001work at the elementary things are great down there. >> Okay, good evening everyone. Can we please rise for the pledgece to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Thank you. Um we'll open the meeting up to public comment and again uh public comment on the front end is for agenda items only. So if you have anything to ask and question regarding the agenda you can do it now. Please uh just state your name and you can shout out your question. Okay, we'll close public comment and we'll go into our special presentation, leaders of the pack. I'll ask the elementary school to uh start it all. >> Good evening everyone. Um we have Leslie Sal.
002in your college. Your teachers say Wesley Sales is a responsible, kind, and respectful student who consistently sets a positive examples for example for peers. He takes pride in his work, completes assignments on time, and approaches each task with care and effort. In addition to being academically responsible, Wesley demonstrates outstanding character. He treats classmates and adults with kindness and respect and all respect and always follows classroom rules and school rules. Wesley can be counted on making thoughtful choices and contributing positively to the classroom community. Uh Miss Adameck, your band teacher said, "I am so happy to have Wesley in band this year. Not only does he have a great start to learning the saxophone, but he is kind, respectful, hardworking, and a pleasure to teach." Miss McCaffrey, your music teacher, says Wesley is a model student
003in music class, always focused, enthusiastic, and and ready to give his best effort. He consistently participates with a positive attitude, listens carefully, and sets a wonderful example for his classmates. Whether singing, playing instruments, or learning new musical concepts, Wesley approaches every activity with curiosity and respect. His dedication and teamwork make him a true leader in our music world. Sorry. Okay. >> Do yours first. >> Awesome. Thank you. All right. Solo today. Um, we I would like to add that Danny is our leader of the pack this month. And when we asked for a seventh grade leader of the pack, the vote was unanimous. >> Wow. >> They all voted for you. That's what that means. You know that. >> Okay. Um Um, your gym teacher wrote, "Danny is the most compassionate and upbeat student I
004have ever had the privilege of teaching. She's always working hard and looking to help others. I'm so happy Danny was given this award as I could not think of anyone else who deserves it more. Congratulations. Um, your music teacher said, "Danny is a creative student who deeply cares about both school and her friends. She's a bright musician and bubbly person. She's fantastic to have in music." Your health teacher said, "Danny is such a kind, thoughtful, and hardworking student. She always puts in 110 effort. Isn't afraid to ask questions. She's never without a smile and willingness to learn and help other students. And your social studies teacher says, "Danny is a polite student. She works well independently as well as in a group. Students value her opinion. She puts effort into her work and it shows.
005Mrs. Torres and I are very happy to have in our class. Thank you. You just ran all that distance. >> Thank you. >> All right. For our November leader of the pack, we have Logan Ellison. Um, Miss Wisdom, his math teacher, said, "Logan is dedicated and hardworking, always giving his best effort both in and out of the classroom. He approaches challenges with persistence and never gives up until he finds a solution. His good sense of humor brings positive energy to those around him, making learning enjoyable for everyone. Miss Sailor, his CIA teacher, Logan is a true leader. He quietly does the right thing all the time, and with a head nod or a quick word, he pulls other kids into line. He puts up a lot of good-natured ribbing with from his peers and teachers,
006but he can handle it. He's resilient, hardworking, and thoughtful. He's caring and no nonsense. He's an awesome choice for leader for the pack and a student that I'm proud to have any role in teaching. Mr. Tatum, his English teacher. I've really enjoyed working with Logan over the past two years. Obviously, he carries himself with the confidence of a star athlete and with good reason. But I think what doesn't get talked about enough is the lead the leadership he demonstrates off the field. He models positive behaviors in the hallways, in the classroom, and in the community. The pride he took in implementing the youth football camp for a CIA project is really a testament to his dedication to our school and our community. Happy to see him recognized as leader of the path. And Mr. Rizzo,
007sorry, one more. Um, his football coach, Logan, is very deserving of this award. He is a natural leader who has come to recognize his leadership skills and uses them positively in the classroom and athletics field. Logan embodies the true essence of a Highland Husky and makes it a point to pass on his legacy to the future Husky generations. I am very proud of the adult Logan Ellison has become. Thank you again on behalf of the entire board of education to all the leaders of pack job well We'll move into our uh business portion of the meeting. Those parents and guys that would like to leave now welcome to do so unless you want to stay and listen to our meeting. >> Congratulations. >> I feel like I'm sitting on top of You can come closer.
