001for the pledge. >> Pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> All right. Thanks everyone for coming tonight. First item on the agenda is public comment. Anybody here for public comment tonight? All right. We'll move on to board discussion. of the minutes from the January 12th meeting. Anybody have any comments, questions, concerns on those? Motion to approve ahead. Seconded by >> Oh, Heath. All right, there we go. All in favor? Does anybody have anything else for board discussion tonight? All right, move right along to the superintendent report. >> Good evening, everybody. And then there was five hold out tonight. Uh hope everybody's well with us today and joining us remotely. Um before I
002start, I want to uh acknowledge the donations retirements on tonight's agenda. Our first is a mini grand piano donated by our middle school cleaner, uh James Powi. It's a really nice piano that our BG staff went picked up and it's upstairs and the music department's very happy with it. Needs a little tuning, but it's a nice very nice piece. One thing we do have to look at, we got to talk to our B&G about uh the heat in that room. The gentleman that comes to tune it said something about the heat fluctuations in that room uh could cause issues. So, that's something we need to look at. See if we can as well >> standardize uh or stabilize the uh heat in that room because the piano will go out of tune and pay people
003pretty well to come tune it. It's a really nice piano. So, really thank James for that. He's a great guy. If see him on the floor, he would be the gentleman you see. He's I tried to get him to come in and give a speech, but he wasn't up for that. We should make him come in. Uh, also on tonight's agenda is the donation winter coach. Once again, snow pants from the Knights of Columbus to be distributed among our elementary scholars as needed. Uh, very generous yearly donation that we've received from that organization over the last few years and we greatly appreciate their kindness. uh donation of snow boots and snow plants, snow pants to Boulevard Elementary School from First Choice Financial Federal Credit Union. Uh and we also appreciate their kindness, consideration of our
004uh young scholars. Certainly know it's been a cold winter um thus far. So, we appreciate the young scholars who are brave in the elements. Uh, I think I sent a all call last Thursday night about uh how cold it was going to be on Friday and it was cold and our attendance took a hit, but I'm glad I did it because it certainly reminds parents and guardians to make sure their kids are bundled up. Um, you know, I didn't delay because there was no relief in the temperature by 9:10 a.m. So, you're just put making it harder on working families and those with routines to delay. So, um, I thought it was important. We also had buses traversing the city picking up uh any scholars that were walking. We only had about 13 uh kids
005that were picked up. I think a lot of people who were able to uh transport their children that day, but this morning wasn't much better. I think when I jumped in my vehicle and went here, it was minus 7. So I the one good thing there was no windchill this morning. So been a cold winter. Uh but we're in February, so it's all downhill, right? Uh and last, there's a retirement on tonight's agenda. William, better known as Robin Hill, our occupational therapist. He's going to retire effective April 19th, 2026 after 26 years of service. And we wish Robin a long, healthy, happy retirement. Also want to give a shout out to our building ground staff for the work they've been doing this winter. Uh if you notice coming on to campus today, uh or tonight,
006how much we push the banks back. Uh it's not just clearing the snow, it's also being ready for the next major event. um those guys putting a lot of hours in, you know, they think sitting around a plow truck is easy, try it for 10 hours for multiple days in a row. There's nothing easy about it. It's pretty hard on the body actually. So, as well as the inside guys who are outside shoveling walkways and snowblowing, it's a group effort and we appreciate all they do for us. Want to uh mention the 2627 calendar. Boseies, I believe, has approved their 2627 calendar. We have not yet. it would probably be on the March agenda. But, uh, something that we have been considered, which we're probably gonna end up doing, which we've done in the last
007few years, is have our two conference dates prior to the Labor Day weekend. I know you can hear an audible side. But, uh, I think we'll work with, you know, make hopefully we can go as early as we can. Maybe Tuesday, Wednesday. I think Tuesday, Wednesday would be better because it still gives people a long weekend if they want one. So, we can get the staff in here. two constructive uh productive conference dates in early September. Have a long weekend, hit the ground running after the Monday holiday with classes commencing on Tuesday. That will be different than what HFM is doing. Um given the situation we're in this year with snow days, I I'm gonna we're trying to build in as many as we can and with the increase in holidays such as the Lunar
008New Year and Junth um it becomes increasingly difficult testing uh window that the state ed seems to uh increase every few years. Uh it's becoming tighter and tighter. So we we will have that in front of you. Danielle is our point person in those efforts. She does a great job. Hear her pen going counting days each month. So, we'll have that in front of the board in March. Uh, speaking of snow days, we are going to seek uh relief from the state education department for the emergency declaration on January 26. There was a city declaration. There was a county declaration and there was a state declaration. So, I think we need to use up all of our dates, which uh as of today, we have that day on the 26th was our last of three
009scheduled snow days. We do have a conference day in March that is still on the table that we would uh create turn into an instructional day in the event we have another snow day which given the situation we're in March or February 2nd it's very possible we have still two months left that we could easily get snow days. So uh we're going to try to get approval from the state to allow us to uh use that. They're going to tell you you got to before they give you any relief you have to use them all anyway. But it'd be nice to not have to cut into vacation time. So, in that event, we would certainly work with Margie to try to come up with what's uh best, you know, over bargain units of where we
010would start cutting into vacations. But people make plans, people order airline tickets, things like that. I've had people requesting for extensions of those holidays, and I'm telling them that as of right now, I'm not a proven extension of the spring holiday because we don't know what we're looking at. We could be in a quandry where we could lose half of that holiday. So, holiday break. So interesting year um weatherwise uh also wanted to mention David Ziskin Bosi superintendent has announced his retirement effective uh June 30th. It's a surprise. Uh Dave 33 years in education I think almost all in our region. Um been I think he's done a great job as the Bose superintendent. He's led some great initiatives uh with regionalization, the restructuring of the way Boseis uh manages their organization. Um 33 years.
