001order with pledge Alle pledge aliance to the of the United States of America and to the repblic for it stands one nation under God indivisible with liy and justice for all Mr Ze Mrs Denny M Ellis here Mr hton here Dr Huber here Mrs Jones here Mr Manelli here Mr seesaw Mr Twister here Mr here 2.01 is approval of minutes motions to approve the minutes of the January 22nd 2025 by this motion second questions or comment all those in favor opposed motion basis 2.02 is the invoice listing motion is to approve the invoice listing for January through February 2025 by this motion questions or comments all those in favor opposed motion passes 2.03 is a charger report Mr Z as of December 31st 2024 peno's balance was 59,2 18856 during January 2025 local state and
002federal revenues total 1,782 651 dispersements were issued in the amount of $ 4,358 675 as of January 31st 2025 Pand delco's current balance is 56 m712 541 the motion is to approve the budget transfer report for uh January 2025 have this motion so moved second questions or comments all those in favor I opposed motion passes uh 2.04 is the budget transfer report uh motion is to approve the budget transfer report from January through February of 2025 there is a mistake on the U agenda say 2024 just to so that should say 2025 got it by this motion so move second questions or comments all those in favor opposed motion number three student Representatives report to the board good evening unfortunately MADD cannot attend tonight due to the SV indoor track banquet so I'll be taking
003over solo I'd like to begin by saying the decade show was a hit last month so be sure to be on the lookout for the production of SpongeBob the musical next month next the PBIS has been rewarding students for being on time to class ready with materials needed and being responsible the rewards Sun dollars can be used at the PBIS s dollar store for some cool Sun Valley merch tickets to sporting events and occasionally pay off some scholarship late fees at the end of the year the S doll can be used at the S dollar shining on top of that this morning students who were on time to school were rewarded with lollipops in the front lobby on March 8th Sun Valley will be hosting the SAT so many students are staying after school or
004being tutored in hopes of high scores and later this month freshman and sophomore dance will be held together many students are looking forward to a fun event with some different members of s Valley February is Black History Month and many students from the black student union Club have taken this as an opportunity to share important facts about the many important African-Americans in our history every morning a student will speak on the announcements about a specific individual to share with the school to show the importance of each person in our lives today now for sports SB girls and boys basketball both Advanced to playoffs and played in their first round in playoff games unfortunately both teams came up short but this ises not discredit their amazing seasons for track senior Manny qualified for Nationals and Manny
005and zavier qualified for districts for SV swim and dive at districts Trevor fman placed seventh in one meter diving the medley relay consisting of Lucy mclen Mara lanquist Angela Taylor mcken dmer plac fifth Luke Havoc got one sixth place and one fifth place win and finally Lucy mlen got two sixth place wins our SV wrestlers became six-time chess H League champions and six wrestlers are advancing into the the retail tournament along with these victories for boys wrestling our one and only girl wrestler Jameson Strickland became a two-time district champion champion two-time Regional champion and two-time state qualifier and will and will be competing in Hershey shortly next our SV UniFi bosi team will be advancing to Regionals lastly spring sports are starting next week so I'm looking forward to seeing what teams will have ex
006standing outstanding accomplishments next thank you very much how's the C search going UHA congratulations thank you number four tonight's dciu report the dciu board of directors met on February 5th um they recently conducted a thorough needs assessment to determine their goals for the next 3 years um they narrowed in on their goals of employee Recruitment and Retention instructional leadership to support student outcomes and state-of-the-art programming and services for students um the current comprehensive plan is on their website right now you can go on and check out if you want any more additional information about it and it is going to be voted on at the next board meeting in March um they're also in the process of doing a renovation for their marel Township building on they're adding in four new additions including updating their
007current waiting room um they're building a two-story building to help improve their nursing program and they're developing a receiving and storage area for that um location and then the dciu had some really positive um I guess you can say good news and that was made its way to ABC News NBC news the news radios Delco Times and Delco today um they have what's called an options program at the dciu and that program offers services to help people transition into Independent Community Living so it's offered to to students and adults with disabilities and um when the Eagles were going through the really exciting Super Bowl um appearance they created these little pins that they passed out um to all the dciu employees and it got picked up by local news stations and it was featured um
008a few weeks ago thank you number five is Dr stal superintendent report yes thank you I'm going to uh refer to the uh presentation that we had online and I apologized to the board came in at 6:15 and that projector was on and it was ready to roll so I was surprised when we came out tonight and I saw a blank screen our director Tech checked it and that projector is shot so we'll get we'll get it fixed but by the time we have our next meeting um we will load this presentation up on the video uh that does get loaded to the to the U uh website uh for the public and I will also send this out to all of our board members as well uh last week at our study session really
