001Sorry. Uh, good evening everyone. Welcome to our board of education joint uh, workshop with SGC's. We do this annually. Today is Tuesday, May 5th. The time is 7:01 p.m. I'm board secretary Ashley Golius, and we're joined this evening by board chair Howard White, board members Diana Karpio, Mary Ellen Flity, Lewig, Jasmine Prey. I'm keeping an eye to make sure I'm not missing anyone. I have a feeling everyone else is still trickling in and joining us. Um, but that we have those board members for right now. Um, the first thing on the agenda is the pledge of allegiance. So, [clears throat] uh, I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> And with
002that, I am going to pass the meeting to Dr. Estraa and her team. >> Good evening, everyone. Thank you for joining us at our annual board SGC um, convening. It is a a great opportunity one for us to share some updates, but also to have the opportunity to hear from you around um some of the things that you want us to keep into consideration as we plan the work for the next academic school year. Um, as part of this evening's uh presentation, we want to provide the com the SGC members with an update of where we are in the budget process as well as some of our behavioral data that we typically present during this time. Um, Mr. Pennington, do you have some opening remarks before we invite the presenters? >> No, I I think
003you highlighted it, Dr. Estraa. Our our goal tonight will be to talk about the finance update and so we'll start with Mr. Osmani and then we will move into the panorama survey update which Miss Diane Fardo will speak to and then we'll talk about some of our SGC successes and challenges and a goal for next year. >> Thank you. So I'll turn it over now to Mr. Oasmani. >> Thank you superintendent. I will begin to share my screen. All right, everybody can see it. >> Okay. >> Yes. >> Thank you. Uh, first and foremost, happy Cinco de Mayo for all of you that celebrate. Um it's almost the end of the day, but hopefully you'll you'll get to to enjoy the rest of the day before Cinco dear is over. Um but as the superintendent
004and Mr. Pennington mentioned, I I do have a give us just an update um on the budget. Um as you may have read in the in the media, we were fortunate in that as the state legislature was ending, there was some funding that both the city and the board of ed received this year which will go towards um helping us reconciling the budget. What I wanted to you do tonight is to share just two slides. These this is the same presentation I shared uh with the board of ed the last time they met and so if you watch that meeting uh this sl these slides would be very very familiar. So first is just kind of giving um a recap of of where we started. As you recall the board of ed approved a recommended
005budget of which asked for 6.5%. The mayor's recommended budget initial recommendation was a 4% increase. At the time that budget was 257 and million, the initial budget cap that we had to reconcile at the time was a little over $6 million. As we do each year following the approval of the board on the budget, there are adjustments uh that we make throughout. We update positions, we update salaries, we update um things like health insurance. At the time the adjustments that we had made were about 1.1 million. To date I believe the adjustments are around 1.4 1.5 million but at the time the reconciliation that we had to make including the adjustments was about 7.2 million. Something that we also do each year and we did that this year as well is before we even begin
006the budget process and start crunching the numbers. We work with our demographer and we look at our enrollment because enrollment is a significant driver of the budget because of our studentbased budget process and it is um a methodology that we've applied over time. So in looking at our enrollment, we did see a decrease in enrollment year-over-year. I believe just under 200 students year-over-year. So what we did the team um looked working with the demographers identified where the shifts were changing along the schools and so before we even got started with the budget we made those adjustments. We called it right sizing but it's essentially making sure that each school is appropriately staffed for the students that they have. And so the right sizing across districts was about a $1.2 million in reductions. These are things
007like at the elementary schools, we looked at class sizes um and the total enrollment per section. And so we did similar arrangements for the middle school and the high school. The middle and high schools are slightly different because of the programming, but we had about $1.2 million in right sizing adjustments. That left us with about a $6 million reconciliation um gap that we had to to do at the time. We um with a gap to the tune of $6 million. It's really challenging to do without impacting schools. So, at that time, we attempted to reconcile the budget by about $3.6 million in non-school reductions and about $2.3 million in school reductions. Following the mayor's recommended budget, the council received the budget and as part of their deliberation, the council forwarded to the BET a budget
