Canelis if we can call roll. Miss Carousella here. Mr. Cohen. Mr. Corey here. Mr. Hayward here. Miss Parlamus here. Miss Randelle here.
Miss Stevenson here. Miss Calves here. Dr. Robinson here. We have a quorum. All right, Miss Parlamus, if we could have the flag [Applause] salute 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. Adequate notice of meeting in accordance with PL1 1975 chapter 231. Notice of
tonight's meeting was mailed to the record and the Ridgewood News on January 7th, 2025. Notice of this meeting was also mailed to the borrow clerk and was posted on the bulletin board of the board of education office in the administration building on the same date. Miss Carousella, are you able to
read the mission statement, please? Sure. The Glenrock School District, founded on principles of education in partnership with a supportive community, provides an exceptional education to all students to cultivate resilient, responsible, and
engaged global citizens. Thank you. All right, good everyone and welcome. Uh we have a couple of uh one presentation and a recognition tonight. We'd like to start with the Hamilton School
Departmentalization pilot presentation. And Miss Gomez, if you would come on up with your team. We do want to thank all of our teachers uh who came here tonight voluntarily. I was informed. Um so we do thank you and I
know the board is excited to hear um what your uh proposal is. So Miss Gomez, we'll turn it over to you. All right. Thank you. Good evening everyone. Thank you for having us. I'm Kristen Gomez, proud principal of Hamilton Elementary. I have my fifth grade team with me, Miss
Rebecca Glo, Miss Julie Thompson, and Miss Laura Febatoni. I also have Mrs. Nicole Hirs, who is Hamilton's intervention strategy coach. Thank you so much for having us here tonight to talk about our fifth grade departmentalization. Um, so to get started with our why, um,
this year was the first school year that Hamilton has three sections of fifth grade. Um, in prior years before we put the addition on the building, there were two sections. Um, when we added the new sections, we finally floated up to fifth grade this year. Um, and it was time to
start thinking about what departmentalization looked like um, in fifth grade that was equitable and um, to what is going on over at Bird in fifth grade and also just a more comprehension comprehensive approach to departmentalization. In years past, our
fifth grade team would share the teaching of science and social studies, which was a nice opportunity for them to get to know all the fifth graders. But again, with the addition of the third section this year, um we started to focus on what it would look like with the three sections going forward for the
next few years. Um and that's what you'll hear about this evening. So, some of the other reasons why we feel that this model is important for our fifth graders is that it provides an opportunity for more middle school readiness. Um it provides um the opportunity and supports for students to
improve their organization skills, their executive functioning skills, the and it helps ease that transition when they get to middle school. So it's almost like a warm-up for when they start switching for every single subject. Um it also provides opportunities for our teachers
to become content area experts. So by departmentalizing and giving our teachers less preps during the day to prepare for and to teach, it really allows them to dig into their content areas and then plan for differentiated instruction in a more um in in a in a
better way. So that means providing enrichment opportunities for students who need enrichment opportunities and then of course the scaffolding and the supports for students who might be struggling in their specific areas. Um, and then student well-being came into play when we were thinking about why
this is important for our school. Um, the teachers will have the opportunity to get to know all the students and vice versa, but really what we'll have is three different sets of eyes um and maybe even more with our special ed team involved um in on every single student.
So when issues arise, whether they're social, emotional, or academic, we have a whole team that's ready to sit down and strategize about how to best support students and move them forward. Um, and then just another um area of benefit for
our students is that moving throughout the day is a natural built-in brain break for them. Transitioning their materials will just give them the opportunity to reset themselves when they move from class to class. So, our shift to departmentalization started last summer and it's been a
process of planning and careful consideration. Um, we met last summer and started looking at our schedules and we thought about logistics of how to make this model work at Hamilton. Um, we've been continuing to meet throughout the school year um just to look at how
things would run smoothly. Um, we also had the opportunity to meet with Bird to look at their model and collaborate and ask questions. And we took a look at Orchard Elementary School in Ridgewood and we visited with them. Um, we got to
see three sections same as us um, live and in action with the kids and we looked at their schedules and we were able to sit with their teachers and principles and talk and ask questions and really see how it works. So, it was a great experience.
