001New Jersey public [Music] at which any business affecting their interest to discuss programs in accordance with the provision of this act regional school district court of education advertising meeting on June 18th 2025 in the park press This notice was sent to the misal of Madawan and the township of Aberine and the Madawan public library. The notice was also placed on the district website. Please stand to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, liberty and justice for all here >> Mr. Hond here. We resolved that a close session for the purpose of discussing privacy, personal matters and legal advice. Subject matter of these discussions was disclosed to the publication for confidentiality. Although the board cannot guarantee it, the length of the executive
002session 30 minutes after public business will take place. Can I have a motion and a second? [Music] Good evening. Welcome to September 2019. At this time, I would like to turn over president. How about a round of applause for our national championship outside [Applause] [Music] another first victory this weekend like to take the opportunity to thank Curtis Dominic this equipment for all their time effort and dedication students and represent at this time please welcome Mr. the council president. I ask that you remain standing. Heat. Heat. Oh, say can you see by the dawn early light? was so proud we held at the twilight last gleaming whose bright stripes and bright stars through the perilous or the we were so gallent be streaming and the rock is [Applause] the buring in through the night that our
003flag was still there. Oh, say the stars spangled yet for the land of the free [Music] and the [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] This time in this case our new representative power to elect It's my pleasure to introduce Danny as our student representative to the Panama County regional board education. Danny is in 12th grade and has been an active member of our school community. He's a member of the students against destructive decisions and he has shared that through this club he's looked to make an impact on student safety by partnering both the school district and township to help keep his fellow students safe around our campus. Danny is also a member of the high school marching band, co-president of our academic challenge club and proudly serves as a malicious high school student
004government president. In his free time, Danny is an avid gamer who loves playing video games and fixing and building his own game. Looking to the future, Danny is interested in going to college to study mechanical engineering. With his major area of study, Danny hopes to learn about developing and improving prosthetics. More specifically, he wants to refine the improvements of prosthetic procedures to engage in more precise hobbies like so. We look forward to hearing more from Nanny each month as he is the voice of the entire student body across all seven. [Applause] I dying do solely swear to further that I will support the constitution of the United States the constitution of the state of that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same and to the government established in the United States under
005the authority of so many prescribed by law of education and not disqualified pursuit of RS18. 1841 crime 18. Congratulations, [Applause] Danny. Look forward to working with you throughout. >> Thank you. I will now turn it over to our superintendent. Congratulations, Danny. As our student director, we look forward to working with you and hearing student voices throughout our schools. Thank you. At this time, I'd like to ask um our CPAC represent representatives to Good evening and thank you for having us tonight. My name is Loretta Senson. I have the honor to be president of the CPAD and um I have here with me Irene Ferrell who is our vice president and um my number one support a huge help in everything we do. I live in Aberdine. I have uh two older children and one younger
006one who is now a student. is in the special ed program there in the multiple disabilities class. That's how I got interested in special education and specifically in the CPAT. So the first time I spoke to the board the only other time was about 18 months ago. That was our our first year as a CPAD. So we were really just kind of getting started and we um very focused on getting the word out parents here. We're nowhere here and we're still doing that. A lot of our focus is still outreach, letting people know they're there. All parents, at least to be aware, will there be as a resource for them? Um, and also, um, if they're not interested, it's fine. We want to be sure. And I will say, and this is been very helpful
007to us in helping us find ways to reach people who might not otherwise have. Things like to school nights. We're able now to hand out a signup sheet at meetings to parents who want to do it. can find our best way to reach everybody because everybody goes for some type of private update. Um so basically we continue to work on building a requirements that also um I just want to speak about the role of the CPAD also. So the C patch are established under the New Jersey administrative code and technically our role is to provide input to the district on issues related to special education and that can kind of come about in two ways. One is that parents come to us and they bring their questions or they bring their ideas, suggestions, concerns and
008that gives us um information. Um I have my own ideas but I need to hear from other parents obviously in other schools. So as much as possible we try to talk to each other and then um being regulator various things that come up. Um and the other sort of the other direction uh that input can come from is if the district comes to us and says what do you think and we're just kind of starting to get there and I appreciate because you know if we don't know what is we can't comment sometimes we might have something that we information we can provide so we appreciate all the progress here and all support and I will say generally be like a very supportive atmosphere as we see that contact with everyone. Um I want to
009just mention a couple of things we've been working on now recently and the probably the biggest one in the last year or so has been building up inclusion and awareness for special needs students in schools and it's not that they've been excluded exactly but sometimes you need a little extra students to figure out how to do them. So um one of the big events that we're really appreciating is I don't know if you're familiar with Boys to Learners Day and that started about 2 years ago and we were part of the actual discussion to do that. Um but I do have to say true absolutely amazing and Dr. business doing and then amazingly basically it is a full day of work and they have about five in which they basic idea is for the students
