001Call to order. The regular meeting of the Kingsburg Board of Education will be held in the Bulger Middle School media center. Adequate notice for this meeting has been mailed to the Asbury Park Press, filed with the Municipal Court of Kingsburg, posted on the district web page inside the office of the Kingsburg Board of Education. 100 Palmer Place, Kingsburg, New Jersey on January 11th, 2025. Roll call. Mrs. Clayton here. Pleasure. Mrs. Friselle, she called me. She's on. She asked to be excused. Thank you, Mr. Thank you. Mr. Manowski. He also called me to be excused, please. Thank you, Mr. Kitchen. Here, Mr. Cook here. Mr. Hoff here. Miss Ferrar here. Miss Ryan here. Okay. Just um for emergency exits, there's four posted. And then can we please stand for pledge of allegiance to the flag of
002the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. We do have a presentation. So if you cannot see the screen, please make yourself available. It's going to be about 6 hours. It's actually all right. I'm going to quickly go over the access uh for our results at our ELA ELLL population. Um the test is given every year. Um okay. So it's given every year it's typically from midFebruary through April. So it's kind of like a a time span that we do uh give the assessment and our ELLL teachers um administer it. Um it basically offers an extensive view of the language development and helping educators track indiv individual student progress over time. Um so there's targeted interventions to support ALS
003as they advance through their academic journey. So it kind of levels them out and kind of shows us where they are in the in the process of learning English. So just to give you an idea of what they're assessed on, they're assessed on these um four essential domains be listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Um some children we do exact if they do have an IEP they will be exempt from um a certain section if needed. So uh we work with the CSC team to identify if there's any students that would need to be um exempt from um a certain portion of the test uh due to their disabilities. Um so within those domains the scores are one is entering two is emerging three is developing four expanding and then five and six are bridging and
004reaching. We want our students to to exit the program at a 4.5 so they really just get to that expanding portion. um we can make a decision as a team for a particular student to keep them in the program longer if we do feel that they need to be in the program longer than um a passing score of 4.5. But we do usually exit um in consultation with the teacher, the administration um and um the parent as well. They make that decision. We do monitor them a year after they do exit though, just to make sure they're still on track. Um, just to note, there are some parents that refuse services for ELLL. Those students that do refuse services, we are required to test them. So, some of the the children that we have scores
005for did not receive any of our services even though parents refuse them. All right. Um, another thing is is that if a child is enrolled 2 weeks prior to the closing of the testing window, so I said the testing window is February, April. So I can come in um 2 weeks prior to that and I'm required to choose the test. I can come right um from another country and um I will be required to take the test. So just keep that in mind as you're looking at this course. All right. So, I know it's not as colorful as it is in the past, but um I wanted to give you a clear picture. You can see we have from K to 12, our students uh we attested. 10 and 11. We did not have any
00610 or 11th graders uh this year, but you'll see that our lower grade levels um are more between the three four level and um as we move in, especially into the high school, you'll see that the scores are going to dip down a little bit. Well, they're more on the lower level, the entering. That's because those are the children that are coming to the country for the first time. We're getting uh children in high school and middle school. So, they're kind of the like fish out of water, right? They're coming to a high school or a middle school and they're required not only to be taking algebra one. We're sitting in an English one class. They're only getting um two periods of instruction a day at ELLL. Okay. So, any questions on the specific scores
007that are up there? I just had a question. Um why? So is it a state requirement that we test them even if the parents don't and what is is there like a common reason why a parent would refuse that? Like um they just may feel that they don't want to be pulled out of the regular instruction. That could be an option. They feel that maybe the services that they're like some I would just think they would want to serve social security if there's a reason why they're you know. Yeah, we are finding that cuz we do have a high specialized population. So a lot of those kids are also our ELLL kids. So those children are getting services for OT, PT, speech, and then they're going to be pulled out for ELLL on top of
008it. It's a parent, it's a parent, but concern about just how much outside the classroom. Yeah, for the most part. Or some parents just feel like they don't need it. They're getting um a good mix of their home language and then the speaking English at school is Yeah. Thank you. You're welcome. All right. Good. Thank you. All right. So, like I was saying, um, kindergarten through third grade, you would see that that age average was between the three and four, which is great because I think I mentioned in that first slide or second slide that it takes them um estimated like 2 years to get to that exiting or to move up a level. So, for them, they're close, right? Like they have to get a 4.5 to exit. So if we can get those
