All right. Thank you everybody for coming this evening. Your attendance is greatly appreciated. There has been adequate notice of this meeting provided by the board of education in the February 27, 2025
notice in the Asbury Park press and the co-star report the date, time and location of this meeting. Similar notice has been posted in the Barrow Hall, the BEL school website and the burrow clerk has been notified. If we could do roll call, please.
>> Mrs. Baldina here. Mr. Becker >> here. >> Dr. Mr. Drosio >> here. >> Mrs. Huff >> here. Mrs. McDev >> here. Mrs. Reed >> here. Mr. Vitali >> here. >> Mrs. Walsh >> here. >> Mr. Wal
>> here. All right. >> We could stand for the flag salute. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation
under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> We do need a a motion to approve the uh October 22nd meeting. Somebody >> I'll make a motion to approve the minutes for the last meeting. Second.
Mrs. Baldina, >> yes. >> Mr. Becker, >> yes. >> Dr. Groio, >> abstain. >> Mrs. Huck, >> yes. >> Mrs. McDev, >> yes. >> Mrs. Reed, >> yes. >> Mr. Vitali,
>> abstain. >> Mrs. Walsh, >> yes. >> Mr. Wal, >> abstain. >> Motion passed. >> Awesome. There are no presentations this evening. Uh it is uh at this point we allow visitors
to speak. They are permitted to comment on agenda and at non-aggenda items only at this time. We just ask that you approach the mic. >> Uh this would have to be on the agenda for you to speak. >> Yeah.
>> There is one other opportunity >> at the very end. >> Yeah. >> Okay. become star. >> No, they're now listening. >> Uh there are no correspondences, Mr. Quigley. Correct. Okay, that brings us
to uh committee reports. Uh Mr. Vitali, district office. >> Sure. Sure. Um we we met just before this meeting. Uh because we um
um we received some information um some information just about a day ago um on the um 20 20 242 school year audit and
we reviewed that information um and I'm very h very happy to report the fact that we're going to be able to add about about $375,000 to our reserves, uh 50,000 to our
maintenance reserve and and and and the and um balance balance to our capital reserve. Bringing our capital reserve up to a number of just under $3.2 2 million dollars which uh is is you know uh uh
mo most of which most of which will be earmarked for for the you know the roofing issue that could that you know you know that that could come to fruition within the next uh 36 months or so.
Um and um the the district seems to be on some pretty good some pretty good financial footings. Uh we reviewed the budget status as of today as of today thanks to thanks to Mrs. Quigley. Uh and all the all the line items appear to be
appear to be with appear to be within budget. Didn't see didn't see any any particular line item that has the potential to to get to the to included to give us an issue issue between between uh now and now and the
end of the school year. So that's that's very positive thing. Um the uh the um flooding flooding in some of the classrooms as a
as as a result of some of the water backing up in the courtyard. Um, we we we there's going to be a um um um um I'm going going to be a bidding meeting. I think we said Friday.
>> Uh Thursday is the pre- bid for any contractors that have seen the ad and want to come in and tour the site and the bid opening will be December 12th. >> I see. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Uh and it's this
This um the scope of this is going to consist of putting in putting putting in um drains in the courtyard to drain into into into uh to drain the drain into an an
underground drainage uh uh uh spot spot that we have on on the on the prem premises. Uh uh and the the the co
the the cost of that could be about $60,000 which fortunately we we can we can we can accommodate that and I don't have anything else unless it unless anybody else does >> any questions.
All right. Thank you Mr. Vitali. >> That brings us to Dr. Dean Brosia rep to Manisan. >> Nothing big to report. Um they wrapped up a lot of their was there something big to report? Um they they wrapped up a a lot of their
construction that they've been doing over the last few years. Um they're going through some of the same things running those tests, those um those initial tests that we're doing. Um, one of the things that was a topic for discussion for a while is they're considering removing ranking from the
the high school transcripts, >> um, which is a a topic of of active conversation right now. Apparently, it's it's been removed by a lot of other schools. So, they're they're still doing it and they're they're actively talking about whether or not to do that or not. >> That was about it.
