001And Good evening for the Pledge of Allegiance. Pledge Allegiance, United States America. Please Stay standing. Heavenly Father, we invoke by blessing on all attendance here and on those we serve. Help us to bring wisdom and humanity to our deliberations and my spirit, to our Thank you. Please be seated. Thank you both for coming. I'll start off with meeting. We terminate this product 45 so we can all go to whoever to go to. Uh, apparently play spring, varsity field. She gross track field boys, track field girls, lacrosse, lacrosse, boys watching baseball and boys tennis. It's just great to see all these teams preach to the scholar after. Congratulations, trustee. Evening. Evening everyone. Um, the last meeting I missed for a family commitment, but I wanted to graduate, um, president Zino from the Education Award. It was
002a great ceremony and a big shout out to Jake Kos, who one of the musicians in the jazz who was a special monitoring as well. And, um, it's really, it was a really great meaning and inspiring to hear all the recipients receiving their awards and what they achieved and how they helped the life of Island High School, I'm sorry, long Island High School Parks. Um, and my surprise, they even had an award for the Joel Foundation. So it was even another kudos that we actually saw Alexis and Billy Joel received their award and how supportive they are with opposed To, We should feel very fortunate that our school district is part of this program. Um, I'd also like to congratulate everybody who received an honor with, uh, Paul of Fame, our first, including Trustee Ducky.
003Uh, it was nice to see the videos of Joe sdo and Steven v It brings back the ray of me attending the Tower Show when Steven v was on the stage playing the star bagel banner with his team. So right here that, you know, there was like real challenge. Uh, lastly, I'd like to say thank you to, um, Dominic Morrow from the co-founder from the local Cornell Deli, uh, coming to our culinary arts class and sharing with the students how to make rolls of red. I'd also like to say a thank you to, uh, Dale College, Dr. Who came to our school, um, and provided a presentation of a taste of the Italy cuisine with the Italian classes. Um, it's a nice, it's a nice way of sharing different cultures from different who really have
004a passion of it. So I'm glad that our students were able to experience that. Thank you. Uh, good evening. Thanks for, um, congratulations to our 12 C Athletes Play. You're permitted to play the respective sports at collegiate level. This is remarkable achievement and we are ly your hard work and dedication. The special shout also goes to the coaches who brave support and encouragement have an instrumental helping athletes reach last year. Your commitment and sacrifices help shape the athletes. Celebrate and congratulations to all the CP alumni and trustee recognition to the not only shape their own journeys, but have also inspire future generations. Special thank you goes out to the three members who hardest are, make incredible honor possible, your effort, commit into truly appreciation and special plans, our buildings, and grow for their dedication. We
005also want extend our gratitude custodians, your truly appreciate environment. Good evening everyone. Um, this week mark's, uh, one year. It's, uh, being elected sort of on the board. It's been honor represent the community. Uh, I've always called home and I'm deeply grateful to Trust Place remains. I've learned a lot, a lot, and I remain committed to listening, seeking, uh, questions and keeping our focus on what's best for car plays, both now. And, uh, I also wanna take a moment to reflect on the inaugural car plays by Arts Hall of Fame induction. We mentioned, uh, it's more than just a celebration of music and performance, a celebration of the relationships built over time. Uh, for me personally, it was especially meaningful walk on the stage with my brother for the first time, uh, being six years
006before we were never in a show together. Uh, as my client steps to stage, I turned to him and said, you realize we've never actually been on the stage together before. I told him that it must have been a big moment for him. Uh, and in another full circle moment in my fellow class in 2001, Sian, uh, and I picked up right where our yearbook photo left off, created the same, uh, stance more than two decades later. Uh, it felt like no time at best at all. It was also great to see how well represented class 2001 was that night. Recognizing the student artists and the teachers and mentors will guide them is essential. Their work shape and culture of our schools, and brings people together in power ways. I also wanna echo Mr. Ramone's
