001good evening everyone I would like to call the Thursday February 20th 2025 board buiness meeting to order if everyone could please rise for the Pledge of [Music] Allegiance board an executive session for approximately 1 hour on February 10th to discuss legal issues they also met tonight prior to this meeting to review the Personnel report and an employee grievance student safety and cesp negotiations were also discussed the meeting lasted approximately 45 minutes and now I would like to make a motion to approve meeting minutes as presented in items 3B through [Music] 3G second rashita any questions or comments all in favor thank you this is a motion to approve Financial reports as presented in items 4B through 4M for January 2024 second please Sharon any questions or comments all in favor thank you this is a
002motion to approve the January 2025 Treasures report second Gale any any questions or comments all in favor thank you um and now is there any public comment on this evening's agenda all right seeing none I will turn it over to Dr Christian thank you motion to approve the Personnel report and extra your contracts as outlined in items 7B and 7 C board action is requested for the recommended Personnel changes appointments for promotion employment or transfer are subject to the presentation of valid credentials employment verification documentation and state mandated requirements I have a second please Rita any questions or comments all in favor thank you and now I will turn it over to our student representatives for your reports all right starting with clar high school this Tuesday February 18th students deemed Cupid's cuties by student
003council delivered Valentine's cards to those whose friends had written messages for them students look forward to cubid cu's festivities each year and all purchased cards run towards the student C school scholarship fund seven PW art students including Addy Quan Isabelle lamro Nel Noel Nara Martin Phoebe btz and Gabrielle tan will be presenting their artwork at the Tri County High School exhibit at the North Hall Gallery in potown this is certainly an honor pw's cheer team also placed an awesome forth that Nationals in Orlando Colonial School District students of all ages joined together on Martin Luther King Jr day to get back to their Community as part of the district's fourth annual Day of Service plumouth white March high school students led the activities and assisted the younger peers with the projects during two different sessions
004during each session black cultural awareness club members gave a short interactive presentation to remind everyone of The Life and Legacy of Dr MLK Jr a record number of P White Marsh high school students have also qualified for the future Business Leaders of America fpla state conference 26 students will have the opportunity to represent Region 20 at this year's conference in Hershey flum White Marsh high school students competed against 15 high schools from F Gomery County as a part of the Region 20 competition held at Upper Dublin Public Library on December 12 the team also brought home six first place Awards in the categories of graphic design personal finance parliamentary procedure Network design management information systems and healthc care administration congratulations to all these PW students the Clum way Mar High School chapter of the National
005Art Honor Society recently delivered a carload of art supplies for young patients at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia chop in King of Prussia to support the initiative the NS set up an Amazon wish list inviting contributions from staff family and friends the draft collected a variety of art materials including crayons Paints color pencils activity drawing books and Clay the pwhs nahs art supply Drive supports Chop's creative arts therapy department where therapists use art to address the unique needs of children coping with illness injury and the stress of hospitalization congratulations to plumouth High School junior Ace cren they'll be preserving in the Pennsylvania music educators Association pmea Region 4 Orchestra on bassoon the Plymouth White Marsh High School junior qualified for the Ensemble after a competitive audition process at pmea District 11 Orchestra the district 11
006Orchestra features the finest musicians from bucks and Montgomery counties kraton along with pwhs junor Katie aide participated in the district Orchestra earlier this month at Spring Ford High School the region for orchestra Festival also includes musicians from Chester Delaware and Philadelphia counties and will take place February 20th to the 22nd at Gerard academic music program School in Philadelphia so shout out to both Katie and Ace so now for CMS this month's inservice day revolved around the developing space of artificial intelligence and education in in addition to a broader presentation about recently approved board policy and District guiding principles we had a variety of sessions led by teachers and and administrators together to review and develop best practices related to AI particularly for efficiency curriculum and instruction please congratulate cms's calcul solve winners calcul solve is
