001e huh I'm not on I'd like to call the Newton Board of Education meeting to order for Wednesday March 12th the time is 7:02 PM please rise for the pledge I pledge algi to the flag of the United States of America and to theu stands one nation under God indivisible with liy and sad would you please call the rooll here Britney C Sean holl here [Music] Anthony Timothy Newton here Amy parate here Sam charma here Jessica Weaver here Anastasia here John L I have everyone here except Miss car thank you all right we um for awards proclamations we do not have an everyday hearer this week they'll be um coming next meeting and we have a resolution for our school social workers which I will read into the record resolution honoring new inton school social
002workers March 12 2025 whereas the new inton board of Newton public school system is committed to honoring its School social workers and recognizing their contributions to the educational system and their tremendous impact in helping students reach their full potential and whereas the Newton School social workers are actively committed to helping students in their social and academic development and explore their abilities strengths interests and talents and whereas the Newton School social workers are actively engaged in a part partnership with students parents and the school for focusing on positive ways to enhance students academic and social emotional development and working with teachers and other Educators to provide an educational system where students can realize their potential and set healthy realistic and optimistic aspirations for themselves and whereas the Newington School social workers help students deal with mental
003health and behavioral challenges and provide academic and classroom support and whereas it is a desire the new board of education that the school social workers should be aware of their appreciation we do hereby Proclaim Wednesday March 12th 2025 as Newton School social social workers Appreciation Day therefore be it resolved that we urge all the citizens of our community to join with us in actively expressing gratitude to our school social workers who represent an investment in excellence in our community be it further resolved that the Newton the secretary of the Newton board of education is directed to spread this resolution upon the minutes of this meeting and to provide a suitable copy for president tion marily thank you so much would you like to say anything I would love to thank you so much good evening
004um Madam chair board members and Dr brummit it is Mo almost fitting that tonight I get to join you and outer of our social workers but first let me take a moment to thank you all for your kindness and support during this very difficult time in my personal life over the past few months I have learned person personally what I have known professionally for many many years there are not enough accolades to express the value of our social workers I had to navigate my father's brief illness the hospital social worker and was and still is such an amazing support but enough about that we are here for to recognize new into to public school social workers I don't think I see anybody online but I did get a um a message from Rachel was falling
005that oh Diana muli just raised her hand so she is here so awesome so um let me give my um little kudos to you guys and then I'll open it up to you Diana if you would like to say a few words so again thank you for the opportunity to accept this recognition on behalf of the social workers as you've heard me explain social workers play a crucial role in assisting students across the entire District on a daily basis socially emotionally academically and they work with the most with most families during and students when they are facing their most ch chenging times our social workers do truly go above and beyond and I am sure that um I speak on behalf of our teachers administrators and we want to thank them and let them know
006how much we value them and their contribution every day just to highlight a few things about our social workers just in case you um not aware of some of their day-to-day duties this is not an exhaustive list but these are some of the things that I think are so important they listen and provide support to not not only for the um families themselves but the staff to help the staff navigate when a student might be having some difficulties they act as a link between the school and the home Community they provide social and developmental history on students they assist students for barriers to academic and social success most importantly they're the advocate for student needs they provide referrals to Community Resources and assist in dealing with crisis we often are asking social workers to kind
007of drop everything that they're doing because something has happened and they just are always there so thank you thank you thank you and thank you for the opportunity to um accept this award on their behalf thank you so much Mrs muli did you want to say anything oh I don't I don't need to say anything I'm more excited for our little kindergarten friends who are there tonight but thank you for the recognition uh it really it's just a team effort in Newington and I'm just very grateful to be part of that team you're being weaved too abely thank you for being here I'll open up to board comments Miss betus I just want to thank you and your staff for everything that you do um it is 100% a situation where we see always acting
008in the best interests of our students it it never waivers it's fully fully uh compassionate and filled with love and we've spoken regularly in this room about the mental health struggles of our kids which makes it even more important and how grateful we are for the the work that we do and again just to thank you for being such good advocates for all of our kids and especially the ones who are most at risk you know we we really cherish the work that you do it's not easy we fully appreciate it so thank you thanks Mr hollerin uh just to Echo what Miss beatric said um our social workers play a vital role in our school system in our community because yes you go to school to work on your academics and to learn knowledge
009and to see where you can apply that knowledge and how you can be your best self but the other half of that is how to navigate through your community whether it's the school Community or the community at large and every single child is different and every single child is special and our social workers have to respond to every single child not only when they're in times of need but also just to have those times of support and uh personally want to thank Miss West balling she's been amazing um for my child so just a personal shout out there um and I think the phrase that comes to mind is love is patient love is kind and so are our social workers and I don't think it's a natural ability to have that much patience and
010kindness day in and day out with every single student so thank you very much Mr Sharma yeah I'm just going quickly Echo what everyone else said um so thank you for everything you do thank you for going above and beyond so really appreciate it thank you Miss Weaver I just want to say thank you so much personal shout out to Marina who's been I think just an incredible leader of this program um I think you know back when before the pandemic hit um you know there was a board that was advocating Noone was R on it but was advocating for more social workers in the middle school and it couldn't have come at a more important time I think and um to say the past years have been very hard I think is an understatement
011so um just want to say thank you for your leadership and continuing to help Advocate um for our students and truly reaching every single student and reading um reaching them where they're at I think um it's school is not easy um work is not easy I wish I had your team some days um but I just want to say thank you and thank you to your whole team um for what you do um this is an everyday a hero this is just your recognition as school social workers but I think it really goes without saying that it's an everyday uh thing that we see all of our social workers and the work that uh they're doing to help our students succeed because um students who are Mindful and are socially emotionally regulated are students that
012can learn um and so I think really just emphasizing that and having that be a focus is one thing that we're proud of and want to continue to support but want to thank you um for continuing to to uplift that so thank you and I'll just say Oh Mr Newton go ahead thank you I just want to say that I think that the social workers are kind of the unsung heroes not that all the teachers everybody in there does everything but they're that piece to the puzzle that nobody knows where it fits till you need it and that's very important that they have that in the safety net that they have that ability to go to someone and I thank them for doing that thank you and yeah just say um I've been on the