009want to appreciate those of you that joined us at the high school uh we had a great presentation from our high school principal Mr rosos um but following that presentation during study session uh the school board spent some time as I discussed the first reading of our board policy on generative artificial intelligence and education I really enjoyed the presentation from Mr uh rascus in fact I had a number of his slides in tonight's presentation but I'll referred to them uh we discussed the status of our budget development uh remember pandelo has been given a Act One index of 4.8 uh that is down from a adjusted index of 6.6 the previous year um Mr Z and I have been working on the budget we we know that we can come and bring a recommended budget
010lower than the pandelo aquan index right now we are about 8/10 to a point below that index um we'll continue to let the board uh realize where we are and where the savings can be found and where the expenses uh need to be need to be made um but we'll have a very responsible budget as we've had all the time we will not exceed the index and we will not charge the index simply for the sake of doing so uh we did share some renderings of some small interior design projects for North l Middle School to kind of dress up some of the common areas in the hallways um please to uh let the board know uh we had uh five very responsible bid group that came out um that did the pre-bid meeting that
011we anticipate we're going to get bids from for that work and we've had great relationships with those particular contract firms uh in different capacities uh and then we also reviewed all the agenda items in advance of tonight's voting meeting uh had planned to show you a couple highlights from Mr Rosco's presentation uh but one of the couple of the slides that really stood out to me uh was the first piece where they talked about Keystone uh exams and graduation rates uh the Keystone biology exam on the peos again the measure of growth how far students are moving as a result of taking biology classes well above the state average Keystone literature above the state average and he acknowledged that Algebra 1 continues to be a real thorn in our side at the middle school and
012at the high school that's well below so we've been doing a lot of targeted work and looking at curriculum redesign in the algebra space he explained that uh it's been a real goal the to have 100% graduation rate they are very very close to that number uh 96.9% um in 20124 it was at 95% but that was impacted by students who did not graduate on time because they were still eligible for services at a later age he showed the P at scores uh which has shown increases over the last three years he showed the composite ACT scores which were 23.2 and 2021 1 24.5 in 2022 and then 25.2 our highest water mark ever in 2023 also indicated that the SAT Trends in the last three years in both math and English Reading Writing have
013increased from 502 to 506 and 518 to 532 really proud really proud excuse me of our AP data um we have had a a significant jump on the total AP students who have gone from 140 AP students in 2020 to 168 uh to give you an idea how that turns into exams in 2020 255 AP exams were taken by Sun Valley students last year 340 we've increased the number of students who have a passing score which is a three or better from 110 to 139 and the percentage of students who are passing with scores of three or better has also increased to an all-time high this despite the fact that we have record numbers of students taking AP classes uh there were 15 students who earned AP Scholars with distinction we were really pleased to
014show School climate data uh 3 years ago there were 191 suspensions so about a suspension a day U that could be for any number of violations uh could be vaping um could have been for cursing uh but this year uh they are currently at 33 so that is only one 16 of the amount that we saw just a few years ago so it's a dramatic increase uh reduction in incidents and also a reduction in suspensions rigorous courses of study so that will qualify for a class that is college level that's challenging such as AP or IB um in 2223 uh the high school had 49% of their students taking a rigorous class and it was below the state average and the staff said we can do better we should at least meet that state average
015and then one year later they did uh they were actually above so they were at 56.6% of the students took a rigorous course at least one challenging course uh above the state average of 56.4 and they also increased their AP participation from 41% to 45% notably the percent of students taking a college class through dual enrollment increased from less than 1% to over 6% future goals at Sun Valley continuing to work enhancing on safety uh they go through a lot of drills they want to make sure that students feel really comfortable that they feel safe that this is a place they enjoy being working on growing student academic achievement enhancing experiences with careers through a enhanced internship program and then also really working on implementing AI tools meaningfully so tonight I'm asking you to approve
016the instructional calendar uh this calendar much like all the other ones I've brought forward in my tenure here has 180 student days scheduled 191 teacher days in other words we are meeting the requirements on days but we will also meet the requirements on hours so if we have snow days that we have to use and we come up Shy at 180 we will still be okay by the state because the number of instructional hours that this calendar includes enables us to have at least two snow days that will will not have to be made up and would not have to be flexible instruction days so we have that a couple other little changes some tweaks uh that we have in this first of all the count this school begins the day after Labor Day so
