001call the meeting to order please rise for the pledge pledge aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for it stands one nation God indivisible and Justice all right thank you everyone for joining us this evening um our first item on the agenda is our budget presentation and I'll turn it over to Kathy mayor good evening everyone um budget development continues the Bose commitment forms were released late last week so I'm working with administrators to firm up special education technology CTE ptech and other service requests negotiations are ongoing with our office Personnel Association and a few of our ancillary staff that have employment agreements expiring on June 30 as of today two cleaner positions have been added to the budget One Day Cleaner for the high school and one
002second shift cleaner to rotate between buildings to cover as needed analysis of the transportation budget continues since this is our first year accounting for all of the transportation expenses we are reviewing transport Transportation costs not related to personnel and an attempt to budget as close to actual as possible there are still some contract Transportation costs as our in-house staff cannot accommodate one of our special education runs and the various mckin vento Scholars that we transport from as far away as skty the first draft of the proposed budget is up 2.48% % or just over $1.8 million this is a very fluid number as Bose's figures have not been updated and have a tremendous effect on the budget as a whole on the revenue side the tax cap is 1.77% or $284,500 preliminary state aid figures
003from the governor's office show an increase of just over $650,000 however I expect this to change as corrections to the district's Transportation expenses have changed since the release of the governor's budget I'm hopeful that at the April meeting we will have a state budget so that Aid figures can be finalized prior to adopting the 2526 budget a transfer from The Debt Service Reserve fund will be utilized to offset the local share of debt payments and fund balance will be used to balance the remaining difference between revenues and expenditures while the district has a healthy fund balance Administration and the district's financial advisors are reviewing the long range plan as it relates to expenses and use of fund balance a proposition will be presented at the April meeting for the purchase of two wheelchair buses a
004plow truck and a Suburban this funding will come from the school bus and vehicle Reserve having no impact on the tax levy a second proposition will also be presented at the April meeting for the purchase of musical instruments and classroom Furniture again this funding will be from the reserve that was established last year and will have no impact on the tax levy nominating petitions are available for anyone interested and running for the school board candidates need signatures from 100 eligible voters and they must be turned in by 5: p.m. on Wednesday April 30th there are currently three vacancies for terms running July 1 2025 to June 30 2028 incumbents Robert Curtis Kevin cusil and the position vacated by Vincent salvon are up for re-election petitions may be picked up in the business office week days
005between 7:30 and 3:30 this year the library tax levy and election of their trustees will be on the school district's ballot as a separate proposition there are four trustee vacancies that run for 5year terms petitions may be picked up at the library and they will have further information regarding their budget the district will also be adding the funds remaining from the 2020 Capital project to the Deb service Reserve fund to offset the cost of future Debt Service payments there was approximately $1.9 million remaining that's all I have tonight any questions anyone did you say the library is on our yes yes on our you remember they they presented in here and uh the feedback we got from the board was if we can help them do what we can okay just make sure we do
006a good job of making that clear to the community that those are two separate entities two separate Boards of directors things like that same Ballot or different ballot same ballot be voting in the same places no not at the library it'll be like a propos you know the bus propositions that are separate from the budget okay hopefully it works out right any questions all right next item we have a proclamation for our elementary school PTA um before I read off the rather Proclamation I just want to thank the PTA for all their work guys huh come I don't want to embarass don't make you come up yet um I'd like to thank the PTA you guys have been doing a wonderful job we see all the stuff on your Facebook page I follow that um
007you guys have a lot of activities going on in the school and I'm sure the community really appreciates all the work you're putting in so thank you I'll read this up now you have to come up sorry uh the Board of Education of the Glover large school district recognizes the exemplary partnership with the Gloversville Elementary PTA whereas the Gloversville enlarge School District extends its deepest gratitude to the supp schar efforts School Community Partnership and our Prof impact on Scholars academic and personal grow for your advocacy volunteerism and commitment you help create opportunities and Inspire learning confidence and success we truly appreciate your determination to make a difference in the lives of our Scholars and we thank you for being a vital part of our school Community we get resolved that the Glover PTA simplifies the
