BOE Meeting - January 25, 2023

001this money provided by the Board of Education and in 19 2023 and January 12 2020 notice in the Asbury press and the co-star setting forth the date and time and location of this meeting similar notice has been posted in the book Hall the Brielle School website and the borough clerk has been notified um by Cali this is Wolf whenever you can please stand for the black one [Applause] [Music] two three and if we can make a motion uh minutes foreign yes Mrs Jones yes this is my debit yes this is we yes this is Walsh yes Mr Wolf yes and next we have uh presentations via start strong results is love thank you good evening everybody three years ago actually the first year that this assessment came into schools to administer in the fall uh

002it was kind of voluntary if you were able to tell the state that you had a alternate type of assessment that you're going to see issues with last year maybe it's mandatory and again this year they also need to connect so I'm going to go through the results and kind of go over a little bit before you're going to give you some background on it and then just some ways to kind of distribute and uh understand and then the two sections to District analysis and the demographic analysis and we'll certainly take someone out that the board members had this earlier today but we've got to change things over but as you see there are three levels we've got level one strong support that you may be needed level two some support may be needed with

003level three less important I think when these things get out and send out to the parents really when they read to be regardless of how well their childhood they see the words so they're just kind of seeing that someone in the state was saying my child needs all right so for those of you that are aware of the njsla we will be taking the UK that's broken up into five there's one two three four five so for the most part level one would be one and a two on the njsla level two would be a score of a three on the njsla and then level three on the start strong would be four and five which are really more lean proficient scores at different okay you will see in the number of students that we

004have in a total when we go through this presentation you will see some of the results kind of just having a dash going straight across to present and to provide data to us it has to be a group that has more than 10 students just so you're aware you may see some of those yeah she's double straight across and such you know that's the reason why you know that demographic is not presented okay this is you're going to see last night and then the next slide is going to kind of be a little bit more color-coded absolutely and our goal is starting to have more in the green all right and the yellow with red one on the lights I think we did that last time more than that okay so another thing I want

005to know that I didn't mention in the beginning you are going to see that it's the New Jersey the NJ SLA is for grades three through eight start strong really is going over the curriculum from last year how well are we retaining the information all right so we are going through the entire summer and we're going through a little bit more than the end of September before this was administered to students so when we look at the grades that we're going to be seeing the results for it's only going to be for grades four through eight which were in grades three through seven for us last year do not have any of the data for ninth graders they're now in another school we don't have that then okay so that's why you want to see

006the third graders because that's there now if we were to give them in to start showing movement secondary four or three all the way through this uh presentation mathematics that we have as you can see the one at the bottom I think it's geometry that we don't have 10 or more students that took the challenge and that's why it's not there and the reason why we don't is because last year eighth grade is the geometry now they're in high school we have seventh graders that took algebra last year that's why we had that statistics and again this is just the uh science okay there's just a sixth grade that we have because it's a fifth grade and eighth grade assessment that's given so we really just have this huge six figures that says and then

007we're looking at this level one is uh [Music] which is your level two and three which is sufficient and then three is level four on the njs so not too sure why the similar assessment the state just can't send you know send it out of the same exact way is looking at a four out of five thank you and demographics will be going through the uh Elementary School four and five in the Middle School 678 and then Walgreens to brace it up into the categories that we have in our school generated from how everything is populated in Genesis and then here's the mathematics on that same group and we are still trying to change that Trend where it's fewer and some of them you know the white population Hispanic not as much as there's some

008fewer students there we have been actually we were able to get this back rather quickly we are going through in our plcs looking at this data we're also using the LinkedIn data that we have and the I already data that really see how can we start Improvement for the next New Jersey is if we have the minister but certainly the ndsla but not really testing you know teaching to the desk we're trying to stay awake with the scientific sixth graders and then because we did not have that those two other Democrats out of the democratic represented that's why I just had some more population Ela I mean everything there is represented all right and it goes through and one thing I did notice because I was going through this we are a district that is

009it's Eerie how we are pretty much right down the middle 50 50 male female we are like 49.50 you know next time you can just look at that I mean we you couldn't make it any better than the way we were broken up here so on that fourth one over percentage yes hey I mean you may see a little discrepancy in the less support needed and this one but when you do take those overall last two you're getting very close becoming a male female science wow down just a little bit differently and there's one side before 11 especially Elementary School the Middle School with this year as you can see typically I was mentioning earlier we do like to have fewer in the red and the yellow workouts in the green we are aware of

