All right, I'd like to call the meeting to order at 7:04. Can I have a moment of silence, please? Please stand for the flag salute. I pledge allegiance 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. >> Roll call. Mr. Kenny >> here. >> Mr. Bramhol >> here. >> Miss Falcinro. >> Miss Zia >> here.
>> Mr. McGuff >> here. >> Mr. Mer >> here. >> Mrs. Tadley >> here. >> Mrs. Trump >> here. >> Mrs. Fitzwwater present. >> Statement is hereby made that adequate notice of this meeting was given by submission of said notice to the Burlington County Times, the Courier
Post, the Cinnamonson Township Clerk, and the District website on the following dates: January 8th, 2025, January 7th, 2026, and January 12th, 2026. We're moving up to section four, routine business.
We have the board secretaries report for for December of 25, the receipts and appropriations adjustments for December of 25, the treasurer's report for December of 2025, the monthly transfer report for December of 25, the high
school activities report for January of 26, the food service management cost performance statement for January of 26, the certified bill list as of February 17th, 2026, and approval of minutes, the executive session on January 20th and
the regular meeting on January 20th. Mr. Kenny, can I have a motion to approve section 4, routine business items A through H? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Second. >> Thank comments or questions from the board. >> Hearing none, we'll take a vote. Miss Tadley,
>> I >> I >> I I >> I I >> I motion approved. Moving on to section five, routine matters. We have the enrollment report as of February 13th of 26, the health report for January of 26,
the fire alarm report for January, the crisis drill report for January, and the superintendent's monthly report. Mr. Capello, >> thank you, Mrs. Fitzwwater, members of the board, members of the public. Thank you for being here with us this evening. A few other thank yous to go around. Um,
I want to wish my appreciation to Miss Halabir, Mrs. Lanzone and all of their helpers from the middle school for another successful senior supper which took place this week, excuse me, super supper for our senior members of the community took place this week. Also, thank you to Mr. Beccanis and Mrs. Sigman uh and even Miss Nelson who
helped provide entertainment for the evening. Uh we have another senior facing community event on March 7th. A little bit more about that in just a second. Um also like to recognize the members of our music performing arts department who hosted uh band day or a band day coming up and choir day last
week. These are great events where our students from Rush Middle School and the high school get together to celebrate the arts. Uh, one for vocal music and one for instrumental music. Uh, two very well attended days. Um, in between Valentine's Day and President's President's Day this weekend, there was
one other day uh that didn't happen to fall on a school day, but on February 15th, we recognized and celebrate school resource officer appreciation day. And I would be remiss if I didn't recognize the members of the Cinnon Police Department who work inside of our schools. Uh at the Memorial School, Officer Roger Moore at New Alb School,
Officer Tom Illigor, the Rush School, Officer Tom Cam Campbell. Here at the middle school, Officer Rick Gunning. And at the high school, Officer Mark Williams. They do a fantastic job looking out for our students and immersing themselves into our sentiment community. Uh it is school musical season. We're very much looking forward
to uh some of the shows that are ahead. If you actually around the corner right now, we may actually hear a little bit of it. Uh, our middle schoolers are preparing for their musical Bye-Bye Birdie, uh, which debuts on 3:13. Um, want to recognize Mr. Serino, Miss Lanzone, Mr. Bannis, Miss Lock, Mr.
Spencer, and Miss Reppert, uh, who are the adults who are overseeing the musical production of Bye-Bye Birdie. And also on February 27th, Little Shop of Horrors under the direction of Megan Schweitzer debuts at Cinnamonson High School. So, like to recognize the professionals who lend their talents to making sure that that show is a success.
The affforementioned Miss Schwitzer, Mr. Cast, Dr. D Salvio, Mr. Petro, Miss Meyers, and the entire cast and crew. We wish them the best of luck as they uh open the curtain on February 27th. And as I mentioned, on March 7th, we are having a matinea performance of Little Shop of Horror. And just ahead of that,
a lunchon for members of the senior community. So, seniors, if you are watching, uh information is circulating throughout the community on the district's website, uh and on our senior email blast list. If you'd like to come out and take in the show and also take in lunch, uh it's a great opportunity to connect with the schools. The student performers usually come out and interact
with the crowd and our students uh from the high school serve as weight staff that day. And it's always a very well attended and excellent event. And finally, I would be remiss if I did not mention April 29th and 39th, excuse me, April 29th and 30th, uh the Rush musical Annie uh will be opening up and we are
looking forward to that as well. Uh speaking of the Rush School, the Eleanor Rush Schoolwide Spelling Bee was held on Thursday, February 5th at the high school and it featured 28 talented student participants. students demonstrated strong spelling skills and perseverance throughout the competition.
