001i was wondering [Music] so we're going to get started good evening everyone and welcome to our board meeting and there has been adequate notice of this meeting provided by the board of education january 13 2022 notice and the co-star setting forth the date time and place for this meeting similar notice has been posted in the town hall the brielle school website and the borough clerk has been notified roll call please um thank you and if everyone can stand [Music] of the united states of america until the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible and if someone can please make a motion to approve the minutes from the january 26th yes okay and now for probably the best part of our meeting is the presentation of the brielle elementary school geography winners [Applause]
002okay you know we have several winners in our room uh this year we did our geography like we did last year virtual um mr picano and mr sabia set it all up students met here in this room uh there were approximately six students from every great eight students from every grade level competing um it was exciting we're going to talk about the winners but i want to also say that when that competition was over uh there are eight schools in our area that also took the same test and have the geography be and um at spring lake heights every year for the last four years they've been hosting ascending district geography so the top two winners from every school get to compete and so that was 16 students in a competition and i'm proud to
003say as our superintendent principal that brielle took first and third in that competition [Applause] [Music] so when you're competing against that many schools and you take the top two out of three places that says a lot so i want to begin with our geography bit the winner this year uh griffin tomlin tommy took first place as a seventh grader and griffin tommy took first place in the sending district competition last year griffin tomney took second in the competition so he's a hard to beat guy so we're looking forward to next year's competition but griffin our school is very proud of you placing first in the sending district first in our school uh i'm going to end with a perfect score on the test in our school excellent job [Music] [Applause] next behind the camera is
004uh kiernan [Applause] [Music] took first place in eighth grade so he was our first grade first place eighth grade winner kiernan was also the third place winner in the sending disher competition karen our school the board of education is very proud [Applause] [Music] [Applause] uh the third place overall geography the winner was also an eighth grader willem vandernet he cannot be with us here tonight he's also an 8th grader who took third place overall in our school so we're very proud [Music] [Applause] and then i'd like to go to our uh sixth grade uh first place winner dominic d [Applause] took first ambrosa as a sixth grader last year he was also first place as a fifth grader so dominic the school the border that is very proud of this great college [Music] [Applause] next
005our fifth grade winner frankie lauria frankie [Applause] this year frankie was our fifth grade overall winner and also for those of you who remember she was our fourth grade champion too so frankie we're very proud the school's very proud the board is very proud of this great accomplishment [Applause] last but not least first time winning for fourth grade is russell clay [Applause] as you heard the school the board of ed is very proud of this accomplishment but do you see the competition like they come back again so this is your first time and we're proud but we expect that you're going to continue doing that year after year to make your family our school and our border bed very proud [Applause] [Music] and there you have it brielle's finals so congratulations so usually at this
006time in the meeting they like to give speeches and they said it would take a long time so they prefer to give the speeches uh to the school instead of at the board meeting so uh we'll work on that another time right so if you need to go home at this time we have other two other presentations if you want to stay and then the board meeting if you need to go home you can go home so it's your choice because we're doing two other presentations okay congratulations to our geography champions thank you [Music] at this time i'm gonna have mr savia and mrs love to come up for our first presentation the board members all want to turn around um results uh let me show you that this is unlike you know the energetic
007sl results or even any kind of standardized testing but it was a so we could look at and see where our kids are at and what work needs to be done what work uh kids may be and uh because of the pandemic and the amount of time many school districts you know children you know we're only in the building sometimes twice a week uh that was not our story uh the result and i'm not going to go line my mind i'm going to put this on the website the board members have a copy but what we found as administrators and as teachers is we're not shocked with the results you know the results you know where what we found is uh talk about it the amount of students that need less support um if you
008look at our nj sla scores which said uh exceeded expectation am i right mr steve yeah sure i mean this was something that was actually asked it was about the involuntary two years ago we chose not to do it like two years ago this year was asked by all districts actually go through and uh administer this to all our students so the fourth graders that took it and actually was looking at it reflecting what from the third grade curriculum did they hold on to when they tested in fourth grade i think as a parent i also received this from my own kids i had a lot more information when i read it on there the most difficult part for a parent is to just see the word support on all three of those columns so
