001foreign [Music] in accordance with the provisions of this act the Board of Education policy 0162 Board of Education Program to be posted high school and my other facts to the career news request an individual notice or a fee please [Music] Justice thank you [Music] certainly just about Mr Dawson here this casino it's Lima Mr zubke here Miss hot here we're President we have the foreign [Music] eternal okay good evening everyone and Welcome to our May board meeting I at this time we'll have our principals come to the mic to recognize our students of the month to leave will start with Lamont School with Dr s foreign [Applause] ER he has one brother he's his favorite subject is Jim and he loves playing basketball his favorite hobby is Art he loves drawing pictures of flowers and
002when I grow up I want to be a teacher just like myself congratulations [Applause] you know good job [Applause] [Music] okay congratulations to Clifford Frazier IV currently kindergarten student and my sister Lucas class his once one sister and one brother his favorite school subject is eating breakfast favorite hobby is playing Xbox and career plans when I grow up I want to run in the Olympics congratulations Clifford [Applause] [Music] school week of Dr Sandy sermon for linking towards Clark [Applause] hello everyone our first person up tonight and thank you again on behalf of Miss Clark our first student up tonight is Hunter Hernandez Hunter as teachers Miss sella and miss siampa and Hunter has one sibling named Sebastian I don't know if Sebastian's here tonight and favorite subject in school is reading Hunter loves the color
003especially his Jurassic world coloring book and enjoys writing stories in his free time in the future Hunter like to be a librarian when he grows up congratulations Hunter [Applause] next up is Abriana Quintero oh Hunter um congratulations Hunter good job hang on up Brianna we're almost done [Applause] all right again next up is Abriana Quintero uh Brianna is an only child no siblings congratulations you get all the attention um favorite subject in school is Art and centers and Ela and favorite hobby is learning at school snuggling with Mom Dad and dogs I like that that's excellent and in future wants to grow up and be a paleontologist congratulations [Applause] okay that's what all those things [Music] great job with that smile and next up are supposed [Applause] ly would like to recognize Alexandra selaki as
004our third grade student of the month she is in Mrs Pellegrino's class her siblings are Valerie and Nicole her favorite subject is math her favorite hobbies is gymnastics and when she grows up she wants to be a veterinarian congratulations [Applause] that was me don't worry [Applause] our next dinner of the month is Michaela Castillo in grade four she is in Mrs coker's class she has one sister Abigail her favorite subject is also math her hobbies are drawing and reading and she wants to be an artist when she grows up congratulations [Applause] really cool our next student of the month is Anthony sokai he is in fifth grade his teachers are Miss golden miss fondas miss manno and miss Sandler he has two younger sisters and one older sister his favorite subject is math he likes
005to play soccer in fact he plays for a Bound Brook team and when he grows up he wants to be a professional soccer player congratulations Anthony [Applause] and our last student of the month is zedia chica Martinez he is in sixth grade and Miss tacony's class and Mr Osborne's class he has one sibling someone in Lafayette his favorite class is our math and English language arts he likes to play soccer with friends play video games and catch up with friends and he wants attend college in California when he grows up and become a video game designer that's a very good thing he hopes to be happy and continue spending time with family and friends congratulations thank you [Applause] congratulations [Applause] next up back up for Community Schools doctor said so all right round two first
006up for the Community Middle School we have Brianna lamasia Brianna is has one sibling first grader at Lafayette uh who is uh Margaret and I'm looking for Brianna right now uh favorite subjects are physical education and soccer uh Brianna was nominated by her teacher Mr Sanders and favorite hobby is playing the piano and in the future would like to grow up and become an architect Brianna congratulations [Applause] [Music] next up for the Community Middle School is Alexia zuetta or Ariola also nominated by PE teacher Mr lay Alexia's favorite subject is English and enjoys drawing and listening to music and not sure what you want to do when you grow up but definitely something with art and drawing congratulations [Applause] thank you not at least and suspended [Applause] good evening I know two of our Crusader
007citizens of the month cannot join us today but I'll still announce their names Daniel Cisneros [Applause] okay our other another representative of Crusaders Crusader citizen of the month is Anastasia [Applause] school is Art she enjoys playing guitar drawing skateboarding knitting and baking in the future she wants to create her own cartoon television series [Music] foreign [Applause] and our last recipient Orlando Rodriguez [Applause] younger sister his favorite subject in school is physical education he enjoys playing soccer and video games in the future he wants to work with his father with the electro with his electronic business [Applause] thank you foreign [Applause] the Bound Brook School District is proud to recognize Mrs Kim credatis from the Community Middle School as the May 2023 teacher of the month I've had the privilege of working with Mrs pradatas for