008that would allow for the BET to provide 4.9% to the board of education. That was about $2.2 million more than the mayor's initial recommendation. >> So, taking that into account, we adjusted our budget for the $2.2 million in additional savings. The budget adjustments remaining at 1.1. That left us with an adjustment gap of about just over $5 million. With the right sizing of 1.2, that left us with a reconciliation target of 3.8. And so the the board of ed, the staff um led by the superintendent, we worked on a plan to reconcile the budget to 3.8 million. What was very significant or something that the board had highlighted and the superintendent had reinforced throughout this process was we were really working hard to minimize reductions to schools other than school other than reduction that were
009based on the right sizing. So what we did at the time we the plan was to capture all of those reductions on the non-school side of the budget. And so at the time we were working to identify $3.8 million in reductions without really impacting schools other than the right sizing uh for enrollment. So we were going through that process and as you may have followed when the BET made their final recommendation the BET actually revised the budget back to to 4% and so we have been working to reconcile at that 4%. Uh fortunately at the time when this was happening we got wind of the fact that there was some additional funding that would be coming to towards the board of education as the legislation was happening. So, as we were working to reconcile the
010budget, we had started to see could that additional funding mitigate the reductions that we would have otherwise had to make. So, at the 4% level, we were still looking at about a $6 million reduction to the towards the board of ed. Non-school reductions would have been about 5.1 million and at the time we were contemplating some reductions on the school side of about 900,000. Um at this time we had anticipated about 1.1 $1.2 million or so coming to the coming to the district. Um as you know what we did end up receiving was 1.9. It was about $800 to $900,000 or so more than what we had initially um anticipated. So, as we're working to reconcile the budget, uh we are factoring in some of this additional revenue and how we would work to reconcile
011the budget um to whatever target that the BET um ends up ends up approving. You may also know that after the initial BET cap of 4%, the budget went back to the council, the council um amended their cap cap request to 4.5% and forwarded that to the BET for consideration. The BET will be considering the budget on May 7th. Um we have had conversations led with the superintendent with the BET and the mayor obviously since the 4% and the 4 and a.5% by the city we did receive some of the city funding. So we are still working actively with the BET to see how this additional funding from the state could help us offset these reductions and also to see if the BET can still honor the 4 and a.5% increase that was presented by
012the council to allow us to be able to mitigate some of these reductions. So that's kind of where we are with with the budget process. One of the things that we did talk about and we mentioned it last year is you recall that uh the city the board before the city the board um entered into the C uh plan for school lunches and this is a plan that offers free meals to all students um regardless of of their eligibility to qualify for free and reduced. the offset of that it it does offer us um a reduced amount of reimbursement but there is a cost to that because the overall cost to fund school lunches the cost that we charge for school lunches doesn't totally meet the total expense without transfers from the uh from the
013city's general fund. So our initial budget at the 4% rate did include a 2.3 we rounded to $2.4 $4 million in additional funding in terms of transfers from the general fund to the school lunch fund. When the mayor's recommended budget came in at 4.9% and we were looking to reconcile the budget, um we had explored an option with the school lunches that included funding from the governor's free breakfast program. This was something that came after the fact. And so what we had included in our recommendation was to continue to provide free meals to all students, to continue to provide free breakfast as the governor's plan proposed, but in providing the school meals program, we would no longer be participating in the C program. We would however continue to provide free meals to all of our
014students. So because of that additional funding from the state that allowed us to reduce the $2.3 million $2.4 million in food services transfers that number now became $1.4 million. So it was a reduced transfer to the school lunch program. So we captured about 97,000 in savings from that from that plan. shifting back to the 4% which is where we were up until the cap was raised again by the council. We were still continuing to work with with our schools and with the board of education because the gap now was significantly higher than what we had initially anticipated. We had considered the option of going back, only giving free meals to families that qualified for free and reduced, continuing to provide free breakfast to all, part of the governor's plan. But for those families that would
