001of 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. Could you please make sure that your cell phones are either on silent or turned off? Okay, seeing that we have no public forum, Mr. Mr. Mr. Taylor. Yes. Uh, I'd like to bring Mr. Taylor up. Mr. Taylor has a presentation. Uh, just end of the year status update on where we are at the elementary school. So, Mr. Taylor, thank you. Thank you so much. I don't have any kids with me tonight. I did bring some work, but uh but I don't didn't bring any kids because it's it's not quite the same, but um thank you so much. I just wanted to give you a quick kind of an
002overview of how our year has been going. Um, we've still got quite a bit of year to go. We're right in the middle of New York State Assessments right now. Um, tomorrow will be day two of MAC. So, we're getting close. I shouldn't say the middle, but we're getting close to the end of it. Um, but a quick update on where we stand as the building. Um, so, of course, we're going to focus on the strategic plan, you know, for our educational excellence, the culture, communication, and student experience. I had to share this picture with you because this is our reality right now. A little bit of our, you know, our our playground being shut down and there's construction workers constantly outside. So, Mrs. Nodine sent me a picture of some of her students looking
003out the window. And it was really cool because uh last week the construction workers were like interacting with the kids through the window and waving back and forth. And about 30 seconds later, I got another picture from the other side of the school saying, "You should see Carly's class out the window." So Carly, they were, you know, this is a reality as we're working on this construction. Carly's class was working on the volume of the concrete, how long it was going to take to set. They were working on it and those gentlemen were all waving to the kids and they were interacting. It was great. They loved it. So, um, the the construction workers have been fantastic. You know, during the state assessments, nothing, no power equipment is running, so the kids can concentrate on
004their assessments and then they fire out. It's been a great experience so far for them and they're, of course, excited about what what's to come soon, you know, on that. So, um, that's certainly where, uh, we wanted to start off with, um, thinking about our mission and our vision, of course, and knowing that we're always moving forward for our district. Uh, the biggest thing in the student achievement this year, um, is really focused on our brand new curriculums. Um, this has been a really heavy lift. It's been a heavy lift for our teachers as we're working on it, but it was really about making sure that we're um, incorporating research based practices, consistency across the building, actually more than just our building, you know, going into the middle school as well. Um and of course
005focus on the state standards and the science of reading. Um lots of new opportunities for it because of that instructional alignment. You know we have had a lot of different pieces over the past few years that we've been implementing the science of reading and this new curriculum uh has helped with that and help the teachers to see that um as we're moving up through the grade levels. The kids are really engaged. You can see some of the work and some of the rich learning experiences that they're having. Um and I'll you know touch a little bit more on that in a moment but the conversations that kids are having around the content just amazing. Some of the vocabulary is just so amazing. Um and the teachers are finding ways to incorporate other people in. So
006we have had a dinosaur day in second grade and the kids were actually working with intelligence. Um and they had a couple of different opportunities to do that. Great a great thing that we haven't had um you know for the kids before. Um certainly some challenges of course uh a lot of time trying to implement two curriculums in the same year is a very like I said a heavy lift. It's really really difficult. Um, but the teachers are taking it and taking it on and moving, you know, really well. Our coaches support has helped a lot. We've tried to provide extra time to get them to uh to have more support from the coaches um and to be able to see, you know, all the different components. We say two new curriculums. In reality, you
007know, ELA is not just one little piece. There are so much incorporated with our small groups and our individual focus for that. Um, and we've had to look a lot at pacing adjustment. So, back in March, we had a great piece with some TV um, showing that that we just can't do everything in every book. Um, there's just so much to do for them. Um, and so the teachers have been a lot spending a lot of time working on that and the coach has been spending a lot of time to to be able to adjust. Um, but some of the uh, indicators of success. So, I was walking down the hall the other day and Mrs. uh, I asked Mrs. How on the first day of ELA assessment. I'm like, "Hey, Miss, you know, what'd
008you think of the assessment today?" She's like, kids were working really hard. They showed us I tell you this new curriculum that really done a lot to help them to be ready for this assessment. Um, you know, the kids are really actively engaging. Like I said, they're digging deep into it really with a different type of vocabulary with kids. So, what I have for you, what you're looking at is one of the research projects that third graders did um as they're looking into uh researching some of our frogs and different pieces. So, all the grade levels are doing a lot of deep work um as they're looking at. So that's third grade material that that is that's pretty great stuff that we've got. So it's a great thing. Um we are continuing of course our
009MTSS structure uh all of our students. So you know it starts with tier one. It's always going to start with tier one. Um that has to be our main focus to make sure that our kids get their classroom instruction. Um but all kids in K5 have the opportunity for small groups of some sort. doesn't look like they're all going to be in a group of three or four, but they're all going to have some individualized support a couple of times every single day for both ELA and for math. Um, you know, and we also have, of course, our special education teachers are part of that. We have regular data meetings with our teams. We have our weekly tier 2 meetings. We request for proper support from teachers as we're looking at that monthly tier one.
