001To 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. Please be seated. Getting my speed up. >> In compliance with the Open Public Meeting Act, chapter 231, laws of 1975 of the state of New Jersey. Adequate notice of this meeting of the South Board of Education was provided in the following manner. On January 15, 2025, the notice was delivered to the office of the South Burough Clerk and posted at the Board of Education Administration building. The notice was also faxed mailed to the following newspapers. Home News Tribune Star Ledger. The notice was also posted at the South Burough Clerk's Office. Roll call. Mr. Rosen. >> Mr. Bas here. >> Mr. Bud >> here. >> Mrs. Bush has
002been excused. >> Mrs. Laauo >> here. >> Mr. Nielsen >> here. >> Mr. On Woodway >> here. Mrs. Stowski >> here. >> Mrs. Youngo >> here. >> Mrs. Erbanic, >> she's been excused. >> Shiza Hussein >> here. >> Thanks. >> Very good. >> Minutes. >> The minutes. We do have um premeating minutes September 22nd and the regular meeting minutes of September 25th. Motion on reading of the minutes. >> Move the meeting of this. >> Second, >> Mr. Bzac. >> Second. >> Saddowski. >> All in favor? >> I. >> Very good. >> Use of facilities. We have uh number 9006, number 909, number 911, number 927, number 941, number 942, and number 943. >> Anybody have anything on the use of facilities? >> Motion for the use of facilities. >> Motion to move the use of
003facilities. >> M second. >> Second, Mr. Dowski. All in favor? I >> I >> financial report. Miss L. >> Be it resolved that the board of education hereby certifies that is in receipt of the financial report which indicates that no major account has been overexpended and that sufficient funds are available to meet the district's financial obligations for the remainder of the fiscal year. The finance committee recommends that the reports of the board secretary and treasurer of school monies for July 2025 be approved and I so move. >> Second. >> Mr. Sidowski. All in favor? >> I you. >> Superintendent of schools monthly report. Dr. Searcher. >> Yes. Thank you, Mr. Nielsen. I have several items today. I'll begin with a brief overview of my report and then I'm going to turn it over to um
004district administration for several presentations. I do want to announce that our educational annex is open um with two Head Start preschool classes and one of our own district preschool classes. We had a successful opening and everybody is really enjoying the new space. So, we're now open for about two weeks. Um and so far it's it's been really great for the children and the teachers. Uh we did receive our QAC score report um just this month and we've scored well um in the areas of uh fiscal management where we received 100% governance which is all of our policies board meeting procedures budgeting uh also at 100% operations which is all about data management hip incidents student safety and health at 100% as well and personnel um which really speaks to teacher certification evaluation professional development. We
005scored a 100%. In the area of instruction and program, uh we scored at 100% when it comes to compliance with our curriculum. Um and then we did receive an overall score of 79 um.3 which is um which really speaks to a lot of different measures of student data that Dr. Travisano is going to review today. Um I have a little bit of information here about registration and residency reminding our community that we do have a residency office um that's located over at the primary school in our modulars but that we also have transition and support days to help families register for school and those take place Tuesday and Thursdays from 5:30 to 7:30 and we have assistance in multiple languages as well. Um so if you need assistance with registration or any other school related
006matter please come to the transition and support nights. Um 21st century is off to a really good start. We have 360 students enrolled in grades 3 to 12. This is over 150 more students than we had last year. Um, so it's a really large program and we still have a wait list of about 77 students who are interested in attending and we're going to do our best to continue to open spots as they become available on this board meetings agenda. You have some uh motions related to additional staffing for 21st century and as we approve more staffing, we can approve and expand more programs and accept more children in. Um, so thank you for taking action on those items today. And then also on tonight's agenda, which I just closed up, uh, we have a
007report on, um, determining our grades under the anti-bullying bill of rights, which is going to be presented by Mr. M Crouch. There he is. I couldn't see him. He's tucked away over there. Mr. Crouch, we'll turn it over to you. Thank you very much for members of all. I apologize about that. Thank you very much for this opportunity to the board as well as the public. Uh tonight I'm going to go through the 2425 self- assessment for determining our anti-bullying policies and grades. Um and I I'm pleased with the numbers that we have to show you guys tonight. So what is this? A quick overview. We're required by the commissioner of education to show our efforts that we're making towards prohibiting bullying inside of the district. Uh this assessment runs from July 20 from July
0081st, 2024th through June 30th, 2025. It has eight core elements uh that I'll be going over with you a little bit later on in this little in this uh PowerPoint. And then it's done based on all the available documentation that we have in our school team, etc. So, First thing, what are we doing to try and strengthen our community climate and culture? Well, we're having our climate and culture specialists giving us monthly reports about the activities that they're doing, also the new change this year. They're in the classrooms teaching as well as working with all the students throughout the entire district. We have a positive postcard program which is very very wellreceived. Um we have student advisory team as well as we have multiple multicultural celebrations that are going on throughout the throughout the different
