001Oh god. Lighting. Thank you everyone for your patience. This meeting has come to order. Good evening and welcome to the Southeast Delo School District Business Board meeting of the board of directors scheduled for Thursday, August 28th, 2025. Can we have a call to order, salute to the flag, and a roll call, Mr. Butler? Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Can we unmute the room? sound. >> What? What's wrong? >> That's what's wrong. >> Okay, this is a roll call vote. I think the wrong one was unmuted. >> Turn my volume down. Uh, control. No, control. >> Can you hear us now? >> Yes. With an echo. The school the southeast school board room is the one that needs to or per that one needs to be unmuted not see butler. >> Oh, okay. So you
002have to you have You have to Okay. Which one? That's me. Ask me to unmute it. Okay. >> Thank you, Miss McGallen. Can you hear us? >> Yes. >> Thank you. This is the roll call vote for uh all present. U Mr. Fowler >> present. >> Mrs. McGawan, >> she's present. >> Present. >> Miss Wilmarmac >> present. >> Miss Harsh Johnson >> present. >> Mrs. Barley >> present. >> Miss Perry >> present. >> Mr. Laferty >> present. Miss Woodfolk, >> present. >> Miss Monura Woodet, >> present. >> Dr. Sanchez, >> present. >> Mr. George, >> present. >> Craig Butler, present. >> Um, once again, I want to thank everyone for their patience with our technical difficulties. Um, at this time, Dr. Sanchez, do you have a superintendent's report? >> Madam President, yes, I do. I
003just have primary points that I'd like to share with everyone. Um first you all may know that there is a budget in pass with the state. Um as such uh there are a number of efforts um from folks across the state to try to get legislators to understand the impact that it has on schools. Today I participated in a press conference. I um joined about 25 other superintendents from across the state in partnership with PASBO and PASA to do a press conference at the capital. Again, making a call to legislators to act. Now, there are some districts that um are in in great great dangers of closing their doors because they don't have the line of credit or the fund balance that's needed to be able to cover them until a budget is passed. Um,
004so if you are listening to this and you have a way to get to your state legislators, I encourage all of you um to call, email, write a letter, show up at their offices and let them know that we need a budget that's that needs to be passed. And the second is simply that school's about to start. So, next Tuesday, September 2nd, um, is an exciting day for all of us. I want to thank all of our staff who have been working really all summer. um those who work throughout the summer, but the the teaching staff and the 10-month employees who came back last week um applaud and thank them to get u for the work that they're doing to get ready to receive our students next Tuesday. And with that, I'm looking forward to
005a new school year. Thank you, Madam President. >> Thank you, Dr. Sanchez. May I have a motion to approve the agenda? >> Motion. >> I moved. >> It has been properly moved and second. Are there any questions? Are there any questions? Are there any questions? Seeing none, all in favor? >> I. >> Any oppose? Motion carries. May I have a motion to approve the minutes for the regular board business meeting, the treasures report, and the bills in the payment in the amount of 8,19,34359. >> I shall move. >> Second. It has been properly moved and second. Are there any questions? Are there any questions? Are there any questions? Seeing none, all in favor? >> I oppose. >> Motion carries. There is no unfinished business. Uh, new business. Are there any comments and questions on new
006business? Item A, education 1 to 17. Are there any comments and questions on item B, finance 1 to 12? Are there any questions or comments on item C, human resources with number 16 being separate? >> Um, wait a minute. Where you at? Human resources. >> Correct. >> Oh, yes. Uh, Madame President, um, I would like to give a shout out to Rosie. >> Oh, no, not not yet. >> Not yet. Okay. Thank you. >> Are there any um questions or comments on item D, policy 125? >> Are there any questions or comments on item E, property one to two? Seeing none, are there any public comments regarding agenda items? >> No, Madam President, we do not have any comments related to agenda items. >> Okay. >> May I have a motion for new business item
007A, education 1 to 17? >> I so move. >> Second. >> Has been properly moved and second. Are there any questions? Are there any questions? Are there any questions? Seeing none, all in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? >> Motion carries. >> May I have a motion for new business item B, finance 1 through 12? >> Motion. >> Second. >> It has been properly moved and second. Are there any questions? Are there any questions? Are there any questions? Seeing none, all in favor? >> Any opposed? Motion carries. New business, item C, HR 1 to 15, 17 to 21. May I have a motion? >> I moved. >> Second. >> It has been properly moved and second. Are there any questions? Are there any questions? Are there any questions? Seeing none, all in favor? I. >>
