001uh we are in the curriculum co-curriculum Athletics and people Personnel meeting for the month of September I want to start by congratulating the entire administrative staff for a smooth administrative staff for the smooth start to the year um I've only heard great things uh and I want to wish you all good luck for uh the rest of the year um we have a pack agenda with almost 16 17 docum curriculum documents and a few other agenda items so without Much Ado I'm going to ask Dr Roselle to take over for all right and seven of those are mine so I will be concise I'm going to start with the two World Language documents that I have the first is grade six Spanish uh this update was necessitated both by New World Language standards as well
002as an adjustment to the middle school schedule uh which has one marking period of Spanish for students in grade six um the document is aligned to the 202 World Language standards those are the most updated uh it can provides uh continued exposure to Spanish language and culture um for students in grade six it serves as a bridge between our elementary program and grade seven where students do have uh Spanish um Italian or French every day um and the focus is basic vocabulary and understanding of the value of studying a second language the next World Language document I have drel can I inter you for a second so grade six has one walking per of Spanish still I thought with the uh you know the the new curriculum we did not have that but we still
003have one marking per we have one marking period yes which one is that is going to it's on a cycle so some students will have it first marking period second third fourth yes okay I might have missed that but so it went from um it was pbl half year World Language half year um alternating um that way and now it is on the cycle but seventh grade went from half a year to a full year in those changes so seventh grade has gone for full year yes but the sixth grade is going to be on a cycle but that's two rotations only one is the uh the the literacy the new curriculum that we've put in place no what am I confusing this with oh all the other Cycles all the other Cycles oh all
004the other CES there's about six or seven of them right in the Cycles there's a handful on the cycle we okay so it's an option for the students to choose no no in sixth grade they go through an exposure cycle and how long is that period for every Cycle One marking period okay so four yeah that's it for every student but they could they all cycle through all students that are doing the Cycles will get Spanish yep and that's okay that's consistent with our elementary program where all students are exposed to World language and culture starting in seventh grade now is where they have their official World Language beginning of the program right they those seventh and eighth grade years equate to a potential Spanish one Italian one French one leading into high school okay
005so I think it's been a while since a kid of mine was in sixth grade Cycles is for students that don't do music is that right that don't do coral go ahead Mr Snider um the cycle is for chorus only so it's either they or they do cycle band is a totally separate after yeah got and if a student is in chus and they would like to take War Spanish War cultures they can schedule that they reach out to the building and they can have that Spanish World cultures exposure in MO of the uh one market period of uh course and and just for the people who are listening in what other top subjects are there in the cycle just for people's knowledge because I know that um all sixth grade students go through Cycles
006unless they're in chorus and what others and they're four marking here so they'll go through four different topics that way you want to highlight a lot of them tend to be in this sure so it's a blend of um performing arts and practical Arts we had uh traditional industrial arts or wood shop for a cycle uh we also had General music for a cycle um uh we yeah what uh help me out here as as far as the other Cycles they have um media um media uh to be honest with you I don't know what Cycles in middle school offers other than the uh industrial Arts Practical Art cyle and this is the new click it's the first time you'll be offering World Language as a CYO right otherwise it used to be all be
007a mix of all kinds of a variety like elective sort of it's it's an exposure to things that they could potentially take as electives in seventh and eighth grade okay we are still running wood shot though as the sixth grade cyle yeah which uh is something that uh we have codified to you know our recommitment to the prevocational programs where can parent find this information because we just briefly discussed it and if people want to look it up yeah the middle school on their website they have uh you know a nice outline of the program of studies but we also if they want to reach out to Mr Dr Higgins to get an exact schedule um it's also printed on their individual student schedules what classes are going to what marketing period and things like
008that I iiz for the interruption but I do want to I did want because all of us thought that it was just going away from sixth grade Spanish so if it's coming in as a cycle that's a little addition to what was expected yeah we did have a conversation about what happens if someone's in chorus it happen at one of the board meetings I think talked about chorus would miss you're right that's the reason chorus would miss and nobody El on the wheel right and chorus would miss and you know Dr hiin made it very clear that if a parent or student was interested in still maintaining that Spanish World cultures connection they could certainly flip out from our computer and flip back in okay sounds good anybody else any questions on that thank you
009Dr no problem um so the next as I started to say another end of the spectrum is honors Latin three um this course has nine units uh aligned again to the 2020 standards it's written at the intermediate mid and intermediate High proficiency levels which is a little bit higher than a level three would typically be written and that is to be able to bridge students to go into AP Latin um in their senior year um so honors Latin 3 is the course that they would take prior um so Dr Maron was cognizant of that in developing the curriculum um the AP exam and the AA are all students who need intermediate proficiency across the board um to perform well so he's written it to the intermediate mid and intermediate High to um ensure access uh
010there a focus uh upon history reading Linguistics um translation is a huge part of any Latin course um significant class discussion group work paired activities um and the skills in this course also position students uh for the scale of biliteracy students would take the AA which is a reading test in Latin to earn the scale of biliteracy in Latin so is AA does AA have a prere of getting the honor slaten three or no um so anyone can take Thea um so for the Seal of biliteracy and this is a point of clarification I don't want to take too much time um students do not need to be enrolled in a language course um to take the Seal of biliteracy to pursue the Seal of by literacy um it can be in a Heritage language
011it can be in a language that was studied outside of school a native language um as well and we only offer on of Latin 3 to Juniors and older right yes because Latin does not start until the high school so Latin one for freshman Latin two for sophomores um Latin three honors for juniors um we currently have Latin four but we think that the AP is really going to supplant that um most students are going into the AP level course did we because I know I went through this as a parent and so I come with that background do we always offer Latin for no right it depends on en it depends on enrollment um and I do think the AP la that is a new course this year um I do believe that that
012will siphon off most of the students who would have taken the alarm yes and I was excited to see that my kids enroll in that one kid missed on Latin four because there was no I hear Latin AP Latin has enrollment enough enrollment because um it's one of those Singleton courses which sometimes as we go through the scheduling process you know there might just be one or two students in a class thank you can I highlight questions yes thank you um how do you determ include into into these into that honors program honors Latin Latin um so we have open access um students will work with their case managers so any student who has an IEP um and Mr Carol can speak to this as well can work with their case manager um and any
013student can access these courses if they were to choose to take Latin we would work with the teacher make sure that that iup was fully implemented and students had access to that class um we off offer uh resource room Spanish and we offer icr for students whose IEP um really suggests that that is the best language learning environment for them but obviously in an honors program Latin you have the prerequisites and there are kids who are going to move from one to the other and they're going to self- select is what I'm hearing correct is that correct yes so how do you determine um success in a program like that I mean these are kids uh who normally are going to self- select and and given that when they self- select uh for the most
014part they're going to go into that program because it's something they really want to do but what happens to that those extra kids who go into a program and it might be too much for them I mean I took a look and looked at I mean the curriculum is superb absolutely outstanding there are some elements there I can't say enough good things about the honor program and what you're offering it's it's right on target so but I'm always concerned about that K who gets into the program not going to have success and how that's going to affect his his or her self-esteem um so at the high school um this particular course is the third course in in the program so level three um really is optional uh the state requires one year of World
015Language locally we require 10 credits as most high schools do so the students who are enrolling in this class have already satisfied their graduation requirement for this we do a lot of work on the front end um coordinating with 8th grade students really beginning in January um between the eighth grade orientations Dr meon actually goes down in person to meet with students because they may not know what Latin is um so he does a really good job of you know here's what a sample lesson looks like here is why you might want to take Latin as opposed to a traditional second language um like Italian or French or Spanish um we always work with students we we have really a twet kind of drop ad period too where if the student was in that level
