001good evening welcome to the Wilson Central School District Board of Education meeting for Tuesday January 14 2025 my name is Tim Carter superintendant of schools um as I usually mention if you're here this evening you have a chance for doing public comment at the end if you're not here and you're watching online or at a later time please don't hesitate to call the district uh clerk at 716 751 9399 and Mrs Pavan will get your comment question or concern to the board at this time I'll turn it over to vice president Stewart we'll begin the meeting please stand Ali to the flag of the United States of America to the repic for it stands one nation under God indivisible with liy and justice for all can I have a motion to approve me dated December
00210th 2024 please second second all in favor I thank you number two consent agenda for financial operation a resolve that the Wilson Central School District Board of Education include the following items B through D in the fin Financial consent agenda as submitted by the Administration and I have a motion so move second second all in favor number three special presentations Bon Simpson artificial intelligence with me for one second that up beautiful Je I can't bring anymore okay so hi um as everybody knows AI is a very um pervasive topic lately um in out there in the real world but also um more it seems more every year in the educational setting um and so there are a lot of conversations that uh will happen in the future because it's such a broad subject so things
003like um not just what is it but how can it be used uh in the school environment how can it help with instruction how does it challenge instruction and what are the obstacles to that how do we train our staff and our teachers to use it appropriately how do we uh teach our students to use it appropriately you can see that there's just a lot of tentacles that it has as far as um creating District policies and C so when we talk about um AI in the school environment and and most of you probably already know this so let me just preface this by saying my only goal is to one keep this short and two um just to just to talk a little bit about what it is that's my only goal because everything
004else is a much broader conversation um but they those are conversations that we will have with each other and with the technology plan so when we talk about Ai and the educational environment we're almost always talking about Genera AI there's many kinds of AI um and some of them are very um specific to a particular field like the medical field or the software engineering or actual engineering there are all different kinds and we see them in our lives they sneak in whenever we're shopping on Amazon or whenever it seems like you know your suddenly your phone knows what you're looking for and you just said that word and all of a sudden it shows up on your phone like those things you know um in schools we're talking about generative AI so generative as the
005word suggest means it generates something so that could be uh a document an essay a picture a song a poem a lesson plan a presentation they're all things that are generated usually based on a prompt and sometimes a very simple PR so as I was thinking about how to just talk about what it is it's one of those things that you just have to see it happening um because when you're thinking about AI it's not so much the product because we're all familiar with the products it's the process that it takes to create the product that is so much different than we're used to so I have some things queued up here um and I just want to show you what it does and I'm just going to fly through so let's say that you
006were looking up um information about A congenital heart condition because we all Google ailments when we know we shouldn't because then we think we're going to die but um when we put those in um what it's doing is it's um it's the uh what do I want the vamped up version of what we would do anyway right we would go in we would put that in the search term and then we would click on the websites and the the PDFs underneath it and you know how it is you get to the first one you're but that's not what I meant or I don't want to be on the congenital heart condition Association I want to know what it is so it's very good and um intuitive about predicting what you are wanting to see it
007doesn't give you a a giant thing it's more of like a summary so in this case this is AI that is um embedded in browsers and whatnot so you may have noticed that now when you do searches you might see a little star with the little twinkly thing that says AI that wasn't there before so okay so if I hit congenital heart conditions um this is what it's going to give me you see this little AI overview here and when you click on it it it does a nice job of giving you sort of a synopsis of what you were looking for now normally back in the day when I was in your AG um we would click on all of these we would go down this rabbit hole and it would take quite a
008long time to find this so its superpower is its efficiency for for shooter um another example of something that somebody might put in uh just a Google search or maybe an edge search um a student might put this in I just made these up randomly leisure activities in colonial America and then AI will tell you well this is what they what they used to do in colonial America and maybe you as a student maybe you start writing a report about it or you know it's definitely not my experience as a student when we had to go to the library and get you know the encyclopedias and the reference books and all that it's definitely a whole different a whole different bogging so that's AI That's embedded in um the things like our search our browsers
