001Good evening everyone. I call this meeting to order at 7:04. Please stand for the pledge of allegiance. U Mrs. Deiva, can you please read the safety message and ground rules? >> Good evening and welcome to the November 17th, 2025 board of education meeting. In the unlikely event of an emergency, please exit the building using the two doors to the left. As always, smoking and the use of vape products are strictly prohibited on school grounds. There is two portions of the meeting with public comments. First will be about the consent agenda and the reports that you will be seeing. The second is open to public comments that we'd like to bring forward to the board. Thank you. We move on to presentations and reports. Our first one will be Girls Inc. for girl of the year
002by um Mrs. Morowski along with Miss Jill Lincoln will be presenting um Haley Ray, sophomore at Patrick Meford High School with the girl of the year award from Girls Inc. Good evening, members of the board of education, Miss Kennedy, our superintendent and district office. It is my pleasure to recognize an outstanding Patchog Medford High School student, 10th grader Haley Ray, who has also been named the 2025 Girls Inc. of Long Island Girl of the Year. Academically, Haley has demonstrated exceptional commitment and achievement. As a ninth grader, she exceeded expectations while enrolled in several honors classes and a pre-AP course. Now, as a 10th grader, she continues to challenge herself with a rigorous schedule that includes multiple AP classes, an honors class, and a pre-AP class, and she continues to excel in all of them. Beyond
003her academic success, Haley is an extraordinary young woman whose personal growth has been remarkable. She first joined Girls Inc. last year as a quiet ninth grader, unsure of what to expect. But even from the beginning, it was clear that she possessed strong leadership qualities. Week after week, she showed up engaged and allowed her confidence to grow. As a ninth grade Girls, Inc. participant, Haley also took part in program trips, including a special visit to the Girls Inc. ational lunchon in New York City in March of 2025. This luncheon honored several inspiring women, highlighted the girls, Inc. mission, and featured powerful stories from Girls, Inc. participants and alumni. It was an experience that broadened Haley's perspective and deepened her connection to the organization's values. Throughout the year, Haley discovered her voice. She developed a passion for
004advocacy, especially around fairness and the rights of individuals with special needs. She strengthened her communication skills, learned to set healthy boundaries, and embraced her own strengths. During mental health and wellness discussions, she demonstrated courage by speaking openly about stereotypes, stigmas, and personal experiences, offering support, and understanding to her peers. By the end of her ninth grade year, Haley had grown into a confident leader, comfortable speaking in front of others, mentoring new participants, and fully embracing her role within Girls, Inc. This year, she continues to build on that growth, embodying what it means to be strong, smart, and bold. Joining me today is Miss Paek, program manager at Girls, Inc., who will also speak about Haley and recognize her continued involvement. Good evening. My name is Paige Delnik and I'm the program manager at Girls Inc.
005of Long Island. I wanted to share some of the additional dedication and participation of Haley Ray. In addition to her participation in our afterchool program, Haley has actively engaged in several significant exclusive opportunities outside of school through Girls Inc. This past summer, she became a dedicated member of the Half the Story Teen Tech Council, a New York initiative in partnership with the Clinton Foundation. This council brings together high school students across the state to shape bell-to-bell policies. The Teen Council, founded in 2025, provides authentic youth perspectives to help schools implement phone-free policies and foster a culture of digital wellness. Haley even had the opportunity to attend an advocacy meeting with Governor Governor Kathy Hokll and Secretary Hillary Clinton to discuss student perspectives on these policies. Haley also attended Girls Who Build over the summer, a
006hands-on career exploration initiative launched by United Way of Long Island. This program introduces young women to opportunities in construction, clean energy, and skilled trades. She participated in interactive workshops, site tours, and career simulations led by industry leaders and role models aiming to inspire the next generation of women in these sectors. Additionally, Haley serves as the youth academic advisory for Girls, Inc. of Long Island's Coca-Cola FIFA Academy initiative. In this role, she acts as a mediator between Girls Inc. participants and the program leaders. The academy offers a workforce readiness experience connected to a global event like the FIFA Men's World Cup, exposing young people to a broad range of careers through real world engagement and learning. These and many opportunities are available to all dedicated girls in members from Patchog Medford High School. This year we
007have exciting guest speakers and opportunities lined up including a women's health workshop led by Northwell Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology Professionals and financial literacy workshops from Dime and Mnt Bank. On behalf of Girls and Go of Long Island, we sincerely thank you for the opportunity to serve the young women of Patchog Medford High School and continue them and continue to inspire them to be strong, smart, and bold. We are excited to continue this work for years to come and we hope to see many more girls from Patchog Medford take advantage of these opportunities and strive for excellence. Thank you. Can we have a picture of everyone up here? Come on up. Let's see you. Get up here. Congratulations once again, Haley. That's pretty awesome. Next, we're going to move on to Eagle Elementary highlights presented by
008students Shane Keenan, Enzo Northam, Tegan Walsh, Rory Keegan, and also introduction of the rack random acts of kindness club by Isaiah Almia, Amaya Rivera, Abby Kratz, Ariana Moy, Sophia Alvarado, and Samuel N. Dolores. The Eagle Elementary School PTA brings together families, principals, teachers, staff, and our community to support our school. Our volunteers work tirelessly and continue to make a bigger impact each year through the programs and events we are able to provide. Tonight, a few of our students are here to share more about the work we do and what it means to them. Here are Enzo, Tegan, Rory, and Shane. The PTA The PTA or parent teacher association help make school more fun by planning activities for students and families. They organize things like paint night, spooky halls, steam night, and VIP dances that brings
009everyone together. These activities help us make memories and build school spirits. My favorite event is Steam night. I like Steam Night because you can do um a lot of stuff like doing a 3D printer, doing like a it looks like it's magic, but it really isn't. And yeah, you get to do a lot. It's really fun. Yeah. The PTA also runs fundraisers to help pay for special programs and supplies our school needs. They organize picture days, plant sales, book fairs, and color runs. The money raised goes towards our events, making sure all students receive books and staff appreciation. My favorite fundraiser is the holiday boutique because I love making my family happy with what I buy them. One of the most important things the PTA does is support the students. They help make learning more
010exciting by funding assemblies, bringing in guest speakers, and even helping with art and music programs. They make sure every student feels included and encouraged. My favorite assembly so far was the magicians. >> Testing one, two, three, testing. The PTA doesn't just help our school, they help our whole community, too. They give scholarships to high school seniors, donate the school, donate to the school sky store, and participate in PTA council. They help show what it means to care about others and give back. My favorite part is cultural arts programs. Miss Hansen and I are proud to introduce our Rack Club. Thank you for giving the Rack Club the chance to speak at tonight's board meeting. We are excited to share the kind projects we work on and to show how we try to make our school
