001order 602. Are we all on? We are. Okay. Uh, roll call. All board members are in attendance. Um, I do want to let everyone know if for some reason this is a long meeting at 8:15, Mr. Marshall will be leaving. Nothing is wrong. Don't panic. He's just going to quietly Uh please stand and remain. Join us for the pledge of allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Thank you. So we do have a change to the agenda before we approve it. >> We have yeah we have three three four additions actually. >> Okay. >> So we have three items to consent agenda. Item 21 approve non-sertified substitute teacher. No I take that
002back. It's um I apologize. It's an extended PDM substitute teacher. Item 22, approve a onetoone teacher aid at Maran Elementary. And item 23, approve a certified building substitute. And then to executive session, we are going to add uh an item to discuss a matter regarding a student with an IEP which is made confidential by federal law. Thank you. Does anyone have questions on the agenda? We have a motion to approve the agenda. >> I'll second. >> Thank you. All in favor? I oppose. >> Motion passes. Moving on. Did we have any sign up for topics on the agenda? >> No. >> And we're going to move right into our building plans and start our evening off. All right. We have presentations from Mrs. Her at the elementary and Mr. Dean at the junior high on
003their building plan. I don't know if either of you have a preference. You're going to go first. We got you right here. So this is the 2526 MAS building goals goal one. So by June 2026, 80% of our KSIC students will meet or exceed the typical growth targets for acance reading and math. Um among students identified as below or well below benchmark by the beginning of the year um at the beginning of the year benchmark at least 50% will demonstrate stretch growth signal looming progress towards closing achievement gaps. So this is a shift from achievement to growth so that we can be more holistic include all students to make sure that all students are on our radar, not just those that are, you know, trying to get to the next level, but all students overall
004um are achieving growth throughout the year. Um so we're looking at the personalized growth path to proficiency scores within the cadence math. A cadence is something they kind of rolled out last year, but this year they're fully implementing it. Um it's got a beautiful dashboard. We can see everything and how the kids are performing. Um that's in both math and reading. Some of the things that we've done, I've been having meetings with our grade levels around Panorama. Panorama is a data dashboard. So all of our students information is housed, it's pulled from school tool, it's pulled from I Ready, Aadian, all those places and it brings it together so that we can look at a student holistically. It includes their attendance, behavior, um the SEAL surveys that they take all go within there. So when
005we're having student conversations, we can speak about them as the whole student and not just one of those areas. So, I did have meetings with the teachers this week to um teach them how to use it, where to look. We're actually going to use it also for student referrals for support. So, the teacher can pull right from there, tell us what they've been doing with the student, and again, it keeps all of that data in one place. Um, we have math support to all of our grade levels. And, um, again, I mentioned this before, but we're looking to um, oh, sorry, no, this is enrichment opportunities. So, we do also have enrichment opportunities for the students that need that. So it's a holistic approach looking at the student's academics. Goal two is that um MEES
006will cultivate a culture for future readiness by introducing students to multiple graduation pathways. That's the four E through age appropriate learning experiences that highlight skills, careers, and opportunities. So one of the shifts we had was away from the college and career at the elementary school, which was hard for the kids to, you know, see that far out. We're talking like some of our kids at the beginning of the school year are only three years old and um looking to give them more intentional experience so that they can experience a wide range of things. Um so we have STEM now that's helping you know expose them to things like that. We're still going to continue with the future fair um future focused field trips. So being more intentional about what field trips we're taking um and
007on the ones that we've been taking making sure that we look at it a lens of future readiness. So make sure that you know we ask the questions to the students, point out different um aspects of like who does it take to make this field trip happen, right? If they're going to the farm, like what are the all the different um aspects that came into that, the bus driver, the farmer, all of that kind of stuff. Um we're going to make sure that we're documenting the age appropriate learning experiences and highlighting skills, careers, and opportunities. So that's kind of our own checklist like what have we done? What areas might we not be hitting on? So that's the intentionality piece. So, we're doing great things, but just making sure that we incorporate uh more of
008a focus or more of a lens on that future readiness. And then as far as far as more opportunities for experiences, one of the things that I did was move chorus to the day so that more more kids can experience the mini camps. Um we're looking to make a a few changes to band as well so that we can open up more time for kids after school. Goal three, by the end of 2526 academic year, MEES will demonstrate a measurable improvement in school culture, fostering a positive, inclusive, collaborative environment for all students, staff, and families. Um, driven by the implementation of comprehensive plan focused on celebration and communication. So, really looking at those two aspects, celebration and communication, in order to drive a positive culture. Um, we're using things like the panorama surveys to see
009how the kids are responding, uh, types of celebration. So we're not just having we're trying to be more dynamic. So more celebrations, making sure that we're honoring kids for all different kinds of things. Uh we're also looking at how often we're honoring kids and making sure that we are trying to be again more holistic. So let's honor all 100% of our kids at at the elementary school as appropriate. We're highlighting students stories. So if you look at the um newsletters, we're including stories from the teachers of things that are happening throughout the day. Um we also shifted our PBIS structure and night notes to make that more um celebration driven. Uh we're looking for a decrease in discipline referrals. Mentioned again extracurricular activities. Many camp enrollment will let us know if kids are engaging. And
010then parent square engagement. So that's the communication piece. Pushing all um all communication to parent square. We had a couple different platforms we used before depending on what grade the kids were in but making sure that all parents have access to parent square. Um and then we can actually see the analytics behind it. So, if I have families that aren't engaging with it, I've reached out directly to them to make sure that they know how to engage with it um in their way, which is great about Parents Square. It doesn't have to be the app. It could just be your email, but making sure that people are receiving those communications. So, these are the two pieces of that last one, the culture. So, we're talking about one school, many stories. That's where the student stories
011come in. Um so, every student, staff member, and family brings their own story. Together, we create a school community where all voices matter. Our PBF PBIS work this year highlights character traits, change making, empowering students to write their own chapters of growth, learning and success, looking to empower our students and show them that they are really in control of how their future goes. Along with that, we have a staff theme and that's together we author success. So as staff, we set the tone for the story of our students, what they experience every day, uh collaboration, consistency, and care. So we co-author the narrative and achievement of joy and belonging within our school. And that every classroom is a different page in um the story of Marian Elementary. And we just had our pep rally which
012is where we highlighted our first PBIS celebrations. So the character trait of the month for this month was belonging. And students were um honored in front of their classmates for embodying the traits of belonging. That's a couple of those pictures there. We're making sure that we're focusing on teamwork. So there were some teamwork activities. The kids had to wrap their friends in toilet paper and they got to share. Um, and then we actually had a pep rally committee, which is the picture that you see over there. So, those students signed up to be a part of the pep rally committee and really drove and led the pep rally at our school this year. And that's it. >> So, the measurable improvement in school culture, you're using the surveys and >> Yeah. So, we'll be able
013to see um >> square. >> Yeah. There's two different surveys. There's parent square surveys and then there's little kids wouldn't be able to fill those out. So, we're looking at that to see how that moves from the fir they'll do it three times a year. So, from the beginning of the year to the end of the year specifically around belonging. >> Okay. >> I really like the stories theme. I think it it really ties um like the backend work with the you know the work that you're seeing in the classrooms and the hallways and the buses and and it it it bridges the gap between you know your the employees and the students and >> everybody's pushing towards that same goal setting. >> We also highlight the stories in the building. So we have like
