001good evening everybody and thank you for joining us for the June 3rd board of education meeting if we could all please start with the pledge to the flag i pledge 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 yeah all right and we will begin this evening with uh the report of the superintendent Dr burn good evening and thank you for joining us for a June 3rd board of education meeting we will shortly recognize and celebrate 21 newly tenured teachers and staff and one administrator always a happy and celebratory occasion one the board and I look forward to every year a big congratulations to the boys varsity baseball team who are the section 1 class
002A champions after two wins over Walter Pannis last weekend they now play on Saturday June 7th in upstate New York with the exact location and opponent still to be determined a big congratulations to both the girls and boys varsity lacrosse teams the boys won the section 1 class C semi-final on Friday against Tapenzee they are currently I believe right now I don't have a score playing number two Srs in Yorktown as we speak so go Garnets the girls team won the section one class C semi-finals on Saturday against Srs and they play in the championship game tomorrow June 4th versus Nyak we have two students invited to states for golf this year uh Maya Bashelia and her brother sophomore Derek Bashellia in track news senior Aaron Ball took home not one but two section one
003class B championships in outdoor track this year in the long jump and high jump junior Ben Truman came in second in the 800 meter dash and we have a number of students set to go to states and are waiting on more to qualify and finally Rye High School special education teacher and adviser to the Bridges Club Kristen Deatio has been selected for the New York State Educator Recognition Program an honor that celebrates educators who go above and beyond in their commitment to student success innovation and leadership and then a brief plug for the district-wide art opening that will be taking place tomorrow evening at the district's central administration building art from students in grades K through 12 will be on display so come on down from 5 to 6:30 p.m enjoy some refreshments and check
004out and and they are incredible pieces that our art teachers have been organizing over the last few weeks and the art will be on display until next spring because every year we update the collection in the CAB art gallery and our board of education is meeting on June 7th it is our official end of year meeting when we will recognize and thank our retiring 17th excuse me uh retiring PO and PTO heads so that concludes my report for this evening okay great and we can move on forward with our tenure reception [Music] so tonight as I said is one of my favorite nights of the year having all of our families and our teachers who are receiving tenure and staff who are receiving tenure joining us and it is always a great honor to stand
005up here and speak about each of you and celebrate you in front of an incredible group of guests uh who are with us but earning tenure is an achievement that reflects years of education practice in the thoughtful and intensive application of knowledge and skill and tonight we're celebrating 22 recipients 21 teachers and staff and one administrator so please come up when I call your name i'll embarrass you a little bit by talking about you and we'll acknowledge our uh first our one administrator who's here with a little one with a very early bedtime and a long trip ahead and then I'll follow with our teachers and staff so I'd like to begin with Bianca Muel bianca please come [Applause] so Bianca came to the Ry City School District in 2021 as assistant principal at Midland
006School before coming to Ry Bianca spent four years as a set special education teacher support service teacher at PS41 the Greenwich Village School previously she spent 11 years as an ICT special education teacher for kindergarten and grade 2 also at PS41 bianca has a BS in elementary education with majors in Spanish and special education from Satan Hall University an MS in early childhood special education from Torell College and an MS in educational building leadership from NYU she is bilingual in Spanish and English and Bianca has been an incredible assistant principal at Midland School we're so happy [Applause] So just just for order of operations so at the end after we've recognized everyone we'd like to take one large group photo so we'll ask that um you'll come back up and stand right in the middle
007of these tables so we can take a photo once we get to that point so I'm going to move on to our teachers and staff julianne Beffy Congratulations [Applause] julie came to Milton School in 2022 as a self-contained special education teacher and prior to coming to Rye Julie spent 5 years as a first and second grade autism spectrum disorder teacher at Roxbury Elementary School in Stamford Connecticut she did her student teaching at the Bunker Hill and Old State elementary schools in Middletown Delaware julie has a BS in education from the University of Delaware and a master's in education and special education from Penn State University and Julie has been an incredible addition to our special education staff and the programming in the district not just at Milton School so congratulations Next we have Yumiko [Applause]
