001E2 Gowanda HS Library: Good. Alright, bring us to. We're gonna E2 Gowanda HS Library: call to order the meeting Board of Education and pledge to live E2 Gowanda HS Library: and to the Republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible with liberty and justice. E2 Gowanda HS Library: consideration, a motion to accept the agenda. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Second, aye, aye, bye. E2 Gowanda HS Library: and then back to our Board of Education Bylaws. E2 Gowanda HS Library: the Board remains committed to providing opportunities for the public to address the Board on items of public interest. With that in mind, the Board wishes to remind the public of its adopted policy, which sets forth reasonable guidelines in terms of ensuring an orderly discussion and exchange of information during public meetings in exceptional circumstances.
002The Board may, as an entity, decide to provide a written or verbal response to issues or questions raised during public session. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Any person who wishes to address the Board may do so by following E2 Gowanda HS Library: the appropriate procedure and filling out the form, handing the form to the board. E2 Gowanda HS Library: the President will call upon the person to speak at the appropriate time, and each such person will be permitted to speak for a time limited to 3 min, and in front of the board table, and address the board directly, under discretion of the board. No more than 3 people will be allowed to address the Board on a single topic, and the total time allowed for public comment is 15 min. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Okay? E2
003Gowanda HS Library: All right. So, moving on to consideration motion to vote. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Sorry about that onto the calendar page. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So our next Board of Education meetings will take place on Wednesday, July 23, rd at 5 pm. In the High School library, and then our next regular meeting will take place on Wednesday, August 13, th at 6 30, in the school library E2 Gowanda HS Library: next meeting is, and the 23.rd E2 Gowanda HS Library: Yeah, it'll be for the whole board on the 23.rd But essentially. E2 Gowanda HS Library: this will be capital profit talk I've been collecting internally. We thought, you know, it's really important. E2 Gowanda HS Library: It's a beckon for the building to talk about it. But at some point they're going to
004come back with more than the other questions together, and hear the E2 Gowanda HS Library: 3,000 foot story we're thinking we'd like to go. And obviously E2 Gowanda HS Library: we might have a public hearing on the E2 Gowanda HS Library: repair reserve, too, for additional scope for the E2 Gowanda HS Library: parking lots not to give away all our excitement internally. We're working with our resources right now to try to take as much out of the possible capital projects so we can get more. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I'll mention this here. But you can see the target. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Our mission call E2 Gowanda HS Library: some additional parking lot. Take things out of your cabin projects and do some different things that are more well appropriate for cabin projects. But they're
005a little more. E2 Gowanda HS Library: We're signing in the parking lot. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Yeah, nobody cares about a roof. So E2 Gowanda HS Library: Kathy, did you say 5 PM. For that? Yes, thank you. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Yeah. Initially, we're gonna sorry to keep that calendar away. We were hoping that we're gonna that night. We're gonna meet, anyway. But there was one item in front of the board. We were hopeful to have a bid for you for the school. E2 Gowanda HS Library: but that probably won't be right till August 13, th E2 Gowanda HS Library: so that won't hold up actual timeline of the construction. But E2 Gowanda HS Library: so we've got steel gutters and some different things. But anyway, we still need the antibody project. E2 Gowanda HS
006Library: And where are we positioning for that right here? Okay, just making sure replaced. Thank you. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Does the building committee meet before that? E2 Gowanda HS Library: No, it's the way the I think the topic is general enough that the whole it'll help the whole board to understand the building aid. Why, we're we're trying to strategically move things out of the project to get those other items in. It's really better served if everybody hears that whole story seen in one all at once. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Yeah, I think we could save another conversation. Yeah. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Okay? E2 Gowanda HS Library: And moving on to consideration of motion to names 2.0 1 2 5 min away. E2 Gowanda HS Library: If everyone could just take a moment and
007just review the motions before we move forward E2 Gowanda HS Library: any questions. E2 Gowanda HS Library: everyone screenwrit. E2 Gowanda HS Library: repeat the trigger for correct, even though you were reviewing the treasurer's report, and financial statements were made. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Discussion. E2 Gowanda HS Library: public discussion and comment on agenda items. E2 Gowanda HS Library: no public discussion on comment or non-agenda. Item. E2 Gowanda HS Library: superintendent's report. Yeah, thank you. Good evening again. Well, some analysis for E2 Gowanda HS Library: congratulations. Again. The class 2025. E2 Gowanda HS Library: It was just a really nice evening. The weather cooperated with us. I think it turned out to be otherwise really quite nice, very comfortable. And I was really excited E2 Gowanda HS Library: on your agenda tonight. I want to
008give some thank yous, certainly. Some donations from community groups and people, but special thanks to the Qantas Club. They donated via anonymous donor. So thank you to that individual. $10,000 to purchase a book vending machine in the middle school and books to go with that. I don't know if you're familiar with the book vending machine in the elementary school. That's what we're looking to get for the middle school, but some great reward and great encouragement for students to read the book E2 Gowanda HS Library: of the generosity E2 Gowanda HS Library: congratulations. We have pretty Olszewski, our new board member, congratulations to her and our Returning board member, Mr. Waterman. Thank you to both of you, and welcome E2 Gowanda HS Library: and our newly elected officers a bit tonight. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Very
009good retirements like to recognize Carrie Deservo. The Board accepted her resignation. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Well, thank you to her for her 10 plus years of service to the Central School district, and certainly wish her all the best. But then, also I'm excited to have 3 new hires tonight that I'm really excited to be working with to come to the District, Chelsea Kroll E2 Gowanda HS Library: point of this evening. As we move. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Welcome to Chelsea, darling Silliman E2 Gowanda HS Library: and District Treasurer Tiffany, dentist awesome. So I'm really excited. All 3 of them. We're going to miss the folks they're they're replacing, but they certainly welcome our new E2 Gowanda HS Library: looking for them coming in. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Oh. E2 Gowanda HS Library: title, Federal Government.
