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008>> I already had a sip. >> Are we ready? Okay. >> Good evening everyone. I'd like to welcome you to the August 27th planning session of the Levittown Board of Education. May I have a motion to reconvene the meeting? Jimmy, do I have a second? Mike. All in favor? 5. Uh, please rise for the pledge of >> allegiance to the flag of America to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, liberty, justice for all. >> May we please have a moment of silence to remember all those serving our country and at uh at home and overseas. Thank you. Please note that Peggy Morangi and Phyllis Dalton are excused from this meeting. We're going into recognition. >> Yes. Um so uh we are very excited today to do a uh a very
009important recognition. Uh so at this point I'm going to ask for the board to just uh take their usual spots in front of the table over here and I'm going to join you and we're going to start over there. I am going to ask uh Kevin Glenn to come on up here. All right. Uh so good evening everyone. I know it doesn't look like there's a lot of people here but there's there are thousands listening at home. So I just wanted you to be prepared for that. Okay. Uh, so it's my great honor to stand here today to recognize and celebrate Kevin Glenn, who recently retired from NASA County Police Department after years of dedicated service to our schools and community. What makes today even more special is that officer Glenn is one of our
010own. He is a proud graduate of MacArthur High School. Right. MacArthur High School. And his connection to the community runs very deep. Uh, many of you know his mom, Nina Glenn, worked uh served our district as a beloved social worker. I worked with her myself when I was over at Wisdom Lane. She's phenomenal. Um, service and care for others clearly runs deep in the family and Officer Glenn has carried that legacy with honor and pride. Throughout his time with us, Officer Glenn has been so much more than a police officer. He has been a trusted partner, a steady presence, and a true friend to our district. Anytime we needed guidance, whether it was facilitating a parent meeting, preparing for a board of education presentation, evaluating the security of our facilities, or troubleshooting a situation, all
011it took was a quick call or text, and Officer Glenn was there. As we all know, unfortunately, even today, school security has become a major focus for everyone. And Kevin has been one of those individuals who who truly has helped us through many, many intense situations. [Applause] Well, there was a late night social media threat. I still remember sitting on my couch one night. It was like 11 o'clock on a Friday and I got text from Kevin Glenn. It's never to hang out. So, it's always bad news when Kevin Glenn's texting you. Um, for me, uh, so whether it was a late night social media threat or a domestic issue on Super Bowl Sunday, if you remember that one, um, we could always rely on him to be there for our students and our community.
012What set him apart was not just his reliability, but the way he connected with people. He brought insight or brings it makes it sound like you're not here anymore. Um, but you're not with us anymore. Uh, he brought insight, humor, and a friendly approach that made challenging conversations easier and built trust across our entire school community. His ability to combine expertise with kindness and laughter has left an impact that will last for years to come. So, Officer Glenn, as you step into retirement, please know that your work here will continue to shape how we keep our schools safe and welcoming for every child. On behalf of our entire district, thank you for your years of service, your guidance, and your friendship. As a small token of our appreciation and in recognition of you reaching retirement
013age, we present you with this Levittown School District gold card. Okay. Now, now just let you know the it entitles you as a senior um to free tickets to our plays and musicals as well as discounts to GCTEK services. It's the closest thing we have to a PBA card. Okay. Please join me in celebrating the remarkable contributions of Kevin Glenn and wishing him the very best in the next chapter of his life. We all know that he will do great things for the East Williston community as their coordinator of security. But I will simply share the words of our beloved Joseph Sheen. Once a general, always a general. While you will lend your abilities elsewhere, you will always be part of us. Congratulations, Kevin. Thank you so Okay, moving on. Uh, we do have some
014informational uh, presentations tonight. The first thing we're going to do is talk about security. Figure that's, uh, which we just did with, uh, Officer Glenn. I printed out a copy for the board is a copy of our district security update. As you know, we do a presentation to the board multiple times a year, uh, to kind of tell you where we are with school security and where we're heading. Uh, so this is this is that presentation. Uh, as you recall, this is a continuous process. We do talk about school security on a daily basis, and it really is about planning what we're going to do, practicing what we're going to do, uh, trying to prevent situations from occurring, and then protecting our students uh, in in every way that we can. Just some enhancements since
015last spring. We do that first. We talk about what we've done recently. Um in the uh in the spring we uh held our first ever parent overview of school security uh actually Kevin Glenn was at that meeting uh with Bill Mihan and myself and we've facilitated a presentation about how security works in the district what are enhancements we've done how do we address school threats um and they did a Q&A with with families that were there so uh we were very excited about that um we continue to do a variety of different enhancements not all of them ones that I'll share with you because obviously part of security is keeping some of these things um confidential. So um we do continue to install additional lock down shades in classrooms that have large windows. Um we
016continue to install 3M window film u which is a shatterresistant film though Mr. Mihan and I are actually working with getting some quotes on actually uh ballistic uh rated film. Um, you know, especially when when we think about some of the things that we've heard went on today. Um, we are working through a very long multi-year process of replacing our public address systems in every single building as well as the fire alarms which will then also lead to a oneb button lockdown system. Uh, if the board remember those that went on the board tours yesterday, you saw uh several of the buildings where the wiring is being done for the PA and fire alarm systems. Just remember it it's it's not a it's not a wireless system. Every single classroom has to be wired and