010that middle one of the special ed isn't going in that direction but we are working internally to improve that whether it's in the resource room or you know what do we need to do maybe uh differently maybe an icr set to work on really try to kind of changing the way that that demographic moves towards that similar demographic to have on the description was a little bit more than it was in the uh there's a science named just for sixth grade yes so do we have an idea about how this compares the last year and how it's requires dollars how are you and how are we supposed to interpreter yes is it against ourselves really right now it's religious against ourselves so how does this look compared through how we did last year um on

011some of those demographics is not as good multiple times a year so it does allow us in the school year more of a focus so it is almost there there's a lot of points because as to why the state is actually making this mandatory the first year they said if you can provide some documentation that you were doing something else to do it the next two years that you've kind of changed your tune and needed mandatory for all and the superintendents and they're all like Obama county is the way and they all got together with a letter you know to the governor and he said you know we have other means of assessing you know is this necessary because we have many evidence they're still requiring it smoking like they might require it again for

012September so [Music] yeah sorry did you say that until October you presented the fire screens that's all in jsla and so with Linda you should be able to type the grades together and correlate that plan we have this whole week we've taken you start strong results and like get the I ready the dimples and all the results we've had plcs so we analyze all of the data and we've gone through and we've looked at many of the students who are receiving either support them on Ice Department class support resource room for one of our interventions and then we looked at the students that were not and then we met with the teachers and to see you know are you concerned about really this only like the handful of students after that the students who are

013already receiving icr resources is it was less than Hawaii students program and those teachers stated that those students were fine they were keeping an eye on them we'll have a final PLC at the end of the year just to check in make sure there's still no concerns remember any of these assessments or a snapshot from student is just our testing test either or they're not moving when we perform on a test and they do well in the classroom so all of the students like are accounted for from all of the benchmark assessments that have been given and I'm very happy with um with knowing that everyone is being taken care of right now when you hiding breaks together is that how you characterize uh no I would say that it's going down I mean some

014areas are going up but as they certain certain demographics that we've looked at weren't as successful from a testing perspective that they were in the case but really what we're using this data for is we're really just making sure the students that come up with needing the most needs if they weren't identified somewhere else with systems in the policies what we have in place in the school whether it was the link it or the I ready we're diving in and just asking the teachers are they seeing something similar that they and you know starts it off and provide those so we're really just using that to help us come up with a list of students and most of the time they've already been kind of shared before we even gotten that's why my hands are

015you really seeing them it's another it's another assessment that we're using so when we went through that we had plcs and even though the kindergarten weekly also looking to start strongly so when we cross check it's just it's not it is a tool right it's a tool to be like okay this student came up as strong support on Mr strong well how did they come up on Lincoln how did they come up on i-Ready and if they're already in cbnc by an interventionist what do you see what do you see with the dimples the math inventions are now administrated Universal screener as well how are they coming up on that and then between all of those conversations we're able to see okay you know like I have everything high but like who is not getting

016support in any area and then the teachers were able to say no we're good or well you know we're not sure so then they're opening up on like it was called an RFA which you see like an IRS form and they're opening up the request for assistance just to document what am I currently doing in the classroom for Tier 1 and tier 2 Construction and then at the end of the cycle if they're saying that something pops up and they are seemed and concerned then they can address that then and then if that child you know it seems necessary that that child needs to be seen by an interventionist through math or Ela then they can enter the next Cycles so that's you know we're meeting three times a year to go through all the

017data to make sure that we're not missing there are similarities but it's not consistent you know I would say that a lot of the students who were strong support on start strong it did worse like either um approaching on i-Ready or not proficient online yet you know again it's not going to be the same across the board but there's enough indicators that we're able to see okay adding three up out of four assessments they are either approaching or they're not meeting so most likely that means that the teacher probably find that student too and then you know then we're looking up and like we also have IRS just with the teachers to you know this dude who we were concerned about and then they will be reaching out to parents if we feel that they