007call to action. Let's continue, which is to, you know, let's continue encouraging students to get involved in the arts where they find their voice on stage or behind the scenes. Uh, we're in the art show down the hall, right? Uh, these experiences stay with them for life. Uh, as we head into Memorial Day weekend, I want to take a moment to honor and remember the brave men and women who gave their lives the service of our country. It's time for reflection, gratitude, uh, and recognizing the sacrifices that make our freedoms possible. Um, I hope we all take a moment to pause. Remember, even if I have been the, uh, parades and family gatherings, and hopefully the, the weather will uh, be, Thank you. Wow. It's a year I didn't even realize. I think I put
008that out my memory from all those candidates, uh, meetings. Anyway, evening everyone. Um, thank you so much for coming out tonight. I just wanted to remind everyone that if you haven't voted yet, there is still time. The polls are open until nine, uh, nine tonight. So please make your voice heard. Every voice and both truly counts. I had the honor of attending the Arts Hall fame last week, and it was such a joy seeing former classmates and former student members being recognized by their time at Car Place and their amazing contributions to the arts in our district. It was a beautiful reminder of how deep our roots are in the arts. They truly go. And of course, huge congratulations to our very all bumping who was inducted as well. What an amazing accomplishment. Speaking of
009amazing, let's talk about our kindergarten recent show. What is the like of performance? The energy and enthusiasm and sheer joy on those little faces who was heartwarming and unforgettable hats off to their music teacher. The Smith their classroom teachers and all the staff who help bring it all together is those early memories that build the foundation of lifelong love, of a lifelong love of learning and creativity. And just this past Friday, I had the privilege of attending senior signing day for my cousin Jason. He will playing soccer from a lawyer next year. I'd never been to one before. And I have to say it was such a meaningful experience. Each student had the chance to reflect on their athletic journeys, and it was incredibly moving, was incredibly moving to hear how they honored their coaches,
010their families, and their supporters. The entire ceremony was bought, bought for the planned, and it was truly something special to witness. A huge shout out to Justin organizing such a memorable event. So once again, thank you for being here, for showing up for our students, our artists, our athletes in our community. Let's keep showing up in every way that matters. Thank you. Thank you. Alright, now it's my pleasure to present the two board achievement awards from the New York State School Board Association, New York Board Achievement Award to Vanessa Don Monaco of the call Place Union three school district through NI's Board of Excellence Recognition program, conferring more than 75 points for your ongoing association, professional development, and accepting additional leadership roles 2025. So congratulations and the board An excellence award, again from the New
011York State School Board Association to Kathleen Green in this, this Boardman excellence recognition program, conferring more than 150 points for your ongoing association, professional development, and accepting additional leadership goals. Congratulations. A lot of you probably don't know, in order to gain these points, you have to attend classes somewhere in Nassau County at another school. And you do that on your own time. You do it after work, uh, and you can keep going there. There's a lot of, a lot of classes you can take and it's a foot because being a board member is different than your regular job. It certainly was for me. And that's how you learn how to become a good board member or what a board member is supposed to do. So thank you very much. Congratulations. Thank you. Alright, so, um,
012echoing a few things. That's a couple of other items. I want to start off by saying thank you to everyone who has come out and voted today. It's one of the most important things we can do. And I think plan the smaller and closer the home and election is, the more our votes count. I'm very happy to vote my own school district this morning, um, our baseball transition. Our baseball and softball teams are on a tail. They had a great evening last night here at Home Call Place. They had a great evening tonight out in Cold Spring Harbor, Mr. Block, I believe they're moving onto to the next round of Farmingdale this weekend. I opponent yet to be determined, but the frogs are on a roll and it's really exciting to see that. Um, I'll
