001to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Thank you. Um, if you could make sure that your cell phones are either turned on silent or off, please. Um, before we get started, is there any student that marked that yes, you wanted to speak outside of what you're doing with Mrs. Smith? Okay, just checking. All right, seeing that there's no one for public forum, uh, Mr. Venorman. Great. Couple presentations tonight. I'd like to bring up Mrs. Molly Smith, one of our instructional coaches. She's going to start our presentation tonight uh, regarding two different types of seals that uh, graduating students can earn here. She's going to walk you through some of that and then we'll turn it over to Mr. Gaffne and Mr. Carter for the
002second half of that. So, Mrs. Smith, hi. Hello. Um, so for the seal of biiteracy, this is our seventh year that we've offered the seal of biiteracy which recognizes students who have attained a high level of proficiency in English and also another world language. Um, so to achieve the seal of biiteracy, students must earn three points in English through those variety of ways and then also three points in a world language. Um this year we had six successful candidates earn the seal of bi literacy and uh this is the most that we've ever had in one year and it equates to about 12% of the senior class. So and now we have some seniors to share just a small part of their presentation. So they're going to speak just a couple of sentences in Spanish
003and then they will also translate for you. St. John. [Music] So I said, "Hello, my name is Juliana. In the future, I'm going to be attending St. John Fisher University. I'm going to be studying law to become a lawyer in the future. [Applause] Tessa University. Um, I said, "Hi, my name is Tessa. I'm going to RIT. I'm going to study study software engineering and I'm going to [Applause] Okay. [Music] Red Creek. Universal Grande. Um, what I said was I'm going to be going to Sunni Jio. I'll be possibly joining the riding team at Jio and I want to be a veterinarian for large animals. [Applause] [Music] diabetes. Um, so I said, um, I'm going to go to Brockport to study nursing and then go on, well, I want to be a nurse for diabetics and
004And after that I want to be a professor for nursing for people in college. [Applause] Y this is a little bit newer to me. The uh seal of civic readiness um operates under the same premise of the biiteracy seal with the exception of our civic readiness endorsement is approximately about two years old. Our biiteracy has been around a little bit longer, seven years. So we're two years in. Um yes. So the seal of civic readiness um this seal of endorsement was created to encourage the study of civics and civility through experiential learning. Uh provides employers with a method of identifying high school graduate with skills in civics and civility. Provides colleges with another way to recognize applicants. Prepares students with 21st century skills. Empowers students as agents of positive social change. and strengthens our diverse
005democracy. The point system is similar to biiteracy. You can get your points as early as eighth grade. Okay? You've got to get three points in civic participation and you've got to get three points in civic knowledge through a series of different projects or um things that you can do to achieve these beginning in eighth grade. You don't get iced out if you don't get a point in eighth grade, but you can start as early as 8th grade. Um, we had 13 kids um, get the seal for civic readiness this year. That's double more than double of what we had last year, which is pretty cool for a secondyear program. Um, very, very exceptional. Moving on from that, now all of our kids couldn't be here tonight. Oops, sorry. All of our kids could be here
006tonight, but I'm going to read all of their names anyway. And to close out the civic readiness piece, I know the biiteracy kids had to speak in Spanish. But for the civic readiness close out, I've asked these kids to present a yearbook to each board member to kind of close out that civic piece. So even though all of them are not here, I'm going to read everybody's name. And those that have a yearbook, you guys get to pick and choose. Um you're going to go up and just hand the yearbook to a board member. Okay? So thank you for that. So, all of our kids that were recognized are earned this seal. Um, Juliana Kamacho, thank you. Tessa Crawford, that makes me easier. I don't think Elizabeth Crawler. Um, Adam D. Kaiser, Cameron MacArthur, Kayn,
007Evan Clomero, Allison Rushlo, Liam Smith, Colin Thompson, Thank you so much. Mason Wjack. Um, and Alina Saski, sorry, Ryan. My bad. Thank you. So, our civic readiness candidates have now concluded their their civic. [Applause] Do you have any questions for either one of us? Questions for the kids or programs? I have one quick question, Mrs. Smith. Do you do the kids that typically sign up to start this process, do they see it all the way through? Do you have any that drop in between or is it usually pretty consistent? Um, so this year I think we had a possibility of 10 and so we had six about 60%. Okay. Thank you. Any other questions? Great. So before you folks leave, I would like to uh present to each of the students that came up today
