001All right, we call to order Centennial School District School Board Committee of the Whole meeting, Tuesday, March 25th, uh 7 7 a.m. Um, can we have a roll call, please? Miss Rou, Mrs. Brancado, here. Mrs. Crossen, present. Mr. Gandhart, here. Mr. Godson, Mr. Hartline, present. Mrs. Lynch, present. Dr. Maguire, present. Mr. Martin here. Mr. Saddowski here. Eight members present. Thank you. Can we stand for the pledge of allegiance, please? I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, liberty and justice for all of this. Okay. Um, announcements. Micro, please. Yes. My announcement's very brief. We have a school board member who just turned 21 and today is her birthday. So, happy birthday, Mrs. Cross. Dr. Bettin, nothing. Oh, he really
002does want to get out of here. Um, uh, public comments. Do we have any public comments? No. Well, this is smooth sailing here. Um, wow. Appro approval of the agenda. Um, Mr. Ginhart. Okay. I am filling Mr. Goden's large shoes to fill again tonight. So, I will try to do it right this time and not get ahead of myself like I did last time. Item number two, approval of the agenda. Be it resolved that the Centennial School District Board of School Directors approves the March 25th, 2025 committee of the whole agenda as per the attached. Are there any corrections that need to be made that are allowed by PA law? Second. Thank you. Second by Mr. Sinowski. All in favor? I I opposed. Extensions carries 8 Z. Um, okay. Moving on to 3.1 class size.
003Um, Mr. Harline, did you want to say something? I say, um, actually, I was going to say, Mr. Greenwood, do you have the slides from the finance meeting? I didn't know what you were planning to present. I thought we were going to be presenting that. Can we bring that up, Mr. from the finance meeting? So, class size. Yes, we had a discussion during the finance meeting, right? about threequarters of the way down. I think it was it was there. It was there. There we go. All right. And our current policy 126. And then the following screen, I believe also had breaks downs of our current enrollments. And then this is the class size um slide. Okay. So, as part of the ongoing discussion with um our budget, last year we had visited this and it's
004something I think we need to revisit this year. We ended up adding, correct me if I'm wrong, M Dr. Bettin, one or two elementary school teachers, two two because of class size changes, because of late enrollments, etc. Um, as you can see, our current K1 is sitting at 22 students. Last year, administration asked for a change to go from 25 to 26. Am I correct on that? K1 is 25. We asked to go to 26. Go to 26. And I think you asked We didn't ask, right? You just shared that vote. That was the the that it allowed for balancing, more balancing, etc. Um I think this is something that we need to consider as well. There are slides that had surrounding school districts where they sit. We are either right in the middle or
005on the low end of our some of our surrounding districts. I think administration needs to put that information together for us. This is a very serious conversation that we need to have. um it can prevent us from having to have to add late ads for teachers and rearranging classrooms. Um additionally, we had to add classroom spacing and um that limited the classrooms that we rented out to the IU and remember that correct assessment as well. Yes. Is there something here? I mean you're giving these numbers 25 to 26. What is the cost? What is the savings? What is the savings? Could be not not could be. Well, what is what is the cost if we're going to, you know, up uproot all these people? Yeah. By increasing size, turn everybody upside down. You're not increasing
006size. You're you're changing the the the guidelines to the policy to avoid having to add. So, the the cost for two teachers with salary benefits, average cost is $150,000 per teacher. So, so can I just say something? So you're not triggering an automatic increase in class size. So before I I can only speak for myself. Before I would consider increasing class size by even one, I would have to spend a day in in the shoes of a teacher and I'm not going to do that. So um we we do not know what they go through. We have kids in elementary school that maybe have not been diagnosed with because they're young with an emotional issue or a learning issue. And these teachers, if one child is causing an uproar, that teacher has to handle that
007uproar and the other kids are sitting there. I don't think it's fair for us to put even one more kid in the classroom. And if we're going to trigger another teacher, chances are we have so many kids come in after September. So I'm not in favor of increasing the class size by even one. I'm just not. We'll have to find the savings somewhere else. Mrs. Branado, I I really think that it was a good idea what you had said about get observing a classroom if you can. Um because being in a teacher's shoes, if you haven't been there, you know, I've been in schools for 25 years, has a different perspective because I see what happens in the classroom and it comes ended up in my office or through administration and everything else. I know
