001Motion on the floor to enter into executive session. Invited in oh to discuss matters protected by federal and state law and advising council. Invited in is Mr. Styles Mr. >> I was going to say and the rest of them are here. Adam is awake and I think >> he is. >> He's on his way. >> To the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Good evening everyone. It's our first meeting since All right. At this time, it is our public input on agenda and non-aggenda items. I welcome any members of the audience to speak at this time. Mr. Camil. Uh thank you. Uh I just wanted to give a uh update on the mining skill
002reorganization situation. Uh so it's moving along. Um I think you have in one of your Troy triumphs for the middle school kids were coming over here. So I'll leave that alone. But we met with um the Bose representatives today. We meet with state ed uh next week and the new consultants are on board and they were part of that. Today's meeting will be part of next week's meeting. By the end of this month, we should have the timeline uh and a schedule set for uh committee meetings, town hall meetings, stakeholder group meetings uh as well as uh you know when this ultimately will end which right now we're looking at uh the spring maybe March for a vote over the wing skill community. So uh it's getting exciting and and things are moving forward. >>
003Awesome. Thank you. All right. It is my pleasure to introduce Miss Talen to do our school presentation. Thanks everyone. Um I really want to thank you all for giving me the opportunity to present tonight. Um but more importantly, thank you so much for allowing me to lead such an amazing school with amazing families and uh students and staff, some of who are here tonight. And I really just want to take a moment to acknowledge and thank them for their hard work. Um they drive everything. They are truly allin for Troy and all in for school too and I am so thankful to be a part of their team and to support them and I just want to thank them. Give them one more round of applause. I also want to acknowledge Mr. Meadows and thank
004him. Uh he truly is a cornerstone of school too. Uh he embodies what it means to be a leader here in Troy and at school too. He has been such an amazing friend and colleague to me and supported me through all this and I just can't thank him enough and I'm so proud and honored to work with him as well. >> And lastly to all of you in district office, Mr. Carmelo, Roy, Adam, Imran, uh many of my colleagues who are here tonight, thank you so much um for answering my calls all summer long, for giving me the advice, supporting me, and being there. I really feel so honored to, you know, be here for you, with you, and work alongside of you. So, thank you all so much. Uh, I'd first like to share
005our school two vision. Teresa, is it the arrow ahead? All right. Um, our school two vision with you. Um, this is was created uh in conjunction with our teachers and our families. And it really um leads our work every day. It helps us drive and make our decisions. And it's just something we always put in the forefront of our mind with every decision we make and every meeting we have and every conversation. Um the vision of school 2 is to work in partnership with our community to provide engaging and equitable learning opportunities that educate the diverse needs of every child in an effort to inspire lifelong learners and college and career readiness. I hope you'll see that throughout the presentation. Uh as well uh I first also wanted to share with you our SEP strategies.
006So these are strategies that we really talked about and they are our kind of our focus areas for the year. Uh when we created these as a team, I think kind of two themes emerged uh back to basics of what school 2 does best. School two does a lot of things really great and so we wanted to put that in the forefront. And then being responsive. How can we be more responsive to our community, to our students, and to our families. And so we created these three uh they call them strategies, but really they're our goals uh for the year. Uh one around academics, one around um attendance, and one around social emotional learning. And again, these are our focus areas that really guide our work uh for the year. So our first key strategy
007is around academics. So throughout the 2025 2026 academic school year, we will increase our student academic performance by strengthening our standardbased instruction through the delivery of explicit instruction and differentiated planning to meet the diverse learning needs of all of our students. Our second uh focus area or key strategy uh really is around attendance. So during the 2025 2026 academic school year, decreasing our rate of chronic absenteeism and tardy students. Lastly, this is our social emotional learning or SEAL uh key strategy or focus for the year. So, we intend to foster a positive school climate and support student well-being by implementing consistent practices that promote responsive decision-making across all grade levels while decreasing our percentage of classroom disruptions through proactive behavior supports and restorative practices. And I'll explain what each of those kind of means to
008you and the how, how we're going to accomplish those. First starting off with our academic, obviously increased proficiency is our uh target area. And I just wanted to kind of start with our New York State data. As you can see, we have some really exciting numbers in our ELA. That's the gold. So, increasing from 17 to 24% um from last school year to this or from the previous 2023, 2024 to last school year. So, we're really excited about that. Um you know, in math is the purple. Um we're sad to see that little dip. We recognize that. We understand that. We're really spending a lot of time with our instructional coaches and our teachers delving into that data and really understanding the why. Why did that happen? How can we move forward? What adjustments do
