001The Open Public Meetings Act, chapter 231 Laws of 1975. Adequate notice of this meeting was originally provided through the annual public notice on January 6, 2026 by emailing to newspapers designated by the board the local source in the star ledger by posting on the district website the main bulletin board in the administration office and in each Rosel Boro school and by emailing to the clerk of the Rosel Borro and posted on the Burrow of Rosel website. Please rise with me to say the pledge of allegiance. >> I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Thank you. Dr. Simmons, please call. >> Dr. Atkins >> here, >> Miss Bond. >> Miss Chavez
002>> here. >> Mrs. Cortez, Miss Santos, >> present. >> Miss Tonnage, Dr. Washington, >> present. >> Miss Washington, Mrs. Washington, >> here. >> Miss Woody, >> present. We have a quer. >> Thank you. Uh, prior to asking for the motion to go into the executive session, Dr. Simmons, I noticed that our meetings are not on the Rosal Burrow website. Can you please resend our meetings to the clerk of the Rosal Burrow and ask them to ensure that they publish our meetings on their calendar? Thank you. Now I'm going to ask for a motion to enter into executive session to discuss issues that warrant confidentiality as consistent with NJSA 104-12 for matters of attorney client priv privilege contracts legal litigation negotiations personnel and student matters. The minutes will be made available to the public upon request
003when the confidentiality of the subject is no longer wanted. May I have a motion in a second? I made a motion to move to our executive meeting. >> Second chos. >> All in favor? >> We will begin uh we will return from executive session approximately 1 hour 7 p.m. Thank you. I checked literally by 4:00 today because someone asked me if >> they're not they're not there at all. So my son was a teacher at school. >> I remember I saw her. Yeah, let's go. Yes, sir. Yes, sir. Oh shoot. HD. So What's one of those? Turn on the device. I want to do that. Charge a phone. That's what you need to do. Oh my gosh. Can you do That's Hey. >> Hi. iPad. >> the reception. >> I just put this in front.
004>> Jessica's coming too, right? >> Yeah. Let me check her. >> She's upstairs. >> Are you going upstairs? bridge. She didn't say anything to me before. >> Okay. >> All right. more time. Guess I would found out there Can you email me some of these pictures? Just >> today. Amen. Yeah, this is a lot. Isn't it like Huh? No, not yet. I'm sure When you don't think you just don't think She's just >> Absolutely. She must What do you share with Yes. Take a screenshot of your screen. That's what I want. They first experience. I'm not sure. That's okay. >> Just in case I have I don't know what HDMI I just want you to connect this. I have time to do this little exercise and if I don't that's okay because you know Oh,
005this is a big >> Yeah. But it doesn't reach all the way. It's not long enough. But I don't know if it's connected to what it looks like. Well, thank God. Yes, sir. >> How are you, sir? >> You're not speaking to me? >> How are you? >> You are speaking to me. >> Good evening. >> How you doing? >> Good. How are you? >> I'm good. I'm good. >> Here. >> I'm just trying to connect to this board with my laptop >> and I don't want >> You don't want this? >> Yes, I would love that instead. Yes, I have cable here. Okay. I wasn't sure what this was for. That's why. >> Is that type-C? >> No, it's a I have um I have HDMI here. >> Okay. >> I have HDMI port
006right here. >> Oh, our type-C. >> I'm sorry. He has >> No, but he got type >> and you got everything. >> He's got everything. He needs to let us borrow some stuff. James, let me hold your stuff. >> So, yeah. So, that's what I'll connect to then. >> All right. Yes. I'm going to put the screen down and start projector. >> Okay. Fantastic. >> It's 1 hour. >> 5 minutes. these babies. If it's one or I left my first I got to go get it. I don't have a lot of money, but I like to keep the amount I have together. You don't have gum, do you? I need a piece of gum. Come straight into this. pink. >> Pink. What was that? >> Listen, >> I don't even know. I don't even know
007what I'm wearing. >> I don't James. >> Okay. Are you always on duty for board meeting? >> For the worship. for the board meeting >> for board meeting it's usually a Monday unless we to get those new ASUS Chromebooks. Not yet. >> HP. >> Acers supposed to get like 62. Is that from the >> No, the Bill John solder. >> Wants two cards 25 each. So 50 and and 12 as a back. >> Is that for testing? >> Yeah. >> Should be enough, right? >> Yeah, more than enough. >> Same for will. The presentation is about pills. Um, >> that's why you're here. >> This is and more of our AI showcase. >> You going to show up? >> AI. >> Yeah. >> Our AI show is on the 26. All right. Seems to be
008a good thing before All right. See you in the morning. Good job. Hello%. This is a photo. You're welcome. Oh, down. >> Huh? >> Down. >> No, no, no. When they they're going to start first. >> Oh, they're going to Oh, okay. Sorry. I'm glad I was able to see Bernice. My eyesight is so bad. Looks like I'm going to wave. Hello. >> Hi. How are you? >> Good. How are you? >> Hey. >> Okay, let's get the Let's get the iPads and make sure that we could pass those out, I guess. You smell so good. Is that you? >> You didn't. Is that Arthur? >> Is that you? >> Hello. Hey. How y'all doing? WE GOT COMPANY TONIGHT, Y'ALL. >> HI. >> Look at this. We not in here. >> I'm so happy. >>
009Look at this. It was 166 people. No damn. >> Oh, so good. >> Oh my god. >> No, it was >> Oh, did y'all go to Unsung Heroes last night? Thank y'all for a chapter meeting. >> Well, It was nice. >> Thank y'all for coming. >> Huh? >> Javon. It was Javon. >> He loved cuz he was our he won the He did the bowling. He was >> the 10,000. >> I'll mention that sign. >> No, I have to sign. >> So, Patrick is his last name, right? >> Yeah. And Andrew made it to the finals. He's one of the finals for like >> Emmy. Emmy. Yeah. Andrew. Good job. >> Y'all need to be giving me emails cuz I got stuff about >> track, right? Andrew. And our girls did media >> chest track.
