Board of Education Meeting and Tenure Reception - June 14, 2022

001this is a special presentation from the brighton central school district board of education good evening and welcome to the brighton central school district board of education business meeting and tenure recognition to begin with i'll call the meeting to order which i just did next i will ask for an approval of tonight's agenda so move move by andrea second seconded by sue all those in favor next up we have an approval of minutes from may 24th so moved moved by karen second second and by esther all those in favor all right we have a long and busy and full meeting tonight we're gonna have a great time uh some tenure candidates but just real briefly i want to just have a moment about some transitions that were going to be underway in itself getting 10 years

002of transition from a probationary teacher to a career which is great i wanted to make note that last week a bunch of us were able to celebrate with some teachers who were on the other side of that transition they were retiring and i tabulated this there were 16 retirees with 363 years of experience that left this last week some outstanding people who did great things for our students and i don't know any of them are here but they deserve a round of [Applause] applause um and parts of this table will be also undergoing a transition our student rep which is lila monger is not here tonight because she's at her track and field banquet she has a bunch of things going on and we told her that the track and field banquet was likely more

003important and she will be replaced by a young woman named eliza house who's not able to be here because she's asymptomatic for colvin so this is 2022. these this is how we roll we look forward to meeting eliza in an abstention we give lila a round of applause for just doing a great job very upbeat and a great night i do want to pass along one sad thing the woman that was uh nicole your ellis's predecessor was a woman named beth jacqueline she passed away recently had a long uh tough battle with cancer she was out at this table for a number of years always just did a phenomenal job of talking about the bta and everything that they did a few of us were able to be at a celebration of her life last

004week or two weeks ago i forget now her uh husband and kids just did a fantastic job we'll miss beth nicole you do a great job and you are a worthy successor tibet but will always keep her family in our thoughts and prayers in that regard this is kind of sad for us on the board this will be andrea costanza's last board meeting after over a decade of service uh to this community those of us who have sat on the board with andrea know her to be compassionate empathetic a great listener she has the right sense of humor to be a board member and she has an uncanny ability to ask difficult questions of the board which helps us be better and she served this district for over a decade and besides being on the

005board some various subcommittees julian can tell you she also did some i want to say some other fun things like saying yes to the dress and doing some of the things around writing your wardrobe that helps students in ways that aren't always up front and center so uh we have a plaque for her but i would ask that you all give andrea a round of applause please [Applause] andrea's going to get to travel a little bit more her husband have a camper and go and harass their kids who aren't in town anymore and i do want to thank we only do this able to do it once a year but i'm going to ask ian and mike in the back room and bill to come and stand in front of me please for just a

006second the cameras will run for just a moment i'll ask you three to come on up here for a second please get them out nate i'm not get them out come on mike mike we know you can hear us mike no no hey guys i need you to come and stand in front of me it'll block the view of me which is good we're off the air right now hey mike can you see that sign up there i need you guys i need you guys to back up and face the audience please um raise you and i see your ian raiser say hi mike say hi bill say hi these are the people behind the camera all the time that allow us to stream and have this out for everybody they do this job all

007year but speaking of transitions ian will be moving to new york city or someone said the jersey shore i don't know um to go work for amazon so we're losing ian but these three have done a stellar job for us this year getting our message out making sure people have access and visibility and what we do has transparency so i'd ask a round of applause for them [Applause] thank you guys thank you guys very much and we're going to look for you on jersey shore last thing i'd say and i i always forget to do this before school starts to break every meeting we have fantastic beautiful wonderful art behind us except this meeting and we get all of the art teachers paintings portraits photographs and things like that and it brings a smile to

008us as we walk in here so very very grateful for that okay long meeting tonight let's get to another fun part of that which is the transition from probationary teacher to tenured teacher so i think julian and i will go up and take some things up there and you get to speak so uh one thing just if you call the motion first so we'll do the approval first and then we'll hand out the certificates i'm sorry so i'm doing the motion that's okay yeah that's okay we got to do this officially because this is important so if you call the motion first and then any discussion is this and then they come back because we're still recommending and then we come back and they vote after you come back down okay motion to approve the

009list of candidates here on your agendas for tenure tonight moved by julene second seconded by sue questions discussions comments looking forward to hearing all of their accomplishments right so we'll do that and then you can take the vote when you come back down after you hear about all how fantastic they are thank you so i would just ask the tenure recipient when i call your name if you could come up and stand next to mrs gilbert and mr davis and then they have a tenure certificate for you so first up jessica cordova if you could come on up give a round of applause for this [Applause] jessica cordova has a bachelor's degree from the u i just really want to say that at the university of miami a master's degree from brooklyn college in early

010childhood education and her professional certificate childhood education grades one through six in early childhood education and has taught in both the rochester city schools the discovery charter school and then at french road elementary school she is noted by mrs jeffries as a strong teacher who sets high expectations for all students as she seeks to know each one individually and finds out what works best for them jessica's ability to break down information and difficult concepts for students is natural jessica is also an incredibly supportive colleague and team member she's willing to make herself available for others and will work with fellow teachers to support the demands of planning and acclimating to a new building she was also a leader on her black history month planning committee she strives to make sure our students have high quality

011experiences at fres that continually stretch their thinking jessica thoughtfully connects with families and caregivers she completes her probationary period demonstrating an excellence in teaching her expertise and dedication to her profession are all a part of this excellence for this and so many more reasons we are so excited to recommend her for tenure this evening congratulations jessica so christopher dozier [Applause] christopher has a bachelor's degree in applied mathematics from the university of rochester uh bachelor's in saxophone performance in music education from the eastman school of music and a master's degree in childhood education from the university of rochester certifications in music and childhood education and teaching experience at french road also a team leader at french road for special areas throughout this past year chris is an instrumental music educator who goes above and beyond on

012a regular basis to ensure success for the students in his class he can be found at french road at all hours early or late working directly with students or preparing for the next band performance chris's commitment to students is unparalleled as he will take extra measures to not only make sure they enjoy learning how to play an instrument but also that they develop a true appreciation for music and the positive impact it can have on their lives in lessons chris makes many adjustments and adaptations to make sure all students feel like they can learn an instrument or join the school band chris is also the special area team leader as i mentioned he dedicates extra time and effort to supporting his colleagues his clear communication organization and solution-focused attitude make him a pleasure to work

013with he also demonstrates excellence in teaching expertise and dedication for this and so many more reasons we are so excited to recommend him for tenure this evening congratulations [Applause] katie drake [Applause] katie has a bachelor's degree in childhood and special education from suny geneseo and a master's in special education from robert's wesleyan college professional certifications in childhood education and students with disabilities she has experience not only at french road elementary school but also red creek schools wayne central schools and the mary cariola children's center katie is an educator who goes above and beyond on a regular basis to ensure success for the students that she works with writes mrs jeffries in addition to the consultant teacher role she currently holds katie also has spent time as a 1214 teacher in our special education program katie

014goes the extra mile to connect with students and families she learns what makes each student tick and can provide an environment where they feel confident to take risks in the learning environment the trust katie builds with students helps them find success in novel tasks and improve their skills over time caitlin o'neill assistant principal at french road shared katie is a hard-working special educator she is data driven and able to modify and accommodate for student needs she is a valuable member of the committee on special education as she is articulate and has a rich knowledge of her students kitty is organized and diligent she creates pathways for students to succeed by drilling down specifically to each child's individualized goals katie goes to great lengths to tailor student assessments and classwork to their needs she empowers students

015to feel confident in the new skills they build and supports their application in novel tasks she too ends her probationary period demonstrating excellence in teaching passion and dedication to a profession for this and so many more reasons we are so excited to recommend her for tenure this evening [Applause] shannon dugan [Applause] shannon has a bachelor's degree in english from washington and jefferson college and a master's in secondary english and special education from suny college at brockport certifications in english language arts seven through twelve and students with disabilities 7 through 12. her teaching experience includes 12 corners middle school both as a 7th grade english part-time teacher and a full-time probationary teacher she's also been the yearbook advisor at 12 corners which in and of itself should earn somebody tenure an english teacher shannon has proven

016to be a positive addition to the 7th grade english team as well as 12 corners middle school community she has grown into an educator who demonstrates a respectable understanding of middle school students she has established a classroom environment with predictable routines freeing students up to apply cognitive effort to the literary skills and concepts they are learning whenever i visit a room writes mrs edmonds students clearly know what is expected of them and feel safe taking academic risks one of her greatest strengths is that shannon can predict where students will need additional scaffolding she works diligently to prepare lessons accordingly she's engaged in ubd curriculum work with her colleagues each summer and is engaged in learning opportunities related to equity and diversity restorative practices and critical literacy her role as member of curriculum counselor for the

017three years allowed her to dig more deeply into each of these areas and share learning with her colleagues when asked to take on roles as a lead proctor and score for new york state assessments she did not hesitate shannon is a caring individual who works hard in the best interest of her students she's intellectually curious and holds great passion for her subject area throughout her time at tcms shannon has demonstrated flexibility and a sense of humor her colleagues students families find her to be one they enjoy being around she's demonstrated excellence in teaching and professionalism for this and so many reasons we recommend her for tenure this evening [Applause] robert giles harvard has a degree in english literature from suny geneseo and adolescent english education from university at buffalo professional certification in english language arts