018need to wrong but interventions will be reaching out to parents shortly to say you know we went through the data we found that your students seems to areas we would like to offer you know intervention by one of the interventionists or if we felt that they already received intervention you know there's some students who who you know might have been receiving intervention last year they've been mentioned happening for this year they're not making as much progress as we would like maybe we need to you know move forward or to your parade and then that would be another conversation that would appearance would be like notified in another meeting just in three large kind of chunks which is doesn't get as specific [Music] um [Music] do something to help human consideration because the njsla is you

019know everybody has been you know doing what they're doing all year long and this is a testing that we've been kind of preparing for and working towards and the result that we just saw the tester right at the beginning of the year or you know the group is not really there yet and for some like you know yeah but the trend is what's important like it is but it's two different tests for sure but no but when the Daly's name is compared to last year if we're seeing in the trends in the wrong direction yeah but we're not comparing the same time no we did it last year that's what she's saying okay yeah [Music] one more thing out there for you not to dive into it too deep Ela we're looking at these this

020data every grade that took start strong only had 10 questions to determine where do they fall in star chart then when I go through and I looked at the fourth grade standards that they did they will get seven standards off of what we were testing so I don't really think that's a very good age those are the you know the standards that they chose out of 10 questions such small numbers of kits we have one or two going from one to the other could mean 10 27 and just so you know from the math side it went from 20 to 24 questions that were asked depending on the grade and in this case depending on the subject itself so it's not a very it's they don't want it to be rigorous but it doesn't take

021them very long to start this and then to finish it you know we're trying to see how well do they comprehend the content of the content from the previous year with the summer and about half a little more than half of September to really just really just those times of the days in September it'll start to get better well and it is also you know like [Applause] umla and the characters start strong they're being given one literary they're giving one informational passage so how much is that really affecting you you're not you're not assessing as many standard s so you know there is definitely um something to be said that I don't have last year's you know start strong economy that's something we are those but in regards to comparing instructions there's just I mean

022it's one Passage and so the work that you're talking about letters and things and only only if they need it and they're not receiving anymore we're only sending letters back and the students are in intervention right now and they're going to be foreign you talk to you like hello core members that don't have students here these Laboratories sent down and results were already sent out for the U.S art show so all the parents already have perhaps different questions about David in October the Department of Education had not released the Citywide results for every District if you haven't had our results and there was committed that we would value the other districts other 10 Ministries results in the last year had that been done that data is out now she was kind of looking at other

023districts that were able to what we're going to provide that to her and that was more just on the uh just kind of share so you can just look them over to see how you do it as far as I can Report with other names mentioned that we haven't done anything like that and for science we did have an articulation meeting in December of all the sending districts because Statewide assigned scores were lower so all the sending districts got together to discuss you know what programs they're using you know how they're addressing the standards we're reviewing new programs are 23 24 as well so you know there are there's a lot being done in the standing districts on regards to collaboration so we don't have that you know we're not comparing our scores you know

024directly but we're having conversations particularly together there's a board desire to have that comparison could you suggest we discussing the curriculum committee and that's probably what consensus there Sean and then move back when you get forward if that's the case any other questions here [Music] is love for their work and when I say that not just around science presentation so everybody this evening but in my short time here I will say I'm very impressed with both uh Colin and Jen and what they're doing with our teachers in Junction with our teachers that becomes part of how I see the immunizations I've been here the intense effort around important for students and eating them where they are whoever they are moving forward from there so the borders already talked about already getting those benchmark assessments um

025teachers are continuously assessing the kids on the daily weekly monthly basis in the comments in their classrooms all of that information because what's really important to make educational decisions so this is a small snapshot it's interesting of course um so thank you both very much all right so uh we'll move on to our visitors business visitors are committed to comment on agenda items we're able to answering um [Music] my question is uh two questions are parents able to request a copy of these assessments across the board you know having parents then see the difference between you know like my child would come home and say you know I want to point with me I read it but like just to be able to see it across the words we're working on and figuring out if

026you want to fix it up yeah absolutely so we've had conversations around that as we're getting more and more information through those types of benchmark assessments um I think we're getting a little more proficient with administering them kids being used to them with our curriculum aligning and we ensure that what we're measuring is what teaching so those kinds of things are deep discussions we're having at the adjun level and the having the teachers doing their professional Community sessions and we're looking at leads to do that in a way that makes sense completely understand as a parent your desire to see those things particularly if you hear your kids talking about it but we want to be able to put it out whenever it makes sense so we need a little bit more time just to