016one or that level two and they're they're not sure that they made the right choice that that we can help them with that that choice um but as far as getting to this level and not really feeling like it's for them uh I don't think that happens um because they have already had two years of it they've had two years of it with the same teacher um and if they do get to this level and they decide it's not for them like the first week of school they have the opportunity to drop it what they can't do is decide in February that they want to drop it in which case we work together on a plan to make sure the student is successful in the course how many students currently are we in that I'm
017going to ask because I need to go into Genesis to get that number so I'm going to get that number to you at the end of the meeting if that's okay so I can get to the um to the others or I'll email it to Dr Layman who can and I'll add a comment that it's only gotten more and more popular I feel like M Dr Miron yes has brought so much value to this program I've seen it personally in the last we've seen an increase yes Latin has absolutely um increased developing the the AP forces then you answer my question thank it's he it's not just the language he brings so much culture and history and um I feel like you've taken it to a whole other level apprciate feels yeah I must very
018very complete yes he's done a wonderful job can I cycle back to sixth grade real quick sure so just for reference if someone's looking for information on the Cycles it's uh sixth grade orientation there's an entire goal SL presentation about all about being the sixth grader so in addition to being on their schedule by marketing period it has computers General Music World Language and Industrial Arts that's we talk that we hit all four of those courses here but just for you know re clarification it's slide 16 on the PowerPoint 15 16 slide 16 on the sixth grade orientation and it's other information about being sixth grade okay thank you very much right um I'm now going to move into the three uh language arts courses I have we have grade seven Advanced um Ela uh
019students are selected as uh the committee knows based upon multiple criteria um for this course students cannot self- select U the advanced course uh there are five units with a six yearlong unit which is portfolio development um that underpins those other five units uh really working to have high interest units balancing contemporary tests uh with um more classic literature such as The Alchemist and Frankenstein uh we're also leveraging different mediums uh so students are not just in text we're listening to podcasts we're producing podcasts TED Talks um and how to not only write to communicate but really leaning into those oral communication skills as well um grade eight very similar in its development uh five units with a sixth unit of portfolio development that underpins the year um eighth grade actually has my favorite unit
020which is the opens um with a unit on intellectual Freedom um and an examination of censorship book Banning uh ban books week is next week um all in the context of the First Amendment so students are looking at these historical documents they're looking at the role um from a civic's lens and what does it mean to um really protect that first amendment rate looking at Supreme Court cases and this is very contemporary as well for students to look you're talking about the eighth grade yes that's man yeah it's really it's amazing and did you say the seventh graders read The Alchemist seventh graders are reading The Alchemist yes yes absolutely um and then students uh again 8th grade we wanted to get um some Shakespeare in there uh so they're going to read a fellow
021because we um we have Romeo and Juliet at the high school we have um MC Beth at the high school school so we're doing aell one of the the tragic works but really looking at Shakespeare also from the lens of uh how many times it is alluded to in pop culture it's alluded to in music it's alluded to in more contemporary texts that students read as well um and then finally students explore a historical event or an important idea and present an oral history um so interviewing other people uh something that they may have lived through uh and there's a variety of ways in which students can present that information any questions about seventh or eighth Advanced Ela just one once you get into the program in sixth grade for the advanced Ela are you
022tested again or do you just move up you are not tested again um the only thing we do look at is to make sure students are um performing to expectations um and so far we have not had any students identified who are not performing to expectations um but we do look at that um and just again for the community uh we do look at student data in the spring of student sixth grade and the spring of seventh grade and additional students may be identified based on that criteria communication about that does go out in February um so you know and anyone can reach out to me with questions in that regard as well and I want to comment that what's different about this is this is in school they're pulled out of regular year and
023they do advance correct so they're not staying back after school for this which is this is and we the identification criteria follows the NJ doe guidance um for for gifted programs and looking at local Norms um which is why our criteria is pretty strict because we have a high performing student body so really looking at that top two to five% of students thank you you're welcome uh next is AP language and composition um one of my favorite courses uh really AP Language and Composition focuses on an analysis of the written word and how our words have power and how arguments are presented how evidence and the order in which evidence is presented really can make a case um so just to give you an idea uh one of the 2024 AP exam essay prompts was
024write an essay that synthesizes material from at least three of the six sources and develops your position on the value if any of laws designed to preserve building deemed to be his of historic importance um so again it's topical students may have absolutely no interest in that whatsoever but there are six um sources presented to students they have 55 minutes to read through all six sources um and to present that argument uh so the cours work that they do during the year is leading up to that um what is a preck for that class Dr Rosel um so the prere for that is a 90 or higher in language the recommendation um so I don't want to say a prequisite but the recommendation um is a 90 or higher in um language arts 2 yes
025language arts 2 um or in 80 or higher or in honors okay so they could take it as a sophomore no they could take it as a junior it's a junior level course um so and it does not matter if students uh we offer preap 1 preap 2 uh but students can you know go into the AP Lang and comp you know coming from any of those courses that was one of my diff questions how does this one differentiate from AP1 and AP okay so preap 1 and preap 2 um are really taking a look at what is it that students are going to need to do in across AP courses but particularly in language and composition and literature and composition and try to back up to some of those prerequisite skills so um I
026remember one time I did an observation and they spent 30 minutes discussing one word that are right use and how does the entire meaning of this text change if we swap out that one word so little things um like that that was a preap class um so they're doing the close reading um building vocabulary um and those analysis skills to really give um a level of access to this class as well um literary non-fiction is the focus but there is also um fiction included as well uh but unlike uh the fiction focus is in the next course in the series which is literature and composition okay any questions about AP Lang um go ahead I just I just like to I I take all these notes about what I read and I I just I
027just want to tell you U basically and everyone here that I I can I put everything together all all of it because I I thought they were so interrelated in terms of how the the curriculum was written because you you're using that you know higher order thinking skills the taxonomy uh the reading in Long yearlong reading and writing portfolio Point portfolios and differentiate using again you know interpret compare and contrast riew with relationships uh analyze um your pod podcast passion project uh I love that uh writing arguments you write based on certain arguments and that's that's absolutely unbelievably clear for kids they love doing things like that um supporting claims social issues essential questions public speakings Shakespeare's orell uh fourth curricular real world application the research component key vocabulary words the the differentiated the authors
028Bradberry and emphasizing writing style and those are just some of the things you know I I just wanted to mention what what I got out of it and how wonderful it is for kids to have that kind of experience I don't who wrote the curriculum if I May which specific um curriculum document yes that was a bit of an amalgamation of of the last three that I did um so grade seven was written by Miss Danielle samit she teaches the course grade eight was written by Miss samit and um giovana Martini she did just change her name she got married but I'm gonna say Martini because that's what I know right now um and AP Language and Composition was written by um Sam Gara um who has been teaching the course last year was actually
029her first year teaching the course um she did phenomenally she has four sections of it this year well let me first compliment you because you're the supervisor the program on on what they did and also please extend to me to them for me I mean I think they did just marous job I than you really outstanding I think that had to be said ex gives me another follow-up question when they're writing a curcum for an EP class I know they've got a feed off the college board and this is for all to what is it that we add what what value do our curcum writers add to that at that point so um I'll speak to the language arts but it's very similar for the other content areas is that they are giving us a
030framework um but the specific text that we use there's some recommended text but the the text that we use um the sequence in which we use them um how we are specifically teaching those skills the um instruction strategies the means by which we differentiate instruction um any electronic sources or things like that those are all local decisions like a road map versus a framework that you're getting from college board yes um so each year we have to certify that we are following you know the AP syllabus and the units that are laid out and that we will prepare students for the exam um but in writing the course they obviously align to the syllabus but all all of those nuanced pieces are the work of our writers thank you if you don't mind I could
