001meeting there has been adequate notice of this meeting provided by the Board of Education June 23 2022 notice and the co-star setting forth date time the place of this meeting similar notice has been posted in the town hall the Brielle School website and the borough clerk has been notified real call please here Mrs McDevitt here please here this is me here today [Music] thank you and if someone can move the Board of Education approve the minutes of September 21st 2022 meeting up before the person yes Mrs Jones yes Dr Steve yes this is me yes and next we have presentations is a good evening everyone I'm doing well and I'm like what should I stand well you know this week we had a fire department or kindergartners went on a trip to the firehouse and
002then the fireworks we came back here and um [Music] and when I come out it seems to be what's happening I come into the office and my secretary so that's your last fire prevention assessment so it's like everything I do is like oh that's your glass so tonight my husband reminded me well this is your lap I get worked up I never eat before board meeting I'm going to be very upfront with you this is my last of everything anytime anytime I come to a board meeting and I've been doing this very long time you heard me say I always get a little like worked up and so you know what every dinner uh I hardly want lunch on the day of the board meeting what we're presenting something like this and every time I
003present they're always good results live in this community our teachers do an amazing job here and so I'm very proud to show these results but there are some things in the in tours here that have some concern but before I begin I just want to say since this is my last I feel very good as your educational leader that I'm leaving this school in a very good place and um but I could not do this alone this was 15 years of hard work and dedication and I got that from my staff I got that from the community I got that from great board members and I hope that continues because those are the key elements about having a great school you don't have a great school that all those elements are in plan and teachers
004have to know that they have to keep working harder administrators know that they have to keep learning and getting better and the board has to know that they have to keep supporting the work the great work that teachers do and so I hope after my last presentation that never changes because that has been our way of always doing great things for our kids at my um not my last but that last this month's uh sending district meeting um I did share with the other superintendents they will agree we want to share with one another you know how each of our schools did so we could work with our teachers to say you know let's look at how we compare to others because what I'm going to show you tonight is just how we compare to
005the state and I don't like comparing us to the state because even though New Jersey is in the number one in the country instead okay and we do really great in New Jersey I'd like to compare us to like dishes and so I don't have that data yet but you know I am looking to get that from other so that I can and that is just for me to share with my teachers so that and having tested our children in two years I know you're aware of that so when you're looking at saying uh a sixth grade score they haven't had this test since third grade so I can't use that data this is kind of like what we're calling our Baseline how do we do during the pandemic and post pandemic you know did
006we keep that moving did we do the right things did we continue to give teachers the professional development that they needed to ask those questions are we doing the right thing have we changed things and I have to set it and Mr Sabia and his love get a lot of credit for the you know digging deep with teachers to have them look at what we're doing uh whether it's now we're using the science of reading the kind of the math materials we use in our building the kind of collaboration that we do with other setting districts the kind of PT that we provide for teachers keeps us and your children our children here in this community Cutting Edge and so um so I'm going to show you the district analysis the school um there's a
007few things that I'm going to show you and it's thanks to the board uh that my purchase linked and it's something that I you know have been hearing about for well over 10 years it's very expensive we you know press the button and said we really need to have a partnership with Lincoln because it gives our teachers the most important tool is one of the most important so you can make the decision and it has that looking at a lot of data not just njsl heading not just i-Ready not just chat chat not just a benchmarking it has them looking at everything and so the state tests that our children took back in May gives our kids five levels level five you're exceeding level for your meeting those are the two places that we want
008our children to fall in level fours and level five and then when children fall into level three there goes our intervention is the biggest work that's where we start digging and saying look at those kids at level three because how do we get them to that next level where are they at level three and how do we get most of the time we'll find children throughout the state not just here in Brazil that are in level two and level one most of the time we find these children have IEPs and resource rooms where an identified them there are two great levels below and we might expect a child who is in spit braid who might be reading at the third grade level we administer a fifth grade Testament we already know before where we expect
009them so in the district of Memphis is not okay so the district now this is kind of like what I look at as the green picture and so this is Ela third grade and then all brains uh we look first at the last two columns what's the percentage of kids that are creating and they see the expectations in pla so that you can see in uh third grade 69 of our third graders are reading or receiving expectation compared to the state at 42. okay and we found inside the district we have 69 the states and 42. if you look across in fourth grade we see the kids that are meeting and exceeding expectation we have 76 of our kids meeting or exceeding at the state level in 2049. I'd like to point out at this
010grade level on another but in fourth grade we've heard you said before 30 percent of kids in that class how about games 30 percent uh a credit to our teachers and the teachers that work with those students in fifth grade you can see that that meeting exceeding we're at 78 compared to the state and 49 in sixth grade we're at 81 compared to the state of 47 7th grade you know I said to some teachers you know people were going to send me the teachers awards for this 97 of the children they're currently produced 97 of the children exceeded Rheumatic expectations 51 at the state level 8th grade 86 52 at the state level which when you combine all braids for our school get men or exceed that I'm so glad yeah this is also
