April 16, 2026 Board of Education Meeting

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012so we started teaching. 97 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) He was of course most famous in the district for the work where you become a group of the high school and the district together, the subject in and out of the classroom districtly. He creates lessons. He created websites. 98 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) To keep track of scope very students as well as the district. His work. 99 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) It really helps us to move this forward in a way more than AI. But here's a lot more than just the asian side. 100 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) Because beneath all the eye and his loud moving radio points live article, those who actually love our kidding parties. Most people do not put the charlier, they didn't start practices, but I do. 101 "Canajoharie CS BoE"

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020As new president I know that respect a different time. One that's not maybe in this wheelhouse much, but like everything because one he wears with great to go to the house is he gives God enough. 137 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) But as a human present, stepped out of his comfort zone and use his ten year accounts. In his position he has a very good advocating the teachers on both sides. 138 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) Very messy situation. And there's definitely this very situation with those hard times have pretty strong bottle between us. 139 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) I know that I always trusted to be there. Do what's right, even when it's not easy, I can be open with it and give me feed, and we only cares a resolution and they are both without

021some of the things that we didn't do. 140 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) This is not how we place the schools. This is something we're very. Therapistricts out there with relations unit and administrations of the but not here that that is something remarkable that is not as easily on the shoot as it's. 141 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) So thank you for your years of service, always put it on amazing shows, being a strong young leader, running an amazing used department. This curtain made me close on the stage of your life, but I know the next time feel the more greater than just trial. 142 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) Michelle is the market. 143 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) So prior to coming here, I was a certified and restored in just Australia. 144 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320)

022And it was one of the reasons I got hired. Then assignment told the joke to the board about his student sitting on his lapse. Of course, with my practices, dr. Nick. 145 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) To merge my knowledge of certain practices and my knowledge unconscious decision. 146 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) I remember talking to her once my 1st year and they did immediately impressed. At our 1st conversation, I saw that they were very much on the same page that I looking forward to meeting with her, but every time we tried to meet you something happened, one of our meeting days there was a purpose. 147 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) Another they really thought of just did not want us to have our meeting. So when we scheduled our meeting in 18 March 2020. 148

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024rear page she does not live with values. Both cases were starting my to bring her back. She thinks everywhere takes value and tries to understand who that person takes. 152 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) Why didn't do the things that you do and always sees the best outcome for any difficult situation of which she is involved in a lot. You said, she did not and she always must remind people of that and sometimes get blurred due to the nature of her job, but despite not being. 153 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) She must also get involved in situations that are generally resultable with people like people and while she may not have the powerful to suspend people, she always has the power to reach them. It's funny, despite emotion in the district, there are still people who

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026their school moms and help other things. 157 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) That honestly the kids should not. 158 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) But we can't change reality. She does not always have and she does not pretend that she does. But what she does talk is a space and a listening here. That's what most people need. 159 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) As educators, we want to be able to solve everyone's problems is even our nation, but in 2026, kids have some pretty huge problems that we are to solve, and that's a harsh reality we have to face. Going into an educator, so. 160 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) Secure against small homelessness or apparent was standing their kids. I wish she could when you get. Michelle understands that. And while she always tries to help, the most

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029friend. The insurance. 168 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) Okay. So. 169 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) He looks fun. 170 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) So. 171 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) Yes. So we can we can call the meeting back to order and looking forward to the history department report. Right. He didn't speaker. 172 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) Listen it's nice to be here. We were just saying it's we want a nice celebration and you're welcoming and new people in and congratulating people for the next station. 173 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) So I'm fortunate enough to represent the history partner. We have two great features who were able to join me tonight. Bill Schoft and Justice Parker and two that were not able to make it to a new county and Terry schoft. But we're gonna run down

030what we've been able to accomplish this year and we'll chronologically talk a little bit about the experience, both in the goals that we had as a partner at the begin. 174 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) Either vertically aligning or horizontally aligning. 175 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) But overall giving the kids in Canada Harry a unique learning perspective in the field of history. And I think based on the results, based on what you're gonna see I think I I would put our department up against the history department anyway. So the 1st thing I'm happy to to talk about is that we brought back a history club. 176 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) Which we've had over 45 kids joined to be a part of. We did our annual October on an house for fraudio close to $3000 and

031a great experience not only for the kids and for us, it's a great time to, you know, to work with the kids to laugh and to. 177 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) Bring money in our specific club, but it's also a great opportunity for the community to come into the school and to really see what we have to offer in terms of our extracurricular activities. So that was October. We ended up taking a, a trip to the capital with our senior level government group. We wanted. 178 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) To. 179 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) To bring to light some of the things we were talking about in the classroom and what better way? I know some of our students have maybe even never been out of Montcomery county. So we wanted to show them

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033But be able to be a part of this to go and actually present at the capital with assembly Patricia little louder. Yeah, yeah with one of our assembly and Patricia Petty, they they had the opportunity to present alongside students from Alvania students from. 183 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) Scotia from all these pretty large districts and actually I would say one of our standouts is right here and nothing there. Stood out, really, really stood stood their ground along alongside these. 184 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) Districts that are stables of the, of the region there at the table participate, that's something that we in the history we probably been trying to push for them. And what way did they stand out? What what was it that they did that the others did say, do you mind if

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035that we're trying to help contribute. So we had the opportunity to speak at the national conference this past December. It's been an ongoing goal of ours to. 188 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) Speak at a national conference and, I think it was roughly our 1st conference we've ever gone to together as a as a department. I think it was probably 2010 or eleven. 189 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) And once we got there, we, we said, look, we gotta do this. We, we wanna be part of the the people behind the podium rather than than the audience. So that was that's been an ongoing goal. We have officially now had how many how many fill have we gone to and presented at four? I think four national, couple state and and a few of more locals, so