010>> Andrew. Andrew, right? >> Okay. >> My daughter did um media day. Dr. Fisher. >> Them pictures looking good. >> With the orange. >> She got Thank you for your patience. Now, may I have a motion to return from executive session? >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I. U. Moving on in the agenda, we have a presentation. TTE. Is it best for us to come down? >> Yes, please. >> Okay. So, we'll bring my cookies. Look. One of those top 166 people. Thanks for all. >> Okay. I just asked you about this >> notebook. LM. Yeah. >> Yeah. Yeah. Is this on? >> You ready? >> No. >> All right. Uh, good evening everyone. >> Good evening. uh want to thank all of you for your patience cuz it seems like um every time
011I was set to present, here comes the snow. So, by the way, it's snowing tonight, too. So, I don't know if I'm responsible for the snow. So, but um you know, let's get through this because I really want to share with you guys some really good things uh that are happening. Um I am uh Ebony Fanfan Billine. I'm the instructional technology supervisor for um Rosal public schools and I also oversee um the career and technical education um pathways uh for the district. So I'm going to give you guys a little bit of update. So just for starters because a lot of times we wonder who's in our department. I'm I just threw their names up. won't spend a lot of time but this is uh the members of our department which are inclusive of um
012teachers ROC which some of you may not have known that um the vill's tech coaches as well as the media specialist. So for starters I just want to share with you guys my department in addition to curriculum and learning platforms I also oversee state reporting for the district. So a lot of times the reports that go out regarding students, the reports that you see online, performance reports that identifies how we're doing as a district, some of that data is compiled by me and then uploaded to what was NJRT, which is now NJLET. So all of the reports on the left are managed by my department and all of the platforms on the right um are managed by my department as well. You will notice one of the ones that are brand new this year is
013Magic School AI. So um I would be remiss if I did not share with you guys that this entire presentation was created by AI. I uploaded the information and we'll talk a little bit about that. And one of the things that we ask students to do is one let everybody know you use AI when you're using AI. So let you guys know that I use AI for this um smart. So um responsibilities of our office in addition to the platforms and the state reporting we are also responsible for the Verizon innovative learning schools initiative which is in its third year. So this is year three and we have one more year and our will end in year four up in the 26 2027 school year. At that point, the goal is to identify sustainability measures
014to identify how we can consistently keep students connected as well as having that one-to-one uh initiative. So, there's been conversation about that, you know, with central office administration among my team so that we are looking to identify ways to keep the momentum going and later on I will show you why the momentum needs to keep going because they are using the devices and they're using the data. So, as a district, we would not be responsible if we were not making sure that we are SIPA compliant, which is Children's Internet Privacy, I'm sorry, Protection Act, and COPA compliant, which is Children Online Privacy Protection Act, and Furpa, which is the Family Education Rights to Privacy Act. So all of those coming together make sure that we uh do not allow our students records to be handed
015to any you know to any person. We guard that and anybody who knows me knows that I would guard somebody's records. You know someone would have to come and tell me give it to them because I would guard a record. Um, and definitely with COPA, we make sure that the information doesn't go out into the public and SIPA obviously allows us to put in those filtering systems that block information from coming in that are inappropriate to our children. This is what it looks like when our kids try to go into a site that is inappropriate. They get told immediately that this site is restricted. One of the things that we've been doing, this is a very fluid operation. We understand that at first we locked everything down because we needed to do that because we
016weren't sure where kids were going. So over time we are working with teachers with principles and the students to really tell us what are some of those sites that they really need to get into and as a result we are using our vetting process through education framework which is a service that we use in the district to let us know if those sites are appropriate and if they are we let them through. If not we keep on moving. So, um, one of the programs that you won't see here is ACS Esports, and I do apologize for that, but I would also like to talk about some of our after school programs that have been thriving in the last three years. This is year three of the um, ACS esports program and grade school junior high
017school program and Elviemore Middle School program. So these this information encompasses how the students are meeting what are the requirements. We do not select students for any reason other than that they're interested because this is supposed to be about their interest. We do not identify oh we don't want this kid because of this. We just bring it every student and we do it on a first come first- serve basis because this is just what's fair because this is the instru instructional technology department. We don't do it on paper. We do everything in Genesis because it can be tracked, it's transparent, and it can be streamlined. So, as a result, this is what our program um encompasses. We require 95% of attendance because we know because space is limited, we can only allow a small number
018of students to participate. It's unfair for the one kid that we let in who doesn't show up and now there's somebody waiting in wings and can't get in. So, we shut that down to make sure this is our ACS student tech team. Why am I talking about them? Because we got student tech teams at all three schools. We're talking about these guys because recently um ACS went through Middle States accreditation. And for those of you who don't know, you know, it was an arduous process on a part of the administration at the high school. But I'm told that one of the things that they really talked about were these guys. So these guys in the high school they are highly respected, highly regarded because they are talented and making sure that they provide the technology
