001Roll call, please. >> Mr. Akamando, >> present. >> Miss Brelli, >> present. >> Mr. Deello. Mr. Aello, >> present. >> Missello. >> Miss Roloff >> here. >> Miss Torbick, >> present. >> M. Traverso >> here. >> Miss Aarelli >> here. Please stand for the pledge of allegiance. I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Adequate notice of this meeting has been sent to all members of the board of education and to the burgard record in accordance with the provisions of the open public meetings act chapter 231-1975. At this time, please be advised that all cell phones and electronic devices are to be turned off. Student representative report. Nia. Good evening everyone. I will
002now be sharing the district updates beginning with our high school. It has been an exciting and busy time at Saddleberrook High School and there is a lot to say. One of the biggest highlights was our school production of Guys and Dolls. The musical was fantastic, filled with laughs and incredible performances. The cast and crew did an absolutely amazing job. Academically, several important events are coming up. Junior testing will take place next week and AP mock exams are scheduled for the week of March 30th leading directly into spring break. Also, spirit week begins on March 23rd followed by the pep rally on March 27th. We want to recognize several outstanding members of our school community. A huge congratulations to our valadictorian Mambir Carr and saludiatoran Katie Han for their exceptional academic achievements. Additionally, Mr. Cudin received
003the outstanding music educator award for his dedication and contributions to the music program. Another special recognition goes to Lorena Carmona Lopez, our unsung hero. Lorena transferred from Cuba in 10th grade and has grown into one of our standout seniors, demonstrating perseverance and excellence throughout her time at Saddlebrook. Our DECA chapter has also had an impressive showing this year after competing at the regional competition in Ramapo College. Three students qualified for the DECA state career development conference in in Atlantic City where more than 5,500 students participated. Mambir Carr served as conference intern and received the Northern Region Scholarship for her leadership and as our chapter founder and president. Senior Adriana Maize and sophomore Elena Tovar competed in the marketing team decision-making roleplays and advanced to a finalist event. For a smaller and newer chapter, Saddlebrook's DECA
004team remained competitive against many larger schools, making our school proud as always. Looking ahead, the senior banquet is taking place tonight, hence why Zuzi is not here. And our parent partnership night, which includes a college fair specifically for juniors, will be held soon to help families prepare for the college application process. Overall, Saddleberrook High School continues to celebrate student success, school spirit, and exciting opportunities for our community. Now, for the middle school. On March 3rd, we held our annual middle school kickball tournament. Our students showed off serious skills, teamwork, and amazing school spirit. Congratulations to all of the players. A special shout out to Mr. Shimone and Miss Summers for putting this event together. On March 5th, the middle school high school hosted its annual STEM fair, the accumulation of weeks of hard work by
005our middle and high school students. The event showcased projects that brought steam and STEM concepts to life through fun interactive displays for the entire school community. This year's highlights included making homemade ice cream, exploring paper airplane mechanics, and demonstrating 3D printing. Our students worked incredibly hard and should be very proud of their accomplishments. A special thank you to Mr. Vill for hosting and celebrating our student success. At Washington School, we are excited to be looking forward to the week of the young child in April. This special week is recognized by the National Association for Education of Young Children and celebrates early learning, young children, their teachers, and their families. Throughout the week, our preschool students will be participating in a variety of fun and engaging activities designed to highlight their creativity, learning, and the joy
006of early childhood education. We believe that when families and schools work together, students build a stronger foundation for learning and success. The Week of the Young Child provides a wonderful opportunity to celebrate this partnership and recognize the important role that families play in supporting their children's growth and development. As always, be sure to check out the Washington School newsletter for more. Now, for our elementary schools, beginning with Smith School. Smith School is excited to share that ReadAcross America was a huge success. We would like to thank all of our community members who came in to read. The children were thrilled to welcome first responders, board members, the mayor, town council members, and district administration into their learning spaces. A big thank you should also go out to Jill Faulk, our reading specialist. Mrs. Faulks worked
007to organize schoolwide buddy reading sessions and teacher swaps. Everyone loved the week. As the weather has turned and our students have returned to outdoor recess, we are focusing on the making good choices part of our school motto. Finally, we are looking forward to several events towards the end of the month, including a third grade planet exhibit, fifth grade wax museum, and sixth grade trip to the middle school. Over at Franklin, it has been a busy and productive month at Franklin School. They celebrated ReadAcross America week with a full lineup of activities, including guest readers visiting classrooms throughout the day, a teacher read aloud switch, where students got to hear from different teachers across the building, as well as reading buddies, pairing older and younger students together. Franklin school staff came together for professional development session
