001The word of Christ 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. We have any visitors? Anybody want to speak? Uh, I would like to Yes. So, you want me to come here? Yeah. So, we have a roll call. Okay. Mrs. Shaw here. Dr. Bary here. Mrs. Bush here. Mr. Jeff present. Mrs. Lamb. Mr. Manaric. Mr. Vancus here. Miss Dnuski here. And Mr. Wood here. All right. And uh your name please. Colin Keroot. Colin Keroot. And uh usually we have a a 3mm minute limit okay on our discussion. So go ahead. Um so as I introduced myself my name is Colin Kerfoot. I am a 2015 grad of Philips Oil Area School District and in 2020
002I received my bachelor's and masters in sports administration from Lock Haven University. Currently, I'm enrolled at Liberty University in Virginia, pursuing my degree in secondary education social studies, and I'm here to concern to express my concern of recent experience I had with this school district. In January of 2025, I reached out to the school district to complete my pre- studentent teaching observation hours, sent the requirements outlined by my university uh to the proper channels, and after not hearing back for an extended period of time, I reached out to the district princip or high school principal, Linda Hockey. After providing my information directly to Mrs. hockey. I was informed there'd be no interest by any of the teachers in the building to have me obser observe in their class. Thankfully, I did find observation opportunity at
003another school district. In April, I began working with my placement coordinator at Liberty University uh to set up my student teaching for this fall. While many universities like Penn State have contracts with the neighboring school districts around here uh to place their student teachers, me being an online student for a university in Virginia, I do not have that luxury. Uh so it is on my shoulders to find local districts to do my placement in. Um, I sent my information to P or my coordinator sent the information to Philipsburg and again I did not get an answer from the high school and the middle school also replied there was no interest by the teachers. I find this response or lack thereof from the district to be kind of disheartening since I went here and I'm just
004trying to fulfill my education. Um, according to a recent study at Penn State University, 8,885 teachers plan to leave the profession in Pennsylvania at the end of this past school year, which is a increase of 559 from the previous year. Um, while I'm still working with my placement coordinator to arrange my student teaching, the Philipsburg OIA school district has shown that it making this extremely difficult and therefore I would like to plead my case and try and get this resolved for future teachers. Um, I would like to thank you all for allowing me to speak here and hopefully uh you can work to eliminate these barriers for future student teachers who may be in the same situation that I am. While I understand that taking on the responsibility of being a mentor, guide and supervisor
005to a student teacher can increase the teacher's already overreaching workload. This experience is crucial part in the development of a student teacher and to becoming a capable and effective educator. Thank you. Thank you. Could you uh leave your contact information before you go? Yeah. You go with them. Okay. Okay. And then there's any discussion or meeting, they'll get a hold of you. Okay. Appreciate it. Thank you. Uh announcement for executive session. plan executive session at 6:15 this evening to safety and security updates and personnel. There'll be a motion on regular voting agenda to approve the May 28th voting meeting minutes as presented. There'll be a motion on regular voting agenda to approve the June 11th 25 committee meetings as presented. And then we're going to go to presentations. Uh, who's doing this one? You guys
006or [Applause] I'll start off with elementary. Um, just to update, our last month in May was very busy celebrations. Um, we held our field day. Usually we have it down at the baseball fields, but due to the large amount of rain we caught, we held it actually at the school this year. It still worked out great. We were able to have all the inflatables. The ice cream truck came from the school. Um, we had a ton of parent volunteers, which is really nice. Um, the teachers made it work. The kids had a lot of fun. Um, we had our annual talent show was kicked off by a surprise teacher flash mob dance. The kids loved it, so it was a ton of fun. Um, we had a lot of kids dancing, drawing, playing musical instruments,
007um, doing their gymnastics. Um, we didn't invite the parents in for that one, but we did live stream it, so the parents could watch from home. We don't have enough room to host everybody, so the parents did get to enjoy that. Our kindergarteners got to celebrate their promotion, the first grade, um, they actually did this year a alphabet fashion show, so that was pretty cute seeing them go across the stage. Fifth grade had their annual graduation, which is amazing. with teachers do video clips of their entire career at Ool Mills Elementary. It's very emotional. They do a very nice job. And we um ended the year with our um inservice. Chandler did a nice job um training us on our safety and security. We were introduced to Parent Square and Oil Mills Elementary. As I
008introduced last time, we're doing online DOA or online bucket fillers. Our PBS system is going online. Um and I have not been alone yet this summer. The teachers are coming in and volunteering their time to set it up this summer. So, there is a lot of activity going on. They're painting. They are setting up the shelves. They're organizing the material. So, I'm really excited to see what it's going to look like. It's a lot of fun. So, that's what's going on. All right. So, I think next one, Sher, the teacher should come in and do their dance. Yeah, that was fun. For that, they did for that um at PE. Uh we're getting ready to have our title summer reading and math program. We have 21 students signed up. That'll start July 7th and run
009through the whole month of July. That will be Monday through Thursday from 9 to 12 for any students. It's open to any students. Um a lot of times we go off of suggestions from grade level meetings and then we open up to the rest of the building. This year between uh PE and we're able to offer math as well. So it's not just a reading program. We're doing reading and math this summer. And with some of our title funds, we've been able to uh incorporate a curriculum program, curricular program for math and for reading this year. So, we're excited about that. Uh also, P just want to uh congratulate our retirees for this year, Don Henry, Robera House, and Janine Brungard. Um we want to wish them the best. They they all have many years
010within the district. So, we just want to congratulate them for all their years work within the the Philosa School District. You have questions for Mr. F or Mrs. Mason? Thank you. You want us to do link it? We're going to uh we'll follow we'll we'll bring you back up. Okay. Y I can do a quick little blurb real or just a quick Absolutely. Is that good? Yep. Okay. So, uh yeah, spring uh was exciting with all the rain, but we had a a little uh got some nice games in there with some nice weather when we had it. Uh baseball made it to district playoff qualified. Softball uh had a little bit of uh bumps in a row, but they did uh make it to the districts and made it to the final game and