008uh one of our Red Creek coins uh as a token of appreciation for your time and your achievements. So on your way out, if you would like to come on up, we'll recognize you with a coin. So please make your way up. Is that code for someone has to be first. Congratulations. Thank you. Congratulations. Congratulations. See, I get to give you something today. Appreciate it. Congratulations. Thank you. So, everybody must have their credit. or Mr. Clemens class since they're all leaving. Oh, maybe not. So, we've seen that we've seen both those programs grow over the years. Uh I think you you heard both uh Mrs. Smith and Mr. Gaffne indicate that um both of those programs this year had their highest amount of completers that we've had before. Uh we're we're continually working to push
009students to expose them to these opportunities. Um all the students that received both the seal of biiteracy and the seal of civic readiness will uh receive a sticker seal on their diplomas uh as an additional acknowledgement for the work above and beyond our traditional graduation requirements. Not all the school districts have seal of civic readiness or biiteracy. We had to apply uh for those recognition designations. So it's been in the works for several years. So, it's good to see that our students are progressing through those um at a at a nice level. So, and then our second presentation was uh the yearbooks, which I think uh was even better that we had our seniors do that. So, um moving on, we have our MVP awards. Uh we have the lengthy list. this this time of
010the year, I think anybody uh would tell you as we get close to the end of the year, having some exttrinsic reward system or acknowledgement this time of the year is very wellreceived. So, uh it's it's great to see that many uh individuals receiving acknowledgement from parents or the community or the faculty and staff. Uh as I've done, I'll read a handful of these. Uh Mrs. Shannon. Uh, Jen Shannon is a sixth grade teacher for us. Mrs. Shannon took the time to send a handwritten postcard to our son. Her kind words recognizing his hard work truly made his day and shifted his whole mood. It meant more than, you know. Um, next one would be from Sh uh for Shannon Gelatti. Shannon teaches art for us. Uh, Shannon brings out creativity in students who don't
011usually think of themselves as artistic. My child now loves the arts because of this teacher. And the third one I have today was is for Deputy Dennison. Dennon. Deputy Dennon is our SRO, school resource officer. Uh, and in this case, Deputy Denniston went above and beyond on this particular day when a student was really struggling. Christina stayed late and showed a great deal of grace, care, and compassion towards the student and her family. She worked out a transport issue with her supervisor and drove the student out out of deputy Dennon's route. Our district is lucky to have someone like her. So, a little SRO going above and beyond working with students and parents as well. So, just uh again, I think it's been a very wellreceived program and opportunity for internal and external recognition of
012of staff and faculty. So, u pleased to present those to you. Great. Thank you. Okay. Uh, moving on to um the minutes. I take a motion for both the regular and the special meeting. I would like to make a motion for items D, E, and F, please. Okay. Would you second that? All right. So, Mrs. Damon and a second by Mrs. Allen. Apparently, yes, that was apparently Mrs. guys are not. Any questions? Mr. Joyce, if you feel like you need to abstain considering your name's on the list. I don't see any financial tie to them. So, [Laughter] they're all lumped together, so you'd have toain everything. [Laughter] Yes. Mrs. Kaiser. Yes. And Mrs. Madigan. Yes. But if they're paying to take kids to the now by parents that I miss the boat. So, yeah. All
013right, moving on to uh G new business. Oh, yeah. I'm sorry. What are you doing? I I got stuck on F. I apologize. Um could I have a motion, please, for I take anything. So, everything but two. A second by Mrs. Fz already know thank you though. Y' correct and folds. Folds. Okay. Any questions on G1 and G3 through 11? When you're ready. Mrs. Kaiser. Yes. Mrs. B. Yes. Mrs. Don, yes. Mrs. Decker, yes. Mr. Joy, yes. Mrs. Allen, yes. And Mrs. Yes. Thank you, Mrs. Decker. Could I have a motion for G2? Then for G2. Thank you. And a second, please. Mrs. Kaiser. Thank you. Discussion. policy 7410 was one that we went through as a policy committee. There was a little bit of um back and forth about it. So our current policy
014talks about um students who are seniors as a policy stand right now would participate um if they graduate in January, they'll still participate the rest of the year. And we had talked about whether or not that was logistically good. Um we decided not to as policy committee have them. Um, but I guess my question was and I was told that it would be more of a board discussion if we want to allow those students to participate in senior activities during the last semester of their junior year since they're not going to be allowed to in their Please don't be frustrated, but can you say that one more time? Yeah. So right now the policy reads that if you graduate in January you would participate in senior activities for the spring after you're graduated but we're
