001All right. Uh, good evening everyone. Uh, welcome and thank you for coming up to the school board meeting tonight. I like to call this meeting to order. And secretary, can you lead us in the pledge of allegiance? I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you very much. And secretary, can you call the role, please? Can Dan Chub here. Brian Davis here. Jen Goldhan here. Ruth Griffy, Mary Keer here, Chad Maury here. Matt Nelson, he's can't be here tonight. Okay. Neil Tate here. He is He is on Zoom. Yeah. Neil, can you hear us? Yes. Can you hear me? Hello. Can you hear me? He says it says talking. It says
002that he's talking. Can you hear me? If it's Oh, TV's not on. It's probably coming through the TV. Yep. We We still move on now. We can, but for tool this pres. So, and it could be something. Yeah, we'll come back if you wanted to finish up [Music] here. Dr. Brad Stern here. Dr. Sha Myers here. Justin Pier here. Welcome everyone to our meeting. All right. Uh, next is hearing of schedule delegation of individuals. I don't believe we have any tonight. Correct. Also like to mention Mr. Defa was here this evening. Thank you. Uh next for agenda item is public comment. There's any public comment for this evening? Now is the time. Look like there's no public comment. No. All right. Moving on to our next agenda item number seven is our consent [Music] agenda.
003It's our first voting item. Motion to approve. We have a first. Do we have a second? Second. We have first and second. Any further discussion? No further discussion. This is a roll call vote. All is intent to be reported in favor of the motion. Unless I hear a may abstain. Motion carries. Moving on to number eight, financial reports. We have both available one, two, and three. There's general applying, cafeteria, and capital reserve. Motion to approve a one, two, and three. Second. First and a second. Any further discussion? All right, further discussion. This is Paul vote. All those intents to report in favor of the motion on the second abstain. Motion carries. Uh number nine correspondence that was covered in the center of Jim. You would go on to number 10. We have reports and later
004actions starting with the special report. Nothing to report this month. Very much. Next is superintendent. Good evening everybody. Um I just have a few items that I want to report out. Um believe it or not, we are in our home stretch. Um we are in our final marketing period moving forward. Um our report cards went out and we just completed a very successful parent teacher conference. Um if you were on campus at the time um it is very unique here at Bermudian Springs where we welcome our parents by food trucks and we have a lot of activity going on on the campus which is really great to see. Dr. Myers and I had that opportunity to walk around um to see the conferences in full swing and everybody seemed really happy and the teachers were
005had the stage set for everybody um and we got great feedback from everybody that attended um through our principles. That concludes my report. Lastly, just a couple of items um provide some updates on um in a few other reports I've shared that we have um been kneedeep in some monitoring for some of the different programs that uh we have district um 90% of that we successfully uh completed and met a requirement for our Mckin Vento monitoring which is essentially a federal federal law that require or um helps students sustain continuity of education uh when they have unstable living situations. And so uh we were able to provide all the documentation and how we educate families and students who are in those situations um and did not have any corrective action um for that particular program
006which is great news. Uh we did just wrap up Fed pro our federal programs monitoring which is uh where we need to provide documentation on our titles one two three and four. Not yet received any feedback yet. Have not yet received feedback um on those particular programs but are looking forward to um feedback helps us grow. And so if we do get any corrective actions we'll certainly work to correct them quickly um but hoping for a positive review. Uh, we add we did get feedback from the state on chapter 339. If I could quote the email. It did say. Hi, Jen. Can you hear me? It did. The state did provide us feedback that it was a stellar plan. Um, so we did get official approval. We did have some minor revisions that we need
007to just resubmit um that we're working through right now, but overall got approval for that. So that's exciting. Um and then finally we are wrapping up preparations for PSSA. Yeah. Uh we are wrapping up the preparations for PSSA and Keystones. Um some big changes this year with PSSA and Keystones. I just want and I know that communication is going out from buildings and our uh guide our school counselors who handle a lot of the testing. Um so just reminders though that for PSSA this year science has shifted from fourth grade to fifth grade. So our fourth graders are no longer taking the science PSSA. So our fifth grade and eighth grade students will be participating in science. And in addition to that shift, all of science PSSA testing is online. Um so our buildings are
008actively preparing to assess students online which we've done in a number of different scenarios but this is a pretty largecale um scenario that we'll be working through this year. Um have gotten some feedback from other school districts who have been testing online that have had positive experiences. Um what is is great news for us for all everyone within the state is that this is a nonaccountability year for science. So this the testing is kind of a dry run for the new science um PSSA test. So, not only is it online, but it's a new format, new new testing um based on the new standards and gives us an opportunity to kind of practice before they hold us accountable for the scores. Um in addition to that, we are um this will be our second uh
009winter keystones were all online. We we are shifting to full online keystones for the spring. Um so, high school will be implementing that on a large scale. And then some of our seventh and eighth graders, we allowed our students who we felt like were ready to kind of make that decision as whether they wanted to um continue with paper pencil this year or move into um the online platform. So we have some students taking paper pencil, some students opting to um test online this year. Um just really wanted to give them some some ownership in the way that they feel like they will test best. Um and so we're preparing for that as well. Um looking forward to it. I think it's going to um it'll be a great it'll be interesting to see the
