001indivisible with liberty and justice okay public notice with the open public meetings act of 1975 chapter 231 effective january 16 1976 in the board office 370 broad street a copy of this notice is also on file in the office of the borough clerk members of the public wishing to address the board of education on both agenda and non-agenda items must state their name address and are requested to limit their comments to five minutes when it appears the public comment portion of the meeting may exceed 30 minutes in duration the public participation portion of the meeting is open to citizens of keyport for the purpose of addressing agenda and non-agenda items issues raised by members of the public might require review and investigation and may or may not be responded to by the board or superintendent
002during the meeting all comments will be considered and a response will be forthcoming if and when appropriate the board asks that members of the public be courteous and mindful of the rights of individuals when speaking specifically comments regarding students and employees of the board are discouraged and will not be responded to by the board students and staff have specific legal rights afforded by the laws of new jersey the board bears no responsibility nor will it be liable for any comments made by any member of the public this meeting is being tape recorded for the purpose of board review and future reference and to assist in the preparation of minutes roll call please mrs abrahamson here mrs grabowski here mr houseman mrs olsen here this is riley here mr santiago mr stahl here mr staley here
003mrs tevis here mr mcgrogan we have quorum presentation i think we'll do it now well thank you up on the slide back to the first one lisa just want to say uh this is our lineup the mystery person at the end is ruth i didn't uh include her name there so i think she wanted to bribe me to see if someone else would take it but so that's our lineup uh we have five presentations report backs from uh so the general idea is that um the presenters are presenting a summary a brief summary of their presentation and then during when they finish there could be questions comments discussion both after each presentation or at the end if we if there are other comments to be done so um i'm up first uh with my slide
004um so mine is uh the critical race here what is critical race theory and how does it relate to uh k through 12 curriculum the first bullet point i put up i i listed the presenter and i did that because when i thought about the presentation to me he was the most important factor and i'm speaking from a point of view of his credibility on a difficult subject his demeanor how he presented his attitude and his background so currently he's the chair professor and chair at mcalliger college in saint paul minnesota but until very recently he was a member of the monmouth university faculty and he's a new jersey native and knew a lot about new jersey in social justice issues as well as it relates to k-12 education so he starts out in describing
005critical race theory where did it come from and so it is based on the writings of two harvard university law professors in the 1980s and those two had three key points one that race is not a biological reality but a social construct then they part of their work was to go back over the last 200 years and look at law look at laws which use physical characteristics to exclude and then from there and this third part is kind of looking forward from their perspective was to describe how law can recognize patterns of discrimination their intent was that critical lace theory the critical race theory field was dedicated to the prevention of discrimination so until recently like maybe the last six seven months uh this topic critical race theory is really in the purview of legal
006circles and graduate schools and it is not part of any university teacher preparation program in new jersey that's something specifically that dr greeson mentioned so then there's another crt right we have critical race theory we have culturally responsive teaching which is a well-established k-12 practice that all children and families are welcome and bring unique contributions to the school community and classroom setting these include religious cultural and linguistic expressions so one of the things and um he he made a strong point now we also it was both his presentation what i'm describing is this presentation plus the chat at the end at the night you know we did that so one of the things uh that he said is that well we have two crts right and so and he made it he said this is
007one factor going on in the current you know uh hot topics or uh going on is that one of them is the confusion between the two but he made a point to say it's not the only thing that's going on there are multiple threads uh on this uh uh kind of heated um discussion and topics of of these things and how it might be affecting our schools the last thing and this kind of goes back to his what was his advice and i think this is uh what got me as is first of all he would have a civility approach to this and he described that um the way he approaches and he's been doing a lot of this work in the last six seven months like he said this is the way his approach
008is is to listen to people to listen to what they have to say and to engage in a civil discourse and then he said something like this he said nine out of ten times and then he stopped and then he said no 99 out of a hundred uh in his discussion with people who have different views on this he finds that they not necessarily that they would agree but they would have had a a discussion in a civil way in a civilized civil way so i think to me that was that just kind of got to me struck me as like yeah and then i was looking at our own situation we have not had a situation yet where someone has come to the podium about this uh but i think knowing some of what