015nixing that. So we're not allowing that anymore. So the question would be do we want to have our policy required that we can still participate the last semester of our junior year so that they can participate in all of those activities before they graduate. So what was the discussion amongst the polic committee. Um, we I don't know if you want to. Right. So, the the current policy allows as Mrs. Decker indicated uh upon reading into the situation, our insurance company and our legal council have indicated that once students have achieved their graduation criteria. So in this case if a student is graduating early for instance in December or January really for last year uh that they are no longer under our insurance for purposes of under our student riders uh for insurance coverages. Do they
016participate in the June ceremony or they also don't do that? They would have the ability to participate in the June ceremony but this would be the prom senior trip. uh any of the other senior activities that may be occurring after. She's asking why can they participate in graduation but not anything else because they're no longer enrolled and you have to be enrolled. Okay. But you don't have to be enrolled to walk the stage. Most schools that I'm familiar with have a December graduation or an August graduation. I'm not familiar with us having done a formal ceremony of those. Okay. But that's the only item that they still do currently. Well, currently our policy says that they if it changed, it would just be graduation and we're saying we'd have to change it because of the
017insurance the Yeah. student, they they would not be under our student insurance writers because they are not a student any longer. The same way if they were a uh potentially looking to be a spring athlete, they would not be eligible to play on spring sports teams. So, they would not be enrolled in classes for the spring semester. They would not be taking classes here. Um they would they would be done in these in in the circumstance that's been outlined. they would be done with their classes and all graduation requirements as of the first semester. So, what what outside of the senior trip would they be missing? Senior. Yeah, but you if you did that your junior year, you're still going to prom. Like, you're still invited as a junior. Well, okay. But you miss the
018senior prom. You miss Well, what she's saying is you get to do it your junior year in the spring and you're already going to the prom. Well, they'd still be eligible. Um, we do have guest pass uh requirements. Do we allow um non- studentents to the prom from another district? Yes. Yeah. Yes. Just under 21, but that's not a they're not another student. They would be a non- studentent at that point. I think it's just under 21 is the right. So, right. So there could be a guest pass for that student or that person to still attend the prom on a guest pass. So I guess it would be like the senior trip, senior sunrise breakfast, those sorts of things that they do. They would be doing that their junior year. That's correct. That's what
019so typically when when somebody makes the decision to graduate early, it's not a decision that's entered into in September of their cohort senior year. It is something that is planned out with the guidance counselor and the principal during their junior year, if not before, so that they can meet all of those requirements in uh in that new timeline. Um, does have you did you consider the financial situation? Because once you let's just say you went on the senior trip as a junior, wouldn't that affect is that amount divvied up over the number of seniors that have to pay? I'm just asking if this was part of the conversation students as a whole towards your trip. separate. We have like individual student accounts based on their fundraising and then they would pay their portion of that
020trip individually. And I guess I just don't want to see them miss out on, you know, some of those opportunities, but they wouldn't be missing out because they would be doing their junior year, right? The question is, do we write it into the policy while we're making these edits? But I think they're going to be I think we we don't need that written in the policy in my opinion because they would change their cohort to be a senior cohort at that point. Right. Even as a junior, yeah, that would at some point they would shift, right? We in um each grade level in order to advance to the next cohort, freshman to sophomore, sophomore to junior, has certain trigger points where once they've achieved certain amount of credits, certain classes, they move from freshman to
021sophomore, sophomore to junior. So those juniors during their junior year once they have achieved their through their junior status credits they would they would metriculate into being a senior but not until the end of their junior year. Uh it would depend on when they would based on their own individual um coursework. It could be maybe the semester turn of their junior year. They could be a, you know, a maybe a combined junior senior or a full-time senior starting in February of their traditional junior year, maybe with the completion of regions exams in January or certain credits that they would have accumulated at that point. So I think even absent of language in the policy, they would still meet those requirements because they would be listed as a senior and then fall under the rights of