013board for three and a half years and and one of the roles that I look up to as a social worker so much so that I'm back to school aspiring to be a social worker so Mrs muli Mrs bu balling who I um when my when she was at Anna Reynolds my daughter worked with her so there's just so many good people that we have in the schools and and the social workers they're one of many and the team to help students succeed but it's definitely um a very important role and job to have um so our students can be successful everywhere they are so um but I want to thank our social workers for inspiring me to change my whole career because I think it's so wonderful and thank you for thank you for
014everything you do U Miss Yap um I just want to say thank you marinaa for everything you do I know even personally with my own child you've always been there for me and um I just want to say thank you and you are definitely a hero thank you okay moving on to board appreciation month yes yes why don't you leave this thank you especially since I do appreciate the board very very much thank you and as you can see our students do too so we have a variety of folks here this evening first up we have Mr um well Anna Reynolds Mr Smith um wanted to say a few words on behalf of the elementary school would that be you yep on behalf of the elementary school since we have some of our kindergarten friends
015here for their presentation in a little bit I have a couple of my kindergarten friends that are going to share something from all four of the elementary schools so come over to S up first Iggy on behave of the students at Anna Reynolds Ruth TIY Elizabeth green and John patteron we would like to thank you for all your hard work the students at Elizabeth green and Ruth chied in craft heart bows using clay and glaze they wrote the word love on them in different languages because love and kindness are a universal language and should be practiced in every culture the students at John patteron made you Mar to say thank you and our CL at inal created thank you hearts for you as will hope you en enjoy your CS mugs and balls thank you
016thank you guys for all your work thank you boys and girls for that wonderful reading this is our kindergarteners reading like that already ladies and gentlemen but not to be outdone by the kindergarteners we have some Representatives here from I know they're a tough act to follow Miss Hinton can you bring uh come on up uh J Julia Hinton and your colleague from the student council and I'd love you to introduce yourselves to the board and then announce what your gifts are so I'll let you have the mic just tell us your role at Martin Kellogg and a little bit about the gifts introduce your here um my name is Julia Hinton and I'm the vice president at Martin Kellog um my name is Chase Sims and I'm the President Martin Kellogg um so we
017made you guys gifts we made rocks that say you rock on them because obviously you guys rock so much um and we just appreciate all of your hard work so thank you thank you very much student leaders from our Martin Kellog program so they're going to pass out those goodies and I understand we may have some Representatives here from John Wallace anyone here from John Wallace yeah remote oh remote well you know what this is 2025 so go right ahead introduce yourself and let us know what you're speaking about hi so I'm Grace uh here on behalf of the John Wallace Middle School student council and we made the members of the student council painted some pots for you to plant flowers in as a thank you for helping us grow that's a very nice
018concept thank you so much grace and uh these are an example of the pots that everyone from Wallace got created and last but certainly not least do we have any Newton High Reps either in the room or online I know it's crunch time for the big play tomorrow night but um do we see any hands up online I do not I know our uh Board of Ed representatives were sad to miss this evening both Michael and uh Abby are at in the grind of the last night before the play opening night is tomorrow night many of you will be joining me for the reception and play so if if it's okay with the board they would like to say a few words next month when they return which would be the first board meeting in
019April they send their apologies but they are hard at work uh for Once Upon a mattress so with that um I personally want to thank the board this is a job that is uh extraordinarily timec consuming even though sometimes people don't tell you that when you sign on to run for the board and then it's a surprise um but I would really appreciate the strength and courage of this board and the resolve that they have to support our district vision and Mission and everything they've done throughout the very you know difficult budget process but we're getting past that and moving forward but I just want to say thank you because you've all put in a boatload of work it's not anything you're paid for in case anyone wondered about that and it is a labor
020of love truly uh folks that are very dedicated to supporting the needs of our teachers and students here in New inton so for that I'd like to give you a round of applause and sincere thanks from the entire School District drop the mic apparently drop the mic all right so now I think the highlight of our evening well board chair I know we have to do a little rearranging of yes we I would entertain a motion to amend our agenda to move our presentation oh we should do public well we can do it we can do it now it's fine to move uh our presentation after public participation so moved a motion a second second have a second okay I have a second all any discussion all in favor any post okay now we will
021do public participation on any matter related to board responsibilities if you are in the room you can come to the end of the table if you're online you can raise your hand to be recognized should also if any board members would like to make a comment go ahead Jessica I just want to thank everyone for the lovely gifts those online and those in the room R thank you guys and what a wonderful job you are also eloquent you speak very well so um kudos to you guys good job yes good job and I can't wait to see your presentation in a minute but thank you for the gift we really appreciate it um and yeah thank you these are the cutest things ever so I like can't wait to put my Marty the lion somewhere
022and and all these things um I have like like running out of room for all these beautiful trinkets but just want to say thank you from your thanks yes we appreciate youate your appreciation we appreciate your appreci all right I'm not seeing any members for or any public for participation so we can get right to our presentation so I'm going to boot up the presentation and I just want to say thank you to Mrs moden and the boys and girls who have so very patiently waited for their presentation and just been just delightful already and we haven't even heard all of your presentations so Mr Smith I'll turn it over to you and then I'll boot up the presentation and welcome to Mrs M's room hey thank you so as uh Dr it brings up
023the presentation I'll probably I'll have us first off start by introducing ourselves and so we're going to be talking today about play-based learning and the opportunity for you to be the students in a little bit and part of this is really bringing to life some of the work that you do as a board of education last year you passed the board policy on that you have the budget season and approving you'll see there's requests from play-based learning and so we really wanted to give you that opportunity to see what that looks like uh so talked with Mrs modin and they do it every day it's actually the very beginning of their day this play based learning time and it helps to one motivate students when you're thinking about the day coming into school so it's
024purposely placed at the beginning of the day versus at the end of the day to help them really get excited about learning so before we jump into our presentation go ahead and have us introduce ourselves so you want to say your name Haley and iise Emma Ziggy you go to the next okay here they are right up here with Mrs modin as they were getting ready and practicing and preparing not just their speaking parts from earlier today but also to do the activities with you and so what we're going to be doing like I had said is just like what it looks like in a kindergarten classroom when they're getting ready for their play based learning activity so this is taken right from the board policy so as you know last year State Legislature you