0187 through 12 and experience in the bolivar richburg central school district penfield central schools before coming to 12 corners middle school a secondary english teacher at 12 corners middle school he has taught 7th and 8th grade english as we mentioned prior to coming to the district he has demonstrated that he's a teacher who fully understands young adolescents and their needs he maintains a classroom environment that is both structured and predictable for students yet flexible enough to support the various learning needs of each child he teaches he leverages a variety of media to develop lessons that are engaging and frequently incorporates opportunities for student voice and choice in his classes rob is also a tremendous collaborator he works well with his special education and also colleagues to prepare lessons then instruct and assess students in a

019developmentally appropriate manner he also works very well with his english colleagues rights mrs evans throughout the school year and in annual ubd curricular institutes to develop differentiated units that challenge his students he collaborates with counselors and families to proactively communicate concerns and brainstorm necessary supports for students he's a flexible thinker with a great sense of humor he is rarely flustered demonstrates a genuine interest in this in his students lives outside school and provides an environment in which students always seem to be enjoying themselves as they learn and grow as students of english he has demonstrated excellence in teaching and professionalism for this and many reasons we recommend him for tenure this evening [Applause] robin newcomer [Applause] robin has a bachelor's degree in french and secondary education from suny fredonia and a master's in arts in

020liberal studies from suny brockport certifications french 7-12 and teaching experience at our lady of mount carmel school and the newark central schools before coming to 12 corners middle school she's also been the french trip advisor another duty that automatically grants you tenure anybody who goes on a trip she as mentioned she taught for 20 years at newark before coming to us and her passion for teaching and dedication to tcms have been a tremendous asset to the school building rights mrs edmunds she goes on to say that robin's dedication to teaching is evident in all aspects of her day be it through individual interactions with students meetings with families or the lessons that she delivers each period robin has an energy that is uplifting and contagious she has a solid understanding of teaching a world language

021at the middle school level and her approach to differentiating lessons for students of varying abilities is impressive each time that i enter writes mrs edmonds robin's classroom students are actively engaged in learning the language he prevents presents the language and culture through numerous modes encouraging students to read write listen and speak the language through an inquiry-based and hands-on approach students feel safe taking educational risk risks in robin's classroom she's involved in many aspects of the tcms community beyond her classroom she's a strong collaborator with the entire world language department at tcms she has also served as a member of curriculum council program evaluation teams and other building specific committees she leads activities at outdoor ad and organizes the 8th grade french class trip to quebec as mentioned she's embedded herself in all aspects of the

022tcms community in the most positive ways she's demonstrated excellence in teaching and professionalism for this and many reasons we recommend her for tenure [Applause] maria sanchez martinez [Applause] clearly raised an outstanding young man a bachelor's degree in liberal arts from cuny city college of new york a master's in english also from city university of new york city college of new york masters in education from cuny city college of new york and a master's in tussle from the university of rochester professional certification in english to speakers of other languages she worked as a program specialist at the 1199 seiu training fund in the benefits fund as a conference center coordinator before coming to 12 corners middle school beginning in 2017. maria again an essel teacher in our school district has demonstrated dedication to tcms and been

023a valuable asset to the district in so many ways her ability to develop and nurture relationships with students staff and families has proven proven to be one of her greatest strengths as an educator she prides herself on creating classroom spaces and communities where students feel safe welcome represented and included in her stand-alone and push-in sections maria builds personal connections with students so that she can design and implement services that best serve them she also works closely with families some of whom are new to the country to gain an understanding of their strengths and needs so she can be proactive in advocating for and developing programs that set them up for success maria is adept at tailoring instruction to the individual needs of her students with a strong focus on reading and language acquisition she's a

024phenomenal collaborator worked closely with the two other essel teachers at tcms to develop and modify lessons for all students in their program her philosophy is that students in the tcms enl program do not belong to just one teacher the three are continually thinking out of the box to address the needs of all she works closely with classroom teachers to identify and meet the needs of students as well thereby demonstrating her commitment to the success of all students in our tcms community she's an incredibly dedicated teacher at tcms to her department and to her students she has a let's get it done and will do what it takes attitude that is difficult to match for her ability to pose for brian's pictures for her professionalism excellence in teaching and being all around fantastic we congratulate you

025and recommend you for tenure this evening [Applause] [Laughter] one more okay patrick tugoy [Applause] patrick has a bachelor's degree in english from suny buffalo level to teaching assistant certification and has been a teaching assistant both at project growth through st john fisher and at brighton high school as a teaching assistant in our program supporting brighton students 18 to 21 year old students patrick has assisted in the development of student independence job place readiness and interpersonal skills he's been a vital and integral part of project grow team since the program first began while always supporting the entire class patrick often works with individual students with each of their specific routines and differentiated tasks for the day this includes in the classroom workplace or navigating various community experiences patrick gently provides students with direct feedback in a

026coaching fashion prompting where needed and stepping back to ensure that a student attempts a goal with the greatest amount of independence he has developed strong a strong rapport with students staff and families patrick balance is knowing when to allow a student to work through a problem including dealing with expected struggles and when to jump when to jump in and assist he treats each student with kindness and most importantly with dignity as a productive member in the class and community it is with great pleasure that he is recommended for tenure for his professionalism and dedication to each one of his children in this profession congratulations [Applause] uh while mr davis and mrs gilbert are returning to their seat i just want to say a couple of things very quickly one to all the family members that

027are here thank you because this doesn't happen we recognize the impact to our kids doesn't happen to as great an extent and as deeply and richly unless you are giving up something you're giving up a piece of that person to us and to our children so thank you for sharing them with us being patient in that and in that way contributing to what happens for each one of our kids we realize the impact that that has on people's families to the kids here thanks for sharing your family members with us too because we realize they have to share a little bit of their love and their care and concern with the kids in front of them and we appreciate you giving up a little bit of that so that other kids can experience it too

028they're pretty lucky i also would like to say thank you to each of the individual people receiving tenure tonight in a little bit of a different way and say to you that when i look at you and i hear about your experiences i think about when we first met and in your final interview and i asked you in your last question why should we trust you with our children i asked you that as a dad some of you have specifically had the opportunity to the opportunity the gift as rob giles was talking about in his first year to find out that he was teaching one of my kids and really i say to you that for not one moment not one second would we regret the choice that we made after asking you that question

029the very most important question that we can possibly ask as parents to share the centers of our universe with you the people that are most important to us in our lives with you especially when it involves their favorite child being with any one of you which i said to every one of you right and you have done that miraculously and treated our children as if they were their your own with a tremendous amount of love and care and concern and we both appreciate that but tonight is a recognition of our our commitment to you for a lifetime of you doing that and we appreciate that you are willing to commit to our children our families going forward to continue to treat them like they are your own so thank you for that and congratulations one

030more round of applause for each of you [Applause] before i call for a vote i'll add one quick comment which is i noted that we had 16 teachers retired that had 306 something years of experience and when you lose that much experience the only way to backfill it to replace it is with people of the caliber we talked about tonight so i'm very grateful that we're able to replenish that pool of greatness for the kids and it's just wonderful to hear everyone's background and the reports from the principles in regards to their contribution so it's great we will now call for a motion to approve tenure for the individuals we just learned about moved by andrea second seconded by christina all those in favor opposed congratulations [Applause] no we have a number of reports to

031go over for the next hour plus we also it's also been reported that we have a small problem in which room is it the staff filming room right out to the left that some of you may have already been in we're great proponents of sustainability and things like that and there are cookies and treats that will go to waste if they are not eaten so if you need to get kids home or get home to watch kids or do other things now is probably a good time you're welcome to stay and listen to the multiple reports we will be hearing but it might be a good time to slip out and help us with the food waste it's out the door to the left thank you again and congratulations [Applause] [Music] as always in our

032public meetings we have the opportunity for public participation is there any member of the public who would like to provide comments or feedback or questions principal tapping anything to say you good okay thank you very much okay uh now we're going to hear blueprint updates i don't know what order all right so ten year babies and now blueprint updates strong finish dr rio way to own it way to own it oh that was so nice and we're we are really happy to be here giving these updates tonight because it's an opportunity for us to reflect on all the work that we've done over the course of the school year as a school district as a community administrators teachers students everyone involved and as much as i joke it does feel good to look back and

033reflect on the great work that's happened across the school year so again just as a reminder these are brighton blueprint areas that we focus on this year academic rigor for all systems ndi mental health and wellness and you'll hear from me and then you'll hear from louis limo and diana spagnola as well as they give updates on their sections so this was our focus for academic rigor for all this year thinking about um making sure that all of our students were given the opportunity to maximize their potential based on their needs and interest and we had a strong focus on being culturally responsive and celebrating and accepting differences and we supported this by developing a growth mindset for all which we'll touch upon as we get into our updates here so one of our big

034pieces this school year was moving into our school-based equity teams moving away from our district larger diversity committee and breaking it down into individual school committees so we've created a school-based committee at each of the four school buildings that is comprised of administrators and teachers and faculty students when applicable at the middle school in high school parents board of education members some of you sitting right here and our re-center partner so we had quite a mix of people it was our first year kicking this off and as with any first year we kind of had to build some community and get to know each other and kind of set the framework for the work moving forward so a lot of our work this year focused on using a rubric that was developed through the culturally

035responsive and sustaining framework to start to assess things like school climate culture curriculum and connections and um all of the school buildings got into that to some degree some got a little bit farther along in the rubric than others but it was a start of kind of assessing where we are taking status quo as we're moving forward into the next school year we wrapped up our last meeting just last month in may with an amazing student panel with students from the middle school and the high school who shared their experiences in relation to the work that's going on around the district and equity and diversity so questions included things as a time such as a time when they didn't feel seen or heard a time when they did feel seen or heard and one thing