013also say the wall of fame induction was a remarkable, remarkable thing to witness as a, as a person who didn't grow up here. The amount of warmth and the amount of excitement and actual real genuine pride that folks had getting inducted into the, to the wall theme and the support that they showed for one another. Siblings, we had a mom and two sons all be inducted, which was really, really neat. And, you know, Michael did such a great job and had some tremendous support from the music parts depart from the community. It was genuinely a wonderful thing to see. And along with athletics and the arts comes academics, big, big props to our seventh grade students. Um, today we had authors chair in middle school and under the guidance of our seventh grade ELA teacher,
014we heard those students read their own writing and give a nice little speech about why they had chosen this particular piece to write back. Whether it was an explication of a piece of literature or a persuasive piece of literature, rather writing or a POB piece. They have a really excellent reason for why they wanted to share it. And the quality of their writing in terms of author craft, understanding their audience and use of their writer's techniques was tremendous. That shows the great, great work that they're doing in grade seven. And it's a culmination of all the grades that came before. That's eight years worth of work that they show up there starting when they're in primary school. So, you know, academics, arts, athletics is a great thing. Um, I want to also say, said Memorial
015Day is not a long weekend just because there are mattress and car sales. It's a long weekend because veterans, especially their lives, we have ethos track record here, remembering that, which is a fair saying, super important piece. Um, then I have one last piece because our two vice presidents are not the only folks that we want to recognize tonight. We want to recognize our board president as well. And it's me. Great, great pleasure to give this recognition. Ate of recognition from Lane Phillips, the of Nassau County to honor the 25 years of service of Mr. Lawrence Ano Jr. Our board president. A major accomplishment of service and dedication to the community. So Larry, you shake hands on that. Thank you. Thank you, Dr. Are there any public comments on agenda items on no public comments
016on agenda items? We move to the consent agenda and the first order of business. There is 4.19. I'll ask for a motion to change the title. 4.4 0.9 employment agreement. The title as it reached now is Ground Supervisor. That needs to be changed to head grounds. So I'd like to make a motion to make defendant change. Please favor. May have a motion to approve the consent to do. Second. All in favor move to the presentation. So we have like second presentation in our series of four academic committees that we have in conducting this year. And the presentation is going to be led by our Deputy Superintendent Fredericks and by Dr. Ps. And we have several members of our active, of our administrative staff and our faculty who have been excellent participants in that committee who
017are here to add a little color and flavor to that. With that Eileen and Bill, I'll turn it over to you for our presentation. Invite best committee members to up with us as well. So tonight we're going to share the hard work and the great work that the curriculum alignment committee has been working on throughout this current school year. Before we jump into the actual slides, just gonna add that is each, uh, committee member here, this is not even all of our committee members, just some of our committee members. They can just share, uh, they what school they're working, uh, what school in and whether department or grade that they're coming to work. Jackie, Michelle, uh, middle school, high school special education Teacher, uh, Jennifer Valerio, middle school high school, Spanish and Italian for Rushmore.
018Currently a third grade teacher, Dr. Alexis district. And special. Correct. So all of these individuals gave a lot of their time, not only while we were meeting, but after hours as well. When they, when they were driving home, they were thinking about things that we were talking about in our prior meeting. They were sending emails. They were just thrown at different ideas on different things that we were talking about. So I do want to give them like a shout out and I'm doing that at the beginning of the presentation. But who even get to the end? 'cause there's been a lot of time and a lot of dedication that they have provided. They've given some additional insight, they have given, they have at least enlightened me on things that I wasn't necessarily even thinking about.