019support that you know this the high school the students the staff needs. There are staff members who look for these students like hey come here come and help me out with this. So they're really leveraging their skills. These students are able to repair devices. They can take off your keyboard, put it back. They can repair a screen. They can repair a hinge. So our goal is to as we transition out of the repair process for bills is to get these kids to start doing that in-house. So that's another career pathway for them. And last year we started a tech support student tech team support course. One that's a full year, one that is a half a year. Half year for kids who want to dabble. I'm not sure that's what I want to do. Let
020me see what it's about. And for the kid who really wants to stay in, they can take the full year course because they're experienced. So part of our partnership as always is that we are part of the Morris Union joint commission where our staff gets a lot of professional development. We already talked about bills. We're part of digital promise and we are part of the Monontlair State computer science hub. I'm going to take a moment to talk about the computer science hub because our staff gets all of their professional development from Montlair State computer science hub. this year they are taking this track for their professional learning because we recognize the emerging technology must be addressed as such these are the ones that have occurred in the winter months there were some that happened in
021the fall but I'm sharing these with you guys this is what they are actually covering in their training not only are they learning about these topics but they're also learning about instructional strategies and how to um execute a lesson on these particular topics with students additionally as I mentioned before these are the case that Morris Union joint commission meets. These are them practicing and what I like about um Montlair is that they teach them the way they want them to teach the students so that so that when they go back to classes now what did they do again? They make them really take part in the learning process and our hands-on learning process. We have some bills coaches Washington elementary teacher back there. Uh anyone who recognize Mr. Lopez, he's way back there, you know,
022looking around to see what's going on in the picture. Okay. And we are also part we also participate in the inject um community as well. Just yesterday, two days ago rather, these guys went to the NJ conference and these are not all technology people. We have an ELA teacher here um who's participating, our graphic designs teacher, our financial lit teacher, because we recognize that technology is embedded in everything. So choosing to only align it with people who already teach technology is just not prudent. So, we're making sure everybody is getting the benefit. That brings me to another part of Montlair State Hub is that we they provide us with free activities for our students. So, Day of Computing is something that they they started last year and they only did it for our middle school.
023This year they did it for our elementary, our high school, and our middle school students. So, these guys went back in January. This is them learning how to do some 3D printing with their um what am I calling this? Jesus. >> Um >> yes, thank you. with their pens. And um these are them here showing the results of their work. And in addition to that, they were also learning how to code um utilizing some tools that we've been really really interested. This is a Makey Makey uh product. If you have not seen a Makey Makey product, we do have some in the district. and whatever that you're seeing there, the students actually have access to here. So that way they are exposed to some of these uh to some of these tools. So this is
024the high school and for the high school it was more careerdriven. So at the high school they talked about the development of AI which is an emerging technology. They talked about drones, how drones are going to impact, you know, our lives. We already know that with what's happening right now, you know, how drones are really impacting the lives of others. So they talked a little bit about that. This is one of our student tech team members, but she was also selected. Just so you guys know, I'll just share a little bit about how we selected those students. Students were not selected because we like them because they're on the student tech team. We had to select students who were considered to be an underrepresented group. So, we looked um you know, we look for students
025who are in our ML population, who are in our SPE population, you know, and students who may who may be on the cusp of wanting to be in technology, but they're not sure. So, those are the students who participated and I took this picture because I thought it was so important because these guys were starting to look at I didn't know Montlair had all of that and then they were looking at the um the catalog. So, if you work at another university and you want to have a day of computing, invite us uh Dr. Atkins, we'd be happy to come, you know, and participate. So, this was today because we just came from the day of computing for the middle school. So I just threw the pictures up there so you can see that this
026is all inclusive and everybody participates. This was us just today. All right. So let's talk about our curriculum road map. Uh computer science is provided from K to 12. Um in our K to 4, we must provide instructional technology as well as computer science. When the students get to grade 5, they take instru they take technology education but they also take computer science beginning in grade six. Um although I'm mentioning grade six, please understand that blockbased coding was happening well before that when they are in elementary school. So when they get to grade six, they're participating in blockbased coding with uh with Scratch and they're utilizing the Amazon future engineering curriculum which is a curriculum that we use from grade 6 all the way through 12 for various classes. When they get to Grace Wool