>> What do you mean by that, Dave? So the they're no longer going to send the transcripts out saying you're ranked number five out of 500 or whatever whatever you would be. >> The theory is that you can be a high performing kid but ranked 250 out of 500
but get straight A's and they think the ranking might be a little it might be perceptive incorrectly >> and causes animosity. >> Yeah. little anxiety, kid animosity, misperception, >> decimal points and the huge number of
students. >> There's a ton of kids in that school that that perform very well. >> Yeah. >> A's and B's but or ranked too. >> I mean, makes sense for that distribution, but like if I'm like the top five, I would want that. So, like have they thought about like maybe
there's what I brought up. I I I don't >> if if everyone's doing it, I guess, and it's going away, that doesn't make a lot of sense to have it. But I I didn't hear a good reason why it should go away other than that everyone else is doing it. I think that if you are one of the top 20 or whatever, you would want that
to be on a college application. And the one of the things that was brought up that is if there's two different kids that are applying to the same school and everything else is the same that they shouldn't have their ranking there. But >> if their averages are on there, >> it's not like they could figure that out
anyway. So >> So you're going to kind of >> didn't make a whole lot of sense to you know, a kid coming out of the high school with a 4.3 GPA based on the range of that school, you're going to have a pretty idea, good idea as a college admissions officer >> whether what that 4.3 means in that
school. >> Um, >> so they write like a big they give like a big academic summary which they would there the people that are saying that it that it makes sense to get rid of it are saying that all of that information could all be ascertained from this >> this report. Um,
so I I >> schools have like a high school profile as part of the, you know, admissions process. So, you know, and they they look at your the quality of your courses and your GPA. >> So, >> I think individuals can opt to have it
on if they would like to. >> Oh, for sure. That Yeah, that was one of the things they were talking about. You could potentially opt to have it >> but not have recognized. They said in the name they would recognize the top 10 like they have at graduation. They have like special seating. I attend that. Um
so I think if you want it, you can have it, but it won't be like a mandatory thing because they they actually have done like not like studies, but they've seen that school that some of these kids should have gotten in and they're thinking that what's holding kids back, >> right? The rank is what's sticking out,
you know, and it's Yeah. and they might not understand the context 100% of our school and how rigorous the program is. And >> that's a good comment like this. >> Yeah. So, as long as if you want recognized, we're still going to have it but not be mandatory. >> I mean, to your point, Sean, they these
kids, they definitely take a huge deal of pride. The the field hockey team had uh a pasta dinner at our house. That's about what, let's say, 25 kids. 10 of those kids were ranked above 20 and they
knew their rank and they knew their rank and reference and they took a huge amount of pride in it. Yeah. >> Fortunately, a lot of those kids were burell kids as a matter of fact, but they took a huge amount of pride into it. So, it's a good point. >> All right. Uh, Miss Swash. >> Okay. CNI.
>> So, we met yesterday the CNI committee from administration. We had Stacy Pstra and Nancy Pearson. board members were President Kurt Becker, Kelly Baldino, Julie Reid, and myself. And we talked about nine different items. The first one was the field test that the NJSLA
state um mandated that we run a field test for students in grades four through eight um for ELA and math for reading and writing. It went very well considering it was a new platform. the administration really worked hard on the team and had the teachers reported back
that it was a platform that was easy to use and now the students have um an understanding of how they're going to access the test in a low stakes environment because it didn't really mean anything against um it's not we're not getting reports on it. So we are pleased with that. Another second item
was amazing. We had an early literacy presentation by our our parental group BAG uh the reading interventionist and Miss Prenerg and the counselor M. O'Reilly uh team presented. They did an amazing job on the new literacy law mandate that was issued this year. It's
called the year. It's about academic recovery. And the New Jersey Department of Ed piggybacked from a dyslexia mandate in 2015 under Governor Christie that we had to do universal screening and professional development. But now the new law has revised that we now have
to communicate scores and benchmark data to the parents within a 30 day window of the screening uh the testing window. So in the past we had to do it we had to internally have that documentation but now um legislation felt that parents
should be informed. So, that was a big big jump for school districts in New Jersey, but here it wasn't because they were doing it. They've been using the Dibbles assessment, which is a widely known um assessment that's universal. So, Mrs. Parker and Mrs. O'Reilly were
celebrating all the things that they have been doing and just highlighting now that they have to report it, what does that mean to a parent because there's some education that needs to go along with what does that benchmark data mean? So, they were here. It was very low attended, but it was such a great presentation. So, our committee
discussed ways that we would love to get that information out. It's not going away. The law says you have to also report out a second time in the year. We're above the curve here in Greal. We will test three different times, beginning, middle, and end um to track data. What they do with that data is they then look at their early literacy