036adults should know better to serve our students and their answers were extremely powerful i know some some of us in this room are part of that panel had the opportunity to listen and that will definitely help to continue to drive the work that we're doing in the district around equity this summer we're going to get back together with our school-based equity teams and we'll have a chance to review the culture and climate data from the panorama surveys that were administered to all staff and parents and students in the district and we'll also look at that narrative from the student panel to kind of give us some more input that qualitative piece of just listening to people's experiences and their personal thoughts around the work that we're doing next year we're really looking forward to continuing

037this work and diving a bit more deeply into the work with a co-facilitator from each school building so a teacher or counselor who will be leading the way along with the principal and really getting into that individualized school data that we'll start looking at in august so continuing our work and lots of exciting plans moving forward we also took a big dive into habits of mind not quite as big as council rock because they are pretty outstanding but they were really helpful in guiding our way this year on curriculum council so principal matt tappin and a lot of our council rock teachers helped to kick off the year for us to share the work that's been done at council rock with all of the other school buildings and to bring about you know ideas for

038how to move this forward so our goal is that as we move into next year we have habits of mind represented in all the other three buildings in some way and each building has a plan of how that will look as they roll out habits of mind to their students or integrated into things that are already going on we had some guest presenters from the institute for habits of mind and lots of time to learn and plan together in building teams so that will again continue into next year but we have a great framework for where we're going and think thankful for everyone on curriculum council who is part of that work as well and then part of our blueprint print this year was to build opportunities to learn for families so some of the

039feedback we heard in the past was families want to hear more about the work that we're doing so we built in some purposeful times for families to be part of this work as i already mentioned the involvement on our school-based equity team so we're we had parents on each one of our four building committees and we'll look for more parents if interested next year and family members and we had several different presentation options throughout the school year so each building had a ptsa meeting where they shared all of the diversity equity and inclusion updates so actually there was one for k5 and one for 612 in march and then the principals and myself presented to the families of students of color group in may so opportunities whenever we can to share the work that's going

040on and again when you get to look at it all in one place it is pretty impressive so we'll continue that as we move into next year too and then part of our blueprint was thinking about coming back to school five days in person which seems like an eternity ago when we wrote this goal and we've been through a whole year which is amazing but some of the things that we looked at adding were the intervention teachers in reading and math at french road and the middle school and the high school to give additional support to students and those faculty members have been incredibly helpful in targeting needs for kids in small groups or sometimes one-on-one and just being able to allow us the opportunity to give more supports to students you know in that

041intervention piece especially in math although we have ramped up reading a bit too we also have math instructional leaders at the k5 level and at the 612 level as i've mentioned before stefana monachino and andrea doyle and they have really helped us to think about the targeted interventions that we need andrea has done a phenomenal job looking at academic intervention data at the six through eight level and they've helped us focus in on the work that needs to get done to fill the gaps for kids in some of that missing instruction and then we've reviewed the needs along the way of how to best support students and we've put a couple of math interventions into place and we've seen some great successes at council rock for a number of worlds and i ready for our

042middle school and some high school students using that as an intervention and again access to 24 7 tutoring support bff tutor we have many students access that for any need throughout the school year whether it's homework or test prep or a quick question kids could log on and we will likely continue that next year as well so a big piece that's ongoing and i can i don't know when we'll ever say we've arrived i think this is a forever ongoing goal for us to continue to adapt and revise curriculum to support teaching and learning within the culturally responsive and sustaining education framework what we have done is taken a review of all of the curriculum that we've adapted over the past few years and tried to map out where we've made real specific changes around

043culturally responsive education and then as we moved into our summer institute this year we have trying to think off the top of my head we have dozens and dozens of teachers signed up like i don't know the number of the top of my head but signed up to write curriculum this summer and we will continue to have that focus of looking at the lens of individualized learning for students student agency and really tapping into some of those culturally responsive pieces that our teachers have been learning about we've also started this year a book review process to evaluate the text that are used as common texts so the books that all the kids read in the classroom and supporting texts as well to make sure that we're not just reading books around the same topic that

044we're differentiating the types of books we read but also to make sure we're giving kids experiences that are varied and not just the traditional texts that we've always had for so long and last update from me before i pass it over to lou it's just an update about our maker space and i um this will carry over a bit into lou's section as well and it wasn't necessarily in my blueprint section but it's really been a big piece of our work this year because it does tie into the academic rigor for all a maker space and i put a definition here just for everybody to kind of ground themselves in case you don't know what it is but it's really a space where students can come to or adults with an idea and leave with

045a project so it's intended for them to come to collaborate to build to explore to create things and really take their learning to a new level and really learn about things that they're interested in so council rock has created a beautiful maker space as part of the library the classroom at the back of the library french road has a classroom a work in progress this year we're working on the middle school and the high school has the lower level library which has the maker space that some of us have visited together these maker spaces are fantastic looking beautiful and now we're moving to the next stage of like really visioning what this looks like for the district so what do we want to see across k12 and this summer our makerspace team is going to

046meet along with administrators and teachers from each school building to really decide what does this look like and how our space is going to be used in each building all right questions thanks and pass it over to them good evening so from the uh systems in diversity equity and inclusion we looked at continued the work with our hiring practices so we looked at recruit recruitment retention and environment along their environment ends we really defer to the establishment of the school-based equity teams so the work of the hiring practices more focused on the recruitment side and i'll go into that a little bit on the health and well-being of faculty staff and students that work centered on the evaluation and the re-review of school start times and then alternative learning environments we've talked to that in

047the past allison has taken the lead on looking at the maker spaces and we're working in our upcoming building condition survey and furtherance of that work so going into our hiring practices again we focused on the recruitment pillar within our scope of work really proud of what we were able to accomplish this year this year i'm very proud to work with a committed group of parents faculty members administrators new board of education members that have joined the team and it's been a team that's been growing over the last three years and this year we continue to make improvements to our processes so this year we partnering with recenter and renee banker as our consultants we revised our and bolstered our committee training expanded to a 45-minute training and we're building capacity in that we want

048to have trained committee members that can serve on any committee so it's not just here watch a youtube video where we started let's reflect and minimize the biases that we bring to the hiring practices into the interview setting but intense training and refreshing training whereas there can be pre essentially vetted and qualified committee members that will serve and be objective in our hiring practices and serve on our committees the re-engineering of how the committee's interviewed was was probably the the focal point of our work this year uh we always started to with a rubric of some sorts but this year we we re-engineered it starting with professionally pre-vetted rubrics so for administrative interviews we use the marshall rubric we use the nicet rubric and from there looking at the um definitions of highly effective and

049going backwards we design questions based on the rubric so we we re-engineered everything in mind so people are listening for evidence and that's what we're inviting throughout the course of the process tell us provide us evidence of how you will do something what will we expect to hear or see so everyone had a fair shot in presenting their their scope of experiences and what they brought to the table one of the important parts of it is we added in all of our teacher interviews and administrator interviews apart on diversity equity and inclusion you can see what was prompted in in that portion of the interview that really allowed the committee members to s to hear from the person directly what will it look like how will you make us better in this work and what

050can we expect of you so i think it was really good improvements and again we'll evaluate it at the end of this hiring season and continue to make improvements going forward so where i'm going to spend the bulk of my time is summarizing the work of the 2021 school star time committees so where i want to start is why why were we engaged in that work well we are engaged to be responsive to to parents concerns and the presentation of science that suggests and shows that later start times are beneficial for our kids what we didn't do we didn't study the science that was never a point of contention what we wanted to do was be responsive to that we're see the science and some of our parent representatives presented this slide they actually prepared

051this slide to show why this isn't such an important topic for our community and we started right with all right if that's the case we're going to say that that's the case what would the operational impact be how might we achieve that from an operation standpoint so that's where i stepped in and said alright how might we achieve that if we wanted to start school start times at 8 30 or later so we built on the work from 2016 and 17 where we presented to the community different scenarios some were cost neutral some had a cost impact and we reviewed all the data and the feedback from 2016-17 and we agreed on a starting point of this scenario that's outlined on this slide where we would achieve the ama recommendation of starting at 8 30

052or thereabouts or at least an hour later from where we were and we tried to factor in all the other parameters in the operational structure so from that we adopted a scenario that we wanted to continue to vet this year and one of the miscalculations that we had in 2016-17 was the transportation impact we thought we could start not impact the starting time at council rock but when we looked at the transportation impact we realized to to minimize the cost impact we would need to bump council rock earlier than what was presented in 2016 and 17. so that was a pretty significant what turned out to be a pretty significant difference from the 2016-17 but the scenario that the group adopted and we wanted to present to the committee or to the community rather were

053these tire times and these are the key elements of of what we wanted to present to the community and get feedback from so both made the ama and the aap recommendations of starting no earlier than 8 30. what we said and what we learned from the um the first year for the 2016 that we would absolutely need to maintain at least 30 minutes of time after school for extra help clubs and activities that was that was very important to our our high school community we did need to change the start time for council rock from a logistical standpoint and then we tried to quantify what the impact was going to be an additional demand for for buses so we identified five additional buses in the morning and ten additional buses in the afternoon and then