022seniors to participate in those events, I believe. Would they still be a senior if they don't take economics until the summer after the junior year is completed? I'd have to I don't have that information in front of me. I could look at what what those cut points are because you only offer one of the semesters, right? We offer economics in the spring typically and then um government and economics are two courses that we do historically allow students to audit for the first time through summer school into their senior years going into their from their junior year. So, I don't know. I just don't want to see it pulled out of the policy, which is what we're doing, and then have those students lose opportunities, right? I think it's pretty clear what's being pulled out of
023the policy is that after, right? You're asking to have it changed, which it was already discussed that they would be able to participate, but are we reflecting that in the policy? Right now it's reflected in the policy. What happens with those students? Well, right now the policy is if you graduate in December, you can attend in the spring after after you're no longer enrolled. Those students should still be enrolled if they're graduating. The current policy does not address it at all. Not does not address Mrs. Decker's question of going their junior year to the senior trip. So that is this ne is this possibly not the same policy? No, it is. It's just a rewrite, right? No, what I'm saying is if we were looking to make that change, would that actually even be in
024this policy? It's in the current policy that we're getting ready to change. So, it's basically a rewrite. So, it's in the policy that is standing right now on our policy manual, but we're eliminating all that. It's all read. It's all scratched out. And we're doing a whole new policy that doesn't address it at all with the same policy number. Right. But what I'm saying is if we are looking to make the addition to something to a junior class or junior senior situation, is it possible that that does not does no longer fit in the policy that we're voting on? Is there another policy that addresses this exact or should it be a different policy in general? Yeah, that that's I guess what I'm asking is that now that this is being changed to kind of
025focus on a early graduate, does that do they mesh anymore? Or does it have to be addressed at all? Yeah, but I mean I just I think sometimes it might it gets a little confusing when we lump things together. So, and may and maybe not. I'm not I wasn't part of the policy. I'm not sure if there's another policy that touches on it at all. I'd have to do a review. Well, I mean, I think I guess from what I'm understanding is that I don't think that the change that's being made though is sounds like it's legally necessary for us to do on the back end after they're after they graduate in January. I mean, this is this would be for any graduation though, right? I mean, really, this rule applies to any graduate after
026they've graduated that they're no longer on our insurance and Right. Correct. Okay. Yeah. Okay. Right. But we've had examples of students who quote unquote double up their junior and senior year and then they attend those events in their traditional junior year which is now kind of their new senior year so to speak. Okay. This is just a first read, right? So we can move it forward and still get information. Yeah, that sounds like a good plan. Yeah, I mean I don't think anybody wants to see anybody lose opportunities to do anything. I guess it's just a matter of does it have to be written in? How was it written in? Has it happened? Has there been a concern? Well, the other thing is there is the guest policy that we're talking about that's currently in
027there is being taken out. It's not reflective. the guest like for guest pass application or consentability principle I don't see that either the letter B in the old wording but is it because it's a procedure and not a policy captured somewhere else that's the What's a better approach to push it through as first or just pull it in its entirety? I don't I don't think there's any reason to to not pull it or not push it through for a second reading. I don't think there's I mean, I'm open to listening if somebody feels differently, but there's I feel like it's just a So like I feel like push it through and then I mean it will still come on here again. So if we need to change it or reward it or whatever, we still
028have the opportunity to. Sure. Is that all right for the other half the table? No, we wouldn't table it. We would approve it as a first read. Yeah, for the other half of the table. Oh, I'm sorry. I was like, we didn't talk about tables down here. Sorry. I'm still on letter F. Yeah. Say, is that is this intentional? Because you're throwing me off. Okay. All right. Well, then we'll we'll bring this back for a second reading. The reorg meeting, I'm assuming. Yes. Okay. We don't have to vote. We don't have to vote on a first meeting. Well, we approve all the other ones. We just do it together. We can do it by itself. We did. Perfect. We're ready. Mrs. Decker, Mr. Joyce, yes. Mrs. Don, yes. Mrs. Kaiser, yes. Mrs. Allen, yes. Mrs.
