001Good evening everyone. Welcome to the uh Hampton School Board meeting on February 10th, 2026. Could we start by uh rising in the pledge of allegiance? >> 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. I'd like to um start this meeting with um anyone that would like to come forward with public comment under RSA 91- colon 2. Again, we're looking for anyone that has public comment. Seeing that there isn't one, we will reserve some time to for the end of the meeting to do that. Um, I'd like to just say two things real quick. I want to give a shout out to the school counselors in all of our schools. Last week, last
002week was school counselor week, and I think we have by far the finest in the state right here in Hampton, New Hampshire. Our school counselors are pretty amazing. I'd also like to give a shout out to um Tim Harrington and the facilities and um maintenance people. all the hard work that you have done keeping the schools safe and especially with all the snow and probably more snow to come. But we thank you very much for that. Um we really appreciate it. Good work. Okay, I guess we will start with school board member updates and um Miss St. Gene isn't here. Buildings and facilities. Do you have anything for that? >> Uh no update, but while you have me, you want me to give the PTA update? It is brief. there's going to be a spring
003event coming. Uh rumor is it might involve a fun run. So keep your eyes and eels ears peeled for um an update on that front. >> Okay. Um, on curriculum, I would just say that we are very fortunate to be continuing um, looking at our new math program, Everyday Math, and um, continuing to assess it and make sure we've got what we need and plan for and budget for things that we might need in the future for that. Um, I know our students have just gone and it's on the principal's report through their midyear assessments and so I know that data is being reviewed um so that programs for all students um if they need to be adjusted appropriately we'll have that happen and one of the things that I really was um found great
004is that we're working on our handwriting and especially some cursive. Um so that that's um that's excellent because I know the kids will need it. Um, I'll just talk a little bit about professional development. Um, and I know that staff are currently completing or continuing to certify in Alice training and um, safety care training. So along with their regular professional development, they're doing that kind of professional development as well. And then finally, I can just update you. The wellness committee met and they are getting ready to do their spring campaigns. um again being just again reminded that they they have a certain amount of money that they get through the health trust fund and we want to make sure that that money is used um to again things for hydration stations. Um the I noticed
005Marston's having one on safety in the sun. That's kind of cool. And the academy got some donation of gym equipment. So I know that there's um some talk about how that equipment is going to be used and maybe even some staff will be able to use it as well. So, um that I think do we have anything else? Any other committee report? No. As you notice, we have a couple of board members missing and unfortunately illness has has hit everyone. [laughter] So, that's why you have me. And so, if we've finished with that, why don't we go on to principal reports and um Mr. Robbitai, if you'd like to join us. All right. Uh, good evening. Um, so in my report, uh, just discuss some things that are going on around center school. Um, as
006Mrs. Shepard noted, uh, we have gone through all our mid-year benchmark data, um, which means creating new, you know, tier 2 intervention groups, uh, primarily in math and literacy, um, to make sure students are getting the right dose of what they need, um, over at center. Um the 100th day of school was last week, so we had a lot of fun celebrations. Um we had some parades around center school. We had kindergarten with 100 day collections. Um it's always a fun event um in the early elementary grades. Um we also had Groundhog Day and we had the Super Bowl. So it was a busy uh themed week over at center. Um as Mrs. Shepard also noted, we're spending some extra time uh with our handwriting. I noted that last month. So, um I've been going
007down to lunches every week and working on correct uh letter formation. Um primarily on the lowercase letters, but we do talk about uppercase as well. Um it's interactive, so the students are involved. Um our occupational therapist Christine Connor has been uh played a big role in helping me out um along with other members of our literacy committee. So, uh it's fun to get down there for myself too to hang out with the kids and um talk about handwriting. Um and then just uh I noted in my report as well um the the main four hallways very busy as our K to2 students have been working on coding um very basic coding with Mr. Dutton um as he has the robots up and running um so you got to watch your step when you walk into
008the building. Um I just wanted to note we have a lot of literacy events coming up in March. Um I believe I'm going to also have Mrs. Shaw Ryan and Mrs. Dunham with me um for celebration in March to go over all the awesome stuff that we are uh planning for our students. We have author events. We do one school, one book. We have a reading challenge um and our guest reader day as well. So, we're looking forward to all of that um after vacation. Um I have also sent out uh week of wonder information to families. Um last year uh the center school staff really took that back over. Uh we were able to have a successful week. Uh we're looking for more um family, parents, community um outreach volunteers. So that will continue
009to go out. Um we already have um we already have several people who have signed up to host events. That's May 18th, 19th, and the 21st. So we have plenty of time. Um but week of Wonder is an opportunity for enrichment activities um for our K2 students to sign up for um after school. So, we're looking forward to uh the PTA playing a bigger hand in that um getting it back up and rolling and we appreciate all of their help. And just a reminder as well, we have conferences coming up in March as well um on March 19th. And I believe that is the majority of my report. If anybody has any questions, I'd be happy to answer. I noticed in your report there was one thing that I probably should mention for all of
010our schools, but you do have um February 15th is school resource officer day. So, let's make sure we celebrate. >> We're very lucky to have the three school resource officers. They work very well together. We're actually going to talk more about safety and our safety committee this evening. Um so, they work very well with um all buildings administration. We're very lucky. >> Yeah, we are very lucky to have one in each school. Thank you. Okay, have Mr. Sadler. Hello everybody. We're all at the PTA together, so it's a good time. Um, it's nice to see everyone. Just a few things going on, you know, just regular learning, of course, and a lot of fantastic stuff going on in the classrooms this time of year, but bigger schoolwide. We're participating in our penny drive. We talked
011about it um with our students. is the three weeks of February. We usually go to a local bank. Some of them are so gracious to let us come in and wave all the fees and let us just dump our change and then we donate it to a local charity here in town. So, it's um just a great community effort. Um we're trying to find people. I've said it a lot of times, but for our Wicked Wonderful Wednesday program, it's usually like four or five consecutive Wednesdays in April. Um really, if you have any sort of skill or talent or like passion for something, um we've had, you know, sports type things. We've had baking, cooking. We just try to get as many as we can of activities going on for those consecutive weeks and then
