001Or you could wear >> All right, we'll call the meeting to order. If you could stand for the pledge of allegiance and a moment of silent meditation. To the flag of the United States of America and to the stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. I check please. >> M >> here. >> Mrs. Good >> here. Mrs. Alio >> here. >> Dr. Coxman >> here. >> Mrs. Hanley >> here. >> Miss Boltz >> here. >> Mrs. Lowry >> here. >> Mr. Mccur >> here. Thank you. Do we have any additions for the agenda tonight? >> All right. If so, um I want to make a motion to approve the agenda. Do we have a second? >> Second. >> A motion second. All in favor signify by saying I. >> I.
002>> All opposed. Motion carries. Mrs. Petroski, if you could please review the board goals. Minutes. >> Oh, whoops. Executive session. >> No, I did. >> Never mind. I skipped accidentally. We had executive session tonight at FE on February. We had executive session on February 3rd from 6 PM to 6:30 p.m. to discuss personnel and consultation with the attorney. We had executive session tonight from 6:15 to 6:30 to discuss personnel. At this time, um, I'd like to make a motion to approve the minutes. Do I have a second? Are there any questions on the motion? All in favor by saying I. >> I. >> All oppose. Motion carries. >> All right. Now, Mrs. Powski, Bridgeway Area School District will provide learning opportunities to meet the needs of a diverse population and a dynamic workforce. Ridgeway Area
003School District will continue to build transparent and trusted relationships with all stakeholders. Ridgeway Area School District will continue to build a culture of safety and support for all students, staff, families, and the community. Thank you very much. At this time, we have public comment. I have no public comment. We'll move forward to student of the month and we will start with FSG Mind. >> Thanks, Miss Kem. Uh, it's my pleasure to introduce Miss Lena the panels. >> Lena's teacher is Mrs. Dqua who's back here. Uh, Mrs. Dqua says that Lena demonstrates strong work ethic and perseverance, continuing to try her best even when learning feels challenging. She has shown meaningful academic growth this year through her dedication and consistent effort. Lena cons is consistently kind, patient, and helpful, and always willing to support her classmates
004when they need assistance. Be nice to your sister. >> Yes. >> Good answer. Again, Lena brings a positive attitude and caring spirit to the classroom each day, making her a wonderful role model and a valued member of our class. When I had the pleasure to interview Miss Debas, her favorite subject is math because she likes to learn. What she likes most about school recess. Okay. She shows kindness by helping people to get up when they fall. Her advice for other students is always be nice to one another. Her school inspiration is Mrs. Dqua cuz she is a very nice person. If she could give one thing to improve the school, longer recess. Her uh her future goal is to be a doctor. And her favorite memory this year so far is the Penny Wars and
005the Scare Away Carnival. Miss Lena the Pants. Our second student of the month is a family affair here because the sister was a student of the month last year, Mr. Rhett Schaer. So, Mr. Schaefer was nominated by Mrs. Peterson. Mrs. Peterson says that Rhett comes to school each day with a positive attitude, a big smile, and a strong readiness to learn. He demonstrates consistent effort in academics by staying focused, completing all assignments, and taking pride in his growth as a first grader. He models elker expectations by following rules, making responsible choices, and setting a positive example for his classmates. He is kind, respectful, and helpful to others. Rhett is a classroom leader, and currently holding the leader in the rock, paper, scissors contest. Uh, when I had a chance to interview him, Brett's favorite subject
006is art. He likes to finish projects in a short amount of time. What he likes the most about school. He likes to learn and is always on time with his green light. That's a big Okay. He shows kindness by giving others their own space. You do that to your twin brother. >> He's okay. His advice for other students is to be good. His school inspiration as a sister as she was named student of the month in January. His idea to improve school is to continue to make learning fun. His future goal is to be a pilot. Okay. And his future memory this year is to have recess each day. Mr. Red Sh. This is Milwaukee. >> Yeah. ready. >> Thank you so much for coming. >> Congratulations. >> Thank you very much. At this time,
007I'd like to uh introduce the high school principal for the extraordinary elers, Mr. Powski. >> Yeah. Uh we have uh two extraordinary outers from February with basically January, February. Um in the middle school was Cheyenne Hunt who was in grade seven and we have Rowena Puit was who was in grade 12. Um, and I also included a video of um, Sophia Fulham, who was extraordinary elker um, last month that it was the wrong video. So, I wanted to make sure we had a chance to share her video as well. This is Sophia of the month. My name is Jesse Gerber and I'm here with Sophia F. She's the high school extraordinary elder of the month. She is the daughter of Nina and Pomol and she wants award for academic excellence and kindness. So Sophia, how
