001we can begin our policy and curriculum meeting for December 8th, 2025. On the agenda tonight, we have a first election of committee person and then we have uh some items for curriculum and then two policies for review. That brings us to election of the committee chairperson. >> I nominate Dan Whismer as chair in person. >> Say I >> I miss. >> Any oppose? >> Can we also take other nominations or >> Sure. >> Uh so I'd like to nominate Cecilia who's been on the board the longest and intimately familiar with our policy. Any other nominations? Okay, guess we'll close the nominations without any other nominations. We don't as we Robert's rules don't have to be as perfect here. They're not accurate, but try to follow as much as possible. So, um, with the first nomination,
002um, with Dan, guess we'll do a roll call. Go from right to left. Still >> I'm not a member of the committee. I'm not sure. >> No, it's you still get a vote. >> You have you can Yeah. If you are so as a member of the committee, I mean any member of the board can join the committee on any given night. And if you have a vote, you you can also not vote, but then you typically sit in the crowd to indicate move to table one. I don't think I mean under circumstances I'm sure we have to vote on that as a roll call get down business and we come back to >> honestly I'm I'm willing to take my name off the table. Can we have another we have another vote just just
003so we're voting because we do the majority of the committee you know I say what policy and committee can do the majority of the committee does vote so we have another roll call for Dan >> Wner thank Yeah. Okay. So then that brings us to curriculum, >> sir. Go ahead. >> All right. Thanks for having me for >> Yeah. Last month we did, you know, had an update from the middle school with some some of the changes in the middle school for 2526 and the high school joining us to share updates on some of the changes to the high school, many of which we were talking about this time last year. Thanks. So, one of the big things this year, you're going to see the students over there waving the wings. We made some good
004changes last year. A lot of things are going back a choice. I don't want to say we're building as we fly, but certain things when it comes down to what we're working on, there are adjustments. We're learning a lot as we go, but when it comes down to it, what we're really starting to see is our seniors are taking this opportunity of choice. of options and running with it. They'll actually be sharing with us today uh briefly what they're doing and they're making some big contributions in the community and they're learning a great deal as well. But then there's things as we go that we're learning from this past year we learned so far for the first third of the school year that will help inform some of our choices as we go through Christmas
005break and into next year. But we're learning as we go. So some of these things you ask them questions and we'll probably nod saying yeah we're already thinking about that but there's things that we're we're growing with as well. We're getting back to the basics of getting students engaged getting students communicating and getting them out in the community. So without further ado here we're going to go through our graduation requirements talk a lot about late start early release if you all remember that in the spring a current MTSS similar to what Sean Mr. was doing at the middle school. What we're doing with that a little different at the high school because it's just the structure of the time, but it's more focused at the high school on certain content areas because of the time
006we have. And then algebra LA student performance trends, what we're seeing and then let the kids button up with their senior seminar. Here's what we had. So the graduation requirements we looked at here's what our high school seniors for the most part are doing at KZtown. we talk about >> that's specific to the one graduation requirement that is graduate readiness. Y >> we have we have the graduate readiness component here. So it's equivalent to one credit um summer sort of competency. >> So when you take a look here here's what our our students are doing senior seminar we about we have 40 students who are participating. We have 22 students in BCT which is a really strong number. We have 19 students internships 10 college study 11 students doing AP courses. So if you look
007at why at 11 students, a lot of those 11, we started out with 51 or so that went senior seminar. Then we had seniors double down on more of the B courses. So that's kind of their their pathway if you will. >> There are many students taking AP courses that also have senior seminar, but this is students who have a heavier lower AB that didn't fit their schedule. We didn't want we didn't want it to take priority over somebody taking course. >> Dr. Okay, there is this was approved last year. This is current schedule. was given more choice and as you see as they get towards more their senior year the options allow them to invest themselves more into these experiences that I present to you about senior seminar and taking college courses doubling down
008on co-ops at BCTC taking an internship while we're small and sometimes it does create some little issues by and large creating some of that option at the the tail end of their senior year allows more breath so they can go out experience put to good use what they're Am I clicking you or you clicking it for me? I'm just gonna point you the man. >> When it doesn't work, I do. >> Thanks. I'm just new courses. So, here's what we put in place for this year. Again, there's 40 students senior seminar AP pre-cap, which is fascinating, but that 20% almost of a 11th grade class has taken AP pre-cal. We have 14 students right now taking AP Cal, which is double that more than we have ever had. But now because they had that extra
009time slot and they in their senior schedule, there's time to get that study hall which they may need knowing they're taking these extra or they're pushing themselves further and harder. Active lifestyle which is a really neat course. She calls it um act I forget what she gym 35 is what she pushes out every every Monday. There's students who have Miss Delo's essentially it's open gym open weight room during connections for kids that qualify and it's really neat. They love it. So we looked at uh and thanks for the board because I think we initially started with 70% and I appreciate you all saying ramp it up a little more and we did we did that. So it had we had uh 80% we had parent permissions note the tardies which was not really not that
010big of a deal. Our senior class is very very strong and they really appreciate these opportunities that you all provided them. So most of the things with seniors comes down to do we have to have any difficult conversations? We had I think it was seven students qualify or take us up on that early release late start and as we progressed through we had to have a little sit down right after Thanksgiving before Thanksgiving. Thanks Dr. Meyer. We have seven total students who took it. Five students we had to have a sit down with them and take a look at where their current grades are. Not that they're doing horribly, but a few students need to refocus and buckle down through the Thanksgiving break and through uh December so they can get themselves back to 80%
011for some of those courses. So we currently have as two students right now that are doing the early release. Five students I want to say lost that privilege but are back in school going through the full scope of having study hall, having Mrs. Westgate available in the morning, having time to focus and get recalibrate. I took a quote there in the bottom from a student. Uh this student said this is words for word. Loves the opportunity uh to have the option to arrive late. It keeps me motivated. He said to keep my grades up. It's been my best grades thus far in high school. That's pretty neat. Now we're going to get into uh 9th grade MTSS. Here's our current breakdown of our n our ninth graders. So, who are our students in algebra? We
012have 41 students currently taking algebra. Of those students, we have uh six students who are in Keystone exam support. So, we have MTSS. They're there because they weren't proficient in the spring keystones. So, those half dozen students are very intensive on MTSS for algebra. And then we have fewer students, much fewer students in MTSS for language arts. But because we've doubled down very hard on algebra, very hard on math uh this this past year, language arts does kind of spiral. It builds upon 9th grade and 10th grade to 11th grade. So there's a lot of those things that can get pushed in to the LA courses where we really spent a lot of effort into uh MTSS for algebra. I think next year what we'll have to look at is being a little more intentional