014the message board. So the pictures and the stories of the kids and how this this month was belonging next month is acceptance and inclusion. So we make sure that they're display the building as well. >> Thank you. Good evening everybody. Um, you know me and I think you know Jamie as well. I've asked her to join us uh for this presentation because I was out of town for the month of July. thus the western theme of our slidesh which is kind of how we kicked off the year with our staff and uh Miss Mrs. Fitz Simons led our our building leadership team work in developing the goals in July and was very instrumental in August as well. So it's appropriate that she share them with you as well. Um, so without further ado, the the
015other thing I want to share with you is this year we did our goal development a little bit different in that we were focused on three goal areas. One around climate culture, one around academics, and one around career readiness, college and career readiness. So you'll see that theme through our three goals in that order. So Mrs. Fitz Simons will share with you the first goal around climate culture. So our first goal is that students will experience a welcome and affirming school environment that supports their overall learning, their health and their safety. And progress towards this goal will be demonstrated by measurable improvement from last year to this year. Um where there will be key indicators such as increased class attendance, um positive trends in student culture and then climate survey results. And so our goal
016really this year is to make sure we're greeting every student by name. Um when you come in the building in the morning, you see their staff members there welcoming uh the students as they walk in. Um we've had staff members playing Whitney Houston one of the mornings, jamming out and uh handing out beads during spirit week. And we're really trying to like solidify the idea that every student is seen and heard and that they are someone that's important. And so we're really trying to focus on that. We're going to be implementing trauma-informed practices in November during one of our Wednesday times. Um we're going to be having professional learning for staff and the goal for that is if staff have the right resources and training then the environment in classrooms when situations occur will be
017handled in a manner that's appropriate which will increase the overall climate um within the building. Our goal is for every student to receive at least one P uh BKC every quarter. I think Mr. Dean and Mrs. Levy were meeting about that to go through to see students um and the list and who's gotten what and so that will be pushed to staff just to make sure every student again feels seen and heard because they feel really special when they get one. Uh quarterly night shield assemblies. This is something new. Amy Keller House has uh been like the brain behind this for tier one. And the goal for this is for every quarter for students to be recognized for like the good things that they're doing specifically um when it comes to grades, behavior, attendance. Um
018their names will be drawn out of a pool of students. Um and they'll get a free Mark's Pizzeria. >> Yes, big shout out to Mark's Pizzeria who provided a lot of certificates for >> Mr. Dean did a lot of work for that. So, um, and then finally, interrupting harmful comment staff development. That will be in January during our superintendence conference day. Um, and again, the goal is for staff to be trained and just to have resources um, and and know how to handle certain situations because overall it's going to make the building a better place for everyone. So, that's our first goal in terms of um for students um to create a welcoming and firming environment. >> And you probably already noticed just through goal one, we've got an expansive professional learning platform for our
019staff this year, more so than we've ever had since I've been here. Um which we feel really good about. There's a lot of great opportunities for staff to develop and grow this year for our Wednesday time and our conference days. Um so speaking of our goal too is around academics and since I've been principal our academic goal has always been around regions or standardized test performance and we've been very uh thrilled with our outcomes on that. We're we're really um kind of top of the county almost top of the region three years in a row now. And so we felt like let's keep doing that. Let's not stop doing that because that's really great. But let's also focus on another potential area for growth for us which is passing courses. So passing a regent and
020passing a course aren't the same thing. And so we want to continue our success of regions exams and uh middle level state exams but also increase our course pass rate. Um and want to be clear here that the the idea is not to lower the bar for students. We want to maintain our rigor um and maintain our expectations for student performance but support our students to a greater level. And one of the ways we'll do that is through teacher clarity refresher for all staff um and extension. So Nikki Miller will be doing part two on Friday of this week for all of our teaching staff on teacher clarity, which is really about tier one instruction and how do we best um give our students the best kind of base foundation of knowledge through teaching and
021in curriculum um in the classrooms each day like Mrs. Fitz Simons mentioned implementing trauma-informed practices. So, trauma-informed practices really are about making sure that our staff understands how trauma impacts our students and approaching it that way. Uh, approaching their instruction that way with a trauma lens. And so, we believe that if we do that well, it'll help all students succeed and find greater levels of course pass rates. We will continue our benchmark assessments and data analysis procedures. Those have pro proven very effective. uh we benchmark with assessments that are very much like the end ofear assessment. So at midterms and at 30 weeks, we use assessments that look a lot like the end ofear assessments so that students are very much prepared for those assessments when they get to the end of the year. That's
022something that's been kind of instrumental. We believe in improving those standardized test results. Uh we will carefully monitor past fail rates each marking period, actually more than that each five weeks. We pull that data, we review it very carefully. Um, and again, we look at what more supports do our students need in order to be able to pass their courses. And then as a project leader building leadership team, we are researching best practices for grading at the secondary level. kind of looking forward to the future about how can we improve our grading practices uh without making any kind of knee-jerk decisions and as a building leadership team getting deep into the research on that. All right. So, our final goal um is where every student in grades 9 through 12 will utilize and develop an
023online cello portfolio that focuses on the components of the New York State portrait of a graduate. Um and so our goal for this is to begin training our staff about the platform Zello and how to be incorporating it into their classrooms. Um, Portrait of a Graduate is like new New York State, like it's newly created. They're rewriting the components. Um, and from what we've heard, they're like pretty much being solidified. And so, our goal is to have portfolio days throughout the school year where um the selected day will be based on students pulling work from their classes and adding it to the portfolio. And it focuses on one of the components of the portrait of a graduate. And so they would be basically compiling this grades 9 through 12 and then using it as their
02412th grade um senior exit project as a way to highlight those components but also they tie into our 4E plan um for the building. So it's really exciting. I like really like curriculum and instructional development and so when we planned this over the summer I was like oh this is wonderful. Um and the staff are like really on board with it. So it's exciting to think about. Yeah, it's really about making sure that over the course of their four-year career as a high school student, they have exposure to all of those portrait of graduate skills and components so that when they come to the end of that 12th grade year, they they have a really proud product that they can show off. Here's all the ways that I achieved the portrait of a graduate skills
025and attributes. For our seniors, we're going to have to expedite the process a little. We'll make it happen. Yes, this is um in my opinion the best building plan that we've had since I've been principal. And um so that tells me that I've got to go away each July because Mrs. Fitz Simons did such a phenomenal job developing and leading the team and and as well as the team did a phenomenal job in developing this really um strong set of goals to guide our work this year. What questions do you have for us? I really think this is a plan that kind of digs in deep. Like the kids that you have in high school now, junior senior high now are like we're at such a pivotal point in their academic career. You know, my