017so it is a lengthy process. This also uh will lead to the installation of additional cameras especially in our elementary schools. Uh initially our elementary schools only had cameras in like certain areas not every single uh area of the building. Now they will have cameras in every single area of the building just like the secondary schools do. We are implementing a new anonymous reporting system. You may remember in the spring I shared with you that we looked at a variety of programs. We agreed upon working with Sandy Hook Promise. Um Mr. Mihan, myself as well as the central office team have been working with them this summer and we have our first implementation meeting on September 15th. That will then lead to student training as well as parent training in regards to using the new
018system. Um implementation of that, like I said, is is expected to occur by the end of September, beginning of October. Uh and then you may remember that last year we began our process of contracting with a specialist to do more individualized threat assessments. Dr. K, right? I think many of you know him um does a very good job. When we have a particular situation that we feel goes beyond our abilities, we we have our own threat assessment teams. But when there's a particular case that is a little bit more troubling than others, we look to look to an expert for another set of eyes and he helps us do that. And so it's an as needed basis when we utilize him. Um, we saw this also yesterday. All of our exterior um, entrances have been
019labeled with numbers uh that correspond to our building plans so that if first responders have to come to a building, they know, you know, if they're told it's at entrance number one, they know that's entrance number one. Uh, the buildings all have exterior key boxes for first responders. If they need to get into the building and the building is locked. There's also an interior lock box that provides items to first responders with building maps and other emergency items. Um, Mr. Mihan was was great at being able to get additional what we would normally call stop the bleed, but stop the bleed is a trademark name. Uh, we call them bleeding control kits uh that are installed now along with where all the first floor AED machines are. We are in progress uh of ser providing
020training for all administrators and security staff on CPR and AED utilization. We did have to add in which those of you that are in schools probably know that the state uh with uh Disha's law um is requiring uh more robust um cardiac uh emergency response training as well as information and plans. So, actually, you will see that on our special meeting, our um district-wide security plan is being reposted because as much as we posted it in July and approved it, the state then came down with this that we need to repost it and put in the cardiac response plan before January. We're not going to wait till January. So, we're putting the plan back up with those changes. Jeb, I'm sorry. Um the CPR and AED certification, it's only for administrators in security >> for
021for the for the start. >> Oh, for the start. Okay. >> Yeah. >> And then uh actually just today, I think Mr. Mihen, right? We uh worked out on uh developing some charts for our building main offices on um how to address possible swatting issues, which you may have seen last year. I want to say midyear was an issue, right, with schools across the area, right? And bomb threats. Um, so, uh, those are most of the updates since last spring. Like I mentioned to you, we have to repost our district-wide safety plan and modify our building plans. Our building plans don't get posted for confidentiality reasons, but the district plan does. It'll be online again for another 30 days. In October, we'll finally approve it again and send it to the state. uh only because
022of their la their last minute edition of uh Desa's law. Disha's law des but you may also remember that we did a survey last year. We were talking about different enhancements of security and we wanted to get some feedback from the larger community about what those enhancements might be. And so we developed a survey, a security survey for uh high school students, parents, and staff. Uh and so this here shows you the number of responses from that survey. Very low from students. Um pretty, you know, I guess sizable for staff and parents. Um in regards to the questions, I tried to put these in a way that was not 7,000 slides. I know sometimes you I do that to you where I give you 7,000 slides. So in an attempt to not do that, um
023I did take Dr. Zerianis's advice and combine them all into uh kind of single slides. Yes. Yes. It it it reduced it by one. But so these are questions related to the school environment. Uh once again, how do you feel? Do you feel safe in school? Are you familiar with the enhancements we've done? Are you satisfied with the safety measures? Are you satisfied with communication related to safety? And are you familiar with the mental health resources? The board was involved with these questions, developing these questions, spent a lot of time going over these questions. Some of you gave exact like questions. I think Jen, you gave one, right? That was I think it's the B the last one. Did you give? I don't remember. Right. Um the blue are the students, the sta the orangey
024color is staff, and then the gray is parents. And it combines agree and strongly agree. Um so you see those numbers there. Um interesting that um the students are not as familiar with the security enhancements that have occurred as compared to other groups. Um and they aren't also that you know familiar with mental health resources like gives an idea of like where to go. Uh same thing with parents right about half of our parents are not familiar with what mental health resources that we provide. So this a great question. >> The whole thing this is having to do with this but kind of unrelated. It just I saw a sign when I was in a school building the other day and it said if you hear the for different hold in place or different drills
025in schools. It there was a sign it was a high school and it said what the students should do if that does happen. I didn't know if this was like a general thing. I don't know if elementary school would be the same and this is not like you know a judgment. I just want I was curious. I was like I've never seen that before. So perhaps maybe it's something we could look into because kids we generally practice these drills when we're in our classrooms. We practice them when we're at recess. We practice when we're in the cafeteria. And I'm not saying anything's going to happen, but it I think it'd be helpful maybe to have some sort of visual for anyone to kind of follow no matter what room you're in. So, I just that