programs and it's only reported for kindergarten through third grade. So, if anyone has a child outside those grades, you would not receive that information. Um but they have to provide under the law first high quality instruction in the science of reading which is evidence-based practices and then once
the data is collected look at where the students fall in the benchmarks and then provide interventions programs enrichment if the students need to be enriched because maybe they've tested out of those benchmarks. So Mrs. um Orali was speaking on highlighting how
she has now really worked to refine her multi-ter systems of support. So it really is aligned with the new law. Um so Mrs. Prenergs and her did a great job. Um and it was really an informative session and uh it was very well done. So it was really great that they come out
after hours and do that for us. The third thing was the character ed assemblies um that Mrs. Finetti and the councils are working on. They're doing monthly assemblies circling around a character um a character trait. So maybe it mean respect. So this past month it was the house of respect. So it's really
great that we have a K8 pro uh school because the older kids are working with the counselors in performing and doing assemblies for the younger kids to highlight these positive character traits. The other program they're running is the Blazer Bucks. So throughout the school when staff members
see students doing something positive, they're earning these bucks. They're walking in the office, they're popping them in the box, and then at these assemblies, they're pulling them out and raffling off and highlighting students that are doing um wonderful things for the for the school. So this is a nice ad
to the school to increase. We also have teacher recognition and student recognition of the month programming. So that's new in addition to this and um it's just really making a positive impact on the school culture. The next topic was the Missoula workshops in addition to the show which is separate
that the PTO is running. The part of the contract with Missoula is to have actual grades three through five participate in these like mini assemblies so everybody gets a little bit of um performance um practice in their life. So I was asking the kids what they've been up to. their
fourth grade had like a mine class. Um, third grade had something uh yesterday. So, it's nice that we have another feature for kids who did not get to participate in the actual play. There's things within the school day. The next thing sounded amazing. It was the nurtured heart faculty meeting that was
held on Monday, this past Monday, part of the dreams grant that we've reported on. The faculty and staff got to participate in a training and I I love this topic. It was to think about the way you interact with students and the language you use. So, the trainer, Aaron, discussed language prompts and
sentence starters to help deescalate certain situations that pop up with students throughout the day. She focused on language strategies to use these indust maintain a positive relationship. Um, she's had them, as an example, analyze statements that could have hints of
negativity or connotation to it that they might not realize and how to reshape your language so that you really can continue a positive connection. So, they they reported that it was wellreceived and the staff is really engaged in it. Um, the next item was the
status of our new math program. So into math. So they had a K through2 meeting which is typical as a part of a new math any kind of program in a school. Administration and teachers would sit down and do a stop in checkpoint to evaluate kind of how's it going. They look really closely at the new
curricular resources and see how um they're working for the students or how they're different from past resources. So, they were really looking and enjoying the fact that this new program has data that links to assessments that helps them group students to help them look for next actions within the program
and how to teach them in their classes. So, they're continuing to work throughout the year. This will be an ongoing process and they'll be articulating through the grades to find out, you know, if there's anything that they need to supplement or need more from the program or more training. The
next thing is field trips. We see a lot on the board agenda. There's a lot of field trips being approved. Um, most of the grades are already locked in. We know where they're going. And a positive is that a lot of them are science-based um or have some kind of science connection. The next thing, the first one tomorrow are these sending district
convocations that all the sending districts work with local administration and we provide special opportunities for kids to collaborate outside of Belal but within the sending districts. The kids um tomorrow are going to start. The first one is at Spring Lake Heights
Elementary School and they're going to participate. Fifth grade selected students get to do a math 24 tournament. The next one in December will be um at Mounts Elementary School and they'll get to participate. Selected students in eighth grade who are interested to put on a live news production because they
have a TV studio there. So, they're going to learn the whole idea of how to produce a show. And the last was our wonderful reach trips as well. They have those kicking off. Um, so we have a New Jersey Shore Consortium membership for G&T and uh, Bel is going to participate
in the con convocations this year and the first one is the sixth grade space program in Middletown. They go there first and they practice and they get ready and then they go to Bergen County's um, Buler space program. So any questions?