009and whatnot then there are other AI specific things places that you can go to the most common one that everybody's probably heard of is chat GPT which is just a website we just chat GPT and that's what you get I put an example here of how it could be used just for just your average person just trying to look up something so I put what are the most common mistakes when trimming trees in the in the spring and um you can you can imagine how there would be instruction coming about well it's a different kind of instruction right well what are the Search terms what are the main ideas what are the key points that you're looking at that teaches would be teaching kids to narrow down those things that they're looking for um you
010can see something went wrong great oh no now just stop it did you do it for this one too it probably TI the which is really sad I bet it's going to do the same thing here um this so what countries have had a large influence on the culture of Louisiana and it's going to tell me something went wrong which is very sad so let's type that in I guess it didn't like time or something so let's put it in Brush and see if that works so you can see that the return on on what you type in is very is very quick um that's the good thing about it and some would say that's the bad thing about it um but that is certainly a way that a student might use uh chat in
011looking for uh information for their project when sha when AI first came along the very very first people were down in the tech office immediately how can we block this and it's quite frankly it's just not blockable it's so embedded in absolutely everything now that there is no choice um whether it's there or not there is a teacher choice or a district choice in do we want to embrace it or do we want to um do we want to a avoid is not the right word but but but do we want to mitigate how used um and you could imagine the um discussion on both sides right because on the one hand if you try to mitigate it and you try to contain it there are um programs that will that are adapting as quickly
012as AI is adapting and try to catch those things but it does beg the question doesn't that end up turning you into the policemen of your classroom so that's the struggle that teachers have with that is how much time and effort they put into is this did the kid really write this it it that takes quite a bit of time and energy so that's a conversation that is going to be end up being half um this uh this is a sample of how we used it recently in the district so I don't know if you've seen this already but on our high school website this is presentation that Miss and myself and the insance in the tech department together which is the um the electives the elective classes that are coming up so the teachers
013all gave us um information about their electives and we plugged these all we worked as a team and plugged these all into an AI presentation tool and so the kids had these which was sort of a district initiative was we wanted to be able to promote in a better way or in I don't know in a more focused way what our um uh what our elected are and let you know what they contain and and so we wouldn't have been able to do this really without AI because of the time constraints that would have been involved in making one for every single class so you can see that that as a benefit this is the program that we used to do that and you can just see them all here they were you know we
014all gred them and just did them and I wanted to show you that as an example of what this particular program does um I put in a uh a prompt here for a slide deck um and my prompt was to create a 10 slide presentation for the school board what is generative AI give many examples in detail now I don't know if it's going to tell me something that WR in this program but we try um and it asks you to pick your design and doesn't matter which one so you can change this to anything and so if you were if you're old school you remember how long these things took to go into Google Slides or to go into PowerPoint and find the little icons and the little you know and then fill them
015all in so um you would certainly not be spending your time doing um formatting when you use things like this so you can see it created this um slide deck it gives examples um it gives examples of how it's us in education you can see here it made benefits and challenges um it does a nice job summarizing for the kids um this is a um area that is specifically designed for education so it's called Magic School I don't know how many teachers are currently using it it's new um one of our teachers has gone to a a webinar webinar thing about it um and I just wanted to show you that this is specifically designed for education so I remember spending like four four of my planning periods making a Jeopardy review game about the
016water cycle I mean I clearly remember doing that so I just typed in Jeopardy review game fifth grade water cycle that's all I put and it gave me a Jeopardy game and then now this can be exported you can put it on Google Slides or whatever um it gives you the grading information and you know the ant answer key and pardon me I was teach it's it's a very um handy tool for teachers this is another example here is um this one is their rubric generator so for the teachers um you know they write an that they have the kids write an essay it takes a long time to create a rubric to grade something that is open-ended like that so I just put in an example create a rubric for 11 graders on four
017point scale students will be able to WR an argumentative essay uh persuade your school to change a policy that you don't like and then here are the things that I wanted it to consider supportive arguments organization of ideas welldeveloped paragraphs well written summary and conclusion and grammar and syntax and when you click on that it gives you which would definitely in the classroom it gives you this rubric so that is something that would have taken a very long time even to find one I have to say find one on the web that had exactly what you were looking for would have taken a long time so it's all right there for you um and this I think is my last example this is uh tutor me with AI so back during um Co we were
