001Go ahead and start it. >> Welcome. We're going to call the meeting to order the record show that only Miss Taber is absent. Um we do expect her to be missing a few. That's all we're going to say. Um Moving ahead, please stand. Remove your hats if you're able, please. Pledge of allegiance. >> I alian 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. >> Do you have any changes to the agenda? >> We have two additions. Um, we have two additions to consent agenda. Number seven, approve the creation of a boost funded workforce development coach position. And number eight, approve the creation of a boost funded mentor tutor position. >> Thank you. So, we have
002no questions on the agenda. Can we get a motion to pass it? >> I move. >> Thank you. Second. >> Thank you. All in favor? I opposed. Same. Motion passes. Is there anyone who had signed up for community comment? >> We've been right through this meeting. Presentation on community schools is up next. Are you coming up? [clears throat] >> [clears throat] >> All right. Hi everybody. So, um, I'm Casey Steiner. I'm the director of community schools at MTSS. I'll let my teammates introduce themselves. And hi, I'm Lin Luca. I am the community schools coordinator at the Million Junior Senior High School. And I'm Emily Lorenzan. I'm the community school coordinator at MEES. So, we're excited to share with you a little bit tonight about what community schools is, kind of as a reminder or a
003refresher for some of you, and then for those of you that are new to our board, kind of as a introduction. Um, and so what is the community school strategy? We're going to kind of break it down using our essentials for community schools transformation framework, which we lovingly refer to as the wheel. And then talk a little bit more like practically about how this actually looks in Marian School District. And then we will talk about kind of some of our partners and our collaboration which is a key part of the framework. and then our kind of goals moving forward. So, this is the definition of a community school. It's a place where educators, local community members, families, and students all work together to strengthen conditions for student learning and healthy development. As partners, they organize
004in and outside of school resources, supports, and opportunities so that young people thrive. And so obviously there's a few components of that that are bolded. Um when we talk about like strengthening the conditions for student learning and healthy development, to me that's like making school a place where teachers can come to teach, students can come to learn, and we can make sure that all of their needs are met. Um and then we do that not just in school, but out of school. And I think that's something that's unique to our team as we go out into the community. And we really view ourselves as kind of like that cradle to career team. So these guys not only coordinate some supports in school, but even do things for like um little like birth to foury olds.
005So we have an infant toddler book club that they facilitate as well. And then our goal is that young people thrive. So we want all of our students to be healthy and well. Um, okay. Um, so our community school strategy, it really is a strategy like Casey said, but it's a set of intentional partnerships that support whole child development based on the needs and assets of the local community. So, first off, our intentional partners, um, the reason they're purposeful, they're with families, they're with community organizations, um, local businesses, service providers, and it just makes sure that our students have everything they need to thrive. Um they're intentional because they are based off of data and conversations of what our community needs. And you're going to hear more about that as we go into the presentation.
006Um and the goal is just to support the whole child academically, socially, emotionally, and physically um by surrounding them with a network of care. >> And this this slide we're super proud of. Um this is actually going to give you a lot of our strategic community-based partnerships. I know it's a lot. Um, but there are some that we're like super super proud of. Um, and they've come through some of the work. Um, that second, like the first one, Toys for Tots, we do a lot of our Christmas with them. Um, Pi Square, she's a local baker, and every week she donates to our school-based pantries, her overflow, and we use that and provide that into our food boxes for local communities, our Maran Public Library. I'm not going to go through them all, but just
007as you can see, our list keeps growing. Um, and something we're really proud of. um and thankful for and um another big one is our family members and community members too. So >> and I would just add to that that you know the last slide mentioned that we leverage the assets of the community. I think this is one of the strengths of Mary as a community is how involved and engaged the the whole community is. So some of these people are local community members. Some of them are more regional in the county and you know like Walmart of course is more than just regional but uh we're really fortunate to have so many people engaged in supporting this work and it it shows um you know we can't do all this alone. We can't meet
008the needs of every child. It takes a village right >> and so this really showcases >> people are showing up. >> Yeah. >> So kind of going back to community schools being more of a strategy rather than an entity. So each community school is different. So just about every school in Wayne County is considered a community school and when you walk into the doors of each of them they look very different as to how they operate and function. So like here in Marian like we just mentioned our list of partners that's like our assetbased um placebased person- centered approach. So we really lean on um the assets of each community and here in Marian um we have a lot of those people and partners willing to help us. Um it's in general the way that
009we do school it's more so a mindset rather than um like I said an entity or a physical thing. It's a way of thinking and a way of going about um and thinking differently to help meet the needs of every child and family. So this is our wheel that we love so much. Um and so the side of the wheel is kind of the why behind the work that all st students flourish and thriving school communities. Basically we could take our like whole child framework and profit right in the middle there. Our goal is that every student is healthy, safe, engaged, supported and challenged. And then who kind of drives that work is that orange ring and it it's everybody, right? It's community partners, it's school staff, our coordinators, but also youth and families are
010part of that as well. And what I really love about that component is like everybody's equally um represented kind of around the table, if you will. So, one person isn't valued more than the other. We all come to the table and work together. Um the turquoise ring there or bluish whatever it is is um our enabling conditions. The things that make this work most successful and possible are things like trusting relationships with our community members, with our young people, their families. um having actionable data as Emily referenced uh we do a needs and assets assessment and I'm like ecstatic to report we had 232 people respond to a survey that's like one it represents 34% of all the survey responses in all of Wayne County and we're the smallest community in Wayne County school districts
011so that's pretty impressive in and of itself but it also just to me shows how engaged people are and that people are willing to do what we ask of them and show up and help and share their voice. Um inclusive decision- making. We're going to talk a little bit about our advisory board and that process and having a shared vision which is some of the work that we've been doing. So those are the enabling conditions. And then the key practices are the next ring. Those are the things that probably look most familiar to people. things like um a culture of belonging, safety, and care. We can kind of imagine what that looks like. Expanded and enriched learning opportunities, rigorous community connected classroom instruction, integrated systems of support. So again, thinking about the whole child, not
012just them as learners and creating those conditions for learning and development, powerful student and family engagement and collaborative leadership and shared power and voice. So those are the things that we can talk we'll talk a little bit more about what those really look like in Marian because those are the things that I think you can see a little bit easier. And then this dark blue circle around the outside the supportive infrastructure I think we're very fortunate because Wayne County Community Schools has been a longstanding um like organization and the Wayne County partnership for strengthening families kind of help support all of this. So, working on continuous improvement and professional development opportunities so that some of our community partners can show up and speak the same language that we do at schools. And that can help