008led by Mrs. Padron, their ESL teacher on strategies to support multilingual learners. Second graders completed the KOGO AT testing and fourth grade students participated in the NAP testing. Students in grades 3 to six also enjoyed a special preview assembly of the middle school high school spring musical. Finally, at Long School, as previously mentioned, last week our school celebrated the joy of reading and literacy throughout Read Across America Week. Long School celebrated by doing the following. They welcomed guest readers from across the community into their classrooms, had teachers swap home rooms with different grade levels, which allowed students to see a new or former teacher and enjoy a reading activity that was loved by all the students. They implemented reading buddies as well and fostered friendship and mentorship. Older and younger students partnered up, allowing upper
009elementary students to practice leadership while sharing books with their younger peers. And finally, to cap off the week, the entire school went neon. Students and staff wore bright and neon colors to celebrate the theme reading makes our future bright. That is everything for our school district. Thank you. >> Thank you, Mia. And time for superintendent's report. >> Yes. All right, Mia, thank you. That was a whole lot. I'll try not to repeat. All right, so first I just wanted to start with our district had a food administrative review or audit and Mr. Karate here received praises from the state on his organization, provided all the correct paperwork. Pomptonian was great as well. The reviewer observed breakfast and lunch at Franklin School. Mr. Robinson worked with Pmptonian to ensure all went well, and the reviewer remarked
010on their smooth process, the workers knowing the the students names, and the students looking happy and coming up to grab more fruit and healthy snacks. So they were very happy with our process here. I also wanted to provide an update on the athletic hall of fame. The committee did meet. They are planning on honoring the new the inductees at the October 2nd football game and having hosting a dinner on Saturday. I just want to extend a thank you. Mr. Vin Lurentino has been spearheading this. He's the president and Mr. Ionelo our athletic director. So thank you to both of them. Congratulations. We did announce our valadictorian and saludiatoran. two very special students, Man Bear and Katie. Deca was wonderful. We had um our adviserss, Mrs. Ripus, Miss Mar was not able to make it, but
011Mrs. Sharp went and as as a chaperon, and Mrs. Collie, our director of special services, and Mrs. Dabonis, our director of curriculum and instruction, also attended as judges. So, it was really fun event. We're very excited. And I think we'll be finding out on Friday if any of our students will be invited to nationals. But for some relevance, we sent three students. one as a um what was her title? As a conference intern and then two of our students competed. I know Northern Highland sent about 150 students. Other districts sends hundreds of students. So we sent two that competed and they made it to right before finals and there is a chance that they're even going to make it to finals. So want to congratulate. We should be really proud of our students and our
012reading specialists across our district did a fabulous job at Read Across America. I believe this is the first year Washington School joined in on the action and thank you to all the community members who came in to read to our students. The students love it and it's really appreciated. There was a special guest in fourth grade at Smith School because Mr. Chapman's brother works for the NFL. Um he's an NFL agent. So he joined on Zoom with to read a book by Malcolm Mitchell, a former New England Patriots wide receiver. And then Ian, hope I pronounced this right, Rapaort and Mike Gafalo also joined in and they spoke to the students about their jobs and the work the play how they work with players every day and most importantly how working hard in school opens
013doors later. They talked about effort, perseverance, believing in yourself. The students asked thoughtful questions and they were really excited to talk to people who work in the NFL. So thank you to them. Congratulations to Mr. Cudin. As Mia shared, he did win the outstanding music educator award. He went down to Atlantic City to accept it and thank you to his colleagues, Frank Artega, Lisa Gratos, Natalie Kowski. They went to AC to support him as well. So that was nice. As of right now, we have used two snow days in the district. So we have three snow days built into the calendar barring any emergency emergency day that we need to use. That means we will be gaining back one day, which would be the Friday before Memorial Day weekend. I got everyone's attention now, so
014that's good. Um, so that would be on next month's agenda. I also have to share that our district participates in a grant. It's called sites. It stands for center on inclusive technology and education systems and it's essentially to support augment augmentative communication devices across the district for students that are non-verbal and they use their iPad for communication and I am required to share their mission statement. Our mission statement so bear with me. Saddlebrook is committed to strategically integrating technology to provide equitable access and maximize learning outcomes for all students. It is our goal to create a dynamic and universally accessible learning culture where technology empowers every student regardless of ability to reach their full potential. We envision a future where technology seamlessly adapts to individual needs, fostering independence, engagement, and a lifelong love of learning.