008what happens in that classroom. You don't think a six-year-old can tear up a room. You don't think a kindergartener can um brutally attack a teacher, an adult, another kid. Uh, and I think that to see what actually goes on and plus good learning as well, but to be able to increase class sizes when I I I really think that's you should walk in their shoes for a day. Absolutely. And not just a board members coming, everybody behave yourself. I think that, you know, a surprise visit to a classroom. Well, I'm I'm not going to really go surprise visit everybody's classroom. Well, I don't think the kids should. But I don't think I'm sitting at home in my pajamas when they're starting school. And so who am I to say one more kid doesn't make an
009issue? Just even having orry kids to get out the door. I know what I went through. I can't imagine having a kid who's not uh settled, put it settled in a classroom and causing an uproar and you have to say to 24 kids, just hang on a minute because that's I'm imagining that's what you have to do. I I don't think we should put more kids in the classroom. That's just my opinion, Mrs. Lynch. I agree. Thank you. There is no way in this world I will ever change class size. I say that because we are now in an upswing in our test scores. Why would we start now changing a great pattern that we're in? Do we know the enrollment right now? No, we don't. We won't know that until everyone has signed up,
010kindergarten, etc. for our school district. So, we're talking premature. Another thing is every time there's a budget crisis, and I'll just reference, and you can all say to me, we are not the state of New Jersey. But education follows patterns. The governor of New Jersey has cut their budget. The first place they look is class size. This is wrong. There are other areas that wouldn't affect children and students as much as changing class size. Perhaps also how many teachers are retiring? What is the savings there? So, there's other ways to offset budget crisis that right now looks even better than it did a week ago because of the IU change in the $2 million we're getting. So, I don't think it's healthy. We want our students, all students, not just a few, all get the
011best education this district can give them. and by changing the formula that is of success today is an error in my part. Thank you. Thank you, Mrs. Lynch. Thank you. Um the next section is I'd like to add Sure. Just one more thing. I'm sorry. Um just to put everybody's mind at ease. Um you know, class size comes up every year when we're going through the budget. Um it doesn't mean any of us want to do it. It doesn't mean we have the appetite for it. Um we we know what it means to do it. The only reason it's being talked about is because every year when we do the budget, we ask administrations, Mr. Greenwood, for every possible way that could result in savings to the taxpayers. This is just one thing of multiple
012items that are being looked at. So, we just ask, all we're asking for is what can be looked at. This is being presented to us as something that could be looked at. It doesn't mean that we want to do it. We're going to do it. It's just something that's on the list of things that we're asking for. So, put people's minds at ease that just because it's on a slide doesn't mean that we're automatically going to do it. If that helps. Thanks, Frank. Yes. May I again? Sure. This is not a budget meeting. This is a discussion. When are we having a budget meeting next? What items are we going to look at on the budget side about line items for every department? But they don't do it that way. According to Mr. Greenwood, and
013you do a good job, don't get me wrong. They do it by school. You can't tell me that there is items aside from teachers, aside from administrators that have line items in the school budget for the school that can't be whittleled down. Last year I asked for 10% uh just to look at it. It was thrown aside which I can understand. But on the other hand, there are many items that we can look at. Why when there's a budget crisis do we start looking at items that affect our students severely? Let's look inhouse and look at take 10% off of the line items in a school. Take any school, you know, budgets really well. There's some of us that had to deal with budgets during our working time. when you were told to reduce, you
014didn't have the option not to answer. You reduced. So, thank you. Thank you, Mr. So, so the next item is Wait, just so you know, right, just as a a point of reference, right? The district in the past five years has been below the act one index. Correct. Every year, the last five, the preceding 10 years, it was well over the act one index. Year-over-year it was over the ACT One index. I'm not sure it it correlated to better performance. I'm not sure it correlated to better test scores, but year-over-year that's where we were. Year the past 5 years, we've been below it. Right. The past 5 years, we've been working to reduce costs, to eliminate costs, right? We have a very thin administrative uh group compared to other districts. So eventually the 10% is
