001today is this yeah good evening to the May 2nd 2023 Carteret County Board of Education meeting I'd like to start the meeting by asking Miss Casey Moreno principal of Croatan High School to come forward and introduce her two students who will lead us in the Pledge of Allegiance it's really an honor for us I'd like to introduce you to two very special students that I brought with me tonight or Mary Meadows blueberry is a senior at Croatan this year she has been very active in the FFA and she's the current president of FFA and competes in a wide variety of speaking events this year she also served as a hundred statement team captain and outside of school she's active in the Croatan 4-H and is currently serving as the president our next student is Liam
002Lewis true Liam has been with us since kindergarten and is now a junior at Croatan Liam has had significant needs over the years but we've always felt welcomed and supported and he's on track for a diploma Liam enjoys track cross country Taekwondo theater and Community Bible study and guys do not challenge his kid good answer simply saying the Croatan High School prom Dance Off winner okay I'm gonna let him take it from here please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge allegiance go anywhere we want to jump out of it that easy [Music] thank you good evening sorry all right next up is Mr day with our invocation if you'll stand please thank you for our eaters educating our children's one of these important jobs on the planet and our teachers rarely get the
003credit the recognition and the thanks that they deserve day in and day out parents and administrators entrust our children to teachers so that they may help guide our children to become becoming wonderful and successful adults as a parent I don't know how we could raise our children without the help of great teachers so please Lord bless our teachers this evening this week and always amen [Music] as you can tell we have a full house and it's not because we're exciting or interesting and they aren't for us um so I would like to ask Ms Allison Dees to come forward and recognize Career and Technical education student organizations State and National Women's Miss Denise uh like in birth recognize it representing their career and Technology so ctsos are co-curricular they're organized groups that established four students
004in Career and Technical education classes or CTE to further their Knowledge and Skills while participating in real world activities events and competitions in addition students have opportunities to hold leadership positions at the local the state and the national levels and attend leadership development conferences to network with other students business and industry Partners these are the groups that have held their state leadership accomplices as of April 30th the North Carolina FFA has not held their state leadership conference yet so therefore they are not represented in this group tonight their conference will be held on June 27th through the 29th so we have a large group so I'd first like to recognize the Broadway medal their annual chapter of activities presentation that will be Krista DiStefano and JoJo leforsa also digital citizenship first place is Ellie spell
005multimedia and web page development is Theo merville and Maritza Perez De La Cruz and then public speaking I don't think Ryan Shuka is here with us tonight but he opened the place special in public speaking trying to see Broad Creek veterans fblas you're actually being slapping to the met over here yes [Music] so robotan FBLA computer gaming and simulation we have birthplace Mackenzie zapson approaching FBLA intro to business procedures and affair she was enough sports they Pro attend that's a quick service restaurant for the second lightning McQuaid he's already been to the International Conference competing I think last year East Carter High School field USA the health knowledge Bowl second place team candid Ensminger Bailey Willis Brianna Mintz and Parker Hopkins also East Carter excuse USA culinary art Ryan Shepard West Cartersville University near Pathways
006showcase help first place Isabel Hall Cara Duncan and Jen Lee West Carter excuse USA principal division technology second place Alejandra West Carter skillsusa Health occupations professional portfolio second place Crystal Alvarado or Rando the West order it um Becca professional selling is James Cain he's not here with us tonight he was Third Place West Court FBLA personal finance third place War stack and then finally we have with us a newly elected North Carolina skills USA State officer for the whole year 23 24 Ruth balls yesterday so we are just going to shift you just a little bit welcome everyone we'll let everyone that wants I don't understand [Music] laughs keep smiling congratulations that's it for this round many of these Will Go On the line at their National College this week well thank you very much
007that's amazing thank you okay next up we have Miss Heather Boston director of mtss and the AIG she is here to recognize the 2023 Governor School students each year Carteret County Public Schools nominate students to apply for governors this is a highly competitive four-week summer program for gifted and talented high school students it integrates academics and the Arts after submitting names from the local level a State team then selects students to be accepted based on strong academic history written essays extracurricular activities and a performance or portfolio for the Arts approximately 45 percent of students that are presented before the state are accepted to Governor's School this year we were thrilled to learn that 21 students were selected from Carteret County Public Schools more than doubling the number of students accepted last school year our acceptance