>> Excellent question. >> Thank you. Well, all the work. I'm just recording. Just recording all the great things that everybody's doing here. >> Mighty Klein report. >> All right. Um there was next human resources. There was no meeting. We have
a couple things to button up and uh we will do so in December. >> Uh Mr. Waltman policy. >> Sure. Um committee met on Thursday uh virtually myself um and Sarah from the board and then also Mr. strategy just
quickly from the administration. Uh we had to react pretty quickly to a mandated policy update that was just released from Strauss SMA, not part of an alert, but just uh uh on on November 5th, so just eight eight days prior. Uh this pertains to the Freedom to Read
Act, which goes into effect December 9th, 2025. And the importance of it is that as we're going through CQAC, uh Miss Bolster has received um communication from the county that this is something that is being looked at. This uh policy uh this part is mandated
in terms of our library material. Um it it basically establishes a process and a proper uh escalation path for uh the process of reviewing uh community requests for certain
content to be removed from the school library. And it it further goes in and says that um it can't be an outsider. It has to be somebody that has a vested interest which would be a parent or guardian um of children enrolled in the school. and and basically now there's some additional policies that define
what we mean by resource materials, what we mean by library materials etc. Uh so that was uh the major part of it. So the majority of the policies that you see tonight pertain to that freedom to read act. Uh second uh we had sp spoken previously about um our homework policy
and incorporating it hadn't been updated since 2011 uh and updating that uh to to look at our learning management system and the new technologies that we have available and I have to thank Mr. Pulra for for doing a very comprehensive review since this is going into policy
uh of how our LMS has been used uh since COVID where it was basically brand new and um the teachers had to respond very quickly on how to to implement it. um and it's used differently across various grades. And so I think it was a really important insight to figure out that we
didn't want to write this policy for every single grade uh and be overly burdensome and especially when some grades may not be using Chromebooks or using uh the LMS at all. Doesn't really make a lot of sense. So uh the changes that we're making only apply to grades five through eight. And the biggest
piece in the policy is that um we are not trying to be overly uh prescriptive in how a particular teacher utilizes Google Classroom. There should be a lot of flexibility in terms of if they're going to be topic based or timeline based uh and how they want to use their feed. The thing that we really want to
make sure though is that the uh assignments are used uniformly so that uh any make sure I have the uh wording right here. um that any homework and major projects are required to be
posted uh with their their due dates on there. And we think this will help with transparency and making sure that uh parents can check in, students can check in and also develop the executive functions to be able to uh keep planners as they as they as they m as they you know uh move through the school. Um but
that's that's a major idea there. So that requires a minor change uh to our policy and some changes to our regulation. The next topic that we brought up was uh my school bucks. There are uh some
students who are very generous and will uh buy a lot of cookies for their friends. Um and you may have gotten those low balance notifications because maybe your student is very generous as well. Uh there are controls uh in in the in the software that we do not currently have access to, but other districts, I
know Masquin has the ability to set a daily or weekly limit in terms of uh what what that spending may be. Maybe you want to say, "Hey, you should be able to get a couple snacks throughout the week, but not $40 in a particular day." Um so, uh we don't know, this is
coming from from from the committee, like some of us have observed this as a problem. Um but we do want to set up a parent survey to understand formally if this is an issue. Uh there are potentially some compatibility issues with uh just because the software has that the way that we've implemented it and the way that our vendors point of
sale uh are operated uh may not you know uh be the right configuration. So there might be some changes that have to happen there but we want to understand like is this really a problem um and do that the right way. So after Thanksgiving we'll have a survey go out for parents to be able to uh you know respond to that. Um there are also some
potential concerns that you know could this hold up the lunch line? They only have so much time for lunch etc. So we want to understand like is if the juice is worth the squeeze here. Uh the final thing that we discussed was the uh AI policy. Um Manaskwan has finished theirs. Mr. Pster has done a great job
uh serving not just Manisquan but sending districts and and other districts and how they're uh implementing the AI policy. Uh just as a matter of bandwidth between preparing for QAC. and totally understand um we're punting this a little bit further down the road. Uh and so we don't have any updates on the AI policy, but it's