010We're always trying to make sure that we're thinking about individual kids. uh we're looking at it and also um you know every six weeks we have some um small group or some planning time for our teacher to adjust groups you know we benchmark three times a year so those are the big pieces but every six weeks we're still talking about it or making some switches to say this will work better for this kid right now it's working really well he bind me is fantastic in this role um and supporting the teaching for that um some of our culture and communication I know many of you have been part of it and some of these things we celebrated already I've had some kids with us. Um, but our RAMs are continuing and our star readers are
011continuing every month. You know, um, every time a kid win wins a RAM or a star reader award, they get a token for the book vending machine. So, we figured out that we are giving about 70 books out a month. So, that's a lot of books that we're giving out to our kids and it's great and they're working really hard at it. One new thing that we put in for the Rams starting this month, starting last week, was actually our fourth and fifth graders are part of a safety patrol. So, officer or deputy Dennis is helping us to have a safety patrol for our fourth and fifth graders in the hallway at dismissal so that we've got them supporting the other kids, trying to stay on the positive side. So, we're giving them a Q
012card of what we can say to the kids, you know, so we're not going we're not recommending somebody running. We're complimenting them as they're doing the right role. They're following our expectations. So, it's really great so far. Um, you know, the inventive minds as we brought some of those uh kids to celebrate in there. Um, you know, what a great opportunity we have with our 21st century um or sorry, yeah, the 21st century grant. What a great opportunity. We have before school, we have after school, we have the bridge free PK. Um on a normal week, we could have kids from 7:00 a.m. to 5 at no cost for kids or for parents from Monday through Thursday, 3:45 on Fridays because we don't have the after school program. Um but what a great opportunity at
013no cost for parents and we're giving them a healthy snack if they're staying. It's a great thing. Um we have girls in the run this year. It's on a Friday night. We're going to be running up MCC on the 30th, same day as Special Olympics. Um, so it's going to be a really long day, but it's great. We've got a lot of kids. That's a great program. Our girls have really loved that piece. And of course, we have our week for classroom readers. We have our family literacy nights. Our last one's going to be coming up. Hopefully, it's not raining, but we'll be uh we'll be having some ice cream out in the front yard for that one. Uh, also, of course, our Rev Theater. Fantastic. We're already working on next year's calendar for it.
014Our field trips are coming up. We got lots of field trips coming up. Um, author visits, concerts, uh, the hovercrafts. Although I signed up our Harvard crafts, I really wanted a Friday because if we're going to interrupt days, I like to interrupt Fridays only. Um, and it's October 10th and that's the day of our superintendent comments. So, we had to change it. So, the next available date was October 31st. Oh, cool. So, I didn't take it. We're still working on that one. I mean, it's going to be a crazy day already. So, I kind of thought maybe that would be a good day to No, we're not going to do that one. Um but you know we've got lots of supports from our local you know from the auxiliary and legion flight day is going
015to be coming up in a few weeks. We're going to observe it on Friday the 13th of June. So um some of our fifth graders also built uh the Mars lander um as an egg drop project and so they were working on that understanding as part of their science um understanding what it takes to support the eggs. We didn't have a lot of eggs saved but we had a few. we had a few as they hit that the pavement up front. Um and the kids really, you know, just one more way to engage the kids as we're working on that. Um so, you know, continuing like it's again that our focus on our strategic plan. Um and I just want to thank you for the opportunity. Okay. Thank you. Any questions for Mr. Taylor? I
016was wondering what's Rev the Revor. Oh, that's the new room regional. I can't remember, but if you say merry around this room to stay in ground. Um, yeah. So, I mean, they're great. You do five and I know they go up to the middle school and offer high school, too. But my gosh, it's some of our favorite days. The kids love them. They're so interactive. Great. Anybody else? Okay. Thank you, Mr. Failing. Thank you. Is she the one that said this is no ordinary book? I really liked that one. Yes. Loved it. I just love the hand. Yes. Like, yeah. What's that? New York Times besteller. Yeah, I saw that one, too. That was funny. Um, all right. We're going to move on to uh minutes. I would take a Mrs. D. I'd like to
017make a motion to approve C1 and two. Thank you. I have a second, please. Mrs. Kaiser. Any corrections, questions? All in favor? Any oppose? Any abstensions? Okay, moving on. Could since there's no financial reports, could I have a motion for the consent agenda, Mrs. Decker? All yes. Okay. And a second by Mrs. Dingman. Are there any questions? There was a a typo um on one of the leave requests, I believe. Um which was corrected. Correct. Any other questions? Anybody? Mrs. Kaiser? Yes. Mrs. Fols? Yes. Mrs. Damon? Yes, Mrs. Decker. Yes, Mr. Joyce. Yes, Mrs. Alen. Yes. And Mrs. Madigan. Yes. Thank you. Okay, moving on to F new business. Make a motion for F3. Thank you, Mrs. Decker. And a second, please. Mrs. Kaiser, any questions on this group? always exciting to have another scholarship
