001Okay, we're going to go ahead and bring the April meeting of the board of education to order. I'd like to start with the pledge of allegiance and like to ask Kristen Pigeons to start us. We'll take a motion to approve the agenda. Motion and a second. Are there any objections? Let's start us off to our high school reports. Good evening everyone. Our theme this month is what for us to come straight here from our games at St. George's in New York. So, we're happy to be with you guys today. We drove ferociously but safely back up here. So, Well, we'd love to start you off with our sports. Hi guys. So we have our students versus our student is I can take back over. So, we are so excited to go into our spring sports.
002Obviously, as you can see, Sean and I is spring sport. So, we're definitely committed to that. But, as you can see here, we have some wonderful teams. Uh, especially our boys tennis. As we said, they are returning to home to play a conference champion. They are 7 and0. My lovely softball team has a RA of 699 in five games in the season. We scored 71. So that's super constantly improving. That's another thing that on the end you can see our lovely plan that we have. It is one of our favorite events at Mount and you know we love to feel their energy that comes through whenever we have any meetings and assemblies but they also once again to show that you know we are great to other schools. district sharing that BSC. If you look
003on the next slide, we have further explanations of our commitment. So, we have March Madness again, but March Madness of our guess what April 30th is our spring concert. So, everyone should come out because all of our music programs have been working really hard. This past week, we had a clinician from Newire. Her specialization is in jazz music. So that was really lovely. And then also we brought back our festival which is a lovely student organization that we do. It's a week long. There's different activities like putting socks on your hands and you get points for it. Our highest level of points was take a picture of Joe Biden. But we had a winner at the end and they got a $80 from our prize. And then we also had our BSU go to the
004Washington Monument. They also went to the National African American Museum. So constantly showing our commitment to culture diversity. It was really important because as you can see a lot of times when you think of specific We like to turn people to one ethnicity or one group and we wanted to make sure that we include everybody that we show that where the strength and diversity is by and then lastly we had a recital with music program and they went to PA and they shared some lovely tunes. It's a hidden gem. If you ever listen to music program you should. They know a lot about but that is our our high school report for this month and we hope that you enjoy it. Thank you. Any questions? Okay. Hi, I'm Katie Grant from Brandy Wine High School.
005I hope you all had a great weekend and I'm excited to share some highlights from Brandy W's March event and accomplishments. To start, we celebrated Roll Down Syndrome Day with our annual Rock Your Socks event. Students and staff wore their brightest, boldest, and most mismatched socks to raise awareness and promote inclusion for individuals with Down syndrome. It's a meaningful tradition that brings our school community together every year. The Brandy Wine drama department had an exciting opportunity this month. They were visited by Broadway star Carrie Carrie Butler. Carrie provided hands-on coaching and performance tips as our students prepared for their upcoming musical production of it was an inspiring experience for everyone involved. A huge congratulations to Emily Clayton for placing third in the state for medical law and ethics. She is also the first brand for
006anyone student to qualify for the future health professionals also known as HOSA's national competition in Nashville that will be in July. We also want to recognize our student athletes Abby McFarland, Brody Hawk and Ryan Deasal. Abby is currently ranked 34th in for softball. Brody Hos is ranked eighth in volleyball and Ryan Deas Wall is ranked 49th for baseball. They're all ranked top 50 across the state in their respective sports. Their hard work and dedication truly stand out. Speaking of Abby McFarland, we're proud to honor both Abby McFarland and Von Mwig as Secretary of Education Scholars. Their academic achievements reflect Brainwide's continued commitment to excellence. Next, our Brandon esports team had an amazing run in the first ever Smash Bros state tournament. Five of our players made it into the top 16. And we're thrilled to
007share that Nate and Leven took home the overall win. Congratulations to the whole team. Next slide, please. For our upcoming events, we have our spring instrumental concert on April 15th, followed by the spring vocal concert on April 16th. We hope to see many of you there. Also, our National English Honor Society is running a book donation drive from April 9th to April 17th. Please consider donating any gently used books to support our local schools and communities. Thank you all and any comments or questions from the board? Thank you. Hello, I'm Next. Speaking of amazing job throughout This entire school year, Conquer has been partnering with Sean's House, a mental health organization whose goal is to create a safe place for adolescents struggling with their mental health and providing resources to help decrease adolescent suicide. As