015is is difficult, right? To hold the line in a in an expense category when inflation is is against you, you're in fact reducing your budget to get underneath that line, right? Inflation in in increases those costs. Right? If our line is flat, we've in fact reduced viable expenses, right? We have we have contracts that we've agreed to, right? We need to we need to fund those contracts. Mr. Greenwood, I think what Mrs. Lynch is asking is for you to take another look. Mhm. I just I I and I only share it all all due respect, Mrs. Lynch. But the the district, right, is is shortsighted in our planning, right? We refuse to look at a five-year plan. We only look at one year. Mr. Greenwood, Mrs. Lynch asked you to take another look. Mhm. Thank
016you. You will. I'm um May I just May I just answer this, please? Sure. Thank you. Sure. I live in a very fiscal world. I live what comes in on my budget. I have to cut back. I cut back. We don't live in that world anymore. Two million out last year. I would imagine, I'm guessing, I don't know if it's going to happen, we could duplicate that this year. We're not living within our means either because we never cut anything back. What we do is we say, "We need more money. Okay, take it out of surplus." I'm not blaming you. You do a phenomenal job. But you know what? If you don't need two loaves of bread, you buy one if you don't have the money. Amen. We don't do that. Well, could I I
017I I would like to No. All due respect, Dr. Betting, could you let Mrs. Crossing get out of here? Actually, do you mind, Miss Crossing? Cuz I Go ahead. We have cut 5 million over the last four years. So, that's not true. We've left 2.5 million on the table, which would be a 7.5 million swing. Had we gone to just act one is recommended, we'd be 4.8 million on the plus side. If we just went to the act last year, we'd be 1.8 million less of a deficit. So, we have cut, we do cut every year. You cut 5 million and you and you took 4 million out. I'm sorry. So, we're we're cutting and living off of our savings. Your projections show in four years if you keep that up, you'll be out of
018money. So you absolutely would be adversely impacting children in the school district. The way we're going now, everything we've done, we won't be able to sustain because it's not being funded. So that's the reality of what you're facing right now. All right. Thank you, Dr. Bennett. Mrs. Carlson, so this was discussed at the finance committee. Is that accurate? It was brought up and this was discussed to increase the Let me put my microphone on. This was discussed, it was brought up and it was asked to talk about changing the AR, thank you, administrative regulation to allow administration more flexibility to go to 26 students if they have to. If you notice the math up there, you have a situation in which we are averaging 20.3 students or 21 students in a classroom. But if we
019were go were to have gone to 26 students, there would be four sections of 25 and one of 26, which would be at our limits of what we would normally do. This then kind of ties hand inand with the next thing on the list with looking at the the boundaries because we are getting you know unfortunately don't say but no but they tie hand in hand because this helps to even out student load as well so that you don't necessarily have a situation where you have one school that has 25 25 24 and another school that may have 2020 2021. Did the finance committee come up with a recommendation? Yeah. To have this conversation. Oh, that was that was that this is a conversation the board needs. Okay. All that information is available online in
020the finance committee minutes. You can watch the whole thing. It lasts 1 hour. Excuse me. It lasts an hour. An hour. So, so all I wanted to say was the next thing is boundaries. Um the other thing on the suggestion was block scheduling. None of that boundaries may happen one day, but it's not going to happen for September. That would be something that we would need to give everyone notice well in advance because that will affect everyone. So, that isn't something that's going to happen for September. Um the the other thing is block scheduling. That isn't going to happen for September either as far as I can see because that affects too many people. It it's too much commotion to happen overnight. So that would have to be something that was well known in advance
021also. And Miss Brent on each of those cases the presentation is not for it to happen in next year. you will be at this point every year next year when you say this next year the ask when the when the presentation was done May of yes was to start the planning process so you could actually go through that process which includes public hearings and so if you don't pull the trigger now you'll never have it ready for the next budget cycle that's the whole point Dr. And I'm not pulling any triggers. Um I mean to pull the trigger to actually start the process to go through the planning so that you could actually have the ability to actually make informed decisions. Going through the process doesn't mean you're going to do it, but that's the