009we need to make? So, we recognize that and are really working hard toward being sure that we are trending in the right direction for the school year. Our overall math proficiency, like I said, this was an area that, you know, it was a little hard to see and, you know, not what we wanted to see. um we weren't really able to move students out of that level one and increase our twos, threes, and fours like we had hoped, but again, really just making sure that we can have targeted instruction that we move in the right direction. Our ELA was a really exciting and I I think this is this kind of gave us a glimmer of where we want to go. So, we were really able to move students out of that level one. So,
010moving them out of level one and increasing our level two, threes, and fours. Uh so I think what we're doing is working and we're just going to continue to build upon that and bolster our practices so we can increase uh you know moving those students out of level one and really moving them towards proficiency in those levels two, threes and fours. The how I think that this is kind of we spent a lot of time on the how and it's uh really important and I kind of break it down into the two uh subject areas ELA and math. Uh so for ELA um we noticed that an area of growth for our students was phonics. So we're really going all in. We built in our schedule both phonics for all grade levels. So no longer
011just paying two. Our three through five is also receiving a targeted explicit phonics instruction. We're hoping through that um we can bolster up their reading and move again to the proficiency. Um so we've also our wind block. So that's a time where students are receiving explicit instruction. So that's really important to us, having those data conversations with our coaches, really delving into the data and understanding what do our students need, what does each student need to be successful. So we've built that specific time into our schedule uh so that teachers really have time again to be responsive. That's where it kind of goes back to that theme. How are we being responsive to our students? So during that time, teachers are able to provide specific uh targeted feedback to students and really help them know
012what they're, you know, what what they might be missing or how what strategies can they use to really target and um to really access grade level content. So that's been really important to us. Coaching cycles, we are increasing our coaching cycles and having our coaches be in classrooms. they are modeling uh with teachers and they are looking at their data with them and they're really delving into that. So that's really been important to us. Uh Eureka Mass squared, Nicole McNeel, our curriculum uh leader in that has really helped us. We are going to have targeted professional development with uh Adam Baker. So he's really helping our teachers understand every component of the math block. So we kind of made a shift this year to our math block where our students have more time to practice.
013We're hoping that that really gives us the opportunity to see that growth in math that we want to see. But with that, we know we have to support our teachers. So, having um Adam come to our building uh four times this year, he's also working with our instructional coaches and teachers specifically. So, really helping them understand each component of the math block and how we can make adjustments to meet again meet the needs of our uh students. Our second key strategy, attendance matters. This is uh a phrase that kind of is really you hear all around school to attendance matters. As you can see, they have done the work. The way they have driven down the chronically absent students is tremendous and amazing and really worth just mentioning. Jen White is one of the members
014here. Congratulations to her and the team. We know if our students aren't there, they can't learn. So, she has really taken that on. Um and it it it shows it's very obvious. It shows and we are going to continue to push that and make sure that all all of our students are there and more of them are there not tardy and on time to school. Again, the how um this they've done amazing work. We've expanded the committee so it's no longer just Jen and Sam, our attendance specialist. We're adding teachers to the mix and we added additional SST members and that's been really critical because the teachers are on the front line. They know the students best. So they're now the ones having the conversations with uh families and that's been really I think effective
015and important. Uh we also, you know, every student is tracking their own attendance. So we're putting some onus on the students too. We understand that it's the parents that get them to school. We want the students to really understand that it's important for them to be here when they're not here and when they are here. So we've implemented really tier uh strong tier one practices with involving the students and expanding the committees. Uh we have our board up there uh right if you walk in the main lobby it's up there. Sam uh updates it every day and students look for that. We're continuing our incentives. Uh we have our dance and some field trips and we're going to continue that. Uh and this year we really again looked at the data and why June matters.
