Board of Education Meeting May 26, 2026

001This is a special presentation from the Brighton Central School District Board of Education. >> Good evening. Welcome to the Brighton Central School District Board of Education Education meeting for Tuesday, May 26. This meeting is called to order. To begin with, we're beginning the meeting with our favorite start, and that is to hear about some Brighton believer awards. So, I'll turn it over to Dr. McGawan. >> Thank you very much, Mr. Davis and board members. The Brighten Believers Awards, as you know well, are uh bestowed upon folks from the Bright Believes Council. They select nominees to receive the award for demonstrating the Bright Believes character traits of integrity, respect, responsibility, kindness, and self-control. The award winners are students, teachers, staff members, parents, coaches, and community members. The nomination form is available on the website at bcsd.org

002backbelievers. Please nominate your friends, neighbors, staff members for this great recognition. And I'd like to begin tonight by recognizing 12 Corners middle school substitute teacher Tammy Tegart. Tammy, if you could come on up. Edwards and Mrs. Pat, come on up also, please. And Rob Giles, is Rob here? >> I think Rob couldn't make it. So, >> Tammy T. Garden was nominated by fellow teacher Rob Giles. He wrote, "Tammy T. Garden represents the bright belief's characteristic of responsibility. As a substitute teacher, Tammy's responsible for helping the building to continue continue to run smoothly. There are days when she is filling in for more than one teacher. There are days when she is in the auditorium simultaneously managing multiple classes in a less structured environment. As a long-term substitute, Tammy's teaching has ranged from special education to

003family and consumer sciences. Last year, Rob writes, "I was struck by her being the family and consumer sciences teacher and all the preparation that that would require. During a team meeting, I mentioned the amount of work Tammy put in and how that had to be a Brighton believers award consideration." My team agreed, but I didn't have a personal connection. This fall, though, she was my long-term substitute. I told Dr. Evans over the summer that Tammy would be a great great fit because of her love of English and knowledge of the building. Having previously talked with Tammy about different short stories and writing while she was an LTS for special education, I knew the perspective that she would bring. And as a Brighton resident, Tammy is that much more invested. She had insights based on her

004own children soon to make their way through TCMS. I am grateful for Tammy's work in my place and her continued responsibility when I returned. She graded the writing assignments that were turned in on one of the last days of my leave. I was struggling with getting the gradebook finalized for the end of the quarter and she made the difference. She invested time that allowed me to focus on rebuilding routines and relationships with students. Tammy wanted to follow through rather than take free time. She didn't shrug shrug off responsibility because her time as a long-term sub substitute was over. She finished the task. For this and so many other reasons, we recognize tonight Tammy T. Garden. Congratulations. And thank you very much to Amanda Masters for coming up too. I'm sorry, Amanda. I did not see

005you back there. Team TCMS, great job. Tutoring center coordinator now to be recognized. Deb Appleton and director of student family engagement, Jeff Green. >> They were both nominated by a parent who wished to remain anonymous. For Deb, this parent wrote, "Deb truly embodies the character traits of integrity, respect, responsibility, kindness, and self-control that the Brighton believes motto represents. Each day, Debbie greets my daughter with a warm smile and a gentle, caring presence that immediately makes her feel welcome and supported. Her kindness is genuine and consistent, and it creates an environment where students feel safe, valued, and encouraged to do their best." Deb Appleton's last name seems to perfectly match her personality. She reminds me of the very best apple you could pick from a tree. Warm, genuine, and uplifting. She brings a natural kindness and

006positivity to everyone she interacts with. And that warmth is felt by both students and families. Deb has created incredibly kind has been incredibly kind not only to my daughter, but to me as well. She communicates thoughtfully and makes sure that I feel informed and comfortable. She consistently goes above and beyond to make sure that my daughter feels supported, understood, and confident when she walks through the door. People like Deb are the heart of a community. Through her compassion, patience, and dedication, she makes a meaningful difference in the lives of students and family families. She truly represents what it means to believe in others and to lift them up. Deb Appleton is exactly the kind of person who deserves to be recognized as a Brighton believer. Jeff Green, this person wrote, exemplifies the Brighton believes character

007traits of integrity, respect, responsibility, kindness, and self-control in everything he does. He has been a remarkable source of support for my family. When you speak with him, you truly feel heard. That ability to listen with patience and genuine care makes an enormous difference for families who are navigating difficult or uncertain moments. Jeff brings warmth, compassion, and steady dedication to his work, and it is clear that he truly cares about the students and families that he serves. Jeff has shown my daughter and me tremendous kindness and respect. His communication is thoughtful and reassuring, and he consistently goes beyond what is expected to make sure that families feel supported and understood. Knowing there is someone who listens and responds with genuine care has made a meaningful difference for our family. I also recognize that Jeff plays an

008important role in supporting the Brighton believers program itself. That makes it even more important that someone acknowledge the quiet but powerful impact he has on the families he serves. People who spend so much of their time lifting others up are often the last to be recognized. Jeff Green truly embodies the spirit of Brighton believes through his compassion, integrity, and dedication to students and families. He strengthens the entire community. The support he provides may feel like part of his job, but the kindness and care behind it are what truly makes a difference. Jeff Green, CONGRATULATIONS. >> EXCELLENT. Thank you again for starting our meetings this way. Such a great reminder of the great things that happen in our school community and the great people that are doing it. So, thank you. >> Thank you. >> Good

009job. >> Next up, as we do with every public meeting, we provide the opportunity for public participation. Uh we allocate three minutes to receive feedback uh from the community. Dan, who doubles as our photographer. Dan, will you raise your hand back there in the corner? If you would like to speak, please get Dan a card and we'll go from there. I know Dr. McGow, you wanted to say something before we had the speaker. Let's get up. >> Yes. Uh just a quick update for the community regarding next steps in in the athletic field uh project and progress. We're in the final stages of working with the DC and uh other agencies on finalizing what the parameters are in terms of an agreement uh that really detail for the district what we can do how to

010mitigate soil conditions and what the next steps will be. So as that is concluding we're also simultaneously working through the other processes that are connected to that. for example, the interim site management plan, uh, which also has that same information and and, uh, parameters to it, but includes things like the process for air monitoring, community monitoring, etc. So, we're working through that and that site management plan will for the long term detail for us what we can do, what we can't do in terms of any part of the site relative to the soil, movement of soil, construction, etc. Those things are happening and while they are happening we have asked our architects uh the essentially the OACM group construction manager contractor group to continue to explore what the options could be. Those can't be finalized

011until we uh know for sure what the parameters are relative to the DC and other agencies. But as that's happening and those things can start to come into shape, we are looking for an opportunity to engage the community then in understanding how people would feel about those designs and essentially gather perspective on those designs uh so that you can make an informed decision based on that information as well and all of the other information that you're getting. Right? So it's not just limited to that. You'll be getting a lot of information as those are presented to you. you've gotten feedback from community members throughout about how they feel and just today in fact received emails from people explaining how they feel. So you'll you'll be able to take all that into account in making a

012a final decision uh on behalf of the community in the direction that they're going. The plan right now would be to and advertise this widely get information out to people but to hold sessions on June 9th and we'll finalize that in the next few days. Remember, we have to finalize these other steps with other agencies as well. But tenatively, tenatively speaking, we would have an afternoon and an early evening dinner ti time time type session and would like to find a way for people to get that information online as well and be able to offer uh just their thoughts, their perspective on what the options might be. So, just want to make sure people are aware of that. We'll be getting that information out to people, but this is just evolving kind of hot off

013the press's current moment kind of stuff and want to make sure the community is aware of that. >> Thank you, Um, I do have uh Betsy Cox would like to speak. >> Thank you. So, I know I have been up here before and I appreciate um a couple minutes to speak. Um, one of the things again I appreciate the information. Um, I was going to ask when the next uh meeting would be. Um I feel again the information I know there's been a lot going on from what I gather behind the scenes but um from people who again who are living this every day it it seems like things have as they have been uh not moving very quickly um in our mind. And so I think that reach out I know there was a

014lot of information sent out um to individuals regarding the vote. Um and again I I just would hope that that continued uh some communication would continue for neighbors especially that are directly uh adjacent to the field. Um, I did want to point out and I had sent an email earlier that one of the things if you look at the U materials in the big soil pile that has been pushed to the end of the field is what's called Dealdron, which is a very toxic pesticide. Um, I expressed in an email to the DEEC and a few of the board members concern if that were to be used uh for soil uh on that field in other ways. um it is been outlawed uh since the 1980s pretty much across the world but it's very slow

015to break down and it persists in soil for decades accumulating in fat tissues of wildlife and humans. So again I think it's it's those types of things that are are very concerning um and one of the reasons why people again in uh the adjacent yards are not um using their yards much this um so far this summer. We have friends who um were concerned about their children eating snow before we had even gotten word of the uh toxicity and so had their children tested uh for lead among other things because of concerns and again I think that uncertainty and lack of um knowledge continues to uh kind of resonate unfortunately in in my neighborhood. Um I also just want to point out that as you know there was a petition that went around before the

