001Please begin with 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. >> Roll call, please. >> Mr. Chrisman, >> here. >> Mr. here. >> Miss Bronze >> here, Miss Husach here, Miss Culk here, >> Miss Snder here, >> Mr. Van Orman here, >> Miss Williams, >> Mr. Green here. >> We have a quorum. >> Thank you very much. >> Call your attention to the civility and decorum section at the beginning of the uh agenda. Ask everyone to please stick by that. Uh, I would like to remind members of the public if you want to comment on agenda item, please sign in. There is a uh a paper outside. If it's not here,
002there's another one out there, but you really technically for policy should sign that paper before you have conversation at the meeting. Uh, speaking of that, are any members of the public who would like to comment at this time? I have Mrs. Frank would like to comment. >> Can I go later or do you want me to go now? >> You're going to wait. Can I go after the climate and culture? Um, >> where you at? >> Item J. >> Thank you. >> Oh, after the superintendent report. Oh, okay. I was looking for that today. So, remind me when I forget cuz I will. So, Anyone else? Okay. Uh if not, you've all received copies of the meeting held on October 13th. Motion to approve. >> So move. >> Motion. Is there a second? >> Second.
003Thank you. Any questions, additions, corrections? Hearing none. All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. >> Opposed. No. And so ordered. >> Start special board reports. Miss Susach, >> thank you. We did have our carbonly hired immediate unit uh October meeting. Couple things. Uh we did approve the new director of special programs. Um Mrs. Dr. Kathy Nelson, so she is she was part of the CLIU's administrative team prior. She is now the director. So, welcoming her and um good luck to her in her new role. Um the other item, come November and December, we continue um the holiday basket raffle in the uh fundraiser for the Special Needs Children's Foundation. Uh you can go on their website, which is uh the clsnf.org for the Children's Foundation, uh and purchase tickets online if you
004wish. There's pictures of some of the baskets. Um the drawing will be held December 15th uh prior to our board meeting. And uh this year the [clears throat] uh the 14 districts in the IU did a board basket um called the yellow brick road. So it's all things from our district. One place along our yellow brick road um I had donated from Sam's Pizza this year. So, thank you to SAMS for all the donations that they have done to the district. So, hopefully a little bit comes back their way. Thank you. >> Thank you, Miss Husach. Mr. [clears throat] Parcha, >> thank you. >> Yes. Um, in December, on December 10th at 6:15 will be our reorganization meeting. At that time, we will be electing a new chair and vice chair. We also are having
005our open house November 20th from 6:00 to 8:00 PM. I encourage everyone to attend. It's a it's a great school, a great place, and I'm sure you'd enjoy uh touring it. Uh along with that, I have a special note to to make, and even Mr. Green does not know this yet, I don't think. Maybe he does, is that uh on Thursday, I was asked to join our executive director from LCTI, uh Lisa Granowalt, and uh David Heim to go to the community college to present a friend of friend of LCTI which is the Buffalo Award. It goes to an outstanding person in the community who has really shown a lot of help and interest and and support to LCTI and it was given to Dr. Anne Bieber. So, uh I'm very happy to be part
006of that. Ann and I have worked together as colleagues. We've uh been there I probably know an longer than most people who are working with her right now. But uh she's definitely deserved that recognition and award and so um I'm very happy about that and very happy [snorts] that I could attend asked to attend. Thank you. That's all I have sir. >> Thank you sir. Didn't Didn't someone else >> this table get some kind of award recently that you participated in? >> Did I miss that or am I conf or didn't that happen yet? >> Maybe I should just shut up. Maybe it didn't happen. No, the only the only other two people got the the uh that that award was uh Bob Nogle who was our first director received the first one and then
007uh Jim Hansen who donated much money to the school also he is also responsible for the um meals or not meals on wheels the the the museum. >> Okay. >> So no that's all I know sir. >> Okay thank you very much. Uh, Miss Snder, anything? >> I actually forgot something. Um, I just wanted to mention, um, there was a new bill that was signed into law. It's called the weapons notifications. Um, this legislation will require schools to notify all parents and employees when a student, parent, educator, or another individual is found in possession of a weapon on school grounds. This would include drop off, pickup, school sponsored activity, and transportation without any exceptions. Um, PSBA worked with the prime with the prime sponsor, Senate and House Education Committee [clears throat] staff to mitigate the
008impact on schools and mandates contained within the bill as proposed. This bill was signed into law on November 6th. >> Oh, and also today marks 128th days without a state budget. >> Thank you. So I don't have to mention the budget again. But speaking of budget, we are uh looking for a new director of finance, i.e. business manager at community college. Uh we're going to be conducting interview shortly. We also had a very interesting presentation on ESL, English as a second language and they talked about all the different things that they're doing and the development that's happening and uh they have some results on how people are coming through that and it appears to be a pretty successful program. So, uh, we were all kind of kind of proud of that. So, those are the
009things that we talked about. Uh, committee reports, you all have copies of the committee reports and meetings there. Uh, this is it. Tada. Let's do it. >> Good evening everyone. It's wonderful to see everyone again. So, we've been really busy at the high school. We have a lot going on. So, we'll get right into what we have to say. So, our competitive cheer team competed in the Colonial League competition at Wilson [clears throat] on the 29th of October. They placed sixth at the competition. Congratulations to the team for their hard work. The competition team also performed an exhibition routine at the NLYAA Spirit Jam held this past weekend at Northern Lehigh High School. I will be representing Northern Lehigh cheering at the Varsity Spirit Spectacular on November 22nd in Orlando, Florida. You're using the escort.
