001off and so um that's that's appreciated. Um anybody else have anybody for red ram recognition or anything? Okay. Um our next agenda item is community comment time number one. >> There have been no comments submitted. Great. All right. So, we're on to board action. Um, we have routine business as our first item. Um, can I get a motion, please, to discuss uh the consent agenda, Lynn and Carolyn. Um, on the consent agenda tonight, we have um superintendent personnel recommendations, substitute reappointments, and new substit substitute appointments. We have tenure recommendations, minutes for both the reorganization meeting and the regular meeting. Um we have an overnight field trip uh standard workday resolution for employees and to approve combined sports teams for the 2526 school year. Um any discussion? Okay. Um a motion then to approve the consent
002agenda. Dave and John. All in favor? Great. All right. >> One extension. >> Oh, and one abstension. I'm sorry. Thank you for catching that. One abstension. Um the next item we have is to approve the 2526 school lunch prices. Um can I get a motion please to discuss and then I don't know if Brian you want to. Sure. >> Dave Carolyn. >> Yes. Yeah. So this is uh has been standard practice. Um we are still within the C c program meaning we have no cost meals for breakfast and lunch next year. So we still have to set uh breakfast and lunch prices for say students get a second meal under the C program. We can only serve the first meal at no cost. Um it also helps with little uncertainty with funding sources to keep
003these prices up to date. Uh meaning we don't want to fall too far behind. uh they can everybody knows we've seen pretty significant inflation and food prices. So um these modest increases help keep us up to up to speed with food prices change with our resources. >> Okay. Any discussion or questions on that? Okay. Um all in favor to approve school lunch prices. Thank you. Um and we're on to new business. We have two board policies for our first reading. Um the first policy is maximum temperature for building facilities. Second policy is use of internet enabled devices during the school day. Um which is the language that the the policy is using referring to what we are most commonly calling cell phone use. Um, so I don't know if Renee if there's any thing you'd
004like to >> just kind of both policies are based on changes um or additions to education law. So the maximum temperature for buildings um 82 is the number where it kicks in. It's also recommended we add like at 88 you're supposed to remove the children from the room. They recommended adding the language word practicable so that you can do that and a lot of the specifics about how and it recommends the steps that you could take and all that comes right out of the statute. Uh the second one is the um internet enabled devices. This again is based on the statute passed recently. Um and we've pretty much followed the language of the statute to allow the superintendent administrators to adopt procedures, you know, basically on what works and all that. I think Darcy's already
005sent out a letter. Um and all that information will be posted on the website and and available to parents. Um in terms of how that is going to be enforced, etc. any other discussion around this or who has questions? >> I'm just curious if um I'm guessing Dr. Woodcock if you would have received any information after kind of sending out that message or you know hearing that from administrators or people. >> Yeah. So I was going to give an update during my update but I'll do that for this now. The policy Rene is right. we kept really close to law on purpose because that allows our school procedure to adjust as needed. Um, and we sent that out last Thursday to everyone along with the draft policy. We didn't want to cut corners with the
006board of ed taking it through first read, second read, and adoption. Um, so we're doing this right. Uh, the procedure, the feedback that we've received has been really great questions coming from mainly high schoolers. That's the biggest change. Um, Sabon and I actually met today for our individual meeting and he, you know, he held me to my feet to the fire with some questions that were amazing. Um, so tomorrow I'll meet with the principles again. We'll look at like, is our passing time sufficient for the change? Um, is our time getting kids ready to go home in the afternoon and get out to their bus without missing a bus? Is there enough time to do that? Um, and then what else do we need to to take a look at moving back to lockers? So
007we really took a look at do we want to use lockers that are already exist in our schools and we're fortunate because we have a locker for every child not every school does or do we want to purchase something and we thought let's use what we have already and really try to put a plan together. So the feedback has been um understanding that the change is going to be hard for teenagers but it's been supportive and productive in our conversations. So we'll listen to all of it. will continuously update the FAQ and we will uh listen and respond when families reach out to us for sure. >> Okay. Did you SA did you have anything that you wanted to just add? I know from a student's perspective. >> Uh I I everything I had initially
