--------- we are resuming our meeting thank you for to everyone uh for waiting while we break our fast for those who were fasting uh superintendent we were still in your update so if you can continue that please thank you I just have a couple more updates um we still are
working on I know we discussed it in the um building site committee prior to this that we'll have a report out you know potential infrastructure Bond looking at 25 26 depending on whether or not we're ready and we have the two uh groups that we hired I know Quinn on um looking at
the preservation of buildings and that's moved forward and then we have byon and Fisk that are working on the communication so those continue to move forward our team is also talking in the schools at chatting events and other things um you know looking at data and looking at that need moving forward so
obviously it'll eventually come to the board for a decision at some point uh but we continue to move forward with that process given our need in the district with infrastructure the last thing I just have on there is um we're in pretty good shape I mean today what we got 60° weather we're March I remember being in
this board um meeting in March if some of you might remember when the power went off and it was freezing and it was storms everywhere using the lights from our phones yes yes yes like uh maybe 2018 somewhere around there um so the weather can always switch we know it's
Michigan and and but I wanted to report we've used we're allowed six forgiveness days we've used four so we still have two um you know obviously safety is number one uh whenever we make a decision on a potential closure but I think you know I get so many requests for students just close school just
close school but the reality is this is if you go beyond your days um I was with a superintendent colleague on my superintendent board for Masa and uh the superintendent Association and you know they're in the western Northern side of Michigan and they're at 12 days well the
only thing they're going to be doing is she told me they're going to be added to June that's the reality we have to comply with the law so we're in good shape here if we have the two we also need to meet attendance thresholds which are 75% each day to be officially counted as a school day um but we're in
pretty good shape and uh we've had four thus far and that's all I have today Mr President thank you Dr moo uh before we move to the next item I I'd like to move s participation up since we do have a student Mo quick comments to to the
superintendent I'm very happy yeah I forgot I'm very happy that it sounds like with baseball moving forward uh the other thing is Mary Lane former board member Mary Lane sent me a text today and I told her I was going to share with everybody she says says a couple of some
things but most important she says I always think of you Glenn and the crew on March 10th she's referring back to 2020 sure in March 10th in 2020 was a primary Democratic primary I was meeting with a a journalist downtown for coffee
or breakfast and he got a phone call walked away I don't know if I ever shared the story with you I didn't make the phone call like two hours later I broke my promise with him oh he said uh he said this Michael Basher he said he came back and his look on his face like
I got to go I'm like are you gonna stick me with the bill again he says no promise not say anything he said okay said first case in Wayne County it end up being us yeah one of our yeah was connected to one of our schools but I
broke my promise and I called Glenn like two hours later and I said one two three and end up being one of our own so yeah thank you Mary yeah she sent me a similar email about remembering that we survived uh we survive the
pic so I'd like to move citizen participation up the agenda there are no objections nope thank you so we can have citizen participation Mr secretary if you can read the sure next is citizen participation citizens wishing to
address the board on agenda and non-agenda items for Action who are signed in by 710 p.m. or 10 minutes after the beginning of our meeting by submitting a blue card to the board secretary may speak at this time the board may not be in a position to respond to non-agenda items therefore
speakers should not anticipate an immediate resp response to their comments or questions for the benefit of all concerned do not mention the names of students or School District employees please keep your comments as brief as possible and there's a three-minute time limit on comments made to the
board the first Speaker tonight is Amelia Abbas who will be speaking about the technology problems in the digital design class at the Michael Barry Career Center
do I begin I'm sorry do I begin right now yes yes go ahead okay hello my name is Amelia boss I a student at forson high school and at Michael Barry I'm enrolled in the digital design class which I absolutely enjoy I learned a lot of new programs and skills for the digital design industry although my
friends and I enjoyed the opportunity to work on these industry industry programs we have found some technology problems that need to be addressed our classroom has many drawing tablets that are available for us to use but the drivers for the tablets are not installed on our computers we also have access to programs that were paid for that are not
updated on our computers and finally our lab does not have cros Tech installed our teacher has explained to us that he has put in slow slow down yeah oh I'm sorry it's okay take a deep breath you're doing great and slow down okay I'm sorry it's okay you don't
got to be sorry you're doing a great job you obviously are passionate you have a lot of energy but slow down okay our teacher has explained to us that he has put in many requests to have these issues fixed but they have been gone and
unanswered for the past many years so I decided to take it into my own hands as a student because it might be heard here having our Adobe programs updated to the current news version is important because we already have it paid for oh sorry uh so choosing not to
update to the newest version seems like a waste when we are trying to train for our career goals sadly this requires the tech department to to log in and update the machines as admin rights for computers is dedicated only to the tech department the the drawing tablets are the same situations as we have these tablets that
cost money just sitting on a desk collecting dust because they haven't have the drivers installed my friends and I plan to draw digitally and our digital design program and this is a huge bummer to us that we can't utilize this until they are installed finally cros te cros is a program that our
teacher can use to watch all of our computers from his desk and assist us at any time of our need or stop students from being distracted on doing things that they shouldn't be doing online the amount that our teacher is running around the room and helping students individually is admirable but the fact that other labs in the district have
cross deck and we don't have in our mbcc lab is sad considering this is a class that could benefit best from it if we spent so much time waiting for a teacher to run around a room to help students individually it would be beneficial to have a program like this available in
today's day and age of Technology usage is it is insane that our entire District does not have this program installed on our school computers for teachers to maintain their classes better thank you again I enjoy my class and the work we do in there but I feel like there could be more Technology support for the
specialized computer classes thank you Amelia for addressing us we will definitely look into these issues that you addressed thank you for the advocacy thank you thank you milia great job next uh uh our next speaker is
Andrew angel is that right okay Andrew Angel who will be thanking the bo oh give some feedback huh give you some feedback okay thanking the board for the quality of my children's education and the value of
diversity in the district thanks appreciate the uh the chance to to get back up here and talk to you I have two sons who went through uh Dearborne High Dearborne schools from Duval all the way through da deor High School graduating 2020 2021 um they had fantastic