027day, they're talking about AI exploration. So we started talking about AI before AI was being talked about. So, they were already taking those classes by the time they get to high school. And this is just about computer science. They're taking intro to uh computer science with Python 1 or two. They're taking um AP courses. They're taking drones. They're taking student repair academy. And this year, because we did the tech support, they're also taking that as well. Um in addition to that there's our culinary arts pathway, our business pathway, our graphic designs pathway and I did mention our um computer science pathway. We did have in health occupations pathway. The last three years we struggled getting an instructor and actually getting students to participate because without an instructor it's really hard to have kids to want
028to come in and participate. So as such just like everything else when it's not working you don't stay in it and wonder what's going to happen. You make changes. So we pivoted. So next year we are going to be introducing uh digital media pathway because we recognize that there's a high interest in that. So that in that is inclusive of broadcasting of um why am I keep drawing a blank? I'm sorry. It inclusive of of broadcasting portfolio as well as students um taking part in journalism. So that's going to be our digital media pathway. So just want to share with you what our courses look like because there's always like are the kids interested, do they want it, don't they want it? This is data about about what interests there are in our courses here
029at Abraham Clark High School. So financial literacy is huge. So I also want to be transparent that every kid must take it to graduate. So if you see a huge number, you know, please don't think, oh kids, oh my god, I want to take it. But our teacher is phenomenal. Miss Finelis is amazing and all the kids really want to stay in her class. But as you can see, culinary arts is a big one. Digital arts is another big one which is graphic designs and that's followed by esports. And the reason esports is so low is because the room is small. There are only two sections and we can only take but so many kids followed by our computer science and then of course ROC. So we do have thriving programs here um in Rosal
030public school. So, I just wanted to show you what the data actually looks like when it comes to student interest. Now, let's talk a little bit about money and bills. So, last year, and if you were here with us last year, you know that we encountered some issues with um device care with our students. So, I also wanted to highlight some of the money that was probably going down the drain based on losses that um that we that we really experienced last year. But fear not, one of the things that we did, we looked at it like everything else that's not working, you pivot and you find other measures. So, we did institute the $25 uh usage fee. We looked at proactive device collection. I want to highlight Leonard V. more middle school because it
031was through collaborating with them that we came up with a um break collection uh device collection period. So what that means is when the kids go out for break, we take those devices. We tell the parents, let us keep them because we found that a lot of times they take it home, they lose it, they visit grandma in North Carolina, it doesn't come back. You know, I went to my friend's house. I went to the park. So we take them back so that we ensure that we give them back and we give the parents an option to opt out because everybody has choices. But we've been very successful that I think only one parent, this is Dr. James, everybody. Come on, Dr. James. He's so one of our coaches. So only one parent said no,
032but everybody else just gave us their devices willingly. Because of the success of what happened at will and LV, we're doing it again for spring break. This is going to help parents not have those big bills. If you've been doing really well, you've been caring for your devices and we realize the major breakage took place when the kids had idle time. You know, they sat on it, they threw it under the bed, stuff happens. It happens to us, doesn't it? So we just made sure that we took it from them. So this is an example of the type of repair that has happened in 2026 at LVmore so far. I'm selecting LVmore because I'm highlighting some of the measures that they have taken to prevent that. And what we will find as I show you
033more data is that quite a few times the damages are the same across the board. So the hinge failure is a big deal and we recognize that. So we're talking to the manufacturer because we need to know why is it that the hinges fail so much? And so as we transition out of this process, CTL may not be a device that we keep buying because they had this hinge situation is a problem. But it also means that we have to put in more effort in teaching students how to care better for their devices. So when we see kids carrying it correctly, we highlight that, you know, we let them know, I really like the way that you're carrying that so that other kids can hear you say that. So we have also put forth a
034lot of um aggressive measures and making sure that we provide lessons through Dr. James through the others coaches in the schools lessons that teach students how to better care for their devices and really talk about the value of that device because when you don't have it you don't have it. So we just wanted to make sure we share with you guys what have been the major um issues with repair if someone wants to take a photo. So this is 2025 last year and I want to show you what that looks like. So the top cover repair was huge. And when they said top cover repair, please understand top cover repair is inclusive of the screen. I sit on it, I break it, the screen is broken. That has been the major issue. Followed by palm
035rest repair. I'm just resting on it and I break that. As you can see at the bottom, you will find that the um the mouse is also, you know, one of the issues that we had. hinge is not the biggest issue, but because the hinge is an issue, we need to address if this is the best device for our students, you know, long term. So, that's what that actually looked like from last year. This year, same situation. This is the year of 2026. I don't have the counts up there. I just want to go back and show you that this was 200 260 and change. And we are now in the month of March and the school year is almost over. So we're hoping that the numbers will remain low for us by the time
036we end the school year. All right. So you see that there's a grand difference because the bars still expand. I people like it's the same thing. No, the numbers at the bottom indicate, you know, that we are making good strides, you know, with some of our measures here. So as you can see, you know, some of our strategies and we have had a new user policy focusing on transparency. We make sure that every parent is aware. We've sent those things um out at home. We've also had our coaches and our school administration being very transparent about their communication. When something happens, we push out the information directly to the parent. Conversation is had. We tell them right away. This is what happens because last year we heard people even though we had taken those measures,