008alism dedication and cooperation required to help our Scholars and realize their personal potential and now hereby resolve the Board of Education School District Tak you your dedication that element P provides to the [Applause] scholars thank you so much thank you thanks for you guys do thank you thanks for you guys do you so much wants to take that but thank you their names wer [Laughter] on right we can switch I've never got to watch you run a meeting again just thank you guys so much for all the work not only you yourselves but the entire Elementary PTA um the work does not go unnoticed uh next item we have public comment anyone here for public comment this evening on up state your name sorry hi I'm Rie fagel I am the President of the Gloversville
009Teachers Association um so I here representing them this weekend we have an amazing event being held for our community um I want to make a huge thank you to Luke Horton and Jen lemy who have um spearheaded our clothing and book giveaway um starting Friday night many teachers staff members student volunteers will be setting up for the event laying everything out and then Saturday morning um starting at 9:00 a.m. at Boulevard at the Large Gym uh we open the doors to the community to come in and um look through the the donations of clothing and books there's been shoes there's been backpacks there's been so many things that our generous staff and teachers have donated to give back to our community and I just wanted to give a huge shout out at what a wonderful
010event it is and look forward to seeing our community members there thank you anyone else for public comments more discussion uh we have the minutes from the February 3rd meeting anyone have any comments or questions on those motion to approve those by Kevin seconded by Sharon all in favor on that all right anyone else have anything else for board discussion tonight all right moving right along then we'll go on to the superintendent report he thank you Mr President good evening everybody um before I get into it I just want to recognize a couple things on tonight's agenda our donation uh of winter coats and snow pants for elementary age students from the Knights of Columbus this is the second donation that organization has given to our Scholars I think there's roughly 12 uh sets of
011new uh coats and um overalls or bibs I don't know what you call them but snow pants so we appreciate their generosity uh for our Scholars also on tonight's agenda is three retirements uh we got Leonard Jones is a cleaner after 22 years of service we have Ed caller Elementary teacher with 35 years of service and Lisa hnik middle school math teacher with 30 years of service so collectively 88 years of excuse me 87 years of service uh with those three staff members that are leaving our organization we thank them for their service and wish them a long healthy happy retirement um also I want to recognize the resignation of assistant uh director of student Support Services Jillian Riley Jillian's been with us for three years I believe and has taken a position uh in
012Queens veryy similar to the one she has with us it's much closer to home um so we wish her the best she's done a great job for us and uh wish her well in her new position uh I just want to thank Kathy for her uh quick recap of the budget Kathy does a great job uh every year our our budget is always uh on in the seven years I've been here it's always strong uh We've not there's not been a lot of volatility I think it speaks a lot to the uh management of our funds both through the business office and obviously through the Board of Education historically speaking to ensure that uh uh we're in solid Financial shape our fund balance is strong and any uh upheaval that does come I think we're
013going to be in a good position to weather so I tip my hat to Kathy she's done a great job for a long time for our district keeping us in Good Financial shape our school Community has uh repeatedly supported uh the management of our funds in the annual budget vote and we hope that they will continue to do so so thank you for your work Kathy and I'm sure more clarity will come as we understand what Albany plans to do and one last thing uh had some questions about Federal funding with the talk of the elimination Department of of education at the federal level if that happens a lot of the money that we get is codified through uh Congress so that money would just come through New York State similar to what the American
014Rescue plan money did in Grant funds or excuse me block grants that go to state Ed and New York state would be responsible for Contin and the allocate those fundings so you hear a lot of uh hand ringing and skies falling that we're going to lose three and a half million roughly what we get from federal government we do not anticipate that regardless of what transpires in Washington any questions on that um I'm going to turn it over to Chris and possibly Brian right now for an elementary trimester proposal discussion I think that sent to the board uh the proposal and well the pros and cons of moving into a trimester um in the coming school year so I don't know if the board members got time to read that but I ask Chris uh
015to be prepared to speak to it and that's what you have in front of you he may tap Brian to uh weigh in as well thanks Dave good evening everyone so we have the need to revise our elementary school report cards as a result of the need for alignment with the Next Generation learning standards as well as to align more closely with our CA reading series and throughout the fall and winter when we've been meeting with the committee members as well as the the principles at the elementary level one of the things that came out of that is the desire to move back to a trimester we had trimesters from I believe it was 2007 to 2016 and moved back in the direction of quars because at that point in time around 2016 17 some