015So, thank you to Mrs. Collie and Miss Hannenburgg, our director and supervisor of special services. They work closely with sites and they meet every every maybe monthly or every every couple months. Okay. Yesterday we had the NAP assessment. The NEAP assessment is a national assessment. Randomly chooses schools and grade levels. So the fourth grade at Franklin School was chosen. They tested in math and reading. No scores are provided. It's it's solely data for our country. But I just wanted to say thank you to Mr. Robinson. He created his own little manual. He organized it all and he wasn't required to do anything because they they actually come in. NAPE comes in and they organize it all. Um but he did step up for that and I thank him also for the state testing. The state
016sent out a broadcast to districts that includes some more details on the new assessment and information for parents that I will be sending out. I'll be sending out district updates by the end of this week and parent partner partnership night information. Um we it is going to be parent night for juniors before parent partnership. That's going to be the first meeting. The college fair is really for anybody. We encourage all high school students to walk through the college fair and start talking to the college representatives. And then there'll be other workshops I previously sent out, but I'll send it again so everyone has the information. On the agenda tonight, because I know not everyone's going to stay, on the agenda tonight is a delayed opening at the middle school high school for non-esting students for
017NJGPA testing, which is next week. So that's a mandated that's a graduation requirement, NJPA. So next week, Monday through Friday, will be a delayed opening for all students not participating in the NJGPA in this building only. Also on the agenda tonight is next year's school calendar. So while I have everybody figured I would share. I surveyed across the county, the Bergen County Superintendent group. We have a strong a really strong group. We sent out a survey. We looked at that survey to see because Labor Day starts September 7th. So it's the latest it can it can start. So we based on that survey, what I did was I went through the sheet and looked at what was most common across the district. So what was most common across the district, I mean across the county,
018I apologize, was for teachers to start September 1st and 2nd. Students start the third and fourth with minimum sess session days. Labor Day would be closed on the 7th and then we start um so we are starting school before Labor Day because it does fall so late this year. I also wanted to share some other updates with the calendar. Um, we haven't been closed for Martin Luther King Day and based on the survey, most districts are closed for Martin Luther King Day and I also went back to our attendance that day and it was a little low. So, the district will be closed for Martin Luther King Day next school year. Thank you. I also for February break the majority and I did this because we we have plenty of staff that have young young
019children in different districts. I'm trying to make it so it's compatible and helpful to everybody. President's Day, most districts have off Monday, Tuesday. So, we've always had off Friday, Monday since I've been here, but we we're going to change that to having off Monday, Tuesday of President's Day. Then, spring break. So, most districts are leaning towards moving spring recess, not attaching it to the Easter holiday, and having a week off in April where the weather is nicer. So, looking across the district, we were able looking across the county, we were able to do that. We were still able to have off Good Friday and Easter Monday because we are starting earlier, but our spring break would be the week of April 12th. So, it was between April 12th and April 19th and April 12th had
020the most. So, that's how that was chosen. Then, our last day of school would be Friday, June 18th. So, that's the calendar is on the agenda for tonight. And now I want to thank all the law memorial staff that I see here. see student intern, clinical intern, families, and our students that are here tonight. We are going to now transition to our presentation portion of the meeting. And I'm going to ask our board members to please switch over to the chairs. Okay. So, welcome everybody. Well, we have everybody here. I'm going to introduce the principal of Law Memorial School. In case you didn't know who she was, we have Mrs. Mansfield joining us tonight and she is going to share along with her students our Amplify program. So, our Amplify program, we started in Ken
021one a few years ago, then we moved it to three and then four, and we're hoping to include it in our budget for grade five next school year. So, Amplify is a literacy program and it integrates a lot of science and social studies into the instruction. So, with that, I'm going to have Mrs. Mansfield start to share. Thank you, Mrs. Vietti. I'm so happy to see everyone here. I am so excited to present the hard work that our students have been doing in the school in all grade levels. But I really wanted to focus tonight on ELA and on Amplify because it is such a great program. and I walk around the school every day and I see the excitement of the students and I see these great projects and I'm sure they tell you
022at home, but what better way than have them bring some of their projects here tonight so that they could show you live and in person. Um, so with each grade level, we have kindergarten, first, second, third, and fourth. I'm going to call each grade level up one at a time and students, you can come up with your teachers and your projects and we'll talk a little bit about what's happening, the great things happening in each grade level. So, we're going to start first with our kindergarten students. Thank you, Miss Duino. One of the kindergarten units was focused on the royal family and uh Kings and Queens. And last week they actually ended their week with a royal ball. And it was we together. >> For anybody who knows me, are we shocked that this is
023my favorite unit ever? Are we right? >> Thank you, Mrs. Comar. So, we learned about royalty. We learned about kings and queens and kings and queens all over the country and all over the world. The country. um we made ourselves into kings and queens and we talked about what it would be like to live in a castle or if we ruled the school. Um if we were the king or queen of kindergarten and rulers of the playground. We talked about some 3D shapes and we got to build our own castles. You want to show us your castle, Luca? Show us your one. Um we I know. And we used foam paint to make castles. And of course, we did end our celebration with a royal ball. We had a royal snack. We had a royal
024snack. We had dancing. Andy, what? Everyone's royal snack was different. Everyone's had their own royal snack. Allergy purposes. Um, do you want to share your story? If you were queen, what would you do first if you ran the school? Ready? And show them. Come here. Ready? First I put on my crown. >> Then I have my orb. >> Finally I play on the playground. >> Good job. >> All right. Ready? Show them yours. If King Luca ran the school, he said, "First, I would have my royal snack. Then I will have royal recess, and finally we would all play on the playground. You want me to read it?" All right. If King Michael lived in a castle, he said, "If I lived in a castle, I would have a game room." Show them your castle.
