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Miss Perez, please lead us in the flag. I pledge alce 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.

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>> Okay, let's get back. The New Jersey Open Public Meetings Law was enacted to ensure the right of the public to have advanced notice and to attend um attend the meetings of the public bodies at which any business affecting

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their interest is discussed or acted upon. In accordance with the provision of the act, the Portland Board of Education has caused notice of this meeting to be published on February 18, 2026, posted on the district's website, www.fe.com,

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published in the board's designated online media outlet newspaper, the record and the star ledger files to clerk of the bureau of Fortly, and mailed to all persons, if any, who have requested said notice. Please be advised that this meeting is being recorded and

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may be broadcasted on local TV and online at a future date. The public open public meeting has allows for participation at board meetings and has designed meetings as any gathering wheal or by means of communication equipment which is attended by or open to all of

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the members of a public body. held with the intent on the part of the members of the public of the body present to discuss or act as a unit upon the specific public public

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body. So sorry everyone roll please uh miss Kang is absent. Miss Curry >> here >> Mr. Goslin is absent. Miss Coang is currently absent. Mr. Lopez is absent. Mr. Manning >> here.

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>> Miss Perez >> here. >> Miss Richtor >> here. >> Miss Mor >> here. >> The board will be convening to executive session to discuss legal personnel and other confidential matters. The board will reconvene into public session at

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approximately 7:30. May I have a motion to go into executive? >> Motion. >> Motion. Curry. Second. Perez. All in favor? >> Any abstensions? >> Any opposed? We're now in

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the public to have advanced notice and to attend the meetings of public bodies at which any business affecting their interest is discussed or acted upon. In accordance with the provision of the act, the Portland Board of Education has caused notice of this meeting to be

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published on February 18, 2026, posted on the district's website, www.fle.com, published in the board's designated online media outlet, newspaper, the record, and the star ledger filed with the clerk of the bureau of portly and

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mailed to all persons, if any, who have requested said notice. Please be advised that this meeting is being recorded and may be broadcasted on local TV and online at a future date. The Open Public

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Meeting Act allows for participation at board meetings and defines meetings as any gathering whether caporeal or by means of communication equipment which is attended by or open to all of the members of a of a public body and held

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with the intent on the part of the members of the body present to discuss or act as a unit upon the specific public business of that body. Roll call, please. Miss Buyers Kang >> here. >> Miss Curry >> here.

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>> Mr. Goslin >> here. >> Miss Cotang >> here. >> Mr. Lopez >> here. >> Thank you. Mr. McMan >> here. >> Miss Perez >> here. >> Miss Rtor >> here. >> Miss Morell >> here.

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>> The board convened executive session at 6:30 today to discuss legal personnel and other confidential matters. Miss Palazo, will you begin by sharing the superintendent's report? >> Yes, my pleasure. Good evening everyone, board members, those that are listening

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online and those that are in public. Um, today uh I'm pleased to introduce Winong Kim from Fort Le High School and he's here to share updates of the many activities that um are going on at the high school.

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On Wednesday, June 3rd, Albert Lanos and Sean Simmons, survivors at the Cedan Hall University dormatory fire, will present their after the fire program to our senior class. Sponsored by the four-week fire department, this powerful presentation will focus on fire safety on college campuses, the importance of

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responsible decision-m, perseverance in the face of adversity, and valuable life lessons learned through their experience. The program serves as an important opportunity for students to gain insight into personal responsibility, resilience, and safety as they prepare for life beyond high

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school. Gangun Jason met students and researchers from around the world and presented his research at the International Science and Engineering Fair in Phoenix, Arizona. He earned two special awards. Third place of $500 from American Mathematics Society and the

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second place award of $1,000 from New Alpha Data. Congratulations. Fortley High School's Academy of Finance earns prestigious national Catherine Blic distinguished recognition. Fortley High School's Academy of Finance has been awarded the National Academy of Finance

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Catherine Blinguish recognition in for 2026 NAF's highest level achievement. This designation is given to a select cohort per distinguished level on NAF's annual assessment exhibiting strong fidelity to

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a design that prepares students for success in college and careers. This recognition celebrates the incredible teamwork that drives our academy success. Our students, teachers, businesses, and community partners make this achievement possible every day. On

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May 21st, students from Courtley High School who are in all levels of chemistry participated at the chemistry Olympics sponsored by NJ. There were three teams composed of 10 students competing against 13 other schools across the US. Each team picked

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four of these events and researched and prepared for presentation, build a website, build a molecule or practice the lab. Students prepared these projects entirely on their own and were advised by three coaches. Miss Constantinova, Miss Corso, and Miss Ag.