010Uh [laughter] >> schools will be closed on November 17th for our inservice day and then our Thanksgiving break will be the 27th through the 21st. In academics, math and English classes finished up taking their second benchmark for this for the first semester. CFES scholars and students interested in attending college visits will be taking a trip to Villanova on Tuesday, November 25th. The applications for the LCTI program, emerging health, are currently open. If any students are have questions or would like to apply, they uh you should schedule a meeting with your guidance counselor to talk about it. And also with LCTI, they will be holding their open house for interested students on November 20th at 6 p.m. And then looking forward into December because we will not be here for this. Um, breakfast was with Santa
011will be on December 7th and it will be from 8 to 11 in Peters Elementary. And that's all I have for tonight. I hope everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving break. And now for Maddie with more sports and activities. Hello board. So to start, last Wednesday on November 5th, fall awards night took place which rep which represented fall sports and athletes. At awards night, Emily Emma Hy, a senior cross country runner, was recognized for placing 11th in districts and going to states where she placed 101st. Winter sports will also be starting this Friday, November 14th, and will include and it will include competitive winter cheer, boys and girls basketball, and girls and boys wrestling. Powderpuff is tomorrow, November 11th, at Northern Lehigh Stadium from 3:30 to approximately 6:00. The field opens at 3:00 and there's a
012$2 donation that is asked from all spectators. The snacks stand will also be open. Come out and support the girls annual football game. Watching band has concluded their season on the 1st of November at Dallas Town High School. They placed third in their champion in their championship competition. The fall play is one stoplight town which is going to be running next uh Friday through Sunday. The 21st and 22nd will be at 700 p.m. and the 23rd will be at 2 a.m. And lastly, unfortunately, our Northern Lehigh football team was taken out of playoffs by Skuggle Haven last Saturday. Last Saturday, but they did end [clears throat] the season with a winning with a winning record of 8 to four. Thank you. >> Thank you. Any questions for the ladies? Anything? >> You're welcome. That is
013awesome. >> Thank you. >> And ladies, you can excuse yourself. You're more than welcome to stay, but you can excuse yourself. >> Thank you. Have a good evening. >> You too. >> You have a good night. >> Thank you. >> Uh where we at? I think we're at school report. Correct. >> Anything tonight? >> I do have something for you this evening. Um so, as you know, many school districts in the area and across the state passed resolutions last month to withhold payments to charter schools due to the budget impass. Um so there's already been litigation on that. Um, the Penn Hills Charter School of Entrepreneurship filed a lawsuit against the Penn Hills School District seeking a preliminary injunction asking the court, the Commonwealth Court to order the school district um to pay them approximately
014$800,000 worth of tuition that was due in owing. Um, there was or oral argument held last no last Wednesday on November 4th um before the Commonwealth Court. Um, as you can imagine, the charter school argued that um, they face immediate irreparable harm um, and they need the injunction due to the non-payment. They may need to close. And the school district argued that, hey, we have the ability to manage and expend our funds. We chose not to pay the funds to the charter school under these circumstances. And the sole remedy is to seek um a subsidy redirection through that process that's established um currently. Well, the decision came down from the Commonwealth Court yesterday, today actually, as a matter of fact, and um they granted the injunction against the charter school uh against the school district.
015So, the school district is now required to immediately pay almost $800,000 worth of tuition payments uh to the charter school and um they must also provide ongoing monthly funding negotiated in good faith until the budget impass um ceases to exist. So, in this particular situation, the court really looked at the um financial solveny of the charter school. Um, but I anticipate most charter schools are going to make that argument. So, um, it may impact other schools and other districts. So, just be on the lookout for that. >> Are you anticipating an appeal of that decision? >> I anticipate an appeal. Yes. But that's my crystal ball. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. >> Okay. I maybe heard something something [laughter] through the great >> just came down today. So, um, but I I do anticipate
016there would be an appeal for that. >> Keep you posted. Any questions? >> Just >> Yeah, Donna, >> that's just surprising. >> I I don't understand how that anybody can expect somebody to pay when the other people are not receiving the the money to to pay them with. I mean, can we sue the state? >> Well, that well that they did sue. >> They did already. >> They did sue the states in in addition to the school district, PTE was also sued. >> Um, so >> I mean it's ludicrous really. >> Okay. So, because the school district has money, they decided to to make the school district pay. Are they saying the charter district did not have enough funds to pay? >> Correct. >> Okay. >> They basically were we're going to shut down if
017they didn't get the funding from the school district. That was their argument. >> That specific charter. >> Mhm. >> That specific charter. So, if there are other charters that might be okay financially, this argument may not work against them. But they have nothing to lose by filing these complaints because the filing and the drafting of the complaint is significantly less than like $800,000 worth of tuition. Right. So that's why I anticipate more going to come down the pipe. >> That's that's my report. Any other questions? >> No, we're good. >> Some of their advertising. >> Thank you, attorney. Uh where are we at? Assistant superintendent. >> Uh she's not >> she's not able to attend this evening. Have you had anything for her or >> it will be covered under the superintendent? Okay. Thank you