008an entire school, we dedicated March to be the month of kindness in order to spread the importance of mental health and being kind to others in and outside the classroom. Throughout this month, we made a schoolwide kindness quilt filled with hundreds of positive messages, cute drawings, and beautiful colors, all promoting the message of kindness and raising awareness for mental health. Additionally, we hosted a Shantel spirit day where students and teachers wore their Shantel's conquered care shirts or green to spread mental health awareness. During these days, the student council provided students with fidgets to help comfort them when they were anxious and information about Sha House and the mental health resources they provide. We are continuing our Sean House days this week before break and the student council has prepared a be the I in kind
009poster for students and faculty to stand in as the I and help raise mental health awareness schoolwide. Thank you so much for listening and we hope you have a wonderful evening. to even members of the board and members of our audience and community. This month's feature of student outcomes data is emerging and world language stamp. Stamp stands for standards based measurement of proficiency. The language test that measures how well you can speak, listen, read, and write. helps show your real world language skills, not just what you've memorized. Students in our immersion programs start taking some stamp domains in grade three and all four domains at the end of elementary and middle school. Our world language students also take SCAMP and the domains tested determine course level enrollment. New this year, our manager of immersion multilingual
010learners in world language, Dr. Seno, created a d protocol for students to review their progress in world language and set goals for learning over the next year. At the district level, the data will also inform professional learning for immersion and world language teachers. Stamp testing measures world language profic proficiency at the novice, intermediate, and advanced levels. For each grade level in immersion and each level of world language, we have benchmarks tied to grade level expectations. Students should have achieved intermediate to mid proficiency at the end of their eighth grade immersion year or after taking four levels of world language. The following two slides will examine the percentage of students at each benchmark in emerging and world language and how eighth grade proficiency data ties to their nth grade world language course enrollment and high school
011credits earned for testing. As students move through the immersion program and each of world language, we see increasing shifts into the green or intermediate levels. The data clearly shows that immersion in grades K through 8 moves our students to proficiency more quickly than our secondary world language courses. When immersion students attain level five, which is the middle green sheet, they are eligible to take AP level Spanish as a ninth grader and earn four high school credits. level four on stand. They are eligible to take a level four world language course as a freshman and receive three credits. This year, 73% of our eighth grade emerging students are eligible for Spanish level four or AP Spanish next year and students earned a cumulative total of 68 high school credits on the certificate of multiiteracy is a
012recognition by the Delaware Department of Education to honor students who have attained a high level of proficiency in a world language in addition to English. Students receive a certificate and a medallion at graduation. Students attaining a five on stamp in at least the skill areas of speaking, reading, and writing qualify at the gold level for the world language. If they score at least a seven in those skills, they qualify for a diamond level in world language. 10 BSD students across emerging world language met the gold or diamond level for a certificate of multiiteracy on the school year 25 assessment. If they meet the English language proficiency requirement by graduation, they will receive the certificate only. Given that the multiiteracy standard is evidence of college and career readiness in grade 12, it is impressive to see
013some of our eighth grade students already at that level in a world language. Next month we will dive into more college and career metrics and highlight how our students have additional opportunities to demonstrate world language proficiencies on advanced placement and international factor Stephanie has been named the 2025 grade one school district behavioral health professional of the year. The Delaware State Behavioral Health Professional of the Year program is administered by the Delaware Department of Education. The program recognizes outstanding service by school employees who are healthc care practitioners or human service providers that offer services to improve an individual's mental health. Stephanie firmly believes academic success is impossible without students feeling safe and supported first. She's known for being neutral, trustworthy, transparent, and empathetic. Essential in building strong effective connections with students and families. Having spent 16