009buildings to celebrate different ethnicities and backgrounds. What else are we doing? Well, we have MTSS which was originally our Masonic model INRS program u but we had really moved more towards making a more comprehensive MTSS program that will help us focus on students who have needs and help them get the services that they need. We have a student assistance counselor who's helping out with this matter as well as PK is looking at using tools of the mind which is a wonderful program. Okay. We have the ESS program as well as Rucker Behavioral with with us in the district. ESS we have a full-time clinician who works here in the high school to work with students that are tier 2 and tier three. We also have a RCS program, restorative community service, which is taking any
010student who has trouble and instead of using punitive measures, using a positive reinforcement to get them reconnected with the community. And then Rucker's Behavioral also has a full-time clinician over at the middle school, which is split beyond the buildings as needed. We continue to offer services to the entire community through Care Solace. If you're unfamiliar with what Kerasolus is, it gives anyone access to mental health care regardless of status of insurance, financial need, etc. So, it's a really great resource for us to get people connected with the help that they need on a regular basis. We still have the therapy dogs coming into the schools, which is really cool. The kids get really excited. It's just nice to have the animals around people. And then as I said before we were t talk spoke briefly
011about the climate and culture team who are continuously working on different initiatives to try and help build culture and reduce any instances of a hit. So what are we doing for prevention? We have a say something trainings for all the students that has taken place where we regularly hold grade level assemblies as well as whole school readalouds in the lower grades. We have all of our teachers have been our teachers have been receiving nurture heart professional development as well as parents are regularly being receiving weekly newsletters with resources and expect effective school solutions is also doing outreach with the community and individual families who need the services. So this is where we get to the fun part, the report itself. So, there are eight different categories, and I I I know you can all read,
012but I I'll just kind of quickly go through it. Uh, HIP programs, trainings, uh, staff instruction and training programs for staff, curriculum and instruction for HIP related information and skills, HIP personnel, school level HIVs and reporting and procedures, HIV investigation procedures, as well as HIP reporting. If you get a zero, you're not doing a good job. If you get a three, you're exceeding what the state expects. Last year, we had all of our buildings above 70, which is excellent. The numbers are excellent, but we did see room for improvement in both the uh middle school as well as the elementary school. And we did see that growth this year. The numbers have gone up. Why? Because we implemented more programs. We looked more carefully at the rubric to ensure that we were meeting the standards.
013So, I don't know if you've ever read the rubrics before. I can provide you one if you would like, but it is extensive and or and or and or going down it. We wanted to make sure that we hit all of those. And that's how we were able to look at it and be able to increase our numbers and growth. Another thing that you'll see here is that we now have the ELC or the Early Learning Center attached to this. We did not have that last year. So, this is our first year with them, but we're going to continue to help them grow and move forward and see where we can go from there. So, I wanted to show you this because I think it's very useful. You can see that that the high school
014stayed the same, the middle school went up substantially, the AOS went up a decent amount, the preschool stayed the same, and then we have the new numbers to work with for the ELC. So, what is this? All schools exceed the requiring requirements in all eight buildings reporting all exceeded. There is accurate investigating and reporting procedures effective programs offering to offer to students and then we have ample opportunities to reflect on the programs that we're running and make further enhancements. My recommendations, we're going to increase data collection as well as data analysis so that we can make those changes that we needed, much like we did last year to see the numbers grow in middle school and the elementary. We're going to coordinate more district-wide programs and we're going to expand the sport teams in the
015buildings as needed. As of right now, we're in pretty good place, but if we see that you will continue. >> And that's my report. Does anyone have any questions? >> No. Thank you, Mr. Crouch. >> Thank you very much. I appreciate your time this evening. >> In a connection to some of what Mr. Crouch just shared is one of your other agenda items for this evening, which is to um approve two of our staff members for a parent training um related to anti-bullying, HIV, and so on. So, that's on your agenda for tonight. Um, next what I would like to do is point out that item 3.3 under the superintendent report is to approve um those NJQAC scores. And then I'll turn it over to Dr. Travisano who will review item 3.4 which is our
016district data presentation. >> Good evening. I promised Dr. Zer I would keep the presentation to under 45 minutes. So just keep No, I'm just kidding. 45 minutes be a little challenging at this point. Anyway, um this is part two of the NG the part two of the data presentation. If you recall, we did the GPA as well as AP score results over the summer. So this will be the part two under the reporting that we um are required to do for all standardized tests. This report will take into account three tests. One will be the NJSLA in the different content areas. The other one will be the access test which is where we measure uh proficiency of our uh language learners. And then finally we'll go over some results for the dynamic learning maps which