018very much, Miss Maris. Anything for us this evening? >> Thank you. Just that the auditors were here last um October 30th, 31st, and November 3rd, and I hope to have their journal entries sometime this week. So, um I was in contact with them today, and they should have them to me by the end of the week. So, it should put me on um on target to have my AFR done by the end of November. So that's all I have. >> Thank you very much. Uh Dr. Lake, superintendent's report. >> Okay. Thank you. We'll wait until uh Mr. Hall is able to [clears throat] load it on the screen here. Okay. Good evening everyone. Tonight's presentation will focus on school safety, social emotional learning, and school climate. We will review key data across these areas to
019provide comprehensive overview of student well-being and measures in place to support a safe and positive learning environment. And first we're going to take a little bit of a look at our demographics in the school district. So enrollment uh m you can advance to the next slide uh Mr. Hos. Thank you. So there's our enrollment broken down uh by the schools from 23 24 up through the current school year. Enrollment across the district has remained relatively stable over the past three school years with a total of 1,62 students as of October 1st in the 2025 2026 compared to 1,617 in 2024 and 1583 in 2324. And that comes from our PIM submission every October 1st. Peters Elementary saw a slight decline in enrollment this year as one of the what we would call a bubble class,
020a larger class, advanced to Slington Elementary. Slington and the high school remain consistent while the middle school has shown a gradual increase. Overall, student distribution across all schools has stayed well balanced with only minor shifts from year to year. So you can kind of see 1,583 to 1,617 to 1,62 um over the last two years [clears throat and cough] for the start of this school year. Next slide, please. Now, I'm going to share a little bit about the demographics of our student body. So on this slide here, you're going to the numbers that I'm going to share are going to kind of start at the top and then go clockwise around each category. So on this slide you can see the demographic composition of the students in our school district over the past three school
021years. The legend for the chart goes clockw clock clockwise around the pie. So for 25 26 you will see uh2% American Indian or Alaskan Native 12 Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander 74 Asian 2.36 black African or African-American and African-American 3.41% 41% for multi-racial, 21.04 for Hispanic, and 72.19% for white Caucasian. Over the past three years, our district has experienced gradual demographic shifts. The percentage of white students has decreased by 2.34% while the percentage of Hispanic students has increased 2.83%. The representation of all other groups has remained relatively stable. These changes align with the broader demographic trends within the community. Next slide, please. Okay. So, now we're going to look at enrollment by the different student groups uh that we support here in the school district. So, the groups will be you can kind of see
022them lifted listed down the left column there. And again, the same uh multi-year look back with the October 1st data in the column on the far right. data is based on last year's actuals and this year's most current data, some from the PA future ready index or internal PIMS reports. This year's data helps us predict trends, but we won't know the actuals until they're published after this school year ends. So, our economically uh disadvantaged students uh increased in direct certifications about 1% increase since last year and economically disadvantaged. our ELLs or our English language learners or multil- language learners. Uh at a time of the report was 60 across the district. Our gifted or uh gifted students that receive gifted services. There's about 20 students across the district identified as gifted. We have five in
023foster care currently. Homeless fluctuates throughout the year, but right now our numbers are very low uh for homeless about uh 12% that will eb and flow throughout the entire school year. are military connected families. So, children in the district whose parents are guardians um are serving in the f are serving in the military and um these students also are recognized as a group of students that often need additional support because oftent times they're moving uh quite frequently even sometimes multiple times throughout a school year depending where their parents are stationed. Um [clears throat] our career and technical center students so those these are our students that attend LCTI. Uh we have 133 students currently. Last year about 129. The previous year was about 152. This is 8% of our total enrollment in the district and
024over a quarter of our high school population. So we have a good number of our students in Northern Lee High School take advantage of the programs and opportunities uh through LCTI. You just heard Olivia announce tonight that they're opening up the uh applications for the emerging health occupation program um which is one of the great programs that they offer there. And then our um breakdown for male and female students uh it's it's always just about like this usually within 1% of each other. Uh about an even split at this time. 51% male and 49% female. Okay. Next, we're going to focus on the RES Renaissance Fundamentals, which is formerly known as the PASS assessment. So, here the Renaissance Fundamentals screener, formerly known as PASS, is administered to all students K to 12 twice per school
025year. Once in the fall, October and November, and once in the spring, kind of around March, April, May. It is administered electronically and takes about 15 minutes uh for the students to take it. The nine factors listed on the left are the areas in which students self-rate. K to2 only does the first four of those though. Administrators, teachers, school counselors, and other groups um like the data, SST teams, and the SAP teams examine the results for the district uh school and cohorts and individuals to determine programs and services uh and potential interventions for students um that need them. So I'm going to turn it over now to Mr. Kraic and each uh one of our building administrators is going to talk about the data for the four schools. Mr. Krick, >> thank you Dr. L.