022process so that you have something to consider. Each year we last year we sat here with the budget conversation around boundaries. In May we had that conversation and all was asked was do you want to go planning? In fact, your policy says it's supposed to be done every four years. Well, with we we've not done it. Just like your policy to Mr. Ghar's point says we're supposed to bring up class sizes in the budget process to present to the board to consider. Now, whether you do it or not, that's your choice. But we're following the directives that your policy says for us to follow. And as I said in my email, if you're not going to do it at all, then just say you're not going to do it. And it just I'm not going
023to do it at all. When I say you all, I mean the board majority. So, Dr. Bennett, with all due respect, I think those are some pretty big decisions and I am not comfortable quote unquote pulling the trigger ever to be honest. But I think that's something we need to wait and deal with later because the news for me is it won't be my issue. Yes, Mrs. Lynch. Yes. Okay. We tried boundaries before. It was a total total disaster. They did the boundaries where if any of you familiar with Madison Avenue which runs between Street Road and New York Road, the last time it was done is they took one side of Madison Avenue, one school, another side, another school. Parents were up in arms. their their little little children, big children, whatever. Their friends
024were now going to different schools. The layout was a disaster. I wouldn't consider this in a hundred years unless the presentation was so precise and the parents and all the partners in all of this would be knowledgeable of what could happen and I base my opinion on the past time this happened. And if you go back into when the planning commission was here and they gave us a beautiful folder and uh all their statistics and it was very nice but guess what they forgot the Warminister comprehensive plan to look at so I trash that idea too. Thank you. Thank you. So so I don't think those are things I understand you say you cut you cut you cut. I get it. But I'm with Mrs. Lynch. I I think we all have to live within
025our means. And sometimes you don't buy the Michael Kors bag. You go to Target and buy that one. And I think that's what we're saying is, you know, some things we want, some things you need. And you need to look at the needs first. And we need to we have to be we have to be what's the word? cognizant of the taxpayers and the prices are going up for them, too. People are having trouble even buying food. So, how about eggs? Mrs. Lynch, we go through three dozen eggs in my house a week. I know all about the price of eggs. Um, so those are those are things we would like not to do, or at least I would. I'm sure other people they've already said how they felt. Um that's not even on the
026table for today. So when would administration like to have the next committee of the whole budgeting meeting? Do you have your calendar? The next meeting in April. Well, I was going to say I think they're talking a special meeting, not as part of the meeting. Whenever you'd like to. I say so. Are you excuse me? I'm sorry. I will be quiet the rest of um are you saying have a budget meeting? Yes. Like like the previous two we've had, but we need to make some serious decisions at that time. We need to have the board express to administration what things they think they can cut. Administration needs to come back with the things that have been asked as well. I mean, it's I gave a hypothetical to Mr. to Greenwood the other day about, you
027know, what would a 5% cut in the operations budget look like? You know, and I use the example of, you know, back, you know, the comment that he's he prefers is, you know, back of the envelope. So, a back of the envelope concept here of we're cutting the amount of paper that we send home to to students. How much would that relate to? Is that something we could cut out? They're just hypothetical. And by the way, that example you gave is a controversial issue right now because we can't keep up with paper printing right now. Really? Yes. So those instructional people out there Yeah. are using more paper right now than they ever have. I can believe it. So then you would negatively be impacting the classroom. So but but it was just, you know,
028obviously just an example. Um so if you know we could you know everybody on this board for the most part has been through this cycle three four times now at least kick some ideas up and let's see if we can get some information back because we need to make some hard decisions. So Mike so Mr. Greenwood could you send us some dates you would like to have it and then we can look at our overall schedule. We will send out some dates. Thank you. Okay. Um so the enrollment questions right just for the record right so that we see right if the ro enrollment projections were actually short for this year by 89 students right we have 89 students more this year than the projections accounted for right in 3 years we're anticipated to haveundred
029more elementary students in three years right planning so that it is not done poorly Mrs. Lynch needs to happen in advance, right? In 5 years, we're going to have a per the study, we're going to have 140 more elementary students, just elementary. And what are you basing that on? On the enrollment study that was completed, right? If that you call it trash, we'll call it we may differ, but that study was done. Right. So that's Excuse me. I don't think I called it trash. Did I? I thought, but I could be wrong. If I did, I should Unfortunately, she that was a referral to the wrong organization that Okay. Could you just send us some dates and let's move on now, please? Thank you, sir. Thank you. Excuse me. I just one more question. Wait