026kids were prek, these kids were not. Um, so I think it takes those improvements, you know, that you've already made and it kind of dives deeper into what you guys have already built on and you're keeping building and it sounds like it's going to be successful for all students. So, >> excellent. >> Thanks. I agree. >> Would we be able to see an example of what a one would a Zello portfolio would look like? I'm just curious. Just >> Yeah, I can absolutely send that to the board. >> Okay. >> Thanks. >> Yeah. I don't think I could. We have to talk about it. >> It's a thing that Mr. Dean said. >> Is really cool. >> Yeah. No, we'll send you some examples for sure. >> Okay. Thanks. >> Yeah. Thank you. >> Do
027we have any more presentations? Turn this off. >> I have like a slide deck for my section. >> Okay, I'll leave it on >> and let's just stay like this. If you're going to be going back up, >> I kind of want to move back and forth 50 times. >> Okay. Board of Education. First thing we have is portrait of the graduate. >> A lot of fun. >> Cindy and I went to a um dinner where they discussed portrait of a graduate. It was interesting. It was interesting. I mean, we've talked about this. This is not something that's new to Mary. We knew it was coming. we started working and this was a training for a lot of people to just be introduced to it which was shocking to me because we have done so
028much. Um but it was interesting to see how uh presented and Geneva presented with their versions of portrait of the graduate which do look a little different than what we've heard but were interesting. Um >> did you been it was you some of it was the first time you had heard some of it. >> Yes. Yeah. It sounded though like um you said Marian has already been doing a lot of it. Um what I got excited about was um all the ways of getting involved in the community and um just you know all the different things that could happen in that way and just how that could bring the community and the schools um closer and stronger. And I think it's like a great way to acknowledge that like not every student is an academic
029student. Like academics is one piece of a school experience. And I think the portrait of a graduate like acknowledges that. >> Yeah. But they were talking talking about it uh various varied strategies to assess the student achievement >> and we were sitting with someone who works up at the city schools but as a board member in Wayne County and what they said is I hope they don't expect me to do more than one way to like instantly to the city and was like I only want one way to grade my students I I thought that's kind of not what this is about. So it was different hearing someone who was not rural Wayne County how are you going to do this instantly start talking about I don't have the time I know this and I
030know that I thought pretty sure we've already start working on how they have the time and how they have that. So go admin team i.e. we are way ahead of everybody else sitting there and I also found out waterlue has a very strong um agricultural program as well. I did not know that. That's what their board members were telling me. So if we ever want to collaborate and the other person they said was a Dr. Joe Marinelli from Wayne County STEM would like to work more with schools who are doing an egg program. And the next one they have is going to be November 25th. It is a statewide school finance consortium. Anyone's interested in the next general membership meeting on a Tuesday. We may have a meeting. Have to look. >> It's the Tuesday
031Thanksgiving. >> Thanksgiving that meeting. >> Do you have anything else you wanted? >> No, I Yeah, it was it was really good though and it just um I guess the only other thing is just how much Boseis offers. Um, that's one thing being part of the board. I just like I just can't believe all the stuff that um and that's just one little part of OC. Moving on, we have flag policy discussion. So, previously we had a policy that stated we would do what the president said to do with the flag. However, there was also a state policy that said we had to do what the state said to do with the flag. So, we need to have a discussion to decide what are we doing and who are we listening to with our flag.
032Um, the rule is that the way it was set up is that if the president says it, then the state should also then follow it through and we should follow the states. is this is what our attorney said. Correct. State we should follow the state requirements and the state should be following the federal requirements. But we are a state building so therefore we should follow the state mandates. Am I saying that all correctly? >> Okay. Does anyone have any questions on that or disagree with that? Because we need to change our policy that so that it does not say what the president says we will do. we will say what the state says we will do >> or I think clarifying what to do when it's in conflict like I don't think we've had a
033situation before where what we typically follow through state ed and being a state building is in conflict with an executive order we did this time so I think we the policy you know naen has a policy current policy linked in the agenda I think it would be uh smart for us to just be explicit like what are we going to do when it's in conflict like how do we want that to >> play out. >> Yeah, I think it's worth adding that language in there so that way there is no confusion or >> so as a state building if we are in if federal and state government are in conflict over the flag do we are you all good with following state? >> Yeah, I would be. Yeah. most complex. >> Just so you're aware,
034I've also added the schedule for policy review. I've added that to the first review. So, >> thank you. >> And that's something that we can like discuss more as we do that first policy read. You know, I feel like sometimes people need a little bit to think through it and so we can like talk about that at our policy review and then it'll come back to everyone at the first. It's it's okay. It goes to the committee November 3rd. Okay. All right. So, we will wait and hear how you want to word it. We're okay with state. We'll leave that one at that. Next up is the schedule for the policies. You can see it like Naen said, it's right there. The first one on review one. Think this is much more for our knowledge
035than it is to actually discuss unless you're on the committee. Don't like the dates. >> Worked hard to find us some dates. Yeah, thank you. >> NSBA proposed resolutions. I'm assuming you're ready that one. >> Oh, I would love to. >> Oh, sure. Here, take it right. Did I forget my computer? Yeah, that right there. Um, so usually what happens is, um, during the annual business meeting, they'll go through the recommended and then the notrecommended resolutions. Um I think we've previously mostly been in line with what is and what is not recommended and kind of stayed um in line with NISPA unless we have anybody who is or you know unless we have discussion about it and come up with our own yays or days. Um, so if anybody if anything has jumped out to
036anybody or you have any questions on any of the resolutions, um, I can write them down. We're having a Q&A Friday, I believe this week is the Q&A, um, where they'll answer any clarific clarifying questions we have on any of the resolutions. >> So if you have questions on them, reach out to paper. Yeah, definitely. It can be now or it can be via email and long as you get it to me by Thursday, I'll be able to submit. >> Okay, fantastic. >> All right, our student representative report. >> Um, the students had a busy week with homecoming. Uh, seniors got to vote on their superlatives for the yearbook and they chose their quotes and their pictures. Staff and students got to participate in green days for homecoming such as twin day and USA day.
037Uh students got to drive agricultural vehicles to school on Thursday for country living day and we took a large group picture that we do annually. The homecoming pep rally was a big success on Friday. Seniors won tugof-war. Athletes were recognized from modified to varsity level and homecoming court was chosen. Games were played on Fridays and Saturdays and FFA hosted the homecoming dance on Saturday which was a big hit. >> Thank you. Awesome. >> Lydia, what was your biggest highlight? >> Um, honestly the pep rally because everyone just comes together and you get to watch like little kids play games. You get to watch seniors play games and everyone just works together and it's fun to watch the little kids get to be cheered for and when they announce the modified sport teams and they're all
038happy and then seeing how like we used to be them. >> Probably seeing the younger athletes coming from a senior athlete. >> That's really cool. >> Impressive. That that was something else that that was >> I was facing frown and she meant business. >> The students were a little concerned at first, but it was definitely a surprise. >> I could figure out I and I actually said out loud. I'm like, "Are we not doing modified voice soccer?" And then all of a sudden the music started. >> Shut up, Michelle. I saw I saw Fra walk out and I was like, "Oh no, this is gonna be something something new." >> Next time we're superintendent report. >> All right. All right. So, um, just a few quick updates tonight. So, uh, we're going to talk about
039the Bosey's regionalization plan. That's something that's a New York state requirement that all BOSIES submit a regionalization plan to New York State. And our job as a district and a board is to talk about it. So, we'll do that tonight. Um, as the board knows, I attended two um, trainings recently. So, the first uh one was the NISCUS, the New York State Council of Schools Superintendent Fall Summit. That's in Saratoga Springs. Um and then prior to that, I attended um not really a training, but more of a work session with the Wallace Foundation. So, I'll talk about both of those of what I did. Um quick highlights of our upcoming conference day for this Friday that I'm sure our admin team will give you more information on. Um, we kind of have two pieces of