026>> Sure. >> Good evening. I'm filling in for Mr. Snderite tonight. This fall we administered the Renaissance fundamental survey to all K to2 students at Peters Elementary. The K to2 version is developmentally adapted with um prompts, visuals, and simplified language so that even our lung youngest learners can um tell us how they're feeling about school. The survey measured four key areas. Their feelings about school, prepared uh preparedness for learning, learner self-worth, and response to learning. The results this fall were again very strong. The students in K to2 reported high feelings about school and preparedness for learning around 97%. Showing that they feel safe, supported, and ready to engage. Learner self-worth, which reflects confidence and perseverance, remained high near 90% for all grades. Uh the greatest variation appears in response to learning, which gauges how appropriately
027challenged students feel. Kindergarten and first grade were around 77% while second grade was around 86%. Uh showing that as students mature and they're more engaged and comfortable with the academic challenges that they face. Um compared to last year's beginning of the year data, the results are um a meaningful improvement. So the feeling about school rose in both first and second grade and learner self-worth increased in kindergarten as well as preparedness for learning remained consistently high across all grade levels. Uh overall the data reflects a very positive stable school climate where students are feeling connected, confident and motivated to learn. uh the school counselor and I miss Lees Miss Leadestri have started going through the individual students um so that we can really identify those three to 5% of students who are not feeling comfortable um
028so that we can start to address that a lot of them you know still early in the school year that we can make gains as we progress through the year um does the board have any questions >> okay want to turn it over to Mr. Riner. [clears throat] >> Thank you, Mr. Cryek. And good evening, everyone. It's good to see everyone uh this evening. Uh I'm going to be talking about the data from uh the screener for Slington Elementary School. Due to the developmental ages of the students at Slington Elementary School being, you know, 3 through six, there's actually two versions at Slington that are given. So there's one version that is given to students in grades 3, four and five. And then there's another version that is uh gauged more so to the older
029students uh that is given for six. So I'm going to be going over two slides. This particular slide is talking about directly about um students in grades 3, four, and five. Uh as you uh as Mr. Krychek uh shared and Dr. link shared a little bit earlier. If you look at uh the bottom part of that graph, uh looking at all the different categories students at Slington are um assessed or surveyed on the nine different factors. And at Slington, we had in grades 3, four, and five, we had 339 students take the screener, and all of those categories uh fell into the green, uh which is very good feedback. Um but once you dig a little bit deeper and go into some of the subcategories, there are some categories that did show in the uh
030yellow, orange or red uh for certain subgroups. So two of the subgroups specifically Asian and American Indian have uh uh they have very low numbers of students uh that are in those subgroups. However, uh they are have some factors that fell into um the uh red or yellow. So, we're going to be working with those students individually um uh to address those concerns. One of the subgroups uh the subgroup of any other mixed background fell into the yellow category in three uh three categories. And this sub subgroup has uh 18 total students in it in grades three, four, and five. The categories that uh were yellow uh for this subgroup were feelings about school perceived learning capabilities and confidence in learning. So our school teams are looking into this further and examining uh the responses
031of their students in that subgroup and we'll be addressing uh those concerns once we have a plan in place. Next slide please. This slide shows the exact same information but specifically for students in grade six uh and grade six only. Um uh all categories for students in grade six. Uh uh all the factors fell into the green. So additionally uh very good feedback uh in terms of where we're at for sixth grade. uh uh in comparison to last year for sixth grade, we saw increases in factors uh 1 2 4 5 6 and seven. Uh so that was a very positive thing to see. Um but when you dig a little bit deeper into the subgroups for uh sixth grade, we saw some yellow categories uh specifically in two areas. Feeling uh feelings about school
032and attitudes uh to attendance specifically in our subgroup for black and African-American uh students. Now, uh the population in that subgroup in sixth grade is low. Um and we will be addressing those specific uh concerns with those students specifically uh because of the number of students in the subgroup. So, um but that is all of the data for Slington Elementary School. Are there any questions? Hearing none, I'll turn it over to Mr. Williams for the best. >> How come sixth grade always has separate data? Is that because you think that this should be middle school instead of the third grade? Did I say that? >> Thank you. >> Um, so uh sixth grade often falls developmentally in the middle school uh or the middle-aged uh students with secondary students. So some would say in c
033certain assessments that that's how they're assessed. You're welcome. [clears throat] Thank you, Mr. Briner. I appreciate it. Good evening, everyone. I'm glad to see everybody here. I'm here to report on our data for the middle school. Um, in the middle school, 234 students took the screener. Um, as you can see in both of our grades, um, we are in the green, which means that, um, our shoot our students are reflecting a high satisfaction with their school experience in each of those nine factors. Um when we take a look at it um we wanted to take a look at what our overall strengths were and then areas of concern and some of the subgroups that popped out. Um when we look at it um our overall strengths were our feelings about school um our pre preparedness
034for learning, our attitudes towards our teachers and our general work ethic. and we saw consistent satisfaction across grades and gender for satisfaction with schools um our attitudes towards our teachers and preparedness for learning. However, when we dug a little bit deeper and we took a look at at some of the the categories specifically for each grade level and some of our subgroups, self-regard as a learner was one of our lower areas and that was notably lower for our seventh grade boys. And that was kind of a common theme that popped out to us. Um, seventh grade students saw a drop off in while they were in the green, they did see a drop off in their response across the nine factors. Um, confidence in learning was one of our lower categories and response to curriculum