017is more customized to to some of our more um specialized learners. So I'll start off there. It goes all right. We always start off with a basic understanding of what the student learning assessments are. There are three categories. English language arts, math, and science. Um each one of them measures competencies in those different academic content areas. Um the science exam is a little bit more specific where it's only given in grades five, eight, and 11. The language arts exam is given in grades 3 through nine as well as our uh graduation performance assessment that you had already had that results. And the mathematics is also given grades three through eight as well as algebra and geometry for our nth grade students that are in geometry. All right. So, I figured I'd start with a summary,
018a basic overview of of where our current performance is for our students. We group them in students that are not meeting or partially meeting expectations, those appro approaching expectations and those who are meeting and exceeding. Again, I wanted to give you the total number of students that were in each category as well as the percentage of students um per category. Now, once again, I always have this caveat because there are people that actually will make a comment to me. They may or may not add up to 100% due to rounding. So, if you do the math and it adds up to 99%, it's not because I made a mistake. It's solely because of the rounding error. Same thing if you get to 101%. So, I just figured I'd give that as a small caveat. When
019reporting the data, I decided to do it as language arts um and all the demographics, math demographics, as well as science and the demographics. And I believe you have a copy of the report uh available for you back there. All right. So um the first slide does indicate all the uh South River reporting as compared to the state average uh total number of students in the district as well as the five different categories. The percent of students not meeting expectations through those who are exceeding expectations. There is a comparison to the state results as well which um you can you can um see that we disagregated by grade level all the way down. Total tested in district does continue to fluctuate based on population based on students in and out. Um the one thing with
020the language arts students who are multilingual learners who are in country for less than one year do not test in the language arts. So therefore, when we get to straight numbers, the um number of students that test in language arts will be different than the number of students that test in mathematics. So just wanted to point that out to you as well. The next three slides do break down the data by demographic um areas such as race and then program and then gender. And I apologize for the very very very small font. I didn't do that intentionally. It's just because there's a lot of data. As we review this data, and again, this will be available on the website tomorrow morning. Uh, as soon as I get to work, I will post it. Uh, there
021are some areas that you'll notice have um populations that are less than 10 and then they are blanked out with not applicable because we do have to um keep student private as any numbers under 10 become identifiable potentially by students. So, we do not report th those um specific instances, but this will break it out elementary, your middle, and then your high school by um race and then by program. Program is your language learners followed by free reduced lunch, 504s, special education, general education, and then we again put it together in all students by grill by building. The next slide does indicate by gender um female male all students again broken down um and the percent tested um in each of in each of the grades. Um this again will be available because it's kind
022of small. Anyway, the next slide does indicate our performance in mathematics. So our performance in mathematics um as a as schools the data was represented differently here in this um reporting year as it was in prior years. If you remember my report in prior years our middle school numbers were skewed because the algebra one results the students take algebra 1 in the middle school were combined with our high school numbers. This year we were able to disagregate the numbers and pull all of our middle school algebra 1 students and separate them from our high school algebra 1 students giving a true picture of our middle school performance versus our high school performance in mathematics. Um again the next three slides as they were this is your by grade band and comparison to the state in
023each of the five measuring categories um not meeting through exceeding expectations. The separation here between, excuse me, the algebra 1 middle school and the algebra 1 high school does allow us to delineate and again like I said identify performance of true middle school students versus the middle school students who take the high school algebra one test. There we go. So we disagregate data again by uh first by race and then we take a look at it by program. the same programs as you did for language arts. And then finally, whoops, there we go. By gender as well. I just want to reiterate that your numbers that you'll see, the raw numbers in mathematics will be different than the raw numbers that you see in language arts when you do a sideby-side comparison. The last test
024under NJSLA that I do is a science exam. The science exam is measured in four categories versus five. The first two categories are below proficiency, near proficiency and then there's proficient and um advanced proficient. The one thing I do want to identify is that or point out to you specifically is that this test um is given for science placement for science achievement. At this point, the state has not used this as any kind of graduation requirement, but it's really more so identifying uh proficiency in the different sciences as the students move through, which is why I believe they do it by grade band versus by individual grade. As I did before, they are disagregated by race and then by program and then again by then by gender. Now, more specifically, I wanted to get to