008was called by Dr. Wox. So >> Okay, great. We had a good productive conversation. >> Yeah, we did. >> All right. Um, any other thoughts on the first reading for those two policies? >> Okay. So, they'll be back next board meeting. >> Yes. >> Okay. All right. For u potential approval. Um, next item on our agenda is potential consideration for future meetings. Um, we kept that list with you. I think there were like six or seven from last time. Um, we made sure that those were all woven into this agenda. Um, we're still working on on uh John Fishman. Um, that one that one we kind of we need a little more time on. Um, but so if you ever see that um something that has been brought up didn't get addressed, just please speak
009up and let let us know. Uh, are there any other considerations for future meetings that people are thinking about right now? Okay. Um, so we will move on to reports. We have a presentation on the athletic handbook from Mr. Wheeler. sound. The clicker >> here is the clicker standbody. I can't see it that great. my glasses. Test test. [Music] >> We're all set. Okay. Thank you. Um, so one of the things I wanted to do, if you actually go on the live thing, we'll actually will have this on the athletic homepage and it's all hyperlinks. So if you look up here, the handbook is set up. So if a parent wanted to get to a specific question, transportation, uh, I have a foreign exchange student coming in, uh, what are the rules of if my
010student stops playing on the sport, each one of these blue links will take you right to that page. So when a parent pops on, they don't have to read through 40 pages, they just click on one or two of the things and it will take them there. And if they hit the bottom of the page, it goes right back up to the top. So, we wanted to make it really interactive and friendly to use. So, instead of me showing you how to do it that way because it doesn't come up this way. So, if a parent want to know what sports are offered, they would literally click participation in sports, that would come up. It shows them the start dates, the end dates, when seasons change for spring, winter. So, if they want to plan
011their vacations, they'll know when they are, what sports are offered at what level, and it shows you the right variety that we have, over 70 sports teams. Um, the second part would say, "Hey, how do I sign my kid up? I'm new to JD. What's the process?" I click those blue links takes you right where you register on family ID you can go with your arbiter put all your paperwork in. If parents have questions about when the physical date is good and also state center as well. Uh another hyperlink if you wanted to go on like hey what what was my kid expected to do? What are the expectations for coaches or for parents or for athletes? So this just shows you another way that we link the expectations for athletes. It's directly linked to
012the code of conduct from 2425. And we also connected it to our strategic plan that talks about DEI and having access for all student athletes and fair and equitable pieces even with the booster club and sports teams and ordering our uniforms which we kind of went over last spring having our three-year replacement plan and things like that. Um this is just another piece if you typed on, hey, my kid is having a little bit of trouble winning the sports team or wants to come communicate with the coach about playing time. So this is our chain of command. We've been using this since I've been there. always use it. Um, it just kind of aligns with what we've been practicing here. Currently, the kid goes and meets with the with the actual coach, sets up a
013time before, after practice. If the parent's not sure, the parent can reach out to the coach. If they don't like the answers they got, they send me an email. I meet with information with the coach. And if that doesn't work, we all sit down and have a conversation and we document it and write it down. And it's been going really well. And I think it's been one of our key factors. I think it's been very successful here. The other thing is, okay, my kid is trying out. Um, we thought some people do triyouts differently. We're telling the kids, they got a piece of paper. So, we made it universal for everybody. This is one of the things we talked about with committee. So, now whatever level we do have a trial, we're going to have
014trials in every sport. But if the kid is told two things that did really well and one thing they need to work on, every single kid gets the same feedback before they make decisions on teams. That way, they all kind of have the same equitable decision making in the process. It also has another link just kind of show you quickly. Uh parents should expect the parent meeting that's necessary for them to go to and the coaches should be having one to kind of go over their rules and expectations. Um have to have any specific rules and the parents can ask questions. The other thing is our universal practice plan communication plan with parent square that they shouldn't be getting text messages from coaches at 11 o'clock at night. I don't believe in that. One message