008do you feel about winning this award? >> Um I was kind of surprised because I've never really gotten award an award like this before and I mean I just figured out about it like 10 minutes ago. So I guess I'm pretty happy about it. >> So what are some of the activities you're involved in? So, I've done volleyball, track, and basketball. This year, I'm just doing volleyball and track. >> So, which one's your favorite? >> Definitely volleyball. Yeah. >> So, is there something you would change about the school? If I could change one thing about the school, I think the sense of an understanding for the students and maybe having more of a sense of community. I feel like there's a lot of kids who deserve a lot of things like extraordinary out there. Like,
009I feel like there's a lot of kids who deserve it. So, I wish there was more recognition for So what are your future plans? So I obviously am going to apply for a college either IUP or PIM and I want to be a clinical laboratory scientist. >> Thank you. >> Good. All right. Hi, I'm Sarah Samrosski. I'm with this month's um extraordinary elker. Um and it's forina Puit. She's the daughter of Josie and Richard Puit. And she was nominated by Mrs. Jackson for stepping up to a new challenge and forming a called the click um for the Minecraft PSL challenge. So Ronina, how did it feel whenever you found out you were in this monster? It felt really good. I was really shocked, but I'm really happy. >> Well, and then um what are some
010activities that you are involved in? >> I'm involved in cheerleading and band, which includes concert, marching, and jazz. Um sometimes I also am involved with the the outount community dance. Um I am in art club, scene club. Um, I do poetry out loud and I am involved in the world of 8 billion. I do that every year. Um, >> that's great. Um, so who is your favorite teacher and why are they your favorite teacher? >> My favorite teacher is Mr. Benson because he's a great person to share ideas with. >> Um, and so then what are some of your achievements throughout your high school career? >> Um, recently I won out loud regionals for the second time. So, I'll be hoping to make it big at states as well. Um, Minecraft PSCL, we made it
011to fate. Um, I'm also a world of 8 billion video contest international finalist. And um, oh, that's great. Well, congratulations to all of that. And then one last thing, what are your future plans for? I'm planning on going to a university, not sure which one yet, for a double major in sociology and social data analytics and a minor in journalism and also ROC. Well, good luck with that. >> She has really big plans as you can tell a lot lot of undertaking to do all those things. >> Thank you very much. We have one more here. >> The other one was a re was the one that was the wrong PDL last month. >> Sorry about that. >> No, that's okay. >> I'm here with this month's middle school extraordinary Cheyenne Hunt. She's the daughter
012of Amber Russell. She was nominated by Mrs. Chu for showing bravery for reporting an issue to her. So, and how does it feel to be extraordinary? It feels bud and myself merchant of activities. Um um um like these club things. I do. >> What club are you in? Uh the relaxation club. That's fun. And who's your favorite teacher and why? >> Um Mrs. Matis because he makes things more easier for me. >> And what are some of your achievements? >> Um I have good grades and I've made it to this day. Good. And do you know your future plans? >> Uh to get a job and get a house. >> And what job do you know? >> Well, to work with animals. >> And then do you have any advice for other students? >> Uh
013be kind other people. >> Cheyenne's a really nice kid and she was so proud when we brought her to the office and told her she was extraordinary. Some kids are like, "Okay." And she was smiling from ear to ear for a couple days. So that was really cool to that she that she earned that. >> Thank you very much. >> Um all right board business. Um we have Thank you very much for coming. Under uh new business, we have the cell phone discussion. The Senate bill SB um passed. It is now going to the house. Uh its plan is to be implemented in the 26 27 school year. Do you know any details of it? >> There were a few, but I didn't read through. >> I attached them on last year, last week's um
014my my report from last week, and it's under the legislation. There's a link on my aboard report. You can click on that to get that also. Yeah. And uh once it gets passed then um PSDA will be sending us a a policy to modify to our specific needs as well. And um Mrs. Petroski is still looking into the um surveys. So the intermediate unit I9 meeting will be held on February 16th. At this time, um, we'll have principal reports. Mr. Hindo, >> thank you, Miss C. Um, in addition to my board report, which is posted on there, I just want to give you update on our virtual day number two, it was an extreme success once again. Day one, we had an 87% participation rate. Day two went up to 90% participation rate, which is
015great. and I really attribute that to our constant communication with our teachers, to our parents, and I think that's why that number continues to grow. Um, in additional the uh 2627 uh FSG schedule, I want to thank Mr. Powski, Mrs. Mrs. Petroski. Uh, there's been a lot of work that's been put into this. Uh, we feel that we have a a pretty good plan in place. Uh, the schedule itself allows for a five-day schedule. from right now we currently have a six uh a rotation of special courses that we were able to keep in also increase the time frame from 30 minutes to 45 minutes and it also increases our overall instructional day uh which is big for us. The big part, which I think the board will really like, is we're able to share