011I don't blame him. He's he's ready to move on to greener pastors. I'm mad. He didn't tell me, but he must not trust that keeping under my hat. I might not have. Um also Jay Dragley is retiring end of June and Jay's been the uh staple in Boseies for a very long time. So pretty significant shakeup in leadership over there with the departure of those two men. They've done a great job. Jay's been there a long time long time CTE director. So it's going to be uh important that they backfill with quality people because it's you know increasingly with the shortage of teachers and and the diversification of pathways that the state's allowing um CTE become more integral part of uh education in New York today. So it's it's really I think critical that we
012have a great partner in Boseies. Speaking of Boseies while we're on this, uh there is a Bosei seat that's going to be available. I believe Paul Brown Weintock has declined to run again for her Boseis seat. Um I would love to have Gloversville represented on that Bosey's board. We are the second largest component district. If anybody knows somebody who they think would make a great candidate, I was I was chatting up some people today to co co-op. trying to recruit people. But if the board uh knows of anybody that uh we could reach out to and talk to about uh replacing Paul, that'd be great. Appreciate her service on this board and also on the Bosey's board. Today we had a kickoff meeting for the pending capital project. Um you know, the board members are
013welcome to attend. Uh we set them up on a bi-weekly basis. Effective what day? March 4th, we're going to be in a nurse. >> So March 4th, bi-weekly. Uh what day of the week is that? >> Is a Wednesday. >> So 9:00 a.m. in this room if any board members want to attend and get the schedule of when we're going to meet. Um Mike Deistras will be invited as well. The first part of this is phase one is just going to be Husky Field. Um so I just talked to Mike about the schedule for the uh 2026 football season. We're hoping to frontload our home games so that we could turn that field over to construction by mid-occtober. And on the back side of it, we hope to backload the 2027 football season with so
014that we uh they don't have to turn the field back over to us until roughly mid-occtober. So that gives them a a full year uh to transform that field. We would obviously lose the 2027 spring baseball season completely from that venue. Any questions on that? So that is all phase one uh is the Husky fields the biggest ticket item on this uh not most expensive but the largest most significant earth work and upheaval certainly to sports programs but it's going to be beautiful when it's done. It's going to be a regional showpiece and a multi-use field that can be used by more than just baseball and football teams. Any questions about the capital project? Um CSA negotiations begin tomorrow. Aaron's coming at 1:30. We will be sitting down with the CSCA negotiation team at three
015o'clock. Any board member who would like to be part of that more than welcome to attend. Right now it's Kathy, Chris, and and Aaron Mars. So certainly welcome board of education participation. Our technology plan committee. I'm going to'd love to have board uh representation on this committee. Every few years you got to develop a uh technology plan submitted to state ed for approval. First it goes to I think Nerk, right? >> Yes. >> Neric looks at it. they'll make some spill some red ink on it and uh send it back and then pretty much once they're satisfied state will rubber stamp it likely. But they asked for uh representation from within the community including uh students. So uh if I charge Cody would uh find in some high school students that would be uh could
016be represented in a technology plan. Maybe Tra speak to Travis about a middle school student just to get their perspective. Be great to have a board of education member. Uh we are going to see community members and members of the bargaining units as well. Any questions on the technology committee? If you're interested, just let me know. You don't have to tell me right now, but you can volunteer. The board members are not here maybe. Uh and last but not least certainly is uh just to make you aware, we've been having discussions as of late regarding the reading intervention strategies and practices in this district. you know, do the MTSS process that we've been involved with in the last few years certainly has made us set goals and look at our data and have conversations about
017that data to determine how best to move forward. You know, we purchased a literacy series and invested a lot in uh CKLA uh to standardize our instructional practices regarding literacy instruction. You know, I you know, I wish I could sit here today and tell you the results are great. Uh our kids are killing it. The truth is, you know, from from June to September, roughly a 20 point loss in our elementary kids in in literacy comprehension and they call it summer slide. Uh that's that's a summer, you know, that's more than a slide. That's catastrophic drop. Um so from if you look at it from June to January, which is, you know, it's a snapshot. It's not the whole picture, but it's a snapshot. Instead of increasing by five points like our goal set, we
018actually decreased by two points. So pretty humbling uh disappointing data, but it's data nonetheless. And you got to look it square in the eye and say, "All right, well, we can't just hope. Hope is not a strategy. Uh we need to take efforts and have conversations about what we can do better." And some of the strategies that we're examining are practices of uh pushing into tier one instruction, which is our reading specialist actually pushing in uh trying to service more scholars than they're able to when they pull them out. So that's uh something that we will be speaking to the teachers in the coming weeks. Some teachers in some schools have already volunteering grade level saying let's do it more than happy to lead the charge. But I think systemically it's something that uh we
019would want to pursue. So great conversation today we had uh about it and this MTSS process is is going to help us in the long run because you know a problem well defined is a problem half solved. You can't hope you're going to improve and and scratch your head when years go by and you don't. You need to be targeted. You need to set goals and you don't meet those goals. You got to look at what you're doing and try to do it better. So, um I appreciate all the efforts the administrative team, reading specialist, teacher on special assignment, Courtney Wood has done a great job with that as well. Chris, anything I missed or folks in the back? >> No, that's all. I think we're we're hoping to start that soon after the February
020break. We appreciate listeners those teachers willingness to jump on recognize that uh you know hope is out strategy. We need to we need to take steps to improve and also you know not for nothing uh parents are the first most important teacher in every child's life. You know if we have such a large number of kids that are reading deficient you know you can't just say oh the teachers aren't teaching right. You know, I did not rely on teachers to teach my children. And I know most people that I know took it upon themselves to to to uh prioritize literacy in their own home. Having a written word around reading with your children. I read with my children, you know, certainly for many years. Um so, uh you know, some kids certainly love reading, some
021don't like it. And we certainly recognize that there's some kids have proclivities that don't involve, you know, if uh being really proficient with the written word but are really hands-on technical and we are taking steps to improve that with our early CTE initiative that we had a meeting on today as well. Um we're all you know moving forward with that. Uh we just need the component districts to to sign their name in a dotted line of what they're committing to so we can know exactly what we have for commitments and start building that program that would be housed at Nico. So we're we're moving in many directions. Literacy is important. It doesn't matter what you're doing. AI is not replacing the ability to read. You need to understand now with the with the uh access
022to information these days. It is more important than ever to be a proficient reader consumer of information. So, um the fight goes on. So, uh that concludes my report and I will need executive session to talk about uh personnel and contracts. Any questions for me? One one thought, Dave, on the capital project. I'm probably just in the boat here because of timeline, but I was thinking about the other day when I was driving up to the middle school. Kind of like how you have traffic pinching in front of the uh cafeteria at the high school. You know, that crosswalk where it pinches and people park and they shouldn't. In the middle school here, the same thing happens near the billboard, but you have all that real estate to the right where that land is. Could
023they expand and put parking spots there at some point if there's extra money at the end of the project? >> And the other side of >> Yeah, like where the bleachers used to sit. Remember we had those spare bleachers that were there for years. >> That it's possible. You're absolutely right. And uh I think >> crosswalk and there was an escalade sitting in the crosswalk parked >> to one lane. So >> it there's a bottleneck on this campus and when you know I know that the district even on my watch we have taken steps to reimagine uh traffic flow on this campus and we continue to struggle. I think we had a student board member last year who suggested a pedestrian crosswalk to to we talked about going around the back of the high school.