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The team won two special awards. First place, website design, spread of chemical waste in a environment by Abigail Lyn and Lauren. Third place, microscale lab, bioplastic millers, human impact on the acre environment by

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Salma Almala, Karine Ala, Uni Choke, and Adri. Congratulations to all students and cookies on these well-deserved. Circle the arts events was held this past Friday, May 29th, and showcased our students districtwide through music,

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theater, and art. It was a great success. While the spring sport season is coming to a close, we want to wish good luck the Fort Le baseball team as they travel to Rambo High School Wednesday, June 3rd to play the semi-final round of state park.

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Congratulations to John Walsh, Christian Burton, Frankie Beserto, and Alex for making it to competing at the state group championships this weekend as part of the courte. Frankie has qualified for the final round of the state tournament, the NJSIA

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state league of champions, and will compete this Wednesday, June 4th. Good luck. Thank you. >> Thank you, man. Thank you, too. There's so many great things happening at the high school and across the district. And in our next meeting, we will have students from the middle school joining

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us um to share activities that are going on there. I do want to um congratulate all the staff um the Miss Kim, the art teachers, the students um that performed and had their work displayed at Circle the Arts. Um it was such a wonderful

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event and I was really it was so proud for me um that night because it was just the performances just get better and better every year. So I was just really really um proud of our kids and and it was such a great community and then so many people came out. So um just wanted

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to congratulate all of them. Uh since our last meeting the district has reported seven HIV cases. Of those one case was founded, six were unfounded. All security and fire drills for the month of May were completed. Um as well as our bus drills for the second

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reporting period of the school year. Um they were completed in accordance with state law. And now I would like to transition to our presentation on the strategic plan. So I'm just going to stand over there. Thank you. So I'm really thrilled to be presenting

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our strategic plan tonight. This has been um a year in the making and I'm proud to say that I'm finally here to give somewhat of a highlevel view of our plan but it will be posted on our

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district website. It's called plan on a page along with this presentation. Uh this strategic plan reflects uh the feedback from um not just staff but parents, community members, board

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members. Um and really it took um some time to listen, gather all of the comments um from the community in order to identify our district priorities. And so that is what I'm here to talk about

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tonight. And while the the title is 2025 to 2028, that's because the process started in 2025. Uh I'm happy to report that we've able to make we have been able to make some movement this this year, but the majority of the work will begin in the 26th 27th school year. And

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it really does speak to building on our strengths because we're already very proud of so much that happens in Fort Lee uh while also planning for the future. Next slide, please. So strategic planning was something that was very important to the community,

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very important to the board. And it is important to have a strategic plan because a strategic plan allows a school district to have a shared vision. It's not just the administration's vision, but it encompasses the feedback from the

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board, from parents, from staff. And so together, all of that feedback is what really provided the foundation for this plan. It also helps a school district identify priorities because we need to

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know where we're going. And so for all of us, we can now begin to move forward with identifying exactly what it is that we're going to be able to do to take Fort Lee into the future. Um it is a sign that the community that the district that the board is responding to

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feedback. It is going to allow us to build consistency across schools because the goals are not building specific. The goals are for our entire district and also it allows us to actually create very clear action steps that help us

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guide the work. So the action steps that we created are very are specific um and they are in line with our goals and our objectives. Next slide please. So this was our process back in the spring of 2025. We started the data

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review and feedback. For those of you that remember, we completed a number of community presentations where we shared data from our school district. We called that presentation the state of the schools and we did a number of thought exchanges with different stakeholder