025had to put in place board policy around play based learning kind of unique and interesting as I'm doing some studying and looking at it that's also in the section as recess but it is very different from Recess because it's a very pedagogical approach that is also tied directly to teaching of standards and it's incorporated into their day their daily practice and it can be through Free Play Guided Play and games and it's throughout the day and so as part of that this year it is in all of the prek and kindergarten classes as part of their day and teachers in the upper grades can integrate it as they see fit as it fits with the work and their standards actually it's very interesting the last couple times I've been in fourth grade with a lot
026of their math work and just seeing how motivated students are when it's really been game based kids are playing the card game of war where they were comparing fractions and just so interested motivated using their tools today I was in there and they were multiplying uh fractions and different strategies and it was all playing the ticktock toe game tic tac toe you know very motivating and timing and working together so it's a very motivating exciting but we're going to look very carefully at that piece where it's tied to their standards and what it looks like in kindergarten so I'm going to turn and then you'll see some of the resources and tools that we have to use as well so when you see it comes into play for Budget there you want to make sure
027to keep our friends interested all year long we have to make sure to be changing up the things that they're also using to be creating so I'm going to turn it over to Mrs moden to kind of talk about what it'll look like and get us into developing some play plans and engaging in play based learning thank you Mr Smith thank you my friends you're doing great room 12 room 12 okay um before we get to give you a glimpse of what play looks like in our room I just wanted to talk quickly about how it shows up four different ways in a kindergarten classroom so first as Mr Smith mentioned play based games so during extension times times where we have small group learning we may have um support people coming in and we're
028reinforcing skills through play through games the other is something called a provocation a provocation is like a question open-ended for students and we give them different materials to use to answer that question an example would be in our recent unit we had read a book about a house for Max they had a variety of materials and they had to make a house for Max and I had some little dogs and the dog had to fit in there so it was putting that practice of our content our reading our writing um right into practice with play um the other is play plans which we'll walk you through in a minute and room 12 is going to demonstrate sorry Zine I'm right in front of you and um the last one is a learning experience which we
029have not done room 12 yet we're aiming for one um as a kindergarten at Anna Reynolds by the end of the year that's where we're going to transform the room into a place perhaps a pizza parlor maybe it will be a vet and we're going to gauge that by student interest and we will tie it all in um to whatever we are doing in content area as well so it shows up a lot of different ways and the best part about it is that it really hits on a lot of our academic standards and skills and they don't know they're learning okay which is great news um actually they do know they're learning because we're talking about it constantly play plans every day we have open-ended play as Mr Smith mentioned the children have a
030lot of choices they make a choice we'll show you how we do that um and then what they do is the purposeful part comes in with how they make a plan to play it's not just going somewhere and making a guess about what they want to do it's being purposeful when I go to blocks what am I going to build today so they think it they create it on the page at the beginning of the year that looked a little more like pictures we're almost first graders so we're getting ready I'm doing a lot more right yes Mrs Rodriguez we're doing a lot more writing um right now so they're going to show you how they would take their idea turn it into print on the page and then I did bring some materials so
031I'm going to spread them out wherever they choose to play I'm going to encourage you to join them and watch them create plan and then execute when we thank you hold on one second okay let's do this first can I have that for a second perfect thank you will you hold those for me you're gonna you're going to move the club for me of course okay this is our who picks first chart so the way that we choose our play center is um through this chart this chart is helpful in so many ways one it helps children know when their name is coming it helps them use their emotional control they might not get to pick their first choice of a play center because it might be full by the time they get there a
032lot go thank you Mr Smith a lot goes into that if I wanted to go to blocks and Mr Smith took the last spot there's a lot of feelings attached to that so this helps me prepare for that and I will say at the beginning of the year there were some tears about that now not one and they've learned to regulate self-monitor understand that okay I don't get there today but you know what in three days someone else is going to pick first I'm closer to the first person who picks yes I get to go to Kitchen my dream center right um so they're going to choose and they're going to go to their spot we have four centers to choose from today Lincoln Logs Legos magne tiles and what we call Brain Flakes I'm
033going to put them around the room after they choose you are going to choose we're going to move your clip onto a spot they're going to show you how they're going to write their play plan and you can play along with them or just watch and learn okay all right room 12 huddle up really quick no mic here sorry this is private okay I'm ready so when you when you make your choice you're going to take your play plan paper you're going to pick one marker you're GNA you're going to go to your spot with the play and then you're going to write your plan first then play and first then play everyone in room 12 on three one 2 3 room 12 okay perfect back to your spot here we go Mr Smith can
034I give that back to you thank you for your patience while set up okay so who picks me who picks first today Ziggy where you going okay move your clip to brain placees with your name bra okay so after Ziggy is who Emma make your choice pick your Center and thank you for being patient perfect okay Miss car you're up first you sure can oh man popular get popular y you're up next I'm gonna go linol logs linol LS okay magn tiles wide open you're the first one there have fun I'll come join you if no one comes okay Mr Mr new okay perfect magne tiles I like it now in the classroom if the dots are full the set for fall we're gonna love this good because I I want brain flakes brain flakes
035for you all right Mr Sharma Mages sold uh link and logs that brings you back right y good perfect um is online okay Mr freezy want make a choice magne magneti all right and Dr brummit oh goodness no one's at the Lego bricks but I don't want to be by myself so I will go with the magne tiles please all right suppos to move to our right yes stay we'll bring them to you no no that's okay that's so you can watch as they're writing they're making lines for each word that's in their sentence and then they're starting to write s [Music] you g do sorry what are you [Music] gonna flow flow SW which which Center are you in Ziggy so now you're ready to play all right can they go once their PL
036ready C are you in charge of Emma I'm in bra can't wait to come check it out can't wait to see it I'll take your plan hold it hard hardest word ever I will make it hard great I will make a what so listen blend listen to the next part a TR when your there we go so where are you what Center are you at Honey which group are you part can you show me where they are let's go to the magneti we're gonna make a house Che out minut it to me really quickly what doeses it say ready right oh like a m now I'm by a tree remember our unit living things what does a tree have at the bottom that goes under the drinks up all the water from the soil do
037you remember what those are called FL nockles no do you think it's soil or Roots soil is what it's in and The Roots sorry Mr sh and the roots are what go down remember the part that comes out should we add some roots let's go at it I help you [Laughter] got I'm running late at 5 like a house [Music] do you have your little chime thing or you gonna do your what what is it wait what's the thing what is it called what does she say when you have the freeze no you freeze anybody we have about one more minute one more minute for play You're Gonna Get You get to do the hold on let's see if your fence works very nice testing it great idea how's it coming haly good it's a