016quarterly interm assessments were established and want have to get back into the frame of administering those uh to align with report cards uh we are no longer using those assessments so the desire to provide our Scholars with some more time to establish growth and demonstrate that growth as well as to not inundate Scholars with assessments throughout the course of the school year um the desire to move in the direction of trimesters again arose and uh Brian graciously put together with the input of his colleagues the pros as well as the cons of moving to a trimester schedule again uh you'll see that the pros vastly outweigh the cons and also I believe you have a copy of the other local districts as well as Regional districts who are on a trimester grading schedule uh Mayfield
017moved to trimesters when I was a secondary principal there I don't have a great deal of details about that I do know it was a successful and and effective implementation and something that has been appreciated uh you'll also see Johnstown and Amsterdam and HFM bosis as well as Burnt Hills uh scoa Glenville and East Green Bush more regionally in in the cap region bosis um one of the the things that I also think is important is that we will still maintain um parent teacher conferences in November mid to late November as we've had historically for the past several decades at least so nothing will change in that regard we see parent Square as an opportunity to provide parents with parents and Guardians with ample opportunities to hear about their Scholars uh progress and and achievements
018in the classroom so nothing in the regard to moving from trimesters two quarters brings about a great deal of trepidation so Brian is there anything that I'm missing as far as pros and cons and some of those discussion items I do know that you at the PTA meeting last Tuesday you did bring that up and the feedback was was largely positive with that as well right yeah I mean I can speak to just a couple of thoughts here uh first um as chis pointed out this is part of a larger discussion with a report card committee and I just think it's important to point out that there's representation from each of the elementary schools on that report card committee and there is a consensus among that group of teachers that trimesters are probably in uh
019the school district's best interest um part of one of the charges of that report card committee has been to create a document that is um more help it's helpful for as a community ation tool for our parents right to so schools can communicate better with parents about their child's progress um moving to trimesters uh there's a lot of information on the the sheets that are provided to you but if I were going to boil it down into just maybe three points uh the first is really uh longer periods of time that are provided during a trimester give uh a better picture of student progress and that is particularly for those students that are uh in need of intervention and support so those longer periods of time allow for that progress to show through and that's
020really what we're aiming to do at the elementary level is to show that progress and to show the growth um another is uh by shift shifting to trimesters it aligns better with our current diagnostic tools such as mclass and I ready uh those are also given given kind of Tri anually and that is best practice at the elementary level um and finally like Chris was saying it does align better with cka and ready math but I will say this too it is independent of uh those curriculum resources so if we ever did change a curriculum resource we wouldn't have to jump and look at going back to quarters or Tri or staying with trimesters uh really is just best practice at an elementary level the we had a good conversation with the PTA at the
021February PTA meeting about trimesters and the new report card um some of the Fe I think the feedback from parents was that um they do trust the school district uh to to provide the best reporting for their child's PRI progress whether it be trimesters or quarters um but we did get some great insights that uh we're bringing back to the report card committee uh some of those include um and probably this is the most important is how can parents help their child right so they want to be able to see what is it that they can do to support their child of course that's what we all want um some of the things that would help them to do that would be um to have a knowledge of where is their child in comparison to
022other children um I think that kind of helps because often we get a score of one two three and four and there's little context to that for our parents um and so one of the the other charge that we have with report card committee is uh a parent guide so how do I better understand this report card and how can I use it as a tool to help my child um another great one uh a a great piece of information that uh and feedback that we got was they uh some parents really like the charts and graphs um those come with our reporting from I ready and endclass and we have those available for parents but it does show like graphically their progress of their child um and they found that to be very helpful