019Um, which really kind of helps as we continue to move forward and really develop the plan as we move forward. We always start with all of our presentation, standing right in front of it. Um, Do you want In the light? No, no, no. As long as you're okay, get a little closer to you. We always start with all of our presentations with the mission and vision, and as everyone knows, our district values tradition, but we're equally committed to innovation and excellence as well. What makes small police unique is how we work together as true Partners in learning. And when I say we, I'm talking about our K 12 teachers, our administrators, uh, our parents, and then of course the board of Education. Education is about fostering curiosity agency and lifelong learning in everything that we
020do. Our ultimate goal is to create a cycle of growth and success that carries our students into the future with confidence, as we all know, they are ultimately our leaders as we move forward. When we were looking for a quote that, that really kind of tied into everything that we've been doing, we went with this quote, writing curriculum is not about filling time. It's about filling mind with purpose, curiosity, and direction. This quote really resonates with the way that we, we approach curriculum design. It's not just about keeping students busy or checking boxes. It's about being intentional with our teachers, being intentional on how they plan, what they're planning, how they're gonna reach their students, how our students learn, and ultimately how are they going to apply everything that we have been teaching. Every lesson
021plan should, should serve a bigger purpose. Sparking curiosity, giving students a clear sense of direction and helping them find meaning in whatever they're learning about school. That's when real engagement happens, and that's how we prepare students to think critically and act with purpose. The committee was given a charge by Dr. Keni and it was supported by the Board of Education. Our goal in complex is to take a strategic approach to curriculum development across all content areas. That starts making sure we all have a clear and accurate understanding of the full K to 12 scope and sequence and how each subject builds from year to year. We also want to build an understanding of what makes curriculum truly high quality. That means it is aligned to standards course, but just as important. It engages students in
022active learning and gives them real. We want students to take ownership of their learning, both inside and outside of the classroom. A big part of that involves interdisciplinary learning or prioritizing approaches like project based learning that let students explore real problems, use their voices, and make choices in how they demonstrate their understanding. To guide this work, we're adopting a theory of action, which is a shared vision and SL that outlines how we move from ideas to impactful results in our curriculum or development process. We developed a customized format for writing curriculum, a document that reflects our values and our students' needs. Okay, this is just a list of our committee members. This is the one who is not on the committee. Um, And I'm just gonna jump right to the next slide tonight, presenters, this
023is a subgroup of, uh, of our committee. Um, our committee, again as, uh, Dr. Molo mentioned, and everyone introduced themselves the real cross section of the district. Um, you know, it's not the third grade and the fourth grade. We have, um, music teachers, foreign language teachers, special education teachers, um, real good mix of people who came together and really, um, shared their thoughts, shared their perspectives. And I have to say, really from like day one then one really, uh, veted together nicely and everybody was, was open and, uh, really working together. Roles and responsibilities. We introduced the, um, educator members of our, um, of our committee. And the roles and responsibilities were to really again, provide the perspective from the classroom, you know, what's happening in the classroom, what can they bring to our curriculum
024learning first, and then our curriculum development next. Um, that actually happens. One of the outcomes in the classroom, um, we were all charged with and worked very hard at reading, analyzing, and researching a lot of materials. We looked at articles, we looked at books. Um, we were, um, we had direct instruction. Um, we had a, um, a consultant, a nationally known recognized consultant, an expert on formulating curriculum and helping us to formulate curriculum. Um, she worked with our administrative team last summer and, uh, and worked with the committee throughout the year. Um, so we really, we were, we were in school learning about curriculum, um, as well as, uh, doing all our research. Um, some of us joined little, uh, you know, small research groups. Uh, and then again, the educators are expected to make