009uh is presented here about the description of criticalism and then what we're doing in k through 12 with culturally responsive teaching that at least we would have a foundation of kind of knowing where the boundaries are here so i think i would like to stop at that point any questions they went back and studied law or 200 years in the united states law yes correct yes yes united states joe i also took this and i found it interesting which i did not know was that new jersey led the way in accepting all students i did not know that well yeah and i would he made a point that new jersey in the early 1940s actually going back to the 1920s it was a group that formed right it involved jewish catholic african-american latino and they
010were kind of a group that was countering the ku klux klan and in the early 1940s they were instrumental right in uh getting the in the new jersey state constitution in the first article of that a non-discrimination clause the first state to ever do it and then he said that was like seven or eight years before the military was integrated and he said the next state that actually inserted a non-discrimination clause was connecticut right in 2003. so yeah so yeah he did of course embellish on he he demonstrated his thorough knowledge of not only the topic but also new jersey so yeah okay thank you all right wow this is really high okay does everybody know what steam tank is i had no idea what it was i thought this was the coolest thing so
011it's all about uh it's like shark tank for kids i just thought it was awesome and the presentation was really good it's incorporating the new jersey school board association new jersey department of education and the army to help get kids to work as a team in an unconventional way on steam projects for real problems that are happening in their lives and their communities so this is good for all students from k-12 it's good for [Music] kids with learning disabilities it's not just for the gifted and talented so i thought that was really cool too there's a good way to get kids outside of the classroom working with their hands and kind of making an actual contribution in their worlds not just taking a test not doing good on a test this gives them an opportunity
012to showcase other kinds of skills that they might have that they don't get the chance to really show in the classroom so steam tank 365 is a way to get this to happen all year long it's supposed to be um like a continuing ed for kind of teachers and for the kids to keep this in mind all the time instead of just you know because i know they i heard uh dr savoia mentioned they had a lab that included it this summer and i thought that was really cool but it was just a week so wouldn't it be cool if you had so i2i is the innovation to inspiration and these are bi-monthly mini challenges that you could get even more kids involved in and it wouldn't be such an overwhelming commitment like a really
013good way to ease kids into this kind of field so they could learn all sorts of excellent globally competitive skills for their future i like the idea of kids helping kids i think that sometimes it's easier for them to relate and it's i was shy when i was a kid so i think it's a really good way for kids to come out of their shell with their peers maybe it's less intimidating to talk to a group of five kids instead of you know an entire class when you do a regular old-fashioned science project i also thought it was really cool that the army was involved in this i just thought that was amazing that they would bring in their subject matter experts for kids and help work on team building skills and speech giving skills
014all the things that are going to make them successful and confident moving forward in their education not to mention we have the coolest little community and i think that lots of people would love to get involved with something like this if they could i would so questions please questions your comments into our robotics courses into after school um especially with or funds part of it needs to be steam so we we were definitely progressing we do wish we were um had more resources so definitely you'll be pulled into it but i will tell you that the kids loved it and lab was short this summer but it was also a part of each after-school activity and i think we're on our way so it's going to be great to have you help out kathleen like
015are the resources easily accessible so i actually did research trying to find out more information about this you can go to the njsba website and it's really like email us and we'll send you more information about it it seems like the army is a big help in bringing in subject matter experts i guess it really depends on the project the kids are doing what kind of mentor they'd have if it would be a teacher somebody in a community someone in a business in the community um so yeah i sent out the email when i get that response i'll let you know because i wanted to know how much this was going to cost [Laughter] i didn't i did not watch this one but i have sat on on some of the other army classes and
016i do have to say that of all the classes that we've taken they do present the best um they they give great presentations so fun all right thank you okay my presentation is robust school library programs lead to college success and i chose this one because i'm a lover of words and books and libraries historically the mission of the library as an institution has been literacy 60 plus research studies have made the connection that school library programs staffed with a certified school librarian have made the biggest impact on student success and according to the american library association students in high poverty schools are twice as likely to graduate when the school library is staffed with a certified school librarian learning how to use a library is part of college readiness and it teaches how to
