001It's August 7th, Thursday, August 7th. Welcome to our board meeting. And everybody, please stand for the pledge. We have a quorum. Did everybody have a chance to review the personnel schedule? You have any questions? No, I just wanted to say um it was exciting to see how many of our staff step up and play multiple roles to help our community, you know, be as special as we can for the students. So, that was a takeaway for me when I looked at the staffing list. >> Quick question on my end. So, for uh the probationary appointments, right? Oh, great. Thank you. It was actually just a question about uh Rebecca Gagny. Um is she that'll be a literacy specialist across or dedicated to Muny Park new to the district. >> So Rebecca is replacing Megan Liy.
002Megan ret um resigned from our position in June as a reading teacher. So that's where uh Rebecca's covering her position. So it's at my right. And as far as um because it says tenure area is literacy. So she would be a reading specialist. >> Yeah. Literacy. This the um certification they fall under. >> Correct. But I I also know just and this is more of a subject matter expertise because some of our reading specialists have specialization in Orton Gillingham. Um I think that would just ensuring with being under literacy that that's something that Rebecca would be picking up. >> Is is she doing that? Are you saying that's what she's doing? >> Right. If that's could be some of the tasks she does. Okay. So when we appoint an individual, we have to put them
003under specific tenure areas. One of the tenure areas is like elementary teacher, science teacher, world language, literacy. So this is setting tenure, but does she have training in Wilson or the other? Yes, she does. >> Thank you. Does that make sense? >> Yes. No, that that's actually exactly what I was trying to understand. Okay. Thank you. And thank you, Mariana. That's really important. I know it's uh Dr. Chowsky, you when you're also looking to hire as well and we're interviewing over the course of the years, it was important to have a roster of teachers with Orton Gillingham training and Wilson training as well. >> We're also very happy that we're expanding our training this year. That's one of our initiatives within the reading department for more Orton Gillingham and Wilson um certified teachers. >> Thank
004you. >> In terms of the consent agenda, did you have a chance to review or have any question? Well, you definitely reviewed it, but do you have any questions regarding uh the amended calendar as well as the agreement with CASA? you approve three and we just have some I would also like to welcome and I'm sorry I didn't do this in the beginning of our meeting but uh our um interim superintendent Dr. Pitaryi. Thank you for joining us. It has been such a joy having you with us. >> Thank you very much. Only been a couple days so so far so good but I appreciate that. Thank you. and also our new school business official. Thank you so much, Gerard, for being with us. >> You very much. Yeah, same. It's been uh it's been
005an interesting couple of days, but glad to be here. >> We're very excited to have you with us. I know you have a wealth of experience and we really appreciate you coming to our school and collaborating with us and and bringing your wealth of knowledge to our schools. >> I'm going to jump in on Terra for a second. He's here every day before I get here. He's here many nights be after I leave. I still see his because his car is parked right next to mine, which is I I like because then I know when he when he's here. So, uh he's done a fantastic job getting to know people, meet with people, making sure everyone's got their job responsibilities, who's doing what, when, how. Uh really important information. He's putting all that together to
006run that department, which is a a big thing to take on. So So Gerard, very happy to have you. Thank you. and and everyone here, Rebecca and Dina, the whole team, uh, Maryanne, my right hand already uh, in my office has been phenomenal. So, really appreciate everyone and all the staff that have been so wel s has moved furniture in my office several times already and uh, really very efficient. I don't just say I want it over here. S will put a piece of tape here and a piece of tape there so we make sure that everything is going in the right place. uh really appreciate him. The tech folks, everyone uh has been very welcoming. Thank you. >> Before we adjourn, I just want to jump in and use my superintendent time for a
007second just in so far as we do have some committees out. We put a letter out to the community, an email asking for people to join our committees. Please go ahead and check our website. Look to join these committees. It's really important that we have this strong relationship between the district and the community. It takes a village as they say and without a doubt it does and this is a fantastic village Manasset. So we're going to ask that people give some of their time, the gift of their time to the district so that they can work with us and we can get their insights in so far as what we want to see with our schools as we go forward. So we implore you to please go ahead to the website, look at the board
008page and join our committees as you see fit, where you think you might make a difference. We appreciate that. And I know this past week at the secondary school, an email went out regarding the governor's uh distraction-free school zones and uh cell phone bans bellto students going to have to put their cell phones or internet connected devices in their lockers. This will be a real transition for many of us for parents I know and for students and it's something we're going to have to work through. I know uh Dr. Roa is collecting information and feedback from parents now, culling all that together, and we'll codify more letters as we go forward with more information and more specifics as we move on towards the start of the school year. Okay, thank you. Thank you, Dr. Politaryi.
009Does everybody a agree motion to adjourn public session? Thank you. >> Thank you.