025the following slide. And the following slide is an annual comparison. I apologize for going back and forth. It must be for the clicker thing or batteries. Anyway, I wanted to highlight a few things on this. This is your annual comparison. And I like to do the annual comparison because I feel that it does um provide a picture of performance over time as compared from last year to this year. And a few things I'd like to point out here is in language arts, our middle school did increase the percentage of students meeting or exceeding expectations receiving a four or five. While the high school did drop and we have to acknowledge that um our middle school did in fact increase and in language arts in specific grade seven the percentage of students increased by se by
026over 7% um overall so our se our grade seven um students perform better than they had pri the prior year as we compare these numbers to the state I have additional um compar comparisons here. Grade five and grade seven improved results at a higher percentage than the state reported results. So what that means is if you compare last year's state average for grade five and grade seven while those scores increased a specific percent our scores increased at a higher percent. So for argument sake the state score in grade seven language arts their performance increased by 3.1% overall. we increased by 7.7%. So we are showing a a better percentage of improvement in mathematics. Same thing I'll point out mathematics over there. We have um a significant difference in our high school population. You'll notice that
027that does come because we we then finally disagregated our data and took our middle school algebra 1 out. Um the high school exam does come does or the high school results do combine geometry and algebra 1 where our geometry students are going to be our accelerated students through middle school now taking geometry as a freshman. Grade students grade six students improved by over 7% as compared to uh 2024 results. And in fact our grade six mathematics improved at a higher percentage than the state. The state increased by 3.5%. Our grade six went up by 7.4% 4% in terms of growth, which I think is something to be um to highlight. In addition, our high school algebra 1, while the growth compared to the state is still about one and a half percent, our algebra one
028high school scores across the state decreased by half a percent. So arguably, we're still 2% differential there. The geometry scores across the state increased by 7%, we increased by 11.8% in terms of performance. So there are some things I wanted to highlight there. Our science numbers as we note some of the science numbers are not necessarily where we want them to be. However, if we compare this the grade 5, 8, and 11 students that took the exam in 2004 as compared to 2005, all five grades did increase percentage increase in their uh in their pass rate. So that's again something that I think is uh something that we wanted to highlight. We move on to the access for ELLs. Access for ELLL's again is the exam that uh measures their proficiency in lang in learning
029English. There we go. Students tested on WEDA historically. We wanted to uh identify that. And you'll note I think I I made a point of this a few years ago that following COVID, the number of students that we bring into the district that have a language other than English as a native language has increased. You'll note the increase continues and in fact we're comparable to last year. However, the demographics are actually oh I'm sorry not the demographics but the age of the students that are coming to us as language learners is significantly different than it has been in the past. You'll note that in the primary school in 2024 we had 96 students who were tested. Last year we had 162 students. So that is a significant difference of students that were tested on the
030um on the WEDA access last year. If we look at the elementary school and and sorry the K5 schools, not just elementary, but K5, I gave three years of data. The data in black is our 2025 results. The data in blue is 24 and the data in red is 23. And that was provided for comparison. In examining the data, there's an increase in percentage of students in grade 1 through five listed in the developing stage. Developing is level three. We also see an increase in percentage of students in grade three through five in the expanding percent. The expanding percent is what we typically refer to as four 4.5. Those are those students that are nearing the exit stage for the for their foreign sorry for the ESL program. At the high school and the middle
031school, we have we did the same percentage again same comparison again. Black, blue, and red does identify the three different years and we did that so that way it's easy to compare. things I want to highlight here is that students in grades 7 through 12 were listed in the developing stage too. It was an increase of students in the developing stage and this becomes important because many of our students do come to us from uh other countries and they enter in the entering or the emerging stage. So their language proficiency is not as high as as um would qualify to exit ESL. In this case, our developing stage and again, you'll notice in grades seven through 12 did increase and there was an increase in the percentage of students in grades 11 and 12 listed
032as expanding. So again, these are your students that are nearing exit, may have been in the program for a few years and nearing exit um for ESL. There we are. The dynamic learning maps. Again, these are for students who have more significant learning disabilities or cognitive um cognitive cognitively impaired. Um they are assessed in emerging, approaching, at target or advanced. Um results are indicated here. Uh what I do actually enjoy about these results is that our younger students many of them uh or many of the assessments that were taken by our younger students they were at target or advanced is that does uh really highlight our younger our younger pro younger learning program. And finally our high school graduation rate as always the class of 2025 graduation rate at the state is unavailable. Um I