023and finally um we talked about maybe the use of the comments section to be really important especially if we're trying to pair down the current report card we want to make sure that those uh the comments are robust and really give a good clear picture of what's happening in the classroom that's going to help parents to better support their child with their learning needs any questions so this gone out like the it's really it's been uh among the discussion with the committee itself I think in each of the faculty meetings we've discussed it uh but not saying that it's like happening definitively or not the feedback I know at Boulevard has been positive uh with this uh the idea of trimesters same at Park Terrace very positive at Park Terrace as well so I do
024think uh the vast majority of that all the teachers and the elementary program part in favor from the board think ites sense I think greatting basis with I'm not worried about the quarterly the loss of one uh you uh official report on student grades I think Common Core kind of missed the ball on some of these things when parents were reading report cards when my children were in elementary school at the time and some of the boxes was like not assess not assess not assess you kind of like reading like what is this tell me how my kid is how he interacts with his or her peers and uh is the on grade level is he learning is she doing well socially um I think that was a concern with our as well sometimes less
025is more and I think as long as we keep that communication open and help parents uh feel that we Empower them to be that first and most important teacher in their children's lives this can be a a success and it takes a burden off of the staff or that one less reporting piece but I think that comment section is critical because when I was a parent of young kids I wanted to hear some specific feedback to my children so I think that's an important piece I have one other question just on the second parent teacher conference why are we why is that so much earlier in March I mean following how the other districts do it more towards mid to late I mean we have it in early February everybody else is doing it like
026later in March after the second trimester ends I can't remember the the thought process there Brian that's certainly not set in stone by any means Mr Curtis we could we could definitely revise that think Bas our current conf yeah I can't tell you right now Marie you might know is that baked into the contract as far as when those conferences are no so yeah I would try to make look at it and make it something that's makes more sense closer to the halfway point in the school year might have been another thought process I'm not certain valid question the next report card committee meeting is actually tomorrow afternoon at 3:15 so we'll continue that conversation then and talk about other ways that we're revising the report card itself and it's worth noting that the will
027be quarters still at the the secondary level the middle school and the high school the lack of synchronicity between the elementary and the the high school and middle school should not pose any problems and uh that's pretty common place in these districts that that do have um TR ERS at the elementary obviously they don't have trimesters at the secondary level so we don't Envision any issues there okay me keep the camera on Chris because he's going to tell us a little bit about the uh upcoming comp oh yeah very briefly you should have a copy of at least the uh the agenda items the agenda is still being crafted as far as the the times and locations and all that fun stuff one of my professional highlights um but we have a wealth of topic
028areas that uh have come from some surveys that have been administered from conversations with our our principles and and Leadership throughout the district as far as what is necessary you'll see things from behavior intervention training in the morning that all faculty and staff will participate in just for 45 minutes as a whole District Gathering um and then anything from again Project Lead the Way our technology program to some follow-ups on artificial intelligence and the PD that's been provided there um and that will be from Danielle Lambert eth grade social studies teacher a lot of work with CK and amplify as well as ready math and Mike Etherton sto the bleed training some workplace violence initiatives secondary reading um it's pretty uh all-encompassing agenda so look forward to that day and confident that'll be productive and
029fruitful and uh my thanks to the principles for their input and we uh it'll be here before we know it thankfully it doesn't look like we're going to have any uh weather issues that would cancel that that would be frustrating but now that I said that open mouth and C foot but hopefully that does not happen amazingly we're actually still in pretty good shape we have two snow days remaining and we do considering how tough this Winter's been I think we've got lucky the a lot of storms hit on weekends and holidays it's early I know it's early especially these days seems like March is much more a winter month anything thanks Chris for your leadership on that yes sir um any questions about the conference day it's still in draft form and uh it's
030coming fast so we'll be getting that out the staff so um in the in the next few weeks uh we're scheduling 10e discussions um both uh teaching staff administrative staff we have 20 people uh on the docket so those meetings will take place and um those will be on the April board agenda and uh some of those conversations obviously uh we're going to discuss in uh executive session but for the most part we have our vast majority of our staff are really happy to uh be give granting tenure to um M building this is interesting uh I talked to you a while ago about the possibility of renting the MCO building not a while ago a couple months ago um nothing came of that because of the uh da is it da the controls that
