001I'd like to call to order the board of education meeting for Monday, September 22nd. Please rise for pledge of allegiance and moment of >> silence. 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. >> William Brady >> here. >> Nicole Emory >> here. >> Andy >> here. Jennifer Baker here, Amber Bracket, Heather O'Reill Roberts >> here, >> John High Street >> here. >> Mr. President, we have a quum. >> Uh, we don't have the recognition today, so we'll go right to the consent agenda items. >> I'll make a motion that the board of education approves all consent agenda items, including agenda, minutes, personnel items, treasure reports, and bills listed A through C. >> Support. All right,
002moved and supported. Any discussion? All right, all those in favor say I. >> I. >> Any opposed? All right, that passes for information items. Look at that. Um, we do have we updated our code of conduct or in our board operating procedures last time. So, we had a chance to look it over. It looks good. We'll send a thing to sign again after the meeting. So, don't run out right away. All right. Other than that, Mr. Mro, >> thank you. Um, well, obviously I said this this week's been a tough week for the the high school student schools in general. And uh but with that being said, uh I I really wanted to just express thank you to the the staff, the students, and the community at large uh for really kind of coming together
003last week and and being there and supportive to to our students here, to the family, uh Kevin's family, and just to everybody. And it it's it's one of the really cool things about being in a small community is like that visual on Wednesday to just seeing how many people were there and and just the emotion and and the caring and it's you know having that when you're going through a tragedy like that it just it means a lot. So just I'm very thankful for the community we have and just thank you very much. Um, with that, moving on. Uh, this past week, we all we had a, uh, our state testing award trip for our middle school students based on their PSAT and MSTEP. They got to go to Colony Bowl and they always treat
004us right when we go over there for the bowling alley. Kids had a lot of fun. Uh, just coming up here, we have homecoming on October 10th with the dance on October 11th. Uh, conferences on October 15th and 16th. uh NJHS and NHS induction on October 27th. Uh I'm sorry, the 20 uh I can't even read my line here. Uh it's the 23rd and then 2025 academic awards uh from last year when they get their pins and letters and all that based on the second semester. That's October 24th. That's tenatively also going to be our middle school fall dance will be also on October 24th. and D and I just kind of coordinated and the little ones coming over to the high school is going to be on October 30th the Thursday uh because they
005don't have daycare on Friday so make sure that they need to participate. So that's thank you stage >> um we started our year off with our first PTO meeting. It's a small but mighty group of parents this year. We have just a small handful but Amber will go on. We're kind of changing up our um low dash fundraiser and she'll give you a little more information on that. Lots of fun activities, but most importantly, they're still allowing the teachers um a $75 grant for each classroom, and they very much appreciate that. So, it's super nice that they're able to do that. Um this past week the transportation department brought over some buses and all the students were able to get on the bus with their classroom teacher um dean transportation drivers were going over the
006rules with the kids. Teachers were able to clarify and then Mrs. Dawson and myself were around and we're hoping to really shape up some bus behaviors this year. Uh, we also chartwells had a farmers market last week and that was a lot of fun actually. The kids got veggie bucks in a little bag and they got to go through the line and uh pick, you know, I think it was like up to seven different items, but I was like thinking each veggie buck was going to be like here's a carrot and here's whatever. But they had them like bunched. So they actually got a very good amount. And uh, one of our families that has five kids was like, "Oh my gosh, you couldn't believe how much I had after that. So, that was really
007fun. Everybody thought it was a great day. Um, and our ELA consultant, our coach from Rha, she's starting a book club with Millside staff and Elangquin staff. It's um uncovering the logic of the English language and just it to give us more of an understanding um to how to teach reading basically. So, it's totally voluntary. We had a pretty decent sized group like 12 plus people in it and um each month we're going to meet and try to extend our knowledge on that. And last but not least, we have our PLC's met last week and we were able to group our students and get one time started earlier than we ever were than we've ever been able to. So, we're happy about that, too. Okay, so keep >> September has been busy at Millsite as
008well. We've been working hard to establish our routines um at both elementaryaries. We actually were fortunate to have the vision and hearing screening take place last week. We also had our first PLC's at Milside and we met as grade levels to meet and discuss our assessments. Um we're looking to doing our next PLC here soon and we'll be looking at our data and grouping accordingly so we can meet the needs of our learners. We also had our kickoff today for the PTO Rise of the Muskrats fundraiser. That's kind of our Muskrat bash rebranded. So, kids were super excited for that. Um, Mrs. Wilson is helping out from the vertical raise company. So, she did a really cute video of herself on an inflatable chicken that was shared with all the kids to kind of get