something that we're going to continue to work on moving forward. Uh and that's all. Thank you. >> Excellent. Excellent. >> Sean, is there a cost associated with that different using that extra software modification? >> It's a tough question. So only because
so you've got the my schoolbox software itself, right? And then there's this mosaic which is the point of sale, right? Is there a cost? I don't know, the vendor might be able to wrap a cost into the implementation. Um, and so it's
not a the my school box doesn't charge for it, but downstream has to be able to support it is is my understanding. So maybe the vendor says, "Okay, we can turn this on, but we're going to, you know, change the charging or something like that." I don't I don't know. There's no there's no software course cost for it, but there could be labor
costs. There could be those other costs associated with it. As far as you know, so far with all the the board policies that we've been now putting them all online, everything's been running smoothly with that. >> Yeah, I mean, uh, administration did an amazing job flagging, you know, we we
kind of had the initial triage where we thought we were kind of done. Diane did y'all's work to be able to get all those those policies updated, get them get them, uh, uh, online. And then we discovered that there was a bunch that we had approved had been voted on that
mysteriously disappeared and never made their way forward. And we spent the past summer going make back and making sure that those are all online. Um so now we are as far as we know current. Uh we have a good practice now that Diane takes the the updates from Strauss. We review them in the committee meeting. uh
they go into a draft and then we have a paper paper paper trail software paper trail of of how the policies get updated and we believe we're up to date. So we're in a much much stronger position. Um I'll admit that you know the when we did the review there were a couple different software platforms. We went
with what uh New Jersey school boards recommends which is Board Docs. I'm sure Diane couldn't tell you about her you know war stories with using this particular platform and that's what they decided on. Um so look they're there. They're online. They're discoverable, which is what we wanted. And as far as we know, you know, we've done our best
job to make sure that they're up to date and that we have everything that we should have in effect. >> Yeah. >> Yeah. We ran the the mandated like Strauss keeps here's all the mandated policies. So, one of the projects was
let's go through every single one. Look at what the last update was from Strauss because that's on Strauss list. look at what we have online and if there is a mismatch here that means that we don't have the right policy in the right place
yet. So that's why over the summer we were doing 10 at a time to to just make sure you know and then so looking at that mandated list now everything that's on that mandated list from Strauss is current. >> Are we still keeping hard copies in a
binder in your office still or is that gone away? Not my >> not. >> They're still sitting there, but I haven't put in anything. >> The more doxes are a source of truth, >> right? >> Okay. >> If you need a printed copy, I could print one. But right now, it's all that
was that was kind of what like part of what led to like some of the inconsistencies is it was updated and on paper and then not. >> Yeah. There might be some that were in the binder. >> Exactly. So they cross ref I mean Stacy and Brian cross referenced all this and it was a lot of work but we I mean I
feel like we got like >> a lot most of it done you know unless >> well I think right working from that mandate at least you know because that is going to be something that again with QAC coming that's going to be something that they're looking for you know and they will expect those mandated policies
to be viewable uh to be you know u on our website easily accessible so Um, >> yeah, and as you know for being on the committee previously, there are some like deliberately omitted ones, ones that don't apply to us because therefore, you know, if you've got a a you know,
>> high school, high school graduation and, you know, certain ones. So, in some ways, being a KA worked to our advantage because it meant fewer to have to go through. Um, but, you know, that was a a little bit of a summer project and >> well, hammering away. Yeah. Now we're,
you know, and I go, we'll go back and spot check again. you know, I might, all right, let me just look at the 3000s again, make sure we have everything or we can go through all areas, but I feel like we did a pretty, you know, thorough um audit and then we should be where we need to be.
>> All right. Thank you, Sean. Yep. Uh, Miss Rereath, community relations. >> Uh, yes, I have some, >> yeah, a little bit to say from our community partners. Um the BPAG uh held a meeting which uh Mrs. Walsh
just spoke about so I won't add anything else to that. Um but it again it was uh wellreceived and uh we're definitely going to look into ways to get that information back out um to more parents.