025recommendations as a team or making recommendations, um, for, um, for future curriculum growth place. We also had guest members. And, um, our Angela, our consultant is technically one of our guest members, I think you can see on both sides. Um, and we also had, um, a parent group as part of our guest members of the committee. Um, we had a focus group and Dr. Do more about that down the line a little bit. Um, but we did survey parents about, they had some input on their, the information they had about curriculum. Um, and then we did have a focus group that got direct feedback, um, on some of our, um, prototypes that we were, uh, putting out there. So it's, uh, a real, um, convergence of a lot of different lines. Um, we're very fortunate
026to have everybody, um, contribute to our recommendations. Yeah. Um, our key learnings and discoveries. Um, first of all, as I said, we did a lot of, uh, research into, um, curriculum documents and what goes into a curriculum document, the elements of, of, of good high quality, um, curriculum. And, um, so we did, we looked at a lot of the curriculum documents that the, um, district had already formulated that we, that we were using Harmony, um, in our schools. And, um, and first and foremost, we were validated that we did have high quality curriculum documents in, in place, in the schools. Um, but, you know, the growth mindset, we know that everybody can improve and everything can improve. So we look for ways that we could incorporate, um, different aspects of, um, different aspects into the
027curriculum where we should incorporate our social emotional learning, um, and incorporate them more purposefully. I'm not gonna say that these, were not incorporate but purposefully incorporate social emotional learning, um, literacy across all content areas, um, um, digital, digital literacy. Um, and, um, and I know portrait of a graduate is really kind of our end game where all of these things kind of come together. And our end game is, you know, creating that, that portrait of a graduate and who, who, who, who are they, who are leaving broad place, high school, Berkeley schools. Um, and additionally, um, we put together, um, a storyboard, which is another, um, document that we had put together. And, uh, a key learning and takeaway from that is that this document is really a student and family friendly, um, document, uh,
028which communicates between the schools and the hall, uh, what's happening in the classroom, um, what's happening in the classroom, having brought to the home. So this, this, the, uh, use of the storyboard. Um, and also just the link just for, um, for ease of use. We have a lot of, um, it's an interactive document. It's a digital document, so we can, um, add links and take links, take things away on, and kind of update things and realize things on an, on an ongoing basis. Um, so that was, that was some of our key learning and discoveries. How did all learning, we didn't learn how to use the magic wand. So, um, So again, how did we how did was it you? I'm sorry. Okay, so, um, you actually already said a lot of the stuff
029I was going to say. So we did work with this, um, uh, recognized consultant and through research we learned, um, the, um, elements of high quality curriculum. So one of them being, um, having a clear organizing center. So each unit has, um, you know, an essential question that's like, you know, why are we learning this? You know, what are they supposed to take with it? Um, the take from it, you know, for a long lasting learning and emphasis on standards. So not only the content area standards, but also, um, other areas such as, uh, E-L-A-S-E-L and computer literacy. So, you know, in each unit we're trying to find a way to incorporate all of those standards, um, diversified and balanced assessments. So, um, not doing away with, uh, traditional tests, uh, they have their use,
030but also making sure to incorporate, uh, formative assessments and making, uh, assessments where students, uh, perform things and, um, make things like, uh, solving real world problems. Okay. Uh, not just, um, owning the test and only they are demonstrating their learning and an emphasis on student centered learning activities. One important thing that, uh, we emphasized was we, students are learning to do this because, like, we are doing this so that we can, okay. Uh, that it's an important, um, element of the high quality curriculum. So we, uh, developed and reviewed our own unit documents, uh, using this framework. Each of us, uh, made an example and we figured out how it works with our own, uh, discipline. Some things like many things are uniform, some things make it different for me as a foreign language
031teacher, as they might be for music. So we work on the document ourselves, uh, to see how it really fits before. So let's talk about how we involve various holders. At the beginning of December, uh, will be sent out to, to the entire community, a parent survey. The parent survey had had various questions. Um, we did ask for parents to respond by December 20, the week review the, the survey asked question, and I'll just touch on, on a few of, of topics that the questions we're addressing. They were asking parents for what their comfort level was with curriculum in their child's grade or content area, depending on what grade their child is in. How do parents, how do you learn about the curriculum that your child is learning about so you can engage with your