015goes to everybody and that's it and we're done. And that's when a real big successful. I won't keep you too many because there's like 40 things in the open. Um, so I did create a couple new things. Um, a lot of people know that there's a section three policy, you know, to protect our coaches and our athletes if they're at a game and someone's harassing them. I personally walked out people last year a couple games. I just don't tolerate it. I have no tolerance when you come in and you say something to our kids when they're playing. So that kind of just talks to it and then the next game they have to actually sit out. So parents like to know that stuff. Um, we did create a combative parent policy if a parent goes
016after the coach because we want to be able to report back to me and have a actual written process. so it doesn't get swept under the rug. So coach is like, "Hey, I have a problem with parent." You let me know via email. And then we have a if we need to let the SRO know or the principal know and if it gets to the extreme, we let the superintendent know. Um and then we put a formal written policy in there and then we have consequences for parents as well. Um you'd be surprised that sometimes this does happen um in sports, but we want to have that policy in place. Um last one I'll show you because these are all hyperlinks. You can have time to go look in our transportation form. We have a
017new form that tells if a kid couldn't go to a game after a game and their grandparents are picking you up or another fan member. It actually now says who's picking you up, what's their phone number, if you have a picture, even better. Um, just in case if they're going home late, like if you're out of town or you're doing something. So, we have kind of identified those types of things. In the transportation piece on the bottom, it also is a new policy that we put in two years ago about the coach buses that we've been using for travel for over two hours. I also added in like what we do for individual sports um because that's a little different when we have an individual sport. the section was doing coach wester and they kind
018of sometimes don't but we've been I've been working with Ryan and with Jim over in transportation that we have kids that do tennis or kids that do um track we take a coach bus not coach if we don't have a coach bus not provided we've been using a school Tahoe or suburban so they're not stuck in a school bus with a two or three or four hour ride and then they're not stuck there until 11 o'clock at night if they're not done meeting at 10:00 so that's something we kind of if anybody ever asks you to see that um lastly I'll just go over the substance abuse policy we did spend a a lot of time, three or four days on it. We've made some changes and some things to it if you ever want
019to take a look at it. Um, some of the policy is if a student athlete is out uh drinking on school property or goes to a game and is doing any other things that are all tied to the code of conduct at the top, vaping, cigarettes, anything that's illegal for them at their age, they are they are actually off the team. Um, and their second time they do it in the same year, they have to sit the next two sports seasons in a row. We felt that um you know as a committee we wanted a little bit more of a consequence that you know before was six weeks you were out you can come back it was no you're you're just done you need to have to be serious about what you're doing and it's
020a privilege to be on the sports team. We also did keep the policy part in a bit and if a kid self-reports and said they were personally having trouble we're not getting that kid off the team. We're going to actually provide them services and we did keep the part where um there's counseling involved before you can come back to the next courses. Just a quick question with the Tahoe. Is it a school transportation? >> What >> vehicle with the individual? >> Yes, it's a school. Yes. So, we have a Tahoe if it's less than three or four kids. >> And then if we have a, you know, like I think in the spring we had five track kids that went, they went in the suburban, but the coach got approved to drive. >> So, instead
021of labeling it as to how can we say a school >> Yeah. vehicle or something just so that people know it's sponsored by the school. >> Okay, we will add that in. We don't want to say school. I would be worried about us giving them the yellow van. >> Got it. >> Yellow. >> Got it. >> Um, yes, we can do that. The school suspension when they all have the school labels on. >> Okay. >> For the suspension for the next two seasons, is that in the same school year? Does that carry over the next year? >> Carries over. And if you're like just a one sport athlete, >> we talked about that as a group. So if you we have not a large amount of just one sport athletes. So the second offense was
022really like two next consecutive sports seasons. So that's kind of where we kind of left it. >> Okay. So if it's a one sport athlete after that sport, nothing, >> right? But they still have to do the counseling. They still >> Yeah. And then then when you go to try out like, you know, you were a kid who got caught twice drinking. It was tough because we were going to do a whole year, but then a kid would miss an entire year. So, it's something we kind of debated like they actually go to counseling and do the hours and do the time. Um, so it was something we thought about, >> but other coaches don't know. This still stays just within the student athlete. >> Say that again. >> But like in terms of other