Um the BEF um is very excited to announce their spring fundraiser. It will be held on Thursday, March 5th from 7 to 10 pm. It's going to be a 1920s style murder mystery event where the
tables will have the ability to work together to solve a a case. Um, the local venue pricing are to be determined, but they did want to get the data out for people to save. And uh, you can expect full details revealed after
the holidays. Um, so that's exciting. Uh, the PTO is also excited because they were able to grant three 65 in televisions to the school. Those are going to be used to loop flyers and announcements
um that will keep everyone informed and just, you know, help facilitate that that great morale in the building. Um, some specific events going on. There are eighth grade pie sale with Mullers. um
wrapped up with 240 pies and crumb cakes sold. Um and pickup is November 25th from 2:30 to 3:30 in the APR. Uh Missoula Children's Theater Performance
is on Saturday, November 22nd at 300 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. Tickets can be purchased at the door for $10 and that will be held in the APR. And then some other upcoming events, the giving tree is a November December event. Schoolic
book fair um will be during uh the week of 121 to 126 um on 126. The book fair ends with um the 7th grade pancake breakfast um which
is that day with two seings at 8:45 or 9:15. So, tickets for that are available on the PTO website as well as um tickets to have your candy cane nope to have your yard candy caneed uh by PTO. Um and
you can sign up for that through 125. So, lots going on in the school and community partners. >> There's another B. Oh, no. It's your partner with Manisquans possibly. >> A BAG. Yeah,
>> there was another meeting >> December 3rd that Wednesday. >> Yeah. >> Yeah, >> it's a great presenter. It's called the energy. >> Yeah, I saw that. >> So, >> yeah, it's an adult with autism, right? >> I've heard December 3rd. Yeah, they mentioned that. >> And I think it's great joining up with
other BPA groups >> and it's high school day. >> Oh, they're trying to get idea of how many >> Okay. >> Yeah. >> He draws a lot. >> Yeah. The board definitely values its relationship with these other places or
other uh organizations like the PTO and BEF, but we constantly and for those who aren't here and those are online, we can't underscore the importance of the BPAG. uh it is and has become something
that's uh highly utilized and uh the the presentations whether it's the one just recently with uh Maria or or Beth uh was outstanding. So uh for those of you who are not attending uh you're you're truly
missing out. Uh and we can't underscore that enough. >> Did anyone have any questions? >> Where those TVs going? Um I don't know the locations for the TVs. Has that been determined? >> So yeah, we are we would like to put one
somewhere in the lobby. Um we want to put one kind of outside in the hallway in the APR and then possibly one down by down here somewhere. Um and you know in my report, I guess we're going to segue to that soon. I do really want to thank the PTO. We we submitted a grant Mr.
Greenfield did for this. Uh we just feel like it would be a great way to um you know put up you know we send the parent square with all those flyers right and um you know to to have some of those flyers up there but also like our
blazers of the month and to do that and to show pictures. You know Mrs. Panetti is so great with you know taking pictures and highlighting events that are happening here. So you know doing some of that. Um, and then we may be able to depending upon the layout that
we choose. I was just speaking to Mr. Greenfield about this today. You know, some of it could be on a scroll with pictures and then others could be upcoming events like, you know, we'll still put flyers up around the building to remind kids, hey, if you want to sign up for sports or sports registration is
coming up, you know, we could, you know, have that just on there either on the scroll or on the stationary side. So, you know, we just think it'll be another good way to keep the communication open to highlight the great things that are happening here. Um, and again, promote
some of the events that we want our kids to participate in. >> That's awesome. I think if you could, um, I love coming into the office and they've got the surf checks camera uh, up. It's just such a calming thing. I see all the kids that come in when they're getting picked up and they look at that and >> it just reminds you where you are. Yeah,
>> I don't know who decided to do that, but it's so cool. >> Except for our fear of Axel being in the office just standing. He's gonna cut out. >> I asked him what he did. >> Talk of the summer while we're here working and we're looking at all the
people on the beach, you know. But it's it is it's Yeah. So, >> I asked him what he did the other day and he said, "I watched the camera." It's a good little reset, you know, good little brain break reset. >> That brings us to your report. >> Yes. So, uh, for my report, you all have
hit on so many things through our committee. So, thank you, um, for that. Um, you know, um, I do want to highlight that our boys soccer team won the MCAL championship for the third year in a row. Um, Mr. De Benadetto is their coach
and we will be recognizing the boys at the December meeting. So that was a big celebration for us. Um again I think everything else has been hit from the BEF save the date to all the great PTO events that are happening in Missoula
and all of those things. U Mrs. Walsh hit on the academics around what's happening with testing um and and how that went very smoothly. the month of December. We also have our winter concert on uh December 16th. So, we're looking forward to our students
performance for that. Um, and you know, December will roll really quickly. Um, and I think that's about it because I think everybody hit so I don't want to be repetitive and uh just wish everybody happy Thanksgiving. >> Any questions?