012um have students sign up for it. It's just it it used to be so great it it kind of went away during COVID and we've always tried to revive it and just haven't got there yet. But I'll plug it every year. And then the last big thing going on is on March 25th will be our variety show. It's our you know kind of one big fundraiser we do. We're gener uh you know grateful that we have such a generous PTA that offsets a lot of our costs. But um we do do the fund the variety show as a fundraiser. It'll be here at Hampton Academy and forms will come out at the end of this week with more information for students about how they can participate in it. Um but it's a wonderful event. And
013then finally today we had a great assembly at school. Um it was the NED show was um very new to us in Hampton. We have actually used some of their videos before and other things schoolwide, but their message is never give up, encourage others, and do your best. Um, it's an interactive assembly where he does some magic and a lot of yo-yoing. Um, so if you have Mars students and they start talking a lot about yo-yos, um, don't be surprised, but um, you can check it out online. We'll have some information coming out later this week, you know, for um, followup at home and and to keep the message going on. But otherwise, just a great time of year and a lot of hard work by our staff and our students. So, looking forward to
014any questions you might have. Otherwise, >> wanted to give a shout out to Victoria Mcweeny, >> uh Sophie Gloss, and Zoe Hartman for their success with the regional with the spelling bee and uh Victoria is moving on to regionals, right? >> Yeah. And what's um what's awesome about it is her older sister was actually the spelling be champion when she was in fifth grade and they both had Mrs. Hinchcliffe. So, it was just her sister was there. It was like a nice moment afterwards. Um we'll probably have her at an upcoming school board so we can recognize her. And the way they do it now is we used to send someone almost always over February break up to conquered and you would participate in that like a live you know spelling bee and it's actually
015a vocabulary test. Now they do an online assessment and if they do well in that then they get invited to conquer. So it's a couple more steps but we'll look forward to sometime later this month or early March she'll participate in that and we'll see how she does. Okay. >> Awesome. Thank you. Have a good night. >> Anybody questions? No. Okay. >> Dr. Campbell. Good evening everyone. Uh busy time for us. Uh we just want to thank everyone staff and uh Jackie Kennedy and Miss uh Miss Morsy for an excellent year at ski club and uh fantastic Friday seemed to be an excellent uh proved to be another excellent event to get students to experience new things have some fun who for those people who don't want to go skiing um but have fun as
016well in the afternoons while the ski club students do go um but we are starting our transition to uh to for our eighth graders over to Winunn High school. Tomorrow at 6:30 will be course selection night. Parents and guardians are asked to sit with their students in the auditorium at 6:30. On the 17th, we'll be having a a an assembly for our eighth graders for the jazz band and the chorus from Winna High School is going to come to perform uh followed by a uh counselor Q&A. And we'll also have the S Coast School of Technology here to explain what they can offer to the students. So, it proves to be a really good start to our transition process. Um, SpellingB, congratulations to uh Olivia Abdi, um, Abdelamid, who was our winner, and Brook Barry,
017who is our runner up. Our students of the month, Justin Pike, Andrew Lewis, Pippy Magnum, Will Deno, Olivia Lord, Bella Kachu, uh, Brody Bernari, and Nashley Javier Dela Cruz. Uh, congratulations to the students of those month. Um, we want to highlight we have a hundth day of school fundraiser for gather going on at the current moment started by our RIA teachers. Uh, we uh everyone in the home rooms have been asked to collect some food and so to support our local uh the local food pantries that gather. Um, our Interact fundraiser this week uh will be Hats for Hunger and Lollipops for Love to support the Interact international and local projects. Uh followed by on Friday, students have signed up to go to the Lane Library for a Yeti PJ party uh to act as
018role models for and to help students ages 1 through 5 in the afternoon. So, uh it should be a good time there. Um we are have a spirit week next week uh that we're excited about um Olympic themed and on Thursday uh February 19th at 3 p.m. our unified basketball game will be held at Hampton Academy. Um, we'll be playing Timberlane Regional Middle School and proves to be a big event. We'll be wearing our blue and white to support the team and support our school spirit. Uh, when we get back, we have um Ghost Light will our Hampton Academy players have set March 5th, 6th, and 7th as uh the dates for their play. So, we're excited to see uh they've been practicing really hard and we're excited to see that performance. Last year was
019a great performance. We're excited to see what's coming up this week this year. That said, I'll open it up to any questions. >> No, but I was really excited when we came in for the deliberative session to see the little towns that the seventh grade students had made. >> Yeah. >> And I thought that was, you know, very interesting and they designed them and printed them and created this model town and >> the backstory to the whole thing is it's really great. So, um, bunch of excellent things that we have in our tech department. I recently got a 3D printer and I've had plenty of challenges with it. So, uh it's amazing what they can do. Um >> that was was good for towns people to come in and see the towns that towns of
020the future maybe that our students are making. >> So, it's kind of exciting. >> Okay. Well, I guess we're all set. Thank you. >> Thank you very much. >> And thank you again for going skiing and especially with the cold weather and Ellen and Mr. Cavalero and Jackie Kennedy and a few others. Yeah, it was really great this year. It was cold. >> Yeah, it was cold. [laughter] Hi, Miss Stenson. >> Hi. I thought I would take the opportunity this month to just talk about some of the reporting that we do for um New Hampshire Education Department. So should we have a student who is having an extremely hard time and there is no um safe way to help them other than to perform either a restraint or a seclusion. We have a process for
021documenting um those incidents. There is a statewide reporting form and so I just wanted to share with you data from last year. Um this is all listed on the state websites. Um, none of our buildings had any incidents of restraint or seclusion last year, but you can see that statewide there were 1,126 restraints generated um and 1,491 seclusion reports. The state also looks at those to determine if they feel like they need to do any further action or investigating. So currently there are three active or ongoing restraint investigations in the state and one for seclusion. Again, we didn't have any. I just think it's a good conversation to have to know that this is something that we do we do report out to the state on. Any questions about that before we talk about transitions?