010to kind of get a sense of what would it be like to be a student and deal with some sort of disability so it's very experiential it's very hands are I think so there's a vision there's a hearing there's a disable there's a learning disability you might have and and so there are activities that simulate what it's like to have that disability so imagine something that if you have a hearing disability what would it be like to sit in a classroom and you can't understand the teacher like that sitting in a wheelchair and trying to maneuver through an obstacle something to think about if you're in a wheelchair and how to get through a classroom and our desks and our people. Um so again it's intended to be experiential to remind them that also it's
011really thinking about what is the experience of children. So he's going to invite you guys and I should like invite you and I have a chance in the next one. Um even if you just had an hour you can walk through the six activities and really get it's a great event. So we're now planning to follow up on that by kind of using that as the visualiz but to get some activity from third graders that will kind of introduce so that they get to the diverse thing that they already are thinking about what is so they get more out of it but there is there is a potention to become more so looking at trying to do something and then find something exactly what is something to build up so not enough that just something
012to kind of keep it in their mind right to do that. And um so the plan at this point suggestion was let's committee we get representative maybe the child study team and just sit down and kind of plan organiz this year to say we can do with that hopefully and come back next year and say here's what we did and it's going to be great success. The other area where we've been working at inclusion more recently is really working with PTS to try to get kind of more active with intentional efforts to make sure that activities are accessible and it's again not that anyone's trying to but sometimes it makes huge there can be a very realization. So an example would be something like there's a DX music is very loud for students in so
013a second music is not so loud but it's also don't just accept all so we've been trying the same schools talk to the schools so we're trying to get everyone just thought and also we that might be one of them. Not a lot of workers that are available to me because often the answer we get is we're building and so here's what so the longterm goal is to make special needs activities just kind of natural just so that's something else. Um, we also have one other activity. We won't go into this one in detail, but we're talking about actually trying to see if we can get some special needs children right now. not the recreation program simply because they don't have they don't have to so I don't know where that's going to go some
014topics and so it's not directly the idea PS4 access. One other thing we do is just parents essentially holdings every year on various topics and information and also just to have discussions. So to share a few weeks after talk to us about how decisions are made about special districts also how are decisions made about the latest is your child if they are how many times a week what is the structure of those things what kind of reading interventions are how you get and also why sometimes these are things that parents also don't really understand. They will have additional meetings as well. We've also had meetings in the past programs understanding and other things like that. So this should continue for me here. I think that's everything I wanted to mention. Just appreciate all of your
015support. Um if there's anything you have a question about happy Thank you so much for the information. I know that diverse learners day is very popular papers. Um so looking forward to that. Hopefully I can this year. Does anybody have a question? I'm sure we'll be reaching out. We do. I know um we have several board members that are in contact um in terms of just keeping those communications open. So, we look forward to doing that as well and appreciate your time and everything you're doing. Thank you. All [Applause] [Music] [Applause] right, I'm back. So, it's an honor to be here with you this evening. I'd like to thank Miss Perez, uh, the entire cabinet with the board of education for the opportunity to speak, uh, to you again this evening. It's year three. I'm
016back to high school and I could not have asked for a smoother opening. So, I want to thank all of our staff and students, uh, parents, guardians, friends, and family for really, you know, making this a great opening school year. Tonight, you'll hear from some of our incredible dedicated staff members regarding some programs, projects, initiatives, and opportunities available here at the high school. But first, I have to give a shout out to our entire operations and maintenance department under the direction of Rick Carlson, Chris Villa, along with our dedicated custodial team for their efforts in getting the building ready this summer. Despite the many challenges that we are facing with budget, the commitment to providing a safe and secure learning environment for staff and students continues to be a priority. From the gyms being refurbished
017to our new faculty lounge and freshly painted hallways, the building, as Mr. Dave says, is popping. New scoreboards, new lighting, and newly installed sound system courtesy of the Mas Education Foundation facilities are really coming together. So, I want to thank everyone for their support. And finally, coming soon, we're really looking forward to our outdoor fitness court located outside the dance studio that will be available for the entire community after school, of course. Um, so I just want to thank the board central office for appreciating this project working as well as our community partners for making this dream become a reality. It's going to be a nice feature for our Thank you. So at this time I'd like to welcome Danny backup along with here back up to the podium and they're going to talk about
018a lot of the activities that they have been doing starting last year the students against instru So turn right over here. [Applause] [Music] [Applause] So we're going to be talking to you about some of the activities that we've been doing. So, we're first going to talk about what we did last year and then what the results of that were and also what we have planned for this year. So, the first thing I'd like to talk about is the serenity rock garden that we have. Uh as you can see in the image that slideshow we like to thank for having us rocks and then one of our big points was the target enforcement area on road in wondering why is relevant to this case but our adviser she actually lives on that road and her dog