033find it I find it uh interesting that the graduation rate for 25 will be available in 26 but it's a reporting it's a comparison. Again typically we we do score somewhat above the state high school graduation rate. Um and last year our number of graduates did decrease from 193 to 158. So conclusions and next steps, that's kind of where I wanted to highlight right now. A few very, very good and interesting things that we started to develop this year. At our K8 levels, we applied for awarded a grant to begin the position of a literacy coach. It's a very exciting um opportunity for us that um we are able to retain the services of the literacy coach who will work with our teachers and refine the structural practices to help our students learn. um learning
034of reading and writing at their uh their pace. Our academic support teams providing interventions. We've refocused e uh effort and capacity in identifying tier one interventions. And tier one interventions are really working with students with their challenges in the classroom. Well, before we go and we try to put them into an intervention referral service or try to uh refer them to academic support, we're really trying to provide more and more supports in the classroom with students before they um move to a different area. We just purchased uh a new literacy series and the new literacy series is actually more of an interdisciplinary literacy series as a curriculum was written for our K5. Uh what we can note is that some of our units arguably are narrative. So um our third graders are doing literacy based
035in a science topic or in a social studies topic. So it really is a more of a blended curriculum. We really enjoy that. Teachers selected it um after much uh review and implementation. We now revi revised our INRS process for students in K12. It streamlines services and it retains data and it's instantly reviewable. And then finally, uh based on the new legislation, all students in K3 will be screened for um literacy um three times, if I remember correctly, it's three times a year, but it helps us to um provide evidence-based intervention at a much much earlier age. >> Any questions? Any questions? Members? >> Thank you, doctor. >> You have a good weekend. >> Okay. And with that, I conclude my superintendent's report for this evening. Thank you. >> Thank you, Dr. Zer. Motion on
036Dr. Zer's report. >> Motion to move the superintendent's report. >> Mr. Bayzac first. >> Second. >> Miss Gyao. Second. Okay. going to go to reception of visitors. Seeing that there's no >> I'm sorry. All in favor? >> I I thanks Chris. Okay. Uh reception of visitors. Seeing that no one's in the audience, we can uh skip over that for tonight and we're going to go to the consent. Carol, you want to go to committee reports first? >> Yeah. >> Okay. Committee reports first. Mr. Buden athletics. >> Luckily, the girls soccer team is doing well. >> There they are. Good for them. >> Under buildings and grounds, we have nothing to report tonight. You can see the report uh in Dr. Zer's report. Finance, Miss Lel, >> thank you. Um the agenda includes approval of the
0372627 budget calendar, which is we're it's upon us. um and several contracts supporting academic and operational initiatives for the school year. Key items include agreements for district security cameras, the Alex math program and literacy instruction, Think Circa. Additional contracts cover home instruction services, field trips to the Liberty Science Center, and chair chair rentals for graduation ceremonies and uh finan financial actions such as tax requisition and line item transfers are also being approved. So I can read my statement. Okay. >> So the finance committee after review of all items on this month's agenda and upon recommendations of the superintendent recommends approval of the items 8.1 through 8.9 with additional item 8.10 on the agenda as listed including routine items. And that is all I have for finance. >> Thank you. Would you continue with instruction please?
038>> Yes. Okay. um as Miss Bush does, uh I would like to do some key highlights from Dr. Te's um report. So, the high school is expanding its dual enrollment opportunities through partnerships with Middle Sex College, the University of Delaware, and Kain University, enabling, uh more students to earn the potential for college credits at reduced costs. The district also received an ESCJ grant to fund tuition reimbursement for 25 staff members pursuing advanced certificates in high need areas such as science, counseling, and literacy. And recent professional development sessions focused on AI integration in classrooms, early literacy screening for K through three students, and uh shared mathematics instructional philosophy, all supporting continuous improvement in teaching and learning. The agenda itself uh includes approvals for professional development as well as field trips for students. Additionally, the district accepted
039two beautiful donations, a piano for the elementary middle school and a contribution from the Verizon Foundation to support our high school rambotics club. Um, and just as an aside, everything that if you piece all the pieces together between the two presentations and the summary, it all makes sense that we're moving towards that literacy approach. Um, and we're moving towards that improvement uh of the testing and the scores with the district along with like our community and our teachers like as a as a as a unified vision. So that is all I have. So the statement um the instruction committee after review of all the items on this month's agenda and upon recommendation of the superintendent recommends approval of the items 9.1 through 9.5 with additional item 9.6 on the agenda as listed including routine items.
