001Good evening and welcome to Southeast Delo School Board of Directors Committee of the Whole meeting for Thursday, April 10th, 2025. Dr. Sanchez, committee reports. Good evening, Madam President. Good evening, board members. We are going to start um tonight with um number of items from Dr. Gibb Stapper. Dr. Tapper, we're gonna get you a mic. Thank you. So, this evening I'm asking will I will be asking the board to approve an educational contract between Southeast Delo School District and Braftoft School. Um, it is for a student who recently transferred here into our district who is currently attending the school. Um, all supporting documents should be attached to your documents. We're also asking for the school board to approve a contract between Southeast Delo School District and Fairwall School. We have three students who have been attending
002the program and we're asking for their contract to be renewed for this school year. Um, we have one student who will be graduating in June. So, this will be her last year attending this program, but there are three students that are asking for the funding to be approved for those three students for this current school year, the 2425 school year. And the last um contract that the special education department is asking for approval is through for Aspire Educational Health um services. This is for next school year 2526. We started with this company this school year for them to provide us consulting and contracting um contracting with them for school psychologist. So we want to continue our relationship with them for psychological services to complete psychoeducational evaluations um as well as looking into their behavioral services
003services for next year and we have the amount there that we would not like to exceed um and we have supporting documents as well provided to you for those three contracts. Any questions? I do have a question. Yes. Um for number one, yes, you asking for one student. We have one student currently there already. Um this school is located in New Jersey and we have one student um with a pretty significant educational disability that we have approved for them to go. And we recently received another student who was already attending the program. We did review the documents and in order not education at this time at this late year. We wanted to continue. We have reached out to the school, talked to them about the student, asked them about the progress he's been making thus
004far. They said he's doing very well um at his upcoming IEP. We will be reviewing what his IEP goals are um and looking at a reevaluation when that time comes to make sure that this program is currently still continues to be appropriate. Um however, as I said, he has been attending this program for I believe three years and the family move to Southeast Delo. So, it's been a very rough transition for them trying to get busing, transportation, and those different things. So, the last thing we want to do is disrupt his education at this point, especially because he's been making meaningful progress there. So, um it's not just one student, it's this contract is for one. The other student's contract has already been board approved. So, uh for 45, I'm just curious where is what
005part of New Jersey is it? I would have to get back with you. It's not It's right over the bridge. It's not far. We do have some other students that are attending a school in New Jersey called Yale School, and there's three different campuses, um, which is in New Jersey. Bra, I'll double check and get back with you, but it's not too far into New Jersey. Um, we really kind of reserved this educational placement for students, as I said, was really, really profound. Okay. Mount Laurel. Mount Laurel. So this is uh for bus service. No, this for the 45,000. This is just for academic education. Oh, just for academic. Yes. So it's not for doesn't include the buser. Okay. All right. Thank you. You're welcome. Any other questions? Thank you very much, Dr. Gibbs Tapper.
006You're welcome. Dr. Jeff Ryan. Hello everybody. Hello, good evening. Uh, number four, we are asking for along the same lines as Debbie just said, we're asking for an approval for a contract with Bucksmont Academy. We have used Bucks in the past. They take both regular ed and special ed kids. Uh, we haven't had a new enrolly there in a while. They're down on McDade Boulevard down in the Woodland area. Um, this particular kid is a result of an expulsion agreement that you had already approved that we agreed to cyber with a pending placement at Bucksmont. Boxmont has accepted this student. The student has accepted to go to Boxmont. So, we're asking for the contract. Um, you will see we will have a a fix for the special ed rate. The special a ed rate is
007actually more than the regular ed rate. That will be a bolded item for next Thursday. Uh, this student in particular is regular ed, so it doesn't affect the student, but just so the motion is correct with the cost per day. Uh, number five, there was a group assault on Coach Street about a month or so ago. These are four of those kids. We've held expulsion meetings with all four families. They've all agreed to placements in either our cyber or all ed programs. Um so these are already on their way signed and delivered with parents. Uh there were more than four kids that were involved with that. The reason that you don't see all of the kids on here is because we have verbal agreements with the rest of the kids for an expulsion agreement through
008JobCore. We can't put those expulsion agreements on this agenda until you approve number six, which is the job core agreement. So once you approve the job core agreement, which I'll get to in a second, you will see the remainder of the group assault kids on May's agenda. Again, parents have already verbally agreed. They're on their way to going. We just need the job core agreement to be approved before we can approve the expulsion for a job core agreement. Uh the job core agreement itself we did let you know last month we were still ironing out the details. They have been solved. Uh the hangup was over clearances. JobCore is a federal agency so they follow federal guidelines. So we did talk to Mr. Doro. He gave a suggested language. They inserted that language. So the