Congratulations to fifth grader Gerard Gerard Dawson who won the Rush spelling be and will be advancing to the regional spelling be on March 7th in Philadelphia. We are hopeful that we can recognize Gerard here at the board meeting next month. Um also happening this month uh over at the New Alb
School, the Cinnamonson High School AAPI affinity group read to kindergarten students on Thursday, February 12th. They read the story friends are friends forever by Dane Louu and it's always a great experience whenever our older students get a chance to go and interface down at the new Albany school with their younger counterparts. And it
is a great experience uh for all parties involved. Uh our future chefs competition board members putting you on notice will take place just ahead of the March 17th board meeting. Uh so we're very excited about that. That's always a fun annual event. Uh also by way of information purposes a little later on
in the agenda this evening, Dr. Goldburn is going to introduce a calendar change in his section. Uh as folks in the uh community are aware, we did have to close schools uh for a snow day a couple weeks ago. Uh as a result of this, we're looking to change uh March 13th, which
was previously listed as a staff only day for professional development. Uh turning that into a hybrid day for staff and students. Uh for the first time, we'll try something a little bit different uh in order to try to maximize our time for the day. Students from the new Albany school and Rush School will
have a delayed opening and students at the middle school and the high school will have a single session day uh where students will leave early with the balance of the day for staff professional development. A copy of the calendar will circulate out to the community later this week indicating uh those changes. Um also want to let
members of the community know if you have not seen it uh pretty soon you'll see the signs around town. Uh but our kinder or excuse me our prek lottery has been open since January 26. We're trying to touch all corners of the community to make sure that families who have students who would qualify as three-year-olds and four-year-olds uh
are aware of the lottery and it will remain open until March 15th and that is a hard deadline because almost immediately thereafter we will be picking the slots uh of the folks uh who will clear the lottery. And finally, I wanted to give a plug for the next
Cinnamonson CPAC meeting which is an open meeting scheduled to take place on Tuesday, February 24th. uh drop in anytime between 6:30 and 8:30 right here at Cinnamonson Middle School only not right here down at the media center. And with that, Mrs. Fitzwater, that is the superintendent report.
>> Thank you, Mr. Capello. Mr. Trump, can I have a motion to approve section five, routine matters items A through E? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Second. >> Thank you, Miss Aone. Comments or questions from the board? >> Hearing none, we'll take a vote. Mr. McGuff. I I >> I I
>> I >> I >> I >> I >> I motion approved. Uh moving on to section six, our student representative reports. We will hear first from the high school student representative, Carly Trump. >> Good evening. The Golden Apple Award for
January was presented to Mrs. Amanda Mason by Jared Hiller. The students of the month for January are the class of 2026 Marin Warren, class of 2027 Nathan Calhoun, class of 2028 Aron Madison, and class of 2029 Charlotte Leits. The winter sports are continuing their
seasons. The winter track team has continued with a strong start to the season by having a solid outing at group two state relays on January 16th. The boys distance medley and spring medley relays both finished fifth with the SMR run with the SMR running the third
fastest time in school history. At the Nike Elite SJTCA meet on January 21st, two cinnamon athletes meddled in the extremely competitive competition. Jacob Wickers Sham and Shafi Harrington earned medals in the 20 or 3200 and high jump respectively. The team has a few more
meets ahead of the sectional meet on February 15th and the state meet on February 21st. The boys basketball team picked up a 50 to 49 win at the Holy Cross Showcase versus Highland. They hosted Riverside at 3:45 in the first round of the Burlington County Open on February 10th in the Honor Gym. Senior
Henry Stewart led the team with 14 points per game. The boys and girls will have a double header on the 17th. The girls basketball team is currently 18-1 overall and undefeated in the division. We have eight regular season games left and the playoffs get started on Tuesday, February 21 24th. They had a charity
game on Monday, February 9th, where they honored the Yodas family. The boys bowling team has a record of 15 and three and locked up a second play locked up second place in the BCSL Patriot Division with two regular season matches remaining. They're seated fourth in the South Jersey Group 2 playoffs and
secured a first round buy. The girls bowling team has a record of 16-2 and has uh clinched the first place in the BCSL Patriot Division with two regular season matches remaining. This marks the first division title in the girls program's history. The girls are seated
fifth in the South Jersey Group 2 playoffs and will host a first round match. The swim team wrapped up the regular season with an exciting win against Sterling on January 21st. On January 24th, the team competed at the SJISA Coaches Invitational at GCIT. Brendan
Sharp placed second overall in the 200 individual medley and the 500 freestyle. He also qualified for the NJSIA me of champs and in both events. Eda McN placed third overall in the 200 freestyle and also qualified for the meet of champs. The team will face Ocean
Township on February 2nd in the first round of the NJSIA playoffs. The boys wrestling team is gearing up for a postseason push as we enter February both as a team and individually. At the county open, senior Dominic Marino placed first while David Guysz
and Jake Barbick placed second and Levi Jander placed third. The overall team record is 11-8 with big wins over Absagami, uh, Pensalken, and Long Branch. Our senior night is Wednesday, February 18th versus Burlington Township, and the school will once again host district's
tournament on Saturday, February 28th. The girls wrestling team has had a relentless January on the mat and has finished the month with a hard earned record of 88. The momentum continues into an action-packed February featuring dual meets and a jambbury at Howell. We
look forward to seeing our athletes leave it all on the mat as they close out the season at the final takedown tournament. The play unified basketball team is off to a strong start this season. Last week they traveled to Shaunie on the 12th to to win 53 to 47. Through teamwork, inclusion, and effort,