031and they never got back to us on a waiver so as far as I know uh the prospect of renting that building is dead in water but I also told the board that I would seek an appraisal on that talking with another superintendent another District that has a vacant Elementary School um he told me that his assessment and Appraisal were so drastically far apart I asked Kathy to give me a uh assessment of Mo so the assessed value of Mo currently is 1,721 3300 but the full market value is $3,627 68 which means that's what the tax value would be to anything but a nonprofit um the assess value I'm guessing excuse me the appraisal on that I'll be shocked if it's over 700,000 that's the problem that my colleague told me about and I
032do I don't believe this is going to be any different I don't know any entity is going to come in and pay 3.6 million for that I don't know if any entity is going to come in and pay 1.7 million for that building it's a nice building it's a beautiful building um but I just don't see that I think 5 to 750 I'm not an expert in real estate value but I think that's about what uh somebody's going to come in and assess or appraise that building at um now people can challenge uh assessments if you purchase a facility and you feel like it's wildly uh uh assessed that a value that it is not commiserate with what it's really worth you can challenge it but I know in other districts uh it they've lost
033buyers because of that so I don't know if that's something that we should try to fight ahead of time uh if the board's not interested in selling it's fine um but part of my responsibilities are to to keep bringing to light a asset that sits there um unoccupied I wish we could say hey BOS is going to open it for X Y and Z reasons but unfortunately currently I do not see any Prospect of that in the near future that could change but certainly not going to change I don't believe for 25 26 school year um we do have a roof section left to replace once that's done paint and a little bit of work here and there we placing a few ceiling tiles and that building is in great shape great shape can be
034used for a multitude of reason it's got a brand new secure vestibule it'll have a new roof it's got brand new water system y so you want me to move ahead and get uh the appraisal on it see what we get or do you want me to kind of start communicating to the county about uh the current assessed value obviously we don't pay we're non for profit so we don't pay that taxes on it what did Johnstone do with Jansen because that sold for probably 800,000 just gonna ask do you know who they sld they sold it to a church chur there's not for profit so they're probably not paying taxes on it but did they do anything with the assessment first I don't know you can find out can I don't think so I
035can I know the district is always yday I'm referring to and there's the DH Robins building which is a nice little Elementary School in the village of St Johnsville and they've had people entities uh come in look at it excited about it and saw that price and what it's appraise at excuse me what it's assess that and it wasn't congruent with the value that they saw in that building was GLE Street purchased by um bosis or do they just rent it I would guess they just rent it I wait they're they're not there anymore yeah they're not there I'm sorry um where's where's P it's still a GLE well oh I'm thinking of the one uh you're thinking of J I'm thinking of Jen so GLE so yeah both I'm guess just r g from
036johnes won't they're not buying any more facilities that I'm wor I'd love if they bought M but I just you know I I I I don't like sitting on an set as nice as that facility just seeing it unutilized it's not good for the building to not be occupied it's we put money into it we're receiving nothing back out of it um this is unfortunate that we couldn't make something happen with the family counsel s rest they still want it I haven't talked to my Countryman since I was told that you know that wasn't really feasible at the because I think they were interested in purchasing and when we looked at with dazzne it was like it's not happening I know Bob and made some phone calls um and nothing that I've heard nothing uh
037back from dasne on any kind of waiver for that so I don't know if the timeline is uh I think they're hoping for a July 1 for the family counseling center but if something could change I think that uh they would still be interested well I don't think it'll be too much to get uh an appraisal on that building so it' be nice to just hear what we got and the same time may we can at ourselves and see what we can do to maybe challenge uh the assess value the full assess value at 3.6 million is pretty crazy um Jumbo Tron update I'm sure a lot of people who D bring their kids up to the middle school and high school wondered about those jumbo trons that sit dormant um it's like a a
038monument to man stupidity uh I shouldn't say it's they were wonderful when they're working but they have not worked well since we purchased them those are all all new screens with 2024 25 technology um but there's still some glitches and I'm told that it's wiring in the high school the middle school is pretty much ready to go uh we've been working with our construction managers Kathy's now uh talking with Patrick V from gerin Flo about writing a letter to the company saying you should be covering the cost of Brian skiff and our people fixing it we're purchasing uh lifts in order to get up on that sign I mean those things are brand new and they've never properly work they look great uh when they're operational but um between yeah it's uh all Flash no