009agreement is good to go. The good part about JobCore is two things. One for kids who take this option. It does give them a skill or trade to go into the world with. Um right now the local center is down here near the stadiums on South 20th Street. They tend to um look at kids for like the technical positions. Uh however, if kids want to go into a trade, there are two other locations. I think one's in the Poconos and one's out near Harrisburg that if a ch if a student chooses that location, they will then put the kid up in residency up there. They'll go through the program there. All three campuses are available to our kids. So, we're asking you to approve this agreement. The other good part of this agreement in the
010way that it's crafted is it allows us to keep our kids on roll while they're enrolled in job course and not only do they get the cert but if they fulfill all the requirements they can also get an Academy Park diploma on the back end. So they walk away with both things even though they may not have gotten into job care for the best of reasons but they end up getting both things on the end and it helps us maintain our graduation rate because they end up getting an Academy Park promo. are not just lost to the GED world or job core world. So for us, we believe it's a win-win. Uh once you approve the agreement, we've already got kids slated to go. It's just tying everything together. Uh number seven is the DJ
011uh for the spring senior events. We did it for basketball. We're doing it for the spring senior events. U everybody was happy with it in the winter, so hopefully everybody is happy with it in the spring. And you can see that it comes at a cost of $800 for the senior events this year. Any questions? Um for the discipline um for number five. Yep. You're saying that once they are disciplined, they will go to the alternative school. So for these four kids, they there is a disciplinary event. The school makes a recommendation for expulsion. One of two things happens in an expulsion. Either I meet with family and we come to what's called an expulsion agreement. We write everything out and both sides agree to what the consequence for the issue will be. Or if
012we can't come to an agreement, then that family has the right to go to a board hearing. 99% of our expellable events have resulted in an expulsion agreement. I think the last time we had a hearing was before COVID probably. Um, so yes, this is an agreement between the family for that coach street incident that both the family agrees with and the district uh agrees of what will happen and it's for for these kids it's for a set period of time and for us for these kids it is usually all ed or cyber. So for the other kids that's what I was talking about job core they're not on here yet these are all aled and cyber solutions. Okay. So for Coach Street, right? That's where the incident happened, right? Is that on our property?
013So the incident started on the high school property and continued on to Co Street. So because there's a connection back to the high school, we are allowed to discipline for that incident. Even that happened on Coach Street, which is not on our property. Yeah. The language is that there's a nexus to the school that there's a connection. It actually started with the the group of kids and the victim, let's say, interacting on our high school property. It was moving and continued across the Sharon Hill property. The end result assault happened on Coach Street. So, because there's a connection to the school, we can go all the way through with the incident. Okay. For number six, uh for job core, how can a student uh be interested in the job core? Do they have to be
014at the alt uh at the old school? No, they do not. So, just to be clear, the four kids that I'm referencing that are coming next month, that is part of their expulsion agreement. Okay. But kids in general who are interested in JobCore may talk to their counselor, may get referred, and then they can have those conversations with JobCore. Again, hoping hoping that they're staying with us so they get both the certification and the high school diploma at the end of that path. So suppose they can't uh stay on site uh transportation do they we provide transportation they take care of that who take oh JobCore takes care of that for if they're going to the local site they they take care of transportation if they're going to what I'm calling the trade site like
015the Poconos's or Harrisburg they live at that site oh they would live at that site part of the job court program we are not paying for that so what requirements does the students uh need to have to uh join the job core training? Yep. So, it's mostly a conversation with the kids that they may not be completing high school through the traditional sense of going to classes for four years and graduating with a diploma. If that looks like it may be an issue and they have an interest in a trade, all they really need to do at this point is start the conversation with the counselor or start the conversation with their parent to start with the counselor and then we put them on Job Core's radar. Once they meet with JobCore, that's a much
016more detailed conversation with the student about here's what our program will expect of you and then they either sign up for it or they don't. Um, if they sign up for it, then that is essentially their high school, college, and career ready path at that point. If they say job core is not for me, then they come back to us and we have to figure out what we're going to do with them. Are they going back to the Academy Park? Is all is all that a possibility? Is cyber a better possibility? Do we look in the work study? So, it's sort of a combination discussion and determination of what's the best path for this kid. So what what does the student have to do? Do they have to talk to their counselor? They need to
017start they need to gau to tell the counselor of their interest and then they need to attend what they call an orientation or an intake meeting with Job. We'll get all the details and the is this what you really want to do? So, you're saying that a student in high school uh what about uh a student in high school in 10th grade that doesn't want to pursue their education in um academy park. So, from 10th grade, can they go to job core or not really? So, there are rules about let's say dropping out and again these kids are not dropping out. They're staying on a road, right? But I'm going ask them for the ones that the traditional dropout it sort of pairs back. So, if they're 18, they get to make their own decisions.