educations uh at the at the district um I wanted to thank you uh for those educations my oldest son is actually going in uh student teaching right now he's going to become a band educator um
in this next fall uh I wanted to really um emphasize how important the diversity component was in going to Dearborn it was a district where they could uh be themselves and they could be with other students who could be themselves as well
and get the most out of their education that's been very valuable for them is they've gone on to their work and their schooling it's valuable to me as a as a manager at Ford those are skills that we really look for when we're hiring people
um so I was glad that my sons were able to get that here in the district I also just wanted to um really emphasize the benefits that they received from the Arts programs uh particularly band um the theater program
at da Dearborn High wdhs all tremendous programs that gave them uh leadership project management uh the stick to and if the grit that you really need in the workforce and those skills including uh Adobe Premiere which they one of them
learned uh have been used already in college and in their work so um really appreciate the quality education the uh non-academic skills that they were able to learn the technology skills the people skills uh it was a great education please support
the Arts please support those um non-academic portions of the education for the kids going forward so thank you thank you Mr for your comments those are all the cards I have right perfect just two uh we do have board followup uh
from last last meeting or this meeting if anybody has any comments trusty I just wanted to respond Mr Angel uh because that's what um I wanted to get involved with the school district from years ago was to have the best
well-rounded educated students that we could possibly have and to have all the that variety of experience is so important especially today when you see that a lot of everybody wants to pigeon
hole everybody into uh a corner of uh and we know that that's not what we want to see in the real world the real world is made up of all kinds of opportunities experiences and human beings and um in
order for us to be able to express ourselves the best is to be able to be exposed to the most so um I would always want to support that those opportunities that give our students that kind of um
Challenge and and exposure thank you for um being a positive citizen experience tonight thank you trusty pesov we can go uh back
to recog agenda yes okay next item is recognition and and acknowledgements and the first item under that is commendations um hello okay uh good evening my name is Wilson iang and I'm currently a 12th
grader student at Dean High School I am I'm here representing the black student union and I'm also a member of the principal student advisory Council D DHS hello good evening everyone um uh my name is Muhammad matar I am a senior at
DHS and I am here representing the ssac and the PSA c um thank you everyone for having us um at this lovely night and this lovely evening um happy Ramadan to everyone who's celebrating as well as
happy lent to everyone who is fasting during this time of the month I'm going to get us started off with the district commendations uh thank you to the 42 staff members who led sessions during the February 25 professional development day um topics range from technology such
as Ai and classrooms to a deeper dive into small groups group literacy lessons um moving on to the high school commendations uh Commendation to Dean High
School senior naen fad who was named an mhsaa senior athlete Award winner under the of students from across the state apply for this award to apply a student must have received a vary letter in a sports in which
mhsaa holds a postseason tournament they must also have at least a 3.5 GPA on a fourpoint scale be active in school and community activities and submit an essay on the importance of sport menhip great
job na fad uh Commendation to U High Ford Heist students who performed at the msboa district solo and ensemble in Friday the following students earn division one ratings and be heading to
State solo and emble competition in anabor congratulations to Casey Weber Victor Billy z u Marcus medulla Sterling deler uh Renee Harden Ryan hellon
uh Laurence Skidmore Mars girther Jacob Brown Tyler sheram and samur fck On a related notes commendations to Deon high school students who performed
at MSB OA for instrumental music at the msvma for vocal music in February the following vocal students received a superior rating for their solo performance and qualified to perform at the state competition in April
congratulations to anth Jau viic Stephano Cavo cavillo uh Hannah Frederick and Alex seleni selli um the following instrumentalist earned a first division rating and
qualified to complete compete at the state event in March Eddie morzak a saxophone solo Jam Kamal Al Kamal Laden um an oal solo a kohen
Roan um string bass solo Milan hammood piano solo and Jada gadin um Jayla Gaden um Lyn kazal zad Bazi m s and Kohan M
ran for mixed ensemble commendations to Deon Heist bowler Christian um CJ lamb who qualified to complete at the State Bowling competition CJ finished second overall
at the February competition to qualify for the state meet at the meet he averaged 218 points over six qualifying games the head the head bowling coach is Paul maracon commendations to the Deon High
basketball team which won the mhsaa boys basketball District competition is the third title in the last four years the her coach is a Mason and assistant coach Bassel H
hatcham commendations to edel Ford student council and their advisor Mr Dan Pac for putting on great charity Week events the student raised awareness and collected $5,000 for Access kudos to the
tunder bir Community for their generosity Commendation to the edil quiz bow Team for finishing first in the regular season of the Southern wh Wayne Quiz Bow league for the second straight season commendations to etel Ford senior
Mohamed Al jaadi who qualified for the mssaa State wrestling championship his record for this season going to state competition was 44 to8 which means 44 wins and eight
losses moving on to Middle School congratulations to all the students who participated in the districtwide spelling B hosted by communities in school to participate in the event students first had to be among the top finishers at spelling be held at their own Elementary or middle school the
winners include 48th grade winner Rina har from Bryant second place to Dina Naser from Woodworth and third place to indana Backpacker from stout for seventh grade winner NOA alji from stout second place taram Ali from Unice and third
place Taya Ahmed from virtual K 12 for sixth grade winner re abdulhak from Bryant second place to sahana sangi Tangi from stout and third place to Muhammad Shahid from Salina intermediate for fifth grade winner Le kahali from
low second place to Evelyn pan from Duval and third place to medam ABAB from virtual K 12 for fourth grade winner Hassan Abdullah from Howard second place to batul milhim from Maples and third place to Khaled Omar from Henry Ford Elementary for third grade winner Mahi
shamoo from hay second place Adam kareim from Duval and third place abas y from mullo um moving on to Elementary commendations to herand assistant principal at Maples Elementary
who was invited to present at the Michigan Association of Secondary School principles jary conference M along with Jennifer RIS assistant principal in Grand Rapids led a session titled beyond the language barrier Building Bridges of empathy the presentation provided
practical strategies to Foster empathy and support inclusive practices for English language Learners in addition Miss shared her expertise by creating and delivering a presentation for Maple staff focusing on WEA writing levels and strategies for expanding student writing
the staff response was overwhelmingly positive special thanks to Maple principal Miss Donna jcubic for her leadership and ability to guide and support new administrators in Dearborn commendations to teachers Pam Gunderson and Kelsey Murphy who began Salina's
