Board of Education Meeting 4-29-2025

001E2 Gowanda HS Library: Okay? We'll call the meeting to order. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Let's stand for the pledge. Please E2 Gowanda HS Library: pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation, under God, municipal with liberty and justice for all. E2 Gowanda HS Library: a consideration of a motion to accept the agenda second. E2 Gowanda HS Library: and the reading of the Bible please. 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, 1510, which sets forth reasonable guidelines in terms of ensuring orderly discussion and exchange of information during public meetings. In exceptional circumstances,

002the Board may E2 Gowanda HS Library: 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 filling out the appropriate form and handing the form to the Board President, the Board President will call upon the person to speak at the appropriate time. Each such person will be permitted E2 Gowanda HS Library: to speak for a time limited to 3 min. Please stand in the front of the board table and address the board directly, under discretion of the board. More than 3 people will be allowed to address the board on a single topic. Total time allowed for public comment is 15 min. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Thank you. And the digital calendar. E2 Gowanda

003HS Library: Our next Board of Education meeting will take place on Wednesday, May 7.th It'll start at 6 Pm. With a public budget hearing, and will be followed immediately by the regular meetings. Thank you. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Consideration of a motion to approve agenda items, consensus items, 2 0 1 through 5.0 2. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So okay, all in favor. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Bye, bye, she didn't E2 Gowanda HS Library: any questions. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I have some questions and wondered. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Falls across the detour to us later. Yep, yeah. Probably require session. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I mean that way. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Oh, yeah. The community, yes, thank you. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Moving on E2 Gowanda HS Library: brings us to review of Treasury

004report and financial statements for March 2025. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Anything? E2 Gowanda HS Library: Any questions on those? E2 Gowanda HS Library: Okay that brings us to action items, 6.0 1 adoption of the 2025, 2026, Erie, 2 boces, administrative budget resolution. E2 Gowanda HS Library: consideration of a motion to vote and approve the adopted following resolution, the Board of Education of the Gawanda Central School District, at a public meeting held on April 29, th 2025, hereby adopts a resolution approving the 2025, 2026 tentative boces, administrative budget in the amount of E2 Gowanda HS Library: $4,036,957. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So E2 Gowanda HS Library: hey? E2 Gowanda HS Library: All in favor. Any questions. Discussion. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Perfect. E2 Gowanda HS Library: 6.0 2. Approval of Erie. 2. Chautauqua Catarugus Board of

005Cooperative Extension service members. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Okay. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Yes. Before you get into these ones. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I'd like to hear from John. Maybe you work with these people. Yeah. E2 Gowanda HS Library: thanks, Mark. I do. So. I've been sitting on the Erie to Chicago Catarugus Board for just under a year now, and it's been a pleasure working with their board. There's a lot to learn. Learn a lot about their programs and services. The 1st person that you see on the agenda today is for Mr. Ronald Cannelato. E2 Gowanda HS Library: He's been the chair for quite some time and been on the board for I think, almost 30 years now, and a lot of these members that you'll see here tonight, like you'll see Kathleen Chevetta and

006a few others. They do a lot of fine work. In the short time that I've been on the board I learned a lot from them, and I learned E2 Gowanda HS Library: but appreciate a lot of the resources they give our students. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Okay? E2 Gowanda HS Library: So the 1st one consideration of a motion to vote and approve Ronald Catalano to serve as a member of the Erie-toucheutauqua Cataragus E2 Gowanda HS Library: Board of Cooperative Education services. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Cool, sorry. E2 Gowanda HS Library: all in favor. Aye, 6.0 3. E2 Gowanda HS Library: The same approval but consideration to approve Kathleen Chevetta. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So all in favor. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Okay. E2 Gowanda HS Library: 3rd member to vote and approve. Dwight Egan, do

007you have a motion? E2 Gowanda HS Library: So okay, any discussion all in favor. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Okay, the next one vote and approve for Linda Hoffman in the same position. Do you have a motion? E2 Gowanda HS Library: So any discussion? E2 Gowanda HS Library: All in favor. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Okay? E2 Gowanda HS Library: And last, one vote and approve for Anita Ray the promotions. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So, okay, any discussion, all in favor. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Thank you. E2 Gowanda HS Library: That brings us to 7.0 1 public discussion and comment on agenda items. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Huh? E2 Gowanda HS Library: 7.0 2 non-agenda items. Discussion we have none E2 Gowanda HS Library: that brings us to the superintendent's report. All right. Thank you very much.

008Good evening, everybody. Happy. Tuesday E2 Gowanda HS Library: to all, just a few quick updates, because we got a lot of things to talk about in balance presentation. But the New York State Budget News. I saw, as you may, general agreement reached at the State level E2 Gowanda HS Library: no details yet, but I did see a budget extender passed to fund the States through Thursday, May 1st we'll get more details as things trickle out from there, and we'll get some information from our professional organizations as well as sed within that I know there's a lot of discussion about cell phones. I think that's included in the budget kind of waiting to see the actual law. And then I would anticipate model policy come from our policy service, and then from there we can see

009with how that impacts us. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Now we do have limits. How students, at least in the secondary level, can can use cell phones probably won't be much of a stretch if there's a ban. E2 Gowanda HS Library: But again, we'll see what that actually looks like before we move forward on another interesting note. Some celebrations. May is a busy month to celebrate a lot of different people in our district across districts across the country. Thursday is May first, st but it's national school principals. Day principals get like 2 days a year, so kudos to Czerba, Mr. Nicholas and Mrs. Raedis, for all their hard work E2 Gowanda HS Library: next week is national teacher appreciation week all week long, with appreciation. Day on Tuesday, May 6.th I want to thank all those

010hardworking professionals, what they do in our classrooms every day to service our students and another group of folks that are truly important to our district is National School nurse Day, which is E2 Gowanda HS Library: next Wednesday, May 7, th and we have a board meeting. I'll mention it then, but E2 Gowanda HS Library: you know we have some time then to prep for it, and be thankful for those folks, and then last, but not least, for certain. Next Sunday, May 11, th is mother's Day. I'll make another mention of this next Wednesday, but I want to say tonight, like me, I'm not going to get cards and make sure children are prompted. E2 Gowanda HS Library: It's timely. My, I think it's timely. E2 Gowanda HS Library: A couple other things congratulations on your

011agenda this evening you saw Mr. Todd Nicholas, our middle school principal. For quite some time he put forth his retirement resignation letter. He's retiring, so I want to congratulate Todd for all his hard work and service to our district for so many years. It's been a real pleasure working with him, and so I wish him well, as he moves forward into this next chapter of his life, and I hope he'll do well E2 Gowanda HS Library: in your agenda. Also, I just want to thank the parents, boys, lacrosse team who made a generous donation to the team appreciate their efforts. And then just some capital news people ask about the pool always comes up. The project is in Sed's hands. The project's been picked for E2 Gowanda HS Library: you. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Architect

012technical review has been approved on the 25th of April, so I think things are moving along, and hopefully we'll stick to our timeline. The fencing, as you notice downhill is. It's disaster trees and those fall down. We're prosecuting multiple quotes. E2 Gowanda HS Library: We'll fix that shortly. And then next week I just want to give you an update on parking lots E2 Gowanda HS Library: tonight. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Other meetings have timed themselves. So that that's it for me right now, weigh in. We have some really interesting topics coming up that. E2 Gowanda HS Library: do you want your update? E2 Gowanda HS Library: Yeah, no. People are getting tired. Okay? All right. Thank you, sir. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Okay, thank you. That brings us to our report E2 Gowanda HS Library:

013in Gowana Elementary School. They learned cooking and the importance of eating healthy, as we kind of saw from the middle school's presentation. E2 Gowanda HS Library: When they got taco bowls. I ate my order E2 Gowanda HS Library: classes learn about the importance of eating fruits and vegetables, as well as another class having a gearing presentation where students learn to make butter from one ingredient. E2 Gowanda HS Library: In the Juan elementary school. They had teacher and staff appreciation week from May 5th to the 9.th E2 Gowanda HS Library: They also have the New York State math. Assessment for grades, 3. Through 4, May 13th to 14.th E2 Gowanda HS Library: Good luck to all. My 3rd and 4th readers. E2 Gowanda HS Library: They have the Pto. Carnival dance from May 16, th 7

014to 7, 30. But people who come and attend they have the spring showcase on May 29, th 6 to 7 30. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I also saw that the Guana Elementary staff participated in underground spirit week from April 20 second to the 25, th E2 Gowanda HS Library: where I saw that you've been dressed up as theme as holiday and secret service E2 Gowanda HS Library: iguana middle School took a field trip to the Kazoo factory and museum in Eden. E2 Gowanda HS Library: One high school has been very busy. We have Prom. On May 10, th E2 Gowanda HS Library: students just got back from the senior class trip to New York. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I heard it went well, besides the torrential downpour. So E2 Gowanda HS Library: they have the

015district art show. May 14.th In the Hollywood Theater. We'd love people to attend. See the different types of works. High school students are doing ceramics, painting E2 Gowanda HS Library: all stuff like that. E2 Gowanda HS Library: We have an Sard dinner, May 15, th which recognizes the top 3 students from all Erie and Niagara counties. So I'd like to congratulate our top 3 students here E2 Gowanda HS Library: in the senior class. The Travel Club is hosting a chicken barbecue on Tuesday, May 20, th E2 Gowanda HS Library: and we recently had a successful pre-prom demonstration, hosted by Sad, where we even had people dress up in like blood and makeup to do our mock crash presentation. We had people go out on stretchers and go in ambulances, and there was apparently a hearse