014years at TALI, she's developed deep relationships with her colleagues, many of whom feel like family. Her work underscores behavioral health professionals critical role in schools, promoting mental wellness, academic integrity, and a culture of empathy. Above all else, her top priority is ensuring students and their families receive the support they need so that no one gets from those nominated at a local level. One behavioral health Professional year moves forward to represent each district or charter school community in the state program. Each district charter network honore receives a $2,000 personal award from the professionals district or charter school. The state program then chooses one person annually to serve as Delaware's behavioral health professional. State honores receive an additional $3,000 personal award from the department and $5,000 the educational benefit of the state honor. students. Six BSD students
015were selected by their building principles to represent us as secretary of education scholars for the class of 2025. Congratulations to Brandy Wine High School's Abigail McFarland and Lovely Conquered High Schools Jonas Wall and Elizabeth Warrington and Mount Pleasant High Schools Adelier and Andrew Dista. Each year, Delaware's Secretary of Education honors select students from the current graduating class for their exemplary work ethic, dedication, and accomplishments in and out of the classroom. These Secretary of Education scholars maintain qualities critical to making a significant difference in the lives in their lives, and also the lives of others. Students are chosen by their principles for their academic records of community service. Congratulations to BSD teachers Tara Brady from Tally Middle School, Stephan Castelli from Pestant Middle School, and Alyssa Luca from PS Middle School for being named 2025 Yale
016National Fellows. Only six teachers from Delaware were named this year. The Yale National Initiative through Yale University promotes the establishment of new teachers institutes based on a partnership between a school district in a local college or university to improve teachers content knowledge. The fellows will participate in a national seminar led by Yale faculty and create a curriculum unit based on their own research to teach in their classroom. After attending a two-day orientation session at VI University in May, they will return for a twoe intensive session in July, during which their seminars will meet daily and conduct research at Yale libraries. In November, they will return for Yale's annual conference, which celebrates the fellows completing the program. By participating in the young national initiative, teachers increase their content knowledge in their subjects, create curricula for their
017students aligned to district standards, and renew their enthusiasm for teaching. Upon completing the program, each fellow receives a stipen and has their curriculum published on the website. Morning. Morning. Morning girls. Heat. Heat. [Music] your everything and there's one person that really helps you get through all of this correct your counselor right people is the Brandy Wine School District behavioral health professional we are so fortunate in Brandy Wine to have such highly effective behavioral health professionals whether it's school counselors. Miss Del fills the sixth grade school counselor role or we're speaking of school social workers, school psychologist. These folks come at a premium. We are so proud that Miss Stiffel is going to be our representative from the Brandy Wine School District for the behavioral health professional of the year. Love each and every one of
018you and I really thank you guys for making me who I am. Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Happy [Music] birthday for anything. I can be anything anyone. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] It's an act of course We'll National something legislative here tonight. Good evening everyone. Um, yes, I will echo those sentiments. I also attended the National School Board Association uh conference down in Atlanta and it was really nice to hear what other school districts are doing. Sometimes things kind of, you know, get siloed in your own states and it was especially in the current environment. to hear what people are doing in terms of like engaging different families um looking at curriculum seeing how we can you know even how things are changing at the different federal state and
019local um funding you know um requirements and things like that. So I did post on social media some of the slides from the different workshops that I was able to attend. And one of the things that I was also able to do was to um go and talk with one of the vendors who um manufactured or at least promotes the different cell phone um sleeve. And I brought back a sample that I'm actually going to share with the board because it's one of the things that we're looking at within our own schools to see how we can use those different magnetized um slots. So or pouches I guess they're called. So it was really nice to um nice But it was also nice to be able to um just expand our horizons to hear other
020ideas, meet with other people as well. I think we had like 45 people from the state state of Delaware who went, but it was nice to see as well different districts within our own state. In terms of the committee that um I'm working on, it's hard to believe that we're already in April. um the people have been really great and focused and we've done a lot of things to basically look across the district to see how we're like maximizing the opportunities of all of our different students and all of our staff. So where we are now is in the our last meeting that we had at the beginning of April. We looked at some of the efforts that we have within the schools at the schools levels and within the district office and we're taking