018using a we had various tutor I forget what they paper I think it was called paper yeah and um you know there was a human being on the other end but there were also like chatbot kind of things on the other end to tutor kids when they were stuck so um I just put in the grade level and then it says describe what you are learning that AI tutor can help you with and I put pem and um I just followed it through I just want to show you what it did it said well tell me what you already know about it and I thought it has something to do with the order of operations but I always get it wrong something that it put and it it's adaptive it's like okay well let's start
019here and and it walked me I won't do it now but it walked me through the whole thing it started with something very simple I have me do that and it just just like you would expect it to it through the process so those are uh the examples of of what AI does in a quick little spt I want to tell theard that I do have a survey that we took with the teachers to say what do you know about Ai and are you interested in using it what are your concerns um what what are you interested in learning about it and overall it was very um positive um there were some people who had concerns but there were legitimate concerns and most people were like just show me which was um very nice and
020then just as closing I wanted to show you that um one of the things that magic school does I should have shown you the home screen um but one of the things that magic school does is write a song you can write a song and I thought that Mr Bon should have his own song uh write a song about Middle School principal Mr Benton which I will share with you I'm not going to sing this with you or anything but um that's why I have oh it's not here anymore oh yes it is I thought this is a good song for Mr B Just Walk Like a Man song you guys might know it like a mans a song Mr this isn't it Mr B it's so while that's queuing up this was our description
021for Mr Benton he's a very funny and super nice person he lives next door to the school he likes to watch football and spend time outdoors with his dog sheer his granddaughter Mercedes has him wrapped around her little finger his wife Jackie isti school teacher who loves to go to the casino and and it wrote a song for you Mr which I will share with you B Adventure walk like a like a back it was actually very nice uh talk to a friend principal B he so for the board I will share with you that song if you need it and we all need that song and um that's what AI is and what board members questions I have a question you mentioned something about I don't know which one you were in maybe C
022PT sure where if you were to look up information in the books like I taught in the day where we had to research and have and things like that would they get the same information is that is isn't AI the information of the person that's in putting it no if I'm understanding your question correctly um but AI is adapted and learns from all the information that it has on that subject so it can be from verified quality sources like you know Beth Israel hospital or something like that but also Joe Schmo who lives next door to you who wrote something stupid so that's one of the reasons why students have to be taught how to just like everything else online evaluate the information and um learn how to detect its accuracy um it reminds me
023a lot of Wikipedia you know anybody can put anything in Wikipedia so you might read something in Wikipedia that is completely ridiculous you have to know how to find your facts and how to check your facts and that's no different in any part of the internet or AI all the same animal same thing with the encyclopedia you know just because it was the encyclopedia doesn't mean that the information was accurate was accurate H what kind type of a burden is this going to put on the teachers to fact check what they're getting from these kids I mean it's it's very easy to write something and I wrote a couple of things just fooling around with it and I had I got a nice essay out of it none of it was true but I got
024a very nice essay out of it and I'm just wondering what kind of a burden this is going to put on the teachers to really say is this real or is it substance that they're generating I I think it depends on the choices what the teacher makes if the teacher decides that they are going to use their traditional methods of instruction and for example say write an essay um that covers a 3- week period and have it in in 3 weeks which means you can write it at home or you can write it on your phone or whatever if they choose to stick with that type of um assessment then they will have to commit to the time to to run it through the filters that detect um AI um generation and the time that's
025going to be involved in talking to the kids and saying this looks this is reported as 80% generated by AI there will be other teachers I'm assuming who will change their instruction this is the example I give all the time so instead of um writing an essay or or whatever a term paper about oh I don't know um French Revolution instead of doing that they might end up doing things real time in the classroom where next Tuesday we're going to have a debate about pick a side about the French Revolution which side you're on have your facts available to you and you're going to debate in real time without any Electronics you know you know behind your back because then you know that the student really does know that material because they're sitting right in
026front of you so teachers are going to have to decide how willing they are to adapt or change their um instruction from what it used to be to what it might need to be now unless they're willing to put in that time and some teachers are some teachers are like I'm having the hisid ren essay and I will check it and they did I know I went to a seminar and they talked a lot not as heavily but about plagiarism with AI that it can happen very very easily I was wondering if there's any safeguard built into it there probably can't be but in some sense it's no different than the plagiarism that would have happened 15 years ago when you pull out you know when you plac yourz the um the encyclopedia and so