016at the end, too. E2 Gowanda HS Library: That is all I have. Thank you so much. There's a lot of stuff going on any questions. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Does one obtain a I mean the chicken barbecue is presale on May 20.th E2 Gowanda HS Library: How do people obtain a ticket? You can buy one from my daughter. I know. I know I'm just being an overly aggressive salesman. You have to find her. Yes, what's the answer to the question? Milan? E2 Gowanda HS Library: Usually like the junior class? I'm not. I haven't done the Travel Club yet, because I believe they're doing Greece like E2 Gowanda HS Library: after the year I graduate. But usually they have kids selling the tickets. So I'm sure if someone will come up to you and like sell

017how they usually do them for like fundraising and stuff. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I go to our school webpage. If you scroll down, am I allowed to say anything. So, Mandy Pickering, she would also be a good contact or heather Ritzic for a QR. Code. If you don't have a particular student that you're supporting. It would go to the General Travel Club Fund. E2 Gowanda HS Library: They just have to call the High school. Yes, deadline is May 6, th E2 Gowanda HS Library: payments need to be made by search. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Okay, anything else? E2 Gowanda HS Library: Thank you. Along. That brings us to our dialogue and presentation E2 Gowanda HS Library: for our K. 12 comprehensive school counseling program. Several meetings ago the Board asked about. You know, we talk

018about academics. Everything else goes on. But E2 Gowanda HS Library: question, let's what we do for social, emotional learning. And we do quite a bit, and we've touched on a piece of that throughout the years, but it's always good for refreshers. So I reached out to Janine and Beth, and wanted to see if they come and share with us the board and the public about the school counseling program. So we're there. I left Beth Introducer Group. We have our social workers and E2 Gowanda HS Library: no Lc. School sites but counselors and the whole crew of people. So that's Girardi, our director of E2 Gowanda HS Library: just Contrashy's guides. But really school counseling. K. 12 E2 Gowanda HS Library: still support, because it's all inclusive support. At least a lot of good support keeps

019kids healthy in a variety of ways to come to school as well. Is that true? E2 Gowanda HS Library: So you should all have a copy of her presentation. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So I thought I was being creative by doing a canva presentation that would look really pretty and then discovered at the last minute when I was talking to Kathy. It doesn't go into board docs. So that's why, you have a hard copy, and you have a hard copy that has 2 titles in it, too. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So we'll talk through it. But on the board is the actual document our K-twelve plan, which you do have access to. Electronically, I did bring a couple of hard copies just in case anybody wanted one, for some reason, but we are required to

020have a K-twelve Comprehensive counseling plan where we address the social, emotional learning standards, the Asca mindsets and behaviors which is our National Association and the career development standards for students. E2 Gowanda HS Library: K. Through 12. So we have written the document. It is required by the Education Department to be posted to the website annually and to be updated annually. So we E2 Gowanda HS Library: for the most part, each year what we update our annual goals, we have annual goals for each building. And then we update our activities that we use our calendar for that. And I do have a copy of the calendar parts. I thought that was the whole document is really the most useful piece of it, as far as every day for you to see what we're doing at each

021building level E2 Gowanda HS Library: so that we update that. And then there's a crosswalk in the comprehensive plan. Also that takes the activities from the calendar and links them to the standards that are being taught and addressed during those activities that way. We're covering the standards that we're expected to teach and help students acquire the skill sets for E2 Gowanda HS Library: the Crosswalk. I'm waiting for a new template to come from State. Ed is not out yet, so we kind of made one, so it's not quite as pretty looking as this State Ed template is, but as soon as the new one comes out we'll just shift what we have in the comprehensive plan to the new one and then update it hopefully. By the fall, we'll have the new one and be

022able to update what we put on the website for the fall. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Come. E2 Gowanda HS Library: But so hopefully, you've had a chance or will have a chance to look at it. And if you have questions, please let us know. We just followed the template that Nisca. The State Association puts out. It just talks about some of the theory. There's a lot of hyperlinks in it. We were advised initially when the regulations came out for the comprehensive plan. It happened right before Covid. It was. Every district, writes a comprehensive counseling plan has to be posted to your website and reviewed annually. Then Covid hit, and we didn't have any guidance about it. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So we were given this directive. We have to get this done this year. None

023of us really knew what we were doing, and other states do this. So we kind of modeled what we were doing versus what other States already had in place. And then this past summer E2 Gowanda HS Library: state. Ed Victor Rose, who oversees the counseling programs, started pulling. He pulled 150 of them statewide out of like 700 and noticed some E2 Gowanda HS Library: things like that. They just weren't user friendly for the general person to read. He's like they're too long. There's too much stuff in here. Take out some of this. Put links in. So in the electronic document, there are a lot of hyperlinks to the ask the standards that we teach the Cdos standards, and then I go through once a semester and make sure that those hyperlinks are still active. E2

024Gowanda HS Library: because I don't want somebody to click on it, and then it no longer be there. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So when we review, we check that also, okay. But in in the presentation itself E2 Gowanda HS Library: I basically went through listed my team, most of which is here from the middle school, the elementary school and high school. The middle school was not able to be with us tonight, and you'll you'll see. I did include Laura, who has left us. E2 Gowanda HS Library: but she was a very active member helping us prepare for this. So I wanted to recognize her also. Our mission and vision statements are also in the plan. But ultimately our goal is that students in our district will receive the educational and social emotional skills necessary to

025become effective and responsible citizens by the time that they leave us. E2 Gowanda HS Library: and we strive for that comprehensively. K. 12. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I referenced the comprehensive plan already. That's up here. E2 Gowanda HS Library: There are a lot of changes coming which I'm sure you have heard about the portrait of the graduate and the graduation measures and all that. So I just wanted to point that out because it will drastically change our plan as that process gets rolled out over the next 5 years. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So we are on top of it, and I work with the Graduation Commission for state. Ed. I sit on a board with them, so I'm learning right as things are coming out from state. Ed. What their expectations are. E2 Gowanda HS

026Library: Then I was trying to find a way to capture what we do. And Janine helped me with this, because at 1st I was like we do so much. How do I capture a whole year's worth of, and she's like, Beth, take a breath. You don't have to capture every single just focus on a week. So we did a week at a glance, and had each counselor and social worker in each building basically keep a tally sheet of what we did during that particular that one week that 5 day cycle. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So I broke it into categories, and we considered what we consider therapeutic services versus non-therapeutic therapeutic are like our iep counseling 504 counseling, and any ers counseling. So those mandated services. So you can see by building in that 5

027days cycle how many sessions occurred. E2 Gowanda HS Library: and then non-therapeutic is all the other things academic counseling. Maybe we talked to someone about their current grades or a career path change or things like that, and we kept track of those. E2 Gowanda HS Library: And then lessons that we did in classrooms. And you'll notice a significant difference between the buildings on classroom, small group lessons. The elementary school is in the classroom all the time. They do a lot of push-ins, and they have the support now to be able to do that which is fabulous at the High School. You'll see. We happen to have had 3 that week, but we also had other events that week where we had people coming into the district E2 Gowanda HS Library: providing services for us, so

028that for the high school is kind of hit and miss, it depends on the time of the year. How often we're in the classroom and what's going on. E2 Gowanda HS Library: But then you'll notice that we had lots of one on one sessions, 75 in that 5 day cycle. Okay? So you'll see it shifts from there. I combined parent contacts and home visits. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Home visits are again one of those things where we may have weeks where we have several, and then we may have weeks where maybe the weather was bad and we didn't go out, or E2 Gowanda HS Library: we were doing Ap. Testing which is coming up. Our Sro wasn't available. We never do home visits alone. We try to do it with an Sro. Occasionally the 2

029counselors or a counselor. Social worker may go together. If it's a family we know well and feel safe, but you never know what's on the other side of that door when you knock on it. So for safety reasons, we try to have an Sro with us at all times when we make those visits, so sometimes we have more or less of those E2 Gowanda HS Library: our crisis intervention sessions. And then I just listed other services that happened to occur during that 5 days that didn't really fall into those categories, but you know we had attendance meetings and Cse meetings and team meetings, and we had our career spotlight at the High school and financial Aid completion day. Our crisis team had gotten together just other things that took place during that 5 day cycle.

030E2 Gowanda HS Library: and then I thought I would give you a snapshot of what kind of topics we cover at each building level. And that's where you'll see a couple typos. Sorry about that. But I just listed activities that are typical group topics or push-in topics that we cover. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I'm in each level and you'll notice at the elementary the lower grades. It's Sel standards, sel lessons, teaching them coping skills, teaching them problem solving skills, teaching them resilience skills. And then, as we get up to the high school, there's going to be more E2 Gowanda HS Library: career planning and sat prep and adjustments to high school and those kinds of things. We still do social skills, particularly with social workers addresses social skills and coping skills and crisis intervention, those

031kinds of things which allows Jen and I the opportunity to do some of these other things that we didn't used to get to do before, like the career spotlights and things like that. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So that's been super good for us. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Then I just highlighted a couple things we had new this year, which I thought was just something great to showcase. We don't always get to come and showcase things. So at the elementary school, one of the things that has been huge with having a social worker there is. This really made the ability to have a lot of lunch munch groups, which is a common, get kids together during lunch and talk about a particular issue, or teach it on a particular scale, and things like that E2 Gowanda

032HS Library: they've been able to do significantly more individual sessions with kids. E2 Gowanda HS Library: And Laura did an attendance survey. K. 4. I wish she was here to kind of explain more about it. I do have some data on it in here that we can chat about if you need to. But that was the 1st time we did actually K. 12 attendance survey for the 1st time with students to get feedback from them. And some of the feedback was pretty interesting, especially at the middle school level, I thought, was interesting. The middle school and the High School during Open House did a mental health fair that was hugely successful. E2 Gowanda HS Library: The middle school had their academic enrichment activities at the high School. We've been doing our career spotlights every month