040business of reertifying um, administrators as able to evaluate teachers and um, to approve our building safety plan. And then just a quick update for the board about the mural that's going to be going up on the side of the elementary. Um so the Wayne Fingerlakes explosives regionalization plan you'll see the full plan is attached in the board agenda but um this plan was created by Wayne Fingerlakes through input from every district within the region. Um so Mrs. Miller and I went to one initial like strategy planning session. Um there were work sessions with superintendent and ultimately Bose seeds is focusing on three priority areas. Funding kind of stabilizing funding hoping to help stabilize funding for education programs thinking about what are um needed programs within the region. How can districts collaborate to provide programming and
041staffing? So, how can Boseis help support regionally thinking about staffing uh because there's so many staff shortages uh that are impacting every district. So, how can as a collective we work to improve staffing levels? So, just some examples um Boseies supports data dashboards that's connected to um both programming and staffing. So having a way to regionally look at data across the region on things like enrollment, number of sections of certain course offerings, um to help decide like where we might need staffing, where we could maybe share staffing. Um actually our new agath program is a great example of where Boseies is looking to go with that programming focus area. like what can districts capitalize on that are their strengths that maybe they can pull in other students who would like to participate in that so
042students are able to have unique pathways um in terms of next steps like I said um the board should be reviewing the plan to make sure you're aware of what like Boseies has submitted um really I'd say the overall goal is to be able to work together regionally um to increase shared services and really um think strategically about those three areas. And the thing that they emphasize for us to share with boards is um just because we are talking about the regionalization plan and it's submitted to New York State. It's not a commitment that Marian has to do every single thing that Boseies is proposing in their plan or comes up through this initiative, but they want boards to be aware. Here's the plan. Here are the focus areas. Um, and to let them know
043that of course we're always welcome to join in any part of what they do moving forward, but that it's not a requirement. So, I don't know if board members have any questions about that. Okay. Sorry. Nope. That's fine. Um, Niscus, I attended Niscus for two days last week. Um, they had some excellent like keynote sessions. One is was Joe Sanfalippo. He presented at rural schools um this summer. Nikki and I got to see him, but his focus was on uh building a positive school culture. um leading thinking about how I actually very similar to the elementaryar's focus of like you tell your own story as a district and like what are you what are the pieces that you're highlighting? How are you making sure people know the great things that your students do? Um, also
044they have these Ignite sessions which are um just 10-minute segments led by a sitting superintendent in New York State where they get up um and present on a key issue either that's a current issue or something they've dealt with in their district. Um, and it's like a timed format. So like the slides, it's kind of like a TED talk type of format if you've seen a TED talk, but it's a timed slide deck and you have to like be thoughtful about like what and when you're sharing and like once your time's up, your time's up. Um, but they were great this time. Um, one that was talking about like leading through a crisis of a bus accident and how they like pulled their school community through that. Um, another one about like purposeful leadership, like
045having a thread in your leadership and how that extends beyond you to your district. Um, there's always multiple breakout sessions um that happen every day. So, I just listed um the ones that I chose to sit in on. really. Um I was impressed this time at how many of the sessions were true professional development and professional learning for superintendent. Sometimes uh some of them can get a little salesy like you know there was a product representative who partners with someone to run a presentation. I was impressed this time. And I felt like there was a great set of offerings that were true like professional development and it's valuable like conversation with other people who are superintendent. Um and then for the first time uh we were selected to present. So Mr. Dean and I submitted
046a presentation proposal back in the spring to be able to um present about our community schools work at Marian and we were selected to present which is a pretty big honor. So we um shared examples of the community schools practices in action at Marian. Um we shared some of the resources that we utilize and have found helpful in that work. Um, and it was nice like we had a late afternoon session and I was sure we would have like five people or less. I don't know, we were at what 15ish, 15 to 20ish. Um, and what I appreciated about that time is people were very like interactive. We actually got some new resources from another district of like, hey, have you thought about this? It was about um kids are able to take their permit
047test in school now so that families don't have to go to the DMV to take that initial permit test. >> What? >> Yeah. So he's like, "Look, we set this up. Here's what how we did it. You should do it." Um anyway, so it was a great experience to be able to have the opportunity to be there and then present and connect that way. Uh the week prior um I spent two days with the Wallace Foundation. So the Wallace Foundation is a private funer. Um they fund large projects that they say are meant to transform communities. So they have um previously, it's almost two years ago now, like put out a request for proposals for um a grant that they're running that is about uh increasing opportunities for adolescents um both in school time and
048out of school time. So Wayne County Community Schools had submitted an initial proposal to be considered for that grant. Um they I think had over 1,700 applications and had narrowed it down to seven that they were considering and Wayne County Community Schools was part of that seven. So part of what I did in our visit with Wallace um was talk about like current practices of Wayne County Community Schools, gave some specific examples of what we're doing in Marian, ways we collaborate across the county with other districts, other agencies. Um and it was a collaborative team from Wayne County that attended. It wasn't just me, other people from community schools. So, they'll do their um they're making an announcement tomorrow actually about funding. So, that um the if the Wayne County Community Schools is successful in
049that, it really like it made me very excited to be there and like hear about the work and think about the possibilities because it is a multi-million dollar commitment that's meant to like really do powerful work not just in schools but in communities. And I feel like that aligns perfectly. >> So you let us go tomorrow. >> Yes. >> Um the conference day I just have up here like the basics of what each building um has on their agenda. Like I said, I'm sure Mrs. Miller and the principles will share a little bit more, but just so the board can see a little bit of what our staff will be working on on Friday. Um the two procedural pieces that we'll do at the end are the APR reertification and the building safety plan. So
050just a reminder like that APR certification um the admin team each year has to complete a calibration training so that you know we all go evaluate different teachers each year and we need to be consistent in how we're evaluating. So, we do a calibration to make sure that we are rating consistently. Um, that's something that we do yearly and like I said, we want to make sure that no matter who is evaluating our teachers that we know they're uh evaluating consistently on that Danielson rubric. And then, um, the building safety plans, those are updated for both buildings. That's something also that the board approves each year. Um, and it's submitted to New York State after approval through their portal. Um, and then last but not least, just a quick update. Um, Teresa, I think Teresa's
051here. Teresa's here. Uh, just sent an update that the mural installation will hopefully be in November. The panels that'll be on the side of the elementary. Um, also there's an addition of a plaque that's going to explain what each panel is and who is within the mural. That's something that we didn't talk about the first time, but just so the board is aware, they'd like to do that as an addition. Um, and the plaque will be removable just like we had talked about with the mural PL panels. And the idea is that it would fit between like the last mural panel and the edge of the building. So, just wanted to make sure that the board's aware and okay with that. >> I'm actually pretty glad that they're putting a plaque because if you're not