first drama club this year students in grades K to 5 participated in the musical Annie both teachers return to salinaa daily to lead after school practice this is all for the commendations for today thank you so
much uh for having us today have a great night everyone have a great night every wait we have some questions for you you can sit around any trusty having questions um Mr um M yeah what you're senior right now
so where are you uh heading for college um I'm currently undecided as to where I want to go for college um especially with regular decision month coming like decisions coming out this month um I'm just waiting to see my acceptance or rejection letters best of luck coming
out this and th those were very difficult last names I'll have a hard time pronouncing so great job great great job to both of you thank you thank you thank you all right have a great night have a great night
thanks next item please next I'd like to say that I um finished second place in my fifth grade great spelling B I lost on Ancestry still bothers me next is employee recognition good evening each Friday uh we get to
end the week on a really positive fun exciting note and um I want to introduce to you this month's employees that were on the three employees that were honored uh we have Wendy shanee she's a teacher at Snow Elementary School she's been
with the district for 29.5 years and she was nominated for being supportive and giving her colleagues excellent advice so thank you to Wendy Shane not instructional employee so that was our instructional employee our non-instructional employee is May
Darwish May is a special education parpro um she's been with the district for 3.25 years and she's nominated she was nominated for consistently making herself available to the student that she works with the whole group of students in class and to the teacher she
does not only help her student but she will also help anywhere help is needed and the last one just last Friday was a lot of fun uh Hannah farage she's a principal at gear Park she's been with
the district for 12 years I can't believe it's only been 12 Years a little more than that maybe longer couple couple2 something like 12.25 14ish oh nominated for creating an an environment of positivity family and
belonging at gear Park Miss farage shines every day with a bright light and her whole school shines with her and the reason it's always so fun is because we tell when it's for the administrator recognition we tell them that we're there for a sip visit and you we just watch them we watch them get really
uncomfortable and it's a Friday and it's it's near the end of the day um and so it's a lot of fun to share with them once we're in a classroom our real reason for the visit so I'm going to give the ladies each a chance to introduce themselves and say a few words um my name is Wy Shane I have been
in the district this is my 30th year um I was quite surprised when I got the recognition they came into my room and I thought it was a sip visit I kept teaching and then they asked me to stop so they could recognize me um so it was a great honor to be recognized and I appreciate um coming tonight to meet all
of you thank you thank you thank you good evening I wasn't expecting to say anything so a little caught off guard but um I'm an employee in the district a mom in the district a resident of this District uh so it means a lot that I was
recognized and I appreciate it very much most importantly just the collaboration that we have in Dearborn amongst everybody um amongst all the stakeholders really means a lot so when you have an opportunity like this to be recognized by your peers it's extra special so I just want to thank
everybody for that opportunity and for the amazing team that we work with thank you congratulations thank you Dr Malo I just want to say congratulations and I appreciate um Miss Elli bazzy and Miss pky putting this together and it's so exciting when you
go and you surprise them in the classro and just recognizing but they're they're nominated by their peers as well which I think means a lot and uh Miss Shane I I when I was a rookie teacher in 97 she moved down to the second floor at Salina when I took over her class in third
grade and she used to always help me out as well and collaborating as fellow third grade teachers and appreciate the work that Miss farage does um with her students and then just miss darwash was so she was so excited when we came to the room and just so appreciative and so
were her students you could tell it was such a positive so we're going to keep going with this and it's a great way to recognize all the employees can we give them [Applause] an next item please next item is
acknowledgement of donations good evening president MOS Dr Mel members of the board I was able to attend the Friday's um recognition event and I figured I had to come up with an idea just in case I would stopped by the engineer and the food service department
to say hi and how's it going and I ran into the principal on the way back to the office so I had to come up with a good idea why I was there and unfortunately he said I don't have a I don't lie very well so I guess it's not a bad thing but to
keep the secret all right donations uh we have donations that we're always glad to read at our board meeting from people that donate to the school district we had a donation of $146.78 has been offered to how Elementary Howard Elementary by the deborn Education Foundation to be used
for a book study program donation of $1,000 been offered to Dearborn and elel for high school and foron high school and Deval gear Maples mcalla McDonald Miller Nan Oakman Whitmer BS and William Ford Elementary
and Smith Middle School by the deor educ Education Foundation be used for football equipment a donation of a milk cooler has been offered to cter school by United dairy industry of Michigan to be used for storing fresh milk for the students the donation of two pairs of
airpods one pair of cow print shoes has been offered at Dearborn High School by United Dair industry of Michigan to be used as prizes for the latte survey donation of two pairs of airp pods and one pair of cow print shoes has been offered elel for high school by United
dairy industry to be used as cash prizes for the latte survey a grant has been offered to Dearborn elel Ford and Fortson high schools by United dairy industry of Michigan to be used for a Vitamix 3 gallon blenders that will help the kitchen team make smoothies three
times a week for students at breakfast donation of $500 has been offered to Dearborn Public Schools by the Islamic Center of America to be used for Martin Luther King J Jr service project for the ssac donation of $1,000 has been offered to SL Intermediate School by the
American Muslim Muslim Society to be used for transportation to Cedar Point and last a donation of 3,000 been offered to Dearborn s for enforcing high schools by the Islamic Center of America to be used for scholarships one per School towards College expenditures that concludes the donation thank you to all
of the donors uh next item please next item is approval of minutes this will be the approval of minutes of the following Dearborn Board of Education meetings finance committee meeting February 10th 2025 board report
24-96 the policy committee meeting on February 10th 2025 board report 24- 97 and the regular P to2 meeting on February 10th 2025 board report 24- 98 the recommended action here is
that we make any necessary Corrections and move approval of these minutes so move support motion moved by truste DM braio supported by truste pesov any corrections seeing none my attach a
unanimous role to this motion to approve the minutes so it is a Part: 2
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good evening everyone uh welcome to the school district of the city of Dearborn meeting on March 10th 2025 it is 705 Secret may I have a roll call please uh truste elji here truste Barry
here truste D brosio here truste petkov here truste Watts not here trustees Zar me yes here president mosab here thank you next item please next item is a pledge allegiance to the flag we have Miss Mary Tim the principal of Duval
Elementary to introduce students who will lead in The Pledge of Allegiance good evening I'd like to introduce four of our Deval Stars we have very a ton of them but we brought four of us four of them today I have no Emy Estrada from