016soil uh the turf project was stopped. Over 500 people have signed on it. Um, and would again, if you haven't seen some of the concerns people have written, including one former Brighton baseball coach and member of the Brighton baseball board, who watched his three children grow up playing baseball and soccer in this community, cares deeply about ensuring access to highquality fields, but cares just as deeply about protecting the health and safety of Brighton's children, neighbors of the fields affected by this proposed project and the community as a whole. not convinced that the proposed project will improve field quality and everything I've read persuades me that it will certainly put health and safety at risk. Um, again, opposed to uh the artificial turf. So, as I know we haven't figured out what the next steps are,

017I would urge you to consider uh natural grass or something that would be healthier for our community. I would also urge you to all walk around the fence um and view what's been uh kind of what goes on when it rains, when things are blown down. um when there are uh animals, geese, and other things uh drinking the water from that field. Um and I just would encourage you to see what it is that we all kind of live with daily. And I'm not sure you appreciate what that is like. So, um hopefully on June 9th, we'll be gathering more information. So, thank you for your time. >> Betsy, can I ask one question? Betsy, can I ask a question? You mentioned the pile and a particular contaminant. >> Yes. >> Which pile are you

018referring to? >> The large soil pile. The largest push right behind. >> That's the large pile of top soil that is is quote unquote clean fill that is not the contaminated. >> So if you look at the testing from that clean fill it was highlighted very toxic pesticide as well as other metals and it was downplayed at the meeting on April 22nd. Um it does mention that um so it is not a clean soil. It has that toxic individual and animal. So encourage you to take a look at that. >> Yeah, I I have and I think the DEC responded to you in that regard, too. I don't think that's entirely accurate, but I'll go back and look as well. >> Yep. >> Um, see no others. I am going to uh make an exception

019here. Uh, June 9th is our tenure uh acknowledgement for teachers who receive tenure. It's a it's a night of celebration and Marco Okconovich who is our former board president and our rep for Boseies had offered to come and do his update tonight instead of on June 9th when we're doing the tenure reception which we all appreciate. So Mark I'd love it if you could do sort of an impromptu Boseies update for us please. >> Thank you much very much Larry and and the board. Uh yeah, I did think uh it would be nice to come at the end of the year to do a quick uh overview of the Bosey's work this year, but I know how busy that night is and all the things that you have going on. So I did want to

020come in uh to tell you first of all, thank you so much for allowing me to serve and continue to serve Brighton as your member of the Monroe One Bosey's board of education. I just wanted to give you a quick update, a review, really a quick review of the year. Um you'll you'll recall that uh Kathy Halber was our uh new superintendent uh put in place before the beginning of the year. Visited you uh in a meeting that you had at French Road earlier in the year. She has done an outstanding job and our entire leadership team uh is all new over the past two years at Monroe 1 and they have turned out to be just wonderful, wonderful individuals and doing a great job. Um, couple other things. Most of these I've touched on

021in the reports to Larry over the year. Um, we've got a number of capital projects that are going on at the Fairport campus. Uh I think you're aware that the majority of the main office functions are now out at the Monroe Center on uh Bushnell in Bushnell's Basin in leased space which is very economical and the multiple of those buildings out there that are virtually empty or half filled. So, we continue to lease space in that building, thereby freeing up space in Fairport uh for instructional programming and uh that work is continuing to be ongoing through this summer. One of the things that is allowing us to do and uh I highlighted in my last report, the career and tech education department area, we've added two new offerings and expanded two others. So that continues

022to build the number of seats that are available for students to pursue career and technical education which is just growing. Most of the career and teched offerings have weight lists when you get to this point in time of the year. So so that continues to go forward. Um we're doing a full evaluation of the Bird Morgan School campus. A number of you have been there in East Rochester. That's a very very old building that we utilize for elementary and middle school work and we're continuing to look at that and determine the uses for that building and what the costs are versus other space. Um end of the year uh I always highlight this in my report. Uh the end of the year celebrations and graduations with Boseies are fairly unique because of all the different

023programming that Boseies in is in charge is charged with providing to our component districts. We've had two of those celebrations thus far and between the 9th and the 23rd of June we'll hold nine more. And the Brighton students who are being recognized or who are graduating from those various programs, if you would like to attend any of those, certainly you're all welcome. and DA has that list and probably Kim too. Our folks probably try to do a very good job of making sure uh the component districts have a list of those names of students who may be participating and graduating. So again, um I look forward to continuing to represent you. I look forward to the board next year as it's constituting coming out for a visit. It would be a great time and I

024will remind you early and often we be when we begin the school year. Um, I did want to also while I'm here briefly thank all of you. Dr. McGawan and leadership team, Larry and the board. Uh, your leadership, your stewardship is exemplary and this is a special place. Brighton is very unique and every year has challenges to it. certainly this year among the most I think that since I've been here in the 30 years. I think uh congratulations on all of the work that you've done, the education of the community, the transparency that you've shown, uh getting the budget passed, uh having a successful board of education vote. I congratulate Sue and Carrie Lynn. Continue your service and I do believe Bob will be an excellent addition to this board of education. But as I'm

025here this evening, I wanted to recognize Larry Davis. Uh we're coming toward the end of the year. He loves it when I do this. He's finishing up a 15-year career as ser in service to the board of education. The past five as board president. There'll be many more accolades, but from me, from Boseies, from the community, uh Larry's quiet and thoughtful leadership, uh always doing the right thing for the right reasons. uh leading with compassion, uh a clean sense of purpose, clear and the highest integrity. Uh I've known Larry for 30 years. He's a listener first. Speaks way down the road as you all know. And uh Larry, you'll be missed, but you've left an outstanding legacy to this board, to this district, to this community that will continue to flourish. and you and Shelley

026aren't leaving Brighton, which uh we thank you for your service. And all of that is part and parcel of uh why Brighton Rotary recently announced you as our citizen of the year for this year coming too. All of this is going to cost me so much. Well worth it though. Thank Thank you, Larry, for all your service. I do appreciate it. We do appreciate it. and thank you all for all that you do. >> I appreciate it. I I uh I'll acknowledge the work that's being done at Boseis to take care of our kids and um having had a chance to be there for a number of programs. The last time we were there, which was a couple years ago, we saw a lot of the improvements which increased and improved accessibility into those buildings.

027So, we've got to get back there again. But there's amazing work being done throughout the entire Boseis network and we're grateful for all our kids who benefit. And I always figure it's about 15 graduation ceremonies you all are responsible for. So Tom Hall complains because we've only got one, you know, and we've got 15, way, way more than ours. But but it is one of the best things about being involved with children. You all know this. You go to these events. Some of them are end of the year celebrations. Some are true graduations at young people at various stages of their lives with various challenges and outlooks that may not be clear, but seeing them succeed, seeing them be happy, seeing their families there that are so appreciative of remember the we're Bosey's 10 component

028districts support the Bosey's work. Monroe one Boseis doesn't exist without uh you and the other nine districts. So we're here to serve whatever the districts need and to see that succeed and to see kids succeed in whatever way possible, every way possible is just the best thing ever. So >> well, like I said, you guys are meeting are meeting kids where they are and and a lot of the kids being served by both are in a lot of different places, but to watch the volunteers and the staff work over there is pretty amazing. Uh doing amazing work. So, we're grateful for the entire team over at Boseies and thank you for the update tonight and allowing June 9th to be about the tenure and it's going to be a lot of celebrations there. So, thank

029you. >> Take care. Thanks everybody. >> And congratulations to Larry Davis. Nice try here. >> That was impressive. >> You have all had the agenda and had a chance to had a chance to review it. Are there any edits, changes, or questions with regards to tonight's agenda? >> Our thanks to Kim for putting it together. Motion to approve the agenda as received. >> So moved. >> Moved by Susan. >> Seconded by Karen. All those in favor? >> I. >> You also have the have had the opportunity to review the business meeting minutes from Tuesday, May 12th, and the annual meeting and election from Tuesday, May 19th. Are there any questions with regards to either of those sets of minutes taken care of by Kim? Again, we thank her for that >> motion to approve. >>

030So, move. >> Moved by Esther. >> Second. >> Seconded by Carolyn. Thank you. All those in favor? >> I >> um I have to report and this is a little sad. The principles are upset and sad tonight because they will not be able to present. And uh as is the case, we do once a year, we get to hear from the assistant principles. And we're anxious and excited to hear from them. And uh because they're all doing this for the first time this year. I'm just going to go in order. I'm going to start in the high school and work right down in order to council rock. So I'll tell everybody the order in advance. So for the high school assistant principles, please take the podium. Just get situated here. Perfect. Great. Thank you everybody.