016staff from the middle high to FSG to fill in the fifth grade slot so that we will not have to hire another person. And that that's a lot of work that went in between them and I want to thank these guys. Um, last but not least, uh, we were able to work with Mrs. Grubs in the high school student council. So, we are creating our elementary student council and we are having our first activity uh, this Thursday. and I'm inviting all of the board here if you would like to join us throughout the day. Uh compliments of Joey's Bakery. Uh we're going to have a winter blue celebration day for the kids that are caught up doing everything that they're supposed to be doing in the classroom and being good model elkers. And if they
017get that uh which the majority of our students will, they get to go sled riding for 45 minutes with their respective class. They get to come in uh Joey's donated some uh homemade cookies and frosting. They are going to decorate them with some hot chocolate to go along with it. So, if you'd like to join us in the classroom, feel free. So, any questions for me? >> Any questions? >> What day is that? >> Thursday. >> This Thursday >> after 9:00 a.m. >> Bring your sled, Mr. Mccur. >> Will you help me up the hill? >> I will. the right state for the cookies. >> Okay, Mr. Fidowski. >> Um, I attached my board report as uh as instructed. Um, but I want to really focus the most on on the proposed nine period schedule.
018Uh, this is a transition uh this would be transitioning for uh to from the block schedule to a nine period day. I went through and gave everyone uh some paperwork of some of the things that we focused on with this. This has been an ongoing thing that we've been working on over the last few months, but um I also explain that Mrs. Petros Mrs. Petroski has been working on this over the last few years. Uh so um this has been a a challenge to say the least. I never knew how much went into scheduling um until this all happened. But with this set up um classes would meet daily for 42 minutes. Uh the current schedule has as far as the high school they meet one time over two days for 74 minutes. So it
019be an increase of 10 minutes um over two days of where they would actually be in class. Uh it would help with staffing. Um as Mr. Hindle explained um we're able to actually move a a teacher to the elementary school to fill the void there. Um but at the same time with doing that move um we're able to keep three cohorts in all the middle school classes. So there would be um the fifth grade right now has two separate teachers and there would be three. Um we'd be able to keep that in the um middle school um because the numbers relatively high for that. I believe there's how many kids are in that grade? 54 54. Um so there's always anticipation of more kids coming um from um St. Leo's. Um and uh there would
020be definitely more uh like I said increased time 10 minutes over a two-day period. Uh students would be engaged with content every day. Uh we'd hope there would be less retention because the kids would be around the teachers every day instead of once every other day or if they would happen to miss a day and then they're not there for a little, you know, maybe like a week when it's all said and done. Um there'd be a little bit more consistency in that. Um the core subjects, math, ELA, sciences, social studies, they would see each other every day. Um even in the middle school right now, the science and social studies meet every other day. um where math and ELA do meet every day. Um we in our schedule we came up with I was
021able to um keep the math being a long like basically a double math and a double ELA. Um but then they'd have social studies and science every day. Um it would meet and I'm going to rely on Mrs. Hindel to kind of chime in here. um some least restrictive environment um needs that our kids need to have with special ed. >> So, excuse me. One thing in the um audit that we had a few years back um that we were kind of monitored before and came out in the audit was our least restrictive environment. Um some of the factors for that um include the students that we've been receiving um require more um pullout support than necessarily in the regular ed setting. Um when the state compliance officer and I met about it, the factors
022that we talked about, there's a lot of things I can't change. I can't change who were, you know, receiving in from earlier intervention. um I can't change a lot of the needs here in this building. Where the data did indicate of a change that we could make is in that building and it's something that Mrs. Petroski and I talked about last year um in order to help you know move that least restrictive number down. So there's they look at our students in two categories. So they look at special ed students that are in regular ed 80% of the day and they look at special ed students that are inside their regular classroom less than 40% of those day. And in both of those categories our numbers are not in align alignment with um the state
023average. Um significantly not in alignment. And the biggest factor is the time of the day. For example, if a student comes in from St. Mary's our neighboring district and they're considered an itinerate student which means they're in regular ed for more than 80% of their day. Um they might go out for an ELA class and a resource class. They come to Ridgeway and I have to make them a supplemental student which is means that their time in special ed is from 20% to 80%. And it is literally because of the time of the day in St. Mary's. How long are there? >> 30 39 minutes. >> 39 minutes. So if they are removed for an ELA class in a resource class, that total amount of time still keeps them itinerary. They come to Ridgeway every