040>> Thank you. Uh under negotiations we have nothing to report right now. >> Very good. Uh policy and legislation Mr. Mudawait. >> There are no items on the agenda today. >> Thank you sir. Safety risk management. Mrs. Saskowski resources. >> No, I'm sorry. >> Oh, sorry. Mr. Bzac, human resources. >> Thank you, Mr. Nielsen. Uh, the human resources committee at the review of all items on this month's agenda and upon recommendation of the superintendent recommends approval of items 12.1 through 12.6 with additional items 12.7 through 12.10 on the agenda as listed, including routine items. Thank you. >> Thank you. Now, safety and risk management. This is Stski. >> Thank you. The safety and risk management committee after review of all items on this month's agenda and upon recommendation of the superintendent recommends approval of item
04113.1 with no additional items on the agenda as listed including routine items. >> Thank you, Mr. Sidowski. We'll now go to Mr. Rosa for the consent resolution. the South River Board of Education by means of a consent resolution adopt various resolution of a routine and non-controversial nature at one time and whereas the below listed resolutions are hereby adopted by the said board of education and hall as it the same were individually acted upon and those are the superintendent of schools 3.1 to 3.4 under finance 8.1 through 8.10 instruction 9.1 through 9.6 under human resources 12.1- 12.10 10 safety and risk management 13.1 under residency 16.1 >> motion to move the consent resolution >> Mr. Bzac >> second >> Mr. Saddowski. Roll call. All in favor? Either. All in favor? >> I >> And we will
042now return to committees school board. Um that's me me. We just had a brief discussion in close session. So everybody's up to date on that. Um PTA liaison, Mrs. Sidowski. >> Um just a couple of items at the ELC primary PTAs. They are planning uh Queen Wars to start October 22nd. I believe it's going on for a week. Um, fall frolic is coming up in early November. Uh, elementary school PTA is planning a Halloween movie night on October 24th and they are hosting the book fair at the end of October. >> Thank you. Residency Miss Young, excuse me for passing you over. You there? >> No, that's fine. Thank you. The residency committee after review of all items on this month's agenda and upon recommendation of the superintendent recommends approval of the item 16.1 with
043no additional items on this agenda as listed including routine items. >> Thank you. >> South Public Library on Mr. Woodson Saturday this year is at state library as a part concerns craft is October 21st at 6 p.m. There's an arts and crafts November 12th at 3 p.m. meditation classes November 13th and their annual book sales November 3rd to November 6th. That's all I have. >> Thank you, Mr. B. Anything under legislation, Mr. Bosen? >> Okay. Student board representative She's a Husan. Anything tonight? >> Um I is this working? Um uh the first topic that you guys were talking about 21st century I just wanted to add that it really is a fantastic program you guys implemented because I myself I'm a student athlete and I think the um 21st century program I think it started
044either when I was a freshman a sophomore and because of that like I also try to be on top of all my classes and academics. So it gives me like a good amount of like extra 30 minutes to maybe an hour just to kind of catch up on my work. And some of my teachers also, they also sit kind of in the corner. So I also get to ask them for further work. And this has helped a lot of my classmates as well. They also find that 21st century is a great time for them to kind of relax and get their minds off of like a heavy school day, but it's also like a great alternative that can allow them to kind of do better with their grades and also kind of bond with their
045teachers. So, I just I love that program and I just hope that we can continue to implement good initiatives like this that can help students kind of relax but also be on top of their work. >> Thank you. It's great to hear that uh you know praise from the student body. Thank you very much for that. Again, Dr. Zer's initiatives, you know, we can only say so much. We keep moving forward on the board here. Mr. Crouch, everybody, you guys do great work. You know, comes right from the students mouths. You guys are doing great work and we really appreciate that. Anyone have any old or new business? >> Nothing. Attorney's report >> for executive session. >> Okay. Payment of bills. >> Me. >> The finance committee recommends that all bills presented having been certified
046by the school business administrator board secretary be paid as listed. And I so move. >> Second. >> Saddowski. All in favor? >> I. >> Thank you very much. Again, seeing no visitors in the audience tonight, we are going to move to executive session. Close session. >> Thank you, Mr. Crouch. >> Gentlemen, >> thank you, Dr. T. >> Dr. T. Oh, Dr. to you sitting over there in the corner.