035demands was also one of our lower categories and as was attitudes towards attendance. And again, that popped up again specifically in grade seven and it was specific with our grade seven boys. So, taking a look at that data, um some of the things that that we're going to be doing is we're going to continue to utilize this data and analyze it um during our day-to-days. But we have a goal team period at the middle school. And what we're trying to do is take data like this and target some of those groups of students by setting goals based around some of these factors so that we can work with them to take a look at why they have some of those feelings for attendance at school or some of those feelings in their confidence. And we
036have it set up that we have it by grade level so we can specifically target different grades in different ways based on these responses. So, we're looking forward to doing that and work with those students and then hopefully seeing an improvement in our next round of taking the survey. Any questions for me on any of our data at the middle school? [clears throat and cough] >> Then I will turn it over to Dr. Bali with the data from the high school. >> Thank you, Mr. Williams. Good evening, everyone. Good to see you as always. All right. So we have two slides as well and I want to spend I'm not going to spend a whole lot of time but I want to spend um most of the time on the second slide but we had
037close to 400 students who took the survey this year. This is our data from the administration that we just gave in 2025. Um let's move to our second slide. Mr. Hus if you don't mind to show growth and what I want to show you is the slide on the left is 2023 data. This is prior to the launch of lunch and learn. Um, and then I want to show you the data that we just um got this year um just a few weeks ago. >> [clears throat] >> So, no matter how you look at the data, whether you look at, and I know it's difficult to see, which is a little bit of a bummer, but you know, whether you look at 9th grade from two years ago to our 9th grade students now, 10th
038to 10th, 11th to 11th, 12th to 12th, or if you look at cohort data, so two years ago, those 9th graders are now 11th graders. Two years ago, those 10th graders are now 12th graders. You see, we are all in green. That's great. That's wonderful. Pretty significant for a high school to be all green. Um, however, [clears throat] we have significantly improved in almost every single area. So, just so I could read to you a couple things, [clears throat] feelings about school. Grade nine two years ago, 66%. Grade nine today 74%. Grade nine in perceived learning capability 71%. Now 76%. Um we had some of our lower areas. Um let me go down to the grade percentile feelings about school at that time. Um if you look in grade nine 35 um 35th percentile today
03965th percentile perceived learning capability for nth grade 41% two years ago now 61 percentile um grade nine self-regard as a learner self-regard as a learner 48 48th percentile now 77th percentile. So when you really look at, you know, and you break this data apart, let's look at grade nine two years ago. Feelings about school 35th percentile. Now those kids are 11th graders. Their feelings about school now 48th percentile. So huge huge gains in these nine factors um which we're really really proud of. And and honestly we hadn't even had the data um ready for our staff. They haven't seen this yet. We have a faculty meeting on Wednesday and they need to see this because we've made such growth in school culture climate. I want to be at school. You know, we are going to
040see achievement grow because we're seeing this kind of data um as far as our kids. So, I so I encourage you um to look deeper at this because when I did um it just kind of reinforced that what we're doing is working. So, we do have a couple areas of improvement. You know, if you look at the cohorts from 10th to 12th grade, and these were the only areas we dropped in self-regard as a learner, we were down slight slightly from when they were 12th graders to who they are now. And that could be solely because of curriculum demands in 12th grade. We've got AP courses, we've got dual enrollment courses, we've got college courses. So, one would think that their feelings about response to curricular demands and self-regard as a learner, it's getting harder.
041You know, a lot of these kids are taking these tougher classes, tougher courses. So, you know, many of us when we looked at this data says, "This makes sense to us." So, you know, surveys can be analyzed at both the micro and the macro levels. They not only provide insight into the overall climate of the school, but also help us identify the individual needs of each student. And I think one of the principles did mention this data, we can drill down to the student level. So if we see any data, you know, per kid that is a red, that's a concern. So we go there and we look and we start to identify what we can do as a team to address that. So actionable interventions, what have we done? And you heard me say
042at our last meeting, okay, the data is great. Now what are we going to do about it? How do we execute our plan? So the last year um we started a lud student leadership forum. Student leaders provide valuable insight and strategies to target areas of need within the school in regards to climate and academics. For example, student membership has be student mentorship has become a valuable tool tool. A female let me give you an example. A female student wrestler was paired with a new student that just came into our building two weeks ago. She worked with her during lunch and learn to better acclimate her to school routines and procedures. This is a student that came from a in an urban setting at a very large school of about 3,500 kids. So coming to a
043a school of 500 is significant for that child. Um so she helped her to better acclimate to school routines and procedures, assisted her in completion of specific assignments and fostered her interest in wrestling. So now she is going to be joining our wrestling team. Another example is one of our student leaders who is bilingual in Spanish and she is on deck to provide support to some of our MLL students who may be struggling with acclimating as well and providing overall academic and social supports. We have created a hub which is a classroom situated in the middle of the school that has almost become a student center of sorts. Many of our student leadership meetings occur here. Student support is provided during lunch and learn in this room. opportunities to provide me mentorship to strengthen the