first grade Rand dalan from second grade and fifth graders Isa Dahan and Jillian Skidmore and they'll be leading us pledge alance 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 great job girl come this way I know we don't have one for one of you so it will be delivered to
school Julian great [Applause] job thank you Miss Tim and to all the amazing students at Deval next item please next item is a superintendent
update good evening everyone uh hope everyone's doing well unfortunately we have to start on a sad note I'd like us to um take a moment of silence uh we've had a few tragedies over the last month at the end of last month we had a former magnet student who passed away um we've
had an icon Hajj Ibrahim Bon who has passed away and just learned recently late last week that um former employee principal and board member darl Donaldson uh passed away um actually I one of my first uh substitute
assignments was with Mr Donaldson at Becker and I still have a letter of recommendation in my file from Mr Donaldson um so if we could um take a moment of silence in their honor and their thoughts and prayers with their families and loved ones thank you I would also um like to
mention that we've received a lot of Communications on the tribute for um Mr bayun and we have a committee that's formed under a board protocol and lamise uh is heading up a tribute Comm uh committee and it spells out all the rules so she'll be working on that and I
know we've been in communication uh with board members on that as well and uh we president um we had a discussion last week and we decided to put together a tribute that uh David and his team Eric put together in honor of uh um Mr
be Mr vun my counselor has helped me with everything he stayed patient with me and impacted me in a dramatic way if it wasn't for him I wouldn't be standing where I am today thank you so much I really appreciate what you did for me [Applause]
[Music] I would like to thank my high school basketball coach and counselor for 4 years Ibrahim B he's a very caring individual who has guided me throughout
high school and helped me get through many difficult injuries and difficult adversities I fac throughout my life overall he's a very inspirational person and role model and he'll forever be someone I look up to thank you very much [Music]
Mr redun has been vital to my success at elel for he's not only a counselor but a role model coach and educator I know Mr run will continue to influence upcoming Generations endlessly spreading his his wisdom and kindness his selflessness and empathy over 30 plus years of counseling
has positively impacted thousands of students tonight I'm honoring Mr vun who was only officially my counselor for one year but for all four years of my High School Journey he's been there to support me his door is always open and whether you're his assigned student or
not he gives you his time and he's dedicated to helping you succeed I'm so thankful for Mr bayun because I'm not sure I would have accomplished all that I have if it weren't for his [Music] support uh it is thanks to Mr Bon that
many other seniors and I can be confident about our future [Music] uh it is very clear to everyone uh who's met Mr Bon that he values and is always on the side of the students uh with his pure and genuine passion for helping us out whether he's your counselor or not helped bring countless opportunities and
kept us on track as we progress through our senior year again I'd like to thank Mr Bon for everything this [Applause] [Music]
year honestly this has been the the greatest experience of my life playing for him basketball being one of his he he was my counselor and whenever I needed a class he got me it he always motivated me everything I do for hit me
motivates everybody in the community [Music] [Applause] welcome comments if trustees would like to say a few words uh trusty bar yes and uh president moip mine's probably going
be an extra few minutes please give me the be a littleit len with me I didn't know uh hajim growing up uh I grew up in the South End went to Sena he grew up in low but I always heard about this young man just a couple years younger than I
am but his basketball skills uh his basketball and the way I play basketball was a little bit different I played at morning side he played at the mecca that's in Spring wall subdivision uh I don't think uh his boys would have came to the south end and
play at Morningside Park because it's a little different there uh I'm just going to I got a couple quotes I'm going to read from people that did know him if you allow me please sure uh social worker nearby by District
Sue uh and I asked permission from her I saw her at the funeral and I asked permission she said growing up in Dearborn everyone knew Haj juice beun Haj ibraim juice beun wasn't just the best basketball player we'd ever seen in person he was a mentor a leader and a
pillar of our community his love for the game was unmatched and he used it to guide and Aspire the Next Generation both on and off the court my brothers played basketball with juice at foron high school and my three sons had
the honor of juice coaching them from the ages of seven until 18 uh that's with MBA and that's a Ford High School through his successful career at deral Public Schools juice dedicated himself to Preparing our future always leading with heart wisdom
and unshakable commitment to our youth his impact will be felt for generations to come we mourn the loss of a legend this one's a little too long to read but I'm going to take a little couple Snippets u in all the years working for D public schools and this might have to
be fact checked he never missed a day I think his 33 or 34 years he never missed a day could you imagine all those winners he went through and people getting sick never missed a day this this man that did grow up with him went on to say his passion for the game was
contagious and his teams reflected his values of discipline teamwork and sports sportsmanship and effort Hajj broke records everywhere he played he broke records at lari broke records at forson and he broke records at U ofm Dearborn haj's impact went far behind
the classroom in the court he made a positive difference in the lives of those around him you find Haj Parks all around the Dearborn area playing with neighborhood children he would go there with his boys and next thing you know there would be many many people lined up just to get a chance to win against a
great juice he was he he was with us on the courts day and night dazzling us with his tireless abilities he is a legend to all of us that played with him and against him he set the Benchmark because when you beat Jews and that
wasn't too often it meant something that's the caliber of class Haj was in that's why we all love to play with and against him it meant something this is a former student recent graduate from etap for high school school he called me late
last week he said I never had the honor to play for Coach beun but I would have never graduated high school without his guidance he helped great leaders of his players and he mentored and gave them a scholarship I didn't know this about him
but he gave his players a scholarship if they had a GPA of 3.0 or higher this young man was literally crying on the phone when he was talking to me a couple years ago I was sitting in my backyard with uh my good friend and
former uh Ford member Jim Thorp we were talking there was some things going on with basketball and N so forth and we were just comparing notes uh and all of a sudden Mr Bon showed up knocked on my door dropped off
some bread some some of the cheese bread from the from the mosque and then he peaked in the back my wife told him I was in the back with Jim he came in we asked him to come in sit down and we spoke woke a little bit later on Jim sent me a text message saying did you
set me up for this I never told Jim I told Jim no I wouldn't do that but I never told Jim Mr B was actually coming to check on me he wasn't coming to Lobby me or advocate for his position or whatever he was coming to check on me because during that period of time I was very angry
with what's going on if you knew Haim he was a very forgiving man very religious man he understood the power forgiving and moving on just recently a friend a mutual friend of an employee here told me that