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groups. Uh from there we set goals based on the overarching themes that were emerging from all of the feedback that was collected. Then there was board and community discussion in August. The firm that the board engaged to assist with

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the strategic planning process came in August and they shared the goals and the objectives and from there um admin the administrative team developed action steps. We also sought feedback from from the board and now we are ready to

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present um some of those action steps and we're ready for implementation and ongoing review. And the reason why we have ongoing review there is because this is a living breathing document. Um we don't often know what may come across between now and 2028. We may have to

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change course. We may accomplish goals sooner rather than later. So, we're going to have to do a review um regularly each year to determine where we are in the strategic planning process, what we may need to adjust to

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move forward. Next slide, please. So, out of all of the feedback that was collected, there were very four there were four clear themes that emerged and they were communication and that was one of them. And every stakeholder group

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pretty much said that they really had a desire for stronger communication and improved accessibility, meaning simplifying how we send out information to families, how we collect information to families. Um that was very very

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important. Also, security and safety emerged as another theme to ensure that our students are being provided with safe, secure, and wellsupported learning environments. Uh, school climate and culture was another theme that emerged

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and teacher recruitment and development. How do we help support, grow, and retain our talented educators in our district? So those were the four clear themes that emerged as a result of the feedback.

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Next slide. Once we had those themes, it helped us structure our strategic plan to develop goals. And so from those themes, we identified four goals that we would

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accomplish in the strategic plan for the communication. It was to enhance parents, staff and community involvement for security and safety. The goal was to ensure and safety and security in our

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schools. Our third goal relating to school climate and culture is to foster a supportive and nurturing environment for students and staff. And our fourth goal under the theme of teacher recruitment

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and development is to attract, retain and support highquality educators. So these were the four goals that provided the foundation for our strategic plan. Next slide please. So as I stated at the beginning, we went

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from goal setting to developing objectives and action steps. So I'm going to now go through each of those goals. um the objectives within those goals and some of the action steps that we came up with. Um so under goal one to

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enhance parent, staff and community involvement. Um our focus areas are to improve and streamline communication systems. We heard that you know parents have to go to class dojo. They go to school messenger or Genesis parent

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portal. And so we heard that from the community and we also heard that from the staff. And so that's going to be something that we will move forward with working on um to increase stakeholder engagement going above and beyond in terms of how we reach out to families

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and make them partners with us and the community um as well as our staff and then to expand collaboration opportunities, collaboration with our parents, collaboration with our community. for the action steps that we came up

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with. Um, we are looking at updating our website and communication platforms to almost make a one-stop shop for our families and for our educators. We are looking at increased PTA collaboration and offering school information sessions

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to our parents. We are looking to increase our parent university offerings and also offering community forums for parents to come or community members to come um in a forum in a more forum setting to share their ideas to ask

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their questions and also to enhance districtwide and school-based engagement opportunities. Next slide please. Goal two to ensure safety and security in our schools. Our focus areas were to

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take a look at our security staffing and our protocols, to take a look at our infrastructure improvements. So, our cameras, um, our doors and and our key fob systems and so on and so forth. Uh, and to take a look

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at our safety, culture, and preparedness. The action steps that are aligned with that is to ensure that we're doing an annual review of our district safety plans. um to ensure that we have a comprehensive assessment of camera coverage and supervision. And

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we've been working on that this school year to engage in emergency response coordination. So, um more than once to meet with our emergency response um officers and to communicate to have

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to have um briefing sessions um after our drills and to ensure that there's ongoing staff and stu student safety training throughout the year. So, rather than having one training session to make sure we're doing it throughout the year.