031Mark Lincoln, assistant principal at the high school. I'll let give us a chance to introduce ourselves. >> Paddock and Matt. >> Thank you so much for the opportunity to speak tonight and share with you all the amazing things happening at the high school. As you can imagine, I'm sure you'll hear from the other schools as well, such an exciting time in our buildings. Uh so many celebrations and culminations of so many initiatives we've been working on. So, there's just just a great energy. Uh but before we begin and jump into it, I do want to make sure that a lot of what you're hear that you hear from us that it is the collective efforts of so many great people in our buildings, teachers, coaches, counselors, social workers, you name it, to make these wonderful

032events happen. First, we'd like to talk to you a little bit about the 23rd Brighton clean sweep that took place this past Saturday. We had at least 30 kids and teachers out to help clean the campus. Um, I wal as I look at this picture, I want to point out too that about five of these students uh not only were with us in the morning on Saturday, but also in the evening, I'm sorry, the two Saturdays ago, but in the evening as well, they were there for the prom. So, not afraid to get their hands dirty in the morning, but also uh get cleaned up for the evening as well. So, just a wonderful event uh to connect with the greater community. Also, good opportunity to give a shout out to the buildings and grounds

033team because every year when we do the bright and clean sweep, they realize how clean our property is as well. So, we got to find the garbage. But, uh we did find it and it was a bad day for garbage on our campus. We took care of it. um down to some of the work that I think we'll elaborate more on in the future, but some of the attendance initiatives that we spoke at at length about in the beginning of the school year. Um we wanted to give a little update of things that we've been doing dayto-day specifically to focus on uh different attendance issues that we see within our building. Um and just to reiterate again, we still are seeing strong daily attendance rates of around 94 or 95% in our building. But where

034we stem to work and want to target uh supporting families is our chronic absenteeism that we see. Um and this year, thanks to our Brighton support team and our counselors and social workers, we've implemented some new initiatives uh to connect with kids and their families that are maybe at risk of becoming chronically absent or are chronically absent. Um and we're really proud of these efforts. I want to give a shout out to to a lot of people within our community to help us with this. Um, specifically we've been working with something called the absentee root cause analysis survey that we've had not only kids who are chronically absent but kids who are at risk uh take. I think we've met with over 160 kids to discuss what those barriers may be to get them to

035school. Um, and those are, you know, countless minutes sitting with kids and their families trying to connect them with community resources and making sure they know that we care. We want to see them in our buildings and we're there to support if there are issues along the way. We also wanted to highlight from a faculty and staff standpoint uh the wonderful efforts of our wellness committee. Uh you can see here we've done a variety of initiatives throughout the year. Um from raising over $1,000 to support BHS families with our annual spirit of giving campaign uh to fund things like the ugly sweater competition to even things like gratitude May where we exchange gratitude cards throughout the month. Um, this committee stays after school once a month and just brainstorms wonderful ways to focus on the

036positives within our community, bring people together, um, and make sure that we're practicing self-care within our building. That being said, I'd like to pass it over to Dr. Betsy Pedock. >> Hello everybody. So, I get to speak with both the high school and then I have some friends that are going to help me when I talk about the middle school. But I'm going to start with the EMCC visitations. So we have 38 students who are currently enrolled at EMCC and every year um Tom and members of district office go over and they visit the different programs. So this was the spring visit and uh as you can see there we have Mr. Green and we have Dr. Rio and Dr. Hall and they went over and saw nail and waxing and trade electricity. Um, they

037also went over I wish I'd gone to this one to culinary. I'm always trying to tell the kids to bring me something back. I don't ever get anything back, but I'm hoping someday. And then, um, they went on to cosmetology and collision repair. And, you know, as someone who oversees an alternative program, I think that we have a lot of kids that attend um, EMCC. And I just think it's so great to have the trades because traditional schooling is not for everyone and it just feels so good that they find something that they want to do where they can be so highly successful and that's one of the beauties of EMCC. So then we're going to move along to the prom. Um this is going to become a little bit of the Mark Lincoln show.

038Actually, Mark's done a fantastic job with all of the clubs and activities and we all helped to support, but he really is um behind the curtain and in terms of everything. So, the prom was on May 16th. It was at Arandcoy Country Club. It was an absolutely beautiful event. Over 250 students were in attendance. There was food. There was dancing. And in the lower left, you can barely see it, but all of a sudden there was this incredible fireworks display. And I was like, "Oh my gosh, does that happen all the time?" And they said, "Well, we can thank Oakill for this one." So, um, we were very grateful to Oakill on that day. And the kids had a blast. No incidents. It was it was just fantastic. Um, and then we're going to move

039along to decision day. So the high school counselors do a really great job of supporting all students and all the seniors as they move on and celebrate what they will be doing next year. So that some of them will be moving on to the trades, some of them will be moving on to two and fouryear schools. But this is a day where we're right out in the main lobby and the kids just get to put up all the signs and wear their shirts and it's highly celebratory. Um, they also complete a senior survey and they can pick up their cap and gown. So, it's a really great and then we move into Springfest. I was only in charge of weather. I delivered everybody. You're welcome. And I just the way that we did the format

040this year which I think was brilliant is that the the seniors always because they have bashed the night before come a little bit late. But the other students in home room were able to spend an extended time listening to different speeches for student council elections. And then they went to the auditorium where they heard from a magical artist. Tell you a little bit more about that. And then they went to the gym for um a huge college fair and then we went into springfest and then at the end of the day we ended with the talent show. So um the magical artist was a man named Joel Greenwitch and I had an opportunity I didn't get to catch him because I was over at the middle school but in talking to the students they were

041like oh my gosh you should have seen the magician. You should have seen the magician. He brought students on stage. He brought adults on stage. He did some really cool tricks with all of them and they just they just loved it. So I wish I had seen him. Maybe next year. Um the college and career fair was highly impressive. So there were over 70 college and career reps at this fair and Courtney Stern did a really great job of sending out the information ahead of time so that the students could be strategic in terms of who they wanted to see. um they all had QR codes so that they could go up, they could um scan the QR code. They could then make an appointment to see these people and then they were able to

042get information from all the colleges or the trades that were there. It was a highly successful event and it was very well attended and then we ended with an incredible talent show. Um absolutely amazing. There were singers, there were dancers, there was comedy, and we had it all. Both staff and students took part in this. And at the end, of course, we showed our newest version of the office and ended with a brand new anthem, Take Me Home, went and rode. And um some of the people in this room sang, we sang and it was really, really excellent. So, I'm now going to turn her over to >> some of us. saying scared you. >> Well, good evening everybody. Um, we have lots of exciting projects happening at uh Brighton High School. Um, we are

043finally moved in to our door 20 uh project and we are using that daily. I think kids are starting to finally get the hang of how to work and navigate uh that vestibule and it's working out really really well for us. Um, super excited uh to talk about the technology suite. um our kids really deserve our Brighton students deserve to uh engage in instruction that is in a state-of-the-art facility so that when they leave Brighton they are uh they've had that experience. So if you haven't had a chance to walk through that space is gorgeous and our teachers are very happy to be uh teaching in that space with some great new equipment. Uh as a music educator for former music educator myself I'm very excited about the new music wing that is taking uh

044taking shape as we speak. Um, so I'm excited to see that. That should be wrapped up hopefully uh beginning of the year uh next year. So uh kids are looking forward to being in that space and not being in uh closets and the stage all together. Uh additionally uh some uh extra changing rooms and things like that and some music storage. Again, as a music educator, you just can never have uh enough music storage. So we're looking looking forward to that. U and there's a couple other great projects happening too. So again, I just mentioned that our kids deserve to be in a facility that they feel proud of um and just being in a state-of-the-art facility. So um we are looking forward to uh creating a better access for our community as well uh

045through the elevator project that'll be taking shape uh hopefully over the summer this year. Um so looking forward to that. Uh I also have the pleasure of overseeing exams and assessments at Brighton High School. Uh we just wrapped up um our AP exam season where we uh admin administered over 1,200 exams to over 500 students. That is a very very uh big undertaking and I cannot take all the credit for that. Um I would like to thank my proctors who were in this room sometimes with over 130 kids uh working away. Uh and Gwen Parks also helped me out quite a bit this year. Uh, but also admin did a great job monitoring breaks and I'm just very thankful for our teachers too who really did a great job at preparing our students. I heard

046lots of comments like, "Oh, that was so easy. That wasn't that bad." Those types of things. So, when I hear that, I know that our teachers did a really good job at preparing our students. And nowadays, most of these exams are on the computer. So um the technology team did a great job at being responsive and being prepared uh for that influx student of students who forgot to turn their device on uh in April. So um so they did a really good job with that. So I'm very very thankful um for everybody who helped with exams this uh this season. Now over to Mr. Ko. Hey everybody, we're going to wrap up talking about our spring sports which have gone very very well. Uh as you can see we've had uh our senior nights. These

047are our two uh lacrosse teams. We actually have two teams that are still going right now. The uh baseball team is playing tonight in the sectional semi-final. So, we wish them well. Uh if they win tonight, they play Friday night for the sectional title. And our track team is uh up this weekend win the sectional uh meet. So, we're excited for both all those teams uh and wish the ones that are still going very good luck. We also really want to thank the students who are in the Bruin. We we generally try to keep it a secret who's in the Bruin. Uh but you know, we're at the end of the year, so we do want to say thank you to uh these uh seven students who always were there to be at all of

048our big events and uh celebrate uh not just sporting events. The Bruin had a big part in the talent show that Bessie mentioned earlier. Uh it's just it's just really fun. And you know, they do an amazing job. Even if you know who's in there and you try to talk to them, they won't they won't talk to you. They don't want you to know who's in there. Uh they're just the Bruin. I have been asked if the Bruin has a name and right now it's still just the Bruin. And uh it's great. We we really appreciate uh these kids. Lots of three of them are seniors. So we'll be looking for a few more Bruins next year. See Dr. Hall students if you're interested in that. Uh and we have a ton of great events