016We noticed in June we really saw a dip in our students coming and so we're really putting emphasis on that. How can we be sure students know that learning is still happening in June? It's important to still come in June. So, we're kind of thinking about ways to make that really special to us. I put the why June matters. We know that that's an area we need to improve on and we're really focused on that as well in our attendance committee. A strong practices. You can see here too, they have done an amazing job. These are referral numbers. I put student discipline, but these are referral numbers. really just completely driven down and they are doing a really good job and just committed to continuing to drive those numbers down but also support students in
017the areas that um are causing them trouble or issues at school. So this is really exciting to me and I really think that the work that they have done has really driven this down and will continue to do. These are some of the hows the restorative practice that's a district initiative that school 2 was trained on this summer. We're sending another team in the fall but really implementing those. We're lucky to have Mr. Lynn and Miss Anderson, our two um restorative practice leaders in the building. Um but they're working with specific targeted groups. So again, we're looking at that data. Who are some students who kind of keep popping up on those and are really struggling and what are they struggling with? So kind of connecting them with people in the building. Our stronger connections
018has been great. We're really excited to get that going next week. Again, just more ways for students to feel connected in the building. Um our student support team has been great. That's one of those back to basics something school 2 did really well. They have a very strong student support team with social workers and counselors. So really reviving that um and giving them opportunities to be in classrooms, help teachers target students that might be struggling within the classroom. So we've started doing that. Uh we meet with them uh Mr. Meadows and I meet with them weekly um and really are having constant conversations about students and how we can continue to support them. Uh PBIS some of the uh leaders and chair people are here today. Uh we call it rise at school 2, but
019it's our PBIS committee. Um they laugh because I said it has risen. It's on the rise here at school 2. Um we are we are taking it back full force and they've done a really great job of having incentives for students. We're rebooting school store. We took it from David, a little model from David at school 14. So, um, having different incentives for students and targeting their specific interests has really been important to us and I think that it's really going to yield some great results for us. I really wanted to highlight the community room. Miss Stinny is here. She's our community room uh, advocate. And this is something that makes school 2 special, but I also think it's something that really our families and our students are so thankful that we have. Miss Stiny
020kind of has her own vision of what the community room is. So, I borrow this from her, but it's really an equalizer. What can we do to equalize the playing field for our students at school, too, and that things aren't barriers so that they have the opportunity to be successful in school and beyond. And Miss Denny does a really great job. I know she many of the faculty here support her as well. Um, but it's really a way for our students and families to feel like we are all in with them. So some of the services she provides to them, laundry services, food pantry, clothing, job training to parents, how to write a resume, um we have many community partners that she kind of taps into as needed. We have events throughout the day, health
021care, students have easy access to health care. So again, it's just a really important uh way for our community to feel connected and feel that there aren't barriers that they can't come to school. And again, that helps us with all that other data, driving the chronic absenteeism down, driving the referral uh data down. So, I just want to give a shout out to Miss Denny. She's here and what a great job. >> A short video. >> Is it connected to there? >> It wasn't. >> Okay. Sorry. Oh, needs assistance. She got Jess. after my day today. Maybe I can hold the microphone. >> All right, Jason, thanks for putting this up here. Is this on though? >> Yes. >> I'm really looking forward to grow up as a reader and I'm also looking forward to
022to being level and also um looking forward to learn times and division and continue being kind. I'm excited to learn multiplication and division. I'm excited to write stories in my journal. I'm excited to be back at school and I and I'm happy to be here every day this school year. I'm looking forward to all of the amazing art shows that we have. >> I'm excited to learn science and I'm excited to learn more place value and math and stuff and times tables. >> I'm excited to work with fourth and fifth grade students this year. I'm excited to bring Odyssey of the Mind to school, too, because it will help them grow as problem solvers and creative thinkers. >> I am really excited to grow my partner talk this year with my kids asking higher level
