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during something. And I like to call the meeting to order. Dr. Priolo can you please call roll?
it's Beneke, president Distress here. Mr. Russian player here. Is hollenworth here. Mr.
Knuckles. Mr. Ritter The Sadiq here. Vice President Pokhara. President Crooked here. Please stand for the
Pledge of Allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the Republicans one nation under God indivisible, with liberty and justice for
all. Dr. Phil didn't think read the statement concerning open public meetings. Public notices, This meeting pursuing to the public the Open Public
Meetings Act has been by the Superintendent of Schools in the following manner, on January 8th, 2025. Notice this meeting was posted on the interior of the school
administration offices. 95 Grove Street. Haddonfield notice was smitted and filed with the Haddonfield or clerk notices were email to the Courier-post
The retrospect newspapers. Thank you. Okay. We're going to start today with our student commendations. We'll start with the semi-finalists in the National Merit Scholarship
program. quite a few people are very special award, and you look at how Few students get this across Kentucky reviews. So, our first our commended finalists, these
students are National Merit. Scholarship program on approximately 1.5 million juniors are recognized them on the top two three percent test. Takers is
recognition places them on top performers and highlight their strong academic promise. Warren Haywood, Thomas, Crooked
Here and Key. Wearing a dollar Lamont with a Novak. Brian Stoner. and we might not be here, but still made it gaining this past
year. We need a newborn and benjaminophile but it's Jacob Schiller, right? Friends really better over here, actually, bring over here. Sorry, guys, if you really like
wrong things, Right, it's wrong. We'll give you. Okay. You must be a freshman. Okay, I'll stand behind. You will come over this way. And
then with her. So I don't know. Next, we have our city finalists. Being a national mayor, semi-finals procedures, active encounter, high school.
and high school students, but the opportunity to continue in the competition for natural air scholarships. This distinction is based on your performance or
theistic PSAT, which is your high school, these students represent less than 1% of all US high school seniors or the highest scoring interests in
each. State. So are one who's attending. I might have two Sam. Our first one is Abigail Abigail Prayer.
Could make the day Sean Castle. Congratulations. Congratulations, everyone. Well All right, thank you so much. All right. so this month we've been pretty busy first, we want to nominate
this or sorry, honor the secret team. So congratulations to the middle and high school secret students for winning the STEM competition at the 25th anniversary of the Navy in.
Um so myself as long as along with my other Board of Education representatives and Marina, and Jack have been working on our own wraps, we have a little
update for you. So a few like, you know, over the course of the month, me Marlena Jack and McHale have approved, some crest drops for the school and we're also working on instructive teams and faculty and students to create a
timeline for future for the future. We'll wrap project. So, our next steps are going to be going into Mr, Reader and Mr. Bogart sophomore, and junior
classes to promote interest in the project, and recruit student helpers to sift through, you know, lots of the school memorabilia yearbooks, etc by decade. In order to figure out
what is actually making. So we had our respect starting October 6th and we kicked that off with the community meeting, we had some performers and they
were spreading their message of, You know peace. Love was a really lively performance. It was super engaging coming up, we have Multicultural Day on the 21st, so affinity clubs are working
hard to share different cultures with art food, educational information and educational information to create a more inclusive environment, so clips, like, French Spanish, German Jewish
American lgbtq+ as well as ASL clubs are involved in the create activities, like Trivia Food Prep. And then this year, marks, the second annual Hot, Ones challenge presented by the
Spanish Club. So, that's always really fun to watch. We have a Dance coming up on the 30th hosted by the peer leaders, Leo Club, Doc and Bulldog Bulletin.