007a Student Competition hosted by the Montgomery County Intermediate Unit that test students problem solving skills related to mathematics in the elementary division first place n legon in a two-way tie Second Place Florence Bros Natalie Perez and a six-way tie in the Middle School Division second place Sarah Fri Caitlyn Jacobs in a fiveo time there were 55 competitors in the elementary Division and 138 competitors in the Middle School Division students final scores were Ted using both their individually earned scores and their team scores on January 23rd selected 8th grade students attended a field trip to Montgomery County Community College they participated in a presentation about the college's programs and toward the campus to experience Community College life firsthand the kindness Club is happy to share that CMS collected a couple hundred nonp perishable food items that
008will be donated to the Colonial neighborhood Council on Tuesday January 28th the second annual Coral Extravaganza was held in the CMS Auditorium this year the CSD Coral family was highlighted by special guests at PW chorus five Coral groups are highlighted PW chorus CMS Cotes sixth grade chorus 7th grade chorus and the eighth grade chorus each group sang a variety of coral styles for a standing room only audience audience culminating in two combined numbers with a total of 375 students singing together congratulations to the PW and CMS Coral directors Jeff Cooper and Amy venis for coordinating an event with celebration for the CSD Coral Department the evening ended with an onore fly fly that brought everyone to their feet next up is Colonial Elementary Thursday February 13 the students attended a civil rights assembly presented by
009the young audiences of New Jersey CES has begun its before school program which focuses on students who could benefit from additional support in math and literacy there are 6 students in this program all fourth grade students also went to Art and theater to see a performance of Peter Pan in January during February all teachers are focusing on black history month during morning meetings and pembers of cms's band Orchestra and chorus came to CES to perform for the fifth grade students and spoke about the opportunities they will have next year Plymouth Elementary is taking part in the read for the house community service project this project allows students to record reading time during the month of February to raise donations for the Philadelphia Ronald McDonald House at Rich Park Elementary our annual PTO sponsored spaghetti dinner
010which was Wednesday January 22nd families were excited as Rich Park staff took their orders and served them many thanks to the PTO for their efforts the event was a huge success the second grade team sponsored special persons night on Thursday January 30th guests were able to see the students's classrooms and complete a craft together first grade students led by Mrs o staying for their families at Cs on January 23rd it was a very successful concert students were excited and proud many thanks to Bob hael for recording the performance for us the great kindness challenge was January 27th to the 31st the entire School Community joined in promoting kindness through various activities and literature each grade level participated in a variety of kindness activities including displays across the school for K Haw and Elementary on Friday
011January 31st CE students made ladybugs as a craft out of paper plates during the Great kindness challenge week the ladybugs included words and pictures of kindness on the body of the ladybug this activity was our second no place for hate project and extension of our one book one school initiative through the book ladybug launch created ladybugs were then launched to K through3 buildings by special education teacher Joanna lvin and guidance counselor Alish Johnson to display on bullets and boards to spread kindness around CSD in February C highlights black history month during morning meetings teachers are sharing with students famous black Americans and their accomplishments c teacher Meredith mcdevit created a beautiful mural outside of our gym that includes a for former cpws student Kenny Williams Mr Williams who is a professional trainer came to CE
012on Friday February 7th for a special interactive workout assembly with second and third graders starting in January and extending into March CE is hosting step into our world of reading by the KW and electric force track load and the live direct step team this program is on Wednesday evenings and free to all students CE is looking forward to our annual Unity walk on Thursday February 27th to culminate Black History Month that will be led by the pwhs BCA and members of the kraak and electric force at White Marsh Elementary the PT will be sponsoring our annual pasta paloa night this month over 500 reservations have been made for the event a poster contest was also held to promote pasta paloa One winner from each grade was selected and awarded a $20 gift card to buy
013below whs also had a Super Bowl Cann food drive students voted for their favorite tea by bringing in a canned food item such as a soup or vegetable they then placed their item in one of two large bins identifying the Chiefs or Eagles all can items were donated to the Colonial neighborhood Council the Eagles won the canned food drive and as we all know they won the Super Bowl go [Music] birds thank you both so much um now we will move on to new business RI motion to approve the 25 26 mciu membership services budget as presented may I have a second please uh Chris any questions or comments all in favor thank you Rick motion to approve the budgets and payments in the budget for the spring production sorry for the spring Productions at