009kids out, that would be um you know a positive. Now when we go into grades four to eight, you'll see that it starts to dip to between a 2.5 and 2.6, which is the emerging emerging level. So we got to bring them up to a 4.5. We're going to focus more there with just expanding their vocabulary and um things like that. And then for the high school, um I think there was a total of three students. Um and they were all newcomers. So they literally just came in high school. So it's a brand new environment. And now they're also asked to test and they're also asked to test even for NJSLA and GPI too. All right. So overall um you'll see the patterns. early grades, like I said, show stronger growth. Um, and then the
010progress kind of stalled um elementary and the middle school. Um, we would like to see kids to a five or six if we could, but passing is a 4.5 to get them out of the program. Um, and then the fitment for a suggest in the instructional support. So, I'll go over that um in my final slide. So we are I know this is a lot to look at. We are uh required to report subgroups by race, gender, and program. So you'll see that this is page five on the left hand side. you'll be able to see I mean you'll be able to see it more clearly if you had a laptop in front of you but you'll be able to see if the students um you know uh had an IEP if they're um you
011know Hispanic if they're white is white whatever it is on on the left hand side so they'll show you the subgroups and if they're male or female um and then as well as section 504 uh would you would I categorize ize it as meeting and not meeting. So you'll see that growth expectation. So when the state kind of scores us as a whole, as a district, they'll give us a report that says we either met the expectation for ELLL or we met the expectation for NJSLA. So you'll see um in those grades uh you'll see the grade that we met those expectations for those subgroups and those grades. That's what that is. The gray is um that first year baseline. So those are like our kindergartener students or somebody that took the test for the
012first time. That's their first year baseline. And then this is the same from 6 to 12. So again, you're not seeing much green here as I mentioned before because these are uh where it kind of dipped off. But the gray again you're seeing your first year baseline that goes back to those kids that are first entering the country for the first time. Um that's basically what you what that means but for the younger grades the kindergarteners for the first time. Okay. All right. So some intervention strategies that we'll put in place. Um we always have parent and community engagement. So, I know um some of you received the talking points messages. Those are great because they translate it into the languages for the parents. So, the parents are fully involved um in regards to their
013school progress because we're we're able to translate anything that we send out through talking points in their language. We'll continue to have the ESL parent advisory committee. We usually do that in the morning so that their parents can drop off the kids and they'll sit with um myself and the ELLL teachers and we just kind of guide them through something as simple as going on and how to use the program to to find their child's grades and things like that. Um we obviously encourage uh them to become be involved in their children's education. We provide additional resources. So this past year they did have um a speaker come out to support them um in regards to um I think it was what was it immigration. Um so they did they teamed up with the union
014and they had um you know somebody come out to to speak about that. Um we have extended learning opportunities and we provide tutoring after school. We have uh with our title three funds we provide extra support specifically for our elves. Um and then we also have training. So, I think we're almost up to I would say 50% of our staff being trained in SEI, which is um sheltered instruction, which provides them 15 hours of training in order to show in order to support um the L's in the classroom. So, not only are they getting support from the ELLL teacher, but they're also getting support from the actual content teacher or grade level teacher in the classroom. Um so some things that we should target by uh grade stand. So K3 we just build on the
015grades uh by reinforcing the phonics, the oral language and the early literacy connections. Four to eight, like I said earlier, we focus on vocabulary, grammar, context, and routine comprehension strategies. And then our 9 to 12 are really our newcomer support. So really making sure those high school and middle school teachers are using those strategies from the sheltered instruction in the classroom because you know they're sitting through these classrooms with higher level content and um they don't have the language to understand the teacher who to communicate back. So it's really important that those strategies are utilized there. Um and that's really it. So, any questions? Is this going to be on the website? Yes. Yep. It will be under the state assessments. Okay. All right. That's it. Thank you. That looks like your eyes. Okay, at
016this time are there any committee reports? Mr. Cook. Thank you, Mr. President. I have a couple of committee reports. So, I'm just going to go down the line and go one by one if you don't mind. So, first the uh first uh curriculum meeting was held earlier this evening. Um as you just heard from our director of curriculum with a very nice presentation. Uh some of those talking points were discussed during the meeting. I'm not going to repeat them as she does a lovely job for everybody. Um but also was discussed is how KER continues to be advocacy student programs. This year the language arts program has the kindergarten through fifth grade is in year one of a new program that is focusing on writing in alignment with recent national educational trends while the mathematics
