001(Meeting in recess). welcome to today's special school board meeting, we are happy too have you join us and we're thankful for your time and dedication, this special school board meeting is now called to order. Our primary focus is to create a safe and productive environment to all participants, please be reminded on the exit doors, please refrain from obstructing the exit doors, all attendees must occupy a seat with the exception of media, once the board room has reached it seating capacity, you will be direct today an overlow area, please exit from the room in an orderly fax and continue to exit the building and remain outside until the authority that has jurisdiction has deemed the building safe to return. Thank you for your cooperation. All please rise for the pledge of allegiance to the flag of
002the united states of america. 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. thank you. As we prepare to begin our special school board meeting websinger are reminded our vision is 100% proficiency for all our students. As an a-rated school district, our vital task is to sustain this achievement. We will continue educating all students to reach their highest potential. Our theme this year is believe in power achieve one broward. Today's special school board meeting will operate in accordance with the school board policy 2010 and the board will review the items as advertised and presented by the superintendent. The superintendent released a revised agenda with certain changes for this meeting and pub limbed it
003on the school district's westbound site. The chair finds pursuant the 120.525 explore da statute that is good cause exists for such changes and accepts the revised agenda. MAY I have a motion and a second to close the agenda. so moved. Er second. it's been moved by zeman seconded by MS. Rupert. All in favor of closing the agenda, let it be known by saying aye. aye. any opposed? . Inger aye. the agenda is now closed. We're going the take all three items together, so the business on the agenda is items 1-3 which is a motion to adopt the provision providing an average 3.0% recurring salary increase to eligible bpaa, esmab and btu employees for the 24-25 school year. MAY I have a motion and a second on items 1-3. Moved by DR. Zeman, second by school
004board member thompson, it is mourned and seconded to adopt item 1. Is there any public comment on the items? yes, we have one remg steed speaker, DR. Trudy jermanovich. MAY name is DR. Trudy jer nan vifp, aisle heartened this board has pushed to get bond monies through directly into teacher aos pockets early in the school year. This agreement has finally come to pass, so teachers will have a little bit more money in their paycheck. We all know it's not enough to cover rising cost ins broward but the earlier these negotiations start, the earlier they can be finished, something to work on for next year. I hope the board will also ask administrators to be cognizant of things which do not cost money, find the very best principals and ap's that do not overburden their teachers
005but allow them to have flexibility in how they reach their students. Here's a story of why teachers are frustrated with micromanagement. The term fidelity come from the science and is refer tos the precise execution of a protocol in an experiment to ensure results are reliable. Teachers are often told to teach something with fidelity. However, a classroom is not a lab and students are not experiments. As a result, teachers and teacher educators have long decried fidelity and the impact it has on them and their students. One participant in the study, a fourth grade public school teacher described an oppressive environment in their school, they were drive thing curriculum down our throats. We need to meet this at this date and everyone should be at this lesson on this date. This countered what she was taught in
006college, every student is different and every classroom is different and every year is different. Not all teachers will be on the same lesson on the same day, you can't teach science that way because you don't have enough things to do, any kind of experiment widths students, you have to share them. She said in her new placement, my min strait -- administrator, if there is anything ufl your students need, then do it. If it doesn't align with the expensive curriculum we've invested in, that's okay. She said it's been a weight lifted off my shoulders. Our motto should be trust teachers, trust teachers. Let them be seen as professionals and just let them teach. Thank you. next we are going to have anna fusco, PRESIDENT Of btu, and lisa, exec tier director of bpaa. good afternoon, anna,
007broward teachers union, we waited longer than we thought to get this increase but we appreciate the urgency with our new superintendent and some of our newly elected school board members that you are seeing the need to take care of all of our educators in our public schools w. Ve a wide variety of groups that represent in our teachers from our social workers, guidance counselors, psychologist, family counselors, anybody that's in our ese world, between support facilitators, ese specialists and of course our classroom teachers so we know there's trying times out there with financial piece, but there's trying times out there that the there's an assault on our public teachers, we will see what happen widths the department of education from our whole country, we hope that some special words of heart and wisdom are going to