011going to be on the website this is on our drive we can access this information on the drive so this is just another way to look at the scores that I just shared with you and Matt I don't know what it came out that way and that kind of cut off so I'm going to show you about that I apologize so if you look at math in third grade here in Muriel 63 of our third graders met or exceeded expectations at the state level it was 46 percent in fourth grade 72 of our fourth graders got 72 meters they've stayed only at 39 percent uh in fifth grade 70 of our students men are exceeded at the same level as 36 percent sixth grade this was the one that you know has us concerned we
012only had 33 of the class meeting or exceeding at 31 and 31 is the state that's like you know that's the bullseye that you know we're taking a strong look at 51 of our eighth graders um 51 men are exceeded where the state is at 16 but an algebra 100 matter exceeded the state was only at 35 junk treat you 100 better exceeded as in eighth grade like in the sixth of 8th grade when you start moving children into that geometry and algebra the children that are left in afraid are children whether they're in resource room or they're um they're at my lowest level so when the state is at 16 and we're Activity one we're pretty good like that number be higher but we get we just have a number we're small so one
013child is a large percentage so you understand that that's the graph of what that looks like so that's on the left side and so that we break this down this is how we break it down for teachers so you start looking at our Ela and grade three we tested a total of 48 students and it's one student at level one of course it was partially reading 10 and 21 and level three and then 15 to 65 and four percent of them apply and so then this is how straightforward to decide the students are tested two or number one syndrome level two six of our students are approaching 25 18 students percentages but now when we're digging deep that's when I say are my interventionist teachers administrators we look at those children you know those six
014that are at level three where are they how do I move them up we look at the six children of the two children that are level one level two and the teachers have that information so that they can Zone in on the areas that they need the most helpful and again here's grade five that's the breakdown to gets tested it's in sixth grade and we're in shorts you can see the seventh degree language arts which I said is pretty unbelievable one not meeting you know one and approach it and then when you see you know 60 you know 60 students either exceeding expectation of meeting um I want to be in that classroom uh simulator you know the numbers that we are always working towards and I've always used this philosophy with children especially when
015they get to the middle school level because they're primarily teaching them to read and building skills third fourth and physical building skills but when I get to middle school I always say to teachers I have 30 months 30 months to get them where we need to get them so that they're ready for High School third so sixth grade teachers you have ten seventh grade teachers you have family anybody teaches you have to send you in 30 months to get them together it's been my philosophy and our Middle School teachers have always hit that before third grade mathematics which is all wrong number of students tested where they fall where they want them to be and even as in third grade those children are now in fourth grade you know in fourth grade we're looking at
016those 23 said how do I move more of those 23 into that exceeding what do I have to do what do I have to do to get number 16 I have a level three and move as many as I can into that next level that's our job as coaches as teachers you know sharing with parents what you need to do because this is a partnership that we you know all the work together to get that so fourth grade mathematics received there the number of students tested where they fell fifth grade sixth grade there it is but that's the part that I had 23 students approach it and that's just never happened to us and so you know we're doing a lot of work in the seventh grade so that you know I get more students
017into that exceeding area more students at that level three area and definitely even level two tends too many for us great seven the numbers great eight this is the grade eight math this is where or when I shared with you um some of those students without your piece on the resource room or um I've always received extra help from teachers the number is small the number of children that were in are a great age men but my algebra class I'm 25 where you get 100 again if you look at 23 of them men had expectations many of them were very close to exceeding but I wish that number was even higher so it was my health teacher your results are still 100 that's not even close to the state but even when you're good you
018want to be great right even when you're good even in jobs you're pretty unheard of in other t-shirts we're a very small district and when people here I have 10 children at a geometric class and those reality of course great teacher it's awesome to make my annual question yes or just remind her that those eighth graders geometry and algebra are taking the same test as their high school years so it's 10th graders against the eighth graders and more advanced but that's a complete messages I'm always say you couldn't get better but it's nice to hear these numbers are compared to I'm going to say 10th graders you know because you know an algebra class is a high school level class a geometry is a 10th or an 11th grade class and that's who they're competing
019against and you saw how at the state level how they do [Music] um and it's it's something that we dig deep because we're not so diverse but we still want to look at um of this red uh whether it's Ela and how do we do it mathematics and empowerment breakdown uh some groups by gender I have some board members most of you who are not here but some of you who have been here a while remember there were times you know everything exit closed but there was a time when we would have parents coming to our board meetings Sandy's board members that the teachers in Brielle did not know how to teach males and we really did a better job teaching female so some of you are looking at me saying yes I remember those