027you go in there and then you change all the big words you know and you you know that type of stuff um it's it's it's not so different from that um except like I said there are programs that teachers can run things for you literally upload this to the kids probably know you upload the document and it runs it through and it says this was created by Ai x% and then the teacher has a conversation with the student F it's faster pleasur ISM okay if you think and the hard part for all of us is the fact that um kids are already using it now so if you have a traditional test 10 questions you can bet those 10 questions are going in the AI and they're going to get the answer and if they're
028not doing that they're absolutely crazy that's what I would do at this point um if you're going to give me a tool I'm going to use it so I'm going to go back and actually I believe your grandson said you have it's better brace it and show kids how to use it effectively and you show them how to use it the right way but if you have you do a traditional assignment AI is going to win every time but if you change if you change your assignment to you know the debate was a good answer create a presentation on the French Revolution using 10 slides and be ready Friday to present that presentation to the class now you have to know not only know the material but you have to have the presentation to you
029know do so I think it's there is a bit change there's going to be some professional development it's going to have to happen as we move forward um what other I me we began this walk down the AI road because you know every conference we've all been to says better have policy in place and our Tech Team created a pol you know looked at the policy that was sent to us from our policy service and um I haven't sent it to you yet but maybe something next besides the survey is send the policy therefore at the next um we can't do the first reader yet it hasn't went through commit you know the Shar decision making committee but at least let the board take a look at it see if there's any other questions you
030want to answer before we take it to the Shar decision 18am and then bring it back to the board for for approval I'll put that in news and notes this Friday um and then we'll I'll put some time aside at our Workshop to just you know tell me the questions you have so then I can go ask Bonnie the answers no don't the anwers Bonnie okay ises that sound like good good next up any other questions for sorry I thought you I saw your hand up behind me is that okay yeah Oh I thought my limit was up definitely isn't but for ton um the magic I want to call the Magic schol School magic I know it magic bus on there you are are you planning on um having some education for our our
031teachers on yeah it's penell in for our PD PD day uh for the superintendent conference but we do have a teacher who like I said went you know several it was more of a longterm thing and um we'll either I'll either do the AI presentation for this or I'll have M with her to do it because she was involved in it for week and week so I might twist her around to do but yes it's part of P excellent thank you nice job can I ask just two very brief questions um first of all uh all these services that you showed I know that like CH GPT and most of the other ones like the ones we've all interacted with are like the quote unquote like you know uh free version that's online or whatever
032it might be I'm assuming that the ones that would be like rolled out at an educational capacity like the ones that actually have some basis in uh vetted sources because you know that je ched GPT famously you know has those issues where you know just when you're drawing from the internet as a whole or just these giant databases you could have just terrible material backing up these things um I'm assuming there's like fees associated with these services that we would be using like the magic school or that kind of thing well you know they do the thing where they G you in for free and then you can't download this unless you upgrade so we actually are on the free portion of Magic School I do try to I end up to The Magic School
033AI uh but I can foresee that as we get trained in it and so forth that we would end up getting the paid version and upgrade and all that kind of thing okay uh and and then I guess the the only other uh I mean just something for uh the only other question I had was going back to like the The Source material that's backing up so many of these models uh and the famous like hallucination issues that the bigger models have had uh I'm just curious the the more school focused one on I'm assuming these are built from more targeted like eded databases is that kind of the idea I believe so and to what extent um are they like showing their work right like you know I know I noticed that like the
034Google AI it links some of its sources within like the summaries that it gives you and I'm Cur and like CAD gbt however if you don't ask it to it famously will'll just give you a string of text and that that um the kind of school oriented ones you know with an eye toward uh teaching these kids to you know discriminate between Source material like really go after the primary source to verify what you've learned uh to what extent do they have the ability to kind of see behind the curtain a little bit for oh I think that's a really good question I'll tell you right now I don't know I don't know but that's certainly something that um we'll look into and especially as we head toward right now it's it's the wild west
035oh I hate to say it's it's the wild west and so this is the first program that we have found that that we are getting a good feel for it being designed for an educational setting but as we move forward it is easy to see that those types of things when we choose as a district these are our AI um resources that we're committed to and that we have that information for it's an excellent question yeah no because I mean no I'm sorry to interrupt you I just to your point about Wikipedia earlier like that was like when I was in high school that was like the the middle of like the like ripping off Wikipedia era of cheating that people were doing and you know some much lazier than others of course but I'd