049still left to go this year. Uh we have the big Aocalypse concert tomorrow night. uh senior ball on Saturday. If someone wants to call over to Oak Hill and see if they can do some fireworks just like they did for their junior prom, that would be great. Uh and of course uh graduation coming up on June 23rd. Thanks so much everybody. >> Just a brief note of thanks. Um, having had the experience, uh, within my family, I greatly appreciate that with the announcement or decision day, we'll be much more open to career ready as opposed to just college ready. Um, I always wanted it to be more than just what's your four-year college choice. And having seen some of those, no, I think that's a huge improvement. So, my thanks to all of you for

050having handed me that better more of a >> other questions or comments for the AP team at the high school. Well, first you were so much better than Dr. Oh, no. I'm sorry. No, you guys were fantastic. But but uh I think you know Tom does a great job of of of representing the work that happens, but it's really great for for you to speak to it also because you are the thread that runs through so many things that happen with kids and families. So, thanks for sharing it with us tonight. >> And it's not Mrs. Paddock, it's Dr. Paddock. I missed it. I missed it. because since last year uh Dr. Paddock finished and we're very very excited for her and it's just an acknowledgement of the expertise that you've developed in that particular

051so great job. Thank you. >> Thank you all very much. Greatly appreciate it. >> 12 Corners >> Dr. Paddock again. Good evening everyone. I am very excited to be here along with my teammates uh Amanda Masters wrapping up my first year as assistant principal at TCMS. But want to start with some gratitude. First gratitude to be a part of this team. Um joined by uh Ashley Edwards and Betsy Paddock and we certainly have also want to express our gratitude for uh Danielle Edmonds as our principal. um really thinking about what you're going to see here tonight. Um the work that she does to steer the ship and for us to work alongside her every day is is truly something to be grateful for. Um we want to take some time to highlight some of the

052fun things that have been going on. It's certainly been a busy time and we have we're joined by who are going to be the stars of the show tonight, our students um who are going to speak a little bit to you in just a bit. Um, but it they can vouch for the fact that it's a very busy time. There's a lot going on and we want to showcase for you some of the things that have been going on in the month of May. Some have been happening in the classroom during between 7:45 to 2:40 p.m., but a lot of which has been happening outside of those hours in extracurriculars, special events. So, we're going to give you a smattering of all of those things just to kind of highlight and spotlight some of the

053things going on at TCMS. So, here's just a quick run through um of some things. There's so much more um that we could highlight and certainly get into, you know, thinking about the high school presentation. Certainly testing season and really um hitting that academic grind has been a big focal point in the fourth quarter of the school year um and helping to build those skills and support students academically. Um but we want to highlight some pieces that we feel like have been really special events for our 11 through 14y olds in those middle school years that are hopefully memorable to them as they leave and transition into high school. So I'm going to kick things off with a few pictures. Um you'll see sixth graders here in our Greek banquet. Um so our sixth grade

054social studies students and some of our older students sitting here might remember um that experience when they were in sixth grade and it seems to be a memorable one from what I've heard. So students immersing themselves in Greek culture, connecting to the curriculum and their social studies course is a is a big focal point. And then getting to dress up, have fun, bring that learning to life. um taste some foods um and have that full immersion in the culture is really what the project and the curriculum is all about. We also want to highlight and this kicked off on May 1st um eighth graders attended um a performance the survivors play and it was intended to deepen their understanding of the Holocaust. And so just a couple of pieces written by Wendy Cout. The play

055is based on the real testimonies of 10 Rochester area Holocaust survivors commissioned by Center Stage Theater and the Lewis S. Wal Jewish Community Center of Greater Rochester. The production puts a human face on an important historical period. So students engage themes of intoler intolerance and prejudice and connected between the historical events and present- day issues. So just a wonderful experience for our eighth graders to have this spring. Um we wanted to though extend appreciation to the Brighton Education Fund for supporting this impactful learning opportunity. Last on the docket for me lit in the library. Um this has been going on all year long, but this was the the culminating um event of the school year during our win time, which is that last 30 minutes of the day. And this occurred on Friday, May 8th.

056Um this initiative allows students to engage further and have extension of their learning with literature. But what was really neat about this one is that the event included three veteran Aderondac hikers, our very own, Mrs. Hendrickk, Mr. Elkins, and Mrs. Elkins because the connection to the book um an author Finn Conny's hiking journey through the Aderandic High Peak. So, just a really cool opportunity for students to hear from some staff members in our building and bring that literature to life. Um, so we certainly want to give shout out to Mrs. Lambert in the library and all of um those Mrs. Hendrick and Mr. and Mrs. Elkins who participated. At this point, I'm going to kick things off to Ashley Edwards to continue to share some of our highlights. Thank you. And I love that Miss

057Masters started with um gratitude because I think it's really important. This is such a wonderful night and so thank you for the opportunity to share with you all of the amazing things that our students, our faculty and staff are really working together um to create create these amazing wonderful um opportunities and experiences for everyone. We started off the month of May with staff appreciation week and it was really great. A huge shout out to our PTSA who provided goodies the entire week long every single day. It was through a really fun travel theme. Um, and each of the members of our admin team at the building use these little bookmarks that say you rock and then there's a little blurb at the bottom, but it has a pen with rocks on it and a little

058rock eraser. And on the back, we each wrote personalized notes to each of the teachers in our building just as a way to say thank you. We see you and we appreciate all that you're doing for our students and one another each and every day. Our activity nights, we rounded out the last of our sixth and seventh grade activity nights. I know that Dr. Edmond spoke um last time about our eighth grade dance which is the culmination of the eighth grade activity nights that was also a really big hit. But again, we couldn't do this without the support and help of the PTSA who've made these really fun nights that are accessible for everyone. They've come up with a lot of really great ideas. They've been really thoughtful and intentional in their planning to make

059sure that there's an an access point for every student, that there's something there that gets them really excited and want to participate and be there. Um, so here you can see the tropical luau theme that they had. All the students like go all out for these nights. So, it's really great and the parents do too. All the guardians and caregivers who show up to support these nights also participate as well. I had the good fortune of going on the eighth grade Spanish trip to New York City this year. It was amazing. I couldn't limit all of my pictures to just one slide, so I made two. Um, apologies in advance, but in the uh top left corner, we have one of our school counselors and her daughter who were able to go on the trip

060together. um as we're riding the ferry um from New Jersey over to um Ellis Island, the Statue of Liberty, and then after we were dropped off in Battery Park. Um in the top middle photo, you'll see a bunch of our students at the top of the rock, which was a really great experience for them. And some students paid a little extra and there's a a a piece that's on top of that even that you go up and you rise above and you get a 360 view of the city and it spins while you're up there. So many of us watched from below. Um but it was really great and they loved that. Um in the top right hand corner is um we did this Thursday morning. This group was super high energy. So even though

061it was early Thursday morning, our kids were so excited. This group is called Los Planet De Lae Uno, which is named after uh the Grammy nominated Afrop Puerto Rican group. Um and they use this space. It was one of the first um Puerto Rican um first United Methodist churches in Spanish Harlem and now it's primarily as a community outreach center. But this um group, this music group is uh as I said, Grammy nominated. They're really famous, but they performed for our students. It was really interactive. All the kids got up and danced. It was so so many kids participated in the dancing portion that they were completely like we surrounded the entire building, which was really cool to see. and the kids were really into it. Um bottom right hand corner is all the chaperons

062and a student teacher who went with us too. Really fun group. And on the left was the entire group. We had over 80 students join us. Um and that was taken at the Highline after we had walked there. It was a beautiful day. Um and stopped to take a picture of everyone. Um again in the top left is right before we boarded the ferry um to then go to the Statue of Liberty which is in the middle. Um we couldn't get everybody there but those were all the I was like TCMS let's take a picture. So, that was everybody I could get for that picture. Um, but right below that, where you can see a snapshot or piece of the Statue of Liberty, prior to going to visit the Statue of Liberty, they take you,

063if anybody has not been there, they take you into a room and you actually move from three different rooms, and you get a 10-minute video about the history and the development, um, the creation of the Statue of Liberty, um, and the importance and relevance and all the individual pieces of it. So, I thought that was a really cool picture of all of our students like so well behaved, so engaged, um very much interested, and then to go out and see it and live. It was really cool. In the top right is Chelsea Market where we went for lunch and did some shopping. The students really enjoyed that as a highlight. Bottom right is Little Island. If you've never been there, it's a unique artificial um park that is free to everybody in New York City.