019was unfortunately ran over because of a blind. So after that happened the students club decided to take initiative and how good their board might be and argue to make a lot and then the last thing I'd like to mention is the safe driving that we had the year we had a program where juniors who went to exactly were able to get early. Um, so in all our efforts, this was done as a means to potentially get us once more. The Brain Injury Alliance is an organization that works against brain injury. And one of the programs we have is specifically against destructive driving because you get to an accident, you're most likely going to get injured. And because of all of our efforts that Danny invention, we were able to win first place in win $10,000
020to choose super fun. [Music] Um, with that money, we plan on buying and installing a driver computer in the school to help teach students of the M1 school district on how to drive safely before getting on the road to prevent further prevent. And then Julia would like to also just reduce action that could happen. And then also take the is to get a left turn signal from the intersection of the cross street and this is something your dad has been working on for quite a while now has been crashed into four times or something. So that'd be really nice to get mixed and prevent [Music] that's [Music] amazing. Good luck and all your effort. I think what what an incredible group. So just to talk a little bit about our uhation summ tremendous amount the
021driving simulator has been actually ordered so we're being displayed um right now we're looking forward somewhere in the media center that on driver's ed students will be able to use that to save it. So $16,000 all um funded by the grants that they have won over the last couple years. the Serenity Rock Garden, which is like one of my favorite things that they've done in the school is in front of the school where students can actually parents and friends, family can go and write a little message, you know, in honor of somebody. It's kind of like a little peaceful I keep stacking the rocks, you know, I keep knocking them down. So, it's kind of like a just kind of like a peaceful uh setting. Thank you to our entire staff organization for all their
022efforts. Next up, I'd like to introduce Miss Kish and Miss Shaloo podium. Come on. [Applause] [Music] About 3 years ago, we received the news that we have been selected by the New Jersey Department of Education to partner with Ruckers University as part of the enhancing school mental health services grant. Kiss quickly volunteered or volunteered okay uh to serve on the committee and they had both taken a leadership role on this committee. So I want to thank all of you for stepping up. So here to talk a little bit about the project. [Music] >> Good evening. I'm Cheryl Kish and again with the education uh for the last two and a half years we've been actively involved uh by region high schools rockers grant team to stren mental health services and supports. Um the grant team
023basically was created to we work together to create different types of programs for the students at the high schools. Tonight we'll briefly highlight our work with universal screener resource map referral pathway and we'll also focus on the mentality program that our school our schoolwide initiative to promote preparedness accountability communication and guidance. The goal of our committee has been to assess current school mental health systems and practices to aid in the development of a sustainable, realistic, equitable, and culturally inclusive comprehensive school mental health system. This system will meet the behavioral health needs of the of the school community through database decision-making, homeschool partnerships, staff and student education, and school community partnerships. As part of our continued efforts to enhance a comprehensive school mental health curriculum, we made significant strides last year through the implementation of a
024universal behavior screener. Administered to the freshman class with parent intent, the screener ensured confidentiality while parental I'm sorry, while providing valuable insight into the student loy. The 25 item questionnaire assessed five key areas. emotional symptoms, conduct problems, hyperactivity and inattention, peer relationship difficult difficulties and pro-social behavior. With 123 students participating, the results allow us to identify and support those in need, reinforcing our commitment to proactive and data informed student mental health support. and our um runners consulted that we've been working with over the last couple of years told us that we had the largest amount of students uh participate in that survey. So they really did to add to us to give the participation that we got and we couldn't get better support overall administering the universal screener with our students was a positive experience
025for all of us. One of our counselors stated that it helped identify students in need of services and resources that staff wouldn't have known about. Um, our administration, staff, students, and parents were very supportive through the entire process, and we look forward to it being just as successful this year. Many of our meetings focus on doing an intervention inventory and creating a resource map based on identified interventions, which are supports for our students. The resource map identifies a description of the various types of services and activities that our students have access to along with how to access them and the providers of each. The referral pathway the team is currently working on will provide direction to our school and creating and documenting our school's mental health and behavioral referral pathways. Our team will be looking
026at data resources available and set database decision-making rules to provide to guide entry and exit to and from. Lastly, the referral cafe will assist of implementation and progress monitoring. Mr. will introduce the pack mentality. Pack mentality is a prevention focused student driven approach to shift school norms so peers look out for each other and connect students to sports early. PAC stands for preparedness, accountability, communication and kindness. Mr. Brown came up with that acronym for us. Um and then we created um these matrix that you can see on the TV. Um there are many examples of what our staff will look for when it's raising our students. For example, in regards to preparingness, staff will look to see what uh students coming into class, knowing where to go for help. Accountability is relating to students and
027staff taking responsibility for actions and following through. Communication can be seen by students practicing active listening and appropriate reporting. And lastly, kindness can be exemplified by students modeling respect and inclusion. This framework complements our counseling team and creates everyday language for students to help one another. Staff will give out tactical tickets uh to students daily when they see students uh demonstrating one of these qualities. This um a prize calendar uh is on the TVs that are posted throughout the school. [Music] I lost myself. Okay. prize calendar posters and regular reminders to enforce positive behaviors. Um this will be communicated weekly to the students. Each month students will have a chance to win prizes to praise their behaviors. These rewards will be donated by various clubs activities and the high school PTO. Uh we have a