032child in regards to the curriculum? How do you feel you understand the goals and expectations of the curriculum that your child is ultimately learning? And what information about the curriculum would you like to, to better understand that parents were able to type in response in that area. And then the final question that we had in the questionnaire was ultimately inviting parents and asking, uh, if they could let us know in that survey, if they would be interested in being part of the focus group. The focus group that we were meeting, um, on January 8th, e we had representation at that focus group from, from all levels. So we had parents that came from Cherry Lane, from Rushmore, as well as the middle school high school. The focus group, uh, came together and participated in what
033we call a diagnostic learning experience. The diagnostic learning experience is meant to generate excitement about learning when it serves as a preview for what's to come. And what, what we ultimately were previewing was various storyboards, uh, curriculum storyboards. And we had storyboards from various school districts from across the country. And we, we, you know, laid them out. We had them separated by buildings. So we had the parents for Cherry Lane had had one, you know, large work station, same thing for Rushmore, and same for the middle school, high school. And we had storyboards that represented, you know, the grade level that would be within that. Within that school we did a, a, an activity. Uh, we use what we call the, the C think and wonder protocol to literally go through all of these different
034storyboards. They gave parents the opportunity to really look at the storyboards, really kind of share what do they like about the storyboard, what do they have questions about, um, what, what would they like to see in the storyboards that we are ultimately looking to to develop here call place as well. We reviewed many storyboards, many different style storyboards, and we kind of spoke about, you know, what we felt, you know, as parents and as curriculum, uh, committee members, what we felt would be, strike again, what we felt were the best and what things that were, that looked good on their storyboards, but we could ultimately do it even better. Like we could improve upon what they had on their storyboards. Just for the, the, your first basic definition of the storyboard, because our, our teachers
035are gonna talk a little bit more about storyboards on a, on a different slide. So I don't want to take what they're gonna be sharing already anyway. So just for the first initial definition, I'd like you to think about a storyboard being an outline for the curriculum. So it's a, it's a inherent friendly outline of what the curriculum is going to be. We all know, um, we all have kids. They don't tell us anything. My kids, five kids, my kids range from 12 to 20 at this point, and they still don't tell me anything. I was school. What did you do? Nothing. I one in college. What'd you do? Nothing. Nothing. Like, I spent a lot of money. You do a whole lot of nothing. And it is the same thing. Whether, whether we're talking
036about our students in Cherry Lane, in Rushmore Middle School high school, and then, you know, you having abody in college, we get the same responses. The we're ultimately looking for, for, and the curriculum committee is really looking to do it when we move forward is easy storyboard, which will be a quite easy reference for parents to look at. It will give you a time frame and, you know, a specified timeframe of how long we're gonna be working on this unit. It might be in, in walking period, one, they're working on this particular topic. Um, some of the comments that parents shared. So we had, there was truly, I can truly tell you, there was excitement, which, which really there was excitement. There was truly excitement there. We had, we had, uh, like I said, a
037number of educators, a number of parents there, and a number of our parents that were there are educators or in other school districts across Nassau or Suffolk County, New York City, wherever they are, they added some additional, you know, pieces, additional insight as well. But in regards to, to, and this is only a few of the comments that they shared that kind of stood out to us, understand student expectations so it understand student expectations. Summarize content, break it breaks it down nicely. The organized layout, easy to follow. It is helpful to have a snapshot of the learning targets. And truly one of my favorite comments is the last comment. Great resource and ideas for dinner, conversation starters. Love that comment. Truly, we are always looking to enhance and make our homeschool connection that much stronger.