039bang so far so hopefully we can get better that said uh most the capital projects obviously wound way down uh there's a few small punch list items uh trim here and there and a few vestibules there was some concern about the high school stage I went and looked at it with Bob and Sydney last week and uh they did redo that to the specs as they were written it's a black matte stage you're on it more than anybody in this room um they get scraped up you drag props around on the stage floor they're going to get marked up and it's the nature of the business you can't see the floor per se from the crowd the matte black was to uh diminish the reflection of of stage lighting um when you're stand on the
040stage you look down and because it's a new newly painted floor you notice every scrape mark in four or five years it'll be so scraped up that it'll just kind of look that that real nice weathered stress look that everybody's looking for so I did go up there with uh Christina or excuse me with Bob and Sydney and I sat in chairs and and moved around on it it does not just mark up and move the paint the paint is solid it's it's adhering well it's just going to show items that are dragged across it is what it is so if people are concerned you go up on you're like God this doesn't look like it was just done it is it's what we paid for it's what we asked for it's what we got
041um so I'm I'm not fighting anything else with that and like I said I sat all over the auditorium and you can't really see it um any questions about that also uh they I don't know how the board feels about this I support it a prelim a conversation we start having a conversation about the next Capital project I know it's like Dave we just finished this one but districts that manage their facilities well pretty much Start do these things almost on a four or five year cycle we have roofs in this building that we're coming up on uh the warranty being up up as I said Mo has active leaks as we speak in unfinished Parts there's always things to do when you have seven buildings as we do that are the size that these
042are flat roofs in the Northeast um a new freezer in the high school that walk-in freezer is has reached end of life a lot of kitchen equipment has reached end of life um there's always things to do in our schools so I don't I'm not sure about the scope size of this next project I don't think it will be an enormous project that we put together but uh we we had a discussion about getting together and certainly the board would have to be part of that conversation leading up to possibly an early December vote 2025 sitting in state Ed's hands for better part of 30 to 40 weeks seems like these days uh so uh mostly you're looking at 2627 construction season excuse me 2728 construction season any questions or concerns about that okay I'm
043sure demo wants a a turf field I don't know uh we'll see what the what can be spent on Park Terrace our football field is certainly in rough shape at Park Terrace this past uh fall once the once the frost hit all the grass died the only thing was there was crab grass and it was it looks rough so I'm not saying that we should Turf that field um but we need to do something with it I don't know about your baseball field basball field looks pretty good M any questions about that um last thing is the gesd district goal review you know we gave we we had a retreat last summer and we went over these goals and if you flip over your agenda we kept our goals pretty simple and we pretty much
044don't think these goals are going to change in the future obviously the subheadings and District uh smaller priorities but our our goals of relationship Scholastic achievement postsecondary and career Readiness is going to be our driving everything we do for the foreseeable future you know I I think we're making a lot of Headway when it comes to relationships with entities such as Clover Education Foundation the library the PTA our our city government our County government agencies um building those relationships with families is the most important thing we can do we just had a conversation about report cards and I think our Elementary staff does a a very good job of it I think it's something we can approve upon as an organization for sure um the the Glover Education Foundation is Chris and Courtney wood uh
045Nancy Brown have been working on a survey to send to the parents of our most of our elementary middle school staff uh children regarding our attendance and trying to ascertain from parents why their kids attendance isn't great and Chris did nice they did a nice job of creating like a drop- down menu that could just kind of hit a couple I don't know if can we do it electronic or you hope do a hard so it be electronic survey easy to get feedback even if only 50 people do it um it's going to tell us something about what people feel about what maybe why their kids are missing school you're going to hear everything from bullying by other kids by staff uh you're going to hear the lack of cleanliness there those those are excuses