026was kind of related to familiar with security enhancements because maybe they're not seeing the enhancements we're making, but like maybe we can include them in the conversations like what maybe they think should be put. >> Maybe they see in the hallway maybe a little bit more familiar with. >> Yeah. Okay. Thank you. >> Mr. Mi and I will discuss that. I actually think that the first question, feeling safe at school, is the most important one. And I like that it's that high because that takes care of a lot of issues including the mental health of the students. Uh the just the safe when you feel safe, the teaching environment is better. Everyone apparently we're in the high 80s almost 90% of the students are at 83%. That's a pretty high percentage and I'm very proud
027of that number there. Some more questions about the school environment. Uh the first one, familiar, these were not asked to parents. Uh that's why there's no gray bar. Familiar with emergency procedures, confident in following the procedures, and know who to reach out to during a crisis. >> Once again, of interest is the last question, which is that students like 25% of students that responded didn't know who to reach out to during crisis. So something for us to take into consideration in regards to instructing our students. The other numbers are really good. Is that crisis a school crisis or a mental health crisis? >> I don't believe it was specific. And so it may throw people, right? Like I don't know. What is a crisis? Is it a personal crisis? Is it a school crisis? Right.
028>> I think if if there's an issue, a crisis going on the school where an alarm's going off, I think they're all going to know it's their teacher is the frontline person that's going to do something. >> Yeah. I think it was the word crisis. >> Perhaps we can have maybe the liaison part of that discussion or or like just involve maybe the secondary schools and maybe like what would that look like because we we weren't maybe we weren't clear with the word but maybe what does it mean to them and see what they you know view as a crisis and then what they would do and then we can kind of gear it towards that. >> I think that's a great idea. They'll be at the next meeting and then >> love it. Yes.
029Excellent. >> Yeah. Yeah, I'm going to be meeting with them on September 10th. And so what I'll do is I'll uh and I do believe that usually uh myself and Dr. Zerian's visit with the student councils in both high schools in the fall and the spring. So we'll there were I know there were questions I wanted to bring to them to say why do you think students responded this way. Um they usually have the answer and it's actually as long as you just ask like they they'll let you know. So it will be even like when we talked about I think it was uh there was a question one question where talked about um about training and about must be later we talked about student training like to ask them like training and exactly what
030like what specifically do you feel you don't have the training >> because I would assume lockdown drills students know what to do what other trainings do you feel that you don't participate. Yeah. I was going to make a joke that if they took it on their phone. Sorry. Is it? Yeah. um paper and pencil surveys only. So um primary concerns. So this was basically a question about like what is your primary concern um in school both from a student perspective, parent perspective and staff. Um these were their um responses. Now remember this was their primary concern but they could pick more than one. So the percentage is going to be more than 100%. Um so it's it's I think it's some of it's very interesting in regards to the parent perspective on the biggest issue
031versus what students feel staff um but uh definitely you can see that bullying is definitely a concern that's the biggest concern really um of anybody. >> Yeah. So being in law enforcement my entire life, bullying actually just became a term in law enforcement in in law. But when we call it bullying, it's kind of like poo pooing it. You know, it could be an assault, it could be harassment, and when you use those words, I think people take it more seriously. Uh or you're being a bully, you know. I I think you have to call it what it is. You know, you stop harassing that kid. Stop assaulting that kid. Whether we I'm not saying crimly charged there. I'm saying but call it like it is. Stop hitting that child. We call it bullying. And
032it kind of softens the tone of it, but it it doesn't soften the tone for the victim of the bullying, you know. >> Yeah. Yeah. And I think I think it also it t tends to be some somewhat of a catch-all for like a lot of negative behavior that goes on. And it whether it really is like the def legal definition of bullying or harassment or intimidation or assault or it it I think it it also incorporates things that like just that this student is bothering this other student and and so I think that it it I think there's a lot underneath that. it just whatever it is is negative like the a student does not feel um you know safe or or supported or comfortable in school because of what somebody else is doing
033to them and so I it it it's tough because a lot of people use that word administrators teachers parents and like you said sometimes it's diminishing what's occurring sometimes it's enhancing what is occurring and so it >> most of the time it is softs selling what happened you know >> I mean I can't I can't I can't necessarily speak to that but what I can tell you is It definitely I think we'd all agree it's it's a negative behavior whatever is occurring is negatively affecting somebody and so it really is about addressing that saying okay we have a lot of anti-bullying programs so if everybody still feels this is a major issue then clearly we have to look at what we're doing. So then remember we asked in the survey about what would be your
034recommended safety enhancements where you once again could pick more than one. Um and so the percentages are going to exceed 100%. But you could see here the main recommended safety enhancements that were requested by the students, staff, parents. Um one of the largest ones with more mental health supports. You'll see with ant in anti-bullying programs. That makes sense because the parents they rated that one as the biggest problem. So, it would make sense that they rated this as the the biggest need. Um, and um, you know, guess it goes back to what I was talking about with um, safety training for staff and students. 40% um, chose you know that that this 40% of people chose this one uh, students. Well, that's a lot of students that feel they need more safety training. What would