036what an incredible experience to be. 190 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) Chosen to to speak at a national conference and. 191 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) Had people from all walks of of the history realm all across the country to come and talk about our our podcasting and how we can use that and and reach kids through the electronic device, which a lot of times we see as kind of a detriment, which obviously we all know it can be. But it was right during COVID. 192 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) He came to us and said, listen, I think you guys would be great podcasters and we kind of laughed, let him joked about it, and I got a text from Phil once we were locked down, and he said look the kids are home and our classroom

037is not. We need to bring the classroom to them. Let's start the podcast. So it was kind of one of those things inspired by a student for students. 193 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) And it has recently exploded. We are we now in I think a hundred and 14 countries. I think it was the latest latest number with a hundred and 3430 8000 downloads, something like that. But either way, our goal was to reach kids and now we still have former students join there just, you know, talked about their latest podcasts, and we got a chance to talk about that and how to reach. 194 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) It's through not just the classroom, but you know beyond the classroom, which is one of our goals to the department for years. 195 "Canajoharie CS BoE"

038(3368728320) This year also we've taken on the task of taking the region's exam again in January and we found that we had incredible success. We were actually blessed that you all within our department to continue to add to our canaden areary history department racing the bar a hundred percent up. 196 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) Right who. 197 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) We had the chance to add these two young individuals, great, great kids in our level who are, who are just they're gonna go on and do amazing things. And we really had a great standout across the board as you see again, these are January results in I think these are impressively looking at June, but these kids have really locked locked in and. 198 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) Especially in the the history department

039here in Slowdown. 199 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) In March, we kind of had a unique opportunity. You already put on a three day AI symposium and there's only four you all be back leave and there was a $75 fee that you had to pay, but unfortunately we were able to work with. 200 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) Some connections were able to get us in and child research and study center was nice enough to have us on as people working with them. So through NO cost to the district aside from just having people at such, the three of us were able to go and really get insight into. 201 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) How AI is being used at the collegiate, and there was amazing stuff being done. In the top left hand corner, there's a

040grad student who was explaining to us that she's developed AI equations that track the negative comments. 202 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) And how much quicker they travel than positive. And in the bottom one, they talked about AI being used in, in mechanics and helping people who have had certain injuries, certain diseases where they're not able to use certain parts of the body or they have to have physical therapy. 203 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) We heard from veterinarian students who have like literal lifestyzed dogs built with AI and they're able to go through and work on them, but they were real animals and diagnosed based. 204 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) On the symptoms that the AI generated dog was, was giving them. So to see AI from the collegiate model to see how it was being

041used, you know, at evolving, it's just it was a different level of of ok where where can we take it in the high school and what opportunities are gonna be available to our students, you know, moving forward now? 205 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) After graduation. So that was fun. This is really cool. So it's great to go places, it's great to bring in new ideas, but we're here a lot. And and that's a good thing. How can we make learning in candigenary unique, creative, and fundings? And we're gonna give you two examples. We've done a joint lesson, little rock central high school. 206 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) The only school that is on the national registration for historical cases. So I reached out to a Cameron Stella who is a very, very newsleman, she's the

042librarian at little rock. And the 1st thing they did when I kind of initiated I wanna put this lesson with them and talked to students who attend little Rock high School right now. 207 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) The same place where they saw the desegregation after brown versus versus board of education was she told, she told us about a memory project that her kids initiated, where they take all the information firsthand accounts of the people who these the kids. 208 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) Knew who they were related to and pretty much documented them and and she shared all of that with us. She shared a care package that was, that these guys complaint it's absolutely not. They they sent us all of this free stuff that relates to their high school in this crucial

043point. 209 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) In our history obviously and the art department has been gracious enough to give us two of the displays after their latest art, event that we will be putting that on displays for the rest of the soon body in the. 210 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) We've also the the students at little rock wrote us letters, and we passed that on to Misterni and there's correspondence at the middle school. So we talk about that vertical alignment, civil rights, I mean it resonates. 211 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) K through twelve, you know, six through twelve, but so there's almost like a pen pale old school field to seniors at this historical working with our spending value. The other thing that's kind of cool, we reached out to Berlin Germany. There's the Berlin

044Wall Foundation. 212 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) And we asked if they had any pieces of the burling wall that they give us. And they were extremely brickless and they sent us three pieces. So we have the three pieces of the Berlin wall in our possession, we had to sign a long term loan. 213 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) It'll be with us for ten years and then we can resign it. This is mr. Shock teaching off Burling today and tomorrow we'll actually bring in pieces of Berlin. Our students here in Kangery can actually see, feel, and experience. So I mean again. 214 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) Trying to get those kids those memorable moments. What do you do today in school, like that's all. I mean how many other kids connections so that that's exciting. And

045and our kids are responding. Amazing. They absolutely love. This is the best one I'm gonna justice. 215 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) Yeah, we we've had an amazing opportunity this year where our bigger econ class our government econ classes aligned, and we're we've used it kind of as trial out of a smaller group to see how we can integrate the content together. Everything that's government related tends to associate with something that's econ related, so we really jump forward. 216 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) Doing other projects together that the kids are, are working one obviously primarily focusing on the governmental side, the other primarily would be. 217 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) And and from there really it's that, that skill building on the real life level and the content thinking that we're trying to focus on along