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Next slide, please. Goal three is to foster a supporting and nurturing environment for students and staff. And this is um this supports social emotional learning as well as ensuring a rigorous academic uh program

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for students and it also includes staff wellness as well as um student wellness. The action steps that we will take is to conduct quarterly review of climate attendance and student support data. This is something that we've started to

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embark on this year, particularly with our um attendance and our chronic absenteeism action plans to continue to work on our MTSS and INRS practices, but to move more towards the of the direction of more consistent um

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protocols to ensure that students are getting support services um as needed. Uh research and planning for support ports. So taking a look at our social emotional learning programs across the district and how can we ensure

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articulation K12 and to expand our wellness and support resources for students and staff. Uh we started this year we we brought we did bring back the staff wellness um the wellness fair which was a success and we're already having discussions of how to make it better next year. But just to give you

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again just a high level view of some of the action steps that we will be accomplishing for this goal. um are on this slide. Next slide, please. And finally, goal four, to attract, retain, and support high-quality educators. This is something, this was a goal that we

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heard throughout our entire community with our staff, uh with our parents, and it was really important to have this reflected in the strategic plan. And so, how do we plan on doing that? Well, to ensure that we continue to offer um

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quality professional growth and collaboration, to ensure that our expectations are consistent across schools and to also ensure that we're doing that we're celebrating the work that our educators are doing to celebrate the work that our staff is doing. And so that will look that will

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be done in a in a variety of formats, some of which will include more crosschool collaboration. We have four elementary schools. So we really want to ensure that students kind of get out of students that staff get out of their elementary schools and collaborate with one another. Um that staff from the

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middle school and high school collaborate with one another um to conduct instructional learning walks but just to have planning sessions together to enhance how we support and onboard our new staff. uh the development of instructional look for. So when we walk

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into classrooms to observe instruction to um what are we looking for and what does rigorous um education instruction look like and also to make sure that our staff have opportunities to highlight the innovative practices to give them

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leadership opportunities as well because we do have um you know staff that are looking to um seek administrative um they have administrative goals and so we want to ensure that we are keeping those staff members involved and giving them

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leadership opportunities. Next slide, please. So, as I said, that's a very that's a very high level plan with just some examples of some of the action steps, but what's really important to know is that there are key themes across the

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plan. So, a lot of what we looked at and what we discussed in accomplishing these goals was collaboration. There is a strong need to for families to collaborate with us to ensure that the homeschool connection is strong because

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we do recognize that we have to start working together and and we always aim to do that. Uh but we did have lots of conversations around that collaboration among the staff with the families and with the community. Consistency that was very um that shined through a lot in

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what we in the feedback that we gathered. So ensuring that there's consistency in our communication, consistency in our practices. Uh student centered support um ensuring that our students are receiving the best academic social emotional social emotional and

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wellness support. and ongoing improvement. So, always continuing to improve to enhance um as we move through this strategic plan. Next slide.

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And so, what's next? So, as I said stated before at the beginning of the presentation, the strategic plan serves as a road map about where we are going and what we're looking to do. Um it identifies our 26 27 priorities and

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beyond. Um it involves ongoing monitoring and that is really that's going to be very very important is to ensure that we are coming back to the table periodically throughout the year to talk about how attaining these action steps um are going. Um are we headed in

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the right direction? Are we seeing impact based on what we're doing? Do we need to adjust? Do we need to change course a little bit? And then community updates. So we understand and I understand as superintendent that accountability is a part of this. And part of that is ensuring that I keep the

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community informed, that I keep the board informed of our progress. We want to celebrate the good that we do. And there is so much good. There is so much good out there. And we also want to talk about what adjustments we're making to ensure transparency, to ensure that partnership that we've been talking

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about, and to also ensure clear communication. Next slide, please. So that's thank you in very big font. Um, but I just do uh want to express appreciation to everybody that participated in those thought exchanges.

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There was a lot of really great comments and what I got from that too was just a desire from the community to just want to continue to grow grow and be great. And I do want to say thank you um um to the board for their support through this

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process. Thank you to the staff for participating in it. Um and I do think that we are headed in the right direction with the strategic plan and we have some very clear goals um to keep moving us forward. So thank you Thank you, Superintendent Palazo, for

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your superintendent report and thank you to the students for their report on what's going on in um the high school. Do we have any committee or leaison reports? >> Just want to remind everyone that on

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June 26, there is a senior prom at the rec center for the senior town. and any high school students want to volunteer. Uh the senior center is still accepting volunteers. And also I would like to uh thank the music and creative and art