009it does start off as a strong support some support and less support so as a parent you're always looking at this is saying my childhood support the other side of this two those three columns reflect what the njsla reflects and it really kind of goes into the five different categories there we have a graph so when you look at the graph they break it down to how our fourth grade [Music] 7th and is and pla in all grades and it's what we expected where they fell you know the green says that they need less support or exceeded expectation the number of children that are in the orange range are those who need some support and those who are in the red range are children who need strong support and as we go through this injection
010to go through this it's a very easy graph to read even in mathematics you can see how we did across the board and as a school uh the one thing that uh you know kev you kept looking at is we really look at who is strong support and this year our board of education we have interventionists in place we have have been doing an amazing job working in small groups the teachers are working in small groups uh we have other assessments that we use things like the dribble benchmarks other assessments that we use it just wasn't this right it was already awesome ready stores so we use a number of assessments in the classroom even daily assessments teachers assess daily uh to see where our kids are at you can see why we're kicking buttons
011this is the only time that we really administered the start strong assessment so a lot of the other things that mrs carlson just mentioned we were administering those to students prior to the pandemic so when we talked about the ira we were doing those a few years before the pandemic came about and when the students were home they still took it at home you know they were able to do that we got a good sense of how they did and then when we got them back into the school in the classroom they did it again because really every student was doing that three times a year so that was something that we certainly used to help us gauge you know who was needing the support again but when the parents were reading that over i'm
012sure when they always saw it no matter what the score was that there was support that was needed it could have been real frustrating for someone else we didn't like the words but that's that was the thing like unless support means that they're they're fine but it still has the word support in it so it can be misleading to something the nhs has five categories so like the first one was as strong supports needed and then basically it did not yet beat or partially met the expectations the sub support is approaching the expectations that would be a score of a three when you get those ndsl a scores back for me and then [Music] in our numbers are very low in our black and hispanic population as opposed to the whites or some you know
013when your numbers are one year ten the other part of this though also i was going through and reviewing it with the upper grade ele teachers he went through and really the number of questions that they gave him was in the 20s but he really only it really only focused on about five or six standards so it really wasn't all of the questions that were offered it was a different standard that they were trying to reach out to there were things those standards were it was repetitious so it really just focused on a few standards when this was really good so i didn't have a broad understanding of the kids um lunch uh children with 504s rpl population our special needs population and our genuine population and that's not facts by the same breakdown pre-produced
014504's bll special edition yes building special ed students or does that mess the curriculum itself also sometimes if it's a resource room setting it's also dictated by the student's iep that's also something else looking at the actual curriculum that should have been touched and we know most of our children uh with infps that are specialized aren't too great for a level so the expectation you would say this is what we would expect from them what was the goal of this theme mandating this and trying to see if there were gaps because of covalent a great assessment because it's not really testing all the areas it's not really giving you any information that you don't know we'll take care [Music] what support [Music] you know in the beginning that was it questions you know the question
015you have is your teachers know about this we're addressing this as i mentioned the specialists know who these children are uh jen at the last meeting column we talked about our win program how our teachers are you know meeting in small groups know the specific skills that children need and so we're addressing that on a weekly daily basis so before we go to the next presentation um what would you say is your priority in on addressing um thinking deficiency what grade level would you say is the one we focus on first what's the priority well we've always shared with you it's been fourth grade third percent of the fourth grade population has a ninety page so second grade uh has not been there but fourth grade his husband our biggest focus and it always happened
016it's not like it hadn't been on the radar when we went home 23 months [Music] what we've always seen and for those who've been on board a long time what we've always seen is you know it takes the village our scores get better as they get older you know so you build a great foundation what you see out of the test they get better and better for students just like owners you know you take any kind of test and if you take a similar test again you get to get better and better but we see how children have really improved from year to year for an entire year for as many days as we can in a row the students are actually just kind of going through the school routine and we've talked about it