035that even be? So, we are going to talk to them first. Why do you think the parents said bullying, anti-bullying, you need more programs? >> I think because of the fact that they're they in the previous slide, right, they're saying that bullying is the biggest issue. So I think if 73% of parents saying that the biggest issue in school these days is bullying. >> Why do you why would you think it's the parents saying that, not the not the kids? >> Um I think that well first of all the sample of kids is small. The s and the kids only represent high school kids, right? So the parents represent K to 12. >> Okay. >> I'm going to probably postulate. Is that what it is? Is that correct? >> Wow. >> Hypothesize is probably better.
036That >> um it bullying I would probably say is is maybe more so elementary and peing in middle and then while the high school kind of phases out. So um I'm going to guess that parents see that like you know if somebody came to me say like what do you think is one of the biggest problems schools today? Like bullying is definitely up there. like it's a never- ending problem. Like it's not anything that you know is you know you always are working to try to reduce it. Um you know and so I I just think that that is an issue. You know what I'm saying? Like >> my thoughts on that is that the child's going home and the parent notices something a miss and the kid confines in the parent rather in front
037of a staff member or principal. >> That could be why the teachers don't rate it as high. Yeah. Then after that, we asked them a question of out of all of those safety enhancements, if you had to only pick the three top ones, what top three would it be? And these were the top three by each of those groups. Uh quite quite a bit of um consistency between those three groups, which is fascinating other than the safety training, which once again to me is a little surprising. Um but um those were the three. That's a shocker. uh common themes from the open-ended responses because then there was open-ended responses in the survey and so um what were the general themes from those open-ended responses first one was that really about um security presence and enforcement
038I think it was really more related to active security presence uh most of our security have posts right now and so we've been talking with Mr. in about like do we want to change that and you know is there is there a benefit to having more um what did you say they were roving controls were you yeah yeah um mental health supports once again not surprising since that was in the questions themselves students staff parents uh all highlight mental health as a critical area um intervention um and training right and how to report concerns uh consistency on the enforcement of discipline that was a primary one from students uh always feeling that right that like the rules are not fair and the same for everybody. Access control and visitor management. Um just about making sure
039that that we continue to restrict visitors to buildings. Um and obviously one of the areas that we've we've already bless you move forward on was about before and after school activities. We put an an annex right last year into our plan. Now, the state this year sent out guidance this summer about making sure that you have an annex. So, was we were happy that we were ahead of the curve on that one. Um, student behavior impacting school climate. This goes back to the bully, right? So, doesn't it definitely makes sense that there's correlation between the open-ended responses and the other ones. So, uh what does this all mean now? Okay. So, um, you know, if we've been meeting to talk about the data, um, you know, and kind of make sense of it to give
040some recommendations about where we think we should go. Um, the first thing is, uh, a review obviously of district security staffing. I already mentioned that Bill and I were working on as well as the rest of the central office team with looking at how we're utilizing our security staff. We have a phenomenal security staff. um they do a great job and they do keep our buildings very safe, but are there ways that we can you know kind of put things in place that utilize them better. Um and obviously there was a request by all groups to hire more security staff. Um so that is something that we are discussing and seeing like if we did that how would we deploy them where where would they be needed? Um reviewing mental health supports as much as
041we have a tremendous amount of mental health supports there's never enough. As soon as we add something, it's exhausted and we already need to move on to something else. >> Yes. Did you finish my word? >> Yes. Because you looked at me and I was just going to tell when you took a breath question. >> Yes. Go ahead. >> Not at all. >> With I thought you said Mike with the hiring of additional security the parents are requesting. Did they mention where it's needed in a certain field is for no entering exit? So, can we follow up have a follow-up question for them possible or is it too late to do that? I can't send out a survey with just one question only because getting getting individual we do a lot of surveys here >>
042and we try to let people know listen uh even we said it to the new teachers right like well you're just getting hired here like we do a lot of surveys but uh we do do >> then we gave a survey uh we do actually act upon the information that we receive and we want people to know that we do that um you know I think maybe we could ask the students that question about like listen you're in the buildings like they'd probably be the ones that would best have an idea You said the parents made that uh statement. >> All three of them made that request for more security. >> Okay. >> So I think we could start with the students and we could probably also ask the staff like there where do you
043see that there is a greater need like I would say that um we definitely could always probably use more uh because when we have a when we have a situation where we're going to remember you'll see my email where I'm like we had a threat. We're going to put additional security over here for the next three weeks. Then I text Bill. I'm like Bill do can we do this? And he's like yes. Uh but like it's it's never like we have like a whole bunch of extra people to deploy. And so I think that like we talked about additional sub subsecurity, right? Why don't you talk a little about what we what we talked >> Yes. Go. So we actually are looking to currently uh hire additional security uh roving patrol/sub. So we'll have somebody