024Truth is, uh I think that's going to be I think what you're asking for for to get vehicles off the road so that traffic can continue to pass through. I came back from Park Terrace today at 2:30, so I was right in the thick of it and I came up the back hill here. >> So I I know exactly what you're talking about. It's not safe. I see middle school kids darting across the road, jumping in waiting vehicles. Some vehicles are stopped on the road >> and their kids they communicate with their kids. Come out here run out to me. You know, it's not ideal, but it's going to be it's difficult to >> to control. >> Just your right thought if there's money at the end. >> 100%. I don't disagree. And uh you
025know, we redid that whole traffic pattern in front of the high school in the last project. Sometimes when I'm out there for a b coming in for a basketball game, I see vehicles parked almost right in the road when you're coming around that loop. I know they created that to keep traffic uh from going fast, but I can't say that we knocked it out of the park with that new design, >> but it's better than it was. You We're driving through a parking lot before that, so it's better than it was, but I I can't say that, you know, we shouldn't take our show on the road telling people how to address traffic. >> Bless you. >> Thank you. >> Anything else for me? >> All right. Thank you. Uh >> thank you. Uh, next
026item we have administrative reports and start off we have Pauline Benjamin, principal from Parker. Feel like I'm showcasing my tech skills. Okay. Phew, it worked. Okay. >> Hi, thank you so much for having me. Um, I'm excited to report to you a little bit about what's been going on at Park Terrace. Um, I wanted to highlight on this first slide just this really sweet logo uh that was created by one of our staff members. Um, we have Park Terrace t-shirts made up. Um, and those are some of the lyrics of our school song that's been our song at Park Terrace for decades and decades. Um, just a nice little school pride um that I wanted to feature for all of you guys. The most exciting thing that we have going on at Parker Terrace is
027our community garden. So, um last spring we broke ground on a community food garden um where the students actually work through the winter to plant and start lots and lots of vegetable seedlings. Um and then um our uh building and grounds team roat till the big section. Um so some of these pictures are some of the um the community members that came together to actually do the big plant where we put all the plants in. Um and then we were really actually growing vegetables all summer long. This is a little squash. Um and these are some students that were participating in the mental health association um summer program in the building. Um and they were eating the vegetables. Uh, so it's just a really great community um, activity where we were able to really help
028our students see kind of like the full process of where food comes from. Um, and we were fortunate enough to receive a grant from the Whole Kids Garden grant um, for $3,500. So, we'll be able to be using that moving forward to actually expand on the project that we already had in. Um, some of the things that we're hoping to purchase are some perennial um, herbs and berries um as well as some actual like physical structure to build onto uh the garden that we have in place now. Um so that has been a really fun project. Not a whole lot happening with it right now in the winter. Um but um already there's been some rumblings about getting the seeds going again. Um a huge shout out to Danielle Bombard. She's our librarian at Park
029Terrace. This has been a passion project of hers. Um, and then she's been supported by Joe Morell and Don Durant, who are our day custodians who are also very passionate gardeners, it turns out. Um, and uh, Sydney uh, I'm sorry, Cindy Ellenbeck is a community member who's been working with um, our school on our um, observation hive uh, that we have there. Um, and so she also has been a resource for us um, especially in working on um, researching the grant and doing some of the grant writing around that as well. So, um, thank you to all of those folks. Another really cool thing that we have going on at Park Terrace, um, this year we kind of reimagined, um, our attendance initiative, um, into, uh, grow your brain. So, um, we've been talking a
030lot about strive for five and we've been talking a lot about like the coming to school and and trying to make that seem exciting. So this year in collaboration with our building leadership team um we worked on um really addressing like the why of coming to school and that's really to grow your brain so that you can learn and do more um and get stronger at the things that you want to do. So this year our attendance initiative has included some actual direct classroom instruction where we read the book the your fantastic elastic brain and really talk about how our brain um is impacted by coming to school and trying and practicing things. Um we're doing some fun class challenges. Um we're doing a class by class. Um we're here to grow our brains every
031day challenge where every day your class has perfect attendance. you add another sign out to the wall so we can all see each other's progress. Um, and a big shout out to Haley Etheertton's class. They've actually completed the full um here to grow our brain challenge two times this year. Um, so they're really our leaders in our building. Uh, and this picture here is just one of the students in this ether's class and she's spinning the prize wheel on behalf of the class. So, the class actually um won a cupcake party um and then also a a dance party, a couple 10-minute dance um break party in the class as a celebration of um being there at school every day. Um another personal celebration that we've been doing, I actually have a picture of it
032on the next um slide here, is um is some shout outs in our cafeteria and actually brought a little hand out. So, if you want to This is one. These are just some sweet little um stickers that we've been giving out. And one of the great things about elementary school students is they get really excited about stickers. Um so we had these so we had these um I grew my brain at school today stickers made up. Um and then periodically I'll just show up in the cafeteria and draw a bunch of names and if you're here you get a sticker. Uh and the buzz has been insane. Uh the kids are just like begging me, "Are you coming today? Are you coming today?" I had a student who signed in late and um when she
033saw me, she said, "Um, I missed lunch, but um did you call my name for one of those stickers today?" Because if you did, I want you to know I'm here now. So, um so I think, um it's something that kids can impact. You know, they know on that personal level, oh, mom, after my appointment, I really want to get to school. Um, and so these kiddos up here, they're all showing off their um, grow by dream stickers that they um, earned. We also do a lot of um, family communication and individualized support around attendance. Obviously, a new thing this year has been um, an attendance feedback progress report. So, we sent these out in November and we've got another round going out in February. Um, and it's just an encouraging message around attendance for
034families who have made a commitment to attendance. It's a positive note saying, "Hey, it's so wonderful that your kid has been here really consistently." Um, and then a few of the things that their child is benefiting from because they've been coming to school. Um, and then on the flip side, if they have had attendance challenges, it's just got some tips, healthy habits, things for them to um, keep in mind as they're working on growing um, an attendance routine. Um, and then this one here is uh, one of our attendance um, interventions, the ice cream challenge. This is another really posed support for individual students who are struggling to come to school regularly. Um the the sheet has ice creams on it and they get a sticker every day they come. Um and if they come
035all five days, they get to take home a little Steuart's ice cream certificate and uh Stuarts was um generous enough to donate um about 200 of those little ice cream um certificates so that we could use those as an ongoing incentive for our kids. So um what that's translating to in uh data wise across the building is uh not a total change um but a positive trend. Um so up here at the top we've been tracking um our students who have 18 or more absences. So that's our chronic absenteeism threshold. So at this point in the year back in 2023 we had 36 students who had already reached that threshold. Last year at this point in the year we had 25 students who had reached that threshold and then this year we have 20. So,