013with bringing in sustainable resources and grants um and um kind of overcome some governance issues that we can run into when different organizations uh have to report to different entities. >> So, the How does all of this come together and work? It really sits within those enabling conditions. So the actionable data, the trusting relationships, the inclusive decision- making and the shared vision. So to go back to the actionable data, the needs and assets assessment that we conducted. Um we review that at our student advisory board or student advisory board, community schools advisory board. Um and that goes along with the inclusive decision making. So, we're intentionally seeking voice from all different stakeholders, which brings us back to the orange ring. Um, our trusting relationships is always a work in progress. So, whether that be with
014students, families, staff, and community members as a whole, um, that's work that always needs to be done. Um, we also do our best to, uh, go gather a shared vision. So, our essentials for transformation wheel that you just saw aligns pretty well with the whole child framework that Marian follows. Um, and ultimately we're doing our best to make Marian the best place for kids to grow up, which is something that we truly believe in that is already happening, but what does that look like and that's a question that we're trying to answer through our advisory board. [clears throat] So, adding on to that, making Mary the best place to grow up for kids to grow up. Um, like Emily said, we have our community schools advisory. We meet about four times a year. Anyone is
015welcome. Um, and at our last or our second to last one in September, we really wanted to hone in. Like that's an easy statement to say what making Mary the best place to grow up, but what does that truly mean to our community members was super important to help us um drive our work and understand it was harder to come up with those values. Um but we did a visioning um activity where we had people like imagine the day in the life of a child growing up in Miam like from the moment they wake up till when they go to bed. And we said you know pick a young child, pick a middle schooler, pick something that you can relate to. Um and then we did some visioning activities. We all wrote down um our
016ideas and these are the general um themes of those and there's something we're definitely like trying to hone in and come up with our exact values for Marion. But like we said, as like a team, we're like, "Wow, that was It's not as easy, right? You can't just capture someone's values in a few words." So, it's something we're um continually working on. Um at our last advisory board um in the beginning October, we also brought this up and had people um at the advisory board add to things. So, it's still a work on progress, but um we're definitely making some strides. So, from our community standpoint, this is what it means um for their the best place for the kids to grow up. So this is an example of like collaboration and action. So this
017is taking you through um the steps that we've gone through in order to make certain things possible. So uh last year we were able to provide new child care options. Um we had swimming lessons over the summer as a partnership with PAL and we provided those to 18 kids. We have opened up our community, our wait room to our community to be able to access on Wednesday evenings and Saturday mornings. Um, and even more was all carried through um this kind of collaboration timeline. So, it starts with conducting that needs and assets assessment that we've referenced a couple of times, bringing the data to our advisory board for a larger group of people to analyze um and identify different areas of growth. And then, uh Lynn, Casey, and myself kind of take what we gather
018from those meetings. Um we think on it, we ask even more questions, and then we connect with partners who in turn connect us with more partners in order to make all of that possible. So kind of breaking down the key practices which was that bigger chunk in the transformation wheel. So it was the um six light blue areas. Um so those are the more visible things that you can see and um what a lot of our work consists of. So I can speak specifically to what we do at the elementary school. One of those things is student advisory committee for collaborative leadership, shared power and voice. So, we just had our first meeting of the school year. So, we invite fifth and sixth graders at random to um join us and uh have their voices
019heard as to different things and topics that we would like their input on. Um and we also have the community schools advisory board. Um and at the high school, um we do we have our youth voice leaders. They're an active group of uh high schoolers that are involved with not only just Marian uh Junior Senior High School, but as Wayne County um throughout Wayne County as well. Um they're doing some great work, and I'm super proud of them. They have an upcoming Youth Voice um um like evening for kids to come to and have dinner and do some like classes and things like that. So, they are amazing and we get to work with them directly. Um we always say like whenever we're stuck on something we're like oh you know what we'll just go
020ask the youth voice leaders you know um we were trying to come up with like a name for mini camps and things or at the high school and we're like we just ask them like they're just a huge pivotal part of our work and like we're so lucky to be able to fall back on them and they're doing great things. Um along with that too we also have in Wayne County elevating student voices um and we just got done with our world savvy changemakers summit um where we invited students to come and have their voices heard as well. So our kids are our students are having opportunities to voice that um for expanded and enriched learning opportunities. Um I'll speak for the high school. We are rolling out mini camps which have Emily's been doing
021a great job of at the elementaryaries for a year a few years now. Um but we're going to be rolling out with in conjunction with the boost grant something similar but at the junior senior high school level. Um, and we're still coming up with names. Right now, setting a side quest, but we're not completely set, but um, just a little bit longer of a time frame. For the elementary, it's 5 hours. The high school will be 10 hours. Um, so those will be great opportunities for the kids. Um, and then the rest is elementary right now. >> All right. So, um, again, mini camps, they're one of my favorite parts about, uh, my role here. Um, so just seeing how many kids get involved and how many teachers get excited about leaving mini camps and
022it really just increases everybody's like positive attitudes and feelings towards school and doing things outside of school. Um, those are probably my favorite thing ever. Um, so we also did swim lessons like I had mentioned last year. Lynn had gotten our books and bites club up and running which is an opportunity for students to go and visit the public library. if they have a snack, um get library cards if they didn't have one, and is another way for them to engage in our community. And we're working on um kind of bolstering our mentoring program and making some changes. So, for the past few years, it's been an adult to student mentoring program. And right now, Lynn and I are trying to think of ways to make it more of like a peer-to-peer mentoring program. Um
023so, that's was just a way for kids to foster positive attachments with one another and some positive adults. and I see some of my mentors in here today. So, thank you. Um, and then for powerful student and family engagement, one of um, another one of my favorite things to do is go on home visits and meet families where they're at. You know, it's not engagement doesn't always necessarily mean that people are coming to the school. Um, when you get to go to a family's house and really meet them where they're at, it's just it's like an unescribable feeling. Um, so that's probably my big takeaway from this powerful student and family engagement. >> Mine as well. And I think it's also showcasing too like we go on a knock on a door and most of