064Um the idea was to create some accessible green space because New York City, as we know, doesn't have a whole lot of that. um where the focus is on art, nature, and recreation. And there's um a really amazing amphitheater right in the middle of it. Um so students love that. And on the far left um is we went through this museum about pop culture um and the history of Time Square, but then they put students into what feels like a subway. So it's supposed to be as though you're riding the subway and you're going through the history of Times Square um and the development of it. And so again, I thought that was a really cool shot and students had a great time experiencing and hearing all of that. One more thing um before I

065go on, we also had the opportunity to take salsa classes at Elvin a school of dance which the students really loved and was a great experience and we went to an authentic Mexican restaurant called um La Palapa where we made empanadas and all the students had gloves and dough and queso basically um to make their empanada. They fried them for us, brought them back out. So, it was a really highlight um of the trip. Last but not least for me is the TCMS talent show. What an amazing night. I think anybody who was there was completely blown away by the talent of our students. Um much like the high school, we had um singers and dancers um and all sorts of different acts. The top middle picture is all of our judges. Um we had

066school counselors, we had um teachers, we had administrative assistants. We had a great um array of people judging. um and the the winners, everybody just had a really great night and everybody was supportive of one another and cheering and it was just a really wonderful event. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> All right, I'm back, but I'm bringing my friends up with me. So, come on. >> So, you all Yeah, just kind of come over here. Don't be shy. So, it is great to be here with all of you tonight and I want to introduce you to some people who will help me talk about a leadership opportunity that was new at TCMS this year. So, student ambassadors involved 17th and eighth grade students, all of whom were nominated by their teachers in September. And

067the group then met one to two times per year throughout the year to participate in what we called the get to know me project. Um, and I'm now going to turn it over to the leader of this project, Miss Janette Adams Price, and she is from our local history. And then the stars of our show, no offense, Miss Adams Price, Brooks Lumpky, just raise your hand. Tessa Tessa Lumpky, Emma McGawan, Lee McMillan, Willa Mooney, and Caleb Williams. So, I'm gonna start with um Miss Alam's Price and I can we're just gonna hit this little guy here. >> Okay, it's just that arrow. I'll let you go. I'll step to the side and Okay. Thank you. >> Uh thanks for letting me join you tonight. I've been with this group and the expanded group for the

068entire year from October to our pizza celebration is on June 4th. So, that'll be fun way to end. Um, I'm here to just give a little context and then really turn it over to the to the kids who've really done a remarkable job. Um, so my name is Janette Adams Price and I do work for our local history. I'm a senior consultant there doing lots of work in Brighton this year. I was joking with Alison, I said I feel like a part-time employee. I'm here like all the time and it's been wonderful. Um, but this project grew from a capstone project that I did when I was a fellow at Castle, which is the collaborative for academic and social emotional learning. And we got to live it, like lift it off paper and live it.

069But really, the goal is to empower student leaders to create that community of belonging in their schools for all kids. So, we did a lot of investigating um, but really looking through these three main questions. The first being who am I? The second who are we and the last is who do we aspire to be? And that who am I question we really started with who are we as individuals. Who do we want to be as student leaders? Who are we as this group of student leaders? And we did that um primarily by creating identity portraits. So we took these pictures of each of the student ambassadors with an object of that was important to them. You can see in the photo on the left there are some books. they're important to this student ambassador

070here. And then they just kind of added details to it, quotes and things that really inspire them and show who they are. So that really investigated the WHO MIP. It was a way for them to connect, get to know one another because they didn't all know one another in the beginning of the year. And then we moved on to create these vision boards. And that really kind of leads into the question about like who do we aspire to be? And what I said to the kids was when we're looking at creating a school or a school community of belonging for as many kids all ideally. Um what we're really thinking about is like when you wake up in the morning your feet hit the ground and you cannot wait to get to school. So let's

071build that. So they had some really wonderful ideas and I'm going to turn it over to them. So I was here for context only and Brooks Um, so as some of you may know, most students don't enjoy learning in classrooms and having to communicate and make friends in those sorts of situations. So, our action step is to make um games during win, which is our last period in the day to give kids another option and way to connect with new people and make new friends outside of being in school or them having to join a team because some kids might not automatically want to go into that situation because of either how they feel and if they feel adapt enough to play in a sport. but a way of a carefree way to introduce people

072into schools and give them ways to connect with other people. Thank you. Okay, >> hi, I'm Emma. >> Hi, I'm Wayne. And we like to show our idea we've been developing masters. So, we uh sent out a survey a few months ago and that showed us that about 43% of our students respect each other's opinions and differences. That number was a little bit too low for us. So, our action step was to take something to help us build community and put that into pop-up clubs. We created pop-up clubs, which are clubs that meet two to three times, two to three weeks at a time that are local moment and a chance to connect with friends who share the same interests. So, why are we going to do this? Like Lane said, to help build community

073for students looking for connection. Um, we've been working really hard to create this idea and put it into action. >> Yeah, we've been um reaching out to like putting up posters around the school, putting ads on the morning show or lunchtime. Maybe we could go in as student leaders and share with our peers what our idea is or maybe newsletters. >> We're really excited to see how our idea can be implemented in next year's school year. >> Thank you for listening. Okay. So, our idea was like or the data that we gathered was from this also the student survey that showed us that 55% of students disrespect happens in the hallway which was kind of high for the hallway. Um, so we made this board and Tessa is going to talk about a little bit

074about it. Making a video for all students to see about hallway etiquette will remind students on what the expectations are to keep everyone safe in the halls. Almost everyone sees the morning show and it will catch your attention. This will help make our hallway safe and efficient for people to get to class on time. Classes won't get distracted by students behavior in the hallway. So we're shoot we're looking forward to to next year even though us eighth graders are leaving for the seventh graders to take it over and to put this idea into action and see what like impact it has on the students in the upcoming year >> and we have one more >> um we also looked at the survey and it said 70% of students agreed that school works to to make

075our school feel like we are all part of one community. And we came up with the idea of a kindness board. Um the kindness board is about making or showing that people have done something. So there would be a slip and you would write someone's name and said how they had showed kindness towards you and they could see it on the board and feel recognized and feel more connected with all types of different people. So, I want to thank all of you, first of all, for being so courageous in being willing to stand up here and do this. And we are looking forward to next year and being able to put some of these things into place. We have some logistics to work out, but I I'm just so grateful to you and Janette, we're

076all so grateful to you. So, thank you so much. Thank you. All right. Well, I'm going to just finish things up for TCMS, everybody. So, uh, the last event that I want to talk about before we just go over the things that we have coming up for the rest of the year is we had a TCMS 100year annivers anniversary t-shirt design contest and we wanted to com commemorate the hundred years of TCMS and we like to have something for students to vote on the day of the budget vote. So, this was a really great thing to do. So, between May 1st and May 15th, students of all ages at our school um submitted designs. students then voted on 33 designs that were submitted. So, somebody said, "Okay, Betsy, you're just going to have to put

077together this PowerPoint." There were 33. So, oh my goodness, it's a big PowerPoint. But it was great. the winning design which will be printed on t-shirts. They are right now actually through Crazy Dog and Pete Pelli who is a Brighton graduate um the students will all wear it on the end of the year trips to Darian Lake in Seabbze was an eighth grader named Sophia Vasman. So, this is the winning design and I'm just so excited that we're actually going to be able to identify all of our kids, number one, when we are at the park, but that we are going to be able to commemorate it and faculty are now putting in and saying that they want to buy a shirt, too. So, we are really excited about that. And then finally, I will

078end with just some of our upcoming events. And we're within a month of school being over and we still have so much to do. and going between buildings. I feel like every night is going to be really busy for me if I were going to make it about me. But um May 29th, we welcome our fifth graders into uh at TCMS with a 506 activity night. We have band concerts, the spring celebration, of course. Um lots of music coming up. June 6 is a huge eighth grade farewell bonfire, which is always a tremendous event. If you're able to stop by, we'd love to see you. Um, A Wrinkle in Time is is going to be the play that's at the at the TCMS auditorium on June 12th and 13th. And then our end of year

079trips are on the 24th. So, thank you everybody for listening. Thank you to our students for being here. And um, hope you all have a good night. >> Amanda, Ashley, Betsy, certainly Danielle, thank you all very much. That was excellent. Students, just a great great job. Another round of >> we'll go continuing in order. We'll go right down to French Road. >> I just want to thank Andy Osborne, teacher in French Road, who uh we know that uh Mrs. Wheeler is out on maternity leave, but Andy also is completing a project in his graduate program and is joining us this evening. So, thank you, Andy. >> Sorry about that. Thank you. Thank you for having me. All right, so I'm going to just jump right in. Uh concert season, we've had some wonderful concerts this

080uh past month. Uh we even had uh Rob Thomas joined in the red and blue band. Chorus concerts were uh built into our ice cream social forth and fifth grade. Uh last week we had a strings concert and our last band concert is this Thursday for the fourth grade. Clubs and intramurals have been busy. Uh I'd like to highlight the Girl Scouts and Girls on the Run. Uh we have many courtyards in our building and they adopted two of them, cleaned them up. Uh little TLC, much needed. Uh here are some photos from early morning reading uh read to the dogs, read to dogs event. Uh we had some amazing dogs from Rock Dog come and join. Uh an English mastiff. Its head was like this big. Um, we had a golden doodle as well

081as two, uh, French road dogs, um, Remy and Biscotti. And a big thank you to Don Hurley who set that up. So, science and technology come together uh, our third through fifth graders uh, creating green screen weather reports uh, in technology class. So, fifth graders, one of the last units that they did was called Extreme Settings. Uh, and students in fifth grade read the book All 13 about the Thai cave uh, rescue in 2018. Uh, and students in Mrs. Klovski's fifth grade class when reading after reading the book, uh, one of the final projects that they did was, uh, mock interview uh, slashreport news report. And so they took uh turns being like the divers and the rescuers. As you can see, one of the students has like a scuba attempted scuba mask from stuff