018If they are 17, and we have policy on this, and I'm trying to picture what it says. If it if they're 17, it is something around either they need parent permission or parent permission and gainful employment. There's even more strict requirements if they're 16. And I don't believe you can drop out pre6. You can't wait. You say that you can't drop out. You can't officially drop out. I mean, can you just stop showing up to school? So, it would be truency. That would be true. Okay. It would be truency. When I say drop out, you are officially notifying the school that you are not coming anymore and you are pursuing. Yeah. I Yeah, I understand the meaning, but um so my next question is uh how does the parents are informed of the job core?
019So once we have the agreement in place, what we need to do is sort of like we do with the dual enrollment program is we need to make we need to make the kids who are potentially eligible for it aware. Now we also don't want to send the message of you don't have to go to high school anymore. Here's another option for you. It has to be a balance, right? But much like we do with the community college with dual enrollment, there needs to be an advisory of certain groups of kids in this probably 11th and 12th grade. Maybe not even every 11th grader, but just that they know that's an option. But we are required when a kid is even thinking about again the traditional dropout kid. We're required by policy and by state
020code to have a conversation with that kid about okay, you're talking about this. here's what we're telling you your options are and job course should be one of those options right but I mean I understand that but I'm when you are talking to the kids are you also talking to the parents that's that's my question so how do you parent too right so how do you communicate with the parents right along with the teach uh teacher the student so that would be through the counselor so if a kid counselor and says hey I'm interested in jobcore after that initial conversation should be a phone call to the parent saying, "Hey, just letting you know, Mrs. So and so, your son was just in here asking about JobCore. Is that a conversation that they've had with
021you? Do you need any information? Is there any way that I can help you?" Those conversations need to be need to be happening preferably together, but if not, at least right after. Okay. So, the uh students the ages is from 16 or what? Uh 21 to 21. Students technically have a right to a public education until 21. Okay. Thank you. I'm running. Thank you. What do you say? Uh, not yet. Uh, I believe the deadline is either the 21st or 22nd because we had to build in the spring break time. Um, so we can let you know what we have at that point and then hopefully a decision in th on that Thursday's board meeting. But if it needs to get pushed, we could, not that I'm asking anybody to come again. You could have
022the special board meeting. My only concern isn't the front end. It's leaving the new company enough time on the back end to be open for the start school. We ran into that problem with the line. Right. So So you put I'm sorry. You done, Miss Harris Johnson? Oh, go ahead. Put the application out. And even when we get the proposals, we have to open them. We have to review them. We may want to schedule interviews, but there's they the deadline has not been hit. Okay. So, you're saying that nobody has applied yet? I don't think so. Not yet. But again, the deadline is until at least a week and a half from now. A week and a half. So, that's when you guys come back. We will come back holiday probably at the preession. We
023will say we've got five I'm making up the number. We've got five companies that are interested in in the before and after care. Is the board interested in an interview process in an administrative selective process in a combination? But we have to know who's who first before we have that. Right. So when was the application uh out? When did you uh uh put the ad out? We haven't put that we haven't put a official ad. We're putting a news release out tomorrow. It's been posted on the website and we're going to be posting it on on in the paper. Thank you very much, Dr. Ryan. Um, Dr. Guy Lowry, good evening everyone. Just a couple quick things. Uh, numbers 8 9 10 and 11 are for the proposal to upgrade fiber optic lines in our
024four elementary buildings. These are uh replacements for some antiquated technology and some antiquated lines that are running in our elementary buildings for IT infrastructure data transfer and whatnot. Number 12 is for the continuation the reup of our agreement with Edenum. Edenum provides us with a bunch of different solutions including exact path tutorials courseware and whatnot. Uh this is an intervention program. It's also used for our credit recovery programs at our high school. That's a three-year agreement. And number 13 is our monthly field trip updated list. There's going to be one modification to the field trip uh list. Abington High School will be added as a site um that's not on the current supporting documents that has been attached. There's a program that's going to be run there that we found out about today and we're