018opportunity for the kids. So, thank you. Yeah, pretty timely, right? Uh in time for this year's graduating seniors as well. So, perfect. Wonderful. Any questions? All right. When you're ready. Mrs. Decker. Yes. Mr. Joyce, yes. Mrs. Damon, yes. Mrs. Kaiser, yes. Mrs. Allen, yes. Mrs. Folds, yes. And Mrs. Mad again. Yes. Thank you. Okay. I would take a motion for F4, please. Mrs. Kaiser and a second by Mrs. Damon. Any questions or um just a comment? Okay. Um I just wanted to thank Mr. Gan Orman for his um continued commitment to our district. Um the past two years there's been hurdles. um some a little bit of digging out of some stuff we were in. Um it hasn't been perfect, but I feel like we've had a lot of positives, a lot of gains, and
019um I'm really excited about the direction we're heading in. So, thank you. Anyone else? Any questions? When you're ready. Okay. Mrs. F. Yes. Mrs. Allen, no. Mrs. Taiser. Yes. Mrs. Dingman, wholeheartedly. Yes. Mr. Joyce, no. Mrs. Decker, no. Mrs. Madigan, yes. Thank you. Okay. Uh, we're going to move on to H. Um, I'm going to Can I talk to this for one second? this is kind of your thing, but um if everybody has a chance to uh look over the um potential next year meeting schedule, and I always say that because we take a look at it and the very first meeting is always challenging. So, um we don't need to accept this tonight, but if you could please let me know if there's any conflict from you, shoot me a text. We'll see if
020we can get it changed. Um, but we did try to keep in mind anybody's other obligations that might come up, other things that are on the district calendar already. So, if you have something, let me know. Um, if that July 1st, which again has always been a little challenging, um, let me know and we'll see what we can do um, to hopefully uh, make this permanent at the next meeting on the 21st. Did we I just have a comment or a question, I guess. So, in the past, we've waited for the for a to change before we approved. So, um these if there's a um if there are new members on the board, um we can run these dates by them. But I think I think it was also when we met twice a month.
021So, it was a little bit a little bit easier, but we can wait if we if we want to wait and not you could still come back with thoughts on the 21st and and we could discuss it then and to adopt the draft, right? Correct. You don't need to include that like we accept it right when um um uh we typically accept it but um we don't have to do that right now. So require a vote um but so if you have any conflicts let me know. Okay. Thank you Mrs. Okay. Mr. Verman, did you I kind of stole your thunder there in your group. So, anything else? Yeah, just uh a couple notes. The budget the district budget newsletter has gone out in the mail. Folks should be have received that. If they have
022not received that, uh we ask them to please contact the district office. Um you know, sometimes there's a lapse in mailing or or something. They they're mailed out in the bulk uh section. So, we don't get a lot of that feedback. So, if somebody uh is missing that as a district resident, if they would let us know that, I would appreciate that. Um, another quick update. Today, uh earlier this afternoon, we had the bid opening for phase two of our capital project. Um, the bid opening was today. Unfortunately, there are several concerns that have arisen from our uh bid opening. Some of the some of the pieces had good bid results, some of them had no bid results. Um because we just opened them today, we we haven't been able to descope or dive into
023those uh some of the pieces uh intimately today. But I can assuredly say that there's going to be a required shift in our plan and timeline based on the fact that we received no bids for some of some of this work. Um so we're going to have to rebid in some capacity and it's going to require a new a new plan and a new timeline. Um I Danielle myself are meeting with King and King and CNS to come up with a new plan. The expectation would be to bring a plan forward at the May 21st meeting with with a new timeline. Uh the scope of work is not going to change. The timeline and the impact of that work is is uh of question at this point. So um you know some of the other
024pieces did have a lot of bid bids submitted. So that's positive. It's just not all of them did. So um and they're all intertwined. So, we can't we can't award one if it's tied in with something that didn't have a bid in it. Um, however, we will be award the expectation is that we would award some work at the May 21st board meeting. So, some of the successful bid things from today will be brought to you and bid on the 21st, just not all of them, which was our original hope. So, thank you. Anything else? Nothing else at this time. Okay. Do you have any committee updates that anyone wants to share? The policy. Okay. I was just going to say if you didn't receive my email updates, let me know. I think I sent
025last week. We all got it within what two or three hours for today. Thank you, Mrs. F. And the policy meeting uh is continuing the group is meeting regularly today in two weeks and uh you'll have some more policies for the 21st. Are we looking to complete this by the end of the No, we are not. But we're doing our best. Okay. We're in the 7,000. Mhm. And the 7,000s are a lot. Okay. It is. Okay. Well, that's great. Making progress. Anybody else? Okay. All right. Is do you have anything else? Okay. Um then I would take a motion to move into executive for particular personnel in a negotiations matter. Thank you, Mrs. Dingman. And a second by Mrs. Bolds. Tada. They picked 20 minutes. There you go. It's one of the best ones. Sign
026off.