011earned a state playoff birth. So that's the first time in seven years that softball has made it to the district finals and to the state playoffs. Um and we had some excitement in track and field. We had one um student athlete, Demarcus Law, place like our first place winner ever uh in states. maybe in the fall we can bring him to to give him a little honoring uh for me. But he placed sixth place in the 100 meter dash. Um so pretty exciting for us. Um and just uh recently uh we were at PO. We were able to show off our softball facility. We got asked to host um a 2A semi or quarterfinal game uh between West Shimokin and South Williamsport. And um South Williamsport is in the state final tomorrow. So, one of
012the teams that were here visiting and we had some great uh reviews of our facilities and then we were also able to host a semifinal game that had Fort Leoo and um Kender Dale. So, they both teams were like three hours separate parts of the state. We met here in Falsber Oil and uh Kenderdale is playing also in the finals tomorrow um for state championship. So, pretty neat experience um for our school district. Thank you. Thank you, Dr. Reese. All right. So, I guess I'm up next. The the remainder of the reports are there uh on board docs and then also um they will present at elementary and Dr. Reese were tonight the the other middle school and high school present there in two weeks at our voting meeting. All right. Someone can run the
013computer help me out there. Hey, I've got an annual report for you. Um, hear those out real quick. It's going to involve the admin team here speaking us. All right. So, we'll come back with what extras we have here. Get that extra one real quick. Um, just I'll take this back. We'll make sure the other one's perfect. You guys can follow along. Um, should I adjust the camera to Yeah. Yep. We can adjust it that way. That would be great. All right. Thanks, Scott. All right. So our 2425 superintendent annual summary report going to contain a couple different things here. Objective. So for superintendent eval objective performance standards that we have placed on the website that are directly aligned with basically where our district is going um at the beginning of the year where our
014district was headed. And so let's go over those real quick because then we're going to we're going to talk about some items here. Superintendent will oversee and evaluate the comprehensive planning process. Two, superintendent will oversee the implementation of board docs. Three, the superintendent will oversee the implementation of linkit. Number four, the superintendent will oversee the preparation and readiness to implement the steel standards in the there's a typo there. It's 202526 school year. Um, all right. So, let's talk the first one. superintendent will oversee and evaluate the comprehensive planning process and district's submission of the updated comprehensive plan. Um Dr. Reese was the lucky administrator last summer that uh was next person up from the team when we were um evaluating what all needed to be done this school year. And so with that, we're going
015to ask Dr. Reese to come forward. There is uh in your packets there's tabs for our handouts. And so there's a summary handout, a one pager that Dr. Reese is going to review. I did put in there the comprehensive plan handout which is going to be right behind the item one. And then also we're going to talk uh between Dr. Reese uh Mrs. Selfridge about high leverage practices and handout number two. So with that, Dr. Reese, come on up if you want to go over item or tab number one. Okay. So the comprehensive plan uh first of all I I just need to commend our our admin team and our community members and our steering committee because it was a whole team effort to complete this uh task. Um but one of the big things
016we had to first come up with is our mission and vision of where we're going and like where we need to be in the future. It's a three-year plan. Um it's a living breathing document. So anytime we need to revise it, we can always go back. Um but as a team we developed our mission um kind of like what we stand for to partner with families and the community to create a positive engaging learning environment that equips students with the skills and supports needed to become lifelong learners and productive citizens um in our community. So with that our vision and this is something like uh I kind of started at graduation like hey get it out there. Um, I shared this with our our whole community at graduation, but our vision for our students, our
017staff, and everyone is we want to empower learners today, impactful citizens tomorrow. So, that's like our overall goal. That's why we come today every day to school every day. That's that's what we're need to be. Um, so with that, it takes uh kind of we had to look at our strengths and our needs. Um, that came through a needs assessment that we looked at our future ready index data, also our local data. and as a team kind of developed a plan of okay looking at it where where do we have challenges where do we need to get better what are our strengths so with that um we came up with two strengths what we have lots of strengths but two of our highlighting strengths that that really stood out were that we have a K
018to2 guidance plan that supports our post the postgrad readiness so we have a plan in place for kindergarten through 12th grade with our guidance plan um and getting them ready for the future to be those impact impactful citizens tomorrow. And we also have a strong title one reading program which built our foundation literacy uh in K to 5 to to get them ready to move forward to the secondary school. Some of our challenges that are are definitely um things that we'll see that we're going to address within the goals. Um and kind of co definitely played an impact with the attendance. Uh it's been a challenge especially at middle school and the high school. Uh we fell short of the state level goals with that. Um we've also with co after co saw increase of
019mental health and social emotional learning needs within all of our students in the district. Um so we need to provide the supports to make sure that our kids are successful every day when they're in the classroom and when they're at home. Um so that's kind of that family school community making that connection. Um another area of need of challenge was our math instruction. So, we're going to be looking at we found that we have inconsistent practices in um some of our teachers. We need to move and staff and us uh for professional development like what can we do to help our students succeed in math um and uh system coherence kind of our our systems level like if we're talking to people in the community or anywhere we want everybody to know like it's like
020what our vision is and what our mission is. like if I go and see someone like we're all working every day towards our mission and vision. So that's were our challenges. Um everyone was really working hard but we found out like people may have not known our big purpose. It's like kind of our why. Um so those were our challenges and strengths. So what from those challenges we had to come up with some goals. Okay. And three years where do we want to be with that and how do we want to address it? Um so our goals and our priorities we really felt that mental health and attendance were connected. Um so we had to support this uh with a datadriven like a researchbased program. So uh we're going to be implementing check and connect