036like to think I was on the right side of it where I was that nerd who was actually going and finding the primary sources that the Wikipedia article was based on because I wanted to go to the library and hunt down that book or whatever it might have been so that is very oh I'm trust me I'm I'm fully hopping to it but uh but I'll just say that like being able to like go down a quote unquote Wikipedia rabbit back in the day I feel like the next generation's version of that is going to be you know going down an AI rabbit hole for lack of a better word and I think I'm hopeful that having access to those sources at least you know seeing behind the uh you know the actual base material
037is going to facilitate the same level of like you know learning that still happened like you know you're not just walking around paring what you what you saw you're actually kind of trying to be a little more discriminating hopefully too the benefit is that now that it is so such a big part of Education that the that the um instruction that is given to the students starts way way before high school like you know oh yeah no I mean I know kids who are great better at writing those prompts and I'll ever be already right so it's you know I mean in the end this is it has a potential to be such a powerful tool to direct people in general to information that it's it's really exciting and I it's encouraging to see how
038much work you guys have already obviously put in so well done thank you good sorry for talking a little thank you Mrs Simpson um number four extracurricular Club proposals be it resolved at the board of education of the Wilson Central School District hereby approves the creation of the extracurricular extracurricular Club titled High School Plant Club effective January 14th 2025 with advisor stien for the WTA contract for any year that the advisor position is filled and that such Club is active may I have a motion I'll move second second are there any questions or comments all in favor I okay so move I'm excited about that personal resignations a accept the resignation of Claudia Andre's effective June 30th 2025 for retirement purposes um can I have a motion so move second second are there any questions
039i' just like to comment on it and I know we'll do something later in the year but Mrs Andrew has been here for x amount of years she's like a fixture in this school I mean you can any play any musical anything that happens at the school you see her there so she's been a very viable part and uh you're going to hate to see her go I mean some of the kids may say goodbye but she is a very very good part of the school yes in favor personal appointments High School advisor for 20242 for the WTA agreement and effective January 14 2025 Karen Mau as high school CL advisor and do we need a motion for each one okay all right uh I have a motion so move second second any questions so
040move all in favor any opposed now I can move it okay okay thanks Chris uh I found out when I got here uh B Elaine slasher as food service helper SL monitor effective January 24 with salary and benefits at step one for the CCA cafeteria agreement Elaine has met New York State fingerprint clearance do I have a motion so move is there a second second any questions all in favor any opposed motion passed C Dylan Gordon as unpaid assistant for varsity lacrosse for the 2024 25 Spring season under the direct supervision of Coach coach Isaiah NS um do I have a motion move second second any questions all in favor I all opposed or any opposed motion passed D Anthony lazinski as unpaid assistant for JB football for 2025 2026 fall season under the direct
041supervision of Coach Daniel linski do I have a motion sove second second any questions all in favor I any opposed motion [Applause] pass is too I must feel it e approved substitute teacher Lindsay Meyers substitute teacher has met New York State fingerprint clearance do I have a motion second second any question all in favor I any opposed motion passed thank you number seven other approve the agreement between the Wilson Central School District and Michelle Mary Teresa mitel Jackson to provide Professional Therapy Services for the district retroactively affected January 6 2025 at a rate of $55 per 30 minute session not to exceed $8,000 have agreed upon services do I have a motion so move is there a second second any questions all in favor I any oppos motion passed approves I'm not going to pronounce
042this correctly so coli Construction Services Inc as the lowest possible bidder including alternate number one and alternate number two to the 20242 Capital outlay project at $78,900 do I have a motion so move second second any questions all in favor I any opposed motion passed Charles sodoko from Kinesis University to teach student teach in the elementary school was Steve Zimmer physical education teacher from March 10th through May 9th 2025 his fingerprints have been cleared with the New York State education department do I have a motion so move second second any questions all in favor I any opposed motion passed approv WTA shrone parentheses concerts and a parentheses increase in rate of pay from $15 an hour to $15.50 an hour 2025 minimum wage effective January 1 2025 do I have a motion so second second
043any questions all in favor I any opposed motion passed uh number eight policies I don't think there are any okay good there number nine committee on special education preschool special education 504 plan recommendations a approved CPS cs504 meeting minutes and IEP recommendations J dated January 14th 2025 um do I have a motion so move second second any questions all in favor all any opposed motion passed 10 Conference requests a approved conference request for January 14 2025 agenda items B through G can I have a motion so move second second any questions all in favor I any opposed motion passed number 11 fundraiser request approv fundraiser request for the January 14th 2025 agenda items B through b may I have a motion so move second second good any other any questions all in favor any oppos