015not qualify for free and reduced lunches, those families would now be required to pay for their students um if that family did not qualify. So this would be kind of like the precoid model of of of meals. So that then would allow us to to reduce the amount of transfers to the school lunch from 1.4 million to just about 1 million which would be some additional savings captured um together with some of the additional adjustment that we still needed to make. So this is kind of uh where we are now in terms of the budget. We're still having conversations with the BET. We're waiting to hear where the BET lands in terms of funding for the board of education. And then on the 14th of May based on the number that we get from the
016BET on Thursday, we will be presenting a plan to the board of education for reconciling the budget. And so as far as an update, uh that's where we are and I'll toss it back to the superintendent um for the rest uh for the rest of the meeting. Thank you. So I I think one of the things that's important to highlight is the fact that um this meeting is happening May 7th uh where the vote will take place and it's really important that um our parents continue to advocate for um the additional funding that we need. It makes a huge difference when uh the BET receives that communication uh in terms of how they they think about the work particularly around the free uh meals which um is something that I know that the community has
017been actively advocating around. It's really important to highlight that as well as continuing to fund all programs across the organization that play a vital role in supporting our students. Uh, I wanted to open um before I I continue I just uh Miss Ashley wants to um just highlight a few points. >> I just wanted to recognize that Sher McCriedy Bridgetette joined the meeting just to make sure I've got all the board members who are here and then I should it should also be Jasmine Prey, Marielen Flity Lewig, Diana Karpio, Howard White and myself. Thank you. >> Thank you so much. So, uh, before we transition to the next component, if there are any questions about where we are with the budget, um, if you could raise your hands and we will, uh, try to answer
018any questions, concerns. Okay. So, um, the next component that we're going to discuss this evening is the panorama survey. And I would like to welcome Diane Farardo to the kind of to the front uh to present on our SEAL data. >> Good evening Dr. Estraa and board of education members and members of the school governing council. This spring >> we can't see you. >> I know. I I don't know why. >> That's okay. I just wanted you to be aware. >> Thank you. Okay. This spring, students in grades 3 through 12, our families and our staff took the Panorama survey. This is the seventh year in a row that we've used this climate survey and schools and districts gather information about social emotional learning and also the perceptions of the quality and character of school
019life. Okay, next slide please. These are the topics that we're going to be covering. We'll take a look at the improved readability of the questions of the student survey, the enhanced reporting system and and survey design, and then finally, we'll look at some actual trend results over the past five years. Next, please. Here are the survey topics. Students take two surveys, an SEAL survey. You see the um the topics are growth mindset and emotional regulation. And then students also take a survey about school life. Teachers and staff have topics ranging from educating all students to school safety. Families have four topics. And there are some topics that are common across all stakeholders and that's school safety and school climate. Next slide please. We keep track of our response rates. And our goal for the student
020surveys and for the staff survey is that we have 80% participation. For the family survey, we were trying to reach the goal of 30%. which is really very lofty. Um we, as you can see, we we were a little above half that at 17%. But I want to acknowledge that there were six schools in the district that did meet 30% level for family participation. Next, please. This year for the student surveys, both the SEAL survey and the school survey, we have a new baseline. The reason for that is because we have newly designed questions by Panorama. They're shorter questions and more focused. They reduce the likelihood of students guessing or misunderstanding. and that the goal is to have uh more relevant results from the survey and re these changes were researchbased. So there was confirmation
021that the new questions are reliable and valid but bottom line because of these changes 2026 is the new baseline for our student both the and the school survey. Next, please. I'm going to give you an example of a set of questions for growth mindset. One of the SEAL topics. You can see the original questions and you can see the format of that question of the questions are similar in school. How possible is it for you to change? Giving a lot of effort. Now on the flip side you see under highlighted in blue the revised questions. The numbered questions went from six to four and the the actual questions themselves are in a different format. How much can you improve your behavior in school? A new question that was added. When you make a mistake on