010You might have seen on July first.st There's been a squeeze in the Us. Department of Education E2 Gowanda HS Library: regarding some title funds wants to be reviewed by the E2 Gowanda HS Library: President to make sure they align with his priorities. For us it impacts title 2 A and title Iv funds for right now we've been got the most of our fiscal year allocations, except for missing $14,000 that were frozen E2 Gowanda HS Library: for this particular month. Because we, bill on a monthly basis. I'm not really sure what fiscal year 26 holds at this point, but they seem to be ones that are targeted. Professional development. I'm not sure that people are hunting out E2 Gowanda HS Library: Dei. Whatever is construed as whatever that may be. But just let people know that
011some of the funds have been frozen across the United States, and I don't know what that means for the full allocation next year. Hopefully, this goes by because what we get about well, Federal funds I shared before in our budget development about 1.4 million E2 Gowanda HS Library: budgets to the Federal Government, and some E2 Gowanda HS Library: for about $700,000. And they go from everywhere, from special education programs to teaching salaries to professional development. So E2 Gowanda HS Library: hopefully, those are released and are used upon. E2 Gowanda HS Library: We're monitoring that. Let the Board know E2 Gowanda HS Library: it's really consultation with our professional groups across the State and in Washington. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So some more exciting news or happy news. Some capital updates. People see some busy work
012going on around the district this summer, which is really kind of exciting. The pools are albatross this summer. The board will approve. Some bids. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Get the project rolling. Everything's gone through sed at this point, and we're at the point where probably early fall set construction on that. But we're still on our timeline, the elementary school playground. E2 Gowanda HS Library: If you remember, last year we got new equipment and some new rubber pellets, but we're also now going to put a port in place. E2 Gowanda HS Library: That's right place to it. Kind of like the Pre. K. In there, so nice spongy surface, so it'll be accessible to all all students, and really have a nice nice playground, so I don't have a timeline on that, maybe towards the end
013of summer, early fall. But that's coming. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Parking lots are a disaster. I think we've recognized that before milling begins the 17, th 18, th 21, st we're going to take those down, really, in all 3 buildings E2 Gowanda HS Library: like rolled out a couple inches. E2 Gowanda HS Library: possibly look at subsurface and see what that looks like, but we'll get repaired. E2 Gowanda HS Library: New pavement, sealed stripes looking good for the school year, and some of the potholes out there are ridiculous, you know, rich, the cold patch, and all the stuff. They're they're E2 Gowanda HS Library: some desperate work. And then, right out here you may have seen the backhoe digging. They have dug a path from over here at the end of the science lane connecting
014the middle school all around here at the front of the sidewalk they'll be paved. E2 Gowanda HS Library: so we'll have a walkway around the side of the building to keep people off Prospect Street, and a safe route for people to walk, jog, and walk around the school so pretty excited about that E2 Gowanda HS Library: talk about for years, and probably got a chance to do it. E2 Gowanda HS Library: And I'll give Rich Smith credit for that idea, because I know we always talk about a concrete walk and side of the road which we have to look at easements and E2 Gowanda HS Library: drainage and all. That's just a nice easy fix. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So it kind of goes through her landscape with 2 sister kind of nice. E2 Gowanda
015HS Library: Yeah, it's just really, really just a couple upcoming dates that we've mentioned the calendar. We just talked about the next meeting on the 23, rd for instance, going the Western York Law Conference. E2 Gowanda HS Library: It's not too late to sign up for Kathy. It's August 6, th Salvatore's town garden. E2 Gowanda HS Library: We have a board retreat, Monday, August 4.th That's 5, Jason Andrews. Whatever topics you want for. But generally it's time, except for goals for this coming year. Kind of reflect on the previous year. Just kind of like level set. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Make sure we're all on the same page with our expectations for next school year, and then August 12th is our community Day blueprint for success. Planning day starts at 1230 everybody's welcome invitations were
016sent out to every community member and emailed. Everybody was invited here in district. So we'll see who E2 Gowanda HS Library: haven't looked at the guest list yet, but everybody's welcome to come and participate. So look forward to that. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So we're in the middle of summer summer school starting, and 3rd July. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So that's it for me. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I have a question regarding parking. Did Rich do a survey to see that if we do or do not have a deficit for parking, because there is a times where it appears that there's no parking. There's folks that go, you know, parked on the streets to get to certain events, but I don't know if there's an opportunity for any additional parking or need for it. Well,
017sometimes you definitely need parking E2 Gowanda HS Library: on a day-to-day basis, we're pretty good. But you look at the middle school musical something and fast. Yeah, we're we're more stuff. We've taken out some of the tennis courts. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Yeah, they're not the most E2 Gowanda HS Library: next project next project. What was that? E2 Gowanda HS Library: We talked about reducing the tennis court, either getting rid of them or reducing the number, and maybe just having a couple pickleball things, turning them back into parking lots. Unfortunately, because of the cap for what we have the ability to do. And that's site work. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So with the site work you get, you don't really get 8 on site work until you unless you have in building stuff. So there's
018kind of a ratio. So, unfortunately, with the other things that we want to talk about, those did not make the list that we that we're working on right now. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So that's why I thought we could talk about it. But we didn't really. We talked about for a long time, because there is a need for certain events on a day-to-day basis on a day to day. We're good, but to remove the tennis course, to put new parking lots in it, it may prevent us from doing some other things that I think you probably get bigger bang for a buck or more community feel that we can't just handle for a couple nights a year that you know E2 Gowanda HS Library: just maybe rather have well, won't give away, though. E2 Gowanda
019HS Library: Something other something nicer than parking lots. Yes, it's very exciting. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Cool. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Yes, and the walkway will help people. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Yeah. Good point any other questions. Mark Carpool. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Let's do this alright moving on to board of Education standing committees, and it's the team appointment. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So here is our list of standing committees, and there's also the Erie County School Board Association representatives. On the bottom of this. I left everyone's names on where they were last school year, and I just kind of started the openings that we have that barb E2 Gowanda HS Library: used to fill, so I do not know if there's anything that Britney is interested in. E2 Gowanda HS Library: But, I know
020that Zach did E2 Gowanda HS Library: did express some desire to move to different committees. Is there anyone else who E2 Gowanda HS Library: would like to shift committees that they are currently on? E2 Gowanda HS Library: Or is there anyone else that wants to pick up something else? Do something different. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I'd like to stay where I am. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Awesome. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Britney, is there? Are you interested in anything specifically like the Visitation Committee? That would be like attending events. I'm assuming. Yes, everyone kind of chooses a school that they seem to visit often. Is there a building that you E2 Gowanda HS Library: would don't look at like. Don't be concerned about who's in there right now. But is there something that you would like
021to like to do? I mean, my boys are spread out between elementary and middle. But we go to all the E2 Gowanda HS Library: like, the high school, musical and all that. So I'm not opposed. Is there anybody who would like to shift to the High School E2 Gowanda HS Library: cross coaches, high school stuff. So we're also at high school. So I don't mind high school. Does everyone just want to stay where they're at. It's not like a super serious obligation. It's not like. E2 Gowanda HS Library: yeah. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Oh, okay. You just go wherever you want, right? You show up and land on that, and then you talk about it. Perfect, pretty much it, I guess. Like. E2 Gowanda HS Library: what's a building committee E2 Gowanda HS Library: for
022the Visitation Committee? 1st let me, Brittany, do you want to stay in high school? I'm sorry. Yeah, that's fine. Okay? All right. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Okay. And everyone else is staying where they're at. Well, and I was willing to give up personal E2 Gowanda HS Library: committee as well. If anybody had any interest, shouldn't we all kind of take something? I mean, I'm not being E2 Gowanda HS Library: well. I am kind of mean. I don't know like, because some people are on several and some I mean, there's the thing that we're all on. And then there's other stuff. So I feel like everybody should be on something. Every board member is on the audit committee because we all meet as a board. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Great. So, Brittany, I'm gonna add you