036it's a positive direction. It's it's not eliminating the problem, but we I feel good about that messaging going in the right direction. Um, this is also kind of a long look at our school attendance. Um, we we do a lot with like color coding of our data. So, the yellow is kind of the warning range and the green is the healthy range. So, um I just looked across our grade levels and back in 23 24 most of us were in the warning range and those that 80% um but as we're moving over across the three years um we're many more of our grade levels are in that green zone with over 90% attendance. Um I the kindergarten that one outlier and it's they're 89.69%. I could have rounded up to 90 but I wanted to
037be honest. So we're almost there with that kindergarten cohort. Um but we're still working on it. So um I think that those are positive trends. I'm happy um with how we're moving. I feel like we're moving in that the right direction. Um every year we get lots of new students who it's their first time coming to school. I mean that's the nature of being a primary school. So we're always working with new families who are new to school and just helping them get engaged and invested in the school. So um I'm I'm proud of that work that we've been doing. So, we've had a couple of focus areas this year. I talked a lot about school attendance because that's been a lot of kind of new and fun this year. Um, but we're also focused
038on academic proficiency. Um, working on effective behavior um and our school enrollment numbers has been um a goal area for myself um just to work on that. So, I just wanted to touch on a couple of those areas. As far as our academic proficiency, this is um where we've been working on really focusing on sending proficient students onto Boulevard from our primary program. Um so, we have we're now in our year three of our real full implementation of uh the CKLA curriculum and that I ready classroom math as well. So, our teachers are pretty confident in implementing it. Um, but still definitely just echoing Dave's words from earlier, there is still a lot of work to do. Um, we are offering three tiers of instruction. So, our tier one um is a strong foundation and
039then we offer our tier two which is a more of an individualized targeted support and then just for a small number of students who aren't successful at that tier two, we layer on an extra intervention. Um, and that's our tier three. Um, one of the new things that we did this year, um, around those tiers of instruction is that we started working with our kindergarteners in that win time. That stands for what I need, um, earlier in the year. In previous years, we had waited until February. Um, and we just really saw that our kindergarteners were ready to do some of that small group instructional work. Um, and so we started that much earlier and we started in November this year. So, um, we're hoping to see that that's going to help to shore up
040some of those kindergarteners who are coming in, just not with a lot of those basic skills. Um, we're working in our PLC's again this year. This has been an ongoing, um, initiative that the district, um, has this year. Uh, a little bit of a change in our PLC. Um, and we're doing some crossgrade level PLC meetings. So each week um we do a a K and a preK meeting and then we also do a first and second grade meeting where we're able to um talk and share some of the things that are impacting us across uh grade levels at at first and second. There's a lot of commonality in our assessments. So we're able to look a little bit more at those and do um that thinking and working with a larger team. um at
041the K and the preK level there's a lot of playbased instruction and so that takes a lot of its own unique planning. So um having those periodical uh crossgrade level conversations has been pretty well received um over the course of the year so far. Um we've had a focus on student engagement. Um we've been doing some deeper dives on how to keep our students engaged um in both our faculty meetings um and then also in um weekly um memos with information that I send out to the staff as well. Some of the target areas have been um increasing participation in instruction, having tight strong pacing through our lessons, um making time for students to have choices in their learning. Um and also making personal connections, the adults to the students, but then also student to
042student. Um and we've been doing some more um walkthroughs. Um walkthroughs, administrative walkthroughs has always been a part of our instructional culture at Gloversville. Um, but this year we're adding a new teacher feedback component. So, our teachers are getting some ongoing input about um what administrators are seeing uh in their classrooms and what kinds of things um that they're doing and how they're being perceived. So, um we have uh some trends to report out. So, um these are our math trends report and this comes from our I Ready Math, which is our universal screener um that we use in K1 and two. Um and this um graphic here comes from actually last year's results. Um so, I just wanted to show you kind of like uh the path that we're taking um as we're going.
043So this was from last fall, the beginning of the year, we had 29% of our students well below grade level and a huge 66% um in that slightly below grade level yellow warning zone. Um by the end of the year, we were able to grow this enormous about half of our population into that green zone, which is at or above grade level. Um and then our reds, which were those real struggling students, we were able to shrink that down to 9%. Um so that was a strong um strong movement. But I just I looked back for our previous years just to kind of see how this compared to what we had been doing before. Um and the year before um we had started the year with 50% of our students in the red zone and
044um on their math results um and we ended with 17% in the math zone. So we are still kind of cycling through some kids with that summer slide like Dave was talking about. Um but definitely our math um students this year came in much stronger than the ones in the previous year. So I think that's encouraging um and what we're doing with our math um both at the tier one level and then those intervention groups. Um so I'll be looking forward to kind of looking and seeing that big picture on what our math instruction um and our outcomes are looking for um as the year goes on. And these are our academic trends in our uh ELA. Um this um information comes from the Dibbles assessment, which is a foundational um assessment that tests things
045like letters, sounds, um sounding out words, and then even reading little passages of text. Um and so this is kind of what um Dave was speaking to a little bit. So um this was our last year's um Dibbles information. And so at the beginning of the year, we started the year with 49% of our students um in that red zone, which is well below where they needed to be in the yellow, slightly below. Um last year, by the end of the year, we were able to um bring all of those students in the yellow zone up into the green. So that was a strong um outcome for those students in that kind of warning zone. Um this is uh just fresh off of the assessment. So we're just finishing these right now. Um but this
046is just a a snapshot of where we're at so far this year. So this year we came in with 52% of our student body in that red zone. Um with that same that yellow um cohort by the midyear we've been able to bring those into the green. So that's promising. The big picture is a little bit bleeer and um like Mr. was talking to um about earlier. So, we started the year last year with 49% of our students in that low um level, but um and this year we we started with even more. So, we would have wanted to look for seeing um fewer reds starting the year. Um so, that's really the challenge that we're looking at. Our students are holding on to those skills. We're doing great work with them. Um but we're