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teachers that Miss Cleanso mentioned the circuit arts. It was really fantastic. Uh there was a a lot of interesting things, a lot of high quality things. The students of all ages did a great job. So thank you to everyone who

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participated in circle art school. Congrats on uh that event as well. That was amazing. Um and thanks for the child care. McKenzie grabbed Dian's hand and made her do five laps around the high school. So I appreciate it. Um

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congrats to uh Doug and Kristen for the Memorial Day parade and the BFW ladies on here. So that's why I'm bringing that up. So it was just a banger. Pretty awesome and a great job. Um, the other thing I just wanted to announce, happy Pride month. Uh, the Prism Club is

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holding their annual Pride event at the Fort Le uh recreation center down right over here on the left. Uh, so we hope you all can join us. Me and my family will be there 11 to 2 Saturday. And that's it. Happy.

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>> Yeah. I just want to mention that this Saturday um the Portland Library will be hosting the meet Fort Lee event um where um our community will be able to explore

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the many resources available to our community. They'll be able to connect with our representatives from our local organizations to get answers to questions and discover valuable services available. Thank you to Michelle Perez for the reminder of this and that event

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is, as I mentioned, this Saturday from 11:00 to 1:00. Thank you. >> Chamber of Commerce had a local game this past week against a neighboring chamber. It was a great way to do some networking and also have a lot of fun.

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There's also an upcoming event on >> uh they stopped keeping score. We we won the first game. I know because I pitched we won by quite >> June 10th there's also a lightning

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chamber event forly hack sack terfly and Tina all getting together at least you can contact me if you need a spelling of that say restaurant in the area but it's a great way uh to meet not

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only people from our chamber but a few other chambers so anybody looking to anybody considering joy changes. We will talk one more >> the communications and public relations committee met representatives of law

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communications to discuss communications initiative for the district including their vision for public based communication consistency across schools cadence and highlighting student achievement. The committee also discussed the district website modern

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modernization project with the focus on improving application and streamlining information for families between uh superintendent said uh this is the first study to come forward.

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Thank you. >> But I just want to congratulate the Asian student alliance at the Foley High School for an outstanding another outstanding AAPI cultural night. Um thank you Miss Yun, Mr. Mal, Miss Lee,

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and Miss Kim um for helping the student put together an outstanding program. If you have not been to one, you have missed it, but worry not. Next year they'll be back. So make sure you go see them. um at least once um I also want to

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thank all the community members in Wii who contribute to the scholarship. It is outstanding. We all we go to these event every year and we forget that it's not normal what we what this community come together to support when we come

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together to support the students we come in draws. Um, so I just want to highlight that this this is really amazing for this community to support our students and that and Kristen did an amazing job as always with the memorial

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parade. So bravo. >> Okay, that was really good. Okay. So, before we go into public, we have three walk-ins. >> Uh, for the walk-ins number 4B will be be it resolved that the Fort Le

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Board of Education hereby disenrolls the following non-resident student from Fort Le public schools. That will be uh 4B 5B the same thing that the Fort Lee Board of Education hereby disenrolls the

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following non-resident student from the Fort Le public schools and 6B also uh resolved that the Fort Lee Board of Education hereby disenrolls the following non-resident student from the Fort Le public school.

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>> Thank you, Mr. Stone. I'm going to back up just a little bit. Do any members have any comments on tonight's agenda? None. >> Okay. Okay. So, moving forward. Can I have a motion to open public? >> Motion second.

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>> Motion. >> Rtor. Motion. Rtor. Second. Cotang. All in favor? Any opposed? Any extensions? If anybody wishes to speak, please come

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up to the mic. Uh, state your name and your address for the record and begin your comment. Participants are limited to three minutes in which to make their statements. >> Good evening.