008Beldin yumiko came to Ry and Rye High School as an ENL teacher in 2021 and before coming to Ry Yumigo spent 26 years as an English and ENL instructor at KO Academy in Purchase at KO she was also the director of student activities for 5 years and head coach of the boys and girls cross country team for six years participating in New York State Championships three times she's been an adjunct professor in the department of curriculum and teaching at Hunter College since 2014 yumiko has a BA in English communication from Tamagawa University in Tokyo an MA in Tissaw and a master's in education both from Teachers College at Columbia University and Yumiko has been an incredible addition to our ENL's team here at the high school but impacting us across the district congratulations [Applause] Carolyn
009Bombay [Applause] [Applause] caroline came to the Riley City School District in 2022 as an instructional coach at the high school and middle school she came to Ry from the Bronxville Union Free School District where she spent two years as an instructional technology specialist computer science teacher grades 6 to 8 and three years in the same role for grades K to 5 i don't know how she did all those things but she did them all at the same time and she does somehow does more here previously she spent a year as a technology teacher at PS48 the Michael Boozek School in Manhattan and three years as the KTO 5 computer lab teaching assistant at the Murray Avenue School in Marin she began her career as a teacher aid at the Heath Coat School in Scarsdale caroline
010has a BA in elementary education from Manhattan College an MS in literacy from Lehman College and an MS in instructional technology and curriculum design K to2 from the University at Albany Sunni and Caroline has had an incredible impact on our tech coaching and particularly in the last couple of years of we've been exploring AI and how to bring AI into our world as educators in Ry so Caroline congratulations and although our next individual is not here tonight he is on the coaching staff of the boys lacrosse team who is playing right now anybody have a score anybody know thank you very much four to two we're down oh but they'll they'll get back charlie Crianiano came to Ry High School as a school counselor in 2022 charlie came to Ry from Forom Prep where he
011spent six years as a school counselor and before working at Forom Prep he was a guidance counselor/colen enrichment program coordinator at St joseph High School in Trumble Connecticut and an upper and middle school guidance counselor from the St andrews School in Boca Ratan Florida charlie has also served as the assistant coach to the boys varsity lacrosse team since 2022 charlie has a BA in sociology and anthropology from Fairfield University and an MA in school counseling from Manhattan College please join me in congratulating [Applause] Charlie ally Fick ally first came to Ry Middle School from somewhere way upstate i have no idea where it was it just seemed far away in 2021 as a social studies teacher since coming to the district Ally has served as the adviser to their RMS speech and debate club assistant
012coach to the Ry High School ver girls varsity rugby team as an adviser to the GSTA club and as a co-advisor to the historical book club in this school year before coming to Ry Ally spent three years as a seventh grade social studies teacher all right give me a moment here rava Coleman's Selkerk Middle School in Rava New York and I believe our sports teams I might have been girls soccer we might have beaten their high school along the way for our championship and football a couple years ago previously Ally taught history grades 10 to 12 at Westfield High School in Westfield Massachusetts and was humanities facilitator for grades 6 through 12 at the NIA Community Learning Center in Alama California before coming a teacher becoming a teacher Ally worked as a graduate assistant in
013the admissions office for the University of Massachusetts Amherst ally has a BA in sociology from Commonwealth Honors College and an ME in secondary education history from the University of Massachusetts Amherst congratulations next we have Jamie Fusco [Applause] [Music] congratulations jamie came to Milton School as a first grade teacher in 2022 since coming to the district she has participated in the social emotional learning committee the literacy committee during the 22 23 23 24 and 2425 school year i heard there was quite a party with some data about phonics today so good work in the literacy committee prior to coming to Ry Jaime spent 12 years as a first grade and kindergarten general education special education teacher and ICT teacher at PS 158 the Bayard Taylor School in Manhattan jamie has a BA in sociology from UMass
014Amherst and an MA in childhood education from Hunter College congratulations [Applause] Next we have Susan Granada susie came to the Ry City School District in 2020 as a technology teacher at Ry Middle School from 2020 to 2022 she was the co-advisor of the RMS coding club in 2022 she became adviser to the RMS VEX robotics Lego club and she participated in the project lead the way computer science for innovators and makers training in 2022 before coming to Rise Susie spent two years as a grades 6 to8 technology education teacher and six years as technology teaching assistant in the city school district of New Rochelle previously she served as a substitute teacher in the Mount Vernon City School District susie has a BSIT in network administration from the American Intercontinental University and an MSED education technology