008the last nine years during that time Mrs K has held multiple positions in both general education and special education in the middle school math department each year as the Middle School's needs change Ms credatis was asked to take on a new position and new responsibilities however last spring Mrs K asked was asked if she would consider filling this year's seventh grade science position for one of our retiring teachers and once again Miss K stepped up to the plate now at the beginning of the school year it gets better at the beginning of the school year our school experienced an influx of students especially in the seventh grade and it was determined that another math section was needed for our seventh graders however all teachers had a full schedule and we needed a volunteer and as
009you can guess Mrs credatis agreed to teach that math section during her prep period that means Mrs credatis teaches all seventh grade students science seventh and eighth grade special education science students as well as a section of 7th grade math that's a total of 165 students I actually looked it up today and counted that is amazing Miss credatis all of those students include general education special special at all without a prep period as a science teacher Mrs K Works closely with our friends at students to science Who deliver virtual labs to our students in Bound Brook and has helped organize class trips to the Isaac laboratory in East Hanover each month members of the Community Middle School staff takes turns hosting a faculty breakfast and it is Miss K who is the person who organizes
010and reminds everyone when it's their turn Miss K Works closely with the child study team to ensure special education students academic needs are being met and collaborates with the inrs team to develop plans for students who are struggling as recently as this past week most Middle School parents watch their children create science projects for tomorrow night's open house and science fair Mrs K was there to help Inspire and assist many of the projects that will be on display it's hard to illustrate in such a short time the impact the teacher can have on her students and on the community arrest assured it is safe to say that Bound Brook is fortunate to have Mrs credatis and on behalf of all the lives you have touched I'd like to say congratulations and thank you thank you
011[Applause] foreign my fourth time up tonight I promise this will be the last time I see that Brianna has joined us Brianna student of the month 7th grade Community Middle School thank you so just a little background on Brianna nominated by Mr Sanders from the Community Middle School in and soccer favorite hobby playing the piano and when she grows up one day would like to become an architect congratulations again and next we were supposed to have Andy shot as you couldn't be here with us tonight he's going to introduce this idea of restarting the school newspaper he's going to do that at the next meeting so we look forward to that presentation today Mr President sounds good at this point blue will actually take a brief resource for anybody who wants to come down and
012take pictures um foreign thank you foreign thank you unmuted great all right welcome back everybody we are up to committee reports for this evening uh first up is education Mr dust we had a great meeting of the education committee recently uh the focus of the meeting was to talk about uh the work that our curriculum supervisors have engaged in this past year to better our instructional program and also to discuss uh the upcoming year it was an exceptionally well done presentation very thorough I think all of us found the supervisors to be very informative with regards to math a lot of great work has been focused this year the team is focused on a line in common assessments there's been some resequencing of the Alpha One course to ensure that topics that are tested are
013sequenced earlier in the year it's been a lot of focus on looking at data to make sure that our academic support interventionists have appropriate data to really Target small group instruction similar themes in English language arts of course the goal is that all of our kids will reach proficiency this particular Focus this past year has been on Independent active reading really making sure kids are engaging with their texts uh tax evidence evidence-based writing the team has also done with got a lot of good work in aligning and making sure that there are logical and sequential guidelines for what constitutes work at the CP level the honors level the at level Etc the team has done a good job of auditing the curriculum to make sure that we are including both modern and traditional texts making
014sure that the texts that are selected represent the diversity of our student population there's a lot of focus on also programs and software that the team feels will support our teachers particularly in designing lessons that are responsible to where the kids are some of the ideas that were spoken about programs that have gained a lot of enthusiasm within the District of the common lit program a program called i-Ready which also is an assessment that provides teachers with targeted reports on how kids are doing relevant to the particular standards a program called IXL which can be used to supplement supplement instruction in mathematics overall the take away correctly if I'm mistaken is that these programs will supplement the work that the curriculum staff the administrators are doing to help teachers use data to design lessons that
015really Target where kids are on individual levels we spoke about the value of really designing personalized learning plans with that data and how to develop some instructional practices that may be purposeful and reflected in using all this this data to bring things together in the upcoming year the supervisor spoke about some common things that they'd like to focus on one is making sure that we recognize the assets all students bring to the classroom to limit the idea of students needing remediation to the extent that it might create a deficit mindset to really encourage our teachers to have kids productively struggle to Grapple with difficult tasks to wrestle through things that may be difficult to persevere and also to really make sure that our teachers have really meaningful and purposeful data that they can use to