028box up in the front in the main office where when the students receive their packs, uh they will go put this into the box and then at the end of the month that's when we announce our winners. So tomorrow we will have our first packup winners for the year. Uh so on the next four four slides you'll see examples of the posters that are on the size around the schools and they're in our emails and on the TVs and in the hallways and in the cafeteria. [Music] In closing we just want to thank the board, our administrators, colleagues and parents as well as community members for supporting this initiative. The Ruckers grant has given us a foundation to put into the collective commitment of our school community that ensures this work will last. We're proud
029of what we've accomplished together and excited about the next steps in strengthening excellent support for our students. Thank you. [Music] [Applause] Before you go, for all your efforts, I'd like to thank you for certificate of appreciation. [Applause] [Music] So, as you can see, we have a lot of great things going on here at the high school, and we're really off to a great start. Before I close out the high school portion of the meeting, I'd like to invite Miss Catuso to the podium. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Manuso was selected as a 2025 outstanding special education teacher from the National Association of Special Education Teachers. This award is bestowed on special education teachers who have demonstrated truly exceptional achievement in the field of special education. Please join me in congratulating Miss. [Applause] [Music] All right. So, in
030closing, I'd like to once again thank the board of education and our central office administrator for their support and I want to invite everyone to come join our award-winning dog pound um this Friday night at our senior night where we will be representing uh recognizing our marching band, our color guard, our cheerleaders dance team, and of course our football players. So, you're all welcome to join the dog pound on Friday night. And hot off the presses. Our girls soccer team just clinched the division. [Music] He's actually in class tonight. He just texted me that big victory over. So, they are co champions. very very congratulations to them. So in true man fashion, I'd like to invite you all to join our choir singing for the weed voicees. Your praises rerish you and to your faith
031and ever will your [Music] The Lord [Music] change with the time [Music] to you for our lives through the years. May God are you [Music] all to you? [Music] That was excellent. Thank you, Mr. B. Fantastic job, kids. Keep singing. Um, thank you, Mr. Wells. I appreciate your um presentation tonight. Learn a lot about what's going on in preschool. Those pack books. Some of those prizes are cool, like prom tickets. So, look out for those. Um, and I think at this time before we get to President Super I think we're done, right? Yes. So students can go ahead and um go do [Applause] Okay, continuing our um meeting this evening. I would like a motion and a second to accept the minutes. A motion and a second to accept the correspondence to the board. I'll
032second. Um, anything to add? >> Yes, thank you. First congrats to I know she very proud for receiving that. Thank you. All your efforts and initiatives very passionate about that. So, it's something that we all um need to make sure that we're taking care of ourselves, but also thank you um thank you for your ongoing um commitment for advocacy, collaboration, sharing the information in terms of how the organization supported students in our schools and our community at large. I would like to talk a little bit about this month so far in terms of September updates. Um it's been successful. Um, I want to thank our administrators, staff, and families most of all for our students for making a strong start in terms of being here. Our students have been attending schools each day, and we're
033already seeing positive results with attendance. To date, this month, our district is at 97% attendance, which is an increase from uh last year. And with demand has the largest growth with 5% from last year. So although there's not a lot of people I think that when they go back and watch YouTube that we're very proud of that success. Um on our agenda this evening um are our QAC results and which is quality single accountability continues what the department of education is coming to look for um every 3 years are five key areas um which are called performance areas. Instruction and program is one area um where they're looking at curriculum, student achievement and instructional practices, fiscal management, budgeting, financial controls, audits, governance, board operations, ethics and policies, operations, facilities, safety and daily district management. And
034last um is personnel, the hiring, certification, evaluation, and staff development of all of our employees. I'm happy to say that we scored above an 80% in each of the categories which is considered high performing. More details will be shared later this evening when we um get to that topic at um later on in the agenda. But we will also be referring to the fus scores at our upcoming October meeting when we share our test results. One key area I must highlight is governance. In um we scored at 87% which is considered high performance. However, we are always looking to strive in all areas and we want 100%. So this year we scored 97% in governance. I want to thank the board of education and administration for making this a priority to improve because again governance
035just to revisit what I just shared is board operations, ethics and policies. So that's taking off for taking part in that. Um we want to we also want to mention that um we are continuing to look at um our arrival and dismissal patterns working with the Aberine Police Department and collaborating with them. So we continue to do that visit those um schools. We appreciate um the cooperation of our parents and families um for their cooperation and support to help ensure traffic safety and making sure kids are safe. Our district our district enrollment from August September to September. We welcomed a total of 75 new students to our district. Our prek to five enrollment is 2017. Our 6 through 12 enrollment is 1,825 and our out of district students are 47 which is an increase from
036last year. We will be sharing information and upcoming community forums to elicit community feedback with future redistricting for upcoming school year for 2627 as a result of the enrollment um particularly in our prek to 5. We um are recommending that we begin our work earlier. We're redistricting to 26 27 um um at this time um turn back. Thank you for um I would like to re reiterate the great news and thank board members uh more members we've had particularly in the last few years I've been here the last two I think we've kind of gelled as a board and really um working well together forming new committees and trying our best to be informed and get community input and change some you know get some new ideas about how we do them so for their