010kids transition and our teachers have been actively preparing um students for the new tools and what the online platform will look like. So it won't be a huge shock to them in a few weeks here once they get started. So really busy um but a lot of good things happening and um excited to share what I feel like is some pretty positive news. Great. Thank you. Appreciate it. All right, moving on to old business. There is none. Number 12, new business. Brings us to personnel. That's letter A. And there's three areas under personnel. Uh the first one has to do with administration request approval for employee for teacher mentor. Uh the second one's board approval for teacher under the contract for summer camp. And third is board approval for the following extracurricular activities. That's 3A,
011B, C, and D. Neil, can you hear us? Okay. Yes. Okay. Move to approve A1, two, and three. Second. All right. We have a first and a second. Any further discussion? All right, no further discussion. This is a roll call vote. All those intentions be recorded in favor of the motion le or abstain. Motion carries. Okay. Before we move on to the next agenda item, I'm going to uh bring up Mr. Defoe. He's going to um speak to us about what we just voted on. Thank you. Uh John Defo, athletic director. Really excited about the new coaches that were approved this evening. So, thank you. And one of those is here with us, uh, our new girls head basketball coach, Mr. Joseph Lohis. And he had asked if he could introduce himself and and express
012his gratitude for the, uh, trust that you've extended to him here this evening. So, Mr. Lowhis, if you will, please. Yes. Congratulations. Thank you. Um, yeah, I'm really excited. It's an honor and privilege to be here. Um, I'm looking forward to getting to know the team, getting to know more about the program, um, and, you know, just being able to continue doing what I've been doing for the last 10 years is coaching basketball. And, um, again, Bermudian Springs girls basketball has been really successful the last several years, and I hope to continue that and hopefully even exceed kind of how they've done in the past. and uh looking forward to hopefully hanging a banner in the gym with a district title. So, you never know, but that's the plan. So, thank you again very much
013and uh again, it's an honor to be here and uh hope to see many of you at our see many of you at our game. So, thank you. Yep. Congrats. Welcome aboard. Thank you. Yep. Thank you, Mr. Phil. All right, moving on to the next letter under new business, which is B. 2025 graduation graduation class. Motion to approve B. Second. We have a first and a second. Any further discussion? All right, no further discussion. This is a roll call vote. All those intention can be report in favor of the motion. Unless I hear a abstain. Motion carries. Letter C, the 2025 graduation ceremony. Motion to approve C. Second. We have a first and a second. Any further discussion? All right. No further discussion. This is a roll call vote. All those in attendance, we recorded
014in favor of the motion unless I hear nay abstain. Motion carries. Letter D, their abilities 202526 agreement. Motion to approve. Second. I have a first and a second. Any further discussion? No further discussion. This is a roll call vote. All those in attendance be recorded in favor of the motion. Unless I hear a nay or abstain. Motion carries. Moving on to letter E. This is the second read and revised board policies. And as you can see listed below, there's 1 through 11. Uh policies number 301, 302, 308, 309, 311, 312, 313, 314, 314.1, 317, and 319. Motion to approve E1 through 11. Second. We have a first and a second. Any further discussion? All right, this is a roll call vote. All those intentions be recorded in favor of the motion. Let's say I hear
015a nay or abstain. Motion carries. Moving on to letter F. Second read for new board policies. Uh this is for there's two of them listed. There's three policy number 304 and 306. Move to approve F1 and two. Second. We have our first motion and a second. Any further discussion? All right. No further discussion. This is a roll call vote. All those intents be recorded in favor of the motion unless I hear any abstain. All right. Motion carries. Is there any questions? No. Is all of us making fun of me? Nope. We're admiring. Not you. Sorry. Okay. It's a good distraction like this. That brings us to other business. Uh I do have one thing, but is any other business uh to be brought before the board and mine's just administrative thing for the board? Not
016necessarily like a thing for later on for voting or anything like that, but anybody have anything? No. You all good? Okay. Um so the rec last few months or so um actually up to about a year ago, we started streamlining different processes and procedures throughout the uh district. One of the things we started was the committee uh structure and we started with curriculum and so far it's been a success and then we built as you can tell the policy committee. Um again we're streamlining and consolidating different things making us more efficient of our time and those who support these different things that the board does. Um there's a lot of people a lot of teachers supports that a lot of people put a lot of time invest into these meetings and stuff like that. So
017uh with that being said I've spoke to most of all of you. Um I know we spoke as a group and most of all you individually where I could meet up with you um as I could individually whether it was a text message or whether it was in person. Um but we're going to moving starting in May. So our next month's meeting we're going to consolidate down to one meeting a month which will be this Tuesday meeting. So it's going to be ran just like we do the other meetings that happen two or three times a year. I think we're consolid consolidated down to one. So we'll no longer have our caucus meeting. The caucus meeting was where we did discussion and we um really would talk about committee stuff, but since we're doing committees,
018as you can tell, tonight that's when the reports are actually given. U we'll still have discussions in the same meeting like we do when topics are brought up, agenda items. Again, it's really not changing much because we already do these meetings this way a couple times a year. This is just to streamline and give back time for different things to be a little bit more efficient. So, uh I just want to make that announcement to everyone, uh especially the public. So, I don't want anyone to come showing up on Monday knocking on the door for a meeting that's not going to take place. So, uh, with that being said, I guess we're adjourned. Thank you all for coming. Oh. Oh, go ahead, ma'am. Oh, sure. What currently we're well committee meetings. Yes. Yes. So, we
019have a what's called SIRA. It's an acronym for curriculum. Um, what's it stand for? Curriculum, instruction, resources, and assessments. Yeah. And there's a schedule on our website for dates and times for each one of these. And then we have a policy committee. And you have buildings and ground and the buildings of ground which y Yeah. The building grounds is sort of like a Yeah. the committee meetings and then the voting regular meeting we call it. There'll no longer be the Monday caucus meeting. Correct. Yep. Based on the schedule. Yeah. Yep. That's no problem. All right. And thanks for everyone coming out. But we're journed. Have a good