> Motion passes 60.
053>> Thank you very much. We will then submit that officially to Pennsylvania Department of Education. And moving on to the finance and facilities. It is recommended that the board of school directors approve and ratify the following finance and facilities items numbers one through five. And if I may please um just call out a special appreciation uh for item number two. is the approval of a donation of $5,500 for the Spartan Station from the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Atonement. >> Is there a motion? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Any discussion? Do we know how that contribution came to be? That's wonderful. >> I am stalking everybody. >> Perfect. No, I in the very beginning I reached out to all of our local churches and a number of agencies and I think um you know
054some jumped right on board um and others I think maybe needed to hear from others uh how valuable this is and so um this came kind of out of nowhere. I reached out to them probably a year ago at this point. >> Um pretty exciting. Yeah, >> okay. Mr. Pyer, >> roll call. >> Mrs. Phillips, >> yes. >> Miss Rodriguez, >> yes. >> Mr. Shippers, >> yes. >> Mrs. Taylor, >> yes. >> Mrs. Zinsky, >> yes. >> Mr. Hershey, >> yes. >> Motion passes 60. >> Thank you. We're moving on to personnel and policy. It is recommended that the board of school directors approve and ratify the following personnel and policy items as presented. Numbers 1 through five. >> Third motion. So move. Second. >> Second. >> Any discussion? Roll call. Mr. Ber. >> Miss
055Rodriguez. >> Yes. >> Mr. Yes. Mrs. Taylor, >> yes. >> Mrs. Zinsky, >> yes. >> Mr. Hershey, >> yes. Mrs. Phillips, >> yes. >> Motion passes 60. >> And that concludes my report. Thank you. >> Great. We are going to move on to old business, correct? Yes, we're going to move on to old business. Does anybody have any old business to bring before the board? I had one uh question. This is more of a question. We're in the throws of prom season and I think as a reminder there are resources available for those underserved or kids who don't have access to to new dresses to be able to have dress donations. >> Dr. Lingle, could you describe how that works? >> Yeah, so we communicate out the local um places that organize them. What we
056are looking to do moving forward, space is our issue um and the dry cleaning that's required for them. So, we do communicate out to our students uh of other places that hold them, but we have had a number of conversations recently about um building that as part of our closet up here in the junior >> take away your best memory >> along with um uh business interview attire. We're also trying to build that as well. >> Great. Nice. Awesome. Okay. Thank you. Uh any new business hearing? None right to know requests. We have one. >> We have one. Any questions on those? If not, we'll move on to updates from organizations. Is there anybody from WA? Does not appear to be. If not, I will accept a motion for adjournment. And remember, we have an
057executive session following the meeting. >> Is there a motion? >> Second. >> Motion. All in favor? I >> I thank you.