047not holding on to those skills year after year and able to really build on it. So, it's something that we are have already started to address um at the building. Um there's some pieces of our model that we need to do better um about to be able to bring more kids um like I said that success um ready to learn at Boulevard when they leave our our walls. So, um this isn't there's some success here, but there's also a great opportunity for us. Um and this is um regarding working on uh effective behaviors. So again, we use a tiered system when we work with behaviors. Uh so this is our tier one. Some of the things that we do um around teaching behavior. A lot of this is really in line with our PBIS, which
048you probably have heard tons about from all the other administrators, too. Um we do direct instruction on behavior skills. Um we've been doing a monthly class leaders where we have a class that kind of sponsors a um a character ed um theme and then presents out at our assemblies and also helps to lead our morning announcements and we've got this is a picture of some of our announcement kids um up here. We do a lot uh to recognize and teach and frame positive behaviors. Um we use our buzzy bucks. That's kind of like a little ticket that's um associated with our PBIS um system. And we do weekly shoutouts of students in each class that are um earning Buzzy Bucks for being responsible, respectful, safe, kind. Um and then we also count all the Buzzy
049Bucks that we earn in the school. Um and we go for a big school goal. So last year our big school goal was 20,000 Buzzy Bucks. Um and we made it. um and had like a little field day bash. Um and this year we upped the goal. So now we're working for 25,000. Um we're already at 13,28. So we're well on our way. Um and then our B squad is just a nice way to recognize students who go above and beyond. And here's a picture. Um Mrs. Furick is one of our reading teachers and she dresses up like a giant bee. Um and then we but we we buzz on in um and surprise a student who is recognized um by the faculty for going above and beyond in some way whether it's an academic
050or an interpersonal um kind of thing. Um so that's a great feature of uh Park Terrace that uh never gets old being able to surprise kids who've been making great choices. Um and then within the behavior piece, we also are looking at those targeted supports. So being able to support students who are struggling um and need more than just the regular um kind of the basic program. Uh this year we've made a big stride forward in just making our behavioral interventions um systematic. Um and one of the the great things that we were able to put in place is a behavior support referral. So unlike a disciplinary referral where we would be reporting out about something that happened that was a mistake, um this is just a request for support. So teachers always have this
051at their um fingertips and really any staff member can um refer a student for support. Um but it's really a request for this child needs more um help me help them. Um and we have a menu of things that we offer at that support level. So, our check-in checkout is really our signature behavioral intervention um that we offer to students. Um we also do um social emotional learning team meetings. So, that's just a brainstorming session to help a teacher start to work with a child in a new way. Um and then we also offer social groups like lunch groups and things like that with some of our counselors and social workers who do a little bit of um focus teaching. We specially used that to target like friendship skills amongst uh peer groups when that
052was becoming a challenge. Um and then at the tier three level, this is new this year, we've um begun to implement a CART team. And so CARD is center for autism and related disabilities and they have a model um that we've been able to tap into to use to provide um a real comprehensive intensive um behavioral support plan that includes tracking data as well as ongoing meetings where we make um changes to support students. Um this is just a little checkpoint of like where we're at and what we're doing. Um last year we had 20 students who were losing time in school because of um challenges with behavior. So um that might be that they were just so disregulated or they just needed um uh mental health support with their family. Um and this year
053at this point we've only had seven um needing that level um and and really missing out on school time. Um we've expanded that check-in checkout intervention. And last year we served 11 students and this year so far we've uh served 21. We've had five already moving out of the program. So they've made gains and they've been successful and they're getting um released and graduated if you will. Um we haven't had to turn any students away um that have been recommended for that intervention. So really expanded our capacity to support students. Um and then that car team, we didn't have it at all last year. So, we have zero students. Um, but this year so far, we've had two students um that we've done a real intensive deep dive in um with their behavioral needs. Um
054and we've been able to uh have some successes um in different ways with each of those students. And uh school enrollment's been it's been kind of a passion project for me this year. Um, I I know we've been talking about like academic success and I think um investment and engagement in our very first years of learning here at Park Terrace and and really across the district um are really important. Um and so we've been doing a little bit more work around recruiting families to sign up for some of our earliest programs. So prek and the kindergarten. Um we've been working with Andrew with Kim Dav uh with uh Dr. Jessie and a lot of other folks um of course Nicole Martin's a big part of this team as well. Um where we've been trying to
055um get people excited about the early learning that they can do. Um so we created actually Dr. Majeski created this cool graphic of the future Husky to kind of um really make it feel exciting um to be starting school um and that you're going to be a Husky with us. Um, and then we've been doing some um, work on making our enrollment process a little bit easier. Um, we've been working with D Cooper and Kim Dopp on adding some digital features to our enrollment system. So, that's just very streamlined. Um, and we've been doing a lot more early promotion um, for signing up for those uh, programs. We've been doing some uh, wider distribution of flyers. Um, we created a video with Andrew um, just talking about what early learning is all about. Um, and
056then we've done some promotion on social media. Um, and I I wanted to highlight this u photo here because I I went to um the breakfast with Santa at the middle school u and I was just talking to families about signing up for school and the importance um and I met this baby um and he's not ready for our prek or our kindergarten programs, but he is a future husky. So, you can see he's got the little sticker on there. Um, and I thought it he was just a great future of our schools and our programs right there. Um, and so we have um we have a little bit of a checkpoint here. Um, at this point uh last year we had um 36 students interested in our preK programs. This year we have 52.
057I think it's actually 55 now. I just peaked in at the um the updated information. And then last year at this time we hadn't even put out any information about kindergarten enrollment. Um this year with the early start we already have 63 um students who are um signed on for our program. So I feel like um some of that early um promotion is causing some excitement around coming to school. We have some other fun things planned. Um we're working on um putting together a signing day where we'll be um really getting excited about having our kindergarteners sign on with Gloversville um much like high school athletes will sign on to their college of choice. Um so lot of exciting stuff happening around that early school moment and these are just some fun highlights of things
058that we've been doing. We've had a couple of really great programs. Um the Ellen Synopoly Dance Company is always um a highlight for our second graders. They do a dance residency every year. Um and I included a couple of really fun photos. Um this is Officer Brown, our resource officer in our school on Halloween. Um with all the students who uh dressed up as law enforcement officers. Um and I just thought that was a really great one to share with all of you. Um and then this is another this is Mr. prepared our art teacher. He's probably going to be disappointed that I'm sharing this right now. Um but we had a a sing along at the holidays and our staff singers saying um I want a hippopotamus for Christmas and somehow we convinced Mr.