038TR it's a trap house house full of traps and I'm telling you we are ready to trap anything in this house animal I'm standing back here close I do this are rocking it hey room 12 Yeti body Yeti body good Ziggy I see you good and I good Dean I see you good job good job Haley okay it's time for us to clean up because the grown-ups have other things to do so can you thank them and then clean up the toys for me and bring them back over lovers Legos put in the budget for like right you are doing it right thank you sir want your we have one more one side up next so I need your help for a second okay you are just he's got a big part one more slide
039for or two more slides but one one on him he's got a I send these friends home I think they're ready to go yeah uh sure so as you could see from the play base we have some friends that are going to start to start to head out uh but from the play Bas an opportunity for cooperative play I heard a bunch of my friends when they were first talking about their play plans talking about making flowers and creating their flower garden over there that se those uh social emotional learning skills and that self-regulation the writing skills they were working on the tapping out of the sounds of the number of words so there is a lot of connection to learning standards and today was really about hoping to bring to life for you some
040of the work as a board of education when it comes to policy when it comes to budget that you were in having the opportunity to see what it looks like in schools because we know you don't always have the opportunity to get in there and really see how your work is impactful but I have one slide up here that I wanted to take a minute with my friend Dean to tell you a little bit about because every day I go by when I see in the morning Dean store and so part of that play in the creativity is the creation of the store so Dean I know you talked about it today on morning announcements to tell the school can you tell them a little bit about your store that you run every morning I
041run it every morning and the new because I from people that don't have too much paper and they need it so they have free paper stand you can get up to six pieces of paper to be creativity he's also got a box right next to him can you tell me what that box is the Vault of kindness so he's got a vault of kindness and when you stop by you can get a little note in there that is about the kindness so that's his new Vault of kindness he's got helpers with his store he's got kids that sto by to get paper and he's running it also have some special days Green Day the other so doesn't all right thank you Declan so there and then lastly I just wanted to highlight while I have
042that while I'm here with you this year at an Ry with our new school we also introduced some new expectations so part of our work on behavior um we've redone our expectations and so this year they are now be kind be engaged be inclusive and be responsible and that be inclusive really taken apart to make that part of our school culture um and what our what our community in AR renolds looks like and we did have a mascot and up there is our mascot with Mrs modan's class because jerielle was the one who named him Rory and that goes after our Reynolds Roars which is that positive recognition that students get for being kind he couldn't be here tonight because it's his sister's birthday so we hoping he was going to join us as well
043but that's Rory and our new mascot and our new expectations as well so thank you for having us and all our my kindergarten friends with Mrs moden so thank you Mrs moden thank you Mr Smith and thank you Mrs modin and your helper Miss Rodriguez I we totally appreciate this and this might rank at the top of all board meetings so uh we appreciate that boys and girls you did a wonderful wonderful job I can't believe you you're almost first graders let's face it you are ready to go thanks to Mrs moden and all that she does for you and thanks to the moms and dads that came out after a long day of work but hopefully you enjoyed it as much as we did thank you so much we really appreciate you being here
044so cute I know I thought building thinking classrooms is good but this one was yes very much talked it all right well they left but are there any comments or questions if there's anything any questions we can get get those to Mr Smith or Mrs modin but miss beus um quick comment this was magical it was absolutely magical and um I just can't even believe not just how joyful the students but also Mr Smith and and Miss mum it's just unbelievable we think about what young children do and I think about the difference from when I was that age and what kindergarten looked like for us and when we know that kids play and they they use their minds and their imaginations in such wonderful ways then they grow not just academically um but socially
045they've talked a lot about it as well but when you have a 5-year-old or a six-year-old who has his own store who sells kindness there is nothing more magical than that so I just I'm blown away so thank you Mr hollerin I just want to add that the I think the aspect of it that I I really really loved is the learning through Discovery um it's experimental experimental learning and it's experiential learning right like they came up with a plan this is what they want to do this is what I want to do but in the actual execution of that plan things change and you discover new things and you learn and you adapt in Dean or was building a lincol log fence with at one point he's like oh it kind of looks like
046a WFT so we kind of took it in a different direction and I think that that was just wonderful to see that learning happens through experimenting trial and error collaboration like those are all the things that we are looking for in our curriculum um putting your hands on making it personal and having fun with it I'd also really like to thank them for live streaming us board members trying to get off the floor so thank you very much for that um but this that was wonderful and I think that's that's learning at its core is there's no failure there's only trial and error thank you Miss car I have to add to that I love the fact that everyone got together after to help each other clean up and you saw three of them all
047carrying you know the tools together what they played with and it's just so inspiring that they're being taught that the sense of community the sense of helping one another the sense of working together so it was great seeing that Mr new in I just like to add that me and a few people around the room we were from the generation that it was one siiz fits all and I think that kids fell behind without meaning to years ago and I think that issues like this and socialization and everything else helps bring some that are too far ahead some that are a little bit behind but it brings them together and I think they learn Better Together learning from each other U Mr Sharma I just want to Echo what everyone else said um it was
048great to see the kids um you know really play and I think uh Mrs Moran she taught both my kids and she you know it was great to see her and all the kids thanks Miss Weaver just wow Miss menen I mean mean not much I think it it's some things are like better left said but shown and I think that was just one of those things uh to this day I thought one of the coolest ones was we back when when we did um second graders coding and I was like oh my god um but this was like another level I think one of the things that has resonated with me um since one our last keynote was like we have to get kids to love learning right and sometimes I feel there are
049days but just feels like um sometimes in the world like You've Lost That love or or you haven't remembered it and this was just one of those things to watch a mind actively work and discover and truly like the sponges that they are take it in um it's just one of the most like beautiful things in the world it was actually just quite poetic and um yeah I was honestly a little emotional watching them just really succeed at loving learning um and I think fostering that you know we always talk about our mission talk about about everything that is important and we want our students to embody but to kind of see it up close and personal um I think we all could used a dose of this like every other day so um if
050Miss modin would like us to come in any time as well I will happily take that I'm inviting myself um but wanted to just say thank you to our teacher and Mr Smith for for showcasing that um I think this is just a really great example of The Shining work that's happening in our school district so thank you for the opportunity I'll just say I was I was super excited when Mrs moden bent the rules and allowed more than three people at the brain flake station um but we we asked Britney I were there we asked Ziggy if he ever he ever like got upset if he didn't get the the station that he wanted and he's like no I just use my emotional reg regulation and and yeah he so like I just think