017you know march 14th we basically asked every family every household to be their own school house you know when we went virtual and things like that so every day we are really just having them forge ahead and just do the best they can in this setting so that's certainly really what i'm starting to see um really from the kids i mean we've the last couple months we've really seen some of the impact of hope and the dolly just regards myself and working with the literacy and the math interventionist like the three of us all year and like as soon as we started with the start strong results and the quality ready like we've just been like analyzing data analyzing data analyzing data and then finding not really focusing so much on a grade but focusing
018on those students that really need the support to and find that the intervention to move forward so that's really how we've been doing it and not so much appropriate the best program is still having you know students in role we build another one today another one it's gonna start next week for us too so as the needs do arise conversations begin but it's just with the interventionists the irs teams and then you know the support is [Music] and um we're very proud of willem's accomplishment because willem uh in the entire school uh placed third overall in the geography of being test for our school he also went uh to uh support uh kiernan and uh griffin in the competition at uh in the with the sending districts but placing third our school our board of
019education everyone is very proud of this great accomplishment [Applause] and you do have your speech prepared i did not know he did not know about that we're always teasing i did it you have a great night and thank you so much for being here uh the next thing uh we wanted to do uh is highlight uh some of the things that we have been doing over the past several years uh we have always included you know black history is not something that called the black history month uh we do not believe in that philosophy we believe uh it has to be embedded in our curriculum throughout the year uh that's what the state is that's what we've always done and so we have purchased books in all classrooms we have done a lot of work
020what we want to do with you today is just highlight uh some of the things we've done over the past few months the top is cut off for some reason but it's supposed to say celebrating diversity and black history can everyone hear me all right without the microphone all right so i wanted to just like miss carlsbad take a few minutes just share how brielle has implemented diversity equity and inclusion and the instruction of the contributions of african americans into our curriculum there are some mandates that have been passed by the state some from a very long time ago which we might not be aware of and i will share this presentation out with everyone tomorrow so i don't want to just sit and read everything but the holocaust law that it actually has in
0211994 for instruction that needs to be included throughout the curriculum for elementary and middle school then we have on the new requirements that include instructional diversity and inclusion which will be included starting this september and then we have the amazon law which was the actual amazon bill and that became one 2002 which is on involved incorporating information regarding the contributions of african americans on an appropriate place of the curriculum of elementary and middle school students and then in the lgbtq and disabilities law that was passed in 2019 and same thing embedding it in the curriculum and celebrating the contributions of all people so up here you can take a look when you leave these are a couple of posters and timelines that the second grade i actually gave me today so i wasn't able to
022put in my presentation but they did a really good job um with those in our school right now what are we doing our curriculum and our instruction has like mrs carlson said always included in instruction on diversity right now i have provided for the teachers since the beginning of the school year resources that are available to them i send them emails and provide professional development for them as well and then this is a crosswalk that we worked on at columbus day and it's a living document where we will always go back and continue to work on it to make sure that all the mandates that i talked about are included in all the different subject areas so this was raised three through five and i went to a workshop on friday at brookdale for the
023monmouth county curriculum distortion and i spoke with deb lesnick from the state um just because i always like to know things so i asked her you know what would maybe he will be cusack next year what would make us cusack compliant in this area and she said at crosswalk and i said oh again you know what we've been working on and she said yes bad and monitoring lesson plans as long as it's being incorporated in all the brain levels and different not necessarily every subject area for certain subject areas wouldn't make us compliant so as you can see um i'm just really proud of all the teachers in all the subject areas even including music and art and fitness where they are including instruction from all of these so these are some of the educational