So our plan would be that the students would switch for math, reading, writing and word study. Um one teacher would teach math to all three classes. One teacher would teach reading and one would teach writing and word study. Each teacher would be would teach community
circle science and social studies to their home room classes. Um we will have we're planning to have collaborative prep time built in among all of us all three of the special of the fifth grade teachers and our special education team. Um and to allow us to align instruction
and monitor student progress. Um similarly we will have some time with the ESL teachers and other people who push into our classrooms. um resource room, the collaborative setting, all of those settings will still run and students will receive additional
services such as ESL, BSI, speech um as appropriate to their needs. Um the students will be split almost into two different groups. So their home room class is who they will have science, social studies, community service, their specials and win or their
intervention time with. The students will then travel to math, reading, writing, and word study with their school color group. Um students will therefore have the opportunity to collaborate with and learn from more students throughout the school day than
just their home room group. Um, color groupings will also allow for more flexibility with groupings based upon the student programmings that we have. So, this is what a schedule might look like. Um, the students morning
would include one major subject area, community circle, um, and science, social studies, or wind depending upon the day of the week. After lunch and recess, they will switch for their other two major subject areas and will end their day with their home room teacher
again for when or a special depending upon the schedule. So, we strategically designed our schedules um in thinking about the win period um so that all three classes will have two overlapping win periods a week. Um, this allows our teachers to be
incredibly thoughtful in our grouping of students. Um, and provides teachers with a unique opportunity to meet with small groups of students across all three home rooms. So, for example, if there's six kids in the grade that need help in a particular area, um, the teachers can
pull those six students regardless of their class and provide them with really targeted instruction. Um, so by overlapping our win period, our teachers can now meet with a group of students um, across all three grade levels regardless of their home room, which not only allows for the teachers to meet the
needs of more students um, but it also provides our students with the opportunity um, to hear multiple perspectives and be in a small group with a variety of students throughout the day and really have the opportunity to collaborate. Um so this increases our impact of our small groupoup instruction
um by not just meeting their academic needs but also meeting their social emotional needs as well. Um and like we've done this year related services like BSI, speech and OT can pull during the win period as well.
As we've mentioned previously, a departmentalization model provides opportunities for a full team approach to getting to know our students and meet their needs. Um, student progress will be monitored by all the teachers um in their respective subjects and having
more than one teacher monitoring student progress really allows for a holistic approach um to learning about our whole the whole child. Um, and our teachers will collaborate for report cards and conferences. So, here's a look at the
next steps we'll take in order to successfully launch our pilot. We have a parent information session on Thursday, June 5th at 9:00 a.m. for the parents of rising fifth graders. So, our current fourth graders. We'll also provide parents with information during the
Hamilton HSA general session on Friday, June 13th at 9:00 a.m. Um, and then most importantly, we want to make sure that the students are comfortable with this plan. So, the three of us current fifth grade teachers will introduce the current fourth graders to this
departmentalization model before the end of the school year. Um, so we'll allow students to have time for a question and answer um session as well. That's it. I think that's it. Thank you so much. I'm happy to take any questions if you
have any. Thank you first, Miss Gomez and your team for for coming and and thank you. Very impressive presentation and I just want to say thank you. I'll turn it over to the board. Thank you. Thank you so much. Um any particular questions or Yes, Miss Rendell. I just
have something to say. So, thank you so much for coming. Thanks for thinking outside the box. We we know how much it matters, but and I love all the reasons, but I really love when you guys are like excited and passionate about stuff. It makes I think it's such a big deal for our kids. So, thank you so much and look
forward to your progress and continued success at Thank you. Thank you. Thanks so much. All right. Um Christine, I was going to say a similar thing. I think the kids are probably excited, but I think I can also see the teachers are excited about this model, which makes it
it's going to be like a win-win. So, that's exciting. Um Karen, and then yeah, I I'm excited to see this. I think that traveling in fifth grade is a great idea. It really does prepare them for middle school. And I like that the kids are going to be with kids other than
who's in their home room when they go to their other classes. I think that's a really great idea. Um, it lets kids maybe be with their friends if their friends are in their home room. It gives them opportunity to make new friendships and I like the fact that they'll be able to connect with a lot more adults throughout the day. So, I'm excited.