008Any? >> Motion carries. All right. President, >> please use your mic. I'm sorry, Madame President. I would like to give a shout out to Roseanne Smith who worked uh at uh ESC building for 33 years. She worked at the ES uh ESC building and the uh printer room print room. So, I would like to give her a shout out and give her a round of applause. Thank you for your service. Thank you, Miss Wood. May I have a motion to approve uh item C, HR number 16? >> I move. >> Second. >> It has been properly moved and second. Are there any questions? Are there any questions? >> Madam President, I have questions. >> I actually have a quick comment. Um, I do just want to state that I do support um the HR director
009staying with the district and I would hope that the incoming board would as well. Um, but at this time I just I'm probably going to vote no tonight because I don't want to set the precedence of opening up contracts strictly for the reason that um the governing board is changing. I concur with Miss Perry's sentiment as well >> and I feel that this is actually a runaround to try to load up an administration prior to the new board coming on without taking into account the position that the new board will be in. I do believe that while the board will probably also be in favor of this of this HR contract, I believe that the the the HR director should actually renegotiate her contract in November to actually have a full contract as versus an
010extension, but that's my personal opinion. So, that would be why I'm going to be voting now. >> Thank you. Um once again I just want to make sure the public is more than aware that the HR director did ask the board to uh open her contract and because there was no uh majority then it could not happen. So I want to make sure that every constituent understands that the HR director did come to the board to ask. All right. So, >> are there any other questions or comments? Seeing none, all in favor? >> I >> Any nays? >> Nay. >> Mr. John, did you vote? Did I didn't hear Miss um did >> M. So what is the number? >> It passed. Okay. Thank you. Motion passes. New business item D, policy 1 through five.
011May I have a motion? >> Motion. >> Can I have a second? >> Second. >> It has been properly moved and second. Are there any questions? Are there any questions? Are there any questions? Seeing none, all in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed? Motion carries. New business item E, property one to two. May I have a motion? >> I so move. >> Second. It has been properly moved and second. Are there any questions? Are there any questions? Are there any questions? Seeing none, all in favor? I. >> Any oppose? >> Motion carries. County Community Committee reports. Mr. Lafidy. >> Not at this time. Thank you. Delaware County Intermediate Unit. There's no report at this time. Legislative Council and PSBA. >> Not this evening, Madam President. >> Parent Student Advisory Committee. Miss Harris Johnson, Miss Whiffbook,
012or Miss Miss McGallen. Miss um Dr. Uh foreman, can you come to the podium please? Good evening everyone. The parent advisory committee met this evening and we are going to have two events this fall. The first will be in October and the second will be in November. We're going to meet again to have final details for you all next month. Thank you. >> Solicitor, do you have a solicitor's report? >> No report, Madam President. >> I was about to call you Mr. >> Sorry. younger and better. >> Dr. Sanchez, are there any administrative team updates? >> There are going to be two. I'm Dr. Ryan will be sharing an update related to pupil services and Dr. Reicex Mack will be sharing an update related to our teaching and learning. >> Good evening everyone. Just a
013couple of quick updates from the land of people services. One, high school sports have started. Um, all of our false fall sports are starting their seasons. There is our second home football game tomorrow at 1:00 against Unionville. Just a shout out that if you are planning on attending, uh, members of the public, we are now doing a cashless entry through hometown ticketing. So, please go on our website and buy tickets for the football game if you plan on attending. Uh, the second update is we have been talking to the board about medicine management at our Delco Academy. We are soon to be finalizing a selection. Uh Dr. Gibbs Tapper, Miss Young, and myself are visiting Aviva on Wednesday for a site visit. Aviva is on the border of Colingdale and Derby down at the end