016design instruction and supporting students there's a lot of excitement about a program called Intervention manager which tracks the work that we do with particular groups of students and individual students see how they respond to that through the linking platform so linking will continue to house our district data but we also are looking at some other platforms to assess where our kids are it was a great meeting very welcome outstanding thank you Mr Wilson any questions on education all right hearing none we're actually going to go to miss high in place of Mr bowel on governance okay we too had a very productive meeting um was looking at policy and we were talking about the policy regarding professional development with travel and launching and just went through that just to um fully understand what that was
017about we also looked at a number of things happening on the board of good timeline just from May to September and one was it's the time of year for the superintendent's evaluation so what happens is Dr Freeman does his self-evaluation and then the board conducts their evaluation and then the two held um in June we will be going over that we will have a meeting with Donald Freeman and just go over what the results are with that we also had a meeting with Glenn Jordan who came she trained the whole board on how that is done and where we go to get all of our resources and we are going to be having another meeting on July 19th and that was something that the board really looked at is what is one of our major
018goals and that means of student achievement so that will be happening on uh July 19th the thing that happens too in the summertime which is just so rapidly approaching is we set board goals for the next year so that will be happening we want that done by August of course so that we can get into the new school year we also talked about what workshops are being offered by um Association and that they have a lot of things that are on there that are you know just free some are virtual some are in person and it was really kind of a quick meeting but it was a very uh productive thing any questions for Sue okay good well done we are up to Human Resources uh Miss Musson is not here this evening so I
019will do the human resources report on our path we reviewed a number of different items during HR uh the first one was open positions both from within the existing budget as well as a preview of the positions that have been added for the 2023 and 2024 school year so suffice the senator Administration would be very busy if they haven't been busy enough already they will be busy or hiring additional teachers and staff over the next few months everybody should have access to that information which Dr Freeman disseminates through the weekend reports if you have any issues with access please no we briefly discussed the upcoming negotiations with the bbea again we're just in preparation mode we've been in contact with their leadership we are getting ready to plan a date to exchange proposals so that
020should be happening before the next meeting with luck and we just want to make sure that our proposal is as complete and comprehensive as we think uh we went through the update on the smaller School principal position uh and I'm just happy to acknowledge Ms Suzanne Carbone in the audience this evening um you'll actually see a resolution in section 6 to bring her into the district and I'm just really excited uh to have us back up to full staff and slowly and throughout the district and to begin to make progress on our rules we went through the update on the sick Bank leave again I think that was covered at length at the weekend report but our records there are now fully up to date uh just three retirements still through the end of this
021school year which I think is in contrast to where we have been around this time in years past and I think is both a positive indication of the staff as well as the administration and the work that we're doing to keep people here uh and the last item that we talked through were the administrative contracts two of which you'll see on the agenda for this evening I work for the assistant superintendent guys one for our board administrator uh I'm sorry board secretary business administrator I think that's it questions up to you for operations right yes sir so the operations meeting went very well it was actually the shortest I've ever experienced and so uh basically we uh we discussed the bricks again and it actually was an interesting thing committee members expressed dissatisfaction with the
022process where the board was not appraised of the dark bricks after presentation to committee unanimously expressed it with three available for examples that were presented to us would result in at least some project delays due there were two grand color and did not match or accent the existing well so two committee members asked and were taken to school the samples to see the colors of natural light along with the existing School bricks and the committee recommended to complete the projects without the use of accessing risks because the initial selection was almost black in color and the your recent three samples were too great the committee recommended completing the brickwork with field bricks that match the existing brick colors on the other sides without the use of any accent availability um the budget update to Mr
023gorsky presented everything seems to be good but with the county budget is now finalized Mr Gorski do you have any other finalizing comments on that Mr Zucker the only update is that the county office has approved the final budget that was adopted by the board and we're ready to recover funds as early as July 1st excellent and the board would like to thank the administration and the community and everyone in that process so we really appreciate everyone's finally um you wound down with with Mr Gorski providing the committee a proposal from esm to provide an environmental engineering and testing services as with that I yield back to you Mr President if there are no more comments or questions thank you Mr Zucker any comments or questions on operations very thorough reports this evening our community