022your homework, how often do you ask your teacher for ways you can do better next time? And that was a new question for our students this year. On the next slide, we see an example in different topic under the school survey. This is teacher student relationships. Here, if you look at the choices, they're exactly the same, but the clarification of that question is different. It was how exciting would you be to have your teachers again? And the revised questions is how exciting would you be if you could have your same teachers again in the next grade too. So it more or less clarifies meaning particularly for our younger students. Next please for our our school and district users of the Panorama platform. This year is also been a change. Um to the left we see
023what the reporting platform looked like. We're looking at results from the Panorama survey, the school survey for grades three through five. You see the topics listed. You see the percent favorable. Now to the right you see the enhanced reporting system. Our users have um filters that are easily available to them if they want to look at results by grade, by group. But a big change is instead of just looking at percent favorable, they also can see what percent of their students were approaching that favorable mark and those that are not fa favorable. So if a user now clicks on a bar graph, they can actually see all the statistics at the school level. Not only can you see that right now the change since last year you don't see a change because it's a new
024baseline but um moving forward you will see that and schools will also see how they fared in terms of percent of positive responses at their school versus the district. Next slide please. So this is just an example of how these questions are framed. Now, in red to way to the right, you see quite connected and extremely connected. If a student chose either of those responses, that would be a favorable response to the question, how connected do you feel to adults at your school? That middle anchor somewhat connected is the that would be students that would be approaching favorable. So now we have a percentage for that and students that chose either not at all connected or slightly connected that would be an unfavorable response. So all the questions have this format. It's using a liyker
025scale which is a tool to indicate the level of agreement or disagreement with this series of statements. Next please. Now we're going to look at some results. Now, I just said that we have a new baseline for students. The one exception is the topic of safety. There were no changes to the student questions to that topic. So, we're looking at trends for our students in grades 3 through 5 and 6 through 12 from 2024 through 2026 in terms of percent favorable. And that this is one of one of the topics that goes across all stakeholders. We see results results for our teachers and also for our families. So we see an increase across the board. The next topic for teachers and staff educating all students. To the left you see the questions that encompass this
026topic. And the question that's on top was a 90% favorable response. And these questions are rankordered by favorable percentage. And you see for that first question that's 90% let it grows 4%. So last year in 2025, we were at 86% positive. Now we're at 90% positive. At the very bottom, in response to events that might be occurring in the world, how comfortable would you be in having a conversation about race with your students? That rose three percentage points. When the survey was given last year, that was 63% positive. Now it's 66. Then to the right you have a graph over five years and you see a steady increase in the in the percent favorable of staff for educating all students. Next please. Another topic leadership relations. Back in 2022 62% favorable. Now in 2026 we're
027up to 77% favorable. Um the highest percent for but by question what when challenges arise in your personal life how understanding are your school leaders 87% positive at the lower at the lowest stand at your school how motivating do you feel finding with your leadership team working with your leadership team it's 66% positive but that rose three percentage points in one here. Next, please. Another topic for teachers and staff, school climate. This has the most dramatic increase over 5 years. So, overall now it's at 67% positive. Back in 2022, that was only 49%. And this is interesting. The a big increase of eight percentage points. That second question, how optimistic are you that your school will improve in the future? So that had a very large increase now at 72%. Next, please. Now we're looking
028at families responses. The topic school climate. Here you see an overall percentage 82% positive rising from 2022 of 73%. We see a little bit of a dip in 2025 and now an increase to the highest level it's been in five years 82%. And I start the question, how well do administrators at your child's school create a school environment that helps students learn? That was an 86% positive response. A year ago, 81%. Next, please. Family communication. Again, a steady increase. These are questions that we added to the survey. They are custom questions for Norwok. We've used them consistently with families now for five years. And it it very positive in re in terms of when I have a question, complaint or concern, is it resolved to my satisfaction? Almost 80% said had a positive response which
