001We're at 6:04 p.m. Would everybody please stand for the pledge to the flag of the United States of America to the standy? Please get a motion to appoint Sarah Hen as district clerk pro 10 board for this meeting. Dave and discussion. All in favor? I motion passes. I can Oh, wait. Sorry. Exits. Exits are behind us to our left and to our right and behind you to your left and your Okay. Subject 2.1. May I please get a motion to approve the agenda as presented and your amended? Mike, Keith, Aaron. Any discussion? All in favor? I motion passes 6. Subject 3.1. May I please get a motion to approve the minutes of the May 20th, 2025 business meeting as presented at this meeting. Mike, any discussion? All in favor? I. Motion passes 6. Subject 3.2.
002Can I please get a motion to approve the minutes of the May 30th, 2025 business meeting as presented at this meeting? Aaron A. Any discussion? All in favor? I. Motion passes 60. Subject 3.3. May I please get a motion to approve the minutes of the June 3rd, 2025 business meeting as presented at this meeting? I any discussion? All in favor? I motion passes. Subject 4.1 statements and reports. I will hand over to superintendent testing. Uh good evening everybody. June 16th final board meeting of the 25 26 school year. No 2425 school year. Maybe um I'm going to start this evening with our principal principal principal. It's hard to believe that we've reached the final days of 425 school year. As we wrap up this wonderful year, our building is buzzing with end of the year
003activities, culminating events, and joyful celebrations that reflect all the growth and memories our students have made. I'm happy to report that all classes have been visiting the Greenwood Lake Public Library to learn about their amazing summer programs. We partnered with the librarian so that families could prefill out library cards applications, ensuring that every child has access to summer reading resources. Thank you to Mrs. Arfield for making this happen for our students. June 5th, our third graders took an important step forward as they visited the middle school to tour the building and meet with members of the Junior National Honor Society. They asked thoughtful questions and got a glimpse into life as a fourth grader. A special thank you to Mr. Gillespie, Miss Bell Ramos, and the students of the staff for warmly welcoming our rising
004fourth graders and supporting this transition. I love you. Also, on Thursday, June 5th, our elementary drama club put on a fantastic production of Summer Camp, a musical about finding a place to belong. The cast performed during the school day for students and again that evening for families and our community. Thank you to the incredibly dedicated club adviserss Ally and Emily Kiteon for their time, talent, and heart. Months of rehearsals and choreograph really paid off. The show was a hit. Last week, I had the pleasure of joining our third readers on their capstone trip to the Bronx Zoo. Despite the rain, our students made the most of their all access adventure, exploring habitats and exhibits with enthusiasm and some savvi sneakers. We kept the momentum going the next day with field day held at Lions and
005Francis Field followed by a barbecue lunch under the Elk Pavilion. Although it was the rain day to the rain day, we ended up with a beautiful day. Thank you to Coach F for his exceptional planning and our teachers, PTSA, food service department and volunteers for running the stations, feeding our children, and bringing the energy that made such a fun event. Then on Friday, the entire school headed to the beautiful town beach waterfront pavilion. We took our traditional panoramic photo and we shared a picnic lunch on the great lawn with many of our families. It was such a special way to celebrate community and connection. Looking ahead, this Wednesday, June 18th, we'll be holding our elementary spring concert with kindergarten and grade 1 performing at 12:30 and grades two and three taking the stage at 1:45.