037maybe we needed to be more aggressive. So, we heard when people complain and said, "You guys didn't tell us until we got to June." Well, now we're just pushing out the con, you know, the information consistently. LV Moore is about to push out all of its information at the end of this month, and so is will they and so is the high school to let parents know those of those who still have outstanding, you know, um, issues that those issues are outstanding so that by the time June comes along, this is not when they're finding out, you know, that there are certain issues and they have all summer. And please note that we do have partial payment um opportunities for those parents as well if the damage requires a payment. Not all damage is required
038for the parent to make a payment because we know technology is a privilege not a right. We receive these devices. Yes, we have to provide all students equitable access to technology while they are in school. But is a privilege to take that access to technology home. We want to give it to everyone, but we do have to share that if someone is being abusive to that privilege, we do have to restrict it. So, we do have some students who come in and take their devices every day and hand it back to us because it's either there's been damages or we've not had um cooperation on the side of the guardian. Any questions so far? Cuz I keep going. I'll keep going. >> No questions. Okay. So, what's new? I want you to bring your attention
039to the bottom because that's the most important. And Dr. James um uh is going to come and help me out here. We in uh we started last year by introducing class VR. And class VR is another way to allow students to have their individualized learning based on a particular science or social studies or ELA subject, but they're doing it through a VR uh component. We've seen kids really really enjoy uh that particular opportunity in addition to all these other tools that we have. You see the Nintendo Switch, people like why do you have that in education because there is value in utilizing that Nintendo Switch. So we have some of those um for students to utilize in the classroom as well. Our Spir robots involve lots of coding. Our Azobots also involves coding and and
040our um drones are just that. We have a drones course that and an after school program that allows the students to utilize that. And let's not forget the esports room at the high school. Thank you, Dr. Fischer. And um we now have an esports room at Grace Will Day, which is also a driving. If you haven't seen it, please take, you know, a trip. Go check it out. Um it looks really, really good. We've also added 3D printers at all of the schools. Now, can I say all schools didn't have 3D printing? No, I cannot. But they were I wanted 3D printers to be accessible to all the teachers because sometimes they're existing for a particular department or a subject. It's important to know that the ELA teacher might also want to engage in some
0413D printing and they should have access to that. And at the high school, we have the laser printer and Cricut machine as we get into wanting to create an entrepreneur opportunity for our students to be able to service the community by taking jobs from the community um creating things here and then um selling it out to the community. So that's another way um for them to really build um their entrepreneurship spirits here at the high school. So that's coming. Um you'll notice some of these people. This is our You want to pass those out? >> Only one. >> Never mind. So, this is our uh Merge Cube. Now, Merge Cube is augmented reality. Anybody ever look for um Pokemon out there? >> Yes. >> Nobody. Okay. >> Go. >> So, that's called augmented reality. So
042when you're in augmented reality, your your actual environment is still intact, but the extra, you know, piece that um you should be seeing is then in is then part of your actual >> So you're talking about like the Pokemon Go game. >> Yes. >> Absolutely. You guys go chasing those Pokemons, find them in places, be careful. Okay. So yeah, so this is um this is something similar to that, but it's merge cube. And this this lends itself heavily on science as well as social studies. So we got these and I just want to say just because we're instructional technology, I recognize that my role is not only to stick to technology that I have to lend technology to make sure technology is infused in other subjects. So this particular tool lends itself heavily onto science
043as well as ELA subjects. So this is uh we had a PD with our teachers and we everyone will be getting an iPad. I thought our iPads we let you guys play with it, but that doesn't seems to be working out. And um with the merge cube, if they scan it based on what it is that they would like to see, they can actually zoom in study. You can actually pull up a sarcophagus and then me stand next to it and see maybe if you would fit into that. Turns out that people were much smaller back then. So a lot of us can't fit into those sarcophaguses. Okay. But that's that's very interesting information that the kids are finding out through an augmented reality setting. So, this is our printer, our um laser printer that
044we just got because we also recognize in visiting a lot of schools. Um I've visited a lot of schools and seeing what it is that they're doing, you know, in terms of making sure that the kids are innovative and creative. So, this is one and we already have kids who are dying to get their hands on it. As soon as we get it set up and we open those doors, those kids will be um popping in. So, if you guys have businesses and you want to make like keychains and t-shirts, please look for us next year cuz we will definitely be in business, you know, to do some of those things um for you guys next year because it will be part of our graphic designs, business, and digital media pathways. Nothing happens with our
045policy. So, this year we looked at our acceptable use policy. So, if you have been to any conference, you keep hearing people say, "You got to have an AI policy. You got to have an AI policy." One of the things that they're not talking about is that you already had an acceptable use policy and AI is another technology that should be in your acceptable use policy. So last year and thank you to the board, you guys approved our updated acceptable use policy which was inclusive of artificial intelligence and the regulations for the use of it. So because you guys were able to do that for us, we were able to devise this particular visual um screen here to just share with the students and the staff and hopefully with the community to talk about what