025going to include that in It's for the student leadership form. It was a trip that was originally scheduled in um February to Upper Marion High School, but it was postponed due to the Philadelphia Eagles parade and now it has been rescheduled for May the 20th and it'll be at Abentine Area High School. And it's for um leadership. So Dr. Larry, I have a question about exact path. Um, so since we are now using STARS for assessment, will kids like I know some lesson plans and some other things are done on Exact Path, but will the assessments with Exact Path stop? I just I want to make sure we're not overassessing our children. We're not using the assessment program for Exact Path anymore, and if so, is it included in this contract? Just make sure we're
026not paying for it. Great question. So if you guys remember that was part of why we wanted to go to star as our primary progress monitoring and uh benchmarking kind of software program that we use. So star is our K12 assessment that we give for all students K12 at menum and exact path has an agreement and they have a reciprocity agreement with Renaissance star so that when the students take the star assessment the data automatically feeds it to exact path. So there's no need for two assessments or three assessments. The data from STAR automatically without any intervention from the school district automatically syncs and those pathways that students then partake in are all completely based upon the star data. Okay, great. So just one quick follow-up question to that. So does that mean because we're
027now also paying for stars, is this contract a little cheaper than the like did it save us any money with exact path or are we still paying the same amount we would have paid if we still use their assessment? So our agreement shows the star integration platform. Like if you look at the agreement as the um the related documentation, it says in there that we're paying for the exact PL uh the exact path intervention suite. We're paying for uh the tutorials program. We're paying for courseware and we're paying for that integration for all those components coming together. Um there's cost savings for three-year agreements versus one year agreement. Um I couldn't tell you what the initial agreement was when exact path first came into the school district, but there is pricing agreements that decrease the
028cost for a multi-year term. Okay, great. Thank you, Dr. Larry. Dr. Larry, I do have a question for you, so don't move. Um for co-star co-star okay uh explain to me that someone that is not an educator uh co-star is a is a program for children like a computer thing or what is it? So Mr. Butler could probably take more of that but co-stars is a general purchasing parameters that allow for great discounted rates and whatnot through non-negotiated terms but Dr. Lowry is correct. It's a program that uh will go out and pre-bid different um options for different selections that are uh customary for school districts or popular within school districts. They will do all the bidding and uh they will set the rates and then we can circumvent doing the bidding process ourselves because
029the state has already done it. There other program is co-stars there is um pepum and then there is uh source well is another organization uh where they take the initiative to do all the bidding for for educational institutions. Okay. Okay. So you using this entity to do the bidding for us correct? Right. Is that what you're saying? It's already done. Oh it's already done. Okay. And this is for all the uh elementary schools. Four elementary schools. So there's like a main trunk in each building where the data all comes in and then it branches out in terms of the building where we have Wi-Fi access points with drops and classrooms. This is upgrading those main patch lines in the building so that if a device can pull a certain throughput of data that the connections
030throughout the building are up to that that level. As of right now from our director of technology, some of these pipes that are in our building, these fiber optic pipes are very very antiquated. We're not getting the maximum throughput that we possibly could. So once you do your once they do the bidding for for you guys um who do do they meet with you and uh uh Mr. Butler or I mean how does that go? No. So the bidding is already done. It's done for they make an assumption for the entire state. Uh they take a survey of what some of the needs are, what some of the needs needs have been and they will bid out uh equipment. They will bill out I'm sorry bid out equipment. They will bid out services uh service