044in the district if something does happen in one of the schools and we knew that we had need another post. There's always somebody there and available. Uh we're actually looking to staff the bell-to-bell uh initiative by the state that's just been uh put that's done. But the uh additional security that we're looking for now is going to augment the whole district uh all the schools with the roving and we'll have people on standby if something were to happen. They could respond to the school. If guards are short, they call out at the last minute, have to go home, whatever the case, we have the bodies on sta on staff for the 10 month as a 10-month employee as well. This way, we'll never be, so to speak, caught short. There will always be somebody to
045send to a a specific school if the need should arise during the school day or for a week or whatever the case. >> And I think that there are some areas that we were looking I don't obviously want to say them out publicly like, oh, we don't have a guard here. Um but you know I think that um even like when we were talking Mike when we did the we were transportation yesterday we talked even about the rovers like are here and then they leave and we were talking about the catalytic converters they watched when they left and they went in right so like I think it would be more about like trying to enhance especially on the outside of our facilities. um we have them but just we just once again not probably could
046use more but I'd like to get a feedback more even from mostly from the students about whether they see this as a as an issue or staff. I think that's a good idea because uh as Bill will tell you, the police department a lot of times you you know you have all your police officers at every corner and you walk into a city park and a parent will tell you I'm glad you're here. Every night at 6:00 there's these three guys selling drugs in that corner and please can you take care of it? They see you there. And that survey is kind of like they walked up to someone in a position of authority >> to address a problem, but really like to know what they're addressing. You know, that's that's the key. Otherwise, you
047can't fix it. >> No, you're fine. Um, along with the added security staff, is there a way to maybe like zero in on the training to look at it as like are they learning how to recognize bullying situations or deescalation strategies? like I'm I'm sure they're not like CPI trained or anything like that, but like so like I think that's an important thing because like more is not always better un unless it's meeting the level of what we need. So like could that be part of it? So it's kind of combining the concerns of anti-bullying programs. So it's not so like um like right in the kids' faces like with an assembly while there is value to that I also think like um the culture of a building and how the security aids are interacting
048with students and watching how things happen on a day-to-day basis can have a really large impact. Also, >> you're not going to believe it, but we also were talking about this today. >> Deescalation training. It's actually one of the topics that we have from uh Alteras uh for the building administrators uh and originally it was intended for hall monitors, security staff, but I definitely recommend it for all staff uh because you have the teachers dealing with not only parents, students, and other staff. Uh it's a great tactic to have uh learning how to actively listen and to uh communicate on a different level and to try to get uh conflict resolution through words instead of actually taking a physical action and my uh will attest to it. It works. >> Um it is odd. We
049just talked about that around like 12:00 today, right? We were talking about deescalation. >> I know, right? Yeah. >> I think your office is >> I asked I asked Bill I said, "Do you know anybody who's trained to provide it?" And lo and behold, Bill is certified to provide deescalation training. It's one of the courses I used to teach. Yeah. >> Um so we have that uh but it's off we're going to try to get all the staff done. It's not just something we should do just for security staff or the homeowners. It should be actually all the staff. Uh it's a it's a valuable tool and it it could help actually uh nip a problem in the bud before it becomes a huge problem. Um and also we're talking about the bullying and uh
050training on it. Um as part of the initial onboarding for the state uh say anything uh say something uh program. It's a training course and it's actually deals with bullying. Uh they they do as an organization provide flyers, posters to put around the uh building that actually deal with what to do in a case of bullying. So you probably will see that around the district after we do on board with them and get the training. They'll probably give us all the uh the poster boards and stuff to utilize throughout the district. So, it's something that will be addressed uh with this organization that we're on boarding with uh as and should be up and running by November 10th. Uh well, like I said, the uh reviewing with district administration our current practices related to enforcement
051of the rules that will be done with administration. Um evaluating our K to2 anti-bullying programs which we have we have get a voice in the elementaryaries. We have um rise at some of the schools, but might be time to look into something else that's a little bit more robust, a little bit uh more evidence-based than those programs. Uh and then additional safety training, right? Meeting with student groups to determine what those areas need to be. Um and then provide that training that students need and that they're asking. Um so first of all I think this this was a great uh presentation and the information that uh we gained from doing that survey uh was fantastic. I think it's really important to have our stakeholder engagement involved in these types of surveys and I think we
052learn really interesting things right like where everybody's head head is at. So, um, and also, um, can we do this like on a more consistent basis? Like I don't know like every year, but maybe every other year to kind of see where we're at, how how these implementations have been going kind of thing and >> how they we'd have to see I guess we really what we probably should do is sit down to go over all the surveys we do and figure out like which ones we want to do when, right? like because we have the climate surveys we do, we have this survey, we have the YDS, the senior exit survey. Um we have to kind of see where they all fit because one of the issues is um and my feeling is why