011and community a better place. The rack club is is our random act of kindness club for fifth grade. We meet 10 times during the school year to do kind things for our school and our community. In the rack club, we work together, help others, and try to make the world a better place with small acts of kindness. Everyone in the club is a kindness leader. We started the year by raising no by restarting our pop the top community service project. Last year we collected so many pop tops that we were able to donate $50 to the Ronald McDonald House. This year we hope to make an even bigger difference. With your permission, we would like to invite all of the elementary schools in our district to join our Pop the Top program so we could
012triple our donation and help even more families. In January, our school is having a breakfast food bowl. We will be collecting breakfast foods like cereal, oatmeal, pancake mix, syrup, and granola bars to help families in our community. Every item you bring helps the family center. The class that brings in the most donations will win a pizza party for the PT from the PTA. We are also planning to create an an educational coloring sheet to help kindergarten, first and second graders during indoor recess in the cold winter months. These color these coloring pages will teach new things while giving younger students something enjoyable to do when they can't go outside. It's another way we hope to spread kindness and help others in our school. Thank you so much for giving us the up the chance to
013speak tonight. We all hope you have a wonderful holiday season. >> Thank you so much. >> Thank you, Eagle. A lot of amazing service projects taking place and all the teachers from Eagle here supporting the students. Thank you very much for being here. Can everyone come up so we can get your photo? Don't be shy. Thank you. Great job everyone. That was awesome. Next we have Mrs. for the state assessment and regions results. >> All right. Good evening everyone. Thank you for being with us tonight. I want to take a special moment to thank uh our administrators for being here. I appreciate your support as we go through last year's data. So tonight we're going to talk about our New York State Regent exams, our New York State 3 through8 assessments, uh the implementation of
014assessments measuring new and revised learning standards, and we will round it out with some I Ready Diagnostics. Okay, so first off, we're going to talk about our June regent exams. I'm going to go through each exam at a time. I'm going to talk about passing versus mastery percentage and then I'm going to give you some comparisons to um the county as well so you can kind of see where we as a district match up against some of the us other districts just in Suffach County. And then at the end you'll also see a little comparison to us versus New York State for the last two years. Um the 2025 data is not out yet so I could not prepare that for you tonight. All right, so first up we'll start with our English regions. This
015is over the last three years. You can tell that we've maintained um steady progress with percent passing and percent mastery. Um this past year we had 83% of students pass and 38% with mastery which is 85 or um greater on the exam. This chart gives you an example of what our district has done compared to the county. So on the left hand side you will see Patchog Medford. On the right hand side you will see the county. And what you will notice is that we were very um equivalent to what the county rating is. Um 38% at level five, which is mastery. And the county was 39. My eyes are going as I get older. It's 39.8 I want to say. So we are just as equal to the county as we are um as
016a district for English. Um levels three, four, and five for your reference um are considered passing. Uh levels one and two are considered a failing rate. All right, let's move on to global history. Again, we have maintained pretty steady for passing. Um, and for percent mastery over the last couple of years. Um, you know, I know Mr. Hanley is here tonight, but he is working with the department to really work at some of the things which I will get into a little bit later with regards to the exam for US history. The same we are doing very well with percent passing um 85 88 85 over the last couple of years. And then just to give you an idea of where we are against the county as well, you will notice that for global history
017on the lefth hand side as a district we are at 24% um at a mastery level, the county at a 34% and then on the right hand side US history uh mastery level 16% and the county at uh 28. So we are working um with some things in the department like I said which I'll get to in a little bit. All right, let's move on to math. Our algebra 1 scores for the last couple of years. Again, maintaining some pretty steady um percentages um as we move into um some new exams. The 2023 exam was different than 24 and 25. So, making sure our teachers are shifting some instructional practices to meet those standards. Wonderful um percentage for algebra 2. Um we've steadily increased that over the last couple of years, both percent passing and
018percent mastery. geometry um is we're doing well. Um and you'll see a little bit later compared to the county and the state how we're doing as well. But uh this uh past June was a new exam. Um so we're shifting some things with instruction as well. The teachers are looking at um the change in questioning. So uh they're shifting their instructional strategies. This will give you an outlook uh for algebra 1 2 and geometry as we compared ourselves to the county. Again on the left hand side for all three of these charts is the district. On the right hand side is the county. So um you know for a district we are doing very well across the board. We have some work to do in some of our areas that uh Mr. Salado and his
019teachers have been working on. Um but I'm proud to say that we're we're continuing great success. Okay. for science. This was living environment last this past June was the last time we will give the living environment regions. This coming June will be the new biology regent. So um we maintain great um percentages for passing and percent mastery. So we're curious to see how this exam will will hold um in June. Uh but the teachers have already made some shifts based on what the state has sent down. You will see for chemistry once again really maintaining those percentages over the last couple of years 91% 85% passing and again in the mid to upper 20s for percent mastery. Earth science once again this past June was the last time we will give the earth science exam.
020This coming June will be earth and space science. So, just like biology, the teachers have had to make some instructional shifts, um, which I'll get into a little bit later, but again, wonderful scores across the board for Earth Science. So, we're hoping that we can maintain that with the new curriculum and a regent exam as well. Physics, um, again, we had a little bit of a drop uh, since 2023, but since then, we've still been maintaining great percentages for passing and mastery. And then this will give you a look at living environment, chemistry, earth science and physics. Please remember living environment, earth science. This is the last time we will see that exam. Um but again we are comparing fairly well with the county um on the right hand side. All right. So this chart
021will give you an example of the district versus New York State. So again the 2025 results for the state have not been posted yet. So this is a look at 2023. Um you can see that the blue is the district and the orange is the state. We are doing very well um in comparison to our our colleagues in the state. So I'm super happy to see that and uh it continues for 2024. You know we really did a wonderful job at our percent um proficient uh which is those are that are passing. So I expect nothing but the same for 2025. Once those results um come in, I will share that with the board. Again, the blue is the district and the orange is the state. All right. So, next steps in speaking with Mr.