024goals that i'm working with the teachers in with their instruction some of you have maybe heard about like windows mirrors and doors so a mirror is being able to have a student regardless of their background or experiences being able to see themselves in the curriculum being able to see themselves and what they're reading the windows is so that every student can see the differences in others through their reading and being able to appreciate people for how their differences are and what their similarities are and then developmentally appropriate is sliding glass doors where they're able to engage with different people that they're meeting along the way to enter the story and become part of the world the sliding glass tours are meant to encourage reflection to encourage action and it's supposed to help them result in
025a change in perspective of maybe just how they didn't really see things prior and to become immersed in another's experience so moving forward we're going on this spring and summer we've already started the process reviewing the social studies and literacy curriculum and our goals for both of those are to have instruction in both curriculums that do include diversity equity inclusion and the homicide throughout the curriculum one way we're going to be doing that is i'm going to be creating an evaluation which will also include a self-study to be able to make sure those curriculums and any of the curriculums moving forward do support a culturally culturally responsive curriculum as well and providing ongoing professional development for teachers that they are comfortable teaching and confident and how to include all these candidates into their construction so
026in brielle we're celebrating contributions not just histories why because we want to disrupt the single story of victimization and i just want to show you a very short video clip that talks about the danger of a single story which is what i want to try to disrupt here in brielle and what we've been working on it's a famous storyteller and author i don't know if you've heard of her chamondia and she describes the danger of the single story and i just felt that it was very powerful and it also explains our goals here in brazil and what we're trying to do moving forward i come from a conventional middle class nigerian my father was a professor my mother was an administrator so we had as was the mom live in domestic health who would often
027come from nearby rural villages so the year i turned eight we got a new household his name was [Music] the only thing my mother told us about him was that his family was very poor my mother sent yams and our old friends in his family and when i didn't finish my dinner my mother would say finish your food don't you know people like fiddy's family have nothing so i felt an almost for today's family then one saturday we went to his village to visit and his mother showed us a beautiful patterned basket made of guide raffia that has brought that in me i was startled it had not occurred to me that anybody in his family could actually make something all i had about them was how poor they were so that it had become
028impossible for me to see them as anything else that poverty was my single story okay years later i thought about this when i left nigeria to go to university in the united states i was 19 my american roommate was shocked she asked where i had learned to speak english so well i was confused when i said that nigeria happened to have english as its official language she asked if you could listen to what she called my tribal music i was constantly very disappointed when i produced my tape with mariah carey she assumed that i did not know how to use a stove what struck me was this she had felt sorry for me even before my roommate had a single story of africa a single story of catastrophe in this simple story there was no
029possibility of africans being similar to her in any way no possibility of feelings more complex than kitty no possibility or connection with human equals so that is how to create a single stream sure of people as one thing as only one thing over and over again and that is what they become and by embedding diversity equity inclusion in our construction all year long and highlighting the contributions of african-americans especially right now how we did it during black history month and i wanted to share just some of those contributions that we've been working on during the month of february even though we've been working on them all year long so you can see some of them up front on the big posters is the second grade biography project they did everything in writer's workshop all the
030research and everything and they brought everything home and then they decorated the posters at home every morning in the uh tv studio they highlight another uh african-american and their contributions during the tv studio this is cyano who's here in our audience um this was her epic book list for black history month for the students to read in first grade this is just a couple different there's many diversity collections in the uh media center this was just two of them this was kindergarten they were working on different african american inventions and adventures and mr d was kind enough to help me put together a short video of all the different projects that the different grade levels and students have been working on this month there's still more coming so feel free maybe at the end of
031the week or next week if you want to walk through you'll be able to see them so this is just a real quick video of what is around the school and what we've been working on [Music] okay [Music] up [Music] seventh um [Applause] [Music] refugees [Music] fourth grade [Music] he was [Music] wow [Music] so again those were just some of the contributions and celebrations for black history month we've been continuing to work on it all year long i'm excited to you know keep going through the year and progressing trying to disrupt that single story so thank you for letting me share that tonight [Music] [Applause] [Music] everytime okay [Music] good job [Music] so next on the um before the next thing we have is visitors business but before we move on to that i just