020days and you know upset our teachers and we certainly knew that wasn't true but when I got this one I'm like okay I'm preparing my females to my mouth oh yeah good we're addressing both those populations equally you know they're falling in the right clap you know we're not we're not doing a better job and sometimes it's a it's a push against Educators because we know over 80 percent of Educators especially in a k-a building over 80 percent are female okay and it's less than 20 or males where my population is and so there are people that think oh treat boys differently than girls and we talk about that as a staff we read about that as a staff it's something that we're because when it was broadcasting we're like we're not that way but
021we do take care of a look at that and when you get results like this we say you're under attack and then that's the breakdown by agenda uh where they set up level one is level two is of the three one four and the fives so we look at that breakdown that informs a lot this type of data it informs us great and this is the picture some of you liking the numbers some of you like me pictures so it's done both ways on the website right away and then this is the mathematics supplement broken down into uh kids who you see 504s children that are in our PLL program children of special ed children or agenda so that supplement was broken down by programmers uh by clusters three five six eight foreign population and
022our platform population how are they doing so uh and at every time when we get these results I wanted to share with you these are the questions that we talked to one another about whether they're a plcs team meetings administratively when we think about teaching and learning and what we're doing every single day how is assessment part of that site how do you look at what I'm doing every day and how is the assessment that would be used and it's not just SLA and jsla it's not just my ready how do all the assessments that we do figure into what you're doing on a daily basis in between One support to educators it's a question that I always present for method share with you there are many pictures that one PD day a year per
023teacher that's it 180 a year some districts say zero even here in Montana they don't believe in 50 days if you want to do a PD day you take you take your own time you pay them here in this District we know that supporting Educators and supporting students and the needs that parents keeping our teachers at the Forefront is so important to them that in order to get good scores or great scores you have to keep our teachers hugs this data the resources I'm connected with real data how are we using these resources I gave you a lot of information how are the teachers using these resources I just shared the video into their planning into their lesson plan writing to the delivery of instruction on a daily basis how has that impacted then how
024well is our curriculum's aligned to the njs on any assessment questions and we work very hard as you go curriculum writer we don't have much money we've invested over the last five years in curriculum writing and we continue to do that we continue and I've always said curriculum writing is not one and done and since five years and a couple of Shadow five years later because guess what that happened many years ago there was a cycle you looked at it and did it and then you weren't continually looking at our curriculum all the time at all grade levels of percent real students that matter exceeded the expectations at all grade levels and so the one area that you did not do was all higher than the state actors and that would be an expectation of
025this community 's board as an administrators whose levels to say to myself our Student Success on the test that has been highly crisis we haven't done the test in two years but there's a lot of people that gave this that this standardized test a lot of criticism you remember it was five years ago exactly we want to test it we'd want them to be bothered with this last year we have an important deciding I don't want my job to success around people with the amount of school and this test as again gets perfected and changed the administration of the test reliability and this value was an instructional tool that comes in there because we have teacher buy-in we have students buy and preparing body and with the buying with Children of this test matters okay
026we want you to take it seriously we know there are times and we have it here that a child will adjust and we know that we know who they are you know children that are done with the test in 11 minutes it's possible to do this test at any rate level in nine or 11 minutes and we've had children to do that and we know that so we know what they are for the most part our children understand and buy in uh so you know like I said you had 100 of students taking this test we've got a clear picture of how our students are doing because of a great event and as Educators we know what to improve increase on the achievement of our students our goal is always to increase the number of
027students into that exceeding expectation can work which is really it's really hard because when you're exceeding at a great level that where that's when you're at a level five it's the highest you can get of getting into there like we or at the meeting of the expectation of that grade level is uh very critical to us and so that's something that you know we keep going back in our minds as we have a normal page um as we work with teachers here in the school there it's on there it is so guess what coming together and talking about this um teachers but if you get this coming together and just talking this is just the story together working together and is really a problem and I I say to Any teacher in any grader you
028did a great job and the sports come back that way but it really is everybody before that because not no one works hard but the amount of work that the foundation is laid in kindergarten first and second grade for our children when they get to the third grade we start testing again that Foundation that is built in the classroom is critical and those teachers deserve you know the Gratitude and the appreciation for playing that benediction down so that when our children get to third grade and we start doing tests like this High School tests that they do work and then working together as a board as a community as parents and teachers you know only proves the success so I like that any questions so it seems like the only area where we really kind
029of work where we want to be is um that would be one but there are other areas that you think that we're happy we're very happy with us yes that was the area yes okay so with the test is broken down so that we could dig deep and look at where did most of those kids you're saying in sixth grade or [Music] the number was just two what we wrote what we got and we're just like what is it here yeah and celebrated we're singing in the seventh grade the same kid yes and so and it's for us only because we have been tested in two years what would they have done to particularly I have no answer I but you know we also look at today's seventh graders in sixth grade I I looked