025Okay, King Michael is out of the building. All right, ready? And then we read Cinderella and we talked about if we had a fairy godmother and Mr. Marino, if you had a fairy godmother, >> I I went to go to a volcano because it is warm. >> Warm. >> We were all done with the snow. >> Show them your picture. A >> thank you to our first graders. >> Oh, kindergarteners. I'm sorry. >> They're like first graders >> almost. Come here. >> Come here. Come here. >> Good job. Come here. Two. Give it up for these brave kindergarteners. And now I'm going to to invite up our first graders. >> What? Okay. So, on our slideshow that I have displayed, um it shows some of the um units that the first graders have done this
026year and then they're going to show some of their projects. So they did animal research and they researched animal habitats and they also worked with the media specialist Miss Valante to put their information onto Google slides. So we incorporated the tech piece into it as well with language arts, science, social studies and um tech. First graders also learned about ancient Egypt. They did hieroglyphics. They learned about King Tut. And they also learned about space and astronomy. and they're with throughout all of this the vocabulary they've learned throughout these units has been so extensive. Okay. So, who wants to >> and they're going to share some of the important information they learned. >> The earth has abundant water than land. And abundant was one of the first grade vocabulary words. Very impressive. And the story ancient
027people that constellation were made by God >> and for that they had very important words of ancient and constellations. Egypt people were studying the gods and I learned about of the brain dipper. They can be big or small. >> And for um Dia's work, she learned what the word counterclockwise meant. >> Counterclockwise means that the moon rotates around the Earth. clockwise >> counterclockwise was rotating the moonw directions the way have move Zayn has some more vocabulary for us how they use the the core vocabulary of the unit in context >> the sun has gas that is why we don't get close. >> The sun is made up of gases and you can't go near it. Very good. And now these students focused on the space and astronomy unit, but if you see up here, you
028could see what they did with the ancient Egypt and the hieroglyphics and learning about King Tut and also with their animal research. Thank you. First screen. And now I'm going to invite up our second grade teachers and students. >> Hello Okay. Yeah. Keep walking. Keep walk. >> Hi. Okay. Now that I just wagon train two, come on. You know what? I'm gonna I'm gonna through the slides. >> Maybe. We'll see. Maybe. We'll see how fast. >> All right. Second grade. Are we ready? >> Yeah. Um, we posted some of the things that we did previously. So, we um first of all, I was one of the ones that started Amplify here, which was shocking at first, but we love it. And we do a uh ancient Greek civilizations and myths, and that's where we focused
029on narrative writing, and they wrote their own myths, and we published them on the computer, and they were fabulous, right? We we had gods and goddesses in our myths and some magic, right? Okay. And then we went on to the War of 1812, which I actually learned a little bit myself because I wasn't really familiar with that war. Um, so we started off with portraits and the kids drew portraits of themselves and there's some of the portraits of the people that we learned about. Dolly Madison is our favorite, right? No, I love Dolly. And then um during the unit we also focused on sequencing and first next last and that kind of thing to retell. And then we went to >> and these portraits are displayed in our hallway and they're so fun to go
030by and look at and read. They did a fantastic job. >> Then we went into cycles of nature which is one of our favorites because it runs through all the cycles of nature. So I think it keeps them very engaged. And we drew cycles of nature and we dissected seeds and they researched it. And then we also did we melted Sneezy the snowman. And today we found out that what did not evaporate? >> The >> what was left in the container? >> Salt. >> The salt was left in the container because we had to stick Sneezy the snowman together with salt and then we melted it. And in our hot classroom, we then evaporated over time and the salt remains. And we did sink and float with all of the things that are on their