082that they got in the classroom. >> Also, fifth graders in Miss Cordova and Mrs. Legaris's class are piloting piloting a new economics unit. and George Allesandria, an economics professor from the University of Rochester who uh formerly worked at the Federal Reserve, came and taught the students about economics and all things economy special. So just highlighting a little bit of the innovation, learning and collaboration uh student engagement. Uh this is some music lessons using uh the Prometheian board for students learning strings and xylophone. Peeps and PE. A special thank you to our PE teachers for organizing another successful peeps in PE. Uh parents, caregivers, and grown-ups were welcome to join uh class for our last cycle. Uh parents left with lots of smiles. I even participated in one of them. Uh, we did like a three-point

083contest. It was pretty fun. I kept trying to go for the longest distance. Elbow still isn't back to normal. Uh, we had teacher and bus driver appreciation as well as principal appreciation over the last month. Uh, brighten your day cafe came from the high school and served um staff uh cookies and treats as well as coffee. um as well as the uh we had muffins for the bus drivers. So this was fun. This is the underground spirit week. So students did not know that there anything was going on beforehand. Uh so staff uh created an a theme for each day and the students on the first day came and were very confused. Uh and so one of the uh first ones is uh dress like your favorite student right there. Uh there was a holiday

084mashup and then of course uh I just rolled out of bed was the another theme. We had another successful uh second annual color run. Uh thank you to Alyssa Carsy for organizing. Uh the kids raised $20,000 to the PTSA. >> Very fun. >> That's crazy. >> We had some successful ice cream socials. you might know those individuals. Uh so yeah, we had third, fourth, and fifth grade ice cream socials over the last month. Fourth, and fifth grade uh had a chorus concert to begin uh the event. Uh art shows throughout. Thank you to uh Mallerie Greger and Amanda Tobia, our art teachers. Parents enjoyed seeing all the student artwork. Uh great open houses. Thank you to the teachers in special areas. The teachers were able to show off a lot of the great student work.

085And thank you to the PTSA and the board for adding sprinkles and joy. >> So, uh during our March uh superintendent conference day, science teachers worked with ILTS uh to learn different science resources and different ways to motivate students in science and prep them for our New York State fifth grade science test. And so students were challenged actually on learning app to answer as many questions about science as possible. And the students at French Road answered 88,372 questions over the last month. And highlighted there are the students uh who had the most questions answered across the fifth grade in few different classes. And our last thing was our FRES faculty uh lunchon uh sponsored by the PTSA PTSA. It was wicked themed. Uh it was a great time. >> That's good to know. >> If

086you could figure Yeah. Right. Uh sweet surprises uh and some great spirit. Uh staff uh some staff dressed up obviously and they received wonderful prizes for dressing up >> and it was all things wicked. Uh so some highlighting some events coming up. As I mentioned, our fourth grade band concert is on the 28th on Thursday. I did not put in the five go six event is on Friday. Our field day is on the 2nd. We have the Fres musical school of rock uh fourth, 5th, and 6th of June. Our second grade bingo and family orientation. There's the senior parade and of course the end of the school on the 24th. Thank you so much. >> Awesome. >> Uh we thank you for we thank you for pinch hitting Andy. We greatly appreciate it. Uh comments

087or questions for Andy or should we let him sit down? >> Well done. Thank you very much. I feel like there should be a drum roll. And Katie sh >> I know. I've been waiting for it. >> Last but not least, see what you say. >> Yes. Last but not least, um, thank you all for having me tonight. Um, I'm excited to present for the first time with my daughter in some of these pictures because this year I have the privilege of bringing her to school with me. Um, so that's a really exciting piece of some of the pictures you'll see tonight. Um, at Council Rock, we've had a lot of endofear fun events going on. Um, but tonight I'm going to talk about some of the things happening in school and then a couple

088of the field trips happening outside of school. So, a couple weeks ago, Jeff Green and Colleen Coggins came over and started our two3 transition events. Um, and we had a second grade um, assembly and we talked about all of the fun things that our second graders are going to experience over at French Road. Um, we talked about the lockers and we talked about two specials every day. Um, and the different fun parts and pieces that French Road has to offer. Um, the kids asked some really great questions. Um, and they're excited for the upcoming opportunities. Um, over at French Road. The students are going to go on a full second grade field trip over to FRES. Um, so they're excited for that. In June, we also had bike and walk to school week. Um it

089was beautiful on like two of the five days. Um so those were great, but Coach Kger and Mrs. Cooper were so kind and they did it rain or shine with the inflatables, with the music, with the costumes. Um they had a lot of fun. Um and they gave out stickers. Uh and the kids really enjoyed uh walking and biking and scootering um to school. A couple more pictures. Um we really did have a ton of kids really enjoying it. Our car line was very busy in the afternoons with a lot of kids going home on their bikes um or scooters. All right. Also in PE with Coach Kger and Mrs. Cooper um students worked on pedestrian and bike safety. Um we actually had a firefighter come in as well as a crossing guard um to

090come in and talk about safety on the road. Um we integrated different sports and different activities into these rules. So, um, passing a pedestrian, kids were on scooters, they were playing hockey, they were dribbling a basketball, um, different activities within the gym, um, but practicing the rules of the road while doing it. Again, a couple more shots adding in hockey, um, parking lot safety, and crosswalk safety. We also celebrated teacher appreciation week, um, with our fantastic PTSA. They put on a huge lunchon for us last Friday um for our faculty and staff to enjoy. It was berry themed and our PTSA really goes above and beyond decorating and providing us a fantastic lunch. Um Matt and I also provided some goodies for the teachers throughout the week. Um so they had some caffeine and a

091couple little um things in their mailbox and lunch on the Friday of teacher appreciation week. We also had some voting and elections happening at CouncilRack um last week on the 19th. So, the students were voting and testing out if they would like extra recess or a movie in their final assembly um in June. I bet you can't believe what won. Uh they'll be enjoying some extra recess um in June for their last assembly. Um but the kids really got to practice that uh democratic process in our monthly assemblies. We've really focused on kindness, respect, and self-control. So, Matt and I have each grade level come for 30 minute um intervals on Mondays, and we give the teachers the gift of time, but we also focus on um different things that we're seeing throughout the building

092or that the teachers are seeing in their classrooms. Uh this month, we read the story, uh my mouth is a volcano because it felt appropriate. Um and you know, there's just a lot of impulsivities going on. the weather's getting nice. Um, but so that was a fun story to read. Um, and we really honed in on uh managing those impulsivities. Some of the fun things happening outside of school. Um, I had the privilege of going on my daughter's first field trip to um, the fairy trail out in Menden Ponds and the kids connected their work with Andrea Yammen with the habits of mind um, to seeing different things out in nature. So, they kind of had a little checklist of things that they were looking for. not sure they saw all of the things that

093they wanted to, but they definitely saw a lot of different fairy houses um and experienced um the trail and the little playground out at Menden Pond. So, that was really fun. Um mine is one of those blondes in that lineup in the middle. Um so, they had a lot of fun uh and enjoyed their time out at Menden Ponds. We also had our 1214 classes um head out to the Equa Center and our students got to experience um the horses and all of the work that takes to um care for them as well as planting a garden um and different aquatic activities. No one went swimming thankfully um but they did get to see all that the Aqua Center had to offer. One of our um inschool field trips is the zoo mobile. So the

094Senk Park Zoo comes in um and brings in some animals for the kids to um observe in our HAB lab. Um and I think they saw four or five different animals. Um all kindergarten classes got to participate in that. And last but not least, u musicians from Brighton High School came down and um sang for us for our kindergarten and first graders. We fit them all in the cafeteria. They're pretty smooshed, but they all fit. Um, and they got to enjoy uh the music from the high school. So, that's a sweet video of the kids enjoying their time. All right, a couple upcoming events. We do have Play coming up. the last two years it has sprinkled rain, so I don't believe that we actually do a rain date because I think we just power

095through even if it's raining. Um, so that'll be on June 5th and then we have our second grade celebration um coming up as well. So, thank you all so much for your time. uh to all of the vice principles, assistant principles. Um though the principles are telling us all the time how much you are doing every day and how important you are to those schools. We are grateful to have the opportunity to hear from each of you tonight. So, thank you very much for taking the time to do so. It is greatly appreciated. I know I said it when the four uh high school APs were three and a half and Dr. Paddock is one and a half to both, but uh how you are really the connection and the connective tissue between so many

096great things that happen for kids in the building. Uh I I would extend that to everybody and say, you know, Ashley and Amanda uh and Katie, Andy, thank you for sharing as well tonight and being a part of that. I think it's really remarkable the work that you do, the way you do that work and and how much we appreciate that. I just want you to know that. And to the principles who work closely with you to put you in a position to impact people in that way. Uh it's really wonderful to have you here anytime, but particularly tonight. We look forward to this all year so that you can speak to all these things, too. So, thank you very much. Much appreciated. >> Now, we're going to get some blueprint updates. I don't know

097the order of who is presenting. So I will trust the appropriate people will get up in the appropriate order. Where are we? >> Thank you. >> I don't need readers yet. Thanks. We will jump right to our overviews really quickly. Um, here's some highlights of a few things in terms of student support that's happened since Caitlyn and I have been up here to share uh since February. I'm going to highlight two of the pieces on this slide here. um actually joining in with the second to third grade transition special educators from both French Road and Council Rock did a joint collaborative um department meeting together in response to and I want to give thanks to Katie who's here but also Shirley Wheeler who sent out a survey to the teams. We were able to sit