015specialist from Pace University and Susie came just as we were rolling out engineering at a much higher level where all of our middle schoolers take engineering sixth seventh and eighth grade and we've really built an incredible program with the tech team and Susie being a key part of that at the secondary level congratulations Next we have Teresa Galia teresa came to Rye High School in 2018 as a substitute physical education teacher in 2019 she moved to Midland to become a part-time physical education teacher there she became full-time in 2021 and transferred to the high school in 2022 since coming to Rye her coaching roles have been many she was the assistant to the varsity field hockey team from 2018 to 2022 from 2022 to 2024 she was the JV field hockey assistant coach in 2024
016she became the varsity field hockey assistant coach from 2020 to 2022 she was the assistant to the girls basketball program at Ry High School and during the 21-22 school year she was the assistant to the JV girls lacrosse program she is quite athletically gifted she does all these sports in 2021 she added girls volleyball seventh and eighth grade modified co-eing duties to her roster prior to coming to ride Teresa was a substitute teacher for the Suffren East Ramapost school districts where she also conducted her student teacher and while in Suffren she was the assistant girls JV basketball coach and an assistant girls travel basketball coach and Teresa has her BS from education from Sunni Courtland congratulations [Applause] it's a lot of coaching thank you lauren Linder lauren came to Midland School in 2022 as a
017leave replacement speech language pathologist and joined the district as a full-time speech pathologist in 2023 since coming to the district she has participated in the literacy committee during 2223 2324 and 2425 prior to coming to ride Lauren spent 11 years as a teacher of speech improvement for the New York City Department of Education working at PS7 the Lower Lab School for Gifted Education PS 198 the Isidora Strauss School and PS281 the River School she has a BA in hearing and that was all at the same time if I remember correctly from your background she has a BA in hearing and speech sciences from the University of Maryland at College Park and an MA in speech language pathology from Queens College congratulations Danielle Maguire [Applause] danielle came to Ry Middle School in 2021 as a leave
018replacement school psychologist she became a full-time school psychologist in 2022 and since joining the district she has participated in the social emotional learning committee 2022 23 23 24 and 2425 school years prior to coming to Ry Danielle was a leave replacement school psychologist at Valley Cottage Elementary School in Valley Cottage she completed her psychology internship in the Ardsley Union Free School District at both the elementary and middle school levels she completed her school psychology practicum at the Chadzsworth Avenue School in Larchmont and her school psychology practicum student in training at PS12 the Joseé Kelso Barbosa School of Manhattan danielle has a BA in psychology from the University of Maryland and an MA in school psychology from Iona College congratulations next we have Heather Moran family is always welcome of course we always have babies during
019this process thank you heather came to Ry Middle School in 2022 as a special education ICT teacher and before coming to Rye Heather worked for eight years as an ELA and social studies special education teacher at the an M Dorner Middle School in Oening previously she was an ES ELA ICT teacher at MS 206 the Joseé Kelso Bavosa School in Manhattan heather has a BS in marketing from Arizona State University and an MS in ad adolescent education from Pace University congratulations Shane O'Brien [Applause] shane came to Ry Middle School in 2021 as a social studies teacher in 2022 he became one of our Ry Middle School boys modified lacrosse head coaches and has continued in the 2324 and 24-25 school years in 2023 he also became one of our modified football head coaches and continued
020in the 24-25 school year prior to coming to Rise Shane spent five years as a seventh grade social studies humanities and AIS teacher at the East Bronx Academy for the Future previously he spent two years teaching 11th grade economics and participation in government and 12th grade AP US History at the Harlem Children's Zone Promise Academy 2 he completed his student teaching at the Urban Assembly School for Media Studies and the Simon Baroo Middle School 104 both in Manhattan shane has a BA in adolescent history adolescent education in history and an MS in adolescent education and history both from Sunni Platsburg congratulations next we have Eileen O'Reilly [Applause] eileen came to the Rice City School District in 2021 as a part-time leave replacement special education teaching assistant at Milton School she joined the district as a
