001welcome to this public meeting of the Princeton Board of Education the board is an elected unpaid group of 10 citizens who set policy and make decisions on educational financial and Personnel matters for the Princeton public schools on behalf of all residents we are always pleased when members of the community attend our meetings the board and the school district operate under applicable New Jersey laws and under regulations of the New Jersey State Board of Education each meeting includes at least one opportunity for those attending to comment on items on the published agenda are other matters of interest to them the board reserves a right to limit the time allotted for public participation law limits discussion of individual personnel and confidential matters we hope that our meetings provide useful opportunities for communication between the board and the
002community thank you for attending as required under the open public meeting act njsa njsa 1046 at sequentia adequate notice was given for calling this meeting it was authorized by the Board of Education and forwarded to the municipal clerk Princeton packet and the Trenton Times on January 6 2023 and amended on August 10th 2023 it was also distributed to the schools and others on the standard distribution list the board reserves your right to enter into executive session during all meetings of the Board of Education board policy 01 uh 168 according devices requires that we inform those attending this virtual meeting that the proceedings are being recorded this meeting is not being live streamed public members who wish to make comment at the appropriate time as noted in the agenda or added by the presiding officer shall
003quote unquote raise their hand virtually at the bottom of the zoom screen once called upon the member of the public will be requested to unmute themselves by clicking the mute button at the bottom of the zoom screen the representative of the sending district is authorized to vote on all such matters that affect sending District students or affect the governance of the principal Public Schools as more specifically designated in njsa 188 38.1 in the event the statute is amended the W take presidents over this bylaw sending District votes pertaining to Personnel actions ref High School Central administrative and districtwide staff only VES otherwise are considered abstentions thank you Matt would you please call the role sure D Kendall here Betsy Bagel here Beth Baron here Debbie bronfeld here Jean Durban present Mara franceski here Susan caner
004here Ryan McDonald present Michelle tuck Ponder present robob Christopher here we have a quorum hey thank Matt um can I please get a motion for adoption of the minutes for October 17th 2023 Brian second Rob dine Kendall yes bety Bagel yes Beth Baron yes debie bronfeld abstain Jean Durban yes Mara franceski yes Susan caner yes ran McDonald yes Del talk Ponder yes Rob Christopher yes motion passes thank you can I get a motion now for adoption of the minutes for October 30th 2023 Debbie second Mara b m Kendall yes Betsy Bago yes Beth Baron yes Debbie bronfeld yes Dean Durban yes Mar franceski yes Susan caner obain Brian mcdonell yes yes Shel talk Ponder yes Rob Christopher yes motion passes and then you're right Matt we had a lot of meetings uh recently uh can
005I please get a motion for adoption of minutes for November 13 2023 Beth second Mara D mendall yes Betsy Bagel yes Beth Baron yes Debbie bronfeld yes Dean Durban yes Mara franceski yes Susan caner obain Bri McDonald yes Michelle tuck Ponder yes Rob Christopher yes motion passes all right thank you Matt um so welcome to this meeting tonight uh this is unusual we never usually have a meeting Thanksgiving week um but we do have a lot to be thankful for uh first I'd like to thank uh Rebecca gold for uh stepping in and uh h holding on to the Reigns of the district um as Acting Superintendent before um my next thank you very much Rebecca you did a great job we're very grateful to you thank you all very much thank you yes um
006second we're very grateful to Dr Kathy Foster uh for joining the district as Acting Superintendent um so she's she has worked in our district for a while now so she should know better no I'm just kid but welcome very much welcome we're really glad that you're here um third I would like to thank um the voters of Princeton for approving our referendum um you know we're going to be able to make um thank you we're going to be able to make uh some upgrades um for the Safety and Security of our staff and students and uh we appreciate the support in the community and more updates will be provided I believe on the agenda tonight there's um we're going to go out to sell the bonds is that right Matt yes that is correct okay
007so and thank you to Matt uh and the facilities committee uh operations committee I'm dating myself uh Beth uh Brian Mara Jean Debbie not Jean uh Susan and who am I missing who am I missing anybody all right well thank you for all your work on that it's Yan's work that we do and uh I just want to say we have a very busy meeting tonight so I will turn it over to uh Kathy Foster but I wanted to say um we do have um a presentation from the greater Mercer County um uh uh JC RC um about Teen anti-Semitism um we had planned uh this presentation over the summer and it got delayed for various reasons but um we're happy to have Naomi Richmond here tonight um unfortunately over the past few weeks the
008anti-Semitism has really been in the news lately and so it's very timely to have you here so thank you for joining us uh and we will also have our PPS math program review um and just thank you to Dr to um for overseeing um this the the audit the review and um we look forward to hearing the findings and with that I will turn it over to Kathy Foster thank you DNA good evening everyone it's really good to be here uh tonight with all of you but if you are like me I'm also really looking forward to the up coming gathering around my family table in a few days as we Feast upon the noble bird the seats at our family table have multiplied with welcome addition of Partners spouses friends children grandchildren and neighbors
009it's a time to be grateful for all we have and for each other and I don't know about your family but my family is a diverse group of smart stubborn people with strong conviction s who don't always see eyee to eye but we're and we're not afraid to question and challenge each other but in the end we support and love each other tonight we gather around a different table um and this table is just as important uh tonight's a virtual table um but I want to express my gratitude for having a seat at this table um similar maybe to my family we are a group of smart dare I say stubborn uh people with strong convictions who may not always see eye to eye but these differences assist us in opening to understanding multiple perspectives
010as we wrestle with issues to make the best decisions on the best on behalf of our students this table provides the opportunity for the community to witness the official business of Princeton public schools and a time for all of us to listen to Our Community Partners I want to extend my deep appreciation for each of you around the table tonight who have committed countless hours of service we're grateful for all of those who have come before us and who have begun this important work of educating our students and we look forward to new members joining and contributing to the mission I also want to recognize our two student Representatives who are active members and make sure students own voices are heard as decisions are made as a learning organization we need our partners our parents
011and our experts to join with us to do our best work and so tonight we are really privileged to have Naomi Richmond who serves as the chair of the Jewish committee relations Council share the results of the greater Mercer County teen anti-Semitism survey so without further Ado I'm going to ask uh Naomi to share the results thank you thank you very much and um thank you for inviting me to be here it's really an honor I don't live in Princeton I live across Route One in West Windsor so it's special special treat for me to be with you today um Matt are you able to share the slides um and you could share also if you'd uh if it's easier oh I I'm actually I'm actually on a new computer and I wasn't I thought
012I understood that you were if you could that would be very helpful so while Matt's doing that let me just explain um the Jewish community relations Council we are an affiliate of the Jewish Federation of uh Princeton Mercer Bucks so our um footprint is Mercer County and then we reach a little bit into the surrounding areas in New Jersey as well as into Bucks County Pennsylvania and the JCC's mission is to be an an out an a vehicle for outreach into the broader Community whether it's the school districts the police departments the Mayors the county Executives um representing the interests of the Jewish Community but we're not only concerned with the Jewish Community we form relationships and alliances with other groups and one of the most important things we do is to stand up against