023questions, responding to each other, and making that a stronger part of our curriculum. I'm really excited this year to grow with my second grade students as my first year of teaching to grow connections in the community and within our district. >> I'm learning how to do science experiments and I'm I'm excited for trunk or treat. I'm excited to learn phonics and math. So, >> I agree with you. >> I'm super excited for the new school year. We have an awesome new phonics curriculum, You Fly, that we piloted a little bit last year and we're going to roll it out full force this year, whole group. And we are super excited to see the awesome growth that the kids are going to make with it. I am so excited to get to know my new students
024and to teach all our new kindergarteners how to read. >> I'm excited for writing >> this school year. I am most excited to build strong relationships with my students and continue ones with my previous students. I'm also super excited to be working alongside such an amazing team here at school 2. >> I'm excited to improve my reading level and my drawing level. >> I'm really excited to build relationships with my students and be part of the school two community. >> I'm excited to come to 100. >> I'm very excited to be here. I worked in a middle school for 10 years and so far it's been great here working at school too. >> I'm looking forward to getting better at reading and getting better at math. >> I am so excited for all of our
025students to learn and grow and gain life skills that they will be able to use for the rest of their lives. >> I love reading because it makes me smarter and also it helps me learn big words. I'm excited to go to get better at subtraction because last year in second grade I loved math. >> I'm excited to read Max and Zoe book. >> I'm so excited about the new year and the possibilities it's going to bring. I'm excited to watch our kids learn and grow. And I'm excited about our new leadership. >> I'm excited for learning. I'm excited to work alongside a great community, staff, and families to continue to grow our amazing school to learners. >> I want to read a lot and grow my brain. [Applause] If that's just a small snapshot,
026shout out to Jason Laz for the photo credit there and his help doing that. Um, I just wanted you to be able to see some of our students, um, and some of our teachers. Uh, sneak peek ahead. Ebony, back by popular demand, uh, by request from Miss Poppy Conway. Um, the Halloween parade, I expect you to be there. Um, but because it's so early in the school year, I just wanted to give you a sneak peek how we have a lot of great things planned. The Halloween parade, trunk or treat is big. Um, many PTO events. Dads and Donuts is tomorrow, so we're going to be doing that. our field day and all of those things. So, we really hope that we get to see many of you there and we'll we'll put that out
027to you when we have stuff coming. But, uh Ebony is already on Halloween. She's uh she's really And then just >> the day off. >> She did. She took the whole day off. >> She's going to be there. She's going to be handing out the candy dressing up. >> He hasn't said, but I I mean I think that the person, you know, the previous person maybe set the precedent. So, best practices. >> I did I will say I did talk to Mr. Carmelo. If I can talk to him, we were I've got we had an idea. >> Okay. I'm expecting So, a team a team >> a team costume. I'm expecting that. Excited to see. >> Jason, be there for the photo ops now, please. Uh and these are uh class of 2032. If we
028can we will end the story. Thank you guys so much. >> Great job. Kudos for going first. Thank you. >> Do you need anything? >> I don't I'm great. >> Thank you. >> I don't know if there's any questions. ask questions. >> I would just like to say it's uh it's nice to see the energy. You can feel the enthusiasm and passion, right? >> Um I think you can see it with the students and with the kids. So, congratulations. To Ebony's point, any support you need, right? This is your first go at it, right? >> It's a challenging situation, right? And uh one that you're embracing, right? So, anything that we can do to support you, make sure that you're happy and that you have the resources you need. >> Thank you so much. I
029really appreciate Uh the only question I have is just on the the targets and the goals. Do you actually have targets in your goals? >> So you know what you're measuring towards? >> Uh we didn't put you know percentages in there per se. We just kind of wanted to think about where we wanted to move for the year and kind of like the increase obviously is what we want and then we really wanted to focus on the how. I think that was a really important rebuilding piece here is to just continue to look at our data, understand the why and then really focus on the how. And that's kind of what we've done. And I think that that's where we're putting most of our energy. >> Awesome. I'm excited for you. >> Thank you. I
030appreciate that. >> Y, [Applause] >> um, all the cash is counted for uh, this summer. We were very busy in the business office closing the books for the previous school year. Our first paycheck in September um was all paper checks and that is requested by our auditors. Currently, we're in the process of reviewing and submitting the ST3 and finalizing all the grants from the previous year. Uh the external auditors came in the first week of September and everything went smoothly. Uh and they're in process of finalizing financials. And lastly, I would like to give thanks to everyone in the business office for working hard all summer um and getting the information together for the auditors um as quickly as possible. And that is all I have to report. >> Thank you. Any questions? All right.