031providers uh and those service providers will do the installation. Um they bid out like I said for products. So you can get bidded prices on uh the fiber lines for example or if we do um uh computers they they will do uh computers as well but the lower prices come through CDW in this case. Oh great. So you and um uh Dr. Guy are in charge of this. Well we work as a team. We work as a team. Okay. That's what I meant. Thank you very much, Dr. Lowry. So, we are going to move on to finance with Mr. Butler. Okay. Good evening, everyone. I have uh six items on the agenda tonight and then one brief presentation. Uh so, item one is uh these are traditional resolutions that happen every year. It's one, two,
032three, uh and four. uh are traditional. Uh the first is Delaware County Community College. Uh this is uh for our share of the uh of our portion of the uh community college program. Uh that's this year it's 369,15. Item two is Delaware County Intermediate Unit. This is our portion of their general fund budget which amounts to 28,57814. Uh number three is Delaware County uh technical high school budget and our portion this year is 724,488. Uh the item four is the Delaware County Intermediate. This is the special education program and uh this is the program for students that are placed uh via the IU. Our portion this year is uh amounts to 2,353,989. Uh item five is a placeholder. Uh I put it there. This is for uh as you know last month we did our
033board member that would participate or be a member of the IU board. Um for some reason I'm thinking that there's a comprehensive list that we have to approve. Um but I just put this on here as a uh a placeholder. Uh so this could end up being removed from the agenda uh at the legislative meeting. Uh item six uh is the uh uh final proposed budget. Again, this is not the final general fund budget. It is a proposed budget, but we have to do this traditionally each year uh just to get it on the table. It gets posted on the website. And um uh these numbers, they're blank right now. uh they will be uh uh this information will be populated along with an updated presentation next week uh before no next week. I will
034do it next week so it gives everyone time to look at it. So you'll receive another presentation and this resolution with the numbers filled in uh next week uh for the legislative week uh legislative meeting the week after and that will give folks time to just look over again. This is not the final uh from that point forward. We still have a lot of hard work to do from the April meeting until the final uh vote uh which is planned for June 26, 2025. Any questions? Okay. Uh the presentation packet that you have uh is is brief. This is just a a quick update on uh uh for the most part is will be salary and benefit information. So you know you will recall that in the previous meetings I had object codes 300 through
035900. Um those uh the 300 through 900 is is a maintenance budget meaning that I try to maintain the same budget amounts and these are the same budget amounts for 2425. Uh so as we continue to have discussions about new initiatives uh or any changes in program these numbers could be plus or minus uh but the plan is not to exceed uh the previous year. Uh with that being said you will see on page three I'm sorry uh the salary and benefit lines. Uh and this is what is calculated at this time as a proposed 2526. Again, these numbers will continually be reviewed up until the budget is adopted in June. Looking at pages 4 through 7, I'm sorry, four through six. This is just an overview of the staffing chart. Uh so what I
036did this year you will see in the lefth hand column it will talk it uh the the positions are regular ed special ed uh special regular ed aid special education eds um that that that column is self-explanatory uh and these are the positions by location uh so for example on the first line we have 37 regular ed teachers at Darby Township 39 at Delcraftoft 49 at Harris 41 at Sharon Hill 18 at the K center 73 at uh AP uh Academy Park and 12 at night academy. Excuse me, I forgot a t on night. Um and then the same thing goes for the special education teachers at these locations as well. Uh and some sometimes these numbers are fluid and could be different from the previous year because we did have some changes in location
037for some of the special programming uh from last year to this year or for I'm sure sorry from the 2324 year to the 2425 there were some building changes uh which are reflected in these numbers too. Uh so this is just to give you an idea uh of what the staffing looks like at each of the buildings and the positions and the numbers that we have in each. Uh going to page five, it has from the superintendent's office down to facility support. Uh this also uh just as a point of clarification, this you will see it has administrators and support staff built in to these numbers. Uh the last page on uh is six of this graph of this chart rather and uh it ends begins with the balance of the facilities and maintenance team