033E2 Gowanda HS Library: which have been really well received. Students seem to get really positive feedback from those we pick a different career field each month, based on what students have expressed interest in, we find someone is practicing in the field. We have a lawyer coming in, I believe. Next we have them come in and talk about their profession, what it took to get there, what it's like being in that field right now, and things that kids are able to ask questions. So we've had everything from E2 Gowanda HS Library: skilled labor to medicine, to lawyers to everybody. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So that's been really good. And then our attendance the other thing, our sel. This has been huge for us this year. We did. We have done a monthly sel tier one. So

034it's for all students activity in high school every month this school year. E2 Gowanda HS Library: And that's that's been huge. Actually, may is mental health awareness month. So we actually have activities for every week of the month for May. But each month we've like suicide, prevention, awareness week in September, and and things like that. So we've been able to do something each month for all students. E2 Gowanda HS Library: You got it. Oh, there you go. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Little Fuzzy, but it's there you go. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I think it's still loading. It might still be. I know I thought it was. I think it's just because you've got so much stuff in the graphics. It could be. Why, it just took so long. That could be. It's great, fantastic. So

035I just included some photos of some different activities some things that happened at the elementary school. Our flight nurse was here. That was a huge success, some tier one. Activities we did at the high school, our wall of hope E2 Gowanda HS Library: and some coping skill things. And so I just included some food that we're proud of things that have been have happened in both buildings, all 3 buildings. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So that was mine. Next up is the attendance survey. E2 Gowanda HS Library: The 1st data is grades K. 4. This is where I wish Laura was here to explain this a little bit more. But basically, what she asked was, how content or happy students E2 Gowanda HS Library: feel about school coming to school, or are they proud of coming

036to school? Do they feel embarrassed or disappointed? So you can see that the majority of students that responded are proud, content, or happy. What stood out to me was when we got to the reasons for absences. Obviously, illness is a big one. We would expect that. But at the end, you see, home life. E2 Gowanda HS Library: and that stood out to me that our youngest kids are expressing that they're recognizing that they want to stay home with Mom, who doesn't feel well or things like that. And they're feeling that burden peer issues were the lowest. E2 Gowanda HS Library: And I would have. I don't work with younger kids, but I'm always thinking they don't come to school because they don't want to interact with somebody, or they're afraid of somebody, or they're being

037picked on and things like that. But at the lower levels that was actually their lowest concern. E2 Gowanda HS Library: But they did. The home life is the one that stood out the most to me. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Then we did 5 through 12, maybe in the future we'll do 5, 8, and then 9 through 12, and it might break it up a little bit more. But I do have that in the Google on my end. What stood out to me here was that 14% of mostly it was mostly 5th and 8th graders expressed that they feel homesick. E2 Gowanda HS Library: and that's why they don't come to school similar to the lower kids that home life. I want to be home with a caregiver, but the older age recognizes feeling homesick, or

038they would rather be there than here. So that's something for us as a department to be talking about. And how do we make them feel safe and secure enough coming here and and leaving home that it's okay for them to leave home and be kids and come to school. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So that's that's definitely future conversations for us to have. And how can we bridge that with those kids? E2 Gowanda HS Library: So that's what stood out the most for me. There. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Were you able to track? Which kids responded to which or was it? No, I know which kids responded Overall. But I don't know what comments go to. Which student, yeah. E2 Gowanda HS Library: the next couple of slides is just some professional development that we've had

039access to this year, and I just want to say a huge thank you to you and to the Administration, because through the master counsel program, I work with counselors all over the State, and we are so blessed with the amount of Pd. That you give us access to. I know it's not always brought to us, but you let us go E2 Gowanda HS Library: get it, whether it's online or attending workshops or conferences, or things like that. And it's huge. You know, I had a meeting actually 7, 8 o'clock last night, and we were talking about this with a counselor from Long Island, and she's like she goes to the State Conference each year. What about this topic and that topic? And she's like, I don't get to do any of that I'm like, oh,

040I'm sorry. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I'll share my notes with you, you know, kind of thing. So we really appreciate that you recognize the skill set that we need to have to be good at what we do. Would you mind just saying a little bit more about the trauma illness and grief training? Because that's pretty big for our region? Yeah, the tig training, trauma. Illness and grief was a 5 day, super intensive. It was one day, a month, September, October, November, and 2 days in December, full day long trainings E2 Gowanda HS Library: on basically crisis interventions. What we use to model our crisis team after we have a really solid crisis plan in our district. E2 Gowanda HS Library: It's been built out of necessity. But it's it's really well oiled at this point

041in time. I'm really proud of what we are able to provide our community. But the tig training really filled in some of the gaps that we had recognized that we had. And what's really great with tig is it E2 Gowanda HS Library: attaches you to a network of schools. So if we were to have a crisis here and need additional support beyond what we're able to provide for ourselves, I can call our Tig Coordinator at Erie one and say, we have this crisis. She's available 24, 7. She will reach out to the other tig train schools. E2 Gowanda HS Library: and they can send people here like Dunkirk is a tig school. They can send part of their crisis team to help us. We've always had a gentleman's agreement with both Pine valley and lakeshore,

042because we were trained in what's called lifelines, which is similar but more focused to suicide, prevent intervention, whereas tig covers all traumas. E2 Gowanda HS Library: And E2 Gowanda HS Library: this network is larger like we just had our Lackawanna had a crisis. And 1st thing when I got up in the morning at like 5 30 was a message on an email that said they had a crisis. Could we reach out to them? So as soon as I got in the building, I reached out to them. Another closer district was able to provide support services. And I just did some email stuff back and forth with their director. But it's great to E2 Gowanda HS Library: be in that network. We all use the same language. Our roles and responsibilities look the same. So if

043someone, if they were to come into our district and I need them in a student care station. They know what that is about and what skill set we need and what we need them to provide for that. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So it's been fantastic. And it was. It was a big commitment on our part. 5 days is a lot to be out of the office, even though it's even when it's broken up. And I know there was a cost associated with that, too. So we appreciate that as well. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Suny happen. Forum is something that we do every year. It's a college thing. I got to go on a marine educator workshop a little while ago, and that was like the most amazing experience I've ever had. So thank you for

044the time for that. The Marine Corps pays for all of it. E2 Gowanda HS Library: But I do appreciate Dr. Anderson, letting me go, never did that before, but I learned so much about careers in education specifically through the Marine Corps, but military in general that I had no idea. I've been in public education since my 33rd year, and there were things that I did not know at all. That parallel training with E2 Gowanda HS Library: Marine Corps in the Navy and the Marine Corps in the Army, and things that I can have those conversations with kids now that I could never have had before. So E2 Gowanda HS Library: so that's been really cool. The master counsel program, our State Association conference, the graduation measures that work that's been fantastic. I'm working on an

045anxiety, certification course not to get certified in anxiety, but to get certified. I'm taking a positive psychology course. We have our school counselor Forum in the fall and spring coming up through Erie. 2. E2 Gowanda HS Library: What else we have on there? There's just been so much stuff, each building E2 Gowanda HS Library: grief, cyberbullying, dasa stuff, a lot of substance. Use stuff E2 Gowanda HS Library: trafficking just lots of topics through all 3 buildings. So it's just been, really, we just really appreciate the support we have. And the time we've had to be able to do these kinds of things like I said, some of it's online. But a lot of it we get to do face to face and have that interaction. You can't do crisis team training E2 Gowanda HS Library:

046digitally. But it just you gotta be face to face. Yeah, to make some of those things work. So I appreciate that E2 Gowanda HS Library: restorative practices, ethics. E2 Gowanda HS Library: smoking. I know it's dangerous. But what have you been really taught about secondhand smoke? E2 Gowanda HS Library: You know what? Not a lot like it was a real popular topic years ago, and it's just like I don't know went to the wayside. And now vaping is the topic. So it just kind of ebbs and flows a little bit. But I have not been doing secondhand smoke training in a really long time. No, I was scarcely. I hadn't seen that topic for a long time, but my parents were like lifelong smokers, right? But you were exposed to it. E2 Gowanda HS Library:

047you know. Have health effects. So E2 Gowanda HS Library: yeah, okay, for the most part, right? Yeah, depending on the day. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So do you have any? I know there's a lot of information we threw at you. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I know you. Do. You have a reputation, Mark? I would expect nothing less. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Oh, I'd be louder than him. E2 Gowanda HS Library: The stuff that comes out from the school boards regarding how E2 Gowanda HS Library: trauma in a kid's life impacts E2 Gowanda HS Library: education like a death in the family or other things. E2 Gowanda HS Library: What do we do to help support those kids want to speak to that? E2 Gowanda HS Library: Sure. Well, I'm the social worker in the high

048school. So I meet individually with students all the time. We're constantly assessing and E2 Gowanda HS Library: working with students and their families. Oftentimes, if something's really impacting their ability to function well in school, we're providing support here, but linking them also to outside services and counseling and getting them working really closely, coordinating care with those providers as well. So it's a big part of what we do E2 Gowanda HS Library: we also educate teachers on aces and the adverse effects of things like that? And how it does impact their learning. So to provide that education on this side, too. E2 Gowanda HS Library: realize that sometimes I ask questions that I know the answers to. E2 Gowanda HS Library: But a lot of times it's in effort to educate the people that watch absolutely.