046telling you right now our our staff our teachers our administrators our support staff work hard to keep Kids Safe they know it's a highest priority nobody wants kids being harassed on their watch so when I have this conversation with parents and not happy because their kid got in trouble and they start talking about bullying I kind of end that conversation pretty quick because in my experience uh bullying is very very rare in its pure form it's usually conflict and and the word bullying was thrown around way too much in our in American Education conversations in the last 10 years it's far more often conflict it might not be 5050 it might be 6040 might be 7030 but there's usually two sides to these issues and bullying in its purest form does not exist uh I
047shouldn't say does not exist it's very rare it's very rare and it usually sticks out like a s sore thumb kids are intolerant of it when they see it and staff members are certainly intolerant when they see it so I hope to improve that dialogue with parents in our community because I do not think bullying is problem do kids are they occasionally mean to each other or all too often sometimes mean to each other sure that's part of that's part of our charge is to help them be better citizens and kinder to each other uh but to default all this there's so buling those allowed and Glovers though that's that's a ridiculous assertion so um I think we could do a better job I personally could do a better job of trying to get parents
048in to talk with us we've talked about holding coffee houses with parents and uh I failed to do that so I think that's something I have to do um whether it's held here the library somewhere in the community and see who would come I'm not just going to assume people aren't going to come um so I think we have to schedule some of those in the near future and see what kind of feedback we can get in a personal level I think the PTA and the Glover Education Foundation are going to do great work in trying to get out to those communities um neighborhoods we're talking about having a event at uh the Duo's Housing Authority trying to interface with parents uh you know we did a couple years ago did a nice job of
049using a map of the city and pinpointing where our most at risk uh Scholars lived due to attend for attendance purposes and try to Target those communities we use that information to dictate our current busing schedule throughout the city that the board provides so I think in as far as relationships we're trying to move the needle um but I hopefully parents buy into what we're doing here and how important it is for their children to be successful you safety is the highest priority but you know have ratcheting up to rigor and getting them to be kind and and work hard and and think Beyond uh the the perceived limitations of what they can achieve that's our job as Educators our Collective charge is to help kids break through any perceived barriers to what they can
050be in life what they can do with their lives so it's pretty important work I can't think of any more important work than that um that goes right along what we're trying to do with Scholastic achievement uh science of reading the programs in the elementary the mtss work um the efforts across the district to raise our Collective instructional efficacy that's that's the the the core mission of what we're here for uh all indications are that across millions of studies evidently or thousands of studies I'm not sure what the number was that Collective instructional advocacy is the most important thing a school system can do to help children be successful so that's us owning what we're doing here and I think we're doing a good job of of having those conversations and really using data to
051inform our instruction trying to provide quality professional development support our new hired peoples through mentoring programs uh with fellow teachers um with frequent oversight from Administration with walkthroughs um honest feedback in in uh formal observations and hopefully constant communication about what we can do to improve ourselves each and every day and postsecondary and career Readiness that's a piece I think is still a little bit of a rope of sand I think we're moving uh along but out of these three goals I feel like that's probably the one that uh we have the most work to do on and yeah we talked about trying to create not necessarily career days in the elementary but uh we we had this conversation Chris and I regionally to have a curriculum kind of baked in and I think CA
052does it a little bit with introducing careers to kids um but working regionally to try to uh bring to light what is what careers are available locally what can people do to Aspire there's there's amazing Technologies used in our community uh you don't need to go to New York City or to Boston to Toronto to find uh state-of-the-art equipment and and the latest technology applied to the private sector public sector uh hospitals you name it uh engineering so there's a lot of opportunities right here and I think that's something that in education we need to constantly be mindful of it's not just achievement on a test and sign in a letter or a number grade to a child it is to inspire them and open doors for them so they can start using their imagination
053and getting excited about what they can possibly do with their lives so if there's any other goals that the board wants us to focus on these are pretty big broad umbrella vague goals some people want measurable goals and certainly things like attendance and and discipline and uh you know those are always on everybody's fingertips to try to address I think our building principles particularly do a great job of constantly reminding us where they were last year year with these numbers and what we're doing and student Support Services as well uh looking at the number of suspended special education students are the suspensions in general we're constantly having those conversations but um you know certainly I think when they do the reports they typically present that information as well any questions on the update provided on