014of McDade Boulevard. Uh we just want to see the site and get a few questions answered and then we may be bringing that forward to the board for medicine management for kids who attend Delco Academy. The third and final update for pupil services is we are entering our second year with communities in schools. Uh this is more of a shout out for parents. If your child is struggling with attendance, uh communities and schools offer case managers to case manage kids who are truent. Um each of our 1 to8 schools, Darby Township, Delcraftoft, Harris, and Sharon Hill can have a case load of up to 60 kids. The high school has two case managers so take they can take 120 kids. Um and that is solely focused on attendance and kids who are struggling with coming
015to school. Uh there was a request from the board at one point over the summer for some data from the group. I do have the end of the year report handy as a hard copy if anybody wants to see it or can send it out to any board members who request it. I'm a little remiss to discuss it publicly. it was a smaller group and some of the information may lead to identifying specific kids. So, I'd rather do that privately rather than publicly. Other than that, that's it. Thank you very much. >> Uh, excuse me. I Dr. Ryan, I don't know if it's I'm supposed to ask you this question or not, but today's child's >> Yes. >> Is that up and running and ready for our students? >> It is just about. So I
016my phone's over there, but Darby Township, the kindergarten center, and Delcraftoft licensing is reading as pending. So they are moving forward. Sharon Hill and Harris, the uh inspection has not crossed the desk of the state inspector or however that works yet. Um so we are going to have to push our legislators a little bit to get that going. The good news is right now both of those programs I believe have one student each. The Sharon Hill student, I believe, is going to stay at the Sharon Hill main campus, which is not in our schools, across from the firehouse. And I believe the Harris kid is staying in the Clifton Heights campus until the until the Harris site opens up. So, it is mostly good to go, but not completely. Okay. >> Thank you very much,
017Dr. Ryan, Dr. Redmack. Good evening. So, I am here to provide you with our academic updates um in terms of what has been going on in the world of teaching and learning uh over the last year and into this upcoming school year to support our students. So our update number one is around our steel standards and framework project. We are still continuing with the project that we have started last year in conjun in conjunction with the DCIU. Um grades 5 through eight are in their implementation stage. Our high school biology department is in the process of creating and pacing for the programming and elementary school will actually begin in the fall. So we are in very good standing as far as our um implementation for the completion of our steel standards is concerned. Update number
018two, we are introducing bell-to-bell instruction during this school year with a focus on on time and consistent attendance. Every minute counts and we want to ensure that our students are being provided with instruction for every minute of their school day because that time of course is precious. And there are now clear defined periods in our schools. And there is uh documentation that actually asks for the support of our parents in terms of what they can do to support this initiative as well in terms of having our babies to school on time and being able to have a backup plan, different things like that so that they can get to school on time to be provided with the instruction that they deserve. Our update number three, our single sign on we are in a multi-year project
019to streamline all data loginins and multiple platforms. Our class link PD was provided to our teachers this week during the opening days of professional development and all district login systems will be phased into class link over the next few months. So it'll be an opportunity to house all of the uh supports and program that our teachers use along with our students as opposed to having to use multiple platforms. Everything can be accessed with one sign on. Update number four, our panorama program. So our panorama program, our professional, our uh teachers received professional development on districtwide for the use of panorama. Um we had piloted part of the program at the beginning of the school year somewhere around middle of school year somewhere around April and now we are in full implementation. Um so that is
020a program where all of the different um instructional materials that we are using with our students in terms of their testing, in terms of any additional supports, everything is placed into one um MTESS program and teachers are able to pull down that data in order to figure out how to further support our students. So we are launching that this year districtwide. Our next update are the adminum standards mastery. We are in we use exact path now currently with the district. Admenum standards mastery is a report that our um that our administration can pull down along with the supports of the school-based instructional specialist in order to inform teachers how we can best support our students. So figuring out using that data to figure out what groupings students may need to be in or how we