054we estimated the cost implications of of that and recognizing that there's eight ability after that so this is the scenario that we chose that we thought had the most traction from 2016-17 that we wanted to represent to the community hear what the feedback was and then divide devise strategies on how to mitigate any of the concerns that we might hear so we did a thought exchange and we identified eight different participation groups so we had students we had faculty members at each of the building and we had parent parent groups over 1944 participants over 2 000 thoughts were were reviewed one of the tools within thought exchange is the differences and we thought as we were looking at the data this is a good snapshot of really where the different stakeholder groups were on on

055this issue so the first one that we looked at was high school middle school families and so generally there was eight differences and i'm sharing this to kind of give you a sense of of the temperature in each of the groups so on one side we had 311 and the other side and side b was 135 so side a our older students need later start times healthier teams make happier happier teens very well seems majority of the parents that participated in that agreed with that there were some concerns though please no do not do this please do not do this i would rather the money spending or in different areas so that was the other side of it so we saw a little bit of an uh a weighting in in that regard when we

056looked at the students in recent graduates there were seven differences but differently i eating one on side a i hate it i like it a lot in the winter it will be dark when we get out sports will start much later everyone is going to go crazy don't do this so that was 81 side b i really think that this would impact us students very well and that was one sign so 80 to 42. the next stakeholder group at the secondary level was faculty members so middle school and high school faculty members 67 to 27 side a let's keep our times as they are we're all used to it would impact sports and child care side b i think it's a great idea so less [Music] less support above of the idea from our faculty

057council rock stakeholders um council rock and preschool families 68 on site a 40 on side b side a i don't like anything about it starting earlier in ending only hurts working parents who have young kids that need to be cared for side b i agree the older kids should start later they need their sleep so you can see the the relative weightings within heights or council rock families some of the comments though when you dig into the the most most rated comments unless the districts do the same with their younger population starting earlier this throws a major wrench into child care so a lot of concerns with council rock with starting earlier in the in the end or an earlier end date the second most popular comment is pretty early for our youngest students and

058their parents is as far as getting out and the door on time for the day i'm sorry that was for from council rock faculty comments so that was the two most uh frequent comments or highly rated comments from our faculty um so there wasn't any differences within the faculty so i just decided to show the top thoughts within that particular group when the fres stakeholders fresh family seven differences 61 to 22 side a i like that these new start times are more developmentally appropriate side b the current start and end times are fine the cost of this change is wasteful so again more supportive of the of the start time from fres families who would be moving towards towards the secondary schools and then our community 20 on one side 15 on the other side

059a i don't care any of i don't care any of the start time i care about more taxes side b bhs students need to start at a later time the later the better so you can see some divide within the community feedback as well so when we dug into this data and we looked at the differences and we re reviewed all the comments we tried to and we created a chart of the themes of the concerns and then the strategies that might mitigate those concerns so when we heard and looked at all the comments from our students these are the themes of of the concerns starting of sports and pushing activities later in the evening the length of the school day inability to participate in clubs in sports with school ending later and getting all

060the work done homework was a common theme in there we heard that so as the group in our work we decided we developed what would be some of the strategies if we wanted to address our student population these are some things that we might consider further exploration or or some some different strategies so clear explanation of when activities will start and stop um presentation of actual data give them an actual schedule so further vet the plan to provide more detail to try to build some comfort the district present clearly the more present the science and data from previous studies so the idea was build buy-in by additional presentation of the science um and more build up more conversation about it the third one is is where we we got stuck a little bit explore ways

061that may shorten the school day with little consequence of academic program or contractual time for teachers review the high school schedule and length of the day and explore trade-off of student teacher contact time versus the advantages of additional sleep opportunities so that's i say that very transparently where we got stuck because that was outside our scope and the parameters that we started the work with in 2016 and 17 and the parameters that we started to work with in 2020 21-22 but it is a strategy that if we wanted to continue this discussion something that the committee thinks we we need to look at or charge a different committee to to review going along the lines again faculty bhs what what would be some of the strategies again more presentation of science build build more buy-in

062allow for planning and inform implementation so provide you know set the time and then allow time and allow our faculty and staff to to plan plan accordingly um and then build buy in from the regional community school communities that brian wouldn't be penalized for for the adoption of an earlier start time if this if the length of school they didn't charge or just just support that brighton would still be included in athletic events and different all different events the families what we heard in the most the loudest theme was child care and impact on child care and the the thought that earlier start times would be harmful to our our younger children so again some of the strategies that we identified child care support at school one of the things that we did through the

063course of the year is we uh headed in length at length discussion with webster and we learned how they developed their own child care program and after school program and subsidized child care to assist families in them again presentation of the science and sleep patterns and how those impact the younger children and that the perception that it may may be harmful to younger children try to address that with with science and studies and then additional survey of of what needs so let's go back to our council rock and our preschool families and say what would it take if we wanted to do this what else could the district do to help support or to minimize the consequence of of such a structural change so those are just some some of the strategies you can kind

064of read and read the rest but as i said before and and again where we were stuck in the scope that we were charged is bolded here and that's something where we would need board of education and superintendent feedback because that seems to be the real um from a community perception standpoint but moving in later into the school day is is the most troublesome concern is is the thought that everything is going to be pushed back later into the evenings and if we could offset that by shortening the school day um you know again it was kind of divisive but they thought that would be an adequate mitigation strategy specific to school start time outside of our scope but a point for further discussion so in summary as we saw in the data and very

065clearly saw in the data that start times are perceived to be a divisive issue in the school community many people are are for it feels very strongly about it others are concerned about the consequences that it may have the length of the school day changes to establish before and after school structures for families and faculty and costs appear to be significant barriers i didn't get into much into the cost but a lot of the feedback from from the community and from families did address the costs and spending more money on transportation wasn't well received there was debate on where that money could be spent that may add may add greater value to to our students well-being the parents in favor of of the change and starting time have asked the question an important question can

066we as a community handle some short-term inconveniences frustrations and costs to end the harm visible or not that our older kids may be experiencing so that's kind of our stopping point right now where we need a little bit more direction um and and to identify what the next steps could be i think uh first of all thank you you've done a really great job of detailing this project which is a pretty significant undertaking over the past year but has been for several years something we've talked about and you work really closely with several both staff members but community members to dig into this a lot further and understand the issue go out and ask people about the issue study the the both the science but also the practical implications here in terms of its structural

067time and cost and so just thinking about the results and and the the next steps that you summarized on the screen i think it's really important important to iterate a couple of points here one that the science that's been presented around the impact on kids is not something we've disputed from the beginning of this conversation that um certainly sleep patterns and any of us and there's a bunch of us at the table at this point with kids at that age level recognize that their sleep patterns are very different and they wake up at a different point in time and they go to bed certainly different time and they need a different amount of sleep we recognize that i think what's interesting is we have yet to really see longitudinal studies of schools that have shifted

068their start time that have shown an improvement to particular outcomes and that would be something interesting to see over time number one and that's a personal opinion but one that i'd like to to point out including results of the one local district in webster in particular to really understand what kind of impact that has had i guess the challenge is there are a lot of things that we know as individuals would be healthier i should not have had the brownie that i had in the middle of the day today right and i don't want to equate like a big issue for a lot of people to me choosing a brownie but my point is there are there are lots of things we could do that might be healthier might be better but we think about

069the cost benefit of those when we think about particular choices and how they impact other people because they are significant impacts on other folks we can always make a lot of public we could we could be investing in organic food in the food service area that would price out our our lunches for many people there are lots of different things we could be looking at differently and it's a question of how do you spend those resources right so on the science part of it that wasn't a dispute it hasn't been what we're concerned about i think in that first bullet is a significant division in how people feel about this issue and we saw this when even when the thought of change first went out there was a lot of social media traffic around i

070can't believe they're going to do this right people not necessarily perceiving or understanding or seeing that we were actually simply asking the question to study it at this point but people who really thought that we were going ahead and doing it which we weren't we were just asking about it and a pretty significant uproar that gosh that would be terrible i don't like that that would be a problem mostly on the elementary level that this would cause significant disruption in my family while you're presenting i'm looking at the current exchange that that is out and i'm going to dig too far into the results because the exchange is still open but it's interesting to me there is a currently a difference uh analysis that's been done that has 110 people in one group that starred

071things in similar ways 94 people in the other group around this particular issue so pretty even split but it shows you a significant division around the group of 110 saying hey we should do this good idea and it's a lot of parents at that level it didn't involve kids and then the group of 94 with similar starring patterns saying no that's a terrible idea i wouldn't like to see us do that and one thing that we've certainly talked about a lot in this community over the years is if you're going to make a dramatic change to what you're doing a lot of people should be behind that change right a vast majority it doesn't mean a hundred percent will never have 100 percent of people agree to something but something that impacts families so directly

072and their schedules and their routines and their their entire you know family life should be with the support of a lot of people so i think we're really concerned about that division the length of school day issue the instructional impact of changing the length of our school day something that actually over time we've tried to build the length of the school day to be as much time on task for kids as it can be and cost and i think that's a huge one you know in years past uh we've talked about the cost of changing the start time equating to nearly one percent on the tax levy and for the people who have followed our budget conversation previous years but even into this year that one percent on the levy with a tax cap that

073is already you know that in the two to three range at the most right one percent being eaten up by this you're you're really talking about no way to do it without going over the cap without massively cutting program and these are kind of like subjective summaries of you know we could show you an analysis and go through that but the reality is that giant investment would likely be an over-the-cap investment which has not been supported in our community the last time that we approached that and would have to then come at the expense of lots of other programs so the question really becomes too what would you give up then to be able to do this and it would be a long long list of giving things up it's it's not a simple change