038uh and uh will go down to athletic administration. Uh the total uh and these are budgeted positions. Some of these positions are still vacant, but we are closer and closer uh uh in filling all of the positions, but sometimes there are retirements uh or there are folks that just leave through attrition. Uh so some of the positions are not filled, very few are not filled, but the positions are in the budget. So that 651 are positions that are in the budget as as of right now. And again, that could change um as we go along, plus or minus. Uh page seven is just the uh the calendar uh the process calendar. So, we're up to April 10th. Uh the legislative meeting is on April 24th. As I mentioned earlier, there will be another packet, a
039more comprehensive presentation packet that will be sent out next week uh with those numbers filled in on finance item number six on the agenda. Any questions? Um Mr. Butler? Yes, me all the way down here. Um, on page four, um, I just wanted to make sure that the numbers were correct for the guidance counselors per school. It says Darby Township has one and Harris has three. Should it be two and two? Uh, that could be a change. Um, we did have a meeting and I have to look at my notes to make sure I got that right. Uh it could be that uh I did not relocate uh a position to the correct school. So I'll check that out. Thank you. Are there any more any other questions for Mr. Butler? Thank you very much,
040Mr. Butler. I'm going to ask Mrs. Woolly the mic for the HR items. Good evening board. Good evening audience. I'm here to present the human resources of the board agenda for the next five pages. At the top, we want to recognize two retirements from the district. Michelle, she's our science teacher at the ed school. She has served the district for 13 years and is retiring school here. Mr. Donald, he's a van driver. He works for the bus depot and he has served the district for 11 years and this is his last school year. So, we want to recognize those two employees. Number two, we're ratifying the resignation of a professional employee. Number two, three, we're approving the resignation of a confidential employee. number four. Number five, over to page number five at the top. There
041are six classified employees that um have resigned. Number seven, we want to go into the new hires. We lost two professionals, but we gained five professionals in the teachers union with number seven, number eight. Flipping over to page six at the top with the social worker number nine, 10, and 11. We're asking for approval for the leave of absences listed there um on those sections. At the bottom on page six, we have 12. Ratify the following employee for communications crew for the Delro School. Number 13, ratify the following employee as the communications group for the Sharon Hill School. Page number seven. Number 14, approve the following supplemental contract for the district musical. Number 15, approve the following supplemental contracts at the Derby Town School, Darby Township School for the 2425 school year, the STEM clubs.
042The names are listed there. Number 16, approve the following employees for the extended school year program at the Del Cross School. Names are listed there. Number 17, approve the following employees for the preK summer camp at the Derby Township School. Number 18, approve the following employees as curriculum writers for the Academy Park High School. Number 19, approve the following employees as part of the mentor program for the school year. Page eight at the top. approved the following special education teachers to write IEPs during the summer at a rate without students of $28 an hour. Number 21, approve the following school psychologist to work the summer 2025. Number 22, approve the following speech pathologists to work during the summer of 2025. And number 23, approve the employment of the following support staff employees to serve as
043substitute secretary receptionist during the 202526 summer school year and the needs are listed there. Any questions? Yes, I have a question. Um for number 23, uh I'm kind of lost there. the employment of the following uh support staff employees to serve as a substitute secretary. So you're saying that they have to do both jobs. So they're 10-month employees and so their work stops in the Oh, they 10-month employees. Yes. So to give a lot of support to our full-time employees so that you know they can take vacations or you know we need coverage during the summer. So, we're asking the attention attendance clerks to fill in um when they're on vacation in the summer. They're all in the same bargaining. The 10 months are going to help cover the 12 months who are out there.