051it's great that like that seal is like in in their everyday language and they are able to express how they're feeling and able to recognize the skills that they're using so even at kindergarten and preschool even they're able to kind of say that and understand what's going on so I just thought that it was just a great presentation so definitely think thank Mr Smith and Mrs moden for bringing their friends here to play with us learn play learn Le Play and Learn okay so now we can go back to to our so we don't have our student Representatives tonight but we have a curriculum committee upseat we need to approval oh I'm sorry didn't go far enough ahead or behind D approval minutes Miss weer um I just want to note on the first page
052of the minutes it says regular meeting or special meeting it says regular meeting at the top and then it says we started the special meeting at 7 pm or something um just in the should be just amends yeah yeah so I just I'll just move to move it with amending move to amend the minutes should I move to amend the minutes and then move it yeah so approve with the amendment okay okay I'll move to um move to approve the Amendments with the amendment of striking and changing on the first page of the minutes from special to regular meeting second motion a second any discussion all in favor any post pass I eight one sevenia dropped so seven zero now curriculum committee okay yes now curriculum committee um so usually we have fun like that
053in the curriculum communting meetings they give us things to try and we love it so it was nice to experience we usually don't do it at an elementary school levels but that was really fun especially kindergarten level um but we had a big meeting um uh for the curriculum committee I'll kind of go through the high Lev bullets and then we could speak a little bit to each one um we reviewed a textbook uh for the Yukon e Health 2 course um the name of the text I have yes uh an integrated approach to personal health uh by Linda B white uh that's a required text for Yukon Health or Yukon ECE Health 2 exercise and wellness for everyone uh the total cost for the copies of the text is $1,523 75 and it will
054be paid out of the uh arpa dual credit expansion Grant um go ahead just a that's a required text from the Yukon portion yes that is a required text um for the Yukon portion thank you um we also reviewed student achievement which I'll come back to in a second uh we reviewed uh the gray five instructional model and how some things are shifting uh to keep it brief um we're allowing more time for Math and Ela um we went through kind of the the current track and the proposed changes to uh accelerated math honors math and kind of the track that that looks like uh and got an update on Benchmark Advance um so just um going back to student achievement good news is is that at the elementary level uh student achievement improved for
055all students in both mathematics and reading um however there was uh no discernable closing of the performance gap between our white Black and Hispanic students so they all improved but the Gap didn't narrow um at the middle level grades 53 achievement mathematic and improv for all students uh and for all groups which um that was a big I think win for us because the last time we met we saw that that was kind of an outlier dip and it has come back up um and at the middle school level the overall percentage of students at Benchmark for reading decreased by 1% performance decreased for all students uh but it was most pronounced among our black students um so so we saw a dip there and a particularly larger dip amongst our black students um based
056on past performance um the PSATs for eight and n and the PSAT in grades 10 and 11 um the class of 2026 is projected to reach a mean score between 550 and 480 um and a means and that's for erw essentially the English portion of it or the writing portion of it and a mean score of 440 and 470 in math uh um and I think the last point on that uh to sum it all up the trend data from 2019 to 2024 so that new engan high schools uh students we have consistently performed above the state average on both sat sections both the erw and the math um to sum up the grade five instructional model this was part of the discussion we had at a previous curriculum meeting um where because our grade
057five students are in the middle schools and they kind of have to stick logistic lead to kind of the the middle school schedule um basically moving some things around um we've increased uh mathematics uh from 53 minutes a day to 70 minutes a day and Ela from 53 minutes a day to 115 minutes a day um and the curriculum will be revised to align with Benchmark Advance um moving on to the accelerated um Math course essentially the bridge to 8 algebra program if I can kind of sum it up um basically there's an evaluation done very early like you are accelerated in math or you are not accelerated math and we kind of seal their fate that way um so it's like oh you can pick this up really fast um you can go through
058there's a lot of parents who want to see their kids excel in math and accelerate there get their quicker however when we look at the data um among the students uh who were kind of on that accelerated level um they're not really enrolling by the time they get to high school in those advanced classes 26% of the students took four credits of math at new inton high school 15% of students took AP Calculus and 25 students 25% of students enrolled in at least one AP or ECE course um so basically the bridge to 8th grade algebra um allows for several opportunities to JP forward if you need to you don't really start at like okay you're in seventh grade you're going to go to Algebra 1 um or you're going to go to eighth grade
059math because part of that is you jump AR one you kind of miss out on the eighth grade stuff you need to know which comes into to play later in high school um so uh I have the minute it goes into details it will take me all all night to read through them I can share the the meeting minutes if you would like um but students who do not participate in alal one during the eighth grade year still have other Pathways to accelerate learning in math including participation in the highest level Math course at Newton High School Apu or C uh ECE calculus um so there's a lot of different ways they can still Advance without kind of predetermining their fate in math because every student learns different at different rates uh it's a little
060bit more fair and it allows more flexibility without removing the opportunity for somebody really does accelerate in math um they can still get there if they need to but it's a little bit more of a balance um for each student and uh just a little update on bed spark Advance uh be Beverly Lawrence um kind of gave us a Lowdown of kind of what she's observed she's done a lot of walkthroughs workshops um it's still new we're getting a lot of teacher feedback but I think it's been around long enough where instead of having anxiety about having to do something new so like oh this works for me or this works for me it's a lot of sharing and collaborating that information um still a work in progress still learning as we go but overall
061the feedback is positive I think teachers are adapting pretty quick um and that pretty much sums it up I will give a little bit of time to miss Freeman if she'd like to correct me on anything or add thank you um I will take that and Miss Weaver who's also on the committee and Mr dun if they'd like to add anything as well I just want to say thank you to Michelle Kellogg and B Lawrence and all the team that was a very productive and robust conversation just about I think some of the things as The Outsiders here of understanding the the complexities that we're seeing in our student populations but um looking at really great trajectory um just want to highlight that math jump was yes extreme um that disaggregation so I think those
062are in the minutes to the charts and lots of visuals and things like that and we have access to a wonderful dashboard of a million things this a data driven District clearly so um it's just great to see that data so thank you it is and that's what it's about it's the results and I like the change to 70 minutes for the three cores I mean it just made more sense that we were concentrating more on the reading the writing the English the math and the teachers have more flexibility when it's 70 minutes versus the 53 so it cut down on a few other things but I think the core is what we needed to look at and I like that move yeah and just to to finish that before I move on I think
063to that point allowing that extra time as we integrate building thinking classrooms to actually experiment collaborate get involved gives you more time to really apply that um rather than kind of an instruction and memorization and recite it back like building thinking classrooms in my opinion works much better for those who think they're not good at math because they can discover that they can figure out how to solve a problem but you need enough time to get to that Discovery Journey so I agree with you I think that's one of the biggest things and confident that it's probably going to plan out pretty well or pan out pretty well and that is our update it was a busy meeting oh uh our next meeting is April 1st at 6:30 in this room I gotta write this