013with how we use connections for some of those freshmen that need supports for reading. But for this year, by doubling down on really hard on algebra, we're probably going to be a little bit more intentional for connections or two with some of those students who need language art supports the next. It's it's really hard so many periods in the day to get these kids out plus give them the gym class they need, the FCS they need, research and design they need. So it's we're looking at how we can be a little more intentional with that for next year. Give those kids those time slots. And also when you schedule those kids for connections, sometimes it gets challenging because your juniors and seniors who are in those more rigorous science courses also need that teacher for
014something as well. So it's kind of find that balance as you go. >> Yes. 41 TSS for algebra. What what courses were they in math? Do you know? I will say the majority of them were in a pre-alggebra course. >> The eighth grade math is essentially pre-alggebra. So nearly all of those students would have been yes. >> You look there's you're going to see some some numbers that kind of jump out at you for a second there. But what I want to show is there's 14 students who are currently moved specifically ahead of time who are having some challenges that were freshman. 14 students. We moved intentionally to a connection teacher, which also made us jockey some of the schedules around for a connections teacher themselves so students can be pushed elsewhere that didn't need
015to be there. And our decisions were guided by nth grade team meetings. So how do we make the decisions? There's all sorts of data we can pull. We have Alex, which is an online platform. We have CCT. We have STAR. There's a lot of language that we're all familiar with. Algebra Plus, MTSS, Algebra Plus essentially is make sure I get this. Algebra Plus is giving intentional time to a group of students who need I say the pacing of of algebra by having algebra plus allows us that time to work with those students and a little slower pace and we we have pushin supports there special education through Paris. We do that right there. Algebra one academic MTSS that's more your traditional algebra one academic at the pacing wise they too have skills and needs and
016deficits but we can move it a little faster clip that algebra one academic and PSS pace and then we also have students who came up to us from the middle school who like Mr. Chad said last year we're in eighth grade they call eighth grade math. >> All of most students are in what's called eighth grade math. It's essentially pre-algge. >> So yes, thank you. So eighth grade math there are about 35 students who did not need an MTSS. They went right from 8th grade to do to algebra. So they don't have that extra time built in their schedule for that algebra foundation skills. Any questions so far? Here's our little breakdown. As you can see, with about half the students, 30 and 29, that other group of 12 were pretty intensive when where we
017scheduled them, where we have them placed and the supports we have around them. Could you expect those numbers to hold all year or is this something that >> I hope by I think that the half dozen kids I hope we see some progress when we get the keystone results but the unfortunate thing is there's a winter window of december and there's a window that when we get back from Christmas break we don't get those results until after Valentine sometimes later than that >> but what we are seeing is that students can progress and work their way out of this and what we hope to see is students who are working their way out of like a math 180 even a we call an intervention math students who are working their way out of math intervention
018by moving some of those students that progress out of an FTSS we can make some room for the students working their way up out of traditional math station >> do we have any uh nth graders who are at a 10th grade level or sometimes >> we have we have one section two sections well we have two sections of honor geometry I don't know what percentage of those there are a number of students in ninth grade who were taking honors geometry and they are I mean there there are students who took algebra one in eighth grade so I don't know the numbers on how many that is 14 and 13 I believe it is >> enough for us to split it >> yeah I didn't know if they were all I guess they are I don't
019know if they were all ninth graders and some of them were 10th graders >> they' probably all be >> they're probably just about all >> yes sir because there's a geometry geometry academic which is a sop that could be sophomore also could be some freshman but But I I know what you're alluding to from maybe a half dozen years ago, >> right? >> We don't have not in the last couple years have we had a group or two come down. We had a student a couple last year come down or two years ago come down, but not in the last couple years like you're alluding to or that I assume you're alluding to. >> That's when an eighth grader was taking. >> Yes, sir. >> I did. Uh so here's example tier one. I'm sure
020Mr. Lynch spoke to this. It's in algebra. It's giving students or here's LA. We can push in some of the LA supports and they can do close reading. She can pit pause on what they're doing and say we got to get back to this. We got to learn get back. They do small groups. I observe this in in her classes where the students work in Paris and sometimes she reaches and gets back to the really basics. But LA can really do that which is very very nice. Sometimes with that keystone at the end of this race, they know it's there and every day matters. There's a paste in it. There's a paste and there's an expectation to it as well. Here's our updates. I'll let you guys let you all digest this briefly here. So,
021here's our enrollment. What you'll see down here, we can see total. Here's how we're going. Just take a moment this year. uh there are some challenges that we're facing. This is a a really good group, but we have some students who have some needs just like any year. So when you take a look at this number first, you think right away, how are we doing? But there are years when they start off learning the ropes of fresh learning the ropes of the high school takes some time. It takes time to figure out how we how we do things with ex with expectations of exams. That's an expectation for all of us. So, as you take a look at these things, we're seeing some numbers, but we're really able to address these numbers. And if you
022look into what we see here from that number looks very high. You were able to really take a look at some of the students and the needs that they had and the supports that they're getting here. That number doesn't concern us as much right off the bat. Now, as we continue to monitor them very closely, we hope to have more real better understanding in the second quarter. And if you look at some of the students when we put in the report, we run zero to 59. 59 being a failure. There was a lot of students, not not high-fiving myself, a lot of students with a 56 or 57 in that number that with some proper supports and the right effort with freshman teachers are here to make students successful to give them a win and
023to show them how to be successful. There are I I feel very confident and strong about what we're seeing right now. questions in it. >> Can can you explain what those numbers are actually for? >> Oh, yes. So, what you see right here, those are the this year, the quarter one. Quarter one got where we're sitting right now, we have 15 students who are failing a an encore course. >> Okay. >> This exact time last year. >> So, there's 70 failures total rather. >> Yes, sir. So you look, oh my gosh, double >> that number one when we see and we're being very intentional with what we're seeing doesn't concern us because 10 or 12 students right off the bat can get us down to a different level. But I I feel very strongly what
024we're doing where we're heading. >> What is the unique number of students uh across this? Because I'm I'm just guessing that you know someone could be failing to classes. >> That's true. >> So what do you mean you need to help me? Um, >> how many students is it? Not how like 70 is representing classes, courses, right? But unique numbers meaning like you know how >> and we kind of know this. We've seen it, but there's probably four that are almost in every one of those cate and so they >> so we know it's at least 17 because the largest is science was 17. But >> some of them have like four or five courses. Some are retaken again. >> Yeah. But you don't you don't know the unique number off top of your head?