006We'll also be hosting our prek end year celebration on Friday, June 20th at 11:30. And of course, our culminating event will be our third grade moving up ceremony on Monday, June 23rd at 10:30 a.m. A truly special moment as we celebrate the journey, their journey, and look ahead to all they will accomplish. As we close the school year, I'll be encouraging all of our students to continue their learning adventures over the summer by journaling with their traveling teddies and participating in the library summer reading challenge. Finally, I would be remiss if I didn't take a moment to express my wholehearted appreciation to Carrie, my secretary, who has truly been my right-hand woman this year. She is organized, detail- oriented, and incredibly professional. She's taught me the ins and outs of Greenwood Lake and has not
007only been a tremendous support but also a great friend. I wish you nothing but success in your new role at district office. You will be missed more than you know. This um first year as principal has full been full of learning, laughter, and leadership. I'm beyond grateful for the support of the community, our dedicated staff, and the opportunity to work with such amazing students, teachers, and staff every day. I'm looking forward to building on this year's momentum as we head into the exciting 2526 school year. Have a wonderful summer. Thank you. Hey, good evening everyone. Middle school has been moving at a fast pace since our last meeting. You know, getting ready for everything here. here as we culminate the school year. Uh at the end of May, we had our spring concert for band
008and chorus as you can see in the the great photos um there on the bottom of the screen. Thank you to Mr. Compton and Mr. Poe for their work with our students in the arts, specifically band of chorus throughout the school year. We also had our students in seventh and eighth grade uh partake in their seventh and eighth grade semi formal dance. everybody got to come get all dressed up and have a great uh evening here at the middle school on May 30th. Our athletic awards took place on June 4th uh where we recognized all of our modified sports teams for this school year as we do each year and coaches gave out individual team awards um at at our recognition. that photo on the left bottom portion that is actually of our uh softball
009team. Um put that in there to celebrate their undefeated season for the second year in a row. So congratulations to all the members of the girls softball team and coachski and coach Miller for uh all their work with the team. Also, I'd like to just thank all of our coaches at this time uh for all their work throughout the throughout the year um and their service to our students, our student athletes, and to our programs. Our seventh and eighth grade students uh took finals last week. So, it was a busy week for finals. Uh at the end of the week on Friday, the photo you see on the right uh bottom corner is a photo of our honor graduates. We have 19 total students that will be recognized as honor graduates this Friday. Uh and
010that's students with a 95 or greater cumulative average. So congratulations again to uh all of those students um for all of their hard work um throughout their time here in the middle school. Today was field day and we were charting the hourly weather uh all weekend. Fingers crossed. I kept hitting the screen looking at the percentages and uh we made a decision. Yep, let's go for it. And and it was a great day for field day because we've had some hot ones in the past. And uh today was overcast, cool, but the rain did not start until we were all done. So, so it worked out. Um we got some great photos up there. That whole top row is today's field day if you can see it. Uh we had the dunk tank going. We
011had the bouncy house inflatables. Um, we also did an assembly program for seven, eight, four, five, and then six had their own version of it where students, if you look at that uh kind of third photo from the left, where students basically did kind of a family feud um activity where they they were in teams. They were uh chosen for their teams randomly. Uh they had tickets and they were able to come up in groups of five and go through three different rounds of a of a family feud answering questions. Um and and then the team with the highest point total got medals at the end. So uh I got to see all of the assemblies and um the kids were having a lot of fun and as you can see they're having a lot
012of fun in the bounce houses and uh that's a carpet race there on the left. So we did a little tug of war. Uh overall it was a great day by uh a lot of fun. Uh thank you to everyone who who helped. We had a barbecue lunch out outside. So thank you to food service. Thank you to our volunteers. We had some volunteers from PTSA from Lions Club parents that came out and helped serve lunch to our students. Also, thank you to our NJHS students for volunteering to go in the cold water in the duck tank today. So, the NJHS students kind of took turns stepping up and getting done. So, thank you to them. And of course, our P department, Coach Kron, uh, for all of his work organizing this year's event. And