021um within secondary to help see our goals toward improving attendance to 74% by 2028 and expand that seal social emotional learning within those students. We want to get those students back into the classrooms. Um so that's one of our biggest goals and priorities. The second one that was identified was our math instruction and the curriculum alignment. Um so the plan of what are we doing mathwise and how we can support our teachers that the professional development looking at the data and making sure our curriculum is aligned with what our students need to know moving forward. Um so 100% math teachers, we're going to give them the professional development um and make sure increase 90% report effectiveness and ensure our curriculum is fully aligned. And I know that we get this year, Miss Mason and the
022team um the curriculum, you'll be hearing more about curriculum. And so that's part of our our overall group too. And like I mentioned earlier, the vision and mission communication, making sure we're all on the same page, working towards the same goals. Um so the goal is 100% of staff connect to daily practices and it relates to making our students impactful citizens for tomorrow. Um so to get reach these goals what are we going to do? We got to provide a professional development focus to make sure we give our staff and get the the needs like to address our needs and our teachers needs to make sure we can support our students. Um so like I said we have had researchbased uh strategies. So with uh the check and connect uh the action steps, we're going
023to assign mentors to secondary students in their home room or flex. So that'll come within the scheduling process um with the math after school programs as a researchbased program and it's going to help us continue the K to2 program supporting our math growth. Um and the third thing that was researchbased was our highlevel practices. Um, so we're going to we went through and uh selectively chose six strategies within a a three year three years of what we think is going to help our students be most successful. Um, and I know that Elaine will probably talk more about that, but we got to train our our staff um and be kind of consistent with our walkthroughs and what we're looking for with that. But high level practices would be things that that we usually like first
024the first one we're going to be building relationships, respect for relationships because when you have a relationship and be able to rapport with students, you are going they're going to want to be in your classroom and learn more. So um and setting learning goals um that will be the first year our big focus and there'll be more to it but in year two we'll be working on setting up and managing small work groups. Um so instead of large group instruction really setting on the group work so they can collaborate um within the classroom more student talk probably less teacher talk and work through that. Um and also checking students understanding to know what are they getting, what are they getting. That would be our year two. And then finally year three hopefully when we get
025to the end goal um would be like selecting and designing assessment to help to get the students reach the goals that they need and that would be within our we provide the teachers and staff that professional development and then providing our students feedback how they're doing, what they're doing, what they need to do better. Um, so in a nutshell, that's our our big comprehensive plan. And can you talk us through the process this year of like several meetings throughout the fall and spring? So we had a a steering committee. Um, like we kind of I met first with the ID lady came up with uh what we need to do. We kind of had a backward design with the end goal in mind. We had to submit to the state by the end of March.
026It had to be board approved. Um so we started way back in August meeting, talking um we developed a steering committee that involved admin, teachers, staff, parents, community members, business members um and set up monthly meetings where they would come in um we would work behind the scenes as um a subcommittee or admin team um and do some work and then present it to our big steering committee. Um so it was a process uh team effort and um I think it was very successful. Um but we'll get to do it again in three more years. So I thank you any questions or so questions just going through basically seven eight months process. You have a one pager and item number one. Right behind page tab number one is the full comprehensive plan um that goes
027more into detail what that process look like. So um moving on then uh on our to our next actually we're going to talk high leverage. Yep. Talk about this. I'm sorry I stole your thunder a little bit. No that's okay. You're all good. So, one of the things that came out in discussion with the community members is that there is some um disjointedness between the four schools and the community or at least that's the way that that parents are feeling. They're feeling like, you know, this thing happens at that school and that thing happens at that school and we don't get information if I have kids at a couple different schools. Um and also just looking at like with the curriculum audit working towards having consistent and high quality instruction across all classes and across
028all grade levels. So when we started looking at those two things um and then the state gives you sort of like a resource bank that you can look at to look at those researchbacked practices. And one of the things that kept we kept coming back to was there are just some foundational educational practices that make up high quality instruction and everyone in the district needs to get on the same page with those things so that across the board we're providing we're doing things that have value and that's where that high leverage comes from. like these are practices that are a lot of you get a lot of return for your efforts. So instead of like we're going to try this new thing and we're going to try that new thing, really focusing on these are
029practices that have been shown over time to have excellent returns. They work well for students and tightening up on that across all buildings and across all grade levels. So that's where the idea of the high leverage practices came from. And then if you look at the different practices that the team picked for the comp plan, there's an expression um that's really common in special education and it's you have to Maslo before you can bloom. And it's this idea of Maslo's hierarchy of basic needs and then Bloom's taxonomy of education. And so if you look at building those foundational relationships of respect, not just adults to students or students to adults, but also students to students. So that students are are valuing what the adults are saying, are valuing school as a place to go, that
030is a safe place and a place that um has importance for them. And then building from there into here are our specific learning targets. This is what we're trying to teach. And then from that when we looked at like the small groups, setting up small groups, managing small groups, one of the things that came out of the curriculum audit was like a lot of teacher talk, not a lot of kid talk. So how do we in how do we implement some things that engage students more actively? And then like Kelly said, building into like getting some really good data with formative assessment. What are they learning? What are they not learning? Going back and filling in those gaps and moving on from there. So that's the idea behind it. And the goal is for our