023coaches wouldn't know what happens unless you tell them. Is that how >> correct? I'm assuming most coaches find out. Um, that's it for those uh policies on the handbook. Just want to cover that. I did interfer also too, we did send you on Friday the proposals. Um, and I'm just here if you have questions about it or if you guys want to have discussion about it, but I've I've gotten 26 girls who want to join flag football and get it started. We did the grant. Booster Club's ready to pay for the uniforms. We've had some teams that we slipped out, so it's not a big cost to our school district. Um, we would like to start that in the spring. It'll be a spring sport. >> It is a spring sport. It's varsity. We have
024a spot holding us, but we have to be approved by all of you. Um, and then the good thing about this is actually once when we have girls wrestling this year coming, it's separate. Once we add girls football, we will actually have the same amount of sports for boys and girls, which the middle schoolers showed me last year. >> How many do we need to fill a team? >> 13. >> So, I have a backup plan. >> If we don't get I know. I'm sorry. I only have 10 minutes. >> It's a lot of cars. um if we don't have enough people. Buddy and I have had a conversation. He was getting pressure to combine. We do combine with some sports. CBA to offer to combine with us. They have two turf fields. >> I
025would like to keep us with our own kids in the event that we don't have enough and we have kids who really want to do it and I think we provide that service to our kids and if we have to do that as well. But 13 kids is a typical roster. Um some schools right now because it's so popular in this Olympic sport the city they have two or three times. And varsity and varsity can be as strong as >> um with spring sports and we already have kids playing spring sports. Are some looking to switch sports? Have there been questions about that they play more than one in the spring? >> Um so our rule at the SCAC, the conference that we're in, you cannot play more than one sport. >> Okay. >> Um
026the Tri Valley League two years ago to start flag football allowed kids to play more than one sport and they played those games on Saturday, which I would love to do. Um, I went to the meeting and I did have the information from the kids that came to the meeting. So, which was nice of the 26 kids that I got information from, two of them were only playing sport currently. So, it wasn't like >> and I think a lot of the kids who were playing track 57 girls, you know, and this is not counting any incoming nth graders. So, there were a lot of eighth grade parents that didn't come to that meeting and were like, "My kid wants to do this." So, I would like us to try it. If it doesn't work, we
027could always just not do it. Yes sir. >> Uh I'm aware of a certain like situation where some people might be in lacrosse for example like if they don't make lacrosse team they're able to go and join track. Is it possible for them to also like join flag football as a backup if they don't make a sport? >> So we allow that in every sport. >> Okay. >> So if you don't make a team I I just change your thing to a different sport. You don't play that one. So I don't we don't I personally believe you want to go play something and we have a spot. You have a uniform and you don't make it. Go ahead. We had that with volleyball. Most soccer kids came back out for soccer. We do that for
028lacrosse. We don't really have enough kids to get cut in lacrosse. Have cuts for lacrosse, but we can. Yeah, definitely. We do that. >> I also have a second question, but I don't know if you have time. >> Uh, okay. So, I'm aware of like also another very popular sports that's been going on in this area, which is rowing. Like for I'm sure I think CB has it, but I know FM has it and they're doing really well. And I heard that there was some sort of rumors about students really wanting to uh participate in bowling here at JD for boys. >> Yes. >> So I'll just >> we had that conversation and Dr. Smith and I spent a lot of time on that. Uh rowing is technically not a it's an extra sport. >>
029It's not like a section three sport. So it's like a national sport. Um so you have to actually have nobody would let us combine with them. We were trying to combine with DO. We tried to combine with FM. across the startup. We actually had boats. It kind of didn't get put in the water. Let's put it that way. I did really try to push it. I also went down to skiing skiing. We tried to get that. I didn't realize a sectional sport and they ski at um Old Forge every weekend. But um rowing did come up and um Kian's father was a real proponent. So what we do now is JD actually has a Chargers team. Those kids are rolling the Chargers. >> So the Chargers rowing team. So that's similar to FM, but FM,
030but they go to the national needs of life DC, but it's it's it's we can revisit it with I don't want to take up too much time. So the other policy I just want to go over and really and I didn't know we really had this one is the policy about paying for a bus if you play other games. Um it's it's in the actual board policy that if you take your team and go play section five or section 10, you're supposed to pay for the bus. Um that's a little tough with I can't get teams to play us. we are really good. So if I my lacrosse team, if I call up, you know, hey, you want to play Chipangle, they're like, no. If I call S, they're like absolutely not. So we we