013also to Coach Pavski, although she wasn't here because she she is out right now, she still worked a lot with the pre-planning and also the ongoing communication um, organizing the assembly program that I mentioned. upcoming events. We have our honor roll breakfast here on Wednesday. That's our students are honor roll high honor roll perfect attendance for the first three quarters. So we'll be celebrating that at 8:00 a.m. here um on Wednesday. And immediately following that recognition at 9:00 a.m. is our annual academic awards where students will be uh select students will be recognized uh based on um their performance throughout the year and their as voted on by their um their teachers. Also, Friday night is graduation. Uh right now based on the current forecast, we are planning on being outside. Um so we're looking
014forward to that. will be practicing with the eighth graders a couple times this week to get ready. Um there will be shuttle buses uh because we are using the lower parking lot for graduation. There will be shuttle buses at the Legion like we've had in the past um both before and then obviously after getting people back to their cars. We will have a handicap accessible parking uh set up in the front as well. And then um after graduation on Monday, our eighth grade uh students will go to the their annual picnic. And then on Tuesday, Tuesday is the last day. No school is dismissing at 10:30. Um and we will be sending our final report cards on that day. All right. Assistant Brenda Amy has two presentations this evening, both related to proposed uh adopting
015proposed ELA curriculums. Um she's presenting tonight the equal choice for kindergarten or the elementary school reading program and then she's also going to talk to you a little bit about the UPK program to adopt. Um and then after tonight's presentation um we will be looking to put these curriculums on the July agenda for official adoption by the board. So this is the LA series. Uh good evening and thank you for the opportunity to speak this evening. So this is a culmination of work that um the data team at both the elementary school and middle school along with myself and Rosemary. Manardi have been doing throughout the course of this entire school year. began late last school year um with Mrs. Pulchinsky when she was still with us. Um so I'm going to talk a little
016bit about the all the programs that we uh do an outline on the programs that we looked at and then you'll see how we narrowly cut it down to the program that we have selected. Um so the overview um we talk throughout the year about the programs that we were focusing on. CKLA was one of them. Um yet that program emphasizes building deep knowledge across various subjects often covering historical and scientific topics and these are their highlights. Um HMH uh into reading focuses on foundational reading skills with a balanced approach to phonics and comprehension with a more streamlined content selection. Um, wonders was presented a comprehensive literacy curriculum with a mix of content areas with various text types and genres and then bookworms which was a focused on leveled readers designed to support comprehension and
017development. Uh, the instructional approaches that each of these programs offered. CTA was explicit phonics contentri readalouds knowledge building approach. HMH into reading is a balanced lit with a mix of phonics, guided reading, and independent practice. Wonders was systematic and explicit instruction with a stronger focus on comprehension strategies. And bookworms was a structured whole class instruction with an emphasis on fluency and comprehension. When we take a look at our phonics and our foundational skills, CKLA was best for structured explicit phonics and oral language development. Hm. into reading had a good mix of phonics and comprehension with digital supports. Wonders had phonics was included but less structured and not as strong as the others and bookworms was best for fluency and repeated reading with a strong sor alignment science of reading. When we take a look at
018vocabulary and comprehension, CKLA was best for knowledge building vocabulary and comprehension. HMH intro reading was best for explicit vocabulary instruction and small to comprehension support. Wonders provided decent vocabulary and comprehension tools, but it felt fragmented. And Bookworms was best for comprehension to repeated readings, but vocabulary was less explicit. The writing component, CKLA was best for structured knowledge building writing. HM Each reading was best for gradual release writing instruction with digital support. Wonders the writing was present but it felt a bit disconnected from the reading and bookworms was best for daily writing practice tied to fluency and comprehension for differentiation and support. CKLA provided limited built-in differentiation. HMH provides strong differentiation tools, offers leveled readers, small group instruction, intervention guides, and digital supports. Wonders has an extensive differentiation options, but became very overwhelming. And Bookworms had
019minimal differentiation. It was fast-paced, whole group focused, and did not include level readers or small group instruction. So, at this point, we narrowed it down, which I had talked to you about previously, and we had narrowed it down based on all of these um items, the six pieces of the science of reading, what we what reading instruction looks like, and we narrowed it down to CKLA and HMH. So our we had an opportunity to speak to neighboring school districts who one district who uses CKLA, another district that uses HMH into reading and also based on the vendor presentations that we had through HMH and through CK CKLA and we culminated a survey and also um based uh Zoom meetings with the other schools. Um, the pros of CKLA were a strong focus on background knowledge