017write research papers other assignments and it teaches how to properly research and evaluate information they had asked a bunch of students what their experiences was when they got to college and they were first asked to write a research paper many for the first time and a lot of the students answered with things like well i didn't even know what i was doing i didn't know how to research or i just googled it and we know that google is not a sufficient method of researching and google is not unbiased in its search results so research shows that to teach these in a higher learning environment it's too late it needs to start earlier in high school but even younger in elementary school and in middle school a new jersey law requires that a school district incorporates
018thorough and comprehensive instruction on information literacy into the curriculum of students k-12 so what is information literacy it is defined by the set of integrated abilities encompassing the reflective discovery of information the understanding of how information is produced and devalued and the use of information in creating new knowledge and participating ethically in communities of learning so libraries can also address an equity gap children between the ages of three to seven spend an hour to five hours a day engaged in some type of media and as they get older this number increases i'm sure you all have seen this with your own children at home 76 percent of black and 62 of latino u.s residents are experiencing a racial technology gap meaning they do not have access to adequate technology so according to the us department
019of education this number is scary 54 of us adults age 16 to 74 lack proficiency in literacy reading below a sixth grade level so by providing access to technology and research tools the library can help to close this gap so what does a successful high school high school program look like a library program well incorporating a tour of the library for freshman orientation making it a part of their experience teaching research skills lessons collaborating with the teachers and doing this collaboration between the librarian teachers and administrators visiting local colleges either virtually or preferably in person academic school library partnerships these this could enable students to feel like a college student for a day and have that experience um they can have lessons on information evaluation research tools strategies authors visits again like kathleen mentioned we
020have an exciting little town here and i could think of at least one author living here so we have resources for that uh explanation of copyright law plagiarism fair use things that you wouldn't really encounter in a normal classroom also the presenter who was a librarian in a school district she said she had maker spaces set up in her library and she had stationary bikes chess boards coloring activities which also translated into an sel space for students as well so also they did monthly and seasonal celebrations a typical things like halloween or valentine's day but also celebrating women's month or black history month martin luther king day and they invited the younger children from the other schools so in our case would be central school but they invited them to participate along with them to
021get that experience so and the last thing we could do is we could reach out to the new jersey association of school librarians for training and support so in conclusion it's important to have a healthy thriving school library program to ensure student success in college and beyond thank you any questions okay well on this issue of libraries i i must say i'm kind of ignorant on how we staff it could you describe how we do that here yes what we have is a media specialist that comes in once a week to the district four times a month and we have uh two full-time uh staff people within the aids that are in there and they go under consultation with that librarian to make sure that students have what they need we also as i think
022i've reported on previously have a great relationship with the public library in town and every student in the district and staff members getting a free digital uh library card so they can have those resources as well we're talking about infusing some of theirs on our website and theirs on their ours on theirs and vice versa so it is incorporated into our also into our freshman orientation and things like that so understanding that the financial aspect is is a challenge but we do do have a wonderful partnership with the town library and so maybe some of these research classes could be taught there or the time that the media specialist some of these things are easy things inviting the younger students over us those things don't really cost much money so some things are workable yeah
023all the walking trips that we started back and we've done that in the past with the younger pre-kobe we've had um the little ones come over to the high school so really making that a third hub of us because they always have somewhere to go to do their work it's much more friendly i believe the public library as well in articulation with us i think they understand the needs of the learner of all different community members not just uh one particular group so yeah i think we do do we do do a lot of these things yeah so that's good and i just i want to stress the ability to research i think and and also include taking notes in that that's a skill that is very important for high school and especially in college