030a minute. I know, Kathleen. Just give me give me one more question. All right. That won't be the last one. When we have our meetings we have at Naple from the past we laaly around cuts and Mr. Hartline you know this then we get into May we get really serious. Let's get serious in April. Yes. And then we get into June. We find out what the governor's budget is. Then we're really really serious. We won't we won't know in June and and and his budget right now has been said to be dead on arrival. Yeah. If you could send us a couple suggestions because the board does have a pretty packed calendar for April already and we can look and see if those uh dates if one of those dates would work. Okay. Thank you.
031All right. Good. New business. Mr. uh Ginhart, if you could be Mr. Godden for tonight, that'd be awesome. I will do my best to fill those big shoes. Okay, we have four items under new business. Does anybody want anything pulled? No. Good sign. Okay. New business be resolved that the Centennial School District Board of School Directors 4.1 approves the personnel agenda including rescended job offer, rescended retirement, retirements, resignations, authorization to employee, leaves of absence, leaves of absence, change of status, mentors, co-curriculars, clubs, activities as per the attached 4.2 two approves the purchase of 30 additional pocket talk mobile translation devices to assist communications with non-English-speaking families throughout the district district cost not to exceed $13,720. 4.3 approves retroactively the placement of student 1-8 at Keystone Freedom Academy from March 10, 2025 through the remainder of
032the 2425 school year. District cost not to exceed $221.40 per day. Parent will be responsible foration as per the attached 4.4 Four approves the overnight conference request for the director of student services to attend the Pennsylvania Association of Pupil Services Administrators Lifelines for leaders navigating challenges to inspire success for all conference April 9 to 11 2025 at in Leola PA district cost not to exceed $85487. Second seconded by Mr. Heartline. Any discussion? All in favor? I opposed. Extensions carries. 8 Z. Um 5.1. Education committee. Mr. Godson uh did not get back from his flight in time. So, we're going to have to skip that. I can do it. Um I can do it if you want. Okay. Go ahead. Briefly. Yeah. Yeah. Briefly. So, we met on uh March 12th and the uh it was
033a not that long of a meeting. Uh the biggest thing that came out of it was the uh presentation for the Lego camp, which is fantastic. Um every year it's wonderful and and we're going to be doing it again. Um encourage everybody to look into it. Sign your kids up. It's awesome. Um, if you want to see all about it, you can go to board docs, look at the education committee meeting agenda and it's attached as an attachment for the Lego camp presentation. Thank you. And our next meeting is when? Thank you. April 9th. Um, Mr. Hartline brief. We've already done final. So, our next meeting is April 10th. Thank you. Um, Mr. Ghart, can you do operations? I can. I want to stay in for all this. Operations committee met March 14th. It was
034a very brief meeting, but it was a great meeting because we were actually asked by Mr. Wartman to not buy something. So, it was fantastic. Um, we uh had put out a bid for a new backhoe um because of what we have is falling apart, needs to be replaced. But Mr. Wman wasn't happy with the bids coming in. he thinks he can do better. So, he asked to uh not accept any of them and put it out again. I would like to compliment him on that. It's it would be easy to just say, "Yeah, let's just buy it, but it's extra work for you." And I I appreciate you're saving the taxpayers that that money. That's awesome. And then we just have one other thing that's coming up to be voted on. Our next meeting
035is April 11th. Okay. Um Mr. Ginhard, 6.1, please. You could pay double. All right. Hey, let me take this. All right. All right. Um items presented for information under education student services committee. There are none items presented for approval. Does anybody want anything pulled? Uh a please. A. Anything else? Okay. Be it resolved that the Centennial School District Board of School Directors 6.2B 2B approves the overnight conference request for the assistant to the superintendent for academics and student services and the supervisor of teaching and learning to attend the PA Association of Federal Program Coordinators Conference May 11 to 14, 2025 and Hershey PA district costs not to exceed $3,300. 6.2C 2C approves the updates to the 2025 2026 middle school program of studies no cost to the district. 6.2D approves the purchase of a new