008>> You can move back if you want. >> Okay, we'll go through our consent items. Uh E A1 to D45. I'm sorry. 44. Uh, like normal, if you have any items you want to pull, any questions that you want clarified, we can do at this point. While you're reviewing that, I'll ask for a motion to approve the consent. Motion by Tom, second by Heather. Anyone have any questions, concerns, comments? Okay. All those in favor? >> Opposed? Carries. >> So, I would like to just recognize that Mr. Matthews is with us this evening and he was just made permanent. So, congratulations, John. >> Congratulations. Okay, we'll do our uh principal report elementary school. Uh just one one thing. Uh just went back and checked the numbers. We're at 3,000 to support uh the breakthrough breakthrough type
0091 diabetes. That was just a change from today. Um you saw today was 3,000 instead of 2,000. Let's see change in my board report. Do you guys have any questions? >> I think we're good. >> Special guest today. Um we also have one small change in ours. Um there was some confusion on behalf of Mr. Carrite. You're going to see a Christmas carol, not the nutcracker for our >> big change. Really important. >> Any questions? >> No additions uh for the high school for tonight meeting. Any questions on the high school board report? One quick question. Um, the cell phone the new cell phone policy. How how is that moving along now? Many issues, many referrals or I would say overall it's uh doing very well. I think we have we've kind of identified some
010frequent flyers that we need to have further conversations and you know more communication with the families uh with that. Uh but I would say overall the impacts um are pretty positive. especially some kids um you know from last year this year you know having some initial conversations with parents they feel that they're more engaged and you know the progress reports are looking a lot better >> um so that's pretty good I think it's just a matter of us being consistent with it as we continue to move forward um into the school year >> yeah that was one of my my concerns one of my questions but you partially answered it uh the feedback from staff as far as uh engaging the kids more now than in the past where they're not distracted by that phone
011that was sitting on the desk or in their pocket or wherever. >> Yeah. >> That hopefully now they're a little bit more engaged and even when they they're in the cafeteria, you know, the social skills where there's more communication and they're at least speaking to each other, not texting. We uh we added a uh board game cart through PB PBIS and uh we have tons of Uno sets on there and board games. So kids are playing board games which we haven't seen and you know for a long time. >> Uh so you can walk by and there's some pretty competitive Uno games. >> Connect 4. >> Connect which is surprising. >> I mean I'm just going to date Mr. Mr. Miller going way back to probably when he was here. there was ping pong tables
012in the hallways and and sta students and staff were playing ping pong, you know. So, it's we've gotten away from that uh era of, you know, just verbal communication, not just looking at a at a device and and spending your time on a device without communicating back and forth. Again, it's a positive thing and hopefully uh the students will grasp that as they move forward and get back to where we should be with uh educating our children. >> Yeah. No, absolutely. >> It's positive. Good. >> How is it going with like the watches, right? Because now we're getting into winter time and you have a sleeve over them and can't tell that they're there. Has it been an issue or has have you seen? >> There hasn't really been anything specifically that's come up about
013it. I don't know if Colleen if you've come across it. I think I've only seen two >> and um for the most part they're like, "Oh, I forgot like I had it on." Like they take them off and I think it's just a habit you put it on. But >> I haven't really seen >> them a lot of >> any other questions for nice job with the presentation on vaping. Nice to see all the administrators there. It was was great. building building administration I should say. >> Yeah. No, it's something that we look to educate our families uh in the community on every year. >> I think Miss Mullen and I are going to look to um funnel that program through like open house or orientation >> where we have the parents in the building.