022Just like Dr. Campbell talked about, we are starting our transitions with Winnat High School. Um Amy Terrion, the director of student services at Winnunn and one of her special education teachers will be um meeting with myself and our eighth grade case managers on the 18th to start those transition conversations later in the spring. we will have um our our teachers and the parents and students go over to Winnate so they can talk um and answer questions about what the schedule looks like and things like that. We're also looking at doing our transitions just up from center to Marston and Marston to academy to ensure that everything is seamless and that there are no questions, parents don't have questions and just to also work on aligning those IEP um goals and how they are writing being
023written. >> Questions for Miss Jensen? >> Thank you. Thank you, >> Mr. Smith. Hello. Uh, so kind of in full swing. Um, we've been looking at our uh interactive learning panels because believe it or not, some of them are nearing end of life already. Uh so we've started looking at some alternative options to potentially replace them within the next year or so. Um we currently have one board in that we're triing and we've been having some teachers come down and take a look and get their opinions on it as well. Um we also just signed an agreement for a few licenses with uh Docu Sign. Uh the hope is that we'll be able to start utilizing that for uh easing the burden of collecting signatures as we move forward. Um especially if we plan to
024eventually move towards more of an e-registration platform um on an annual basis both for new students and for our returning students. Um, and other than that, we actually just started today going back through some of our outdated equipment that we have in kind of a recycling area uh in storage in one of the buildings. And we're kind of trying to sort through that to identify exactly what we have, what needs to go for, uh, destruction, what can actually be recycled, and if anything is viable for using for parts or anything like that. Um, but other than that, that's pretty much where we're at. So, any questions? No, but I'm just really glad to see that um Mr. Gary Russo is meeting with teachers about the AI tools. I think that's going to be a bit
025of a process as things unravel, but it's good that we're getting a head start on that and getting that done. >> Yep. It's been an ongoing ongoing training and there's new things coming out all the time. So, it's just the struggle right now is trying to keep up and stay ahead of it. >> Yeah. >> So, >> well, just keep plugging away. Thank you. >> Thank you, >> Mr. Hington. >> Good evening all. Um, just a couple updates. Um, we have over at Center School with the HVAC, we have some testing and balancing going on this week and then I've got a whole crew of people coming in over February break to hopefully stop wrapping that up sooner rather than later. Um, it's dead winter. We've had Palmer Cardian in one of the schools almost
026every single day. There was one day we had them in all three schools with um something going down, overheating, underheating. Um but working on those. Uh over the February break got a big punch list just of small items. Um we've started I think I mentioned a while ago we started that incident IQ for tracking um facilities requests and um it's been working out pretty well. We can if somebody needs something we go in, we check it off. Um it's there's a process to it and then we can actually say that it has been completed. Um but I can track all of any HVAC [snorts] issues that we have. I can track all those too. do. So if we're having a certain problem in a certain room all the time, we'll have record of that. So
027for a future could maybe if it is something we need to replace. Um [snorts] yeah, other than that, no, I just I also wanted to thank my staff too just with all the snow removal. It's been a lot and we do have more coming. So um yeah, that two fort storm was not a fun storm. Um having a hard place putting it as we know that. Um other than that, that's it, I think. Anybody questions or anything or good? Good. All right. >> Thank you, Tim. >> Don't see Mrs. Borg here, so hang on. And >> so we move to Dr. Costa. >> So, one of the things I wanted to share with you is that there was a committee that nominated Susan Antico for the Champion for Children's award. This award is given out
028by the New Hampshire School Administrators Association and um every region has um is asked to bring submit names for recognition. So in our region, the Southeasters region, so there were a number of names brought forward, but Susan Antigo was the one that surfaced as the winner for this the Southeast representing the Southeast. She was the top person. Um, so special thanks to principal Nathan Sadler, Angela Bowen, and John Nyan for the Rotary for writing a letter in support of her. Um, so we're excited to see where that will go. So what happens is there are five regions around the state that have finalists. Those will all go to the committee who will pick the champion for the state. Um, nonetheless, she will be recognized on May 20th in conquered at the Capone Center. um where
029all of the representatives from each of the region will be recognized and then the winner for the state will be announced. So just wanted to share that good news with you. Um knowing that Susan Antico has been um a champion for children for over 40 years was at Mars School serving in the capacity as school counselor and then um upon retiring has done a lot of work with our mental health team as well as our mentoring program. Additionally, she is now a Rotarian and is serving as an interact um advisor for both the middle school and the high school. And she's also um coordinating uh the RIAR offering at Winnan High School for those sophomores. So pretty exciting, but just somebody who's always giving back to the community, whether she's working at the soup kitchen
030or at the blood drives or is here trying to support our mental health team and their initiatives or she is helping to mentor new staff. She is a true champion for children and just want to say congratulations to her and um a thank you to everyone who supported her nomination. So some good news for our district. Um obviously the work continues. We are in the throws of obviously looking at those policies and making sure that they stay up to date. Um wanted to again a shout out to all the people that we work with on those snow days or delays. That is one of those very challenging decisions that many of us will get up at 4:30 in the morning and we have um obviously Tim Harrington who is checking what the roads look like.