021a look and saying, you know, basically are we maximizing all of our different um connections, right? What's the communication between the different programs and efforts that we have at the school level and in the district office? How are we using the consultants that we have? Are we using them in the best way possible? Are we using the most recent data is the data speaking to the things that we're doing and talking to each other. So, I will say that it's really good that we have different perspectives on the committee because we have parents um people from district office as well as teachers and administrators and it's nice to be able to um see kind of the real life of how things I think when we develop programs and initiatives in in theory we want them
022to work a different way but all of the environment in the school building influences. So, it was nice to be able to see that. So, we're compiling our recommendations now based on what we've seen and what we've been able to hear from different people during the school year and in the month of May. Well, actually before the the May school board, I'll send all it feedback and then we'll um share ideas. Thank you. moment highlights department partner opioid. So crisis data that The other contleters high school very very very early discussion What would it look like? Um but but those contracts anyway for maintenance. high school a lot of things. Most interesting thing boilers and HVAC system over the summer. We also talked about the summer work. There was a discussion about it was part
023of a bigger discussion about facility use district and how the facility policy can be updated to help protect access but allow The other discussion since parents and citizens here tonight, but we did have our final CACH council fac. last meeting. Thank you. Candidates for school district and went well tomorrow night. She continued the process. Are there any additional board me um I really was fortunate to be able to go down um on March 29th. Uh Mr. I apologize again. Is that how you say it? Thank you. Miss Kennedy and Miss Rossi accomp accompanied There was a group of 17 Spanish and 12 Italian students. My daughter was one of them from Conquer High School. Um they participated in the 2025 world language showcase down at the University of Delaware. And it was really awesome to
024see all of these kids coming. You talked about world languages in your superintendent report and the students they competed individually and in teams on the topics of language proficiency, culture, storytelling um in the target language as well as interpretive escape room challenge. That was the first time for this year. Um they also got to participate in Italian, Spanish, Chinese and French cultural events and really everybody had a great time. It was really good to see all the students from different years or from different schools and our conquered high school students like they did well scoring in the top of every single event. It was great to be able to see our name come up over and over again. So really proud of them. I will take a motion to accept motion. Are there any objections
025or take us to personnel matters? Second motion and a second report. Motion second. Are there any objections or matter-bas matters and motion. Are there any objections or all business required by Anything worth doing is worth doing twice. Um, I'm back here tonight to uh present the final uh approval that I'm seeking for all the documents for Senate Bill 270 at the previous meeting. I just completed the document for the district's plan. Since then, I'll be able to submit to the board the individual requirements by the state for their documentation. In total, we're looking at um close to 200 pages of documentation in the two different ways of looking at this. Um go to the next slide. Um the state report gives a bunch of information. We're really not sure what to do with it, but
026look at minor cap requirements and this really depends on the district's philosophy and the board's philosophy which be a conversation perhaps the requirements for minor capital improvements is 59 million that's spread over 10 years so that's roughly 5.9 million for summer would take care of what we have in our buildings I mean people don't think about it Jason referred to it earlier. technology in our building just replacing the fire alarm system at one high school 5 years ago 45,000 but due to new codes that cost two these are the things that are going to happen this summer just so people are aware the funding this summer is 2.9 million we're saying that should be Next slide. Major cap renovations. If you looked at the other slide, you would have seen there was very little in
027minor cap under Mount Pleasant High. That's because they've crossed the threshold of major cap renovations. Um we're retiring quite a bit of debt. It's always been the district's um intention to always be renovating the building. If they were to say no this summer, this would be um third time they've said no on these renovations. But this is what the nature cap requirements for for our buildings. Now this is nature cap requirements for the buildings that we have. This does not include things that we don't have like building a new site program or moving ahead on other things that we currently don't have. This also doesn't include the money that we've already been appropriated much of which we've been appropriated for the new bush that does not appear on this list. This is major cap renovations