044Got you. Okay. Okay. You had me lost for a minute. Okay. Thank you. You're welcome. I have I have a couple press questions. So, first to follow up on Miss Woodfolk's question. So, then should number 23 say for the summer instead of the 2025 26 school year? Maybe that's why it was confusing so we could adjust that for next week. And then also I have questions on number seven and number 18. Number seven is really just my lack of knowledge. Um I know we voted on this new position for the kindergarten center, the school-based instructional specialist. Um is it possible you could send the board a job description to review if that exists? because I feel like in the 1 through eight buildings and in the high school, those positions are based a lot around
045the standardized testing. So, I just want to kind of wrap my brain around what that person will be doing at the K center. Um, and then also for number 18, so I see in some of the other things that we're approving like the IEPs for the summer, you see the pricing. So, for the curriculum writers, are the teachers getting additional pay for that? And and will I be able to find the cost of that in the contract in the teachers union contract? Thank you, Dr. And if there is a cost, can we add that to the agenda for next week? So, anytime a this non- studentent rate, so the non- studentent rate is $28 an hour and it's a fixed amount of hours for each curricular area that the individuals would write for eight hours
046for pacing and eight hours for unit planning. So be 16 hours total for each content area. Let's just say algebra to that would be 16 hours of compensation at $28 an hour. Okay. So that's the same rate that's for the IEP writers as well. There's two rates in student with student rate and non- student since this is just work to um revamp our high school curriculum. It'll be done since there won't be kids. All right. Great. Thank you so much. Mr. Larry, can you explain to me what an instructional specialist is and what do they do? Sure. So, our schoolbased instructional specialists involve everything from data analysis to leading PLC meetings to supporting teachers in classrooms with best practices to um coordinating with MCSS, looking at student data, everything to do with curriculum, instruction, data
047analysis. They're not administrators. part of the USDA harding unit. So they're not evaluative, they're not rating officers, but these individuals work heavily with curriculum instruction assessment data monitoring and whatnot. So for example, when we roll out a new initiative, when we roll out something involving math, for example, I will be coming and talking to you about our our math next steps where we want to go with math instruction moving since the DCIU that contract will be coming to an end. But we also want to ensure that our teacher leaders, the folks that are supporting our teachers have the best practice knowledge available. So we would want to train and supplement our SBIS's with knowledge so they can then go back into the buildings per reform turnaround training lead professional development and support with a lot
048of the standards alignment a lot of the curriculum work that we're doing okay so this is not aligned to state standards and instructional specialists so the SBIS's um they absolutely review building level data they support the principles of looking at assessment yes but are they aligned so is the instructional specialist is align only to no the to state testing. No, it's part of their role, but no, it is not a it's not like a testing coordinator. Okay, just want to be clear. Like the uh the job description is pretty um it's very multiaceted. So there's all kinds of things that are So I mean they'll be analyzing data, but they're not aligned with the state standard testing. No, the position is not created to focus on standardized testing. Okay. Thank you. I have a question
049for you. Um I want to piggy back what um madame president mad president was saying for the uh school-based instructional uh specialist um u I don't know if this is a dumb question or not but does this fall under uh a coach teacher because it could. So, we have two very different classifications. Uh, I think it was two years ago, the board of directors um approved the addition of of teacher coaches which we put into place uh at the beginning of this academic year. Um, they report to Dr. Smack and so far our teacher coaches, we only have three for the whole district, but our teacher coaches have been supporting in every single building and classrooms across the district. That is a direct coaching model that again is not evaluative. The schoolbased instructional specialists are
050again teachers. They are in SDA. They are teachers by trade and they're teachers by position, but they carry a little bit of a leadership team role. So they are not administrators. They're not teachers, but they support they support everything that I've said. So can an SBIS do SBIS's go into classrooms and support teachers? Absolutely. But doesn't it because it sound like it's uh similar because uh as the coach teacher that's why I'm trying to understand uh the difference between uh instructional specialist so coach would only be focusing on like this year we put a strong emphasis on first and second year teachers. We have a plethora of new teachers in our district and our new teacher coaches supported with new teachers. That is their job as responsible and they have a case of teachers that