031professional development to be unified in that regardless of how we're doing it or where we're doing it or what principles are leading it that we're we're coming at it with the same foundation in mind. moving forward together as a district. Thanks, Elaine. All right, so I'm just going to move I'll be able to Scott. Appreciate it. All right, so there's comprehensive plan next. All right, so board docs. One of the things we were able to implement uh within the last year was going from a paper agenda to putting our agendas out online. So um that did a couple of things. We implement that in August provides real time updates and so the challenge for Veronica as our board secretary in the past would have been as soon as an administrator the superintendent the business manager
032would have had a change there would have been a revision. And so as a group you would have had we would have had to say all right do you have the latest copy do you have the latest copy of that agenda the latest copy. So one of the things is we've tightened up uh how we do things from from the board agenda standpoint. Uh board docs has allowed us to have one agenda. The public's able to see it. So, um, that 24-hour deadline, uh, once it goes live, anyone out in the community is able to access it. We're able to attach for the public, uh, documents, they're public facing, we're able to attach them within the agenda. Um, and so it just provides that transparency. And the big thing from a administrative standpoint from whether
033it be principles or Tom, Dan, and myself, the longer we use this, the more of a database it'll be. In the same way from a board member. So if we want to think when was the last time we did blah or when was the last time we we hired for this position or we acrewed this contract with this vendor that is now going to be searchable where before that would have been a phone call or email to Veronica to say can you go back through the paper archives and search for when we did this and so our and uh women woman hours here from Veronica's standpoint uh that should be very limited moving forward. board. So, I think there's still just throwing it out there. I think from an internet standpoint, um more bo some
034board members are more comfortable than others. Definitely. Um I think depending on how many schools are using it in the evenings at their board meetings, the the server can get, you know, uh slower, but overall, I think with our paper copy and with that, we're in pretty good shape from board docs. So, uh that's all I have on board docs. Objective performance standard number three, superintendent will oversee the implementation of the Lincoln software with the ad admin team. And so what I've asked for this one uh as a group, we had um some meetings that Chad facilitated uh in this room with these uh different individuals from Lincoln. And so on your handout, you're going to have uh tab three, four, five, six, and seven. And first up is we'll do three and four which
035is OM and P. Justin and I are presenting together because as a team we do things very similar in the two elementary buildings. Um we primarily use Linkit as our benchmark assessment. So we give it three times a year. Um we set it up to mimic the PSSA testing. Um so we do a mixture of paper and pencil testing and online testing. Um we try to keep it similar for the students that are taking the online test versus the paper and pencil testing. Next year everyone will do the online testing because that's what the state is requiring for us next year. Um we also try to mimic the small groups that the students are getting and any accommodations or modifications that students are getting. So we try to mimic everything um so we can prepare
036the students the best that we can when they do take the state assessments in the spring. and each of the assessments that are aligned to the PA core standards. So, our kids are taking those assessments throughout the year that are aligned to what they're going to see on PSSAs. Um, as you see in the papers that we provided, you can see some of the reports that are included within the link program that we've been working with our teachers this year to really dive a little deeper into some of the data. Um, we have access to not only look at our link data, but we can go and look at previous year's PSSA scores and start to correlate how our students are performing between our benchmark assessments and also our PSSAs. With this being our first
037full year of implementing this, we are eager to see, you know, our PSSA results and see how they correlate with how the students are performing in Lincoln to see if there's a good correlation between that. Uh what we really like is you can break down each of the subject areas into standards and within the standards you can break them down even further to identify what percentage of students need support in certain areas and then it gives us a chance to go in and and implement some targeted interventions um with the students. So I'd say our goals as we go into next year in the elementary are one look at those targeted areas that we can try to improve upon. um look at that correlation between PSSAs and our linkage blanket uh assessments trying to incorporate
038some student ownership so our students can see you know here's why we're taking these assessments and here are the areas that we need to improve upon and kind of put a little ownership onto them to kind of build some pride in what they're doing all the time. Uh we also want to continue doing crosscurricular uh connections between science, social studies and our ELA with the writing. And then of course you know this was our first year we've implemented some professional development within each building. So taking some of this information looking at the results and planning our professional development for the next school year. So to summarize at the elementary benchmark assessments, math, ELA three times a year. Yes. Um three times a year. And can you just speak to where that data or what groups
039of individuals may look at that data once you have it from those three? We Yeah, we share the data during our grade level meetings which occur monthly. Um so teachers are able to analyze that data and that's how we create our groups and intervention groups during the monthly grade level meetings. So, we're able to to make those adjustments monthly throughout uh based on that data of how the students are performing and then we'll know here once we get the PSSA data of how closely that's aligning. It is our hope that it aligns pretty close, but uh we'll know here in the next month or two. Questions for elementary on Lincoln. All right, let's go to middle school handout number five. Hey, good evening everybody. Uh much like Sher and Justin, we give three benchmarks a
040year. And the goal is to it's to predict success on the PSSA. So this is our first year doing it. I think we made some positive steps and we're looking to make more steps next year. Unlike the elementary, we give the benchmark in math and science ELA because we have a new curriculum uh common lit. They we we've asked the teachers and they are using common lit to benchmark and they're very happy with it. So we just wanted to give the first year let them do their their benchmark. But some of the reports if you look at the report the first report basically it's it's the same grade different students. So what that means is we can look at five years of data and say how do our kids comprehend fractions in sixth grade and
041you could look and see oh 50% 60% or you could see well geometry 20% year after year after year. Well, then we know there's either a problem with the curriculum, there's a problem with the instruction, or a problem with the assessment. So, it helps you identify. It's different students. They come in, but if you can start to see trends, that helps you identify maybe where there's potential issues. Number two, link data is used to provide students with tier 2 interventions. Um, so this year at the middle school, we did something called the math and the reading lab. And it's a tier 2 intervention where we pull kids based on some of their test scores that were close to passing the PSSA, close to being proficient, and we wanted to give them that extra bump to