008go through our elect PRESIDENT And do what's right for our public education and not cut funding but we know things MAY get hard fer that happens so we need you guys could be cog any sa pt with what DR. Trudy just said, we know there's a pressure to meet the needs of our students and our teachers are amazing, they're building great relationship widths our students but also building relationship widths their colleagues along with their admin rgts we have great relationship widths our principals and assistant principals but we know the pressure is real that come from the super top, we've made this a, we know the need to keep it. We all know it's not a hidden secret and everybody's out there doing their part. The first thing they do is that they show up and
009then while they're showing up, they're given that extra piece and after they're giving that extra piece, they're going out and getting more to give that extra so we have everybody that work it is extra hour tos meet the needs of our student ins our schools, then they go out and have to work that extra job to be able to meet the needs in their own families so when we get this type of increase and we can continue to make sure that an increase happens, it is well deserved and needed, so we are asking you to make sure that you approve the increase and I do believe I think I'm not going to speak out of turn say hating the superintendent has made a commitment for us to get to the table sooner than later to
010work on an increase and conversations about pieces in your contractors to meet the needs and get an increase before the new year starts and our school year for next year, so if you guys keep those conversations open, talk together, bring it out and then talk to the group that brings it to us to the table. We have a great across the table relationship with your hr department, I think they're getting it because everybody's impacted by everything that's happening in our public school system. Thank you. thank you, next we have lisa max w em, and I'm not sure if mark want tos speak. thank you, MADAM Chair, school board members and staff, I just am here today to thank you basically, this is really such a step in the right direction. You know, we've had some
011really tough years financially and we know that but this marks the point as much we're all kind of on the same page equitably with the raise amount and this is a recurring raise. So, I want to particularly thank the superintendent because I know he worked diligently on this and this was a high priority for him as well as our cfo who spent as I understand it most of her winter break scratching and digging for additional funds to be able to provide raises across the board for all of our employees. This is really a triumphant time and we're going to continue to get better so, I just appreciate every single one of you and your support for this and I just want to introduce our PRESIDENT Mark cap lan, he's the principal at coral glades. ditto,
012thank you, on behalf of over 600 principal and is assistant principals for a recurring raise. I cannot tell you how much my colleagues and I really appreciate it. We know the tough financial times right now but to find it meant a lot to us, so thank you. MADAM Chair, school board members, DR. Hepburn, my name's pete tinjam, I'm the representative for esmab, I'm here to thank you for the 3% raise to all esmab employees, I want to thank you for being include ined the second referendum dollars that we were excluded from the first time around and that has certainly helped us a great deal to be included in that as well. Esmab employees perform a number of functions for development and implementation of curriculum, maintenance of buildings and even though we MAY be suffering with
013some declining enrollment, those programs both federal, state and school board policies still have to be implemented and the square footage and acreage that has to be maintained doesn't go down. So, it's very difficult when employees are not rehired or there's a freeze on hiring to maintain those same services. It slows the amount of service that can be done both in curriculum as well as maintenance. Another issue that esmab employees have is we are expecting degrees, it is different for each level, there's a minimum level of emg kaition required but currently there is disparity between that and I hope we can be able to correct that next year. One of the other point I would like to try to make is the fact that inthe school board and this MAY be a person opinion is receiving
014significantly more accurate financial data now than they had previously and I think it's helped you make wise decisions. Again, esmab wants to help you for your support and we appreciate the raise. Thank you. thank you very much. Is there any board debate on items 1-3? MADAM Chair, I just have a quick question. DR. Holness? so, MR. Tingam mentioned regarding advanced degrees that esmab have different I guess stipend for advanced degrees, is that true, if so, why? DR. Hepburn? I'll ask MR. Azzarito? david azzarito, chief people officer, yes, that is correct, there is some disparity, for instance, I know teachers with ph.D. Are at 8 thousand, our principals are at 4 thousand, esmab is lower than that, we are are work -- work witching the leaders of the meet and confer groups, we're running the numbers
015right now to put that all together. Why it's -- I don't know why, we're looking to fix it. I'm glad we're taking action, we look forward to that in the future. Thank you. thank you, and I would like the say it was really important for us as a board to make sure that we were able to give increases and that they were equitable for all of our employees so we're glad to be here, although we wished we were here earlier. And we thank you, all, for everything that you do. The question is on the adoption of items 1-3. All those if favor of adopting items 1-3, say aye. aye. any opposed? The ayes have it and it is passed ewe nan nows -- you man nosily. The scheduled order of business for the special school
016board meeting of the school board of broward county, florida has been completed, seeing no obligation, I now adjourn the e meeting, and we will be having a ess confnferce and then 'll cocomeck to o