051they support. SBIS, you could walk into a building, you walk into any of our schools, they could be leading a PLC meeting at 8:00 and they could be running star reports and looking at data. They could then be working with teachers performing STAR helping uh our teachers provide the star assessment. Then they could be provided coaching for a teacher pulling small groups. A lot of our SBIS also pull intervention groups and work individually with students. Excellent. Thank you. Okay. So, non-aggenda items. I just want to bring to everybody's attention and employees listening that open enrollment for benefits begins on May 12th and ends on May 23rd. We had for the health and wellbeing of our employees, we had a biometric screening at the high schools had a turnout for that and smoothie day is coming
052in May. Excuse me, Mrs. Willie. What was the date for the benefit open enrollment? You said the 12th. May 12th through May 23rd. There needs to be a change there. Okay. Okay. Yep. Thank you. You're welcome. Smoothie day is coming. Um, so we attended three job fairs this week. Westchester, DCIU, and Eastern University. We got a lot of applications. We got a lot of people that came up to the table and was very interested. We have at least 25 certified teachers that are interested in working at our district. We're just finding jobs for them. So, um, before we went, I put a mailer out to at least 164 attendees to the DCIU job fair, and they all really literally came up to the table um and had interest in working at the district. Um, so
053just pictures of our table. We have lights with the our logo in it, our tablecloth, u many yard signs. Um, if you gave us a uh resume and you filled out an application, you got a water bottle or a mug, we ran out. So, um, but it was a they were very successful this week and we went to three. I just want to bring it to everybody's attention. We got new yard signs coming for the bus depot. We need to hire bus drivers. So, yard signs are coming. These are even signs that you can put on your front lawn at your home. So, we'll have extras there because we're in need of CBO drivers, bus drivers, bus monitors for our district. Okay. You going to put it in the front uh outside the uh ESC?
054Yes. And we're looking to put them on the side of our buses as well. Wow. I have a question for You said that you went to three job fairs. Yes. Eastern University. Wait, wait, what' you say? Eastern University. Uhhuh. DCIU head and then Westchester University. DCIU. Yes. And where? Westchester. Westchester. Thank you. You're welcome. So um I will be sending out an email if you're interested. Just reply back if you want us to send you some yard signs or um pocket cards that you can um pass out in the community. Okay. I would be uh interested. I'll let you know now. You can put it in my yard. Yes. Thank you. Yep. I I do. want to say the district musical is coming up which is a good time to put out uh different information
055at the shows. Um put out a little table display of hey we're hiring because we got families coming in from all over. You never know. Great idea. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah, that's okay. It's all good. Any questions? Thank you everyone. Thank you very much Mrs. Dr. Ryan, we're not going to do parent. Student advisory. I can do the policy. Policy is quick. Um, all the policies are second readings from last month. Four of them are just co PA code changes about law enforcement. That would be numbers one, two, four, and seven. And then number three is about how long we let a non-resident family live here. We talked about all those parameters last time. That's in was approved as a first reading last time. Number five just lets uh military children of the National
056Guard be protected for enrollment. And number six is about um charging home districts when they send kids to live here in our district and we have to educate them mainly one of our two to three group homes in Colale and CH all were first readings no questions so we're hoping they all get approved and there will be adopted policy any questions thank you very much Dr. Ryan Dr. Foreman, Miss Oliver, believe you're going to be co-presenting on the parent student advisory or is it just Dr. Foreman? Just Dr. Um, we do not have any updates this week, but we will have when we come before the board for a formal meeting next time. We're planning tonight. Thank you very much. We have That's it. We don't have any property items nor safety. Um Dr. um
057Sanchez, I have a question for you for safety. Yes, ma'am. Um I think it was the last time that uh Mr. Jeremiah was expressing about the cameras. Uh do you have any update on that? We don't have an update other than the board just approved two weeks ago or a week ago um the agreement for us to move forward. So we we're moving forward to have all that um fixed. Okay. I just wanted Thank you. You're welcome. May I ask a question about safety and security real quick that I just I don't need the answer tonight if it's not possible. Um, I just I don't recall. Are the Cardinal Point and Safe Quarters contracts up at the end of this school year? I can answer that. So, Cardinal Point contract is due to expire this
058year and we are making the decision to hire internal. HR has already started with the advertisement. We have 10 positions that we're filling and we have plenty of applicants to be able to go through. The the need for Cardinal Point years ago was because coming out of the pandemic it was difficult to fill those positions. The safe quarters contract is already approved. I think they have more a multi-year approval this time. Um so at this time we want to thank everyone for coming to the meeting. We got out pretty early today. Um there will be no exe executive sessions this evening. Um so thank you for coming out. Be safe going home and have a great night.