046the way and it goes even beyond that, where we're, we're always in the history department. 218 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) Let's with the opportunity to be able to talk to each other very often to think about how we can integrate the ideas that the administration has that the school board has in in a way. One of the things that we've been able to do to help is start this guest speaker series, we have gotten together. 219 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) With the whole idea of being college and career readiness, how do we. 220 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) There are students to be competitive at the next level and make things tangible for the students. So what we have we've been doing throughout the course of this year is reaching out to people from all loss

047of life in our community. Most, most of this is oriented towards if you're coming in here, we want to know that there's a job aligned up for our. 221 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) Student body perhaps or an internship that they could segue into, that if a student's interested we've had a series of students especially. 222 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) The Megan Myers here, the Amsterdam, she offers a series of internship programs. Students have reached out to her, they've already set up interviews, they already have their internships set up. Their foot's already in the door. We've had the opportunity to have politicians from our local region, especially with this, this very exciting 21st district. 223 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) House of Representatives position that's opening up, we've been able to have for the top candidates come

048in actually to speak with ok from Robert Mollen. We didn't get to add him on here because AI is fun to add it, but we had. 224 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) Blake in a few days ago, and he was amazing as well. And all of these individuals are coming in oriented with the idea of how can they offer some markets? How can they show up so there's a pathway that this is a future career that's aligned perfectly in my perspective of a graduate ideals. 225 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) The ideals of the academies hopefully this can segue into something maybe where we create a connection with these particular organizations, right? Or Vanessa Lossy who's a news anger, maybe she she needs an intern, maybe she needs some assistance and we can set our students along

049the way to get these unique opportunities that. 226 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) Other districts are taking advantage of. The last thing I'll touch on is that, you know, what do we do when we have our department meetings and what's the focus? The focus primarily has been six through twelve, you know, when, when a, when a child goes through Jodie's classroom, what sort of skills. 227 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) Are they gonna use? What sort of ELA terms are they gonna hear? What sort of history related terms? And so on and so on 7th grade 8th grade all the way up through senior year and picking the account. So we sat down collectively as a department and came up with our top five ELA terms, top five or excuse me, top ten ELA terms, top ten

050history related terms, and then the top ten skills. 228 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) And we developed working definitions that kids would understand, we assigned pictures to them, you know, so the kids can use that portion of their brain. 229 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) And then we created posters, and each one of us has a poster here in our room. They're hanging next to the fortune of graduate posters so that the children every year they come through this classroom get something familiar and it's something that constantly reinforces. 230 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) You shouldn't need to look at the new school year as blank slate. You know a lot coming in. You'll hear the verbiage, it'll be familiar to you. There's a very high level of confidence, and it's something we initiated this year along with

051our writing prompts every Thursday at 20 min. 231 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) You know whether you're in middle school or high school, that's consistent across our our department and I think we can look at our test grades in particular, the ability to reference the right, and I think we're starting to kind of. 232 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) Read the benefits so to speak of some of the other departments that did. And if I could add to that too, we have to give a shout out to our special ed department because this is, this is directly correlating with with Caroline and some of the special ed needs and she's one of the reasons why it inspired us to, to create especially with having symbols to go. 233 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) With right brain left brain,

052and having those examples in front of them. It's something as simple as having two doors now. It's, it's a team though, building, you know, it's, we're a strong team because of the members. 234 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) But you know moving forward, we're gonna keep doing what we're doing but but we're gonna continue to try and be creative, and that means horizontal. 235 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) Alignment as much as I mean we're bringing in the arts, you know, music and how it's impacted history, the arts, physical education, learning about different athletes and the role of the Olympics have. I mean it's, it's interesting for us. We we are taking the initiative. 236 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) But the most important thing is our kids are benefit. We're getting great feedback from students. I think

053students for the most part enjoy our class. I'll tell you something interesting. You kind of switched gears after January's regions. We used to say, hey, you didn't get mastery on the regions. 237 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) You you had to take it again, right? So if you got a 74 congratulations you passed, we're gonna make you take it again. This year we said, listen, we understand that you have other regions that you've got to take. If you got a 74, you don't have to do it, you're gonna do a capstone project instead. But we're getting the opportunity. 238 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) To try for the 85. And out of, I think there were 35 kids who passed, and maybe 25 that didn't get mastery. We have upwards like 18 kids who on their own

054said, I'm gonna take it again. 239 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) I want to get the 85. So for us that feels good because we're, you know, challenge yourself. It's a mentality and I think I I think that's a reflection of where we are in the building. So we're challenging kids and, and they're starting to respond. 240 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) I think the other thing too is we'll, as we close, I just want to point out to you that we're, we're all athletes. We love sports, and as athletes you if you're static, you're not growing. And if you're if you're growing, then you're moving, and we, one of our biggest fears is the department, but also individually career wise, it's like we never want to be stagnant. 241 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) So what we

055are continually growing on and sometimes maybe at our fault because it's at. 242 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) Our energy levels are drained sometimes, but we we look at each other like how can we improve, how can we push on the gas? Like let's go, let's go, let's us and let's grow, let's expand our reach. Let's, how can we move to different areas where, hey, we push the kids out in the realm it's like we've never been here, so we're gonna go with you and and really try to capture that athletes mindset. Like if you're not gonna make the next. 243 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) Next step, then you're only gonna stand still and many times you're gonna regress. 244 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) So one of the things we're we're trying to do is we're,