046is it that we are looking for in the utilization of not just AI but in technology overall. Obviously certain behaviors are strictly prohibited. That was always the case. Cyber bullying was around well before AI came along. It just got a little bit more interesting. you know, so that's always been around. So, we had to make sure that we are addressing, you know, the same issues that that um that always occur, some of the things that we still needed to address, but making sure that artificial intelligence is part of that conversation. So, digital forgery, I remember people didn't want us to use Google. Remember that? Don't you use Google? Because they don't want you to use Google. You had to go get that encyclopedia. Well, now all of a sudden, you're asking Google everything. So now
047you got AI. Don't you use AI? Well, AI is pulling that stuff from Google. The only difference is it's working a lot faster and it's more, you know, uh, and it's more precise in terms of the information that it's giving you. So, we really got to start having that conversation about what AI actually does so that way we're not always blocking, you know, students ability to grow cuz AI is here. It's here. We can either decide to keep the kids out of it and not help them to navigate that world properly and then eventually find themselves in a situation they were not ready for or we can really help to guide them through it. So those are some of the things that we actually put in place. You notice the site and verify AI rule
048is huge because you got to tell people use AI cuz there's nothing wrong with it. And we got to start talking about there's no shame in using AI because that Google map takes you I mean that when you ask Siri to give you directions it does are you cheating. So we got to also start talking about it's okay to use it how you're using it. If I if I'm if I don't know how to solve a problem yeah it teaches me how to solve it and I learn now because it tells me this is where you went wrong. Have I not learned something? And if I'm just saying, "Hey, write me a paragraph." Like I was a 15 year old boy in high school, you know, who doesn't really write that well, who gets only
049C's and B's and then AI punches something out. That's cheating. Okay. But if I wrote it and I'm saying, "Can you correct my spelling? Help me enhance my thoughts because that those are my thoughts. I wrote that already." You know, and we do that with our teacher. They give us feedback. Go back and do this. Go back and do that. So that's an ethical framework for us. We acknowledge and sight. We review and we verify. We know that AI can hallucinate. If you've been to any of the legal one PDs, you've heard that AI one time created a whole brief for an attorney. And when he went to present it, none of those cases existed. So, we want to make sure that that doesn't happen to our students. And that means that they still had
050to engage in the learning process. They have to know what they're looking for in order to recognize if AI is doing a good job. Am I right? So maintaining creative control, they got to start using it and understand what they're what they want to get out of it. What do I want to get out of that? So, and of course there's zero tolerance. We talked about malicious use already. Um, and I was watching um, Law and Order SVU and they were they've already um, identifying deep fake, somebody talking to their husband and the husband had passed away. They called it a grieving um, avatar, a grief avatar. >> And then when she went to court, turns out she couldn't testify against her husband cuz she believed that it was her husband that she was talking
051to. There's a lawyer in the room. You tell me if that's right. I don't know. So anyway, so all of these things are impacting our lives and we got to start having open conversations. So the great equalizer for us was that we purchased Magic School AI because it is based on education only. It's an education tool. So if we want them to start using it, I don't want to say everybody jump on to chat GPT cuz it's not an education tool, but it's there. I want them to use it, but I want them to start from here. I don't want to say jump to Gemini. So it also supports our ML population greatly in our sped population. It also helps the teachers do a much better job at differentiation differentiating lessons. We know that some
052of us are great at differentiation and others need a little bit of help. So for those teachers, they also have that it does a great job at creating um at creating activities for students, you know, in the classroom. So not only does this benefit our teachers, it also benefits our students. Oh, did I mention real-time translation? because it also has that and it speaks my native tongue. So I was very happy, you know, to use Magic School. Okay. So if you guys wanted to scan that, it is a slide deck so that you can learn a little bit more about what Magic School actually does. Um only if you want to, but I'll share the slide deck with you at a later time. But this just gives you a slide deck. I got that from
053Texo when we went to Texo, which by the way, thanking Dr. Washington for coming. I really appreciated your input and your contribution to the process because you know it was great to collaborate and partner so that way we knew exactly what the needs were from the side of the board and then she was able to understand what the needs were from the side of of the educators. So thank you. >> You're welcome. >> All right. So this is what we're going to do next. We open AI. We had a policy. We opened it to the teachers and we decided wouldn't it be great if we had an AI showcase? And some people might say hey that's kind of fast. those kids have been using AI before we were. So, we decided to streamline that and
054start with creating an AI showcase, which is, by the way, happening on March 26. Um, invitations went out. We would love for you guys to participate. I have 150 students signed up and they're going to be presenting AI from different, you know, from different lenses as to how it's being utilized. Some kids have created things using AI. Some kids are going to show you how to best use AI. Um, Dr. Jinx has some great students coming in to create. They created some apps. The high school created apps. So, I cannot wait for them to really showcase some of the things that they have done on the 26th, but we also know and showcasing it here is great, but we're not touching the whole entire um community. So, we're going to try to do a little