023to that, because that's kind of a given given it. And it's during a meeting. So it's not something extra above and beyond. E2 Gowanda HS Library: You can see the stars where Barb was, but we can shift around, and if Zach doesn't want to be on the personnel anymore, then that would be a spot where Krista or E2 Gowanda HS Library: Brittany, or whoever you know, could shift around. But now it doesn't be. E2 Gowanda HS Library: it doesn't. They don't meet at all the personnel we've been meeting. Oh, right for negotiation, right? So it doesn't really matter, anyway. But yeah, you know what I mean. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I mean, it's like, transportation isn't met in years. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So why is it still a committee? We have one in case
024use agreements coming up E2 Gowanda HS Library: just in case it's not really. E2 Gowanda HS Library: it's a placeholder. I personally kind of like the policy I read myself the only one who really reads any personnel or E2 Gowanda HS Library: so. We can only have 3 people on a committee E2 Gowanda HS Library: for it to just be a committee meeting. If we have the majority of the Board, which would be 4, then it becomes a board meeting. So for our committees, we need to keep it at 3 or less. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So for policy. We have one opening there. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I know that Zack has expressed interest. This is something Britney's also also interested in. Is there anybody between Mark and Sue that? E2 Gowanda HS Library:
025Do you guys want to stay on that committee or E2 Gowanda HS Library: let him let Mr. Mayor here go. Do, Mr. Mayor, things. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Do you want me to add Brittany and Zack to that one? Then sure E2 Gowanda HS Library: policy is the next week up. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Sure it is, I agree I find it interesting. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So it'll be Britney Zack and Sue on policy building. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I have John and Zack, do you E2 Gowanda HS Library: on that committee? Yes. Is there anyone who's interested in that one? E2 Gowanda HS Library: What would be well, at this point, probably involved with capital project? E2 Gowanda HS Library: You know you want to do that? Okay. E2 Gowanda HS Library: you're
026ambitious here. You don't know what you're in for, right? I know we're all busy. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Zach, did you want to come on personnel. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Yes. E2 Gowanda HS Library: so right now we only have John on the personnel Committee and negotiations. Is there anyone else who would be interested in that E2 Gowanda HS Library: put me on there. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Transportation. Sorry transportation committee. Is there anyone who would like to come off, or anyone that would like to come off? E2 Gowanda HS Library: Yeah, we haven't needed it. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So we'll just leave it just in case, yeah, yeah, I mean, it's it's there, just in case yeah. E2 Gowanda HS Library: And now we're going to go down to the Erie County School
027Board Association representatives E2 Gowanda HS Library: for the Delegate Assembly. We have John on that. There! There's 3 meeting dates for this coming year. E2 Gowanda HS Library: John, do you want to stay on that. Sure anyone else interested in that. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Anyone want to be an alternate for that. E2 Gowanda HS Library: There's always free meetings E2 Gowanda HS Library: for the budget and finance again. Only 3 meetings, mark, do you want to stay on? E2 Gowanda HS Library: Does anyone want to be on that E2 Gowanda HS Library: exciting? Then we're going to leave you there E2 Gowanda HS Library: and then for the legislative team. I have Zack and Sue as an alternate they have 4 meetings next year. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Do you guys want to stay
028on? Do you want. I've always went. So yeah, I would like to say, Do you want to stay in alternate suit, or do you want to come off as I guess I would say I would come off. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I get those emails. And I'm like, Oh, did I forget to do something or go somewhere? And then I'm like, no, Zach's got it. Never mind. E2 Gowanda HS Library: All right, then we'll leave. Sorry we'll leave this. Then just I will at the next meeting. E2 Gowanda HS Library: and we'll give you a new update. And let's see, with that number. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Thank you. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Review of Wanda Elementary School, Middle School and Wanda High School student family handbooks. So tonight, as your annual review of each
029building has a handbook to the families and students that reflect board policy, but also the regulations that that building follows about a variety of things that interlink board policy. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So we'd like ash to leave chime in a little bit to just kind of be through some revisions kind of like for next year, like we did with code of conduct early. E2 Gowanda HS Library: and I'll say, would this be? These will be recommended the Board for approval, because in us. It's become board policy. We need approval. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So I'll turn it over to Ashley. We'll start with elementary school. Well, if you want to look at the 43 page Elementary school Handbook, and the 68 page Handbook for the middle and High School. You certainly can, and we
030can go through those in greater detail. But the summary document that's 3 pages. It's just a little bit nicer. So I'll start there. I mean, the 1st change is just a date update from 2425 to 2526, and we included the new academic calendar for next year. E2 Gowanda HS Library: One change we made to both middle school and high school is credit or unit definitions with full year and semester courses. So both buildings E2 Gowanda HS Library: quarters will be 20%, and then the remaining 20% will be a final regents, local exam, or a locally approved performance slash project based assessment. That's a big push for the district for middle and High School next year. We're doing a lot of work on that with our staff that's in line with what we're anticipating. Coming out
031E2 Gowanda HS Library: with additional guidance with New York forward the diploma pathways. So we're doing a lot of work on that for our kids. So when we do have to make those graduation pathway changes. Our staff and students are ready to go with it. E2 Gowanda HS Library: though that is primarily a requirement for the high school level for graduation measures. We know that middle school is the foundation for that, and so all of our staff will be getting work on that, and offering that to students next year E2 Gowanda HS Library: attendance language in the Handbook has just been updated to include language from the Board of Education Policy 71, 10, no change of substance. So we just this is just the updated language from the previous policy that was updated, which just
032outlines excused and unexcused absences, tardies, and early departures. E2 Gowanda HS Library: And so some additional emphasis here for high school charities to school. Just you're you're considered charity to school. If you have not been to homeroom or check and connect by 7, 37, 30 is the expected start time for school. E2 Gowanda HS Library: and then we are adding in language to the handbook, specifically about the Internet enabled devices during the school day. And this is in line with board Policy 73, 16. So this is just talking to the kids about how the their devices are strictly prohibited during the school day. So 7, 30 to 2, 7. So we included that, and it also outlines the first, st second, and 3rd offenses when students are using those phones without permission. E2 Gowanda HS
033Library: And then there is additional language in here around the parent student contact during the school day. So how our families and students can use schoology. We have landlines in the main office that can be used by students if needed, or how parents can call the school. So that's been addressed in both middle school and high school handbooks. E2 Gowanda HS Library: And then one update we made specifically to middle school was around removing students from the accelerated and honors programs. So students are required to maintain an average of an 85% in those classes. Previously we were reviewing students progress in those classes at the 5 week marks which we found was too late. So we are going to be reviewing at the 2 week, Mark, and 2 weeks after the report cards. So that's
034just allowing us to monitor students sooner than at the 5 week mark. E2 Gowanda HS Library: And then there's just additional language in here around middle school students with iss times so 7, 37 to 2, 55, they go to check and connect 1st and then report to iss, so that was just an update for the middle school specifically around the Times, so everything else has remained the same. Those handbook updates are posted to the district page and to each individual school buildings pages respectfully. E2 Gowanda HS Library: And then, as I said, if you want to look at these in greater detail, they are there for you and on our website. E2 Gowanda HS Library: do we anticipate any changes with to change your principles, middle school and homework here E2 Gowanda HS Library: to
035the Handbook specifically. No, I don't think so. There may be some things that they both want to work on for the buildings, but I would expect they utilize the school building leadership teams and feedback from the staff before doing so. E2 Gowanda HS Library: We're gonna put their names on the cover, though we're just waiting till tonight. E2 Gowanda HS Library: i 1 question I had, and it's not specifically to the handbook. But I guess, tangentially related to the E2 Gowanda HS Library: new things in regards, to the cell phone, in the handbook. E2 Gowanda HS Library: in Powerschool. Or I guess in our tracking schoology, is there E2 Gowanda HS Library: methodology to generate a report that's associated E2 Gowanda HS Library: specifically to cell phone discipline. School is our student management system. Yep.