031just interject too one of the big things with our with our curriculum documents is remember it's a tool from teachers so the learning plan is a big big piece of that so that is where it gives them suggestions of how to teach them what to focus on maybe what type of examples to practice um the parents and the the community don't have access to that part of it they have access to stage one um because it does give a lot of very detailed suggestions of possibly um a assignments to give or assessments to give things like that so it's I always tell the teachers when you're writing this try to write it as if somebody who's brand new to the course could follow this if they didn't have another person such as the writer to
032to guide them by um so it's really much more detailed than the framework that that college board gives us good thank you all right my last two are Ked to media literacy and 3 to five media literacy I'm going to speak about them together because these skills spiral from kindergarten through grade five um both of them contain uh a unit with the infrastructure of the library um and for kindergarten that is here's where we do story time um and you know here's how we take care of books and and here is how we have quiet feet when we're walking through the shelves up to fifth grade whereas these are the databases that are available to you to um conduct research uh and then there are four units in K to2 ethics literature technology and research
033um even our little first graders are conducting research with databases they're doing all about um research projects on a favorite animal and and things like that um strong Connections in the media literacy program between the New Jersey student learning standards for language arts the career Readiness life literacy and key skills um as well as social emotional learning um so for each um each month our book displays the the read alouds that we do with students um as well as the maker activities in our maker spaces all of these things really come together and are interdisciplinary and support the work that we're doing in as well I definitely had a question about this aspect it's uh we have six schools set up that are like different infrastructures that we're talking about in this Sy right and
034a lot depends on um the especially the maker space part of it right every school has a different setup yeah and I from my background I know it was years ago it was different for every school so have do we have an equitable maker space in all six schools like does Brookside compare to Woodland compared to appleg guard in terms of the maker space as in do the kids get equal opportunity no matter which Upper Elementary they're in or is it still dependent on donations and PTA work and how is do we know what what programs what drives the program is it what facilities are there or what's in the curriculum and that make it happen so I'm going to speak to um equity in terms of access to materials that's consistent across the schools
035it's consistent it is consistent across the schools and that is something we worked for I believe it was M Lake was the last um school that we ordered 3D printers for um so that they had access to those 3D printers um in their maker space as well um but there are 3D printers there are um coding tools and those coding tools look different they're little codap pillars for the kindergarten students and first grade students but they're the ozobots for for others these are pre-computer science skills um we we don't teach you know really high level algorithms to our babies but these are the key understandings that they get through play that will underpin the work that they will have um in high school there is equitable access to materials um other things will depend on
036on schedules and and things like that but even our classroom teachers and things like that they're getting into the maker space but what you said is exactly what I wanted to hear so back in the day not every school had the AXS but you're saying all all these schools have Equitable amount of technology and you know equipment that's needed for creating snap circuits or creating OOTS or you know and that's through the budgeting process um even through the databases we I really work to make sure that what one like that everybody has access to the same things that's great I'm so happy to hear that and what how are we dividing it between technology and real books like real books that read because I know it's all part of the same curriculum right getting to
037do the coding the you know whatever OOTS or whatever or reading sitting down in circle and reading a so is it still 50/50 or um I I wouldn't be able to put a percentage on it I'm going to be perfectly honest um because what we try to do is there are students who are interested in what they're reading and that's going to spark them to want to make something and there are students who are more of those kinesthetic Learners that through that making that might get them into a book um and the media Specialists are really the experts in that area of how they're going to Mar those two things together um but for example um when we were doing the solar eclipse there were some schools who were demonstrating you know how this solar
038eclipse is because students were making a model of what a solar eclipse looks like um and and different things like that so it's not always just what's in the curriculum but what might be topical at the learning it who's teaching it yeah anybody else any questions on that you guys have kids in you have kids in that age gr right now so much it's it's it's interesting like the way we can open their minds just through that curriculum it's it's not like science and maths and reading and it's just something that gives them all in that one hour not even an hour 30 40 minutes whatever they have but thank you for touching on that absolutely that's all I have es Gasco all yours okay I have three documents and they're kind of a an
039assortment of different grades and different things so I'm just going to give you kind of a quick overview of one of the reasons that we're redoing some of these um the standards were just updated in 2023 um they were implemented starting in 2024 they're still calling it The 223 standards so um I've got an algebra one and an honors Algebra 2 that are fitting into the high school one and then I've got grade two as well that we um we made some changes to because it didn't have the new standards and we're going to be having the state audit coming in so we wanted to make sure that we had a Showcase of an elementary that we could really um go through and make sure it was totally completely updated things that were were added
040that have been added in the last couple years in addition to the 2023 math standards um cross-curricular there would be 2023 language arts standards as well those are the only two that have the new ones in terms of just this year uh the 2020 career Readiness label literacies and key skills are considered a cross-curricular um that's got critical thinking problem solving digital um citizenship in it those are all things that you can incorporate into map um 2020 computer science and design thinking is still cross-curricular more the thinking process not that you're actually programming doing things but if you think about what programming is it is a stepbystep process and that's really a mathematical process um we can always use New Jersey science and engineering practices because when you're doing application problems you're usually bringing in
041the world events and a lot of times it turns out to be the science aspect to them um so we've also the last two years we've added in vocabulary academic vocabulary um tier 2 and tier three are words tier are ones that it's going to be academic vocabulary that's used across content areas where the tier three is going to be very specific to that content um in math probably a lot of the words you hear about are more specific to the content than not but we have some words that are kind of overarching going for um the differentiation section we make sure that there's the assessments modifications accommodations um instructional strategies some basic things again as I said beforehand I want my document to be a go-to that if somebody is brand new to it
042I even if they've taught in the building beforehand but I I have teachers that have moved from the Middle School to the high school or people that change different subject areas um I want them to have that comfort zone of just having it something they can go to um I've really had them increase the technology resources um several several years ago and keep in mind these were updated about six seven years ago they might say you can use KH Academy you can use Desmos I've said find at least one thing per unit that's a very specific go-to Desmos has some phenomenal type of activities that we don't have to make ourselves they are actually created and created by teachers and and we actually had Desmos come in to show some of our teachers things um
043Con Academy is the same idea there's some very specific um if a student has been out sick or they need another resource you could possibly watch this resource on it it's free it's a little dry you know but but it's still free and it's another resources out there in case they happen to not be there for the instruction um and just in general we've had some specific things with that um I have included in each one of mine now not that I ever want to go back to what we went through in 2020 but in the case there's ever a remote situation um these are go-tos because my hope is it never happens again but if it does maybe those of us that went through it are so long gone that we were back at
044square one and and we struggled that we really did what we could do so it's just activities going through I feel like we're in a much better place technology-wise just even the things that we use with the high school B schoology or Google class the lower levels um we've got a much better comfort zone um in the mandates now you know there's um 21st century skills obviously that we've always included um a big change for math in the 2023 is climate change um and I'm going to give you a couple of examples that are through it's a mandate that have to be covered through but the standards have really addressed that in math of exactly what you could use and where you could use it um and it's not about whether you agree or disagree
045with something it's just ideas of how you can incorporate um just the environment into some of your problems um and then the lesson planning section I'm having them make much greater detail than they had beforehand um just to give you an idea of some of the climate change like so for high school algebra these are coming from the state so this is from the the actual the state standards they say students May create equations or inequalities to represent the economic impact of climate change um they may be describing the economic change by equations inequalities or systems of equations to interpret Solutions or um deciding you know basically what's happening it's it's again bringing in the science almost more like an environmental science aspect to it we tend to focus on the physics the chemistry sometimes