055bit more for that. So, there's rigor behind the magic. So, we did talk about the six steps to PBL process. This is what our staff went through to make sure that they had a good handle on the projects that they're going to be presenting on the 26th. So, please come in and enter the great hall of AI with me on the 26th. You guys are most welcome, you know, to come in and participate. This is our flyer. So, we realize that in addition to making sure our students are comfortable, there are some naysayers that are still kind of resistant. So, we're inviting the community out to have an AI conversation with Dr. Katherine Herbert and Anthony Scriffit Scriffitaniano. Yes, I got that right cuz I've had such trouble um saying that. So, they're coming out
056to really have an AI conversation with the community to really answer some of those nagging questions, some of those things that I may know how to answer, but these are the experts. So, they're part of Montlair State University. Another benefit to the partnership that we have with Montlair is that we have people who come out for free. Everything I've shown you so far has been gratus, you know, to us. So, I just wanted to highlight that as well. But it doesn't um go without saying in addition to all of that, we continue to learn. We continue to go to these technology conferences. Dr. Washington is not there. I thought about making AI put her in there, but she was actually somewhere else handling something that a board president had to handle. as such she wasn't
057part of that picture but we understand her absence but not that she didn't contribute not that she wasn't important but she wasn't part of this picture and then we did evaluate our um sessions in that way so if you guys want to scan that you will see how we evaluate our sessions we don't just go and chill and have a wonderful time we actually come back and we converse and we identify what tools did we like tools that we didn't like you know sometimes a vendor will promise you everything and then you're like wait a minute this doesn't track you know or this really doesn't service our population. So then we had to really you know go a little bit deeper. So that's the form that everybody was asked to complete and that data was
058used to have further discussion. What's coming up next year and over the summer we'll be using the inftoics because it is time to dive in. So part of our computer science program will not be inclusive of robotics. So what that means is for the kids who are interested in robotics, some kids are good with their hands, some kids are not. So we're going to have both platforms. Some kids will be able to build the robot virtually and digitally and some kids will be able to build it, excuse me, by hand. We've seen kids and if you scan this QR code as well, you'll see some of the big life-size uh robots that kids actually build. As I mentioned earlier, we have a digital media pathway and that's also going to help bring students to a
059space because you hear kids, I want to be a YouTuber. Well, what does do they know what that involves? There's so much on the back end. It's not enough turn on my camera and just talk. You have to have a platform. You have to be able to have somebody who's actually doing the editing, somebody who understands lighting, somebody who knows how to zoom in, you know, the sound. They don't understand some of those. So, we're going to make sure that all of those are um addressed in our digital media pathway. and computer science cyber security is another thing that we are currently vetting right now in addition to our business and graphic designs pathway. I know I've said a lot. Any questions? Yes, ma'am. >> I have a question for you as well. Um, thank
060you for the presentation. It was amazing. I do see that we were concentrating a lot like from first grade all the way to the high school, but what are we doing in terms of the technology and the um and everything that you're introducing for our little ones, our >> I'm so glad you asked. I'm so glad you asked. Okay, so currently we're Thank you for asking that. So, we actually have um coding kits at KSA. The reason why I didn't include KSA in this one because you guys know unfortunately we did lose our teacher. And so um we have a substitute, you know, that's currently working. We're working with him to um execute those lessons. But we have um coding kits over where kids are beginning to understand that what is command, you know, they're
061building from uh using different mats and setting them up. And then the mouse actually if if you put the the maps correctly, if you want the mouse to go left, then you have to put the right map. this they're beginning to understand command. In addition to that, we are actually demoing an interactive table right now um at KSA for um for those particular students. And um funny thing you should mention when I brought up AI for grades 1 to to 12 um Mrs. Gonzalez was like here are some things I want to do with AI. I said girl let's talk about it. So we are addressing some things that we are doing um for the kids at the Kindergarten Success Academy. But the one thing that we want them to do, one is to be
062able to get the right tool to utilize a tablet versus a laptop because their gross motor and fine motor skills are not there yet for a laptop. So thankfully with the substitute that we have there, he's been really really excellent in getting the kids to log in properly, understanding how to navigate, you know, different websites cuz at that age level, that's really what we can actually share with them because we really have to be very careful about the amount of screen time that they have. So, we make sure that some of the things that they're doing is more tangible like the coding mouse and the in the pad that we have there. >> Okay. >> Did that satisfy? >> Yes. >> Okay. Any other questions? >> Well, these little ones have screens. >> Yes. >>
063As low as as young as prek. >> And we talk about screen time all the time. But they are clearly advanced because they can find what they need even if they can't read what. Right. >> Right. >> They literally know how to find what they need >> or what they're interested in output. >> Right. >> How what is the plan to further engage them in that route? >> Not just take away the screen time. But how do how are we going to even at that age >> teach responsibility, responsible use even in school and really get something from it? How do we leverage that? >> Okay, so you're right about the kids already using it. My fear there's only supposed to be 20 minutes of screen time for a four-year-old while at school. You really