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Junior topics. Um I want to talk a little bit about the special ed parents advisory group. Um the next meeting this academic year is on um June 10th. RSVP uh for this one is

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required. So you can only have up to 30 attendees. There's going to be a flyer that's going to be coming out. U so please fly. Anybody is interested. They can contact Priy who's currently the president of the special advanced project group. Um before June 6th, this

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meeting will be a social event. There'll be pizza painting uh painting kits for adults. Child care will be will be provided free of charge. It'll be at the middle schooling from 7 to 8:00 p.m. Also, the special group,

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they're still accepting applications for leadership positions. Those interested please um contact or Dr. directly thanks in leadership position right um also you know can't sign up

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without talking soon so once again I'm just asking the board just to have a dialogue and open session you know I like I think as you know talk about communication plan is we'd like to know how each board

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member feels about the zoom anonymous decision or you know majority But I think the public has a right to know is a how to get back to basically you know

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you know forgive the zoom and just do the live stream and also why it thank you >> thank you for your comments Tom Hunter wrote port le um I wanted to also touch on the zoom there's been many

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parents who have spoken to me about wanting to be able to come on Zoom and they have a lot to say to you guys. And in terms of what a superintendent just said and wanting stakeholders and more opinions and more input, it seems like

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the whole Zoom thing just, you know, is the complete opposite of that. So money where the mouth is is more like Zoom should be happening. But my main point is I know a lot of times you speak often about the social emotional learning. So

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I've been studying that a little bit and in the I know it's the CASEL that wants this brought in but in 68 reviews of SEAL learning they found no top tier benefit or studies done. Only one in the

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68 used a second tier benefit. Um and every single study was weak, especially with transformative SEAL in particular. Um that they've tried to implement critical race theory, DEI initiatives, gender roles, ideologies,

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values that don't align with the core message of what we're trying to do in school, which is teach reading, writing, arithmetic, and um you know, the scores have seemed to me to have gone down. Now, I think

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last year maybe we brought it up a little bit in certain groups. I was looking at the charts though. I I just wish we would really go back to core learning. Bang for buck. I think that's where you're going to get the most out of it. Especially like what I always

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say, the phonics using paper and a pen. I know we're going electronic, but there is a lot of good brain data on using cursive and writing on paper that can help these kids who are super inundated with electronics. The other thing was

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when Navvian was first brought in, I was the one person who stood up publicly in the whole meeting and said this is going to be a data harvest. Well, now there's a lawsuit. I guess all the kids from Fort Lee from the year 2021 through 2026

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are involved in the alleged data leaks and just what has been done by the school to notify all these parents or has something been sent out to the parents because not only did they share data, they shared student IDs, private

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texts between parents and teachers. Um the lawsuit is really extensive. So to me that's a real issue of concern like have we changed that? are we using something else? Um, and also all the career surveys were shipped overseas and

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data harvested. So, I I found that bad because it really just a child may seem one way in 9th grade, but they'll totally change by 12th grade and they just kind of data ship them into a little, you know, cubicle instead of more broad access. So, I was wondering

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what's done about that. >> Are those all of your questions? >> Yeah. Yes. >> Okay. So, in terms of navians, parents were notified. Okay. >> And they were given the instructions on what on next steps. Um and then as far

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as um your other questions regarding SEAL, it's you know, social emotional learning is bigger than than you know a mindfulness or a or a counseling session. Some of the things that we're looking at in in terms of that goal is

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also to take a look at our instructional rigor. Okay. to because when students are engaged uh then they're happier in school and a lot of that is how we deliver instruction >> and so we are going to be taking a look at that as part of the initiative. It's not necessarily just about the queso

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model but it's also our instruction and um particularly you know as our students go through go through um the K12 experience. Uh, but this is the strategic plan that came through loud and clear from the community um about

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what they wanted us to focus on and pay attention to and that's what we're responding to. >> All right. Okay. You're welcome. >> May I have a motion to close the floor to the public? >> Motion. >> Second. Motion

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Mr. Pass second Miss Coten all in favor. >> Any opposed? Any abstensions? Moving on to resolutions.

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May I have a motion to approve items 1B to 6B? >> Motion. >> Motion. Rita. Second. Second. Courage. Roll call, please. Miss Buyers Kang. >> Yes. >> Miss Curry. >> Yes.

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>> Mr. Goslin. >> Yes. >> Miss Coten. >> Yes. >> Mr. Lopez. >> Yes. But I but I stayain on 4B, 5B, and 6B. >> Mr. McTieran. >> Yes. >> Miss. Perez.