024the time these families are opening the door. Like we're standing on the doorstep and they're opening the door. It's another thing like showing how Marian's unique and and willing and wanting to partner. And I think it's >> just one of the like the best parts of our job is connecting and meeting families where they're at. >> Another thing we hosted last year is book swaps. just a quick game and swapped in the cafeteria and it's a great way for kids to build their home library and we'll be getting up and going. Um Emily and I host UPK coffee chat. So we invite parents of um UPK and now kindergarten families in um one Friday a month to sit and have coffee and connect with each other. If they have any questions about the school, they're
025open to ask me then. Um and a lot of times it's just good conversations and coffee and talking about um how their child is progressing with another mom. We also do nights ride and that is like a second chance bus ride. Also again a lot of home visits. So, um, you know, identifying the chronically absent students and going out to their homes a second chance after they've missed the first bus and just, you know, letting them know that they can come to school. There's no penalty. Um, and that we're here for them. And, you know, we don't get kids every day, but we get kids a lot of the time. And when we don't, um, we're making connections with their families and seeing how we can support them in other ways. And, um, I run
026a check-in intervention up here at the high school. Um, this is a long-term intervention. A lot of times our interventions are six weeks, 12 weeks. This is like we're talking years. Um, it's aimed at kids that might be um, have the chance of dropping out and trying to stop that. A big part of the check and connect is obviously the student and building that relationship and talking about goals and what we're going to work on. Another huge part of that is that family connection. Um, and I call home. I do go out for cups of coffee and I really truly am trying to connect with these families and again meet them where they're at so that we as a school um can help um connect them with either services or resources or even just having
027that quick conversation like you know maybe one subject's harder than the other and letting that teacher know that or like moving their like simple things like moving their seat to closer to the front of the room and they can see better but the kids just don't know how to advocate for themselves and it's helping to get their voice and be able to learn how to ask for those things. Um, another thing we did over this summer, um, because it was from our SEAD is opportunities for families to connect. So, we did some family field trips, um, we did a cherry picking and then went out for ice cream. We went to the >> park, >> deforming park and did rock painting and had a picnic dinner all together. Um, and then our last one was
028at Sodas Point Beach. So, we did provide um that opportunity for transportation in case transportation was a barrier for any of those. So, it was a great time. We connected with a lot of great families and it was good to see some of the kids over the summer. need anybody? >> No. >> So for rigorous community connected classroom instruction um so this is kind of something that Lynn and I had partnered on last year. So we were able to provide dental education in our kindergarten classrooms. Um and another thing that we are carrying over again to this year is our future fair. So last year at MEES, we um invited different uh businesses, companies, um different career opportunities to come in and speak to our elementary students just to get them thinking a little bit
029more about their future and what kinds of opportunities are out there for them at a younger age. And that's modeled off of our Wayne County Community Schools Career Carnival, which is um same thing on a bigger scale and open to every eighth grader in the county. Um for integrated systems of support um we are all on the NTAS team so tier one, tier two, tier three and we make it to all those meetings, help submit uh help with any of the work that might be involved, join subcommittees, um things like that. We also work with Fingerlakes Community Health. Um they're coming in at the end of November, >> November, December. And giving free dental cleanings to any child that signs up. That deadline is coming up soon. It's November 11th. Um but they come right
030to the school and they have their dental care provided right here um for free if needed with um health insurance or lack of health insurance. So that's another great thing. We've been able to bring the school and we work with the school nurses to help coordinate that schedule and things like that. Um we do work directly with um food link and we both Emily and I both at both elementary and high school have food b uh school based pantries where we deliver food boxes to families. Um we're working with toys for tots and now the giving tree was which was formerly known as the angel tree. Um so yeah it's where you know they get the tags and they have them housed at the library and you get to go and um pick a tag
031and shop for a student or family [clears throat] um who may be in need of Christmas gifts. So, we've kind of streamlined that process and have partnered directly with uh the library and with Carrie Sergeant who kind of oversees that organization um just to uh make sure that every kid in the school district who is needing some support is able to get some. Yeah, we have a support form that goes out in all our newsletters um from either elementary um high school or the the community based one where there's a QR code where families can reach right out directly to us. That's how we do a lot of our work with these support with our food boxes or Christmas help. Um and like we call families directly and set times and meet with them and
032figure out what they need. Um another great thing we offer is get ready to grow which is screening. So kind of how Casey touched upon how we do things with younger kids zero to um four or five. This is one of those screenings. They came in and screened almost all of our incoming preschoolers. Um we start from basics from height, weight, dental, eye, um >> do gross motor, fine motor, >> speech. Yep. So it's a great way to catch um maybe where a student might need a little extra support. Um and we also do referrals. >> Yep. partner with the Wayne County Department of Aging and youth um for fact and that is just like some extra more intensive case management services for the culture of belonging safety and care and this is our last
033of the key practices. Um this is I think the work that comes more naturally to us. So um making sure that every student feels like they belong, that they're cared about and that they have a trusted adult is kind of our main goal with this one. So, in order to foster that, we do things like lunch bunches. Um, check-in checkout is an intervention that can help support this. We hold new students groups for all of our incoming new students so that they feel welcomed and meet friendly faces from day one. Um, we do try, which is an evidence-based curriculum, um, used for resilience building and motivation building. Um, so I know Lynn and I have both administered um, groups or one-on-one sessions of Wshi and then as a whole school community, we're supporting tier one
034efforts. So I know we both had a busy week last week with it being Red Ribbon Week and Halloween. Um, and we look forward to supporting other tier one efforts like mental health awareness week, wellness month, things like that. >> You can tell that they are just sitting around all day [laughter] looking for things to do. Um, no, I think you can also hear in their voices the excitement that they have about this work. Like we are so fortunate to have both of them. I'm super grateful for both of them. And I know they have each set some goals for themselves for this school year. So at the elementary school, Emily's focusing on increasing connections to school and community through rigorous community [snorts] connected instruction. So >> earlier on in one of the slides you
035might have seen we do something called the evalu metrics youth survey and that is a student survey that's completed and for students in grades 4 6 8 10 and 12 every other year. So it kind of follows them through their cohort of years and it a few of the questions target um like how they're feeling about their instruction and how relevant they feel it is as well as their community connectedness. And so these were areas that were identified as, you know, needing some improvement. And um so Emily's got some ideas about how she's focusing on improving some community connected instruction and really supporting teachers and making their instruction relevant for students as well. Anything you want to add to that? >> No, I think you got it covered. Um that's still like a work in