030we looked at that report cards last year's chapter attempts like why is that why are you getting good grades here why can't you do this and then to do this and it's not that's not magical absolutely because that's really the most important thing right we want to make sure that our grades are matched the reality because often often the discussion I have is like it's like you're sitting in my office when a parent who said you know my kid is just not a good testing so yeah and so some of that is up there so parents say if my kid hears about that test they get super stomach they don't like taking the test some kids rush through it okay they know but they rush through it and the results don't show that uh so
031they might not be able to test makers and that's why I say parents what they do a sort of day in day out that report card is really what matters most but my report card is way over here and something like this comes way over here there's something that we have to like look at because it they have to match up you have to be getting good grades in your classroom and getting degrees so when that happens but that you know I'm happy with those results you know all the districts are saying we wish you can't go back you have two years without a debt two years that I've said it to you it's the very part of all Educators the last three years you have something like this going back for years for that
032same group of kids because they would still have been here there's third grade results yes is it matching yes guitar and it's the first time they took the test so they took the test in third grade they didn't take it afford they didn't take it was such great results again so a third grade and a fifth grade it's just too many years but we're looking at that matter what we were not a very degree if we were not there you know yes uh thank you for the presentation I also appreciated your um comment in the beginning about so in terms of sharing that data is there something that the school document individually you know we got it individually and so I'm going to put this all on the website after tonight's meeting okay okay yes
033okay and so um is there anything going to blanket for this sort of share their data or with other districts how do we see that other data districts before we purchase LinkedIn I did it at my desk by myself these presentation is forever and I sat at my desk with my calculator okay good and so not every district has this to share so you know I you know I I talked to other administrators say just share them the signs [Music] and I believe Jen who said it to Deborah who's um the the county um instructional leader in Science fifth grade the state average was 25.5 pence in Brielle we were at 55.4 like we don't like that number in size and in our building I have a science teacher when they're in kindergarten for but
034I I would normally does science better than real okay and we have stem like no one does it better than us but there are places that dude here in eighth grade the state test the state 15 passed in the state in three element is 34.7 like if I had a teacher that administering a test and this was the result I'd say something's wrong with your tests Jen brought up the question and I respect that word tremendously and she said then maybe it's time for all districts in the state to start looking at those science friction to see if I think this came up on what hard we use attendance like we have to start looking at that I'm still from the wow the state can have 15 of their eighth graders are passing the test
035and say we all have to look at our curriculum I I think there has to be a middle ground so let's follow up so how does the diction like what's the plan to be able to get that whatever like District data I have to I have my dad team you're looking at the person I I reach out to other people said you share with me and scores Christmas is sitting at the meeting she works at another District she's taking pictures this is going to be on her website we can start digging and go to go to other websites and start looking you know so we start by asking if you want to share it just send it to me or going onto other websites and saying oh where is your data and you can check
036and like I said not everyone uses like it's but superintendents are creating charts all over the place so that's how you that's part of what we call Diggity you know going to other districts and saying will you share with us or what to do or at the safer because what did the state deliver to our district and to other districts as far as the results database or something yeah foreign so we really are asking someone to share private information we're asking something to share health information with someone else right now so I think what we're looking at is one critical Reasons from there we will look around to see you know who is in our demographic if they do have those sort of folks as far as what is shared there's multiple so we don't
037have the science reports because Lincoln needs to have the operational reports [Music] districts to share it so we can kind of look at things the way we did 10 feet 10 years ago sure um so produce district and over request we sent from each district to see what the state sent you okay yeah but yeah right now I don't know what all the other board meetings are going to give everybody a little time just to get them out there and uh you know we'll look at who what other districts were grouped with us what I've always done in the past like I said I always did this by hand and then you know I've been mainly you call my colleagues in just in Monmouth County I wasn't calling from other districts that had an official
038Factor group I just looked around in Monmouth County because of my relationship with superintendents in Monmouth County and so and said can you share your dad and then I would use that data with my teachers oh look at the South Fairview this is how Robinson did I did there were certain districts I did not call I try I reached out to life districts and even districts a little silver that are much wealthier than us but I reached out to just I wanted to see what they were doing and what are you doing and that's why you know many years back we joined with some Monmouth County curriculum Consortium we called MC3 and there's a lot of sharing there so there's a lot of ways you can get that but for me it's always been just