046biology here and there but this is really just bringing in more environmental science so interesting is this in in Algebra 2 or is this it's so so one of the things you'll see when I go over both of them is that there is a continuation of Algebra 1 into Algebra 2 Algebra 2 becomes much harder and much more complex types of equations the gist of of algebra is solving equations and having and solving functions all right so that's kind of the overhaul of the whole overarching idea and to be used down the road at later type of courses such as calculus um probability statistics any of those type of courses um so it can be incorporated at any level of the level of type of equation that they've had whether it be more a single
047you know a um a one-step equation a systems of equations or one that's a trigonometry equation it's the same the same concept can they didn't give specific examples to use they said these are the type of how you can do them going through um functions that's the same idea going through and and it just gives you ideas that we put in so the algebra one this is the regular college level algebra one that we've had updated um again it was much more detailed in terms of the learning plan for the teachers um Incorporated the new standards and it just gave kind of an overhaul it's the basics of algebra operations with integers solving equations with word problems application is very very key on the algebra that we do um when we pick our textbook as
048our resource that is one of the main things that we look for um we don't want just drill in skill we don't we want it to be an understanding of how you can apply it um there's graphing equations and inequalities um family of functions is a be all end all where you have um absolute values you have um I'm trying to pick some of the other things all different types of equations might be quadratics um equations um rational algebraic expressions systems of equations um quadratics and polinomial um it really does the overhaul of everything there is a very small portion of the statistics very tiny at the end and that's usually done more after we're done with the state testing and things like that going through um if it's okay I was going to go
049on to the algebra 2 and then group those together or do right I just have one question so while we did talk about the 2023 standards the kirkum document for alra Algebra 1 is still based on the 2020 standards from what I'm seeing no the algebra okay so so off of three documents I only saw 2023 standards mentioned in honors Algebra 2 okay so the other two the grade two math and the algebra one still seems to be aligned so the algebra one I think the one that got sent initially was one that we started working on and there was an issue with the teacher what they could work on and and Dr Mr Silverman had opened up a different document so I know it's uploaded now so you're saying what I'm looking at maybe
050wrong and you I think it was sent incorrectly the first one if you so the way it's listed right now until we get approved I had one that was called algebra 1 one it was listed as part two not part two but Point 2 and one three we had to get it set up correctly so that the teacher could see the overview of what was in the past and what was in the beginning and what needed to be changed going through but it hadn't 2023 now it's all 2023 if you see 2020 it should be the career Readiness it should be the technology okay math in the past was 2016 so so yeah say 2020 math it won't say 2020 math the math ones will be 2023 afterward so I I'd have to see what
051you're looking at to know I don't I don't get a copy of what you're sent through um I do know the one when Miss Chase started it she started with the career Readiness and the technology ones and the math was at the the bottom part of it so it was still there yeah I think what we got the very first stage one where it say the standard the very first one wouldn't have been a complete document if you went into some of the later pieces there would have been the one that's there now starts with 2020 computer science right then it goes down to Career uh cross-curricular which is 2020 SLS and then down on page 12 is 2023 English language arts connections and I'm she put the cross curricular and then the math so
052just a matter of math I scroll through the math ones were 2023 again the only two that are going to be 2023 will be language arts and math nothing else had an update last year slash this year 2020 was the newest one for the other um that's all right so the the one that's there3 mat we we all our documents tonight for mats are 2023 standard 2023 for math for Math and cross the cross curricular which we have to include would be 2020 if you had seen 2016 then the the standards wouldn't have been updated so math the last math of was 2016 so this the one that's in there is 2023 math 2023 language arts 2020 cross-curricular 2020 think it's confusing because you didn't put the math first right the math they have their
053own their own way of that but the standards are still there yeah that's what it was and I by the time I start scrolling down the numbers start to mix up in the top I this is right all the things they can include that I try to say you don't have to include every single language arts standard that they're doing the job but some do um the honors Algebra 2 like is the second course in the honors um College Prep series it's a very rigorous course much more rigorous than the college level um it's a challenging it's designed for the students with exceptional math ability and leading ultimately to the study of calculus so calculus is near and dear to my heart because I was the calculus teacher for many many years and as I
054try to explain to many many parents many many students um calculus is really only one or two steps of calculus maybe three and then all Algebra 2 and it is a pling every single solitary type of equation that you've ever crossed paths between algeb one and algeb two it is the love of my life but um not everybody has that same but it's the idea that you're you're now taking these things so at this level level for an honors you're not going to be learning in isolation you're going to be learning something and then having to bring back things some past and bring back things from the past and so it is an ongoing process and you get better and better and better at it kids can start taking this in freshman year right so
055freshman so the difference between math with a lot of the other subjects is you take it when you have taken the sequence before that um so yes I have many students from more accelerated math that take it in nth grade um I have some nth graders that are doubling up with the honors geometry and the honors Al to it's very very difficult but they do some to do that I have a lot of 10th graders that are in there and then I'll have sometimes I'll have some Juniors that have kind of wored their layout um so literally in any of my math classes I could easily have three grade L yes um but that's the way the math Works going through um so that one again you're preparing for advanced algebra so it's still more
056algebra there's a little bit of a crossover but everything is much harder and then to a much greater degree quadratic functions are big portion of it polinomial function you're going to hear functions a lot more than equations because they're incorporating you're going through um radicals and rational functions exponential logarithmic um rational functions then there's matrices piecewise functions I'm probably talking greef to all of you guys um and then in the honors again when we're after the state testing and towards the end um they do a little unit on trigonometric functions and the unit circle just as a start before you get to calculus and I'm sorry that it's the the end all of everything you need and that's why it's very important for the students to be successful at this because if you don't have
057a success you won't be able to do the higher levels because you're not going to have that Foundation of how to solve it it's like trying to take and try to make a cake and not knowing how to do your measurements you need to know the basics so these are the basics but at an honored level of Greater and we've updated that this document in three years or two years say this again how how long ago did we update this document this document was updated oh this one right now was probably um six if I looked I think it was 2016 or 2018 was the last it's been that long we did update I updated all of them when we had the 2016 standards have not been done since then um I focused on Middle
058School two years ago Elementary most of Elementary last year and now I'm focusing one high school okay right so that is the two high school before I get to the grade tour there any questions or that any questions for the high school the only thing I just want to comment and again I congratulate I thought it was well done my area is mathematics okay so I love I mean I'm listening everything you're saying and I just love stuff like that so I'm the other one who likes calcul I don't conf my love for thank you very much so that's standards to the changes to to the elementary level were not that they were big changes but they had more changes at the elementary level than they did at the high school level the high school
059really only had like I said climate change was kind of the big I think they wanted to add something in even though we were doing that anyway um when it came to the elementary level um they are focusing big time though on making having the teachers have more inquiry in the classes of asking questions collecting data analyzing data um again very much application based not julan skill at an appropriate level to what they're going through um they wanted um to replace the term fluency with um accuracy and efficiency because fluency made it sound like you were just supposed to do it real fast but it's not about how fast you are it is about how accurate you are in a timely fashion um so that was really more play on words of just an emphasis
060it really isn't a change of what they were doing but I think kind of more of a focal point um the measurement and data was split into a couple of different things um in my elementary documents our teachers um the far majority are using the workshop model which is a way that you can really differentiate going through you start out with a general lesson you start with an anticipatory set to kind of pull them in um then you have a general lesson that's not long because their attention span is much shorter going through but then you have different stations where they're working and the students rotate as to when they can get with the teacher um everybody gets seen by the teacher some need more time than others but it really it really truly works