029F. Yes. and Mrs. Madigan. Yes. Thank you. Okay. Questions on administrative reports. I'll take that as a no. Mr. Norman, monthly enrollment update. Uh, basically stayed flat plus one. I guess I shouldn't say I always say that we go down. So, it's nice to be able to say that we went up from last month. uh you know attendance absences to date pretty good uh hovering right at 93% and uh you know overall down obviously but uh up from last month to this month on attendance enrollment in addition uh next I2 student exeicio member this is a new uh regulation from New York State we need to add a student exeicio member to our board and uh the policy committee moved forward a policy this year. The board of education adopted that policy and that policy
030outlined some of the steps that we would follow to identify and select a candidate to accept this position. Uh Mr. Gaffne worked with our student council at the high school level following the procedures that were outlined in our policy and we have uh they have extended the offer and they have accepted the position for next year for uh as Aiden Nash. Aiden is a junior rising to be a senior for us. Uh I think he's going to be a great uh addition to the student voice at the board of education level. So this summer we're going to get Aiden some training through Wayne Fingerlakes Boseies as a leadership training board of education training Aiden along with all the other uh student members from all the other schools in the region. So it'll be a great
031networking opportunity I think and a leadership opportunity for Aiden uh with his peers and it'll provide a great uh voice for us as at the board from the student perspective. So looking forward to bring a non- next year with us. Make sure he goes back and talks about how great it is. So there's lots of applicants for the next year. Um application process. There was not an application. Stop shaking your head. No, you're supposed to go yes. Everybody have a lot of interest. I don't I I don't believe so. Um well, it's brand new, so maybe you know that's okay. But what was the process? Like did did students have to apply or they No, they did not have to apply. It was Aiden, do you want to be on board? I believe Mr. Gaffne
032worked with student council and were they hand selected? Were they offered based on I met with it came down so fast. So we I met with Barry Lee. We talked about going through student council as the best piece to get a board member. We thought kids that were involved in student council would be appropriate for a board student board position. Having got the information I had, the only thing I honestly did was I met with Barry Lee, who's our student council advisor. I said, "Hey, you know, this policy is coming down the pipeline here. Here's the criteria that we need to meet. I don't know the kids well enough." I said, "Hey, who in your mind would be a good number of candidates that might want to apply for this position?" She took that information
033back, I believe, and then came back with a couple names for me. We landed on Aiden. Right, wrong, or different? I think moving forward there probably should be a more vetted process, but for this particular piece, we did not do that. Sure. I'm just wondering like will it always be a senior? Will it ever be the case where again? So, I think the policy, is it a mandated policy or a local policy? It's a mandated policy. So, the mandated policy would have language in there that you probably don't change. I think moving forward I would I would have a better vetting process and as far as the answer go we looked at juniors that were going to be seniors. I think that was that was anything that that I thought was important that we wouldn't
034open it up to a freshman or sophomore. We would wait until they got to a junior status a little bit more under their belt academically um and then we'd move from a junior to a senior and then just keep replacing every year was our thought process. Okay. Well, there know there's more applicants when they're not running out the door as I think next we get ahead of it earlier that a process and do an actual application through students. It'll be interesting to see what Aiden thinks of intel's peers and then we'll know if there's way more interest next year or way less interest. Well, we can market that better and we can communicate that better and we can we can put together a better process for communication communicating that piece. I think I just looked
035up real quick and there's no requirement of what because right start with like free cookies just been a student for a year. I am right. Sorry, Mr. Go ahead. Uh I just included uh a small sample of some thank you letters that we received as uh as a result of our senior class gala which we hosted I guess maybe two weeks ago tonight at uh Kokas. our senior. It's a it's a wonderful event. We were able to extend off offers to all of our senior class to go up to Kokas for uh an awards gala. We handed out a lot of our scholarship awards, both athletic and academic scholarship awards that night. It was a great night. Uh students and families were able to come receive dinner, mingle, receive the recognition that they've earned. And
036one of the things that we added last year for our scholarship winners was instead of giving the receiving students the check right away, we give them a blank thank you card that once they write their thank you card and turn it into the high school office, then that triggers their check coming. So, they have to turn in a thank you note first, which then allows them to receive the whatever the the monetary scholarship was um that came with that recognition. So, that way uh all of the scholarship families or generous donate donators will get a an appropriate thank you. So, this was an example of some of the thank yous that we received back from some of the from some of the winners. Great. Thank you. Uh, does anyone have any committee updates to share?
037I'm not sure, but the finance committee met last week. What did we get before? I'm not sure when had a great review in the right direction. It's quite the compliment. All right, I'll take a motion to exert adjourn. It's rubbing off on me uh into executive for a negotiations matter, please. Mrs. Kaiser, second by Mrs. Folultz. Thank you very much.