074change to make and then the last bullet respectfully i say and i mean this respectfully to those that are asking the question can we as a community handle some short-term inconveniences short-term is a subjective analysis of that because that's not short-term for many people that's a long-term inconvenience for people frustrations well i wouldn't chalk other people's genuine concern for it up to just a frustration and i say that respectfully i i understand where people are coming from somebody's genuine concern over that is beyond just a frustration they have a genuine concern and costs to end the harm but costs being dramatic right that's a huge dollar amount that's not just we're talking about okay we might have to trim around the edges and be a little bit more careful we saw our transportation go up

075this year a million dollars just based on additional runs cost increase to fuel etc this is not the time with the driver shortage and everything else that goes into that for us to dramatically change the cost and transportation we've already seen that and then the concept of to end the harm visible or not i would suggest that that is somewhat subjective there's evidence to suggest yeah scientifically again not arguing with that that it would be better perhaps to move to different start times that does not mean that children right now or for the past i don't know five decades have been harmed right could they benefit from change that's different from their than being harmed aggressively assertively harmed by a particular strategy so again not not to engage in the debate without people here who

076have voiced that concern because we really do respect this and if we could have done it and looked at it differently and in fact changed the times at the secondary level without a dramatic change of the times at the primary level it's a little bit of a different conversation that's just also not plausible right because you're talking about in our scenario having to have kids at the primary level get on the bus awfully early in the dark really big shifts for elementary families which which were not favorable and by the way in the other district that did it greeted with a lot of frustration i guess i'm using the term too but a lot of concern in that community that was expressed you know pretty significantly for a long period of time so you know

077i'm inclined to say to the board at this time we spent a lot of time and energy rightfully so looking at this and in response to the community over time looking at this issue i think if there are any variables that change significantly over the next several years we should re-examine it we should be open to it for sure and those variables would have to be a dramatic change in resources that are available or that the cost somehow goes down significantly and we can always keep an eye on that but unless those variables change i would suggest that at this point we schedule this for another review in five years we'd be open to the concept again if variables change but that we look at a five year time frame before we review this again

078because the conversation continues to happen and it should there should be rigorous debate in the community but as far as the resources that are going into reviewing this and it has been reviewed so thoroughly by lou and his team in the committee i would suggest the next time to dig into it at that depth should be five years from now again unless a variable changes and that that would give it the right space and i would remind people that we did a very similar approach strategically and organizationally to the review of kindergarten over periods of time where it came up as an issue in the community we reviewed our ability to do it and when we didn't do it it was because of cost it was because of community sentiment it was because of the

079variables very similar actually to this and at late at different intervals of time we said we would come back and review it again ultimately resulting in us at full day kindergarten when the time was right when the cost could be managed and when it was supported in a different way in the community over a period of time so i'm curious to hear any feedback that you might have but that would be our recommendation at this point that we accept the work and thank you but that we also look to review this again five years from now probably ask julene or sue to comment first because you were both on the committee so and i both sat on the committee and um i really kevin you said everything just perfectly there's no point in repeating what

080you just said but we do not have strong support from the community and as we learned when we looked at brookside school rather than council rock school if we don't have that support we we will not have support in our budget and if we don't have support in our budget then there are many many things that will have to be eliminated and having to go if a budget fails and we have to go to an austerity budget that has a significant impact for a very long time and so because i don't see the overwhelming support in the community and not only that but i see deep concern from parents of very young children and in on the committee level there was not a lot of representation from people who are currently a council iraq or

081whose children haven't begun at council rock but the people that i've talked to individually anecdotally were horrified at the idea of putting their little ones out at seven o'clock in the morning so i i at this point can't support a change so well i was going to say um again we discussed while the science you know and the science is definitely there to support you know the shifting um circadian rhythms of adolescence um and so i i you know sort of off the record spoke to some pediatricians in the community about their feelings about this um and it is difficult for one district to make a change at a time and so a lot of pediatricians get asked occasionally from parents about what are your recommendations for start times and the doctors i spoke with

082had said that this might be a situation where there should be group advocacy in albany about having whole communities say this is going to be what we roll out you know we're going to roll out a change in school start times and there might be funding then associated with that for the districts then to get that implemented and that helps sports teams meet up at the same time it helps child care in a community shift altogether and so you know there's room to advocate but at an individual district level it's very difficult um and we've talked about the costs because we'd be funding it all on our own um and it's just an exponential increase in in funding and um again the community is split and so i agree i just don't i don't feel

083it's feasible at this point despite the evidence being there you know so you bring up a really good point that i'm going to bring to legislative committee in the fall when we resume that this this really is an issue that's bigger than us we're looking at individual school districts to try to make this change that we know universally will be good for our adolescents and as the the landscape in albany is changing around foundation aid and as we're moving towards full funding we know that we have issues with transportation that we're educating our legislators about and this needs to be something that we add to the docket in terms of moving the whole state to making this change but having albany understand that we can't do that without help with transportation that we don't currently

084have i mean the cost to this is insurmountable as far as i'm concerned in terms of either you know we understand from the community that going over the tax cap is an equity issue right that we don't have support for um and that i can't i can't wrap my head around the idea of cutting import programs that are also important to students mental health and development in order to accomplish this one thing um so i'm i'm fully on board with with reevaluating in five years but then also trying to work with folks in albany to understand how this change could affect students across the entire state other comments so we would plan internally to review again in five years we'll keep you updated on that and if any other variables change in between we'll certainly

085keep you posted and and we have these conversations every year in terms of the blueprint as well but just generally loosely it's not like a mandate we would expect in five years to go back and have another conversation thank you our goals and objectives for the year are up on the screen there and as i flip through the slides i think you will see a theme throughout all of them connecting between relationships partnerships and connections whether that's between us in the community between staff members our families and our and our students as well i'm going to highlight some of many of these pieces we've talked about different updates throughout this throughout the year here at board meetings i want to highlight some of the changes since our last update um and we really kind of

086filtered this year in terms of i'll use the phrase buckets restorative discipline restorative practices social emotional learning which you often hear people say seo in terms of mental health and wellness while i'm reviewing some of the focus and pieces that we worked on this year by no means i'm going to steal allison's words from earlier in the presentation is our work done this is where we began especially as we think i thought about a return back from covid but i don't think i can open up an email i can open up an educational journal you can turn on the news where you don't hear the reference to students mental health and wellness to individuals mental health and wellness being a continual concern in an area to address so again i can't repeat enough our work

087isn't done we scratch the surface and it's exciting to think about what we have done and where we might be headed next and how we can dig into this even deeper as as a school district i'm really proud of the work and i'm going to take the word partnership on the work that we've done together among our buildings again community staff member but also my partnership with betsy paddock the assistant principal at tcms who helped create a lot of the partnerships that you're going to hear about in the next couple slides so um i couldn't stand up here without giving her credit for her time her effort while leading some of this work and being assistant principal at the same time so to betsy if you're watching thank you very very much so a highlight

088as we began our school year focused on reestablishing relationships reestablishing connections with our students using a lot of the good strategies that teachers do the priority was connect with your students who are coming back to person in person excuse me some of those students who had been remote and not been in person for for quite some time so priority was on establishing relationships if we look back to la all the way to last summer this past summer for new teacher induction we introduced a review of restorative practices social emotional learning and our goals as a school district to all of our new hires to all of our new staff members that was something new that we had not had a part of new teacher induction we will continue to to make sure that that's a

089part of our plans moving forward so we're really proud of that administrators and mental health staff participated in restorative discipline training and we were able to create some tip sheets to teachers for quick pull out when you needed it in the moment and it was there in front of you so we also had some wanting to reestablish the common nomenclature across our classrooms and across our buildings and then also sharing that with our families too so that the same terms were being used in our classrooms our schools and in our homes we also after the fall when we superintendents conference day there was an opportunity for teachers to be re-engaged with the process of restorative practices but in circles and community building circles but we listened to our staff as our staff said we need

090more we want more and we can do more and this past april we were able to have working with perry to have even a further more differentiated training for teachers if they chose to participate around academic circles and really building going beyond just your typical community building in the morning or the end of your class session but really digging into students having circles about the academic tasks they're a part of so we're excited about that that people participate in april and continuing to move that forward we also started to look at this work in terms of the lens of where do the paths overlap with culturally responsive practice in many cases sel is the foundation of that work and vice versa they are are one and the same but where where do they go off

091in a different direction and our alignment with our school-based equity teams also um and where actually when we might step back and say didn't we hear this in the same meeting before yes and that's important and it's because it's the common shared work and goal that we're doing as a school district when we look again into social emotional learning we adopted some more units for at the k level to be used not only because of the introduction of full day k but we knew that we needed to strengthen some of the tier 1 supports through our second step instruction and wanting to make sure that that was in place in all of our kindergarten classrooms i'm really proud of our partnership with vivona child advocacy center we're really proud of the work that's going to

092continue next year train the trainer opportunities and differentiating our lessons across all of our buildings there's going to be some more direct instruction opportunities at grade 9 through 12 but then how we also brought that role that out to our three through eight classrooms and to our families there were ptsa meetings with the principal that included pavona where we shared the lessons with our with the community with our parents so they knew the topics they knew the language they knew the pieces that were going to be shared and then also in addition to that staff meeting time set aside to really differ staff who are going to deliver the lessons sit in the classrooms and be a part of that learning so we're really proud of that fact and that work that went on this