052from the community, you'd have >> you potentially have no idea what they stand for. >> Sure. >> So, having that explanation, I think, isn't >> Yeah. Great. Commissioner, even when you are from the community. >> All right. Those are my updates and then the board will have to um take action on the reertification for AR and the C. >> All right. So, let's do the reertify APR evaluators first. Does anyone have questions? If not, can we get a motion to approve, please? >> I move. >> Thank you. Second. >> Thank you. All in favor? >> Motion passes. Next up are the building safety plans, both high school and elementary. Junior senior high and elementary. Sorry, Mr. Dean. >> Do we have a motion to approve? >> Thank you. Is there a second? >> Second. >>
053All in favor? >> I opposed. Abstain. Motion passes. All right. Pass the baton to you, Mr. about that. >> Okay. Uh the first item that I have is uh talking about uh investments and banking for the district. Um try not to fall asleep, but there's a there's an outside vendor that specializes in helping districts um maximize their investments and optimize their cash flow. So what they do is they will come in and they'll look at our financials, our our cash flow for the past several years to look for patterns and when there's needs for cash flow at certain times of the year and they try to maximize taking that money that's not needed and investing it to make sure that you maximize interest earnings on it. Um the other thing that they do is so
054we currently use NYAS as our investments which is a liquid um investment. What that means is is that the interest rate varies depending on what the market is doing. So what the interest rate is today it could be different next week. Um and the market has been doing well in recent uh years. So we have earned a lot of interest that way. However, auditors auditors like to see diversification uh which means a balance of not only liquid investments but also fixed investments such as CDs, uh treasuries and the reason why they look for that is because that provides a little more stability in terms of the investments because you know what the fixed rate is going to be for whatever period of time you've invested in six months or a year versus where the liquid
055can change. Um so that's one thing that the auditors look for. Um there have been comments in some of the like state controllers audits where they'll say oh yeah the districts got their investments in nlass but they could be doing more and they should be diversifying mitigate risk etc. So for this what they do is um they charge a flat fee for this service which is currently $14,900. And what they also do is they basically after they analyze everything, if they can't realize at least $15,000 in additional earnings for the district, then they say, "Well, you guys are doing a great job. We can't help you any further, so we're just going to walk away." Um, the other aspect of it is is that I did speak to four or five different schools that do
056use the service, and they've all had positive things to say about it. Um, and the other thing that the this company does is is that they'll negotiate on the district's behalf for better banking terms. So whether it's, you know, try to get a little bit higher interest on your uh checking accounts or, you know, reduce potential fees, that sort of thing. Um, and the other thing, you know, that came up that I talked about was if you're you if you're already doing this with several districts in the Wayne Fingerlakes region, why isn't this being run through Boseies as a cooperative service, that way you can get aid back on that fee for that $14,900, which then it seems to become a no-brainer. Um, so I did get the ball rolling with that and made some
057connections that um, they're working on that, looking into that to see if that's feasible. Obviously, it has to be approved by the state. Um, but, you know, after all the investigation into it, I think that it's it's definitely if the coaster comes to reality, then it seems like a no-brainer that we should definitely do it. But even if the if it doesn't come to fruition, there's there's like a no risk, right? They come in, they analyze, and they say, "Yep, we think you can earn another $20,000 a year by doing this." Then it's riskreward, right? We gain that extra. Um, so I will keep you apprised in terms of what's happening moving forward because I did not make any commitments. I just said that I need to obviously talk to the board about this and
058we'll see what happens with the possibility of a a coaster through Boseies. So, when you said if they don't find $15,000, they walk away without a payment. >> Yeah. They basically said >> we don't pay them if they can't find us 15. Okay. >> Right. >> Wasn't sure what you meant. There's >> Yeah. And it's and it's obviously it's an ongoing uh So, and they don't actually do anything. They They don't have access to our accounts or anything. They can't do anything, but they make like monthly recommendations based on what the current marketing is to it. say, "Hey, you might want to look at this CD or, you know, that sort of thing to diversify." And then it's entirely up to the district to make that happen. Any questions on that? >> You're looking at
059funds like our retirement fund. >> This This would be all of our funds. Yes. All of reserves, uh, general fund checking, all all the funds. Yes. >> That's what they do. They look at the entire cash flow and operation to try to maximize it >> because obviously taxes come in once a year. So that sits around till we spend it. So if you can get >> Yeah. So the our current practice is that we maintain our compensated balance within Chase. So we don't get charged fees, but we don't earn any interest on those accounts or it's like 01 or whatever. It's very small. And then we try to take the rest of that money and stick it in my class so that we can earn interest on that. And then we have the flexibility of
060moving it back and forth as needed. >> Okay. Sounds like a good plan. >> Really like the uh the thought to go to Boseies and try and push that through a nice time. >> Thanks. >> Uh next item I have uh just food service update. You know, obviously this year there's a big shift in terms of how we're operating the food service. Um so far I think the model is is a very solid plan. Um the food service director who was shared um through Boseis cooperative service um with Red Jacket he's here 50% of the time. He has in my mind he's been great. He's great communicator. Um he really tries to bring everybody together. Um he's doing a great job. Um and the other model that we have is now that we are fully
061staffed, we have four workers in each kitchen in the elementary and in the high school. And so we also have an assistant school lunch manager now um who whose job is to support those kitchens as well um wherever needed in whatever capacity which can change from day to day as well as do some of the other managerial type tasks. So the model seems to be working well. The only tweak that I could see to it that we're looking at currently is possibly trying to create a cook position. Not an additional position, but make one of the food service helpers a cook in the high school, which would um free up even a little bit more time for the assistant school lunch manager to be able to support and not necessarily need to spend as much
062time in one location. But that's something that we're working on. Any questions on food service? Uh third item of audit results. So attached in the uh board packet and documents there you'll see the external audit board memo that that I included. Um all good news. um you know we have a additional amount added to our fund balance um which is I think great for future years also uh the two findings that were found last in last year's those have been corrected and they reported on saying that that that has been taken care of. Um there was one finding this year and that has to do with um outstanding checks uh having a process in place to make sure that the outstanding checks are accounted for that they don't linger um particularly if there's any that
063are over a year old. Um and our treasurer who again is through Boseies um she already has a corrective action plan in place. So that'll be addressed ASAP and coming down the road as part of our corrective action plan. Any questions on the memo or >> No. >> So all in all that was another good audit. >> Love folks. >> Me too. Me too. Love giving you that news. They during the audit committee meeting they did talk about that our fund bal a percentage of funds in in our fund balance is appropriate for the size of our budget. So they agree that we're not >> bringing in too much and just holding on to it. >> Um the only caution that they offered was on the food service budget. The food service fund is just
064keep an eye on it because it did go down two years in a row. However, as we talked about there, there's specific reasons why it's gone down and the administrator was pretty certain that that will bail that will level out and stop going down. So, yeah. So, just to add to that, two years ago, uh we had an excess fund balance for the food service and legally you're not supposed to have more than a threemon surplus operating expenses. So, you have to spend it down. And so we had to submit a report to the state and they had to approve it. And so what we did is we ended up buying equipment for the kitchen. It was like a serving line. It was over $100,000 >> which is where we were showing the decrease. And
065then this past year right for 2425. We had a shared food service director, not through Boseies, but through Williamson, who also happened to be a fairly highriced food service director that we were paying 50% for and not getting any aid back on. So now we have a lower cost >> aable food service director. So that number should will definitely >> um Yes. So yes, that that was brought up in the audit community meeting. Anything to add? >> I do not. It was very informative, but I think I'll keep getting my feet wet. >> Okay. Uh any other questions on the audit? >> No, >> I don't. >> Okay. Uh, next item is action to approve the annual external audit. >> All right. Would someone like to move that we approve the audit, please? >> Move