021can best deliver more targeted instruction. Star um update number five, we have our first STAR assessment in September in all of our schools. That data is used to determine our baseline levels for tiered instruction, guided instruction, and interventions. School leaders are able to gain a snapshot of the proficiency goals to determine growth targets for the year. And that's the idea of the um principal goals and also the SPM, which our principles will focus on developing with staff in the coming professional development months. Finally, we have new teacher induction. Um, our we are proud to welcome our new teachers to Southeast Elco School District. Of course, induction is a PDE requirement that as of last year moved from one year to a two-year implementation. So, we're looking forward to continuing with last year's cohort who is
022moving into their final year of induction and welcoming and supporting our new teachers for this year where their first year begins this year and continuing on into the second year. there any questions? >> I I actually do have a question. So for we're at August 28th, do you know when the schedules will be given to the high schoolers when they'll be released so that the high schoolers will be able to know what this especially with the bell to bell schedule what their day is going to look like. They're available in the portal and they're being made on Tuesday. >> Can you hear them, Miss McGawan? >> No. So, she said the schedules are inside the portal which is powers school. Correct? >> And on Tuesday >> and it'll be handed out on Tuesday to the
023individual students. So, all parents, if you have the power school app on your phone, computer or tablet, you can look at your students schedule and your student >> It's live now. Is it live now? >> Uh, Dr. say yes, it is live now. And if not, then your student will get their schedule on Tuesday when they come back to school. Thank you. >> Thank you very much, Dr. Reicmack. I just have one more administrative update want to share with everyone um and and thank the staff, especially um Dr. Foreman who organized our first back to school event for families. We had nearly 500 people at that event between students and parents. There were back to school supplies that were given out. There was a bouncy house for little kids. There was food for families. And
024then we had agencies that circled the gym at Academy Park as a way to be able to connect parents to resources. So, I want to applaud Dr. form its leadership to make sure that that we um started hopefully a new tradition. Thank you very much. >> Please go to the mic. >> And I would like to also thank the hair stylists and barbers who stayed for over seven hours to provide free services to our students. And some of those barbers and hair stylists also extended their services beyond just that one day event for throughout the school year as well. [Applause] Excuse the mayor. There's one question I would like to ask. Uh for the expense of that day. Uh was that something that was donated or did it come out of a budget of the
025school district or what? >> Some some items were donated. So um Mrs. Oliver and Mrs. Willer worked very hard to connect with comm community partners for donations for like the um the hot dog rolls, some of the hair supplies. I'm trying to think what else we had. Donated. Donated water. Oh, the school supplies. How did I forget? So, that was the um the school supplies were 100% donated, not only from community partners, but from also the staff at ESC. So, thank everyone for for those efforts as well. And we spent um $1,770 on the bounce house, the DJ, and for food for the um the event. >> I just want to say uh Dr. Foreman, that event was very, very nice. Uh when I first went there in the morning, the line was so long.
026Um, and it was so packed and this is the first time this district ever had something like this. And I'm going tell you that within my neighborhood, uh, the parents were very, very happy and they were very impressed and they know this is the first time we have done this in this district for our children and for the parents. So, I just want to thank you and your staff for all that you have done. Thank you all. Thank you. Announcements. Announcements for future meetings. Committee of the whole will be Thursday, September 18th, 2025 at 6 p.m. The board business meeting will be Thursday, September 25th, 2025 at 7 p.m. May I have a motion to adjurnn this meeting? Second. >> It has been properly moved and second. Are there any questions? Are there any questions?
027Are there any questions? Seeing none, all in favor? I >> any opposed? Motion carries. This meeting is now adjourned. Thank you.