025>> No, I don't. So grab that and we'll send it out to the board after >> and I'd be curious to compare that to last year because again it's not that we have 70 students out of 115 that are failing something. We guess probably have 17 to 25. >> I will share that unfortunately some of those unique numbers are the exact same because they're not great again. Um but that's what the aster means is that there are some that you know where If I look at a list, I don't think of them as ninth graders, but they are technically per credits, you know. Um, so, um, yeah, I mean, so you have a lot of things going on here, right? We have a larger class, but we have the increased expectation of academic versus general,
026you know, that's the main change that occurred, right? So, um, with those with those instances, um, we definitely have an increase of failures, you know, in that system. I think it's probably it looks a little bit slightly larger than it actually is just because again you have more students in the class and there's some repeat offenders there from year to year but um the processes that they're working through to try to remediate that I think you know where where the real work is done and that's why we're going to continue to track it that way the unique numbers ma'am Just as a general comment too, I I mean the increase in failures, yeah, it's definitely something that's that's worth noting. However, I'm I personally would rather see more failure numbers in that that's indicating that
027the standard is is being high instead of because one of the things that I had a concern about was that we were it would ultimately by default end up pulling that standard down. So that shows that it's we're at least it would indicate that we're holding that standard up. So I would to an extent expect that >> that's that's definitely the intention. Um and I think we're seeing some evidence that that's working a lot of places in some places you know as you see it's not. Another thing to point out though is look at that encore number. There's no change in the way there's no change in levels of encore but yet we still see fairly similar proportional increase. Right? So that's that's an interesting number to look at. There are no level levels outside
028of there's some levels in music etc. but they're not the same type of levels. Here's a senior senior senior seminar. All right. Senior seminar. This is fun. So again, we have 40 kids. There's four criteria. Mrs. Westgate breaks it down into Ms. Westgate, uh, Mrs. Howard and Mrs. Sunday have really taken this and you can kind of find out, you can see a little bit of the personality in each one of the individual students of who they have kind of neat because they have that the personality they have kind of mimics and hats off and kudos those ladies. As I said earlier, they're building this kind of as they fly, but because they know the students oh so well as you all do, you'll see. But I just want to get just want to hammer
029it home very quick before I hand it over to I'm gonna sit down for a second. I appreciate when Mr. Tim Chance had the senior seminar had to speak to it. I said I would love to. I said wait a minute how cool would it be to have them come and we talked about the skills they need presentations being on point project management that they're all doing these things and I can't be can't be prouder of them I already am. So, for them to be here, but the four criteria that we'll really try to touch on for here, the self-reflection, the civic engagement, I took a couple bullet points. I didn't have the one student come here, but fascinating. This student is literally looking at apartments because they're ready to move out. So, how is
030how are they going to manage this process? They're looking at getting a lease, but they're what 18 or 19. So, all these things are taking place. These are real life things these students are wrestling with and trying to figure out. civic engagement, all the partnerships. A lot of the students are going to to touch on this momentarily. And then the uh future reus who said that she already has it research and process of renting an apartment. This is actually happening. This is on her slide. I could have brought her in, but she was busy. And then the capstone component is taking everything that they've learned, let's say by Easter time, and presenting this in a portfolio. They'll have one nice thing to say, this is what I accomplished in my senior year, the senior center.
031Here are just scratching the surface of building our partnerships and building connections for students. Some of the things that's really fascinating to me as I sit here with Mrs. Westgate, well, let me make a call. and she said, "No, no, that's not our job. It's it's their job." So, they're having to navigate this. They're figuring out how to knock on the door over at Gifts and Things, how to look at their schedule and build that out so they can go over there and work that process themselves. >> I think I mentioned this maybe just in a board update. So, First Commonwealth, you know, was a local partner that were exploring their financial literacy resources. Um this is one of the instances we're going to pilot a couple lessons in eighth grade and then also here
032in the senior seminar course because they seem to have um invested a lot of money into their educational program. So we're excited to see how that plays out. We're going to expand that partnership go right back to the board as a program. What was that helping harvest? We have boxing pack two 200 boxes with that meal for Thanksgiving. So, we were over there and helping harvest, but our students are are everywhere and they're they're making a contribution. >> All right, I'm going to be quiet for a moment and let introduce yourselves, please. All right, speak to what you're doing. Do you want to pass out? We can pass some things out. >> Yeah, I can start since I'm kind of piggy banking off the helping Congress thing. Um, so I did it with a group
033of two other students. Unfortunately, they couldn't be here, but um I'll start handing stuff out. Got one for each of you guys. We ran a food drive. >> Do you mind introducing yourself today? >> Yes. Sorry. >> I'm Kayen. I'm a senior. Um, and obviously I'm taking the senior seminar class and this is our senior seminar project and we decided to run a food drive with helping harvest. I'm going to talk a little bit more about that while I hand them out. So obviously to start this we had to reach out to helping harvest. Um, so I think that's one of the key skills that we've learned is communication and networking. I mean, even right now, like we're using this as an opportunity to get our stuff out here to you guys, which was a
034great opportunity. Um, so as you see up there, we also have a donate for donuts, which is kind of our incentive to get the high school involved because unfortunately, um, not all high school students are going to want to just come in and bring up Um, and you know, bringing food, as you can see, we have a bunch of lists of stuff. So, going to the store, getting all this stuff, and bringing it in is sometimes not exactly the most enjoyable thing. So, uh, we did a donate for donuts. Um, we're going to put it on the morning announcements. Hopefully, it will bring in more kids and hopefully get more people to donate. And then you can also see we have an online donation. One of the things we had to really work on since
035there are a lot of groups doing uh food drives and a lot of clubs have done food drives over the years. So we had to try to come up with a different way to expand it more. So with helping harvest uh we communicated with them and we created a website. So as you can see on the flyers we have a QR code there. If you scan it, it'll take you to a website. So instead of going to the store um and bringing stuff in, you have the option to just scan that and you can donate directly from there. Um, another huge thing is this is not only for helping harvest. Helping harvest, we've spoken with them. They also distribute to a bunch of local uh food banks around here. So, this could help our local
036community cuz uh French, that's the one in which >> um they'll distribute some of the food there and to couple other food banks in the uh surrounding counties as well. >> That was something we discussed. How are we local like in our in our backyard? How are we doing that? And that's already set up and we can use we can write we go right through helping harvest to help us to help >> our local >> feed our pantry here. >> Well done. >> Okay. So, uh I also have a partner that couldn't be here today, but our idea was to things up. Um >> your name? >> Oh, I'm Hannah Sheriff. Um my partner is Alex Plus. Um our idea was to um make activity bags for the kids in the Lehigh Valley Children's Hospital.