013hate of all kinds so while I'm going to be talking about anti-Semitism tonight because that was the focus of our survey it in no way um is intended to diminish or or not recognize that there are many kinds of hate in this world and we stand against all of them okay um why don't we go on to the next slide so why a survey and why now that was really last spring when the events of October 7th were not were the furthest thing from anyone mind but we were very aware nationally that anti um reported cases of anti-Semitism were rising and it really was on the agenda as a national issue we heard anecdotal reports from parents and teens that made us want to understand how widespread anti-Semitism really is among our teens and not
014just to rely on those anecdotal reports we learned that the Kansas City jcrc and I should mention that we are one of a um of many JCC's across the country did a survey of their teens we read an article about it and we thought Wow Let's Build on their work and we wanted to have quantitative as well as qualitative information we also held a listening session and this was sort of at the height of covid where Zoom was the only way we all communicated with with each other and we heard we heard a lot of stories and we again wanted wanted to follow up and hear directly from students so why don't we go to the next page we conducted the survey in April and May of last of this past of this past spring
015Braun research was a which is a public opinion research firm based in Princeton hosted and tabulated our survey and they did that pro bono for us which was very generous we P how did we publicize the survey and I actually even heard this this morning that uh parent reported that their child had not had the opportunity to fill out the survey so we really did it informally we publicized through local synagogues through other Jewish organizations such as the local Jewish uh summer camp and a lot through informal networking and we had 69 respondents in grade 6 through 12 and I should note that it was cting wide and even a little bit beyond not exclusively Princeton although Princeton students made up the largest share of compared to any other District um who were the respondents
016well they were about half and half middle schoolers and high schoolers um almost half and half male and female or at least we have a good uh sample of each and then we just ask how heavily involved are you in Jewish activities outside your home just to get a feel for it and and certainly a lot of them self-reported heavily which was the 46% somewhat 23 you know minimally 28 and three so these tended to be students who are somewhat engaged in what they self-define as Jewish activities which could mean going to a summer camp a youth group um religious school education how however they felt that should be self-defined so that just tells you a little bit about who responded um I think this is our most important slide so we'll spend a second
017on it most students say that anti-Semitism is at least sometimes a problem in their school so 12% said a serious problem 59% a problem sometimes and 29% not a problem at all so I think that green is sort of the aspirational piece of the pie chart and and uh our our goal and our dream is that and at some point in the future and I think it's in our power to do it this is going to be a heavily green pie but the other slices show us the problem that we have in front of us okay why don't we go to the next slide so then we asked well what kinds of anti-Semitism have you personally experienced at school and these were the number the um the scale across the bottom are the numbers of
018students who reported so um I have not encountered then you have anti- Zionism and anti-israel and I just want to very quickly say that we can all debate Israel and the politics of the Middle East you know forever in a day but this is what the students had to tell us um Holocaust denial or Distortion and then we have Holocaust Nazi or Hitler related comments or gestures that's one of the highest bars graffiti conspiracy theories phrases Jew jokes and Jewish stereotypes so this is what what students are experiencing that they are self-reporting as as anti-semitic behavior um next question have you experienced anti-Semitism online and we gave them a multiple choice of Tik Tok Instagram Facebook Twitter and other and what was quite interesting to me was that the other came back with gaming sites
019and you know to be honest some sites that I as a um old person hadn't even heard of but our kids are on these sites and I think just one message um to to think about is the extent to which which parents have the ability and the tenacity to monitor their kids' experiences online because obviously there's anti-Semitism out there and again this was last spring well before the events of the past six weeks okay the next issue I want to talk about is reporting because if students are experiencing these behaviors and they're not telling one anybody about it they're not reporting it to their teachers their guidance counselors their principles I'm sure it's it's impossible for the district to respond so would you report an incident to someone at school well it's kind of split
020between yes and no I'm sorry yes and don't know and then that blue Slice on the bottom is no absolute no so um again the good news is that we got a good start at 42% who said yes I would report it but a lot I would say a lot of uncertainty and um then well would you report it to your parent or guardian and here it's it's more of a mixed bag you know definitely and probably make up um you know 32 and 38 so the you know 2third or so of the pie um but then you've got probably not reported and not sure so um what this tells me is that there's a lot of still a lot of uncertainty if you look across these these two piie charts on what students are
021doing when something like this happens to them okay and what would make you feel more confident in responding and you know there are a variety of of answers I'm not going to read them all but about halfway down you know know that your school understands sorry there's typo there anti-Semitism having non-jewish students learn about anti-Semitism an easy place to report anonymously and and um you know then having someone to report to but I I think I think the um the fact that know that your school understands is the highest bar is is also telling here students want to feel that they're in a safe place where they're understood okay um this is a very positive um chart so I thought I I'm I'm getting close to the end I wanted to um let you know
022that students do feel com able expressing their Jewish identity at school either always or most of the time so always is the 62% and the sometimes and rarely are are pretty small so students are are not I mean you read articles and it's really scary about other parts of the country and the world where students um tuck away their their Jewish Stars they wear a baseball cap over their skull cap and things like that for their own physical safety I don't think thank God that's the problem here so um I think this is positive and then I just selected a few quotes from students and there we have many of them I'm not going to read all of these you can all see them but what I wanted to point out and I'll follow up
023on it in the next slide is a lot of these have to do with the Holocaust the ovens hyle Hitler Holocaust jokes concentration camp that's quite alarming and we know that students are learning about the Holocaust but I think a conversation um to be had and that we've begun having um is are students learning in the right context and are they walking away with the lessons that we would all want them to learn you know we understand that we're dealing with middle school and high school students they may not you know come into the classroom with the maturity the wisdom um to to truly understand the horror of what happened in the 1930s and 40s in Europe which is very ancient history to them and the um the harm that they may be causing by
024using these words um and these memes um with their with their Jewish friends so what are our next steps this is my last slide awareness so that's why I'm here tonight to to raise awareness with you about what our findings were and then there are some actions and I I know that um the administration is already hard at work on so on many of these um making sure that anti-Semitism is included in the Dei curriculum and I I think if there's one you know as you've seen this whole presentation um there is anti-Semitism out there and I think it really is important that diversity include um Jewish students we want to make sure not only that Holocaust Education is robust but also that it's teaching the right lessons and being put in the right context
025because if the if the Le if the if the result of it is that students are going out and expressing maybe their discomfort or Whatever It Is by using these terms with other students I I think we could all agree that's not the right lesson and then lastly and I think particularly at this time when there's so much anti-Semitism going on in the world it's up um almost 400% in the the last six weeks make sure that our Jewish students feel supported both inside the classroom and and outside the classroom which could mean in the hallway it could mean on the practice fields it could mean when they're online um by um by the school system so I think we can stop sharing and I would be very happy to answer any questions well thank