031body. So there's Sneezy and Frosty and we talked about cycles of nature. Now we are deep into the westward expansion. So we are going west. So you could see our wagon trains right here. And we started off by building our wagons. Thank you to Miss M. She w she um figured that out and they made them themselves and they did a fantastic job and now we are into our opinion writing. So they had to write opinions of what they wanted to put in their wagon and then they had to write opinions about what was either the best or the worst part of their trip. That one we're still working on. And today they had to decide the one thing that they could bring out of their trunk because our wagon, the oxen ran away and
032the wagon cannot pull the trunk anymore. So we have to leave the trunk and only take one thing. So we had to narrow it down to one thing out of our trunk. And now they are giving us the opinion on what one thing they want to give us. But they have their trunks with them before we left them on the side of the road. Do you want to share what's in your trunk? >> Okay. Are you ready? You want to share one thing? >> Okay. Share one thing, but don't forget your because Okay. >> What are you going to bring? >> I will bring shoes. So, I'm not >> Oh, that's a good one. Do you want to share yours? >> Okay. >> I am going I am going to bring a pillow because I
033don't because then I can't hurt my neck. Do you want to share one of your things you want to bring? >> Okay. >> I will bring my dog because she is a part of my family. >> You ready? >> I want to come back. >> I want my favorite book because I can learn on the trip. >> I want to bring water because then we can die from thirst. >> I don't want to die from thirst. I want to bring my favorite stuffed animal, Snuggles, to keep he keeps me safe. >> You ready? >> I would bring a water bottle so I don't get dehydrated. >> Nobody wants that. >> You want me to hold it? I got you, girl. >> I would bring my dog because I would sleep with her. >> She'll keep
034you warm. All right, ready? Chance, girl. If I would travel west, I would bring a quilt. My first reason I can stay warm because in case we travel, we are traveling into a cold place. >> Good job. Ready, baby? I will bring soap because I could wash my hands. >> Ready? Why? >> Okay. Do you remember what something you wanted to bring? >> Okay, come back. All right. Ready? >> I would bring food because I don't want to be hungry while I'm traveling. I want I want to bring my puppy because he comforts me like another sibling. >> I would bring water because it is good for you. >> All right, I'm coming back. >> Here I come. Here I come. You got it. I'll bring a lightsaber because I need to fight off animals.
035>> Go ahead. Let's do Ryan and then you. Okay. >> No, you don't want it. All right. >> I would bring a lot of food because I will get very hungry. >> Okay. Thank you, second grade. We'll take a picture with all our wagons. ready. Everybody here And we're going to introduce our third graders. We can do it. >> Hi everyone. These are our third grade students and our third grade team. I'm Mrs. Silvers. I'm Miss Defi. This is our clinical intern, Mrs. Ram. Miss Ramirez, you're not married. And that's Miss Thorne. and our third graders. We have brought a um popery of projects that we've done so far this year. We're currently on our seventh unit of Amplify and we are learning about the solar system. That's okay. Um and what's fun is that
036we just saw so many connections from what we're learning with what the kindergarters, first graders, and second graders are learning um with mythology and the solar system, the constellations, different wars, the history of our country. Um, Mrs. Def is going to share the units that we've done so far and then the children are going to share what they their favorite projects that they've done so far this year. >> So, our first unit was the Wind in the Willows. It was our fictional unit. We read through uh stories, the tales of Mr. Rat and Mr. Mole and Mr. Badger and Mr. Toad. Our second unit was animal classification. We talked about the five types of animals, vertebrae verse invertebrae, and for our field trip, we went to the Bronx Zoo. So, little kids, you have that
037to look forward to. For our third unit, we did the human body. We learned all about our systems. Like Miss Allen said, we learned a lot during that unit as well as teachers. Unit four was ancient Rome. We learned about the gods, the goddesses, all the workings of Rome and the uh wonderful Roman Empire. Unit five was light and sound. You can see we did some experiments with light, figuring out how it works, shadows, transparent objects, that kind of thing. And our final, well, we're in astronomy, but our last unit before that was uh gods, giants, and dwarves. So, it was Norse mythology, which is Vikings, which was super fun. The kids built traditional Viking ships. We wrote about our favorite gods and goddesses, and we made maps of the village. So, now each child