031I'm speaking with Chief Reno. Um if the beach is involved, I will speak with Chief McMahon and getting the lay of the land in terms of how the the Department of Public Works is handling the um removal and whether the roads are safe. Speaking with Stacy Morris from First Student just to ensure that we are good to go. Um it looks like tomorrow morning could be one of those mornings where we will be up at 4:30 in the morning as this afternoon we did have a call with the state about the weather. They characterize this as a one-dimensional storm and that the snow is coming in sometime around 5 to 7. They're little bit they're a little off. Um and then it should be all over by 1 2 in the morning. Looking at anywhere
032from 1 to 5 inches on the sea coast. We know that's a there's a big variance between one and five inches. I go back to last Friday night where we all thought we were going to have a dusting only to wake up Saturday morning and unfortunately had to cancel basketball games and we were in massive amounts of snow that our facilities was trying to remove. So, um stay tuned. Tomorrow morning will be an early morning for us folks. Um but we we appreciate um the work that obviously our facilities and partners do to help us to make these decisions. On January 27th, there was a legislative roundt at Winnate High School. We really appreciated the opportunity to sit with our legislators and to have those conversations around these bills that will impact our schools and
033our students. So, we appreciated that opportunity to sit down with those legislators and to have a conversation. We invite those opportunities. Any anytime we can have them, I urge them, please reach out to me. I'm always happy to have a conversation, an email, and they do, and I'm grateful for that. And just uh a big thank you to those that do that. Um Mariah and I, we were at PTA this evening. We shared our Warren articles. We also shared the resources from the Cook Center and just want to make sure that our families are aware of that and just were able to show them where they sit on our website. We are um always trying to make the website more user friendly. So you may have noticed that we have done a little bit with
034the layout on that. Changing our parent family resources page. um also putting up there who to ask what question. So there's now a communication flowchart that will help our families and caregivers take a look at when they have a question, who do they ask and where do they go? So trying to just just to streamline the flow of communication and hopefully make it easier for folks. Um also on the website is our cook center. That is where the newsletters live. That is where the calendar of events live. And obviously if people have questions, they should always welcome to reach out to me, their schools or their school counselors or anyone. We're all here to help and make sure that they can access that information. I'm hoping that this makes it easier for folks. So feedback
035is always welcome. We had our third book discussion on let them on February 3rd. Um we have a really nice group that is coming out. they look forward to it. It is truly um an eclectic group where we have um just a number of people around our community that just look forward to getting together in community and having conversations and talking about a book and really just being with one another. So really have enjoyed the partnership with Lane Library and working with Cameron Ree on that as well. So that's been going really well and I'm always surprised that people do come out even though these are cold nights and we could it could be snowing they look forward to that time together as do we and it's just great conversation as um as you know
036wellness continues to be one of our priorities. Our wellness team did meet on February 5th and we had an opportunity to talk about the ways that our schools are trying to promote wellness um with their staff. So that continues and there are a number of initiatives that are going on there as some that you mentioned as well Andrea. So it's a it's really wonderful. We do appreciate our facilities Tim Harrington and his staff for the extra burden of the work for removing all the snow. We we kind of chuckled when Tim came on last year. I said we've been having fairly light weather winter months. Well, this is a true winter weather. So he is getting the full experience of what it means to have to deal with three um three schools that have um
037massive amounts of snow to remove and he's doing just a great job with it. So just a shout out to him and obviously the the department which has been just tremendous in removing the snow and keeping the parking lots clear and sidewalks. So big thank yous to everyone there. Um obviously Mrs. Borg and Mrs. Fixler are working with parents on those fund on those balances on their lunch accounts. We wanted to hold off on that in December knowing that December is a tight month with the holidays, but we are back at trying to ensure that we try to bring those balances down. So, just to encourage folks to please reach out if they would like to apply for free and reduce, they can do that at any time throughout the year. that is available to
038them and we we certainly will take them and help them and fill them out whatever they need with that. And and our resource officers as you talked about Mark and we'll talk about in a little bit they are overseeing the Alice training that's going on right now. Um all staff are obligated to do a refresher every year. So this is that time of year that we do do the refresher and we are meeting with our um safety team. We have a district safety team and you're going to see some of that work tonight. We're going to talk a little bit about that. Um, which is led by SRO Zach Teranzone and myself. So, and we have a number of teachers, administrators, and obviously the SRO's from the buildings that are there. Um, just so you
039know, um, I have met with all members of the leadership team as a midyear review. This is something that I think is important that we talk about what are the highlights, what are the challenges, how can I support their professional development moving forward. So, we do that at this midyear time. We also um will have the slate of nominations for you this evening and we can talk about that in just a bit. So, that's coming up and we will vote on that next month, but we'll talk about that tonight. It's that time of year. and of course the the great spelling bees goss that our principles referenced midyear assessments that we're aware of and the math committee that you spoke about that seems to be going really well. People are really pleased um with those
040resources. So we're we're glad to hear that because that was um that was quite an endeavor. So, we appreciate their feedback and we're very pleased to hear that it's going well and that you should know that tomorrow um Mariah Curtis and I will be attending the National Conference on Education which is February 11th to 14th. We're hoping we get out tomorrow morning. Um our flight is it's in Nashville and so we will fly Yeah. So, we fly out tomorrow and we will be back on Saturday. So, we're looking forward to doing that and to reporting back and we are just about um we should have our annual report as well that has been completed and we are have that at the printing press and we look forward to sharing that with you as well. >>
041Anything anything for me? Does anybody have any questions or things for Lois? Okay. Well, I hope you are able to get out tomorrow and we're going to find out >> and um >> No, enjoy that conference. >> Thank you. >> Sounds like it's a good one. Yeah. >> Um should we would you like to do consent agenda now or do you want to wait till after new business? >> Completely up to you. >> Okay. Well, we can do the consideration of the minutes even though I wasn't here. We still have a quorum to vote on it, right? Okay. So, let me just take up um the minutes of the >> who wasn't here last week. >> Right. That's why I'm saying I didn't know if I could have us vote on these minutes if I
042wasn't here. >> I think you Candace also wasn't. >> So, we'll hold off. I think we'll hold off on voting on the minutes until we have our full board back together then. >> All right. Sounds like a plan. >> All right. Look at the donations. Yes, that was my next thought. Let's look at donations. >> Yeah, we have some really nice ones. Yeah, we've got some really nice ones. Um >> Crystal Hardy came in to make a donation for $1,560 from the Sea Coast Area Crop Hunger Walk to the Food Service Department. And just a a shout out to that group um that always does so much for our schools. And Crystal was just um so happy to be able to do that for our families. So, there's that one there. Do you want to