022Hanley um for social studies, they've been collaboratively reviewing question stems from the US history and the global regent exams. They're using something called a gap analysis in the bars data um housing that we have. They're trying to figure out and identify which standards and questions where the top pi 5% of our students struggled the most. They're really trying to figure out how to tailor our instruction to make sure our students are receiving um that support where it's needed. Um benchmark and classroom assessments are also being redesigned to better aligned with regent expectations and the focus obviously remains uh demonstrated areas of student needs. So he is working with those both of those departments to really find out where students need to um make some adjustments and the teachers as well in their instruction. For English
023um he has been working with a department to analyze the three-year performance um trends to guide instruction. They're doing the same similar things that social studies is doing. I want you to note that this year's June English regent will be different. Um this June regent exam now gives the opt students an option to write um the text analysis essay on central idea or theme. This is the first time the students will have an option as to what they write that essay on. It's also important to note that the updated scoring rubrics are more studentfriendly. So we shall see what that results uh that exam has in store for our district. But I know Mr. Dr. Henley has been working um very closely with his teachers to make sure that they um adjust to the new
024uh uh exam. Again, like social studies, they're revisiting their benchmark and classroom assess assessments to ensure alignment with these uh exam expectations and again a gap analysis to support instruction. For Mr. Stelato with math and science, again, very similar to Mr. Hanley. Um they're very good with data, both of them. I will give them that props. They are here tonight. Uh so I'll just give that little um kudos to them. They really use bars with their teachers very well. Um they take it um into their uh PLC's. They look at positive and negative trends. Their teachers really work together. You know, one teacher might be doing something very well that's working on one set of standards where another teacher might need support. So that PLC time allows them um to kind of collaborate with one
025another to see what what's working and what's not. Um, as you saw earlier, our geometry um, exam scores are not um, as high as we'd like them to be, but still in comparison to the state, we're doing wonderfully. But with that said, Mr. Salado took his geometry teachers to a conference um, entitled CH Charting the Change. Um, they did a comparative review of old and new regions exams. They shifted the um they examined the shifts in the language and um they're working together to make some instructional adjustments in the the classroom to meet those demands of the the exam. For science, like I spoke about before, this year we'll we're implementing the new earth and space science and the new biology curriculum. Last year we had the option to um implement that. We chose to
026wait a year. Um but this year we are implementing that. So June will be the first time our students take that ex the new exams. Um, the new assessments feature question clusters which require students to analyze data tables, visuals, and charts of across multiple items. So, they'll have to refer back to certain items for two, three, possibly more questions. So, it's really looking at the data and trying to answer the questions based off of that. Mr. Salado also is working to adjust his uh benchmarks and quarterly assessments. um their department goal within the five years is to increase overall percent passing to at least 85%. After they make that shift then they'll focus on mastery rates. All right. So just some things I've already spoken about. Last year we implemented the new geometry. This coming
027year algebra 2 earth science biology and ELA and then the following year will be a new exam for chemistry and physics. So lots of changes over the last couple of years alongside the portrait of a graduate. Um, you know, our teachers have been working hard to make sure they meet the demands of these tests. As you're aware, um, we have been computer-based testing, uh, for the last couple of years. Last year, we did all grades. This year, it's required that all grades go computer-based testing. So, we are already ahead of that curve. All right. So, let's look at our 3 through eight assessments. All right. So, this chart is very important to understand. At the bottom you will see that it says 2024 level. So if you look at level one which is all the
028way on the left hand side this is these are the students that scored a level one in 2024. So 395 students scored a level one uh I'm sorry 395 students who scored a level one in 2024 remained a level one in 2025. 242 students who scored a level one in 2024 increased by one level in 2025. 39 students who scored a level one in increased by two levels. And then we had two students who actually increased by three levels. So this gives you an idea of how our students are performing across the year. It's important to note that level four students all the way on the right hand side. We want our students to remain the same. Um you'll note that 51 students dropped a level. So we're looking at those students to see what
029it is or where they you know they need a little bit some more support on that exam. So that's that's what this um chart explains to um the audience tonight. This gives you an idea for grades three through five on English where we fall against the county. So once again, how does PATMED do line up against the county? PATMED is on the left hand side. The county is on the right hand side for grade three, four, and five. Um, for grade four, level four, um, we scored at a 19.5% and the county was at 18%. So, I'm not going to read all of this percentages because I am limited to 10 minutes and I'm already over it. So, I'm just going to keep going. All right. So, this gives you an idea of how we
030line up. Once again, again, Suffach County, we are the blue and the county is the orange. We are right there. And it's super important to notice that the work that the the chairpeople, the directors, the building administrators, and the teachers are doing to close the gap. We've really made great strides in closing the gap from 2023 to 2025. We're right there. Um, so I'm I'm very happy to share that with you tonight. They're really doing some wonderful work in the classroom. This is 6 through 8 once again. on the leftand side the district right hand side the county and then again similarly to 3 through five we're really making some great strides look at grade six for example in 2023 we are blue 25% where the county was 41% and now you fast forward to
0312025 we've closed that gap um with 39% versus 43. So super proud of all the work that's been going on in the department to really make those changes happen. Very similar to English, this is for math. So if you look at um level one again, once again, 2024 score versus 2025. Our level one students, 306 stayed the same in 2025. 133 increased by one level and 19 increased by two levels. So this again gives you an idea of how our students are comparing from year to year. Us against the county once again um we for grade three level four um take note that it's 14% for us where the county was 12%. So you know this just gives you an idea. We're very neck andneck with the county. You know we are doing some wonderful
032work here to make sure that we're making those strides closing the gaps over the last three years. We're doing wonderful work at the the elementary level and the middle level to to make that um those those shifts and those changes in the in the classroom 6 through 8 for math as well. Um important to note that our algebra 1 students do not take um the eighth grade assessment. Um so that's why you'll see that score there. Um but we've made great strides as well and some shifts um some some shifts we still need to make but again once again closing that gap um really between us and the county. It's nice to see over the last couple of years. All right. And finally I'll quickly go through I Ready. The green are percent of students
033on or above grade level level. Yellow are students one grade level or one grade level below. And red is students two or more grade levels below. So this is for reading, grades 1 through 8. And this is for math grades 1 through eight. Again, greeting. Green is hon or above. Yellow one or one grade level below. And red two or grade two or more grade levels below. So I know this kind of gives you a comparison. So why do we use I ready? Um to help us with our 3 through8 proficiency. So this gives you a better look at our I Ready data against our 3 through8 proficiency. So blue is our I Ready and orange is our 3 through8. So you will notice for example we are pretty close in comparison and that's what
034we want to see. Our I Ready data should be um showing us where our students will fall for 3 through 8. We're doing wonderful work um in in closing those gaps. um you know we we still have some more work to do and I know the departments really are working hard but this gives you an idea as to why um we're still using I ready why it's still important to have in the classroom because it does help our students um you know with those um those strategies to take the 3 through8 proficiency uh the 3 through8 exams all right I tried my best to keep it to 10 minutes I know I went over um but if you have questions you know I'm here a lot of the directors are here so Um, no. Okay.