036progress for me. I kind of picked that as my goal as the rigorous community connected classroom instruction was something that I felt that I needed to learn more about. Um, and what better way to do that than making a wildly important goal for myself. Um, so I've been reading curricula curriculum maps um, and having conversations with teachers and starting to get to know the content before being able to offer I have this, this, and this that we can partner with. Um, so I'm kind of in like the beginning phase of my goal and really in like a learning period for myself so that when I am able to um really partner with teachers and bring in outside organizations um that I am able to do it confidently. I would say one thing that is in
037like the early works is I'm working with our second grade team um to hopefully partner with the Salvation Army and do a kind of like a food give back um field trip of some sorts. So, uh there's still some planning that needs to go into that, but that's definitely a goal of the second grade team and myself. So, I'm very excited about that. And then Lynn is working on reducing chronic absenteeism through integrated systems of support and helpful student and family engagement. Um so nights ride is a big piece of that. Check and connect is that like one-to-one relationship. It's an intervention like she mentioned that's over a few years to build a relationship with a student to be that supportive adult for them to help them through any barriers that may be impacting their
038learning and to connect with their families as well. Um, so I think too, yeah, I think also like reflecting back on like trying to make Marian the best place to grow up, like truly trying to understand their reasonings for not coming to school and like what's holding them, what kind of barrier, obstacles or reasonings so that we can better understand and make Marian the best place to grow up for all kids even though that may not be coming to school at that time, but hopefully we can change that course of action and that'll be coming to school. It's something near and dear to my heart. um when we were picking these goals, they said something like keep what keeps you up at night. It's those kids I don't get to see and check in and
039make sure they're okay. So that's why I focus my um attention on this that goal. >> And then I would add to [snorts] like other areas of focus that from that is identified from our community schools advisory board. We've mentioned that we've met twice this school year um and are still working on identifying and solidifying those values and um the vision. and we met recently. I believe it was last week or the week before. It was last week. It's been a blur. Um, [laughter] so we met last week and have identified some things, but we just haven't had the time to really sit down and dedicate the time that's necessary to look at those. Um so kind of like how we mentioned at the beginning of the presentation like the swimming the child care um
040things and opportunities like that we will um take a look at our data and our responses from last week's advisory board meeting and kind of sit with that um get some feedback from our next meeting and move forward with the areas identified as areas for growth. >> Yeah. So we've kind this kind of uh quote helps us remind ourselves like if we want to go fast we can go alone and we can get things done pretty quickly but if we want to really make it meaningful if we want to go far we go together and so that's why we really think it's important to engage all those stakeholders and the different people around the table because we know we can do our best work when we work together. So, >> thank you all for listening
041and for allowing us all to do the work that we love. >> Um, we hope our love for it kind of comes through. But do you have any questions for us? >> Thank you. Thanks. >> Thanks for coming in. >> Thank you. You're going to go again. So, >> okay. [laughter] >> We can do the personnel from here and then >> Got it. >> Did you want to pull we do these all together and then so it >> Okay. So, personnel by consent. Does anyone have any questions? If not, can we get a motion to approve? >> Okay, the other will second. Fantastic. >> All in favor? >> I posted abstained. Motion passes. We [clears throat] do have >> Yes. So, one of our appointees tonight is our new um secretary to the superintendent district
042data coordinator. This is a position that I was like very sad to see posted [clears throat] um because you know Nate is fabulous and has done such a great job in her role and honestly like I've learned so much from her like I'm able to do this job because of Naine. Um but even though we had to have this posting I am confident that we have found a great candidate for that. So hope so. Will you all just [laughter] Sandy from her other role in the district as registar and she does her data data coordinator work for us um currently but she's such also a great asset to Marian and is really hardworking ready to learn and we're excited to have her take on this new role for the district. >> Fantastic. And we would
043also like to celebrate you and we'd like you to come run our gauntlet so we can shake your hand please. I wonder with Mr. Wise if you'd like. >> Okay. [laughter] >> Congratulations. Congratulations. [snorts] Congratulations. >> Congratulations. [laughter] So, next I got excited and put on the NSB update for Amber who is not here. So, we're going to table that because I don't have her information. So, we'll table that one. Look how fast we got through that. Moving right along. We're at our superintendent report. to move my chair over it. I have a fairly short update for you tonight. So, just two items that I wanted to highlight um for the board. So, uh we recently did a school visit to Waverly Central Schools. So, I'll talk a little bit about that. And um as
044was mentioned in the community schools presentation, there was also a team of us who attended the world savvy conference. So I'll just share a little bit about those two things. [clears throat] Um Waverly Central Schools are down right near the Pennsylvania border and uh we made a connection with them at the rural schools association conference this summer. So Nikki attended a session with the superintendent of Waverly and Nikki has been saying ever since rural schools like we need to go visit because they do amazing things down there for around community schools and workbased learning. So um we made a connection with the superintendent and went for a visit just last week. So it was myself, Mr. Dean, Mrs. Steiner, Mr. Keller House, Mrs. Luca, and Mrs. O'Hara. Um, and we went down there for the
045day. They welcomed us in. We had a nice tour of the district, but we spent a lot of time talking about the workbased learning opportunities that they have for students. So, um, they have really a lot of offerings for students to have worked based learning experiences both within the school day and outside of the school day. Um, and they do a lot of them um, right through the school. So, for example, they have similar to how we have the night's cafe here. They have also um like a cafe uh kind of a coffee house, breakfast, lunch type of place that's run by students. Um they have a great I guess relationship that they have established with a local hospital. So they've um established kind of a pipeline from school to the hospital for kids to
046be able to have work-based learning experiences linked to healthcare. Um we spent a little bit of time looking at some of their CTE programming. So they have some agriculture programming similar to ours. Um they have their own drone school um where they give students the opportunity to earn their drone their pilot's license. Um, also we learn more about their community schools connection. So things like how they run their food pantry. Um, they have a thrift store that's all studentrun. So it's linked to a business class. So during the day they do the planning and business class. And then students rotate through and run the school the thrift store after hours. And those students are paid through their work-based um learning opportunities. And then um they had some really unique community art experiences that they facilitate
047for their students. So um through students art classes they've done things like some mural projects in town. Um they had in their community multiple underpasses that had a lot of graffiti. Uh they got permission to paint those um with murals or panels. uh they have created welcoming entryways at each of the major entrances to town, student designed signs and welcomes. So for us, we've started to talk a little bit about next steps for us as a team now that we've gone here and learned like what do we want to bring back to Marian and we're really prioritizing that work-based learning opportunity. So they shared with us that they utilize AOSI's co-service agreement for enrichment to be able to um fund some of these work-based learning experiences for students. So they provide the work-based learning experience.