036digital science textbook and resources district cost not to exceed $65160. 6.2E 2E approves the purchase of the library book order for Clinger Middle School district cost not to exceed $1757. 6.2F approves the purchase of the library book order for Log College Middle School. District cost not to exceed $2,2.35. 6.2G 2G approves the purchase of the library book order for McDonald Elementary School District cost not to exceed $1,122.88 6.2H approves the purchase of the library book order for William Tennant High School district cost not to exceed $2767. Second Mrs. Link seconded. Any discussion? All in favor? I oppose extensions. Carries. 8. Back to 6.2A. approves the renewal of the agreement with professional learning partnerships for continued professional development for the 2025 2026 school year including the science of learning in the brain teacher leader fellowship program
037think tank innovators program and partner membership digital library license district cost not to exceed $65,700 I get a second second Mr. Carlson, Mr. Martin. Uh, yeah, thank you. Uh, I did have a couple questions, especially in light of the conversation that started the beginning of this meeting where we have a budget deficit of millions of dollars. Um, I was just wondering if someone, two things. one, if someone could explain to me in plain non-educational English so that I can understand it. If all the rest do, that's great. I don't what what the what the real value is in a program that deals with it's first of all, it's the fourth year we've had it, so we've had it for a while. The science of learning in the brain, a teacher fellowship program, a think tank
038innovators, an administrators leader fellowship program, and a partner membership digital library license. Now, if I'm looking to save money, I might take a look at some item like this, which is a significant amount of money, and maybe it's a wonderful program. I'm not criticizing the program in any way, shape, or form. What I'm asking is two things. For my own benefit, if no one else's. In plain English, what the hell does this do? And secondly, if we didn't have it, what would be the negative outcome? And I thank you very much for those inputs. And with that, I'm going to punt to Mr. Gabriel. No problem. Hello. There he is. I'm here. No, I'm here. I know. I need a need a stool to stand on. I know I'm short and everything, but um so
039this would be the fifth year, Mr. Martin, that we've partnered with Julius Sknick and Professional Learning Partnerships, but we've we've already done this is our fourth year currently. This would be going into a fifth year. And actually, prior to me being here, we worked with the Franklin Institute for a long time. Those you that have been around, this was an extension of the work with the Franklin Institute and their their science and learning in the brain kind of institute, which folded after co. So, we've had a long-standing relationship with uh this young lady and her work around the science of learning in the brain. It's been used to help develop our new teachers. It's been used to help develop our current teachers. It's a part of our induction program. Um, in a nutshell, Mr. Martin,
040it develops better teachers aligned to brain science so that we're actually putting practices into place that are good for kids and how they learn based off of their brains. We are developing teacher leaders through the program. We're investing in our actual teachers to then do turnaround training in our buildings. Uh we've developed our administrative team the past few years. We've moved away from that. Uh this year the most uh recent iteration which we're going to look to continue is working in our buildings doing culture and climate work with our teachers and our building administrators with Julia support and help all align to the science of learning in the brain. Um, from a budget standpoint, just so you're aware, uh, you know, teaching and learning last year cut over 13% of their budget and technology cut
041over 23% of their budget to help meet the budget deficit. This is not investing in our teachers. Mr. Martin is not an area we want to cut back on. Uh, professional development is not an area we would want to cut back on. And this is literally outside of one grant-f funed opportunity. This is the only professional development third party that we pay for at this point. Um, that is not already coming with like a new curriculum adoption because we were doing a lot of third party a few years ago. We were with the AIM Institute which was costing a lot of money. We were working with the pen literacy network which was costing a lot of money. We were working with Julius Scoldic which was costing money. We've slowly over time trained internally our own
042people to run some of that internally. And this is the last kind of bastion of we still believe this brings a value ad from a third party, especially being able to work on our climate and culture in our buildings, which is something that through our uh surveys over the last year, teachers identified was a real need uh to help improve. And so Julia is guiding that process uh through the science of learning and leadership and and the brain and and understanding that there are certain things our brain needs in order to feel comfortable, safe, and move forward together as a team. And that's that's the work she's bringing to the district. So what would get lost? We'd stop growing, right? We'd stop working on climate and culture in a way that's um guided and objective.