035Sorry. Um so I guess my question or questions so I in the re in the region's part and even in the assessment so in the geometry or living environment there were >> I mean it seemed low scores. So I guess my question would be do the teachers feel that that is a real true snapshot of what their students are doing or is this really they did this on the test but in the classroom they are outperforming what this says that's you know because I know that we have other you know I would love to see um like an overall performance like of the report card you know what is that how does that compare to what we're seeing up here >> the state report card. >> No, like our I I know I'm not going
036to ask teachers to do this really, but it would be nice to see how is child A performing in the classroom overall in the four marking periods in geometry compared to what they scored here. Are are we way below in that also or is it better performance that way? That makes sense. >> Okay, so I could speak a little bit to it. I think the problem is is that when you look at the region's passing rates and you see 63% it looks bad but the county passing rate was 69%. The year before our passing rate was 66 the county passing rate was 70. So you have to realize that certain exams the level of difficulty and expectation by the state has changed over the past few years. It used to be for math, algebra 2
037was the most difficult forever. And then like five or six years ago, they decided to have a shift. And so now we're still adjusting to that shift. And last year was the first new regents with the next generation standards. So we're still in an adjustment period with that. Um, I think to be fair to your question, I'm sure that students who are getting credit is going to be a lot higher than the 63% pass rate. Um, but that's probably true in most school districts. But I understand what you're saying, like how does the passing in the class relate to the passing of the regent exam? And I I don't think we're very far off from what's happening on the rest in the rest of Long Island for that. >> Yeah. So, so are you, so
038just to be clear, are you saying that most of the kids aren't passing in the classroom or that's that's what I'm asking. I'm not really not to be I'm not concerned, but I'm just looking at us in a snapshot. So, >> I and I know it keeps changing and they keep, you know, changing. Is it that the teachers maybe aren't getting through the curriculum because there's too much to teach? Like, like what is it? Is it the same? like do they feel it the same way when a student is taking a regular geometry test in the class that they're not doing well or is it that it's just the big test that maybe they haven't seen all the information and they're doing well in the other test that's >> can I um just point something
039out I think it uh we have done an analysis to look at final cost average compared to regents right so we have done that in the past that's something we have looked at to see what is the gap So you know what percent of the children are passing this class versus how many are passing the regions. What I will point out is that when you look at cost when you look at the course average don't forget what gets factored into a grade right there's other pieces other than assessments. So sometimes there are quizzes we also have summitive assessments. you may have participation that's included in there and that's why we've worked so closely on that grading policy to bring a little bit more consistency. But yes, we have done that. I'm not sure if we
040did that for last year, but that's something we can work with our shared data person that says give us the course average on how many kids pass geometry versus how many pass the regions is what I I feel that trustee Andrad is asking for and that's something we can absolutely uh share with the board. Yeah, I I I mean I know the state requires data and and we have to do this. I mean I think for me personally I want to know that the students are learning right that they leave the classroom and they've learned so when they have to continue on and they have that base. So that's really that's really why we do this. >> Yeah. And I would say our passing rate for the course is typically higher than the passing rate
041for the regents. And then I think that speaks to what Mr. Stelado says but the goal is to get both of them at an equal rate. Right. And I think that that's our ultimate goal. >> Thank you. >> Because what you're saying too is some of those test takers not proficient in sitting and taking a long stamina test. So they may be actually learning more than what that one is. >> I have a question. Um you mentioned uh a lot of changes going on with the regions biology or science ELA. um what are we doing to prepare ourselves for that? How are we training our teachers and and how we uh amending the curriculum to our teachers? >> Okay, so we've been working with a consultant uh Dr. Emily Kang probably for the last five
042years now in preparation for the shift over to the new standards in science. The science shift is going to be much more dramatic than math. Um in math the dramatic shift was basically when we shifted to common core a while back. uh science didn't really change that much but now this is going to be more of a shift to phenomenon based learning inquirybased um and they need to be able to do more identifying like uh Miss Marone said uh identifying looking at data identifying trends and patterns and answer questions from that and it's going to be clusterbased testing so it's it's something that we are shifting we've already shifted our curriculum when this shift came through the middle school. We uh adjusted our curriculum uh by um segregating the contents into you know sixth grade
043is physical science, seventh grade is life, eighth grade is earth and space science at at her suggestion. And you know, we've been working from that point forward to continue to make the adjustments that we need to so that the kids are going to be prepared to take the tests. And also, we're not completely shocking the system with them. I know there's other school districts that really have done very little work at all. And I think that when they finally do switch over, it's going to be a shock. Now, that being said, schools that did the shift last year, a lot of those schools did feel a shock from it because they had no idea about what the test was going to look like, which is one of the reasons why I'm glad that we decided
044to take a step back approach, see what some of the exams are producing, you know, so we can better prepare our kids for that. Anything else? I would say one more thing. A lot of these exams are much more literacy based. So that's another thing with with math from five, six years ago. They they're they're changing that. So that's another thing that we're continuing to work on is also more vocabulary focus and really more close reading in the math classes. So that's important to understand, too. >> So our teachers are getting more u professional development on developing those skills. Yeah, we're working within PLC's collaboratively on that and that's something else that we're probably going to end up working with Mr. Hanley. Surprise, surprise. But that's that's something else we want to push for down
045the road. Thank you. >> I was just going to add um I really am really happy to see that we're keeping up with um with the county and state scores. I know for me personally, you know, I have kids in the district and when I look at their state test scores, I don't I try to not look at it as an individual, but try to look at the district as a whole to see how we are comparing to other districts because I think it better helps us make better curriculum choices to see are we using curriculum that's working. Um, so you know, while we always want to make sure that, you know, every kid is is passing, I think that seeing that we're more closely aligned to county and state data, you know, hopefully that's
046helping us either feel like we are making the right choices with curriculum or helping us pivot if we need to. Um, so that was really helpful to see. I just want to point out, I know we went through the slides quickly and of course the board will have access to them to look at them, but I really want to highlight the 3 through eight assessments because I'm not sure I want to really give kudos uh to our directors and our classroom teachers because those gaps were pretty significant. And there was a point where one year just two years ago we might have been at the 33 34% and if you looked at fifth grade math we actually exceeded the county. We were well over 50%. I will say for our district we have not seen
047a 50% plus proficiency rate on a state assessment in many many years. So that's a testament to our directors. That's a testament to our teachers who are actively working with our instructional coaches and it's a testament to our parents who really are working with their students at home. So, I know we went through them very quickly, but I really uh would be remiss if I didn't point it out to the community. Those are significant increases in a very short period of time. And I hope the community is proud of some of the work our teachers are doing to really increase those proficiency scores. Um that just doesn't happen overnight. And I know we've been working very very hard. Um and at one point again, not to go back to the past, but when you had