020and vocabulary development, a systematic phonics instruction that aligns well with the science of reading. It emphasizes phmic awareness, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension in the early grades, and it's helpful for new teachers or those seeking structured guidance. The cons were that some teachers found it too rigid and restricted, limiting teacher creativity. There's a heavy emphasis on listening comprehension in the early grades which some educators felt didn't engage all learners equally. It had a less diverse representation in text compared to other programs. It lacks differentiation. It was rigorous but not engaging. It was a little dry as some people had. When we take a look at HMH, the pros were focused on foundational skills with decodable text and phonics instruction, provide strong digital tools and assessments for differentiation, high quality literature selections and best for small group
021interventions. The cons were some may feel struct uh that it was too structured for educators who prefer a more flexible teaching approach and some educators have noted that the pacing can be challenging for students who need more time to uh develop foundational reading skills. However, this can also be a positive because HMH does give uh time throughout the day for structured small group reading um based on levels. Um, HMH also has a sister part a sister uh into literature for grades 6 through 8. That's what we want to call it. Um, so this program HMH goes from grades uh K through five and then the literature would start through 6 through 8. So it's something that we might want to look at in the future. So from our perspective from the data committee and all
022the research that we have um taken a look at there next slide. Um the data team selected HMH to reading due to its robust differentiation and small group support adaptive digital tools and assessments the balanced literacy approach and the comprehensive intervention and enrichment it provides to the students. And again they talk about you know the strong differentiation and support group support. There's lots of digital tools and assessments. It also partners with our NWA maps um so we can use it in isolation so we can keep our maps separate and and assess students so that it's not integrated with the HH to see or we can partner it with the HH and see how it works. It's up to us what we decide to do with that. So that is our um K5 elementary. Any question
023recommendations? Any questions or good luck with the roll out? Um next up is as part of science of reading. Um UPK is included in that. uh and the state education department when I went to several meetings um that people from state ed were presenting at overseas through zoom um they talked about individual districts um we need to just figure it out for UPK kind of thing and for us we're fortunate because we're right here our UPK is housed in district um in other school districts their UPK's are in a lot of a lot of places are outside of their districts and it's hard to control independent vendor, independent businesses on what they're teaching their kids, but the state said that school districts will need to do that. So, we're fortunate that they're right here. So,
024um the data team conducted conducted a thorough search of both Scholastic PreK on my way and the creative curriculum uh which are two programs uh that most uh school districts within New York State are using for their UPK students. Um and we evaluated their alignment to the New York State pre kindergarten uh learning standards and their overall effectiveness. While both programs are researchbased and meet the required standards, we have chosen to move forward with the Scholastic PreK on my way. Uh this decision is based on its more structured format, strong emphasis on early literacy and the ease of implementation uh which better support our instructional goal and classroom needs. So, PreK on my way. It's a comprehensive fully year preschool curriculum built around researchbased practices from Yale Child study center and uh UT Health's Children's
025Learning Institute. It focuses on unit themes. Um organizes its curriculum around eight month themes each broken into four distinct weekly concept question focus areas. These guiding themes help shape activities, read alouds, vocabulary, and hands-on work throughout the year. Some of those themes are me and you, um, all about our feelings, our community, let's investigate, helping me, our earth, ready, set, go. There's an assessment and progress monitoring component to PreK on My Way. It integrates several thoughtful strategies for assessment and that progress monitoring designed to help teachers observe and support early learner growth without interrupting playful everyday interaction. And it integrates literacy, language, math, social studies, science, physical development, social emotional development and fine arts. When we talk about language and developing talkers, um, this component focuses on internationally structured conversations during readalouds to expand young