009them motivated to participate as well. Um, also courtesy of the PTO, both buildings welcome science alive over this week and last. So that was a great opportunity for our students to engage with the presenters to get some awesome science facts. They loved interacting with the animals, lots of labs, smiles, and and they were sharing those facts as well. So happy to have them back. I know it's been a couple years since they've been in. Um we have the fire department coming in October, so we'll go ahead and have that annual fire presentation that's or annual fire prevention presentation that teaches them the skills and knowledge they need to be safe during those times, too. Um, and I think that's it. A lot of overlap there, so we tried to cover both from both ends. >>
010Thank you, Gazelle. >> So, the beginning of the year is off to a great start so far. The kids are getting used to their new rooms, teachers, and routines. Um, looking ahead to October, it's a pretty busy month. Um, the fire department will be coming out to go over fire safety and show off the fire truck. Um, we have picture day, our food bash, and then trick-or-treating at the high school. Thank you, Miss Sanders. >> Well, the beginning of the year, all curriculum programs are up and running. There you go, John. >> Um, we're still working on a few kinks, a few places along the way, but everybody is up and moving. The sixth through 8th ELA pilot, as well as the chemistry and physics pilot, will have their first checkpoint next week. So, we'll
011check in with not only um our trainers, but together to see how everything's going to try to problem solve any issues that are currently happening or arising. On the other front, K through five reading will be moving to a third edition very soon. The company's responded that they're almost ready to launch the new edition for us. We received a grant to pay for the updated version as well as the online intervention boost um that goes with the program. So, we're really excited to do that. The is anxiously awaiting. I get an email from a teacher every day or two like news. So, I'm excited that they're excited about that. And recently, state scores were released. Um, we just started looking at the data where we have improved and where we still need to work. Um,
012the district will bring these to the boards. >> Thank you. >> Any board reports? >> All right. How about you? >> Just a couple items. Um appreciate as always the board allowing uh me to travel to the state conference. 750 attendees which is pretty cool. 600 of which are superintendent and so there's only about 700 superintendents in the state kind of catches pretty much all of them. So that was that was cool. And um good news and bad news. I mean, we still a lot of the discussion was around the lack of a budget, which is something that we're still um having to contend with. Um I told you I was going to talk with Dorothy a little bit about just to see how long uh you know, we can go without receiving incoming. And
013we are sitting actually in a pretty good spot. we decided that we can make it to Christmas without uh having to borrow, which is pretty good because there's a whole bunch of schools that if uh October 20th state state aid payment doesn't come to scramble. So, um that that's at least reassuring. And if we're into December without a budget, then I I I don't know what happens at that point. Um but I you know I just I I we'll keep uh keep uh pounding on the legislators to get that done. So um little bit of good news. Um so with the clinic being closed down um we we did not give up on that and we were looking for alternate ways where we can still get use out of that clinic. Um, Community First of
014Algenac, uh, Mike Bernowski reached out to me and we've been working now with the health department about getting that state grant transferred to them in which they would oversee the clinic and it's not really set in stone yet. There's a process that we have to go through, but it's all moving in the right direction. And so I'm I'm very excited and uh Mike I couldn't you know thank enough for it's something that they've wanted to do some school-based stuff anyway and uh they are looking to jump in hopefully on this so that that could be a good thing for us. Um just a couple other little things. Um next year we are switching our uh student information system to power school. power school is the one that's used pretty much everywhere that Skyward isn't. Um
015so you know all the Mcome schools and pretty much our whole county. So the county made the decision to switch about four years ago. Um and they did it decided to do it in two phases. half of the county. So, Port Heron, Yale on the western side of the state or western side of the county decided they would go first and we kind of stayed back figuring maybe they'll work out some of the bugs by them which is hopefully what's happened. So, us in East China will be jumping on uh next year. Uh but that process starts right now because we have to start transferring over information and getting our staff trained in it. So, uh it's kind of a year-long process. We're just going to start embarking in that. I've been talking to the
016Rhysa and we're going to get a group trained over here and hopefully that's a smooth transition. I know they had some kinks to work out, but they've had it for a couple years now, so I think we're in a good spot. And from what I understand, it's quite a bit uh user friendly. Um maybe more so than the current one that we have. So, um that's a good thing. And then just lastly, uh want to thank Dorothy uh for another clean audit. Um, we had a it was um they were in and out of here in two days and um nothing but good things to say about Dorothy and Mary and and the staff here and taking time to make sure that uh it went smooth. A lot of that stuff sent to them up
017front now, but when they were actually here, they were Yeah, I think maybe out of here by what time on Friday and noon on Friday. So, that was pretty cool. And uh no findings. So, Dorothy, great job. Way to go. Great job. >> November. >> And that's it. >> That's it. >> All right. Visitor request. >> Yeah. >> Motion to adjourn. >> Beat me to it. >> I always do. >> Support. >> Um, all in favor? >> Any opposed? >> All right. >> Thank you. >> That's it. >> 13 minutes to go live.