031can't fill our schedules that way. So that teams were committed to paying for buses. I think we should really consider the buses are paid at state aid. >> Um sometimes with buses, I don't know. So I would like to at least you have consider having two or three times a school can go team can go play or we just eliminate that. it would be helpful for them and the parents so they don't have to. And the last one is a proposal with seventh graders now that we have modified tennis. Um we have some seventh graders in your list. I'll show you 20 kids that we had that were starters of seventh graders. Our second best golfer last year shot a 68 sectionals with a seventh grader. So we allow it in some sports like hockey
032and other ones, but we don't allow it at all. I would just like some consideration for the superintendent myself to sign off if we have a kid. We have a kid nationally ranked right now in tennis. is like top 100 in the country and his sister's playing in college and she won sectional titles like six to kind of have that ability. I don't even play football or soccer just something. Any other questions? >> So that was supposed to be 10. >> Would we have language that it is no contact? Just thinking about age and size and or what would that look like for that last one? Um, so for me it would look like um, so right now our policy is if they don't offer it at the high school they can play it. So
033a kid can actually play hockey in seventh grade. >> Um, and they can play golf, but now that we've moved tennis out of it, um, gymnastics they can still do. So we I would just take some recommendations from all of you what you think. Um, I'm not in it by myself, but I think if we have an exceptional seventh grader and they could have a separate trial with the athletic director or a piece maybe not a contact sport, um, would be fine. That was kind of really the push was a non-cont sport seventh grader piece. This is policy but adult policy first then come back through first grade and yeah I'm just looking for feedback for all of you to maybe ask an option if we get one exceptional kid to be like hey you
034can go do that >> it's non question uh would people who are like our students in eighth grade also allowed to be on junior bar >> so eighth grade there's no restrictions it's just seventh grade but when I was looking we have we provide seven or nine sports of kids who can actually play up, but we limit five or six other sports. So, if you're a kid, you could be limited. We don't really have a lot of kids playing up 25. So, it's not like a huge number. We're asking you just want to be able to consider the kid who was going to play modified tennis and he's going to beat every single kid. It's like an exceptional if you're really good academically, you played a cello, you know, you're really good at cello, we
035wouldn't limit that kid. Just want the option. I'm not saying we're going to do everybody in school. answer. >> Any more questions? >> Just the last question. Have we done an analysis? Would it be any team gets to go to and have we done an analysis? If every team wants to go to out of section, what that would cost? And would this go to finance committee? >> So, we typically have one or two teams that go out of section. Lacrosse teams go out with like soccer's going on overnight trip. So, so if you think about it, if them going on an overnight trip or going on a section, they still have to pay for the bus driver's bus, they got to pay for hotels, they got to pay for the travel, and you add on
036the bus cost of $1,800 or more, it can get pretty expensive quickly. So, I wouldn't mind if it was like you could do it twice a year, the sports team are three times max. Um, there's not a ton of teams doing it, but to get competitive teams like lacrosse team would never be able to survive without it because we play we play down in New Jersey. Um it's just something to consider. >> So it would be that we would be our taxpayers would be covering the cost of the bus. >> Correct. >> And currently right now they >> currently right now is what's >> so currently right now they would have this policy that I read they would have that. >> So here's the thing. I can go to Indian River and play a game
037which is an hour and a half but I can't go play Ithaca. You know what I mean? Some places are even shorter like distance. I don't want to talk too much. I'll let you guys kind of debate some. >> It's just helpful to understand like volume and those pieces. So, thank you. >> Yeah, I think it's just like the coaches are put that, you know, I go pick three games. I got to spend $6,000 to go play three competitive games and then I lose in the state finals and now I play team zero by 20. It's just better for the kids. They provide more opportunities. Thank you. >> All right. Um, so next, uh, with our reports, we have Dr. Wak with her superintendent report. >> All right. I have a few things for us
038today. I'm actually going to go in reverse order what's on the agenda, so I apologize. Um, but I'll start with weapons detection system update. And this one actually let me squeeze in federal funds really quickly. The federal funds have been unfrozen and have been released. So uh my last report to you was that I was going on that webinar that the federal funds have been frozen that we have been asked not to even plan for those at this point. That is done right now. Um the only thing I would say is that we plan cautiously uh for the future as well just to ensure that uh should that occur again, we have a plan B uh for some of those funds. But that was $7 billion for New York State that was just released and