053the student survey was a little bit because they do a lot of surveys and so I I just think that we have to figure out okay what what when are we doing these surveys, what years and all so it's not like um what is that called fatigue? Is that what we said? Yes, survey fatigue. Uh yeah, we definitely can. >> I agree. >> Like monitor how it's going, right? Really >> instead of just a one. >> Good, Jen. >> Um and I wanted to also ask, we're talking about looking at anti-bullying campaign, not campaigns, sorry. Um programs and I think it kind of has to align with SEAL as well as like character education. I know that's one of the things that are in the strategic plan is to start really looking at our character
054education. Uh but I feel like it all feeds into like social emotional learning. Like if a child is not feeling great, maybe they're going to try to make another child not feel great. So that's has to do with like mental health support. So maybe if it's like a comprehensive program that is evidence-based that can work on all of those things. Um and again it's also has to do with like building culture and the adults in the building whether it's um a teacher, a cleaner or a security aid. Like those are all contributing to that. So, I think that also affects it. But if we could look into character ed like anti-bullying, like maybe we can, you know, get all of what we need out of it for whatever the buildings need. >> Yeah. Well, what
055we'll be doing is, like I said, it was uh one of the items on here, we will be reporting back to the board on all of these things. Uh obviously, in a couple of months to let you know where we are and uh if we have suggestions, especially if any of them are budget related, obviously we'll have to have them prior to the budget process. So, um we'll be reporting back out. We'll do another one of these. We do these pretty much three times a year now. Kind of fall, uh, spring, winter. Um, I know this is kind of summer still, but um, it it's I I do think like you said about Marian about the the continual evaluation of it is what makes it um what makes you grow, right? Because otherwise then you
056kind of just leave things off. And if I say, well, we're going to look at anti-bullying programs and then we don't talk about it again, then the survey results will be the same in another year from now. I'll summarize what I said. So it things change over time. So if in like 3 years the perception of what is needed could be way different than what we're seeing today. So I think it's important to kind of like move forward and stay on top of that. And that's actually the research is three years usually from survey to survey to see if there's any like in institutional change. >> I don't have a question. I actually have a comment. If this was family feud, I would have said good answer about 20 times. So good. >> Okay. There's
057no other questions on our uh security update. We're just going to move on to just a very brief update on our strategic plan. So, uh, Mr. Titel, if you could just There it is. You have a printed copy of this as well. Um, I am not reading this to you. Um, I gave you a copy for you to kind of take a look at, take home. As you know, um, we developed a strategic plan back in 2023, ch made some changes after the first year, and then we have a 2024 to 2027 strategic plan. uh on the left side we were trying to find a way to make it of like how do we evaluate it in a way that is not overwhelming and while this may seem overwhelming what I presented to you last
058year was even worse uh so that was like one of those 20 slide presentations with like highlighted areas things like that uh this is simply what the focus areas are in the strategic plan what the evidence was from last year as to what we did in that focus area um or if we did nothing and then what the target is for this upcoming here. Uh so just to give you some just brief examples, you'll see for instance in uh the first one, right? So just leverage the interests, resources, and talents of community members, local business groups, and other higher education institutions to explore new opportunities through expanded community partnerships. And you'll see the evidence says created Levittown only administrative cohort with Mallaloy University. This is for teachers in Levittown that want to become administrators um
059to get their license to address future administrative openings. partnership with Mallaloy University for a student teacher internship program. Uh created a junior chamber of commerce in collaboration with Levittown Chamber of Commerce. Um continued our close collaboration with Levitan Kuanas. Uh partnered with Mallaloy University to help develop our career exploration KTO 5 program. So those are all examples of ways that we achieve that focus area. But it isn't over. It isn't like well we did that check that box. It is about a mission and it is about continually doing that. So we already have some things on here for the 2526 school year uh where this is already in motion in regards to now developing relationships with Adelfi University uh to address deficiencies in the area of tech certification. This is for like tech tech teachers
060that we have a very hard time getting because there's so few people that go to become tech certified teachers. Uh you know that's our technology program. So like if you have a tech class in the middle school or in high school. Um and so this would be basically our teachers teaching these courses on behalf of Adelfi to get people in the district certified. What? Yeah, of course. Um and so anyway, um this is just some examples. I do want you to spend some time with it. Um this is not something for us to adopt or not. This is for me to share with you. I really what I would like to know by the September meeting is are you comfortable with this kind of document? Because what it does is it goes through all of
061the different focus areas. And then on the very back page, you may remember that um there are besides the focus areas, there are also metrics that we're trying to achieve. And so you'll see now listen, the metrics are supposed to be achieved in 2027. So, but we want to give you updates on where we are because that would make no sense to wait until 2027. So you'll see here like year one checkpoint. This is just telling you where we are in regards to these different areas. One of them we don't have information on because we're still trying to develop the methodology which is the 20 by 2027 increase participation in extracurricular activities uh like athletics and clubs. And so we're currently collecting the information from 2023 um in order to but it doesn't exist anywhere.