027develop that concept that we're happy to start pushing information out more we're looking at the Genesis and we're really trying to look at it and see which is better because it's more user friendly finally link that to the local description so we are trying to maximize the flat side of the teachers with the students for this upsetting average on average explaining what you know that the steps are called so we're trying to find a way to kind of lead those two components together so we're going to explore but the period of the government to get a little bit of sum of what you were doing right right I was just selling again that um foreign if you wouldn't mind considering um once you guys are up and running putting that on Genesis parents may be

028a little bit confused of how to analyze and interpret that data so maybe some sort of parent night or a webinar that when you see this data this is what it means like start strong right they drill down to the um standards right so parents have that but njsla that doesn't so there's a bit of a comparison of the parents my last question is regarding an hour for our parent group uh for parents students with disabilities for um struggle because there was such a discrepancy in the strong assessment um results for children with IEPs is there anything that you would suggest that Jen and I take back to the parents about how we've been supporting students better with ion Hayes is there anything on your radar that we could um I know Mr Sadie and

029I have been having those conversations that that topic I was um directly with our resolution teachers and our employ support teachers on some data around that that's strategies that continue to work the teachers around and again with respect strong I want to be a little careful about putting all our eggs in one basket so to speak because it is a really limited snapshot and it is again measuring learning that's supposedly took place here before we have that summer slide that we all know about with students so again we're looking after doing this totality and examinated construction decisions around that information if that makes sense thank you and we'll move on to correspondence we don't have any community okay so um tonight because the board members were just received their committee assignments um a joke because

030he's our representative so the day after we have our reorganization I just want my marriage myself and the other Senate districts are stored in as coach Representatives that's one story into their new board members from the election and [Music] uh Alexis Pollock and was chosen to lead the board as president and Alfred Chirino and that is the vice president for the 2023 [Music] questions I would just like to take a moment um to let you know that that my transition coming into the district so far from my perspective going relatively smoothly um I want to thank everyone for the warm welcome that I received in the building and in the community um it's really been a pleasure to begin to get to know our teachers to know our classroom days you know our administrators our

031office staff you can steal your staff ground staff lunches everybody that makes up this school Community um it's just been a pleasure to begin to get to know everybody um I have had an opportunity to meet with representatives from the PTO from the Brielle parent advisory group from the booster club from the Brio Education Foundation and police department here in town so in three weeks I've tried very quickly to become a part of the school community and again everyone welcome has just been tremendous so thank you everyone for the community and here in the schools it's a wonderful place to go over the next six months questions um and uh Hitler's non-government and action items all items on public recommendation of the superintendent curriculum and programs code a second yes Mrs Jones yes Mrs McDevitt

032yes Mr melanciewicz yes this is me yes Mrs wolf yes Mr wall yeah and for District Operations um questions about those um versus the computer exactly monthly premium um for before the demographic study I just distributed it briefly what's the value that that offers the district why do we do that is required at least five years okay and the final question is on the cameras to okay which is the demographic study cover letter in the first line says no respectful they're going to make a proposal to the pigeons to the township yeah for us they are aware okay and also we had a few references within Monmouth County his reference sheet there's no videos on the next page after that we're all the experienced towel I don't know when they needed help but years ago

033[Music] come on yes um so yeah I actually have experience previous districts and yes they had some issues with how are aware of that um I did have a cross-handed to do with a democratic study in Chase Falls and that was the one they did just previously the one that was done now I reached out to the existing superintendent so it falls to see if their Democratic study was accurate in the way hope that it would be um and going back to the previous one that was also very accurate so I was very comfortable recommending to Diane to take a look at that based on my personal experience with this firm and the firm I have changed from how how is probably Joe maybe 15. I'm hating myself yeah 15 17 years ago I think

034so the department was involved and they also if you're familiar with Democratic studies you're not going down the strap at all too far there are several different methodologies that are library of methodologies and so on and projections but I'll say the news is in methodology I think it makes the most sense and I saw with you there five years twice in college it involved very accurate prediction of student projections over a 10-year here I did ask njs though for a survey of surrounding and throughout the state business administrators for demographic and half of them came up with Ross and half came up with a Dr Richard Griffin and Dr rip was five thousand dollars absolutely [Music] I'll second that Mr Becker yes Dr d'ambrosio yes Mrs Jones yes Mrs McDevitt yes Mr Valance yes this