021full-time special education teacher at Osborne School later that year and since coming to Ry she has participated in the social emotional learning committee for 23 24 and the 24-25 school years before coming to Ry she was a special education teacher at Scarsdale Friends Nursery School and a special education itinerant teacher service coordinator for programs for little learners in Eastchester she has co-taught kindergarten at the Waverly School in Eastchester and worked as a special education leave replacement teacher at the Harrison Avenue Elementary School and as a substitute teacher for general and special education students in the Mamarin Union Free School District she began her career serving as a special education teacher for 5 years at Birch Family Services at the Riverdale Early Childhood Center in the Bronx eileen has a BA in psychology from Bingington University
022and an MS in education early childhood education and early childhood special education from the College of New Rochelle congratulations Samantha Pacheo [Applause] samantha came to Osborne School in 2019 as a part-time AIS teacher she became full-time in 2021 since joining the Ry City Schools she participated in the Haskins Orton Gillingham training in 2020 and in the NWA Universal screener training in 2021 before coming to Rise Samantha worked for two years as her remedial reading teacher kindergarten through fifth grade at the Beakman and Knoxen Road elementary schools in the Arlington Central School District previously she was a second grade lever replacement general education and ICT teacher and permanent substitute at the Austin Road Elementary School and Lake View Elementary School both in Mayak samantha has a BA in social sciences with a certification in childhood students
023with disabilities and an MS in education in literacy both from Mount St mary College in Newberg congratulations next we have James Pape [Applause] it It's better though i know that people are wrangling children but it's better than the year we had the chocolate fountain if you want If you want more information ask Annie Pikarsski james came to Ry Middle School in 2022 as a special education ICT teacher since coming to Ry he's participated in the social emotional learning committee for 2223 23 24 and 2425 school years he has served as the Ry Middle School modified baseball head coach for the red team for 2223 and the black team in 23 24 and 24-25 james came to Ry from the Preparatory Academy at PS71 in the Bronx where he spent eight years as a 6th through
0248th grade ELA social studies and special education teacher and a year as a special education intervention teacher before teaching at PS71 he was a teaching assistant in a therapeutic support program resource room at Pelum Memorial High School he began his teaching career as a first grade leave replacement teacher at Colonial Elementary School in Pelum james has a BS in criminal justice from Sacred Heart University and an MS in childhood and special education from Iona College congratulations [Applause] everybody's welcome to come up hi i love your sunglass your pearls are beautiful congratulations those pearls are something susan came to Ry in 2021 as a contracted physical therapist she joined the Rice City School District as a district district-wide special education phys physical therapist shortly thereafter in her time here she has worked at all five schools
025prior to coming to Rise Susan worked for seven years as a pediatric physical therapist for Developmental Steps LLC and previously she spent four years as a pediatric physical therapist at the John A coleman School in White Plains before becoming a pediatric physical therapist Susan worked with acute inpatients at the White Plains Hospital Center Greenwich Hospital Phelps Memorial Hospital in Sleepy Hollow and Newport Hospital in Newport Rhode Island i don't think it was all at the same time susan has a BS in health studies in MS in physical therapy and a doctor of physical therapy degree all from the Boston University Sergeant College of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences congratulations Next we have Kristen Cananano [Applause] kristen came to Ry Middle School in 2022 as a school social worker and since coming to the Ry City School
026she has participated in the social emotional learning committee during the 22 23 23 24 and 2425 school years and has served as the adviser to the RMS peer-to-peer club for 2223 23 24 and 2425 school years before coming to Ry Kristen spent four years as a school social worker at Pella Memorial High School and five years as a student assistant counselor at Pelum Memorial High School and middle schools before working in Pelum she was the bully prevention counselor at the Mildred Strang Middle School in Yorktown and a youth advocate for the village of Ardsley she completed her social work internship at the Young Women's Leadership School M610 in Manhattan kristen has a BA in rehabilitation and disability studies from Springfield College and an MS in social work from the Columbia University School of Social Work
027congratulations Melissa [Applause] Ross thank you so much melissa came to the Rye City School District in 2022 as an instructional coach for K2 literacy since coming to Ry she has participated in the district's literacy committee during 2223 23 24 and 2425 school years this year Melissa served on the New York State Dyslexia and Disgraphia Task Force before coming to Ry Melissa spent four years as an instructional coach for grades preK through eight at the Teachers College Community School in New York City previously she taught at the Lily Blake School on the Upper East Side of Manhattan spending four years as a headteer for a fourth grade ICT classroom and three years as a headteer for a 12 to1:1 3rd through fifth grade classroom melissa has a BS in childhood education from Skid Skidmore College an