061well and it's something we've really been focused on at the elementary um and again with the 2020 standards going back it said that the climate change happens the impact has been on a local or Global level in 2023 the idea of the mass standards and this is coming straight from the state was to develop data supporting claims and then present evidence in order for action against climate change so that's kind of the idea is just more intuitive thinking of it going through um and I can go through some about science they're teaching second graders about it now like keep in mind that say it's appropriate right so about data science now so they're starting young kindergarten classes forever in a day you walk into a room and they have the charts and it's the weather
062for the day and it's what could happen and it keep and we talk about oh look these two are equal right now and look has more it's a visual it's a picture but it's mathematical and it's science and it's corporated to it and and you can talk talk about the percent of chance of rain without them really knowing the details of what percent means but is it likely that it's going to rain today or not why because it's kind of sticky outside and it's humid outside it's going to rain so it it's really education has really brought in application at a much deeper level um you know so it I think it's good I think the deeper level you go with the understanding the longer term you have a retention and retention is what we're
063looking for so whether it be at the elementary level all the way through that big understanding is where they remember it as opposed to just memorize it for a quick test and going on with it um so again with the grade two um one of the things that the teacher wrote that did this besides updating all the standards really talked about the outline for each lesson with specifics to it um so that we've got an anticipatory set possibly a preassessment for the unit going through um the mini lesson the guided practice the independent practice and the rotations of how they work through it because again a brand new teacher while we would think has learned this when in their system their college classes they may not or they it might not have been to the
064same degree um each of the lessons she's given a description suggested amounts of time which is important because how long do you spend on each one um which resources that can be used supplementary ores and um just how to deal with differentiation going through and so that's kind of it in a nutshell but um question any questions thank you m all you with M ress so all physics today huh no we're righty so tonight I am going to to be presenting two of our AP Physics curriculums um AP Physics 1 and AP Physics c as Gasper if she ever took that best so AP Physics one is actually a course that is offered to Juniors for um or seniors if they are interested um but the way that just so everybody knows there are several
065levels of physics that are available to students that we really strongly correlate with mathematics due to the mathematical nature of physics itself so there is um hi physics physics honors physics and then if students choose they can take AP Physics one um this course does follow follow the road map um from college board and one of the reasons that we sought to um revamp this document a little bit is twofold one we want it to be aligned with the 2020 standards for science but also um the College Board did not take away things from this curriculum however they added more um information in the area of asking students to deal with fluids and fluid dynamics um so this is a very comprehensive um course it really um does uh take what we are doing in
066honors but then really moving it to that next level um especially mathematically so some of the units are kinematics um force and Dynamics oscillations um electrostatics current electricity um our writer for this is Dr bassu who um wrote both of these documents and um is always a she does a great job with this and she um I always have to say to her can you just maybe explain what some of this um is because it's just usually so great um so what would happen is at the end of this course they can take um the AP exam um it is open for seniors if they're interested after they took honors physics if they're really they got the physics bug and want to take physics one that is also an option for them so the qualification
067for AP Physics one is mostly mathematical yes and also um so in the program of studies are uh we ask for a grade of 85 or better in honors in chemistry okay honors 85 are better in honors Algebra 2 and concurrent enrollment in honors pre-calculus um our AP Physics C curriculum is really for the students who love really really love this um it is a really great class I love to go in there and see doing because it they're the students um really really like physics so this is the one course where we do ask that they're they do have to be um enrolled in AP Cal AB or BC due to the calculus based nature of AP Physics so they have to be enrolled simultaneously they or they it already so simultaneously is fine
068correct simultaneously is fine um so not every student is going to want to take AP Physics c um but those that do really tend to do very well and also have um a passion for it again we are following um the AP curriculum um so you will find units like scalers and vectors electrostatics kinematics again oscillations many of the same things we see in physics one but just going in much much much um deeper uh work with that um and you will see throughout the curriculum that there is the calculus based based in there so you could see magnetism with Calculus for example one of the great things also about these documents is that um builtin is um videos that are physics teachers have made inh house for students to be able to watch um
069and then you know set their mind to um solving some of the problems um we do also as resources for both of these classes have a program called Web assign which will help um basically giving some problems and giving them different variables that they could solve and really help give them that practice that they need um so again physics one would be open to Juniors and seniors physics C is predominantly seniors because they need the honors or a but we do allow juniors that are an AP Cal AB to take it you can't see you have to have um taken some sort of physics you had to have taken some sort of physics okay okay um I have one more question who are the curcum writers are they same for both Dr Bass oh Dr
070you did yep and you could see all the formulas she took P great at both math oh got be yes and if you really also book I wanted to Circle back a little bit when we were talking about the road map idea versus how does it come into practice you can see in both of these documents there is a plethora of labs and activities and simulations using fet and other physics websites that really brings that Personal Touch to it Way Beyond what you would just see in AP classroom the AP C so the AP Physics see MH how long have we offered it and do we offer multiply sections like do we is it is it in demand so we've offered it for quite a while um it fluctuates um because when they sit for
071the APC exam and I want to make sure I explain this correctly there's really two parts to it there's electricity and magnetism so that's how College Board does it um some years we have you know 13 students some years we have six students students um just I think because of rigor it's very rigorous yeah um but I will also tell you um that all of our physics teachers much like every science teacher we have at the high school are extremely passionate about um their subject area and they really work hard to make it accessible so interesting to hear any questions in video I it's so heartwarming to hear that we offer these rigorous passes and there there have been sections year over year of these and we've done well hopefully which we'll wait to hear
072next month but Bap correct yes looking forward to that uh well do Mr Snider your chance now thank you M Ross I have four do so take one of these yes oh we're doing so I will start I have one Elementary document and I have three high school documents to do so we will start we will start with the elementary school which is our um Elementary General music for third grade um at the elementary school each student will receive um General music in third grade once a week and we are committed through Arts education in our elementary schools to providing a uh whole child education educating the whole child and the opportunities that students receive uh in the Arts are very rich in in opportunity and learning experiences and exposure um the the third grade
073General music um really builds off of skills that were learned in uh first and second grade and will prepare students for um General music in the upper elementary schools in fourth and fifth grade third grade in in specific um for for General music will teach students skills that are very key when they enter band and chorus which they have the opportunity to do in fourth grade the next year so it's a beautiful thing when students enter in fourth grade already knowing uh the basics of Rhythm how to read basic music and that is a lot what is covered here in um in third grade the course focuses on um having vocal confidence in singing um rhythmic and meter development melodic and harmonic expression um notation and overall just appreciation for music uh through evaluation and
074critin some of the um highlights and activities that students uh learn are they learn the basic time signatures um and being able to recognize them in listening to music uh and also being able to feel music Feel The Beat by um by listening they learn about musical form um Pitch how to read music on the staff and learning basic um basic notes and and how to read in treble CLE um they learn about Tempo what is slow what is f F what is medium and um definitions um regarding tempo of of Music they are um going to come out of this course being able to read basic uh rhythms rests and identify them um and identify them when listening as well um and then a wide range of Dynamics in music soft uh medium loud
075medium soft very loud Extremely Loud so they'll be able to um know the symbols for those and again be able to hear them in their listening of music and they will um perform in the class on both pitched and unpitched instruments so it's a uh very comprehensive experience and like I said third grade is the last stop before band then for us um when I was teaching band um it was always so nice like I said day one when a student would come in and they open their book for the first time and they go I remember that from last year so um our general music feachers do a great job and they really bridge the gap towards our performance on is this when they get the recorders yeah yeah a milestone in every family