066it. >> Thank you. Second. >> Second. >> Thank you. All in favor? I >> opposed. Abstained. Motion passes. >> The next item I have is uh tax collection report. So every the first meeting in October every year uh which is basically the halfway point through the tax collection season between September and October. Uh this report is at the end of business on Thursday, October 2nd. Um and it's showing that we've collected 80 about 86 and a half% of the tax collection. Um, and I'm sure there's based on the timing, there's also going to be some that rolled in the the next day there was quite a few just because of the postmark and probably Monday as well. Um, so I'm sure that that's um a little bit obviously a little bit higher now. So October
067is the penalt penalty month, right? The 2% penalty if you don't pay your taxes by September 30th postmarked. Um, and typically by the end of October, we turn over about 6% of uncollected taxes to the county. So, it's every year it's pretty consistent in terms of where the numbers are. Any questions on the tax collection? All right. So, the next item is the um seeker resolution, which this is, of course, for the upcoming uh capital project that we're hoping to um vote on in December. Um and this is a type two seeker uh which means there's no environmental impact u based on the work that we're doing because we're not changing the footprints. Um, we're not changing anything that would impact the environment. Um, so this is an action for the board to approve. There's
068any questions on it. Do we get a motion to approve, please? >> I'll move it. >> Thank you. Is there a second? >> A second. >> Thank you. All in favor? I opposed. >> Abstained. Motion passes. >> Okay. Uh the next item is the resolution to approve uh the capital project vote for December 9th. Um that would be at the high school. There also happens to be I believe it's an elementary uh concert performance at the high school. So out of convenience to make it convenient for everybody, we'll host the vote here instead of um where we typically traditionally host it at the elementary school, we'll host it at the high school this year. Um, so this is a resolution. Um, >> sorry, that scares me that and people are used to going for votes
069to the elementary school. >> Well, we'll make sure we make it very public and notice that >> maybe we can put a >> I would like start right now making sure people know because >> elementary school for anybody who does show up. >> Yep. All good suggestions. Okay. >> Makes sense why you're doing it. I just am scared you're going to lose some >> lost. >> Yeah. >> Like in the capital. >> Uh and then the and then of course we'll we'll have plenty of information going out to the public about the project. >> So can we do absentee ballots for this because of sports and whatever parents should possibly Yeah, it's the same as any kind of vote. There's military, absentee, and early voting. >> So, item seven is the resolution to approve the
070capital project vote for. >> So, we get a motion, please. >> Second. >> Thank you. All in favor? >> I opposed. Abstained. >> Motion passes. >> Okay. The last item I have, which of course is the first meeting of every month, is the financial audit report. Um, so this one is actually showing the audit being finalized. So I guess one thing that I just wanted to point out to you, and I apologize for the number of years that are on there because it makes it a little bit difficult, but if you enlarge in your screen, it'll be easier to see. But if you look at, you know, years 21 22 through 2425. And if you look at the bottom of the screen where it shows in the red box, right, the designated or excuse me,
071the unassigned below the red box where it says unassigned fund balance and then below that it shows the projected unassigned 4%. So you'll notice that up through 2425 those numbers match which is an indication that it's audited and those numbers need to match. So legally uh any school district is allowed to carry a 4% unassigned fund balance. Um otherwise all the other money has to be assigned somewhere. Um so you'll notice that all those numbers 2425 matches which indicates that the audit has been completed and the numbers match. Um as far as the 2526 school year, we're early in the process. So there hasn't been much change from the last um financial report from four weeks ago. Any questions on the financial report? We get a motion to approve the financial reports. >> Thank you.
072Second. >> Thank you. All in favor? >> I posted. Motion passes. >> I think I'm good. >> Okay. Our administrative team, would you like to start? too. So, since the last time um that I was able to give a report, one of the most fun things I had the opportunity to do, and I always love when I get to do this, is I got to give um the class of um their tour. Uh and they actually had asked if I would allow them to see both buildings. They were one of the very first classes that did all of 7th through 12 here because there was a transition when they they moved um from K 12 from the elementary to up here. And so um it's always fun to get to walk the buildings with them.
073And so they were so impressed with the building. Um they were really excited about the egg program and the things that we're doing with that. There are some pieces that clearly did not change at all. um you know talked about room 47 for those of us who know that a study hall room you know they experienced that Mrs. Flegal's old room which looks identical to the way that it did. They all sat and had their picture taken in there. Um so it just was fun to hear um the stories and it was a good time. They also loved to see and I think they could remember every single moment of like elementary school and the teachers that they had and spelling bees that they were in and um the desk where they used to pick
074up and do something with a mirror in the fifth grade wing when the sun was um so that was interesting um but fun. So I love that opportunity to and they had quite a good group of individuals that came back. Uh, I have given a teacher clarity training to all of our new teachers. So, I got to spend a full day with them. That was fun to to get to do that and to get to know them a little bit better. Um, we have a great class of incoming teachers. And so, it's exciting to see how they'll do that. But, we wanted to make sure that that training happened before the conference day because the high school is going to get some additional training on teacher clarity. Um, which will also involve um, Mr. wise
075kind of tag teaming and doing some AI. Uh, one of the things that we have is Brisk, which is an AI tool that teachers can use with students. Um, which it appropriately fits um with the clarity work because you can actually do all kinds of amazing things. Um, and the students can interact with different things within a Brisk. Um, so they can look at PDFs and PowerPoint presentations and articles and things and they can actually interact and like talk to the article and the teacher can set up with the standards that they're looking for. So as they're interacting, the teacher can be teaching with a different group and the kids can be working towards proficiency and mastery of particular standards that it's asking and it continues to redirect you until you meet where you need
076to meet. So, there's some pretty really cool things that you can do with AI that can allow some um very uh like integrative and just efficiency ways that you can use AI to better help kids become proficient. It's also very timely that I'm going to do a training for our um teaching assistants. As of October 1st, the um teacher assistant classifications have changed in New York State. And so just going to go over if this is what you are now, this is what you will be, this is what you have to do to maintain certification and really talking through about the continuing professional development hours that they have to make sure that they get and what counts as PD and then go over all of the options that we have available for on demand type
077things that they can access through our PD plan that's approved through the vendors that they can use. So that um because they have to have a 100 hours every five years and not everything that we do within the course of conference days and things will add up to 100 hours. So they have to make sure that they're they're managing to get that taken care of. So um and just managing between doing stuff for overseas and doing stuff here. So I've been doing a lot of work in some other districts. >> Okay. Um, so I've been working on 504 plans within the last month. We've been having annual reviews. Almost all of our high school meetings have taken place. We have a couple of people who were absent and had to reschedule. Um, and then next
078week our elementary school meetings start taking place and uh, Marian currently has 59 students with 504 plans. There's a few students um, two right now who are 504 students but are being referred to CSE as well. Um and then we have three but now today four special ed students who are awaiting placements. Three of them are for Bosey's programs and there's weight list for those programs. The fourth probably will also go on a wait list at a Bosey's program and they're all receiving tutoring services while we wait for a program for them. Um and then just BKC's. We've sent about 550 BKC's so far. Um we're focusing on making sure all of our students get one every marking period. Um, but some of our students send them to teachers and those are always well appreciated.