048seven or eight schools on schools that were cited by the state and to see those types of results, you know, kudos to our teachers and our administrators. Thank you, Miss Ron. Um, next we're going to move on to our oxicio student member in Charlotte Lake. Hello everybody. Um, tonight I wanted to talk to you guys a little bit about some course selections that we have up at Patrick Medford High School that I think are really helpful to the students. So, first up, I know there's um some little ones here tonight, but before you know it, college or any other post-secondary option will be here. Um so, the first course that I will be discussing is Junior College Seminar. This is a course, it's the second semester of your junior year. So, if you're a sophomore,
049I strongly encourage you to listen. Um, this course is designed to help students explore future career paths as well as see career assessments and interest inventories to identify their strengths or weaknesses to see what they might plan to do in their future. In this class, students learn about post-secary options, programs, campus environments, and different admission requirements necessary to get into their desired program. um as well as students will research the job market. They're they're learning um employment rates, job outlooks, and different retention rates for different colleges and universities. In this class, students also plan their senior schedule to ensure that their prerequisites are met for their future goals. and they begin the Common App general information section, which you'll then learn that there's three different types of applications when applying to co um colleges such
050as the Common App, Coalition App, and the Quest Bridge. Um students will evaluate majors, minors, financial implications, as well as begin mapping their futures. So, you're a sophomore, know a sophomore, have a student that's a sophomore, I would strongly encourage you to add that into your junior year schedule. And then in correspondence with that course, we have senior college seminar. In senior college seminar, it's the first semester of your senior year. Um, it's a lot at once, I will admit. Um, it equips students with the knowledge and skills to successfully navigate the college application process. Once again, using the common app, Coalition app, and QuestBridge. In the class, you learn about the different types of college applications that there are, whether it be early action, um early decision, rolling rolling admissions, and regular decision. Um
051become experts with Navvian where you request your letters of recommendations. You manage your transcripts as well as track the different deadlines necessary. Um, students gain expertise in financial aid awards and setting up the different varieties of financial aid such as FAA, TAP, and the CSS profiles. Um, and there they will be able to investigate the different types of colleges, the meal plans that each university offers, as well as get a feel for what kind of housing they may they might want in the future. Um, and lastly, we have many guest speakers in that class. We've had numerous representatives from different whether it be trade schools, colleges, universities come and speak to our class. They provide us with fee waver codes which are nice when applying to universities. Um as well as they leave students with
052practical tools, confidence, and a comprehensive plan for their education in the future. Thank you. as a mom of a senior who plowed through the college without >> um which was fun, >> right? >> Um I would like to know for juniors because I junior is it a half? >> Yes, >> it is a halfyear course that is the it's the second semester of your junior year. So it it becomes like a seamless transition if you take it the end of your junior year following your sen like going into your senior year. >> Okay. So like a half year they like held one half and >> yes. >> Okay. But I think that we could have used that the last couple of months. So >> definitely thank you. Next, we're going to move on to public
053comments only on the reports and any agenda items. And everyone's limited to three minutes per person to total no more than 60 minutes with sharing of no minutes. Good evening, Sher Costello. Uh first I thought the students all did a fantastic job and that was a really nice presentation for our high school student over there at the very beginning. Congratulations. Um with regard to the presentation on assessments, I had a couple of questions. I know the other day at the instructional committee we were talking about um actually midterm exams came up and one of the comments tonight was better aligning our regent assessments with some of the assessments that are going on in the classroom. So I wanted to just quickly touch on the fact that um our students in the high school for a
054number of years have not had traditional midterms in the month of January which a lot of schools following postcoid took away but then have implemented that. So I wanted to um bring that to your attention. I'm sure trustee uh the trustees who are at the meeting with us will bring that up. Also, um I know that there's been a shift to the computer-based assessments and I think that um I'm wondering if there's any training to help the kids refer back to the data and get opportunity to see um examples of what that region will look like. The the when you say the regions, the computer-based testing is with the 3 through8 assessments. So um can you just >> are our high school students taking their assessments on the computer or that is not computer based
055still? Yeah, that was three through eight. Some of our exams are computer based but not the regences. >> Gotcha. Okay. And um when you look at the bars information, I've never had an opportunity because I don't work in those upper grades. Does it let you know if kids perhaps didn't finish an assessment or have run out of time at certain sections? um or is it just a score and you don't? >> It allows you to know if they didn't answer a question. So you you see how many points they got for an extended response if they left it blank. So we we do see that um on the exam in the bars report. I I would wonder if kids timing wise, especially looking back at how to figure out how long an exam would take
056if they're not getting opportunity for like an hour and a half exam or a two-hour exam for midterms, if they're actually able to complete because practice >> it is untimed. So at 3 through 8, it's an untimed test. So the kids get unlimited timing again for the regions. Yeah, >> that there is uh when you're saying on the actual handwritten test, would we know if they didn't finish? >> Because it's it's not computer-based with the >> they're scored in house. Are we >> scored in house? Correct. It's all scored by hand by our teachers. >> Thank you. Right. Thank you. Next, we're going to move on to the consent agenda. So, can I have a motion to accept the consent agenda? >> Motion. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> Agenda passes. There are no
057items removed from the consent agenda and no items arising on the exec um policy first reading. The following policies will be circulated on the first reading. If there are no changes, the policy would be included on the January 12th um board of education agenda which is the employee bargaining unit. And next we move on to superintendent assistant reports. >> All right. Good evening everyone and I uh first would like to thank our PTAs that are here this evening, our Oregon PTA and our Eagle PTA. Thank you very much. Um and really again congratulations to our presenters, our students and and Haley uh what an incredible journey you've had with Girls Inc. So very proud of you and please continue and hopefully you'll come back when you graduate and mentor some of our other uh students
058who enroll in Girls Inc. And again if our uh community we we offer Girls Inc. at our middle school and our high school. It's a wonderful program. So please if you if you have a daughter that's interested in getting involved, those clubs are available to all of our students at the secondary level. So, just to give the community an update from me, um I wanted to share I know I shared this at a recent meeting, but I'm actively working um to secure a $500,000 gardening and cooking grant with the Emerald Culinary Garden and teaching kitchen program. This is a na nationwide program designed to integrate interactive gardening and cooking education into our school curriculum. The goal of the program is to create fun and engaging learning environment which students can connect core academic subjects with
059handson experience in the garden and kitchen. I was recently invited down to New Orleans by the Emerald Lagassi Foundation to uh observe a school down in New Orleans that services about 586 students. I am excited to uh share with the community that you will be coming to visit Patrick Medford School District on December 8th. I am very optimistic about the uh district getting this grant and it would be a great opportunity for us to begin a gardening and culinary program at our elementary schools. So, I look forward to sharing that with the community. So, let's keep our fingers crossed. Um, I would also like to share that um, I have been working really closely with our secondary buildings on vaping. So, I know the community may have received a letter from me back in September
060really speaking about can cannabis vaping among our students and that remains a serious concern to me as well as our building principles and deans. And to really start addressing this issue more effectively, I've been working with our administrators and Mrs. Rosario, who is our substance abuse prevention social worker. We're starting to implement some uh initiatives to really educate our students about the dangers of vaping. I've been working with our art department to um develop posters that we're going to be putting up around our school. Not only will the posters really highlight the serious health conditions related to vaping, which is increased anxiety, depression, concentration, really um decrease in academic performance, and the list goes on and on and on. But also to remind students that this is a violation of our code of conduct. Um