026you uh very much Naomi um it was a very uh and lighting and lighting survey and I wonder if it's something that you could do again this spring and maybe um have a more uh have more kids involved um um absolutely and we can talk about ways to do that you know I almost feel that with with the rise that we're reading about that this sort of provides a Baseline and we we didn't necessarily intend it that way but it will be interesting to come back and and ask the same questions and see whether we are making progress or hopefully not not moving in the wrong direction Debbie yes Naomi thank you so much for this do you know in Kansas City first I was curious if they had a lot more um participants and
027kind of what they've done based on they've heard so ironically although they were a much larger Community than we are they didn't have too many more participants okay so um I think they had low 80s um they are up again a bigger Community than we are but they did theirs also in response to a one to one particular incident that was particularly um disturbing and um I think like us they're they're working on providing resources which we are happy to do helping develop programs helping to review um materials or curriculum and just help partner with you in any way that that would be helpful anded you also know do they have like curriculum stated by the government you know like New Jersey has C you know with it I'm not sure about Kansas to be
028honest with you okay okay I could follow up but I'm not sure thank you so much Susan um I I wanted to thank you for uh presenting the survey um I certainly support um I know I've discussed with Dr two and she's discussed with her team about working on some of these issues but I think you know in these times it's even more important that we're very intentional about the work we do that the the people teaching it that we have clear goals in mind when we put uh Holocaust and and anti-Semitism uh into the curriculum about what we want our students but it certainly fits into our goals that we have of a portrait of a graduate to have empathetic graduates to have critical thinkers to have Glo informed Global Citizens and so I
029think it's imperative that we uh weave this into both our curriculum and in our social and emotional uh Health initiatives that we have in the schools so thank you for I think this will help Propel that work yeah and I don't know uh Kimmer cath if you want to just to provide a little uh information but uh some of us met with um Kathy I'll leave it to you go ahead um so we had the pleasure of meeting um work meeting with uh Naomi uh this morning uh along with other uh parents in the community uh and and we really appreciate um they were helping educate us and identify some areas um of action uh that the district could take and I know that um Dr two um already followed up I think with you
030Naomi and uh your returning to the district um I think first to start which I think is a great place to start with with our teachers um to help them understand um the definition of anti-semitism um the sort of the what to look fors um and so and and that way we can um be more intentional uh with our students as well I don't know Kim if you wanted to add something that I that I missed I know I think you captured I think um you know this is continuing effort and we want all kids to feel safe and Bel a sense of belonging and the one thing that I just really want to point out to um parents and caregivers on the call is monitoring social media uh one of the concerns that we
031are seeing um with students is sort of re-sharing posts or reacting to posts that they might not even understand the full context of and it's really problematic some of the things that um have have um been shared um and I also o encourage um caregivers and parents to if there are things that your child is seeing that you are concerned about to reach out to the school so that we are aware because we can't act on something and educate if we don't know about it um and so I think it's a two-pronged um process we're a partnership and a team um and the more that we're all alert and aware to some of the things that kids are being exposed to and are reposting and sharing with others um the more that we can educate
032um and and talk about why um C um speech isn't tolerated how it ties to historical context and all of the things that Naomi had shared um so I think it's very important that we have a 360 degree support system of our students yeah I just want to share my gratitude uh for this presentation today and also to hear that you're doing work with our with our our staff and teachers and helping provide resources and as you said I think in these times it's really important that we educate uh very much on anti-Semitism but also all forms of hate because um it's just on the rise in so many different forms and I think our teachers are on the front lines many many ways having to deal with the events from day to day and
033it's probably things that they many of them never I mean it's just not none of us have had to deal with this level of of um hate that's in the air and in the in the social media and all over so thank you for helping provide resources and thank you to our staff for for meeting that and being willing to add yet another thing but a very important thing thanks and I just want to Echo the thanks as well I really appreciate um you being here tonight Naomi I'm wondering Dr Foster and Dr 2 if you see this coming to sack as an update um or to the full board just sort of understanding what's happening um what you know what we're sharing with teachers and and what work is being done on the curriculum
034I'm probably sack and then I think sort of the the following up then with the the full board um we are revising um as we were sharing today there are brand new Ela standards um throughout the state of New Jersey that have to be on the books by September 2024 so it's very good timing of revising some of our courses and how they align them with our history courses our Pathways to racial literacy course our Pearl course so all of those are on the books for revision so it will go to SAC and then the board um anyway and then um Naomi and I have an email exchange going about January of her coming in possibly the first week of January to work with our admin and counselors and anti-bullying Specialists first and then sort
035of thinking like how do we want to then turn K it um from there so yes happy to report back at Sac or whatever way the board would like us to do that excellent thank you very much thank you again thank you and I just want to wish everyone a very Happy Thanksgiving you okay um so next up as you can see um you know curriculum and instruction is what we do uh so um the next piece is um we have um our um math uh review program review um it it is really a robust review uh and it will be um I think the executive summary I believe is already posted on the website and I think the full report Kim will be uh posted uh tomorrow morning uh so uh we want to
036um uh Kim I don't know if you want to introduce Angela and I know you've worked so closely with her uh for what the last four months five months six seven months yeah long mons all right there you go uh so thank you everyone uh we appreciate your time tonight on this Thanksgiving week and we appreciate the ADL team uh coming tonight to present some overview I just want to kind of um back up for a second and kind of talk about the purpose of tonight's presentation versus next week's presentation uh so the ADL team which is comprised of Angela Judy and Charles they'll you know I'm sure introduce themselves again when they do the overview um has been working closely with the uh District internal team over the past several months to conduct a
037full audit of our K12 math curriculum and also look into our computer science uh programming options and supports uh they did focus groups they did surveys they got into classrooms they audited our curriculum they they'll go into all the different data that they looked at um and it's very very comprehensive and so there's about an 80 page report that will be posted on the website tomorrow and there's also sub reports that go into you know the data and all of those pieces tonight is just an overview for the board the board has the the full report of sort of the the big picture um and Ne big findings and sort of next steps that the district can possibly take uh to move forward to strengthen our existing math program and computer science program next Thursday
038night uh which is the 30th of uh November we will be having a webinar for all Princeton Community stakeholders that is 90 minutes to that goes in a little bit deeper give people some time over the holiday weekend if they really want some reading while they're traveling or want to you know avoid the the the conversation at the dinner table they really want to read about math they're going to have plenty of time to do that um and so they'll come next week and give a little bit more detail about the process and the findings in the report and have some opportunities for some Q&A um at the end of that webinar um so tonight is just an overview because this is a board meeting we have other business to conduct and the board can