064meeting all right um we decided on that in the meeting so that's why I know it um but that is it we can move forward thank you can I just ask what um so the fifth grade um schedule adjustment that's a lot of minutes that are being taken away so what is what's what is going away I guess in place of math and not that I'm disagreeing I'm just curious um so we're taking the minutes out of science and social studies fifth grade is still in an elementary model so the approach to teaching and learning should align with Elementary so if you remember when or if they still are your children elementary school when you look at the minutes the minutes in math and reading writing word study align now with fifth grade so what
065we've done is we're basically cutting in half the amount of time spent in science and in social studies however I also want to add that when you look at look at a program like Benchmark Advance a lot of those informational texts and they were in the budget those align with the content of social studies and the content of science so while students in The Benchmark Advance program might not be engaging in some of the inquiry activities that we saw when Miss Antonio came they are still getting some of that content in there as well and that is a common model um across Elementary K through four but it also needs added to five I would also add and this is a hill I will die on that if kids cannot read They're not going to
066be successful in science or social studies it is when we look at our reading scores that has to be our priority along with mathematics thank you yeah that makes a lot of sense especially since Newton is one of the very few districts that has fifth grade in a middle school so all other most other districts are it is an elementary they get recess still and you know in COG and Wallace so yeah that makes sense to align it that way so okay thank you for explaining any other questions no okay I just have one other um the the slight dip in um was it reading benchmark is that um I know previously like the the midyear benchmarks are you're expected to learn more so the benchmarks are higher is that does that have anything in
067play or what it like is there any hypothesis what's going on which grade levels were you looking at at the middle level um sorry that was middle 53 middle um so historically we do see a dip in the winter and there's more of a dip in the upper levels than there are in fifth and sixth grade however it still doesn't mean that it's okay um an increase would show that 80% of the students were on Benchmark in September and 80% more on Benchmark in January because the target gets higher so if you stick with 80% all of the kids are still meeting that so when we do see a dip um we do take that very seriously um so miss whan is as always working with the English language arts department and just looking at
068um most definitely the riger of the you know the types of books that we're putting in kids hands but another component of it too is again the amount of instructional time when I arrived at John Wallace as the assistant principal English language arts was two blocks it was 90 minutes and that is a very standard that we see in Middle School through seventh grade so we started that discussion at curriculum committee that is a much larger discussion but it is possible we're starting with fifth grade we're going to get that in place but then we talked about some creative ways that we can begin to add more minutes into Ela for both six and seventh grade which I think is um imperative especially looking at the the reading scores okay awesome thank you so much
069okay anything else all right um Dr BR was there anything else for your report well there's no way I'm gonna try to top our friends from Anna Reynolds but just a quick reminder in addition to what's written in the report which I would encourage you to read um reminder tomorrow night is the reception and play for Once Upon a mattress opening night our board student Board of Ed reps will be there because they are in the play so uh look forward to seeing folks there looks like we're going to have close to 50 people there so that'll be really nice community building events so look forward to seeing everybody great okay moving on to new business um update on our budget for next year so I'll start um last night Dr Brum and I presented
070to Town Council um kind of a slim down version of the presentation that she um shared initially when when they came to our meeting um it was well received they were happy that we had cut some um there were some questions like line item questions that they had that they will um I don't know if they've emailed you yet but they'll email the questions so then once we get the questions we'll obviously send out to the the board and Town Council I don't think there wasn't really any major no I mean we're just waiting on the the questions there was a question posed by one of the counselors about the bus data that L led us to make the statement that it's more coste effective to run our own Fleet Lou had done an exhaustive
071analysis which I did forward to the Town Council this morning and they also wanted a copy of the presentation because there was some new information in there and I'll await the follow-up questions thank you to miss karate and Mr Jacka MTZ for their support last night getting that presentation out there it did seem to go pretty well I had just a slight question on the bus data did we account for um like the athletic transportation in there because we're saving yes yes as all accounted for it's all aspects of taking students besides to and from school field trips uh special events uh any of the practice runs like kindergarten getting the kids ready for the bus ride all that stuff goes into the mix surpris was up around 1,000 trips in support of Athletics on
072the year that we had looked at yeah yeah because that that could add up if we didn't have our St okay yeah um just put your mic on so you can yes if we were paying a private vendor it would have been substantially more yeah one other item that was not in the report but I had looked at afterwards was what percentage of our students are we actually transporting to school School compared to the uh uh contract District which was weatherfield uh their coverage was 53 or 54% ours was 85% of the kids so besides the cost savings you're taking so many more students than the uh other districts there and that's hard to quantify and that that's what we had broken down one other time is like the average cost per student which really
073gets driven down uh because of that particular Factor okay so yeah we'll just a wait further questions and then we'll nothing significant has changed since the board discussed the budget Miss Weaver just want to clarify too like as Federal things hit the news and all these things our Administration is a breast of these issues but how it impacts I know people are asking questions and those kinds of things but to clarify too that these are things we're waiting on it's not like an actionable thing necessarily although there's a million things in the news so I can't I can't generalize that but just wanted to say say that we haven't had any cuts to our budget yet from federal cancellations there was a chatter about some USDA program but our food service program is separate and
074while it'll inhibit their ability to buy some local um farmer Goods it will not negatively impact the program so there really has two days and I'm not taking anything for granted been no impact to our budget but certainly monitoring that like a hawk um if there's nothing else for the budget we can move on to discussion possible action for cancelling our March 26 board meeting um so Dr brart won't be in town and there's no pressing matters um unless there's a policy thing but say yes the next one nothing pressing so um so unless anybody has any objections I would entertain a motion to cancel the March 26th meeting so moved I motion to cancel the March 26 2025 Boards of Education meeting second all right we have Motion in second any discussion hey all
075do a roll call vote bar beer yes Britney Carr yes John hollerin yes Newton yes Amy P yes Sharma yes Jess weer yes Anastasia yes yes pass unanimously 8 Z thanks and then if anything urgent comes up we can always schedule a special meeting um as needed okay moving on to discussion so there's two sets of policies one for discussion one for Action so the discussion policies I miss Weaver want to just run the yeah and you know what we're gon keep it succinct and because I know everyone read these policies and if haven't heard any questions but I'll do my my soapbox reminder these are policies that we're bringing forth to the board for the first time always as the process is we bring it to the board we bring it back to our