029is an increase of four percentage points and the and their understanding also of communication that they receive has increased. Next, please. So, we're looking at some positive trends for school safety, school climate, communication, but there's always work that needs to be done. And looking at the next slide, we can see that that really it looks like our focus as a district should be on growth mindset. certainly for students, but also for staff. And staff is actually compared to national percentiles were probably above the norm. But in terms of other topics, there was a less favorable response than other topics for staff. So we growth mindset for those two groups of stakeholders are important. Next, please. So why do we say growth mindset? Well, you see in the middle here, you see our road map to
030becoming future ready, the portrait of a graduate, and you see all the competencies with around that graphic. And in the middle, you see critical thinking. So, what fuels critical thinking? What gives the our students, empowers them to make decisions, to solve problems, to be creative? It's that growth mindset that that confidence that they can do it, that resilience to embrace challenge. So that synergy between the two, the growth mindset, creating the willingness, the critical thinking, providing the tools to learn and improve. So that really is key and is the recommended focus and we have focused on that and that should continue. Are there any questions? Thank you for your time. >> Hey Diane, I do have one question if you don't mind me asking. >> Yes. >> Okay. So, this goes into how students, staff,
031and um uh parents and families take the survey. So as we know there's the infamous sometimes and um is was one of the responses. Is there any way or any advice that you give because when our students our faculty staff members and parents they choose the sometimes or somewhat option that airs on the negative side um as opposed to um being a positive response. And a lot of the questions that I after I um I debriefed with a lot of students they were telling me uh when you know we're just going over some of the questions and they're saying well I chose sometimes or somewhat because I don't feel like that every day. I feel this way sometimes but not all the time. So what is your advice around that? Because I at principal meeting
032today we were all discussing that because that was part of our agenda for today. So, what advice do you give? Because it always ends up airing on the side of a negative as opposed to helping the school really have a true picture in a positive light. >> Well, I think for middle school, they need to at at that point in time, uh, they need to choose on that scale how they're feeling that day. that I mean if that there is guidance from Panorama on this but I I understand that there there's subtle differences but this we are using a standard the liyker scale and it it is the perception of students at that point in time and that should really drive their answer their response >> but I can see what um Mr. Singleton is
033saying that >> although there the student is having a positive experience in the school environment for the most part is being reflected as a negative versus a positive because they're more landing on the middle >> and and I think that that if I right Mr. Singleton is that what you're saying? So it it doesn't well represent how students are actually feeling for the most part. So, I I think that there's going to have to be like maybe some student education in terms of when they select that response, >> how it's being interpreted. Um because based on what Mr. Singleton described, the child is having a positive school experience, but like any human being, daytoday they might be feeling different, >> but it doesn't mean that they're having a bad experience. So, so it's something for
034us to think about in terms of how we educate students in how they're responding and what the response means so that when they answer, they're answering with the understanding of how that is being perceived in the context of the survey and how it's being evaluated. Any other questions in reference to the panorama? I actually did have a quick question. You mentioned that there were um three schools that hit the goal of 30% family participation. >> Actually, six. Six. >> Oh, there were six. >> Okay. Um I was going to ask, were they across the board from elementary on or did you find >> um five were elementary schools and one was a high school? >> Got it. Thank you. Any other questions? >> Well, thank you, Miss Fardo, for your pres thorough presentation. >> Were
035you saying something, Miss Fardo? >> No, I just said thank you. >> Oh, no. Thank you. Um, we're going to transition next to the next component. I'm going to invite Mr. Pennington to transition us to the uh conversations this evening. >> All right. Good evening everyone. If you are in as a different name or you just have your first name or your last name, if you can just change your name so that it says first and last name because during this activity there are going to be some breakout rooms and so that uh two schools can come together and have some discussions. around some of the work and I know that our team is working off of a list so that would be great and I'll share my screen so that we can get started.