017program is in year four highlighting an increase in algebra test scores. As noted in tonight's agenda, as some of our board members might have noticed, we are applying for a competitive grant, very competitive, that would fund the purchase of highly quality instructional materials, HQIS, for the high school with year 1 implementation starting this year if it is awarded. Also, with the growing national focus on student physical education, Kingsburg has been continuing this trend for several years, but implementing new programs that meet and exceed basic standards, an area where many districts have not placed as much emphasis after CO. We are also proud of our outstanding law enforcement program which many people are very quite aware of which serves for both Kingsburg and Middletown students. The program focuses on student achievement and introduction to a career
018in law enforcement offering several positive experiences like a wall honor recognizing participants over the years for their dedication and service. If anybody has not seen it is absolutely amazing is something that I highly recommend you take a look into. Um, this year is also continuing with the law enforcement and we introduced a new program that expands on careers in uh the 911 telecommunications dispatch training in partnership with the M County Sheriff's Department. Uh, one last thing I'd like to just also mention as far as uh career paths, you know, we talked a little bit about that, but also with testing. Um, Kingsburg students also benefit from the AP courses through both Kingsburg and Miltown school districts as well as the opportunity to earn college credits through university partnerships. Overall the academic programs career pathways and
019focus on student growth continue to lead the pathway. Um thank you for that report that is curriculum. Now I move on to the financial report. Finance committee was held early this evening. Um just a couple talking points. The HRAC project the high school has been completed and the high school kitchen facilities were installed through a grant. This is of course no cost to the district. Additionally the quads behind the high school. If anybody's been back there for a high school game, you probably have noticed them. They are pretty much almost all gone. Um, and that was also of no cost to the district. Uh, also they're redoing the windows in the high school and have completed a brand new resurfacing of the high school gym floor. These improvements enhance the learning environment for our students
020while saving out of cost to the district. I also have one last committee report just kind of a small update from the uh legislative part as the delegate. Um, the next NJSBA delegate assembly will be held on Saturday, November 22nd at Mercer County Community College. Any board resolutions must be formally adopted and submitted by October 3rd to be included on the agenda. If anyone has any questions, please see our president for further details. Thank you. Outstanding. Um, at this time, I'm going to open the board meeting for any comments and questions related to the board agenda only. I show hands if anybody want to speak. Seeing none at this time I want to close that portion at this time executive session. Be it resolved that in accordance with the provisions of the open public readings
021act board of education shall conduct closed executive session pursuant to the personnel and legal exceptions prescribed by NJSA 1014-12 for the purpose of discussing legal and personnel. It is anticipated that the length of time of this executive session will be 15 minutes and the action will be taken public after the executive session. Be a further resolve that the minutes of the executive session will be released with the need for confidentiality in accordance with NJSA 10 col 4-12 no longer applies. I please get a motion. I'll make a motion. I'll second it. All in favor? I. Sir, did we say how long it's going to be? About 15 minutes. 15 minutes. All right. Talk amongst yourselves. We'll be right back. Yes, I I need I need a motion to come out of executive session, please. I'll
022make a motion, Judy. Thank you. All in favor? I We're going to approve the minutes for the regular meeting on July 15th and executive session on July 4th. I please have a motion. I'll make that motion. I'll second it. Roll call. Mrs. Clayton, Miss Kelly. Yes. Mr. Kitchen. I was Mr. Cook. Yes. Mr. Hall, I abstain. hours away. Miss Roro, yes. Miss R. Yes. Thank you. Okay. The superintendent of schools recommends positive action on the following items. Personnel resignation 2025 to 2026 district. Professional employment 2025 to 2026 district. nonp profofessional employment 2025 to 2026 district. We're going to just remove the second name down there and you'll also see it on um the addendum. That one off. uh teacher professional and non-professional staff for 2025 2026 leave of absence u medical leave of absence unpaid
023child care long-term substitute teachers for 2025 2026 substitute teacher power professionals 2025 to 2026 uh permanent pool subs for 2025 2026 substitute computer technicians 2025 2026 advisor uh positions district um advisor positions KHS uh revision law enforcement liaison 2526 before and after school academic support teachers school-based youth service program 2526 uh teams for high school extra block teachers 2526 KHS Kingsburg after school program enrichment teachers Kingsburg after school program tutors district uh Kingsburg after school program t substitute 2526 Kingsburg after school program substitute site coord coordinator 2526 6 Kingsburg after school program facilitator uh 2526 Kingsburg after school program site coordinators 2526 um and that's broken up into Bulier and Caruso coordinators Kingsburg after school program support staff 2526 you'll see a data entry clerk and a program secretary there um Kingsburg after school program