093past school year and looking forward to it continuing next year as well again in the area of social emotional learning allison talked about panorama and one of our tasks this year was to take a look at identifying a social emotional screening tool and not only were we going to look at panorama for our culture climate survey but we're also able to use it again for our social emotional screener as well how are our kids feeling about how they're doing in school where are they and where what do we need to do to shift around mental health supports to support them in their classrooms we did that in the spring parents staff and students were all administered the survey and we are looking forward to the opportunity of next year to be able to compare data

094again when we administer in the fall and then subsequently again in april and we'll have some comparative data to look look across next week in fact our mental health team is going to be looking at some of this data and working with panorama really through the lens of the mental health provider many of our mental health providers also sit on our school-based equity teams they will have that opportunity as alison spoke before to look into that data as well in terms of the lens of that culture climate survey end of it so more data to come and and more review of that that's going to begin asap our district wellness committee betsy worked very closely with this committee and really putting out trying to get more resources in the hands not only of staff but

095most importantly to our parents and really taking a look at reinvigorating what was termed as a parent university and betsy has been sharing both in that committee but also with our mental health team meeting last week where development of what we're calling bruin talks very similar to i'm looking julian because i know that you're you sit on the committee so um bruin talks very similar to ted talks we're addressing some of the topics that you see there below student wellness conflict resolution these are just examples of some topics but we know that these are things that our parents have asked for what can we look at at home what can we do the wellness suite was it enriched again this year not only these resources but other resources for family and also for staff for

096staff to take care of their own wellness and and to have things at their fingertips well not only for themselves but for their colleagues who's going to do some of this work well we're really proud of the fact in fact at the district mental health team meeting last week people expressed their gratitude and support from the district for the addition of some staff which included two counselors one at council rock and one at french road that gave us the opportunity to realign the family navigator position to support our students at grades six through twelve and we're really excited for the opportunity to begin a partnership with golozano in the fall that and this is described here on this next slide where we will have a clinic opportunity available to our 6-12 students for students where

097access to community-based services may be a hindrance or there are other pieces that get in the way that we need to support our families their students in a different way that might be typically provided in other means or other other other venues what's really exciting about this partnership is that it's a student-focused consultation so actually staff will be right part of our mental health team meetings we'll meet with small groups of teams supporting students boots on the ground right with us in terms of that consultation but what's also exciting is that it's not just for six or twelve that consultation the professional development end of it that will be available for all of our mental health staff k through 12 including the opportunity for parents and community members to participate in some parent event nights

098so more to come more to be done as again i said before it is it is just the beginning but it's been exciting and very very very important work and i'm very proud to be a part of that as we look ahead any questions thank you very much deanna and just a general thank you to allison lou and diana for that update we often talk about the blueprint sort of what we do and who we are and how we set our priorities so um appreciate the time you took in this update and we've got a meeting coming up to do a blueprint just get an update from the community you want to address that sure tuesday june 28th is our blueprint day with community members stakeholder groups representatives from throughout the district community members staff

099members the board of education our leadership team to really dig into the what should we do about it and not necessarily how and why which is action planning done later in the summer excuse me and we'll base a lot of that work on thought exchange feedback please go into the thought exchange that remains open right now and volunteers who would like to participate will be notified by the end of the week of their selection thanks illustrative of the fact i think that it's a living document it evolves as we continue to get feedback and learn more and continuously approve so yeah now that i'm not joking i'll say this you're probably grateful he's joking he'll stop philly thanks for stretching i i think what's important to recognize in terms of processes every year we take

100these summaries and then we sit back down with feedback from the community and representatives from the community to say okay what is it that we should do about it and that becomes the backbone of all of our work and on all of our committees and in our budget process as well so it's really a connected strategic plan for the district that evolves each year we appreciate people providing the feedback and participating that and i would just say again the exchange i know people she's very overwhelmed and they have a lot on their plate but we really really do value the feedback and we go through every single comment that is offered the good the bad the ugly it is not just intended to be though what's wrong or what doesn't work we want that too

101absolutely but we want to know also what is working for people so we can do more of that so for the so many people that come up to us uh with you know nothing but positive and it's great tell us that too so we can use that data as well that's really helpful so thank you all right now now on to a series of reports i know that in some cases our monroe county school board meetings have stopped but we'll start with financial reports you all have received before this meeting the financial reports from lou and his team are there any questions in regards to those reports okay i will ask for a motion to approve the financial reports as presented in tonight's agenda so moved moved by karen second seconded by sue all those

102in favor as mentioned in the beginning lila is at her track and field banquet and the lizage house is nursing some asymptomatic coveton symptoms so we will not get a student update tonight board of education i'll just quickly go around the room labor relations our last meeting was april 27th where we did discuss a number of different issues with regards to health care incoming trends information exchange any updates there no no that's what i thought legislative concluded in may that's what i thought okay um we do have a boces update but what i'm going to do is hey i'll start with other board member reports christine i'll start with you and work this way for any updates because that'll give me a minute to pull up mark's report from both okay yeah the new york

103state um school board association's dei committee is actually meeting once in the summer in person in all buildings we have not met since we started so so i'll be able to meet with all the areas in new york state which will be really interesting and new york city that's great um i was not able to attend the um the final curriculum council meeting but okay i did and we reported on that at our last minute so we are all set for that um i was able to attend the school-based equity team um all-district meeting to witness the student panel and it was incredibly moving and informative um and also tonight was our final audit committee meeting of the year it was christina larry and i with leo and dalia watts we met with two of

104our outside independent auditors that's an incredibly important part of the audit committee is listening to the findings from the independent auditors i think it's important that the community understand that we're not just looking at the documents the financial documents and saying okay that we work with professionals to understand um if our policies and procedures are compliant if they're working for the district what our risks are and what they confirm for us pretty much every time is that lou and dahlia and their team are incredible stewards of the district's resources and it's it's always good to hear that we are managing our the inherent risks of dealing with a large budget incredibly well so thanks tall thank you i we had gone over when lou was presenting but just the school start time committee and something

105i probably didn't say before but just thanks to the committee it was a lot of hard work and there was a lot of parent um you know out of meeting time that they put into researching and really looking at this issue which is it which is important and so just thank you for that committee they did they did a good job thank you for doing there i have none other than to say um it has really truly been an honor and a privilege to work with everyone around this table i will miss you um truly miss you all and i um i've loved my work and i look forward to having more board members love their work as much as i have so thank you thank you and thank you to the community for electing

106me for the past congratulations on an outstanding tenure thank you thank you for your service and for your friendship as well thanks andrew you won't be a stranger i know where to find it people should know in the community though you transitioned right from being ptsa president to sitting in this in this room so thank you for all that you've given as a parent as a parent volunteer and we've watched your children through that time grow and becoming the outstanding humans they are too it's been just an honor and when you miss them you can call school voices you were my first ptsa president i remember you yeah um well deanna covered wellness and the only other thing i had to report and sue covered a start time committee was that i attended the monroe

107county schools award annual meeting and dinner a couple of weeks ago and it was a farewell to sherry johnson who has stewarded that that organization for i think about maybe eight years yeah um but she's been there for longer and she's retiring and amy thomas will be taking over as the executive director of monroe county school board i think probably july first stan um i'll just quickly give a couple of sniff snippets from mark kocanovich's boces update um the monroe one boces board event has been attending many year-end graduations and award ceremonies attending five to this point with five remaining over the next two weeks we note this all the time what is provided at boces is diverse and addresses the needs for a lot of young people the board the boces board toured the

108new cosmetology and culinary facilities with constructionary and completion of the maine fairport campus the new and expanded facilities will allow for additional students to be accommodating these very popular and growing programs within the eastern monroe career center or emcc also emcc recently had 194 students accepted into the national technical honor society the highest number in boces history some more information with regards to updating some manuals and they're also working on evaluations for the boces district superintendent dan white kevin you asked if mark had uh gotten any sort of cosmetology or like facelifts and he was there i don't know the answer to that question i'd love to see the new facility though a few years ago we took a tour as a board and we've had several new board members since i think that's something

109we should look into because it's important for the community for us to be able to let the community know what what an incredible resource that is and what kind of work they do and their students have those options yeah and we have kids over there so you're absolutely right it's a great suggestion we'll plan on that for the fall yeah we can plan on it we'll we'll go when mark is scheduled to erin for sure yeah i'm just kidding there's no hair and mustache you should probably be very clear with it well i don't know about there i'm guessing he gets it done somewhere okay thank you everybody for uh um we talk about this all the time i think uh yeah 23 different subcommittees task force curriculum reviews that we're all spread out on

110so thank you all for the time you devoted to that next stop nicole bta great thank you and thank you as always for the opportunity to share what we're doing i didn't get quite as many submissions this time so you can breathe a sigh of relief and hopefully that format is nice and easy and user-friendly so the first one's just the adopt highway which the bta did with clean sweeps next we i'll go through council rock we had a wonderful eric carl many different kindergarten teachers picked an author study and mrs kennyworth and mrs glanville did eric carle and if you walk in that little corner you are surrounded by eric carl so it's really nice the author visit i'm pretty sure that's probably been covered quite a few times but just more a really