049They don't know what you guys do. I mean, they see the list, but they don't really know what to do. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Every year when it comes time for graduation. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I see. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I hear talk about career planning. But at graduation time I see a lot of students that are journeying towards. E2 Gowanda HS Library: No, I'm not sure whether they actually have a plan or not. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Some of them are just working those odd jobs. Lots of them are headed into trades. E2 Gowanda HS Library: you know. They're linked up. They had their internship through boces and electrical or plumbing or welding, and that secured them a position for full-time employment when they've graduated. E2 Gowanda HS Library: which is a noble,

050I mean, I am trying to find an electrician now, and this is hard to find and even harder to afford. So trade's definitely. It's a very valid option, for students don't just target them for college. No, no, when we do, we have what we call career pathways that we do with students, seniors in the fall, and E2 Gowanda HS Library: we present a 4 year option, 2 year option, workforce option, military option. And then we have some students who, like I have a student this year. That's a senior who actually is doing a service option which we don't have a formal like written plan, for I've never had that happen before, but is going to do volunteer service for a gap year, and has that all structured and arranged? But no, it's E2 Gowanda HS

051Library: it doesn't. Those are all valid options. E2 Gowanda HS Library: and not one is more important than the other. There's there's nothing that says that 4 year degree, I mean. My son went to college and works at the grocery store in town. E2 Gowanda HS Library: You know it doesn't. That 4 year degree doesn't necessarily translate to that high paying job. You might think it does, and it might not be where your interest or skill set is. Either. You know, some kids are just really hands on, motivated E2 Gowanda HS Library: to work in the trades and skills, or to enlist in a service. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I've got a freshman right now who it's hardest set on West Point, you know. That's phenomenal. E2 Gowanda HS Library: and those are all valid

052options for our students. Can I talk a little bit about that, too? So you know, we offer a lot of opportunities for our students. You know our career spotlights. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Every student is invited to our career spotlights. We advertise for a solid month on what we're doing, what the topic is. We go into the classrooms. Say, here's who's coming in. This is what they're going to be doing. So we have had kids who have no interest in criminal justice, who walk out saying, Holy Moly! I think I want to be a police officer, or I want to be a social worker who works with police officers. I loved it. E2 Gowanda HS Library: We take kids to construction days. Ecc. Has great hands-on. Our students are on bulldozers and working on cranes,

053and this is all working skid steerers. And this happens in end of September. I just took a group of students to riverworks for E2 Gowanda HS Library: Career fair. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So they were exposed to over a hundred career opportunities. And I say to these kids, both girls and boys who are on that bus, you do not need a college degree. They are looking for high school educated students. E2 Gowanda HS Library: If you're 18 and are willing to work, you're going to be able to meet E2 Gowanda HS Library: employers today who will hire you after graduation for a good job. That is a career job. So we don't just focus on college. We had apprenticeships come in this month, or for one of our career spotlights and talk about paid apprenticeships

054where you can actually go into a job, get paid to E2 Gowanda HS Library: take classes and earn college credits along with it. So the opportunities that we present to all of our students are there that are not college bound, and some of our students, you know what they might need a year or 2 to figure things out after high school. That's okay. But we meet with all of our students on career planning, on college, bound on military. We had E2 Gowanda HS Library: our military staff in here, not just for Josh Hanzer was here for one of our career spotlights to talk about entering the military and what it's like, what is a day in the life like as working in the army? What are the career opportunities in the army? But we also

055had our snacks and naps day. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So snack snaps. Day is when we have all of our seniors come in. They work on college applications and scholarships, but we also have all of our military in that day, and we have, I mean, I figured it out. We've had over 55 guest speakers through our High school office. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Come in and see our students this year. That's college reps, career people, military people. E2 Gowanda HS Library: financial aid people to help us. 55 this year. So the opportunity to expose our tiny school E2 Gowanda HS Library: to what's happening out in the world. We, it's there and we. We have a good team and we work really hard at that. E2 Gowanda HS Library: and we're passionate about it. Can

056you tell any other questions? E2 Gowanda HS Library: I have a question. The portrait of a graduate? Yes. Are those? Is that like a guideline or a template that's coming out from here. I hope so. So far we have a phrase portrait of the graduate. What the definitions of those characteristics are hopefully will be decided. The July Board of Ed. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Board of Regents meeting. They're supposed to give us a list of literally definitions of those characteristics. Those will be new part of the new graduation measures that students will have to demonstrate in order to graduate. So yeah, so we're eager to learn more about it. You know. State is just a couple steps ahead E2 Gowanda HS Library: each month that we move through this process. So, but hopefully, by the

057end of the summer we'll have something a lot more clear on that. But you'll have the shift in the pathways, and then this the addition of the portrait. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I do know that every year we have anywhere, 2 to 4 students entering the military. E2 Gowanda HS Library: which is which is a high, really high percentage for us for a smaller size, for sure. Yeah. E2 Gowanda HS Library: and they do. Well, I love it like, I was talking with a student yesterday whose brother graduated 2 years ago, and is in the marines and getting ready to leave for Japan and is just thriving, struggled through high school did okay, you know, was this solid average student had no interest in college at all, really couldn't find a trade of interest, you

058know. Decided to enlist. E2 Gowanda HS Library: There was a family history of military service thought maybe that's an option for me for a while. One of the things I learned on that trip I went was I talked to so many enlisted servicemen and women who have multiple graduate degrees E2 Gowanda HS Library: during their unlisted time. Like, I talked to one young adult who has a master's in physics, engineering, and math. E2 Gowanda HS Library: They're gonna do their 20 years. They're on year 17 E2 Gowanda HS Library: already, has a job with an aeronautical company E2 Gowanda HS Library: in place when they finish their military retire from the service like. I hadn't even thought about those kinds of things. When I thought you go in the military, you know they're going. They

059they finish their boot camp and their MOS training, and then the military is a job. And I always think like it's a 24, 7 job. Well, it's not. E2 Gowanda HS Library: They go to work for the day, whatever task they've E2 Gowanda HS Library: been trained in. And then in the evenings they're taking college classes, and the marines or the military are paying for them, and they're setting up that next step in life for afterwards. And that's something we can share with students. Now that I hadn't really ever thought that far ahead. When you're like, Okay, you're going to go in for 4 years or 6 years, or whatever. I hadn't thought that. What are you going to do if you stay in after you're 20, because you're only going to be 38 years

060old. E2 Gowanda HS Library: What are you gonna do then? And you know, we can have those conversations now. So yeah, awesome. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Anything else? E2 Gowanda HS Library: I had a couple questions, but the biggest one I wanted to ask was the the tig training, who's facilitating? That E2 Gowanda HS Library: is that the training comes out of the tignut consortium in Rochester. So when you need those additional resources from another district who's actually facilitating, we have a contact through Erie, one who coordinates all of Western New York tig schools. So we we all. She's our 1 point of contact for all of our train. That's West. Several districts now train. So she's our 1 point of contact. Anyone. E2 Gowanda HS Library: One of us contacts her and she reaches

061out to the network. Yeah, it works really smoothly. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Great presentation. Appreciate it. Thank you. Thank you for giving us the time we appreciate it. Lots going on. You did a nice job. Lots going on. Can you introduce the team behind you? Just put names and faces. You know, we got some new people. Miranda's our high school social worker. E2 Gowanda HS Library: who has been a huge blessing in addition to us. Jen Manamore and I have worked together forever. Now this is our 19th year together, Michelle, how many years have you been in District 27 and is E2 Gowanda HS Library: retiring us? She's retiring. And how long have you been in district? This will be my 1st year. I'm a Franco down at the elementary school. And, Kate, how long

062have you been? This is my 4th 4th year. Kbb, down at the elementary school also. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So awesome. Thank you. We have a great, we have a great team. We work really well together, and we really complement each other's abilities. Really. Well. E2 Gowanda HS Library: that's that's a blessing. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Fortunate to have the numbers that we do for staff. I mean, I worked at a school in Buffalo with 500 kids, and we had one person support. Everybody else was housed off site, you know, a couple of times. So E2 Gowanda HS Library: we're fortunate with the Caseloads that we have that we get to know our students so well. You know, we divide alphabetically at the high School. So we're with that student from 9th grade through 12th

063grade. So we get to know them really? Well, we do what's called an individual progress review that the State requires annually where it's a 1-on-one time with the student, and we really get to know them by junior year, you know, we really know how they're wired and what they're thinking and where they're the direction they're headed, and we're able to really kind of guide that you know. Well, you mentioned this. But E2 Gowanda HS Library: you're not so. You're not demonstrating a lot of strength in this, you know, and have those kinds of conversations because we know them so well, whereas in bigger schools, when you've got a caseload of 5 or 600, E2 Gowanda HS Library: that's completely impossible. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So thank you for that. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Yeah. E2

064Gowanda HS Library: How do you E2 Gowanda HS Library: recruit people for the career spotlight? How do you find these people to come and speak? We reached out to students 1st and asked what they were interested in. And we kind of like a list of career ideas. And then we have brainstormed. We've done everything from Google searches to, you know, we started locally, like I knew I wanted to have guana electronics come in. They're a local company who strongly likes E2 Gowanda HS Library: to employ resident people that it's kind of under the radar, you know, but they'll take you right from high school, and they will shape you and mold you to what they want you to be. And it's a really great job. So we knew we wanted to reach that out to

065them. Others have just been E2 Gowanda HS Library: connections. Some have reached out to us. We've had some reach out online when some of this has been on Facebook. And so we had a law enforcement person reach out to us. Said I would love to come in. I graduated from Guana. I would love to come in, so we've been able to make connections that way, too. But we are going to be E2 Gowanda HS Library: one of our ideas for next year is to reach out to our community and say, you know, if you're interested, if you have a career that you think E2 Gowanda HS Library: you'd like to present on, or you know you need recruitment, for, you know, reach out to us because we would like to do this again. Really successful,

066we do a survey after every career spotlight to get feedback from our students, and they're just E2 Gowanda HS Library: overall positive on. Did you walk out learning something you didn't know about a career? Is this something you might consider? I mean, sometimes they say, Nope, I don't think cosmetology is for me, but you know 7 other people said, I can't wait to start boces in 2 years, so I can go and learn this and do this. You know, it's just really been positive. E2 Gowanda HS Library: absolutely, I would come in and talk. Probably my kids would be thrilled at me. But people don't know what I do, either, for a job, and I like this emphasis that's placed on this. I'll call you in June. We will take you up on that. Absolutely.