that employee called him and he was literally crying crying out of guilt he said he couldn't sleep last few days that's what he shared with our mutual friend to that person I say don't worry hajim is a forgiving man all Sam H
because I know hajim did there was also some community members that actually were part of a pulling some starters of his last team that two years ago and again he shared that with me and that upset me that the fact that those kids
were losing the opportunity but he said his exact words Al then the biggest one was when I was when I when I I heard that we need to move past coach Bon because we need to win games in order to change the culture
at the building that was a very very hard one to swallow I guess looking back at things there aren't too many games being won but uh the year right after Mr Bon retired from well stepped out or pushed
out from coaching at that's a for high school instead of winning games we were breaking up fights sad to say but that's the truth I've been hearing that we need to name the gy after Mr beun coach beun or maybe put a plaque in the counseling
office or retiring his number a lot of great ideas and I agree with all of the above but to the Educators out there I honestly say if you really want to honor this man continue what you're
doing let's let's say let's stop the bullying because bullying Is Real at every level let's all work on increasing reading scores and math scores parents talk to us and they say they're intimidated they don't want to talk to a teacher the principal and
sometimes the teachers are a little bit intimidated and they don't want to deal with what what they have to put up with so let's just stop that please there is a lot of great people in my life but I can honestly say Haj
ibraim was as close as I can say my opinion as close as I can say I'm becoming a perfect human Haj all I want to say is I love you I miss you I am sadden that you went through what you went through the last three years or two years of coaching it
at seford high school but only thing I got left to say is thank you president M thank you trusty J you know it's it's it's amazing how much you hear about a person
once they leave you hear a lot of the qualities we we knew his quality but a lot of people didn't know his qualities he's a given person I mean he's he's KN one for basketball and I'll say this about basketball and make it sure he was the
Iverson before Iverson he was the curry before Curry I mean he was a very talented player and I coached against him or I yeah I coached against him he was a player I was a coach and we had to put two three people on him so that's
the basketball side of it but from a human side of it uh he gave so much of his salary to kids uh he was there for kids he was a very humble person and so instead of us talking about his
achievement because you know I'm repeating I was at the funeral and I know trusty Barry was there and they said so many things uh he taught Sunday school for 30 years he never missed the day uh in at school for 30 years that's
an amazing accomplishment uh he was a coach and a counselor imagine a coach and a counselor the mentoring the coaching that you provide to kids so why not honor him why not leave his legacy you know and I'm glad that the district
is is having a committee to consider that and and trusty Barry mentioned something I wasn't going to mench he was pushed out of etel Ford he was really pushed out of ET so Ford and he was heartbroken by it so in saying that let's make up for let's honor him and
I'm going to add one more thing I mean he was a great player at forson you know that trusty Barry they never um put him on the Hall of Fame he's very very deserving let's consider that too so my point
is yes we could talk about him but let's leave a legacy for him let's let's let's do something for him that would show that we care about him in a legacy of Hajj B would be there thank
you thank you uh trusty Barry and trusty j i I can't add much to what you have said about um he had an impact on my family members who he has celled um actually uh my son Omar was a
Mr B was his counselor um and he uh Can't Stop talking about how amazing he has been for him since he arrived at etel for um it is with with heavy
hearts that we uh we say goodbye to Mr beun and uh we definitely want to honor him and we want the best uh Legacy for him to stay at
etel and at foron so I'd welcome the trustees input to the committee to Mr Roar as well as any Community member who has uh who had relationships with Mr beun if they have any ideas that they'd like to add or if they want to be part
of that committee they can definitely contact the superintendent's office um and we'll we'll have place for them so thank you next item superintendent thank you everyone so we're going to move along uh
agenda items uh retirements um we want to both thank and congratulate all of our employees um on their retirement and we appreciate their hard work and dedication over the years we have Heather Bowman over 29 years Kathleen
Fleming over 19 years an Gorman 39 years Mariam Massi arik over or 20 years and Julian pgar um 15 years of service let's show our appreciation
uh for them that's fine okay and I'll just move along on my non-agenda items if that's okay Mr President that's all right uh so I know we're about 10 days in um but I hope
that um everyone that observes the month of Ramadan has a blessed month with their family and loved ones uh we're very excited in the district that for the first time we did get a waiver for the state and we've put it out there and students are able to get the ifar dinners and bring them home um we've received a lot of positive
feedback about that I also just want to mention for anyone here because I know we're during the board meeting and you may be breaking fast we do have um some water and snacks and things available on the side of the room right here uh today so again wishing everyone all the best
during the month I also want to just say thank you to our social worker it's uh social worker appreciation month and um you know I know president or uh trusty Barry talked about bullying and we have a bullying committee and other things with the social workers under uh Mr
saley Dr RAB bazy Gates and all the team that work very hard uh in supporting our students supporting our community uh with the increase in mental health issues and other things we're having so we do appreciate their hard work and dedication I'm now going to call up um
my next item is on the Google platform in third party applications and I have Mr Addie and Mr kenberg that are going to come up to the podium we have a brief uh presentation thank you Dr moo ladies and gentlemen from the Board of Education
and citizens here tonight um I'm Bob Adam the director of instructional technology and with me is Chris kenberg the supervisor of networks and assistant to the regional manager and with us today like that we want to talk a little bit about what
we use technology for so there are different state standards that we're able to utilize like the mych standards and the um Michigan computer science standards with the mych standards these are written in grade bands so that we
have Early Elementary upper elementary middle school and high school and it's the same seven standards across the different bands and so what happens is as kids are learning about digital citizenship this this is integrated into their science
social studies and core subject uh areas as well as their extended core subjects it's designed to integrate so that s uh students are able to kind of learn a little bit about how technolog is used do some projects where they're able to do Cooperative learning and work with
one another to better understand these with the Michigan computer science standards these are other uh standards that we have as well too that are also K12 but they're written into seven age bands so you've got Early Elementary
Upper Elementary there's middle school and then there's two bands with high school as well too with the computer science standards it's written into two parts there's uh five standards and what happens is there's the knowledge part paper and app U being able to know what