036And there is a way to track when students are E2 Gowanda HS Library: in offense of the cell phone policy. Yeah, we're going to require the report that the state. So we'll have to. We're going to code that E2 Gowanda HS Library: in our management system. Okay, yeah, that's essentially what it was after dollars and cents. To E2 Gowanda HS Library: what kind of impact we have moving forward with that E2 Gowanda HS Library: appreciate that? I don't know. I just thought, yeah. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I do just have a small question, just because I'm confused by it. The last sentence here I thought school ended at 2, 0, 7. So in school suspension goes to 2, 55. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I didn't know that for iss, okay. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Thank
037you. See, you 42 way building. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Okay, is it? Okay? If I just go right to this attachment E2 Gowanda HS Library: guys? So. E2 Gowanda HS Library: as I mentioned earlier, we're working on the next year's version of our blueprint for success throughout the year. We try to give real-time updates about what we're doing success and not successful, because I feel that one people need to know what we're working on. And then I want to share. I think there's areas where, as a district, we've done really well, I think there's areas here that we can improve upon. E2 Gowanda HS Library: But I'll let her take us through this. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Sure gonna have a couple comments. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Okay, I'll see my camera. So you may
038recall our midyear update was more along the lines of a qualitative update, so specific action steps that we had taken to address our strategic plan. And this is the quantitative update. So the specific data sources that we identified when we created the smart goals for each priority area. So as a refresher, our goals are around student growth and achievement. E2 Gowanda HS Library: social and emotional learning, family and parent engagement and a supportive culture and climate. And that's for all staff and community members. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So our 1st priority area around student growth and achievement. Our goals are around students. K, 12, meeting or exceeding grade level standards. Our goal is for 75%. And we use both iready and end of the year assessments that are administered both local and regions exams. And
039then our second goal is around graduation rate. By August, because we do have August graduation rates that help improve our rates each year. And we want to have a goal of 85% for that. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So when you look at our iready data, this is for both elementary and middle school. This is for reading specifically both. Window one, which we administer in September is here along with Window 3, which is in June. And so you'll see that the green that's the goal. That's where we want to be. So that's early on grade level or mid or above grade. Level. Yellow is one grade level. Below E2 Gowanda HS Library: this E2 Gowanda HS Library: red area. Here is 2 grade levels below, and then with the lines there, that would be 3 or
040more grade levels below. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So you can see where we begin the year in September and the growth that we've made. So while we're proud of growth that we've made, we know that we still have students who are not yet at or above grade level. And so we certainly know that there's still work that needs to be done in both buildings at all grade levels. But we're still coming back from the challenge of students being below grade level. Through those covid years. We're still working through that. We're starting to see the gap shrink. But we know that we still have some work to do. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So this is for reading. Specifically, math is here for elementary and middle school. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So again, elementary. For an example,
041you know, we began the year with 12% at or above grade level end of the year at 59. So 59 is not at the goal of 75 where we want to be. But growth from the beginning of the year. Yeah. So if I may, yeah, so we talk about growth. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Well, growth is good. We want people at or above grade level. That's our goal. E2 Gowanda HS Library: And teachers work with collaborative teams in the year and focus on the central power standards. What is those students really need to know and be able to do as a result of that instruction for the year? Because I mean, people grow. And I'm really proud of that. But the problem I have, and that I'll share with everybody is that it's great that
042so this number of kids are at grade level, but we still have a number of kids who are not at grade level. So then, if you look the next year, the deficit continues to go. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So you know, our teachers have done a good job when we start E2 Gowanda HS Library: at all grade levels. Now, if you pull out by grade level, there's some that are really stellar and some aren't. And that could be a factor in Friday things. But so I said earlier, we have some really things to be proud of. E2 Gowanda HS Library: These are one of the things I think we really need to improve on and continue to focus on. It's a constant grind. But E2 Gowanda HS Library: one of the things that students are
043achieving at high levels, meaning that they are proficient or more at those grade level standards that are deemed to be essential E2 Gowanda HS Library: the next year. That's crucial. One of the things we do early in the fall is we compare because this is just one measure. But we do compare these measures to the State assessment measures. E2 Gowanda HS Library: And we look at whether or not this data is in line with what we're seeing on state assessments. We also do that with our local formative assessments, sometimes the data matches and sometimes it doesn't. And when it doesn't, we kind of dive into, is it assessment, fatigue? We can track by individual student. The system flags kids that may have taken it too quickly, or if they were taking too long, and it
044stops them at a certain point in the assessment. So we do some deeper E2 Gowanda HS Library: to see if this is an assessment that matches what we're seeing on other assessments, or if it doesn't so E2 Gowanda HS Library: like, I said. Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't. But we look at multiple measures. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Question, is it possible to see where Window 3 was last year whether our school is doing. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Yes. E2 Gowanda HS Library: it is, and I can probably pull up last year's blueprint for you, too. Okay, I was. Gonna say, I can get you last year's, too. But yes, we can compare them. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Okay. So one of the things before I pull up the next slide is earlier this year,
045we did a literacy update. So we've made some really big changes to literacy at the primary grades E2 Gowanda HS Library: because of the science of reading push that's coming. And so a couple of adjustments that we've made is we've changed course with a very explicit approach to teaching phonics and phonemic awareness at the elementary level. We also invested in a new system that does frequent progress monitoring formative assessment for students. So we've highlighted 2 new programs in kindergarten this year. E2 Gowanda HS Library: And I just pulled out their data specifically. So this is kindergarten's comparison from the beginning of the year to the end of the year using 2 new using new tools. So you'll see. At the beginning of the year our kindergartners came in 22% at or above grade level, and
046we ended the year at 95, E2 Gowanda HS Library: 95% of our kindergartners for literacy. So the changes that we made are working and those are going to be expanded at 1st and second grade next year. How will that help the older levels? We're both programmed. So the phonics program and the awareness programs, we've already started doing the training. We've gotten all the new supplies and materials. So those are being pushed to 1st and second. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I would attest the biggest change being to the collaborative team time use. So the frequent formative assessment. So yes, our teachers are using Iready or aimsweb data. But they also use really frequent assessment tools with kids. They're just constantly doing these real quick checks and tracking. And this tool we call it Esgi. It's educational
047software for guiding instruction. So that's a new tool for our district, and we've seen we have a lot of growth there. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So our hope is you'll see the same results in the next couple of grade levels. And these are also our grade levels. Who started going to the letters training that language essentials for teachers of reading and sound. So that's been big. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Sorry. E2 Gowanda HS Library: is there strategies that can be taken from that and applied to the later grades, like from to the middle schools. E2 Gowanda HS Library: she is available. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So for phonics and phonemic awareness. Specifically, the changes we're making at the primary level. Our goal is for those 3 grade levels to feel solid with learning how to
048read, so that when we make that transition to 3rd grade. And above, they're reading to learn because what we're identifying is some of our biggest areas of weakness are vocabulary and comprehension strategies. So our kids are at the 3rd grade and above level can decode. They can read text. E2 Gowanda HS Library: but it's synthesizing it and comprehending what it means using context clues to coding vocabulary. So we're hoping, as students feel more confident with decoding and their fluency strategies, that the comprehension and vocabulary will stick. E2 Gowanda HS Library: and then I think the biggest thing is, and and I know our new principals are really on board and excited. To do this. Is that positive use of that Tuesday time, I mean, that's been huge. And the number one reason why I think
049you're seeing the data that you're seeing in kindergarten is, they're just constantly looking at their tools. And they're moving kids between their classes. Our kindergarten kids all rotate. We have an intervention block built in, and they move frequently based on their need. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Other grade levels are doing a great job with team time as well. Kindergarten is just doing it a little more frequently. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I guess that was my yeah. So our goal is to replicate what we're seeing at the other grades. And I know our kindergarten team has started leading some professional development sessions in classroom visits and things walkthroughs between. So teachers can see what they're doing and try to replicate. E2 Gowanda HS Library: No school has or has not been doing that already. I guess
050E2 Gowanda HS Library: everybody has team time built in. Yeah, everybody has that time built in. So the mechanisms are there. So it's just continuing to offer support to our staff. So they feel more comfortable leading it. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Thank you. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Okay. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So our regents and graduation data. So our 2021 cohort of students. So our students who graduated within 4 years, we had 75 students, total, 68 graduated. So our graduation rate was a 91%. But then we did have 5 students who graduated this year in their 5th year. So our graduation rate for the 2020 cohort has been bumped up to an 89. So E2 Gowanda HS Library: so you don't know. I guess you could. E2 Gowanda HS Library: the number of kids the
051senior year who graduate. That's 1 way to look at it. But generally the State has, or the cohort of kids who started with us in 9th grade. What's their success rate for? E2 Gowanda HS Library: So we're looking at that it's not necessarily safe. I just E2 Gowanda HS Library: those kids type of kids started with us in 9th grade E2 Gowanda HS Library: succeeds. Our expectation seems good. So that's the good stuff. So I mean, some of our scores are so hot. But some of our end products E2 Gowanda HS Library: good people on that. So yeah. And the 68 here out of the 75. We're anticipating. A few of those will be part of the august cohorts, and I could speak specifically to the remaining, but E2 Gowanda HS Library: without revealing confidentiality.