043do them one at a time? >> Uh, no. Why don't we >> do them together? >> Do them all together. >> Yep. And then, of course, $812 from Guestus Photography from Arts in School. Um, again, that is a great u money that goes right back into their student accounts and helps to offset the cost of the Ned Show they had today and things like that. So, we're pleased with that. Then $35.50 from Box Tops for Education. So, thank you to the parents for turning in those box tops. Those are the three, right? Do I have a motion to accept these? So, moved. Okay. Second. Okay. Being moved and second, is there any discussion, comment? Okay. All in favor? And we don't have anyone opposed. All right. So, those have passed. Thank you very much for
044those donations. Um, the next thing we have is correspondence. And I believe we have one letter of [snorts] um resignation. Is that correct? >> That is correct. >> Um and this one is from Sarah Ley who is a special ed case manager at Hampton Center School. Uh she will be leaving us but um again she says she's happy to work and with training or handover as needed. So we make >> Yeah. She was a long-term sub and we received that. So yeah. Okay. So, do I have a motion to accept her resignation? >> Motion to accept her resignation. >> Second. >> Okay. All in favor of accepting her resignation. >> Okay. >> Thank you. All right. Our next thing is the manifests have all been signed. So, I think we're all set as far as
045that or at least as much as we can. >> Yeah. >> All right. So, moving on to new business. I believe we have a presentation from the safety team. >> Yes. >> Does that sound right? Yes, we do. >> Okay. So, so as you know, um the safety of our students is our number one priority and we have decided that we really wanted to ensure that we were following um similar language, similar protocols and um just having conversations around tabletop exercises as they pertain to um scenarios that could potentially happen. I think there were some things that happened in exit earlier this year that made us also want to make sure that we were clear on channels of communication. What do we do in a case like that? So, great conversations that we're able to
046have at um a district level. So you have noticed that in your board packet um there is a safety an emergency procedures brochure that the safety team put together and I thought what we could do is maybe have each of the principles talk a little bit about their safety practices with you and then um you could take a look if you want at those emergency procedures and if there's any questions that you have We're happy to, you know, answer those questions, but we are going to in my newsletter on Friday, we're going to also share out this information as well. We won't share out the brochure just yet, but we will be sharing out the information. >> Wonderful. Thank you. Um Yes. So, myself, uh Mr. Sadler, and Dr. Campbell will be will be talking
047a little bit more um about this emergency procedures brochure that will be sent out to um family members later this week. Um I did want to just talk a little bit first about um the district level safety team that was formed um at the start of the school year. Um you know through review and conversation and discussion last year while we all have safe school committees in our buildings um and they all operate very well. Uh we felt like there was kind of the missing link at the um connecting all three buildings and making sure our practices are in line with each other as students feed up from center to Marston to Hampton Academy. Um so the committee came together with SAU leadership, building level leadership, uh the SRO's are all participants, um and also
048staff members, um teachers, um you know, in a variety of roles just to get their input as well because that's really important because while it's, you know, it's easy for us to be, you know, in the front office, it's the you know, the teachers that have you know, 20 some odd kids in front of them and an emergency comes down and they really have to they have to think on their feet and we need to provide them with as much training um and discussion as we possibly can. So um you know over the years um SA90 has put a a lot in place um whether it's you know basic Alice training for all staff members uh Alice instructor training for SRO's um and administration uh I love you guys training um for unification practices that
049several of us on the leadership team have been able to attend. Um there's been a lot of investment and discussion into you know safe practices um you know for the Hampton schools. So the SAU level team is really trying to take everything that we've invested in, you know, time and financially um and make sure we have a robust uh plan amongst all three schools and the SAU um so that we're all speaking the same language um in coordination with local fire and police agencies. So, um, we meet every other month, um, over in the boardroom, um, first Wednesday of the month, um, excuse me, the, uh, SAU conference room and over throughout the course of the year. Um, we've gone over the our emergency drill practices that we run K to8. Um, we've talked about
050reunification practices and really trying to solidify what we want to do, um, as a leadership team along with the uh, the police. Um, you know, other elements like joint loss come up, debrief of events that happen in SA90 and other towns. Um, you know, kind of scenario practice, you know, what if this were to happen in Hampton? Um, you know, and then just, you know, again, you know, making sure we are getting everything we can out of the SRO's and communicating with them. Um, so that's kind of what we've been working on this year. Um, you know, our goal is always to have, you know, the safest, um, schools and districts possible. There are, you know, events that you can never plan for all the X's and O's of what might happen, but the more
051that we're talking about this with our staffs, um, and having them prepared, practicing drills, um, you know, the better off we're going to be, you know, in the event that, you know, something happens. Um, you know, we've, you know, I've only been here two years. We've had to go into secure campus both years. So even just, you know, while there was not an imminent threat, you know, making sure that we have things in place so staff understand what their expectations are. Um, so I'm going to let the other two principles talk a little bit more about this document that's going to be going out, but I just wanted to kind of preview or talk a little bit about what we've been working on um, as a safety committee this year. >> Thank you. Hello. Um,
052so while the district safety team is new, just know that probably for the entire life of the district, I've been here almost that long. Um, school safety has been our utmost, you know, top priority. We've always worked with the Hampton Police Department. Um, you know, when we started, we had one, then two SRO's. We're very fortunate that we have um one in each of our schools, which is rare in a lot of districts, but just provides an extra layer for us. Um we've also partnered with groups like um FEMA, the New Hampshire Homeland Security. Um uh previous administration had um private contractors come in and and do assessments and audits of our buildings. And it's just ways to keep the conversations going. the last few years before this, we were actually doing some work with
053SAU21. Um, you know, with all the local law enforcement officials and school administrators um and just kind of talking about what things look like each of our schools, how can we help each other out? Um, commonalities um between our practices and protocols and just ways that we can get better at what we're doing. Um, as Mr. Robbitai mentioned, you know, one of the top trainings we've gone to and that we really focus on is our Alice training at the schools. Um, we do it slightly different. It's um age and developmentally appropriate. You know, what we're doing with sixth, seventh, and eighth graders is certainly not what we're doing with prek to two. Um but we make sure that students understand a lot of the prek to five is you listen to the adults. You know,