happens with everything and then there's the Practical doing part where students are actually coding and using programs and constructing algorithms these are part of the Michigan Merit curriculum and so it's part of our graduation requirements to have these
standards with the curriculum and so as we focus on the curriculum there are different tools that we use one of those being our Google platform as well too in order to provide a safe learning environment for students we take our security very seriously and so what I'm
going to do now is turn it over to Chris to talk a little bit about network security so um in order to meet typ of compliance um we deploy uh uh what's called DNS filtering uh districtwide any device that connects to our Network here
on premise uh would be would fall under the DNS filtering um and then every Chromebook that goes home with the children has an extra layer of uh protection with URL filtering so it's a little bit more precise uh there's there's different
things that we we we are more restrictive with student students than uh general staff and um a a big topic right now is data security uh data breaches where is the student data going um we've taken the stance that as a
district we um only allow the educationally relevant websites and tools that we use that are approved by uh the curriculum department and some of the other uh educational needs so um by
default if a student tries to go to a website and sign up for a service using their Google account that is uh normally blocked um and then when it comes to YouTube and streaming um we we are heavily restricted in terms of uh video
access uh our preferred platform is YouTube and uh we deploy like a safe search as well as uh like an approval process so even within the Google uh YouTube safe search results um almost uh
every other video in there someone has physically like reviewed it and approved it and so keeping a safe environment for students one of the major changes that's taken place this year is the ability to have third-party applications and have
parents choose to opt in or opt out and this is something that came fairly recently in uh January 202 before there was talk because of uh CA and everything like that where basically parents have the right to look at student privacy like that and determine what's in their
kids' best interest with data protection so Google has enacted that parents can opt in or opt out for third part uh certain thirdparty applications so we did send a notice to parents to inform them of these changes that took place now as of January 2025
like that some of the major Services third party applic that were being impacted would be YouTube Google News Google Earth Google translate and Google Maps so what can happen is if a parent opts out of using these Services Chris
and my network team are going to be able to opt them out so they won't be able to access them and everything what will happen though is if a teacher chooses to use Google Earth to show here's Dearborn Michigan on the map the teacher will be able to show it through his or her account like that but the student will
not be able to access anything through through that means and families that opt out their children will not have access to those supplemental apps but um what we're going to plan to do is to have the opt out as part of the enrollment process going forward like that so it's
going to be consistent every year like we do with the photography waiver and as a tech team right there we really look at our resources and how we utilize our technology and one of the things that we do is we reduce to the extent that technology is used testing
and accessing curriculum platforms we have it available for students to be able to use because we never know what's going to happen during the the course of a school day where we might have a partial closure where one building has to switch from in-person instruction to digital instruction so what we do during
that time is students are able to access their Benchmark Ela resources or their math great minds resources or science amplify resources so what we've tried to do is to make sure that we provide the best curriculum resources easiest access that's safe and secure for all of our
students and give parents that opportunity to look at what they want to do with the third party applications so that's all we had to really share today we just we're going to see if there's any questions from the board trusty Barry okay
so I mean under safe search how can you convince me as a parent that it's safe for my son or daughter to go on there I mean I I know I heard say that you know that we look at all videos before we approve them but students won't be able
to go out on their own on YouTube or how does that work great question on that one and so what we have we have two protocols in place we have a firewall that helps to protect for certain types of traffic and we also have different filters that are in place um
so uh in in regards to the videos that are approved so a student at home on their own devices is going to be it's going to be open to the whatever is out there AB on the school devices uh that is limited and um you know when videos
are made known to us we we we can block them that would be like specific URL blocking or through the YouTube app okay so you mentioned YouTube and a couple other apps what other apps are part of this
and I guess the follow-up question to that is moving forward is there any more apps that would be coming at us because every day things are changing we know that that's a great question so right now we were going through what apps Google has identified
there's approximately 23 apps that are out there that's it well there's a lot more apps that are out there but what we what Chris was explaining before is what we do is we've allowed certain ones to have access to and there's ones that are not used at all in any way shape or form
all those are off so no one's been using those in the district of the ones that we've identified there's about 23 that are accessible and the major ones we kind of named right there I'll be able to update uh board briefs and share the the exact list like that so I'm a
student in the district and my parents decide to opt me out but I have a Gmail account that I use how does that work do I get locked out of that Gmail account or the good part is you don't get locked out of the Gmail account so you'll still have access to that but if you were to
try to search YouTube videos you would not be able to go and do that at this time the Gmail and uh the Google SES are all okay like that or the um your Gmail Google Docs Google Sheets those are all okay Google Classroom all the
educational the core Google services would still be available to the student even if the parent opts out I I guess you know we're all in support of I know the new world you know not going into we've been in you know technology but uh still a little scary for for parents uh
how about a personal information where does that go I mean we're giv we're putting it out there that names and addresses and email addresses and good question on that one so there's different things and how we have
everything set up full good questions to you I'm just scared this is scary stuff well I mean when you look at um there was information out there uh Mr wall shared with us earlier about 82% of districts have experienced some type of a cyber security incident within the
last couple years like that so it's we look at this as something we want to protect data so there's a couple of different ways that we look at this so with Google and everything like that we put in the bare minimum like that like names and student ID numbers like that we don't put in any Social Security numbers or anything like that is there
an email address that so we we would have the email address in there for the student email address so student email address student ID number first and physical address no the home address and keep in mind uh elementary students they cannot receive emails from outside so it's pretty much teacher and student uh
it's only when they reach high school level that they are able to because they're applying for colleges those kinds of things that they can email outside of the sure sure now we know with I mean I'm sure you're aware that the big breach few years ago and I don't