028MA in special education from NYU's Steinhard School of Education and an MA in school administration and supervision from form university's graduate school of education go Rams congratulations Melissa next we have Brian [Applause] Shear congratulations brian came to Ry High School in 2021 as a math leave replacement teacher for one semester which then became a full year then became another and here we are four years later he joined the faculty full-time in 2023 he also became the varsity wrestling team head coach in November 21 and that's quite extraordinary what's happened with wrestling in not just in our school but in the in the city of Rye with Brian's leadership he has participated in the Ry City School District social emotional learning institute in 2022 and in the curriculum development for the academy at Ry High School
029physics pre-calculus course that was developed in 2223 brian came to Ry from the Harvey School in Katona where he taught math for a year previously he taught math at Hunter College High School for four years and before becoming a teacher he spent five years as a trader in New York and Stamford Connecticut but in his time in Ry if you've never been there it's not the same anymore but he spent a whole lot of time in the wrestling room that was fully renovated for the first time ever last summer and I think you like that now i like it a lot yeah it's got fresh air ventilation for the first time brian has a BA in economics and classical studies from the Macaulay Honors College at Hunter College and an ME in mathematics education from
030Sunni Buffalo congratulations Brian [Applause] shaina [Applause] Simpson shaina Simpson came to Ry Middle School in 2022 as a seventh grade science teacher sh since joining the district Shainana has worked on the curriculum development for the science grade seven and grade 8 courses and has taught uh science 8 prior to coming to Ry Shaina spent three years as a science teacher at the Young Women's Leadership School of Brooklyn in Brooklyn New York and previously you can come up with mommy if you'd like little guy previously she spent 5 years as a science teacher at PS71 the Rose East Scala School in the Bronx shainana has a BS in health science and an MAT in biology and chemistry education both from Stonybrook University while getting her masters Shaina worked as a teachers assistant in the biotech uh
031teaching labs at Stonybrook and as a lab instructor congratulations [Applause] it it is such an incredible night and I'm I'm so glad that so many of you were here to share it with our tenure candidates i would ask that if all of you can come back up and come right in the middle and Sarah Dur is going to get us all situated for a photo but um and thank you all for coming and congratulations Wow this is great [Music] i just want to make sure I can see everybody's faces you can't see i tell the kids you can't see my lens i can't see you okay here we go [Music] okay so don't go yet the board is going to officially do this tenure thing in a moment so just grab a seat for a
032minute and then the board will take action I believe and then you'll get be able to head home that felt like 10 okay if I could have a motion please to pull agenda it item 13.05 sean Clapper seconded by Jen Bole uh so this is for the professional appointment tenure recommendations for one administrator and 20 teachers for the Rise City School District can I have a vote please to approve this agenda item all those in favor 6 congratulations everyone [Applause] after a long wonderful day of work please do not feel like you need to stay and and attend the rest of our meeting you are more than welcome to i think it's a lovely time but we will not be offended okay we will go ahead and move forward with the rest of the agenda
033uh there is no presentation and discussion one this evening we do have a hearing of the public on the review of our code of conduct miss Boille thank you i'm going to put that over there okay so um as part of um any changes that we make to the code of conduct we have to conduct a hearing of the public to get any feedback um we talked last week about how the review of the code of code code of conduct began about a year ago um with the addition of the ride commitment um we've done a comprehensive review and what we've done in that review is take a look at the code to make sure that um it reflects and aligns with our ride commitment um that um it reflects uh the social emotional work
034and practices the district has been undertaking and that it also um we've looked to find ways to make it less repetitive and um a little more streamlined uh and those changes have been incorporated into uh the document and is part of the agenda for um anyone to review and ask any questions of so we can open that public hearing okay so we are opening the public hearing is there anyone in the public who is here to speak on the code of conduct seeing none we will close the public hearing on the code of conduct and the next action steps Miss Bole will be uh later in the agenda we will have our second review as a board and then um if that has no additional questions we will move it forward for adoption at our