024so that is something we could absolutely teach our students to do thank you thank you so much tony do you have your questions yet i'm going to be like this okay i did mine on something that's near and dear to me um adverse childhood experiences which is also known as aces and it was a class to kind of prepare us are we prepared in the school are we prepared as board members and teachers adverse childhood experiences or trauma that cause stress learning challenges and our health problems in the children there is a test that they give that you can take to see how many aces you have every question you answer yes counts as one point which is considered one ace some examples i'm not going to go through there is do you feel like
025nobody loves you is a parent abused does a parent do drugs or drink is a household member depressed or mentally ill did a household member go to prison in a study done by the national survey of children's health conducted by john hopkins bloomberg school of public health in new jersey 41 percent of students under the age of 17 have experienced one or more aces 18 percent have experienced two or more aces and just to put that into perspective children who experience two or more aces are three times likely three times more likely to repeat a grade and children who experience four or more aces are more likely to be juvenile offenders they're four times more likely to be juvenile offenders 82 percent of teachers in new jersey say that they have children in their classes
026with aces excuse me children who've gone through trauma are good at hiding pain instead it comes out through in ways that look like misbehavior a lot of it is misdiagnosed for adhd examples of this are excessive anger unusual startle reactions loss of appetite extreme fatigue physical or verbal aggressions tartiness or absenteeism perfectionism stomach aches headaches the whole list is here a lot of alienation a lot of acting out how can districts respond to aces adopting protective factors in face of behavioral and life change life challenges emotional support social activities physical activities proper nutrition attic adequate sleep and skill development is the foundation of resilience being in a group or a sport they focused on was giving these children almost like a sense of inclusion and feeling accepted and feeling part of something that could be
027anything from a club to a group doesn't have to be a sport awareness of trauma's impact there's workforce training screaming screening assessment and treatment there are six principal ways of a trauma-informed approach safety which is ensuring physical and emotional safety respect and predictable routines trustworthiness with is which is task clarity consistency and interpersonal boundaries giving them a choice maximizing experience of choice and control collaboration asking them how you can support them right now empowering them and cultural historical and gender issues policies protocols and processes responsive to racial ethic and cultural needs and the final thought is rather than asking a child what is wrong with them we should be asking what happened to you and how might we help any questions no i will tell you i just did the pledge today i watched a
028responsive um a presentation from new jersey principal association today at four o'clock and they asked you to take the aces pledge so i put that out on social media we'll keep continuing oh that's awesome look what uh jen i i had asked you we were discussing this and and uh you commented maybe to my question was about we don't excuse bad behavior right yeah and could you just how to respond to this right about we're not giving people excuses right or looking to understand is that we're looking to understand so we can correct if the issue is because of an ace we can fix it by making them feel more comfortable having them trust a teacher or an adult but we're not letting them i don't want to say be the like play the victim
029but we're not letting them get away with bad behavior because they have aces because i mean when you take the test everybody has at least one you know in the majority um but it's about helping them get through the trauma and helping them get through the trauma so they can learn so they could focus on learning so they could focus on building relationships but definitely not excusing bad behavior i mean this is something we do very very well the many things we do well i believe we understand our school community and support them with what they need i i think my phrase is generally uh you're not going to you're going to model you're not going to enable this is the place where they can be safe and we can support them throughout their whole
030journey so i think we do do it very well i did it again mr houseman good no other questions thank you thank you okay so i chose school board's role as a policy maker policy review development and oversight and this was presented by steve mcgettigan who is the manager of policy for njsba and gene harkness i'm the policy consultant i've sat in other classes with both of them i like the way that they present everything it's very clear and concise and they answer questions well so if you can get any of those other classes that they have on the website to take take a look reflecting back to before i was elected i remember hearing this come up in topic this is a topic all the time many meetings and it's because it is such