026learners or world language, vocabulary, and uh, comprehension skills. And then as far as literacy, discovering together builds foundational skills in homological awareness, vocabulary, alphabet knowledge, comprehension, and divergent writing through a blend of interactive readalouds, hand on hands-on activities, and independent exploration. And lastly, for math, mathematical thinking, uh, it strand fosters deep conceptual understanding in young learners through playful, hands-on, and discussionri experiences. And what's really nice about the language, literacy, and the math, they're all integrated. So the books that they're reading uh during their literacy blocks integrate the math as well, math vocabulary, um language vocabulary. Um so it's all uh connected parts. So um that's the program that we are recommending for our UPK. Any questions? seems very ind depth for prek that well the rigor for prek everything's been pushed right so that's why
027they all the schools but thank you and thank you for the opportunity thank you so discussion about that at all or we can move forward presenting that to you all July No, it's great. They did they did a great job job. Um did a great job and just really overall we really dug in deep to make sure um the teachers had a voice but also looking out to other districts to see what they were doing, what they felt about it. Thank you. Um, this is maybe the last board reading for Michelle Kaiser. Um, and so I wanted to just take a minute to to recognize her. I think you've been on since 2017. My book starts in 2019 when I took over, but I think I think your program was in 2017. So your first
028re-election was in 2020. I know that. Um, so I think it was 2017. So um, eight years you've been here and really shaped and brought a certainly a unique unique voice to the to the board. Um, and I think you represented a portion of the community that we don't necessarily hear from all the time and I think it's important that we heard from that and continue to hear from that portion of the community. So, we thank you for your time and effort and just so you have continually think of us, we got to go perennial so that for many years [Applause] is probably the most in the entire district and you don't and you don't even and you don't even get paid. So, it's so much more than anybody thinks it is when you first
029enter that put in meetings and background reading and research. I know you work with advocacy at the state level as well. We appreciate truly all the fun things that you've worked with. Thank you. Make sure you [Applause] Okay. Thank you again, Michelle. It was great having you on board while I was here. So, thank you. Okay. So, district leaison. We'll start with Ian since Patty is not here in Chester. Sure. There's a not much the end of the school year tomorrow and then the graduation and I know Warwick's graduation is Saturday, June 28th. Um, does anybody else have any additional information? Nothing really about ended. still in session. They're advocating for a couple bills. One is to meet um organization meeting on any date on or before the Monday after July 20th. So that's about
030it. Again, I'll emphasize about the electorate buses that will be mandated. Um you call your senators and let them know that um it's just not feasible for a lot of districts here. Okay. Thank you. Ox is the last meeting was last week they always come with a dinner wasn't able to attend but this summer. Okay, perfect. Facilities committee you Oh, so the capital project we've reviewed the capital project with the the team um it's moving right along. I don't know people try to buy the middle school. You can see the supplies already out there and they're already starting to to work on the groups. So that that is moving right along. It's going to be a big project and it's going to be a tight schedule, but Everything up to now sounds like we're going
031to be on time for the start. Uh audit committee nothing budget committee everything. Start that up again. And then policy committee uh PTSA Those late is here. Thank you for joining us. Thank you. Thank you for having me and good afternoon. My name is Pier. I am the new CE for the village of Lake and I'm grateful to be here tonight. On behalf of Mayor Holly, my collector seats, we want to say thank you to Superintendent Hannah, the board, the principles, teachers, administrators, and all the supporting staff for an extraordinary year and for all the incredible work that you do. It really takes a village and your dedication to our children and our community is unmatched. Today, I was at the Wing High School for a ceremony awarding students who are excelling and receiving scholarships
032from safe from other universities as well. And I was so pleased that we had three of our makers representing in the award ceremony. Gently boy and Morgan receive very high awards today. [Applause] I know that as we prepare to graduate class on Friday, I know that in a few years they're going to also be representing awards. So, thank you. is for all of us that that you know our kids are shining and representing and I just look forward to continue building on partnership with the village of the school and thank you again for thank you very much [Music] if you have anything okay moving along subject 5.1 privilege of the Four. Moving along. Subject 6.1. May I please get a motion to accept the results of the 2025 2026 annual budget vote and election as