014They're here >> and almost make it like a pit stop uh as part of their evening agenda >> like for lunch or something like that. >> Good idea. >> Nice job. Very good idea. Anything else? Thank you. Okay. Uh all the individuals in the back of the room, our directors. Any questions for our directors? Okay. Um we'll move on to our student rep. So, at the elementary school, students and staff will be celebrating Rock Your Mox Day on November 15th. Rock Your Mox was founded in 2011 by Jessica Jaylin in New Mexico. And since 2013, it has been organized annually by Native American event producer Melissa Sanchez. This celebration encourages everyone to wear moccasins to honor Native heritage and culture and to show pride in indigenous traditions. In November, the elementary service club will begin
015planning and assembling pieces for a winter bulletin board display focused on kindness. The display will go up in December. Students will also be choosing a community project to complete later this school year, and we'll hopefully have more details on that once they decide. Also, students also participated in the annual turkey trot today benefiting breakthrough type 1 diabetes. Despite the weather, students collectively ran or walked 686 miles, and they're already determined to top that next year. Moving on to the middle school staff recently participated in a professional development session on emotional life skills led by Terara Sanders. The workshop focused on managing stress, practicing healthy communication, and building empathy through hands-on activities. Teachers also learned simple mindfulness and seen yoga techniques that can be used every day in the classroom. The middle school is also looking
016ahead to the first co-rec dance sponsored by the PTA. It'll be on Friday, November 21st. Students will have the choice between playing games in the gym or dancing in the cafeteria. These dances are always a highlight of the year and a great way for students to have fun in a safe supervised setting. And finally, at the high school, last month's fall sports pep rally was a huge success with the senior class winning the spirit contest. This Saturday will also mark a special event for our seniors, the school's first ever senior parking paint day. Seniors will be able to choose and decorate their own parking spaces, which they'll keep for the rest of the school year. The seniors are very excited about this new tradition, and we'd like to thank our administrators and the buildings and
017grounds team for helping us make this possible. And that's all I have for today. >> I'm sure Mr. Miller was very excited about that. >> He actually came with some great ideas in the meeting. Are you going to have your own spot that you're going to paint? >> I have a very large of black. >> I'm sure that is going to make sure that it's neat and appropriate and we discuss it and we bet Mr.'s life on >> anybody paints something wrong, we're just going to paint right over it. Uh any other questions for our student rep? >> Thanks, Logan. Uh Assistant Soup. >> So last uh Tuesday we had uh one of our superintendents conference days. It was a very busy and productive day um at the elementary school. We had a session on
018exploring different AI adaptive tools. So staff had a chance to actually try out some different uh tools that were presented and utilize them and how they would um incorporate them in their classroom. We had a team from Mystery Science come in to work with our staff on some discovery uh education experiences. The state is pushing out some new initiatives with our science standards. We had our AIS staff working with teachers on developing intervention resources and toolboxes and helping them group students uh for some of the supports they provide. And we had our co-eing teams uh with their second session with a specialist from the regional partnership center looking at best practices of co-eing at the middle school and high school level. Um our teachers uh had some more AI work as well. Um but at
019the secondary focus um so some tools that they could use in their classrooms. Uh we had a first session for our co-eing pairs uh for them and we had other teachers participate in a session looking at ways to support all um support all students uh in all environments um and understanding the needs of different students and how we can support them. And then uh for just districtwide we had our fizzed staff. Um a lot of times it's it's difficult to find some professional development for our our PE staff. There's not as much out there for them. Uh so we were excited this year uh that we had a session for them to attend called empower every child to move um that looked at uh how PE teachers can incorporate activities progressions and mindset strategies uh