038is going to share some of their projects that they had. Before we do that, can everyone hold up your Viking ship >> because they came out really cool. All right, >> sail through all the classrooms. >> You guys can put that on the floor in front of you and then just hold up your two projects. We'll come down the line with the mic. >> Okay, ready. >> My favorite part of the human body was the fantastic nervous system. It goes through your whole body. Also, it lets you know when something is hot. Don't touch the stove. Your your nervous system will quickly pull back your hand. The nervous Oh, the nervous system unit was important to me because I learned how our body works and makes us feel. If you touch a hot so stove,
039it sends signals up to our brain and tells us, "Don't touch. It's hot." My favorite goddess was Sith, the wife of Thor. I liked her long golden hair. Cif was very upset when it got cut off. She was very mean and stubborn. Light and sound taught me about why light is important. If we didn't have light, it would be dangerous. My favorite part was researching Thomas Edison and his invention. Then doing a project and writing my paragraph. >> One more. This unit was about the characters in Asgard. My favorite character was Freya because she is sassy like me. I liked when she pulls the chariot with two black cats. This unit was called The Wind in the Willows. It was about fictional animals that were all nice to each other and help toad. My favorite
040part was when Toad was in jail and he tried to escape. The Scandinavian unit taught me how the Vikings live and work to survive. My favorite part was when was hunting for supplies around the room and making and making the project we made. Toad was my favorite character in The Wind in the Willows. He did things the animals didn't think he can do. I like when he was on the boat and pretending he was a wash woman. Scandinavian civilization taught me about traveling to different places, buildings long houses, and how to fish. I love exploring different places like a Viking. Rat and Burrow taught me about animals. Five groups are reptiles, fish, mammals, and amphibians. Vertebraes have backbones and invertebraes do not have backbones. My favorite part was naming Axelaxel and Capara. In the wind
041in the Willows unit, I learned about Toad's personality. He was irresponsible and rude. He even stole a car. My favorite part when Toad was like when Toad jumped out of the car and stole the horse from the washer room or woman. >> Thomas Edison was the first person to make a light bulb in 1879. The light bulb is important to help us see in the dark. Light and sound taught me about Alexander Granbell invented the oh wait invented the first ever telephone. The most interesting fact to me was that he taught at schools to children with hearing impairments. This unit taught This unit is about animals. What I learned was bald eagles scoop up their prey. My favorite part was learning about cheetahs and how they are great swimmers. The Viking unit showed me how
042they travel to avoid battles and collect resources as needed. My favorite part of my po My favorite part of my poster is the forge. This is where they made supplies for battles such as swords and armor In the wind, in the willows, Mole was irresponsible because he flips flipped Red's bow. My favorite goddess in Norse mythology was Freya. She is a goddess of love and beauty. >> All right. Thank you, third grade. And we'll gather with your Viking ships for one quick picture before we invite our fourth graders. All right, perfect. All right, fourth grade teachers and students, come on down. >> This is the first year that our fourth grade has started Amplify. So, they're in year one of it. So, they haven't experienced all the units yet. So, they're going to share what
043they learned from the Middle Ages. >> Like Miss Mansfield said, this is our first year uh doing Amplify. So, but I have to say our students are very excited um right now. So, you know what? I'll let them talk. >> All right. Are you ready? Listen, you talk all day. I think you should be ready. Here we go. We'll start on that end. >> In Amplify, we learned about the Middle Ages in Europe. It was extremely interesting. This is my project when we were learning about the medieval times. Isn't it awesome? We even learned a basic dance done during those times. It was fun. >> We researched illuminated letters and drew them. It was really It was a lot of fun. I drew my family. My quote was, "Be kind or you will pay a