this group continues to represent our school with pride. Best luck this week. Keep competing, supporting one another, and playing unified. The indoor drum line and indoor color guard have been practicing hard to prepare for their first competition on Saturday, February 21st at Milville High School. Over 30
high schools from the New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware area will be participating in the competition, so please come out and cheer on our pirates. We're also currently running two fundraisers, an apparel website featuring our brand new logos in a Bunco fundraiser at the Cinnamonson Community
Center on Sunday, February 22nd from 12:00 to 4:00 p.m. The student council hosted their third annual Super Bowl of caring, which ended on Friday, February 6th, with a total of 163 lbs of soup. All soup was donated to the food bank of South Jersey. And congratulations to
Miss Alvarado's second period class with the donation of 122 cans of soup. They received a bagel breakfast hosted by student council on February 13th. Thanks to everyone who participated in this event. The CHS drama club is excited to present Little Shop of Horror for six performances. Our show dates are
February 27th at 7:00 p.m., February 28th at 2:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. March 6th at 7:30 p.m. and March 7th at 2:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. The drama club has been rehearsing every Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Sunday, and our cast is working hard to bring the show
to life. Students who buy a ticket for any show can come back and see another show using the same ticket. We're looking forward to seeing you there. Furthermore, on February 7th, the drama club attended Mortown Theater Expo to promote Little Shop of Horrors as well as being exposed to other musicals performed by neighboring schools.
Overall, the theater expo was a grand success. On February 12th, the Spanish club visited Luna Dance Studio in Bristol, PA, where students participated in instructional lessons on baca and salsa. 60 students also observed a live dance demonstration by professional
salsa dancers and enjoyed an authentic Latin lunch. The senior class officers have been working really hard on finalizing details for the upcoming trip to Disney. They've designed t-shirts, provided updates on itineraries, and started working on a fun countdown to spark the
excitement. February 9th marked one month until departure to the happiest place on earth. On January 30th, the Adventure Fitness Club went on a ski trip to the Blue Mountain Ski Resort. The participants had a great time on the slopes and spent quality time with their friends. The next trip will soon take
place as the club gears up for hiking in the spring. Every month, the Interact Club participates in a sandwich making service project where they prepare prepare peanut butter and jelly sandwiches to be donated to individuals experiencing homelessness. They're also currently preparing for casino night,
which will be a fun and inclusive evening filled with games and prizes designed for adults with special needs. Additionally, they met with the Rotary Club to discuss the opportunity to attend a summer camp focused on leadership development and community service. This experience would allow the
members to further grow as leaders while strengthening our commitment to service. On February 6, the National Honor Society held its annual blood drive and was proud to see a successful turnout for donations to the Red Cross. Over the past two months, students have worked diligently during their lunch periods to
develop creative strategies to attract as many participants as possible to the blood drive hosted at CHS. As a group, they chose a Stranger Things theme because it would appeal to the wide audience given the show's global popularity. They designed eye-catching posters featuring characters such as
VCNA and incorporated the show's iconic light displays throughout the school to encourage students to sign up to reach individuals beyond the high school community. They utilize social media platforms providing information about the event and an easy way to register. We're so grateful for the community
members, faculty, and students who made the day such a great success. Congratulations to junior Abigail Grugan on winning the regional competition at Ruckers University for Poetry Out Loud. She will now represent our school at the statewide competition on March 5th. The
Cinnamon and affinity group members have spent a meaningful day learning, reflecting, and celebrating Muslim Heritage Month. Students visited the Philadelphia Museum of Art to explore Islamic patterns in the Islamic inspired art, then returned to CHS for a delicious catered lunch uh generously
sponsored by the Cinnamons and Education Association. They wrapped up the day with an inspiring presentation from the CHS alumni and a faculty member Yasmin Farret who shared why they why representation matters and why Muslim Heritage Month is
so important. grateful for a day that centered culture, community, and belonging. Congratulations to the mock trial team, which just finished its season placing third in Burlington County with a record of 3 to2. The team won trials against Northern Burlington, Bordon Town, and Morson Friends. This year's criminal
case centered on a swatting call to make a coffee shop in which a barista suffered serious burns. It was a great team effort this year. Shout outs go to four team members Quinnland Barnes, Samantha Denowski, and Lucas Wickheiser, who have uh who have committed hours of
preparation for trial, but more importantly, had tons of fun and made many memories. Lastly, on Thursday, February 12th, members of the Asian-American Pacific Islander Affinity Group and the Affinity Group leaders visited the kindergarteners at uh New Albony School to teach a lesson about
the Lunar New Year. Our big pirates read to our little pirates the book called Friends Are Friends Are Friends Forever. And then they gave each student a red snowflake to cut out and colored a picture of a firehouse with the kids. Afterwards, the high schoolers returned to the CHS library to enjoy a bowl of
traditional Korean soup eaten on Lunar New Year. Senior Ashley Chen shared a presentation she made about Chinese New Year and its various celebrations and traditions. Thank you. >> Thank you, Carly, for that very thorough report. There is a lot going on at the high