043um and we would stop growing our own teachers uh and being up on current research and brain science, right? And this is this is the last third party that we're paying for in mass like this. Um mo almost everything else we've done we've either moved on from or we've built internal systems to do the turnaround training ourselves as part of our efforts to help with the budget crisis we've been in for 5 years now. Mr. Martin, you good? Um, not really, but if we had a lot of money, this might be a wonderful thing. We don't have Gabriel, I have a question before you sit. Was waiting for Mr. Martin and and I just Well, regarding new teachers who just maybe have graduated from four years or five years of education at some of our
044fine institutions. They don't teach them anything about uh how the brain works and how you learn. They they don't do that. That's not part of undergraduate programs though. Wow. Okay. Dr. McGuire, everybody thinks we have the money to do it, then fine. Can you just explain what the cultural and climate programs about? So, our our surveys last year um indicated that we had some climate and culture work to do in our buildings. Um meaning people feeling safe, comfortable, heard, things of that nature. And so what Julia is doing and what we've done this year is we've had three meetings so far as a district level team with every school building, school building administration, school building teachers, teacher leaders. Um and then they've been meeting separately in the buildings. And what we're working on this year
045is trying to identify what's the core of what they're building um sees as as essential to building a a climate and culture that everyone's happy with, a part of, is willing to grow in. And then what we're having Julia work on with us and they'll be getting some time during an inservice day at the end of the year. And then our climb and culture teams of teachers and school administrators will be opening up part of our inservice day in the fall actually implementing some of the work they've done this year and then working with their entire buildings on ways practical and tangible ways in which they can improve climate culture in the building. Dr. McGuire, the succinct answer is we actually read the information our teachers fill out and try to respond and do something
046with that information or else why bother to ask them. So you bring in someone to actually respond to what you read on those surveys to try to do better. So on the virtual lessons, how many individuals, how many teachers are participating in that? I see on some of the other ones we have seven people, four people, etc. But on the virtual, how many are we able to what's the capacity for those? Do we know where do you see virtual? So I'm saying three 1.5 hour virtual sessions 4:30 to the very first one, science of learning. That was from 2021. Okay. We're only looking I was just giving you a history of what we've done, right? Because that was in the middle of that weird postcoid hybrid year. So a lot of that was virtual. Um
047this year currently I mean the teams are made up of close to 60 to 70 teachers from across the six buildings and then the work they'll be influencing is obviously all 430 members as they turn around the work and run the inservice. Okay. So we're we're really just looking at that year five uh is is what the services are as outlined in the backup paperwork. This chart was just a history of sort of the relationship we've had in the different areas we've worked on strategically each year to move it from sort of high level district all the way down to building. Okay. Thank you. And Mr. Gabriel, from what I remember from education committee, um teachers are required to get a fair amount of professional development credits and this goes a long way towards this
048goes towards draft 48 credit. Yes. Any any more discussion or questions? Okay. All those in favor? I opposed. No abstensions. Carry 71. Mr. Hartline. Um the only thing we have this evening for information is the Pennsylvania State Liquid Asset Funds um schedule of investments. And we have no items being brought forward for uh for approval. Okay. Um 8.1 items presented for information. None. 8.2. Does anybody want anything pulled? Um be it resolved that the Centennial School District Board of School Directors 8.2A 2A awards computer RFP 2025-13 to Dell for a 4-year lease purchase beginning July 1st, 2025 to replace devices for faculty and students throughout the district cost not to exceed 800 Holy moly I can't see it 8 856,888.17 per year 8.2B approve approves the rejection of the backo bid 2025-12. Second. All in