036So one area that we try to focus on every year is our school governance councils are really an important part of our school district. It is a way that our schools collaborate with their school community. It has parents, it has teachers, it has community members. And every year we come together at the end of the year to discuss what were some of the successes of the school governance council, what were some of the challenges, and then we start to think ahead to next year around what would our number one priority be. And when we get into our school governance council, we look at some of the roles and responsibilities, having four meetings a year, analyzing student achievement data, reviewing the fiscal objectives of the draft budget, uh providing advice to the principal, participating in the
037hiring process for the school principal, providing advice um to the principal on program programmatic and operational changes. uh developing a parent improvement policy, working with administration to develop or approve a school compact. So, thinking to some of these roles and responsibilities, what what what was something that your SGC felt was a really strong success for this school year and what were some of the challenges? And so, looking at this document, this capture sheet, we're going to go into some breakout rooms. we're going to be able to have some discussions and then we will come back and we'll complete a mentometer where uh one person either either one of the co-chairs will scan the QR code and be able to highlight what was uh success from this year and then what will be your number one
038priority. So we're going to break go into a breakout room for about 10 to 12 minutes. Like I said it's two SGC's coming together. So there is that opportunity for some discussion as well amongst the two SGC's and with this being our focus thinking about what was our s you know what was some of the successes this year what were some challenges and then the number one priority uh Mr. Valenzy are we ready with uh breakout rooms >> uh yeah Mr. Pennington. I've um I'm going to [clears throat] open up the breakup room uh breakout rooms. And um I've also assigned just randomly board members to just join so you can kind of hear a little bit of the conversation while we're in those. Um there'll be a few people that'll be left behind because
039of your names. I'll I'll add you as soon as we go in just so we can kind of figure out exactly who you are. There's about seven or eight people that may not join the breakout room for another 20 or 30 seconds. So, um, let me open the breakout rooms now and enjoy your conversations. Great. And people that are now left in the main room, um, if I can just ask you who you are, you can come off mute and just tell me. Uh, one is Macy Jenowski. >> That's s silver mine. Um, silver mine. >> Okay. So, silver mine is okay. Shaya Reed, >> I believe she's Marvin. >> Marvin. Yep. Uh, Ellena Ferman. >> Hi. Hello. >> Hi. >> Where am I supposed to go? I just >> Oh, uh, Elellanena, are you
040assigned as one of the SGC chairs for a building? >> What building? What school? >> Oh, our parent is CGS. >> CGS. Thank you. >> Yes. Okay. Thank you. >> Uh, iPhone 07. [laughter] Uh, so iPhone 07. Uh, Chris Olsen. >> Cranberry. >> I am the assistant principal at Cranberry. >> Oh. Oh, it's you, Chris. Okay. >> Uh, Amanda Frasier. >> Kendall. Uh, Susan Patrick Ganelli Patelli Jefferson >> Jefferson. >> Thank you. >> Uh, and then I just have iPhone 07. There's one person left. >> And we have Ree here who needs to go to PEK. >> I think Ree was in there. No, I know. But he's still here with us. >> I was I was there, Ralph, but I got kicked out. >> Okay, hang on one second, Reese. Let me uh >>
041Who kicked you out? >> It's got to be Ralph. >> Probably Ralph. That Ralph. >> All right. So, I'm gonna have to move you to one other room and then move you back. Okay. So, you're gonna jump to room one and then back to two. So, hang on a second. It's kind of strange because is this recording because I don't see the record that the recording logo on. >> Uh this this piece right now is recording. >> Yeah, it is. >> No, I just wanted to make sure because I didn't see. >> So, the only person we have um >> he's back. Oh, >> Reese, I don't know what's going on. Can you jump off and jump back on? Maybe that'll help. Absolutely. Could try that. >> Okay, thanks. And then we just have um
042let's see, iPhone 07, if you'd like to come off mute. Oh, okay. Thanks, Carol. >> I think we have everybody in right now. So, we're the main ones in the room right now. Just let me know when you want me to close your rooms. Rob, >> Reese is back on. >> Reese is Reese is back. All right, let's try this again. Uh, hang on a second. Just make sure here. >> Hope you're all having as much fun as I am. >> Yeah. Yeah. We show repeat tech. Hang on. You seems to be in now, Ralph. >> Yeah. Yeah. I think we're all good. So, where is the cure code? Oh, share more. Welcome back. >> Thank you. [clears throat and cough] >> Oh, hello. Welcome back. >> Hey, we're in new breakout rooms. >> Are