So kids dress up dress up individually and with their sports team or peer leaders. I know they do a lot of dress up with their proshow and just a really
fun event. A lot of people show up we fall, play coming up as well. It's going to be clue. They're in Tech Week actually this week and opening night is October 23rd at 7pm and then
other showtime include the 25th and 7 pm and then October 26th at Going to be fun. See everyone there. homecoming at
the football at the homecoming football game on Friday, the 21st or 24th. I'm sorry. The winners of the Homecoming committee will be announced
Congratulations to the nominees for the boys. Friday tan, Kal kenzel, Luke bonder, Tommy Gricket Mark, W's, Medio, and Toto. And for the girls Riley, Austin, born Anton
60s, El Foley, Vivian Hoffman, and Marlena, Kate are so we can't wait to see who wins. And then finally, for our sports update, congratulations to the
girls tennis on their 24th, consecutive sectional title. How they played their match for States Today, and then tonight's football game versus last year is dedicated to And raising
awareness for child support cancer Other peer leaders are selling yellow ribbons. I have want to see a lot in the audience. the symbol for
childhood cancer awareness. As a fundraiser to support cruise charity. Thank you. Yes, so there's a popular YouTube channel where
celebrities get interviewed and they have to eat. Chicken. Wings. There's a b****, there's
a I believe it's like students get to vote on what teachers they want to see and that challenge. Alright in front of everyone they have to answer trivia, I
believe in Spanish. The culture trivia, really questions? That's quite it's really interesting. It's a lot. Thank you very much and pizza menu. Thank you. And thank you
all, who came I game is going on. Chucky participating. I, Um, moving on, we have our referendum progress update from
LAN Associates and Colliers. What's going on, everybody? I said a hot wings challenge with my 13 year old niece over the summer and lost. So Jeff Potter here from Land Associates here to discuss all
the projects and design. I'm not going to steal too much of rich brown thunder here. He's gonna talk about projects and construction and through construction. At this point. So
jumping, right into it. We've been extremely busy as I'm sure you can all imagine we're getting ready for a number of October 30th bids before the New
Year and early January vids as well in advance for summer construction. Some projects that are taking 18 months to do in the summer, just summer jobs for
next year. So just jumping into that first and foremost is probably my favorite. bias here, a little bit, the auditorium alterations, and renovations to the high school, along with the Lower Sea Wing
classroom alterations as well. We're gonna group that into one package, that project's going really well right now. That project is in for Collier's review, who's doing a third
party construction costs estimate review on the project to make sure we're on budget, ready for that one. October 30th is a day for that project we're going to go out to
bid on that one. We have confirmed all scope of work with the owner we are working with third party audio-visual and lighting vendors as well as their party seating vendors to
utilize the state co-op purchasing to get that work off of the GC bid and to save some cost center. that project's
going very well and we anticipated to go out in the 30 I'm just going to list everything on and then you can go back and ask questions if
you'd like next project we have the Hopkins Turf field amenities and parking thankfully because that's where I just parked right
now. We know there's a parking deficiency and it was fun parking in a field that I know will very soon be a turf field. So we we revised the concept for the Hopkins site
layout to accommodate some recent developments over at Level Lower Hall, and just the keeping of the Maggie House and the carriage house and their current positions. So that
layout has changed a little bit to incorporate Hopkins Gym. We've now created a plaza that separating your existing turf field from your new church field.
And of course the Hopkins gym. So that project the site we call the Hopkins Field Amenities and Parking project is going well. we're in construction documents
with the targeted bid date of December 2025 with mobilization in March and substantial completion this summer. Onto the projects that are
keeping me up at night. We have the Tatum edition and the Hand edition. Very fun, very complex projects. They're on their way, we are scheduled for October 30th bids
for those as well. Those projects are just going very well. We have structural MEP, civil engineering and we're kind of all hands-on deck right now. This the next two weeks is
going to be when everything comes together. We have everything that we need on our ends and make that happen.
We're just pushing, we've probably been annoying your principles lately. We've been in their building quite a bit, the past couple months, verifying existing, dimensions and serving. Um, so that's that's
going well. And again, that's anticipated for again summer start construction. with a milestone substantial completion date of the following
summer, to get those buildings ready for students, come back. So that construction for both those additions can commence throughout the whole 2020 6, 20
27 year and be ready and open are ready for Labor Day 2027. Next project a wing and c-wing window replacement job. All the windows here are being replaced starting this summer, same thing
with a wing, the historic a wing, we got approvals from the Historic Preservation Commission for this projects to advance.