039dealing with other superintendents and just sharing that the teachers you just said you know what I'll use this as an example I I see in Brielle 100 of the kids pass algebra and geometry that's insane we never heard that before would you like to go visit that school and spend a day with the teacher I call the principal I'm sending my teacher because we don't have those scores you know what is your algebra teacher so that's you know what we have done in the past send teachers to places where score stands out like how are you How Are You Fifth Grade so I know I've asked the board I want teachers to visit school I want them to meet with you people create networks that's how you improve the instructions it's my last I want
040to know before I go because I just said to you I'm leaving everybody in good hands I could sleep at night I could rest that night but I like to know for my own info but but I have no deadline I have to pause the song things that I had to accomplish in a short amount of time uh Miss love has a lot of connections now that she is another member we're all members of the MC3 so she has a lot of connections so she has people that are beginning to share with her Mr Sabia his network of people they're sharing how does your special ed population doing compare come on so we're all talking to get it all together so we can share with our teachers because it's only for teachers because when I
041was at a meeting I I had a superintendent I hope you're not sharing that with anyone else I said no it's for us it's for us to look at what you're doing whatever this church I'm doing it's it's not I'm not going to put it up here and say hey for us to use so that we can improve from my teachers to you it's for us I've been straight maybe use so we can make informed decisions and the same will happen I guess when people say my stories they might be saying hey Chris you haven't tested and you know you did you know far exceeded State expectation but like I said you always want to do better say a couple of things when I think about the kids and I think about testing in town
042for some of our kids maybe many of our kids how stressful testing is and our kids have not tested the two years if you don't have coveted and everything that came with that and when I look at your number when I look at the I applaud our kids Andrea because when I look at how many of our kids fell under the met and exceeds section uh I think they did well I I applaud our kids I think that they performed well um and I look at okay there are concerns there are things that we can do better um and I see what actions we've taken I mean I I call the teachers too because I think you know everything that the teachers do and the administrative team um and I look at the action that
043you're taking and I and I see how um we have the math interventionist um who will be working to address these needs um and also like I look at the agenda tonight and I see all of the math PD I see an increase in the math PT that you normally have so I can see that you know the wall is already rolling like this is what the need is and this is one of the ways that we're going to address this so I I unblock that as well um so of course we can always do better but when I look at the meet and exceeds I think the numbers there I think our kids did a pretty good job and um so I mean there's always room for improvement but real kids I think our
044Blazers did a great um now as far as like the reports shot that you were asking about I remember um seeing the getting those reports and like um Colleen was saying they generate the state generates like different reports the the first reports that you get are on student individual reports so it has like a list of all of your students alphabetically and those reports contain a lot of confidential information so to be able to um share that information you have to be very careful when doing something like that because many of those reports to contain a lot of confidential student information so we have to be careful when we share those spots that's implementation especially when you're super small yeah and our numbers are smaller and so we're very you know I've shared with you
045but you know we know our students are as well here but I use that mindset so is that understanding that linking is anonymizing the data otherwise we have pii and so it's not it's not an anonymized taking it per student I have to upload whether it's Dibbles whether it's from i-Ready whether it's from and they have the lights I have to go into here to extract that public report and then submit it to link it like nothing nothing goes away um distracted from somewhere else data is coming from non-aggregate students responses well they can only want the publishing the general public report from here and that's the only data that they upload onto their platform just that that's what you saw here that's why and then that's what we go on as teachers to use
046to help inform data for the students to form groups differentiating instructions is not you know I mean this is great that they create these navigational reports or presentation but that's not the intent of Lincoln the intended to blanket is to help teachers who it the king of the students so each district each district would have a normalized Pearson if they have an idea or the board like Chris said she there just doing it on her own they're just creating these reports by myself I talked to many teachers at the NCAA and you know they're very jealous that we have them again they're doing these reports because they are going through all the data from the public report from Pearson and they are trying to you know organize and make graphs and everything else like themselves
047it's not like to save us who you know who cares here's your report we are lucky that we have link it to do that for us I think it's by myself like earlier it's not full story we don't know what what comparison from three years ago and we don't know how we really do and how those scores even though they look good in the vacuums are excited maybe you came back the whole day probably didn't have kids districts that came back full-time representative so you know we're we're in the 10 that came back full-time then some districts staying at full View and I think that's another when you start comparing districts that stayed out a full year or went you know hydrate a whole year you know that wasn't us and that's what you're going
048to be compared to them and we got back quicker than do you know if our other sending districts have to use this software out of this that would surely helped close I'll plug it like that you know that this is good enough what you want to know and that's why is how are teachers taking this information to improve what we're doing here okay that's uh that's just keeping improving on what we're doing here a little bit more yeah so how am I doing year to year to year I I mean I appreciate that too but there there is value in seeing these are our children are going to be competing against these other kids from these 10 Industries so there's value in knowing how to prepare them sending pictures it's just it's going to be