039ask some questions the community piece will be next Thursday um I would be remiss if I didn't um say a couple of gr pieces of gratitude as Kathy said about Thanksgiving um so grateful to the board for allowing us to do this process I think it really sets us up for success in the future and sets us on a goal for the next three to five years to have a strategic plan in place specifically for these departments it really as still a newer staff member with Tiffany Brennan as our you know new six to 12 math supervisor with Sarah Morris still a newer staff memb as our K5 Elementary supervisor it helps us sort of build that coherence that Angela is going to sort of talk about about systems of curriculum professional development instructional resources
040standards course placement uh assessment you name it there's so many pieces that have to to kind of work together and this sort of helps us get on that plan and what I asked for the community is some patience with time because these are all moving pieces and we have to get them all sort of the arrows moving in the same direction and I just want to say thank you again to our internal team which uh consisted of different staff members from across the district who let us come into their classrooms who filled out surveys they really gave us a lot of their time and we appreciate their feedback and then AG because they were very much always checking with us in feedback loops to make sure that that we were they were on the right
041track that we heard what they were saying and that what they were producing as a product was going to be helpful for us uh so without further Ado I will uh let Angela take the Reigns here uh with her and her team and they can get started okay thank you very much I'm do have a slide deck so I'm gonna pull that up right now okay there we go okay so good evening everyone um first I would like to say thank you to the Princeton Public Schools board of education for inviting us today to share an overview of the conclusions and recommendations from the mathematics program evaluation um I am Angela ler I served as lead evaluator for the review and my colleagues are on with me this evening they are Judy Barbara and Charles
042spazza and you will meet them as we go through our presentation so first I too would like to recognize all the hard work in the district um we are grateful for the opportunity provided to us through this experience and really impressed by the commitment of the P Princeton Public Schools Community um we I specifically want to thank Dr to for overseeing and organizing the project there were a lot of pieces uh moving parts and she really went out of her way to make sure everything was coordinated it was quite an effort so we really appreciate that we'd also like to express our appreciation to the teachers who took time away from their classrooms to actively participate in all aspects of the process as well as those uh in leadership positions who escorted us us and
043sat with us and um were willing to just clarify information when it needed clarifying and it's really been an effort that was a a result of everyone coming together and working together oh and so we always start with why start with our purpose and we will say that throughout the evaluation process we began all significant conversations with a focus on the purpose of the evaluation it reminded us of the aspirational goals of the Princeton community and the commitment to each and every individual student we embraced an inquiry driven process and we returned to the four guiding questions that you see on the screen right now throughout the program evaluation experience the evaluation questions were addressed by exploring the following data sources types of curricula systems and structures and stakeholder perceptions data collected during the mathematics
044review included student caregiver and educator surveys and focus groups classroom visits and document [Music] reviews So based on the extensive information that we collected we were able to examine various aspects of the mathematics program first what we're going to do is highlight for you um program strengths and then we will present area that require some improvement uh we'll share our recommendations and provide next steps at the end of our presentation so as you can see on this Slide the mathematics program has many strengths there's a strong written curriculum at the secondary level there are effective teaching and learning practices occurring in the classroom there are support structures for those who need more time as well as those who need to be challenged students have the opportunities to take advanced classes at middle school and high
045school and there's a high level of in of interest in computer science and most importantly the Princeton Public Schools Community is dedicated and committed to providing students with an excellent mathematics education so it was then in articulating these strengths that helped us to really begin to identify some potential needs they were based on some level of discrepancy that we noticed and we often really reached the conclusions that really called more for alignment and integration of structures and systems the first one of the first areas We examined was an excellent education um this term excellent education really refers to uh a strong Foundation that begins with the curriculum while there is a written curriculum it varies in quality uh the most importantly it is it is important to recognize that the curriculum is not designed to
046meet the unique needs of the Princeton mathematics program uh adjustments are needed at both the elementary and middle school level to ensure that all students are prepared for high levels of mathematics and advanced courses and once those changes are made in curriculum other systems need to be revised in order to align with the curriculum and then all Educators need to use it as a basis for making instructional decisions next we look through the lens of effective teaching and learning and we notice that in both our classroom visits as well as conversations with teachers and with students that there was a level of inconsistency in teaching practices we believe that implementing a system of effective research based learning practices across all classrooms would enhance teacher Effectiveness and promote more connections for students in their learning a
047more consistent approach in the use of curriculum and assessment practices will then strengthen equity and with those two anchors in place teachers can concentrate on differentiating their instructional practices to respond to the diverse student learning needs although the evaluation was focused on teaching and learning Within the context of the Princeton classrooms through many conversations and Survey results we did notice that a significant number of Learners do receive support in mathematics outside of the school day the pie chart on this slide provides additional information on how Learners actually access that support outside of the school day so I'll pause here so that you can read the quotes on the screen and as you will notice in these three quotes from different caregivers the reasons for accessing support outside of the school day really do vary from
048student to student an important need that emerged U was to increase enrollment of Black and Hispanic students those eligible for free and reduced lunch students who receive special education services and multilingual Learners in advanced mathematics sork we also are looking at cultivating an environment where all students experience academic expectations and looking at strengthening uh support structures to adequately address the need of all learners so you can see here um this in this quote from a multilingual learner uh that there are some students who feel that they are not held to the same expectations as their peers and that their learning potential is not addressed the last area we focused on was the computer science program the first two items the number of teachers available to teach computer science and the infrastructure must be addressed to
049expand the program currently the program cannot meet the demand or the interest expressed by the students this slide just go ahead Judy yeah now we launch into um the process of of crafting our recommendations and in doing that we really did maximize common themes and promoting and promoted alignment throughout the recommendations so as we move into the segment you'll notice that the recommendations will not feel like a checklist nor are they extremely specific rather each one is a concept that will warrant a planning process that is both inclusive and collaborative so I'll give everyone a second to read through these recommendations and as you do what I'd like you to notice is that the recommendations are interconnected by addressing one area um you will then lead that action will then lead to another action and