038And I felt like that last comment was truly, uh, you know. Okay. Alright. Um, so in addition to the work with the consultant, um, in reviewing our own curriculum documents, um, and other exemplar models, we did a lot of reading, we read a lot of value text because as I promotes my third graders, I would say, how do you learn something new or intense practice read about them. So we read a number of articles in chapter books, um, and other resources part supporting the development of our new story. And here's just a few of, um, some of the texts that we read to, um, impact our work. Um, so now for outcomes. Um, so really what, what came out of our work? So one of the leading outcomes of our committee work, um, with the
039development of a new curriculum document. So there are changes to our original document and the original document that, um, our used, um, but many of the original elements are the same. Um, in our new curriculum documents, um, our original was standards based, had a central questions, learning targets and learning activities. So now the burning question, what's new, um, your original document has been revised in the lens of, um, the making curriculum matter framework. Um, as a result, we now have a curriculum document that aligns closely with our values and values and tradition and clearly defines, defines desire, outcomes for student learning. Um, just some key enhancements. Um, a strong alignment with academic standards and high quality assessment to measure student learning. Um, also part of our new curriculum document is an integration of social emotional
040learning standards as well as CL standards. Um, clear articulation of our portrait of a graduate, um, the expected outcomes for students, um, by graduation, um, 12th grade. Um, there are literacy goals embedded across all subject areas. Um, continued emphasis on computer science and digital literacy to ensure students remain current and competitive. Um, and also a commitment to equity of the curriculum design to be accessible to all students whether need remediation support for enrichment. So we can also take a look at the document and there is a section for each of these Components. So here's just a look at our document, um, our place unit plan, um, unit title, timeframe, how many weeks it should take, um, a link to story board. Okay. Okay. Um, essentially questions, um, are unit objectives, guided questions. Got it. Um,
041our New York State Learning set standards that are, um, subject based New York state practices, um, social emotional learning standards, uh, which can also align with our program literacy standards. Um, how incorporate reading, writing, speaking, and listening across all academic subjects. Um, whether it's science, social studies, music, art, whatever it may be, pe, um, computer science and digital literacy skills, which again, is a really huge thing, um, in today's, um, educational have. Um, so just other connections, um, to our committees. Um, diagnostic, um, unit assessments, um, just different, you know, uh, pre-assessments, formative assessments, summative assessments, rubrics, um, and finally the learning experiences. Um, a play by play, um, lesson learning targets, learning activities, and also resources. Smartboard Habit. So this is an example of the storyboard that you've heard a lot about so far
042tonight. You guys See the actual One. So on the screen is an example of a storyboard that Jackie, Michelle and I created for a math gate curriculum. The storyboard serves as an concise, comprehensive overview of the curriculum offering students and parents a clear snapshot of the entire year of coursework and individual units. Each unit is accompanied by a brief description of the unit objectives and learning targets, along with engaging visuals that spark curiosity and capture attention. A timeline for each unit is also provided, okay? And the storyboard will be distributed during back to school night and accessible via the teacher's website of Google Classroom. The storyboard ensures that both students and parents can easily navigate the curriculum and anticipate the academic year ahead. Good evening, the recommendation from our year long year long committee meetings,
043launching the curriculum document storyboard design for the 25 school year of summer project school year, Looking At professional development ongoing for teachers as well as administrators. Continuing to strengthen not just literacy with the steam and computer literacy as well as support of graduate. Everything needs to tie in as we're looking at for of graduate literacy as well as esteem when we're looking at the curriculum, making sure that we're strengthening it as part of our district initiative. Committees need to reconvene midyear 23, 25, 26 to analyze, review, and review the documents storyboard based on curriculum writing experiences and feedback to strengthen our committee and committee. I'm sorry, to strengthen our committee commitment to our, to strengthen our commitment to curriculum and instruction. Storyboard will be reviewed by parents as well as the district will follow up
044with additional rental input from the school year to get to gather feedback throughout the surveys that we're getting. Thank This was, the presentation was great and it's really nice that we do create a technical Tool To have this used by everyone. Parents. My question is parents access. How do they, because you mentioned Google Doc, so they would, the parents has The student Google doc storyboard. Yeah, so we that you could like, have back to school in and have a physical paper that can hand out to the parents and students and as well as like posting it online on the teacher classroom or their website online. Click on it and it'll be right there. Access, I don't have the access as long as you're like next to your barn. Okay, that's what I need now. They