052But we have identified and and know who those kids are. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Regents exams. You'll see our data here. I'll just immediately draw you to biology. If you hadn't read, it's on social media now, trending the new Biology exam this year was very challenging across state. And it's being challenged at multiple levels. There's been a lot of criticism that the Exam. Assess students on content that was not part of the standards, or that was taught this year. So you'll see that across New York State. So what we feel our frustrations when we scored biology this year, our colleagues across New York State are feeling as well. E2 Gowanda HS Library: We have a change in the biology. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I'm sorry we have a change in a biology teacher. E2 Gowanda
053HS Library: Go ahead. E2 Gowanda HS Library: We're adding one. Yes, yes, yes, we have a E2 Gowanda HS Library: increase in the number of students coming up from 8th grade to 9th grade. So the numbers warranted, adding an additional staff member to support that section which should help. That'll give us smaller numbers for those courses specifically. But we learned a lot. And I know that's a huge focus for boces. I just met with our science liaison from boces this week about some things that are going to be coming to support staff, because this has been a huge topic of conversation the last couple of weeks. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So what would the anticipated outcome be from this challenge like what happens then, you know, do they do they? I can't speak to what
054state Ed will do. I don't know. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I mean, I've read a lot of things on social media. I haven't read anything officially. Come out from the Board of regents or from state. Ed. You know I know what nice it's pushing. I know there's folks calling for this exam. Not to count, but I can't speak to whether or not well, what are we doing E2 Gowanda HS Library: for the students that fail say, pass the class, but failed. The regents. What do they do? What happens. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Okay? And is there any supplemental E2 Gowanda HS Library: instruction or anything? Because I feel like, if you take the same hard test that you failed the 1st time, you're probably going to fail it again. So E2 Gowanda HS Library: you
055know what I mean? Like. E2 Gowanda HS Library: yeah, we'll be doing a lot of work in collaboration with other districts. We scored locally this year, which was very helpful. We did regional scoring with some of our neighboring districts. We we were a host here, so several other districts joined us high school folks already having that conversation around. What can we do to tweak our instruction? Make sure this content is covered. Make sure students are armed with strategies. So they feel a lot. They feel like more successful attacking some of those unfamiliar areas. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So we're starting. We're having those conversations. I'd have to look at what's planned. But years past, prior to taking the exam again. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Least, we've done like kind of food. E2 Gowanda HS Library:
056We're not gonna remember all that stuff. So you know, a day or 2, or the day of just a quick couple hour review for it, but E2 Gowanda HS Library: but also encourage people. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Get some review materials and kind of study on your own, too. Oh, of course, right? Right? That's generally done right. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Yeah. E2 Gowanda HS Library: And I think if we think that this so there was content on the exams that was not covered. So now there's the question of do we look at our curriculum guides, and is there content that we have to spend more time on or change our pacing. So that's work that we'll be doing regionally. E2 Gowanda HS Library: What keeps the State from moving the target again? E2 Gowanda
057HS Library: Nothing. What was your question, what keeps us safe from what? Who would target again? E2 Gowanda HS Library: So if you ever, that's good, quick. So if you ever looked at the scoring guys, some of these tests so like E2 Gowanda HS Library: like math, for example, like. So there's a total of 80 points. So you think you know, your passing is 60 out of 80, whatever the math is, but it's really not. I mean, you might a raw score of 20 out of 80 might get you the passing mark these giant scales. The high school, at least at the time. E2 Gowanda HS Library: you know, algebra was like a scale like that, like you get like, say, for example, 20 out of 80 points and still get a 65, or higher.
058But then that curve starts kind of evening out as you get the geometry. So when you get the geometry, you know what you get is what you get. And sometimes that will shock people. But yeah, this prevents people from sliding that E2 Gowanda HS Library: slumped to the scale. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Oh, isn't there talk about getting rid of the regents of the answer, did I, E2 Gowanda HS Library: middle and high school? So students can start thinking about teachers. What are some alternatives? We're demonstrating understanding of content without sitting for a region. But for the most part she's up pretty well in a region E2 Gowanda HS Library: 10% of passing E2 Gowanda HS Library: most kids get through them. Sure. In fact, everybody graduated last week before we passed on 5 bears
059or 4. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I just take particular interest in the biology coming to me later. I want to make sure they know what they're doing. Yeah, I mean, that's not characteristic of our biology. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Both biology instructors are not much I. E2 Gowanda HS Library: And as Mark alluded to with a new teacher joining that specific content area next year, they'll allow us to have smaller class sizes which will be especially helpful for the labs. And the team is Shields, who's in the position with her special education background. I mean, she's gonna be. They're gonna be a great team. E2 Gowanda HS Library: share your sentiment with her, share your son. They need to know what they're doing. Oh, yeah. E2 Gowanda HS Library: okay, I'll move on to our
060social and emotional learning priority area. So 2 things that we use to measure this are the data from our panorama survey so comparison data from fall to spring. So we look at both self-management and perseverance. And this is how students see themselves. So for panorama. Specifically. E2 Gowanda HS Library: you can see that 76% of our students feel that they manage their emotions, thoughts, and behaviors in different situations. Well, and I did compare E2 Gowanda HS Library: our results. These are our results here on the left hand side to where we are in comparison to the rest of the region, so many districts in Erie to complete this survey, and so you can see where we are. We fell within range with our neighbors. E2 Gowanda HS Library: It's always interesting. If you look back.
061I mean, the survey data goes, you know, like all the way here to when we started it. But we typically do see a little bit of a decline from fall to spring. I'll be honest, I think our kids have a little bit of survey fatigue, and just overall fatigue with completing things on the chromebooks at the end of the year. It's a really busy time. So we typically see a little bit of a dip. I mean, we are higher this spring. E2 Gowanda HS Library: We were last year previous spring, which is great. So I know this is a tool we're allowed to drill, not allowed. E2 Gowanda HS Library: We have the capacity to drill down to individual students. And so our student support teams. Look at this, and they they check in with
062each individual student. They can also see individual student comments. And so all of our kids are paired up if they've been identified on the survey as needing additional support. So this is a really wonderful tool that's a free resource through some of the coursers that we're in with boces. E2 Gowanda HS Library: It might be a silly question, but Erie 2, that includes who again exactly 7, 27 of our Neighborstown county parts of Southern Erie County and Us. Where the cataract is part of the John. You can E2 Gowanda HS Library: Silver Creek E2 Gowanda HS Library: all right. And so this is for perseverance, specifically so in comparison our result to the rest of Erie, 2 a little bit higher than our neighbors for this one, specifically. And again, we did have a little
063bit of an increase. I mean a 1% increase from the fall. You know, a 3% up from where we were last spring. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Okay, so those are the 2 I identified areas. For there question. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Okay, keep on racking family and parent engagement. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So we look for 75% of our parents agreeing, we're strongly agreeing with the domains on our school climate survey for relationships and engagement at the school setting. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So I know this. This looks a little smaller, too. Okay? E2 Gowanda HS Library: So you can see here we have parents responding to questions such as I'm comfortable talking to someone at school about my child's behavior. I feel welcome. My child feels as though he or she belongs. I'm encouraged