061so we we are going to be using posters. We're also going to be getting signs outside of our school reminding our students. I know Dr. R has been sending out some parent square messages to his school community. And also, um, I am going to be working with Dr. are to start to put together a group of students at the high school to sit down with me and to start having conversations on how we can support them better here so they really truly understand the risk of vaping which is a known gateway drug. So that is something that I'm actively working on at the secondary uh level. also wanted to share with the community that I've also been collaborating with our PR firm to really enhance our so social media um presence across all of our
062districts with a increase on focusing on the incredible work of our students and staff. I hope that you see that is more regularly posting some of the great things that are taking place in our school. Um some of our uh buildings and as well as our really service projects that many of our schools are working on. We're really trying to uh highlight them on social media. So hopefully you'll see a a significant improvement on the frequency as well as the quality of our social media posts. Uh, and again, I love the fact that Eagle shared that they were working with the Ronald McDonald uh, house. I am actually meeting with the Ronald McDonald House with Dr. R and Miss Marone this Friday. They are opening a new Ronald McDonald House with Stonybrook University. So, they
063reached out to me to see how Patchog Medford uh school community can partner with them and start to really build that relationship between our school community and the Ronald McDonald House. So, I'm looking to form that partnership as well. So, a lot of great things um taking place in our community. Again, I'm going to turn it over to our assistant superintendent, but again, on behalf of myself and the entire cabinet, I wish the community a wonderful Thanksgiving. >> Good evening. Uh yeah, again, I echo the sentiment that Mrs. Kennedy shared about the student presentations and congratulations to Haley. Wonderful uh role model. Certainly looking forward to your future contributions uh back working with our students someday. Uh I just wanted to share that I recently uh had the opportunity to go to our New York
064State Association of School Personnel Administrators uh annual conference in upstate New York. It's a really wonderful conference that has a lot of workshops including a personnel academy on civil service. Uh they had workshops on AI and how that could be used in in the HR world. um workshops on evaluation and discipline pertinent legal updates. Uh nice certification updates. Uh there was a presentation on generational differences between uh hiring today and and prior generations, current generation and prior. Uh interactive process and reasonable accommodations, FMLA workshops and many many others. It's really a wonderful opportunity and as trustee Andradi said when uh she visited the schoolboard association workshop. It's also a wonderful opportunity for the personnel administrators to get together with uh their colleagues and share things and some really wonderful conversations come out of that as
065well as we all face similar things across many districts in the state. So, I thank the board for the opportunity to attend that annual conference and um you know appreciate uh that approval. >> Thank you. >> All right. Good evening. Um I just want to take a moment to let you know that this Thursday and Friday um we will hold parent teacher conferences at the secondary level um for middle and high school. Um in addition to providing families with time to discuss student progress in connection with Mrs. uh Kennedy had shared about vaping. We are going to uh take this opportunity to reinforce student health and safety. Uh at over the last couple days, we've managed to put together a brochure on vaping, both in English and in Spanish in conjunction with Mrs. Kennedy's letter.
066Both of these will be delivered to the secondary buildings. Uh if they weren't delivered today, they'll be there tomorrow. Um the teachers um will also receive a memo tomorrow asking them to make the brochure and the letter available to parents outside of their classroom doors um so that they can um you know share the effects of vaping with the families as well and reinforce our commitment to um you know the health and safety of our students. I also want to let you know that as an added safety measure, metal detectors will be used at all secondary buildings during conference times. Um, on another note, we do recognize that there were some concerns this year regarding the signups on parent square uh for scheduling conferences. So, moving forward uh I will work with technology and our
067our assistant soups to find an alternative platform um and systems to ensure a more streamlined and effective way to schedule for families and staff. Uh lastly, elementary parent teacher conferences will take place on the evening of December 11th and the full day on the 12th. um ensuring that all our families have the time to meet with uh teachers and the building administrators. Thank you. >> Good evening. Our family center Thanksgiving food drive is well underway and the response from our community has been remarkable. It's probably the best year we have yet. Uh to date, we've received already more than 100 turkeys at the family center. Later this week, we anticipate a generous donation from the Patchog Medford Congress of Teachers. Uh last week, we received a donation. It's on the agenda tonight, from the Patog
068Medford Administrators Association. They generously contributed $2,100 to support our family center. We were just notified that uh a community member and employee, Miss Tiffany Angelo, plans to donate 75 turkeys on her own to our center as well. So, thank you. As a reminder, we have our November parent workshop which is going to be presented in English and Spanish at the Patchog Medford Library on November 25th. The topic is anxiety and kids, what families can do at home. Similar to Dr. Cohen, earlier this month, I attended an annual Long Island Association of Special Education Administrators conference. Sessions included preventing the over representation of our English language learners in special education, avoiding the pits of special education administrators, and then an interactive session of whose faith is it. Anyway, the highlight of the conference for myself and
069uh some of the special education directors was that one of our vendors, Teachtown, highlighted the work of Patchog Medford special education department. Teachtown has shared our results as a of a program and we are a model district as the at the national level and we continue to promote the outstanding work of our teachers and our special education programming alongside of them. May recall last year they created a video highlighting the work that we've been doing. As a result of the visibility just from this conference alone we have Island Trees, Rockville Center, North Bmore and Hemstead all coming to visit our programs in the next Thank you everyone. Next we're going to move on to committee reports. So buildings and operations. Okay. So we met on October 28th and our committee charges duties and expectations. We
070went over our summer 2025 projects which we do in house which is effective and our employees do such a wonderful job wherever we can have them work in house that rather than uh then we went into our bond projects and visual this little button right here that's always on the top of our pat uh website. If you click that, you can always see all of the bond updates and capital improvements that we are working on. Uh so we went over the athletics upgrade bleachers. We have the new field in there. We're working on that. Uh we also uh awarded the bid in our October meeting for our theatrical lighting for our secondary schools and for the Hback and Moon events. Both were approved. Um and then we briefly discussed the Bay Capital project which as
071some might know is now paused because we had discussed this in the ground. Um so it's now an abatement project. We have had multiple transparent meetings with the contractors, the architects, us our board and the cabinet as well as a community forum. and I met with the Bay community with all of the people in place. They asked great questions, asked the questions that we asked uh safety concern. So, um we are looking now we're shifting the work from the project while we do the abatement to the projects that we can do in house so that we're not pumping the brakes on the project and not moving forward. Uh I don't know if not here. >> I think you did an outstanding job. >> That's a touchy subject, so I just wanted to make sure. Um,
072and yeah, we're just going to keep the project moving. And next week, we are uh having remote classes uh for Mr. Mendes's building on Monday and Tuesday so that we can get the abatement done before it's 30° and we can't do it. and we want to keep everybody safe and comfortable. So hopefully forward very meeting next on December 2nd at 5:00 in the district office on South. >> Thank you. Next moving on to finance trusty Kuban. So there's actually a little bit of overlap with um buildings and operations and Mr. Maisy did mention that um in the future we may you know come together just to have some of those conversations but um as he often does Mr. Maisy and his team made a lot of very complicated information um a lot easier to understand.