014pouth White March high school andial middle school as presented um May the second please will any questions or comments just want to share the Matilda will be the pwhs co player spring musical from March 13th to 15th and CMS spr musical is the production of the descendants with scheduled performances from March 7th through 9th 2025 awesome thank you um all in [Music] favor and shanon this is a motion to approve director of Technology Andrew goley to attend the cosn 2025 Consortium for school networking conf confence in Seattle Washington from March 31st through April 2nd may have a second please rash any questions comments thank you um is there a solicitors report this evening solic report move on to committee reports uh Chris uh no report thank you a curriculum Sharon so yeah the committee of
015the board met on February the 10th um and included reports from our elementary principles and leaders uh we discussed annual achievements areas of growth areas of focus uh pbas data uh all the fun things and um we went into depth around schools um areas of Pride as well and how they're align this to their school Improvement plans so we appreciate our leaders taking the time to share uh updated information and data with us um and really proud of the growth that we're making there um Mr VI also gave an update on Summer Academy learning opportunities that are going to be offered this summer and Mrs Burke gave an update on the extended school year esy program that will occur this summer as well and then we also appr um discuss the conference that we just
016approved great thank you so much uh [Music] will yes um we met um for the facilities of management facilities management and transportation committee um where um Mr L went over the new update for the renovation at CES um the building's coming along really well and we' also talked about the um uh like the 5year project the the things that updates that need to be coming um so just to get them on our radar so that we can make thank you so much Finance also on Monday February 10th uh we discussed the two items we voted on this evening as well as a look uh the budget year to date and a second look at the projected numbers for 25 26 which were slightly more favorable than the first numbers but still plenty of mov thank
017you uh HR [Music] Gale yes on February 3rd um HR met and at that meeting we heard from some of our uh blackmail Educators who attended the black Educators NE male educators conference um in Philadelphia it was an awesome um read out and so I hope everyone watches or listens to uh the recording to hear about the um exciting times that they were able to have there along with our HR director and um Melissa drissa figa Douglas great thank you uh Chris no report thank you uh Mark anything from the Intermediate Unit there is no update report from the inter unit this even uh Sharon anything islative um as mentioned earlier we're continuing to keep our eye on the governor's budget um there was an interesting uh release this morning from the PA auditor general
018around cyber charer school reform just wanted to bring awareness to that and um in terms of dates for the board the legislative breakfast at the mciu and press conference will be held on April 25th uh 2025 and psba day on the hill is planned for May 13th 2025 um so I shared those dates with you but just wanted to make sure that I shared that as well great thank you so much um any Community reports um just real quick for K hopk and the St Patrick's day perade will be on Saturday March 15th at 2 p.m um hope to see you there the and the results of the Fall um or sorry the public use Recreation survey and there was a a solid response rate to that 6% of Township which is great for a
019survey like that so those results will then be used to help decide uh use of public lands through white Mar parks and wreck uh there's a whole calendar full of events coming from Summer cans to shredding days and you're encouraged to go to the white Mar Township dep website thank you most current is uh Saturday uh 10: to 12: at gpcc we will be having a black um and that's all have Fork um G anything for the foundation there is but I just wanted to add something to the community so um over the last three Wednesdays the county has held a black history virtual event and on next Wednesday it culminates into a um inperson event at the human resources building in NS town so to add that um for the colonial Education Foundation so
020we're in the midst of the Phill of Love campaign it's going to end in a few days so if you have not contributed this is an opportunity to um give some love back to our staff and teachers so get in on that and then lastly get prepared and get registered registration is open for the 5K that is going to be held on April the 6th great thank you so much um attached to this evening's agenda for your information are school activity accounts athletic activity accounts building reports curriculum reports and a technology report and now is there any public comment this evening further board comments this evening on last night due to all the snow delays uh pwhs had the 8th grade uh course selection meeting and uh scream back to school night and I received
021a lot of feedback from parents were there about how well the students and staff presented that um so they were very excited so just want to B kudos to rwt all right see now this meeting is ajed thank you