042get over that proficiency line. So, we used we want to use it more than we did this year, but we did use benchmark data for our tier 2 interventions, our math and ELA lab. Uh the third report here uh basically what this shows you is you'll see it says form A, form B, form C. Those are the benchmarks. A we take you know midepptember, late September. Uh B we take January, February, and C we'll take right before the PSSA. And the goal is to look at the tests and kind of like see how the kids are progressing or what deficits there might be that we need to address. Uh number four is just a sample with Julie and I, we asked the teachers just to make sure to keep, you know, with fidelity. Hey, give
043us some feedback. What did what can you uh extract from the benchmark data that you got? And there's just some examples of some uh feedback we got from the teachers. And number five, this is what they call a longitudinal report. And basically you can see this tracks a group of kids from fifth grade math in 2122 and it goes to sixth grade math 22 23 and then it takes them into seventh grade math and eventually you could take that into algebra and eighth grade and so on and you can just see how that group of students does as you follow them along. So in conclusion, uh we made a step in the right direction. Next year, I think what we want to do is increase data meetings, really start to break it down, take that
044next step. Um we're going to hold more data meetings. We're going to try to hold the accountability level is going to go up a little bit and we're going to try to right now we're working our schedule to accommodate that. What we're trying to do is build a little extra time in at the end of the day for teachers to get that time without students maybe for 20 minutes to look at that on a regular basis by department and as a team. As you know at the middle school we do teaming. I forgetting anything Brandon I was just going to say that they use that data on like the benchmarks to inform the instruction and that's ultimately what it's for is to guide the instruction. I can see here that the kids are not understanding
045literary text. I might want to like revisit that or I can see they're not getting algebraic equations. We might want to go back and spiral around and hit that content again. So, we're excited about where this is going to go next year. Any questions for middle school? All right. Thanks. Uh Mr. P, you're excuse too. I know you got to get to a softball game. Uh thank you. Yeah, she's pitching at eight. Appreciate it. So, all right. Next, we have Mrs. Braven uh filling in for Mrs. Hockey tonight. Yes. At the high school. Yes. Number six. Oh, sorry. So, the high school uses link as a data warehouse. They use it to inform their decisions. The first um use that they use is they use it to help identify student placements. So, if you take
046a look at the data and they're doing like extremely well, they're doing advanced on the keystones that might be or even using the PSSA data from the middle school, you know that they're might be doing well in a track for an AP class. maybe in an honors class or on the reverse end if they're struggling on the PSSAs, it might be something where they might benefit from going into an essentials class which offers more support into the coursework. Um, and she did give an example there of algebra. Um, if a student was scoring basic and then below basic that maybe they would benefit from a essentials class which has two teachers in it and helping to boost their scores and their knowledge. The second one, the data is taken into consideration for our student support
047team meetings. And that's where you gather all this data together, including academics. You look for some red flags. And maybe a student is getting support. But if they're getting support and they're still across the board struggling in their core subject areas, then perhaps they need to be recommended to the SST, which is where Elaine and the school psychologist take a look and see if maybe an IEP or a 504 would help benefit this student. And then the last one is our graduation pathways which this is a very clear and concise way to take a look to decide number one did they pass all their keystones because that's the first pathway to graduation and it's easy then if not you've got to take a look and see if they met the composite score or maybe if
048they're at the CTC if you're taking into consideration nocti or possibly one of the many other paths that's the way the high school uses. Good. Any questions that Julie may be able to answer with Suzaki not being here tonight? Any questions? Thank you. All right. Next up, we have Elaine. Hand out number seven for blanket. So, um, the principles have already talked a little bit about this, but they have grade level meetings monthly and then four to five times a year, we also have student support team meetings which are um more student specific. So, if there is a student that has been brought to grade level multiple times and teachers have tried different things and they're still not experiencing success, um, or if there's a really significant concern, they would bring that student to the
049student support team meeting and that's myself and Melinda and Melinda Solder. And then um, any of the teachers that work directly with that student are also at that meeting. So, it could be the reading specialist, the elementary teacher. At the high school, it's all of the subject teachers. Um, and we look at classroom data, we look at grades, we look at um work samples sometimes. But this has also really helped because when you're looking to um do an evaluation to determine if a student is in need of special education or there might be a larger underlying issue there. It's really helpful to have not just singular data points but multiple data points over time. And this has we've already used this. We only have one year's worth at this point. Um, but we've already used
050this to help with making determinations and also just as communicating. So, like this nice, beautiful color graphic that it puts out is really nice to be able to show to parents and say, "Hey, look, your kid is doing really well or they were struggling a little bit and now they're doing better or you know what, there's there's significant struggle going on here and we need to think about maybe doing an evaluation." So that's been really helpful for us. It's been really helpful to determine like our tiered supports. Um and the we are hoping to be able like with implementing this into next year that will give us two years of data. Every piece of information that we add helps us to make better and more targeted decisions and helps us not to miss kids. So
051that's that's the goal is to catch kids early and be able to intervene early so that they can be more successful. Any questions for Mrs. Selfridge on Lincoln? All right. As you can see, we went to Lincoln benchmark and we use it a little bit differently throughout the dis throughout the district as we go up from the elementary to the middle school to the high school, but uh we're all anticipating PSSA scores here to uh to see how our transition to Lincoln has worked in the first year and to move on from there. All right, next let's talk steel. So, superintendent will oversee the preparation readiness to implement the steel standards in the 2526 school year. So, your science, technology, and engineering and environmental literacy and sustainability standards, they were adopted in January of 2022