035final meeting of the year on June 17th okay excellent so uh seeing no hearing of the public for non-aggenda items I will skip my usual uh salilo saliloquy and I'll skip saying that word next time as well okay so moving on to the consent agenda uh can I have a motion please to approve this evening's consent agenda matt Shibonov seconded by Sean Clapford let's take a look at this evening's consent agenda consent agenda general uh cons uh the resolution for certification consent agenda fiscal consent agenda professional appointments consent agenda classified appointments consent agenda pupil personnel services and special education and consent agenda curriculum instruction and assessment okay seeing no questions can I have a vote to approve this evening's consent agenda all those in favor that's 6 to zero with one absent so on this
036evening's consent agenda we are approving the uh policies for an exeicio student board member and we are excited as a board uh to be able to bring student voice directly to the work of the board of education this will take effect for the 2526 school year and so we look forward to seeing and bringing our students uh to the board of education table there is also a policy related to extreme heat and this is a statemandated policy fortunately for us because of the generosity and the support of our community as it related to our uh facility our bond uh passed a few years ago we don't expect to have to implement any of the um implic any of the aspects of this policy but we will certainly adhere to it should we ever find ourselves
037in that position uh we are also accepting the budget and school board trustee election votes this evening and again we thank our community for continuing to support our students and our board members and our trustees and we look forward to being able to implement all of the great things that are outlined in our 2526 budget next school year we also have an approval of a gift of $91,51760 which is a gift from the Milton School PTO to purchase flexible furniture for grades 3 to 5 we also are accepting the findings from our internal audit report and we are approving a $68,025 gift from the Midland PTO to support the playground installation lots of exciting things happening over at Midland this summer as far as construction goes and the new playground will just be the cherry
038on the top of the Sunday we are also very excited because we are accepting two recommendations this evening for administrators we have the we are accepting the recommendation of the superintendent of schools to hire Mr seth Bushing to the appointment to the position of director of school counseling and student wellness congratulations and welcome Mr bushing we also are excited to res accept the recommendation of the superintendent of schools to hire our new assistant superintendent for curriculum and instruction Miss Lauren Santa Barbara we are very excited to have you here and we welcome both of you and we can't wait to start the 2526 school year with you here with us so congratulations we also previously accepted the tenure recommendations of 20 teachers and one district administrator and while we are always excited to welcome new
039staff we are always sad to see our staff go and so with that we are accepting the uh retirement of Miss Elizabeth Dela Kohley it is with sadness that I announce the retirement of longtime special education teacher Liz Delici miss Dela Koli will retire at the end of June after 15 years in the Rice City School District miss Dela Colola Kohley came to the Rice City School District in 2010 as a special education aid at Osborne School in 2017 she moved from Osborne to Rye Middle School still as a special education teacher as special education teacher aid and it is from there that is she that she is retiring before coming to Rye Miss Dela Kohley spent 23 years as the owner and director of Impulso Imu I moveto a modeling and promotions agency in
040Mexico City miss Dela Deloli has an associates degree in hotel and tourism administration from the Pan-American University in Mexico City in her retirement letter Liz said "Working with our special education students has been one of the greatest and warmest experiences of my career i am great deeply grateful for the opportunities I've had to support encourage and learn from the incredible children we serve it has been a joy to work alongside such dedicated educators staff and administrators while I look forward to retirement I will truly miss being a part of the Rice City Schools director of Special Education and Pupil Personnel Services Dr erin Freedenberg said of her "Liz was a dedicated teachers aid whose unwavering commitment kindness and quiet strength have supported many students leaving a lasting impact on our school community we thank her
041for her years of service and wish her all the joy relaxation and adventure that retirement brings we wish Miss Dela Coley all the very best in her retirement and with that we will move on to presentation and discussion number two Miss Bole code of conduct thank you um so we uh just talked a little bit more about the code of conduct a few minutes ago um we did make one change uh last week to the code of conduct by adding um coaches to uh the section that talks about um transportation uh so that m one change has been made um are there any other comments the board wanted to make i just had a question in terms of revising this or looking at this every year because I know you've done such great work and