039so thankful for that. Uh weapons detection system, we are still waiting for the New York State review. So I want to give you an update there. Uh New York State is reviewing the documents that we submitted for the weapons detection system. They are recommending that we wait for that approval prior to purchasing because if we purchase the systems prior to approval and for some reason we do not get approved, the district is on the hook for the full cost of that. So they uh generally and highly recommend that we wait. Uh however, it is our choice if we were to want to move forward and purchase those uh on our own. Uh once the internal review is done, it will then go for state approval. Uh and state approval can take another one to four
040months. So, uh we are working with uh Max from DASE and I know Brian's keeping close watch on it. I'm keeping close watch on it. He said he would update us when uh the process is moving forward. Um but it has not yet but it is still currently being reviewed. So that's the update there. >> Is there any discussion with legislation about the state helping in funding these other mandates or >> It would be amazing. There's been hard advocacy for the state to step in and put funding forward for safety initiatives. Um I haven't seen it go very far yet, but there has every year NISPA Niscus um everyone's advocating for some funding to come along with safety initiatives. Um and and maybe more like the cell phone proposal was $10 per student which doesn't
041get us very far. So we need some proper funding as well. Uh just an aside uh Southwood property update. So I know uh Dr. Smith was working on this one, but I want to give you another update. The bill, and I believe this was the last you heard, has passed the Senate and Assembly. The bill is unfortunately still waiting for the governor's signature. So it is still on her desk. uh when we receive the signed bill, the town of Anadaga and the district have already kind of agreed that we'll get started on the lease once the bill gets signed by the governor. Um and Lisa Goodwin from the Anadaga Town Board is the one kind of u making sure that she's updating us and she is going to let us know the second they receive
042the signed bill from Governor Hogal. Any questions on that one? Okay. Um, and then cell tower update. So, last meeting, uh, I let you know that I was going to the zoning board of appeals meeting on July 21st. It was a great meeting. I didn't realize how long you could spend talking about like three inches of asphalt on a driveway. It's a long time that you can spend talking about that. Um, in attendance, there were two people opposed to the tower in attendance. There was one person for the tower in attendance. They all spoke spoke briefly and and uh uh lengthy discussion ensued by the board. However, the board ended with unanimous support and passed the special permit that we need to move forward with this. Um so we did receive the approval there and
043um while I know there is some opposition, I have to say from a safety standpoint, it is a safety concern. Um, and I'm pleased that it's moving forward, uh, because we need to be able to have service in our school, which I know is counterproductive to putting cell phones away, Sabona. Um, so, uh, that's the update for the cell phone tower. Next steps, we plan, we get a safety plan in place and we get the construction plan in place. Okay. And then portrait of graduate. This month, the board of regents adopted the portrait of a graduate. So I want to just place this in context for you. This is the first transformation for the new graduation measures. So there are four transformations and this is the first. The first was that the board of regents
044needed to adopt the new portrait of a graduate. They did revise two out of the six and I know you noted this too in your notes. Um they revised what was literate across content areas. They revised that to academically prepared and then they revised social emotional competence to reflective and future focused. That was based on all the stakeholder feedback. Do you have anything to add about the changes for those two? >> Um I think they also they made um their CRSC kind of in in the middle, right? everything is is instead of a I think the blue ribbon suggestion was that it was a component and they've moved that to be um central to the portrait of a graduate. >> Um and so that's transformation one. Uh transformation two, just to review for you, transformation
045two is they're going to redefine the credits. That's where they're asking us to add in financial literacy for every child and a CTE credit for every child as well as they will replace the diploma requirements to be categorized by the six categories of the portrait of a graduate. Um, transformation three, they will sunset the regent assessments. Um, and that means that you no longer need to pass the regents to graduate. However, regents will always be offered as a path to graduation. Uh there is a federal requirement that regions will still be offered and we do have students who will take regions exams. I can speak as a mom of three. At least one of mine would choose regents all the way. Um she's a good test taker. >> Um and then transformation four, we moved