032want to thank mr xavier and this love for presenting the start strong um it's always good for us to look at this data know where our kids are and be able to analyze it and go from there and be able to provide them with what they need so thank you for preparing that and presenting it tonight and miss love you did a fantastic job with that presentation and i i appreciate that i know that i've been asking for that and um and i i i'm not surprised at your presentation because i know that you put so much time and effort into what you do and you're very thorough um one of the things that stood out to me was the single story because i've heard of that before and that's something that in this country
033um that's how it's been for a very long time it's that single story and it's you know we've come a long way from them and um i truly believe that by educating our children now they're very young and teaching them of all the wonderful contributions that um african-american people have done for years for centuries um many we don't even know about but that's what's going to start that's what's going to bring about change and and our nation when you learn about other people so i i think that that's really important you did a great job with that um i i during my report i'm i'm going to say um what i was going to say just you know when i do my report because i did want to talk about more about that but um
034if we have visitors business next any correspondence and so for committee reports before we get into all the because i know that the committees have been busy i'll just quickly uh give my uh report um so you know i'll talk about black history month and so for me it's i grew up in a very diverse community so i for us it wasn't black history month it was every day you learned about different cultures every single day um but i was very pleased to see whenever my son came home i would ask him you know what are you learning what's going on and i saw some of the work that his teachers were giving him and and i was really impressed because you know when i was young i remember that and i don't know if
035anyone else had that experience here but it was usually her black history mother dr martin luther king day he got a coloring page of dr king and then in history class you learned about slavery and um and i knew many people dreaded going to school during that time because a group of people were reduced to just being a slave i tell my own kids and when i used to teach i would always say they think they weren't slaves they were enslaved human beings and that single story i think that looking at people as just slaves that's what they were in this country they didn't contribute anything when we look at it that way i think that the problems that we see today stem from that but then when you open up um you you provide
036information and you make them human by doing that i think that that definitely brings about change um it you know outside in our sign i didn't see it but my son came home and he said to my husband he said dad did you see the sign outside the school and jay said oh no i didn't notice what was on here and then he said it says black history month yeah i thought about when he said that and i thought about how when we see the sign we may think something different okay it's like history month they have it up but for a child who's black the child of color when he sees that sign it means something more to him to him it's just not a sign but to him is they're recognizing black history
037month they're recognizing and acknowledging that i am here and that i'm important and as educators we have to think like children think and i think that's when we have the strongest impact on our kids um but so thank you for taking the time to put the sign out there and for taking the time to do the work and i know that the teachers have been working on this i've been watching and i've been seeing this so i'm appreciative of them um [Music] a friend of mine and i'm going to end it here a friend of mine he was he's a banker and um as a matter of fact he sent something to us today uh he was um they did a article on him and his family and so he wrote something and i was
038going to summarize it but it just wasn't coming out as good as he said it so i'm going to quote him and his name is mr bob marshall and he said the study of one's history is not meant to denigrate cascade or demonized it is meant to provide knowledge and understanding is meant to offer insight into how human society has changed over time never shy away from inquiry and or scholarship they are both inextricably linked to the collective success of the human race so thank you thank you for that um i will oh very quickly uh cpac which is the special education parent advisory group uh they've been meeting they have a facebook page and um i connected with um two of the parents is kelly valdino and jennifer barr we've been emailing each other
039and i told them i would they really want the information to get out so that parents know about this group and uh their next meeting is march 2nd at 6 00 p.m in person at school and they mentioned mr savia is working um to have the imrs committee to answer questions which would be great they also have a facebook page and i just think this is a great resource for parents with students who have ieps five or fours um or or especially for parents who are questioning and wondering if their child should have an iv um so i just wanted to give you that information and um so now i'll go to the um committee reports uh district operations teddy asked me to uh to kind of summarize what we were talking about because he