008rate for Arts was 72 and 100 of our seven academic nominees were accepted we are thrilled to be presenting these 21 outstanding students for recognition and we'd love to start with chromatan high school so from Croatan High School we have Natalia Melbourne for mathematics Matthew please pay for English is Hazel Scott for the Natural Sciences Noah Whitley for choral music Paige sonzoni for bassoon hello Reed oral music Paul merville trombone shade and Melby oral music Carolyn Marsh was accepted for choral music but had a last minute change in a soccer schedule so she's not here Emily Garman clarinet IC Adams for this exit them all right from East Carteret High School at a time thank you [Music] thank you congratulations [Music] all right from East Carteret High School we have Mary Resendez Garcia for mathematics
009Madeline lended me for clarinet Kennedy Pittman for Danes and Andy Migliore for clarinet this is [Music] congratulations [Music] congratulations [Music] all right then finally for what Carteret High School we have Cameron Johnson for mathematics Haley Luther for mathematics Billy Riley for social science Destiny owl percussion Peter for euphonium for dance [Music] yeah that's true if they were here and it's just loud [Music] okay next up the volume up away it's dedicated oh fantastic [Music] that's popular that's right so okay and Carteret County Board of Education is responsible for applying four people to the Carteret Community College Board of Trustees these are four-year appointments the Board of Education appointing Mr David Wang long of Morehead City recently passed away he was appointed to the Carter Community College Board of Trustees on June 7th 2022 we extend
010our deepest sympathy to his family along with our gratitude for his willingness to serve our community anyway Carteret County board of education has a resolution recognizing the week of May 1st 2023 as Teacher Appreciation Week whereas teachers mold feature citizens through guidance and education and whereas teachers encounter students of widely differing backgrounds and whereas our County's future depends upon providing quality education to all students and whereas teachers spend countless hours preparing lessons evaluating progress counseling and coaching students and Performing community service and whereas our community recognizes and supports its teachers in educating the children of this community now therefore be it resolved that the Carteret County Board of Education proclaims May 1st through 5th 2023 to be teacher appreciation week and be it further resolved that the Carteret County Board of Education strongly encourages all
011members of our community to join to join with it personally expressing appreciation to our teachers for their dedication and motion to their work do I have a mission to approve the resolution as presented I have a motion by Mr Goodwin do I have a second I'll second I'm second by Mr day I'll favor raise your right hand and it passes unanimously we would like to thank our teachers I think especially after um after a pandemic we can appreciate them more than ever and I believe with every passing year they have more on their plates and they mold our students to become wonderful adults and we have a fantastic school system as you can see about all the students that we had here tonight thank you all right do I have a motion to approve the
012agenda as presented a motion to approve the agenda as presented hang on a mission Statler do I have a second I will certain that in a second by Mr Jenkins all in favor raise your right hand it is now time for public comment in one present tonight wishing to make comments should have filled out a request to speak public comment form to ensure civility relevance and time management there are specific requirements for public comments set forth and School Board policy they include comments or limited to matters pertaining to public education the speaker shall State his or her name at the beginning of his or her comment speaking time will be limited to three minutes per person a three minute timer will appear on the TV screens in the bottom corner the timing will beep we
013are in 30 seconds remaining it will then beep the final time when your time is up for something and decorum no speakers shall make obscene remarks or issue personal attacks or insults no complaint against a School employee or student will be permitted although this may be heard in closed session at a later date following consultation with the superintendent much information about individual students including a speaker's own child is confidential under state and federal law and we discourage and often prohibit such information in Open Session the chairperson May immediately terminate any comments that violate these rules board board members will not respond to questions except occasionally to request clarification with that introduction our first Speaker tonight is Michelle van Barneveld that I'll did I butcher that sorry and A diversity equity and inclusion is a continuous
014practice not only include situation about having a daughter but it also includes sexual orientation gender identity ethnicity and religion among the other dimensions um inclusion is a practice and should be a golden institutions of learning assign resources too by having the understanding and awareness of diversity equity and inclusion microaggressions and duplicate bias our children your students will learn to have difficult conversation become self-aware and mindful of the biasing I feel the point of goal is to encourage critical thinking and to help you to come out of their comfort them to push themselves in situational learning in a positive way we should want them to welcome new ideas have meaningful conversations the different cultures and ideology to learn from them Equity means recognizing that we do not all productive place so we must acknowledge and make