050purposeful connections among these different actions can lead to more cohesive mathematics program so for example a strong written curriculum that clearly identifies learning outcomes will assist teachers in more purposefully differentiating instruction okay so this slide describes the recommendations regarding Princeton Public Schools next steps so strengthen and unify the current systems and structures such as curricula teaching and learning professional learning cost placement assessment and communication in an effort to provide a more consistent approach so all students have access and opportunity to an excellent mathematics education and I'm going to take us back to one of the first slides in the beginning of this presentation that identified the why which is why or what students what Princeton Public School wants for its students the why is really important because it context it sets the context for all
051other actions the specific recommendations are the what they sit within the context of these steps which are how so we are going to go through how do we get to that point where Stu where Princeton public Public Schools can meet its goals and so the how is collective efficacy coherence collaboration and communication the success of the recommendations and the next steps are really are contingent on Collective efficacy which can be developed through coherence collaboration and communication Collective efficacy is at the core of the changes that are needed because it is not the responsibility of one person one group or one building to ensure all students receive an excellent education that encourages all students to achieve at high levels rather it is the collective responsibility of all stakeholders these next steps outline how to work towards
052building that Collective efficacies so the recommendations meet your goals so we certainly recognized that there is a level of coherence and uh and passion that Princeton you know has a sense of in determining in their mathematics program when we return though to the articulation of purpose what we strongly recommend is revisiting and perhaps just recommitting to the mission and vision of the prinston mathematics program it exists the question is is it embraced the second theme is one of collaboration and once established there really is significant internal capacity that we strongly believe can and should be used to achieve your goals once again you notice both the themes of collab collaboration and inclusivity one that we're very proud of having modeled together as we work through this process communication communication must be improved to build trust
053and confidence um survey and folk group data strongly conveyed the need to improve communication between teachers uh students teachers and teachers teachers and administrators and Educators and parent and caregivers and the recommendations and next steps that we have presented will take time um as noticed by this by as noted by this teacher's comment the evaluation process was the first time was the first step um it is through taking these actions that there will be a building of trust in the system to really create a cohesive program for students we recommend a phased approach to addressing these recommendations in next steps beginning with planning then allowing time for implementation and connections to be made and then evalu the impact of those changes in this way you can build that cohesive program that will lead all students
054to high levels of mathematics and now we turn it over to some questions and discussions from the board well thank you so much um for that presentation um and we really appreciate um how in- depth you went and the focus um just on making sure that everyone is receiving an excellent math education um thank you to Kim and to Tiffany uh for your work on this um and uh the the meeting is going to be next the the longer meeting with Q&A from the community will be next Thursday is that that's 7 at 7 pm it's uh from 7 to 8:30 and starting tomorrow morning uh folks can access the report so this was like a 30,000 foot view of everything so that you know as much detail as you guys want you can read
055the report starting tomorrow on the website how many pages is a report is it 79 Angela I yeah yeah and then there's about 80 pages of sub reports um as well so lots of in-depth reading um and you know I just think I I can't um say enough that you can see all the different pieces and this really creates an action plan for the district as Angela had on that slide about planning and implementation of like not that this wasn't work but now the real work begins because now we take all of these pieces and and start uh refining them and honing them with the support of a collaborative group and I forgot to thank Sarah thank you Sarah um and uh and the meeting is going to be on zoom and we'll provide the
056link on the website is that correct yes so the we'll send out the link again it was already sent out and we'll send okay great thank you ety and my comment was going to be what Dr to just said this is really the beginning it sounds like the end we're presenting a report but it's actually the beginning and it was really important to our staff and to the board that this be a really useful document that lays out a framework for us to improve um make changes you know as you say you know see what is is great in our district and and sharing that but also improving so thank you you for working with us and I you know encourage the public to attend next next week thank you for putting that time together
057I think it's really helpful um you know having seen the longer report it's very meaty and has a lot of questions do you has a lot of like information in it so my so one do you want questions ahead of time from the public so that you'll be able to address those like how I know our community is very passionate and you know interested in math so is it going to be um a back and forth of questions do you want questions ahead of time or in or is it just going to be in the chat as you go so we talked about Tiffany Sarah and I like moderating and kind of glump things together because we wanted to make sure we weren't um having people submit all these questions but then there are going
058to be answered in the presentation do you know what I'm saying because it's going to be about 60 Minutes of like uh in-depth work and then uh 30 minutes for for Q&A um at the end of the webinar um so there will be an opportunity for people to submit questions during the webinar yes if our sack meeting was any preview of it yes like there's a lot of back and forth and questions um maybe we'll do 45 minutes in depth and 45 minutes questions yeah and and as part of our questions part of it is next steps and part of it is very you know detailed kind of teachers speak and language of what your work and your team's work is going to be so having the community understand that I think is going to
059be um really great and then providing as you guys are working you know other opportunities for everyone to learn the progress and and what the short-term steps are and what the medium and then the final version is is going to be great so we're very excited that we have a way to move forward finally thank you Angela oh Beth go ahead yeah I just wan to I want to Echo Susan and just say you know as a parent uh my eldest is now 21 my kids have been in this district for the last last I don't know 15 18 years whatever we've been here since prek and I even at this 30,000 level foot foot level view I appreciate that you're pulling in some of the commment themes that as parents we've noticed have been
060lacking um for many years so I look forward as well like Susan says to seeing how we do with this in an organized and and uh logical way to kind of bring not only address currently the children that we have because they have some really urgent needs I think there's been things missed and we're post-pandemic but then how we're going to restructure the program to make sure going forward we're stronger and more complete and the piece about computer science is also so close to my heart in that I had a child who had a very strong interest and you know saw up close how that program worked for some and for many it didn't and there's been a need for many years U to strengthen that so thank you very much for all of this
061and I look forward to hearing how we're going to implement it and I would be remiss if I didn't say this um in this format um or this forum I should say h New Jersey has adopted new K12 math standards um so this is an an opportune time um to look at course alignment course standards placement process like it it's all sort of coming together because we do have to do a deeper dive with our standards and our mathematical practices so this is all sort of coming together at the right time because we have to do this work anyway because the school districts even though New Jersey just adopted the standards have to have them on the books by September 2024 so this is really good work and it's sort of um how do I
062put this we're not doing work and then redoing work like they're it's coming together at the the same time that was the plan all along right yeah that that was the plan we figured it out yeah Michelle quick question is do we need to take time to examine how we got here because what we don't want to do is end up here again in 10 years and and so one of the things I'm really interested in in and again not a lot of time because it's important that we move forward but we got here for a reason and I I certainly don't know what it is but I think it's important to take some time to think about that because you know if you take your eye off the ball again you could end up