044motion passed use of facility requests a approve use of facility request for the January 14 2025 agenda items B through D may I have a motion a second second are there any questions all in favor I all any opposed motion passed 13 field trips action required a approve Wilson varsity baseball team field trip to Myrtle Beach South Carolina from April 16th through 20th 2025 to practice baseball and participate in baseball games coaches will act as chapons Bill Atlas and Zach ano any cost charge to the district will be reimbursed by the baseball program do I have a motion so move a second second uh any questions all in favor any opposed motion passed okay oh I have a report let's go um first of all I believe we did receive this uh invitation to the
045legislative breakfast um if you would let Jennifer Pavan know that you are or will be attending it's Saturday January 25d I print in mine if you want anybody want see it no everybody good okay good um and so far there are three uh legislators uh showing up and I would have to look them up on my phone which I was going to do one is uh senator board he's the one I remember he always comes he's wonderful um I don't know about any other at this time okay that's all I have uh number 16 um Parker not too much I just wanted to say that regions retakes are happening in a couple weeks or like in the upcoming weeks we have the musical going on which I think superintendent Carter is going to talk a
046little bit about because I noticed we have this invite in front of us um and then all all we just have February break coming up we have a couple break days here and there which is why we shorten Christmas break we have things like the lunar new new year off now which I know that's new this year um but after that after February comes we're really just focusing on getting through the rest of the year getting a graduation wow how exciting nice job thank you um superintendent Carter welcome and thank you for all your well wishes while I was out uh for surgery and uh hopefully everything will continue to be okay until next year we have to do it all over again so um as Parker mentioned and you thankfully left it to me
047we have in front of you an invite um to this year's High School Middle School M musical presented by the Wilson music parents Association susal the musical it'll begin on Friday January 24th there'll be a 7 o00 performance on Saturday January 25th there will be a 2:00 b a performance and then 7:00 um performance here at the High School Middle School auditorium um and tickets can be purchased at the door one hour prior to each performance um board members every year I'm actually amazed at a talent of our students so if you get an opportunity to please come that would be great I was going to also mention the legislative breakfast but thank you uh trustee Stewart I don't have to do that anymore um three three things one is uh this Thursday we have
048a financial literacy night this Thursday 1:16 um if you haven't signed up the judge that doesn't preclude you from showing up um I'm not evaluating this year I don't think I can stand that long but I am planning on being there um board members it's a great night to just listen to our wonderful students and their great presentations um and uh Mrs Herman and Mr Alex do a great job getting our kids prepared that evening um I just wanted to I I made a note um I try to thank um when we have a retirement and I want to just take a moment uh from one chorus person to uh Mrs Andre's I know she knows how much she means to her kids uh my daughter went through the music program in Kenton and if
049it wasn't for her music director um I don't even know if she would have made it through school so I know the special talent that it takes for a uh music uh director to pull those kids along and get the best out of them and you know from the time I walked in the door here eight years ago to today the amount of activities and the amount of concerts that our music program looks on is absolutely stellar and I've not seen it in any other District so yes she's going to be missed greatly and it's going to be difficult to uh to replace her um and I sent an email uh today at 5:30 so if you were here with me or on your way here you didn't get it yet but I sent an
050email to all our Wilson Central School District families uh board members it'll be in news and notes um but it was basically um reaffirming what I had put in last week's new with the notes about the power school breach um we did have a a communication from power schools which is one of our software vendors that warehouses our data for student Information Systems upon investigation it has been determined that Wilston Central School District along with many districts um not only local but across our nation had their data compromised uh and are involved in this breach it's our understanding that this incident involves unauthorized access to student and staff data U please note that this event occurred through uh power schools it has not affected any of our other systems um our data in the district
051power schools informed us that the compromised data does include parent student and employee personal identifiable information however they have not provided any specifics of what data and who it belongs to uh Power School is still conducting their investigation in regards to the incident and we're working to gather information and resources that provide our families um with all the information they need um and we will get it out as soon as it becomes available and we'll continue to keep our staff and families informed as information becomes available we anticipate that they'll re I put in that I anticipate you're going to re receive further notification once the investigation is done I was we received the notification on Friday and I kind of held off um sending anything out briefly because um I didn't I didn't have