024teacher assistance 2526. Family friendly center 2526 district uh family friendly center coordinator district. And then you'll see our program coordinator there. Family friendly center substitute 2526 district. Title one family engagement and homeless coordinator 2526 Title One Titan Family Academy presenters K8 2526 High School uh educational specialist part-time academic loss specialist math and ELA 2526 sheltered instruction training title one grant personnel salary change in degree status movement on the guide 2526 revision girls locker room monitor KHS central detention teachers KHS Rocker's workbased learning program structured learning um summer workshop Transition planning nursery vision 2526 professional development costing 150 or above 2526 and then do okay the superintendent of schools recommends no right we'll get we'll get motions any questions um may I Please have a a motion. I'll make a motion. I'll second. All right. Uh
025any questions? Any comments? I have one question. On number 30, what is a part-time academic law specialist? What is that? So, it's basically an intervention um teacher. We had that last year. Um so, they work 3 days a week um at an hourly rate. So, you'll see the hourly rate. What do they do? They work with uh students for six hours of the day um doing interventions with those identified through um a m multi-tiered system of supports our tier two and our tier three students which are most need need med need med need med need med need media students uh receive extra services like a tutor uh yeah I guess you can consider a tutor but we're required from the state department to do a multi-tier system of supports uh so we identify tutor which
026requires more paperwork. I got it. Okay, I got it. Thank you. Yes, sir. Mr. Cook, you had something? No, no, I'm just looking. Thank you. All right, sir. Uh, roll call. Mrs. Clayton. Yes. Mr. Kelly Hammer. Yes. Mr. Kitchen. Yes. Mr. Cook. Yes. Mr. Yes, Miss Rora. Yes, Miss Ry. Yes. Okay, Christine, you're muted. Okay. The superintendent of schools recommends positive action on the following items. General multiple activities and transportation schedule 2526. Memorandum of understanding school district and the Middletown Township School District. Principal and teacher evaluation instruments for 2526 school hours disposal of unus unusual unusable outdated broken furniture equipment and out of state trips KHS 2526. Right. Please get a motion. I'll make that motion. Any questions, comments, or concern? Seeing none, sir. Mrs. Clayton. Um, yes, but abstain from 39. Miss Callahan, yes.
027Mr. Kitchen. Yes. Mr. Cook. Yes. Mr. Hawk. Yes. M. Ferraro. Yes, Mr. Ryan. Yes. Um, we have an agenda. The superintendent of schools recommends positive action on the following items. Resignation 2526, nonprofessional employment 2526, and title change 2526. Can I get a motion? So, Jim Then do we have any questions, comments, or concerns? I just I don't want the disappearing going through your head. Congratulations. Thank you, sir. Mrs. Glavier, yes. Miss Calmer, yes. Mr. Kitchen, yes. Mr. Cook, yes. And congratulations, Mr. S. Thank you, Mr. Hoff. Yes. And also, congratulations, Miss Ferrar. Yes, Miss Ryan. Yes. Congratulations. Thank you. Thank you. School business administrator. Board secretary report. Board secretary's monthly certification. I certify that no line item has been overextended and that sufficient funds are available to meet the district's financial obligations for the remainder
028of the fiscal year. Payroll certifications for July 15th and July 30th. The superintendent of schools recommends positive action on the following items. One, receipt and acceptance of July 2025 for secretaries report. Two, approve appropriation transfers. Three, approve bills list. Uh for the record, I'm going to read the new amount of the bills list is 2,32,841.3. Number four, approve 2526 school year added district tuition. Five, approve the following consultants for the 2526 school year. Six, approve Mammoth County vocational regular education 2526 school year. Seven, approve Mammoth County vocational regular education and special education 2526 school year. Eight. Approve add of district tuition for 2526 school year. Uh this this uh payment is deducted from our state aid payment. That's how we pay for that. Nine, approve the submission of the rise competitive grant. 10, approve the
029submission of the coach competitive grant. 11, approve the submission of the impact competitive grant. 12, approve the submission of the Lyft competitive grant. 13. Approve the acceptance of the 21st Century Community Learning Center Program Grant. 14. Approve the submission and acceptance of the fiscal year 26 PSDA grant application. 15. Approval of settlement agreement. 16. Approval of settlement agreement. 17. Approve the transportation joint with Madawan Aberdine for 2526. 18. Approve the transportation contract with DCF 2526. 19. Approval of uh Navian's contract. 20. Approve approve the YMCA of Greater Army County Counseling and Social Services 2526 at no cost to the district. 21. Approve Atlantic Health System drug screening 2526. 22. Approval of Pritchard Industries for Facilities and Operational Management Services for 2526. 23. Approval of dual use waiver of educational space for the 2526 school year.