037Um because you know when when kids are there for a while, they tend to um it tends to be hard on them and their families. So just having um some games and um just like toys and activities to play with can really help um go a long way. Um >> what are some of the things that you and your counterpart are contemplating? >> Um what are you trying to Yeah. >> So uh we actually have a meeting tomorrow at Gifts and Things to see if they're willing to help um either donate some funds or donate actual items so that we can put these bags together. And um so until we do that, we're at a little bit of a standstill, but we're also looking at other fundraising opportunities so that we can like get this
038together. So um one of our ideas is to put a donation box in here as well as um just like get word out to as many people as possible so they can either bring stuff here or bring it to us directly so we can start assembling these kits. Um >> and they would go to Lehigh Valley Hospital. >> Yeah. So we would take them there directly. Part of the process is the students bringing these idea through Miss Westgate to bring the ideas to me where we're running not running a challenge where the kids are having a process is if let's just say they need 50 to1 $100 to start something that they have the time they have the energy they have the kind of want to but if they're $50 to really get them started
039do we do fundraisers for every one of those things or how do we help provide those these this group of students if they were to submit a grant or to a committee. Do we have a way to have some funds to allow them seed money if we want to get them off the ground? Not the thousands of dollars, but $50 to $100. If this project, how can we help the students use their time and energy to make this come to fruition? >> Uh I'm Shannon White. This is Addie. Uh, two of our group members couldn't be here today, but we are also working with Chris Bergstrom and Luna, who is a teaching student from Belgium that's here. Um, I'll come around and pass out these. >> Our examples of grace. >> Our project is we
040are trying to get a lot of people from the community, you know, it sounds a pretty crappy community. um all the crocheters to crochet granny squares, which are just little squares that she's passing out right now. And our goal is to get we're estimating about 100 to 200 maybe. Um and then we have 30 per each blanket. We want to make baby blankets to donate to put all the granny squares together and make baby blankets to donate to the NICU at Lehigh Valley uh hospital. >> What's something you said about as far as a fund the funding for this may not be as challenging as we think because >> Yeah. Um, so the unique thing about our project is that, you know, a lot of these other groups need grants to get their project off
041the ground, but ours is more of like a community effort. You know, I crochet. I have a lot of just leftover yarn. So, what I'm hoping is that people from the community that already h know how to crochet and already have these materials can just, you know, without a granny square in a few minutes and donate donate that and it's not a whole lot of money. I mean, yarn only costs like $4 a skine and you can make I don't know like 10 granny squares per skine of yarn. So, it's pretty costefficient and I think that would be pretty appealing to um people looking to donate since they don't have to donate money or go out and buy food or whatever >> crowd sourcing the materials. It's great. Um so I the projects themselves and
042this is you know the intent so you know some of the things going into the intention here is like what are the skills that you learn as a part of the project rather than the outcome. These are all wonderful ways to help your community and I think that's what makes it fun and engaging. Um, but what might you say are some of the skills that you've learned or had to practice? Because most of them probably aren't new things you never had to do, but it's it's putting into practice in a in a realistic way. What What would you say has been valuable a valuable learning experience? >> Um, probably networking. I mean, uh, if you look on the posters, we're partnering with local folk over on Main Street. So, we've got been in contact with
043Kathleen Wall who owns it and we're setting up donation boxes inside of the store. Um, me and Addie are actually going to go around town afterwards and hang up posters and hopefully and we have an email there so you know if people have any questions they can email us. Um, but I I think that's a pretty useful skill that we're learning. >> Yeah, I mean absolutely. I appreciate that. It's that we going into the projects like you know these projects are all very successful and that is wonderful from a vision standpoint. There are some instances where a failed project would be just as valuable, right? Because you would have had to make all the same contacts and maybe for some reason it didn't work out. But what we really want to see students do is
044interact with adults who are not your parents or your teachers, right? Like in some way, shape or form just have to make a phone call, go visit a business, whatever it might be. and then learn what could kind of be categorized as almost like uh project management skills, right? Like let's set up a plan and let's follow through with it. And that's that's really what I think those are kind of the real skills of the process and what we're seeing as the value. So um you guys want to Anna Kaden do you want to comment on that or would you say the same skills are what you have found most valuable? I think for sure networking, communication. I know for my group we had to go through the whole process of virtually first reaching out
045to helping harvest and then we obviously had to create that website. Um so it took a lot of like creativity too. We had to kind of think outside the box instead of doing the same thing that everyone else has been doing for who knows how long with all these food drives going on. >> Yeah. So, I think adding that extra step of adding that online option was uh really the most important thing that we've done and the best thing that we've learned. Excellent. >> Yeah, with um with fundraising and coming up with different ideas for how we can um gain resources. It was definitely challenging because there's so many projects going on all at once. there's at least like three or four donation boxes in a lot of the rooms in school right now. So,
046uh coming up with okay like where can we partner with how can we like figure this out different activities to get students involved in that would raise funds is um has been one of the bigger challenges. Yeah, I think that taps into one of the the problems that we have to solve as an organization for the you guys are, you know, you are you're the first group coming through and we're going to learn so much from it is that how do we structure this in a way that's not everybody at one time. You know, we joke like all of a sudden there's 12 knocks on the door of how can you help me get my project done, but that's that's one of the skills we want. But how do we set it up? So we
047whether they're staggered or whether we group them, you know, intentionally kind of group them a little bit differently and see how that works. But just love what you're doing, love to see the successes of them. We also then have to organizationally look at and see how we also have to prevent it from becoming, you know, big sale of the day club, right? Like where it's because that can't be raising money can't always be the goal even though sometimes it is. And we've discussed some options in a previous experience I worked with where um we set up a limited fund that we called like a microloan fund and then there was a a club kind that was a club that kind of did things like this and they could apply for a microloan with the intention
048part of it is they set up a business plan where they would say how they would pay that part of loan back and it goes back into the fund but that's kind of that seed money. So if you're looking to donate something that does cost money you might be able to raise some funds and do that. maybe some version of that and you know maybe engaging our partners the education foundation might be a way to do that you know so I think some of those lessons that we are learning through the process I think are going to help kind of even make a better opportunity into the future because we'll solve some of those problems >> they're good problems to have aren't they they're so you guys are so active and so engaged they're good
049things for us to are fun figure out >> I had a few questions and comments but really a lot of that stuff was covered so I wouldn't you I would be looking to to find more. Um it's this sort of thing is is very challenging for kids and to actually go through it for the first time. Basically what I was thinking was you know essentially specific struggles that you guys hit and then ultimately you know how you adapted to adapted to to meet those same things and you guys covered a lot of that stuff. But then ultimately, and again, you don't I'm not asking you for feedback on this to put you on the spot or anything, but um the idea of what would you guys do if there was anything for the next year,
050you know, like specific suggestions that you guys learned out of this or things that you see from a lot of what you're doing is an adult typically would do all the the backend organizational pieces. So you're seeing now you how challenging some of the stuff is because the idea looks really good on paper, but then you see how you run into these little challenges because of all these little things. I don't know if you want to comment on any of that stuff or not, but it's just really more or less just a a big great job for this stuff because it is you just learn so much from the process. It would be really exciting if maybe all of the students who are looking for donations with the different groups came together and maybe you