Thank you. Yes. Uh, nothing real new than what everyone else said, but I just really appreciate you doing your due diligence and meeting with the other schools and even out of the district. I think that's really great. I appreciate you putting in that effort. And I know something's good when I'm like, I wish my kids had this great. So, great job.
I'm excited for you, too. Thank you so much. All right. Um, we are always impressed. So, thank you so much. Thank you. Thank you for having us. Good night, everyone. No, nice job. Who's uh who's teaching what? Do we like Was there Was there like a fight over who
got to teach what? We'll give a spoiler alert. Oh, is it secret? No, you don't have to share. Maybe we'll save it for the parent information. Save it for parent. We'll we'll give it to the Hamilton families first. Yeah. All right. To be to be determined. To be determined. All right. Thank you
everybody. Thank you so much for coming out. Much appreciated. Nice job. All right. Just pull this up. Okay. We also um are always always enjoy honoring our students and and teachers as well. So, we have Miss Dela Fortuna
um to talk to us about some exciting results from our Bergen County uh math league and we also have Miss Norman here um as the adviser. So, thank you both for coming and look forward to recognizing your your students. Thank you so much for having us. Um I
have the opportunity to recognize Miss Megan Norman as our Bergen County Math Lee Glenrock's chapter adviser. She's a passionate educator who um goes above and beyond for extracurricular opportunities such as this and um she's
a pleasure to have on staff and and I'm just honored to be able to recognize her as well as so she can recognize her students. So I'll turn it over to Miss Norman and she's going to tell you a little bit more about the Bergen County Math League. Thank you for all those nice words. Good
evening everyone. Um, our math team consists of approximately 20 students and we compete in the Bergen County Math League known as BCML which consists of almost 30 high schools throughout Bergen County. Almost 600 part almost 600
students participated this year. In any given year, students compete in six contests and are allowed to drop the lowest score of the six contests. Each contest has six questions and a perfect score is a six. After dropping the
lowest score at the end of the season, the best score possible is 30 points. Students take the first five contests at their home school and the final contest is traditionally at Tennifly High School with the dinner meat to celebrate.
Annually, BCML awards county group and school awards. We are part of group two and are grouped with neighboring schools Rididgewood, Fairlon, and Pamis. The first award I would like to present tonight goes to a young man who
is winning a group two award for the second year in a row. Due to a combination of perfect attendance at the contests during the past two years and his excellent mathematical ability, I am excited to announce a group two second
place win to senior Matthew Park. Congratulations, Matt. Okay, the next award goes to another senior who has also been committed to making all of the contests. This award goes to a young lady who has been a BCML county
winner twice before. This year, she earned a second place win in the whole county with 28 points out of a possible 30. Please join me in congratulating Yedji Kim. [Applause]
I just wanted to say I would just like to um thank both of these students for their hard work, commitment to the team, consistent attendance, and amazing progress. I am sorry to lose them as graduating seniors. [Applause]
Here we go. Do you want to hold that? Oh, okay. Come on. [Applause] Thank Thank you so much. Thank you, Dr. Um Hudson, always a great joy to
hear from you. Can you give us an update? Absolutely. Thank you. Um, good evening everyone. I hope you've all been well and enjoying the beautiful spring weather. So, without further ado, I'll start with the sports. Um, our team so
far have been successful putting out their best efforts and winning against competition most of the time all around. Uh I want to highlight in particular boys tennis who has a buy in the first round of the state tournament and will be playing in the second round uh early next week and most of the other teams
their playoffs haven't started yet. So I'll keep you updated on those as they happen. Um in other news we had the teen arts festival last Friday which was an opportunity for students to showcase the many forms of art that they've been working on throughout the year. Um the last two weeks were also AP
testing and scores for those tests will be sent out uh in early July. Um last Friday we had the sophomore semiformal with senior prom next week and junior prom the week after that. Um with senior athletic and academic awards
as well as academic honor society inductions in the first week of June where the accomplishments where students in many areas are going to be recognized. Um, and then rounding out the month of June, final exams are the 17th to the 20th. Uh, and we'll be our first final since the pandemic, as you
know. Um, there's definitely some pressure added to that, but it also keeps everyone engaged until the end of the school year. So, um, yeah. And um, with the AP exams over, there's definitely a sense of relief and less
stress. Um, and you know, there's a lot of fun things happening at the end of the school year, as I just mentioned. So there's lots to look forward to which definitely adds to the morale of you know the students. So thank you.