049hard if they don't normally use the scheme software or another smaller graduating class es uh that's a lot of them at the very top good Dad yeah so I think to show them the point this is a great data resource moving forward unfortunately is when we're really going to get and without a doubt when do not continue so the best years and use that inconjunctions thank you the presentation all right so the next is visitors business visitors are permitted to comment on agenda items only at this time we'll move on to correspondence so we'll move on to committee reports Tech District Operations meeting together to catch up on everything we won't do that so please accept my subscribe [Music] foreign [Music] foreign just to catch up just to catch up on the September the whole
050sword is presented Madison has a general fund its way now of the lower 981 thousand dollars which is which is pretty uh pretty easy pretty significant you know it also has and I I don't I don't have that um don't have a number for this balance but it also has a little assessment also has a capitalism capital reserve levels I don't let them leave with the vehicle to figure out how that gets there um explorer meeting and if I have the information itself or not um the other the other thing uh um was the introduction of the introduction of three-year three-year plans continue to continue to evolve the career Academies in the summer 2023 um horse range for for sports entertainment marketing social media marketing internet marketing civil engineering architecture [Music] very very exciting principles
051of biomedical science and human body systems there's also been an RFP for solar panels very very similar to the situation that we need to probably 10 years ago at this point like doing something like that yeah so those are those are those are those are the significant points probably September meeting um last night um just to keep perspective okay Facebook but 948 students brielle's performance at the high school 223 services so it's going to be the 23.5 so so so Brio is 223 uh Matters by itself is 272 and the closest at 70 District the next the next highest interest foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] you know it was a summer there was a summary at the end of the presentation that compare the cost they're essential so Michael probably get the words that I'll try
052to give you a little bit information here right away so um there were two major categories not graduation ready and graduation letter what what filled those categories very very similar to the five criteria that Chris showed at the very beginning so so um the District of the district the district compared to the state in math Steve so I'm not graduation ready stayed 50 percent from District 29 percent graduation rate the state 50 percent the district was 78. 71 70 71 percent for els for ELA not graduation but its state was 60 percent the district was 42 percent graduation where they staying months 40 percent and the district was 58 so um I don't think I I I don't think almost particularly happy but I know but they're out of America studying this data studying this
053data to try and make improvements and it dependent information about the thermosis of course offerings very very similar to the uh to the September meetings with some auditions medical interventions I'm not quite sure what that is I oh so we finally find out what that is environmental sustainability Ceramics to the introduction to law introduction to constitutional law and AP European History and that's pretty much pretty much will lose all the information his current years ninth graders for current penetrators okay exactly and next we have curriculum programs I do not have a report for this month but uh we'll have one for next month Human Resources Joe no report alerts still since the summer in terms of mandatory policies um I did want to follow up since I was starting to last last meeting on discussion
054item that I saw in the video um I did see that Doe Chrissy playing that video he has a critical hit perform I just want to point out that that still needs to be on our website and it might be back there to find it and it's sort of important so I guess the question is there is on our website okay these are you talking about Mr savior's page okay um there was a discussion about uh hipster that came out of my report last week uh sorry last month um Sherry you have commented that part of that uh regulation includes other forms must be numbered and I just want to know how do we to get some context the reason that the form should be numbered is that the CSA is required each year to
055report on the total number of hints and they also the total number of reported himself urge you to get not to the kids and that's why the statement to my understanding how does that number for the requirements so how are we in the accounting for numbering the forms and making that data transparent to families or parents like in other words the details from the company the forms need to be numbered though so that they could be aligned the forms keep track of it's important individuals yes it serves another program well I don't know about that is foreign numbered forms that at the end of the year can be checked against what's reported out by the CSA what's the recommendation to it [Music] if I have not seen the form that this is uh foreign [Music]
056it's not on the former weather this question is what is our audience our specialist we have a hip specialist that keeps every investigation and then that is all reported for the states as well but I'll look at the course and see if there's any specific things that can make it easier to make sure it's kept in accordance with what the state the information is State funds well the city s34 is not available foreign thank you thank you Sean and next we have community relations Chad Kurt and I met past month ends up with the PTO d-pad to get some updates um just some brief updates from the PTO about 50 50 tickets being on sale so those are currently on sale and John will be home um there are also board positions open for PTO
057for next school year with our website in here um Thanksgiving pie sale has started again through the PTO website reporters can be placed and then also the pto's planning the snowball or putting together the committee and looking for a chairperson so that is a sixth grade fundraiser and they're seeking Facebook's grade great parents to find they also noted that I'm not sure if this is all time but they had some of the higher they had the highest numbers and memberships this year I don't know if that's really current PTO Administration but um always nice to hear that our parents are highly involved and even more involved this year and then from the bpac group um they did not have their first meeting it was changed due to a conflict and so their first meeting will