051could include something in Cougar Prints which goes out to the community and you know here's all of the senior projects and six opportunities or 10 opportunities to donate um so that the community gets more awareness in that method as well. >> We'll have it done tomorrow. We'll let them organize >> right at the end. >> They probably know what it goes. >> Yeah, >> the the hospital donations. Very interesting concept. That happens a lot. If either one of you I have a really good friend who operates Lily's Hope uh for preeis um their n they're across the country now. They started back in 2013. They help hundreds of families every year. If either one of you um would like to talk to her regarding how they started and how they set it up, I'm sure
052that I could get you in contact. So, just let me know. >> Thank you. Thank you. >> Yeah. If I could just ask you one more thing. I think you know while we're here um you all have different teachers. >> Uh we have the same teacher. I think they have. >> Okay. So, we represent two of the three and have to leave one out. just if you know the teachers have taken on a new class as well and and are you know just if you could share kind of one sort of shout out to the to your teacher about something not necessarily related to could be related to the projects but it could be just anything from the senior seminar class you've really appreciated that you've been able to kind of work through with them
053in this class I I would appreciate that >> I mean our we have Mrs. Sunday and obviously, you know, she came in later than most of the other senior seminar teachers. I think she's been doing a fantastic job. She's helped a lot with the project. I mean, she helped us print out 60 posters earlier. Um, she's been really good with like guiding us. I She was here for the like um career um and like college preparation. She did really good at like if we had any questions about adult life and stuff, you know, she was very helpful with all that. >> Excellent. Thank you. >> Um, so I and Miss Westgate, we both did. Um, I would say the same about Miss Westgate, but um, she also, I think, pushed us a lot to do
054more than I think we thought we could do. Um, I think I know definitely our group. I'm not sure about other groups as well, but I think when we first went into it, uh, we were looking for more assistance from her from like an adult, but um, she kind of put her foot down and was like, "No, you guys can do this. You guys really can do this." And we ended up being able to do a lot more than we thought we could. Um, just because she helped us and she helped us to get there. I think definitely throughout this project and throughout our um our project last quarter with our own smart goals. Uh she's been very helpful with helping us find resources when it's been a little bit difficult and like encouraging us
055to just like keep pushing through our blocks and when we're like like I really can't do this like I can't get through this like nope you got it here's another resource like just keep looking. So, she's been very helpful with just like Katie said, keeping keeping on pushing this through. >> Excellent. There are no other questions. Um, I was thank you. You know, it does it's so much better to have you share what you're doing than it is for us to say what we know you're doing. So, thank you so much for your time on a Monday night. >> Thank you. >> Yeah. Great job. Thank you guys. And then feel free to leave. I doubt you guys should. >> Thank you. I >> think by and large that's really emblematic of how we did
056this this whole year. We're kind of building as we go. But when you have that kind of energy and they're taking the baton, it really makes it fun on our end. Appreciate giving me a chance to present any questions. Migler, I'll get through all that unique numbers from Q1, Q2 from last fall and this fall. Can you share that with the whole board? Sure. Yes. Commission chat first. >> Yeah. And I think um you know in summation there's um there's a lot of positives we're seeing from changes. There's some you know there's as there always is there's some areas you have to continue to grow and adapt but um very happy. Dr. Fletcher, do you normally see an increase a decrease with the uh amount of students that are failing throughout the year? Like last
057year was 35 after after the first quarter. Um is it do you does it normally go up? Does it go down? Does it stay the same? >> We we'll see it go down. Yeah, we will. >> Y especially the students now there'll be a handful of students who because especially with nth grade teachers understanding students how they transition to nth grade there is that time they they set the tone they set the expectation but from let's say Thanksgiving in through Christmas and then through when we get back the students who bring the effort the teachers will meet students but they'll they'll work their way out of that a little as I said earlier there's not many students who are not in the high F range like 55 but with a little bit effort, they can
058get their way back up pretty quickly. Very much so. >> So, you expect a pretty significant drop in that number? >> I do. I do. I hope so. I do expect that to go up. >> Did you guys Did you guys have or discuss or possibly in the future any like benchmark goals for that? Like how much we'd like to like what we'd like to see number-wise, percentage- wise as far as an improvement in the number of failures. I haven't thought about it from the standpoint of I think that's one of the things is we're we're as we're watching this go and progress. >> We may set a little bit different expectations of make sure we communicate with parents and with students that are coming from eighth grade and nth grade. Here is some of
059the work that is expected. Here is what you can expect. Here are some of the work you can do in advance. Hopefully see some we'll help communicate some of those things a little better. Uh but as far as benchmarks, just to track the numbers in advance, it's it's kind of tough right off the bat. Sure. >> They're not directly related, I guess. But how's the uh mentor mentee program going? >> It's going well. They actually have their mentor meeting uh they had individualized ones for November and then they have their mentor meeting on Tuesday leading into Christmas. Is this the third year? >> The fourth year. >> Fourth year. This is the first These seniors were the first group to have it as fresh. >> Okay. >> Third full year. I think mid year. I
060think you're I think it's fourth, but I think it's the third. >> It's third full. I think you started a little bit mid year. I think >> Can I ask a question about the the science curriculum that you guys? >> Yes. What is that physical science ninth grade class? >> Well, this from my social studies teacher background, the way it's broken down, the first half the year is is chemistry and then the second half the year is physics. >> So, they have chemistry and physics in ninth grade and then they have choice for chemistry and physics in your junior year. >> Chemist the physical sciences, the chemistry is the first part of physical science like it's more of a chemistry component and then January on is more of a physics component to the physical science.
061>> There's no earth and space environmental or agricultural in the curriculum. >> That is I believe that is correct. I can get some more information on that for you. >> Oh, I don't know if I well from my understanding it's chemistry then it's physical science uh physics for second half the year. >> We had looked a few years ago at the potential of giving a choice in ninth grade and there was a an egg focused potential option um that really our egg teacher at the time which was I think Mrs. Brown made so many more than a couple years ago um you know looking at those options and there was some current concerns from the science department that it wouldn't prepare kids as well for chem specifically um but looking at that as an option
062because you'll see occasionally schools with strong egg programs will have a egg focused ninth grade course as an option in comparison to appreciate the support of our very Thank you very much. >> Thank you. >> I appreciate it. >> That's five minutes. >> All right, that uh that brings us to policy part. Um and we have two policies. The first one is policy 004 for membership. >> Both of these I just reminded came up out of conversations over the over the c past few weeks. Um just the questions on membership was more about do we look did there was a request to explore whether we want to identify a process for um identifying candidate um when there's a vacancy and then organization is really mostly just about the academic achievement committee which is always listed
063on our sheet but doesn't meet regularly um so I don't know from a time standpoint you know what we want to do start the conversation or if you want to target one or the I don't know, you know, with seven minutes. >> I would guess that O4 is going to be more of a discussion. So maybe get that one off list possibly. >> Great. There's always some productivity involved, right? >> I'm gonna I'm gonna pass this out five. This is just list of different committees that reserve county welcome schools maybe >> and of course the topics these are not the exact names um these were pulled from different school districts so the names vary but the topics and the organization um with within each category a little bit different but overall this I think this