111special part of it was we had a book birthday so jordy nolan was publishing a book and all of the ptsa was able to provide each classroom with a brand new copy of the book and birthday hats and it was one unicorn hat it was really wonderful to have that gift and thank you to the ptsa for that [Music] fres mrs harp's third and fourth grade classes are making robots and i think probably right about now they're adding motors and sensors and from a grant that mrs harp was able to obtain and she's going to be presenting some of the work that they did at a conference in june so that'll be nice uh fraz music my goodness um i'm sure loren is pretty tired from all of the present all of the different chorus

112nights but um they had uh assemblies i think they had something like five or six different assemblies with the red band and the blue bands they performed at frontier field they did the march through meadowbrook neighborhood and then they were able to have their final performances and what's really great is the picture from last year and then the picture from this year of the kids performing so just performing virtually last year very separated it was really great the red wings game is there they sold over a thousand tickets um for that so that was really great and solo festival 17 students from fraz participated in solo fest they've been doing outdoor lessons so that's pretty wonderful we'll move on to tcms in mrs kitsetosis class they were able to have a zoom with mary jo

113lamphier who's the town historian for the town of brighton so they really enjoyed that and then you're going to see a theme of sugar there's a lot of maple syrup and a lot of different shares here so math lab students in grades 7 and 8 visited jeff freightman's property he has a maple tree farm and beehives and they got to learn about that process and to really think about the math that was involved they had ice cream topped with maple syrup so keep that maple syrup in your mind um the next page is all of the students who participated in solafest from 12 corners and the band chorus and orchestra is really extraordinary they also the jazz band performed at the lilac festival which was really wonderful and then they had all of their concerts

114last week then here's here's where the maple syrup comes back the german students went to stove vermont to go on their eighth grade german trip and they were able to go to the von trapp or the trap lodge in stowe where they were able to speak german visit the trap maple sugar shack have seen the production go to a chocolate factory and a teddy bear factory and then had a bonfire with unlimited s'mores they wanted to make sure to add the students represented tcms very well katie cantz and katie felter they have a social studies in english powerpoint so if you were able to open that there they do such wonderful things together and then a really wonderful shout out from eileen kerr for victoria mazzetti who's one of the uh who is the school

115psychologist at 12 corners and just the extraordinary job she does we'll move on to tcms and bhs so back to the maple sugar the french classes participated in music media which is a march madness for french music so really interesting read there and then the french eight students went to quebec where they attended many different things theater workshop they went to parliament they visited the city they made maple butter i learned all things maple at a sugar shack and then were able to work that off by going on a great hike and then the their culminating project which was last week was to make crepes so and the food continues functional skills classes went to rita's italian ice and they were working there last week they had a shift there they were really excited to

116have that and to be able to do an internship opportunity that will present itself they also were able to take a tour able to cook at the kitchen they have trips coming up seneca park zoo fish hatchery powder mill park charlotte bill graves abbotts and then they're also planting a garden and they're researching what kind of plants to use what will go well and they're going to be planting actually they planted yesterday or this they're planning this week so if you can go check it out it's outside of door 24 high school so that would be great they also students who were interested went to careers in construction day which was hosted by the rochester builders exchange they were able to walk through a site attended a job fair um and then actually got to

117meet um the rochester mayor malik evans that was great uh the counseling updates with senior decision day i know that's been shared a lot but that was really exciting um and they said i think they say this every time it was the best decision day yet but i think that's pretty awesome um trapezoid won first place from the american scholastic prose association that's from molly healey and then back at the beginning of may the eastwards team actually don't know how they've done since then um but they qualified for a national competition i don't know what the results were and only eight teams in the country made it so wonderful shout out for laura byrne and travis figuera and that's it i just want to point out that trapezoid award is a national award that's great

118and that would be as dr healy is retiring a tough act to follow next year but really excited for mr rogen moser to take over that but that's there that's an unbelievable publication that some other publications could certainly no pun intended take a page out of and learn a lot thank you so much peter okay the ptsa health report here at the senior awards ceremony the ptsa was once again honored to present her a 400 scholarship to a student who was going into the field of education this year's winner was emma buck emma will be studying at sunny sunny excuse me china seo next year while at brighton she played field hockey was on link crew natural helpers and the future teachers club we're so happy to see the class of 2022 lawn signs posted

119all over the neighborhood including my own lawn too sponsored by the nancy buck memorial fund um end of year celebrations are well underway at all schools events like field days ice cream socials tcms bonfire and much more once again will return this year we are looking for more volunteers next year if you are interested please reach out we can talk to you about how you can become more involved and our final meeting will be june 15th at 9 30 a.m on zoom due to all rooms being used for the readings exams that's it thank you thank you very much pete dr mcgowan i have nothing else to report other than just to simply say we're excited for graduation families will receive a communication from dr hall and i this week about planning in terms of

120weather we know it's going to be beautiful out but in the event that our knowledge is not accurate we will have a couple of plans and they generally revolve around the idea that we will have to move the graduation to whatever window we can find that it is nice out we do have a rain date of course for wednesday but we would uh potentially need the flexibility for people to look at a different time during either one of the two days the weather this year has certainly shown us that you could have a beautiful two hours and then not so beautiful two hours so we would like people to be open to that and make sure that they're aware of that we'll communicate that clearly this week working with the video production company actually to

121make sure that they'll have staff available at different times so we can be clear about that with folks but you know the years ending up a lot of great activities staff are really knocking themselves out to make it fun for kids as we finish up the year and it's just really so enjoyable to watch them do the things that they had done previously for so many years and enjoy every moment of that and live their best lives each day which they're entitled to it's very exciting so thanks thank you lou update on the smart schools bond act thank you so tonight i'm going to give a presentation on the smart school's bond act talking about how we've utilized the funds and setting the stage for a new phase two if you will project plan so

122just quickly um what is the smart school's bond act it's essentially a a state entitlement event that was passed in 2014 where the state issues that and then provides allocations to different school districts across new york state given the timing of that that's right when we were in the brookside development we were talking about full day kindergarten so the board of education at that time earmarked 100 of the smart schools allocation for brighton towards the capital projects that's why we haven't really talked about it that the intent was to utilize that for um for the development of brookside and or and or council rock so we did that um and these are the allowable uses so we during the brookside development and the council rock we were looking at a school connectivity the expansion of

123the new wing technology all of these areas fit within what we were trying to develop at either brookside or council rock so again the plan was to allocate all the funds to there as it turned out what was eligible for and what we were able to claim so the initial allocation was just over a million dollars the phase one claim that we earmarked for council rock within the allowable eligible categories turned out to be 588 000 so that's a claim uh draw down if you will of the grant in that amount so that mean leaves a remaining project balance of 489 so within that and going back to the allowable uses what we want to set the stage tonight for is the development of a project plan focusing on high-tech security and install high-tech security

124features in school buildings and on school campuses so within that eligible within the category these are the eligible expenses and what we're looking at and what we're beginning to design project plans for our enhancement and our surveillance cameras as technology has evolved security cameras with software and licensing have the ability now and have the technology to be more preventative controls the analytics that were within the software can provide more of a detection as opposed to how they're currently being used as an investigative tool or in the event of emergency we can turn those over to the first responders but we have opportunities to make that a preventative measure going forward cabling and wiring and with ip public address and microphone there's there's project opportunities with that that we've been working with relcom and vetting some

125of the opportunities to enhance our our school safety through our communication systems and then on the right hand side the entry control systems lockdown and panic buttons software and licenses for entry control equipment and then installation of entry control equipment so these are within the eligible expenses again where we've been focusing um some time and effort prior to the recent tragedies things we were already thinking about um developing some project vans for and trying to utilize that remaining allocation so further voting vetting these and in talking with our safety committee and our district district administrators we identified the project priorities to really focus on our multi-activation announcements and this is a graphic from from a corporate partner of ours not our work so you can see some of it is advertising but it gives a

126good picture of what we might be trying to achieve in an upcoming project so the multi-activation announcements um again the all calls using horns and speakers to make sure that everyone knows whenever a building status is changed from active ongoing to shelter in place for instance or lockdown and then the emergency emergency notifications that come with that so within that and the most immediate project opportunity is to expand on the existing infrastructure that we already have within the district and that's our my telephone system we have an opportunity to utilize that software in different mediums to be able to call a building status so using a mobile application using our phone system using a computer system and we're also expanding beyond this picture to upgrade our radio devices going from an analog system to a

127digital system so at any point in time a supervisor or a site supervisor can call an emergency procedure through the network and utilizing some of the the public horns and strobes so that in areas of high occupancy everyone knows what's happening they can be communicated with real time it goes far beyond just the pa system in communicating a building status so we're looking at in building a project plan to utilize all this technology both inside of our schools and the exterior schools if we think about our campus and the activity that's on our campus at any time during the day whether it's walkers on the track whether it's after school practices whether it's flex hour to be able to ensure that everyone knows what's happening at any moment is of critical importance so this is

128a solution diagram from again one of our potential vendors balcom a second area that i've asked the superintendent to to begin to explore is a weapons detection or weapons concealment detection system this is something that we saw a demo of it's what's happening in many arenas of high occupancy um it's it's the next generation of metal detectors in that people would be walking through and the analytics within the software would be looking for the density of metals for weapons concealment and it would detect something and it would provide a verification and again allow us to use our emergency communication systems we still had a lot of vetting to do on this i've simply asked the superintendent for permission to explore this with our safety committee and with our school communities but it's something that i