015adjustments to address historical and discrimination I feel the board must have an equity mindset which may mean allocating resources implementing oversight to investigate issues that impact marginalized and excuse me underrepresented group uh the U.S Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona during the department of patient Equity Summit in 2021 in June he spoke about how to lead transformatively uh in training for educators and staff about Dei student Support Services he also spoke about investing in our educator and building a divertic pipeline so that every student from every background could be supported by teacher mentors and staff who can share and understand their experiences A diversity Equity inclusion are not passing buzzword or they're not part of a Walt culture regime but an ongoing continuous effort to make sure that every student feels supported in their classroom and
016in every educational environment no matter what their differences are it's about providing the pathway to contribute to a community has been to make the world a better place through personal accountability and individual responsibility um as members of the board of education for Carteret County you play a critical role in creating an organization that prioritize good support for the diversity equity and inclusion as you accept this responsibility to hold each other accountable for embracing and living the values of diversity Equity inclusion please make it a frequent agenda for meeting and it will trickle down to the rest of the educational organization um I know of course that's going to think of time we're going to keep it short but a September the inclusive education depends on school transformation and system change um as Michael Miguel Cordo
017have asked in his Equity Summit are we going to lead through this with urgency and come out stronger or in the temptation of complaints to dissipate our call to action okay thank you so much okay next up um our consent agenda do I have a motion to approve the consent agenda as presented okay I have a motion bonus Chadwick do I have a second second a second bonus tomorrow all in favor raise your right hand next up is Mr Blair probes for first repeat for policy for policy or division for first Rage um the policies before you Law School Board Association in spring in 23 Day package we just received it it is a small package so that's some good news officers that you have today are merely for the most part just editorial revisions
018because there's not a lot of content to it there's not anything exciting to note out of these revisions I think that I thought was interesting was obviously 4310 configuration ability I thought it was interesting to have now added as part of plagiarism any work produced by artificial intelligence [Music] probably where this is entertain any questions you have all right that's it Mr price thank you all right Mr Taylor you are up with Bond project updates on a schedule just as reported last month so there's no changes all the projects are going along as planned in the the end date completion dates are are the same so there's no real updates there thank you okay the Carteret County Board of Education is responsible for appointing four people to the Carter Community College Board of Trustees these
019are four-year appointments however since Mr Long's ever mentioned passing the board will now need to consider an individual to appoint a point to Phil Mr Long's unexpired term which will end June 30th 2026. I'm announcing the opening tonight and ask that it be publicized in the local media those individuals interested in being considered for the appointment will were asked to submit letters of Interest by 5 PM on May 23 2023 to my attention of the central office address in the letter of interest individuals should include the following the person's name address of residence the person's past and present connection with the Carteret County Public School System the person's past and present connection with Carteret Community College the person's educational background the person's occupation and career highlights the reason the person is interested in the appointment
020and the contributions the person believes he or she can make as a trustee the list of candidates for the appointment to fill the unexpired term will be placed on the next Board of Education meeting agenda June 13 2023 for consideration as a reminder employees of the Carteret County public school system cannot be considered for appointment individuals who are currently employed or have been employed full-time by the Carteret Community College within the last five years are not eligible for appointment additionally no child or spouse of a current employee of Carteret Community College can be considered for the appointment thank you and it's back to Mr Taylor for superintendents and comments um I'd like to give another thank you huge thank you to our teachers through this teacher appreciation week we'll be fortunate educational leaders and service
021teachers in our school system um also with Friday your school lunch es is national school lunch day [Music] this event would not be the same so we appreciate their support [Music] do I have any additional comments from board members tonight okay with that said do I have a motion to adjourn atural Madam chairman I have a mission by Mr Goodwin do I have a second I'm exciting that second by Mr Jenkins all in favor raise your right hand thank you