073So just to kind of echo um our our high school um projects from the bond project are about 85% complete and with an anticipated completion date in April which is very exciting. Um, we went over some some of the TAN borrowing, um, and looked at some data from our district and other districts and how uh, what some of the reasons why we might have to borrow money and how we compare it to other districts. Um, and then we also went over a News Day article that came out that showed that um, our per pupil spending um, is actually less than both um, Long Island and um, the state, which um, is a testament to uh, that to the fact that we're using our money wisely and still making sure that our kids um, are getting
074everything that they need. So, it was a really nice first meeting. We met on um no November 5th and I believe our next meeting is on December 7th, but I have to >> December 3rd. >> Oh, December 3rd. And thank you to uh Trustee Jennings for co-chairing uh this with me as I get used to this. Thank you. >> Thank you. Moving on to Districtwide Technology. >> Okay. >> So, uh we met on October 29th at South Ocean conference room on Zoom. Uh we went over the uh we reviewed summer projects like the uh K to one iPad deployment. Um the device replacement cycle that's going on throughout the schools. Um we implemented move which is a replacement for scholarship and we talked about that roll out and how it's doing. Um we also discussed
075the district uh technology plan that we're um implementing or developing right now which we hope to have uh done or ready for board approval by January. Uh we also discussed other goals for this year like AI integration learning um student technology safety and digital literacy isn't always an ongoing thing goals. We also have uh onetoone student and teacher devices uh just maintaining those and implementing them correctly as well as classroom instructional technologies that we um trying to implement. So our next meeting will be on December 3rd, same place, same time, 4:30 South Ocean College. Thank you. >> Thank you. I just have one question. What did you say? Move a scholarship replacement. >> The scholarship replacement. Yes. So we discuss >> scholarship. >> Uh >> is that where the seniors have to apply for their
076scholarship? >> Charlotte, would you like to share with everyone with the Move app because you're looking at me from down the table. I can't really see you, Charlotte. I'm sorry. Um, so Move is um a new implementation this year that we're using. We're we all receive new IDs at the beginning of this school year. And Move is essentially where we tap in to each of our classes. It's plugged in typically near our classroom door and each student taps their ID upon entry and that takes their attendance for the period. >> I'm sorry. I'm like missing something. >> It replaced scholarship, but it has nothing to do with college. >> We heard scholarship on this end. Sorry. >> Okay. Sorry for the Got it. >> That's the new common app. >> Got it. >> Okay. Next,
077I'm moving on to extracurricular program. Um in extracurricular we had sent a survey out to our members and so we went over the survey and some of the things in terms of athletics were team um mindset Mondays or our leadership captain program. We also have um Patrick Meford student athletic advisory council and um maybe some home away signs when you're at games on the art level. We wanted to see if there would could be one art show where the students actually um display their art and explain their art like almost like an art gallery kind of night. Um and then maybe a spirit club that maybe has photos for students or announcing kind of games or Raider TV that can all kind of work together. And then on the um music level maybe um we're
078doing could bring a pet band back into basketball games and winter sports. um and the Raider ATS and the cheerleaders and then um youth in high school and how can the youth and high school work together? >> Yes. Um so Mr. Brinkman was going to meet um from Hack to arrange this and so to have an art show outside of the school like Arch Council. >> Yes. >> Um so that's what was brought up and suggested. So, I guess I first wanted to make sure you guys would feel okay with that if we do an off- premise and make it a big a big deal. Nice big deal. >> Next, we move on instructional and student support programs. Trusty Salazar. >> So, we met um on November 13th, just today. Uh what we did, we
079started off talking about the uh last year's goals that we've been working on that we that we did work on last year and implemented. Um we worked on the grading policy that was implemented in July 24. Made some tweaks u put it into July of 25. Um stuff like decreasing the amount of weight for standard uh for testing um amount how much it weighs on the students report card. Uh we also made it more adjustable um and flexible for uh the departments as well. Um we talked about goals for this year. Uh we discussed the development of a elementary report card which is ongoing. A committee has already been uh working on it. Um it's going to be more of a standardbased report card. And we also discussed concerns um grading policy for uh special
080ed students um especially with the SAS curriculum and that kind of we'll start going in that direction where uh we were discussing some of our feelings and concerns over the SAS programs. Uh some people some individuals were concerned that uh result of this is going to be removing uh books out of the classroom. Um and also we discussed the portrait of a graduate as well and how that's going to be affecting our development of curriculum and instruction. Um our next meeting will be on December 4th at 4:30 in the South Ocean conference room. Thank you. >> Thank you. Next we move on to legislation. Trusty Smith. >> Uh we had an uh due to unexpected circumstances cancel our meeting. Um and our next meeting will be January 8th. >> Thank you. Next we move on
081to board discussions and updates anybody kind of a question sorry from um the reports. So, going back to um the vaping, we're we're doing a lot to prevent it, to educate about it. Is there any way where we could um I don't know if it's us, I don't know if it's police department, but go into the local shops that surround our neighborhood and let them know what we're doing here, how we're really working hard to try to prevent this, to educate the because we know that they're selling underage children and you know is there and I I don't know if it's us that can get involved with step one or if it's getting to the police department saying we really I feel like we we need to make that connection there to well I think
082two things um I know and I see Mr. Ahern over there and and we have a close relationship with the uh precinct. Number one, the community um and I know Trustee Smith has gone. They they do a I think the next one is December >> with the community police um they do it at the YMCA where any community member can speak to them to talk about concerns within the uh community. I know I have something scheduled that night. I think I'm at the Lion's Club, but I I invite the community to go down and also voice their concerns. I've met with our local politician. I know I've spoken to um several of them about our concerns. I know uh Neil Foley has been working in terms of advocating for some of the permitting of these
083vape shops and and how are they getting so many building permits. I will say if you look at News 12 uh recently there they've been cracking down and there's been some arrest at some local vape shops across Long Island. So I do think um the law enforcement are starting to really uh have some undercover in some of these bait shops. I will say also and I I'm sorry if I didn't share. We are also partnering with any um local outside agencies for assemblies for our students as well and that could be the police department or the sheriff's department coming in to speak to our students. So we are trying all avenues but again it's so accessible to our students. Uh again, I know myself uh if you drive from district office all the way up