062So we have to do a lot of like attendance login roster sheets from athletic teams. So, we're we're currently building that. Um, but um, so that's the only one that we don't have. Um, but anyway, take a look at it. Bring it home. Uh, you have a nice 3-day weekend, go to the beach, take this out. Uh, just let me know if you think this is a better way than how we did it last year on came try. I This is what I do. That's what I do. >> I do like your color coding. I do want to say when you use the different colors for us visually visual learners. So, for some reason, my copy machine is not printing in color at the moment, and Ry's on vacation. And so, I I wasn't going
063to bother her or the tech department, and I I said, I'm just going to give it to them in in black and white. Yeah. So, is there there's something wrong with my copy? Right. No, no, but I mean like I there is something wrong with it. I just it's just, you know, it is could be user error. Could be user error. It >> could be that. Yeah. I don't know. could have been um okay um let's take Mr. Titel could you bring up the summary on the electric uh usage of our um charging stations that I sent you today yes you have another copy of this too not in color again um but this I know I shared this with you I think just um in an email but Mr. Papis had asked a question
064about this if I remember correctly. Is this correct? So this is the report that's generated by the system about how much electric is being used char at our charging stations. Uh just as a reminder to everybody there was a a a grant provided by uh LIPA I believe or PSCG to install two uh car charging stations at um each of our secondary uh schools as well as at transportation. and um they were installed for free. So, we didn't pay any money. And anybody who charges at these uh charging stations pays like there's no cost to the district for any of this. It does make the district a little bit of money, like a little bit. Um and as you can see through here, it'll show you what's used at each at each uh station. it
065it brought in about $1,100 so far since March, which is not a lot of money, but um people are using it, which is interesting because I wasn't sure if anybody would use it. Um but uh we even were on a building tour yesterday at MacArthur and someone was charging. So I guess that's that's great. So we've had no issues. Um and uh it I haven't heard a thing about it. So but this is the is the information questions. And just a comment, this actually a benefit to the community because there are some people who would like to get a plug-in hybrid or a full plug-in electric car, but they don't have the ability to charge in front of their house. Uh some of them need 220 voltage in front. And this gives you a economical
066way to charge your vehicle in in less than eight hours. You know, it really helps the community. I think it's another good thing. We talk about a lot of the things we have in this uh we give to this community. We know we pay a lot of taxes. Everyone knows that. But we're having we have tennis courts here that you can use in the evening. Uh you don't have to join a a country club to do that. We have beautiful tracks you can walk around. And this >> Yeah, our our tennis courts are all lighted and the new ones at Wisdom are lined for pickle ball. >> Unbelievable. >> I was just going to ask. >> I'll be there. >> Although I stink at it. >> The charging. No, they would have to at least
067pay cost. Do you want me to? >> Okay. >> Can I also just comment that we're also helping the earth? >> Yes, that's good, too. >> I don't know what it means to save that many pounds of CO2, but it looks like it's a good thing. >> Just because sometimes people ask me the question, is it why we installed the solar canopies? The solar canopies are separate. They don't connect to the charging ports. Those are are in a process of coming online. We just connected the one from division to the uh to the building. And so across this year, all of those car ports will come uh online in regards to energy, you know, savings for the district. So we'll have a report on that later. Just did I send you the report of the
068uh I don't know if I sent you I might not you look for a while. I have paper copies. Uh, the last time we met, we talked I know it's not on this agenda right here, but I do have a follow-up on the facility use fee schedule. Um, I I printed out another copy based upon information from the board last time. Um, and so I know there was some concerns about was the fee for the custodian really fully enough. So, I I changed that. One of the board members said that when other groups use the facilities and we don't have security, shouldn't we require them security? I put that on here. Um, once again, this is not for us to decide tonight because this is just a planning session, but I wanted you to see