035is me yes this is Walsh Mr Walton yes seven the question about we go from B7 and then it goes to 11 on 11 is the section like we have one softball to Mr Claire Saloon bring its debts not something that is voted on County VA that expressed this summer day where he knows that we are to have this on our agenda which we have but just have the business administrator signature on it and know that that it is not an item that's voted on but a statement stating or position this school everyone and uh so we move on to policy we don't have anything there and Human Resources Jim let you make a motion to move P1 through D5 second Mr Becker yes Dr d'ambrosia Mrs Jones yes Mrs McDevitt yes yes Mrs V

036yes Mrs wolf Mr Walton yes and at this time a visitor's business visitors are committed to comment on agenda and non-agenda artists at this time for the Department to say that we have our next few pad meeting on Tuesday November 31st 6 is generally you have a virtual option with that we um we're looking to yeah we would like to do that as well everybody who's that so we're just looking to see this is their way to use the zoom from the school because our accounts are like 45 minutes and then it shuts us off we wanted it to be able to have interaction with the parents on there video so is there a way to kind of be interactive part of the characters have a question and wants to ask something okay I am

037rich current and my son's actually Stephen Curry uh welcome glad to have you here I really like the weekly summary of bullet points thank you thank you um I don't know if this is the right form for it uh just a heads up that on drop off there's still a bunch of cars letting kids off on Union Lane where it's at the bus only there's still a steady stream of cars over there and then they pull back out around the bus right Berlin's trying to crosstalk I don't know if this device for him to bring that up but I think I think um but uh my number one concern I missed the last two meetings I was traveling so maybe that's not addressed uh but after the presentation on the new health curriculum I had

038a question about um if a child raises a question particularly about the second grade curriculum about gender how are their parents notified and I was told their parents won't be notified that it's a state mall that says they can't be so the question is um how is that child protected and safeguarded from grooming because it's classic moving behavior for an adult to tell a child don't tell your parent trust me what I'd like to know is if the state won't allow the teacher to tell the parent how is the school protecting the child from an adult taking advantage of these situations something you know that's that's an interesting question Mr Kern um but I feel very comfortable that our certified qualified teachers are dealing with children in a way that's appropriate grooming is um you

039know the concept that I can't imagine happening in this school or any school that I've worked in and I have full faith in our teachers to do their job professionally appropriately with all due respect the Catholic church and the Boy Scouts still at the same time I'm a Boy Scout leader I'm trained in youth protection it all has to be we have a strict rule about keeping leadership for that very purpose and yes there are loads of Great Scout leaders there are loads of great priests there are also ones that took advantage of their positions and the trust that was put in it so while I agree with you and I love this school and my kids have had experiences here and I know there are great people here I think there's also a requirement

040to have something in place because of all we've seen in every organization across the country what would be that requirement are you informed of all questions that your child asks within the classroom I don't know I'm asking if if the law is specific that this can't be shared important types of sensitive topics so I'm not sure I'm following what you're with your child asks a question what there is is a specific requirement on every staff member to report any suspected sexual abuse of any kind okay so that would be referred to law enforcement that would be reported and investigated to the division of Children and Families if I sense that's not what you're talking about but if you're talking about a a child saying something that suggests that they have a question about their own

041gender identity that is where the law and the law has protected us for some time says that you that basically if a child comes to you and says I feel I want to be full of this or I'm identifying a different gender that's not something that is allowed to be shared with anyone without the child's permission so as a practical matter what happens is the school staff and the counseling staff who work with the students convince the child try to convince a child that it's not something that can be held in and they try to work with them to share whatever information is necessary to do that but basically it's not that they're permitting them to be groomed or sexually abused or anything like that it has to do with the students gender identity and

042they work with the student to try to be able to comfortably share that information with whoever needs them but that's where that's the only restriction there is and also apparents if the student says I don't want you to tell anyone this then that's what they have with the clarification I feel like if there was some confusion it's the teacher that wouldn't be able to say something but they keep the truck that they're telling the child not no no yeah exactly I think there's juices here one is what should happen and what is what could happen so we're getting into new territory right this is the first time it's rolled out to second graders this is a big and it's a sensitive topic and if the second grader is the question with their teacher now it's