042really made this like I felt like you know kind of a living document in terms of so it doesn't have to be updated or as much or you know so it's very broad-based but I see here prior revised dates at the top you know 24 23 22 21 191 17 so I guess my question is are are we going to look at this every year is there a reason why we were looking at this previously and now we're like well now that it is the way it is we don't have to look at it every year i This is a long way of asking do you Yeah are we going to keep on adding to this and looking at this every year or do we think that this can stand alone for a while now
043i guess is the summary of my question so I my my guess is I don't know what every single one of these changes were but I know that there are periodic changes that come from NISBA also that are related to changes in the law so more than likely those are make up a great deal of these um because I don't recall in the last n years that there were that many other no deep dives into the um into the code of conduct so we will do our mandatory every year we do review it um as far as making substantive changes I think we would want to see how this one is working for us okay if these changes are um are providing the kind of structure that we need for um for our schools and
044continue to just monitor it that way okay so the next time we would look at it you're saying is the like a reorg or the summer so a year from this summer we'll look at it talk about it what we think is working for us if we need to add any changes to it at that point exactly yes okay great great thank you sure okay so seeing no other questions or comments um we can move this forward to be adopted at our next meeting and then we will have subsequent communication to families students um faculty so that everyone knows um of the changes and what those mean okay great thank you very much and thank you to the policy committee i know this has been a herculean effort to give a real good uh thorough
045review of the code of conduct and I think it certainly is a job well done and you can tell that all the hard work paid off so thank you to the policy committee for that uh we will now move on to information and discussion for the 2526 districtwide safety plan so I I do know at at the last board meeting Mr stein gave a report on the health and safety meeting that he attended when the district safety plan was reviewed but this is an annual process um I don't know if you want to weigh in on it Gabby but there are some uh changes based on changes from the state education department similarly we this is um something that we look at annually to make sure that we're up to date with all the state
046requirements it's also an opportunity for us to bring um folks from across the district together to review the plan as well as any new safety initiatives that are going on um in our schools and in the building it's another opportunity to um just reintroduce our first responders they thankfully come to our meeting as well um as a result the um health and safety plan is now being presented um to the community there's a 30-day um period for any um you know questions responses um feedback that we receive um and then believe it or not when we come back at the end of August um we will be asking the board to approve it so that it can get up to the state in time for the October 1st deadline great and uh Gabby where if
047I were a member of the public and I wanted to review this document and provide comments where would I go about doing that right so it is on the board website and certainly um reaching out to myself um security ryeschools.org um feedback ryeschools.org any of our usual channels in which anybody would like to reach out to us to be able to comment do you know where on the website it's um Colleen um has it i I can find out um but Colleen is the magician who gets it out there for me to make sure everybody um has it available it's also on board docs um as part of this meeting's agenda so and I believe she puts it also on the featured page on board docs okay great thank you very much it it's I'm
048sorry it is on the uh safety and security menu on the safety and security tab okay so you'll see the 2526 district plan is the first item under safety and security on the website okay great thank you okay we will move on oh sorry any other questions from the board related to the district safety plan no okay uh all right so we'll move on to communications to and from the board and there were a host of meetings and so we'll start with curriculum council i'll fine i I will happily uh report very quickly on uh curriculum council so um Dr murray um uh set us up to go through advanced 3D uh studio um and this is a continuation of um the 3D or ceramics which were are prerexs um for this um for this
049class i think it really does uh we talked about how it really fits fills a need of you know students were asking for this um and it also sets us up is a step towards uh potentially offering um AP 3D art um and it and we went through quite a few different modules that they'll be doing and it was a very broad-based um uh you know set of of uh you know focuses on design landscape architecture it was pretty cool to go through um and I guess we also got a very quick preview of what we will have for our first meeting next year um with 9th grade composition um which we were going to go through but they're adding um in a piece for AI literacy um so we will go through that one