064to be an active partner. E2 Gowanda HS Library: We figure out what social, emotional skills my child needs. And then for participation specifically, promptly, response to phone calls, messages or emails and quality programming for my child's talents, gifts or special needs. So this is for the entire district. This is not specific to each building, however, we do have the ability to drill down. So when we look at the results at the building level. We look at that building specifically. E2 Gowanda HS Library: and we look at where we were in the previous year. E2 Gowanda HS Library: because the information that's coming in is all parents it's from. E2 Gowanda HS Library: It's from the parents who completed the survey. We sent a letter home to all families and everybody that received the survey and
065completed it. They respond with an individual unique code to go in and take it. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So there was something that was sent home to each of our families this year. Do we know how many responded. We had an increase this year last year. I think our number was at 14 this year we were up to 37. So we've increased 37, total. Are you serious? I was wondering how many people came out and voted, and next year we might have to have the Survey E2 Gowanda HS Library: Middle School play night. E2 Gowanda HS Library: It's just that's very discouraging. It's another one of those things. If you don't put your 2 cents in, you can't complain. I just took it as those folks who got it. They're just so happy with how
066everything is, and you know they didn't need to share anything. Shame on the parents. I did. I said what I said. E2 Gowanda HS Library: We're fortunate to have so many that turn up to all of our in person, events, and things like that. So I don't know. I think sometimes the end of the year you're getting a lot of things in the mail or in your backpack, and E2 Gowanda HS Library: maybe it was just missed those events at the end of the year. Is there E2 Gowanda HS Library: a way to have a kiosk, or have some sort of? E2 Gowanda HS Library: We've had ipads and or chromebooks available at the events in the past, and asked folks if they wanted to complete it, or paper surveys available that they could scan
067and complete it. E2 Gowanda HS Library: How long does it take? It's a pretty. It's a little bit of a lengthy one, so I think sometimes it was shorter. Maybe I think that's probably some of the hesitation we've talked about doing our own as well, like just our own survey, where it could just be really quick to click through and collect the data. You know, this is a survey that you know the Us. Department of Ed puts together. So it gives us some nice comparative data. E2 Gowanda HS Library: It's like you need a survey to survey people. How do we incentivize doing the survey like? What can we do to make you do the survey like, oh, that's sad. You will be entered for a prize. Gcs swag. There we go. E2 Gowanda HS
068Library: a panther fan pack all right, all right. Lastly, supportive culture and climate. So we do. An internal created survey. I meet with all of our team leads individually, and they bring survey data back to me, and we tailor it to. It's tailored to what each individual department is looking for. So E2 Gowanda HS Library: it's no secret, the elementary level. We're doing a lot of work on literacy science we just met as I shared. I met with both to talk about tailoring individual support sessions for the specific content areas. So like, I said, I meet with each team lead. And we talk about what specifically, their department needs a big focus for us next year is regional professional development. We're trying to sync up with all of our neighbors during E2 Gowanda HS Library:
069common superintendents, conference days to offer specific professional development to our teachers, especially those that are in like a Singleton area, you know. So our PE teachers, for example, might get together with other PE teachers in neighboring districts. So that's something I know. That's a big push for this region next year is to bring those folks together so they can work with colleagues in their field. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Our faculty also completes the school climate survey specific to environment E2 Gowanda HS Library: in in the instructional level. And so this is our staff responses. So they E2 Gowanda HS Library: rate on whether or not they feel responsible to help one another do their best that it's part of their job to prepare students to succeed in college, and that they have programs and resources
070that are adequate to support students learning. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So I always follow up on this one specifically with team leads just about additional programs. And so we've already made some tweaks to some of the things that we're purchasing in terms of instructional supplies for students. A specific request from middle level was additional support for special education for science at the middle level. So we're working with both these to get some E2 Gowanda HS Library: support with programming there. So again, we try to get additional resources where needed. If some of the programs we have are not a 1. Size fits all we try to accommodate and make additional purchases. Barb's always very supportive to that. Thank you. Barb. E2 Gowanda HS Library: yeah, I have. I have asked for some specific feedback about
071the 1st one feeling responsible to help each other do their best. The feedback that I had gotten was, it's not about me. They're not speaking about themselves individually when they complete it. They're saying that about their colleagues. So we're just talking about some things we can do to increase staff feeling as though they're part of a supportive, collaborative environment within their buildings. It seems sort of sad that they don't feel like they. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Yeah, they're it's really sad. Those numbers, some of those should be definitely higher for stronger, strongly agree. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Yeah. So that oh, I'm sorry, Mark. So last year that was one of the comments from our board was just following up to get specific feedback to these questions. So I brought these questions specifically to team
072leads when we met. So we did get some additional feedback from folks about what was going through their minds when they took that even think there would be a huge thing, I mean, because I know, in speaking with some of the teachers, they seem like they collaborate, and to see that they don't. I mean that the numbers are that low. E2 Gowanda HS Library: That's that's sad, disheartening. I will say that I'm so sorry, mark the second question in 71. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I mean, that's a percent. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Yeah. So here, this question, teacher, when I thought up about this one specifically is that they don't want it to be just about college, it's about college and or career readiness. And so when people are completing that question, they don't necessarily
073feel that their only jobs to prepare for college. It's for other post educational options that may come, whether it's going right into the workforce or E2 Gowanda HS Library: military. So that's when I thought up on that question specifically, it was, well, it's not just about college. So, and I have submitted that request to the developers of the survey, you know. Can you change this one because it's more, it's more than just college. So E2 Gowanda HS Library: let's just even sadder to see that people actually list disagree for any of those questions that's agreed. Right? 71% agree. That's agreed. I was like, Oh, my God, right? But those percentages seem that they strongly disagree. Right? E2 Gowanda HS Library: I know that's what I thought it meant. At first, st too, I was like
074holy cow. What are we doing? What's going on like still? E2 Gowanda HS Library: So you share a little more insight about that question number 3. So we know this came up last year, too, about the programs and resources are adequate. We're 28% of people E2 Gowanda HS Library: disagree with that statement from my perspective. I mean, we're well funded. We have. E2 Gowanda HS Library: If you have, maybe just matter of perspective. If you went from here elsewhere, I think you may change your tune. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So we feel we support people well from your discussion. One on one part. What do people? What does that mean? What are what don't we do? We do feel, or they say that. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Well, middle school, when I thought up specifically,
075has asked about additional support in terms of intervention or ais providers. That was an area that was reduced in the past, based on E2 Gowanda HS Library: recommendations from the leadership team. And so that is something that several of the teachers have asked about. So I know that was something that came up specific to that question. So will the 13th period cover. That is that as a form of intervention, the 13th period? Right? Yes, I mean. And you may recall we didn't have 13th period this year, so I think that was that we added it back for next year. But I think that is certainly something that will help is those students will be required to stay 4 days a week E2 Gowanda HS Library: when they're failing one or 2, 1 or more classes
076next year. So that's so. So around ais or intervention specifically. And, as I said earlier, some additional resources that some staff feel are needed when some of the core materials that they have may not be where students are at grade level. So some of our special Ed or students below grade level teachers have asked for just some additional resources E2 Gowanda HS Library: that they could use. E2 Gowanda HS Library: What was the guess on the number that took this. I'm sorry. What was the guess on the number that actually. E2 Gowanda HS Library: for for staff, specifically, we, we usually have almost 200 that completed. I mean, we have a pretty good representation for staff. We give them time built in to take it. And this is all staff. It's not just our teachers.