059Hair to wear an inflatable hippo costume um and dance in front of the school. So it was really memorable for the kids and uh we're just so thankful that he was willing to do that. So, uh, that's a fun one. Um, I feel like I rattled through everything. Um, thank you for having me. Any questions about any of that? Yes. With with so many incentives for these children to be in school. I mean, it's wonderful. Um, I guess my question is how do we follow up the chronic absenteeism? What are we finding as the reason for it? I guess that's my first question. And the second part would be do we follow the children who have the chronic absenteeism in terms of their test results? Is there a direct correlation? >> There's definitely a direct
060correlation um for many many students um early um be just being there is impacts them learning some of those basic skills that we're teaching. Um and I don't know long term I would be very interested to like a long range study to see how many of our students who are chronically absent in the early grades end up later getting more invested in school. Um I think that's a good question. >> I I guess what I'm asking is the the statistics that we have about the kids who are who have such low scores um are those the same children who are chronically absent >> by by every grade level. It's not a global issue. It's across the country. complete nexus, undeniable nexus between attendance and performance with your very very rare exceptions, very bright kids who
061miss a lot, who are obviously uh probably attended to at home and are missing school for whatever reason. Uh but by and large, absolutely chronically absent kids are falling behind, especially the further they go in their their academic career when it gets more complex. >> And I and the other thing is do we still identify legal and illegal absences? We do uh but the state doesn't. It's either you know we we kind we use it to determine when we have the DA letters and those types of things that are that are tracked and are generated based on milestones like 10 absences, 15 absences, 20 absences. But the state of New York is chronic absism, chronic absenteeism. You miss uh 10% which is 18 days, you're chronically absent. Doesn't matter if you're excused or unexcused. So
062we as a district get held accountable for those uh numbers regardless of the excuses. The state recognize it doesn't matter why you're absent, you're absent and it's impacting your education. It's it's hard. It's a it's a constant battle with with some families and I understand there's sometimes extenduate circumstances that make it difficult for families. Um but it is paramount to the vast vast majority of children's success to be in school on a regular basis. It's unfortunate because you're doing everything, >> you know, to make school. >> We're trying. >> No. Well, you're doing a lot to to make them want to come to school and and it's unfortunate that probably >> for reasons that they have no control over >> they're not there. >> We're moving in the right direction as a district with attendance,
063but it's still not the state wants it to be 95%. So, I agree, Paul. You celebrate your your your successes. We're in the 90s and I think it's pretty clear the data speaks for itself. The attendance efforts have been across the district and and for years now. CO really hurt us. I would say it set us back a little bit. So I'm not surprised to see the difference from 22 23 to 25 26. But it's also because of constant effort from the administration and the staff. Park Terrace is a great little school. Every time we go there, it's wellrun. It's it's kids are happy. Kids are always on task. No disruptions. It's a great little school. >> Thank you. >> Nice job. >> Oh, I got these future husky stickers, too. >> Oh, I want
064one of those. >> No presentation. Oh, come on. little dragon stickers. >> Those would be an egg, right? >> Future. >> Yeah, that' be a future. >> All right. Thank you. Uh, next uh report is from Michael de Majestric, our director of health, physical education, and athletics. So, one thing before I I start, um, I know David mentioned, um, front loading schedule and back loading schedule in 27. Um the schedule's not out yet for the fall season. Our first schedule of meeting is uh Thursday, February 26th. So at that meeting, we'll, you know, we'll discuss, you know, I'll give our plan, our our timeline, and then we'll build our schedule, fall schedule, football schedule from there. Um for our report, our physical education department aligns our curriculum across all grade levels. Um so students can
065turn early movement skills into lifelong fitness and athletic based skills. at the primary level. Our um classes meet twice a week for 30 minutes. The focus here is on gross motor skills, uh spatial awareness, safety, non-locomotive, locomotive, manipulative, and non manipulative skills. Um right now at both our elementary buildings are focused on the Winter Olympics. That is a theme with Winter Olympics kicking off this weekend. So at Park Terrace, they're working on ski jumps and and bobsled runs, which is which is pretty neat. Um, and they're also talking about um, you know, what the five rings mean for for the Olympics. Uh, Kingsboro currently offers a jump rope uh, program that happens Wednesdays and Thursdays prior to the start of school. Um, at the intermediate level, Boulevard, um, they meet twice a week for 40
066minutes. Um, these units of fizz are focused more what the district offers athletically. We try to run these units that coincide with our district's sport offerings. They also offer uh cooperative problem solving games. Um they're also working on the Olympic um theme right now that starts the 6th. Uh they're they're working on um curling in hockey right now um in their units. They also have agility and if you haven't seen the LA um cup stacking unit that they run over there, it's it's pretty neat. The kids we have cup stacking and how fast they are at doing this cup stacking. It's pretty. if you get a chance to see it, it's pretty neat how um how they run that in their cup stacking skills because I've tried it and I'm I'm not very good at
067it, but they're pretty good at it. Um at the elementary level, we meet twice a week for our swim program. We have talked about um having K12 possibly swim. There has been some concerns, but that's something we're looking at for the spring, at least bringing in second grade. One of the things with our pool, it's 4 and 1/2 ft deep in the shallow end, so it was built for competition. when you look at bringing in kindergarten level kids to swim, the pool is over all their heads. So, there has been cons some concerns with swimming, but we are looking at um starting at a at a younger level besides starting with third grade because right now we swim 3 through 12 and each is uh unit is for two weeks. So, we swim um one
068week in the fall and one week in the spring 3, four, five. Each grade level 3, four, five, works on different skills um focusing on on water safety. When they get to sixth grade, they're going to improve on the skills that they learned in three, four, five. Um, then they'll introduce the side stroke. Um, and then they'll introduce uh front dive from the diving board. Um, at seventh grade, they review all these strokes. Um, then they'll introduce the back dive. Um, and then they'll introd uh also have water polo games. For eighth grade, they refine all these strokes, new skills. They start with competitive race starting from the blocks, water polo, and they'll also introduce aquatic volleyball at the high school level, 9 through 12. Um, we'll have canoeing, kaying, um, they'll work on the
069sea stroke, J-stroke, and I think that's important for our high school level kids in the area that we live in um, with the lakes that they learn how how to canoe and paddle. Um, also at that level for the seniors, we have hands-on CPR. This year, we have our athletic trainer. um just got certified to teach first aid and CPR. So that's going to alleviate some of the struggles we have with our seniors getting first aid hands-on first aid CPR in the spring. So he can take care of that some of that stuff um at the high school. At the middle school they meet every other day for 42 minutes. Um these we have units of strength conditioning, team sports, and non-traditional games. Some of those non-traditional games are archery, backyard games, frisbee, and they