Thank you so much. Um I don't have anything. Anybody have any questions or comments for Hudson? All right. All right. Thank you so much. Thank you. All right. Um it is 7:28 and I would like to open up the public comment
section uh one of two uh for agend agenda items only. Uh seeing no members of the public um we will close at 7:29. Can I have a motion to discuss G1 through G16, please? Dan Corey, seconded by Ed
Hayward. Any comments, questions on G1 through 16? I do. I have a quick uh I'm sorry. Is that all right? I have a quick presentation. Can you put that up, Keith? It's in backup for the board. So I put up there
um on the agenda we have a couple of things regarding um abolishing some job descriptions, creating job descriptions and revising. uh for here um you can see that we have our current positions regarding the
supervisors and assistant principles on the left hand side on the right hand side for September you would see how we are uh changing it so I'll go through this uh quickly so we start with the high school assistant principal uh K to2
supervisor world language I think I would share first that this is how it existed on September 1st 2024 right okay So, um I know we have a couple people doing some different roles today. So, again, high school assistant principles, 6 to 12 supervisor, world language. Our
assistant principles have always had a department in some capacity that is going to now be because the board will be approving a a uh new high school assistant principal permanent position and that assistant principal will also have 6 to 12
supervisor social studies and business. No changes in the middle school assistant principal position in terms of what they supervise in this case art and music. Supervisor of science goes from K to 12 to 6 to 12. A little bit of change
here at a K to2 supervisor of IT and ET educational technology. also K to2 media center K to8 G&T in 21st century will now be the 6 to12 supervisor of instructional educational technology 21st century and picked up world
language which is a large department we wanted to give our world language teachers some consistency because they've had a couple of different uh supervisors over the last several years K to2 supervisor of math will become the 6 to12 supervisor of
math K-12 supervisor of English is picking up high school, middle school, media center, and 6 to 12 English. No changes to the supervisor of special education. No changes to the athletic director. And then like how do we get to
this this point where we can add a 10-month 10day position at the board is doing a couple things tonight. One, they're approving the job description. Second, they're approving the uh GRAA sidebar agreement creating this position is because the K to2 supervisor of
social studies and business that is abolished. There's no physical body there anymore for September 1st because that's being taken over by the new assistant principal of the high school who will oversee that. So, we have an empty position and the board elected to
create this K to5 elementary supervisor of curriculum. In addition, we wanted to put a big emphasis on G&T K to8 and the new elementary supervisor will oversee the media specialist because there's a G&T component there obviously and also
the intervention specialists which again have um more specific roles with students and teachers. So that's kind of how we got there. That's a visual for you to see. Um and uh I'll add this to the board of ed highlights as well. Thank you.