044fine." >> The shields have symbols and quotes that are important to us. This was great. >> I drew a I drew a cat and my quote was, "It always seems impossible until it is done." in in a fly with Mr. Army. We acted out the first airplane. It was a fun experience. Now in Amplify, I am working on a special marker filling as my invention. We researched facts about the medieval castles and drew pictures of them. It was cool. My quote was, "Never give up." We learned about the plague, the causes, the symptoms, and the effects. It was fascinating. >> And just so you know, we had actual, well, not real rats, but we had black rubber rats in the room. We had backdrops purchased from Teimu. Look at the back. Really made it give
045it the feel of, you can see it right in some of those pictures. We bought backdrops and really made it feel like we were actually immersed in the Middle Ages. Yes. Uh, thank you, fourth grade. And I hope that the community was able to see a small piece of the great work that's happening at Long School and to give you a little taste of what our ELA amplify curriculum has to offer. It really is great. All right. Thank you, Mrs. Mansfield, and all the staff and clinical interns. I saw two of them. and Parah and all the families for coming this evening. At this time, we are going to take a short break. Um, that way if anyone does want to go home and do your homework, you're able to. Um, we are going to
046have a motion for a short break, but I do ask that if you are not going to stay that you leave the auditorium because we do need to resume our meeting. Thank you everybody for coming. Motion for a break. Second. >> Okay. Thank you everybody. I promise you I won't bring anything up. >> Um that was very nice of uh Long School to present. Now we have um the a motion to reconvene. >> Motion. >> Second. Okay. Uh, business. All in favor? >> I. >> Business administration report. Mr. Cruddy. >> Uh, no report. >> Oh, perfect. >> Wow, >> that was long. Um, I'd like to open the meeting for public comment for agenda items only. >> Motion. >> Second. >> All in favor? >> I'd like to close. >> Motion. >> Second. >> All
047in favor? >> I. Um board action items B2526.35 through B2526.36 >> call second >> second >> motion second >> okay >> roll call Mr. Kate >> Mr. Yes. >> Miss Torbick. >> Yes. >> Miss Traverso. >> Yes. >> Miss Ottoelli. >> Yes. >> Mr. Aabando. >> Yes. >> Miss Brelli. >> Yes. >> And Miss Roloff. >> Yes. >> Education curriculum. >> Okay. At the recommendation of the superintendent, I make a motion to approve the following items. E252652 2. E252655 >> motion >> second. Any discussion? >> I shared I shared over that that at the six o'clock meeting but then again during my updates the district calendar for next school year is on here and a delayed opening for middle school high school non-esting students for the NJGPA which is next week. >> Roll call please.
048>> Mr. Oello >> yes. >> Miss Torvick. >> Yes. >> Miss Traverso. >> Yes. >> Misselli. Yes, >> Mr. Amando. >> Yes, >> Miss Bali. >> Yes, >> Miss Rolloloff. >> Yes. >> Budget and finance. >> Okay. At the recommendation of the superintendent, I make a motion to approve the following items. B52526.72 through B52526.76. >> Motion. Second. >> Second. >> Any discussion? Yes. through the chair. Rob, do you want me to read this with the committee? >> You can do it now. >> Okay. Roll call. >> Mr. Oello? >> Yes. >> Miss Torvvic? >> Yes. >> Mr. Traverso? >> Yes. >> Miss Zerelli? >> Yes. >> Mr. Okamando? >> Yes. >> Miss Vali? >> Yes. >> And Miss Rolloloff? >> Yes. Facilities and operation. Miss Torbic. At the recommendation of the superintendent, I make a
049motion to approve the following item. F2526.10. >> Second. >> Somebody down there. >> Oh, I'm sorry. Any discussion? >> Roll call. >> Mr. >> Yes. >> Miss Torbick. >> Yes. >> M. Traverso. >> Yes. >> Misselli? >> Yes. >> Mr. Akamando? >> Yes. >> Miss Blli? >> Yes. Miss Rolloff. >> Yes. Policy. At the recommendation of the superintendent, I make a motion to approve the following items. P2526.6. >> Second. >> Any discussion? >> Roll call. >> Mr. Oello. >> Yes. >> M. Toick. >> Yes. >> M. Traverso. >> Yes. >> Misselli. >> Yes. >> Mr. Aabando. >> Yes. >> Miss Vali. >> Yes. >> Miss Roloff. >> Yes. >> No negotiations. Okay. Um, at the recommend personnel at the recommendation of the superintendent, I make a motion to approve the following items. P2526.51 through P2526.58.