064pretty much hits everything that was throughout the county as far as topic areas. >> I know that you had emailed this out ahead of time or shared it ahead and it was very valuable. Um I think it really kind of joged the thinking on what reconfigurations. Uh, you know, we could consider um I know in the past we've talked about really wanting to um plan more systematically about our long-term finances uh and of course some big property decisions coming up. Um you know I think the you know one idea would be to group together um curriculum athletics uh activities, student services and experience technology into one you know student um experience related committee and then having really finance, property operations and policy. Then another committee which would be more you know, getting away from purely
065just I'll say maybe the short-term facility considerations, but more to the long-term property planning. >> The only one that's always going to be tough to see it go into like a boxer policy because policy hits everything in some way, you know. So, that's that's the one that's tough to separate from, you know, either the student experience side or operations side. plural. Your suggestion was combining curriculum technology. >> Yeah. So, curriculum and and I kind of used this list from the Burke County one that was a little more holistic. So, my thinking was curriculum, athletics and activities, student services, experience and technology. Uh and then the other con other major committee being finance um operations property and policy you know I was kind of grouping operations policy and finance you know together along property >> and
066then I think negotiations really kind of goes with that human relations resources I don't know that I put public relations in with that but I think the negotiations, human relations and resources naturally improves as well. if we wanted to consider, you know, again realigning with a more holistic view given some of these reference points across then of course any changes I mean comes you know the opport the ideal time to restructure is for reorganization you know we're having the conversation right after reorganization but obviously that's what makes most sense Um so the these discussions um can go any way. We also could have a policy that takes effect policy that would take effect with reorganization next year certainly as well if if that large of a change was desired. My general, you know, I think
067I feel this way about most things. As you see, other school districts do similar but different ways. Any of these structures can work perfectly well. You know, it's not um it's not our way is not the only way, but our way is also not inherently flawed either. It's, you know, some something else. Um or specifically removing academic achievement committee because it's one that sits that that we've we have naturally folded into the curriculum. I think is makes perfect sense. Um, as far as everything else, I think there's good rational. It's just a matter of how the board wants to organize. >> I'm not opposed to mislead suggestion at all. My my only my thought is we have two one-hour long meetings. we probably need to structure them in a way to get the most out
068of those two hours. >> Um, whatever format that is may be. >> Yeah. And I still think I mean I do think uh Mrs. Ziggler's um you know her her vision of it I think when I look at the personnel that need to be involved you know I can see those structuring well. It's just policy is the is the because there's policies that need to go with curriculum, there's policies that need to go with and everything else. >> So maybe splitting the policies into the kind of appropriate committee that more naturally align anything curriculum related would go into the student, you know, based one and anything property, finances, capital related One thing I'm looking at here, everything that's under the property committee pretty much is already discussed under the facilities committee. >> Same with the
069operations and really the technology falls underneath the facilities as well too. >> Tech's become such a, you know, such a challenging one to categorize because everything involves tech at this point. >> Well, exactly. >> It's just, you know, it's everything does. So we already have finance with >> I was just sorry I was just going to say and technology is really >> two avenues one's it which is more the operations and then the other tech which is more curriculum >> which I think you're talking about two different things depending on which way >> but it it the way we you know we really structure now probably would fall more under operations you know because that is the cyber security is our infrastructure. Um again, that's what that's what we discuss. >> Yeah. And if there
070would be some some public with policy, we just kicked that over the policy committee though. I think the the current facilities uh committee again tends to focus more on short term and I think really asking that committee to start thinking about the long-term um property development as well as the financial implications of that. I know again that's that's an important gap that we've mentioned in the past. So I think that expansion of that committee would be a nice opportunity. 7:01 it's uh anybody has any other thoughts at this point before we guess suggestions here it is again it's it's not something needs to be immediate it's something that's kind of bigger so maybe sitting on a little bit and think thinking on it but that gives us a starting point to really think about potential
071the struure Any other questions or comments? At this point, I'd be looking for a motion to adjourn. >> All in favor say I. >> I. Being a jerk. Right. Thank you. Um, first first we need to elect a committee chairperson. Do we have any nominees for the word chairperson? I nominate Mr. We have any other nominations? Take a roll call. Mr. soul >> light. Congratulations. Thank you again. >> Um you're looking we got stuff under facilities and extracurricular. Uh we'll start first with you in facilities or extracurricular. We have facilities listed first. >> Okay. >> Cool. Uh, first is the PCCD update. >> Yeah, PCCD is the Pennsylvania Crime Commission's delinquency. Um, anyway, but it's a P where a lot of Pennsylvania state grants come through. They are typically called safety grants. Um, and we
072have to align those applications what they consider level one needs. So, I'm going to be kind of vague because they are safety grants, you know, so safety information. um our last grants um we did not spend everything in those categories, you know, that we have and some there's been some um security enhancements to the exterior of our buildings in addition to some interior things as well, but uh left us $55,000 short of the expenditures there. We have until April, you know, to to spend that money, but different than previous years. We cannot change the scope at all. You can do you can edit your budget, can't edit your project. In previous years, you were able to edit your project or your budget. So um there's some potential additional projects that will um you know I
073think again in vague ways we we either can look to add some uh additional security around doors that we have um you know and doors key is locks as we have continued to improve I'm trying to be vague without being too detailed um and likely we're going to go that direction so just the part the tough part is that we are not looking we're not just adding expenditures to add expenditures we also grant money on the table that you can use to upgrade your physical property. So um you'll see we'll put some information in board notes um this week about I think we've narrowed down the direction we want to go. Um just wanted to just wanted to kind of give you a brief update vague update on that in that um we did not
074we weren't able to we just didn't expend all of the grant funding and um we do feel it's necessary that there's continuous potential security upgrades but we need to narrow them into what the original project was. So we'll send some information both for convenience board this week. Um that relates to the next item only in this way. Any the only way is that any projects are looking to get done this summer we're gonna have to start talking about because you got to get on the calendar. So um you know that's that sort of just relates to it there. And there's there potentially could be some crossover projects. Um and I'm going to give this update. I didn't want to put it the agenda because I don't want to give anybody a to just put it
075on there again. I think we're really close to understanding how adding the um gas tank on property is going to make sense for us and the CI together. So um you know we've talked about it quite a few times in recent years and that's why you know but we are really close that I think it it is going to be mutually beneficial for beginning in July of 2026 with us and BCIU where we will be able to add that convenience mostly to us. also will save us money because we will be able to participate at a higher rate in the bid because um because of our usage and then also be able to assist them because right now BCIU is running you know running out to 61 for gas with the buses. So with an
076agreement that uh you know where we would receive a service fee for hosting we will be able to I think pay for both the initial installation of the tank but in addition to a key part and a key cost is the software as you say technology goes with everything the software key card so to track who's using gas um I think we'll be able to pay for the annual goal and initial over say you know two to three years just from that partnership so we're I think we're to a good place that um very soon time say February we'll probably have a recommendation with again looking at probably summer >> not on the agenda but just an update to something we talked about. >> Okay. Very good. Uh next we have the KMS carpet replacement.