So, those projects are also moving forward. We're anticipating a again, October 30th bid on that project. with
mobileization in June, the exception of auditorium, windows around your place as well that mobilization we hope to anticipate in May a little bit earlier in that. But substantial completion is going to be next summer for the bulk
of the work and it's going to roll into fall as well for final completion of this window projects. The support projects, which we recently advanced. Which is new
to everyone here. The Central we call Central Elementary School interior alteration projects. These are projects that are going to happen next summer.
Weren't anticipated to start until late November December from the design and or advancing them a little bit early. We want to get out in front of them. Those projects are a couple classroom alteration projects in the ground
floor, a new nurses suite on the first floor. So by Labor Day next year, you'll have, I want to say two or three more classrooms In central, a new
nurses suite, dedicated to the middle school, the existing nurses will be dedicated to the elementary school and I I
apologize that's reversed and always forget to be honest. That's correct. Yes. And a couple SGI rooms as well. They're come off online. That is
Another project that we've advanced a little ahead of schedule. Just because we have some designers that needed work. So yeah, an abundance of work
for this reference, we made sure there. Their plates are fulls, the Hopkins gym. That project we're talking about the actual construction of the gym itself.
Not the sighting, which is also going on the Tur F wheel, so that project has advanced that's moving forward. We're working with the Haddonfield Historical
Preservation Commissions and make sure everything's good on their end and approved as we are in historic District here. And
the last project we've advanced on our end, but we probably won't put it out for construction. Just yet is district wide fire alarm replacement with the head and
the Tatum Second floor, editions, There's quite a lot of overlap with fire alarm replacements. So our engineers have actually started on that
ends with events that project as well. So that's it for the projects in design. projects, in Collier's Route
Review. For bid is again the Tatum and the Haddon a second floor additions. There's a project out for bid. Technically right now, it's the 1890s alteration projects, which I
believe Rich is going to talk about a little bit more in depth. Because we recently just took bids for that and our plan
is reject those bits, right? Learning tonight. To project all this. Okay. We'll talk about that. A little bit more.
I'm sure we'll have to interface quite a bit. So, are there any questions on the design side before? I turn this over to Mr. Brown. Yeah, so you're moving forward
with Tatum and Lizzy and then you're getting a jump on the gym. So I know that you guys, We saw concepts early on, but at what point, Do we get to see
what the designers are working? So that's a good question for Tatum and and had in specifically because we're gone out to bid very soon. On that one, we did a decent page turn
with the administration with some end users as well, the overall concepts haven't changed since we went The interior finishes and
selections have evolved. They've turned into just From black and white drawings to actual fit-outs. So now, if it's something we would like to
review as a team, you're concern, you do that, we're meeting. we're talking about meeting early. Next, we're probably Alan City to talk about the team finishes, right? I
hadn't finished. Then I've just, So we can definitely put those in the agenda. Hopkins were very early in the infancy of that we actually don't even know. We're gonna talk with with
colliers and our team the admin and when we want to actually fit that strategically with some other developments that are going on, That'll happen down the road a little bit.
So maybe after we call growing next week, we can put an hour community at our just a little bit revised finishes, I'll share that one. Yeah, the first version as that involved. Yeah. And especially when you're
talking about the gym starting to get into design, they know that timing is Important and it just want to make sure that we've had enough
time to at least it or oh, but it needed to now, go to go out to bid and Changes that. So,
just being mindful. yeah, and one of the things which I know has been communicated, but are our thought is that we very
much want things to look in timeless in a sense like modern, but classic that it fits within the frame of of
Haddonfield and that it won't feel dated 10 years from now. That's the endurance of the style is important to us. Just if you know, just keep in mind
that aesthetic as you So, thank you. the latest, was we the person for underneath the middle school? Yes. Kate Hsd came out and you decides today so I can show you guys it very much
mimics. The auditorium layout is actually the same floor tile corrected, Uh, Sergeant. Yes. Well, we went from that bluish color to very similar
tournament. Oh yeah, I'm sorry in my head. I'm thinking the high school. Yes, the middle school. Oratorium flooring will actually be the same down the blood stage, right? So we'll be
keeping those blue. Let's see. The black Grays and Reds School colors and Hey, thank you.