045have to sign on newsletter for all for elementary school so it can be sent out to all parents to come where parents were, um, through that, that um, box. Right. That's good. I'm sure actually first year be like better ways that we distributed feedback, right? Yeah. This work, we didn't work. Parents couldn't get, the parents were that push the out, everything is helpful instead at beginning of the unit or however up and that just like access to it. I just wanted to, I just wanna jump in and say that the, um, storyboard is still in prototype, um, level, um, testing level. So we, um, this week we had our meeting with our summer curriculum writers, um, who will be writing curriculum in different areas and um, we'll also be developing storyboards. So we're not going
046to have a storyboard in, you know, every subject in Lauren's classroom and that kind of thing. But you know, if she's doing the curriculum in fourth, third grade science, then she will do the storyboard and it will be available to get, you know, until grow exponentially. That, so this is kind of like the scope scope sequence, right? Like we do the city now for the storyboard for the parents. I know that it would be, excuse my voice, it would be beneficial if you guys provided links that have resources for parents to support their kids at home. 'cause you know, that's like a huge thing for, I'm not a math person. So if you had links to documents that parents could download and provide support to help you guys at all create At this time. Can
047I I have a do Do open comments. Do you do open comments? Can I ask a question? I'll question for next month. State name of your Christina Boey. 18 Street. I'm sorry. Um, I have heard that there are changes to the eighth and science program that are impacting the, uh, incoming eighth graders in terms of whether or not they take all regions or not. I, I haven't, I have an eighth grader that's going to be there next year. I wanted to get some more understanding around why the program has changed, when the Regents is gonna be offered, who is gonna be offered to, and why it's not offered for everybody anymore. Speak to, I can speak to that in as the Regis exams change as your state gives us new science standards or mathematics standards.
048The thinking of districts around Long Island has moved back and forth between Algebra for All or geometry or living environment. Now Biology for all to Biology for most. Biology for some. And what has happened in a lot of cases in our places, one of them we recognize that the Regents exams that are coming our students away are significantly more difficult than Regents exams that kids have taken in the past. And through the analysis that's been done in districts so long around Long Island, we are finding that it doesn't always benefit students to take the test as early as possible. There are some students who would do better to have a year of mathematics, state or science aid to then take the res and have a better outcome. In the case of science here at our
049district. If I take the Regents exam in eighth grade or if I take it as a ninth grader, it doesn't preclude me from taking any science science courses down the road. Is that correct, Mr. Morning? Correct, yes. In the case of mathematics it can be a little bit more restrictive, but I don't take Algebra one as an eighth grader. It might be a little bit more difficult for me. It would be more difficult for me to takes a calculus ad when I get to be, you know, at the end of my high school day. So really why this is happening in car place and by no means the only place where this is happening is we're recognizing that there are students who will benefit from having an additional year of preparation before they take the
050exam. As students build their coursework with their parents and with guidance counselors, parents are encouraged to talk with the guidance counselors about how that gets done and you know, your child's guidance counselor or support. Talk more about how that breaks out. I think if I correctly say that if you are 85 or higher, chances are you're going into that re of eighth grade. If you're 80 to 84, you're gonna have a conversation with the guidance counselor and with administration about what the best, So in a, and my comment around this, because I experienced it this year in a small school district where you cannot guarantee scheduling, my child is not able to be in the honors class. It was supposed to be in because they would not fit it in the schedule For this year
051or for next Year. For this year. Okay. So next year if that same thing happens, because he's not all honors. So the kids that are partial honors, partial not honors, have more difficulty in scheduling. And I was told by this school that because we're a small school district, that the scheduling doesn't always work out. So in that case that my child would be at a disadvantage as well as other children who wouldn't be able to fit it into their schedule for next year. So is that going to be contemplated? I don't want my child to be a year behind 'cause it can't fit into the Schedule. I would say on on. Right. On an individual level, we need to have that conversation on an individual Level. Okay. Right. And you also, like you speak to
052Mr. Co here or court to Mr. DeBlasio if you want to talk you, of course you can. We can have that conversation. Thank you. Any other questions? Just Make a motion. Adjourn this meeting.