050Second any discussion I reviewed earlier. We do have one retirement apparel professional PNA. We wish her the very best effective April 2nd on here. >> Roll call. >> Mr. Archello. >> Yes. Miss Torbick, >> yes. >> Miss Traverso, >> yes. >> Miss Zadelli, >> yes. >> Mr. Aamando, >> yes. >> Miss Bali, >> yes. >> Miss Roloff, >> yes. >> Um, committee reports, budget and finance, >> yes. Um, the budget committee and the administration has been reviewing and working hard to complete a tentative budget for the 2026 27 school year. As you have been hearing in the news, many school districts are facing tough times with health benefits cost projected to increase another 30%. Contractual obligations, utility costs, and many other items in the budget that are pretty much fixed. Many districts are forced to
051make tough decisions with staffing and programs. We are happy to report that we have been able to keep all current staff positions and programs. We had to make severe cuts to many supply accounts, revise estimates, and decrease other discretionary accounts. And the budget committee is scheduled to meet again on Thursday, March 12th, when we are scheduled to receive our state aid figures. We will make the final revision to the budget and submit it to the full board. We are planning an a meeting to adopt the tenative budget on March 25th. Thank you, M. Commando. Uh, facilities and operation. >> Okay. And Sylvia, negotiations, nothing. Policy. Do you have anything for policy? Larry's not here. Okay. No liaison reports. Anything school >> PTO PTO >> PTO's >> long school. Sorry. Long school PTO is continuing to
052collect PTO membership dues which are $15. The sixth grade committee will be holding three upcoming fundraisers. The duck duct taped fundraiser will be on Friday, March 27th. Students can bring in $3 per strip or $5 for two strips cash only. The Bunny Breakfast at Applebees and Pamas is on Sunday, March 29th from 8:00 a.m. to 10 a.m. with the last seating at 9:30 a.m. Tickets are $12 per person. The Harlem Wizard basketball game at the Saddle Brook High School will be held on Monday, April 20th. The g the game is open to all Saddlebrook residents and friends and family who are interested in attending. Please reach out to Melissa Traverso or Sher Dcasta with any sixth grade fundraiser questions. The 2026 yearbooks will be $20 pre-sale, 25 for the after sale pre after the pre-sale
053due date. Information will be provided soon. Save the date for upcoming May events. Teacher app appreciation will be celebrated the week of May 4th. Our spring book fair will be held in the month of May. The annual special lady and night ki ght. Evening out will be held at Medieval Times on Thursday, May 14th. Please visit the LMS PTO website which can be easily found on LMS's homepage at tinyurl.com. Next meeting will be held on Tuesday, May 12th. Thank you, >> Franklin School. In February, Franklin PTO successfully completed two fundraisers, their popular Valentine candygrams and heart-shaped pizza kit sale. The sixth grade committee also completed a crispy cream doughnut sale and will have a shamrock-shaped pretzel sale after school on St. Patrick's Day. The annual Gertru Hawk sale is complete and scheduled to be delivered
054on March 24th. These funds also support the sixth grade class. The next planned event is their Falcon Funday at Humdingers planned for late March. More info to follow. Thank you, Sylvia. Anybody else with any reports? Mr. Archello, >> don't mean to point you out. >> Not at this time. >> Okay. >> Mia stole all my stuff. >> Okay. Um, as far as the um town liaison, we met with um the mayor and David um Derek. Um we discussed a few things. Um student parking on the curve on southwest wing um seems to be a problem. Maybe move a few signs. Um the crossing guard at the end of the circle in the middle school high school. um the tennis lot um adding a few garbage pales. We wanted to thank the DPW um for the
055work um that they helped out with on the town getting the um snow cleared off of a lot of the bridges and walkways. Um more lighting maybe by um Smith School. Um we're looking to maybe do something with the voting in the schools. um maybe move some locations so they're not in the schools. Um and the school budget presentation um everything went well. We probably have a few more notes. just ask the board that if they have any concerns or any, you know, questions that we that they want to pass on for us to ask the township, just email me and we'll be more than happy to bring it up at our next meeting. And uh for now, that's it. Um where are we? Correspondence. >> No, old business. New business. >> New business. Okay.
056Through the chair. >> Sorry. Uh just want to thanks thank the budget committee for the hard work. Ray Tony Mleti sorry um and Michael Ericello uh tomorrow enjoy your birthday with your family. Happy birthday. >> Happy birthday sir. >> All right. Under new business through the chair. I just want to give a shout out. You acknowledged the DPW and they did a fantastic job. So did our custodians did. >> So I just want to give a shout out. There was a lot of snow that needed to be moved. >> Thank you. You're absolutely right. Our custodians are maintenance. Everybody worked hard all night. Um the budget, thank you, Mr. Karate. A lot of other townships are suffering right now and uh our head is still above water. >> Um as far as the school play,
057it was amazing. >> Kudos to them. >> Went to see it Saturday night myself and very talented um students. we have in this school. Amazing. Um the voices on them. I was shocked. Well, I shouldn't be shocked, but I'm very impressed by them, actually. Um let's see. Uh hey, happy St. Patrick's Day to everybody? And um anybody else have anything they want to say? No. Okay. I'd like to open the meeting for the public. >> Second. Anybody? All of you? Nothing. All All of you. Okay. Close the meeting for public. >> Okay. Um, a motion to adjourn the close. >> Motion. >> Second. >> Adjourn the meeting. >> Motion. >> Second. >> All in favor? Hi.