043between the second grader and the teacher right what we're talking about what obligation does the teacher have to inform anybody else about them I don't know what the question is that's not a concern and confusion and where do I fit and I don't know in the past I would have expected my second my son or daughter second grade teacher to inform me of that but what I'm told is they will not be performing for me so what is the protection for the child at that point okay it's just between the child and the teacher it depends what the child it's only if the child says I am identifying as a different gender than I was born and I don't want you to share this information with my parents then it's not going to be shared

044any other questions about I'm confused because I want to keep up so at that point if the child said don't tell my my parents does it stay between the child and the teacher the teacher have any obligation to file a report to inform anybody else no if they don't have any they have an obligation to work with the student to try to make them comfortable in the school setting however that may be and part of that as a practical matter is to say and work with the child to say it's something that you can't hold in if you feel this way you should be going and discussing it and helping them share it with the family but as a matter of law if they say no don't share that right now then it wouldn't be

045shared that doesn't mean it's the child's election you know without any kind of supervision or anything like that sure I'm sorry I am sensitive to the department question about the being a single person that they're confining it and [Music] schools are having a policy that in that type of situation that a guidance counsel service brought in and it's more than just one person become staff that's that's responsible for that well there's no one responsibility it's just a matter of working with the students so depending what the student's information is sharing it may well be that a counselor has pulled in to talk and help assistance responsible providing resources for the students to assist them so whatever the necessary resources are they would be some reason it's just that the law isn't only about their right

046to privacy if they so choose to happen and as a practical matter as I said if someone is has a different identity and wants to be called something else it's something that's not going to be kept a secret for long so what you do is you work with the student to try to make sure that they have what they can do their family so it's not accidentally the Logitech or privacy foreign now [Music] um has there been during a faculty meeting has there been any conversations with the faculty here with the staff and I know Mr Russo you're coming in um about how to um what steps to take if a child were to come to a faculty member or any staff member and Report something like that um I think in the past if

047a child reported something to um to a teacher the teacher would immediately take action and either go to the guidance counselor report it to the administration um so but back then we didn't have this small now that we have this has a conversation taking place with our faculty about how to deal with the situation like that because I think that having everyone on the same page because you know I mean as an educator if a child approaches me with something like that I'm not swooping it under the world um that is something that I will go to the professional the expert that's where I would go to the guidance counselor and have that conversation um because the child is so young and I want to make sure that child is safe um so and the

048child receives the support that that child may need without you we want to be the only person that that person that nothing happens to that child and you're the only person ever talking about you have nothing that's covered you right right this is mentality thank you this is unusual I mean I have the skills I might have to train them how to build this stuff so yeah the duty to report is not pointed it depends on what's reported and and Rich I get your concerned I'm just confused with the grooming part that is it I mean we're all taught this the way rumor starts is trust me I understand you I'll look out for you don't trust them I know they don't understand and they build the child's confidence and you're saying that the possibility

049of that existing in Israel Elementary is large enough the possibilities no no I'm staying in Brielle forget everywhere it's called the club that is large enough that we should go aside of the wall in certain scenarios what what is your suggestion what is your answer I I throw out two deep leadership right that no adult is ever alone with a child yeah we're consistent with that here that here I I believe I understand you now I think you got a good question Mr Russo said it's very interesting um gender identity they're being taught how does it relationship if you are a kindergarten student and you are a boy and you want to play in the kitchen that's okay if you're a girl and you want to grow up and you want to be a firefighter

050that's okay so gender stereotypes and gender construction because you know I've been here a long time so 24 years ago when I taught kindergarten we talked about the same thing you can be whatever you want to be when you grow a lot the Berenstain Bears and the book that they do gender identity it's not even brought up it's not in the standards I I appreciate that um there's two concerns there one the what's published Madness is just headlines the actual content isn't being shipped well the content networks that wasn't kind of based on those enjoying understanding and those questions I understand I'm just saying that parents don't see what exactly is covered in specificity beneath those topics anything that's anything that is on there is let's see what there's nothing there's no surprises there's no