079A couple of our teachers who have gotten BKC's so far this first month of school. Um, fra Mrs. Thompson got one. Uh, her student wrote to her, "You have to put up with so much every day. Kudos to you for staying positive and being a great teacher." Uh, Mr. Solder got one. Thank you for making history a little less nerve-wracking and enjoyable. Mr. Shu got one. He makes fourth period PE fun. And then Mrs. Duffy got one. She helps her kids learn really good. So, our teachers got some good BKC's. We've had every person that you can think of, every category of person submit a BKC from, you know, uh teachers to students, bus drivers to students. We've had parents submit them to uh you know, cafeteria workers. We just have always had people giving
080BKC's student representatives on our board of education um giving BKC's and so anyone can always give a BKC on our BKC form to acknowledge positive behavior. Thank you. Um so at MEES tomorrow is our open house and it's the bookf fair family night. So we do have the book fair happening at the same time. That should be very busy. Um, I went through and looked back. Um, they pres presented on our building plans. I went through and looked back to see where we were with everything. Um, we do have our intervention screenings this week. So, our interventionists will use that data to um, identify students and what additional supports they need. Um, whether that's enrichment or um, academic supports, they're going to work through this week and then they'll look at that data in more
081depth um, on our conference day and make a plan the following week for those students. Um, we did already start some field trips. So, Mrs. Marlo's class actually went to Morgan Farms today. She was worried it was going to be cancelled because of all the rain, but um, she's like, "They have something to cover us." So, I did not have a chance to connect with her after, uh, they got back, but I know that they did end up going on their field trip to Morgan Farms. Um, as far as our night notes go, we have 2,720 total given out for the month of September, and third grade was 1,9 of them. Um I was taking a peek at our uh discipline referrals. So just comparing year-over-year, last year in September there were 17 referrals in
082the month of September and this year there are 10. So promising for month one. Um hopefully everything continues to move in that direction. >> Um so at the junior senior high school, we've started our tier one and tier two meetings. And so for tier one, we've been working really hard in a subcommittee to start our first studentled circles. Um, we implemented these a couple times last year. And the goal is to gather volunteers from each grade level from 9 through 12 and for the students to come into like a safe space that's confidential and discuss things going on in the building and to hear their perspectives and for them to collaboratively problem solve and come up with how can we make the building culture just a great place to be in and and continue to
083make the junior senior high school a great place to go to school. Um, so we'll be implementing those next week and we've had a lot of uh students who want to participate. So we actually had to make two circles because of it um on two different days. So that's really exciting. And then we hosted our first tier 2 meeting last week on our extended Wednesday um for grades 9 through 12 and it was a huge success. Um it was like a melting pot of brains from the teachers that came into the room and it was just analyzing the data looking at interventions what's appropriate for students and at the end of the three hours or two and a half three hours we were there um we felt like really confident in what we decided to
084do was based on data and what was best for kids. So, um, it was like a huge success and this is a new system that we're implementing this year. Um, and so it's like super promising after our first meeting. >> Thanks. >> So, since we last spoke, several of our ASL students attended a death uh, which is a French festival performance celebrating deaf awareness month and the diversity of the deaf community. Several of our Spanish students from Marian volunteered at the Dove Family Festival in Geneva. They performed face painting for children who attended and enjoyed the music and crafts provided by local artists. Uh Lydia did a great job talking about homecoming. So I'll only elaborate on a shout out to Miss Barbaro, Mrs. Penders and of course Sprout Thompson for organizing that flash mob
085um which ex uh showed my lack of dancing skills, but they did a great job organizing that and I thought it really like was a great kickoff to the pep rally and kind of set the tone right for the pep rally. Um shout out to uh speaking of Lydia, shout out to our Marion morning crew. So, last year we had three juniors come forward and say, "Can we do announcements?" Or maybe I asked them to do announcements. I'm not sure which one it was, but they uh did such a great job that when I saw them painting their parking spots, I said, "Hey, we're doing announcements again this year, right?" They said, "Okay." So, Lydia Sienna Madison and Maddie Fry, I think Mattiey's here, too. Um do announcements every morning and every afternoon. and it's
086so much better than me doing that. So, I'm just incredibly appreciative to the way they set the tone right every day in our morning announcements. Our FFA members recently spent the day at Morgan's family funday and brought some of our favorite animals and kind of were experts at that family funday. Our Agra Path students, remember Agra Path is that new program that we're running for ninth graders this year. They went to Cornell today and then they had a special project this afternoon helping me with the turkey that's been hanging out in front of the building who we aptly named dinner. Uh they helped me relocate dinner to the goat pen out back because dinner was making a mess on the front sidewalk. >> It doesn't belong like across the street. It's just a pre-arranged >>
087it's been it's been um kind of given to the school. Our project now is finding a great home for dinner to be adopted. >> We'll take you off the list. >> Our agath students will also be going up to Maxwell Creek to do some fishing. Hopefully find some salmon in Maxwell Creek on Thursday for their first u outdoor education PE field trip. So, we're excited about that. Hopefully, we'll have some cool pictures to share. wanted to give the board a special thank you. So the reason that I was at Niscus and able to present with Ellen is because uh you all supported me taking the superintendent development program which has been a great experience for me and I really enjoyed Niscus and certainly that opportunity to present was very special. So thanks again for your
088support in that. We've got some upcoming events. Senior nights for athletics. Uh, Zach's was about a week and a half ago for football, but he does have his last home game on the 23rd of October. We've got girls varsity soccer on the 14th of this month, boys varsity soccer on the 15th, cross country on the 18th, and volleyball on the 21st. We do have our our superintendence day coming up and Ellen did a great job highlighting that. Um, want to give a thanks in advance to Nikki for leading the teacher clarity and TA train training and also highlight that we'll be giving our staff some opportunities to perform self-care in the afternoon, some wellness time. Um, we have our seventh grade parent tech night on the 22nd and our fall concert coming up on the
08927th. uh tech department. Since we last spoke, we've uh closed 152 tickets um in basically the last month or so. Um also the the distance learning program that we've been running here in the building. Um we've a lot of coordination between us and the remote districts um involved having to create a lot of accounts and getting Marion accounts access to other devices. And so a lot of that back and forth with with many different systems trying to get them all to talk. They are currently all talking which is lovely. Um and so that's been kind of a really been the the crux of kind of getting the school year started and getting all the kind of the new programs up and running. Got it. >> And I have Mrs. Steiner's report. She is actually at
090a Wayne County Community Schools event tonight, but um I'll just read you her update. So, she says, "The community schools team attended the fall festival. It was a great opportunity to gather input from the community, share the community schools advisory board dates, and connect with students, families, and community members. um holiday support. They're commun They're coordinating with multiple organizations to support families for the holidays, including Fingerlakes Community Action, Toys for Tots, Marian Public Library, and Cross Creek Church. Uh the school invites anyone in need of support, whether it's food, clothing, gifts, to complete the support form that goes home in the weekly newsletters. Um and Mrs. Steiner will also be rescending it on Square. Uh last Friday was the community schools infant toddler book club. Um these are monthly events and they happen at Lollipops
091and Polka Dots. So we're super happy for that partnership. Um but families of children from birth to five can come to do a readaloud, an activity, and a snack. Um, and it's intended to increase exposure to literacy and engage children and families in activities that support their development with the ultimate goal of increasing kindergarten readiness. Um, the board has heard about the steady work program. So, that's something that now that Mrs. Luca is our community schools coordinator at the high school, she is um taking over steady work for Marian. So, she's kind of reinvigorating that for us. We like lost some m momentum with that in our like transitions between different community schools coordinators. Um, but Mrs. Luca was trained um in the onboarding and we're looking at additional options for internship work sites and