031an important part of the process it's the foundation of our district it's you know something unfortunately that a lot of people don't understand as far as what the board's role is and the process of creating maintaining and enforcing policies the board's role as you've all heard many many times governance through policy in his essential role the board ensures that the district and schools are run well by the administrators hired for that purpose so basically the board's role is not to run the school but to make sure they are run well and i did say say it louder for the people in the bath and this is something that mrs spangler will be drilling into your head uh very soon but it's important um you know the there's many parents many community members people attend meetings
032they don't understand that and i think it's very important for them to understand the process also for us to understand where the line is and not to cross it which is another thing that we continually discussing um developing policy by laws versus policy so the best way to ensure that our schools are run well is by the development policy by law we are required to develop policies and they constitute our beliefs and philosophies of how every aspect of our schools should be run we need to keep them current we need to make sure we have our own stamp on them that is something that we are currently working on a bylaw is just another name for policy with the policy you're setting forth your beliefs and expectations about how you want things run in your
033district meaning the staff students administrators expectations and bylaws are really the governance of our own body as a board the process of developing a policy and a bylaw are the same so with policy review we need to define needs you know what we want the policy to address we need to get the facts do our research hear all sides we need to compose the language make it simple straightforward try to leave no room for interpretation which is another thing that we run into a problem with a lot not just us anything in general discuss and adopt it's an important part of the process you know decimation we need to let everyone know about the changes let them know what's going on website email um however we can get the information out newsletters um and then
034implementation we need to stay on top of it keep them current and like we said in the previous slide put our own stamp on it and make sure it's really geared to us make it work for us in conclusion i just want to say that i have seen progress in this area since being on the board i'm really excited about these committees and all this new information that we're bringing to each other and i really look forward to progressing it even further any questions no thank you uh presidents remarks i just want to say thank you to everyone who presented um this is really thank you joe for helping to orchestrate this um i think it's pretty cool i think we should do it again um we'll move on to communications please there are no
035additional communications since the last meeting public participation on agenda items okay election results are self-explanatory we went through those last meeting superintendent report just very briefly um i will say that we the two incidences of hiv that i spoke to at the last meeting are both concluded and they were found to be um confirmed incidents so actions and consequences have been provided to the students as per policy 5512 and five six so it will be continued to uh follow up to to occur throughout the next few weeks and throughout the year i did send a draft of the meeting dates to everyone just to take a look at and i know that i said i would speak with the new board members madam president and vice president um and mr lati budaris so that we
036could coordinate new board member orientation uh earlier than we did uh in the past and also share those dates with them hold on got it go ahead oh there it there it is okay thank you um congratulations again to the students of the month and the teachers of the month this this meeting you will take action on the first reading for several uh two policies and regulations so and one abolishment actually so an abolishment takes only one reading so that will 5306 will be once several banquets this week advisory food advisory meetings the khs students and staff will be going over to memorial school on friday for our visit with them conferences coding nights coding night there's a rising stars google meet coming our bilingual parent advisory meeting our strategic planning meeting so i really
037would hope we only have about eight or nine people that have signed up for strategic planning in the community so please spread the word um we did also hold an articulation meeting with the kea this past week and just today i want to give a huge shout out to mike trebino from pine belt nissan because he made it where um he told me i could work for him but i told him not for four more years but that he donated fifteen hundred dollars to us so that we could supply a pizza to every staff member yesterday and i mean today and tomorrow so nobody's gonna watch this till tomorrow morning so um when they have their professional learning community tomorrow we gave them some sel time and sent them home um and sent them home
038with a nice pizza from italian touch so that tells you you know again what community does here um and i do want to thank everybody on the board for your support through you know that the loss of my i call him my dad but thank you very much uh dr saboyah uh i have a question about the uh strategic planning the letter that the letter um so i guess my question uh the boundaries as far as the board member can we use that letter to extend an invitation to people we may know it has the board president's name on it i believe that if you had copies of it or you wanted copies you could absolutely force it out yeah for for example like i'm a member of the green team right oh absolutely so