069the new chart uh to think about it and really we'll put it on the schedule for the next meeting for us to discuss and potentially adopt. All right. Do you need it, Mr. Papis? Well, I I just I'm trying to be efficient. Okay. Yes. Yes. Yep. Yeah. Oh, that's it. I found it. Okay, good. Um, yeah. So, kind of like married a little bit of different ideas that everybody had. So, like I said, we're not agreeing on it tonight. Just be ready for the next meeting to be able to talk. Last thing on theformational items is our website update. Um, at the last meeting we began the process of talking about uh changing uh potentially the board of ed web page or potentially the structure of the website in general. Um, so uh I know
070I think we had tasked people if they wanted to by now to look at different websites as examples. I think Maryanne actually shared some uh and through email. So I guess I don't know if you want to lead the board in the discussion about the website or how we want to move forward on this. >> Do you want to start us off? or jump. >> Sure. Well, the idea is that when uh looking at the board of ed web page, uh I just feel like it should be changed around a little bit to make it more um informative about who the board of education is and what we do. Uh so I did review uh every single public school website in Nassau County only. Um, and I had sent a highlight um to everyone about
071which ones I liked and why. And I picked different pieces. So, uh, off the top of my head, I do not remember all of those that I listed, but um, just know that I did review every single Nassau County um, public school website just to see like what what kind of things are out there. So, there are so many different ways that we could do it. I just I feel like we uh, should be more present on there. Go ahead. Go ahead, Mike. >> I was just going to say I agree. That's all. >> You can speak as much as you want. Um I agree with you. I think it's it'll it'll be nice to have us front and center because we are um a big part of this community and >> yes. >> Okay.
072So, our next steps would be we probably all need time to review some of this information that you shared. Um >> well, do how about this? Do you want me to take the the information that Marian shared and put to like I have the computer department put together like a template of for us to look at? Right. Is that a better idea? And that would be better. And obviously you can all still look at all of what you're looking at. And then on the 17th when we kind of throw it up on the screen, you can say, "Well, I saw this here. Can we move that?" And that at least something for you to work off. >> That would be good. >> Yeah. >> Like one of the things that I really liked was having
073like a nice group photo of everyone uh and then list this down and then from there the board can decide, you know, how much information about us we want on there. Um, but I also think it's important to share about what the board of education does and how much of the zeros we get paid. >> We invest. >> Yes. >> Okay. I will I will have that for the next meeting. >> Thank you. Okay. I don't know if anybody saw if you if you um uh but remember our liaison last time came up with a new advertisement. I don't know what it's called. Uh you know what it's called? What do they call that? It's not a meme. I guess whatever is social media post um with our topics and stuff. So, um, as much
074as we don't have a tremendous crowd tonight, it might be because it's the last week of August and so, um, but, uh, did you see did did you did Okay. All right. All right. Well, that's good, too. Okay. Um, okay. That's, uh, that's all I have. >> So, that's it, right? >> Mhm. >> All right. So, uh, may I have a motion to adjourn the planning session? Maryanne, may I have a second? Mike, all in favor? All of us. Anybody against? Zero. Meeting adjourned here. >> Wait. Don't get excited. >> We have another meeting. >> Don't get excited. >> This one's special. >> Do Do I have a motion to convene the August 27th special meeting of the Levittown Board of Education? Jimmy, do I have a second? Jen, all in favor? 5. Please note
075that Phyllis Dalton and Peggy Morang are excused from this meeting. We have nobody from publicly heard, so we're going to skip right over that. Okay. Um, now, do I have a motion to accept the schedules on the agenda? >> Yeah, but you go. Why don't you go to the second and then discussion? >> Okay. So, Maryannne, a second, Jimmy. All in No, wait. Discussion. >> We're going to do any discussion. Uh, Madame President, um, we're going to need to pull uh from schedule 10007 number seven and 8 and from schedule 10007.2 number six. >> Okay. >> Other than that, we're good, right, Madis? >> Okay. All in favor? Okay. Now we're five against? None. Okay. Do I have a motion to accept items 4.2 2 through 4.6 on the consent agenda. Marian, do I have
076a second? Jen, any discussion? All in favor? Five against here. >> I just want to thank the board since uh my contract extension was on there. So, I just want to thank you for your continued support and I didn't say anything till you did it. Uh but I just want to say thank you for your continued support. It is a delight and a pleasure and an honor to work with all of you at this table. We do good things for kids. >> Thank you for all your hard work and dedication to the district, the students, and everybody. Thank you. >> Um, may I have a motion to adjourn the special meeting? Maryann, do I have a second? Mike, all in favor? 5 Z. Meeting adjourned. Now we're good.