043we Are we back in a hole or breakout rooms? We're all coming back now. >> Okay. [laughter] Like, oh, this is room. >> Like, hey, Ed. >> Hey, what's up? How are you? >> Hi, Christina. >> Happy Cinco DE MAYO. >> OH, HI. How are you? >> I'm well. How are you doing? Good. You look great. >> Good to see you. >> You too. I think about you guys every time I run by school. >> A stop in. >> Well, welcome back, everyone. Hopefully you had a great conversation. Our focus was around successes, challenges, and the number one priority for next school year. And so we're going to have an opportunity and and only one person from each SGC needs to complete it. It can be the principal, it can be the co-chair. But the
044first uh poll that we're going to highlight is in one to three words. So you can grab a phone, scan the QR code, put go to the website menty.com with the code and complete one to three words. What was your SGC's most notable success this year? I know the group that I was in, they both had some really powerful things that they accomplished. And then we'll we'll share that seconds. I can pull that over. And if you're able to see, and I'll try and zoom in a little here. There we go. So, we can see these were some of the things that our SGC's were able to complete. um increased parent involvement, a focus on a sense of belonging, a shared vision, a care closet project, um reviewed the school improvement plan, my authorization, school
045compact, collaboration with facilities, a swimming program in uh community engagement involving many parents, So there definitely has been um working well together, well attended. So there's a lot of positive things that I think really come through based on some of the work that the SGC's have been able to do. And I mean just getting many parents involved in the school community, building that sense of belonging are some really powerful um things to celebrate and there's more there's still more coming in. So I I think that that is fabulous. And then our next focus is what is going to be your top priority for next year? What is that? What what does the school want to think about? What does the SGC want to focus on that can be highlighted as a focus area? So, take
046a few minutes and complete that piece around and I will pull right? And can I'm going to try something so I don't have to stop share and reshare. Can someone let me know if they can see the answers coming in? C can you see the answers? >> Yes. >> Perfect. Thank you so much. I didn't know if it would work. Um, but we can see parent engagement, uh, facilities work, building improvements, getting an assistant principal, um, homework policy, a family compact, building improvements, HVAC and facilities, building a positive environment, positive experience for students. So there are some really important piece increase inclusive events working on the portrait of a graduate. The these are all really important focus areas for different SGC's. And I think that they're all very valid and important because the school community,
047both [snorts] principal, teachers, and parents are all involved in building out what these are. And that's what it's about. So, we're excited um to go into next year. I mean, we still have some time left this year, but it's good for our SGC's to be thinking about what have we done up this year and what where are we going to go for next year. All right, Dr. Estraa, I'll stop sharing. >> Thank you, Mr. Pennington. Um I want to thank everybody for joining us uh today. It's always a pleasure to uh be learn from the SGC's what are the things that are top of mind but also to share information. Um as this is my last uh SGC board meeting uh gathering I just want to thank everyone for the work that we've done as
048a collective and I've been um really proud of the work that we've done together on behalf of our scholars. So, I'm hoping that the great work continues and that this the district continues to move in an upward trajectory. It's evidenced by the data we we saw today in terms of our Panorama survey that uh the district continues to move forward and upward. And I'm uh hoping the very best for Norc public schools as I transition to Gwinnet public schools. So, I hope that everybody has a restful rest of the day. Happy Cinco de Maju for those who celebrate and we're looking for a strong closing of the academic school year. Please remember to send your letters and to promote to other parents to write to the BET about the importance of funding the at a
049minimum the 4.9% even though we would love to have the 6.5% that we we desperately need to maintain all programs. uh your advocacy is important and um I hope that we have good news May 7th so that we can close out the year strong and that we can keep all of our important faculty to do the important work on behalf of our students. I'll turn it now over to uh Miss Ashley. >> Um yeah, thank you all for for being here. Um it was great to get to listen in and um I need from a board member a motion to adjurnn. >> Motion to adjurnn. Thank you, Sher. Seconded by Mary Ellen. So, have a great night, everyone. Take care. >> Thank you all. Great work. Thank you. Night everyone. >> Bye.