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>> Yes. >> Miss Richtor. >> Yes. >> Miss Moral. >> Yes. May I have a motion to approve items 1, B, and G? >> Motion. >> Motion. Richtor. >> Second. >> Second. Lopez.

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Roll call, please. >> Miss Buyers Kang. >> Yes. >> Miss Curry. >> Yes. >> Mr. Goslin. >> Yes. >> Miss Coten. >> Yes. >> Mr. Lopez. >> Yes. >> Mr. McTun. >> Yes. >> Miss Perez. >> Yes.

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>> Miss Richtor. >> Yes. >> Miss Morell. >> Yes. May I have a motion to approve one cur? >> Motion. >> Motion R. Second. Curry. Roll call, please. >> Miss Buyers K. >> Yes.

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>> Miss Curry. >> Yes. >> Mr. Goslin. >> Yes. >> Miss Coten. >> Yes. >> Mr. Lopez. >> Yes. >> Mr. McTieran. >> Yes. >> Miss Perez. >> Yes. >> Miss Rtor. >> Yes. >> Miss Morell. >> Yes. May I have a motion to approve

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items 1F to 23F? >> Motion Curry. Second. >> Second. Rita. Roll call, please. >> Miss Buyers Pen, >> yes. >> Miss Curry, >> yes. >> Mr. Goslin, >> yes. >> Miss Coten,

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>> yes. >> Mr. Lopez, >> yes. >> Mr. Mcan, >> yes. >> Miss Perez, >> yes. >> Miss Richtor, >> yes. >> Miss Morell, >> yes. May I have a motion to approve items 1 P to 10P? >> Motion.

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>> Motion Curry. Second. >> Second. Rita, roll call, please. >> Miss Buyers Ken, >> yes. >> Miss Curry, >> yes. >> Mr. Goslin, >> yes. >> Miss Coten, >> yes. >> Miss Perez, >> yes. >> Mr. Mcieran,

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>> yes. >> Miss Perez, >> yes. Did I screw something up there? >> Yeah. >> Yes. >> We'll fix it. >> Miss Recctor. >> Yes. >> Miss Morell? >> Yes. >> I think you might skip me on that.

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>> There you go. >> Mr. Lopez. >> Yes. >> Thank you. >> I love this board. Okay. May I have a motion to approve items one p? >> Motion.

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>> Motion Perez. Second. Copenang. Roll poll, please. >> Let's try this again. >> Miss Curry. >> Yes, >> Mr. Goslin. >> Yes, >> Miss Coten. >> Yes,

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>> Mr. Perez. >> Let's do it all over. >> All right. Everybody's looking at me. It's causing me to screw up. >> Mr. Lopez. >> Yes. >> Mr. McTinan. >> Yes. >> Miss Perez? >> Yes.

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>> Miss Richtor? >> Yes. >> Miss Morell? >> Yes. >> Moving on to old business. Anybody have any? It's not so much old business, but I

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just want to highlight um we be um that this is as as the election is coming up. Um I just hope that our community continue to bear in mind um we need advocacy for our for the polic for the

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policy makers to help us resolve a long-term reform to our healthcare um insurance premium issue. It is a significant issue facing uh not just our school district but New Jersey school district. So I just want to reemphasize.

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So thank you for adding this to our agenda. Um and I have a question for um Miss Kas. So thank you so much for the presentation on on our strategic plan. When we started this exercise um the

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elephant in the room wasn't an elephant yet. AI was never part of our thought. >> Um as it is now a much more prominent topic for our students and for the young people. Um I hope that that gets

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gets given to consider weight as well. It's cause you know obviously causing anxiety but it's also a tool that can be used by our students. So I just want to um bring that to uh to your attention that it is a topic in our household at least.