020to help students find joy and confidence in movement. Uh we had our music staff attend a session through Orange Boseies um with some wellrespected music education uh people out there and providing some guidance. Uh we had our nursing staff attend a countywide session where we got all of the nursing staff uh together throughout the county uh to meet and look at um new regulations, guidance on how to handle things. Uh so that's another one where you know throughout the year it's difficult to pull when we have one nurse in a building to pull them out to get some professional development. Um so this was something that we've been talking about over the last year or two uh that we're able to put to fruition. So we're excited about that. Uh and then finally, all of
021our support staff received instruction guidance on understanding and supporting neurode divergent learners as well as utilizing compassion when providing behavioral support strategies uh from some specialists from uh Anderson Center for Autism. Uh so that was a great day that our support staff had. We had a lot of great feedback across the board on all the uh professional development that we had that day. So we're excited about how well it went. Good. >> Any questions for Dr. Boyd? Thank you, sir. And our superintendent. >> So, I have uh just a list of reminder dates. Um just uh for the board, we have our retreat next Wednesday evening at 6 p.m. Uh the distinguished friends of education dinner is next Thursday evening in Kingston honoring um oh my goodness, Steve Lawbeck. >> Steven. And uh we do
022have a a support services meeting scheduled with our legal counsel on Wednesday of this week at 1:30. So I'll have more information to provide to the board about the end of the capital project after that meeting. And then next week starts our fall parent teacher conferences at the high school. Next Thursday night 5 to 8:00 p.m. Then the following Monday, the 24th, 5 to 8:00 p.m. for the middle school. And then on Tuesday the 25th, 5 to 8:00 p.m. for the elementary school. And then we wrap up uh with the morning conferences districtwide on Wednesday the 26 from 8:00 am to 11:00 a.m. And then we go down we go out for h uh for Thanksgiving Halloween Thanksgiving. So that's all I have as an update. >> Any questions for the superintendent? >> Just one
023item I missed before it for the high school in regards to um the new I park 87 uh opening up. I know there was a few snags in the beginning with transportation and such. Is that open? >> Yeah, Kathy and I worked on that. I want to say pretty much the first week. >> Yeah. >> U we were just trying to figure it out. Uh took a a few phone calls between us, Central and uh and their administration just to kind of get it squared squared away what our needs were, right? >> Um you know, because it had to be explained that our district runs on one set of buses. So them getting delayed back would delay the entire district. So, we were trying to avoid that at all costs and they ended up working
024it out for us. >> Any feedback now from the students in regards to the programs up there and and the new facilities and such? Have we gotten back from >> The facilities look like they're in a lot better shape than what they were in the beginning of the year. Um, when Joel and I uh took a tour in there, I had a principal meeting there last week. Everything looks done. Um, in terms of the programs, I think they're a little slow moving still for some of them, um, more than others, depending on what, uh, trade or fields, uh, I happen to be walking by, um, the electrical and they were working on electrical outlets and box and stripping wire and, um, threading. >> It's still kind of wide open. I haven't visited this. I didn't
025have an opportunity, but everything is kind of wide open for some of >> If you could picture like walking in like a mall >> and then like the storefronts being open like so those areas are like their class rooms and work areas and it's just it's big. >> It's gigantic. >> It's huge. >> Yeah. >> Good. Hopefully more students are interested in future years we can, you know, send more students up in to that direction. Yeah. >> Good. Good. >> All right. Anybody have any other board of education uh new business? I think um right now we're pretty well set on anything coming up. Uh we're still trying to wrap up our capital project and uh hopefully in the future, you know, the board will look towards uh uh taking the next uh step in
026the direction of picking up what priority items that we initially had several years ago and move them forward. again uh under all business board retreat which is next week. Um our facilitator is coming from our legal council's office and uh we would review some of the questions that we like the topics that we'd like uh her to address. So I think that retreat for the board will be very formative and hopefully we get some feedback and uh kind of uh answer some of our questions that we might have. So, looking forward to that. Um, moving into miscellaneous. Anybody have anything for the good and welfare of the district? We're going to get everybody out of here early this evening. >> Um, anything for the good and welfare of the district. Okay, I'll open the meeting
027up to public comment. We'll close public comment and I'll ask for a motion to adjurnn. >> Motion by Heather, second by Tom. All those in favor motion to thank you everyone. >> Thank you. >> Stay warm tonight. And you know it's going to be cool.