076when they come home with the recorders I have no question this is great start and and I want to give a shout out to our um this was a collaborative effort um by General music teachers from um multiple grade levels um collaborating on this so they did a great job any other questions on you can move on to High School general all right so our first course for high school is piano one which is a very popular course um that we're that we're um we are um we're believe it or not we have three sections of this this year and we could even run more if we needed to we're limited by the number of keyboards in the piano lab which I believe is 16 but but um is a very popular course and piano
077one um provides group instruction um to students at the beginning level students learn um to read music and develop uh just very basic technique on um on the keyboard and they learn proper posture hand positions finger patterns and exercise and the basic fundamentals of music theory in this course to be able to play um up to by the end of the course um and more difficult level of um repertoire to um to intermediate piano throughout the course of the year um the repertoire that they cover in um in class is very beginning Classics folk Jazz a very variety of um of Styles at the level and the course does include two uh mini performances through throughout the year for even our beginning um students so this course is open to students 9 through 12 it
078satisfies their Arts requirement and there is no prior musical training required to take this class there's no pre-requisite whatsoever um and we do have um piano 2 and even piano 3 that's offered at the high school like I said this is a uh very popular class now when students take this class are we looking at the end of this thing to be um for them to be able to play like Liberace no that's not the goal of the class the goal the class is to develop the skill of piano which is a life skill so many adults come to me and says I wish I took piano when I was a child just because it's a great thing to um to to learn and it's a great skill to so um we may find the
079next uh Prodigy coming out of this class but that's not the that's goal it's to expose students to piano and then students that are very interested and want to go to that next level we do have piano 2 and piano 3 so some highlights here um students have learn their scales on piano uh beginning music theory um like I said beginning the intermediate piano repertoire um they will learn about musicality and being able the art of practicing a piece there's not just something where it's go home and do this 10 15 times a night it's there's an art of practicing that they learn in this course on how to practice properly how to practice slowly and then gradually increase the tempo to get to your performance speed um and they will uh learn about how
080to play musical and not just play something very straight and narrow but be able to play with Dynamics and uh and expression in this course um and they are fully prepared to take the next level if they would like to do that in um in n and in 9th through 12th grade students so um it is open to everyone and like I said very very popular and very successful of course well it's a fun way for meeting but it's not into it to meet the graduation require yes it's an easy class and a fun class and that's the reason it's so popular I believe in we do have a lot of seniors this year taking piano graduation requirements which is okay but um but it's I was able to um listen to some of the
081performances last year and they really do um you know you know learn a lot so it's a it's a great great skill any questions on piano one all right moving on on another popular class no pun intended on this one this is our pop music history course at Monro na High School this is also open to students um 9 through 12 and it does satisfy uh the Arts um the Arts requirement we are running for the first time two full sections this year of of of pop music history so a lot of interest in this course um it really examines the historical significance of popular music in the United States from the late 19 Century all the way up to today um students will think about how to analyze music um historically and um really
082taking um what was happening in history in the world at the time and how it influenced music through the years and through the different periods of of um of this so there's a lot of cross-curricular um opportunities here um and the course does have the Visual and Performing Arts uh standards but also um cross-curricular social study standards um as well in this class as well as social and emotional learning um they listen to variety of of Music um everything from rad Blues Jazz country Fulk Soul Rock disco hip-hop classical and current music so it covers a wide variety and just the influences of each um throughout periods of time every period of Music um there was influences that students will now recognize today in the music they listen to we'll also in this course talk
083about how listening to music has changed Through The Years from what we do um today when back from when we had radio to now how we listen at how how easy it is and how accessible it is um uh to music so it's a very um very interesting Class A very fun class the students really learn a lot um in in this course and um the students that are here I feel or um just have an interest for the appreciation of of Music um again no prior musical training is necessary for this course whatsoever just a couple um highlights here um we like I said we uh we talk about rad time jazz and blues music and the styles of each we listen to um rad piano from from um listen to Jazz soloist the
084great jazz Legends um we learn what a 12 Bar Blues is we style um of and form we look at um the post World War II de developments um really in this is how music was um recorded how it was uh manufactured how it was produced it's much different than it was today but it was a period of time there we look at American Pop um from 1959 to 1964 um with distinct styles of music um we uh get students get exported to soul to soul um and even television how that influenced um music um the American band band for those that we cover we cover um that the British Invasion um beetles Rolling Stones the um and then the post British Invasion which is which is um really where Rock develops a distinct uh
085listening characteristic and style um we look at African African influenced music um there a lot of diversity uh in listen and we um talk about uh African instruments that were used in African dance and relate them to music that students um are familiar with and listen to today and really correlate there and then the 1980s um Bon Joy Bruce Springsteen um and then the style and the unique sound of the 80s same thing with the 90s and all the way to today and how we listen and appreciate music and just the changes that have happened and how technology has um reinvented itself so many times of how we um we listen to music so uh I really like this course I have a great uh appreciation for this course and um highly recommend to to
086students that yeah we all want to take it right now yeah yeah this is like my C it's the love of my life music exp actually know I li is my next any questions about pop music history at all our final course is our strength and conditioning one course we're going over to the fizzed uh um field now so our strength and conditioning one um document is our introductory course for for um for strength the conditioning that uh covers the essentials of movement and fitness um it is designed one of the reasons we rewrote this document that year was We this course was historically only offered to Juniors and seniors we are now offering this course to sophomores there was a lot of great um reason and rationale for that sophomores were really eager to
087take the course um and I've always asked um throughout the years can we take this course and they' always have to wait till junior year with the Advent of option two or alternate alternate Pathways um this was the time now because senior have that option so this was the time to open this up to sophomore so now it's 10 through 12 which also means there might be a strength and conditioning three course coming down the road in a couple years but um the course aims to build a strong foundation on Personal Fitness and performance training um it establishes um proper mechanics for all fundamental human movements so students learn a ton in this course about um weight room etiquette um and really an education on all the equipment that's in the waight room there safety
088is first and foremost so we spend the beginning of the year talking about um how to use each um uh piece of equipment properly and safely um students are introd um have an introduction to strength training overview Personal Fitness um personal weight training um and they develop by the end an individual program design where they can go home and really take the skills that they learned in this course and develop a workout um regiment that works um basically that works for them um because all of us they learn and discuss that not everyone's going to have the same workout um regiment at home mine will be totally different than others but it it's what works for you mine will be for instance I'll start with the bar with no weights on it and then gradually
089add a packer to here or there while others might start with so they will learn that in um in this course the main goal um though is how students can learn that they can enhance overall body strength and endurance by utilizing various training methods and diverse programming techniques here so um I want to give a um shout out to um Lee vman and Sean field who teach this SP did a fantastic job um writing writing this and there the sophomore classes I will say are completely full and uh and very very enthusiastic students about this and like I said this we have stength the conditioning to and probably in a couple years this will lead with the sophomores to continue to strength and conditioning free so um that's a great advantage of having option two
090yes a lot of neighborhood gyms offer free gyms to the high schoolers over summer so as soon as they get get into freshmen they're using the neighborhood gyms for free so this is great that they can you know start as early as sophomore year because otherwise you're right there used to be kids waiting till Junior and Jun sure any question yes how are the students graded they do like a workout regimen yes they have they're assessed in each in each unit has a specific assessment they are graded um for their knowledge of of this but they're also graded on their personal um LOLs that they do uh Prout each unit and their progress that they made they have to um do journals they have to um keep track of their their um workouts both um
091in school and then sometimes even outside of uh outside of school so and this this Bo this does lead into option 2o because one of the um things there is if a student who's doing option two as a senior they have to record at home exactly their workout that they've done to get the 150 minute requirements so option two students that take strength sort of have a um an advantage when they um when they a son of mine took that and they there are competitions about who lifts and how many reps and it's pretty intense in that classroom from what I know come spot any other questions um that was it right Mr thank you so much thank you and uh we'll move on to Mr Branda for the Emergency action plan and I have