084to Eagle Elementary just on 112, you probably could pass 12 vape shops right on 112. So, as a community, voice your concern to our local politicians, show up to these meetings because we have to really partner um together to combat this issue. >> There's also a Department of Health initiative where they have people they will hire underageed people to go in and try to buy cigar uh uh uh cannabis or tobacco products. >> Um your favorite >> Yeah. >> Um has just redone their windows in all cartoon characters. >> Yeah, it's nice. >> For Christmas. >> The one next to me. >> The one that's right next door to >> really nice. Yeah. >> Why we're really working with the students? Sometimes our students have incredible insight to share with us on what we can
085do and and that may be doing petitions and going doortodoor um some you know campaigns of videos that we can show students. Again, it's education. Education for me, it's just very accessible to our students and just the risks of them um really dabbling in more very deadly drugs that there there is proof to show you that, you know, uh cannabis is a gateway to other drugs. And it's it's very alarming as parents um to see how accessible it is to our students. and we're trying very hard um at the buildings to combat it, but we need the support from our community as well as our local politicians. >> Great. So, just two things. on um Saturday, Trusty Smith, Trusty Kger, and myself attended a um Boseies breakfast where um it was just explaining what exactly
086Bosey's does and how they help um the districts with like grant writing, technology services, auction service, PR firms, um capital projects and how we can look at the how Boseies can reimburse us through our aids who look at the re reimbursement. Um, also Julie Marlet was there from Him and Stround who talked about how we can work with OCE or any district in terms of um the legisl the legislative and working to advocate. Um, I also wanted to update everyone on the superintendent search. Um we continue to um getting applications that will um end on December um 5th and then we will um work with districtwide to look at the applications and meet with them to go over um what we're going to go from there and get a climate report. Next we're going to
087move on to um public comments which we limit to three minutes. No one wants to talk to us tonight. All right. Next, we move on to board of medic. Trusty Kub can't see it. >> Um I I've been thinking about the presentations. First, I want to say that I thought the kids did such a great job. Um, Eagle always seems to impress me. Um, as a a fellow parent, they just seem to be doing a really great job. So, awesome to them. And I love to hear that we are potentially going to be building a relationship with Ronald McDonald. I hope that comes to every elementary school, Ronald McDonald House. Um, it's, you know, it's a great way to get kids involved in something that is so, so important. So, I hope that that is
088something that we can bring to um every elementary school and the middle and high school. I think it would it just really um I know I I participate with my own students and so that's something I'd love to see. Um, and then just to kind of go back to testing, I think, um, it was nice to see our data and I just for me personally, I hope that at the core of all of our testing is that we want our kids to be prepared for any test that's put in front of them, whether it's a paper and pencil test, um, academic or just showing perseverance through difficult things. And so, I think we are moving in the right direction. um it doesn't feel like we are teaching to a test, but we are putting things
089in front of our kids that are challenging them and preparing them. And so um it was really nice to see that cuz our kids deserve to um you know, our kids deserve to sit in front of any test that comes in front of them, like I said, and feel prepared. So I think we're really moving in the right direction. >> Jesse Salazar. >> All right. So uh first off um I I want to thank all the presenters and congratulations to Haley uh for over here. Fantastic. Uh thank you to our Eagle Elementary presenters. They did an excellent job with the house. I also want to thank thank uh Miss Marone for her presentation. Um you know was very clear and concise on how we're doing. uh punches and I I thought it was very good.
090So, uh thank you for wish everybody a healthy and happy uh Thanksgiving and hopefully get to enjoy some time with your >> I have more than >> I just No, I just couldn't t narrow it down. Um, I just wanted to say that I really love the um change trajectory that we're doing and we have more student involvement in our meetings students. Um, thank you to Eagle. Congrats to Haley and Charlotte. I loved your report. Um, it's great to see you expanding your role board member and there kind of reporting and that ties into my next thank you because it's near and dear to my heart. I care my background and it's taken a long time, but just to see so many great things from the community. Um, I just there's so many people that
091watch our social media that don't know what's going on in the buildings that they're not represented or even community members that don't have children and are grandparents or um past parents. So just that out there and know that their tax dollars are being spent, but what wonderful I've been getting a lot of feedback at that. Um, thank you Miss Marone. Uh that was a great presentation and it just shows the all the hard work that our directors, teachers, students are doing and um I'm really looking forward to our upcoming secondary holiday concert start and just to have a great Thanksgiving. Um and on that note also to thank everybody for their generosity in the community. Um I know I was even touched in my own class where people my my kids my boys raised over
092$300 in canned goods or food. And I know that some of that comes from families that also have a need. So to see people giving in the elementary school, the middle school, the high school, uh to the family center, um it's just very heartwarming that we're creating such upstanding, involved, civically involved students. Just wanted to say thank you to them and Good holiday. Enjoy. >> Trusty Smith. Um, thank you for your presentation, Mrs. Morone. Very. Um, um, we'll collect all of that and yay all of it. Um, I also went want to, uh, congratulate the students who were, uh, participated in the Once Upon a Time Spanish language theater piece that we it's fantastic. Uh um um these students they line up at the end of it. They did they did two or three one
093act pieces. So there was some did a little bit of dancing involved and then the students all line up at the end and tell what their name is and what country they're from. And in the past they had done how many languages they speak. The number of polyglots we have at that high school is amazing. Um it was really really heartwarming thing and It's also a really good experience for people who are like us who are not bilingual to sit in a in a in a in a in an an environment where you don't necessarily understand the language and just experience what some of our parents also experience. It's very very enlightening experience. I had a lot of fun. Um um and yeah, >> I'll be quick. Congratulations, Haley. Um, thank you to all the
094presenters. Um, it's always great to see kids come up here confident and and present us like it means nothing. So that's it's always that's so much fun. Um, and happy Thanksgiving. >> Yes. So I just want to say thank you once again to Miss Maron and directors. Um, congratulations once again Haley and to our Eagle students. And I think even bringing the bottle tops back. I know we used to do that because I remember collecting bottle tops when my kids are in school and I've one's a sophomore in college and one's a senior now. Um, and I think it's just, you know, for Charlotte, I like how you did that. I know the junior seminar for my son really helped him get that college app really going. Um, so it's great to just listen to
095more of the courses that are out there and what is available to our students. And I just wish everyone a happy Thanksgiving and that you get to enjoy the time with your family. So on that um the board has to adjourn to go into an exact session. So can I have a motion to adjurnn into exec session? I'll second it. Everybody else gets to go home.