077All district staff complete this. E2 Gowanda HS Library: And again, this is when we can drill down to individual building levels. E2 Gowanda HS Library: which is helpful, that we'll review with each building principle. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I thought Rti was supposed to listen. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Need for ais E2 Gowanda HS Library: I mean yes and no, yes and no. So we said, we have. So the problem is, when you get to the middle level, you only have a 42 min period. And so we're doing a lot of tier one at that instructional block for 42 min, and then. So some of the things that teachers might historically offer to students for tier 3 or tier 2 are now being done in an outside 42 min block. So I think that our
078staff, just E2 Gowanda HS Library: at the middle level, look for more bodies to provide those supports for tier 2 and 3, because if they don't, if we don't have enough staff to operate at the middle level, they're doing it in their classrooms. The other thing that we've done at the middle level that we're going to provide additional support on is we did build in that intervention enrichment block the flex period at the middle level schedule there were some tweaks we had to make with the current year that we're working with the Middle School counselors to schedule for next year, but that should help as well. So our teachers will be moving kids through classes the way our elementary level does. E2 Gowanda HS Library: We did 54 students or 54 teachers come forward. A
079faculty member come forward to ask for stuff. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I'm stuck on that 27.8 8 at the bottom question right here. Yeah, like, I guess E2 Gowanda HS Library: 27% of our staff come and ask for things. No, no, okay. E2 Gowanda HS Library: many have, but not everybody. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So I think also, too, there's just there just needs to be, for all levels is just especially with our new building leaders coming on board just really structured conversations around around how to best meet students needs. And that really starts on those Tuesday Times where you're looking at your formative assessments weekly and making adjustments to your instruction, and I know that I expect to see a big change E2 Gowanda HS Library: and our buildings and in the fall, and
080that's not to say we didn't have great things going on previously, but I know that's a big focus for our new leaders coming on board. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Also E2 Gowanda HS Library: that everyone is aware of how to approach asking for resources, make that widely accessible like, and kind of along the same lines as programs, whatever. But yeah, so everybody knows how to do it who to talk to, how to talk to them? We don't know what we don't know. Right? E2 Gowanda HS Library: They all have your email. And they all have their building principles email, and many of them do. And I would say there is very few that we can't make happen for folks. It's just knowing what is needed, and asking at the appropriate time, you know, June 15th
081is usually how to support it. Right? June 15.th Usually pretty late. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Catch up. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Yeah. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I forget how many years we've been doing the blueprint for success. I've been time out for 4. I think it's achieving. E2 Gowanda HS Library: The emphasis was in terms of making the changes in their school have our kids graduate. E2 Gowanda HS Library: My concern is that it may not be dealing with what our kids need to succeed in life. E2 Gowanda HS Library: such as I mean, the the skill sets out there to succeed things such as E2 Gowanda HS Library: collaboration, creativity, problem solving and so forth. We're E2 Gowanda HS Library: kind of measuring how we're going to hit E2 Gowanda HS Library: graduation as
082if that's the bar, and we're trying to clear that E2 Gowanda HS Library: or not teaching a kids to excel right? So E2 Gowanda HS Library: it may not be our job. But E2 Gowanda HS Library: well, I think that was a big piece to when we did our grading reform, and we brought in the learning habits rubric. I mean a lot of those skills that you just spoke about the collaboration, the critical thinking, those are things that we added to the learning habits, rubric, so that our teachers can talk to kids about those soft skills and how they're needed. We've done surveys. And we've shared with kids. Those are the skills that employers are looking for, you know, when they're interviewing candidates, it's not necessarily the academics. E2 Gowanda HS Library: those other skills.
083And with the work that we're going to do around project based learning and assessment. We're doing a lot of rubric development at each of our grade levels and content areas. That's the plan for next year. And so those pieces that you're speaking to. Those are going to be on the rubrics. And so that'll become common language for our kids and for our staff members. So that's been something that we've been trying to do a lot of work with through our grading committee is that's the direction that we need to head in. That's what employers are looking E2 Gowanda HS Library: looking for. When you survey students who have graduated, they come back and say, those are the skills that I really needed to work on in school right like you said I was prepared academically,
084but I need more opportunities to talk. Engage in dialogue with the students sitting next to me work together to solve a problem. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So those are things we're going to be building in to assess E2 Gowanda HS Library: we're going to. We have to continue to build our teacher capacity so that they feel comfortable teaching those things and assessing those things. So it's definitely an area we've identified. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Again, just sometimes I ask questions that I have an idea of what the answer all is or should be brought up. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Mark is our teacher. When it's question time. We all look at mark, we always appreciate that very much. So E2 Gowanda HS Library: other questions concerns. Okay, thank you. Thank you. E2 Gowanda HS Library:
085Excuse me. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Board of Education down to 10.0 1 Board of Education Communications Magazine. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Anybody wants to or by design. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Excuse me any discussion on that. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Go down to 10.0 2 Board of Education Committee reports. E2 Gowanda HS Library: We do need to schedule a policy committee meeting. We do have E2 Gowanda HS Library: some updates to policies from the policy service. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So do you. Do you folks want to schedule it tonight, or E2 Gowanda HS Library: do you want to do this after the meeting? E2 Gowanda HS Library: Our policy committee now consists of Brittany, Zack and Sue. E2 Gowanda HS Library: You're breaking this one, mark? He said, that already you guys want to
086schedule it. Now E2 Gowanda HS Library: look good for me. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Maybe do that in August, just because I would be gone E2 Gowanda HS Library: some of that to hold back. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Was there anything pressing maximum heat, maximum temperature? I wondered. I saw that. Well, I mean, it's pressing, but we're in compliance, right? E2 Gowanda HS Library: So we can escape. E2 Gowanda HS Library: He's gotten sense if the room's hot. Jim's hot. Right? E2 Gowanda HS Library: So I think. August alright ideally. E2 Gowanda HS Library: 1st read on August 13, th so we could meet at the beginning of August. So we can place for E2 Gowanda HS Library: well, not the 6 is worth a walk. E2 Gowanda HS Library: 4. There's 7 question. E2
087Gowanda HS Library: I think that's good for me. E2 Gowanda HS Library: That was easy. Okay, we've got okay. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Did you say, morning? Yeah, we can do anything. I mean, we can do any kind of work. It doesn't matter to me. I can pretty much do anything that day, whatever you want. 10. Sure. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Yep, there we go. That was easy. Now this can be. You can attend in person, or we can do zoom E2 Gowanda HS Library: so E2 Gowanda HS Library: when I when I schedule it, if you just want to let me know how you're gonna attend. Just so I know who's gonna be here and who's gonna E2 Gowanda HS Library: it's easier to follow it. Of course it is. E2 Gowanda HS Library:
088Keep it I probably will. I'll try to make it in. E2 Gowanda HS Library: All right. Thank you. E2 Gowanda HS Library: 10.0 3 forward slash administrative Round table marking on Saturday. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Sure, I really enjoyed graduation. That's a high. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I like seeing the cool, big thanks to Qantas. E2 Gowanda HS Library: No, I got filled with it. Don't remember. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Say, welcome to Brittany, thanks to John for staying aboard. E2 Gowanda HS Library: It's a E2 Gowanda HS Library: volunteer work here, but we're glad to have you. I think we have a good group. Speak for myself, I suppose, and I also graduation was really fun, that is, that's that's like the reason why we're all here pretty much. And that was really fun.