024day, especially in the middle school, they have an ELA class for 74 minutes and a 60 minute remediation and it automatically switches them to the supplemental level. So with this change, there's a large pocket of our special education students that it's going to increase their time in regular education just with this basic basic overall change. I know that was a lot. Did you did you understand that piece of it? Okay. >> Um and some other things that we focused on was the preservation of course offerings. Uh this would not uh eliminate like our advanced courses that we currently offer. Um, I met with uh Miss Mrs. Amy Good about possibility of some MPRC offerings maybe like in a study hall type of setting. Um, some electives or advanced courses might be like alternating years. You
025wouldn't have it every year. Um, from the standpoint of trying to get more kids in a class at a time. I know that's been something I've been hearing in a lot of these uh meetings. So, uh, that's something else we would be able to do with this. And then um there was really very little impact on the the our normal day from the standpoint of it's only a 4 minutes at the end of the day that we'd be dismissing at um 2:15 instead of 211. Um so it was just a 4m minute change with that. So the transportation shouldn't be much of an issue. after school activities and then you know people that have planned on their kids getting out that certain time all the time it shouldn't really have much family um issu schedule
026changes with that. Uh there will be obviously drawbacks with any change. Um teachers will need to adjust their instruction to shorter class periods. One of the things that kids mentioned was well they're going to have more homework. Um, and the and the answer to that would be that there's just going to be different stopping points in your classes. Instead of over the 74 minutes, you you know, when you're saying 42 minutes, it's just going to be a different stopping point and then you carry on on on the next day. Um, ma the master schedule require planning. That's been again, this has been a thing that's I never realized everything that went into a schedule. Um, so I've been really leaning on a lot of people for this, including the teachers. Um, and these there's going
027to be challenges with any type of uh change as as we all know. Um, something I would like to consider um is uh changing our graduation credit requirements. Um, we're at 28 right now. The Pennsylvania Department of Education has it at 21. um and doing a quick survey of the local the schools right in our surrounding area. Johnsonburgg currently has 24 credits that they need in order to graduate. Um Barack was 24.25. Cameron County was 24. St. Mary's currently is 21, which is the the the minimum minimum, but they are changing that back to 24. They changed to 21 because of the COVID uh change years ago. Um but they are going back to 24 and Dubo is sitting at 23 uh credits. Um one of the things that I've heard from kids coming to
028the office talking about going online is they have the ability to graduate um online because they only have to get 21 credits on time. And so to them sometimes it's like they have they would have to stick around in high school another year in order to graduate. Um so for them their their choice was to go online and get their six credits they needed um to graduate where um if we were at 28 they would have a whole lot more to get at that point you know. So um those are just some things to consider. Um you know that that would be cost effective there and it's cost effective with the freeing of teachers then to we'd be able to share a little bit more with the elementary school with our um schedules being kind
029of aligned. Um, and uh, like I said, we were able to figure out ways to move it this year, so we wouldn't have to explore having to hire anyone either. So, um, this has been an ongoing thing and I'm not saying I'm sitting here and I know all the answers and I would have to, you know, whatever questions we have, we'll try to answer the best we can, but this was a a total group effort from elementary all the way up through. So, uh, this is something we've definitely, um, I've got a few extra gray hairs on my chin over this, but, um, it's been it's been enlightening to say the least, but is this something we're considering um, changing? Um, there had, like I said, there's been some negative uh, feedback as far as
030some kids like the long periods, but most of them say that they get really bored staying in a 74-minute class. Um, so, um, we're hoping that that might help address some of those things. >> And we, this wouldn't require more teachers. >> It would not require more teachers with how we have it set up. Now, there is going to be some limited um, offerings as far as like the electives and things like that. Um, but with having a limited electives, we're hoping that would then increase the amount of kids in the class at the same time. Um, we don't want to get rid of the advanced courses. That was the thing that that I was really wanted to make sure that we didn't, you know, we weren't going to get rid of those. Um, because
031I think those are things that as we saw a student today talk about all the amazing things that they're doing. Kids take advantage of that and they're taking PT classes and, you know, these extra high classes that um that they you use they can use in in college and stuff. So, I want to make sure that that's a that's definitely a thing. And when I was talking with Amy about a lot of the stuff that maybe we can consider through the NPRC, you know that there's time in our schedule that we could put it in. Um I have like places there for study hall um where kids we can manage it through that and use the library at the same time. Um which has been a a space that I would say hasn't been utilized