098down with both of the teams to look at what is working well, what do we need to improve on, and from that conversation we were able to come up with pieces that we need to think about before we run to CSSE meetings. during those meetings and following those meetings, including some pieces of when we're going to send out messages to families and when we're going to be communicating to different teams so that Council Rock families and students can really feel that warm, supportive handoff from Council Rock over to French Road. So, my thanks to their work on that and this will be a continued experience for us for those joint meetings. Another piece, um, Caitlyn and I are on a traveling road show and actually coming up, we are meeting with local pediatricians offices. Uh

099next week we'll be with Elwood Pediatrics where we're talking about the cse the 504 process and how we can work with pediatricians in terms of understanding um the process of school regulation around cse and 504s recommending accommodation and and that referral process so that we have mutual understanding and collaboration um related to mental health and wellness for students. um like Diana's talking about with that connecting for kids partnership, we're really starting to see that benefit of this initiative where um the pediatrician's office are really starting to use that collaboration form to reach out to us. Like Diana said, we're doing those presentations to the pediatrician's office. We're continuing to partner with um Dr. Heatley. She just presented to the T the TCMS PTSA meeting last week. Um and we're going to make sure that that

100presentation is available to people that weren't able to present. Um, she also is doing some work now to support our mental health teams with transitioning students back from pretty intensive mental health interventions like partial or impatient hospitalization. Um, you heard Mark talk a little bit about the systems to work around chronic absenteeism and looking at ways to analyze data in different ways is how we continued that work. uh looking at our college and career readiness and how do we continue that work as the um bringing that work down to TCMS um and looking at some more opportunities to look at that college and career exploration at TCMS um looking at like college and career fairs and how do they look at school links um within different courses. uh as it relates, you heard the um

101assistant principles talk a lot about teacher appreciation, but looking at all of those opportunities for fostering joy for teachers and the um and the staff within the building, highlighting a lot of the different things that the buildings did um across the um buildings to foster opportunities as well as this building. Um and those initiatives a lot are driven by the wellness committee as well as the district wellness committee. That's it. Any questions for us before we switch off to Allison? >> Great. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Hello everyone and good evening. So we are just going to have our blueprint day tomorrow which will be another day full of all blueprint updates. So tonight will just be just some brief overviews putting some closure on things that have happened since the last time we

102connected. So one of our blueprint items this year was our K5 math curriculum review. And you heard me talk a little bit about this earlier this year, but we had a great team meet several times throughout the year of K6 teachers to review different curriculum that we had been um gathering input on from companies and surveys from our teachers etc. And Julie Cop and Stefano Manakino had led that process and where we landed is that we will be triing just one program next year, H Hotton Mifflin's Heart Courts into Math and we have teachers representative all the way from our kindergarten through sixth grade curriculum. So next year will be really an in-depth study around what that program looks like. Um we'll give a lot of support to the teachers professional development this summer and

103we'll do some really deep data collection so we can make a determination by early spring late winter if that is the program we want to move forth with for elementary. So more to come on that next year but a lot of work went into that. Um we also have been continuing to update our curriculum in power school. We have three more UBD institutes as you've heard about in the past happening this summer with about 100 teachers participating in curriculum review upcoming in July and August and and a couple days at the end of June as well. So we look forward to that continued work. And if you were part of curriculum council this year, you heard about our work around the New York State computer science and digital fluency standards. and one of our instructional

104leaders, Katie Fallon, has taken the lead from following the work we did at curriculum council to incorporate a tool for us to begin to manage those standards through our curriculum institutes this summer. So, that will begin when we start that work this June. Just a brief overview of what program evaluation is. So, I've been fortunate to have three people this year and probably all of you over the years at the board table as part of the program evaluation process to some degree. But why do we do program evaluation? It's to kind of do an assessment of where we are in a program um and and level set what we should be looking at, whether there's new standards we should be looking at, new content, whatever it might be. Um and then we spend time reviewing,

105collecting data from all of the stakeholders that are part of the program, students, teachers, family members, um administrators, whoever the team decides it might be. And we look at all of that data together and make recommendations for the next five years. So, the goal of the program evaluation is to kind of just level set where we are and say where should we be going for the next five years. Um, and we've had three program evaluations run this year. So, I'll give a brief update. I won't read through all of these, but just want to give you a brief update of where we landed. Our library and physical education program evaluations completed this school year. Our CTE is still going on into next school year as we just need a little bit more time to continue

106the work together, which is okay because not everything fit fits neatly into a school year as we know. We wish it did sometimes, but it doesn't always happen that way. So, in library, we came up with um five recommendations. In PE, four recommendations with a lot of subrecommendations that I didn't list on here, but they'll be on our website shortly. Um, but the workaround library really focused on the collaboration piece of working with um the classroom teachers as part of their program and creating a skills progression through kindergarten through 12th grade. Um, and then some other important things that came up were just the um important piece of just managing the collections, making sure we're looking at students needs and and wants in there um and strengthening communication and program visibility across the board. In

107PE, we had another wonderful program evaluation and lots of different work came out of it. I they're very excited for the work that's happening as over the next five years, but continuing work around curriculum and assessment and grading um an incorporation of social emotional learning and student experiences and really focusing in on professional um work together with the K12 department and what that looks like over the next five years. And in CTE, which is our fax, business, and technology classes, um we are really have looked at the career piece and student readiness um for career exploration as was mentioned by Caitlyn a few minutes ago. Um so we're continuing some work around that. We are right now actually surveying our fifth graders and our eighth graders and our seniors around their experiences and perceptions and

108that will drive some of our work as we continue into the fall. We had lots of people take place um take part rather of these program evaluations. We always have a board member. So, thank you to Carrie Lynn and Sue and Clayton who were part of the work this year. Thank you to we always have sitting administrators on it. So, appreciate Matt Tapen and Betsy Paddock, um Tracy Glazer, Mark Crest, um Danielle Edmmonds who were part of these three program evaluations and then all of the wonderful teachers who also took their time to be part of this work. We had a great team. You can see everyone who was part of that here. A couple of more items for academic excellence. Um you'll, you know, hear more about this tomorrow at our blueprint day, but

109our equitable grading practices are continuing um in in um the high school and at the middle school. At the high school, the professional learning team has led the work this year. Um really proud of the work the high school did around the grading expectations and recommendations document that you heard about that was published this fall. And they've been using that through their work this year both at um the fall conference day and in the spring. departments um were able to discuss a topic of their choice and explore more with some of their colleagues. And at the middle school level this year, the work was focused around the implications of summitative and formative assessments and the committee made recommendations and consistencies for the larger school community to think about as they went into next school year.

110And then lastly, just you know, some of the topics that we focused on through the blueprint that you heard me talk about a little bit and we continued to work on this school year. the um work around artificial intelligence, not only professional development for teachers, but continuing to think and learn and make recommendations for our students and our teachers together. So, we had continued professional learning at our um spring superintendent conference day following the work we did last summer. Um and we will continue to spend time in that. So, that's an area as all of you know is is ongoing and we will continue to adapt as we need to. And then we had a focus around executive functioning skills across K12 in different pockets of professional development for new teachers for different um stakeholder

111groups throughout the district teaching assistance different groups had PD and some faculties offered that as full building professional development this year. So that was a big focus of our work in the blueprint as well. So I will if if there are no questions I'm going to pass it off to Jeff now for the student family experience. >> Thank you. Thank you. Good evening. So, the assistant principles did a wonderful job of sharing a ton of the wonderful work that is happening with uh to support both our students and families throughout the district since we last spoke. Um, so I'm going to I'm not going to go through every bullet, but I'm going to kind of highlight some themes. So, one of the things that our buildings are doing a wonderful job of is continuing to

112have students uh student leadership. We saw it with our own eyes uh this evening trying to get students to become leaders to to lead also at different um age groups. We've had a lot of work with our both BHS and TS TCMS students engaging with students at French Road and at at Council Rock. They're the superstars and they always think that they are superheroes when they are there. Um I know Katie mentioned we are continuing to work on a lot of transition events as students are moving from one building to the next. um had a great assembly this past Friday. Also went a couple weeks ago at uh Council Rock and then we're going to be trying something a little different uh by bringing all the eighth graders over to the high school this year

113which we're really really excited about. Um the team did a great job of talking about when it comes to student leadership the the clean sweep and then the first college uh fair this past Friday was phenomenal as well at the high school. So a lot of things going on, a lot of students uh becoming leaders engaging with the younger students and continuing to uh to grow in that area. I know it's been a couple months, but we did not talk about the dodgeball game since uh since then. Uh I know that Dr. Evans is not here, but she did want me to let everybody know that T TCMS was the official winner of the event and they want their trophy. So, I'll let uh Dr. McGowan and Dr. Evans kind of deal with that situation.

114>> Good for them. >> Exactly. Good for them. That That's what the boss says. Okay. So, um, two other wonderful events, uh, bringing the the community together. Most recently, the, um, color run at Fres. It was a rainy night, but, the kids still had a chance to get the color out, and even if you were trying to be away from the color, it got on you. Um, and then in terms of the successful uh, that we had our final webinar series with parents' partners, a lot of great feedback. Um, had one of the highest participation rates um, in the Monroe County area from the school districts that were participating. So, that's something that we look forward to. um investigating further partnership with them in the future. And then last but not least, um the Steamfest.