056we're looking forward to the future. How do we continue to grow? We're looking towards maybe even doing some sort of TED talk with our history department and taking over the track and doing huge, I mean we have some amazing presenters in our freshman in sophomore classes that only grow through justice's class. 245 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) By the time they hit junior and now senior year where we wanted we wanted Oh man, we wanna put everybody on display, like look at what our kids can do. So we were even considering doing a project in the following year where we take over the track and we do, you know, a symposium that we saw on you albany, and transfer that into the high school level cause i'll tell you, some of our kids. 246 "Canajoharie CS

057BoE" (3368728320) This would outperform some of those you all been kids in a heartbeat and that's the competitive edge that we all have and we wanna, you know, continue to push moving forward. So those are just some of those things that we're, we're looking forward to, but hopefully we can do so and and represent energy Harry the best way we can. 247 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) Thanks. Thank you. Thank you. 248 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) So the next one will be department presentation. 249 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) Okay. This will probably be shorter. This is just me. 250 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) It's just me and these slides are not really mine. They were created during our department meeting, but they kind of encapsulate what we do. I can get this too from here it's.

058251 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) Let me put that around I think I already have this open, but. 252 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) Okay, so we used one of our department meetings at least one, I think in January I started talking about this with the the department because I knew that in February our trainer from. 253 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) And, and come and taught us about vocabulary acquisition and every September we look at and we look at our statistics from our city tests and we figure out what our priority standards are, and the standard four is vocabulary. 254 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) And it kind of consistently comes up with something that students struggle with. And if they can't understand what they're reading or what the question is asking them, they have little to notions

059getting those questions correct. So, one of the things we talk about is how do we handle vocabulary construction? 255 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) Across grade six through twelve. So this is an example of what Emily Cheney came up with, and she says that in 6th grade this is kind of a common diagram, it's very similar to what our prayer model used in high school, and you'll probably see that in a moment. 256 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) So the students kind of select words out of your. They select words out of whatever they're reading, whether it's an independent reading choice or a whole classroom and they. 257 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) They write them down, they come up with the definition, they use it in a sentence, and then as a class they discussed the connotation,

060like associations with the word synonyms and antonyms, and then they also incorporate sign languages. I thought that was really cool. 258 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) To help them kind of connect to the word and be able to know how to use it. And then we kind of just suppose this to what happens at the 11th grade, and we're all in between like reinforcing this, doing similar things to help the kids learn new words. So this is an example. 259 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) Of what Shelison's Monica does in her 11th grade classroom. They go over, oh, and I think Emily also commented on tier two words, and she had briefly clarified that for us, that tier two words are words that are super valuable to. 260 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) Students because they're not content

061specific. They're going to see across the curriculum that also maybe appearing in the stories and whatever that they're reading. So these are like power words because they're gonna help them everywhere. So Shelly has the students use a whiteboard and address. 261 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) No. 262 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) Not a computer, not a screen all the time. And each student receives a vocabulary word on an index card with a part of speech and they have 3 min to make as many connections or connotations with the word as possible. And they take turns stating the word, the definition, and the connections they make, and then as Shelly had decided this. 263 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) To assist building a deeper understanding of the words and their uses. 264 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) Another big

062way that we're vertically aligned with the English department is through our writing program. And this page was created by the middle school teachers and they focused on the two point response practice, which helps get get their students ready for this. 265 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) Which I think are pretty much happening it's a lot of testing. So it's a short written response to a text based question. You require a claim and strong evidence you come through those terms again in the science department says. 266 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) So that's prospericular, and then it mirrors expectations that the students will face later when they take the English regions. And then school wide writing alignment. 267 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) The writing expectations are reinforced across all subjects in the middle school, monthly, and in ELA

063weekly. So that's and students consistently practice claimed evidence and explanation. And the middle school ELA department created an instructional. 268 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) Guide to support and implement this. And then this is kind of what Shelly's been working on, but we all do something kind of similar, even if we don't use this in all of our classrooms. She's discovered this year claim evidence, explanation, and link. And I really like this because I think you can. 269 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) Remember this, they can remember all the steps they need to do. 270 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) We they are completing argument and they are trying to write clearly and explain what they're saying. Cause they want to say what they mean, they want to also tell why it matters. Why is it important? 271

064"Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) And then she kind of outlines this just, you know, so it's clear for people who may not be familiar with this. So the claim is kind of usually what you're proving or something a statement you're making. She, the students use sentence frames like are illustrated in the example, like in whatever work we often utilizes and blah blah blah. 272 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) Okay, and then you provide the evidence, so that's where the 1st E comes in. E.g., the author writes and then you insert your quote and you can do your citation. And then you have to have the explanation. 273 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) Without the analysis, like why is this quote important? We don't know. And we always tell the students from but can they explain? That's where we

065see the thinking. That's where we'd see the understanding. And then finally, there's the connection. So how does that relate back? 274 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) How does that prove that? That's really important. And, our aligned writing program. 275 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) Which we've had for years, we've been trained, we've always had a reading program. We, I don't know how many years we have ten or 15 be engaged in college ready writing. We still use remnants of that today. It might be called different things in that like we call it the Harris moves and we did. 276 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) The three ends to like, introduce, insert and illustrate evidence, but it's all the same steps, and it's working because in January on our regions we had a 42 % mass review and we

066had an 87 %. 277 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) And they have to if they don't get back in January in June. So, and that should just make our statistics and that's all. 278 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) Okay, 42 % 42 % mastery. We don't joke around. We're all about the grit in the English department. 279 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) You can do whatever. 280 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) What? Good. 281 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) Hello everybody. I'm Melissa please share and with me tonight I Haveland anderg. 282 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) To present on the science department. 283 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) All right. So, and we had our meeting talking about maintaining rigor in the middle school in high school, we noticed that there was a lot of similarities between what we are expecting