048Um there's payment to students for that work-based learning and it's reimburseable through this uh enrichment co-service agreement. So, that's one of our um first things to look into after this visit. And then also just great ideas in terms of how to connect more uh for community schools and exploring like how can we leverage our students to help pull off um some of these community schools connections or activities also in a way that might provide us an opportunity to be able to compensate kids like pay students to do that. Um next the world savvy conference. So um this was also last week. Last week I believe last week like Emily said like it's a blur lately with what we're doing. Um we had to do a last second pivot to Geneva. There was a water man
049break in Newark. We were supposed to be at the conference the Boseies conference center but they had to be closed because of work on their water man. So we ended up um taking our team to Geneva. We had 10 junior senior high school students who were invited. One of the big goals of this conference is increasing student voice. So um we spent the day in Geneva and they sometimes broke us apart like adult groups and student groups. Sometimes we were together as a whole school. Um they spend a good chunk of the morning like reviewing data about school student perception, getting feedback from students. Um and the big takeaway was like really brainstorming ideas to improve our school. So they really encouraged kids to think outside of the box like imagine things like you didn't
050have to follow a period schedule or you could work towards mastery. like there were all sorts of different prompts for kids to kind of reimagine what school might look like. Um so they collected all those ideas throughout the day and then there's two follow-up sessions um in November and these will hopefully without a water mane break be back at um Wayne Fingerlinks Boseies and again the idea is we'll take that feedback um from students to pick something to change at the junior senior high. So take that feedback from kids and think about, okay, what do we want to do to improve the student experience at Marian Junior Senior High and kind of reimagine a piece of school for kids. So that's it unless people have questions on either the visit or world savvy. Great. Thank
051you. Okay. Student Representative McKay. >> Um, it's been a very busy week. Well, past few weeks with sports and academics. Uh, the girls varsity volleyball team, they won their first round of sectionals, but unfortunately lost the second round. The girls modified soccer team, they had an almost undefeated season with a record of 101 and one. The girls varsity soccer team was section B class B2 co- champions with Williamson. Um they'll be getting their medals in Shields soon. The boys cross country girls and boys cross country team um they got first and second place overall at less. Some of the FFA students got the opportunity to go to the national FFA convention, so they got to learn a lot there. Um, we celebrated Halloween and Red Ribbon Week, which was all about saying no to drugs.
052Uh, we celebrated that with spirit days like tie-dye, jerseys, and costumes. Students got donuts on Halloween for sending three Black Knight accommodations which were sent by students and staff. And the penny fund is also starting soon, so everyone remembers, start saving. And we also had a vocal and band concert, so that we were able to showcase what students have been working on. Now Lydia, we also talked about something else that you were going to bring up. >> Okay, [laughter] >> this is where this 100% is where you would do this. >> So me as well this year in past few years, me and other students have also come up to me about the lack of quality of our school lunches. Um I don't know what staff or faculty eats our school lunches, but I have
053had turkey that looks like bread. I've had fish that was like wet. So, um, Mary and I know we try to make sure the whole child is cared for. So, school lunches are something that to me is a part of that. And I feel as if sometimes they're not the [laughter] most healthy for us. So, >> that is exactly what you are doing in that seat. Yes. We want to know if the kids are coming to you and saying >> don't love this then. Yep. That's exact. This is exactly how you're doing. Also, there were some concerns about some like not necessarily expired, but foods that might taste a little like spoiled or not necessarily great. >> All right. Thanks for bringing that to our attention. >> Do you have anything else you want to
054say? >> That is all. >> Okay. We'll kick it over to Mr. W. >> Okay. First [clears throat] item I have is a capital project update. Uh this week we have a four-page newsletter that should be going out so that uh all the committee members will receive that prior to our upcoming meetings. So we have the uh forum after the 11:18 November 18th meeting. We also um are scheduled to present at the PTO meeting the next day on the 19th. Uh on December 5th uh Dr. Lloyd and I will be at a senior citizen lunchon at at Stonehedge or excuse me, sorry, let me back up. I screwed that up. There's a u a meeting uh December 5th at Stone Hedge uh for any community members that want to attend to get any capital uh
055information. And then uh we also have a senior citizens lunchon. Um I don't have that date. >> 25th. >> 20 >> 25th. Yes. Thank you. Um, then of course we have the the vote on the 9th at the junior senior high school. Any questions on the first item? >> No. >> Kind of a repeat of some information. Uh, second item is the budget development calendar. Yes, it's that time of year again. Uh, seems like we just went through this but comes up quick. Uh so the calendar is um in there looks very similar to previous years. Um anybody have any questions on that? We'll be um also messaging out for anybody that wants to become part of the budget committee as well just as we have done for the past few years. So anybody that
056out there that wants to be part of it feel free to email me. Uh so next meeting uh the board will approve that. >> Okay. Uh the third item equipment. Okay. So it [clears throat] has come to my attention within the last few weeks that at the bus garage we have two lifts that are original with the building. So they go back to 2000. So they're 25 26 years old. and there was a quote to repair one of them. Um, and the quote was for over $80,000. Um, so but the recommendation was to they need to be replaced. They need to be they've outlived their lifespan. So, uh, building aid and transportation aid are virtually the same. So, at this point, to me, it makes the most sense to do one of the lifts in
057next year's budget. Um, and then we would get the aid on that the following year, which would help fund the second lift. And then the third year would be kind of like a bonus aid, you know, the year lag for the transportation aid. Um, so that seems to make the most sense to me in terms of getting that taken care of. >> One right now is currently working. Okay. We have one that is operational and we can Yes. Okay. >> So, we can live through it this year, >> get the other one fixed in the upcoming budget, which would be probably the summer, this coming summer. Um, so be fully operational for the school year, and then uh get the second one. >> You know, what does it cost? >> Oh, good question. [laughter] The