031Motion on the floor for approval of minutes from September 3rd, 2025. Second discussion. All those in favor? >> Opposed? Under superintendent recommendation, human resources staff matters unclassified and classified under unclassified. Motion on the floor for consent agenda items 1 through 16. >> Second >> discussion. All those in favor? >> Opposed under classified motion on the floor for consent agenda items 1 through eight. >> Second. >> Discussion. >> All those in favor? >> Opposed? under superintendent recommendations programs motion on the floor for consent agenda items 1 through 12 >> discussion all those in favor >> I opposed under superintendent recommendations business finance motion on the floor for consent agenda items 1 through eight second >> discussion >> yeah Ebony real quick >> I know last year we started to talk about how we're recognizing the donations
032and I don't know that that ever got off the ground. Um, but is there a way that we can recognize or >> certificate or something that I mean there's some great stuff going on with the local community, right? So, >> y >> if there's a way that we can at least recognize these folks or maybe invite them to the meeting where we do announce that you know and recognize them at the meeting just something to recognize maybe what they're doing for the community. So, we have certificates. We send a certificate. >> Oh, you do? >> All right. You started that last year, right? >> We did. >> Okay. Perfect. All right. Good. All right. I'm good. >> Okay. All those in favor? >> Opposed? Under board resolutions? Motions on the floor for consent agenda items
033one and two? >> Second. >> Discussion. >> All those in favor? >> Opposed. Um, district announcements. All future board meetings will be here at 6 pm. The next one will be October 8th and then we will have one on October 22nd with our school team principal presentation. >> Started with that two. >> Yes. >> Under Troy Triumphs. Um coming up in October, Mrs. Barnes will host a genre book tasting for grades 3 through 5 in the elementary libraries. A book tasting transformed the library into a cafe and students sample a variety of books of different genres. Much like food tasting, students are encouraged to try out different flavors of reading. Different types of fiction, non-fiction, poetry, graphic novels, biographies, and more. This activity not only introduces them to new genres and authors, but also provides
034an opportunity to explore reading choices they may not have considered before. This fall, Chuard Middle School is hosting two opportunities for female student athletes. A girls flag football camp and a girls lacrosse introductory clinic. Very nice. These programs are designed to build interest, skills, and confidence while preparing our middle school students for competition at the modified JV and varsity levels. These clinics not only grow participation, but also strengthen our pipeline for future student athletes, ensuring equity and expanded opportunities for our female students. Barner Dickinson student athletes have also been offered the opportunity to participate in these programs. Our modified sports merger with W and Skill is off to a great start with about 25 players from W and Skill joining Troy Middle School students on the field including three playing on the varsity girls tennis
035team. Nice. We have an excellent partnership and our Troy students and coaches have welcome Garner Dickson the open arms. Ursy Golf has three golfers qualified for sectionals. Eighth graders Birdie Llant and Peter Ryan along with senior Joey Deadman. Our ninth grader Jackson Maloney. His mom's here. >> She went to the information meeting. >> Oh, she did. Uh these one road qualifying score and Troy will be able to find a sectional team for the second time in four years. Very nice. [Applause] >> All right. motion on the floor to adjurnn. >> I got one last thing. Sorry. Then I'll shut up. Uh I just want to give a shout out from South Troy Park Warner. Uh to the facilities team here. Uh Connor on the facilities team. Uh Paul Rhinish on the AD side, the football
036coaches. Sabina with Carol Hill. Just supporting what we're doing, allowing us to use the field on Sundays, allowing us to use Carol Hill in the gym and all that stuff. So just really great community involvement. I want to make sure that those guys are getting recognized. It's been excellent for us. the kids are super excited to be there. Um, some of the even the football players come on the field and they're hanging out with the team and stuff. So, uh, just a really a lot of good stuff going on and support from from the Troy District. So, really appreciate it. >> I'll take that lead. Um, at Carol Hill, I attended the open house with Savina. It was fantastic. It was so well attended, so well organized. What great representation from all the providers were
037there. Um, Sage had a stuffed animal situation going on and that was the craze of the whole place. Um, and there was a raffle from I think bikes that were donated from the sheriff, the county sheriff. So, just all all in well done event was glad I could attend see the operation that is being executed over there and the family seemed very engaged and very happy. So, congratulations. >> Excellent. >> Second. >> Anyone else? >> All right. Motion on the floor to adjourn. >> All those in favor? Bye. >> Have a good night.