049favor? I I. Any opposed? Okay. Board comments. Does anybody have any more comments? I do. Circle back, but if we could keep it brief because we've already I got you. I got the look already. Okay. So when when I said about um going into the classroom and I talked about horrible things that could happen or they might teachers may have to deal with every day, I just want to make sure that there's people understand that there's a lot of lot of growth in classrooms, a lot of learning in classrooms. You know, I've seen horrible things disruption, but they do a great job. And if you increase the class size, who knows how where like Jane said about um we our grades are getting better and better because maybe the class size has to do it,
050but it's not always a bad scene which I think I've portrayed it out to be. No, nobody thought you meant. So, I I apologize um for the teachers and stuff and I thank you for coming tonight to everybody's had kids who goes goes to school and you know, God bless the teachers that had the branchado children because some of my kids um caused commotions um some of my you know, so they've had to deal with those things. I could not do what they do cuz I would lose my mind. So they I I thank them because you have the patience of a saint. Mr. Sidowski. Yeah. Real quick, uh just congratulations to our student musicians on the middle and high school levels who performed in the uh BCMEA performances over the weekend. They were fantastic.
051So congrats to them for their hard work that went into that. They auditioned. They made it to that kind of select group uh and performed all throughout the weekend in different uh different concerts and they were all fantastic. So well done. Thank you, Mr. Hartley. Oh, and Clinger's bingo is coming up this weekend. Yes. Great opportunity. What's up? You want to do the play? Go for it. Okay. But I was going to say your your your child did an outstanding job at the play. Um I mean I think just about everybody from the board had an opportunity to see it. The students did an absolutely outstanding job. Um, coming up this week to follow on that, Friday night, the 28th at the high school is a jazz festival. And then starting March 30th is fine
052arts orchestra night, jazz night, concert night, choir. So, please keep your calendar um open and and come on by and continue to listen to what an outstanding job that our students are doing. Thank you. Mr. Sidowski, do you want to let them know about the coach bag bingo? Oh, yeah. just a it's a a organized by the Klinger home and school association at Spring Mill. Yeah, it's at Spring Mill coming up this weekend. So, great opportunity, fun evening, fundraiser for, you know, our Clinger Clippers. So, and if anybody wants to buy a ticket, they can go on the Clinger uh Facebook page. Is that correct? I would have to see if it's posted there. I know Clinger School has a a Facebook page, too. So, it's definitely there if it's not. Yeah. Yeah. All right,
053Mrs. Lynch, new category so I can speak. Sure. We're keeping it brief. Mrs. Lynch, go ahead. Please God, I will. I just wanted to say Mama Mia was fantastic and Mr. Saddowski, your son was marvelous along with all the other children. Uh, I would also like to thank Glenn, our custodian, for his Easter decorations. as you walk into this building. He does a fantastic job and at times he pays for some of the decorations himself. The last thing I have is there was nothing on television last night so I watched Heror schoolboard meeting. Ours are so much more interesting than theirs. I kid you not. You need to get a movie if you're watching our school. Thank you. Okay. Are we good? I have your motion. Would you like a motion to adjurnn? So then
054can I Yeah. Can I get a motion to adjurnn? Motion moved. The next meeting of the committee of the whole will be April 22nd, 2025. M Dr. Tibet and you are free