092project and pro and program improvements for study work. Um and steady work will also be a component of the boost grant programming um that we'll work on in the future. Mini camps, the signups are open at the elementary um and we'll be rolling out high school workshops similar to mini camps again as part of the boost program. So trying to grow that model but make it more relevant for middle and high school students. Uh community schools has been uh participating in intend in attendance work. So, a team with representatives from both buildings went to a conference to learn about data and strategies to improve school attendance. Um, and we'll be doing some root cause analysis work to determine action. So, not just saying, yep, these are the kids who are absent and how frequently they're
093absent, but really trying to look at like what are the reasons for student absence? Like, for example, is it health related? Like what might it be? um success mentoring. Um we're working with the main Wayne County Community Schools team on the possibility of success mentors. So this is a future oriented mentoring program that's designed to support students um in setting and meeting goals. So we're thinking about ways that we can maybe pilot this success mentoring to see if it's something that um would be a good fit for us in our marrying programming. And then lastly around MTSS, um Mrs. Livingston is working hard at the elementary school leading the tier one team to help improve the acknowledgement system um that Mrs. Hair was talking about with her building plan and some of the updates to
094PBIS. And Mrs. Keller House has expanded her work to tier 2 like Mrs. Fitz Simons was just sharing about and had the first of those meetings last week. So that's our community schools update from Mrs. Kim. Consent agenda items. Does anyone have any questions on the consent agenda items? >> Okay, we get a motion to approve. >> Thank you. Second. >> Take one. Thank you. All in favor? >> Opposed? Same motion passes. Did anyone sign up to speak this morning? >> Yes, we have three people. >> All right, since we have more than one person, just want to re repeat the rules for the community comment section. Um, if you're addressing the board this evening, please be aware that your public comment section will be no more than 15 minutes in length with a limit
095of three minutes per person. If several individuals are here to express the same opinion, we ask that you select a spokesperson to represent all of you. If you exceed the threeminut time limit and are asked to stop but refuse to do so, you will be asked to leave the meeting. When addressing the board, we expect all speakers to model our core belief of treating each other with mutual respect and dignity and by not making disparaging remarks or demonstrating and demonstrating civility when expressing your opinion. In addition, we ask that you refrain from identifying personnel or students by name in your address. If you violate these protocols, you will be asked to leave the meeting. Please know that this is a business meeting that is open to the public. It is not a public forum. Therefore,
096the board will listen to your questions and concerns, but you will not receive an answer this evening. Your concerns will be taken into consideration for future action by the board. >> Mrs. Mitchell, who do we have first? Um, the first person is Tyler Hand and he wants to talk about homecoming. >> Okay, Mr. H, you have three minutes. >> Okay. Um, first of all, went to the homecoming game Friday. I'm sure everybody knows what happened there. Um, I wonder what kind of policy maybe could have prevented or done something more afterwards for the boys that were involved. Um, I know Mike had ended up pretty rough. didn't swing first. Did swing, but I mean, you got to stick up for yourself at some point. Um, I think he got hit by three or four people
097at the same time, was on the ground. Coach Byron pulled them pulled the kids off of him. Um, and I don't know like what could have been done more afterwards. Maybe police involvement or something, you know, policymandated or something. I don't I don't know. know I'm not don't really know what to say, you know, but I felt like I need to come in and say something. Um cuz that isn't right. And uh I do know that the other team was pretty aggressive in manner and started, you know, started uh swinging first. I heard uh stories of their coach being pretty aggressive and inciting violence. Um, and I'm pretty upset about the whole situation and how my uh kids and I'm pretty piled up and uh yeah, I don't really know really what more to say,
098but >> that there is much more to say. I can say that our administrative team spent several hours this weekend. It was not just something that happened and was ignored. So, >> no, I know. I understand that. Um, yeah. I kind of was wondering what what's going on with Mr. Byron or anything like that. I don't know if you guys can answer that or >> can't say names. >> Okay. Oh, yeah. Forgot about that. Sorry. Um, but yeah, I guess that's it. Who's next? >> Um, August Gonzalez also about homecoming. >> Some similar. I want to thank the board first of all. Um, thank you guys for doing thankless work. Uh, thank uh, Superintendent Dr. Lloyd, uh, Mr. Dean, all the educators, student representative, everybody that's here, all the pair of professionals. Yeah. So, u
099you know, I got three kids that go to the school district and my two boys were very, um, yesterday I spoke to them and they were very, uh, disturbed by what happened at the homecoming. Uh, they weren't there, but they heard bits and pieces. They saw some disturbing, uh, video. Um, and just, you know, coming from a parents perspective and a uh, a retired law enforcement professional, you know, I do have some recommendations. Uh, one of the recommendations is, you know, is soccer seems to be it is a very physical sport. Um, my understanding is that the game was extremely physical and that the referees probably could have done a little bit better job of um, controlling the physicality. I'm not sure if there's anything that the school district can do and speak to the
100referees and can you please help us in the situation, help us deescalate because when you start guarding people it tends to deescalate the physicality. Um, you know, to me is very important. Um, I also my understanding is also is that one of the students, I won't mention his name, was attacked by an adult from the opposing side. I'm not sure if that's true or not, but if it is, obviously we can all agree that that's probably unacceptable. Unless the adult was defending himself, there's absolutely no reason for an adult to put their hands on a child. Um, so if any of those things are true is pretty disappointing. Um, and just going forward, I think we should probably, if crimes were committed, if kids were attacked by more than one or two people, that could
101be considered a violation of New York City Penal Law. Gang assault is a thing that can happen. But maybe just next time we could probably have the Wayne County Sheriff's Office or the troopers stop by, hang out for a little bit. Um, and just monitor the situation. We just don't want that to happen again. You know, obviously our children are most important asset that we have. Um, other than that, that's all I I'm just a concerned parent and I just wanted to um you know be here with this gentleman here because his son went through a traumatic experience. >> Thank you. >> And last we have Edna McKay regarding varsity soccer. >> Hi. I know homecoming was pretty traumatic and I'll just say that it was one thing I would recommend is lighting after the
102game of homecoming because it was really dark and there were fights in the parking lot afterwards. So, that would be my takeaway from that. Um, a student just recently told me that I do everything loud and it's true. I do. And it's also because I'm here to support them and I have a voice. I wanted to give you an update on girls varsity because it's been a struggle all year and not to make um light of what happened at the boys games. Um, I just want you to know that I do think that the Gananda team is doing great at soccer. um whatever players that we get to play in for a Marian team. I'm not going to go through all the comments I have here, but I just wanted to know it's been made
103very clear about equal playing time. It's obvious that Marian families and even gan parents see how unreasonable the coaches and subbing players. It's it's just un you can't understand it. You know that we can sometimes play when we're two people or points up and we can we can actually participate in the game. And it's just not the Marian families in the stands that are disappointed. It's the Gananda families. It's the community that comes to help watch our team. I'm just making peace here tonight because it's not worth arguing and then grumblings of sending emails, calls, or presentations to the boards. We didn't hear about the heartfelt words for our players concerns. I know the superintendants, you made your decision. You changed the face of soccer in Marian, especially soccer in the community and it's definitely
104changed how our students are looking at the future of soccer. So you the kids, it's going to change how we play in the summer games. is going to change how we put in practice and it's definitely going to change how we are bringing our kids up from the elementary all the way up looking at what colors we're going to wear. So I'm just speaking for the future of Marian players. They don't want to play anymore due to the colors and the decisions that have been made. The decisions have affected us, the kids, pure pressure, losing our traditions, feeling the loss of community, feeling the loss of family, feeling that we are not part of the other teams that are playing. So, I just want you to know that Marian still bleeds black and orange. Thank
105you. Next paper I have to read. Sorry. May I have a motion go into executive session with the specific purpose of discussing anticipated tenure appointments, potential litigation, and to discuss a matter regarding a student with an IEP which is made confidential by federal law. Thank you. Second. >> Thank you. All in favor? I >> opposed. Motion passes. If you are a student and you have a purple packet that you need to have signed, please head on over to this table over here and they will sign that for you. We are going to leave the room, go into the executive. We will come back out. Meeting will be over. There is nothing you will be missing if you leave.