040wasn't gonna be here today so uh we met about i think it was about a week and a half ago and uh we had a separate meeting with the um the school's architect uh regarding an issue that needs to be addressed in the library where there's some type of moisture that has caused the flooring to bubble up and the suggestion was made that in order to find out what the problem is and not just put a band-aid on it the flooring needs to be needs to be removed so that they can see where the water is coming from during the meeting our initial meeting uh we had some questions about whether or not it was necessary to do that of a project because it's quite a big expense and they're the reason the major reason
041why it's such a big expense is that the uh adhesive in the floor is from i guess when the school is first built and has asbestos in it so it requires asbestos remediation to do it and there's gonna be it's there's going to be people in the building so there's an additional expense because there's going to be people here to remove it so um we asked a lot of questions about that with him um i think uh look who else and you and i were on that yeah um and you know one of we were asking you know is it possible to do something maybe a little bit less dramatic to get the answer um and apparently that's the uh one of the one of the ideas was to get in there and see if
042you could look with a camera but apparently the way that floor is basically there's a slab there so you can't get in to do that we also asked you know in his professional opinion you know what's the most likely reason for this and is it possible we'd want to dig the floor and then find out that it was coming from the roof or something like that but based on the location of it um which is more central the most likely thing is that it's either from the water table itself or an old pipe that's just slowly so um i was i was very happy with all the explanations that he gave uh and the reason why this needs to be done um it's a you can see from the inserts here it's a big expense
043just removing the flooring uh the asbestos remediation is expensive and that's not included fixing the problem when we find the problem and then one of the things that was brought up because of these is that we wanted to order the flooring now so that we have it in the school so that we don't have the project related and the idea being definition before september so um you can see here from these handouts you know the the just the demolition and the removal on the especially which is somewhere between 65 to 75 000. we won't know until we get in there what the reason is for it um we talked about um where the money's going to come from to do this and we do have money in our our main is reserved to cover it
044so uh we don't have to you know worry about where the money's coming from but obviously we're hoping that it's not going to be a gigantic expense but we're i think we're prepared for it i think that was that's pretty much a good synopsis does anyone have any questions about that yeah not too much on the project but on how the on e3 um how is this vendor chosen it was the lowest price defender so mike when asked me um which is a consortium and two vendors responded to the his stacks of putting the floor back together and they were in in um something designed but they were the lowest they were lowest bid actually yeah i'm just drawing two d3 so the first one the hair consultants so we can get other quotes for
045that or not [Music] okay and then on the other one i guess you'll unlock this i think before um it was two companies out of the same co-op to fit on it i know but can we add it to the agenda because like it the public may not see a purchase order but if someone get a question as to how okay any other questions today thank you jay trying to kill the questions thank you thanks for reporting now and um and i just wanted to add that i came in and i met with um dawn and she took me to the media center and i was able to see it's a it's a real problem it's a really raised it's gotten a lot bigger over the years and it's it takes you know a huge
046space it goes from the media center into like where the computer lab is so it's definitely something that needs to be problems for years and building the ground we've talked about this for years but yeah so again it's it's been a long time so um i agree with you know dave i think that um i'd rather see it get fixed then just do like a quick repair at this point um and representative tamanna swan um that's not here curriculum in programs kurt said we didn't need curriculums and programs met and that it was there was a lot of information i'll just give just a general um about about the meeting uh and then he can send his report and talk about it during the next meeting if he but we talked about there was a
047lot on this agenda and one of the things that um we talked about was miss miss love talked to she gave us an update on the gifted and talented the beach program um we talked about the win talked about what's going on with intervention intervention um she stated that all students came from second were administered the the dipples which is the dynamic indicators of early literacy um the the math talked about bridges find the the plcs to analyze benchmark data we also talked about program well no that's a platform right the atlas yeah it's a platform atlas and she gave us an update on that and this should be on the website now right it's on the website thank you for that briefly talked about that did so much talking that meeting it was a
048lot of stuff um also talked about i think you talked about mr xavius on the english language learner's three-year plan and uh mr xavier resubmitted that thank you for that and um talked about the diversity updates we discussed that um the amistad mandate and everything that you're doing for uh african-american um infusing that into the everyday curriculum and you did a great job showing us we talked about talked about that uh and health and so yeah i'm looking at this i don't have notes here so that we ran out of time for that but uh when mr gets back and i pray that he's feeling better soon he'll give us a more in-depth report but i just want to just quickly summarize that um any questions okay yeah on the ell plan numbers 57 58