054you're quick, you're quiet, you're serious. Here's what we're doing. Where at the academy sometimes it's more explicitly taught. I know at high school because we still um speak with our SRO's quite often. Um they obviously teach them at a much higher level because the students are older and have independence and driver's licenses and all those things. Could you do me a favor and just for the community and it's been said before but go over the acronym for Alice? >> Yes. So ALS um stands for alert lock down inform counter and evacuate. Um there it's not a sequential series that you go in. It's what do you need to do um at the time? Um we work with all of our staff on things like alert. Anyone can make a call at any time from any
055phone to alert for anything. you know, do have we fortunate that we haven't had any major instances, but we've had to call things because we're next to the woods, we get animals on our playground where we quickly have to get kids in or or quickly um you know, make sure no one's going out. Um there have been threats or situations with the police in the community that we've had to you know, kind of alert and do things like that. Lockdown is enhance. It's it's beyond just the normal, you know, sit where you need to and stay out of the way. Um it's an optionsbased program. You stay if you have to. If not, you evacuate, which is the E. Um, obviously, if you have the chance to get out of the building and get far
056away from danger, you most certainly should be. Um, informing is just providing information explicit. Um, you might see like in movies, you know, they call for code blue or code 9. Um, it's plain English, it's plain language. Where is um the situation taking place? What does it look like? Who's involved? All of those things. And then countering, we sort of talk about with fifth grade. It's really if someone was to enter the room, what could you do to deter them from doing something? you know, throwing things at them and um you know, not really putting yourself in harm's way, but there's a lot you can do to break up um their mindset and what they're doing and just buy yourself some time. The document um that we have that's going to be going out talks
057about Alice a little bit. It also outlines some of the additional safety practices. Um you know, it doesn't give you all the fine details because then it wouldn't be as safe and secure as it needs to be, but it gives you a general overview. It's interesting. You know, we look at something like the buildings are locked throughout the school day. like every door they're never unlocked except for first thing in the morning and they're monitored. I mean we have people come in for like our Veterans Day assemblies and they're always kind of surprised like oh when did you start doing this and it's like it's forever. Um we we've had doors locked so um everyone's wearing name badges you know we've moved to a key fob system on a lot of doors so people can
058get in and out easier without um you know worrying about manual keys. The nice thing is if someone misplaces their badge you can deactivate it instantly or if you lose a key that could take some time. Um, so it talks a lot about just safety practices in general that we do as schools. And then it also talks about some of the resources. Like I said, we have full-time school resource officers. Um, it's rare, but it is a wonderful, wonderful asset um, for us. It talks about, you know, things like our AEDs and CPR trained staff, our school nurses. Um, and then of course it talks about our procedures. So all of these procedures for things like you know an a major situation as far as also Seabbrook um those are are done in joint with
059the police department and the fire department and um emergency management which is also the fire department. Um but then so we work together on all of those things. So when we're putting this stuff out there, we're creating this stuff. It's really done with more than just a school lens. You really get that law enforcement and emergency management. Um, but this will be a great document that will just give you an overview and Dr. Campbell is going to talk about a little bit of part for parents or caring adults um, and what that looks like. But the purpose of it is really transparency. We've been talking about it for years. We've held many safety forms, but now what are we doing? What's in writing? Um, I think it's a little bit of reassurance for people and
060also might spark some conversations at home and between the the community and the school, which is always a good thing when we're talking about school safety. Thank you. >> Yeah. Yeah. So, my message is um my message is mostly for the parents at home who are watching who are we're reviewing this. Um we we spend a lot of time with our school resource officers and our staff going over the safety procedures within our buildings, how we communicate things with our students and our and our staff and making sure that everyone um when if crisis were to hit, they're safely uh thinking through all the procedures. Uh this document is super important for for families at home um in a case of an emergency where step one and we'll lay out in this document is to
061remain calm. Um it might be the most difficult thing to do but um lays out don't come to the school. Um we have plans in place for every emergency response that we can think of. And what this really does is allows you to the parents and their emergency contacts to open up a conversation with themselves and their students about what information we need to have, what information they will need to have to bring um if an event they needed to pick up their students. And it's important really to make sure that they're communicating with our schools, updated contact um information, cell phone numbers, emails, um make sure the emergency contacts are up todate in making sure that they are someone that you trust and can have a conversation with and uh along with a myriad
062of other things, but really lends itself to a conversation that you your emergency contacts and your parents can have. But it's also important to keep the schools informed of any changes that might have might happen with email addresses, cell phones, or uh physical addresses. But also important to to really reflect back and remember your student your teachers names. That's super important to know. I know it's a little bit more difficult for us because we have so many changes, but be mindful of the students that you the student teachers that you do have um especially their advisory teachers. So, um it is a very uh it's a very useful document. A lot of the things that we do um won't be on here, but um we run safety drills and talk about safety every month, if
063not more than that. And uh this is more this kind of lays out a little bit of those resources, but also sets up a conversation for parents uh to have with their with their students. >> And this is just very much in draft form just to let you know. So, this is something that we we're we're looking at and I think that we we want to present it to the safety team, make sure they're comfortable with it, but we will be giving parents some information about this on Friday's newsletter. Just so you know, not this exact one, but the general information around making sure that they have their Alma, their information in Alma, that it's updated. That's that's really important for them to know that um just that what are we doing to ensure safety
064just those safety practices that we do do what we have and then you know making sure that they have all their information in Alma up to date and even um you know parents should know the name of their classroom teacher right their child's classroom teachers I think there are some parents who come to parent conferences and I remember it myself when they'd be like I don't remember who it is. So even something like that is really important for parents to write down so they know that you know it's Mrs. Smith so that when they go to the school they're looking for Mrs. Smith. So things like that should spark some conversations with families. >> It might also be advisable whether it's this form or whatever form you end up with that you everybody goes over
065it with the students in their schools. Um, I'm pretty sure you might have a maybe a little bit of a problem with your elementary center school kids knowing their address and contact phone number, but for the most part, it would be really helpful for all the students to know all of this information as well, especially at the elementary and >> yeah, at least I know during our lunchtime talks, it's something earlier in the year we talk about with students is like knowing your roots home, knowing how you can get in touch. You'd be surprised. system. Most kids do know at least one cell phone number of a parent or guardian. Um, some parents have also gotten creative with, you know, slipping it discreetly in their child's backpack like a notice or or things like that.