058be on November 16th at 6 30 pm at the school and then they are working on a t-shirt that can be worn to celebrate um various awareness months days weeks like um has been Heritage Autism Awareness so there's more more information to come on that but that's some of the stuff that they are working on um and also I know the media do not get an update from the theater I believe in the winter I can't remember it's called December yes December 8th thank you I forgot to add that one in that's it any questions for Sam Curry thank you for all of that information I have to keep up with the websites are helpful so I will give an update on the superintendent principal search update but first I would like to thank Ted
059for being last month as president when I was enable to attempt so thank you and uh so the the update I'd like to give everybody an update so the couple of things so we have um the superintendent principal search calendar is now on the website on the community can see what our timeline is and what we will be working on on October 21st we will be advertising the superintendent on principal position on the website and other um sites will happen as well now on Thursday November 17th that's going to be a busy week for us November 17th we have a scheduled it's a parents community staff and administrator input session heard about the process it will be led by our search consultant Marianne Freeman from Jersey school boards Association I hope that parent come out
060and join us be able to get a lot of information as to what originally and ordered you know without our superintendent principal principal search now on the website currently we have like I said we have our calendar and we also have two uh service on the website one is for the parents Guardians and community members the other is for our teachers staff and administrators the survey will help us to develop the criteria for our research so I encourage parents to go on their website we would love to have your input on this search is not it's not a decision just for the board members we want to include the community parents on t utors faculty and everyone's we value everyone's input um decision um and also we are so this past month so September 15
061to October 15th we celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month and I want to thank the teachers and Brielle and and I want to thank the administration and thank Miss love for all of her work and dedication on the curriculum um and this is something that reported on last month uh um there were lessons highlighting contributions made by Hispanic Americans um this was provided to the teachers in order for them to incorporate this into their lessons love lots of work she put into that and I always like to encourage parents to ask your children when they come home what are they learning um I know my son came home and he was telling me about a project that he started in class I can't remember which classic was but he started the project in class and had it
062completed at home and um he told me that it was he was doing a project it was for Hispanic heritage and it was about Roberto Clemente and um so he says to me I have to finish coloring the first thing I thought was oh no I hope it's not another Xerox of coloring but then as we sat down um I saw that uh he had to do some research and I was happy to see that um he the research that he did is interesting he's an athlete so my son is an athlete so he did research on how athletic Roberto Clemente was as opposed to what I've taught him which the great humanitarian that he was but but the reason I'm saying all of this is to say that he took the time because of
063what his teacher instructed him to do he took the time to do the research and he learned a lot about his individual and this is what we're trying to promote here in Brielle um without with including diversity and inclusion and um and I I think that you must love the administration and the team doing and making the effort to include a more diverse curriculum and oh next one so my other son now goes to Nana swamp high school and so I'm getting all the information about Hannah Swan so last Friday Nana Swan celebrated on they had a Hispanic heritage celebration um so I I attended and um I'm happy to say that it was a well-intended event um it was it was lovely there was lots of food and music and games and kids and
064so it was a very nice experience and so um Bravo to manage one high school which again that's great and I think that is it we continue to work on we have our interim superintendent principal committee search which is different from our permanent principal committee search and so we are continuing to work on seeking our next candidate and um we will have more information about that during our under 80. I think that any questions so we will move on you don't have questions about my kids okay so let me get serious here and move on I think Dr Dave wants to go home okay okay so um Administration report I did want to report on test scores which we're proud of and there's a little HIV report to you so you can move to court
065building programs okay and so so uh curriculum and programs Kirk thank you investment I would like to look for the motion to move action items recruit e13 Mr Becker yes yes Mrs McDevitt yes Mrs Reed yes goodbye to Dallas Mr Walker yes District Operations 10. under District Operations would like to move items E1 [Music] second yes yes yes yes a question on you sorry did you say just the Personnel is just the district's performance review the Cusack there's a task I'm sorry [Music] but my question was what this person else said did you present the district stories why all other categories are 100 Personnel is 70 and I've been through the numbers all the time I can't figure out why yeah so I'm gonna say no foreign okay yes this is me yes Mr right
066now yes and visitors business are permitted to comment on agenda and economy I just want to one bring to the board's attention um I can work with Mrs Carlson over the past couple weeks um you know Brielle does not recognize and observe a lot of holidays um like Jewish holidays and my family is actually an Interfaith family my husband's tuition on Catholic so in the past my kids were younger we'd just take them out you know to know attendance is not good deal as they gotten older become a lot more complicated because there's nothing a lot of work on this little bit and so we've got them in so one of the big things that happened this year and this is across the most wonderful Community responded promptly she reached out to the staff is