058quote for one is $267,000. Uh, that's today's quote. So that's could change, you know, obviously by this coming summer. So it is I have to price it. >> Yeah. >> Does it come with any kind of warranty as opposed to like paying to fix it and then I would assume no warranty? >> Uh I'm everything has a warranty. I don't have it right for me to tell you exactly what that is, but um any other questions on that on the on that piece of it? Um so the other part of the equipment um so last year if you remember in in the budget development uh facilities requested a floor scrubber one for each building. Um they also requested a um a field paint sprayer and those three items totaled about $40,000. Um this fall the
059facilities director has come to me and has um suggested that instead of purchasing those new items this year that he would use his building repair money to um get new brushes and batteries for the uh floor scrubbers to um prolong their life. [snorts] He feels a stronger need that um he needs to replace his existing John Deere tractor which is a 2015. Um he wants to replace it with a slightly larger one with a salt spreader which would allow him to, you know, salt the the walkways and sidewalks because currently right now they do it kind of by hand. And then also allow him to help push back some of the snow banks um to some degree. Obviously not it's really large. Um I think this probably became a little bit of reality last winter.
060We had a little bit more of a normal winter. Um, so our contracts uh for snow removal, you know, increase quite a bit. So the hope is with a little bit better snow removal equipment in house that we can reduce those costs as well. Um, so he would like to do that and he's saying that he can basically reallocate that $40,000 towards the new tractor and spreader and then the old tractor would go up on Auctions International uh to be sold which the funds from that um would help fund future future equipment. >> Field paint sprayer I [snorts] can't imagine that gets used a whole lot. Is there anything we could share like go in with other schools and get one and we rotate using it? >> Well, that I think that would be a
061little tricky logistically only because you know if everyone has a home game around the same time everyone's painting I don't know. Do you paint them once a season? Do you paint them? >> No, they do >> multiple times a season. >> Yeah. So, as the grass grows and you lose the lines, you have to repaint them. >> I'm not sure how many depends on the weather. There's a lot of factors, but um they do get picked. >> I could ask one question. >> Just a question. >> Sure. >> But that that's budgeted for >> what it's going to be reallocated. >> That was part of the 40,000. Um now, it's not maybe in the spring if we need it. I think that's that's a lower one lower cost items, but we might be able to
062get that. >> That would do like the baseball fields, softball fields. >> Yep. try. >> Okay. >> Um, so if if if everybody's okay with that, I think at the next meeting, what we'd like to do is surplus the old tractor and um he the ball rolling to get the new tractor before. >> Yeah. I the discussion about sidewalks has been one we've had for many years. That's not something I remember Jason Ke talked to you several times about. >> Yeah. So that would be >> slipping on sidewalks. >> The sidewalk that runs along the parking lot up there still doesn't get cleared >> or very rarely gets cleared. So that makes people walk in the parking lot. Like where you walk the ramps down in the building, there's a sidewalk along the parking lot
063there. >> Yeah. That's >> that doesn't often get cleared. >> So if you want to walk through, you have to walk through the parking lot. You can't walk to the sidewalk and walk along there. >> Can I ask a question? >> Not right now. >> Oh, okay. >> So, it's just one of those those things. It was It was Jason's thing that went back to Davis. >> It's been a few years, >> but it hasn't >> it still hasn't changed >> and I don't know how that with our contract and whatever how that would get cleared. But I would think if we can [clears throat] keep kids from walking along behind the cars that are parked there and have the opportunity to walk on that sidewalk, it would be better. >> Yeah, [snorts] I could
064I can talk to Jim further on that. Um I know that there are some logistics to that, but we can talk it through >> if there's a way to [snorts] >> uh >> financial reports. Yes, financial report there's in the revenue side there's little to no change which is typical this time of year because you don't start seeing the changes till later in the year um because it's all projected and then the uh expenditures u same thing there's little variance between last month and this month like 20,000 total variance you know you're talking about $23 million any questions on financial I do not have any. Okay. So, with this one, we do need to approve. Correct. >> All right. We please have a motion to approve. >> I I >> Thank you. Is there a
065second? >> Second. >> Thank you. All in favor? I opposed. Motion passes. Um, before we move on to administrator's reports, if anyone does have questions, we do have a signup sheet and you can sign up to ask questions at the end of the meeting, but we're going to move on to our administrator reports. As always, this is Miller. I was trying to look back when was the last time I spoke to you. I feel like the world is as everyone has said, it's been a blur. Um, so we had our conference day. I think we said we were going to have our conference day. we had our conference day and it was lovely and it went as planned and um since then I've also had the opportunity to hear Jay Mcai speak. So Jay Mcai
066is someone who um I saw Cindy because she knows exactly who Jai is. He really helped design um understanding by design which is one of the ways that Marian uses to think about instructional planning but he doesn't travel much anymore um and he was going to come in person to Monroe 2 but because of air traffic situations he didn't make his flight didn't go so he was virtual however he was still wonderful and he really focused on performance-based learning um really through a New York State lens of portrait of a graduate and the push through New York State inspires as we move away from traditional assessments on how to use performance-based learning. So, um I'm excited that I I got to hear him and just his his thinking hasn't really changed, but hearing it through
067that lens was just really nice hearing a lot to think about and um how to train teachers as that type of assessment becomes more of what the state will be looking for as evidence of learning. I also had the opportunity to go to the world savvy which was wonderful. So I'm looking forward to the next parts of actually taking um what our students said and using that to help direct [clears throat] all of our decisions. Um also last week I went to uh a digital consortium that is um facilitated in in connection with um the U ofR and Boseis to specifically talk about um leveraging AI digital literacy and computers computer science as we move forward and I would say that that's one place like Marian is really ahead in a lot of places this