077>> Yep. So I know as part of the admin move into the middle school uh you know we did the minimum to start as far as carpeting. So we did the superintendent's office. We did the front main office u of the district office. What I'd like to do is update the main office. Again we're at 25 years since the original carpet in that building. Uh the main office is showing you know a lot of wear especially as you come in. Uh the faculty room uh add the two other district administration offices which is room 200 and 2011 as well as some walk-off carpet to the district entrances of the cubby. Uh so all that is for a total of $28,531. That's through the vendor who did the original in uh installation who was a co-stars
078vendor. >> Is that carpet squares? >> Yeah. So one gets damaged place. >> Yeah. >> And also it uh in the 20020 that is directly over the BCT. So like those rooms are can be quickly transferred back if provided the BCT on those. But yeah, the faculty room and main office are definitely showing where and just kind of thought we'd hold off because of the construction and uh now that that's complete like to look at it as a as an upgrade to that building. >> Did we get any other bids for it or we just >> No, that's a co-star vendor. So I did not we can we very well can but since it's co-stars we particularly use a vendor who we've had success with in the past >> and I'm assuming it was in
079the budget >> this would come out of the the capital fund. Um so >> it's not in the general fund budget >> and that capital fund's sitting at what right now? Again, this would be something we're looking at for the summer just to get on the list of we could look at that installments. You want to go forward. All in favor of moving this to the full board say I >> I passes it for me unless anybody has any other questions. >> Um just the you know we did have our first test with snow and the parking lot with the buses if you want to share that experience at all. uh just coordination that we have to start at that building now which would always be secondary, high school would be primary. Uh so now
080we start at the middle school, get that out and then they have to convince people to come in to move the buses. So and then clean the buses off. Then we clear where those are and then they put everything back. So it's just a little bit of a little bit more of a process. Before we were all on our own, we can clear it at at our pace. Now we have to coordinate which again it was good that the day was off. We still feed pretty much the entire day. Of course it started right about almost 8:00 so we will be clearing by 11 but it was a fairly good process. Again I think everything went pretty good. U we'll see how the next storm goes. Thank you. >> Okay, next we're going to move
081into the extracurricular fall sports review. >> Thank you very much. So, uh, usually we do this a little bit closer to the end of the fall season, but our last BCC meeting, uh, was also the same night as the BCIA leap, uh, banquet where they honor, um, people who have served 20 years in some capacity serving, uh, Burbs County student athletes. Um, so it's a good way to honor them. They hand out the uh, uh, annual sportsmanship award each year at that banquet as well. Unfortunately, we did not win it, but uh we did finish in third place this year, which was up from um where we were previously in the last year in 2024. So, good spot to be in. Um a couple years where we did win that several years, three out of
082four years or two out of three years. So, hoping to get back there. It's always a nice recognition for the community and the student athletes here at Goodtown. But we'll do the fall wrap-up here. We'll start off as always with uh Mr. Sherk and the marching band. obviously always a great performance that they do every Friday night. Uh all the kids that are involved with the marching band, we hear some of them down the hall as we're here in the meeting. Uh but they put on a great show every year. Uh it gets better every year. The selection that they do for their uh halftime shows, always original, always creative and and always a good time. So thank you to Mr. Sher and our marching band for helping make Friday night a great experience for
083for the whole community. Sticking with band just because he shared it today, Mr. shirt would share share this afternoon that over the weekend we had three students who auditioned for the PMEA Disher 10 band ensemble and all three of those students qualified for the group. Um Carrie uh Bosler Wyman on clarinet, Vincent Estre on the trombone and Anna Ngard on the trombone and Anna also qualified for district orchestra since she was the second seated overall out of the 33 trombones in the district and district is a massive thing in band like it's um I actually don't know and it goes all the way up to right there's I don't know how many how many districts are >> I know I know we are part of district 10 >> yeah but it's it's massive it's even
084bigger bigger than our athletic districts. It's bigger than right athletics just as a comparison. So um as always our students super talented perform well. Congratulations to Carrie Vincent and for their performances. Next that brings us to our cheerleaders this year. Our head coach uh once again Linda Andre volunteer coach Britney Deerly this year with us. We had 14 participants at the high school, six at the middle school. Um, and they they just like the marching band add to a great Friday night experience uh out there for our community, our coaches, our fans, our student athletes. Uh, and they have recently been uh busy. Uh, before Thanksgiving, they competed in the BCIA Championships. Um, and then just this past weekend they competed in in two competitions. On Saturday was the District Three Championships out at CD
085East High School where they placed fifth in the co-ed division. Then yesterday they participated in the UCA regional which was right down the road at Santander Arena. They finished in first place in the co-ed intermediate division. So from the district 3 championship uh competition, they did qualify for the PIAA championship uh competition which is being held January 9th and 10th. Um this year location not so lucky. They were at Santander Arena last year. Uh this year they're going to the other side of Pennsylvania at Sonic Arena in Johnstown, PA. So, seems to be maybe better next year be back here on this side of the stage. But, uh, congratulations to our cheerleading team for uh, for their recent success and good luck to them out at states. Next, we have our golf team. Uh, once
086again, Michael and Bernie Bole leaving the helm for our golf team this year. Uh, finished one and 14, tied for seventh place in Brooks Division 2. We had 10 boys participating this year. Um, some postseason highlights. Uh Daniel U Jük, a junior for us, uh was BCIA all division two team. He had a seventh place finish and doubleA boys at the BCIAA championships. And another junior, Andrew Gilbert, was Burk's division 2 honorable mention. And we had uh Daniel going out to the district 3 championship meet out at Honey Run Golf Club uh for another year, second year in a row for Daniel. So he has one more year competing with us. Andrew uh had some success last year and we look for both of them to return next year. Maybe get a couple more kids
087out to District 3 championship uh tournament out at York next year. Our girls tennis team, a lot of success this year. Lannne Reppert was our head coach along with her assistant who she knows very well, Dale Reppert. Uh volunteer coaches Nick Weber, Tom Wling, Sue Sheridan, and Tracy Mley. We also had our own Aaron Angle helping out as a van driver for us. Uh overall this season they finished 13 and4. They were 71, seven and one in the league. Good enough for second place in Burks division 2. They were four and three in the postseason. So they were a Burks team semi-finalist this year. District three team third place finish. They were and a PIAA team qualifier for the first time in program history. So, they've uh competed in that match all the way up
088in uh South Williamsport, not too far from Little League World Series location up there. It's a it's an indoor facility, believe the uh the same facility that that Bucknell uses and cold weather time up there. Uh Maline Mey and Clara Angel, they're doubles team. They were flight one doubles silver medalist this year, losing to a Wilson doubles team. and they were district 3 2A doubles semi finalists. They were the number one overall seed this year in the district 3 tournament. So we had eight girls participating this year and some postseason recognition. Maline Manley senior was named to BCIA allconerence team and Kenzie Burns sophomore BCIA all division 2 team. So congratulations to our tennis program for all the success that they had this fall. our B boys and girls cross country team, our head coach
089Shelby Brett and middle school coach Kelsey Yob. We had nine participants at the high school level, seven boys and two girls and four at the middle school level. Split in a half, two boys and two girls. Some postseason recognition. Daniel Cali, a junior for us, was named to the Burks all division 2 team. He finished 14th overall at the Burks Championships right down the road at KZtown University. finished in fifth place at the district 3 championship meet and was a PIAA qualifier this year for the second year in a row. And we had Egan Su junior also qualified for the district 3 championships along with Owen McFarland another junior at the district 3 championships. And we also had Lena Kley on the girl side, sophomore this year, uh was Burk's division two honorable mention and
090she qualified for district 3 2A championship race along with freshman Zoe Balone uh named Burk's all division 2 team and also qualified for the district 3 championship race. So congratulations to our cross country team. girls soccer. Our own middle school guidance counselor Keegan White is our head coach along with their teacher here in the high school Alan Angstat as the assistant. Middle school coach is middle school teacher uh Matt Brown. Regular season they finished seven and 11 overall, four and eight in the league and they finished in third place in Burk's division 4. We had 23 girls at the high school, 16 at the middle school this year. Some Burks postseason recognition. We have Jaden Garris, senior named the Burks All Division 4 team along with Carter Deal, a senior again on the Burks All
091Division Four team and Ava Cuts, a junior on the Burks All Division Four team. And AJ Blank, a senior, Burks division four honorable mention this year. Congratulations to our soccer team. Split soccer right now. We're going to throw on some slides about our football team. Head coach again, Larry Chester. Assistant coaches, his brother Maurice CuadraD Chester, Matt Law Horn, Carlton Thomas, and Kenny Kramer. We had volunteer coach Jonathan Rodriguez, an intern from Kitztown University, Nicholas Perez, and middle school coaches Alvin Clark and Steve Kercher. Regular season, they finished 2 and eight, one and six in the league uh for a seventh place finish in Lancaster Leon League section five. We had 36 participants this year. 20 of those from KZtown, 16 from Brandy Wine at the high school level. On the middle school level, we
092had 21 total. 14 from Kutztown, and seven from Brandy Wine. Some postseason recognition. This is all from the Lancaster Lebanon League because uh Burks Allstars usually take a little bit longer to get all their names out. So, we have Lancaster Lebanon League section five all-star recognition. Here we have Mason Sherry, a senior. He was named the section five offensive back of the year. Named first team offense and first team defense for outside linebacker. Brian Walters, a sophomore, was named second team offense as a running back and honorable mention as a kick returner. Ian Bar, a senior, second team offense as a fullback, honorable mention as an outside linebacker. Aiden Sher, a junior, second team offense as a offensive lineman, second team defense as an inside linebacker. Jack Morardi, a senior, honorable mention as a kicker.