school. Yes. >> And now for middle school report. Matt, you have a lot to live up to here. Matthew Kenny. >> Good evening to all of you. Our middle school student of the months for January are sixth grader Maria Shanklapori,
seventh grader Kyle Curry, and eighth grader Millie Mininnesota. The January faculty member of the month is Laura Munzo and seventh and eighth grade special education teacher. Congrats to all. February is a busy month with lots of events planned. On February 11th,
students in chorus classes traveled to CHS to connect with ERS and CHS coral members community for our annual coral day. And today, our band students went to CHS for band day. All the students had so much fun. CMS toasted the super
supper for Cinnamonson senior citizens on Wednesday, February 11th in the cafeteria. The students assisted seniors into the cafeteria and helped them. All of the Cinnamonson seniors who attended had a wonderful time. The PE department and student council teamed up for students first staff volley for heart
fundraiser last Thursday. The students beat the staff by one point in a really fun night with proceeds going to American Heart Association. And last week, eighth grade students and their families were welcomed to CHS by Mr. Gorman and his staff at course
selection night. This Thursday, our high school counselors will visit 8th grade world language classes to provide an overview of high school courses and freshman electives. This Friday, sixth and seventh graders will have their winter snowball dance. On March 2nd,
more than 200 girls will will participate in a girls empowerment event at CMS called Lifting Your Voices. The student council is also planning an afterchool bowling trip for eighth grade students on Thursday, March 5th. The pirate players have been busy working on
Bye-Bye Birdie. The show dates are March 13th, 14th, 15th, 20th, and 21st. The cast can't wait for the show to come together and are so excited to show everyone their hard work. Spring sports will begin the second week of March. Students should listen for announcements
in the morning for when the first meetings will be. Thank you and have a great night. >> Thank you, Matthew. Uh, we're gonna move on to presentations now. Uh, Mr. Capello. >> Thank you, Mr. Miley. You want to run your line? >> Okay. For a second button, wait.
>> You're over. Okay. We have uh some visitors with us this evening, so we're going to deviate from the schedule just a little bit. uh because I'm sure some of our high achievers from the future cities program have homework to do andor other engagements this evening. So in just a moment I'm going to invite uh Mr. Miley,
assistant principal from Cinnamonson Middle School to talk a little bit about future cities and to recognize uh some outstanding students. Mr. Creo there. I have the honor of recognizing Mr. Garwood Bacon's eighth grade project challenge class which earned the
excellence in regional planning at the future city competition on January 25th. Their award-winning project named Applewood envisioned Tasmania in the year 2126 as a community that was completely
eliminated food waste through sustainable circular economy. The project feature innovative solutions such as advanced agricultural hubs, alternative economic systems, and renewable energy sources, including bofuels.
The team's soughtful planning and creativity were recognized by the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission. A special thank you goes to our engineer and residents, Mr. John Mer, who's also a standing board member, for his guidance and support of our students
throughout the journey with this project. Congratulations to our eighth grade students on this outstanding accomplishment and their forwardinking approach to regional planning. Okay. U following students, please come on up if you're in attendance. Mr.
Matthew Angelone, Grace Bazilla, Warner, James Crockett, Natalie Freddy, Joseph Hanigan, Thomas Klene, Theodore Mer and Jeffrey Wiseman. Uh, boys, how do you do describing
future cities? Did we miss anything about the competition? The floor is open if you'd like to augment his comments. So, uh, it's okay if you don't want to. Come on up, boys. We're going to take we're going to take a group picture. And, uh, congratulations again for representing us so well. Mr. Maker, do you mind coming up to the
group picture? You're up there. that look at this one. It's like pops. Congratulations. >> The question was, can we go now? Yes, boys. I'm sure you have lots to do, but you are welcomed and encouraged to stay.
At this point, I'd like to bring up Dr. Goldber, who will introduce our uh next presentation for this evening. Right. Thank you very much. Uh each year we have a couple of presentations at our board meetings from our department supervisors and directors about what's
new in their respective content areas. Last year we heard from our music teachers and our art teachers and two very well done presentations. This evening we're going to hear from our director of instruction, Mr. Matt Perupka, as well as two members of our new Albany staff, uh uh Miss Buren and
Miss Nut. and they're going to give us an update of what's new, what's going on, some real life examples of lessons and the focus in science instruction. So with that, it's my pleasure to introduce Mr. Perupka, who will take it from here. Thank you, Dr. Goldburn. I'm very
excited to be here tonight to talk about the state of science in Cinnamon Schools. Um, one of the many reasons why I love science is it provides us with a means to solve problems. I was a chemistry teacher for 19 years and I'm no stranger to the question, why are we learning this? When am I ever going to
need this? And I always answer that question with this quote or based off this quote by Carl Sean. Science is much more of a way of thinking than it is a body of knowledge. If we focus on the process of science and how it teaches us to address problems and critically think, it can provide anybody with
something to use. As Dr. Goldber said, "I'm I'm very lucky to have two excellent teachers joining me tonight from New Albany School, Miss Danielle Burson and Miss Lauren Nut, who will talk about how we do science in at the elementary school and engage our youngest learners later on in the
presentation. Um the K to2 vision of science in cinemson directly aligns with the state's vision and that's built upon evidence-based classrooms and that goes back to the Carl Sean quote of focusing on the process of science rather than
just the content. Um in in in evidence-based science classrooms, students are reading relevant information about the phenomena and the world around them, asking questions and identifying problems. They're gathering uh data and analyzing data to construct solutions based off evidence and facts.