067We will E2 Gowanda HS Library: any other questions or comments twice. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Thank you. Okay, thank you so much. That was a great presentation. You are all more than welcome to stay for the rest of the meeting, but feel free. If you've got somewhere, I'm going to go Facebook, live the rest of it. There you go. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Good night, everyone. It's getting cold in the corner, really intimidated by your questions, either I didn't know the answer to it. E2 Gowanda HS Library: or I just wasn't quite sure why you were asking. That made me really insecure, but that was. E2 Gowanda HS Library: believe it or not, I'm actually E2 Gowanda HS Library: I was getting hold in the corner. Sometimes people don't know what to ask. E2 Gowanda

068HS Library: Yeah. E2 Gowanda HS Library: okay, moving along with our next presentation tonight. It is our blueprint for success update. Yes. Great. Thank you. Ms. Wakeley for doing this. It's been postponed. She was not feeling well last time we had this, so she's recovered. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Want to give you a kind of a late year update where we are, everybody on the edge of their seats. Oh, yeah. And again, for our blueprint. We've got some work to do on it again this summer. Just kind of update it. Tweak it for next school year, but it really kind of gives us a roadmap for how we do business and what we're about as a district, and what we basically promised to do or or try to do. E2 Gowanda HS Library: it's a

069work in progress. So without any further ado, I'll turn it over to you. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Thank you, Dr. Anderson. So this evening I'm going to go through kind of a reminder of our priority area goals and the action steps that we set out to take to meet these goals. This is a qualitative update at the board meeting at the end of June. I'll do a quantitative update. I'll bring our data comparing beginning of the year to the end of the year. So this is just an update on the steps. Specifically we've been taking. I'm going to be going through it. Please feel free to stop or pause me at any time with specific questions. E2 Gowanda HS Library: But keeping in mind each of our 3 building principals really did go through a

070lot of this already with you. A huge piece of it, especially around priority area 2. The student support team just went through. So I don't want to be redundant for you. So if I go through too fast or anything, or you just need me to give you some more information. Please let me know. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So, as a reminder our 4 goals in our blueprint that have carried over from year to year with changes where necessary. Our 1st is around student growth and achievement. We want to ensure all of our students learn at high levels with multiple opportunities to demonstrate growth. Our second area is around social emotional learning. So making sure, we have a comprehensive plan to offer social emotional development for all students. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Our 3rd area is

071around family and parent engagement. We want to make sure we're increasing that engagement through communication school sponsored events, building those relationships, making sure each of our students and their families feel welcome in our school community. And lastly, our 4th area is supportive culture and climate. So E2 Gowanda HS Library: having our staff and community members involved in decision making and making sure, we have a safe and welcoming school environment. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So E2 Gowanda HS Library: within our 1st area, we have focus area number one, high quality curriculum and instruction. So this goal will be measured by the growth that you'll see from beginning to end of year using our iready tool. So that's for math and Ela for grades K. Through 6 and end of year assessments that we'll be administering 7

072through 12. So you'll see you'll see that data specifically in June. E2 Gowanda HS Library: we're working to meet or exceed an 85% graduation rate. We say August because we give students that opportunity to bump that rate up through summer. E2 Gowanda HS Library: making sure we have curriculum maps for each grade level to prioritize their standards for all classes, and making sure all teachers are utilizing high impact and research-based tier one instructional strategies. And when I say tier one, I mean what we're doing for all of our students. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So an update on that specific strategy, those specific strategies. Each of our building has their individual goals that are aligned to our district's goals. So each of our building principles presented on those they each develop their own goals for their

073building. With their leadership team. We have our collaborative teams that are meeting every Tuesday, both content area and grade level teams. They're looking at their priority standards. E2 Gowanda HS Library: They have grade level assessments developed at each team and content area. We're providing intervention and enrichment. Every grade level K. Through 12 has an opportunity for students to either have intervention services if they are struggling to meet grade level standards, and then for those students who have met those standards, we offer enrichment opportunities. So that's new for us. E2 Gowanda HS Library: for all of middle school and high school, and that's been a great opportunity for kids and then benchmark assessments. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Also, within the 1st area student growth and achievement, we have a focus area specifically on student assessment and

074grading grading was a big thing for our district the last couple of years through our grading committee. So we're continuing to use that purpose of grade statement, looking at standards-based grading and assessment systems. Our elementary school this year specifically spent a lot of time revamping their standards. And you're going to see those changes come to the report card next year E2 Gowanda HS Library: we'll continue with E2 Gowanda HS Library: the percentage rates for the middle and high school. But our elementary school is making that move to a standards-based report card for next school year. E2 Gowanda HS Library: And then we are also implementing multiple forms of grade level benchmarks and review, using our collaborative team meetings and making plans for students who are below or above grade level. We are responding to both.

075E2 Gowanda HS Library: Sorry to interrupt when we're talking about high learning for all students. And we're talking about where they are at or below grade level. These teams and teachers identified their essential or power standards. Those things they feel is essential for those students to know or be able to do as a result of that year's instruction. It's not everything, but it's what our professionals in the field feels the most, and everything else still is in there. So E2 Gowanda HS Library: we use that language. That's what we talk about, and that's our guaranteed curriculum that every student is guaranteed to be exposed to as they go up through our system. E2 Gowanda HS Library: You know, we talk about 75%. Ideally, we'd like to get it to a hundred percent because you don't

076want students at second grade, only knowing E2 Gowanda HS Library: 75% standards, they've done great. And then they go to the next grade level, and they're in. So, you know, constantly talking about our our structure. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Well, I won't take all that. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Well said any questions. E2 Gowanda HS Library: As we move through the purpose, agreed statements and up E2 Gowanda HS Library: try and create a standards based grading and assessment. E2 Gowanda HS Library: If we change how we radar students or whatever whatever we're doing here. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Doesn't that make a difference in terms of when we look backwards, we can't compare. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Well, elementary school is already using a skill-based report card. So their report card currently reports out on

077specific skills. Students are expected. But it wasn't in standards. Language. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I would expect coming into the portrait of a graduate changes that we're expecting to see. And the different pathways students are going to take, that you're going to start to see our middle school and high school start to slowly make changes and go more standards based as well. That's not to say we're starting that work now, but we need to move forward in a direction where it doesn't just say that you know, a student is currently receiving an 85% in math. We need to talk E2 Gowanda HS Library: specifically within those skills. So I think you're going to start to see those changes come as we E2 Gowanda HS Library: change with the portrait of a graduate implementation. E2 Gowanda

078HS Library: you're trying to give us information regarding what they know rather than just like, yes, yeah. E2 Gowanda HS Library: giving that information specifically on specific skills and standards that those students are doing in addition to the skills that you're going to see come out in portrait of a graduate. The Graphic that Mr. Already highlighted in her presentation talks about critical thinking collaboration. Those are things that we started to put in our learning habits. Rubric, who knew we were ahead of the game with where portrait of a graduate was going. E2 Gowanda HS Library: But those are things that those are. Those are what the State has done is surveyed, what E2 Gowanda HS Library: workforce and colleges are truly looking for. And so they've identified those skills. Critical thinking is one of the

079number one things that they want to see students come out with. So you're going to start seeing changes come where we have to essentially give feedback to students on those skills in addition to how well they're doing on the content in their courses. So I think we're going to start to see that shift. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So E2 Gowanda HS Library: as a non educator here, with the standards and all that, so are we. Is it safe to assume, then this is proceeding away from our a BCD percentages. E2 Gowanda HS Library: And the standards based grading is is something different, like, what does that look like? So a standard, for example, that you might see on 3rd grade. Ela might be ask and answer questions specific to a text, a nonfiction, or a

080fictional text. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Right now, we might just say in a class that a student has, you know, a 90% in Ela. But what specifically is that 90% is it reading comprehension? Is it accuracy? Is it writing? So? What we're doing at the elementary school is? We broke it down further to those priority standards to say, where students are? Are they meeting that standard? Are they exceeding it? Are they approaching that standard so that we could give more specific feedback because the standards are so broad. E2 Gowanda HS Library: will it be both of those? Will it be the percentage still, and the standard? Not at the elementary school at middle and high for next year. Yes, percentage. But at the elementary school it's more rubric based using, meeting, exceeding approaching. E2 Gowanda

081HS Library: So our learning, habits, rubric that we had shared with our board previously, that is currently being used in our intervention and enrichment blocks. So that's providing feedback to our students about those non-academic behaviors, those skills, our standards-based report card in our elementary school. We've submitted our drafts to eschool so that we can get those report cards built for the 2526 school year, and we've talked a lot with our teams about uniform grading practices. So E2 Gowanda HS Library: we shouldn't have students having an advantage or a disadvantage based on a specific course or teacher. So we've really spent a lot of time having our teams work on. You know. What does it look like in my class? What does it look like in your class? If we have 4 teachers teaching Ela at

082the high school? Are we grading the same way? Are we using the same rubrics. Of course there's going to be differences in instructional methods in classrooms, but we want students to have that consistency as they move between teacher and grade level. E2 Gowanda HS Library: And then, certainly, we're going to continue to do a lot of work around project-based learning so gravitating away from just a traditional assessment pen to paper and our students creating projects to demonstrate what they've learned using rubrics. That's focal point of that portion. I've shared a little bit some of the capstone, some of those pathways would be a project-based learning project that's probably more E2 Gowanda HS Library: robust. E2 Gowanda HS Library: better word experience, simply taking a test so to more of the follow. But you know, it's

083all fits into a big E2 Gowanda HS Library: big picture. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Yeah, our focus area within student growth and achievement is around support for our students and making sure that we have a comprehensive Pre. K. Through 12 multi-tiered systems of support framework to support all learners E2 Gowanda HS Library: which again, our student support team just talked about things that they're doing to support social, emotional learning. We also have our teachers working through those tiers of support for students who are at grade level below or above. We really heavily rely on those collaborative team meetings where our teachers are looking at real time data and adjusting students instruction based on where they are to plan for intervention and enrichment. We do have that standalone block for intervention and enrichment in K 6