024engagement and communication ad hoc is actually suspended at this point so I will substitute there with the introduction of our newly formed committee on extracurricular activities So Lisa and I were happy to host Mr Steele from the professional staff and we started to talk about the charge for the committee and the work that we intended to do principal among that includes inventory our current programs confirming their intended purpose goals and objectives measuring their current success or satisfaction rates or at least the participation rates understanding any needs or wants to improve performance particularly in areas of commonality impacting multiple programs and then ultimately delivering some recommendations to both the board and administration for consideration generally that charge has been well accepted uh and what we left our initial meeting with was a few action items from
025Mr Steele to come back with participation numbers in the programs over the last few years and a commitment to review and evaluate that at our next any comments or questions on the new extracurricular committee got it all right the last report is from sue for the Somerset County Educational Services Commission and I have the shortest answer because this committee meets every other month and so it's an offline so the next meeting is on June 7th so I will report with that our committee reports are concluded and we will move uh to item number four which is open to the public for agenda items do you have any agenda item questions or comments uh seen okay no questions online item 5.1 be it resolved that development reported the Board of Education Without recommendation of the superintendent
026approves the minutes for the following meetings this is a regular and executive session for April 26 2023. I have a motion thank you Messiah second second thank you Mr Zucker any questions discussion please Mr Dawson yes this is upco yes Mr Milhouse yes Miss High yes Mr Homer yes Mr Januzzi yes motion passes thank you item 6.1 be resolved at the superintendent recommends for approval the resolutions as outlined in District Personnel resolutions this is 6.2 through 6.63 any discussion I have one question it's 6.34 it was a send resolution for conference request was that just they didn't want to what happened well that was what we discussed last week it was tabled and what happened was the the conference was that weekend so okay thank you question of 6.4 6.4 Dr Gallagher assistant superintendent good
027what is this job function I'll give you the uh I'll give you the job description which basically talks about all of his new job I'm just curious I'm new to this and I see a salary of 192 thousand dollars I also know that if you make 173 000 a year you're in the top 10 of all wage earners okay are we going to come 10 of return on that investment that's my question over the top 10 10 of return on investment and what are we getting the top 10 performance I can't really discuss performance okay in public what I can do in terms of the job function is I can provide you with the job description and we can actually go over it together okay okay thank you any other comments or questions Mr Dawson
028yes yes I'm in house yes it's high yes Mr Palmer yes it's the exception of 6.4 thank you januzi yes motion passes with the exception of 6.4 foreign members to approve or just the majority of the board members president majority of the member Seated on the board which would be six for personnel items thank you for clarifying right moving on to items 7.1 he resolved at the Bound Brook Board of Education approves the resolutions as outlined in District education resolutions this is 7.2 through 7.7 can I have a motion motion thank you Mr Zucker for a second second thank you Mr Dawson any discussion sure sure I have one first of all I I just love saying it on the agenda and I see that the high school has gone for mid-summer night's stream and
029there are a lot of kids going there were no chaperones is that there are no chevrons the teachers I know of course will be going description it already happened did you have backgrounds it happened here okay good enough I I really do love when these things happen in these schools so thank you any other questions please is it awesome yes yes yes Miss hi yes it's Wilmer yes Mr Januzzi yes motion yes thank you item 891 be a result of the development report of Education approves the resolutions as an outlined action resolution this is 8.2 through 8.24 ever motion the gifts of Mr Dawson a second to miss high sure any discussion I would just note that some of the change orders necessary to fulfill the wishes of the operations committee that Mr Zucker reviewed
030or included in tonight's agenda so if you do have any questions but if not you take a walk off Mr gronsky Mr Dawson yes it's high yes Mr Homer yes yes thank you we are now up to other matters to come before the board in new business so for the members do we have any new business to raise the seat [Music] I believe we are now open to the public anybody from the floor uh there are no comments online no comments online so now we are ready to go into executive session report of Education enters the executive session has a lot by njs items number one three and we get the Toronto 87. start highlighting my password very good I just want to reset the kind of motion motion thank you Mr a second second
031thank you Messiah all in favor all right [Music] thank you foreign thank you foreign thank you foreign [Music] motion motion thank you thank you Mr Zucker II session thank you miss high give me a roll call please Mr Dawson yes yes miss high yes yes thank you item 14.1 he resolved at the Bound Brook Board of Education approves the resolution has outlined the approval of HIV cases of elementary schools this is 14.2 and 14.3 promotion motions is that Mr Dawson today was so moved a second look at that Mr Bowman can we have a roll call please yes hi yes Mr Homer yes yes thank you we have now exhausted the agenda for tonight's meeting can I have a motion to adjourn hi