028for what we have and that is documents department. Are there any objections? policies. Good evening everybody. So last month I came to you um to approve adoption of the district's crisis response policy. I was provided with some uh feedback and comments. those adjustments policy will apply to approve the adoption of crisis response polic. have a motion. Oh, I'm sorry. I thought you were motion. All those in favor, please say I. That'll take us down to the next item which is the draft 256. I am here tonight code of conduct. And before I begin, I'd just like to publicly thank the members of this year's code of conduct committee. There have been a lot of changes coming from the state. This committee has worked incredibly hard. They put in a lot of hours to make this
029draft code. And so I just want to publicly thank them and just just say how proud I am the work we've done and of this draft that we have to present to you tonight. So, you're going to see um all the members of the committee. Um I wish I could put absolutely positively every member on there. When I say that, it's because these members represent um certain uh stakeholder groups and then they go back and report out and get their feedback. I'm happy to say that this year we did add middle school students to our code of conduct committee. This is the first time that we've had middle school students um and they were quite intricral to the work that we began. So I'm happy about that. SL conduct you saw previously making. So we
030began at the end of the first period. The whole committee met we feedback. We had created subcommittee and then this year we actually had the technology team to recommend AI language code. Next and again the labor law as members of the team we wanted to make sure that the code of conduct was fair students teachers and parents. So we wanted to create a safe and nurturing learning environment equable for all students provide both active support and interventions to teach appropriate behavior. The code we talked about was not designed to penalize student actions that students have. It is strong and restorative and behavior. In addition, and this is new for this year over the last few years and really the purpose of the maintenance and then what are the interventions that really focus problem. It also
031district Sometimes you have copies of the nature in your doc so that you can look and see um steps. that we discussed. So, here we are. Um, as a result of discussions and data analysis of the legislator school climate task force, which uh Dr. Lawson and President Acriman uh had the pleasure of serving on that committee. They established a revised list of violations for the district code of conduct. Department indicated that we were not to add violations or delete violations. So our district again our code of conduct committee had to work to revise our code to fit in with these guidelines. So the rationale for this development was that several districts had come to the state and shared that the offense codes needed to be aligned with federal reporting. So that came out of the
032data group which hope Moffett for us serves on. They also addressed the alignment concerns and decided that it was an opportunity to streamline the number of offenses. So we used to have upwards of offenses. Now we're down to 45. Um the other thing they wanted to do was to remove criminal codes from school offenses to separate those two out. Uh statewide data was used to determine which offenses we use most often, which ones weren't used. Um and you'll see when uh Miss Corgan comes up which ones that were added. So during the review, I think the most important thing that that was determined was that we uniform definition. So, they gave some they gave us a couple of examples like inappropriate behavior. Some kids were being um given a day of detention for inappropriate behavior
033all the way up to people being suspended 3 to five days for inappropriate behavior. So, they really want to try with these new offenses to streamline and make us more uniform. Next slide, please. just to kind of walk you through this process of what we did. The committee met um and we compared side by side the current code with the new proposed code. Um and there are many changes, but there are some that are notable for us to look at. Use of profanity is now included in inappropriate language and gestures. So cursing and swearing is now included in that definition where previously it was not. Teing teen dating violence is now a check box in infinite campus. It is not a separate offense as it has been previously. Bullying and cyber bullying are now included
034in the definition with harassment and the level four assault three is now assault causing physical injury. The hope is that in streamlining these things and in comparison with the current code that we have now um that we are making sure that we are following the code and working hard as an entire district to make sure we are all on the same page that we are all following and assigning those leveled um codes and consequences appropriated. There are some notable additions um as well as changes. One is exposure, meaning exposing any part of private part. Um, and so as you can imagine, our matrix that was developed by the committee that we worked through um does go page to 12. So that can vary going from building to building. However, the definition is very clear um