092to say it's the first time I'm seeing it I've been on this committee this is my third year so excited to you're all about thank you so yes I'm going to talk about the Athletics emergency action plan so several organizations incl the njsia um National athletic TR Association and nfhs the national Federation for high school sports they do encourage schools to establish an emergency action plan specific to Athletics um as many of you guys know that catastrophic injuries happen all the time uh you've seen it in the NFL not too long ago a uh I believe a chain crew member you know collapsed during the game so it is very important for us to have an EAP in order to help us facilitate not only a p but also an efficient way to deal with
093any kind of medical emergencies that may occur uh during practices during games you know or or things of that nature so the document that you see in front of you guys um was created uh through our athletic trainers um in collaboration with me and I also met with um our director of security um you'll look through it and within the document you're going to see explicit specific things I'm sorry about the location of where the aeds are on campus um as well as where you can find oxygen where to go for any type any type of lightning emergencies um specifics about how we handle spine injuries head injuries uh what to do in case of having to use an EpiPen if you have someone you know experiencing an allergic reaction as well as how to
094use an inhaler um and lastly we also have in there what to do during you know any kind of heat illnesses as well as any kind of issues with potential cold you know proside and things of that nature so it is very specific um when I met with the athletic trainers um to talk specifically about this there was some specific concerns that we looked at and within the last year we were able to kind of work out the Kinks for some of those concerns and that's why the document is coming you guys now so some of the things we looked at specifically were we had aeds available in different areas but some of them were locked um so now we do have exterior units um in the back of the of the high school as
095well as that at the Fieldhouse so they're not locked they are not locked and that is on purpose to make sure that they can be accessed during any kind of any kind of event um and also to make sure that we satisfy requirements for Janet law that does require that we have um accessible and unlock um ads accessible you know for any kind of events that we have um we also have had the inability to contact coaches um during any kind of lightning uh issues it was very hard for the athletic trainers to reach out to everyone at the same time as you know our our campus has a Fields you know within a large you know mileage radius essentially so um it was very hard for them to contact everyone uh we did include
096in the budget this year to to get Perry weather which is the the the lightning system that we use um it's been very very helpful for us this fall so far um it does send texts out to all the coaches that have in the system including some administrators um who are able to get specifics as to you know when lightning is in the area um you know what to do to prepare for you know leaving the field or in the case that there is a lightning you know really close to us there is an alarm that sets off down at the Fieldhouse and it also pomps any kind of any fans who may potentially be you know on campus you know to make sure that they find safety um in the uh emergency action plan
097you'll also see some specific um Feld pictures um it does specify um you know where to going in case the lightning where the closest are and oxygen and all those types of things so making it very easy for coaches to know where to go um you know or any anyone who's involved with with Athletics um and then lastly we also had um they also had some concerns about how to how to how to go about um kind of streamlining how to deal with heat illness or when temperatures go really really low so through the njsia the athletic trainers use um different systems to kind of measure you know how hot it really is outside or how cold it really is so if you guys look towards the end of this document it does specify specific
098zones you know when it's too hot and if it is too hot depending on the levels you know what types of activities we're able to do the per weather system that we purchase not only does the lightning portion but it also does the heat and cold portion where it has a gauge that essentially checks those temperatures and I'm able to pull in to put in what we call policies and within there let's just say if the heat gets above 95 degrees and the state says that you're only allowed to do X Y or z uh those policies have already been put into the system and it automatically texts it to the coaches and they know it's this temperature you can only do 30 minutes of practice or you can only do you know an hour
099of practice and you have to go inside you know things that coaches get that alert yeah so I put in all of our High School coaches all of our Middle School coaches our Middle School athletic coordinator um uh Mr Snider's on there as well as well as the high school administrator so everyone gets that information at the same time um you know you don't have to actually do anything it's automatic um so from a communication famp is pretty pretty easy to use um so again so that's essentially what this document is um I will basically be bringing it up on a year-to-year basis it is um it is recommended that eaps be checked out or at least reevaluated every year just in case things have changed um and and again the coaches we'll make sure
100we'll make sure the coaches are aware of you the processes there well so one quick question you did mention that the security was so at the administrative level it's been reviewed by the facilities director coaches had who reviewed this before this is finalized and comes so it starts with the athletic department okay then it there are elements of it in terms of uh first aid response and right relocation suggestions that would be provided by the security piece Then I then I review it and now it's here okay so the buildings uh the facilities director has taken a look at it or not or is that not needed Mr take well Mr T I'm sorry it was um a director security okay yeah and it would equate because it would now so these align with where
101we would VI lockdowns and things most of these occur with common areas you know like if you're on the field and we have a half stand full of uh fans okay and there's a lightning alert just as if we were going to do some sort of security security action these locations are similar to where we would end up going and either locking down or evacuating to so that there is a overlap and that's why Mr uh director security Mr s was brought in and is there a standard for this from the doe are we is this our document or is it kind of laid out according to the vi so it's so no so it is our document because it's our facilities and again every school is going to handle it differently depend but is
102there like a template from the are there's no specific template but for example the components of what's within it are things that are usually recommended you know having something for heat having something for the cold having something you know for lightning you know those are the basic the basic things that you know most documents are going to have and we've included some other things here and there that we thought were as well one way to look at this document the things in this document were housed in different locations other than the addition of the per weather system this summer we have always monitored heat and taking wet bold temperatures and things but now we've and that that's a decision-making process about who can practice how long you can go out for if you can go
103out at all um even throw in the smoke right the Canadian smoke last year they were all house in different locations uh because they belong to different elements right sometimes it's security sometimes it's the nurses sometimes it's Athletics this is bringing it all together so no matter who's involved we have a common location that's why it's a best practice um it's not there's no State oh template or anything like that the elements of that overwhelmingly have requirements like this concussion protocols those are things that we have we have a policy on concussions those are medical best practices but again we're putting them all in one location so say we have some sort of sub athletic trainer at some point if there's ever a question about anything this is Monroe specific common location to manage any
104of the potential scenarios um and so say oh we did it this way in one District how do you do it here well here's our kind of and when we and I might see using the wrong when when when we go through those ERS like husack or something they look at things like this nope again it's not a required document the elements of that so the concussion policy they would review when they look at policies and things like that not we'll certainly show them in the context and stuff but again this is taking elements that are spread out throughout the district putting it in one place for acted for the coaches or anyone within again within Athletics that they could potentially be dealing with remember our coaches are CPR certified so they may be called
105to act dur in an emergency we want to make sure that they have a clear prcise plan as to what to do and when to do one last question before I give it to the other board members when our when our athletes are in another district and emergencies happen it's all the hosting District's responsibility to handle it right we don't have any emergency protocol like our coaches will be there right next but everything else is dependent on that District yes but the most part of the responsibility would fall on the home school but at the same time again with our coaches they are CPR certified so they would be ready to act basically all our coaches C all the C CER so I just going back to you know you said that these are all
106different components housed in different areas so I guess my biggest question is the the the medical part of this right I'm I were the our nurses were consulted in in putting this together or like how did we how did we arrive at these protocols yeah so so the nurses were not consulted when it comes to Athletics the medical personnel on staff are the athletic trainers they're licensed and certified you know Healthcare professionals um and again all of those things are happening essentially after school and they're they're essentially the ones who would have were making those called again so it falls within Athletics for that for that piece um and again it's pretty consistent with again with what we would regularly do anyway with the training that they have and then we'll be expected by both