067from our students at the middle school and the high school, so we've kind of combined everything only obviously at the high school it's at a little bit of a different. 284 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) Totally higher difficulty, so we incorporate inquiry based learning in our curriculum, critical thinking use of evidence to support a plane, so like. 285 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) Beth alluded to, we, we do a CER which stands for claim evidence and reasoning. So when students are required to make a claim, they answer they answer a driving question using a sentence, and then they back up that claim using evidence. 286 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) From either a passage or a diagram graph, and then they are required to provide reasoning as to why that evidence is going to support that claim. So

068it's very similar to what they do in English as well as in history. 287 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) So we also integrate cross cutting concepts aligned with the standards and we also incorporate communication and collaboration with, other departments and between student groups. 288 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) So alignment wise, this says 06:12 it's actually, we can back that up to 03:12. Think of science as basically like three buckets. There is physical sciences that we would think culminate basically in physics and chemistry. There's life sciences. 289 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) That you think of culminating in biology, and there's earth and space sciences, which we think are science and austratogy. So there's kind of those three buckets. And the way new York State has written their standards, I say New York state. There's the next generation

069science standards, which are the new iteration of standards. We've seen that roll out in language arts, we've seen that roll out in math and this. 290 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) Now rolling out in sciences. And so the next generation science standards are national standards that have been adopted by most states. We here in the great Empire State have tweaked them a little bit, so we have the next, the New York State science standards, but it's it's in those three buckets. So the science standards are written physical science. 291 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) Living, life science and then earth and space science. And they're written in three additional group groupings, meaning there's three, five standards, there's six eight standards, and then there's 09:12 standards in each of those three. So long story short, as long as

070we all just follow. 292 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) All our standards, we are vertically aligned. So, this is where it gets really exciting, right? So who so like this is, this would be like one example that says MS MSPS, so these will be physical science standards written for the middle school, and then. 293 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) The same standards essentially but written for the high school. So the instead of MSPS one, it's HSPS one. It's still the same chemical reactions chemical reactions. If we dive a little if we were to dive a little deeper, we have our three colors. 294 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) Madam Fisher mentioned the cross cutting concepts, but there's the cross cutting concepts, the disciplinary core ideas, and then the science and the engineering practices. And again, we could do

071a deep dive into that. But the point is, this is what it would look like in the middle school standards, and they look essentially the same as. 295 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) High school standards, very similar, groupings. We're just getting more granular as you go from the three five to the six eight. 296 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) To the 09:12. So, there's a lot going on in there, but again, as long as we all just sort of stick to our standards, we are vertically aligned. So here are the electives that we currently offer at the high school. 297 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) So we've got forensic science for which mr. Sunderline teaches. We have in the high school, anatomy and physiology that I teach AP biology Thatiker teaches, and then we have food science that

072to the shaper teaches. 298 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) Apply physics that we have four distance learning courses. We have dairy science, equiet science, animal, and then marine science. These are all high school science courses. So I was told that Ford had a couple specific questions. 299 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) Science department and because we didn't quite know exactly what you guys were looking for, I asked guidance to pull the last ten years of data and have sifted through it and that concern, how many students are completing four years of science? 300 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) And how many students are taking AP and what is their primary path to get there. So, I just want to point out that this analysis that I did does not include any information on food science supplied physics or

073any learning courses. It's just the core science department offerings, and it covered about 600. 301 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) Hundred and 64 670 students that we've had over the last ten years. 302 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) So how many students complete four years of science? It's about 30 %, give or take. We're looking at about a hundred and 92 students total. Three years of science at one 9580 students at two years, and 97 at one year. One year, I don't know explain it's probably transfer students, other. 303 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) The things that don't come in and we don't have the, the data. Two years, it says actually in my data analysis, the average number of years completed is 2.83. You might know that you need three years of science at Candjehary to graduate,

074so you might think where does that other number come from, right? 304 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) Food science, apply physics and other things. It's people that aren't taking the four year science track probably needing to do science in college, and they are our vast majority of students that come through the science department. So the average student says 2.86, closer to three than four. The core sequence. 305 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) Tends to be air science, biology, and then chemistry regions, then we have a drop off attentions after chemistry regions, and then electives are the primary way students extend beyond the core. So you have many four and five year students, and you say five years, you only have four years of high school. 306 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) What are we talking about? They double

075up, ok? So they'll take multiple sciences or the other option is that they take earth science as an 8th grader, and then they take the four year sequence here at the highest grade. So, who takes AP biology and how did they get there? 307 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) Talking about these slides that we offer and that was the question. 80 and biology enrollment over the years, the lowest enrollment class was six. It was in the class of 2024 cohort couple of years ago. And then our average size is. 308 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) Now I want to say that I went back to 2015, so I think the largest AP class that we've ever had in the last ten years was somewhere around 13 or 14 and it was the 1st year that I started

076teaching here. Other than that, it looks like the numbers, I mean correct me if i'm wrong, but Did you? Okay, was it. 309 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) Yeah, and that didn't show up in the data, that's probably on me. But it looks like on most of the classes were like ten, 1112, maybe a 13, and then couple lower ones. So in the grand scheme. 310 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) Is enrollment maybe viable or all lower than it used to be? Not much, not much. Science as a whole, in general, doing four years, a little bit, right? So that's something that probably down the road needs to be figured out as to why we're not retaining four years of science. 311 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) But, so as the says everybody else here is a small