04959 61. i don't know if this is just i don't know what the issue is but i have to imagine that we have values that are not zero for graduation rate for all students and for your graduation rate for current llc and then on number 61 it says one answer does that like provide the elsewhere on the forum or what is the answer to universally foreign they do this report as well so they would put that information in you know a report like this if in our school we only have is it four children right or four kids that have um that don't have uh proficiency so we have what's called the esl program for them other places where the numbers are higher so for example if you have more than 20 children that um
050are like uh don't have the english language proficiency then you would have to establish a bilingual program but we're not there so usually those plans are a lot more expensive than our plan because we only have um four children and even if we have one we still have to have the plan for them uh but it's only an esl program any other questions on that anything else and uh uh human resources um joe the committee reviewed the agenda and i did not need to meet with the administration regarding anything joined by mrs jones myself chairman and his director and dr dambrosio and ms carlson and this charity joint from the administration um prepare to try to keep these regularly scheduled try to keep our calendars here thursday prior to our meeting we talked about past
051business we have been waiting for ms adams to provide guidance on policy 5751 which should be our second reading don uh we have two c ones i think um we can make that c2 agenda this is a pretty complex policy about sexual harassment uh of students and one of the questions that adam's helped us answer was we had to choose a burden of proof and um you're going with a clear [Music] the evidence means it's more likely than not but whatever is alleged happening so um the title nine gives the district the option to choose either that standard would be applied the same to uh employee issues and student issues um and that basically means there's more evidence than the more likely that by the state thank you there is also a choice to nominate
052three roles and something cannot happen so there's an ultimate decision maker which means carlson then we have the title ix uh coordinator which will be mr savia and the investigator which will be mr savior okay let's do rolls going um those do require some significant training so just to be aware that there are some significant training to be able to take those roles we actually talked about the state of our policies um trying to get my head wrapped around our policies and understand you know where our foundation is as i shared in my report with the board we're looking to try to find a online hosting solution um that will give us updated the most accurate policies that we have right now um there's a little bit of a disjoint between what's publicly on our
053website and what we have printed and as we make all these changes and they're coming fast and curious from the state a lot of these mandated policies we want to make sure that we have the latest and greatest many school districts have adopted this a lot of towns have a municipal uh code search so if you want to look for what's our policy on on amazon or something in the curriculum it should be accessible in my opinion that you're able to go on and quickly search and find the policy that applies for that topic that's difficult to do right now what we do have online is a mixture of text machine readable pdfs and just scanned pdfs and you can't search them so it's very difficult so we've been looking at a number of different
054solutions from strauss esme from school boards and a couple of other providers um there there is some expense to this um we will have to we're asking for quotes from different platforms um but i think it's a worthwhile expense to make sure that we know what our policies are and we can update them in a timely manner and make sure that everybody understands both the board staff and the public we'll follow up on that later move on to new business there's a number of new policies which will be on the agenda in c1 um a lot of these are mandated and are not much to discuss policy 2460.30 is a policy that requires us to offer an additional year of special education services for students who turn 21 during the pandemic which they describe as
0552020 to 2023 if the student's iep determines that they're required that that would be advised for that student policy 3233 this is a optional policy but we're going to make our policies that use the word of chosen freeholders and update that to be consistent with new jersey state law from two years ago where that phrase is now known as board of counting the final one and i have an update uh from miss adams um regards to bias crimes and bias related acts and trust estimate provided us with an opinion on this the issue is that there is a a state law exchange that removes this ultimately removes the discretion of the administration to report all bias acts to the police department which is in contradiction to the moa um jerry rather than trying to paraphrase
056this chief school administrator should notify the police department as well so uh it's technically conflict but i also think that um with the consultation with your police department about what they consider to be a biased act that they want to be known by because bias act is you know more motivated targeted behavior because of uh characteristic and depending on the age of the student the circumstances it may not mean that tomorrow for you but i think it's a good idea to have a consultation with your chief of police or somebody as to what they want to hear thank you so with that um that policy we buy up for our first reading tonight but we'll make sure that we do have that consultation with the chief police brielle um before putting it up for a