070are talking about um starting a unit in orienteering um this spring. Um at the high school level they meet every other day for 40 minutes. Focus here is lifetime sports, advanced training, team sports, um and use of the rock wall. Uh we do do have units of progression. So when you have our volleyball unit, we were doing it prior to our Holly Jolly volleyball tournament trying to get kids excited before we had that which was a big hit this year. Um they our students really enjoy uh the Holly Jolly volleyball tournament. We also have uh advanced PE. We currently have six sections of advanced PE. We try to cap at 24 students. Um that's dedicated to strength and conditioning. At the middle school and high school, we are offering inter murals every day after school
071with a fitness center. At the high school, they do use it for credit recovery. Four students have have missed um some physical education classes. Um for the fall sports, we had 305 student athletes participate in fall. That was modified for varsity. This was the first year. So, I thank the board Dave and Chris for supporting us having our unified botchi ball. We had 20 participants. Uh they had five regular season matches. They have one culminating match which was held at the duo at the dunes in Albany. We were first place in yellow division which kids they're pretty excited. We had 12 athletes and eight helpers this fall. Um we did have three painted courts out on the track which made it challenging because it's nice to play botchi ball on a botchi ball court. Amsterdam
072allowed us to use their courts for one of our matches. Our students uh and our helpers, they wanted to have home matches so our parents could come watch. So, we are talking I've talked to Chad and Brian Skiff about building four uh botchi ball courts out here at the middle school, which I think if we can make that happen, I think it's pretty inexpensive um to make happen. If we can do that, that's something the community could use in the summer too uh with with botchi ball. In the fall, we also had our literacy under under the lights. If you remember, it was a miserable night with with the rain. So, I think next year when we start to plan that, we'll plan it early. We're going to have to plan it earlier with the
073capital project, but um I think it was a success outside of the ring. Um this fall, we had three of our nine teams that earned scholar athlete team award. So, to be a scholar athlete team, 75% of your team's roster has to be above or an average above 90 or greater. Um so, listed on here, we have field hockey, girls swimming and diving, and volleyball. We're New York State Public High School scholar athlete teams. Then the rest of our teams, um, if you're not a scholar athlete team, we had 21 individuals that were scholar athlete, uh, individual scholar athletes. We used to honor them at the board of education meeting. And if we, people remember, we'd honor all the teams and not everyone would show up because everyone's participating or practicing. So, what we're going
074to do this year, we talked about having a a breakfast at the end of each season, but we're going to have a breakfast at in the spring. Once the spring athletes are awarded, we'll bring all of our teams in and have a breakfast for our student athletes and and our parents. Uh late spring, um we had several athletes earned for Hills Council and class Class B football awards. Those those are I don't want to go through every name, but they were listed in there. We also had several of our football players that were awarded first team and second team time genius gazette. And you know, congratulations to Rowan for making the all state team in in football. Um, our winter participation, we have a total of 256 students participating in winter sports, model fit through
075varsity. We did add a freshman uh basketball level this year. Sunday, I think November 8th, we had nine athletes signed up for JV basketball. From Sunday night to Monday morning, it went from 9 to like 43. You know, I reached out. I said, you know, I don't I don't want to cut all all these uh students signed up for basketball. So, we did add um a basketball. Oh, we had a basketball freshman basketball game tonight. Um, we had two modified boys and girls b modified teams. Our unified bowling team starts tomorrow, their first practice. They'll have six matches and they'll have a culminating event at the end of the um end of the season. Our foothills bowling championships are tomorrow at um Kelly's Imperial Lane. Brown Perth is the host and sectionals are next Monday
076at Boulevard Bowl. Our indoor track team competed in sectionals yesterday. We do have six or seven athletes going to a CBA invite, a last chance invite next week to try to make the state qualifier. We didn't have anybody qualify for the state qualifying event, but they do have a last chance meet next week at um at CBA. Our boys swimming and diving team um have sectionals February 12th and 14th at Shannondoa. Diving is on the 12th. Uh 13th and 14th is swimming. We will Glovers is hosting uh the last chance meet on Wednesday for anyone in the foothills council who has not qualified for the sectional. So that meet is on on Wednesday. Our competitive cheerleading team has their first meet this week. Sunday at um at Colony. They'll have two other meets have I
077think they're going to Broad Alvin and they have the Foothills Council meet and then we'll decide at that point if we're going to attend sectionals. Um our boys and girls varsity basketball teams their season's going to wrap up the week of break. Um then the sectional seating meeting is Friday uh the 20th. Uh the New York State Public High School scholar athlete submission for the winter is due March 16th. So I'll have those uh scholar athlete teams sometime in March. Um and I stated that we'll have a breakfast. Then our spring sports, believe it or not, spring sports are here to start March 9th. And then our uh for JB varsity athletes and modified sports will start on uh March 23rd. We are hosting uh the Knights of Columbus foul shooting contest. We're hosting um
078the local event and then the regional event two weekends in a row at or have one at the middle school and one at the high school. >> Cool. >> That's all I have. Anybody have any questions? >> Uh advanced advanced PE. >> Yeah, you mentioned I think you said you can only have 24 students. >> We try to cap it at 24 each section just for the volume of >> each section. What does that mean? >> Each class. So we have six sections. So we have six sections >> of 24 kids per per section. Okay. >> Uh we might have 24 in one, 18 in another, but we try to cap at 24 just for having the six racks. >> Do we typically fill it every year? >> For the most part, we >> do
079have some people that I think there some people get into it. You're not quite sure what they're getting themselves into. They do they do drop it, but I think it is a positive class that we have. >> I was just asking relative to our conversation there. That's all. >> Thank you. questions. >> I was going to see if I can get some solo cups in here. >> I can't. >> I do have something. Can we have those We have buses up here for basketball. Can they actually park in the bus zone for opposing teams? >> The last few games they've been parking out front where typically the elderly park. >> Yes, we do send that to >> And that last game like I got yelled at like so many people. >> They should park. The
080the issue is >> they park right here on the >> They'll drop off out front. >> Yeah. And they stay there. >> Then they stay there. They should loop around in the I got a question. When's the last time tried not charging uh admissions for basketball? >> Oh, I forgot about that. >> Um I think we've always charged. I think at in the foils council all schools charge at the boys level, but most >> BP they might be the only one. Um some schools actually charge for girls basketball. we've got away from charge at girls games. But it does offset the cost of running the event with um the officials, the workers. So I do keep a after every game I send Kath the report. She sends it back to me. Then I run a