064should not be having them on the screen consistently, you know. So, one of the things that I would definitely promote is that we you we're teaching them how to either use the voice command, use a translation tool, some of the things that are going that's going to help them or some of the reading tools that that read aloud, you know, the speech to text and things of that nature. There should not be places. You should not walk into a prek classroom and this kid's been on this tablet for like the last 40, 45 minutes. That's too much. They should not be on there. So, you could be talking about how do you care for your device? We can ask the kids to either articulate that we can give jobs, you know, every day. Who passes
065this out? What are we supposed to do with? So that's it's about the conversation. We can't have them on that screen because we understand that at home sometimes they're on it a little bit too much. >> We're going to share these strategies with parents so that they can replicate what we're teaching at home. I mean, at school, at home, because I do think we should just be sharing the strategies because you're right, the screens are watching them and that's how they know. >> Yeah. I mean, we definitely can share the strategies, but in in kindergarten, there isn't a specific section for a computer class, and there shouldn't be. In kindergarten, everything should be integrated inclusive of, you know, art, music, all of those things should be integrated in all of the lessons, you know. So,
066I can definitely share some strategies with parents about screen time. We did used to have some of those Zoom, you know, uh, meetings about, you know, social media, screen time for kids. So, I can definitely, you know, revive some of those measures. The, for me, the issue, just like we see in this room, the audience isn't coming. So, we want the audience to participate, but I'm happy to send out as much information as I can. Go to KSA, send out handouts, you know, and things like that and to the um to First Light, you know, education. >> I guess we should figure out how we incentivize engagement. >> Absolutely. Definitely. Well, I'm hoping that um when parents come out to see their kids perform because they will show up. So, when the kids are performing
067for the AI, >> I think that might be the best time to share that. Absolutely. Any other questions, comments, concerns, complaints? >> It was a great presentation. Thank you so much for giving us, you know, >> that update and and all the great things that are happening in the district. Appreciate it. >> Thank you everyone. I appreciate you. >> Have a good night. Will you be able to share? >> No. >> Yeah. I did all the but then I don't like it. So I took it. >> Yeah, I know. I know. I'm looking I'm doing >> I had a couple questions. >> Okay. sources. >> Yeah, that's >> cuz otherwise it pulls up. It goes to Rosal. If you mention Rosal's like, "Oh, let me up there." And then it everything out. >> Okay. >>
068Yeah. >> Okay. Great. Great. Thank you. Thank you. >> Thanks, Miss. >> Thank you, Miss Sing for that presentation. I do hope we get to share this out with other parents, especially at the AI showcase. Now comes the section of the meeting for public comment as mandated by this board's policies. Members of the public who wish to address the board during the public comment portion of this meeting may do so for four minutes. Please come to the microphone. Provide your name and address for the record. When speaking, please address all comments to the board president. Public comment is not intended to be a question and answer period. It is the time of the meeting during which the public may speak on any topic associated with the business of this board of education. All public comments
069must conform to basic standards of civility. Disruptive, threatening, defamatory and or profane comments as well as political commentary will not be allowed. If spoken during the meeting, the commenter will be stopped and may be removed from the meeting. Is there anyone here for public comment? Seeing that there's no public comment, I'm closing public comment. It is 8:04 p.m. U may I have a motion and a second to accept and approve uh superintendent recommendations business items 3.1 and 3 do 3.1 and 3.2 on the agenda. Is that >> Oh, wait. I'm sorry. That's I need to I'm sorry. I want to cancel that because I noticed there wasn't Sorry. I know there wasn't a section here. So, I want to I want to reverse that because we didn't do the the um the acceptance of our
070other stuff. So now may I have a motion and accept accepted to accept governance items uh present governance items presentation is presented public comment and superintendent recommendation 3.1 through 3.2 >> second Dr. Please take a roll now. >> Oh, Ta. I'm sorry. I didn't see this. I'm sorry. Mrs. T, please take a >> Mrs. Chavez. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Woody. >> Yes. >> Dr. Atkins. >> Yes. Miss >> Yes. >> Mortz. >> Miss Santa. >> Yes. >> Miss Turnish. Dr. Washington. >> Yes. >> Miss Washington. >> Yes. >> Motion passes. >> Thank you. And now may I have a motion and a second to accept and approve curriculum and instruction item 5.1 field trips. >> So saves >> second. >> Fine. >> Any discussion? >> Seeing that there's no discussion. Mr. Tiva, may I have
071a roll call, please? >> Mrs. Chavez. >> Yes. >> Miss Bond. >> Yes. >> Dr. Atkins. >> Yes. Mortinez. Miss Santos. >> Yes. >> Miss German. >> Dr. Washington. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Washington. >> Yes. >> Miss Wood. >> Yes. >> Motion passes. >> Thank you. Um, I just want to remind everyone that our next regular board meeting will be on Monday, March 23rd. We will convene for executive session at 6 p.m. And then we will convene to regular portion at 7 p.m. and the board will be holding a special board of education meeting for professional development of the board from Friday, March 27th and Saturday, March 28th. Friday, March 27th starts at 6:00 and Saturday, March 28th starts at 8:00 a.m. at Elvie Moore Middle School gym. Thank you everyone and may I have
072a motion to adjourn. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I thank you. See everyone on the regular board meeting. Got to take the power. >> I'm going to call I'm going to call Mary. Jessica. I'm going to call Mary. Yeah, that's