093Jaden Martin, another senior, honorable mention as a defensive end. Isaac Wood, a senior, honorable mention as a punter. And Tyler Wicki, senior, as an honorable mention as a long snapper. And then we have a list of players here named for the Burks Academic Allstars. This is uh something put together by the coaches in Burks County. So we had 23 members of our football team named for the Burks Academic All-Star team. Qualifi qualification for this is to have a GPA of 3.0 or higher. So congratulations to our list of student athletes here. Hunter motto, Ian Bar, Royce Bitner, Dennis Brown, Hunter Cooper, TJ Angelhart, Nick Hunsberger, Charles Judson, Connor Coucher, Jackson Wman, Levi Martin, Robert Meister, Jack Morardi, Colton Reneer, Bryson Shel, Max Schroer, brother Ronan Shyer, Mason Sherry, Aiden Showers, Wyatt St, Daniel Padley, Ryan
094Walters, and Tyler Wiki. So not only putting in the work on the field, but also in the classroom as well. So, congratulations to the boys there. And then nice historic accomplishment here. I believe for only the third time in Pennsylvania high school football history, Mason Sherry, Ian Bar, and Ryan Walters teammates, three teammates on one team, each rushing for a thousand yards this year the same season. So, Mason rushed for 1351 yards and nine touchdowns. Ryan rushed for 131 yards and 13 touchdowns. and Ian Bar just got it in the last game, 108 yards and 10 touchdowns. So, congratulations to these boys here for a great season. Our boys soccer team, head coach Jared Deal and assistant coach Isaac Mangle. Our middle school coaches Don Buchcci and assisted by Jim Dilante. Regular season, they finished
095143 and one, 92-1 in the league. Uh and they finished 145 and one overall. So that was good enough for back-to back-to-back Burks Division 4 champions. They were also qualified for the Burks playoffs. They were quarterfinalist losing in that round. And then we hosted uh the district three quarterfinals there. Uh didn't come out on top against Hooka Valley, a hard fought game there. But we had 33 participants at the high school level, 20 at the middle school level this year. So, congratulations to our boys soccer team for winning another division championship. So, another great season for them. And then just kind of wrapping up here, we have two Oh, I'm sorry. Postseason recognition. Chase Schubler, a senior, Burksall conference team this year. Kaden Chone, another senior, BCIA, all division four team. Dane Lasceo, uh, and
096his brother Kade Las both named Burksall Division four team. Ashton Bitner, their senior Burks Division 4 honorable mention and Chase Morell, sophomore Burks Division 4 honorable mention. Um, and so as I was saying before, I just want to make a a mention, we have two head coaches that have resigned this fall. Um, just looking to uh do some other things uh with with their time. our girls tennis coach, Lannford. Uh, of course, her husband as well, Dale Reppert, looking to finally take some time for themselves. Still going to be coaching the boys team this spring, I think, for the next couple of years, but there are some things that they wanted to take care of um from their side of things in the fall. Free up some time there. So, they've chosen to step away
097from the girls team to uh kind of um have some more personal time for them and their family. So very uh show a lot of gratitude to them for all the hard work that they've done throughout the years. They're still going to be big into the tennis community here at KZtown. And if Luan and Tail are tennis in Kutztown, it's just the reality. Anybody who plays somehow is very very connected to them. So thank thank you to them for their continued but for also long time commitment to our students and Pennison. >> Absolutely. I think even though they're even when they step away, they're still not going to truly step away. Um and then also our boys soccer coach Jared Beal um has chosen to resign. His uh his youngest daughter uh Carter a senior
098with us. Um she is going to be playing soccer somewhere in college. Hasn't made her decision next year, but he also has a son who is a freshman. Um playing college soccer as well. So that tends to eat up a lot of time moving forward over the next couple of years. So obviously can completely understand. Uh Jared wanted to see uh his children play some collegiate soccer and and and cheer them on. Um so just want to say a special thank you to Jared Deal for five years of of tremendous service and building the program up to the level that is that it's at right now. Very respectable, high expectations every year with our boys soccer program and uh a special thank you to Jared for that. Do you have a timeline um for identifying
099candidates for two roles? Um preferably I would like to potentially have soccer lined up before the winter is over. Our assistant coaches, uh Isaac Mangle and our middle school coach, Don Buchcci, who are very close with Jared. Um they're running our winter program right now to keep that going. Um so they have a great rapport with with the boys. Obviously great rapport with Jared. um and everything that they've done over the past five years. But hopefully we get some good list of candidates and get that filled as soon as possible. Uh same with the girls. I think I think we'll have uh some good candidates for girls tennis as well. Um some people that recommended by by people around the the community. So hopefully have that built in a good decent amount of time as
100well. Okay. Anybody have any questions, comments? Just want to say great job to all the coaches, great job to all the student athletes and sad to see the coaches leaving, but totally understand as well too. So, um maybe they can give some input as to who take over the reigns. >> Guess with that, look for a Motion to adjurnn. >> Second. All >> in favor?