052any information so I was going to be sending out hey this happened but I have nothing to tell you but then this morning when I woke up and it was on the news that East aora sent something out to the news I'm like well I better let people know about this so um you know as soon as I have the available information I'll make sure that I you know not only get it out to you but they're also be um remediation and things like that because um any company um and your parents and board members you probably receive them all the time where there's a breach in data in one system another the part of that is they have to not only notify you but they have to provide remediation so there might be some
053credit monitoring or some kind of monitoring along with it soon as I have that I'll get it out to the board and let all the fames know about it do you know what type of information that they that are on those reports is it uh Financial or is it like Social Security numbers is it it's a variety of it's a variety of things um during the time that I've been here um we don't report or collect uh Social Security numbers um there was a time that was something we had to do um so it's a big it's a big ask because not only it's current staff and students it's everybody going back to 2008 that has ever done um so yes there you know there's definitely going to be uh emails phone numbers addresses people's
054names um you know there are some there are some social security numbers that are that are going to be in in there yes would that include parents or just staff would to be student students and stff uh we don't have any current staff we our staff we use it more for identification student grades and things like that so other than first name last name for staff there's nothing more than that um our students anything that we' collected off of registration so when a student parent registers your student that registration form gets in puted into power schools that's our student information system that's how on Friday on today you every parent received Anil email from me as it polls from power school and I can email the entire District I can phone call the entire District
055within minute um one of the drawbacks is there are unfortunate people out there that are looking for misinformation um and it was uh you know it turned out to be an employee from power schools who had their uh password and ID um comp and they had access to all the information again we're not not that it helps but We're Not Alone um you know for the you know once we know exactly what's there um they keep telling us whatever you input is available so we know what we input for staff and we know what we input for students but it's you know I could I did a general notification but I don't need to send a thousand letters out if it's only affecting 100 people but we don't know that information yet I'd rather just
056identify those people get the information out to them as quick as possible so I'll keep you posted super can I ask one quick question um obviously still information still coming in investigation still pending all of that but um looking toward a more longterm uh perspective uh once all of this is concluded in the uh proverbial dust is cleared uh if the answers that we've received from power schools are not satisfactory um are there other vendors in this space that we could use the future for this service yes okay good thank you I I have a question as well and this might be more for like the tax department um is there any way for students or staff to view on power school that form that they send in when they register a student or staff
057member I don't believe they have access students don't have access to their information do they demograph um well the issue is um even if that information is in where you can see it um they Power School needs to verify what was pulled okay so just because it exists in there doesn't mean that on the particular table that they pulled they pulled that information and it while it should be a simple matter of saying can you please show us the data that that was pulled because I know they have it they're probably not yeah they're very reluctant to do that yet but I wouldn't suggest that anybody do that because it may very well be that there's you know a 100 fields of data but the only data that was pulled were the top 20 okay
058you know so it it will probably cause undo worry when we really don't know okay thank you and at the bottom of the uh email that was sent uh to staff we had staff contact the tech department and uh parents and fam's contact being the superintendent's office I'm going to be honest the answer if you call tomorrow the answer is going to be the same as I'm going to do tonight which is I don't have anything further but as soon as I do um it's not going to gather dust on my desk and when I get it I'll get it out any other questions forrs that's my report thank you very much um board president's uh commentary uh I will give be the vice president's commentary thank you for coming tonight and um happy New
059Year to everyone I hope everyone have a safe and happy New Year and I would like to say go bills and um my next would be public forum this portion of the agenda provides an opportunity for residents of the Wilson Center School District to be heard any person who wishes to address the board is invited to do so at this time please take your name and address complaints or criticism criticism about individual School Personnel are not appropriate in this form it will not be allowed the board may not respond to questions they should be referred to the superintendent Source at another time please be respectful and limit your comments to three minutes Board of educ Ed Board of Education policy number 151 do we have any comments questions your concerns I was curious if uh
060the students in attendance do you realize you can sign in on that sheet and you each get your own agenda so you don't have to share it as I saw the front and do you realize you can speak under public comment yes any questions comments when you get a pool they have to swim a motion to I don't think we have an executive session okay um a motion to adjourn the meeting so move second second okay any uh questions all in favor motion pass