052implementation with an implementation phase. They gave us three years uh for the 2526 school year. So, we knew coming into this school year that we had a year um to finish up um being ready to implement these uh standards for next year. Uh Mrs. Mason who uh OM principal but also as our curriculum coordinator for the district. There was a lot on her plate this year and um she did a really good job of facilitating doing her principal job at OM plus them facilitating things throughout the school week or throughout the district when it comes to these standards. Uh Mrs. Mason, do you just want to speak um to the process for this past year? as she's coming. If you take a look at item eight, I did include those in your packet because you
053think ah implementation of a couple standards. Um item eight in your packet just shows you how many standards K12 needed to be uh identified and then basically recorded of where are we doing this throughout our curriculum and if there were standards that weren't being taught, how are we going to introduce those into our curriculum moving forward. So go ahead, Mrs. Mason, just talk to the process this year. Yeah. So, we started by making um all of those standards into a chart and and we colorcoordinated it yellow. Um so, every time we knew we were hitting a standard, we made it green. So, that was kind of the the running thing the whole year. We wanted every box to turn green by the end of the year. So, we knew we were hitting them somewhere. Um
054I think the easiest way to think about these steel standards is the old ones were physical science, life science, and earth science. That's what we're used to in science. Those are the sciences we've all been taught. Um the thing that threw the wrench into it was um the engineering technology and then this environmental literacy and sustainability. Um those were the boxes that were the hardest to find. Um and the principles I mean this was a team effort. We all had to work together with the department chairs. Um so Mrs. Hockey and I got together with the department chairs um across the board. Um so this is crosscurricular. Um, so some of these standards, believe it or not, are being taught by our social studies teachers. Um, our computer teachers, our tech teachers, um, Corey Wood
055is teaching some of these standards. Aaron Leavonic is teaching these standards. Tyler Good is teaching these standards, our math teachers. Um, it was and I think the one of the last meetings, um, Wanda Potter, our art teacher covers one of these standards. Um, so it's really like everyone in the district coming together to make sure these standards are taught. Um, so we started the year just looking at our curriculum. What do we already teach? What have we already got covered? Um, and then those boxes turned green right away. And then the rest of the year really focused on revamping our curriculum, rewriting it, especially in science with these new steel standards as our focus. How do we need to work on our curriculum to make sure that we are hitting all of these standards for
056next year? um the high school, their um curriculum, they all created a syllabi that will be posted to the website and the elementary um did curriculum maps that are posted um throughout the year. I talked with Don Hayes at the IU. She was someone that we really um leaned on for support. Um we also reached out to the Department of Education because at one point I had had so many questions. Um, so I we actually did direct calls with them. Um, and they really helped support us through the process. Um, and then we I think January is when we really hit the ground running with all of our curriculum. We had a full curriculum writing day where everyone just like was submitting stuff to us and everything was looking good. And I think May we
057ended with maybe there was 12 boxes left that were yellow. Um, and the principles did an awesome job. one last meeting with everyone and by the end of the day everything is green. So where we stand now every standard is being taught K to 12 and then what we're looking at next year is every teacher will have this document knowing what standard they're responsible for. We just have to make sure that we are doing it and make sure that it's you know being hit because the other piece that we are working on um is our scope and sequence and our time frame making sure we have enough time to get it all in. So so that we really have to focus on next year next year. We have it planned for now. We have to
058put it into action next year. So it was a lot. Very good job. Any questions for the steel standards going into next year? All right. Thank you, Mr. Mason. All right. So, as you can see, there was a lot going on in addition to just the craziness of a school year um with 1,600 students in the school district. And so, with that, just our summary. Um we had our objective performance standards, comprehensive plan, board docs, link it, steel standards. Um for all of us that were aware, we'll throw in a little bit support staff negotiations going on. We have the steel worker negotiations that are close to being wrapped up here at the end of June. Um, our ACT 93 certified, non-certified business manager and HR plans are going to be wrapped up, compensation, uh,
059plans will be wrapped up here by the end of June. Um Tom did a real heavy lift on the health care and just communicating out throughout the district of you know what options we have available to try and streamline some things of the management of our same healthcare plan. And so that was a pretty heavy lift here in April and May. And um the next one in our packet is going to be the IU curriculum audit. If you remember back late last summer, uh, early fall, we contracted with the IU to come in and do a, uh, curriculum audit. And so, the purpose of tonight is to share this out with you, this last document, item number nine in your packet. Um, when it comes down to it though, we're we're going to we're going
060to talk about this more in depth in meetings to come of what this what the results were and maybe what some of our course of action will be moving forward. Um, as you go to the let's see the next slide it might be all right. So, as we look um at next year 2025 2026, here's been some just draft objective performance standards. This is not final language. It needs to be word smith. But basically, uh we're looking at another four items unless the board comes up and has input for additional or take one or two out, however, uh they feel is appropriate. But we went through this whole process with with budgeting and as we look at enrollment and we look at our district from a restructuring standpoint. Um we are going to be putting
061into effect a you know facilitating a restructuring committee that basically is going to look like look at our enrollment look at our buildings and basically say our enrollment's probably declined over the years and as a result of that have we made adjustments within the district are we running as efficient as possible and um what are some options moving forward at the end of the Hey, a year from now, we may come back from these committees and say right where we are right now is about as efficient as we're going to be or is about uh where we need to be for our students and our community. But the the thought would be on this committee would be to look at options and and sort of flesh them out to make sure that we we've looked