068is not a place that we're ahead um you know so there is some work for us to do because really employers want kids that have the portrait of a graduate elements but having technology in each one of those things and how to leverage that technology to problem solve, collaborate and think and um you know use it in academics. So um they really want and that's whether you're going to college that's whether you're going to work um entrepreneur that technology is is an area that we have to make sure that our students are ready for. So where we say we're preparing our students for tomorrow's opportunities which we really don't sense do a little bit more strategic thinking in this area we leaving some of our many of our kids behind actually. So, um, and then
069I've also just been balancing Bosey's consulting and stuff that you Okay, so I have just about finished up all of our 504 annual reviews. There's four elementary school rescheduled meetings that are happening this week. Um, for special education, we have currently seven new CSU referrals. There are four in second grade, one in sixth grade, and then two in ninth grade. We are starting a process plan for annual reviews for our special ed students. Um those really start at like the very end of January, the start of February, but it's a lot to plan for them to make a calendar for every student. Um and to schedule that, we have 162 students from UPK up to students who go to school up to the age of 22. So getting that schedule and calendar to work is
070a lot. Um, we still have three Marian students who are on a wait list to go to an out of district program. The two high school students look to be closer to get somewhere than our elementary school students. Um, Red Jacket Education Center is really the one place that takes students at the elementary school level for that student's needs and there's like a 25 person wait list. Um, and so those students are all being tutored. And then for BKC's, the um Junior Senior building has a blue level goal that all students will receive a BKC each marking period. And so the building was able to achieve that for the first marking period. So so far we have sent 1,378 BKC's. And the goal is also to have staff members [snorts] send those BKC's for students.
071Um they're a little bit more specific and personal when a staff member sends them. and we've [cough and clears throat] sent wonderful BKC's this marking period. It's a highlight of my job to see them. Um, a lot of those BKC's um are very specific and great to see. Um, there's also BKC's being sent by everyone. So, parents are sending them to their children, bus drivers, students, I mean, everyone you can think of sends BKC's. Uh, we have a middle school student who spent some time with the older Mrs. Taber and so she manages our inschool and detention. So this student wrote to her, Mrs. Taber is always being kind and never judges me on my mistakes. Truly one of the kindest staff and so it's a nice BKC to someone that he sees somewhat regularly.
072Um but a very positive BKC to someone who manages in school and lunch detention. Just wanted to share. But there's a ton of them that have been going all throughout the building this marking period because of that goal. And teachers were so helpful. Staff members were so willing to support that. So, everyone got one from about 45 staff members to help meet that goal. At the elementary school, um as heard community schools mentioned, our mini campuses have started. So, many students are now participating in those. Um we have just finished out October. So we are going to start um tomorrow morning over the announcements uh recognizing our students whose uh teacher nominated them for the character trade award for October which was inclusion and acceptance. So we will read their story over the announcements. Tomorrow
073we start with K kindergarten and first grade. Uh students will come down and receive their award and their invitation to their um their like after school event. Um, November's character trait is gratitude, and we're going to continue to highlight those stories in the newsletters as the teachers send them to me. Um, I guess much like her and BKC's, I love when I get those like little stories in my email. It's really great. I look them over again on the weekend when I put them into the newsletter. Um, we also had our first school Halloween parade. So, traditionally, it was UPK through second, I believe, or kindergarten through second if you go, you know, further back. Um, but I kind of um dropped that bomb last year that we were going to do all grade levels
074were going to be able to dress up and encourage all students to participate in the parade. Not that they had to, but participate in the parade and dressing up um and enjoying the day. So, we did have UPK through sixth grade participate in our Halloween parade this year, which was really great. And I was very thankful that the weather held off because I really wasn't sure what that was going to look like. [laughter] We're making all kinds of crazy plans to try to get people, you know, to be able to see it because kind of a big deal. We weren't going to have everybody in it, but we we were able. >> It went outside, right? So, all the parents were outside and could see. I think that is amazing. >> So, they go through
075the whole building like the we started with Mrs. Vernon's class and like she went down the hall and pick because the kids will be in the hallway like watching the parade go by and then they join the end of the parade, went all through the school and then out the one door and back in. Yeah. So, was >> I think that's really cool. >> It was lovely. I have you have to have all the parents in the building. >> I don't even know how we would like safely manage to have all of the parents in the building, which is why I wanted to figure out a way to continue to do this, but in a way that's like manageable and safe and all of that kind of stuff. >> I think that sounds awesome. >>
076Yep. And that's it. >> Okay. >> I give you credit because I went trick-or-treating with my kids Halloween night and that was not lovely with the weather. Um so at the junior senior high school we had students attend the elevating student voices at Waynefinger expose which is what community schools uh they talked about that and essentially it's a program where they are trying to empower students to become leaders and dive into discussions about diversity inclusion um mental health and the goal is to train some of the leaders to then be facilitators of discussions where they'll come back together on November 12th um to lead discussions of students all over the area. So, we had two students that signed up to be facilitators, which is huge. Um it takes a lot of bravery to do that