046to one diploma statewide with one set of requirements. So just to put that in context for you, this is the first transformation of the four with adopting a portrait of a graduate. Um and Sabah, they are having a statewide any audio or video into text automatically. >> They are uh inviting all student board members to a statewide celebration on September 17th. So I'll get you more details about that when it comes. >> Okay. >> This remember this is the first year that a student board member has to be on every board of education statewide including both these boards. And so that's why they're inviting everyone to a celebration because it's the first year. Uh may I ask one question regarding the statement that we made? Uh may I just ask what the what does are
047we speaking of removing the regions from being a requirement for a graduating student? >> Yes. Yes. Not for your ear. >> So there will be several options. You can choose like a portfolio type way to display what you know versus taking a multiple choice exam. Um you can choose uh a performance a workbased learning option. You can choose um an internship a work study option. So there'll be choices a menu of options for students to choose. And if students want to choose the regions they can also take the regions. Uh my my concern is wouldn't this lower the standard of like student passing a class and maybe they're like barely passing and are able to take a internship that will get them the credit. >> Sure. >> And how does this like lower the center
048of the student? >> So they the state did a ton of work with stakeholders to gather exactly that feedback. What do they need to do to ensure that the bar is not lowered? And I would say that the the response is that not everyone is good at taking a test, but they still may have the proper knowledge to graduate high school. And that having several ways for a child to show what they know versus just a multiple choice exam would be good for a lot of students. But the idea is not to lower the bar, but to maybe shift the bar a little bit. >> Okay. And this this goes for statewide and not rather just a JD. >> That's right. >> Okay. So, >> right. And then one piece tied with accountability. Just like
049our students have to take ELA math tests third through 8th grade, still depending on federal accountability rules, there may still be some exams that everyone has to take to exhibit competency in certain areas based requirements. While they may not need it for their diploma, they may need to take some exams for >> more to come on that. Yeah. >> And what is like the estimated like date for this to the year for this to be implemented? >> Incoming ninth graders. Incoming Yes. Ninth graders. >> Okay. >> Or is it incoming 10th graders? Let me get the exact date. It might be incoming 10th. >> I think the kids that just finished nth grade are >> Yes, that's what I think too. Incoming 10th graders when they're graduating. >> Okay. So 2 27 >> because it's
050the third transformation. So we still have another one in between that. >> 27 28 >> 28. >> Yeah. >> So a couple years still. >> Can I remind them what the middle transformation was? >> It was to redefine the credits. So, they're going to require students to take a financial literacy class to understand money management um and investing and then also a CTE credit um some sort of uh agriculture course or family and consumer science, something that is uh more career and teched based and then also take the six areas of the portrait of the graduate and make the credits match those instead of um separate content areas. So, in other words, what makes you an effective communicator versus can you pass a math test? A different way of looking at it. >> May I
051ask what CT stands for? >> Career and technical education. >> Yep. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Um, did you have upcoming events? Um, just that we have staff orientation coming up on the 20th and 21st. We have our staff coming back on the morning of the 27th is the first day and Dr. Archer agreed to speak with our wonderful staff to welcome them back. So, you will all receive an invitation to that. Um, and then it's going to happen before we know it. School is starting on Tuesday, September 2nd. Early. Yes. Another early year. Late end and early start. >> Thank you. >> All right. Um, next on the agenda, we have committee reports. We haven't we just have had that one meeting from policy. I know we've already spoken to it, but I don't
052know if um Dave or Renee there's anything else you wanted to add about that conversation we had. I don't think so. >> Okay. Okay. Um and then um just very quickly um for my report, one of the things I was going to speak about um are the the new committees. Um and these I noticed um these need to be updated now on the website too. Um so uh Renee, Dave, and uh Jing our policy um committee. I I'm going to try to attend as many of each of these as I can, but I will probably I'm probably being a little ambitious when I'm saying that. Um, uh, facilities, uh, John, Lynn, and Jalal. Finance is Lori, uh, Carolyn and myself. Audit, um, me, John, and Dave. Um, and then we have some ad hoc committees.