044feelings of belonging and success etc. So you know a lot of great things are happening. It's awesome to see green but when you really look at those numbers and see scores jumping 10th you know 10 20 30% um especially at a high school level it's significant. So I want to thank you for your support and do you have any questions for us? I just want to say thank you for providing last year's and this year's to really do the see the comparison. It really looks really nice to see that that growth. >> Thank you. And like I said, we're I'm so excited to show the staff because they haven't seen this yet and >> you know the work is hard. So when you see the results, you know, that come from the voices of the
045kids. Um yeah, it makes you feel good. So thanks. >> I I would thank you for the two-year comparison also. I know I've asked for that before. Yes. And that puts things into perspective for me. Are we going this way, this way? What's happening? And I don't know why you picked two years, but I'm glad at least you had a comparison there. And I think that's good. I >> I picked I picked two years for two reasons. One, um, when we got here in 2023, we hadn't started lunch and learn yet. So, that was kind of like the starting point. And then we started lunch and learn last year. Also, um, two years will show you the jump from 9th graders to 11th graders and 10th to 12th. So that the kids that are still
046here that were there two years ago which is pretty significant but that's a great question. >> Thank you. >> Any questions for educ has been a success and it's a positive for the the district. >> Uh next slide Mr. Hos. And now we're going to talk a little bit about our Northern Le northern Lehigh Police Department data. Uh next slide please. So here again you'll see the previous two years in a start of this school year and uh broken down by incidents and then what year those incidents occurred. Over the past three years total incidents handled by the school police department have decreased from 108 in 23 24 to 98 last year currently at 24 um within the current school year. The most notable reductions have been in tobacco related offenses uh and truency and
047which historically represent the largest categories. Incidents involving drugs and weapons have also declined. These imp these improvements reflect not only proactive efforts within our schools but also strong collaboration with community partners such as Nolton diagnostic and treatment centers, the center for humanistic change, the local magistrate and the impact program whose support continues to strengthen prevention and intervention efforts for our students. Next uh is the data on our safe to say something tips again for the same number of years. Over the past three years, total reports have declined from 40 and 23 24 uh to 20 and 2425 with 11 reported to date in 2526. Um that I'm sorry actually rather 20 reported in 2526. While bullying and harassment remains areas of continued focus, the overall number of reports related to student safety and well-being has
048decreased. Reports connected to substance use, self harm, and other serious incidents have also declined. The district continues to emphasize proactive measures to support positive school climate and student connectedness. Now, for this one, please remember that these categories come to us from the attorney general's uh yes, the attorney general's office. These are not district selected categories. These categories are predetermined uh by how the tips come into uh the attorney general's office and then funnel down to the school district. I know uh Chief Jones, anything to add on those two slides? >> No, sir. >> Okay. Thank you. Um next we're going to talk a little bit about our bus patrol data. Uh so for the current school year in the beginning of November we're up to 56 uh citations already to date this year our district
049has issued 55 citations for stop armed violations through the bus patrol program compared to 32 citations at the same time last year. However, please note that last year the program was not active until the second week in October. This year it was active day one. Uh we are not finding repeat offenders which suggests that the program is effectively changing driver behavior. Following the last Safe Schools meeting, the Slington Police Department also committed to an increased presence at certain bus stops where we know that these violations within the burrow of Slington are likely to occur. Uh these combined efforts reflect the district's ongoing collaboration with law enforcement and community partners to ensure safe uh transportation for all students. And that is all we have on this evening's dating data presentation and we're open for questions or
050comments. >> Dr. Blink, I was just curious uh with your members when you talked about special ed approximately 20%. Did that include 504 students or No, >> that is just students that qualify under IDA. Okay. >> Um so the federal law that protects children with disabilities. It is not the uh law for students that have a major uh an impediment towards a major life function that may not qualify as a disability under IDA as he checks with Mrs. Dada to make sure I describe that accurately. >> Thank you. >> Um so it does not sir. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Yep. >> Very thorough report. Very good. >> Okay. >> Real quick. >> Yep. So, the the traffic violations, um, of the ones that we did last year, how many were actually recovered full in
051payment as far as fines go? >> Uh, to my knowledge, I'll check with Chief Jones that um, nearly all of them, I believe. >> Is that accurate as far as >> I I'd have to check uh the the on specific left hand right now. Um, so I I don't I know a number of requested hearings. Um I don't know what the status is of where they were granted or not or the outcomes of those but I think pretty much at the end of last year um they were still waiting on approximately 33 or so hearings to take place after those violations. >> Then the first offense is how much for the fine again? >> $300. >> 300. >> Yep. >> Is there uh a second offense? It's it's the same only because it doesn't u
052with the bus patrol program. It doesn't attach to a driver. Um it's not it attaches to the vehicle owner. Um so it's a little bit different as far as how um penalties are assessed. >> That's good. I mean it's a double-edged sword. I mean, it's it's bad that there's that many violations, but it's good that starting to crack down on some of these guys that are driving like >> knuckleheads around kids. >> And and if it is changing driver behaviors for those that have been cited, that's absolutely a good thing if they're not uh repeat offenders. >> Yeah. Yeah. >> I think you'd agree, Chad, it proves we're moving in the right direction. It was money well spent to get that stuff, those cameras installed. And I know we hesitated on that, but I think
053it was a move in the right direction. So, yeah. Thank you. >> Well, I I would like to acknowledge then and thank Christ Transportation because they were a key player in bringing that um that program to the school district. >> Um okay. Next, uh I would like to acknowledge that last week was the school psychologist appreciation week and we would like to recognize and thank Mr. Marks and Mr. Snder for the outstanding work they do each day. uh their expertise, compassion, and commitment play a vital role in supporting the academic, social, and emotional needs of our students. We're truly grateful for their dedication and a positive impact they have across our schools. Uh additionally, we would like to recognize that tomorrow is Veterans Day. Uh we extend our heartfelt appreciation to all veterans in our