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Anyone else with old business? Okay, then I'm going to say something for old business first. I think our students for the circle the circle the of the arts cuz I was there was it it it blew my

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mind. It was so surreal. I mean, we're talking from kindergarten all the way up to seniors and and the talent that we have in our district um is is is astonishing and um they

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should, you know, all be applauded for for what they did. It it was just amazing. Also, I just want to thank Mr. Lopez and Miss Richter for what they did for the Memorial Day parade. Um, it was

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definitely um a a uh a challenge to get all of that together and put it just so that it runs like clockwork. So, kudos to both of you for

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doing that. Um, that's definitely something a love that you have when you do something like that for your community. So, I just wanted to say that >> this is Yes. So, moving on to new

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business. >> I just have something. Oh, go ahead. >> No. Um, so in the next few weeks, Holly is going to be sending out stuff to board members um evaluation that we have to complete. So, if anyone who hasn't done it before

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needs help with how you log in and do all that stuff, just reach out to Holly or me. We can help you. Um, I did want to announce that next Thursday from 6:00 to 7:00 p.m. in the Fort Le High School Media Center, I'll be hosting tea time with the superintendent in person. It's kind of

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like a little superintendent meet and greet. Even though I'm not new uh to the district, there might be families that might want to come out and just meet. Um, I'm really excited about it. Uh, I'm planning to have student moderators. Uh we are going to be sending out

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communication to families tomorrow uh also with a a QR code to complete a survey. So any questions you may have, we'll certainly funnel through them and pick out the the most common asked questions. But um to try to just um get

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the word out. I just wanted to announce it tonight. Um, but since I don't drink coffee and I know in many other districts they say coffee with the superintendent, I'm changing it to tea time with the superintendent to be a little bit more appropriate. But we will be serving coffee for for those coffee drinkers. So, I just wanted to announce

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it tonight to anybody who's listening. Um, and there will be uh communication coming out this this week. Can you just repeat the date again? >> June 11th, next Thursday, June 11th, from 6:00 to 7:00 p.m. in the high

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school media center. And I will have I definitely know of one student um that is going to be a moderator. You could probably figure out who who that's going to be, but um uh but we're looking for we're also still looking for another one. But I

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really did just want to announce it tonight to anyone who's listening in case you don't check your emails. 11 June 11th. >> Any other new business? So now I have some new business, too. First I want to say happy Pride Month. Love is

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definitely love. So I'm all about Pride Month. The second thing I want to do is I want um I had a wonderful weekend. I had a wonderful weekend because I did

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something that um very few people get to do in their lives. I had my 50th class reunion from Portland High School and um yeah and it was very surreal and

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it was very um it was very heartwarming and I just wanted to thank the um the reunion team for getting us all together. We came from all over the United States. Um,

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believe it or not, I think I was the only one from Portland. Um, typically said Anderson Avenue when they listed all the states. So, um, I just wanted to give a shout out to, uh, Len

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and Hal and Tony Anne and, uh, Mitch. Um, I know I'm leaving a lot of people out for for doing that. Um, I want to give a great shout out to our superintendent

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who was was kind enough um to do a walk through of the high school with them because to go back to where you were from 1976 was surreal. And everybody was amazed

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and they were going through the art room and and remembering, you know, our teachers, Mr. Hill and other people and Miss Russo and all these names that were just coming up to them. Do you remember when this teacher said this? And we

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didn't even have to go to home room for this. I hope no students are hearing this. Um, and it it was just wonderful for them to see to go back to the cafeteria and things like that. Big shout out to

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Johnny who because he's been with us for 20 or 30 years. >> 40 years. 40 years. Johnny has been with us that he was able to go back almost that far too and tell them, you know,

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well, they went into the band room, they went up, you know, on the on the stage. They hadn't been there in 50 years. Um, and then the last shout out and and definitely not the least was to Mayor

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Mark Slage for showing up at our gala that night and talking with us and just saying how wonderful it was. And yes, Mark, in four years it'll be your 50th, too. And um I they gave us all little things.

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So I showed this side of the room what I looked like in 1976. I will show the three of you what I looked like in 1970, but I got to tell you, I think I still look good. So, and on that note, that's

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the end of my new business. Anybody else have new business? Can I have a motion to adjurnn? >> Motion. >> Motion Ricker, second Curry. All in favor? I. >> Any opposed? Any abstensions? Good

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night, everyone.