037particip ipation um robust participation and everything. So, I appreciate that and I'm glad that we got some some kudos for that. So, thank you for sharing that. Um we do have plans to resone our buildings um as early as next year. So, we will be talking about some community input for that. Um we uh are also in tandem with that trying to see where facilities need to be modernized and where we can get funds for that including potentially a bond referendum that we're looking at right here. Um we're already looking at the 2627 school budget. We have finance and facilities committee already starting work there to look at some of our facilities. to walk through the high school today and we'll hear more about that later in the meeting. Uh we want we are continuing
038keeping our town governing bodies in the loop with leaison over and for um coming up. Um we do have a great um event coming up on October 25th, the key walk at the high school this year which is different. It's normally at Thortale where the um where that school is housed. So, I hope the community members come out for that. I'm planning on being there. Um, we are doing our board goals right now and they're probably going to be approved um later this evening. Um, we have to discuss get to that. But anyway, the the goals are basically um just refining what we we've been working on over the past few years in community outreach and keeping ourselves informed. So, we go through training as board members. um we're required to do at least we
039do one every year. So um we're up to date on things like how to look at a budget when we're talking about um school budgets and um of course we association meeting every October. So that's coming up this uh next month and looking forward to attending someformational sessions there. Um I recently went to a home meeting. We are three and two right and two after Friday night. Um, so that's great and it was a lot of fun and I plan on being at senior night and I do not invited to sit in your own um >> Okay, great. switch to market. Um, and lastly, I do want to say that um, if you recall, one of the first initiatives that this current basically most of this current state for departed was a um, agree to
040participate in a social media lawsuit against um, Meta, Tik Tok, Snapchat, and YouTube along with several other New Jersey public school districts. Um and last week there was a deposition in Washington DC and we've been just we're waiting for you know um movement on that but we've been doing everything that has been required of us including data that to be presented um to the legal team there for the presentation. we will keep you all in the loop and it's basically um that the contention is that it's affecting mental health students and then the school districts are having to do all of the work for that by providing services when those kids mental health is impacted by the product put out by the companies. So that's we're trying to seek some for the mental health um
041initi and that is the important Um, student representative. >> Good evening, President. As a reminder, my name is Danny and I'm honored and proud to be the student representative board of education this year. I'm excited to work closely with the school district to host monthly awards for up to date with the school events that are taking place with the high school. So far as we mentioned the varsity football team has a two record and knockdown best second. And moving on to marching after they got pumped up to class which is a level above competition last year. The marching kicked off the season with a great start scoring 17.5 and being first place. despite the lower score of 66.8 seconds. Second performance went strong with a new score of 72.6 this past Saturday. This year the
042student council has been renamed student government as we hope to enforces in addition to this new concept called routing meetings are being introduced. This means each club will send a representative to each other as well as discuss planning and this way we can event that was actually and respect decorations to help those understanding that students come from all walks of life to promote more student participation classes wants to be awarded to the class as the welcome home itself this year they decided to host campus How to country is the location that was early and we're all excited for the snowboard. The theme is the night in New York with each ticket being $65. Since there's a limit on the amount of students per class, have to make sure to buy tickets as soon as they
043can from September 29th. We are also very excited for our reds. We between as other miscellaneous activities. There's also been discussion about bringing back moving on to Dr. celebrating national and having their first year. There's also the mids of nus with student submission 7 last Friday school taking place this school expresses that we should all stay tuned for Dr. officially reports that everyone is excited for the closure from tomorrow, September 30th month. The fun they've had in September will be missed, but they look forward to what October best at their PTO recently held their home sale, which was a big success. In addition, they would like to thank everyone for the first dinner of the school year tomorrow. They welcome the enchor for events in October on September 15th very next day Thursday to remind
044everyone to sign up and all funds raised go directly to the students of the school. The last event in October is the annual trunk or treat on Wednesday. Costumes are available. Parents should reach out as their child. Next up start school year. Your kindergarten teachers have completed hours of training probably to student initial assessments which will help guide teachers. The admission program is also maintained stra school counselor has become class focus on the positive character traits staying on the stable leadership programs first program to start as the school graders also get expressions events as a chance to participate Safety ones who were accepted by last year safety control announcement first week the first successful pumping they have a lot of great events planned for students this year all events for drive they've also had they're
045kicking off the PBIS for students who have positive reinforcement incentives to be respectful and Today they had great local assemblies where they spoke with students about their support and program. Next week they have their special lesson. It's very dangerous. We had a successful night and like to thank Foundation SG PL and PJS on the same day. There's also a parent workshoped in partnership with Harvard focusing on safety and behavior and stress and school parents and students. The school emphasizes the appreciation they have as they provide fourth and fifth graders. Also excited to announce the third meeting of this past life skills is also preparing for their chocolate. Students are asked about chocolate. In addition to this, the PTL is gearing off spectacular event. Finally restarted it attendance in September and those two classes are doing