062at all options available. Item two, facilitate just a financial committee for the district financial sustainability sort of goes hand in hand. So they could be two separate, they could be the same. But uh from that standpoint just of looking of how um our debt that we have within the district again, our operational expenses, our revenues, and what can we do long-term uh to put our district in a better better financial um situation moving forward. We we know we have needs from whether it's just basic ongoing needs for our buildings for we're continuing on our roofs, our parking lots. Um if we even look out at there's some just some things out there when we look at our buildings, that's one that could probably use a refresh. We know our high school probably could use a
063refresh in certain areas. We know what it was like over wintertime with some of the temperatures and some of those classrooms. And so just looking at where what we need to do from a building standpoint which also uh from a financial standpoint in order to fund those projects and so that would be that uh financial committee um oversee the implementation of parent square. So we are going to implement parent square as a communication tool for the upcoming school year. And what that will do is our school messenger will uh be phased out. Um some of our other software that we use in the elementary um we believe that that is going to be phased out and to be able to to have one software where classroom teachers communicate, administrators communicate. We can communicate with just
064maybe bus runs like bus 34. It's already programmed in. that's a communication if if you need to whatever that would be um to certain buildings that this would be the tool that everyone uses as opposed to I want to use remind everyone will use parent square and so it's our understanding west branch state college holdingsburg were some of the schools I believe when we sat through um the various options we had available were some of the schools that were utilizing parent square in the area. So that'll be uh something we'll be implementing here over getting set up over the summer to implement next school year. And then the reason I said about item nine in the packet is just that oversee the implementation goals and objectives from the IU curriculum audit. Um it's a it's
065a pretty solid document coming through. I think they had something like 60 observations at elementary, 60 at middle school, and 60 at high school. and they definitely found some they they found uh what we're doing well. They found some areas that we may want to take a look at. Um and they gave some recommendations. And so it's up to uh myself, the admin team to review this document and basically as opposed to having the study done and putting it on the shelf and letting it collect dust, what are we going to now do with this document that basically says we have this information. let's try and make some adjustments that go hand inand with our comprehensive plan. Um but also um I've said it probably my goal would be that in say the next two
066three years we would have another study done same thing to see how we've done after we've made our changes. Um what it does highlight is just areas for improvement and um whether it's admin, whether it's teaching staff, whether it's the support staff, um it'll enable us to identify some goals and move forward in some targeted areas. And so we're hoping uh and expecting good things to come out of that report. That being said, questions on the objective performance standards or draft objective performance standards for next year. It's just a piece or two of information thrown at you there in a half hour. So, all right, that's all I have. I I appreciate if you have feedback, uh, please feel free to submit it to me. And the uh question papers are one of you fill
067those out and drop them on top of the blue folder at the end of the meeting or pass them down or whatever works for you. Uh there anything from the board other than what's on the agenda they want to bring forward time to do it. No, we'll go to the uh budget finance. There'll be a motion on regular voting agenda to approve the financial report for the month of May 2025 as presented. Motion on regular voting agenda to approve the foreign disperments and credit card statements for the month of May 2025. There'll be a motion on the regular voting agenda to approve the PFM Financial Advisors LLC to act as a advisor. Do you want to speak to that one? Financial planning and budgets. Sure. Just as um this is related to the management switch
068of our healthcare and uh as of right now, it's tenatively somewhere in the $2.6 6 million um area that it's 2.6 million is our is our latest number that will need to be paid from the consortium that we are leaving. Um we've reached out and partnered with approval here at the end of the month of EFM to provide options available to us. Um that so without those options it would come out of fund balance. Um we're proposing to work with PFM to come up with options that will have the amount paid over maybe three years as of uh instead of coming out of our fund balance all at once and they're going to look at all our our debt look at all of our bonds. Um again, we've refinanced some stuff in the past and
069just made some recommend. Thank you. A motion on regular voting agenda approve the consulting service agreement between P area school district and James EEPEP as presented. There will be a motion on the regular voting agenda to approve the general fund budget for 202526 school year and amount to be determined. It's time to be determined. There'll be a motion on the regular voting agenda to approve the capital reserve budget for 2025 school year in amount of $35,000. There be a motion on the regular voting agenda to approve the food service fund budget for 2526 school year in amount of $1,511,812. There'll be a motion on regular voting agenda to establish the 2526 real estate tax as follows. As for center county is 63.07 and curve fold at 70.93. The motion on regular voting agenda to establish
070the per capita and earn income and the real estate tax transfer tax rates as set prior years. There'll be a motion on the regular voting agenda to change the homestead farmstead allowance based on new dollar amounts available for distribution is set by the department of ed. There'll be a motion on the regular voting agenda to renew the general liability property, automobile, and other related insurance policies for July 125 through 20 July 126 cost to be. There'll be a motion on the regular voting agenda to renew the workers comp policy with company paying from July 1st 25 through July 1st of 26. Cost of put in. There'll be a motion on regular voting agenda to renew the food service management contract FSMC with the Mets culinary management for the 2526 school year as presented. There'll be
071a motion on the regular voting agenda to continue the PO area school district's participation in the community eligible program for the 2526 which provides free breakfast lunches for all students. You want to explain the reimbursement? So right now our reimbursement um for the breakfast is that we get exc I'm going to put you on the spot for those total numbers but bottom line is there's a dollar for-dollar amount at the on the breakfast the community eligibility program for the lunches um there's a percentage that we get reimbursed yeah 79% 79% um that we get reimbursed on that amount um so it's free to the students to the school district. 21% of those fees for lunches um that are free to the students are picked up by the school district. Yeah, we get a lower rate.