063you know backsliding into into that position so that's just sort of my sort of my one concern and I hope we take a take some time to do that and and that has been Angela's caution uh since we've been a meeting and saying basically you know um you can't just look at the middle school you have to see how algebra thinking starts at the elementary level and embed those things before you change things at the middle school or the high school right it's a system and so when you only impact one part of the system it's not affecting change and as you said Michelle and this is where we are where we are right so we have to kind of think from that global view of every decision we make how is it linking you
064can't just change curriculum there has to be professional development for staff and buy and from the staff to then implement the curriculum right so they all these systems work together and I think that's a really good point of we need to move the ball down the field but like let's make sure we're seeing the end zone and that we're all moving toward the same End Zone yeah Oliver yeah kind of just one thing I wanted to note from the student perspective is I think math education and a lot of for a lot of students is something that they really value and that they they're really interested in and um I think just like one thing in although times might not be the best and there might be some conflict um with math sometimes I think
065at the end of the day a lot of students are really interested um and strengthening their like mathematical Horizons and just getting more involved into math and thank you Oliver we appreciate that perspective and that you you'll see in the report that comes out loud and clear like we we have students who really are passionate about the subject area and want these opportunities and feel you know some things like we said there's some really great things to celebrate but there's definitely things in areas and especially consistency being one of them that we need to work on as a school district good but thanks Oliver we appreciate that's we're all here for the students so we appreciate your feedback um so if you guys can attend and tell your friends attend the math meeting next week
066uh we'd appreciate your feedback I just wanted to thank Angela Judy and Charles um Angela you've been very very very flexible with us uh you agreed to do an extra meeting next week um and we're really grateful for that and and it's been a real pleasure and we do have to thank Dr Kelly for uh I believe she worked with you before and and just a great fit for our district um so thank you um thank you have a Happy Thanksgiving I don't know if anyone else wanted say anything thank you Happy Thanksgiving to everybody I'm glad we had this opportunity to share this evening thank you Tiffany for coming good to see you all good night night take care thank you so uh the last piece under the superintendent report is just a quick
067update uh on the incredible work that has been happening with the long-term planning uh committee and some of the design so I'm going to turn that over to Matt and um maybe if Brian wants to also chime in um thank you thanks Dr Foster um yeah we're basically doing our uh this committee's report um in on this section of the meeting um I think Bri McDonald co- long-term planning chair was going to um give this report we have been working very hard um dealing with our schools our architect and our planner as well as the committee on coming up with a game plan uh to move forward so um Brian uh I'll jump in um the headline is that the robust presentation that we had anticipated would take place tonight is going to take place
068on Tuesday December 12th and the reasons for that will be apparent shortly um the long-term facilities planning committee met on Thursday November 16th at 4:30 in the afternoon we received an update from District architect George duthy of V vhd on the status of plan development for expansion of our middle school and one or two of our elementary schools community park and Littlebrook George and his team have met with the principes and their teams at uh the Middle School community park and Littlebrook and Matt participated in these meetings last week Matt George and team members also had a productive meeting with the town planner Justin Lesco zoning officer Derek Bridger and land use engineer Dan Weissman based on these meetings and significant work done by The Architects fbd confirmed the feasibility of expansion planning for the
069Middle School CP and if desired Littlebrook as you recall based on community feedback and further review we decided to evaluate the possibility of expanding both community park and Littlebrook to accommodate four classes at each grade level which we refer to as the 44 model this would be an alternative to expanding only Community Park to accommodate five classes per grade level which we call the cp5 model based on the determination that the 44 model is feasible further design development will be done to evaluate the impact on the core spaces including cafeterias gyms libraries music rooms and art rooms and estimated costs in our first week Dr Foster has already engaged in the planning process and will be involving do 2 as they work to validate the academic and programmatic aspects of the evolving plans to ensure
070strong alignment between and among our professionals and our school leaders the combination of Dr Foster's active engagement the desire to have Dr two more involved and the need to further develop plans for Littlebrook and Community Park means that this phase of the planning process will extend into December and possibly January according to our architect Construction costs have ex escalated quite significantly over the past 5 years and the cost of expanding and renovating two or three of our schools is likely to exceed $50 million these numbers are still being refined and we'll be ready for discussion at our December 12th board meeting on at least a preliminary basis and if needed at our first board meeting in January the committee is next scheduled to meet on Thursday December 7th the board will receive a more detailed
071update from our administrators architect and planner at our December 12th meeting I want to note that we're very grateful for all of the work being done by our Architects our planner and our business administrator Matt Balon and we're very pleased that Dr Foster has already rolled up her sleeves and will be very involved as the planning process moves forward can pause to take any questions that people board members may have and thanks to the committee thank you all right thank you Dr Foster anything else no that's it for uh t for my report all right well happy sixth day thank you um all right we're moving on now to item G1 the student board member Report with Oliver and Alex sure yeah hi uh I'm sorry about this overly dramatic lighting I'm dealing with uh
072but it's so exciting to be here and to share a look at the goings on within PHS uh from the student body's perspective uh lots of exciting things went on this month we had Dr Carell returned to PHS for a day to perform a chemistry experiment we had a dodgeball championship in the gym with some neighboring school districts uh oh and then you obviously can't forget about Halloween um where The English Department dressed up as Taylor Swift in her different eras yeah but I think the first thing uh we discuss in Earnest might have to be the sporting news so from the girls cross country team qualifying for the state championship to the boys soccer team and the girls volleyball team winning their respective Statewide tournaments it's been an exciting few weeks and I'm sure
073you don't need us to tell you that students of PHS were excited about these results but from an administrative standpoint it was fun to get emails from school's athletic director about when the games were and how we could buy tickets to show up to them this touches on two larger beliefs that Alex and I hold about PHS which is first students are almost always happy to give up some of their time and energy when it comes to supporting each other and second when extracurricular clubs or teams are given the ability to travel and do something cool whether it be compete in a tournament or conduct a science experiment or attend a workshop they can come back around to bolster School school spirit and engagement on the whole on that note actually we should talk about
074msan so this month 10 PHS students traveled to Madison Wisconsin to participate in the Multicultural student achievement networks National Conference helping the school improve in terms of its diversity equity and inclusion uh PHS students including of course Oliver and I uh we love it when our peers get the chance to represent PHS and Excel across a range of different contexts coming to school is simply more fun when you get the sense that your school Community is doing more than just taking the required score load in the building yeah so focusing on hard academic data whether it be test scores or college acceptances often fails to tell the whole story if we want our school to perform better on say the njsa science section we can't just ask questions about what sort of curriculum is being