050in the fall so thank you okay great policy committee so policy met um and uh we were able to discuss um the new language that was provided related to the New York state law for a belt-to-bell ban on what is being called internet enabled devices which is essentially focused on cell phones smartphones or smartphones cell phones smartwatches and tablets anything that has an internet um connection capability uh we are still working on the policy um we don't have a final version yet the plan is to have one for us to review at our next meeting um we do have to have it uh finalized for August 1st um there's there's not really a ton of um discretion that we have in the policy um but what we're finding is um that as we were reviewing
051it for our K to8 um students there's going to be very little change to what they experience today um that so that process uh makes it a little bit smoother I think or cleaner for us as a school district um for our high school um right now uh the plan is to have students um store their cell phones or smartwatches in their lockers as they come into the building and then they retrieve them at the end of the day when they leave the building for our uh high school because we also have a bring your own device program um within the policy it allows any students to use um district uh provided um laptops or or devices uh for students to use in the classroom so for our um high school the BYOD devices will
052be part of that exception that students will be using those within the in class as part of the instructional um program um and I think you know one of the things that that we've talked a lot about within our discussions is you know there's there's different feelings about um what the purpose of this policy is but um what we're really keeping we continue to circle back to is that there has been u much discussion about the concern for mental health and social emotional well-being for students and that that is really what a lot of the drive around this policy is and distraction so um working to to uh find ways for students to be more focused um and socially connected when they're at school so we do plan to have that uh draft for um
053everyone to review on the 17th uh during our next meeting and it'll have all the details great any questions or concerns about that i had a clarification question you said that the high school students will be you think required to put the cell phones in did you say lockers yes and do all high school seniors have lockers are there enough lockers for high school students in the I know they don't use them very So that will be a shift and if you want to We have enough lockers and locks for every student in the high school okay okay uh we have numbers of students that do use them but that will be a shift that I know something Mr har and his team and the student council or student government has been working on because
054that will be a shift big change okay and this you know so what's interesting is this is certainly not a surprise there's been lots of discussion about this and and media coverage and and articles about this coming um so there have been ongoing conversations with the student government from the administration at the high school um but there's also been some previews that we've done with the faculty of the high school so that they everyone has a sense of where this is kind of landing in terms of um of what the law states it will be interesting to see if with locker usage if there's an increase in the usage of coats and jackets by students because right now none of them wear jackets or coats um because they don't use their lockers to put them
055away so that'll be an interesting data point to look at and maybe sore shoulders since they carry everything around with them all day long too thanks sure okay great lots of exciting things going to happen on June 17th see the last meeting is still going to be a great one all right so technology committee met and we had uh the great fortune to start to look at a five-year uh AI specific technology strategic plan um it started for this school year with the development of the AI guidelines and so now the committee is going to be working to roll out a strategic plan about how to kind of ramp up both students teachers and families understanding use and just general knowledge related to AI so there will be lots of great things and presentations and
056information to look forward to for the next school year and beyond and with that I see that our next meeting of course is a policy meeting on June 11th so I'm sure the policy committee will have lots more to discuss with us on June 17th which will be our last meeting of the 2425 school year say it isn't so everybody it's been a heck of a year all right we'll wait till next till our next meeting to discuss all that so we will be moving into executive session at this time and we will not come back out into the public uh we will just dismiss from there so can I please have a motion to go into executive session valerie Lapam seconded by Sean Clapper all those in favor that's six to nothing thank you
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