With those fundamental skills serving as your uh framework for your curriculum, you can apply any content of science and provide students with valuable 21st century skills that help them moving forward. Now, I've seen many great examples of evidence-based science classrooms in my
travels through the four buildings in our district, even five buildings in our district. Uh, one of which is the Yellowstone Wolf series in fifth grade. Um, topic is ecosystems. Now, I don't know about you, but I remember my ecosystem lesson when I was younger involved me cutting out magazine
clippings of animals and making a food web and memorizing a pyramid with producer, consumer, and decomposers on it and then trying to put that back and memorize it for a test. Valuable content, but not so much in the way of skills. Our fifth grade students are
reading articles about how in the early 1900s Yellowstone made the decision to eradicate wolves from the park to protect farmers livestock. They're analyzing data and charts to see how that decision affected elk and vegetation and putting all that
information together to draw conclusions and engage in friendly debate with their peers acting as ecologists. And they can even compare what they decided as a group to what Yellowstone actually did. literacy, reading comprehension, data analysis, written and verbal
communication skills are all the wonderful skills our students can get from a evidence-based classroom. And this chart is the heart, this cycle of identifying a problem, collecting the information you need to solve the problem, constructing a solution, and
refining as necessary is the heart of the critical thinking process and can help our students become more informed citizens. Now you might be thinking that's a very busy chart and it is and you might be saying how can we do this with first first graders. Well we do
start small. We focus on phenomena, things around them that even our youngest learners can understand and relate to the weather, animals, the moon. And we take that complex thinking process and break it down to a smaller model called the claim, evidence, and reasoning model that Miss Burson and
Miss Nut are going to talk about in just a few moments. And we try to harness that wonderful, beautiful, intrinsic, and creative nature that our youngest learners have. Um, if you ever spent time around young children, you know just how curious they are. you put something new in their world, they're going to they're going to investigate
it. They're not afraid to make mistakes, which is so powerful in science because you can't create anything new if you're not prepared to be wrong. And they're so excitable and eager. I remember dropping my picking up my daughter from school when she was in first grade and a young
boy walked out. He had mud and grass stains all over his pants, spaghetti down his shirt, and paint in his hair. His mom his mom looked at him and goes, "How was your day?" cuz he looked like he'd been through it. He goes, "Great. I made this in STEM and handed some contraption to his mom." I couldn't tell
what it was, but he was proud of it. And it's that excitement, enthusiasm that we have to harness and teach our kids to grow with their curiosity rather than out of it. Uh, President Barack Obama once said, "We need our youngest children's youngest children to be not
only consumers of technology, advancement of science, but also producers. We need to create the next wave of innovators and risktakers. And ARC science and STEM program is built upon that idea of teaching our youngest students, all of our students, how to
use technology as a tool rather than a crutch. Um, in our STEM classes across the board, Mr. Angelone was just here, he left. Um they are doing wonderful things in teaching our students on computer literacy and programs of you know the Google workspace tinkercad uh 3D
printing software uh they are learning how to program and code robots and they're using their hands to create and make even at our youngest levels they're using userfriendly safe chomp saws to cut cardboard and and feel like they're using almost like a table saw and it's
wonderful to watch. Um, physical education has had a very nice run as the most popular special in schools across America. And I hope uh with the wonderful and exciting things we're doing in STEM, we can give it a run for its money in the near future. So, I'm going to pass the podium off to Miss Bur
and Miss Nut, who are going to talk about how we're doing evidence-based learning at our elementary school level. >> All right. So, we are going to run through how a unit works in second grade. So we start with the phenomena and that's something the students um may know about in their everyday life or can
apply to their everyday life and this is our big idea for the unit. Students are shown a short video and then they are asked and they are asked to write an I wonder question about what they observed in the video and then there are readings which correlate with the phenomenon and
give big ideas and information about the concepts that they need to take with them. So the teacher guides the students through these readings and helps them complete the worksheets that go along with it. And this kind of prepares them and gives them the background knowledge needed to complete the investigations and the future lessons. So once that
background knowledge is built, it's time for the investigations. These are hands-on, interactive, fun activities for our students. We're going to show you a specific example on the next slide, but these are great because once those big ideas are built, then the students can take ownership of their learning and apply the skills they were taught in these investigations.