039there are you know or the garden club right people that but i just wanted to understand anybody or individuals that i think might so i just wanted to see what the boundaries are as far as a board member joe if you know somebody send them yep you know somebody send them absolutely especially a good mix of people is exactly what we're looking for um i do have a um what on the 8th when we're meeting so this is a meeting to the public it is not a board meeting right so i'm just saying so the dynamics are if i am attending i am attending as a member of the public is that you know what i'm saying well so what is it it is advertised as a as a meeting only because you could have
040a quorum with all of you in in one room together but you're you are never not a board member so you know you could join any committee that you'd want whatever however miss weinkopf designs it um but you would be here as a community member and a board member but we're not set up like this no no no no no no that's what i'm saying just let me clarify it's we we are attending as board members absolutely and with the public like we're sitting with the people all together we're all you know so we're in we're in that um can i ask some specifically about uh talking about invites you know with the latino community like a third of our students are latino how do you and i know the letter is in spanish are
041there any do you have some thoughts um we make sure that we have representation there well i can i can entice people or encourage them but we do have our ell teachers as well pushing into classes and interacting with parents so teachers are helping us uh support this as well so i'd hope to think that they will sign up so is this invitation also to uh staff members and teachers are they encouraged to participate and based on their own choice in their own time is that it is on their own time okay it's not contractual um okay thank you you're very welcome mr apollo ford secretary report buildings grounds and finance please i have nothing new to report um there are only two new motions on the agenda from last week which one is some
042transfers and another one is an agreement with moesc for some child study team evaluations so excuse me ultimately i'll be looking for 8.1 to 10.12. any curriculum personnel policy okay oh you want to take action on those sorry yeah they're no longer there mr stahl these are new ten point okay so we need a motion for 8.1 to 10.12 make it second any discussion roll call please is abrahamson yes mrs grabowski yes mr houseman yes mrs olsen yes i abstain from um november 10th meeting minutes mrs bradley yes mr stahl yes mr staley yes this is tvs yes most past excuse me i have to abstain from the october 20th minute thank you okay dr sawyer okay well we can go through the additions within sorry curriculum personnel and policy the only things that are
043bolded is uh they're having expo in person this year let's see how everything goes for that that'd be nice to see some of your colleagues in person so i will be attending that myself in january a pre-k document that we need to submit a plan within personnel sorry uh we're happy to offer uh observation hours to one of our khs graduates mr william odom a detention monitor also we're approving and then um a child study team person needs to do their practical hours as well so that's great to have them back in with us um and that is the only new bold ones okay i lost my space again so are we looking for is it eleven if i'm not eleven eleven one two thirteen one can i have a motion please second any discussion
044put your microphone 11.2 should that be 22. and then in 12 i don't know if they should be like 12 11. pretty positive what was the other one and then 12 11 12 12 should they be to february 4 20 22 or olson okay any other discussion roll call please this is abrahamson yes mrs grabowski yes mr houseman yes mrs olsen yes mrs reilly yes mr stahl yes mr staley mrs tevis yes malicious pass thank you old business okay new business yeah i got two quick things uh first one is uh county school boards meeting was last night they the superintendent of real regional did a presentation on uh teaching during the uh virtual i was pretty good uh legal updates were mainly about busing not a lot to pertain to us uh gentivis got
045her new board member certification announced at the meeting yeah congratulations uh the other thing is not you jack what about you yeah the other thing yeah i got mine last week the other thing is that uh delegate assembly is saturday i'm not gonna be able to attend um we're gonna need to appoint an alternate for uh 22. that's all i got no they're actually on saturdays during the day about believe 9 or 10 in the morning but i'm actually going to be at a football game down at naval academy so i'm not going to be able to attend it you want to be a delegate very alternate order you're going to have either one fine with me i don't need it gotcha i mean i can do saturdays you can send two people right let's
046see we have we have we're now we had two it was ann and i and then but they can both go to the meeting together yeah yeah only one can vote but both can go i'm i'm assuming that the next meeting this this one is virtual i'm assuming they're going to be going back to in person so you got to go down to uh just outside of trenton maybe they feed your breakfast and stuff and you're there you're out here by 11 30 12 o'clock it's not too bad i would go with you all right i knew the new business public participation motion to adjourn i'll make it all in favor