084E2 Gowanda HS Library: grades 7 through 12. It's not all at the same period just given the constraints of the master schedule. But we have an instructional period built in at different times of the day for students. E2 Gowanda HS Library: And again, if we didn't have that time on Tuesdays, it would be really challenging to constantly adjust, based on where kids are. So that's been critical for our building. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So we talk about these periods of intervention enrichment, you know. Often we kind of teach to the middle, but some kids automatically get it. Some kids don't. But with these I'll give the principals a lot of credit, and everybody who's working here to really design their master schedule. So students can get some real time remediation or enrichment, and then just

085go back to class like in old days, not too long ago, like your intervention, maybe a two-year stint in English, Ela to get prepared for the 11th grade E2 Gowanda HS Library: waste of time. So we'll get kids in and getting them out and get them about. It's very flexible, and E2 Gowanda HS Library: many of our teams utilize a shared spreadsheet. Every child is listed. They're using Tuesday to talk about their kids who needs more of what? Who can be pushed to the next level, and kids are just rotating fluidly classes based on specific standards that they might not be needing or just different units. They might need extra support with, and they can move through those classes with fluidity which is nice. E2 Gowanda HS Library: What what do you do with kids

086that excel? E2 Gowanda HS Library: We push them on to the next standards. So we have some students who may have mastered a specific skill with the teacher, and we have teachers that are ready to go and just expose them to the next standards that are coming. Just kind of front loading for the next thing. E2 Gowanda HS Library: and they and some of them, at this point of the year you're starting to see teachers. They're really, they're just bringing in all their content from the next grade level just to get them ready. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Yeah, or they might. They might spend some time just doing some of the extra projects and assignments and things that they don't get to dig into as much in the classroom. Just kind of enrich that learning.

087E2 Gowanda HS Library: Okay, so we're on to our second priority area. I don't know that I need to spend as much time on this one again. This is just following up right with where our student support team just left off. But making sure we're supporting students, social, emotional learning. We administer our panorama survey in the fall, and we will administer it again. It's actually coming up the second week in May, where our students in grades 3 through 12 will increase. And so we'll take that assessment again. E2 Gowanda HS Library: hoping to see increases in how students respond to managing their emotions, thoughts, and behaviors and their perception of whether they have potential to change those factors. So we always look forward to the results from that survey. E2 Gowanda HS Library: we continue

088to just school-wide expectations, so that all students are aware of what is expected of them. Our student support teams are in the classrooms or doing school-wide presentations constantly around social, emotional learning. I made a note about reviewing the counseling plan that happened this evening. E2 Gowanda HS Library: We have our staff trained in youth, mental health, 1st aid, and we are refreshing for all staff and then getting new staff trained. That'll help students, or I'm sorry. That'll help our staff recognize mental health concerns in students, and this was a training we offered to all staff. So not just instructional. Our bus drivers came in, our food service department came, business office came. We all came together because we're all E2 Gowanda HS Library: in contact with kids. So for anybody to recognize those concerns, we

089have our student supports teams meeting weekly. We're using the Sandy Hook promise we're using. Say something, say something. E2 Gowanda HS Library: and the panorama survey that we administer also has lessons that then can be facilitated with students. We do. I had asked the question about whether or not the attendance survey could be linked. Panorama and the school climate survey can be linked to individual students. So we can follow up with kids afterwards on things that they specifically responded to. So we can make sure we tailor plans to meet their needs. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Our second area is around attendance. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So we have building attendance teams in each building. We look at district attendance rates when we meet as a leadership team, and then our student support teams. They're doing

090weekly check-ins with students. They're doing home visits. So they're making connections with those kids and their families and identifying any barriers to getting those kids to school. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Okay, questions about either of the 1st 2 areas, academics or social emotional learning. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Our 3rd area is around family and parent engagement specifically number one around communication. You will also see the Us. Department of Education School Climate Survey coming out, and the girls are putting together the forms right now that will be sent home to all of our families in the community with individual codes. So you can complete that survey at home. In addition, our students in the middle school and High School complete it, and we give codes to all staff in the building in the district E2 Gowanda

091HS Library: as well. So we'll be sharing those results at a future board meeting. But that survey will be coming. You'll be getting a nice letter. E2 Gowanda HS Library: One of the things that I'm working with the vendor on now is just kind of tweaking the survey a little bit so we can get narrative feedback from families. So they're not just responding with a rating. They can actually get narrative feedback. That was something we had talked about at a board meeting last year was making sure E2 Gowanda HS Library: those who completed the survey could kind of expand on. You know why they're rating something the way they are. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So E2 Gowanda HS Library: we are in continued development of resources for instructional support at home. That's something that we're

092really trying to do is make sure we can get resources in the hands of our family and community members. If there is something they want to work on with their students. So at the elementary level, for example, we've developed some things that families can do to help support literacy at home. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I'm trying to get some folks who are a little more, who are a little brave to get videotaped and maybe walk through some of the lessons that you might want to play at home. But some folks are a little timid by the camera, so we're still working on that. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So parent involvement as our second focus area. E2 Gowanda HS Library: we rely a lot on our social media updates that seems to reach most of our

093families. We have both digital and print calendars that we send home just regular updates to families about individual student performance. And we want to continue to offer some parent workshops through community. Ed, so we can bring parents on campus or record things that parents can watch at home so that we can E2 Gowanda HS Library: get information to you in a setting that's that's most conducive, whether you want to come on campus or watch something. E2 Gowanda HS Library: And our 3rd area is an open and welcoming environment. E2 Gowanda HS Library: We want to make sure. 1st and foremost, all of our students have a warm welcome. In the morning, the beginning of every class. Our staff are always visible and accessible. We do regular review through panorama, the playbook making sure that those

094lessons get in the hands of our staff and just putting out positive accolades to our school community. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Okay? E2 Gowanda HS Library: And our very last area around having a supportive culture and climate, we want to make sure that we are building that culture of respect within this district, so that our staff are feeling supported by professional development opportunities. I was thrilled to hear student support. Just say that they feel like that's 1 area we're doing really well in, because they bring me a lot of things that they're interested in attending. And Barb and I can usually figure out a way to make those things happen which is great. E2 Gowanda HS Library: We're one of the few districts in our region that has participated in tig training. We're in one

095of the initial groups, and that's been huge for this region. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Now it's catching on. Now it's catching on. How often do they get called out for that do they get called to E2 Gowanda HS Library: elsewhere? E2 Gowanda HS Library: Hearing that they were called from Lackawanna. That was the 1st day I'd heard about that district. Specifically, I know they did have something where they reached out to Dunker. We have called on other districts. It's unfortunate that we've had to rely on that, but you know just some things going on with staff, and we needed to have, you know, crisis support team available to our, to our instruction. It's not very often, but the times that it's happened. It's helpful. It's an amazing network that's really cool. Yeah. And we look

096forward to that expanding E2 Gowanda HS Library: okay, E2 Gowanda HS Library: reminder. All are invited to participate in community blueprint day. We use our district leadership team meetings as a forum to solicit staff feedback. We have our student artwork and those achievements prominently displayed, and then we are continuing to develop semester and then end of year surveys for all of our school stakeholders. I know I do. A survey to staff across the district for professional development that you'd like E2 Gowanda HS Library: to see planned for the following school year. What supports and resources do you need? And so that's how we kind of develop our plan for the following year. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Our second area was around professional development. E2 Gowanda HS Library: We've done a lot of work with all

097staff on behavior, management and de-escalation training our Sros and then, rich as our director of Facilities and Safety Coordinator led a wonderful presentation this year. Just about how you can how all staff can assist with de-escalation and just recognizing those signs in our students or in other adults. E2 Gowanda HS Library: A lot of regional professional development for Erie 2. Erie 2 has done a lot of great work this year in connecting our districts with a lot of us have Singletons. You know we have one or 2 people that are teaching in a specific content area. So we've been matching up those folks with their counterparts in other districts so that they can work and collaborate together. In addition, we have on-site coaching and support. Through Erie 2. We have a lot of their staff

098developers come and work with our staff E2 Gowanda HS Library: our collaborative teams. They're working both horizontally, horizontally. I just made that word up. And vertically, I combine the words. One of the big things that we've been doing is with tech integration is the use of artificial intelligence in the classroom that has really taken off in the last year? That was our most requested topic for the current school year, was having the tech Integrator from Bosis come and work on those various tools, because the number of tools to use in the classroom has just E2 Gowanda HS Library: exploded. I mean, there's so many things that we can use for AI, and and that's been requested by our teachers. And then, of course, we have our literacy initiative. So we've been doing a lot of

099work around literacy with all grade levels. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Okay, safe and welcoming environment. Our last focus area in this. E2 Gowanda HS Library: And again, we're doing monthly sessions with students. I know the girls alluded to that earlier, including student representatives and our shared decision making just having school recognition for positive behavior. And again, we're going to move towards a lot of project-based learning. Our students have said that they want to have more opportunities than just that traditional assessment. We've heard that. So we want to make sure that's included. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Okay. E2 Gowanda HS Library: so next steps our end of the year report. It'll have our iready. It'll have Nwa data. It'll have regents and graduation data attendance data, behavioral data from e-school. We'll get both panorama and school

100climate survey data included in there feedback from our staff, and then it'll include our timeline for the 2526 blueprint for success E2 Gowanda HS Library: questions. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I mean to look right at you, Mark. I just E2 Gowanda HS Library: doing really well with our blueprint for her with our school. E2 Gowanda HS Library: It occurs to me as I'm hearing more and more about AI, and where the future is going. E2 Gowanda HS Library: we're pacing a lot of our stuff to meet. What in the world to date E2 Gowanda HS Library: the kids that are coming up in elementary school face a whole different set of things. E2 Gowanda HS Library: What are we doing to get ready for that? E2 Gowanda HS Library: It might not be a few.