046a great job and something new this year. Last week the guest students teachers in sixth grade [Applause] classes this thank you for your time and you can't wait to see your [Applause] Uh, moving on. Um, thank you so much for all this awesome stuff that you're doing here with this student. I think that's phenomenal. Um I work um alongside um the injury prevention program in New York. So they offer um safety program um where they work with students in particular different um safety programs in the community outreach to the school outreach program with them. Is that something that you are interested in or somebody in your group that's interested? I would love to try and so I'll be seeing you, you know, a couple of months a week or you can email me or thank
047you for that. Sounds good. Take action. Okay, moving on curriculum instruction. >> Thank you. Curriculum instruction tonight travel which was previously presented at the cow. There are no spread that I have a motion and a second to accept motion. I'll second. >> Any questions? Student [Music] service agenda for action this evening. All items are read item number one to approve service providers for the 256 school year as listed. Press the floor to approve item number two construction as listed including machines. Florida to approve item three and four which are both 25 school year with school effectively that you can have a motion and a second motion. Any questions? Um, Mr. is the for number three and number four are those new students or new. >> Okay. No, I was just going to say um cuz
048I know that that's um is that budgeted services. >> All right. So, um I appreciate that. Um just uh being able to take care of our kids when they come in and um figure it out. So, I just want to say that's you just don't Any other questions? So, can I just start? So, that's $30,000 additional money. So, just I know it earlier. Sorry. Um, lean into it. So I think just a reality that we're dealing with is we are um seeing a increase in growth in the community which we know um but 75 new students in one month is a lot of new students in our district. Those students were not accounted for in the initial budget. The numbers we worked with last year were based on a lot less because that's only one
049month. Um, and so just something to be mindful of moving forward. We're doing the best we can. It's just for a finance facility committee, which includes more. Um, but it's it's a reality we're dealing with. Um, and I think we're going to continue to grow. So, [Music] thank you. Uh the board received a uh several walking items uh that we are asking the board to take action on this evening. Uh those actions include as listed uh which include uh personal. Uh on page two we have appointments as listed uh to part-time kindergarten assistant instructional assistance. And item three, we have some staff arrange changes as listed uh to cover assignments. At the bottom of page two, we have additional pay as listed and administrative pay as that walkin items. Onto the regular agenda, uh we
050have several items in red um and some remaining items from the town. They're asking the board to take action on all on page 107. You have resations and retirements as listed. We have in section B of passing this test personal medical needs and on H27 we have appointments as listed which goes on from two sorry uh we also have extracurricular activities as listed instructional assistance as subse and teachers as listed for the school year to cover classes. We also have on page four of seven staff array changes as listed. On page five of seven, we have college students observer that's listed and of other on administrative leave as listed, termination as listed, uh professional development, future orientations as listed. And on page six and seven, we have employment uh compensation uh fans bus survival supervision
051clinic that we uh host yearly on our professional development day and then we have a crisis team including the voucher patients for those staff to assist. Uh we have our transportation assistant hours uh as listed for that one individual. Uh we also have 110 additional pay and we have safety over pay item number 11 which we have 25 of our uh bus drivers who were awarded a special uh certificate and money of $250 uh for two consecutive years I believe it is of safe driving. That concludes the personal agenda. >> Thank you. I have a motion and a second to approve personal agenda. >> Second. >> Um questions. Before we get to other important questions, I just wanted Dr. clarify what you um talked to us about. Seems like a lot of themes of absence,
052but it's actually um relatively some of them are not all new and can go back. >> Sure. Sometimes when you look at the agenda there are explain position uh that there are some um status require so we can hear that you know they're constantly on the agenda. Um so that's one thing that I think that we have to consider. Um percentages were below 4% about 3% or so when it comes to staff or leave of absence. Um so consider the size of our staff and those numbers and it's important perspective. >> Thank you. Any other questions? >> Not a question but I just want to say thank you to um the district for coming up with the center safety program. It's amazing that many bus drivers that are receiving it. So, I just want to
053kudos to the transportation department and all the drivers that are making sure our kids are safe. [Music] I also did not make a comment. I see 15 years. I just want to acknowledge him. He literally made lifeanging experiences for most of my children in the district. and not be they still be amazing children but the experiences he brought to them through what's now George um were unbelievable so I just want different goals [Music] in the district um policy We have no [Music] we'll be looking to take action on the following items. The board secretary of August receive acceptance of secretar of the bills listed for September. As we move on to page two, we'll be able to continue as well as our team travel listed. A big shout out to 101 of our students who
054are throughout county vocational programs. Also, big thank you to the acceptance of donation from United Way for backpacks, supplies, etc. in the amount of over $4,000 that have been spread out districtwide to support our families. As spoken about earlier, we'll be approving the scores for FJQAC fire and evacuation of August and approval of all of our individual practice for the 256 school year. At this time, I'll take the opportunity to speak about this case. So, just reate the court in terms of scores presented under there's two buckets of scores. Those three points represent our actual curriculum to be our curriculum path curriculum pacing curriculum resources. It's the technology that we use. It's graduation requirements. It's assessments we provide curriculum. We receive 40 out of 1% of that bucket we earned in the review. The other