053Um the town board liaison um Lynn and John. Um the governance handbook are Lori and Dave. And the district district equity council members um Jen and myself. And then um the advocacy liaison for NISPA will be um Jalal and Renee. So if there's any I I tried to go by what everybody the feedback everybody gave me. if there's any like, you know, issues or I really can't make it or this isn't working for me, just let me know. Um, we can be flexible. Um, >> one question for audit committee. Do we always have to have somebody an outside community representative for audit committee? >> We do. Yeah. Um, I know we in the past we've used like a former board member. >> Is that right? >> To your right has been the audit committee member
054for the past two years. >> Great. Um and then the only other uh part for my report that I wanted to mention I attended this past weekend um the leadership and education event for um NISSA and it I I've been in education a really long time. I've been to a million conferences. This one was so good. Um I really felt like every session I was getting something out of it. And I, you know, I'm not not trying to be ugly to any of the other conferences I've attended in the past, but you know, sometimes you're just kind of like, okay, like I need some new information. This was very good. It was very well done. Um, and so I there is uh the annual convention is coming up. I would highly recommend if you can
055attend. Um, it's the 23rd through the 25th of October. It is in New York City. Um but if you are interested in attending and I know I I know like um like administrators can also attend. Um and I was looking at the agendas and there's a lot on cell phones, there's a lot on school safety, there's a lot on um AI and uh digital literacy. Um and just some very and and portrait of graduate. So like a lot of like very forwardthinking topics. Um so something to consider. Um I also heard the same word you used which is caution while all the finance um sessions I went to but everyone kept saying to just be cautious. So I'm reiterating that now. Um but just and I did send the notes I sent the notes to
056the whole board. So if you you know would like to fall asleep tonight looking at those um they're there for you. Um and that is it for my report. Uh we have community comment time number two. >> No new comments. So any unfinished and continuing business. >> Just know we had mentioned um enrollment and we'll be looking at it next meeting when we get closer to final registration numbers. >> That is correct. Yes. Enrollment will be um uh next meeting which is the 25th. Oh, it's right here. Um any other considerations for or um unfinishing continuing business? >> Guess just tied with that as as we mentioned August 25th and Darcy you just said staff orientation is the >> new staff orientation would be the 20th and the 21st. So if we had to add
057new sections, the new staff member would not get to attend new staff orientation. >> So, anyone who is going who is been offered and accepted and going to that personnel recommendation, they are invited. We invite them before they're >> um because it is unpaid orientation. So, we uh we don't have that conflict. So, we do invite them and then anyone who would you know get hired between the 21st and the 25th, I typically work with them personally just like that. >> Yeah. Thank you. >> Right. >> Yeah. I didn't know if we'd have to move that meeting or not. So, thank you so anything else for unfinished and continuing. Okay. Um I think we are all set then. If I can get a motion please to adjourn. Uh Lynn and Renee. All in favor? Okay.
058Have a good night everybody. >> So that so I was transcribing something today and that was the YouTube tutorial. It was teaching All right.