032as as much as we needed to this year. So I would hope if we were able to do that we would be able to use that that great area we have more often. Um so >> and this would be a whole package like if we went to the nine period day then we would also at the same time reduce the number of credit offering. >> I would yes I think it's >> it makes sense. it makes a lot more sense with looking at it. And the other uh paper that I gave you kind of has a breakdown of what we currently have and then the projected um as you can see it took like one credit off of some of them. Um and then we added the personal finance in there which we're making the
033kids take um right now too. So, uh, you can see it's a little bit more aligned with with, uh, the PTE and, um, when, uh, Johnsonberg shared their information, theirs was more aligned with what the our, uh, proposed credit would be as well, you know. So, um, kind of look at it as, you know, we're doing what a lot of the other districts in our general or close area is is doing as well. I have a question for you. Um, we heard talk about this pathways to graduation. Would the lesser credits required for graduation make that more attainable for some? >> Yes. Um, so it gives them um various ways to get there. Now um and Noel, you can chime in too. They can do different things. >> It's usually not credit based. The pathways
034to graduation aren't credit based. Um, so it's it's based on um Keystone assessments, it's based on NOCD, CTE, career technical testing, it's based on additional tests if you can't hit the the composite. Um, so it's really not based on credits except for the end courses that are related to the keystones like algebra, um, biology, and English. So, those are the only like three courses that are really linked to the pathways unless you're using our um child development program as a pathway. Here's the CTE where you have to take the NOKI. That's the only other um curriculum piece that's kind of linked to the um the pathways. Now, the additional assessment, most of our students use the ASVAB as that additional assessment to get through. And again, all of our juniors take take the ASVAB, but
035it's not really linked to our curriculum piece. >> What about if kids get um like OSHA certified and things like that? >> That would be the alternative pathway. One of the alternative pathways. Yeah. >> And those are the things that we would like to try to offer >> as well in that extra thing. So, >> would there still be room in the schedule for mediation or study hall? I know a lot of kids use that at work then if they're in sports or Yeah. work after school. >> The way that it's kind of set up, so in the middle school there's remediation every single day. Um and in the high school they would have roughly 15 minutes in their remediation class, which isn't a lot of time um for kids to get their work done.
036But that's why most of the almost every period there's an opportunity for a kid to sign up for a study hall. That way then um you know you have the kids that say I definitely want that study hall to get my work done. Um there's only like I think two periods where I wasn't able to really figure out where I could put put a study hall in that 9 period day. So there's a lot there's time there for them to be able to do that. >> Are you going to limit study halls >> like >> Yeah. >> So that a kid doesn't want to study. Any other questions? If you have any, please ask. I mean, this is something I'm we're trying to be as open as we can um and listen to everybody's concerns,
037but this is definitely a thing I think would be really great for our kids. >> So, do we need to approve this schedule with the budget or what's the timeline to approve these changes? So we we would like like to look at it in March because we need to make changes in our student management system um for the scheduling piece. And so I think this um PE shop had just said that we don't we reach out to the students in March to be in to get the um requests. So that that would be when we would need to I would think in March would be >> I do have a question. Um you said you had some teachers help you know with this whole planning thing. So, how I mean are the teachers open to
038this or are you like what what you know feedback are you getting from them? I would say like in in the middle school world um when they were told that they might have less time it was a it was a real shock to their system and I don't blame them because we've done really well in the IU um comp you know comparatively speaking um but then when we were able to figure out and I was able to go back to the drawing board and say we were originally trying to do it just with two sixth grade classes um but then we brought up the three and then I was actually able to um have them basically have double classes in the day. So technically they would have a whole lot more time. It would be
03920 minutes extra. Um they were they were really excited about that. Um the science world, especially in the middle school, was really happy to see the kids every single day um instead of every other. uh in the high school world. Um it it was there's mixed reviews on the from the kids standpoint. From the teacher standpoint though, they were saying it's nice to be able to see the kids every single day cuz you might have somebody that misses a test and you forget about it and the next time because you don't see them the next day. Um and so the next time you see them, you know, you might have forgotten the stuff that they did and to be honest, they're probably forgiving stuff that was taught if they're not doing it every day. Um,