107as well and then there's a reference In Here Also I believe with our district phys right when it comes to football game so our district phys on site for football games and things so um it's because it's the athletic side of things that's the the differentiation the nurses are involved in the let's call it the physical screening free entry process to to the Athletics program and then um any repercussions from an athletic injury adaptations during the school day yeah I I just want to obviously make sure that we are covered here and what we're listing out is expectations for you know for our employees to follow that we're not you know doing anything that we shouldn't be I noticed there's two hospitals listed here is that for a reason or because I know Central State's
108a little bit closer than these two those are just in conversations with the athletic trainers those seem to be the two places that our EMTs tend to go to most okay again that is just and the reason why that ex there just in case if we do have a new coach let's just say they're not from around here and they're called upon you know making a decision of sending someone to the hospital or those types of things you that's just to kind of give them an idea of what's in the area that could always be changed we can always add more or or remove them regardless if wherever the EMTs go is essentially where they're going to go or if a parent chooses to go you know for them to go somewhere that where they're
109going to go that's just a resource there in case so that they understand what's in in vicinity so just to clarify parent can choose to send their child to any hospital they want yeah they they always have that that opportunity to do that and again if if and the person who would tell them no would be the ENT if they're unable to go to those hospitals that essentially yes the parents would would dictate where they go we don't we don't tell them where they have to go okay thank you this is great thank you so much Mr Mar I'm going to start with a promise that next meeting onwards you will go first because I know you've got a big presentation next meeting hopefully that's okay uh well there's not much to to update on
110me other than that uh September is a reboot month for us we are positioned to relaunch our enig services beginning in October uh we are just about uh we have beg done selecting staff and making sure that they're aligned buildings we're excited for expand uh into the elementary school just some zero period programming this year um we have a new program at Middle School through the S buddies uh Department um and we will continue to listen to our teachers uh parents and administrators that design programs the Fidelity that align with our programs and enrichment fashion um and then our goal would be to resume with some of our winter and spring program as well uh there is an October sat Administration here at the mths we will not be running our SAT prep class prior
111to that timing just didn't work out it's like literally in two weeks I believe October 4th was the date however there are three uh more administrations uh at the mon rship High School this school year and our plan would be to set up SAT prep on the front end of those much like we did uh last summer six week classes four-week classes I'm sorry did we have six week we had we had two week classes last week but we've had discussions with the instructors about some modifications that we would like to make and then uh to kind of the way that the pacing of that class worked out um particularly the amount of time they had a tough time going from 84 minutes to 60 minutes which was something that we didn't really anticipate um
112which we should have but the um the other thing with the end uh the advantage of the upcoming programs is that the uh for the rest of the calendar school year our mon Township High School students provide the ability to pick the sat in our school which is you know level of comfort there it's good for the district it's good for our staff and to kind of have all Hands-On Deca effort to try to really focus in on ways we can help our high school students now through enrichment but uh we we will continue to try to push down further into the elementary schools as well in addition we are working very closely this year which is something new um with ECE to look for ways to layer some enrichment offerings into that program as
113well after care so we're not just uh building out here at schools we're also looking at ways to help some of our youngest Learners get some new experiences in that program so quick question on the enrichment in elementary through zero periods are we offering the same zero period opportunities to all elementary school or is it at all upper elementary schools but they're all so all three upper elementary schools are getting the same zero period enrichment that is correct so our uh we sent out uh pre-qualification letters for that particular referen say our zero period computer science program uh the letters for that program went out last week um that is a a small corded program but that is not the only program we will be on for this year uh we will do things uh
114when it comes to the upper elementary schools we don't have any intention of a singular pilot at an individual school any program that's rolled out to the upper elementary schools will be rolled out to all three spr uh that's not to say there won't be additional piloted programs taking place in other Fashions but with regards to the program recording that will happen with par across the board and these programs are not year round they are for a certain amount of weeks and then they stop correct they're completely dictated by the program itself so uh in the example of uh the history happens here I believe that is a yearround pro or it extends multiple Seasons but there's a culminating event on a specific date so we kind of work backwards from that with the computer
115science and Robotics programs they vary from six to 8 weeks to 10 weeks this year specifically we have identified some competitions and we're starting to work backward from those States uh but like I said the nature and of the program particularly those are dictated by this the curriculum systems that we look at but a one of the programs we're looking at in the culinary areas we have full creative capacity for that and when it comes to those types of things um particularly with younger Learners we listen a lot to what the parents have to say about convenience programmatic structure and things like that culinary in elementary or are we talking middle school and Elementary yes so we opened up culinary enrichment to own students last school year no no that would be after school okay
116after school and and this in this environment right in the high school correct ideally we would we would centralize everything here uh just for purposes of facility management equipment however with the little kids it's challenging um little kids Transportation yeah than like that well we don't offer Transportation uh for any of these programs but if it's after school it's immediately after school no we give a buffer uh we we tend to uh um you know obviously we can't please everyone uh we definitely do not uh we try to avoid confli Athletics and after school uh you know TP of uh particular programs that benefit the academic learning of the student so we do get some uh some buffer I believe the earliest we started last year was around four um and we look at Apple
117of their schedule since St techic the latest Mr marala for parents listening where can they find more information on what is available for what grade levels is it on the school websites or on our websites so we have we use the it's it's summer it's our summer website that kind of has just been I know it's summer but that houses all it's a WordPress site so it's easier to update uh that houses all of our currently all of our enrichment uh program offerings for for the reason only that that's all we have right now when we roll over to the new site we will have a dedicated space okay but all of these programs can be found either by going to summer. Monro and there's a link on the homepage but also if you click
118on the curriculum tab on our website you'll see uh links into Enrichment Services there as well and some of this enrichment the child has to qualify to get into and some of them they can opt in to get into so our Advanced Richmond offerings all take place during zero period and we and we we we delineate it very specifically for that reason um zero period is part of our school day uh whether it be through uh band rehearsals or some of the other things that take place Advanced art enrichment Tak place in zero period um so we'd like to keep our Advanced enrichment programs in zero period uh we find that the students are a little bit more focused during that time and it also helps to control the environment the enrichment programs which are
119also our fee-based programs take place after school uh and the reason for that is we like to create some separation between the curricular school day any origin experience which takes place after um after school and even just that 45 minute to 1 hour separation gives it that feel um but it also gives our staff an opportunity to reset and things like that but for all in to day up until the moment of this meeting all advanced enrichment programs are with the exception ofrs because that's unique confused into multiple areas of school Bank um take place at during zero period and we do work with Mr Snider's staff to avoid conflicts with Performing Arts obligations and that we can okay um and you guys are already doing a great job with the social media but my
120only ask would be for the after school enrichment if those programs have been launched we should keep posting about them on our social media till our website is like we didn't there anything on those yet so we have the only and the only uh enrichment um information that has been distributed for uh through for this school year so far has been pre-qual pre-qualifying letters through our Advanced n Services which the dark pag in those um anything that will be taking place outside we're we were trying to put enough distance in between there's a lot going on in the district between community action or citizens advisory uh the advanc enrichment some of the other things so we're trying to put a little bit of difference between start of the school year all of those things and
121the launching of our ancillary programs anybody has any question I know we all out of time yeah next time we will we will start with you I promise thank you everybody for coming in tonight and that concludes our curriculum meeting for the month of September thank you