089And E2 Gowanda HS Library: I will admit I questioned Dr. Bob's judgment with the weather. But it turned out lovely. It was really nice. So everything was really good. So E2 Gowanda HS Library: yeah, just looking forward to the the next year here E2 Gowanda HS Library: I'm going to tag on to thank you to the anonymous donator for the books. That's amazing. I mean, I know that the one in the elementary school is going over really? Well, so it'll be nice to have another one. Graduation was great and welcome, Brittany, and thanks again, John, for coming back. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I'm good. Yeah, thank you. E2 Gowanda HS Library: It's E2 Gowanda HS Library: I do have to remind all the board members to watch the child abuse. E2 Gowanda HS Library: If
090you are unsure how to reach to get to that E2 Gowanda HS Library: talk to me after the meeting, or you know, later in the week, and I'll make sure that you're you all have access. E2 Gowanda HS Library: And we'll get that. E2 Gowanda HS Library: We'll get that squared away for you. The child abuse New York that we have to watch. I don't know if the member has to watch, and this is through. E2 Gowanda HS Library: what is that thing called? E2 Gowanda HS Library: Yeah. You. You were on it. You watched it last year, and I think the last meeting I might have just no, that's okay. I've seen the sexual harassment thing, though, like 14 times. If you remember, I asked if you guys wanted to watch it as a
091group. E2 Gowanda HS Library: or if you wanted to watch. But I can help you. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Is it a link that sent to us? I don't remember. E2 Gowanda HS Library: You'll have a lot. You have a login. I gave you the information, and you just go to our website to get to it. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So yeah, how long is it? E2 Gowanda HS Library: Half an hour before the next meeting? That was an option. You guys chose not to do that. You guys wanted to do it individually, so we lost our opportunity. We can still do it. But E2 Gowanda HS Library: you chose. Nope, you're done. No, no, we could do that if you guys want to. I would schedule a half hour workshop, we would still have
092to log in and individually. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Oh, I can do that, I believe we can. We have like 27. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So what do they have to do to prove they do this? You log in through on your own. You'll get like a transcript if you do it together. E2 Gowanda HS Library: so I don't know that she does that when she onboard staff she'll play them, and she just tracks who participated, I mean, and they E2 Gowanda HS Library: current time. You can get it done. E2 Gowanda HS Library: 13. E2 Gowanda HS Library: The next Board meeting. We'll do it before I'm not here, but that's the maybe I won't be next one. Maybe the August one, because the next one begins at 5. Okay, did you want to
093do possibly the August meeting? Yeah, sure, I'll have to do that one on my own. Then I'll be at work in New York E2 Gowanda HS Library: in August or August 10, th through 13.th That would be there obviously won't be over or September, October. E2 Gowanda HS Library: November, December. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Okay, so yes, for August, but not everyone's available. Yeah. E2 Gowanda HS Library: yeah, I can. I'll just. I'll get a hold of you. And we can do the link, or whatever. E2 Gowanda HS Library: We'll start at 6 instead of E2 Gowanda HS Library: sounds good. E2 Gowanda HS Library: and then E2 Gowanda HS Library: have a couple things that I will get into board docs for you tomorrow. They kind of came in E2 Gowanda HS Library: this
094week. We have the Western New York Law Conference E2 Gowanda HS Library: coming up on August 6.th It's an all day event from 8. E2 Gowanda HS Library: It's usually like 3 or 4. Let me see the schedule E2 Gowanda HS Library: until 2, 30, or from 8 to 2 30. E2 Gowanda HS Library: It is at Salvatore's in Depew. Are there any Board members who would be interested in attending this? E2 Gowanda HS Library: We do have. Some of our own employees are going. Dr. Anderson Barb Ashley. E2 Gowanda HS Library: It's up to you? Oh, my gosh! E2 Gowanda HS Library: 23, rd the deadline is the 23.rd E2 Gowanda HS Library: So why don't I say the deadline for this is the 18.th You guys have to let me know by the
09518, th so we can get this. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Get it out on the 18th and then E2 Gowanda HS Library: we, the Erie County School Board Association is do doing the back to school and awards dinner. E2 Gowanda HS Library: and that's on August 21st at Creekside Banquet Center in Chictawaga, and this year E2 Gowanda HS Library: one of our very own Board members has gotten an award for the Ray Karl emerging leader award. And that would be Mr. Zach nobles. E2 Gowanda HS Library: not evidence of tonight. So we do have someone getting involved. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I'm assuming we're getting signed up without eating. E2 Gowanda HS Library: It's August 21, st and it starts at 5 15 E2 Gowanda HS Library: with, with, like, you know, registration type thing.
096But it actually starts at 5, 45. E2 Gowanda HS Library: If you guys want to think about it and and get back to me prior to the next meeting, because I have to register by August 7.th E2 Gowanda HS Library: I have a knowledge. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Did we? E2 Gowanda HS Library: Did you want to renew your, or did you want to have a membership with the Rural Schools Association. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Yes, I I guess. Well, what what do we gain? E2 Gowanda HS Library: How much does it cost? And what have this? E2 Gowanda HS Library: And you should join, for they do advocacy, professional development. They provide information. E2 Gowanda HS Library: a lot of different services that are out there for you. It's it's $850 for the year.
097E2 Gowanda HS Library: Comparatively to E2 Gowanda HS Library: it's I would say it's in line with some of the smaller type of groups. The New York State School Boards association is more expensive. But that's kind of a larger organization that provides a lot of important materials E2 Gowanda HS Library: and information that the district absolutely needs. E2 Gowanda HS Library: And as board members you need E2 Gowanda HS Library: rural schools. Kind of is more focused on topics that rural schools obviously deal with E2 Gowanda HS Library: where, I would say the New York State School Boards or Erie County kind of oversees all all things, all types of schools, all types of areas E2 Gowanda HS Library: awesome. E2 Gowanda HS Library: If someone was interested in going to the conference, I'd recommend
098that. E2 Gowanda HS Library: or to add, add them as a membership, because then you'd get the benefit. E2 Gowanda HS Library: and quite frankly, at $850. It's a very reasonable membership to join, and they do a lot of advocacy, and they could be beneficial for us moving forward E2 Gowanda HS Library: when I did did attend, I mean schools in Pine Valley, little Raleigh Payworth, well represented at the Conference. E2 Gowanda HS Library: and I think people from those schools also gave presentations and stuff. So E2 Gowanda HS Library: people around us are more involved in the conference itself. E2 Gowanda HS Library: First, st we tend to be more involved with Erie County. E2 Gowanda HS Library: but our concerns are the same as the strong word. Yeah. E2 Gowanda HS Library: it's
099something to bring to the boat next. E2 Gowanda HS Library: It doesn't really need. It doesn't need to be a vote. You guys can. Just you can decide tonight if that's something you want to do. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I mean, it's budgeted for that. E2 Gowanda HS Library: It for me. Sorry. That was lengthy. Thank you. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Thanks for having me. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Thanks. I think Mark coined it best for me when he talked about the graduation, you know, kind of being the capstone of the reason why we're here. It was a fantastic event. I, too, was concerned about Dr. Anderson's weather forecasting abilities overall. It turned out very well, I thought Jillian Gurna and Tessa Cohen's speeches were fantastic. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Dave Smith rose style beginning
100of his speech, but in the end brought it home to very thoughtful and meaningful message. But great event! Thank you to the Kiwanis for that anonymous donor. That's a huge donation. It's probably one of the large ones I've seen in a little while. E2 Gowanda HS Library: and you know E2 Gowanda HS Library: good luck and congratulations to Carrie Zerba. You know her time is well spent here, and will be the excuse to fill. E2 Gowanda HS Library: It's all I have for type, I mean alert. Last minute E2 Gowanda HS Library: I'll I'll end with certainly exciting to E2 Gowanda HS Library: seeing the students move on and go on and go forth into the world all at the same time speaking about the starting up of next year. I know the musical is
101hosting an informational meeting tonight, and there's E2 Gowanda HS Library: believe if I heard the rumor correctly, there's casting next. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I'm not mistaken. E2 Gowanda HS Library: That'll save me some meetings when I get time. E2 Gowanda HS Library: And then obviously want to certainly appreciate the the donation. That's that's awesome, as we can see litter season E2 Gowanda HS Library: extremely important in our success here at the district. So. E2 Gowanda HS Library: and other than that, I just appreciate all the presentations tonight. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Thank you. Everybody for putting up with my leadership. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Okay, yeah, move on to our parking lot. E2 Gowanda HS Library: It's awkward. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So we have to thank you very E2 Gowanda HS Library: anything
102that we need to move around. Discuss. E2 Gowanda HS Library: We do have some updates, just just date changes for things that like, we just went over the student handbook. So I'll update that. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Oh. E2 Gowanda HS Library: yeah, I'd say, some of your 2025 need to change to 2026. But other than that, that looks fairly good business. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Do we have any to be determined on the presentations? Do we have any E2 Gowanda HS Library: projected or guessing dates for those? E2 Gowanda HS Library: This bottom, a regionalization, presentation or podcast works? E2 Gowanda HS Library: We would guess. E2 Gowanda HS Library: No? Well, I have E2 Gowanda HS Library: not necessarily your parking lot, but I will create a little calendar with events that are
103coming up with, I know are coming so you can anticipate things. So regionalization probably is going to be coming up in the fall. I know, Erie 2 has submitted their plan for our region. E2 Gowanda HS Library: one. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So maybe before then I'll kind of give you update where we are as a region is appropriate. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Don't necessarily change it. But could that be all encompassing as far as different. I'll go this whole year E2 Gowanda HS Library: and call out different overlay. Thanks, Kevin. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Thank you. E2 Gowanda HS Library: That's true. E2 Gowanda HS Library: That's good. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Okay. Session. So, moving on to 12 E2 Gowanda HS Library: point 0 1 adjournment consideration of a motion to adjourn the
104meeting. So second, aye, all right. E2 Gowanda HS Library: thank you, everybody. Thank you. A lot of pressure.