035so that we are making sure again that we are assigning the appropriate code and then trying to modify those behaviors. Um other school crimes is now also included. And then safety violation. And I'm just going to read to you the other school crimes so that we can have some clarity around that. Any significant incident resulting in disciplinary action not classified previously but required to be reported under the school crimes reporting law. This may include arson, manslaughter, etc. And then safety violation is now students who engage in any behavior that is not appropriate for school and has the potential to put the students or others in danger. So with these new addition. There are a few other additions um that are noted within the document shared on board docs in our matrix um just so that
036way we are all up to date and we are making sure that we are keeping our schools safe for so as you can imagine our students um had some input to what we discussed during our code of conduct meetings and I gave them my that I would share with you um tonight um their considerations for the dress code. And so if you guys are listening, Dr. McKenna is being true to her word and presenting your proposed changes for the dress code. So we did in fact tell them that we had a heavy lift for this school year and that we would uh consider their proposals for the 26 27th school year. We did share with them that there's a process. Um, so they did come and they served and they presented to us and we
037did explain to them that dress code has an implication for lots of different stakeholders and that we would need time to be able to speak with all those stakeholders before making any changes. So these are the three areas of the dress code that they came to us with concerns. They came with a full-blown uh Canva project and they came with their own proposed language. It was very well done, quite impressive. Um, but again, we need to be able to vet that and go through the process. So, um, they wanted changes to or propose changes to outerw wear to head and then clothing with frayed edges and visible holes. Next slide. So, yes. So, they had a question around um coats. They were like, well, a lot of us don't even use our locks, right? So,
038currently the code says that they can't wear um outer wear indoors. So, that was their concern around that one. The other one um headwear was around um mostly students who So, right now you can wear it if it is for religious purposes, but students are are wanting to wear that more of a as a cultural um expression. You know, the head wraps that match their outfits and of that major. So that was their concern around head and the other one was they basically just said you know clothing with frayed edges and visible holes is all we all we have in school like if you tell us that we now currently we say I think I can't remember the exact language but something you have to have leggings underneath I think and it have to be
039a certain mid thigh or you know some kind of language around that. So those were the the main three things they had concerned about and wanted to address. Sure. I wish I could tell you. I know that one year um it just I feel like it just happened honestly. I remember my days at conquered and I remember having my office full of kids coats because they would come in every day and they would just like I'm not putting this in a locker and they I don't know if it's a cool thing. I I really don't even know what the trend is or why but I don't know maybe I could ask my kids who are on the code of conduct and maybe they probably would tell me I have no idea when when the tide
040shifted or why. for like it was like a cut off they had to sign up for lockernware. Okay. I think I understand. So students presenting their follow. Can you please elaborate a little bit? Why did you or maybe it sounded like we're saying that's not something that we were able to accomodate this year. So So it was just not the cultural heads. So they that was just an example I gave, but they were also talking about like bandanas and um I don't do rags. like there was a whole host of things. Um and so I thought we better just kind of wait so that we can discuss it all but it was not a a separate issue. We do have a process in place where they can wear those. Right. So, we have one now
041for Right. That's the That's the typically The reason why I also see other teachers wearing them. So I'm curious as to why what our justification is why teachers are wear really very concise and it looks great and I will tell you having served on that there's a big difference South the opportunity comparison they're just out of control. question. Yes. And then there are certain crimes where we have to I I call them double entry. I don't know what the other language is. So, I apologize for that. But yes, there are some that are mandatory to report. And thank you for saying that. So, thank you for reading that out loud. I need to go back. And then my second question probably but I'm wondering right if there's a way to consolidate it and if there's