040so, um, there's a lot more reception to it after we started talking way more about it. And that's why it was important to say, you know, come down and let's figure some things out. And I know I I said a lot of times, this is a I want to hear your wish list. What would you like in in in this? And so, we tried to just mesh everything together. Now, are we able to do every single thing that everybody has? The answer is no. But for the most part, I think everyone that I have talked to um personally has been pretty pretty open to to this change. >> We had a lot of um departmental meetings last year in preparation for this. So um ELA team would meet, math teams would meet both together. And
041so we did that all from like November until March. And then we kind of just it kind of things got a little crazy in March. And so we just put it aside and then um I just had them. I said, "Pick it back up this fall and continue." Because they were aware of everything. They had done all of that. And so the teachers um and and we knew middle school was going to be a hard a hard hurdle because again they have been done super well on their they're still tested subjects and all the grades and that's always been really important to them. Um but and that was one thing I said we got to figure out how to make that work for them too. So, it seems like this is this is a really
042great opportunity for them and it really puts us in line with most of the other schools. So, when you're trying to do other things, it's it's easier to say, "Hey, Mr. Hindle, what are you doing from 9:15 to 9:45 because we're all on the same on kind of the same track." So, >> well, and even between the buildings, I mean, you have the shared staff. You have a maroon and wait day and then Mark's building, you got a six day schedule and a five day, you know, the five day. It's very difficult to coordinate the internal usage of K to2 employees >> and being in the middle high for 25 years in the classroom, especially in the middle school for science and social studies. The hardest part was you take a short week like this.
043If a kid misses tomorrow and you're not going to see that kid again till next Monday or Tuesday, that's almost one day in a week to see them. That's a big lapse of missing tests, not seeing the kid. And it adds up over time. It really does. especially this time with the flu season on everything else that's going around. So, just in my experience in the middle high from down there, I think it's a great move for the kids. I really do. >> This and this will add more cumulative minutes to each other >> because we were remiss in that area in the past with other school districts. So, that's really nice. >> Well, it cuts down the foot traffic, too. Everybody has a radiation at the same time. Now you may have one or
044two study halls instead of 250 kids have one study hall and I think that will help cut down that building. >> Well, I think like you said with the transfers in and out of students in the area going to the other schools and having you know smaller class periods and then coming here and having larger and even as someone who works in all the schools going in all the schools I always have to adjust when I come to because it's a larger longer class than I have at the other schools. So I'll be happy with >> any other questions this time. I'd like Thank you very much, Mr. Paddowski. At this time, I'd like to call on Mrs. Kindo for the special student services. All righty. I'll skim through mine because I know we spent
045a lot of time with Mr. Fernowski tonight. Um just a couple quick updates of things that are requirements in my world. So every February I have to do a deaf and blind census. We do not have any students in our school district that are deaf as well as blind with that dual diagnosis category. So we reported it as zero. So that's the easiest report I fill out all year long. Um the big thing right now that I'm working on is our special education plan. I was lucky enough that Mrs. Petrosky went with me on Friday. They had invited there's four districts in the local IU where their special ed is plan is due this year. Um and they invited the special ed director along with the superintendent to come because there's a lot of professional
046development in pieces that are districtwide, not just particularly related to this the special ed department. It is something that I have to do every three years. Um it is in our future ready comprehensive planning portal. Um I was so excited when I got in there because my information from three years ago was still loaded. So, we just had to um you know change some of the wording and update it. But we did spend all day at the IU. Um they asked a lot of interesting things like they I said to Mrs. Petroski I said please call Mark because he's not going to do this for me because they you got to count ceiling tiles in the special ed rooms because they they need to know um that the square footage is eligible for the special
047ed students to be in because they look at the eb and flow of the special ed rooms. They have to be they can't be somewhere that's too noisy. Like they can't be right by cafeterias or music rooms. They have to be in the flow of the traffic. They can't be stuck around a corner all by themselves. And it it has to have a certain amount of square footage per child. So we literally have to enter in the square footage of every special ed classroom and the system calculates it. And it's just a lot of neat different things in this program that we that we had to do. Um but it is done with the exception of one piece. um that I'm going going to do with my special education teachers. We have to analyze um