077to meaningful slice of the department enrollment, but it's it's stable, but it's not. So the typical track to get there is going through all of the chemistry, so the course. 312 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) Chemistry is required for incubiology. You can't take it without chemistry, so you'd have to go through that, that training. That's where you can kind of differ, and you can take the course of anatomy and physiology, some will take physics, some will take forensics, most take anatomy of physiology and maybe double up. 313 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) That's where we're gonna see that double up happening between the animuphysiology physics usually. I had one crazy student who told me today that she took an aniophysiology forensics and physics last year. Or not physics, but chemistry. So she, she crippled that way, so

078I'm like, oh, ok. 314 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) So the most, that's the most common path right there to get paid by. So the last question was, are we considering any new AP classes? And the answer is none of this time. It would be considered after we came to a decision about merger in the event that we saw a merger. 315 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) Then that could definitely be an option on the table, given a combined staff and staff interests. There are, I think three or four more science courses that could be taught, that aren't currently available. 316 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) So, I guess we'll see pending that where we go from that. There is NO teaching teaching presence right now. Yes sir. 317 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) Anything else? Yep. Any other

079questions? Thank you for your time. Yeah, thank you. 318 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) Thank you. Don't forget me. Oh, I know I'm out. 319 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) You saved the speedy one for less. Hey, here we go. I gotta add some. 320 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) Alright, so 06:12 in that department. Here we go. When it comes to vertical alignment, we go through, I think a ton of standards since I've started. Before I was department share we vertically aligned to make sure that all of our stuff was revamped. 321 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) To align for that and then obviously with the help thank God of some of our lovely tigered people tonight as well as one of our family well next gen. Major focus in vocabulary because as English said, you can't see.

080322 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) Or really what we're looking at, right? At least very hard to understand what we're doing. So we strengthen with vocabulary, whether it's gallery walks or posters, like they do in eligible one and in the middle school or in eligible two realm. 323 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) We do a lot of front, have the kids look at it, share it out, talk about it, and make sure that we're verbalizing our math skills. All right. We also did a strength in like real focus on Algebra skills because Algebra is, as many of you know, are. 324 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) One major major region's requirement for our kids to ultimately get their homeless. So we strengthen our eligible skills in the 6th eight curriculums, really trying to help build a better and

081more structurally sound foundation. 325 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) I'm build from which then will help them in go as well as for any of the other folks we have, whether it's statistics college Algorber or beginning. Alright, we also added for six. 326 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) Six eight eligibrett and geometry some pre and post skills. So for each unit, the skills they should be coming in with and the skills they should be feeding within our curriculum drives. That way it was super helpful for any of our other special edge. 327 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) Teachers to see, ok, this is what they should already have the need is moving forward to try to help them understand what they're doing later on. All right. We also try to vertically align grading policies loosely because I can't

082tell people which we do equate homework across the board as. 328 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) Much as possible because if they don't try it, just like if you don't practice your three throat, you're never gonna get to be better at it. 329 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) So the kids need to try the homework. We're not necessarily looking for accuracy. We're gonna get through that and they're gonna practice it. Now, percentage based on the homework is not usually very high, but it's about practicing the skill so that way they can get it and hopefully nail it down once detected or once it comes to, you know, future use. 330 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) We also do test fractions for partial credit because our firm belief is to correct the mistakes now. Moving forward because everything builds

083on each other, you hopefully will continue to make those same mistakes. Everything constantly builds in mathetics. 331 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) Whether you're in other one, geometry, other group two, 6th grade math, it doesn't matter. Everything builds on top of each other. If you never correct those mistakes, you're never going to move forward. Rigor. 332 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) I sell as part of you guys, I sell as an online learning program, they use it six, eight and this year they use it in elderath. So the kids practice different skills that we can set for them as a teacher. 333 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) They also can go in and pick skills that they want, which some of them do for fun. But they can ultimately push and improve their skills. So what we do

084blessings. We do bollies in the middle school they do quarterly diagnostic testing in. 334 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) 9th grade, we do random diagnostic testing, we just update them within our math class. The kids really like to push their levels and see what they can get, which is exciting for them. So in the middle school though they are meeting with them to discuss their quarterly grades, they break them down with them. And what I mean when I say breakdown. 335 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) The example on the top right is what the kids see. After their diagnostic testing, it shows them where their level's at. Now this is an example for a 9th grader, a little low overall, it's a little frightening sometimes when you look at it, but sometimes they just like skip questions

085as we know from middle school test force. 336 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) They just like to push the button that is online testing. So if it begins with the 9th, it's 9th grade level, Begins with the 6th 6th grade level. Be really eye opening for some kids. When they're like oh my measurement skills are at a 4th to 5th grade level. But it can be motivating for a lot of them to then be like, oh, look at these skills I can. 337 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) And work on. There are, they're often, at least in the freshman class, are very proud of their algorith skills when they're on point, which is nice. But I do know in the middle school they're meeting one on one with students and talking to them about building their skills,

086trying to make sure they have a better foundation. 338 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) To push them forward and talk about which is awesome. All right. I'll touch on that after building pinging classrooms, for anyone that doesn't know, I've gone through a whole bunch of conferences, Shelby Danielle, with Rachel, previous years. 339 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) It's based on a book by Peter will Jadel. I had to ask Google how to actually pronounce his last name. But it's all about pushing the learning on the kids. Putting up a math problem and letting them figure it out, letting them talk it out, letting them verbalized out. You use it a lot now with the one, I use it in the middle school, I use it now for the school. 340 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) In a little