076committee if there's anything in between or anything out here that we can address edit amend um for further comments happy to do so and then we'll bring it back to the board we always bring it back twice to be able to then actually vote on it so these are brand new to your faces not to ours so these were um things we discussed on the February 6th policy committee meeting as always my Fearless leaders car and Miss beatric um this was a lot of our own our work there and I'm going to give a special shout out to miss Carr in a bit because some of these are I think we need to like start giving authorship um for these but we'll just go through a couple of these um and I'll just give high
077level and then if there's any questions please let us know um but first one 13:30 and oh I'll preface this again too we will be changing the numbers we're it's just not here right now but we will we will be changing them to fit that just also is subject to fitting all the ones we're approving tonight as well um in the Thousand community relations Series so um once all of that is approved we'll we'll get these in in line with actual numbers that make sense um so first one 1330 uh was use of school facilities and grounds um we really didn't change much we changed like three words um just changing who has authority to do what so superintendent to designate I don't know we need to put them up all the time but literally
078we changed three words um so any any questions we um did also take out an appendix from this policy um mostly because we um recommended that it would be as s noted in the uh the agenda uh we recommended posting on the website of um within the Poli within the policy to support the ease of the annual revision revision so this was actually just like a thing for building rates um for use by the community um so if you you clicked on that it would just be like the building rate use and I think we had it last from like 2023 and we were like this is just easier it's just not the place for it um so no actual change to it it's just if you want to find our building use rates as
079community members um or Community organization groups um that will be posted on our website um because those will change depending on on what we choose so um we we included that in the agenda as well a website example exle thank you Mr versy and then also just included um a regulation and then kind of combined there was like three regulations all these subsections again this is more uh organizational and procedural than actually changing any of the content so moving the regulation of the community use of the swimming pool into the regulation of the use of uh school facilities and grounds including and then we change it including the use of the swimming pool so as Dr B showing on the screen um those will be posted on on the um because Board website we have
080or is it our NPS website MPS website so um yes is there any significant difference between using the pool versus using any other school facilities so there's no reason to separate them no there just more specification on um like like some of the rules of of the pool um so no scuba gear I'm not joking we're very serious about that it's in the in the policy I cars anything that one no um and basically with the regulation like for example used to tobacco alcohol and refreshments referencing back you know policy 1335 smokefree environment or you know talking about alcoholic beverages refer going back to policy 4118 d231 so creating those links to make it easier and bringing you back to the main policy thank you any other questions on those to 1331 smoke free environment
081um we basically changed all of it well um do we add all of this or we just changed the regulation to the policy um because it's prohibition against smoking so um we also made sure that it was in line with General statutes um including and we had a long discussion about like now the relevance of cannabis and other things so just including that along with like it was just only referring to Tobacco um so these are all rooted in statute and vaping is in there Vapor product is in there as well yep electronic can of um very and all the definitions are once again grounded and statute so that's that any questions next one is 40 law enforcements uh I don't know I'm just I'll give it over to miss car she wrote the whole
082thing uh she wrote the whole thing um nothing of the content changes but um she has a away with words I think that is just easy yeah it's just honestly making it flow easier and making it easier for the common person to understand so starting off with recognizing the vital role that local law enforcement agencies play in supporting School staff and students um we as a board are committed to maintaining a strong Cooperative relationship with these agencies while ensuring the legal rights of staff and students are protected and then basically taking that same second paragraph saying the superintendent and our design shall establish and maintain clear lines of communication with local law enforcement to enhance the security of school facilities ensure the safety of students and staff and promote student education regarding law enforcement practices
083and responsibilities so the content stays the same and just easier to understand we're going to put with a Britney touch we can't like be it in the policy but I'll pass it that way um any questions all right next one fire department no changes nothing changed we just reviewed it so we will know we review it so you will not see this one at the next meeting because we didn't change anything but as always we will when we review it so when it gets to 2040 and they're like this is awful policy um you know they can say we reviewed it and it's our fault okay uh next one uh fiscal Authority this is truly just rooted in statute we just added a policy reference to one that um to the 900 series that um
084that references our our roles and responsibilities with committees everything else so nothing changed questions is that is that the board's finance committee what's that policy reference no so so we we just differentiate it so yeah so in the sorry let me open that back up um for the for the fiscal Authority just as the Board of Education shall Endeavor to meet periodically with appropriate fiscal authorities throughout the budgeting process um and then we just note too it'll differentiate between the finance and budget committee that's in in the 9,000 Series which is a different purpose so the general this like literally this policy is a general statute um and then we just differentiate um so it's understand like the Board of Education versus subcommittees so to speak and also our duty to negotiate one of those
085where it's quite literally just a statute as a policy we like this all right and then uh 1500 this is relations between area State Regional and National associations of schools and the schools um we just changed it because it specified just cab and we were like we can't we have a million memberships and like Dr bur alluded to she's part of caps we just don't think it's wise to specify any one Association over another given the magnitude of memberships we come and go um so we just put membership as is recog in recognized associations as subject to change based on the district's needs which has happened often throughout history so um and now with you know our superintendent as the president of caps H so yeah that was literally the only change any questions hey
0861600 um this one we just um this is otherwise lawful possession of firearms on school property we just put um the policy to be possession of firearms and gun-like objects on school property um so you have anything on this one again it was more of a rewrite making it very clear starting off with saying we strictly prohibit the possession of firearms on School District property regardless if you hold you know a valid permit to carry and we also wanted to add you know prohibit the possession of gun-like objects including Ben not limited to air soft guns BB guns things along that line so again stating from the beginning they're prohibited and stating regardless if you hold a permit it's school property question how thank you Mary what about law enforcement it has to be for
087a Bonafide law enforcement reason right do you say anything in there about that I didn't see that it just says prohibited that's already in law H that would already be part of law that no no that's what I'm saying I mean I just want to make sure that they so this is the the otherwise lawful position of firearm so in law there aw lawful okay okay okay yeah sorry do you have to put otherwise like that was like the name of the policy we can it might not trans yeah we can just put it keep it yeah the original title of the policy yeah but yeah so back to otherwise lawful okay Mr Hollin on the fourth paragraph we specifically spike out students are spe strictly prohibited from possessing firearms for any reason lawful or