101It might be well 1st E2 Gowanda HS Library: prepare for the future. Essentially, yes, I mean, it's E2 Gowanda HS Library: 10 years now, kids, and I need to know how to. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Chances are they're not gonna need an automultry. E2 Gowanda HS Library: We're continuing to do a lot of development with our stem program. So the elementary school has done a lot of work. And that's really expanded. Now that we offer the full year course in 6th grade, and then next year, Ms. Morandis can speak certainly more in depth to it than I can. But you're going to see some different offerings for kids. We're kind of transforming some of the pathways through computer science and business E2 Gowanda HS Library: to allow for some more stem programming specifically. So you're

102going to see some changes in the courses that are being E2 Gowanda HS Library: and so that we can prepare them for what skills things we're predicting are going to be in most need, as our students. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I think, move into the future by any means here. But E2 Gowanda HS Library: you know, AI generates like automation. Probably, you know, revolutionized manufacturing. Probably ship a lot of jobs elsewhere. I think AI will do stuff at the other end. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Careers like brainpower careers. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So I think we, as E2 Gowanda HS Library: as maybe an education institution, us and others got to focus on, you know, really just gives the collaboration critical thinking. The human skills that allow us to navigate that future. E2 Gowanda HS

103Library: because AI like right now, I can write a memo to just put in a real, quick, prompt, and chat, you know. Write it. It does for me. So, you know. E2 Gowanda HS Library: like a calculator for man. So you gotta really think of different ways to instruct kids and the skills they really need. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I think it'll be lost. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Traditional teaching methods, last rope type stuff place for all that stuff. But a little more of those skills that a robot or machine just can't do E2 Gowanda HS Library: what that looks like. I don't know. Things change so quickly last couple of years. And over the last time. It's kind of E2 Gowanda HS Library: just call the bottom, or they I mean, we're we're thinking

104about the future. E2 Gowanda HS Library: See some more Pd work. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Realize I'm not going to be here in 10 years, as you said 10 years ago. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So that's that's probably gonna answer looks changing quickly. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So I guess what coursework, I guess really follows that problem solving and tactile side of that stuff. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Guess what E2 Gowanda HS Library: I mean. You'll find it in any of our courses. I mean, those are skills that are needed by our students in every course that they take. I mean, we're continuing to develop it. Math seems to have the hardest time letting go from traditional assessment, given the emphasis on numeracy, and how it's demonstrated other than you know, computation in front of

105them. But all of our teachers have really started doing a lot of work with revamping, how they're gauging, where our students are and what they're ready to do next. E2 Gowanda HS Library: You know, you're seeing a lot of changes from the traditional assessment. I'd say, I mean, our computer science classes the business level. I mean, Mr. Buckenhagen kind of changed the course description for the course he's teaching in 7th and 8th grade after we had to change, based on the cte certification requirements for middle level. So we're kind of changing E2 Gowanda HS Library: what we're doing in all of our courses E2 Gowanda HS Library: and our library media specialists have done a lot of work around digital citizenship and just computer science. I mean? That's a that's a vertical piece that we're

106doing with in all 3 buildings. And, as I said, we have a stem program in each of our buildings, and you'll see some changes to the high school next year with what they're offering E2 Gowanda HS Library: building catapults anymore. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I haven't seen one go a long time. Yeah, I haven't seen that. Well, so I guess specifically right, like, you're talking computer science. I would see that as a very logic based very manipulative, based of mathematics right? But what about tactile, I guess. And that's where I would get concerned, like what Mark's saying is like. E2 Gowanda HS Library: we're trying to prepare our students for 10 years down the road. Well, what happens when that robot breaks E2 Gowanda HS Library: right? And we're we just heard from a presentation

107that was talking about career readiness and like by the sounds of it. It was actually really heavily career oriented. Instead of that E2 Gowanda HS Library: college Orient. So I would imagine there would be a need E2 Gowanda HS Library: in industry as a whole for more of those type skills. And I just I don't know how we're E2 Gowanda HS Library: we're addressing that here specifically are very hands on. I mean, it's not just things, even our computer science classes. It's not just things that they're doing on a device. We actually try to put the devices away. And the kids are building things, you know, manually with their classmates and collaborating with one another, partnering. You know, how can we problem solve this? I think a lot of things that Ashley's talking. We're kind

108of. E2 Gowanda HS Library: you know, changing what tier one instruction looks like in the classroom. The portrait graduate here to is going to then force other disciplines whether they want to be there or not to change. And I think you're really going to see a lot of the traditional paper and pencil end of your test. This project-based learning concept. So you'd have probably a real life problem solved. So repair that robot. These students may not be able to E2 Gowanda HS Library: robot. But they've had activities and practice problem solving, collaborating to do really kind of an organic project as an type exam or an assessment. E2 Gowanda HS Library: That's that's how I see it, you know. Unfortunately, we talk about grading instruction. I don't think instructions probably changed much. E2 Gowanda HS

109Library: 150 years assessment for a long time. I mean, you know, I've been out of high school for a long time now, and I guarantee how I was taught in 19 E2 Gowanda HS Library: 88 when I graduated. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So it's slow. It's movement. We're making some progress, you know. It's organically, internally, and I think the system will force for us to have it. But E2 Gowanda HS Library: that's just really broad, broad talk. But I understand. Understand your point. E2 Gowanda HS Library: or it's your point. Just buy a new robot right now. I mean, you get like washing machine. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I mean, you try to fix them, and they're disposable. And you know. So I don't know. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Sign the mirror now. E2 Gowanda

110HS Library: Okay, oh, it's okay. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Anything else. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Okay, moving along. Thank you very much. E2 Gowanda HS Library: A discussion on the transportation to Nccs. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Well, I think we had just to review. We had some folks come from Northern stock Catholic school, you know, indicating for transportation from here to there. It's certainly a reasonable request, and there are community members and taxpayers, and all that. But your your policy E2 Gowanda HS Library: is a 15 mile radius E2 Gowanda HS Library: that is mattered from students present to this school. So in this particular situation, those families are not eligible because they don't fall in that range and are provided from the school attorney to that effect. Not that I, personally wouldn't want to

111accommodate people. Then, you know, you probably start looking at other things going on with that. If E2 Gowanda HS Library: you know the the board, the community can look at the teachers as one mechanism to to petition on your next annual vote. You know, petition to increase that mileage limit. Maybe E2 Gowanda HS Library: so. There's mechanisms there. But anyway, to share the background information on the board. I mean, it's E2 Gowanda HS Library: I think, the Commissioner said. I don't know if the Board can actually change that. But your new boss E2 Gowanda HS Library: is that limit, that mileage limit set that's by us. We set that it's set by the State. It mirrors state regulation and Ed law. It's also in your policy. E2 Gowanda HS Library: 15 mile radius, and it's

112measured from the students. They'll probably split hairs about 0 point 1 mile right? But so within our radius from 15 miles from non public school, we'll provide transport. So if we one family again, there's some nuance. So if one family lives outside that radius, but we do transport another who does? Then we'd have a central E2 Gowanda HS Library: hope. Make sure they get there. But E2 Gowanda HS Library: you've got your 15 mile radius, and I show important. We have 9 other non-public 8 others not including Northern Chicago, non-public schools that you know. Some are 21 miles away, some 22 miles away. You know they're not far. But then again, you're on the point where what's E2 Gowanda HS Library: where do you set those boundaries, you say? 18 for one? Why not 19

113and a half or not, so that 15 mile radius is really my thing there for a purpose. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Can you refresh my memory? Why? And I understand that it's based right now off of where they live. But E2 Gowanda HS Library: could we? E2 Gowanda HS Library: Why could it not be off of the school where the school is located, and have them being picked up at the school. I'm just asking. I don't remember. I remember the conversation, law and regulation, and your policies written from the students residents to that school, but just out of curiosity. I was curious, too, like, well, I don't believe any resident in our district is within 15 miles of that school right. E2 Gowanda HS Library: That just sounds really so as it as it currently

114stands, the board doesn't have any E2 Gowanda HS Library: ability to override this. E2 Gowanda HS Library: They have the option of trying to do it through a public referendum. E2 Gowanda HS Library: It might work. E2 Gowanda HS Library: It's okay. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I mean, years ago we changed the limits on E2 Gowanda HS Library: where we transported for elementary school that we transport all of them like that reward. E2 Gowanda HS Library: The public had to do that. Okay. E2 Gowanda HS Library: so did I hear that right? Nobody in the district has E2 Gowanda HS Library: is close enough to that school based on my measurements. I mean, there could be someone at the extreme edge, way out in the boonies, or that way it could be. But I tried

115to find like went to West Perrysburg and just played around. And it was still beyond 15 miles. Yeah, again, I don't want to say 100% accurate, but based on my estimate. E2 Gowanda HS Library: you merged with another district. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Yeah. Well, they changed the calculus a little bit. E2 Gowanda HS Library: But just to point out, like it was mentioned that other school districts transport there. That's true. Like, for example, 4 schools. They have the same policy you do. They are within 15 miles that particular school. And then Pine Valley kind of goes talking to those superintendents. They do have students get transported there, and some are outside that 15 miles, but some are within the 15 miles, so they're able to do those drop-off points in the district to take

116them there where it's geographically far away. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I do thank you for looking into that. Well, I knew it was that clear. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I mean, I think my default is always try to help people, and you know, I don't certainly mind that. But then, actually, no good deal would go unpunished. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So I don't know how you want to do that. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Yeah, I mean there's E2 Gowanda HS Library: it was just a discussion. They came to us with a concern, and we looked looked into it. I mean, it's pretty cut and dry. I mean what? Where it stands. So E2 Gowanda HS Library: I think that's that's it on that right? You never know. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Yes, thank you. Up