066So, um, it is conversations we have, but if they can continue at home, I think it' be important between families as well. One other thing just to let you know. Um so we were contacted by um the company that does the Alice training and we've been asked to host it this summer August 10th and 11th. So um we're working with Tim Harrington and we're working with the Hampton PD. Um but we will serve as a host site. And why that's why that's a wonderful thing is because we will also have the avail we'll have the option of sending up to five people free of charge too depending on how many people come and they do anticipate that this location would sell out on August 10th and 11th. So if it sold out at 50 we
067would be able to send five people free of charge which is really nice because it is it is costly. It's a two-day training that's runs around $600 700. So, it's not a bad little um perk of being a host site, too. >> Yeah. >> Do you anticipate the form will look something like this? >> I want to um I want to bring it back to the team just to show them it and just to see if they have any feedback. I think there's some clarity on pieces that we might be able to um clean up just a little bit, but if you have any feedback, we are all ears. We just thought it was, you know, middle of the year probably time to give you an update as to what is the work that we're
068doing as a team since it's a new SA90 um initiative this year. >> Good. Great. Thank you guys. All right. I guess we are going to move on to looking at the draft calendar for year 2026 2027. Okay. So, just so you know, we did share this with the union and this does reflect SA21s as best as possible. Um some of the changes are in in March. You can see that there is not a full inservice day which we've traditionally have and we just feel we're we're starting school on September 1 just because of where Labor Day falls this year. We are not going to put a full day then but we are going to move it to be in alignment with SAU 21. So we're moving that full day to uh Tuesday, November 3rd.
069So just to make you aware of that one. We also um in March we moved our full day PD from March 31st to March 15th to be in alignment um with um SEU9 SEU 21 and our early release move from March 18th to March 31st. So, a couple of changes that um we think will be um will be more aligned with SAU 21 and allow for the vertical teaming that I know we wanted to do. So, you can see that um we've removed some of the half days, just so you know, and we also um we gave them an additional full day. So there's some changes to it and we've did run it through the PD committee and they were they were pleased with it as well. They see some real advantages to having one
070additional full day because it does allow for us to do the vertical teaming that I think that was a goal for many years for PD committee >> DD. Yeah. >> So we don't have to do anything more on this. >> Yes, we would love for you to vote on this. >> All right. Should we wait and vote on it next time when the full board is here or should we do it tonight? You can do it tonight. It is completely up to you. Are you both in agreement? Okay. Do I have a motion on the um draft calendar for 2627? >> Motion to accept the draft calendar for 2627. Second. >> Okay, we have a motion. It's been seconded. Do we have any questions or comments? No. Seeing none, all in favor? Okay, it is
071adopted. Thank you. Thank you. All right. Um, reaching higher New Hampshire, would you like to give us >> Yeah. So, just real quickly, I just thought it was important for you to be aware that we are now one of those key communities um in partnership. So, just wanted to share with you what that looks like in terms of what does it mean to be a community partner. So, we we put some things together um on a little page that just talks a little bit about it. And then if you go to the following page, you can see, you know, what is it that you get when you become a a community partner and you you can see um those different things that we will get. And those include things like a stronger voice in state
072policy, tailored insights and reports, storytelling and visibility, a network of partners, reporting of data. What we will give rather is we will give um data to them, ability to survey teachers and families, partnerships and communications and a commitment. It is a it is a one-year um partnership. So it's not a lifetime but you can see on the next page what are the guiding principles for the work and it has to do with obviously reciprocity. Um this is a relationship right an emphasis on low burden and high value. They realize we are all very busy. So they are not trying to add anything more to our plates but really trying to leverage what is existing with our data and communication channels whenever possible. Um looking at t context before drawing conclusions. Um obviously trust and transparency
073representation clarity of purpose transparency. They're looking at the qualitative and the quantitative data. So for credibility and humanity and then of course member checking and we are again one of 10 so we are not in isolation but it's really to help inform their work and as I said before they are now um on our SA90 web page where there is a link to reaching higher New Hampshire and what I really like about it is they take all of the um bills that are out there and they put it in language that parents can understand. So, I encourage families if they have questions or staff members or anyone in the community who has a question about something um that maybe they don't understand, this could also serve as an invaluable resource um for them. So, just
074another way to develop understanding around some of the changes that are happening in conquered. >> Um could you read that first paragraph? I >> can. I can. So this is what reaching higher New Hampshire is all about. So the so this is by the way we are the inaugural we are the ina inaugural key community partners. This is brand new. They have traditionally not had these key partners. They kind of did it um in isolation and they re I think they recognize that that they really wanted to have partners around the state. So they wanted to have partners in the southeast, you know, south central, they wanted to have, you know, the western part of the state, the northern part of the state. They really wanted to look at um like Salem is a partner.
075And you know, Salem is very different. So they wanted cities, they wanted urban, suburb, rural, all of that. So what it says is reaching higher New Hampshire has long identified key communities across New Hampshire to guide, inform, and contextualize the work in public education. Today, the state of New Hampshire is once again at a critical inflection point in public education policy. Decisions being made in conquered will have lo last lasting consequences for students, families, and the very fabric of our local communities. They chose SAU Reaching Higher New Hampshire chose SEU90 Hampton School District as a partner and key community. This call to action is for school districts, towns, and cities that want their voices amplified, their data represented, and their stories told. And together, Reaching Higher New Hampshire and SAU90 can provide real- time insights
076into how policies affect classrooms and families, co-create compelling narratives that highlight the resilience, challen challenges, and hopes of New Hampshire communities, and shape policy conversations with evidence, humanity, ensuring decisions are rooted in what our children need to thrive. And will this be posted on our website? It will. >> Okay. >> Yes, it will. And it's already there, >> right? So, if you have any further questions about this committee and what what it entails, um you can look on the website and hopefully that and then if again if you have any questions or you need clarification, please don't hesitate to call the SAU office or Yeah, it's just started. Um there it'll be, like I said, it sounds like it'll take place mostly in the spring and then in the fall there'll be kind of a
077a revamp, revitalize, and then they'll lay this all out, you know, for next year. That's what it looks like. So, and I'll be learning as as well. We just had our onboarding meeting just last Tuesday. So, this is an inaugural um situation. So, I think they're building the plane as we go. to the best of my understanding. >> All right. The next thing we have to look at is the date of the March school board meeting. Um the town election date is March 10th. So we would not be having a schoolboard meeting on that night. So I'm going on the premise we'll have it the following, which is March 17th. Correct? >> Yeah. >> So we'll all be here dressed in green for St. Patrick's Day on March 17th. Do you know if the um
078PTA meeting will be changed as well? Okay. I would maybe think they would. Just a suggestion. Thank you. We don't really need to do anything on enrollment. Our enrollment is staying pretty steady. Um Mariah, are you ready to talk to us about our financials, please? [snorts] >> Bye, team. Have a good night. >> Yeah. Thank you. All right. So, I am talking to you about our financials for January 26. I gave you a budget report. Um, we are starting to clean up. It's the midyear clean up for purchase orders. Put in any new purchase orders for the rest of the year. Um, just kind of get an idea where we're at. We completed W2s, 1099s, 10895 C's. They're all out. Um I today approved and sent in the annual report. So um it should be
079coming from the printers on the 20th so I can start getting that out to the town. Um we completed last month a New Hampshire retirement audit and our single grant audit. Um during the single grant audit there was um a issue. It was um for title one. It was the first issue I've had. Um it was sacred heart fund. So they get a percentage of our grant funding for title one and um they had set up a title one tutor. The title one tutor was for Sacred Heart and it was their um employee and we would get we got a contract. We got time cards and we were reimbursing Sacred Heart for the Title One tutor. Um, we are not allowed to cut checks to Sacred Heart directly for Title One. Did not realize that.