055bucket is out of 60 points. Those 60 points are based on student achievement which more specifically is how students performed on the FJS state assessment in mathematics, ELA and science. So we earned 42 out of 60 points. So we got 42. That's important by the board back in February this calendar year last school year. We rejected the board with the waiver that we're able to file with the department of education that allowed us to use student growth uh assessments rather than just the raw scores. You'll hear more about a slide, a visual slide of what SAP results look like, how late test scores, but our students are growing in a positive direction in our state assessments and that's reflected in that 42 school of course acceptance. It's just basic historical information. We look at past
056QAC awards after every 3 years in the past two. We've been in the low 80s in instructional planning. This is reflective of student achievement assessments. Um so we're heading in the right direction that overall support which is considered passive for the district is a good thing the right direction. They all fulfillments questions. >> I think the quickest question is just remind me what was covered under personnel. It was fantastic and I just don't remember what was in that. >> So what did you send with you for personel? >> Yes. Uh so what they do is they they look at a variety of things that includes looking at how administrators observe and evaluate teachers. It looks at our professional development plan for the district and for teachers they go through personnel files for staff who've been
057hired in the past two years or around 10ear staff. They look to make sure that we're complying with all the components of personnel file. uh and then they look to see the compliance and completeness of all our state family trainers. >> Thank you. And for the benefit of people that might watch this video later, the the district had a 98% in that category. That's what I was asking. Thank you. >> Thank you. Any other questions? Um, I just wanted to acknowledge the donation from the United Way of counties, 41 $4,150 um for backpacks, supplies, coats, hoodies. So, appreciate that donation to our district. [Music] Can I have a motion and a second? Do we also have motion second? The board of education recognizes the value of public comment on matters of interest to the school
058community. Individuals wishing to speak must state their name and address. Comments are limited to preminist duration, but an individual may speak a second time after all others who wish to speak on topics on the topic have been heard. All statements should be directed to the board president and no participant may address or question board members individually. All speakers are requested to express themselves in a civil manner with due respect for the dignity and privacy of others whose legal rights may be affected. Please note, while it is not the board's intention to stifle comment on matters of legitimate concern, the public should be aware that if their statements violate the rights of others under the law of defamation or invasion of privacy, they may face personal liability to the injured party. If speakers are uncertain of
059the legal ramifications of their comments, the board urges them to seek guidance beforehand from their own legal advisor. And any wishing to express Mrs. >> Yes. Missiles. >> Yes. >> Mr. McGover. >> Yes. >> Mr. Montto. >> Yes. >> M. >> Yes. >> M. >> Yes. >> M. >> Yes. >> M. Martinez. >> Yes. >> And do we do we have any unfinished business? Suggestion or request. Uh recently the New Jersey Department of Education released guidance on student use of internet enabled devices. Um limiting the use of internet enabled devices on school grounds during school day in the uh in an effort to promote academic engagement distractions and support the wellbeing of students. um that our our district was ahead of the game and thanks to the policy committee and his support for for passing
060policy that did a lot of what um these impact budgets, but I was hoping that we could request that perhaps improve ad hoc or whatever revisit the policy consider I would like to back up the district from someone policy to adult policy. The difference in students not being able to check between classes, not having to work to getting their mind out of social media after lunch. students are reporting a very big change and just being able to come to school and police support you like to take a look for children that thank you for reminding me that there was something else that um I wanted to cover quickly that the anxious generation a book by John K that many board members received that that we participated in last year um with county schools um specifically
061talks about in one of the chapters schools can do now um to address anxiety and depression in uh in our student population and strongly recognize Bel um saying that current current policies that ban cell phones during class tend to encourage kids to increase their phone use between classes and during lunch making it harder to connect. Um, so just further emphasizing what you're saying and I completely understand the idea of having to disengage after social media or my own son's case is video games. Um so please and I also um speak in support of the bill about can you hear me um idea because I sat on that policy committee was about two years ago now the use of electronic devices committee and um 100% I would do believe in the locker campaign. So um I
062strongly support that idea. Yes. Um thank you thank you Diana um uh for looking into that and bringing it up and it was um interesting to hear the past. So that was um good feedback for letting us know how that's working. My only thought would be that we obviously want to implement policy that's going to be able to be followed and will work. So, I would implore um maybe Miss Perez and and building admin to work on that to discuss with us maybe their thoughts on that um because they're going to have to roll that out. So, I'm not sure how their thoughts are on that, but that would definitely need um buy in and whatnot for that. So, if those conversations want to start, that's great. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Miss for
063bringing up um revisiting the policy because we did have a long discussion regarding updating that policy. So, I do ask that um we have an opportunity to discuss it with administrative team and also um representation teachers um in terms of what that looks like each and every day. So, I want to make sure that it would be any updates to any policy like we always do is that we're getting their input um in terms of making sure that it's successful and it's not stifling any um instruction that's taking place in the classroom because we're trying to be interested at all teacher program and there's some background that I know from the things that you're So if you like my feedback on any of that, >> thank you. Um, yeah, I definitely need favor revisiting that.