We conclude the unit with a CER response which stands for claim, evidence, and reasoning. And this gives students a chance to reflect upon their learning and the big concepts that were presented in a constructive response form, allowing them to use their critical thinking skills to really wrap up the
unit and prove what they learned and show what they've learned. So, this is the investigation we chose to discuss tonight, and it's the design a bridge investigation. We picked this one because it's one that our students love. As you can see in these pictures,
um students are given bins of materials. So, there's pipe cleaners, wax paper, clay, construction paper, all different materials. And they're supposed to build a bridge. The criteria for this is that their bridge must be able to hold six blocks. They're little blocks, but six of them, and must withstand a spray
test. So, their bridge is going to be sprayed with water. From there, it's up to them. They problem solve with their peers and work together to build the best bridge possible. And it's really interesting to see what they come up with because every bridge is different. They take the materials and they use them how they see fit. Like in the
bottom right picture, one of the groups used the popsicle sticks as guard rails for the bridge and chose to use the clay to hold it in place while another group used the clay as a big protective layer to go across the bridge. So the students being able to see other bridges in action allows for really great
conversation in the classroom as well for what went well, what needs to improve. Uh kind of demonstrating those engineering uh skills as well. So we conclude our unit with the CER which again stands for claim, evidence, and reasoning. For the claim, the
teacher guides the students in writing the claim and the claim is based off of the phenomena. From there, students are shown that same short video as they were at the beginning of the unit. And that's where we tell them to pull their evidence from straight from that video. And finally, for the reasoning, students answer that question that's on the
worksheet provided by TCI. And that really explains why the claim is true. So, you can see in this student example, she claims that bridges are made from different materials because they're used for different purposes, kind of the big overarching idea from the unit. And in
her evidence, she uses what she saw from the video, which was a bridge made out of wood. And then her reasoning supports that claim and evidence and answers the question of where could you use a bridge made out of wood and rope by stating that a playground would be the best part
for that. So again, this constructive response kind of allows them to use those critical thinking skills and put it in a response to kind of deepen their understanding and show what they've learned. This framework makes science fun for our students, allowing them to critically think, which will prepare them for all
that's to come in science through elementary school, middle school, and high school. >> All right. Thank you so much, Miss Buren and Miss Nut. I'm going to close tonight by talking about what is new in the world of science in Cinnamonson and some future hopes for the world of science in
Cinnamonson. Uh, just last year, we started two new electives at the high school, uh, marine biology and sports medicine. Marine biology is taught by Mr. Craig Angelini who has spent over 20 summers as a deep sea fisher fisher boat cap boat captain and he brings a lot of
expertise um about ocean ecosystems. Uh Mrs. Jennifer Alvarado is teaching her students about careers in physical therapy and physical train athletic training in sports medicine. Next year we're going to be implementing an aviation and aerospace elective at the middle school where students will
learn about rockets uh aviation and drones. Students will have opportunity to fly planes and flight simulators, pilot drones through various tasks, and learn about careers in aviation, which is an exploding field. Um, I heard at a recent conference that in by the 2028
Olympics in LA, the Olympians will be transported from their competitions back to the Olympic Village with drone taxis. So, it's a very much a developing field and there's a big career shortage in that industry. I hope in not the too distant future I'm
able to stand before you and say that we've brought and linked industrial arts connected to our STEM program. I hope to expand the aviation and aerospace program to the high school and have cinnamons and pirates with their drone license. Uh a part-time 16 to 18year-old
drone pilot can make $15,000 a year uh in the right under the right company. I hope to have a tech theater course where students are designing sound, light, and props for our musical productions and video game programming courses as well. Uh there's a big appetite for STEM and
science at the high school. U Miss Lopez her and our science electives are always full to capacity and I'm very excited to offer more opportunities and and feed that appetite moving forward. I really appreciate the support of the principles, administration, and the board with all our science endeavors and I look forward to an exciting future.
Uh, thank you. And if you have any questions, I'm here to answer them. >> Where was all this stuff when we were kids? >> And as promised, Mrs. Fitzwwater, I have created an alter ego of Saigi Matt and I have visited some of the elementary
schools >> questions. Thank you, Mr. >> Thank you very much. >> Thank you. All right, we've got we're at section 8 correspondents to the board. Uh I know that I received a couple of uh emails
from parents this uh month. They've been uh sent to the correct administrator for followup. Anyone else have anything that they need to add to that? >> All right. Section nine is committee reports. We had a policy committee
meeting uh this month. Uh Mr. Kenny, you want to give us the lowdown? >> Sure. Thank you. Uh the policy and legislation committee met on February 2nd via Google Meeting. policy met to discuss uh several policies that were tabled from the previous committee
meeting and we reviewed the policy following policies and regulations that are listed. Um they will be presented to the full board at the next regular meeting. As part of the freedom to read act, Mr. Capello gave the committee a brief overview of the act as well as the
supporting documentation from Strauss Esme. The committee then discussed the Supreme Court case Makmoud versus Taylor and the district's protocols for compliance with the Supreme Court ruling. And we reviewed several, it says following, but I'm not going to read all of them. The policies in accordance with
the board of education goal to continue the practice of conducting a cursory review of all BOE policies. Mr. Cabelloo provided some background information about the policies and described the administrative practices that coincide with them. And after review, no changes
will be recommended for these policies. They too will appear on the agenda for next regular meeting on the board as having been reviewed. And the next meeting of the policy committee will take place on March 10th via Google Meeting where the board will review the next group of policies. Thank you.