017as I hear from this community they want school to start after Labor Day not before so we build a calendar that that does that um as I've heard from the community they they still believe in a spring break so we have a spring break and there's some districts that really made that quite small so they can have more days throughout the year um I have heard from the board about school security in the spring time for uh the primary dating so we do have school closed on the primary Day in May uh and I heard from staff and parents about the challenge of having school the day before Thanksgiving and we are recommending that school be closed on the day before Thanksgiving uh and that's still we still enable us to get the number of
018days that we have and we're doing that I've heard from staff who say you know Dr this is tough we have parent conferences on Monday Tuesday nights a half day of school on Wednesday I have to travel with my family I have to get home and Coca half to shop when the rest of the world is tending to have longer than just Thanksgiving Thursday and Friday or some places are taking that entire week so I thought that this was important for our staff I thought it was important for our families to be able to start their Thanksgiving holiday at the end of that half day on Tuesday of that week uh the one other item on the calendar of note uh in order for our teachers to get to 191 days they would either have
019to come in to work on Friday January 2nd at the end of the winter break or do Flex hours like we do with day 191 and I have talked to the association and they have committed to that so that is an inservice day on the calendar but they will have from July 1 to uh that date January 2nd of next year to get the 6 and 1/2 hours of additional training that they have to do it's going to be targeted around artificial intelligence so asynchronous training some live training opportunities as well for them to learn what they need to learn to really be efficient with AI in the classroom but we think it's a good calendar we appreciate your support for that uh I had we had a slide ready to go reminding people about
020new student registration I have talked to the board about our numbers being very very low for kindergarten registration so we're shaking the Train the community we're trying to spread the word any parent who knows they have child coming into kindergarten next year just let us know uh even if we can have work on filling the documents out in the paperwork at a later time uh we had a slide talking about kids heart challenge which is a very big popular event uh P penel has already had those fantastic teacher over there I'm Mr little r and uh I look forward to when they're all done sharing with you the numbers and the fundraising that's been done at during these heart challenges over the last decade it's very impressive spelling winners congratulations to Nick Paris at northly
021uh Carly Carin Singleton was the runner up and at penel Travis odonahue plays first Molly Raco and Carson as well I had a picture of our team that we sent down to Orlando for leader and me Symposium so we had a number of elementary teachers and some teachers represented from northly to go and see other schools uh that are actually implementing the leader and me program and I just can't be more pleased with what I'm seeing particularly at Parkside they're a year ahead of all of our other Schools they're just implementing it and they're getting results and we appreciate the board support that send this group for training come back chz up and really excited about the opportunities in our district uh we had a slide talking about the north Le students in the School
022Musical I was able to get out to see that on the Saturday ma uh packed packed stage and that's just wonderful to see occurred to me like these are middle school kids who could have been home on a cold February day and instead they weren't they they were out you know involved in something really valuable doing something that they loved clearly having a lot of fun and it was a large large turnout of students great musical uh we capped up our Super Bowl success Drive second year of doing this we did meet our goal uh we'll continue to utilize student counsels to drive this next year so every time to have a Super Bowl we're hoping to raise um some Awareness on hunger in the area but also to make donations uh to Mount Hope
023food bank and City team sun raider we have some pictures here we're talking about 9th grade Sur survey of literature students who took part in a Young Writers fright Club contest uh some of their Works were so strong they were selected for publication and a book and we will be happy to share that with the board when that comes out our elementary school took time to celebrate 100 days of school particularly the uh kindergarten classrooms was a lot of students dressing up as if they were 100 years of age we had some cute pictures there and finally we wanted to point out a congratulations to third grader from Aston Frankie dandia who got first place not a runner up but first place at the Pennsylvania state finals for The Invention Convention Frankie submitted uh his
024proposal it was called the Cozy Illuminator which is a neck pillow with an adjustable reading light attached to the ends designed to make nighttime reading very comfortable we got the first place in the state for that so I will invite him and his family out to next month's uh meeting so we can recognize him for that accomplishment so lots of great things happening in school district again I apologize uh that the uh projector out but I will send this presentation to you uh for your review thank you thank you Dr Stein Hall announcements for the public tonight board met an executive session to discuss personel litigation matters any comments by members of the board board information and discussion no any comments by members of the public done um board information starts on page Two Carries