051surprise it in the atlas and what they want at all I monitor them I know I'm in the health teachers are in my office all the time I'm 100 aware of everything that's going on but parents don't see this yeah oh but there's you know there's a level of trust right we send our kids to this wonderful school and it's administrators and of course I think it's really important that we interrogate and find out all the information we can about these about the curriculum and be as informed as possible but there's a level of trust that I think just students should have with teachers and within this building um that we need to at least try to unfold so yeah I mean I'm not sure if that really helps with your specific question but the

052privacy of students is something that important and with trained to teachers that those who has this love to do of the teachers do state schools here safe School streaming um all right that might be something I know that there's a module for that that talks about um transgender gender identity um and that's for collaborate it's for the the teachers to be trained on how to handle that type of situation so maybe that could be something that we look into today's schools is a an online virtual training for teachers you're talking about stuff yeah I know that they do have that available yeah it's a it's an online instead of having the in-person KDs um it's an online platform where the administration goes in and you select they have the content training and you go in

053person yeah you're so much which yeah you guys don't do it here you select which trainings you want for your teachers and um and then you know the teachers have like a ton of limit and then we get one I don't know I still think even even with what you're saying um I don't know what the law is but it doesn't sit right with me either that if a second grader brings us up to a teacher that just remains between the teacher and the student I certainly have a guidance counselor I didn't say that so they said they'd look at whatever supports but if the student says they don't want else to know about the teacher well now the school staff has a whole 100 world has to work with the student to support you

054so that that to me makes sense to be able to have that conversation with the staff so that everyone is on the same because I get I I remember when that policy came out that uh if a child wanted to be called to different name um we were not allowed the law changed the the the school was not around to speak to the parent about that I'll be honestly she says don't tell right it doesn't matter but even if the child says don't tell I'm Karen I'm still the parent you're in second grade third grade and I and I want to know what I'm saying is that I don't agree with that but because as board members we have to uphold the law we had we have to uphold the law but I understand what

055you're saying is that this you're uncomfortable with that and so what I would like to you know as a parent what I would like to see is that a meeting is helped with the teacher so that they can understand it especially new teachers so that they can understand if this scenario happens if this question comes up from a student what's going to how do I handle this because this way there's some real comedy you know and we have everyone handling it the way that the administration feels it's the best way to be handled and not that different teachers handle it differently we have that modified mixture of the desktop card so we can [Music] occur this is who gets notified within the school district don't have to violate the student's privacy by talking to a

056parent and kind of football but I think as a parent I would like to see here's how this is handled and it's not just teachers on their own having for the second grade curriculum is there one adult or two adults in the room definitely um yeah so yeah yeah it's not one-on-one no but just one adult and one adult with a bunch of second graders that adults no no I need one adult in a group of students it's called a class Rich it happens this is also a difficult topic no doubt about it for some people and there's a potential for one adult to take that content or topic and push it or take it the direction they want to take it and then when the child confides in them all with one adult and

057only one adult s and just use your imagination it's very easy for somebody with an agenda to take a step and a step I understand you're talking about trust you think of it I believe I want to trust everybody I also very personal experience with a trusted authority figure that turned out to be a monster right and everybody was shocked um what I'd like to do is um Thank you Rich for for the question um is I'd like to take it to committee to promise Sean on a weekend pull out the policy have that discussion and then um and we'll have that conversation with cerusalem and then we'll we'll go from there thank you thank you hello I'm just reaching out again I mean are we aware of the situation that you're concerned about a

058particular teacher I had nothing specific other than a set of circumstances that could create a problem because all of our position of ownership are aware of the situation of getting an unclear or it's the area where they say it's doing after expertise they do report to us and then for the guidance counselor and then the other side of it is just having to trust that the teachers are doing the right thing but also them in administration that we are doing you know you know observation throughout the day whether we're interface with them and also observing that their interaction throughout the day with all our students okay that's also thank you Mr Sagan so um we'll move on to payment of bills um just mentioned that we're missing the board discussion um section here is there

059um thank you we got it on the agenda before um so we'll move on to payment of bills I'd like to make a motion at the Board of Education authorizes payment of the following January 2023 Bill's list and then the secretary's authorized to draw along such a Treasurer and the total amount of 1 million 900 1.37 . Rebecca yeah yes and mistake debit yeah just a glance away yes this is we yes Mrs Walsh yes Mr Walton yes and so this evening we'll be going into executive sessions I'd like to make a motion that we go to Executive sessions so this will effectively end the meeting oh okay thank you