054community. We're grateful for their service, sacrifice, and steadfast commitment to protecting our freedoms. And a special note of appreciation uh to Mr. Chrisman who is a Marine Corps uh veteran. So, thank you for your service, sir. >> Sir, thank you. >> Y >> uh I would next like to share some really great news. Um you know, we we focused the last couple years on rebuilding our music program at the elementary, middle, and high school level. Um and you know, every year we see uh more of that pay off uh for our students um and and really the school district as a whole. I'm excited to share that two of our students at the middle level, Julia Warz and Cassie Frerieded, have been selected to participate in this year's Pennsylvania Music Education Association District 10 Intermediate
055Band Festival at Eastern Area Middle School. They were chosen from 47 other schools. So, we 47 schools, we have two two of our students were selected from that large candidate pool. That's incredible. Uh the concert will be held on Friday, January 30th at 700 p.m. with a snow date of February 2nd or 3rd. Um however, it doesn't stop there. I'm equally as excited to add that two of our students at Slington Elementary School, uh Emma Faust and uh Gabriel uh Bastas were selected to participate in this year's District 10 Pennsylvania Music Education Association Elementary Band Festival at Nazareth Area High School. This concert will be at 7:00 p.m. on Wednesday, March 11th with snow dates on March 12th and the 13th. So, kudos to those four students. That is a significant uh accomplishment, especially at
056such a young age um for elementary and middle school. Kudos to our uh music department as well. Um some reminders. Actually, scratch that. We're going to come back to that in a second. Uh Mr. uh Green, you had mentioned about another award that you were thinking about. I I think what you may be thinking about is not related to the community college um but actually last week our assistant superintendent Dr. Stoker uh received the Roseanne Smith Alpterin Award from the Junior League uh from her community. Uh this award recognizes a woman whose leadership, compassion, and ability to inspire others positively impact her community. Um, so she does a lot of uh community service in near where she lives and she was recognized by the Junior League of Scranton um for her philanth philanthropy uh in
057that community. Uh now some reminders. Uh the school board and administrator holiday dinner is Tuesday, December 2nd, 2025 at 5:30 p.m. in Slington Elementary School. Also on December 2nd, 2025 is a school board reorganization meeting at 6:45 p.m. in this room and the regular board meeting at 7 p.m. also in this room. There are no December committee meetings. And that concludes my report to the board. Sir, >> thank you. Any questions for Dr. Link? >> No. I would remind the board that the holiday dinner uh current board members are invited including those who may be leaving us and also new board members will receive an invitation. So we'll get to know the the the new guys coming in. So uh you'll all be invited to that dinner. Uh >> public comment >> no committee I
058I'll get to the other one later on. Yeah. So any other questions on that? We do have public com I was Yep. I wasn't leaving. >> Okay. Um, so I guess I'm glad that there's a camera, but also there's a camera. Um, so this was meant to kind of hit everybody in the community, not um, not just necessarily board members. Um, but we have to be careful that we aren't losing the plot. Uh, we should be worried about what our kids are actually learning or what they're choosing to disengage with. Um, some of them can sing every word of a seven-minute Italian brain wrap viral video, but not remember their multiplication tables or what a noun is. We've confused measurement with meaning, mistaking efficiency with purpose, valuing what's easiest to measure instead of what actually
059matters. Our entire school community should focus on helping to build these kids up for their future and prioritize what has real meaning uh real meaning for learning. When education prioritizes performance over purpose, it becomes a circus where teachers and students perform for outcomes instead of under instead of understandings. And that, my friends, is an accountability trap. We need to find a way forward where we don't just obsess over numbers and graphs, but actually look at the quality of our tier one instruction. Education is not about control, it's about connection. >> Thank you. Thank you, Mrs. Frank. And that is the only community member that signed up to speak this evening. >> Okay. I thank you much. So, I think we're done with item J. Uh there was an executive session at 6 p.m. Uh we
060discussed some legal issues. Uh some of which were disappointing, but nevertheless, we discussed them and uh we'll just go from there. All right. Moving to personnel. Uh looking for a motion to approve personnel items. A through uh where does it go to? Got >> H I'm sorry. H motion to approve those items. I think I heard one down there. Ch. Thank you. Is >> there a second? >> Second over here. >> Natalie. Yeah. Any discussion or questions on those items? Hearing none. All those in favor signify by saying I. >> Oppos. No. >> And so ordered. Mr. Green, if I may, and we'll do a deeper acknowledgement a little bit later in the spring, but I would like to acknowledge that we are this spring losing one of our um you know, somebody that deeply
061cares for all of our students and our faculty, and that's our high school nurse, um Mrs. Melissa, Missy Dosio. Um she is a force to be reckoned with when it comes to caring for our children, actually, and for all of our employees. and um you know I'm sad to see her go, but I'm very happy for her moving on uh to retirement and we'll do a a more traditional recognition of her in the spring. >> Thank you very much. Sure. >> Okay. Policy. You have uh a whole bunch of items there. Uh what six of them. >> Is there a motion to approve the policy items, please? >> Second. >> Motion second. Questions on the policy? I think they were all reviewed at the policy committee meeting. So uh if there are no questions all
062those in favor signify by saying I >> those opposed no and so ordered. We have three conferences there. Motion to approve the conferences. >> So move. >> Second. >> Thank you. Any questions or discussion? Hearing none. All those in favor signify by saying I. >> Oppos. No. And so ordered. Two items under curriculum and instruction. We need a motion for that. >> So second. What was it? Who was it? Gary and Jed or Don? Donna. Okay. Thank you. >> Any I'm sorry. Do we have a three? Gary and >> Donna. >> Gary and Don. Okay. [clears throat] >> Sorry about that. Uh where was I? Any questions on the curriculum? >> I just like to make a comment. I think it's great that we keep uh reaching out to different um higher educations for our