03024. Approval of change of use of educational space for 2526. And 25 approved revision of the proposal for professional services for the new pickle ball courts at Kingsburg High School. Can I get a motion, please? I'll make a motion. Can I get a second? Any questions, comments, or concerns? I have one, please. On number five, it's on the back page. The uh second name, can someone can someone please pronounce that doctor's name? Dr. Dr. Luc. Okay. Thank you. That's that's awesome. And I'm saying that because I try and I just want to pause. Thank you, sir. No other questions. Roll call. Mrs. Clayton. Yes. M. Kellyan. Yes. Mr. Kitchen. Yes. Mr. Cook. Uh, yes. Mr. Hoff. Yes. Miss Ferraro. Yes. Miss Ryan. Yes. Okay. Let the record show that Miss Clayton left. She did not
031feel good. She thought she was going to get sick, so she just took it. She stepped out. Okay. So, I'm sorry. We got everybody. Yes. Okay. At this time, we're going to open the meeting for any public comments and questions related to uh additional concerns. Please show your hand and come forward. Seeing none, at this time, I'm going to close that part of the meeting. So, at this time, we're going to open up for any old or new communications, Mr. Kitchen. No, not all the kids in the school year. Outstanding. Mr. Fo. Yeah. I'd like to welcome all the new staff to our district. I hope they have a great year. And I'd like to congratulate Mr. Cook for becoming appointed to the New Jersey School Board Mon County Board of Directors. Thank you, Mr.
032Brian. Again, Mrs. Clayton felt Mr. Cook. Uh, yeah. Sorry about Mrs. Clayton. Just need to be excused. Um, just want to say congratulations to all the kids on starting another school year. Hope you have a safe and healthy and very happy year ahead of you. Um, also the Kingsburg football team because I see their uh schedule right here. Their upcoming varsity game is going to be on September 6. So be nice if we all go out there and cheer them on. Um, show our Titan pride and uh, thank you. Um, hope everyone enjoyed the summer. It really goes great. Um, but looking forward to the new school year. We have a lot of good things going on. Again, we're always expanding our curriculum and a lot of extracurricular activities and try to find something for
033everyone. So, I look forward to seeing the happy faces again in September. And thank you for coming here tonight to our administrative. Senator, nothing. Sir, nothing. Okay. So, I just have a couple things, please, before we wrap up. Summer school's over, so everyone in our school system is getting to enjoy the last few days of summer. I believe we have about Yes, Mr. Summer school's over, so our staff is um getting to enjoy what about another 3 weeks before we all head back here. So, no thank school till we come back. Uh fall sports will be starting soon. Tomorrow, I'll get a time to our members. We're going to do a tour of school to see the outstanding job that our maintenance team has done throughout the summer with a very short time frame. Uh
034again, congratulations, Mr. Cook to your position on the county board. Thank you. So the next time we leave, our children are going to be back in school. So I would like to thank everyone who had a part in that in the summer school program getting the school ready from the janitor to their lunch lady to our central office to our main teachers. Thank you because I will not be able to see before the first day of school. So thank you for everything that you do. With that being said, I'll entertain a motion to end the meeting if we want. I'll second. Sorry, we got myself. All in favor? I just for the record. Okay, guys. Thank you.