075taught in our science classes we also as the board has been doing need to make sure that students and teachers feel welcome in a vibrant School Community that's genuinely fun to be a part of yeah and for that reason as student Le asons Oliver and I will Advocate not only for the board's continued support of existing extracurricular activities and opportunities but also for creating the kind of regulatory environment where new ones can emerge we're working on getting direct student input before I propose anything concrete but that's just you know a quick word about where we're going to be going in the future um so thank you all so much for your time and I hope you guys all have a wonderful holidays yeah appreciate the chance to thank you Oliver and Alex um I'm very
076impressed with your presentation and delivering and I'm thinking maybe I need to practice with Dr Foster before the next meeting so you don't embarrass me but that's okay um that was a great report and we look forward to seeing what your recommendations are and if uh you can do some fundraising we'd appreciate that Michelle I would be remiss in not adding on to that amazing report that the school also enjoyed the fall production of The Great Gatsby which was a great success and um it's just been an amazing I don't think I've ever seen such an amazing couple of weeks or several weeks at Princeton High School you guys have just been blowing it up and we're super proud of you and thank you so much for the whole student body for being engaged and
077participating and because it's really hard with the academic responsibilities you have so Bravo to our students and great job Brian um I just also wanted to note a piece of alumni news um that is relevant to Oliver and Alex but one of your predecessors Sam uh harshbarger um is a recent recipient of a road scholarship um as a student at Princeton University um he's one of our uh somebody we can all be very proud of uh so no pressure guys all right well thanks very much um Oliver and Alex you're welcome to stay but we'll move on to the meeting but uh we look forward to your report in um December okay now we're going to move on to our first public comment on agenda items and non-agenda items um so if you please raise
078your hand um and we'll put you in the queue right now there are no te oh there's one all right um Matt you got it if you could just please uh just let us know the street and town you live on and if you could please keep your comments to three minutes thank you sure hi it's BR Jack now foran Road and Princeton the following letter was sent to the Princeton Board of Ed administrators and supervisors and it relates to a meeting earlier today that um Dr Foster actually referenced uh this letter was signed by approximately 150 plus uh PPS uh family members uh we the parents and members of the Princeton and cranberry communities wanted to reach out to Princeton public schools to let you hear our Collective voices the unprecedented rise in anti-Semitism
079has us fearful especially seeing how it is spread and taken over many college campuses PPS is in a prime position to help to ensure that the children graduating from our schools are truly prepared to lead lives of purpose and not hate Jews are a tiny minority out of 8 billion people in the world 16 million only 0 2% are Jewish Jews are the definition of a minority and one sad indicator of such is in the hate that Jews receive nearly 60% of all religious-based hate crimes in the US are against Jews and things have risen to unprecedented levels this past month at what was already a high level there has been a 388 per increase since October 7th of reported anti-semitic incidents here compared to this time last year PPS has taken a large role
080in incorporating Dei curriculums in our schools and we are writing to ensure that teaching about anti-Semitism currently the number one hate crime in our H in our country and always the number one religious hate crime crime has a prominent part not a side note in that education anti-Semitism education must have its own unit not just one or two days of discussion in a six-week Middle School Pathways to racial literacy course it must have a unit in the mandatory online racial literacy course at the high school to truly outline and identify what it is our students must learn what anti-Semitism means how it can be relayed and what kind of pain and and what kind of pain and danger it causes Holocaust Education has long been mandated in the state of New Jersey and we appreciate
081that it is being woven into curriculums such as English 7th and English 2 war and genocide unit we need to ensure that all teachers are including it and have the proper professional development to support their lessons we also need to ensure that it is being taught with historical facts and background in our social studies classes as today we are seeing that a lack of factual understanding is leading to the rise in anti-Semitism PPS had to change to be proactive and now needs to additionally be reactive to what is happening around us awareness of anti-Semitism and knowledge of the Holocaust can no longer be assumed or briefly mentioned the education our children receive must be thorough and founded in facts to ensure that our children feel safe at school and all of the students PPS sends
082off into the world have perspective and understanding thank you thank you all right Matt do we have anyone else um hello hi hi yes am I okay to speak yes pleas okay hi I'm my name is Sian junk Happy Thanksgiving to everybody um and I live on lynen Lane uh I attended one of what feels like many board meetings ago um and I shared my disappointment at that time just hearing about the low test scores for black and brown students and my concern as a black parent as an educator and as the preschool director for many black brown students who will enter our school district next year uh I've been really fortunate that I've had a career in education where the teachers staff and families were very diverse and particularly in schools where the staff
083teachers and the leadership reflected the communities of the students in the families that we served um I do congratulate all of the new and returning board members uh yet I cannot help but knowe that the leadership of our district um doesn't currently reflect the communities of all the families particularly for black and brown families here in Princeton um and I'm sure you're aware that the research shows that groups that consist of diverse backgrounds are more successful in many ways but particularly into taking diverse perspectives into consideration when meeting needs and making big decisions and I and I'm sure others as well would like to know how the board will ensure that the voices and the needs of black and brown communities um and other communities that aren't reflected in the leadership will have their voices
084heard um this may look like advisory committees or other initiatives that exists but I'm not currently aware of that could might be uplifted but I do encourage that the board prioritize this and just have the self-awareness to acknowledge that strategic initiatives are needed to make sure that these voices that aren't included in the meetings are heard and uplifted thank you and I'll just say that we we've already had I've already had that conversation with uh Dr Foster um and some of my fellow board members and uh you know we we understand that the board um you know doesn't reflect necessarily the demographics of the community and we're committed um we're committed you know to ensuring that all kids um get what they need and uh I think that was evident from the math report um
085we have a special education uh report that we that needs uh attention um so I appreciate your um your speaking tonight and as we have more information we'll share it thank you very much thank you I don't see anyone else with their hand raised okay we'll have another public comment later all right U moving on now item I harassment intimidation and bullying and then we're going to go to the board committee um reports we heard from Brian now we're going to hear from I'm guessing Susan for operations that that is correct so we didn't want too much of Brian in one meeting um so the operations committee met November 8th at 8 am as always we are open to the public uh so we welcome uh any members of the public to join if what
086I describe sounds really exciting and you want to learn uh more um but I will Echo what DNA said earlier we're very excited to uh have the referendum passed and I know that uh Matt and his team and now Dr Foster are working diligently to uh start the projects that were approved um by our town voters so we got an update on the 2022 referendum projects uh finally the skylights at JP were being installed and the siding was being completed um they have begun planning for the rest of the roof workk um both at PHS uh and PMs and so that work is scheduled for next summer we are we still have uh bids out for the elementary roof projects and the elementary HVAC so we're hoping that a robust bidding process will enable uh