064We're going to let D go back to the students and see what they have to say about it. Maybe we'll hear from him. Danny's responsibility this year is to focus on student. So let us know how that goes. Um the other thing I do want to reiterate is that our district does have maybe this is something you can also um bring back to the schools. We are are through Maline Aberine Educational Foundation. Um we have are trying to become a wait until till 8th pledge holders I guess is the right word for each school. So the wait until 8th pledge is just parents coming together, like-minded parents that want their children to wait until 8th grade to have social. Maybe not necessarily cell phone, but at least social media, which really I mean that's you're
065supposed to be 13 for a lot of these um platforms anyway, which is like ages to get on them. Um and I think that you need 10 families to sign on and we do not have any schools in the district where 10 families are willing. Not even 10 families are agreeing amongst themselves like let's all sign together so that you know the friends at least the friend groups can be in the same boat with what they're doing and how they're um being exposed to social media. So in addition to that policy, I think looking at other initiatives between families and parents and other school groups to really kind of delay that um that uh social media for your students. I mean, we're seeing what's happening and what's um the results of some of that um
066going down into the rabbit holes on there are. So I would implore people to really look at at what age we're um allowing that. It's not it's kind of lost its lighthearted um purpose I feel. Um okay any new business or any other business? I think we have new business. Um so a couple of things for new business easy one day is this Saturday um at the municipal center there. Um so that's Saturday. Um also as we mentioned earlier just to give an update we have formed a finance and facility committee. Um first kickoff was today. Um it's myself, Mr. McGovern and Mr. Ron. And we um so this committee was formed um for a couple reasons. One is because we do know that we've got reszoning that's going to need to happen come September
067of this year um 2026 for the elementary building. So that's going to be some changes going on. Um that we've also got potential for a referendum coming up in a year. Um potentially, you know, um all of our roofs are currently out of warranty on all seven buildings. Um so that is a concern. So um keeping those things online in mind, we also know we've got a number of new students joining the district building going on. Um so we thought it was an important time to start this committee. So, um, first step is we thought it'd be a good idea to start touring the buildings. Um, so today we toured the high schools. Um, so we came in and, um, we, you know, went into a lot of the different rooms. Um, we're going to
068go building by building. Next up will be dance. Um, and we'll just work our way down so we can really get a good understanding of, um, the state of the facilities, um, all the buildings and the grounds. Um, so that was really helpful. And then um you know some of it may be areas in need of repairs. Some may be cosmetic upgrades. Um obviously there are going to be a lot of needs like to have um and some other requests um that will have to there will be further discussion in the future because it's going to take looking at the budget thinking about the referendum from a grouping standpoint um and also balancing the overall needs of the district um and what's really feasible um and what's not um in the near term and then
069what's further out. So, um, don't want to get into specifics, but you know, you can start to see that there is some water damage happening, um, from the roofs, um, which I think is really important to point out. I took a few pictures today. Um, and I'm sure in other buildings the same if we're dealing with, you know, patching at this point. Um, so that's that's a real reality that, um, we're going to have to talk about in the future. But also, you know, just some things in the interiors. We looked at, you know, the exterior and we talked about some of the other buildings or facilities on the grounds. Um, so there's a lot to think about. Um, haven't shared it all board yet, so you know, we need to have more discussion, but
070just know it's um it's something we're really taking an active role in right now and then we'll be discussing over the next year. Um, so that was that. And then also in terms of liaison, um, I know myself and Mr. McGovern are leaison. We will be talking to our counterparts um and um attending upcoming meetings um council meetings and you know sharing some you know updates as appropriate um from the school perspective and then also um we'll be having a community forum in November coming um so that we want to get out there so that you know as much of the public and community. >> Thank you, Mr. An. This is um Mrs. Foley is a leazison to Mr. Aberine. So they kind of keep the governing bodies of those municipalities informed of what he's
071going to just like last week and everything and engage in conversation he's retiring this year. So I just want to try to get on who's going to be replacing that relationship now. >> Thank you very much. Any other new business resolved close session for the purpose of discussing privacy, personal matters and legal advice. The subject matter of these discussions will be disclosed to the public of the reason for confidential subsides. Although the board cannot guarantee it, the length of the executive session is estimated to be 30 minutes after which the public meeting of the board shall reconvene and proceed with business action will take place. And I have a motion and a second to enter second executive session. Second.