>> Thank you, Mr. Kenny. U Miss Zikone, can I have a motion to approve section 9 committee reports item A? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Second. >> Thank you, Mr. Maker. Comments or questions from the board? hearing. None. We'll take a vote. Mr. McGuff. >> I I I
>> I I >> I >> I >> I motion approved. Uh moving on to section 10, public comment on agenda items. Uh members of the public are reminded that comments in this section should be limited to items appearing on this
meeting's agenda. There will be another opportunity during this meeting to comment on non-aggenda items. All members of the public wishing to speak on agenda items only should raise their hand to indicate their wish to speak. When called upon, participants should state their first and last name and address clearly for the record. In
accordance with the Cinnamon and Board of Education policy, comments will be limited to a maximum of four minutes per person. The comment period will be limited to 30 minutes in duration. And with that, does anyone have anything
uh about any of the agenda items? Okay, we will move on to um section 11 personnel. Mr. Capella. >> Thank you again, Mrs. Fitzwater. Under section 11, letter A, appointments and reappointments, seeking the board to approve items 1 and two. That is
certificated staff items A, B, and C and non-certificated staff items A through F. under resignations and retirement, seeking the board to approve number one, the resignation uh listed under number one in the agenda. Uh also number two, seeking the board to accept the
retirement of bus driver Barbara Anderson with regret. We wish her the best. Number three, that the board accepts the retirement with great regret of Tamara Bey, special education teacher at Cinnamonson High School, and we certainly wish her the very best. And items four and five listed in the agenda
under letter C, leave of absence, seeking the board to approve items 1 through four. one through four listed by employee number in the agenda. Teaching overload seeking the board to approve item one which is linked uh in the agenda under extra duty appointments letter E seeking the board to approve items 1 through 5. Uh there is one
transfer for consideration under F1 in the agenda. Uh under letter G seeking the board to approve the one item listed in the agenda. Under mentor teachers letter H also seeking the board to approve one item that is listed in the agenda. Under student teachers, letter I, seeking the board to approve the one
item that is listed in the agenda. And under letter J, seeking the board to approve items 1 through seven as listed in the agenda, and that is for substitute teachers, non-certified, and volunteers. And finally, under letter K, seeking the board to approve item A, number A, excuse me, number one, items A
through E as listed in the agenda, Mrs. Fitzwater, that is personnel certificated and non-certificated. >> Thank you, Mr. Capello. Mr. Brahaul. Can I have a motion to approve section 11 personnel certified non-certified items A through K. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Second. >> Thank you, Mr. Trump. Comments or
questions from the board? >> Hearing none, we'll take a vote. Mrs. Tadley. >> I >> I >> I >> I >> I I >> I motion approved. Moving on to section 12, curriculum and instruction. Dr. Goldburn. >> Thank you very much. Under number 12,
uh, letter A, requesting board approval of the monthly professional development requests. Under letter B, requesting approval of the monthly field trip requests. No requests for C or D this month. Under letter E, uh, requesting approval of the monthly HIP report for
February. And letter F, the suspension report for the month of February. And under letter G, the calendar change that Mr. Capello alluded to a little while ago, uh, making May 13th a day for students, 2-hour delay for K to 5, and a
single session early dismissal day uh for the middle school and high school students to make up for the January snow day. >> Thank you, Dr. Walpurn. Uh, Mr. Mer, can I have a motion to approve section 12, curriculum and instruction items A through G?
>> So moved. >> Second. >> Second. >> Thank you, Miss Aayakone. comments or questions from the board hearing. Then we'll take a vote. Mr. McGuff. >> I >> I I >> I >> I >> I >> I
>> I motion approved. Uh moving on to section 13, special education. Uh Mrs. Llewellyn. >> Thank you, Mrs. Fitzwwater. Under letter A, contracts seeking the board to ratify and affirm an agreement with Burlington County Educational Services Unit to prov to provide two one-to-one teacher
assistance for two students. And the rates are listed in the agenda under letter B, student placements, seeking the board to ratify and affirm three tuition contract agreements. Number one, Burlington County Special Services School District, number two, the Lark
Norcross School, and number three, Yale School Incorporated for three students. and those rates are listed in the agenda. And letter C, consult an agreement, seeking the board to ratify an affirmative agreement with Brett Denovian Associates LLC to provide onetoone support at the rates listed in
the agenda. Thank you. >> Thank you, Mr. Llewellyn. Mr. McGuff, can I have a motion to approve section 13, special education items A through C? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Second. >> Thanks, Mr. Trump. Comments or questions from the board? >> Hearing none, we'll take a vote. Mr.