081an athletic report from the game of you know what we've what it cost to run event. You know what we have gained or what we lost in the event. So usually it's typically a game a varsc official is 118 um each 9250 for JV official and then for people working the game and running the shot clock and game clock. So it does offset the cost of running game. >> So it ends up being three sports though, right? Both basketball and football, right? Those three charge. >> Yeah. >> Does the board have any thoughts on that? >> I personally don't think we should charge. >> It's a small fee with $2. >> I just wonder if it increase participation. We have I think you know when I was playing basketball in high school I think it
082was $2 and you know >> we do have um we just purchased uh we have a credit card reader. Um the first two games it was not so much of a hit because a lot of people were asking they'll fall you you take that take credit card. So we do have a credit card reader. Um I don't know what the report was from our game against Johnson but you know talking to JC Dorman she said a lot of people use the credit card reader. they charge that 4% >> I can share with you know what each game has cost us. I have you know all the way up to our >> I'd be interested in the cumulative data because we don't charge for other sports and like if we're a population with less engagement and
083also dealing with poverty it's not helping the cause. So that's just my two cents. >> Yeah. I'll say this as a father of a of a graduating athlete three sport athlete. >> Um we have had a whole lot of success in athletics in my son's career here in Glover. We haven't I don't think he been on a winning team, football, basketball, you know, I don't want to say it. It's like, but it's true. I don't think we we've had a winning season in four years. If we have, maybe 500, just over um we went to high school together. Gloversville was competitive almost across the board. Very competitive in Foothill is very competitive section two. football, soccer, sometimes winning sectionals the same season. Um, basketball going to states, girls team being competitive. Um, I see that,
084you know, our modified JB teams are struggling and, you know, athletes gradually and success breeds success. Um, I think athletics is something that we should not, you know, some people be like, we talk about athletics too much. It's a great outlet for kids. There's lessons to be learned from team sports or individual sports that you cannot get elsewhere and you're not going to get in the classroom. There's there's sacrifice. There's time management. There's being a role player, not always being the star, being a support player. Um I in my own athletic uh journey when I was a youngster, I learned an awful lot sports disappointment, how to win with dignity, how to lose with with grace. Um I I don't think we should overlook the importance of athletics and I know some people dismiss it
085and say it's you know how we should f make it club sports and focus just on academics. That's not the reality that we're living in. Sports are an integral part of school systems whether you like it or not just like music and and drama. Uh athletics is really important and I would love to see our sports teams be more competitive and I wish I could tell you how what the answer is. We talked about you know better weight training things like that. I have a summer clinic. So we what the what the case is. But I know success breeds success. Kids, little kids see varsity athletes like bigger than life. At least that's how it was, you know, when we were younger. Um so I, you know, I think it's warrants a conversation. I know
086this isn't just lovers, but some schools comes to mind seems to every year just be reloading. Never rebuilding, always reloading, always competitive every year. It's like is it demographics? Is it Is it, you know, our kids play AAU, Heath and I, our kids play together. We travel all over. Um, what's keeping us from from being >> I think it starts at the younger levels, too. You know, pop warers and basketball and stuff. That's where really >> the football program. I mean, am I wrong that there used to be 10 12 little husky teams now? >> Oh, yeah. I play coaches. They were there had no kids. They coach many coach for 15 seasons. Yeah. Is Flying United Soccer still have large numbers that they >> they have pretty good numbers. You drive past faster on
087the field of Sarah's pretty busy. I don't I'm not sure. >> But something maybe we try to get young parents of of elementary age kids. Maybe PTA could be a partner encouraging physical activity. There's no question that physical activity helps me and my uh ability to relax and and focus. I mean, it's a critical part of my life at my age to to stay active. So I I I think uh >> I think the unfortunate things especially with baseball and softball you look at the price of a bat glove and a helmet that and it does eliminate a lot of our kids because a bat's going to cost you $300 and no one want you know you buy a $300 bat put it back in their bag. >> How many people have kids graduate with
088those bats sitting in their garages for years and years and years? >> Yeah. >> Maybe it's something that we can do a better job of. >> Well the only thing is like There are bat regulations. They change >> every year >> yearly. So a bat that you know my son probably used four years ago is is not compliant anymore. So that's >> it's no mystery why basketball is a sport that has thrived in the urban environment in this country because all you need a pair of sneakers. >> You wear a pair of sneakers, you find games. It's, you know, I just think I'm just kind of thinking out loud that it's a conversation that I think we should continue to have, not bring Mike in once a year, give report, but we should actually, it's
089not just up to him to build our programs. It needs to be a collective effort for everybody to say this is something that we want to uh do because it's going to be good for these kids in the long run. It's not about the banners hanging in a gym. It's about kids feeling like they're part of something bigger than themselves, learning those other lessons that I just spoke to. We'll continue that conversation. Thank you. Thank >> you. >> All right. Next item on the agenda is the student board member report. >> Hey guys, I'm um I'm going to be talking about events that happened during this month. Throughout December 22nd through January 3rd, GHS had our Christmas break, which we were all extremely excited for, even though it was freezing out. It was It was
090really freezing out. Not much happened during the first couple of weeks, but during January 20th through the 23rd, GHS teachers held regent review classes for students who felt that they needed a quick overview before any regions that they were taking. and many students felt that the review classes prepared them greatly for the regions which was amazing feedback. Um then on January 29th our vulner seniors had their final home match of the season which they had a great win. Congratulation guys. Lastly, I want to end this on a great note. Our girls basketball team has a game against Queensberry tonight. Go Lady Dragons. That it anything else exciting going on in the school? >> Not exciting going on. >> Looking forward to February break, >> right? Cold weather. >> Staying warm in the building, at least.
091>> Yeah, it's pretty warm. >> Cafeteria food's all right. >> Pizzas every Friday. Oh my gosh. What's better than that? >> All right. Next, we have the recommended items. We have 7.01 through 15.17. Does anybody need anything pulled or voted separately? Motion to approve those by Kevin, seconded by Heath. All in favor on those? That would be everybody. All right. And then a motion to move into executive session to discuss a personnel and contract negotiations. Motion by seconded by Ed. All in favor of that. All right. That would be all of us again. All right. Thank you everyone for attending. There'll be no action taken afterwards. Thank you, sir.