know something like 62 million students information was out there and that's still in court so not too much information G out but we know with third parties I mean just us being on social media they're collecting data they're using that information to predict what we're thinking then they turn around and
sell that data so when you say Elementary student they can't receive emails but somebody's following them until they get to high school now in Middle School do they receive emails they I I believe they're able to receive yeah from select uh vendors uh
for uh like uh job planning those kinds career planning Services uh it's more limited at the middle school and then it it opens up in the high school that's the scary part yeah okay thank you that's all I go trusty
POF okay to piggy back on a lot of these questions we got a lot of concern as soon as the Google opt out came out recently because it kind of came out of left field and people thought it you know why why now and what's going on
here um number one the opt out wasn't an opt out of the complete Digital World it was only of specific third- party vendors through Google do we need to even have access to those can we
continue to fulfill our obligations of um educating our students with and just making none of that available to any of the students rather than asking parents to opt in or opt out can we find another
way to provide that information without having to use that so uh what what can happen right there is if a teacher assigns an assignment on Google Earth to locate stuff and you want students to go on there students would have access to that
what the other option would be is if the teacher demonstrates it from his or her account as well too so I could demonstrate Google Earth the problem is like with Google translate if students are using those Services they would not be able to translate their documents into their native language like that I
guess what I'm asking is is can we rethink some of our curriculum do we need to use Google Translate and Google Earth is there another way to educate our students without having to um hold these types of
um applications as the form formulation to educate them with I I understand the importance of our kids being Tech savy because we can't put the genie back in the bottle this is what the real world is going to
look like for them as they go out in the adult world and they need to um understand how to use it um wisely and and to um what the variations
are but possibly we can try to relook at some of our curriculum and not have to waigh so heavily on um some of these uh applications and because my
understanding is is if those parents who opt out are opting out we have to give them another option in order to to give them that information anyhow because they have to be on an equal footing educationally so maybe we need to
rethink how much of it we rely upon if it's already something that is causing consternation and the opt out from Google doesn't seem to be impacting those things that we really need them to have access to and can we find a
workaround and another way of of doing some of this educational experience that doesn't require it so everybody's kind of opted out I'm just saying maybe we need to find a balance and make sure that we give the students what they need
so that they're technologically savvy enough that we're not sending them out into the world unprepared that they understand how to use it but that we don't rely so much upon some of those things if we already know that Google is saying hey you know
what you got to opt in or opt out anyhow because we know that we're vulnerable to a lawsuit at some point down the road if something happens with your child's information I'm just saying maybe we
need to continue to review this process and see if there's a way to find the right fit I think that's right I could definitely bring that to instructional cabinet for discussion and we could definitely examine that in terms of the resources that we're using and see uh
what's the best fit like that definitely and it's kind of an interesting position that we're in right now because of this Google sign in because in the past we've been accused of stifling and not allowing that data to just leave our
district and it creates a problem because teachers they might see a new tool and they want to use it and and typically we're telling them no because we we review what types of data they're asking for when they want access to our
Google sign-ins and our Google Drives and those kinds of things and so a lot of times we deny them and so we as a district we're taking the approach of trying to scale that back to just the the the tools that we need for the instruction kind of in line with what
you were just mentioning okay great uh Dr M you want to say something yeah so I just wanted to comment I think we can do exactly that we could look at the 30 party apps look at which ones are more critical and which ones may or may not through the instructional because they will have instructional implications depending on what it is I would say this
too I think uh I've see it and you know all districts but not just District businesses are constantly under attack and their team is doing a great job and I know the board's received updates sometimes and they and we have taken those conservative approaches I think we were one of the first sixes right away
we moved on two-factor authentication and we often will get complaints from whether it's it's students or staff or people in the district why can't I access this why can't we access and we say no and part of the reason we're saying no to different things like our VPN and I don't want to give away all
your behind the scenes uh but we get a we get requests for VPN and we're denying it because we don't want expose the district to to problems we will get emails that will come in and they do a good job at then blocking them or getting them off the network as soon as what they're identified so I think we've
taken more of a conservative approach um to protect the students and so when the complaints they a lot a lot of times I get the email complaint and I send it over to them and they answer and they respond and um it's a regular thing I get but we are taking that stance that no we're not going to say yes to some of
these things because we're protecting our students and protecting staff and I I I totally agree I even though I am I do technology development for a living but I do see the harms of too much Tech
and that's something that we definitely want to visit because I believe the best and optimal instruction is by the teacher doing teaching analog not letting a
computer software teach students so the more that we can move away from software and get back to the basics of the teacher in front of the students teaching is better research has shown that um so uh we can definitely utilize
technology when it's feasible exams assessments but definitely instruction would love to see our district to be a leader in in saying we going to do it the analog way which is the safest way when it comes
then to technology and things well I wasn't exactly saying going to throw the baby out with the bath water I think we still need to um have our students um be Adept at technology and understanding all of the
um implications of how of of the best of it I just want to make sure that we don't have so much that were not paying attention to um getting that balance uh
of uh integration between your your Basics and what they're going to need in the real world because the real world they're going to have to understand AI they're going to have to understand how how how to I'm not saying we disconnect that completely for sure um we but we do
definitely want to go back to using the computer as a tool rather than the teacher as the teacher right um and uh I've attended a webinar uh recently that I believe all of you were forwarded the
webinar recording where the attorney is talking about tech company iies utilizing these softwares to monitor students and to collect data and that is very concerning for me so uh would like to keep this discussion coming and um
jel jmi you have something to add on this so I heard the word fine balance so I've done cyber security I've managed Technologies uh I work for the Department of Health which you know