087bit of a different format. Nonetheless, letting them develop their learning. Be terrified as a teacher especially somebody that likes to control their classroom, but it's hugely beneficial for the kids. So I just release them and put them in groups and watch them go and see what happens when I wander the room. 341 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) They'll ask the questions here and there, but for the most part, they can figure out the math, which is really easy. And then we'll bring it back together and have a discussion, make sure everybody understands what we're doing. You can even, as I've talked to Carolyn about, she will take pictures of their work and then share it out cause. 342 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) Ultimately does become their normal, which is the more traditional. My kids like to

088write everything down because they're like, little miss anything, so they write everything down. So I don't necessarily recept to do that. But it has a really nice change up. It's hard to do every day that he has to do for certain topics. 343 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) All right. And then skill based activities that they're doing down in the middle school props to them, they did like a crazy super bowl square graphic where based on the number of skills that they ultimately achieved, they got say a one ticket per square or they got two tickets and I think it was five skills to get a one ticket square. 344 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) Ten skills to get a two ticket square, and they put restrictions on the grade level to try to help push to

089achieve more, which was awesome. The like excitement and motivation levels that I got from Shelby and Danielle? 345 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) They said it was an amazing turnout. And I know Danielle tried to do a March madness bracket which became more of a headache, but she was still trying to find something new to do. Questions? Good? 346 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) Thanks. That's why I. 347 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) Okay reports of student representative report, take it away. So, we have the academy. 348 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) I'm sort of created as hopelessness and youth, and they came to high school, they gave very speech on rolling prevention which they tie into like the current state of modern health statistics for children and teams. 349 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) And overall, you know, the

090risk that the kids don't resonate with the message not big. 350 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) Very well received students. And. 351 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) What the students said and then after the old assembly speaking. 352 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) There were starting seventies that organizing school improvement efforts, so students came together and they talked about things that they had the chances they want to have. 353 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) That also had great outcome plus it said they can say questions for each other. That was. 354 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) There was also direct small group function for our guest figures. So we actually got them and talk with them and ask them about their stories because they really didn't have a very interesting story. 355 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) That's. 356 "Canajoharie CS

091BoE" (3368728320) The last seniors, very. 357 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) The and all of a sudden, and. 358 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) Like touch and department presentation speaker series, we had like. 359 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) This week off too long ago. It's really, you know, we've had so many speakers coming through this, like just leaders foundational members of our community. 360 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) So. 361 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) Story of how to successful. So. 362 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) So who are you thinking they always offered? Yeah, it's like, you know, some of them had more longer speeches about that. 363 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) So I think that should have. 364 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) Hey, any other questions, comments? Hey, thank you Javier. Okay, next thing is the superintendent report.

092Just a couple things one and they asked a few of us to go down to washington C. 365 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) This summer and go right into the chambers with. 366 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) And really advocate for for education right now the federal budget came up with $6.5 million public education and get your support if you're ok with being down there. 367 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) Reach out to the people down there. We've been doing it for quite a few years, but they're trying to. 368 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) That new budget does not look in place at all, and I know it probably won't stick completely, but $6.5 million for public education even goes down to $2 billion public education is devastating for that. 369 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) We closed up

093all the merger forms. We had three or four meetings in each forum. Last night they met, we all met to go over the recommendations and questions. I really thought our administration did a phenomenal job of meeting those focus teams with the help of. 370 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) Collaborating with work plan as well and it was really good to see the cross section of recommendations, which was pretty neat because it showed that everybody's kind of on the same page. So we'll have that present on the 29th for everybody to have Karen and I will go over, you know, just a detailed view. 371 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) Give a packet of what everything was and and what it'll be a great catalyst for us if we Do we'll be able to use that to kind

094of take off right for for the the following year. 372 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) And start to formulate ideas and concepts so we got a lot of there. Rickson is putting his presentation together and met with Leah the other day for the last time and helped his five year planning for us ready to go I think in this week. 373 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) We'll have pieces of it to start the forums because our forums start next week and then go have this full presentation. The 29th, we're gonna get pieces of it to start to put it in the forums start next week. We have our 1st forum on the 21st. 374 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) On we have the superintendents at the timer plus the village dimer and then we have another form on

095the 28th soon. 375 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) Just to give you a heads up on the grants, we able to secure $35000 grants for three hundreds of heroes that we talked about coming in to get a $6000 grant for our family stream program, a $7000 grant to bring a guest speaker. 376 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) A 20 excuse me $50000 grant to do another guest speaker next year and then a $25000 excuse me, a hundred and $12000 grant to put the Jewel said in. 377 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) Settlement that new York State got are counting at $300000, so once they said there was quick as we could and we put that in there. So we will have paid detectors in every bathroom in our middle school and high school. We'll also have. 378 "Canajoharie

096CS BoE" (3368728320) Some educational pieces built into it and also some counseling available for students who eventually use them or part of suspension where they had to come back to school. Take a guess how much certain big detectorschool in high school, what do you think? 379 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) Oh 82000 so anyway, that'll be built in and we just finished a $340000 brand two that was put in for school safety and prevention knowled by 1 June. 380 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) And that has a lot to do with social emotional and also does some things part of our soft salary plus cameras, some extra cameras that we want to put in the building project where we can put them in here and use other things for our building project. 381 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320)