04220 policies that use the same whatever this charts called one section all these policies the matrix will help us streamline that I think imagine how fast much pages. I haven't seen whichever you prefer. Okay, I can take So, I'm still gathering those documents because the offenses are new. And so, the state is still gathering that document to attach law code. They're also gathering the new um regulations 614 and 616. Those haven't gone out yet for the 30-day public comment. So, you will some things in there, Kristen, that are not yet ready for me to put in there, but as soon as I have them, I just didn't want to wait any longer to give you guys the first read because we are up against, you know, the timelines to get it through by you and
043then publish. So, there are some things like that that you Yes. Yes. And I think any other questions or comments whenever tells me it it won't go until after we get the all the Yes. I think that's why that first page just kind of says we'll update when we have because we also wait for all the the school administrators to be in place for what time You are always Good evening to our distinguished board members, superintendent, PSD community, those who are present and virtually as well as our PSD employees. My name is Lina Jones Davis and I serve as the chairperson for the district calendar committee. I would like to also at this time to publicly um express appreciation for the calendar committee. As you know or may not know, we are planning calendars two
044years in advance. So the committee we are constantly meeting, revising. So I do appreciate I'm sure they are listening. I appreciate all the long hours and your effort towards this committee. This evening, I'm here to present the first read of the proposed draft calendar for school year 2627. Also, I will share with you a slight change on the approved 2526 calendar that only applies to seniors. For your review, I did include a copy of the draft calendar in your Friday board packet for your convenience this evening. I have provided a folder with the documents that you can reference during the presentation. And we will begin with the documents. Before reviewing the proposed calendar, I would like to share with you how ESB calendar requirements that the calendar reference as we plan for the district calendar.
045So the first thing that we always do is we start off with a blank calendar and then we look at the calendar requirements such as the holidays as we see and days in which the schools are closed offices are open and at any point in the presentation question. These are just additional calendar requirements. We look at for students. We also look at uh teacher days. It's a total of 188 uh work days for our teachers. So when we are looking at the calendar, we cannot go beyond the 188 work days. Uh we also make sure that we provide two additional professional development days for our new teachers. Here's the breakdown for the future days. Uh the one that is highlighted as two trade in days. You will notice that that will be reduced to one
046trade in day and that's based on the recent negotiation. There will be one trade in day. So we will actually identify that second day. Um as a committee we will sit down and decide how we will allocate or reallocate that particular day. But Moving forward, it will be one trade in. And once we get to the calendar, you will be able to see where that trade in day is typically placed. We have four uh days in August and that gives you a breakdown and I don't want to read each one to you, but also the professional responsibility days, which are basically grading dates. Highlights for the 26 27 calendar. You'll in a few minutes where Labor Day is is a little bit later than typical for 2026 year. I just mentioned the trade day. We're
047going to talk about that. And the last student day is June 8th. Any questions? We're going to move on to our calendar. And the way this is typically done, I will just go through each month and discuss any highlights and at any point you can either hold your questions until we get to the end June or you can just stop me and let me know if you have any questions or comments. So hopefully you're able to see this. So for August 11th and 12th, that's where our professional development days are for our new teachers. And the following week, we have professional days for our all of our teachers. And that may consist of in school professional development, district professional development, and time for teachers to set up their classes. The other the first day for
048students is on the August 24th and please note on where Labor Day is September. So it's a little bit later what we may used to please note September 15th that may change because right now uh House Bill 400 know last week there was a a vote that is taking place in the House of Representatives as to whether or not to move the general primary election to April which will be aligned with the presidential primary So we may have to come back and revisit but that is a student day that is a teacher day right now uh professional development. So we will either leave that there or we may move that to another highlight here would be October October 9th professional development. This is typically a state day that pro that provides our teachers, educators with