>> No. >> All right. Moving along. That brings us to action items. Uh, Miss Walsh, will you move curriculum and instruction? >> Motion to move the following items. A18. >> Second. >> Mrs. Baldino.
>> Yes. >> Mr. Becker. >> Yes. >> Dr. Damrosio. >> Yes. >> Mrs. H. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Mcde. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Me. >> Yes. >> Mr. Vitali. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Walsh. >> Yes. >> Mr. Walton.
>> Yes. >> Motion pass. Awesome. >> Thank you everyone. Uh Ted, Mr. Vitali, District Operations. >> Under district operations, I'd like to move agenda items B1 B4, please. >> Second.
>> That was aggressive. >> That's going to be a tough one. >> I'm going to give it to M perhaps. >> It might have been louder. >> Someone in the corner. >> Mrs. Baldino. >> Yes. Mr. Becker. >> Yes.
>> Dr. Damrosio. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Huff. >> Yes. >> Mrs. McDev. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Weed. >> Yes. >> Mr. Vitali. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Walsh. >> Yes. >> Mr. Walton. >> Yes. >> Motion. Yes.
>> All right. Thank you. Uh, Mr. Walman. Policy, please. >> I'd like to motion the board approves the policies under C1 for first reading. >> Second. >> Mrs. Baldino. Yes, >> Mr. Becker. >> Yes, >> Dr. Gambio. >> Yes,
>> Mrs. Huck. >> Yes, >> Mrs. McDev. >> Yes, >> Mrs. Reed. >> Yes, >> Mr. Vitali. >> Yes, >> Mrs. Walsh. >> Yes, >> Mr. Walton. >> Yes. >> Motion passed. >> All right. Thank you. Uh, Miss Huck,
will you move human resources, please? I'd like to make a motion that the board passes items D1 through D8 under human resources. >> Second. >> Mrs. Baldino, >> yes. >> Mr. Beck, >> yes.
>> Dr. Damrosio, >> yes. >> Mrs. Huck, >> yes. >> Mrs. McDev, >> yes. >> Mrs. Reed, >> yes. >> Mr. Ball, >> yes. >> Mrs. Walsh, >> yes. >> Mr. Walton, >> yes. Motion pass.
>> All right. Awesome. Thank you. That concludes the uh action items. Uh that now brings us to visitors business where visitors are permitted to comment on agenda and non-aggenda items. At this time, we just ask that you approach the mic uh so that our viewers at home can
hear you, >> you know. And I apologize, Mr. Man, that was on the agenda, so you could have spoken. >> That's okay. It was better to do it now, actually. and and uh >> sorry I up. >> Yeah, I'm Anthony Man. I'm a teacher at Briel Elementary School. I just want to start saying thank you guys for all the
making all the wonderful things happen at Briel and it's a great school for the kids and for the for the staff. Um and I want to make a comment about the homework policy uh revision and overall I appreciate it and think it's really really great that it's being updated. However, I want to caution against the
wording of requiring all fifth to eighth grade homeworks and major projects to be posted in Google Classroom. I think potentially an unintended consequence of this could be limiting opportunities for students to improve their executive functioning skills. I found that when students know that everything is posted
online, there's less instances for them to develop skills like listening to directions, keeping track of their responsibilities, writing in their agendas, and just managing their day-to-day requirements. Um, these are useful skills that we try to develop for the next stage of learning at Manisquan
High School where I'm not I haven't seen that exact wording at Manisquan. I don't know if they have it or not in the elementary or high school, but um that's is where we're trying to prepare them for. And um some Braille teachers do this already and they post everything online, every homework, every project. And some people do that already. And all
Braille teachers do it for any student that it's included in their IEP, for example. Like all teachers are doing that. Um, but I just think maybe requiring it for all fifth to eighth grade homework send projects could unintentionally lower the student accountability.
Um, so but thank you overall. Everything's really wonderful overall and I thank you guys and just want to make a little comment on my perspective. >> Thank you. >> Thank you so much. >> Appreciate feedback. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Any concerns or questions?
No, I I think the developing the executive function is I think it's an excellent point and that's a goal that I think we we we all have. Um I do think that it's you know best case scenario is that everybody is doing that. There's a lot
of folks that are they have sickness or they travel and and all of a sudden it just becomes this this thing where it's like we have the technology to be able to do it and as we said we're not trying to be overly prescriptive in terms of like everything that we're not trying to lock Damn