048their case load, break it down by disability category and whether the students are itinerate supplemental full-time. So, we'll do that on the on the upcoming ins and day. Um it's important for you guys to know because I do have to make it public in March. I have to post it for 28 days for public approval. Um and then in April, it'll be coming to you guys for board approval. Um because then I have to submit it by May 1st. So, it's just kind of a step process. So, it's almost ready to go public in March and then it'll come to you guys in April. Um, so, and like I said, that's done every 3 years. Um, our early intervention process that my teachers and I started, those are the students that are already identified with
049special education through the early intervention setting. Um we spent two days. We had meetings with um the special education teachers from the IU, the director, parents um and and different teachers. And we had a total of 17 meetings. There are 17 students that are um going to be transitioning to us. That doesn't mean that they'll qualify for us. We have to evaluate them to determine their eligibility for school age services. Um but there are 17 that we have to go through the process with. So, a much smaller number than last year, but still still big for Ridgeway. Um, so, um, just some trainings that are in here. My overall numbers, um, have not shifted too much in the last month and that is literally just because we're in the process of so many evaluations and
050there weren't any meetings this month for that. Um, our overall number for special ed is still 174. It was up just by one. Um, but there are currently five initial avows in pla in process. I think that number's changed since last week. I think it's up to six now. And there's 17 reabows um in process. And I know coming up in the board docs tonight, you'll be approving the two contracts for the two par two paras. That's my other problem. The two sites that are are helping us out, you know, Amy Finn, Franchesca Goodman. I can't thank them enough for for helping us in this current um struggle that we're having with filling our our psych role. Um so they are are handling those evaluations. Um Miss Petroski did reach out to the IU today
051to ask for one one additional evaluation that we're that we're having trouble fitting in with their schedules. Um so keeping chugging along there. Chapter 15 or 504s, that number has not changed at 32 and our gifted kids are still at 16. Homeless students are up by two to a total of 31. Um, still two foster care students and one student at the prison that we're continuing to service. So, that's all I got tonight. Does anybody have any questions? >> Thank you, Mr. Tangle. I'd like to call on Mr. earlier for the business manager report. Thank you, Miss Kenn. Um I'll be brief with my report because obviously we have a budget meeting following where we'll get a lot of information. Um cash flow is stabilized uh with the uh release of the final budget from
052the state. So uh we have stabilized, our money has been replaced back into reserves as it was. Um and we have no unexpected expenditures at this time. Um we're continuing to monitor the cyber and outside placement numbers as they as they kind of take a little bit of a a climb. Um we're seeing an upswing in our pockets enrollments as well. Um the monthly budget to actual is is attached in the report for January. Um as I said we are having the adoff budget meeting immediately following this meeting. Uh we did we did uh preemptively begin the um grant application for the solar for schools. Um I started working on that on Tuesday or sorry on Monday and uh we're digging into that to hopefully get that completed in a in a pretty timely fashion.
053Um as well as we gathered the information for permitting which um I did forward that information to PA solar yesterday. So, they are looking into that permitting information and I had a discussion with CNB Bank today regarding financing if that project were to were to come to fruition which um I can share more details of that with you guys uh at workshop next month as it develops a little bit more. Um we do have our initial job conference for the um middle high vest project. It's actually February 18th, not January, um at 10:00 a.m. So, we will meet with the engineering firm as well as all the all the contractors for the kickoff meeting for that project. Um the P&L for nutrition for January was not attached. I did receive it in the interim after
054this board report went up. Um we were at a u positive operating balance of 43,000 and January's average breakfast were 249. Average lunch was 560 and the enrollments for cyber rock placements and job tech are all attached to work. >> Thank you, Mrs. S. Mrs. Thank you. Um just a couple things I know you've heard a lot tonight. Um from mine again as Mrs. um Heindel had said on the on the agenda tonight or contracts for those um psychologists. We do continue to advertise hoping that um we will be able to find someone. Um just a heads up, we have started to plan a summer retreat for the administration team. Um it's a three-day retreat. Some the whole team will meet at the beginning of the first day and then um there'll be two and