049u professional development, but this day actually may move. We don't know ahead of time when professional development will be offered by the state. So it is indicated this day may move depending. And then we have our teacher and parent conferences listed there as well. There was there's always discussion uh are the conference days coming too soon? Are they too too late in the process? We actually moved it up some uh I believe last year this year closer to end of October. So parents do want to know how their children are doing as early as possible. So that was an agreed upon time frame between teachers and also for November. See the days that we are out in November. Uh professional responsibility today again that is a grading day and the week of Thanksgiving has trade
050in day and I mentioned to you based on the contract agreement negotiation that we are going down to one trade. So we will be looking at the 25th. Do we want to keep that as our trading day and you will see in December is the second trading day which is um summer is pretty pretty there are days off for the winter break. You see that there is a trade in day which is the 23rd. already referenced that will be a day it could again be this day or it could be in the one in November that the calendar committee and others will sit down and discuss exactly where so this calendar also runs into January special responsibility January next end of January and February we had another parent teacher conference we had the school and
051offices closed on President's Day of course just it now I I will talk to you later about will be added for our seniors. Uh it's called an asynchronous day and this I believe was started last year where one day was set aside where there's testing going on with 9th 10th and 11th graders PSAT and SATs on that particular day which is again the first Wednesday in March is where seniors stay and they will work asynchronous on that particular day. It definitely helps in the school all hands on deck. It cuts down on the flow of traffic throughout the hallway and not as much staff needed trying to monitor the hallway when you are focused on all three grade levels testing. So we will add for the first Wednesday in March we will add and next
052we have March March we have on March 10th Islamic Muslim holiday there and those dates kind of float every year is in a different place And we have the Friday and then professional responsibility. Changing that will also change the Looks like and actually two as you go to the next slide memorial's day is May 31st graduation June 6 last student day June 8th and 9th 10th 11 are dedicated to professional responsibility. Uh schools have option of providing some close out uh business that they may have to take care of or data. The district has that option as well as providing some end of the year professional development. And of course we provide time for our teachers open for questions. probably like they love this. If I took a survey tonight, I would get 100% that
053they do. The way it's set up right there is something that teachers have asked for. I mean, that's something that we could take back to the community. I wasn't saying at all. I was just saying that at the time. So each year it changes. So when we sat and discussed it That time you're absolutely right. It was only one that follow And I am I can look into that. That's whether or not we can actually add that to our because there are some state requirements that we have to make sure. I just want to double check that. celebrates those holiday. How is that? This is the first and also I provided side of the folder is the 2526 calendar. So you could just look at the March 5th 2026 states there that is asynchronous day
054we just need to move that to the fourth. So next month when I come up here, I will be asking you um to of course approve the proposed 2627 calendar and ask for your approval to move the asynchronous day one day back March. Are there any other questions or comments? I appreciate those of you who have shared comments with me. Uh again, thank you for listening and we understand the work that we have for the calendar committee because people plan their vacations we get a list from the department of elections and it used to be a circumstance by which um there wouldn't be any allowable changes I think um now that you watch it comes to facilities and there is somewhat Yes. Yes. So that's true now in the past. to the district. First item
055on the agenda district, three members. Additionally, Thank you. Next on the agend. the approval of ind Second estion. that our current schedule is attached forward. We suggest that ourselves the reason for that is govern and attach ourselves to a local. So going forward, we would also make sure that administrative salary local will not increase. The salary Motion administrator salary local Sorry administrator salary scale. Yes. Yes. Financial million more than enough to accept. Second. Are there any objections financial report? All right. So, we have monthly financial report. We just wanted that jump out. Moving to the expended amounts to 74.1 pri At the bottom of page four, you see that we have obligated senator Next page request July through March. Show the actual cash flow. Ending balance. We're not board. Bottom line. Addition to accept motion
056in a second. Are there [Music] any motion carries? Uh general information our regular board meeting on May 12th it's listed at Brandy High School here at Mount Pleasant Elementary. We will be at Brandy Wine in June and then we have a special meeting for July 9 at that. A motion to motion second. Are there any objection for meeting?