025through on page three four five six and ends at the top of page seven references of pendu budget 23 through 2024 the ACT 93 plans pdaa agreement the pdpa agreement PD sspa agreement PA School Code Section 1108b it is the administrative recommendation to approve all Personnel items as second so move second questions or comments all those in favor oppos motion passes we'll do a consent agenda for 10.03 through M18 does any member wish to have anything pulled to vote it on separately all right if not I need a motion from 10.03 through 10.18 please note that all bids are subject to solicitor review so moved second questions or comments all those in favor oppos motion passes any comments by members of the public any by members of the board the only thing I'll add is
026uh I would like to say congratulations to a lot of our winter sports teams that have exceeded their uh their expectations in in basketball and swimming and and most and most definitely the wrestling team carrying on through their second their sixth undefeated uh chesmont season um coach Barlo was uh selected as coach of the year in chesmont for carrying carrying on that Legacy in our wrestling program so uh congratulations to him and I'm sure um we'll be seeing some of our wrestlers after Hershey so um six of them for this weekend the see I qualify for Hershey so um a good thing going in our in our Sports and it is extremely uh comforting to see that that our you know suspension days SL incident days are down you know to one6 what they used
027to be it's huge Mr Rosco has talked to us for quite a while last week he's extremely excited he keeps you know it's it's I don't want to say long and order but he keeps things in order over there you know there's there's not kids running around in the hallways there's not um kids getting out of hand when there is a problem they get them in you know set them down and and talk to them I think it was great the information you shared so thanks to the team over there as well yeah I I appreciate you mentioning that Mr armor you know uh from time to time some f will show me uh Facebook posts and you know there was a former resident who was posting something about um I would never send my
028kid to Sun Valley or norle it's out of control there's fights all the time and then I I'll talk to eighth grade boys in northley like what fight did you I've never seen a fight here at North Middle School Dr St um I had we've had board members do Sund alley tours with me have been shocked uh and Chang classes like my you wouldn't know it was change of class it was quiet it was wood I mean there just there were just good kids there and U it just disappoints me that we have great staff really good kids wonderful families and then people who just I don't know trash a district for some reason on social media uh we have eras to improve I I I always want people to tell me if there's something
029that we can fix but you also want facts and the facts are uh the schools of pandelo are very safe parents are satisfied kids are smiling um and and I think you our administrative team are our staff but the kids themselves they do what we ask them to do CU they want a good school experience and uh it's really nice to see we'll be at Sun B tomorrow uh for the uh entrepreneurship Fair uh which is part of that program for the dual enrollment class that we have with the University of Delaware uh and we'll have folks in from the uh from outside and I'm sure they're going to feel the same way that I do this is a great building really good vibe opportunity for kids to do great work here and then to
030go on you know Wonderful here from Olivia is just going to Villanova you know um she's gotten every so so much out of Sun Valley and her time here and that's what it's all about right being here being available to let kids get what they the best that they can get out of Sun Valley whether that's an opportunity to do enrollment whether that's Sports is great the winter sports have been phenomenal uh whether that's the Arts like the best musical last spring in Southeastern pa uh whether that might be the activities the clubs we're up to 44 clubs now for kids that want to stay out there and do things Infinity groups um active clubs sports clubs just really all the things that we want to see so I do appreciate you Mr R mentioned
031that and I'll pass that along to the St thank you um one more thing so a few weeks ago I happened to attend ason and action night which is again an amazing thing every single year when they put that together but this year was a little unique because the yoga teacher got sick right before ASD and action night was beginning um and it you know interesting enough I happened to be in that group where we had yoga first and of course principal Phillips and another teacher I apologize I can't remember her name right now um stepped in and ran yoga so we had an opportunity to see you know principal Phillips doing yoga in the middle of the library it was the most interesting experience but it was amazing just to see the best laid
032plans obviously teacher got sick they couldn't do anything and they like jumped right in and did an absolutely incredible job and it was a wonderful night sweaty happy kids running all over that entire school but it was like well organized and amazing so great y we'll pass that along yeah was your son's teacher Mr zy who jumped in and saved for yoga yeah yeah yes did she did a great job thank you for much I think next year Mr Ze should teach Dr Stein off I just want to also thank you for recognizing uh our our Philadelphia Eagles sports team and uh what you did for the the community by you know giving us the ability to celebrate family and friends on that that day on on uh I think it was Friday the 9th
033or what was the 10th or whatever it was 14th okay yeah Valentine's Day how can I forget um so thank you for that CU I think that's important to the school community that you know we we work hard but we also take the opportunity to enjoy time with our family so thank you for that and also just a reminder uh fifth grade uh uh information night at North Lee is uh on March 20th so important for anybody that's going in the northly next year fifth grade information L Shamel PL for myself cuz I'll be there good night thank Mr Twi thank you Mr T all right future meetings will be here uh March 19th for our study session and March 26 uh for a business meeting both at 7:3 motion for so move thank you