117next is the exit poll. E2 Gowanda HS Library: and you all do have a copy in front of you E2 Gowanda HS Library: which I thought was interesting because I already played around with QR. Code, and the QR. Code is there. It takes you to the link already E2 Gowanda HS Library: active at this point. That's the only thing it's not, you know. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So you have. This is your after last discussion this year draft exit poll. I think the one thing that the only thing that changed was 5. Yeah, number 5. You asked to get rid of the pool comment, and then just have open-ended comment. And then, as far as I know, to share right now the QR. Code at Bupenhagen kudos to him it's all up and ready to

118do a hard copy or E2 Gowanda HS Library: do it, scan it and do it at their own leisure. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Let's see that. E2 Gowanda HS Library: And then Kathy was sitting at the table, correct at the after on election day with this there and then, maybe E2 Gowanda HS Library: blow up a page size of the QR. Code, and just and walk out the door and scan it. E2 Gowanda HS Library: It loaded very quickly, like I said, I tried it while we were sitting here. It loaded up really quickly. So awesome. Okay? E2 Gowanda HS Library: Looks good with everybody. Anything that needs to be changed on that E2 Gowanda HS Library: as long as we follow up with the information right? Once we get the results from there. E2

119Gowanda HS Library: Looks good to everybody. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Cool. E2 Gowanda HS Library: See? That ends our dialogue and presentation tonight up next. E2 Gowanda HS Library: But it's dying. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Next is Board of Education communications. E2 Gowanda HS Library: also we have is a magazine that's been delivered learning by design some pretty cool designs. If you're all thinking of building your own school, I want to take a look at that. E2 Gowanda HS Library: And then committee reports, did anybody meet? E2 Gowanda HS Library: Okay, next up? Then we're moving right along to our roundtable discussion? E2 Gowanda HS Library: Okay, mark tradition. We'll start with you. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Good E2 Gowanda HS Library: In the discussion with Juanas. E2 Gowanda HS Library: They would like to

120do a meet the candidates night, because we do have 3 candidates on it. The thoughts initially were to do it at night. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Budget hearing, but came back and said. E2 Gowanda HS Library: If you do it that way, then the only one that really knows the budget is John. He'd look brilliant, but it's he is brilliant. So they'd like to do it on a different night. E2 Gowanda HS Library: See if that's okay, pretty much. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Okay. Then I will work with Kathy. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Go on this one total range of night hard, each candidates perfect. Thank you. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Okay. The next item is, I did have a conversation wear multiple hats here, there you go. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Relish brought up

121an idea that E2 Gowanda HS Library: school stored stuff in one of the village buildings years ago, and it E2 Gowanda HS Library: but apparently they need millers wants the room. E2 Gowanda HS Library: some of the space back and going over there tomorrow. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Buildings and ground system. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Yeah, someone will be there. Someone will be there. We'll take a look, but it if it has to be E2 Gowanda HS Library: paid for, it's not the village's problem to pay for the E2 Gowanda HS Library: of course you guys would have, we would have to surplus it. Yeah, I'm curious to see if it's still in our inventory, or if it was. I don't know when it got got there, and so I haven't had a chance to

122talk to Rich about it. I know that we stored some desks during Covid, but then we would have taken those desks back. So I don't even know what this stuff is, so E2 Gowanda HS Library: I'm curious, too. Well, because the village is down. We don't know doesn't have a school sticker on it. It's not in my inventory. Maybe it isn't ours. Yeah, I don't know. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I told him. I've I've only been married. E2 Gowanda HS Library: you know. The last thing I had was so what- what is the actual data prompt a lot of people ask the questions on and when it is E2 Gowanda HS Library: and what time E2 Gowanda HS Library: there's coordination knowledge here. 8, 10. Coordination is at 4 30 here in the auditorium. I

123forget where they're going the columns. Yeah. The columns. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Actual driver over there would be like 6 to 10 PM. E2 Gowanda HS Library: More. People are interested in the coordination. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Okay, that's all I had. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I don't really have much of anything congratulations to those that are retiring. That's cool. I see that information shared with the 2 principals and the the others, and the teachers and E2 Gowanda HS Library: and other than that, I don't really have much to say, and it feels very weird. You're saying everything with your shirt today. I guess your shirt is speaking E2 Gowanda HS Library: good good presentations. I appreciate the presentation from Ashley and from office. That was really well done. I agree. Thank you for the

124presentations. They were great thanks to Sue and her son Tyler for this week on for the community cleanup. It was so cold. How many, how many people did you have? 18 this year? Not many students. But that's okay. It was cold. Yeah, it's all right. I was going to say the weather was kind of not not great. E2 Gowanda HS Library: And I do love our Facebook page that we have the Guana Central School district. Just some of the notes that I remember seeing over the last few weeks. Boys states congratulations to Braden Lee, Brendan, Diebel, and Noah Lauer. I just think that's amazing that that this is a continued thing, that every year that we have boys and girls that go to it. But this was right. Now. The boys States were being announced.

125Congratulations to all the 3rd quarter E2 Gowanda HS Library: honor roll students. I love seeing that again I love seeing that post. I know that years ago there used to be somewhere in town that they used to post it. And I love that. We have this now E2 Gowanda HS Library: on social media that everybody can see all of our students in town that are on the honor rolls. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I always love Jillian Grano. Just want to throw congratulations out to her for this week's youth. Citizenship award recipient. She's also our valid Victorian. Which amazing student, amazing community member E2 Gowanda HS Library: and New York City trip. I love seeing these pictures. It's so amazing. All the pictures and the videos of all these kids. I'm so thankful that this trip

126that we're still keeping this going hopefully, it'll be going on for years. And my only comment about the Prom, can we please change it back to not being after mother's day? E2 Gowanda HS Library: I know for a few years there they didn't have it the day before mother's day. It's May 10th right? Let me just say, being a mother that had boys that every year for those every year that they went to Prom. It kind of stopped that the next morning. They were extremely lazy and didn't want to have much fun with Mom, so I think it would be nice to not have it the day after mother's day. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So when it used to be earlier, no, sometimes I think it's been later the last few years. Yeah, they bumped

127it back, and I'm sure it has to do with getting availability of the location. I get it. But if we could avoid bothers you again. It would be great. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I'm sure all the mothers in the community would appreciate that. I'm surprised they could get a location on Mother's day, and for years, every for all the years my boys were going every year. It was the day after mother or the day before mother's day E2 Gowanda HS Library: so and like I said in the recent past few years, they somehow changed it. And all of a sudden, this year it's back. Maybe they were thinking the kids would sleep in and give you a little bit of a yeah, no, no. I actually like spending time with them the next day. E2

128Gowanda HS Library: That was all, I think. Thank you. Anything else, Ashley. No, I think I'm on that. Nope, just ready for the budget, hearing next Wednesday. See you all so excited. I'm so excited. No, I'm good, thank you. E2 Gowanda HS Library: We miss anything, Kathy. You're outside. E2 Gowanda HS Library: We're having well, at least for track and field. We're having our senior nights for like spring sports, so I encourage people to attend those I know. Track and Field has their senior night. May 6.th E2 Gowanda HS Library: Same day as my Ap. Go exam. Make sure everybody comes hungry that night. They're doing a concession to raise money for track and field, too. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So I know. Dr. Talked about it briefly about the no cell phone policy that

129we won't be tremendously affected E2 Gowanda HS Library: here. But I guess just if we could be. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I don't keep that in the back of our minds that there is an expense to that in some of the districts other districts that have E2 Gowanda HS Library: gone down that road already prior to the law. So I just E2 Gowanda HS Library: if we could keep that in mind how to track, or how to figure out what kind of additional expense that we're incurring because of it. E2 Gowanda HS Library: other than that. Sadly my tablet died while I was scribbling down notes during the student Board Members presentation and the other presentation so certainly appreciate everything that's going on and appreciate the support teams have E2 Gowanda HS Library: cool. E2

130Gowanda HS Library: I agree with Krista. I enjoy following the Facebook page. And one of the things that I thought was a particular interest. Was the bus driver. Perhaps Dr. Anderson can kind of help me out. I forget his identity, but he refurbished the pool queues. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I do know this from Clay. Thank you. I thought that was a neat thing, and a nice way to give back E2 Gowanda HS Library: good luck to Mr. Nicholas on his retirement always. E2 Gowanda HS Library: And just like Chris, too. Congratulations to the honor roll, kids. It's a great achievement and keep up the good work. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Go on to that memory. E2 Gowanda HS Library: me? Yes, congratulations to Mr. Nicholas. I believe my notes that I had written down

131and left on my E2 Gowanda HS Library: dust at work was, those are going to be some pretty big and unique shoes to fill. Yeah. E2 Gowanda HS Library: if we have nothing else that takes us to. Where am I to the parking lot E2 Gowanda HS Library: oops. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Where are we? We are 4 month, 4 E2 Gowanda HS Library: email. Were we supposed to do something with the superintendent email? Yeah. E2 Gowanda HS Library: probably by this point, if you haven't probably your portion and your own contributions to your own board email. Hopefully. Next, it's all completed, the next, probably get in touch next Wednesday to discuss at least my evaluation. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Go back. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Sounds good. E2 Gowanda HS Library: Think that's it.

132Everything else looks good on there. No updates, no looks fine. E2 Gowanda HS Library: are we? Did you decide for executive session. Now go ahead. E2 Gowanda HS Library: We want to talk about. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I think you explained harder. E2 Gowanda HS Library: I think I would like to. I would like to. Yeah, let's go. Yeah, I'll give you an update. I got a couple of people. So E2 Gowanda HS Library: so we are going to do so we are going to do executive sessions. What is the topic? Personnel? E2 Gowanda HS Library: I got a word different than just yeah, whatever I mean whatever. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So this is going to be consideration of a motion to recess to executive session for the purpose of E2 Gowanda HS Library:

133discussing employment history of particular persons. Okay, okay. E2 Gowanda HS Library: all in favor. Aye, aye, okay. E2 Gowanda HS Library: So you won't need anybody.