077with people that you don't know. And so, we're really proud of those students and look forward to them participating. On the 12th, the web leaders taught their first lesson of the year to our seventh graders. They went into Mrs. Cook's English class and they did a lesson on maintaining positive relationships, specifically being mindful of words they say and they don't say. Um, they use toothpaste and toothpicks to show like how once you say a word, it's hard to like put words back and so it got messy and the seventh graders had a lot of fun. Um, so it was it was really cool to see. Um, and then I ran some data earlier and looked at referrals. um October 2024 referral data compared to this current October referral data and the junior senior high school's
078referrals are down 42%. Um so that's uh really cool to see it. [clears throat] >> Uh well we talked a lot about what we've been doing for goals. Um we had our advisory board meeting last week. Um, a lot of time, you wouldn't believe it, like it's like we're having Christmas here as well because we spend a lot of time getting ready for the holidays here. So sending out um this support form and then reaching out to families to see what supports are needed, coordinating with multiple different um organizations to receive donations and make sure this is one that we learned last year was making sure there's enough freezer space for the frozen chickens that we might get or turkeys and uh making sure that we're able to distribute those things to families. So there's
079a lot of um time and energy that has been going into that and will continue all the way through December. Um along with that obviously there's the um SNAP benefits issue that's happening um throughout the country. And so we've been working to make sure that those that are requesting [snorts] um food and need food boxes are getting that. And so keeping the food pantry stocked um has been a bit of a challenge. Um both food pantries have had things flying off the shelves in the recent weeks. So that's something that we've been working on. We have um Mrs. Luca Lynn was doing some study work on boarding. So study work is our one of our like um kind of career readiness programs. So students 14 and up can participate. It's stands for skills training and
080employment access for the de the development of youth. So we've worked on a plan to complement the boost program where students in study work kind of have different levels of independent work sites. So starting off with more supportive and then working up to more independent work sites where they can develop skills and be paid as employees of Fingerlakes Community Action. So that's uh a cool opportunity, but it does take a lot of coordination from Mrs. Luca. And then a group of us went to the an attendance workshop from the National Center for Community Schools at Wayne Fingerlakes Boseies and are working on like kind of having a concerted effort with district-wide attendance rather than separating by each building because we know families are, you know, span both buildings. And so having a more concerted kind
081of [cough] home attendance approach. >> I am very fortunate to have a student rep on the board. So I she covered a lot of the highlights. I won't repeat them other than by saying I've just been really proud lately of [snorts] all the great student things happening between athletics and music concert. Um, just a lot to be proud of and celebrate in this building. But other things that Lydia didn't mention are our language teachers did a middle level language Halloween bingo party on Friday. They also recently [cough and clears throat] did seventh grade pumpkin painting. They find a lot of great ways to bring the joy into the language classrooms. Um, we celebrated senior nights for all of our varsity athletic teams and um, just really fun [cough] months to celebrate our eldest athletes. Uh,
082FFA day, I don't think you mentioned that, did you, L? >> No. That was a lot of fun. Um, big shout [clears throat] out to Mrs. Lochner and Mr. Rogers for planning that event. Uh we have a bunch of different community members that bring in animals, bring in produce. Uh so it's a really nice event to see a connection with our FFA community. That was a huge success. Um coming up soon on November 12th, Mr. Feifer and Mrs. Duffy will be participating in the distance learning spotlight. remember they're doing those distance learning classes in our distance learning labs. And so NRW, who is one [cough] of our partner schools, has set up a spotlight evening during their parent teacher conferences. And uh Mr. Feifer and Mrs. Duffy will be participating in that virtually. So that's
083pretty cool. Last time I was with you, we presented, Tracy and I presented and Michelle, you asked a question about Zello and if you could see that in more depth. So, I'll be sending the board an email momentarily with some links to more information there. >> Thank you. >> Yep. And some upcoming dates, Veterans Day, obviously coming up next week. Uh our fall sports awards will also be next week on the 13th. We have our first Night Shield Awards, which will celebrate students from quarter 1 who had exceptional behavior, attendance, andor grades. And then uh before we know it, winter sports JV and varsity practices will begin. All right. Tech department. Um this time of year it's a lot of, you know, bug squashing and accounts and password resets and making sure everybody has what
084they need. Um, we're finalizing up our replacement of the desktops and the offices um as part of our forced transition to Windows 11 that had to happen. So, we have just a couple more in a couple places that we've been finishing up with. Um, since we were here last uh 75 tickets with an average response, first response of just about an hour is where we still live. So, people are getting what they need when they when they need the support. And we also did learn that if Amazon servers go down, so does the rest of the world. Um, we had a day with the day when Amazon went down, we we learned just how many of our software pieces actually run through those servers. So, great fun. Good job. Next, we have the consent agenda
085items. We have any questions on any of those? If not, can we get a motion? >> Second. >> Thank you. All in favor? I opposed. >> Abstain. Motion passes. Has anyone signed up for community comments? >> No one had signed up, but she >> Did you want to ask your question? >> Yeah, I do. I just got a question about your floor scrubbers. If you're replacing the batteries and brushes, what's the cost? And what type of a tractor and power are you looking at buying $4,000? >> It's a It's either a K Cabota or a John Deere. >> Okay. Small, large. >> It's a It's a little bit It's slightly larger than the current one we have. >> Which is what? >> That's a great question. >> [laughter] >> I'm I'm happy to get back
086to you with u do you have an email address I can email back to you >> if you can if you could after the meeting sign up there with your contact information then you can have it any other questions right then I need to please have a motion to move to executive session for the specific purpose of discussing anticipated tenure appointment and potential litigation. >> Thank you. All in favor? >> I post motion passes. Those of you who are here because you are forced to be here for class [snorts] may come see anyone over here to have your papers signed.