072Um again, if a student was paying typically for a lunch, they would pay their $2 and whatever and then we would get like it's like 45 or 50 cents from uh in the funds that we get from the state and federal government. And so we still get that 45 cents. We're just not getting the 220 from the students. But again, our all the card numbers have increased like things that they purchase outside of there. So, so it's been good. It's been a good program. Thank you. Motion on a regular voting agenda to approve the cafeteria prices for the 2526 school year and the adult breakfast is going to be 295. It all matches at 45. We have a correction on the next one. It'll be instead of 2026, the correction will be uh 2030. There'll
073be a motion on the regular voting agenda to approve the transportation contract with Tington for the Philsburg Oil School District from June 1st, 2025 through June 30, 2030 is the correction. It's a 5-year contract. There'll be a motion on the regular voting agenda to approve the contract with the government software services incorporated to generate mail real estate and per capita tax duplicates for Rush Township and Poster Grove 25.6 school year as presented. Any questions on finance? Let's go to building a motion on the regular voting agenda to dispose of old or damaged classroom materials or curricular materials at Oyola Mills Elementary School. There'll be a motion on the regular voting agenda to remove seat, two chairs, a coffee table from faculty room at Oola Mills Elementary to be sold on municip. Thank you. Under E,
074uh, I pulled myself off that committee and Mrs. Vzneski is taking my part on that one. That will be Mrs. Beski and Mrs. Bush. Our quick instruction. Be a motion on the regular voting agenda to approve a customized learning program agreement between the Philip Ferggo School District and Nitney Learning Services for the 2526 school year. be a motion on the regular voting agenda to approve a three-year memorandum of understanding for an early college program between Philsburg Oiola and the Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania on the regular voting agenda to approve field trip request for the 2425 school year. Mr. Mush. There'll be a motion on the regular voting agenda to post a special education teaching position at Philsburg Elementary School posting effective May 29th, 2025. There'll be a motion on the regular voting agenda to hire
075Nicholas Monston as a K through 12 special education teacher at Fsburg Elementary School at Bachelor Step One and a salary of 51,770. effective at the beginning of the 2025 2026 school year. There will be a motion on the regular voting agenda to hire Addison Carbis as a K through2 special education teacher at Philsburg Elementary School at bachelor step 1 and a salary of 51,770 effective at the beginning of the 2025 20226 school year. There'll be a motion on the regular voting agenda to hire Brandon Lucas as a K through2 special education teacher at Oola Mills Elementary School at bachelor step 1 and a salary of 51,770 effective at the beginning of the 2025 2026 school year. There'll be a motion on the regular voting agenda to transfer Samantha Sanker from a fifth grade teaching fifth
076grade teacher at Ool Mills Elementary to a K through6 teacher at Philsburg Oola Middle School requiring certification in ELA for grades 4 through 8 effective at the beginning of the 2025 2026 school year. There'll be a motion on your regular voting agenda to approve Philip Rossy as a teacher for summer school 2025 Monday 8:00 a.m. to 12 retroactive to June 16th 2025. There'll be a motion in the regular voting agenda to approve a request from an employee for an unpaid day on May 27th, 2025 due to exhausting all sick and personal days. There'll be a motion on your regular voting agenda to approve a request from an employee for unpaid days on May 27, 2025, May 28th, 29th, and May 30th, 2025 due to exhausting all sick and personal days. There'll be a motion on
077the regular voting agenda to approve a request from an employee for unpaid days on May 28th, 29th, and 30th due to exhausting all sick and personal days. There'll be a motion in the regular voting agenda to accept a request from the employee for unpaid days on May 21st and 22nd, 2025 due to exhausting all sick and personal days. There will be a request on the regular voting agenda to approve a request from an employee for unpaid days on May 27th, 28th, 29th, and 30th, 2025 due to exhausting all sick and personal days. There'll be a motion on the regular voting agenda to approve a request from an employee for unpaid day on May 21st, 2025 due to exhausting sick and personal days. There'll be a motion on your regular voting agenda to to approve a
078request from an employee for half an unpaid day on May 29th, 2025 due to exhausting all sick and personal days. want to extra curriculum. There'll be a motion on the regular voting agenda to approve a letter of agreement between the Philsburg Osula Area School District and Sinclair Child Services Incorporated as presented. There will be a motion on the regular funding agenda to approve a services agreement between the Philsburg Oola area school district and Newtory LLC dro Pennsylvania from August 125 through July 31st 26 as presented. There will be a motion on the regular agenda to approve at services assignment with Henderson from August 1st 5 through May 2926 as presented. There'll be a motion on the regular voting agenda to approve the following extracurricular positions for the 2526 school year as listed. There'll be a
079motion on the regular voting agenda to approve the course schedules for the 2526 school year as presented. Anything else before the board? Second. All in favor? I [Music]