054these District goals and if there's something that you think we need to work on we're all yours okay um I think that concludes my report I do have a number of items in executive session primarily contract discussions uh Personnel I think that says it all it's what it's what it all is okay thank you any questions all right next item is a student board member report all right thank you um right now everything at the high school is overall it's going okay uh right now we're stuck in the third quarter L that's when everything slows down right after winter break to spring break it feels like an eternity but hey I'm grateful for the conference deck so um so right now it's a little bit that winter sports are done uh our boards competed at
055sectionals that was awesome to see and then uh we also have spring Sports beginning on the 17th I was asked to uh report this that our High School cheer team did not make it to competition this year which is definitely unfortunate as they said it was due to an eligibility and the coaches didn't want to take a small team to the competition so that's unfortunate to hear that our cheer team did not get to make it to competition this year but um that's all it's all I know uh as of right now no one uses a y pouch but they work no I have not seen anybody use a y pouch I don't even know if they're even at the door anymore but I haven't seen anybody on their phone just a threat alone of
056having a on your pouch and if you take your phone out you're going to get yed is doing a great job phone policies it's great it's great I don't see phones anymore um that's about it nobody uses them but there's no phones uh some really good news I'm having a report about our Project Lead the Way cardboard Derby at Oak Mountain uh on Saturday March 1st our program went up to Oak Mountain and uh we had two teams compete we had the X-Wing and the cybertruck um both teams won which was great uh the X-Wing took overall best creativity and which and there's two categories which was best creativity and best overall speed X-Wing one for creativity and the cybertruck one for overall speed um the Cyber truck did take out a few people I'm
057not going to lie it was it was hard to stop it was small but it was powerful it took a few people out at the bottom of the mountain except for the X-Wing had a pretty large wingspan and we knocked over the owner of Oak Mountain that was tough thing but I'm happy to report another win for Gloverville it was also great it was a wonderful Outreach as well um all the students there great civility they were very professional with everybody around them it was also a great um engaging event there was a ton of parents there a ton of community involvement it was a really really really great thing to represent Glo High School another great thing to represent Glo High School is beu junor March 7th 8th and 9th I'm gonna plug it
058be ju Jr um it is a really great show I heard the kid that please Beetle Juice I hear he's really good it's just through the grape vine um but it's really great Friday 7:00 Saturday 7:00 Sunday 2:00 tickets are $5 for students $8 for adults um it really is a great show it's the probably the most fun show I've been in so totally recommend going that and the drama club wants to say thank you for the psych for the psych arama curtain because it really really really lights up the stage collects all that light and it just it transforms the space instead of just being a black backdrop to really creating all that mood lighting and all the effects that we want so thank you again for that cycle ramama curtain we appreciate that
059and this one I just added on there today was read Across America day in the elementary schools that was great really I don't know if you want to add anything to that no I'm I thank bring it up I was inv I was invited to read and I took a look at their schedule they had a ton of awesome activities planned throughout the day um a lot of great guest speakers in there we had Sheriff jardino Amanda Nellis um chief of the fire department we had two of our sro's we had well our one SRO and I can't think of the the other one's name both they're both they're both in and out okay um just a ton of great great people in there U dreski you were there Mr holler and you were there
060it was the kids enjoyed the books just looking at their schedule awesome activities throughout the day so thank you to everybody that planned that it's a great thing to be in our district and uh lunch is good so that's about it thank you guys for your time any questions good luck in the show thank you very much thank you for bringing up the read Across America because I want to get plugged to Park Terrace and King staff rolled out the red carpet with uh to the guest readers and the kids were awesome I read three Bernstein Bear books brought me back I even told them that I used to read report card trouble to my kids so uh Kingsboro ordered report card trouble so I got to read it I I really didn't need to
061read it I memorized it swimming in D soup thank you nice job next item we have the recommended items 7.01 through 18.13 any questions comments concerns motion to approve all those by John seconded by Kelly all in favor on that all right then a motion to go into executive session to discuss contract and Personnel items motion by Sharon seconded by Kevin all in favor on that all right thank you everyone for coming this evening there'll be no action taken after the executive session have a good night have good