Tadley. >> I >> I >> I >> I I >> I >> I I I >> I motion approved. Uh moving on to section 14 policy. Mr. Capella. >> Thank you, Mrs. Fitzwwater. Uh under number one, seeking the board to approve on second reading the adoption of the
policies listed in the agenda. Uh under number two, seeking the board's approval for abolishing the policies listed under item number two in the agenda. And under number three, seeking the board to approve on first reading the policies and requisite um excuse me, um additional items listed
under number three in the agenda. >> Thank you, Mr. Capello. U Mrs. Tadley, can I have a motion to approve section 14 uh policy letter A? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Second. >> Thank you, Miss Akone. Comments or questions from the board?
>> Hearing none, we'll take a vote. Mr. McGuff. I >> I I I >> I >> I I >> I >> I >> I motion approved. Moving on to section 15, business and finance. Mrs. Wilkkey. >> Thank you, Mrs. Fitzwwater. Under section A, grants, item number one, that
the board approves the 2526A amendment. Under section B, finance, item number one, that the board approves the staff mileage reimbursements. And item number two, that the board approves the 2526 semi-corrective action plan
under section C, operations. Item number one, donations that the board accepts with appreciation the following donations. $100 in memory of Etna Kesler to the New Alb School Library, $400 from the inventor shop to the invention
convention, $100 from Toothtown to the invention convention, and $500 from Community Foundation of New Jersey to the invention convention. Item number two, that the board approves the district public notice procedure
under section D contracts. Item number one that the board approves the bid solicitation, the rejection for 2526-00003 and the solicitation of 2526-00004, both for district custodial services.
Item number two, that the board approves a professional service contract for special counsel with Bush Law Group. And item number three, that the board approves the revised 2526 receiving tuition contracts. Thank you, Mrs. Fitzwwater. Thank you, Mrs. Wilkkey. Uh,
Mr. Kenny, can I have a motion to approve section 15, business and finance items A through D? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Second. >> Thank you, Mr. Maker. Comments or questions from the board? >> Hearing none. We'll take a vote. Mr. McGuff. >> I I I
>> I >> I >> I >> I >> I uh we have no other business tonight. Uh so we're moving on to public comment. All members of the public wishing to speak uh should raise their hand to
indicate their wish to speak. When called upon, participants should state their first and last name and address clearly for the record in accordance with sentiments and board of education policy. Comments will be limited to a maximum of four minutes per person. The comment period will be limited to 30 minutes in duration. Pursuant to the
Open Public Meetings Act, the board will not publicly discuss or comment on matters involving personnel, litigation, negotiations, or the attorney client privilege, the board may choose not to respond to comments made by members of the public during this portion of the meeting. However, all comments will be
giving appropriate consideration. Matters requiring followup will be referred to the superintendent for resolution. And with that, is there anyone who would like to speak? Good. Okay. All right. Then we will go to Mr. Kenny for comments from the
board. >> Thank you. Uh, congratulations to Carly for getting through that high school report tonight. Congratulations to the eighth grade project challenge students for their strong showing in the future city competition. Thank you to Mr. Perupka,
Miss Nut, and Miss Buren for the presentation and for your obvious patching uh passion for teaching science. That's some good stuff right there. We appreciate that. Thank you for all the donations. Best wishes to Tamara Bey on her upcoming retirement. Good luck to the indoor drum line as they
start their competition season. Break a leg to all of our students involved in the CHS and CMS shows and good luck to all student inventors who will be taking part in the invention convention on March 2nd. Happy Chinese New Year, blessed Ramadan,
and a joyful Lenton season to everyone. And the next regularly scheduled meeting will be on Tuesday, March 17th, right here in the cafeterium. And more information can be found on the district website. Thank you. >> Thank you. Uh we are going into executive session tonight. We will be we
will have one other business item when we come out of executive session. Uh so, Mr. Trump, can I have a motion to convene into executive session? >> So moved. Second. >> Second. >> Thank you, Mr. Maker. All in favor? >> All opposed.
>> All right, we're now in executive session. Thank you guys and have a great night. >> Thank you. I like a little bit. >> M I can I have a motion to re uh reconvene public meeting? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Second. >> Thank you, Miss Trump. All in favor?
>> Opposed? We're back in public session. >> Uh Mr. Mr. Bramhole, can I have a motion to approve section 21 other business letter A? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Second. >> Thank you, Mr. Kenny. All in favor?
>> I oppose. >> Okay, the motion is approved. Uh, Mr. McGuff, can I have a motion to adjurnn? >> Oh, so moved. >> Oh, hold on. >> You hit number 21, other business, number two first. >> I did. >> We just did. >> I just did that. I thought you were making the motion to come make it.
>> Okay, my apologies. >> Yeah. >> Where were you? Normally, normally I read the other business stuff. My apologies. I brought us out of the slight. >> Mr. McGuff, can I have a motion to adjurnn? >> So moved. >> Second. >> Second. >> Thank Mr. Trump. All in favor?
>> Opposed. >> We are finished.