087the district to award these final projects of th of that uh referendum and Matt did report that so far we still have a couple more projects to award but the um that referendum has been running slightly under budget so that's also exciting news for the district um so um planning will begin on the referendum that just passed uh Matt indicated that the cafeteria project and the uh Safety and Security measures particularly the doors will be some of uh their first e efforts within the district we also got an update as we always do each meeting on sustainability um they're focused on looking at the energy reports and seeing how each school what each school could do to improve uh those reports uh Transportation still exploring getting our first electric uh buses in the district and
088what grants might be available so we can do that uh looking at waste options within our school so that we can be even uh more sustainable something that our community and our kids in particular care about and that GRE and it was announced that green teams now exist in all of our schools so having that active participation from the members of those green teams is something we're very excited about and then finally uh Dave Harding Matt had Dave Harding give an update on some uh work he's doing within the district Oliver and and Alex will be glad to know that there is uh an audit done of all of our bathrooms and small projects are being uh completed around the district to ensure that um when you go into uh any bathroom throughout the district
089that uh you could feel that it's wellmaintained and um all repairs are are done so we really do appreciate uh focus on both the big Pro projects in the referendum but the general maintenance around building we want everyone to feel um that their buildings are well cared for so our next meeting will be November uh 29th um we hope to you know members of the public can join us um and that is our report for this evening thank you Susan uh moving on to Personnel I'm gonna guess it's Debbie because Mar did it last month I want to see I'm right you're good you're good we'll see we'll see all right um so Personnel met on um November 9th we discussed increasing the nurse daily rate for overnight trips and extended day coverage we also
090discuss that the minimum hourly wage will be increasing the beginning of the year to 1530 so several hourly salaries will be increased due to this in the district uh we continue our our discussion on many other Personnel issues and uh we'll meet again next month thank you sebie all right policy I'm going to guess it's best am I right no Jean where's oh there you are I'm here thanks um we met on uh November 3rd 8:15 uh virtually as we do at next meeting is December 1st 8:15 policies that are up for second read or on the agenda tonight um it's still policy Al alert 231 which is the same batch of policies we looked at at our last uh board meeting um Administration is going through um a few other um policies to Spruce
091them up and they'll be on second read in December um that's really it sorry not much else all right well thank you Jean we appreciate it and then uh student achievement uh with Michelle tuck Ponder but I had I I was given a heads up so I can't take credit for that oh okay okay I wanted to surprise you uh so the student achievement committee met on November 3D uh we had had um a presentation on integrated electives and school to work program um we had it was a great presentation um Cindy Breen breiner um shared information on our school to work program and it was really quite quite interesting and exciting and and GL I'm delighted to know how much participation there is from our students and local businesses um to help students develop
092careers um we also talked about the Seal of biliteracy um Priscilla Russell supervisor of um wld DLI ESL bilingual education um discuss those plans um it's a little controversial but we had a very a very good discussion about it uh we talked about the middle school schedule and principal Burr was attended the meeting and um talked about future scheduling options um because of increased enrollment and he also discussed the possibility of joining a principal's Council of all the middle schools in the area to um work together to try to resolve some of the problems um or some of the challenges that are facing um our area's middle schools uh we um our next meeting is on Friday December 1st at 11:30 A.M and the public is welcome thank you Michelle okay now we are moving
093on to policy second reading and please just you know stop me um and then we're going to go to retirements um and I I just did want to say we have uh five retirements totaling um over 110 years of experience in the district Judy Buckley uh kadia Cathy Susan deia uh Pamela Gentile and Donna Goodwin uh and uh we wish you all the best in your retirement and thank you for your service to our schools okay then we have um resignations Personnel items L4 appointments L5 leave of absence L6 substitute uh student placement L7 six period compensation L8 curriculum and instruction L9 student service L1 transfer reassignment then we're moving on to um the curriculum and instruction M1 Burling Burlington County Scholastic League membership I believe M2 is an action item student overnight trips revision
094can I get a uh a motion please rob second Beth and the revision is a change in dates yes okay on the Jazz Ensemble trip to Hawaii right I believe it's one day shorter is that right Dr two the dates were were shifted slightly and it's one day shorter that is correct yes can I make a comment uh yes okay so I just want to say as a prior band parent I um I want to stress that all band students attend trips regardless of they if their families can pay and this is because the band parent group and the band leadership do fundraising all year long um to ensure that every student can go on it maybe this is a model we should look at for other clubs Sports I will say that band and
095I know with the music it's it's easy to charge money because we do it in the auditorium and you know parents come and sometimes we have competition um you know it's a lot of work I'm not going to say it's not but you know the you know like anything your kid does it and that's what you do but I just want to stress that this one organization I know raises a lot of money to ensure our students can go on these trips and you know it's just something I want to share with everybody um I don't know if it's a model we can use for everybody but it is one thing that and the band leadership is very uh support of all that and everything so thank you thank you Debbie Matt anyone else okay
096be mendall yes Betsie Bago yes Beth Baron yes Debbie bronfeld yes Dean deran yes Mar franceski yes sus caner yes ran McDonald yes Michelle T pound I just wonder isn't there a possibility for our Jazz Ensemble to perform somewhere closer to home than Honolulu Hawaii point of order point of order we have discussion I voted I voted of order I voted no okay thank you Christopher yes motion passes okay M3 NJ doe 2425 preschool operational plan M4 Grant application Amendment then we're going to student services and one commission for the Blind and two educational placement uh peoples 2324 moving on to business 01 Financial reports is an action item can I get uh a motion uh Debbie second Beth b mckendall obstein bety bag wheel yes Beth Baron yes deie bronfield yes Dean Durban yes
097Mar franceski yes Susan caner yes Brian McDonald yes Michelle Tu Ponder you're meting Michelle yes H Rob Christopher yes motion passes all right thanks Matt 02 fire evacuation drills 03 fall L safety drill 04 determination of form and sale of 12,998 school bonds good luck with that Matt uh 05 registration travel agenda and then we're moving on to our second public comment of the night don't see anybody nope all right so with that we'll move on to the consent vote can I get a motion please uh Rob second Brian daon Kendall yes Betsy bagua yes Beth Baron yes Debbie bronfeld yes Dean Durban yes Mara franceski yes Susan caner yes Ryan McDonald yes Michelle to ponder yes Rob Christoper yes agenda passes thanks Matt and then uh with that so um thank you everyone for
098attending our meeting um I I am grateful that we have um such an Engaged Community um we do have excellent public schools and we do need to celebrate uh some of the accomplishments which we will start doing um at our December or January meeting um so thank you for attending um Dr Foster is anything you wanted to add I know bety has her hand up as well no I just um you know I I love love the work of the board because we take our roles very seriously if we are committed fully uh to our students and and as you can see uh very active uh in all aspects of our student learning so thank you everyone thank you Betsy and along the line the celebratory lines there are a lot of end of year
099concerts and other performances that we really hope that the members of the public will join us for not just parents in our community but other members of the public those will be on our website but um we meet again December 12th but some will take place before that so please just check out the website and know that you're welcome to come to these events thanks all right thank you Betsy uh and with that can I get a motion to adjourn Beth second Mara all in favor all right Happy Thanksgiving everyone take care bye