063teacher prep program. Um that they get an experience at Northern Lehi. Uh hopefully that will make them consider Northern Lehigh as they choose a career. Um and the fact that we get to use the dietetic internship program from Cedar Crest College. I was familiar with that and um it's a really great strong program and I know it helps our food service out um a lot. So they benefit but we do also. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Any other comments? [clears throat] Hearing none. All those in favor signify by saying I. I >> opposed. No. And so ordered. Uh I have no old business. Anyone old business anywhere? No. New business. Uh we have item A. Uh once again urging the uh state to approve the budget. Uh is there a motion to approve that
064item, please? >> Motion. >> Second. >> Thank you. Any questions? Hearing none. All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. No. And so ordered. Under financial, we're going from A, I think, to K. Motion to approve the financial items, please. >> So move. >> Motion. Is there a second? >> Second, Gary. Thank you. Questions on the financial items. Hearing none. All those in favor signify by saying I. >> I. >> Oppos. No. And so ordered under legal approve the expulsion of student uh as listed 269074. Is there a motion to approve the expulsion? >> Second. >> Motion second. Obviously we can't have any discussion. So all those in favor of the expulsion please signify by saying I >> opposed. No and so ordered. [clears throat] A couple information items. >> Correspondent. Correspondence. >>
065Oh, I'm sorry. Correspondence. Yeah, >> there's none. >> We have none. >> None. >> I knew that. [laughter] >> Not really. >> Uh, >> recognition of guests. Anyone want to say anything? >> No. >> Did I see a hand? >> Could someone speak to the progress of fix fixing the heat app heaters? I saw that the parts are approved. We talked about that committee meeting, but what is the progress on that? >> They will be on site Wednesday. >> Wednesday. >> Have parents been contacted about lack of heat so they could just >> There is heat at Peters. >> Oh, there is heat. >> Yes. >> Okay. >> It it's my understanding and I don't know if I should address this if Mr. Man is here, but they had to do some of the stuff
066manually. So they, you know, they had have somebody kind of standing there doing things that normally would have been done automatically, but there was heat in the building and it was working. You know, whether it was as quite as natural and normal as it is normally I that I can't answer, but it was there was heat there. So, >> absolutely, Mr. Green. >> That is that about right. Do you want to comment please? >> Um, yes. So, normally we would have everything under control by computers. Um, now we have a maintenance guy going out throughout the day manually opening and closing valves um to get heat to the building. Yeah. So, it's not as perfect, I guess, as you would say, as like at your house where you turn on at a certain time and
067turn off. Um, we go out throughout the day and make sure that the building's comfortable. >> Good. >> Thank you. >> Okay. Uh, anyone else? >> All right. Uh, a couple of announcements. I'm sorry. >> Um, just before we adjourn, I just wanted to add on uh Dr. Link. Uh, not only is tomorrow Veterans Day, but today is Marine Corps birthday. >> That's right. >> 250. So, happy birthday to fellow Marines. >> Yes. Thank you. I did hear that on the news driving in this morning. So, thank you for pointing that out as well. >> Happy birthday to No, we're not. I don't don't look a day over 200, huh? In great shape. Uh, as we discussed earlier, I I would like at this point for the current members of the board to do Dr.
068Link's midyear evaluation. Uh, it will be up to the new person after reorganization to decide exactly what they want to do with that, but I I would hope the current board members, and I know we're leaving several u possibly le losing several if they would do that since they are the ones who have have been here. So, you'll probably be getting that in the next couple days. uh from administration and and last and I don't even know how to answer this because I can't get answers from other people and essentially as you know there was an election held uh was it last week we had four four-year seats there were four people on the ballot they were all elected to a four-year term we also had a two-year seat no one applied for that so
069there was no one on the ballot for that uh as a result of that it will be a writing scenario. Uh you don't need a 100 votes or even 10 votes. The highest vote getter wins that seat. Here's the difficulty. Uh I have personally called uh voter registration several times. I know Dr. Link has called them. They keep telling me they'll get back to me. I called them again this morning. They I said, "Look, we have a meeting tonight. You know, it would really be nice." But they did not get back to me. So, I don't know what the results of that are. Uh, I would just like to publicly announce, and if I go overboard, solicitor, smack me here, that there is a possibility that whoever wins that seat may or may not decide
070to accept the position. If they do not, it's my understanding that the second place person doesn't automatically get that position. It then becomes an empty seat and it will be up to the board to appoint someone to fill that seat. Uh, I'm not an attorney here, so tell me if I'm going wrong. So, what I would like to announce at this point is there is a possibility that we will be appointing someone at the December meeting. A possibility. Uh, if we get more information from them and it's obviously up to the person to decide, we can't force that person to accept a reject position, but there may be an opening and and and I wanted everybody to know that. I wanted to put that out there. Uh hopefully people will pick up on that. Again,
071it may be nothing. I don't know. I just want to make people aware of it. So, if you're interested, anyone else you know is interested, uh you know, be prepared to respond. If it is the case and we do appoint uh personally and I think other board members would like to see someone appointed at the December meeting, you know, I don't want to go through the advertise for 30 days and then oh, we didn't have 30 days before the next meeting. We have to wait till February like to get that person in, get their feet on the ground and get them moving. So, u was that okay? >> Okay. Got through that. Uh are there any other business items to attend? Anyone this evening? No. If not, is there a motion to adjurnn? >> So
072move. >> Second. >> Thank you. All those in favor of journing, please signify by saying I. I. >> Those opposed? No. We're done here. Go Eagles. We got 15 minutes to get home. Let's go.