097Hopefully had an organization help me with that grant, right's grants for the living, so hopefully we put together a pretty good one. So in all due respect, there'll be half a million dollars and we'll be able to pull in to help our our district. 382 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) And then our building projects will be kicking off our projects about two and a half, three weeks we'll be starting to build our wells in the back and then we'll start to do the rooftop units in our middle school to start. 383 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) And then we'll work our way into the elementary school and I'm not gonna go too far ahead of the pretty good preliminary information on getting through those loop documents a lot quicker, so there's a lot less disruption for our

098kids here in the school year. 384 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) And then we'll finish it all up next summer and we'll have the full pulling and heating throughout our entire district which should be nice. And then also to offset the costs. 385 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) And then the boilers right next year. So they're all working together to help us seven year oldability to get up to the next city. That's it for the. Thank you. Any questions, comments? By the way, I just want to say I was very believed that the. 386 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) The roofstop units would be helping to supply the energy for the geothermal because they use a lot of energy and I was thinking that would drain our solar field but apparently, you know, it works, and that'll be

099great. 387 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) Okay, next slide report. Finance committee for the most part, we've talked about finalizing the budget something that we'll have to do tonight. Not really much of an event to pull the the. 388 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) Budget up and do that change. Leon can kind of just go over it a little bit. $6 billion. 389 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) Is 2.6 % anywhere. 390 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) It says 1 % definitely possibly 3 %. This budget is. 391 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) So even though the budget feedback So. 392 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) That service is, it's savings because. 393 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) So that's much less. Like 1 %. 394 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) Get that in a bunch of trips a lot with a with

100a distinct possibility of going down 3 %. 395 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) Yeah, so we could take ahead of the Medicaid management quite a bit because of this head of. 396 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) So and attached definitely is like the detail that any questions, comments? 397 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) Questions. I noticed in 1620 that the water the center of operation for the building has increased percent, but in the bus garage budget there is NO water in this order. 398 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) Sense, and I was just curious why scratch and just had a meeting last night, the minimum is gonna go down so that. 399 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) The minimum and of course there is So this is we got a little bit. We just gotta keep. 400 "Canajoharie CS BoE"

101(3368728320) Let me skip ahead to the 21 tense travel to a conference for K twelve proposed a budget of $12000 previous year this is. 401 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) So. 402 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) We swapped them because it's easier to have less paperwork for the title of grants right now the follow up and the questions. They want they didn't think you're gonna have all the PDs set before the school. 403 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) Here starts. 404 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) And it doesn't work that way so a couple of these I know are large most I figured the percentage of these just kind of stood out. High school biz and supplies. 405 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) Increased 63 %. 406 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) For particular high school thing and it's not in

102line with other department's society places. 407 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) Yeah, because they're probably Previously the PE budget is somewhere between 1202 thousand something like that and so that PE buzzer remains, but then it help us themselves where I think they're. 408 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) That would be reflecting that change. 409 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) Almost done. In 2010 guidance instructional salaries and non instructional salaries, there's NO increase. Why did not have a contractual increase. 410 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) So what we're what you're gonna start to see over the next couple of years the squeezing of the fluff per se, as we try to circumvent our loss, I guess probably the best way to say. So the fluff's starting to come out, which is good and bad. 411 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) Right?

103Because we won't have much to fallout soon ok thank you alright, NO questions we'll move on. Thank you. 412 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) But we've gone to approvals, I would editate a motion for a consent agenda. Sure in favor. Okay, we'll start with this. Any questions there? 413 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) I'm actually gonna be Quiet report ok yes. Budget transfers, everything there? 414 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) Okay, the school. What is the story for that? 415 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) School District that's a transportation issue, ok? This controls. This is for the project. 416 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) Okay with carbon reduction projections. So these are all the different. Personnel five days. 417 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) Marketing and introduction business and ownership. Anything there? Okay, proposition of legal notice for the 4 June.

104418 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) Correct from twelve to eight with the elementary school and adopting 2627 final budget, anything there? Okay, I would have to take. 419 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) All in favor, thank you. We have old business upcoming meetings that's 29 April between the joint meeting at the high school of corrier. 420 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) And also that same day in the morning, there'll be the the DOE phone but I was close. Okay, and then on 7 May. 421 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) In the regular hearing there will be a budgetary followed by a regular meeting and on 19 May in the eastern library special call meeting which will be to Tally the budget, and I guess for the school board as well. 422 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) Okay that's it at

105this any questions, comments there? Okay, moving on to new business, I just wanted to indicate that as you know, the New York state budget has still not been approved. 423 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) Nisba has a template that they're asking people to use to advocate for to send emails to hopeful and our state representatives urging them to endorse the NISBA priorities, which mostly would you know and what I'll do is I'll share it with. 424 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) You all and then you can just use that and you know and then also I'll share it with you Nick and might want to be interested in. The the template is there you just basically have to. 425 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) You could add something if you want, but if not, you can just wanna

106say something because my son Workston's offices that they'd never read those templates. They would just stack them out. So if you wrote it specifically yourself on your own words, they would read that. Yep. So I give you. 426 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) You're spot to do that at the beginning if if you want to make any, any, you know, any personal comments, so I think that might that might, you know, address that issue. 427 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) I'll I'll send it out and you know you you can modify it as you will. Okay then moving on to reset executive second. I entertain a motion to go into. 428 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) My favor. Thank you. Good night, put it all how do we there's a motion to to approve an agreement with an

107employee so we proceed. 429 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) Second. I don't know. Okay so. 430 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) You can read itself that the Board of Education by approves the agreements by and between the school district dated on about second. We had a motion of a second by Heidi and. 431 "Canajoharie CS BoE" (3368728320) Yeah. Bye bye. Do we have to.