088otherwise on school property do we need to expand that for anyone other than students adults teachers we can do that yeah nobody essentially nobody yeah and we did have this conversation too um so I'm glad you're actually brought up because we were asking um just so it's clear um Mr Ry our SRO does not have yeah for any questions on that yeah because we we have the same thought as mron as well like law enforcement versus that um yeah we can we can rewrite that yeah yep just because specifically spikes out students which I think when you specifically spike it out you are omitting anyone else from yeah so Broad in it I think indiv Qui question um what if what if for whatever reason we had a reason to arm our school security Personnel
089they would probably be considered constables at that point and be covered by lawful I would think because the Town Council would have to appoint that right Dr Brit uh state law does allow for armed security guards we currently don't have them so I would imagine if we go that route we may want to look at a policy specific to that right now the only one that can have a a firearm on school grounds is an lawful police officer swor police officer all right so we'll bring that back and thank you guys um all right next one policy 1700 sexual offenders school property again this is pretty much the statute itself so we had no edits yeah last year yeah because we did it also yes we trust ourselves um and then for um 1800 same
090deal we updated it in April of 2024 um and then we just separated out the regulation it's it's quite long um and we do want to note too um you know some of the we have multiple non-discrimination policies they pretty much all say the same thing so we were talking about redundancy and those kinds of things there's a specific um this one's specific to community but they all inherently say the same thing that rooted in in statute um but we recognize that it should probably it doesn't it's not bad to reiterate non-discrimination uh in many places so there is a a similar policy once again rooted in in statute for uh Community students and then as a equal opportunity employer so um just covering all our bases there I think make sure people know that
091so no changes okay any questions okay turn it back over thank you I'll turn it right back over to you next one next one um so all these are policies we've seen we didn't get any ments in between our last meeting and that um the only thing I'm going to note uh is that we will remove 12:15 policy 1215 is the relation with booster organizations we had originally put in our regulation I mean we could still put the policy forward but I'd rather just make it very clear to everyone um we did put a line in it was our understanding we wanted to kind of keep the board a breast of uh away from liability and protected from that so we had put in in a thing in a um a stanza about um oversight
092of booster organizations and assuming liability um we do as of our budget discussions we do carry some insurance for that so we will strike the section we added but I just don't want to pass that one too with special things so we'll just come back with that one other than that there were no other changes since our meeting on the other recommended policies um there any questions at this time if not oh no no okay um all right so I'll just kind of make the motion a little different but um we can move the board replace current policy 1 1200 1205 1210 1212 1250 1251 312 321 3 132 1312 1321 1322 1324 132 24-1 with the recommended changes in revised numbering system as shown in recommended policies 1 1205 1210 1220 1225 with 1225
093are 1230 1235 1240 1245 1250 and closed second we have a motion and a second for this list of policies is there any further discussion Mr hollerin want to thank Mr py and the policy committee for their hard work it is never ending you guys are judged on every single word written on that page and you guys deliver very well every time so just thank you for your efforts nice workmanship thanks and um we will have another committee meeting so save that for board remarks but next week right next Wednesday all right any further discussion we voting on these adoption of these policies that Miss weer was listed off roll call vote please Mary yes BR yes Sean how yes Timothy Newton yes yes Sam Sharma yes Jess we yes anasia yes 8 Z thank
094you thank you thank you wonderful policy committee as always okay that brings us back to public participation if there's anyone online who would like to um speak and raise your hand to be recognized seeing none and move on to remarks by board members Miss Weber Never Enough thanks for my policy committee and never enough Aly meeting so we will be meeting uh next Wednesday March 19th at 700 p.m. and we're getting to the 2000 Series so just want to put that out there coming attractions um and then just want to say um just super excited for all of the things that are happening in our district um just the things we want to say thank you again for the appreciation it's always a great night to to have that and for one of the most
095fun board meetings ever thank you for highlighting our incredible students Dr RMA and and for for bringing this on to the agenda um and more fun to come tomorrow night and this whole weekend with Once Upon a mattress if you can't come tomorrow night Friday Saturday there's going to be some fun and this will be Mr Clark's last production at Newton Public Schools so um as someone who as someone who um very much appreciates his his work as a former student and as someone who just loves the Arts and what has has done for our school system um this is one not to be missed so just want to say thank you Miss car to Echo a little what Jessa thank you everyone who came today for the gifts the presentations um I'm going to
096try to keep this alive I'm used to having cacti because that's basically all I can keep alive so I'm G to try um being on this board isn't about the recognition or appreciation it's about serving the schools the students in the community that makes this place so special but again thank you and it's great seeing the district do so well yeah Mr hollerin um just to kind of follow up on what Miss car said this is always an awkward night for me board appreciation night we're doing this because we want to serve the students and the teachers um I personally don't need to be thanked um the thank is in the work that we do and the experience and just the the school Journey that every one of our children have and that in and
097of itself is enough reward for me to know that I'm putting my time in doing what I can not that I don't love these gifts and I love getting stuff made from students but it's a little weird because I want to thank them not the other way around yes thank you for you thank you Miss beus I'm serving on this board with all of you in this room has been a great great honor and um this is my first session on on the board this this past year and a half and I can't tell you what a pleasure it has been it I'm in a position I'm very fortunate where I have the opportunity to give back to my community and that's something that I take very very seriously um I'm very grateful for the
098community and what has uh done for myself and my family and the wonderful education that my children received here in the Newton public schools and it's a rare opportunity that we have to give back in a way that um we can can draw a clear line that actions um have a good positive reaction in the community and for that I'm very very grateful so thank you Mr Sharma I just want to what everyone else said and um really appreciate all the gifts and especially the card so thank you you all the students teachers we really appreciate it thank you yeah is always a really fun night but like Mr hollerin said it's a little awkward because we definitely are doing it for for the students but it's nice to be recognized and and thanked for
099our efforts because we definitely work very hard and um you know sacrifice a lot of our own time and and family time and and everything to be here and we really take it seriously so um we appreciate the thanks but we really appreciate seeing our students especially the ones that came tonight it was so fun to to play with them and and Mrs mod and and the whole play based learning um it's just a great thing that that the state mandated but we're happy to oblige because it definitely is um it's definitely helpful for the students and it definitely brings that love of learning into the classroom so um yeah I love being a board member and I love serving with everybody here in this room it's been it's been a great great time um
100few more meetings left of the school year but one less because we canceled one but but yes um great being on the board thank you everybody I appreciate you I will also appreciate a motion to ajour motion to adjourn second thank you favor Mee 837 for