055a half days for the instructional administration. I have someone coming in to work on um relating data eval teacher evaluations and building a strong instructional practice with your within your teachers. Um one of the things that I've always been um very strong about is that our role is to build good instructors. Um, and new administration don't have time their very first year to worry about that because they're so busy trying to get through the dayto day. You know, I've got to get this done. How am I going to get how am I going to figure that out? Something usually ends up not being as focused on. And so as we move into year two with the admin, I really want to focus on um what they can do to provide good feedback for our teachers,
056how to build strong instructors so that we're giving a great product to our students. Um that will be the focus of the summer retreat that I have um I'm planning on with the staff. Um I'm also working on doing a staff climate survey um as requested from last week or yes, last week. I participated it again with the budget trying to make sure that we have all of our ducks in a row for act 47. Um just as far as truency and all of the new state reporting that we're going to have to do as well as the reading requirements. The good news is our reading series meets the the requirements of um act 47. So that's a good thing. We don't have to to worry about changing that. they haven't released um the student
057benchmarking um uh what do I want to say uh programs that you can use. I'm pretty sure that star is going to be one of them which is what we use but I'm still waiting to do that. All of those are the new reporting things that we have to send to the state. Um and so you have to use the tools that they request of course. Uh again, cell phone ban. We're looking at doing a pre-ervey for our for our staff and then I shared this the crisis manual. Just some legislative updates again 10:14 with the cell the cell this the cell phone ban. This is where the link is John in in that second part of that. Um and also um just a couple other pieces to kind of keep your eyes on. House
058Bill 1648 and that's again I had mentioned this last month about student mental health days um and then extending mental health services available the notifications to coaches and extracurricular activities um and training for them. So that's something that they're looking at doing for all of our adults that work with our students. So, it's just something to keep an eye on we may have to um implement for within our extracurricular activities. And that's my report if we have any questions. >> Thank you very much. At this time, I'd like to turn the meeting over to Mr. McCertie for the building and grounds. I make a motion that we authorize administration to move forward with a request for proposals and permitting applications for an anticipated solar installation at this campus. >> Second. >> We have a motion
059and a second. Are there any questions on the motion? >> Roll call vote, please. Mrs. Good. >> Yes. >> Mrs. IO. >> Yes. >> Mr. Kob. >> Yes. >> Dr. Coffman. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Hanley. >> Yes. >> Miss Holtz. >> No. >> Mrs. Lowry. >> Yes. >> Mr. McCertie. >> Yes. >> Miss Kenn. >> Yes. >> Motion carries. All right. Next. Thank you, Mr. McCertie. Next, uh, finance with Mrs. Bolts. >> We have five items on the agenda. I move that to area of school board approve finances 10A through 10E as listed. >> Second. >> We have a motion and a second. Any questions on the motion? Since there's no questions, may we have a roll of call, please. >> Mrs. Alio, >> yes. >> Mr. Kobach, >> yes. >> Dr. Kaufman, >> yes.
060>> Mrs. Hanley, >> yes. >> Miss Boltz, >> yes. >> Mrs. Lowry, >> yes. >> Mr. McCertie, >> yes. >> Mrs. Good. >> Yes. >> Miss Kem, >> yes. >> Motion carries. Thank you, Mrs. Holtz. Um, policy. Mrs. Lowry, >> I move that the Richmond area school board approve the policy item 11A as listed. Second. >> We have a motion and second. Are there any questions? Roll call vote, please. Mr. Kova, >> yes. >> Dr. Kaufman, >> yes. >> Mrs. Stanley. >> Yes. >> Miss Holtz. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Lowry. >> Yes. >> Mr. McCertie. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Good. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Alio. >> Yes. >> Miss G. >> Yes. Thank you. Personnel items. Dr. Kaufman. >> I move that the Ridgeway Area School Board approve personnel items 12 A through 12D as
061listed. Second. >> We have a motion and a second. Any questions on the motion? Hearing no questions. Could we have a roll call vote, please? >> Dr. Kaufman, >> yes. >> Mrs. Hanley, >> yes. >> Miss Holtz, >> yes. >> Mrs. Lowry, >> yes. >> Mr. McCertie, >> yes. >> Mrs. Goods, >> yes. >> Mrs. Alio, >> yes. >> Mr. Kob, >> yes. >> Miss Kem, >> yes. Thank you very much. Um, we have extracurricular activities. Mrs. Alio, I'm going to have Mrs. Good fill in for you since she's right here. >> Um, I move that the Richard Air School Board approve the extracurricular activities item 13A as listed. So, >> we have a motion and second. Are there any questions? >> Roll call vote, please. >> Mrs. Hanley, >> yes. >> Miss Holtz, >>
062yes. >> Mrs. Lowry. >> Yes. >> Mr. McCertie. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Good. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Alio. >> Yes. >> Mr. Koba. >> Yes. >> Dr. Kaufman. >> Yes. >> Miss Kem. >> Yes. >> All right. So, are there any other matters to bring before the board? And then um our we're going to move into the um ad hoc budget meeting and our next meeting after tonight will be work session on Tuesday, March 3rd. >> Do I have a motion to adjourn? >> Second. >> We have a motion, a second. All in favor signify by saying I. >> All oppose. >> I. Motion carries. The meeting is adjourned. >> Good night everybody. Good night. Thank you.