080So, we actually have to hire the Title One tutor as our employee and pay them through our district. So, um, we have not done anything with Title One this year. and they were reviewing last year's grant. Um so we are correcting that issue. Did um we thought we were doing everything right um because we did have all the backup. We had the contracts. We had proof of payment, proof of hours, proof of everything. But um because it is another school, we can't reimburse. We actually have to hire the employee. So working on that. So that was the only thing. Um, so March I will be getting all the audit paperwork and reviews and backup for the audit that I did in July and the single grant audit that I did last month. Um, and you
081should get that information in March. Um, that's the auditor's goal. Um, I am already have our date set up for the end of July for this fiscal year. So, um, that should be good to go with Plaza and Sanders. Um, what else? Uh, voting day is March 10th. Thank you guys for the support at the deliberative session. Um, I appreciate all that you guys do and the support there. Um, it was a difficult night and I'm glad that I have you guys. Um, other than that, food service is staying steady at where they're at. Our revenue report is in. Um, and we're just doing our basic stuff. Uh, again, don't forget to vote on March 10th. And once that is done, then it's um contracts and open enrollment. So, just just staying busy. um this
082the title one position that Sacred Heart needed. Did you know about that ahead of time? Were you aware that they were hiring a title one tutor? >> So they are allowed to utilize title one funds as a title one tutor. Yes. Um that is all set up with special the special ed department. Um I just reimburse and do that side of it. So, it it's approved through the grant. It was just the process um the process has to be different. We actually have to hire the tutor as an employee. But this was the first time that you've had this situation come up. >> Yep. >> And you >> normally we utilize our tutors. Our tutors would go over there for a couple hours, but our tutors um that we had were unable to do that
083and we couldn't find a tutor. So, and they had a tutor, so they thought that was the best option at the time. Um, but now we both understand the procedure that we have to go through. Yes. Okay. >> So, yes, we actually have to hire the employee. >> Okay. But that was the only issue we had. >> That was the only issue. Yep. >> Okay. And that's resolved. >> It's resolved. It's corrected. It's Yeah. >> Okay. Yep. Great. >> Does anybody have any questions for Mariah? >> Okay. Okay. Guess. Thanks. >> All right. Um, the next thing we should go on to, we've already talked about that. Um, we'll be doing I'd like to go on to the policy review and we will go back to renominations in just a minute. Yep. >> Um, on
084the policy review, these are second reads on all of these. And just a reminder, it is which ones? ACF, Food and Nutrition Services, anti-discrimination and civil rights complaints. EBCCA, use and location of automated external defibrill defibrillators. GBB employee student relations. Um, JCA, change of school assignment, best interests and manifest hardship. JLCJ, Emergency Plan for Sports Rated related injuries and additional protocols for athletics participation. GB CD background investigation and criminal history records check. >> That's a first read, isn't it? >> Oh, that one's a first read. I'm sorry. So, leave that one out and let's just take up the ones that were second read. Does anybody have any questions or concerns or things that we need to discuss on um those that were a second read? Anything? No. Okay. Then can I get a motion to
085accept these policies as they have been amended? >> Do you want me to read the names of them individually or can I motion to accept the aforemention? Okay. Motion to accept the aforementioned policies. >> Okay. Second. >> Okay. Seems as there has been a motion and seconded and I don't think we have any uh conversation or comments on that. Um all in favor. Okay. So it has passed and then we are doing the first read on again GBCD background investigation and criminal history records check. And then there's also um what's the uh annual review? >> Yeah, that's required by law. You have to look at that one that policy. It's in my JICJ, which is unauthorized communication devices. That one requires an annual review just to say that we looked at it and we're we're
086okay with it. You don't have to change it. You just have to make sure that it still stands as it is. >> Okay. So, we will um take that up next time as a second read and we'll have a chance to look it over. >> Perfect. >> Yeah. >> Okay. Um before we take up renominations, I would like to go back to RSA 91 colon 2 and ask if there's any public comment. Again, seeing that we do not have any public comment as we don't have any public here. Um we will call that call that a done. Uh so we need to discuss renominations for staff. This um involves discussing personnel this first time through. So I'd like to have a motion to go into non-public for that. >> Motion to move to non-public. >>
087Second. >> Okay. So under RSA 91- A colon 3 Roman numeral 2 A through M we will go into non-public roll call vote. >> Yes. Okay. Come out of nonpublic. And now um I'm looking for someone to make a motion on uh the nominations for um yeah staff contract staff and leadership team and for Marston center 90 and who did I miss Hampton Academy. So if anyone would >> I make a motion to accept the renominations for administrative staff contracts. Um, Marston Academy and Center School. Did I get everybody? >> Second. >> Okay. All in any comments or questions? Okay. All in favor of those renominations? Okay. And the motion has passed. >> And would anyone like to make a motion to adjurnn? >> Motion to adjurnn. Second. >> All in favor? And we are
088adjourned.