115We're talking about uh ways to have access. What a wonderful event to not only bring community in, but also to have outside um community members to come in, teach our students about uh fields within STEM. It was really, really cool to see. This picture I feel like does a really great job of showing some of the it was I've never seen anything like it. It was really really great way to combine um STEM fields and community partners and having the students be able to engage and the little ones were like like they were at BHS open campus at at Council Rock and it was not crazy. So um and I know that the team at FRES uh mentioned the 20 grand that was raised during the color run, but I just want to make the

116connection to the fact that is one of our goals. We want to continue to promote the student support fund. That's where the money is coming from. And there are a lot of families that are continuing to access those funds to benefit from it and their children be able to access a lot of the wonderful but sometimes expensive opportunities that we have in the district. And um and one of the things we're actually actually going to be adding um with some of the projects we have with construction um looking into offering some transportation for graduation this year. So Lou is giving me the hairy eyeball. So I'm not going to say anything else about that. Um, and then last but not least, Kaitlin did a great job. Um, and Tiana around our continued partnership with URMC

117and outside providers with um, the doctors as well. So, um, you'll hear more tomorrow for those of you that are going to be joining. So, we'll see you then. Are there any questions for me about the work, the large umbrella of student and family experience? >> No, just continued appreciation for all that you're doing. Thank you. >> It's team effort. It's not me. I'm sharing all the awesome work that the team is doing. So, and dodgeball was great and we're happy for the middle school all kidding aside but it is a really great community event and you do a lot to organize it with the students Jeff so thank you very much for that and a lot of you participated as well so thank you >> good evening so on the operations side again our

118three big rock safety facilities and human capital and I want to first start by celebrating the passage of the capital project and certainly thank the board of education for all your support in development of that project and the support for that project and certainly appreciation for the community for their for their support. With that, you know, that additional $13.6 million, that's going to be well over $135 million worth of capital investment since 2017. So, we're really finished this first phase of the blueprint and we're on to the next 10 years of what that's going to look like. And we still have a lot more work to do in developing that plan, but we got a lot of lot of work to do over these next three years. So uh we have a little bit more

119time to do that but still u looking forward to what the next 10 years is going to bring. So tonight I just wanted to focus on the human capital um and the key strategies and really the work around here is uh continu continuity of operations. We're a thin organization staffing wise. So it's always next person up and that's what we've been investing in with the customized onboarding standardized training and then sub plans who can step in continue the work. Uh so a lot of good work in partnership with the support service directors and our building uh building level administrators uh and investing in our people and making sure that we're always prepared and that the work can can always get done. Uh a few highlights from Director Theresa Moer uh from safety and security. Again,

120we're trying to capitalize and invest in systems to be efficient in in administration of our security procedures. Uh so we are fully functioning with the single wire, the new visitor management system. Uh we're pleased in how that's going. We continue our partnerships with local law enforcement and our uh proactive threat assessments. Again, that's the basis of our uh security plans is making those connections with students and preventing something before it happens. And our mental health staff, our building administrators are just outstanding at making those connections, collaborating and doing those those threat assess threat assessments before anything happens. Again, training and building capacity along the same lines as the human capital piece of it. Uh we continue to capitalize on the I love you guys training that we participated in last summer and um building level

121teams have done an excellent job of operationalizing that and putting their plans in place. Um and that's pretty much it. Any questions for me? >> Good job. >> Uh any additional comments with regards to the overall blueprint update? >> No. You know, we have our day tomorrow that many people are aware of. So, just to say to community members, I believe we have 65 people coming tomorrow to participate in planning next year with us. So, those updates will be delivered to that group tomorrow in addition to a variety of other data and information about where we are academically, where we are culture, climate wise, but each of the buildings and programs will present as well as a baseline to really launch into this is our plan. That's the connective tissue. That's what we do every

122year that drives our spending plan. that drives our curriculum work and it it drives our operational work, our engagement, culture, climate work across the board. The ways we support children, families, it is not, you know, throw something against the wall and see how it goes. It is a plan every single year that we measure, that we revisit, and then we build on to continue that tradition of excellence. So, we're excited for that work tomorrow and excited for all of you to participate in that and for again 65 people from the community to engage in that also. The updates are excellent. That's a great summary of all the great work that's done throughout the year. And now we get to start sort of fresh. We want to build on that, but start tomorrow and say, "Okay,

123then what is it we need to do to keep building on that and getting better and better and better and make sure we're addressing the needs of all of our kids and families." So excited for that. >> Yeah, I'll just add that obviously the existing blueprint is online and able to be uh reviewed by any community member and people sort of say to us, "What are your priorities?" they are there in the blueprint and as you stated we have the opportunity to update, improve and make any edits we need to tomorrow that will guide us into the next year. So >> mentioned the capital referendum. It's just a good time to say two things. First of all, deep congratulations to Dr. Gasparino and to Mrs. Bertino. We're very excited for both of you and to

124Dr. Bob Cole who's here tonight as well. I know it's in the back. Uh excited to have Bob join the team as well. And if you'd like, we could spend more time talking about you leaving the team, but we won't. We're on to the next say you're wonderful. But the other the other uh piece of that is we really do want to make sure we're expressing to the community again uh how much we appreciate their support, the vote of confidence in the work being done while at the same time respecting that in a community people have dissenting perspectives and not diminishing those in any way. Understanding that people have different feelings about the work we do both in the budget work but the capital work. Acknowledging all that, understanding that we support the majority in

125democracy and we acknowledge the position that wasn't the majority position and continue to find ways to make it the largest majority possible, right? The most voices under the umbrella that are being heard and acknowledged. So, we thank everybody because that was a challenge for our community to also decipher narratives that were really tricky relative to going over the cap, relative to big cost increases, relative to all of the challenges with regard to capital work. And we appreciate people thinking really deeply about that, engaging in the material that was presented to them and making a decision and a thoughtful decision. uh whether they whether it was yes or no on any of those, it was a thoughtful decision made by our community and we're excited to move forward with that support and take the next step.

126So, thank you. >> Great. >> Thank you. >> Okay, a few other items yet to review. Uh next up, we have approval of the textbook recommendations for the 2026 2027 school year. This was put forward by Allison in regards to 7th 8th grade math book. You've had a chance to review it. Questions with regards to this recommendation? >> Motion to approve. >> So moved. Moved by Karen. >> Seconded by Clayton. All those in favor? >> I. >> Also here I have an approval for a grant agreement with Monro County for food waste reduction. Anything we can do to reduce food waste is a good thing. Obviously questions with regards to this grant agreement. >> Motion to approve. >> So moved. >> Moved by Susan. >> Seconded by Esther. All those in favor? >> I. >>

127Also have here an approval of a jewel agreement between Brighton Central School District and a particular employee that you all have been briefed about. Are there any questions with regards to this jewel agreement? Motion to approve. >> So moved. >> Moved by Clayton. >> Seconded by Carrie Lynn. All those in favor? >> We have a number of items on the consent agenda, including a couple of fundraising activities. First, uh, a can drive for the gender sexuality alliance at BHS and also one for the Friends of the Arts in Brighton at Fres concessions on June 4th to June 6th. Uh, so we appreciate all the support for those things. For gifts, Karen, I'll have you start. >> Uh, first is a gift from Susan Miller to the Dennis Miller Scholarship Fund in the amount of $100.

128>> Next up is a gift from Adam Trian to Brighton High School Be Like John Boyd Scholarship Fund to Brighton High School in the amount of $73.76. And finally, a gift from Christine Bonady to the music department of the Brighton Central School District of the Bundy clarinet and mouthpiece with the Wolfpack clarinet case. >> Very cool. Uh questions uh with regards to the consent agenda. Motion to approve. >> So moved. >> Moved by Esther. >> Seconded by Karen. All those in favor? >> I. >> Uh before we adjourn, first uh blueprint day tomorrow as Dr. McGowan alluded to, very much looking forward to updating and seeing how we can be better, which is the goal every year. Second, a round of uh thanks to all of the voters who came out on a very hot

129day. I'm not sure who's in charge of the weather that day, but we appreciate people's patience. We appreciate the poll workers and everybody coming in and letting us know what they think. A special thanks to Kim, Mary Kate Front, who had a long day and had a lot to do, but we uh pulled off a successful election where every voice could be heard. I'm sorry, >> Nancy Butler. >> And Nancy Butler, thank you very much. U Nancy was at the door like a bouncer for a period of time. I totally like that. >> That's a good description. >> Exactly. Don't mess with Nancy. So, yeah, just great all the work behind the scenes to get that done and we're grateful for all our voters who took the time to come out and vote. Uh thank

130you. Next meeting, not blueprint tomorrow, which is June 9th, which is tenure recognition as a principal piece, is actually at the Brighton High School auditorium. So, our last official meeting of the year will be at the Brighton High School auditorium. Uh, and uh, Mike and the Chuck Taylor and Bill of Rights. Uh, we thank you for getting everything done for us here for tonight's meeting. Any other comments for the good of the order? With that, I will offer a motion to adjurnn. So moved. >> Moved by Clayton. >> Seconded by Carrie Lynn. All those in favor. >> We are ajourned. >> This has been a special presentation from the Brighton Central School District Board of Education.