067that the order being scheduled tests on those holidays um pictures were also scheduled on Yom Kippur this year so that was difficult my daughter did not want to stay home due to the fact you know classic picture so that was a little bit of a strong event so we sent our kids when I'm looking to see is that the policy could be made that when holidays that are not observed there could be like a no homework policy to put it because it's very important to people who you know celebrate to promote their families and to celebrate with them so put it on record but understand that it does affects you know we might have maybe 10 Jewish kids in Brielle and I understand that but it's also very important to our family and you know
068Mrs Carson again I want to thank you to put that out to the staff but stuff is still in place and stuff's still good my kids were so excited to do those things so I just want to see if maybe we can look at something like that and let this current policy for that but it's not there's not a corner policy that I'm aware of I'll certainly consult uh legal uh obviously from the Technologies there but I just want to apologize for personally that your water was [Music] you've got you know like the bottle [Music] that's right that's exactly it and I don't think the teachers would mind foreign standpoint [Music] first thank you for coming and training your concern it's important as we all know that um but particularly from a curriculum standpoint I
069think well understood here but religions who are better yet faith is fundamental to who the artist doesn't matter what paid credit is fundamental to who we are it's a building blockings to our virtues how we act accordingly according to those virtues to each other we know that we've made Extreme shrines over the last couple of years we do recognize that my third grader came home and said they celebrated now they they discussed it I asked what he did and I think he thought about it celebrated which was a huge surprise so I know it's recognized we know that we've made great strides but to your point special [Music] well I'd like to think that the teachers as a whole here they're very conscientious I think personally just from my experience it's hard for me to
070take sticks at features on different levels of of inclusive in diversity inclusivity and Equity because it's it's a force uh but but like you said it's something that we should strive to constantly do better on and something that I know we're part of our curriculum discussions thank you thank you and um or attention because sometimes the less parents come out and shared those concerns sometimes we don't realize you know I recall that this is going back some years when a parent had approached us a Jewish Family and they had some of the board members may remember this and they spoke about the holidays and how the holidays are not recognized or um and they weren't looking for a Dale they weren't looking for those things to be taken all but just to be included and
071so um during the curriculum um you may have been with us um during the meeting that's when Miss Carlson said well we're going to really make an effort and include the center of account how important and um and then we started doing that we started including into the calendar and uh having those discussions and um but when I think when you're saying about the homework and the test um I think that that can be done I think that it should be done even if it's like you said there's probably maybe 10 Jewish kids it doesn't matter if it's one or a hundred one this is part of inclusion and diversity and we have to be sensitive to other religions and other and other races and so I I don't see why in Chris and I
072spoke about this these were in agreement with if you know it's a holiday and this is something really important to this child and learning about their culture and religion and important for us to be sensitive and aware of that and say well this is weak let's make sure we're not going to have a major project or a test or some and just just being Mindful and where and I think stration comes in to remind every year when there's that they should be sensitive to the amount of homework and projects and all them all forgiving um and when I spoke with Chris um you know I was you know Chris took action and I liked that and it was one of your staff members and I can't remember which one it was but they sent out
073that information to the entire um the all the staff members I'm sorry for cursing with you know better than me but um so it was information about the religion the holidays and all of that so I thought that that was important that um that information was sent down to everyone in Korea you tell it to be appropriate to the Improvement school calendar every year it will be appropriate to I like this apologies so that's so it's very good apparent to faculty but we get from the state the number of holidays in a year and there's actually over 200 sure is when we know that there's a population of Industry understanding members lots of holidays it just us reinforcement I'm asking if you're appropriate to including some of them on your ends are highlighted it's part
074of that infusion of EDI into the curriculum not just through an observation of a basic holiday you know normalizing those holidays into everyday masses and I know that that's being done I know that Jim is from uh can there be improvements constantly never ending uh and and this is one example that we're sure does that answer your question the message calendar we have a couple of calendars yeah so we have we have a digital calendar which I mean I don't remember any holidays other than our days [Music] the most important thing though is like what you're referring to which is just making like letting letting the faculty and staff know that hey these are on these holidays it's important for us to not this is not before not have testing not have pictured it when
075we're looking to schedule a picture day so it's it's less hyper I mean this is my by interpretation of what you're saying yes of course recognizing it in calendars but it's more important that we recognize it in the actions that we take which are say okay no no homework on this day or the day yes what's appropriate especially you know some of them a couple of a couple of days so just recognizing that piece mostly for faculty and yeah sometimes things get kind of Forgotten don't get me wrong I have off and my goodness also works out loud thank you all right and so um moving on to discussion more than ever a discussion discussion and so payments of bills here but motion that the board authorizes over Bill's list and then secretary is authorized
076to draw Awards of the treasure in a total amount of 1 million 600 1 322.65 second foreign yes and there will be no executive session held this evening after the conclusion of regular action board meeting foreign [Music]