Are there any questions? Yes, I just want to thank you for putting together this chart. It's uh very helpful to everybody. Thank you. All right. Did you have a question? Okay. Perfect. Yeah, the the chart is very helpful. Um, and again, you know, I
think that uh the K through five elementary supervisor, as has been stated in the past, was um something that was coming from uh feedback that it was a a need in the community. So, we totally um understand that and I can
definitely say I support it. Um if there are no other questions, can I just comment on G9? Yeah, please. Um, G9 is a scholarship from Larry's Landscaping. Uh, Mr. Bombck and Mr. Feifer are graduates of Glenrock
from class of 2021. They started that business when they were in high school. So, I think it's really a great thing that they're creating this scholarship to give back and to encourage. I know there are a lot of kids have their own businesses in town and I really think it's it's just so wonderful for so many
reasons for everybody. So, I just want to thank them for um starting the scholarship to maybe try to inspire other kids to have the entrepreneurial spirit and and start start a business. Thank you. Um I I wanted to make a a
comment regarding some of the donations and things. I mean, yes, thank you to the bird HSA boosters and uh Coleman HSA. Um, I also want to thank um the anonymous member of the community that was uh donating um $15,000 to offset the
cost of of a a trip for the students. And I think that that's just yet another reminder of um you know, the community members coming together and filling a gap and a need um and standing in. So that's it's an amazing thing and I just wanted to recognize that uh person or
family um for for really putting out and and supporting our community. So thank you. Uh thank you for saying everything I was about to say about G8. That's why I wanted to say it before you could jumped in front. So I'll just have to say that I'll be abstaining on G1 as it pertains
to the May 5th meeting since I was unable to attend. All right. Okay. Let me just make sure we are okay. Seeing no additional comments, if
we could call roll. Mr. Canelis, please. Miss Carousala? Yes. Mr. Corey? Yes. Except as noted. Mr. Hayward. Yes. Miss Parlamus. Yes. Miss Rendell. Yes. Miss
Stevenson. Yes. Miss Calves. Yes. Dr. Robbins. Yes. Motion passes. Thank you. Can I have a motion to discuss B1 through B13? Miss Calve and seconded by Miss
Parlamis. Any questions, comments? Yes, Karen. I have a um for Mr. um James Canelis um B9. Can you just explain how it came to be that the bid was awarded to Murray Paving and Concrete
for B9? Thank you. Uh the name of the company is Murray Paving and Concrete. They provide a multiple multitude of services. Um and they actually fall under even a larger banner of Gordian. Um they are the company that actually did the uh
counters and sinks last summer as well. Thank you. I didn't you know it was a little confusing with the name. I just wanted to make sure that it was understood that they do more than their title. Thank you. And I mean the work that they did, you know, last year was also pretty
phenomenal. So those it really looked excellent um touring those those facilities. So thank you. Um, any additional questions for the B items? Great. Can we call roll, please?
Miss Carousella? Yes. Mr. Corey? Yes. Mr. Hayward? Yes. Miss Parlamus? Yes. Miss Randell? Yes. Miss Stevenson? Yes. Miss Calves? Yes.
Dr. Robinson? Yes. Motion passes. Thank you. All right. Can we have a motion to discuss P1 through 21? Miss Carousel. Seconded by Mr. Hayward, questions and comments. Yes. Just to make a comment for Mr.
Morelli. um really excited for him to be taking on the assistant principal role at the high school. He's been filling in in various leadership roles the past I don't know how long and he's been phenomenal. He's presented to the board a number of times. He's answered all of our questions thoroughly. He's very
connected to the district and the students. So I I think it's a really great um you know step up for him. So thank you and thank him. All right. Excellent. Second all of that. Yes. Um
I'm going to be abstaining on P21 when it pertains uh to me. Understood. All right. If we're able to call roll, please. Miss Carousella. Yes. Mr. Corey. Yes. Mr. Hayward. Yes.
Miss Parlamus. Yes. Miss Randell. Yes. Miss Stevenson. Yes. except on P21 as stated were obtained to me. Miss Calves.
Yes. Dr. Robinson. Yes. Motion passes. Thank you. Yeah. All right. Um, can I have a motion to affirm the decision made in MS HIB 292183 and MS HIB
291468 as reported by the chief school administrator during the May 5th closed work session meeting. We have Mr. Corey seconded by Mr. Hayward. If we can call roll please. Miss Carousella. Yes. Mr. Corey. Yes.
Mr. Hayward. Yes. Miss Parlamus. Yes. Mr. Ren, Miss Randelle, abstain. Miss Stevenson, yes. Miss Calves, yes. Dr. Robinson, yes. Motion passes. All right. Thank you. And as you'll see, we
have our vandalism, suspension, and hip reports. And on to public comments. Uh, two of two at 7:40. All right. Seeing no members of the public, uh we will close public comments
at 7:40. Any old business items? All right. Uh so our next meeting date is uh June 9th. Um and we will have our public meeting will start at 8:00 p.m. on the 23rd uh to accommodate graduation.
And if I could have a motion to adjurnn at 7:40, we have Miss Carousella. Can I have a second? Karen Stevenson. Thank you. All those in favor? I. Any opposed?
None. We are closed.