057second in the following meeting and that's my report thank you any questions thank you sean for the thorough report and i see that i handed the baton of policy over to the to the right person i've been doing policy for so many years um so thank you it was very thorough and oh sure we don't have their hosted policy um and so both if you're that service or school board service there's going to be a setup because the initial year right now we've got a mission um the numbers are related to the legislation i don't think school board different numbers yeah school board one looks quite good presentation we think that think sean we have the link on your report that we can just click on and see if if anyone wants to see the
058presentation um of one of the one of the services there's you could just go to sean's report and there's a link sean has a link to everything click on the link and then you'll see the president you'll see the presentation so but just on c1 i just wanted to say that uh receive one where it says converted bylaws we actually don't need that sean had on his report to um to discuss but we didn't convert anybody so i just wanted to we didn't make the one change which is the 1.5 correct we should be updating our committees to reflect the names no report this week currently in 10 minutes but i am not able to connect with him [Music] oh okay thank you uh today we had our kindergarten registration we've registered over 30 students
059today so i'm happy to record that friday we're doing our pre-k open house and uh we're also inviting them will be coming here to do an orientation for our eighth graders on friday on february 11th we celebrated the 100th day of school that means tomorrow there are 76 days left just we don't tell our uh we're talking about a lot of end of year planning like 8th grade class trip to gettysburg 5th grade dance uh activities for all like the booster club is talking about hosting faculty basketball games you may be aware of march 7th it's that's optional in school i know everyone's going to be happy about that short story i ran into a kindergartner a vlogs on vacation and i was in a beach cover-up but no mask in sunglasses and she says
060you're not my principal because i don't know your face made me feel pretty bad like you'll see it real soon i'm like just sneak it down so you know we're all excited about that we're a healthy very healthy building right now i think i've mentioned before the pto has already uh in advance has rented a tent for the month of june so all of our activities can be done outside [Music] we have a meeting before here on the 16th you know tell your friend to share with your friends the children are working very hard uh and as predicted um uh there are i guess 16 or 17 total teams in the mcal you might remember in the fall our voice um soccer team were champions they came here to a board meeting our girls soccer
061team lost in a penalty kick over time our field topic team were undefeated until the final championship game where they lost with one minute left to go this year our girls and our boys basketball teams have both yesterday and today qualified to be in the championship game to be played at hashtag high school 12 o'clock the girls game 130 boys game so we should feel very proud about that because um the other two schools are prime college achieve and saint catherine's own girls so we're very proud that both teams made it to the championship and our clubs are in full swing teachers are have submitted their clubs for the spring and our chess club everything that we're doing after school is really in the full plan we have a number of kids daily that are
062staying after school friends after school activities so we're very happy about that like i said march 7th is the day mr safety section 4. we've been doing this for 23 months you know we you know we've been working tirelessly and our teachers our students are worried everybody [Music] uh i think we're turning the corner and uh other board meetings we hear about it are a lot uglier than ours you know when you did criticism about the masks but we we helped of course and as you can see we've done an amazing job and uh i'm glad we're rounding that corner that we can finally see smiles on teachers and kids faces that's my report thank you and now um and for curriculum and programs [Music] second yes [Music] and district operations item to c1 and
063the c2 second c1 yes 14. yes and at this time visitors business visitors are permitted to comment on agenda and non-agenda items at this time and any discussion [Applause] discussion and then we have payment of bills sean would you like to pay the bills sure that we pay our bills most of the board authorizes payment for the following january 22 22 builds list and the secretary is authorized to draw warrants of the treasurer in a total amount of one million three hundred seventy eight thousand three hundred thirty three dollars and ninety four cents next time and so at this time next um is executive session and i guess i would read this of the open um meetings act the real world education shop conduct a closed executive session pursuant to the personnel legal exceptions prescribed
064by njsa 10 4 12 this session will be held after the board meeting is there going to be action um i don't think that there's going to be i don't believe so i'd like to make a motion to go into executive session there's no other choice [Music] but just imagine thank you everyone i don't know his name oh