129believe we have the responsibility to explore given the recent strategies uh tragedies excuse me and again it's just another enhancement with our emergency communication systems and immediate detection so with that these are the stakeholder engagements requirements and this is the purpose of tonight's presentation is to begin to set the stage for the development of a project plan and you can see what the requirements are we have to develop a preliminary plan to be approved by the educate by the board of education excuse me uh would be posted and vetted by the community over a period of time there'd be a public hearing and then we would submit a project plan to the uh to the state education department um after again fully vetting and developing a project the level of detail that's required by the

130state and developing the budget has to be well vetted when we did the the council rack project we needed linear feed of cable it's it's got to be a very specific project plan that we would present to our community and then we would consider all the feedback that would be through the public public participation process so tonight i simply wanted to introduce it give the board of education a heads up that that's something we're developing and uh we'll expect to have more planned details in the in the coming months thank you any questions for lou i'll make a quick comment lou and that is i appreciate you bringing this forward and doing some of the initial research every discussion about security in schools will be a little bit uncomfortable the world we live in is

131continuing to change and we have to think differently about things i believe we're being very transparent and saying we're going to look at this and see what makes sense and what doesn't and as we always do we'll share a ton of information with the community about what this might look like what we think are the benefits what we think are the potential drawbacks but i i think if anybody whether it be a parent or just anybody in the community is is completely comfortable with all these discussions they may not be understanding it correctly we've got to get a little uncomfortable looking at what could possibly happen and what could we potentially do to prevent it but also not infringe on somebody's rights and that's just going to be an everyday struggle so i appreciate us

132being willing to look at it and talk about it but as part of that we really ought to expect to be uncomfortable at times and sort of be okay with that i'm sorry we're gonna say something no you took the words out of mouth i think that's you articulated that very well i just wanna appreciate lou being so on top of this and treating every child in this district as if they are his own and taking that role so seriously i know that lou and john mccabe and everybody works with on these topics value that care that perspective that diligence at a very high level and your willingness to dig into all of these to challenge our thinking to make us really confront some uncomfortable questions all to protect the students and and by the

133way the staff that we're we are entrusted with as well by their families i think is is remarkable and to the point specific to the weapon system detection system and the other conversations that are uncomfortable to have they're so important to have and we'll dig into it we'll dig into it really deeply engage the community in the conversation and the security committee and really look at their expertise and perspective and and then present those back to you for final decisions as well thank you it is a chance for us as adults to role model productive conflict which means disagreements respectfully had and maybe not everybody agrees with the final result with necessarily the same level of enthusiasm so that's sometimes a difficult thing to do any other questions for lou thank you thanks next we

134have approval of a tentative labor agreement with the brighton administrators nurses asi non-teaching supervisors and non-unit support staff we've had the chance to look at that anything you want to say about that no just really productive conversations positive dialogue and you know a lot of collaboration to get to the right place with each of the groups that we're recommending to you within parameters that we set out to at the beginning and really in line with conversations we've had at this table over the past year around making sure we're supporting people at the level that we ought to for the incredible work they're doing for our kids recognizing both the labor market the economic condition for our community members but also for our staff and doing the right thing by people because they are the best

135at what they do and we want to support them in that and so we're excited to be telling you that we've reached those agreements and ask you for your support of those tonight questions motion to approve so moved moved by susan second seconded by karen all those in favor aye motion passes next up we have a series of bids um leveraging our cooperative arrangement within monroe county boces for a number of different supplies for the year i did receive an unsolicited rating from lou regarding the ice cream and frozen desserts you taste tested all of them [Laughter] but we do get a benefit from being part of monroe county both seas and are able to lever better prices for our community because of that questions with regards to any of those bids it's a pretty

136diverse set of bids motion to approve some move moved by andrea second seconded by esther all those in favor motion passes approval of the second read policy i missed the first read for the meeting that i did miss but it's in regards to gender and it has to do with updates regarding state codes there anything you want to say about that no really just it's interesting to me something we mentioned last time is that the state law in these areas has caught up to what brighton has been doing for a very long time and then taken appropriate steps to require folks in their policy to use particular language that's thoughtful and respectful and to make sure that we're doing right by kids and families and really still comes down to for us as it has

137and will continue to that we are allowing cherishing supporting every human being in being who they say they are how they say they are and when they say they are and supporting them in that and the state has certainly now in terms of regulation a lot cut up to them as well questions in regards to this the second read motion to approve so moved moved by karen second seconded by christina all those in favor all right motion passes uh approval of a jewel agreement between the brighton central school district and a particular employee you all did receive an update from dr mcgowan on that the questions were asked is there anything else you feel you need to ask motion to approve the jewel agreement as reviewed moved by julian second seconded by susan all those

138in favor uh approval of a 2022 bond resolution the amount of 4.8 million to finance a capital improvement project um do you want to hit any of the projects that are under there is it worse do we have it on here i don't know if we do um this has to do with a number of things lou what are the highlights for this one the gin yeah i'm sorry about that so this relates to the um scope that was on the docket for the may 22 um so these are the gymnasium renovations this is the french road playground this would be the bonding authorization that we would marry up with the building aid so french road cooling tower the playground french road gymnasium is included in that the high school gymnasium renovations there was the

139lower auditorium roof work was included in that does this include some of the light work around the field nope that's this year's project so that when we've already passed the bond resolution for we just issued the short-term debt for that this is for next year's next year's scope and boilers at the middle school was was another big part of that scope great thank you for that i appreciate it uh questions in regards to that i will note this will come up on lou's safety committee that in a number of these situations when buildings are being worked on over the next 12 to 18 months we the community might lose use of the track for a couple days or a couple of playgrounds it presented some safety situations for us when it was ongoing it council

140rock we'll have signage up and things like that but you might hear from the community if they find out for example when the lights are being fixed that the track is unavailable for a few days because of the existence of a crane or something so it's all about improving the facilities or in some cases repairing uh motion to approve that bound resolution so moved moved by karen second seconded by andrea all those in favor hi uh next up for our consent agenda we have um the personnel we have two uh item 15 and 16. on the bottom reserved reserve hunt the reserve fund and then the construction award recommendations i've got it i don't know it must be in the wrong didn't take the annotation i didn't take the amended i'm sorry about that kim

141thank you you're fine thank you okay so approval uh this is new item 15. i have the older one i apologize approval of the reserve fund modifications we have had discussions with lou in regards to that any additional questions motion to approve the reserve fund model k modifications so move move by andrea second seconded by esther all those in favor okay uh next up item 16 is approval of the construction award recommendations these are the folks who are going to be doing the work the little bitters basically for these jobs that weren't described questions for lou in regards to any of the work or the bid awards motion to approve by julian seconded by christina all those in favor all right thank you again kim now we're on to the consent agenda uh there are

142a series of personnel changes i'll make all the people we bring on board obviously very important but i'll make note of the fact that there's two more important transitions there marin who did a great job for us at french road we'll take on the unenviable task of going back to work with principal matt as co-principal at councillor oh no i'm just kidding she said no but we have uh two new leaders coming in for us uh dr tracy glazer and ms lashara evans uh dr tracy glazer is coming in to replace mike wiener who's retiring and um ms lashara evans will be replacing marin at french road and shirley flores will be moving over there here very excited to have had the chance to meet lashara not have a direct conversation with tracy but um

143just very excited about those folks joining the leadership team being able to work with them on blueprint day and some of the other planning events we've got coming up all the people we bring on that are new are certainly important but when we bring in a couple of leaders like that it's particularly important can agreement very excited for our team for our students for our staff and for all of you to have the opportunity to work with some really outstanding individuals so approval of the personnel changes as presented moved by susan second second and by esther all those in favor aye aye approval of the committee on special education report so moved moved approval of the committee on pre-school special education report some move moved by susan seconded by andrea all those in favor hi

144we have a list of fundraising activities um we are never uh we are never short of eating opportunities and getting our car cleaned opportunities and hearing some great musical performances opportunities so that's great a number of gifts it's our practice to read these out loud because they are so important a gift from keith meller and susan miller in the amount of 300 to the dennis miller scholarship fund for 2022 to the visual and performing arts department a gift from nancy wolfe jordan in the amount of 100 to the dennis miller scholarship fund for 2022 to the visual and performing arts department a gift from christopher and carlyle miller in the amount of 200 to the dennis miller scholarship fund for 2022 to the visual and performing arts department i give from susan miller in the

145amount of 300 to the dennis miller scholarship fund for 2022 to the visual performing arts department um also a gift to council rock primary school library of 100 gift card from catherine anderson in memory of rachel axelrod and finally a gift from louis beato rochester area community foundation in the amount of one thousand five hundred dollars for the david albiedo memorial scholarship fund i thought i got it here i will just quickly read in regards to the first four gifts just would remind everybody and this is on the website my thanks to dr leaner and to kim for this the dennis miller scholarship is awarded annually to one student who demonstrates a high level of interest and proficiency in the visual and or performing arts students in grades nine to eleven are encouraged to apply

146this scholarship can be applied to a summer camp performing or visual arts course workshop seminar or other enrichment program the 300 scholarship will be presented at the june awards ceremony so those gifts you see there are to continue to replenish and bolster that questions with regards to the gifts approval of the overall consent agenda moved by julian second you know what i'm going to make andrea second this one because this will be her final day okay i'm sorry seconded by karen all those in favor aye aye any other comments questions thank you andrea thank you ian and uh very best wishes to all yes motion to adjourn so moves moved by andrea secondly second by esther all those in favor aye we are adjourned thank you all this has been a special presentation from the

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