033presented? Aaron Mike. Any discussion? All in favor? I. Motion passes 6 to zero. Subject 7.1. May I please get a motion to approve the May 2025 financial reports as presented at this meeting? Mike Dave. Any discussion? All in favor? I. Motion passes 6 to zero. Subject 7.2. May I please get a motion to approve the 2025 2026 board of education meeting calendar and approve the date of the organizational meeting as presented. Mike Michelle as I've ever seen. All in favor? Motion passes 6 to zero. Subject 7.3. May I please get a motion to approve the SMOA between the district and the GLTA as presented? Mike. Aaron. Any discussion? All in favor? I. Motion passes 6 to zero. Subject 7.4. Now, please get a motion to approve the PI Bush Central School District Health Services contract
034as presented. Mike Aaron. Any discussion? All in favor? I. Motion passes six to zero. Subject 7.5. I please get a motion to execute the consultant agreements with the following providers for the 2526 school year as presented and these are all contracts and we always had the contract like Dave any discussion all in favor I motion passes six to zero subject 7.6 Six. May I please get a motion to approve the capital project expedential with Bell office furniture as presented? Mike Dave. Any discussion? All in favor? I. Motion passes six to zero. Subject 7.7. May I please get a motion to approve the transportation contracts between Orange Boseies and we transport as presented. Mike Ian. Any discussion? All in favor? I. Motion passes six to zero. Subject 7.8. May please get a motion to approve the
035Rock Bosey's cooperative energy purchase purchasing services as presented. Aaron Dave any discussion? All in favor? I motion passes six to zero. Uh subject 7.9. May I please get a motion to approve the one time expenditures appropriation transfer as presented? Mike Aaron. Any discussion? All in favor? I. Motion passes 6 to zero. Subject 7.10. May I please get a motion to approve appropriation of funds for the capital project bid award number 002-016 and number 001-027. Mike, Dave, any discussion? All in favor? I. Motion passes six to zero. What? Mike and subject 71. Please get a motion to approve the continuation of reserve funds as presented. Michelle, Aaron, any discussion? All in favor? I. Motion passes 6 to zero. Subject 7.12. May I please get a motion to approve the appropriation of funds from the retirement contribution
036reserve fund as presented? Mike Dave. Any discussion? All in favor? I. Motion passes 6 to zero. Subject 7.13. May I please get a motion to approve the appropriation of fund to the employee benefit approved liability reserve fund as presented? Mike Dave. Any discussion? All in favor? I. Motion passes 6 to zero. Uh subject 7.14. May I please get a motion to accept a generous donation from John Finn for the John P. Finn achievement award as presented. Mike, Michelle. Any discussion? All in favor? I. Motion passes six to zero. Thank you for your generous donation. Subject 7.15. May I please get a motion to accept a lake PTSA donation of $500 as presented? Dave, Mike, thank you very much for the donation. And all in favor? I. Motion passes six to zero. Subject 8.1. May I
037please get a motion to accept with regret the resignation of Austin as ELA teacher as presented? Aaron Mike. Any discussion? Thank you Austin for all your years of service here and good luck in the future. All in favor? I. Motion passes six to zero. M please get a subject I'm sorry subject 8.2. May I please get a motion to accept with resignation and appoint green Rosen Bloom as purchasing agent as presented. Dave White. Congratulations and [Applause] uh all in favor I motion passes six to zero. Subject 8.3 and please get a motion to appoint Tiffany Datina as teaching assistant as presented. Aaron Dave, any discussion? All in favor? I. Motion passes 6 to zero. Thank you, Tiffany. Congratulations. Uh subject 8.4. May I please get a motion to execute employment agreements for non-represented staff? Mike
038Dave. Any discussion? All in favor? I. Motion passes 6 to zero. Subject 8.5. May I please get a motion to approve the unpaid leave of absence of extension of Christina Bondo as presented? Mike Dave. Any discussion? All in favor? I. Motion passes six to zero. subject 8.6 and please get a motion to authorize issuance of a letter to employee number as presented. Mike, Aaron, any discussion? All in favor? I motion passes six to zero. Subject 9.1. May I please get a motion to accept the CPSSE and CSE recommendation as presented at this meeting? Mike, Aaron, any discussion? All in favor? I. Motion passes six to Z. Subject 10.1. I please get a motion to adjourn to executive session to discuss medical, financial, credit, or employment history of any particular person or corporation or matters leading
039to the appointment, employment, promotion, demotions, discipline, suspension, dismissal, or removal of any particular person or corporation. Dave, Mike, any discussion? All in favor? I. Motion passes six to zero. Uh we will not be returning to the uh normal business meeting after executive session. The next uh board of education meeting will be held on July 14th immediately following the organizational meeting at 6:00 p.m. in the middle school. Thank you very much everybody.