Hippa PCI all the all kind of information so we have to differentiate between the data and protecting the data and how we're teaching our kids if we're talking about um technology is here it's
not going away we cannot and I'm not saying anyone is saying that but technolog is here but I agree in the sense of how we teach our kids not to rely as on technology to babysit them that's that's something I agree with now
with regard to data you have a lot of different systems whether it's I ready weeda uh mstep myar those contain data and those are at risk so what are we going to stop using all
those different Technologies data um there's always going to be a tax and the Google of the world probably has more armies of cyber security um people than anybody now the one thing that we we want to make sure is how they're using
our data we want to make sure we have a legal um something legal that tells us how they're using our data as far as limitting uh the systems it's really how you use the system versus but if if you
want to limit the system that means you can't do weeda you can't do I you can't do all that um and you're always going to have risks of data people are trying to penetrate uh systems and I saw I know you have uh input protection that you
were going to talk to us later on and so on uh fortigate so my point is there has to be a middle ground but we cannot let fear because right now I feel like we're um there's a
fear people are putting the fear on all of us and I seen the the webinar truste was I seen the video and I'm still in question what at technology or at Tech is what's
their not motive motive is a bad word but what is it that they're trying to help us with I'm still very confused is a third- party company are they looking to help us Sue are they looking to provide a service
are they looking to give us counseling I'm I'm still really confused I saw the video they're very talented but I'm still not sure and I emailed you uh Bob I'm still not sure what their um objective is but we cannot let fear
Drive um technology away but to what the rest of the board said we want to make sure that technology does not become the you know the security blanket for the teachers or for somebody to say okay go on on on the laptop and just do whatever
you need to to do so it's a balance absolutely more discussions to have trust yeah I don't have any disc you should definitely ban all standup comedy 100% make sure nobody can watch that stuff um I would like to ask you
president MOS if we could suspend the rules and maybe take like a five minute recess so anyone who wants to break their fast can do that real quick and we'll be right back question oh sure sure and then we as I was listening uh yeah we don't want fear to be the big factor here but here the Q&A you sent us
MH one of the questions that stood off for me is can my child share information with others using Google work space for Education Els it says we may allow students to do that I would imagine at the middle school definitely the high school you want them to engage in conversation with something but the
example that was used here is a student can share a picture with the classmate and we know with Google once you put something out there it's there it's not going anywhere and we know know with 12y old and 13y old boys sometimes they get a little
foggy and they do things where I mean where's that going what's the protection there well there's a there's a few different things that we can do so we have like with certain emails and everything like that there's a a part where we can actually go and review them and everything like that so if there's certain key words that are in there and
everything like that we get uh the principles will get notices and everything like that that gets flagged and then with uh pictures and stuff like that we have fault and everything like that so if there's something that's a concern that's out there we can always go and pull those back you can I mean
you said there going to be somebody montoring how do you do that well how can you pull it back when it's out in out on the world now on Google with uh as long as it's within the district domain we're able to pull it back and everything like that as long as it just you know if I send it to my personal
email address and everything like that or want to send there that can be retracted and everything like that but that's the thing like that like if it goes out past that and everything to a private one we can't so by the time you find out about it it's already out there and somebody saved it someplace T
typically like a a photo shared would be on a social media or something and that's typically done outside of the school perview and that's fine outside the school yeah um but when it comes to like sharing like I guess I interpreted
what you were saying as maybe like sharing like a Google doc or something no no absolutely not I'll spot it out I I have a nasty picture and I send it to one of my classmates yeah and it's out there and somebody saves it someplace before we flag it that's possible that is possible so
yeah I mean yeah we don't want to deal with fear of everything but we we've seeing what kids are capable of doing just on social media you know Tik Tok and everything else can I just ask if that were to happen it'd be like we would Implement our student code of
conduct on students whether it's technology or not we're going to make sure that we're you know too late no I know done you know and I know now in today's the day and age of Technology but someone could technically pass something around the school or something that's inappropriate and we would still
Implement yeah but it's it's on our equipment now it's in the schools it's in our district yeah I mean there's the liability there too sure absolutely I mean once I mean we just had a case recently thank you I don't if she's still here M she did a wonderful job there I mean
where we caught it and deleted everything and we moved on but this when he goes out to the Google sure there is no coming back so okay just yeah yeah t typically that gets distributed through snapchat or texting those types of apps
it it no but those are personal apps that the students are doing on their own in their houses or maybe on lunchtime or whatever I'm concerned here and I guess I don't know who I think I heard over there like why now why are they pushing so hard with this is eventually going to be making money
off of us not that I'm aware of like that it's just there's a federal law that's what prompted this the there's a federal law that set a date in March and so Google is meeting that requirement uh for I believe it's for
the yeah third party apps so it was a federal law that started this it was not something that just kind of came out of the blue and so they're forcing us to con uh to confirm uh to get the third party access it was not something that uh they just
kind of did on their own the other thing I just want to mention too because we know and we've had the bullying committee and we're going to have a a presentation coming up in April we know cyber building and all that's out there we will still even if it's apps that have nothing to do with us but if it's our students engaging we will still intervene on you know in inappropriate
posts on these other you know whether it be Facebook or Instagram or SnapChat or these other things we've had to intervene you know really quick s and then we'll no I I think doing technology for such a long
time so you have the technology but then you put restriction so for example the Chromebook they shouldn't go to Facebook they should not go to any of these Junior High kids Elementary School they should not have email addresses in my opinion so I'm just kind of uh so
there's these tools have restrictions that prevent them from doing uh damage even at work there's things I can't do I can't use chat AI at work they limit that so there's things that you could
limit to make sure based on what the you know the trustees had mentioned we we're not saying um to just let the kids do whatever they want put the proper restrictions and work with Google to make sure our data is not used
but that's all I'm saying well thank you again thank you appreciate it appreciate it uh we will take a 5 minute or 7 minutes break and we'll be back thank