Thank you. Good evening. My name is Rich Brown dyers. Thank you. Cardi know that they walk quite far? Didn't that cheat? Like you did. That's good. So, I'm gonna give
you the update on for the projects, I have in the past which are close to being complete. Then I'll give you. The newer one that's under
construction. The demo going, then we can talk more about 18. So starting from the beginning here, alterations it hadn't, so punch lists were developed between land and my firm. They're going
to do that work. On the week of the third and everything set up for that to occur. It's not a good tremendous amount of the
list. There's a few things that didn't arrive at a timely fashion like the case work and that's really too some type
enclosures and the actual final videos, just from a production. So, that word will take place that week in the closeout
documents are ongoing and then subsequent to that we can do final payments and close. Officially close that project down. Okay.
The flooring abatement at all. Three of the schools. That was Bng and LBJ interior solutions. They are in pretty good shape to have a few punch list items
again the same week. November third, they're going to come back and do that. some of the little transition strips or are still required, they're going to take care of all that and same
thing relative to the closeout documents and the final, you know, where they get their check, and we have everything needed. So, They're in that
same sort of position. The ADA Stadium upgrades, you know, very similar to the other two punch list has been developed by our firms.
Levy is going to take care of them. They've actually taken care of part of it already producing it, getting all the closeout documents. in substance, but that excuse me,
we'll get all the warranties guarantees as those things of that nature. And then, lastly. the fourth project that was done over the summer, would be the
Seaway elevator monetization. Elevator firm, which is leaving. They completed probably about 50 to 60 percent the actual punch list. So they're a little bit
ahead of the other two firms. And they're working on supplying us with all the close-up documents. So probably the next time I'm up here in front of you, it's all those will be
closed out. I would suspect that Will be nothing to speak to one first, just clarification with it. It's got all of it was not part of the reference, right? Right. Um, colors. Oversaw is
concerns construction managers for us but that's part of the capital project. just so people just kind of from a timing stamp the Times rapid. And so the new
project that that is underway is an auditorian and practice room renovations at the middle school, It is really leading construction was the contractor.
They mobilized right around the 23rd of September their target. Completion, is mid April of next year. The status is they do have all their permits. We did initially get
the demo permit so they can get started but subsequent for that. They got the rest. We're going through an extensive submittal process with all the shop
drawings to make sure that lay in his team, takes a look at them, we get them all approved and they have started the demo and they're about 60 to 65 percent. So that project is moving along, there's two of the state vendors also
supported that for generations on the AV work again, in the long go to do the seats and a good approach because we save a lot of overhead and profit. If you go
through the state contract, And that's where that project is so starting. Any comments concerns, everybody got good news about the H back
delivery system Shipping date? Correct. Yes. That's everything to do. Yeah, Yeah. It's and what of the nice things about getting these projects out early. Yes,
you know, you never know when you can get an acute depending on how many other firms are out there. Putting in those same,
you know, orders for all that stuff. So, but yeah, good point. Any questions on? That
okay. So the 1890 bids so they did obviously come in over. What the expectation was. We had a call. I think Tuesday, obviously the direction from everyone here was
to reject those bids, we're doing a couple parallel things at the same time. we're looking at, there's three things that came in kind of high, that was a
little bit surprising. one was the HCA the usually on a project similar to someone like this that's usually like 50 to 60 dollars. A square foot. The
numbers that came in for this was a hundred and thirty three, which is almost like related to a hospital or pharma you know, it really and I think part of
that too, is the economy and scale because it's a small project which is one of the things we've been work in the land is trying to group some of these. So instead of ordering
for unit ventilators will be over. 244. So we hope to take care of some of that in the latter larger projects. A couple of the other
things. We went back and looked at the scope relative because there's a chimney that you needed the initial estimate. We didn't believe that it was ever
encounter that much. And so, we knew that my attention afterwards Um, that there's gonna be a lot more work. So the contractors, I think the few of them that price
this up really were very conservative. So now, Jeff and his team are looking at it. We think we minimize the actual
need for that much demolition. So that's gonna put us back in the right direction. so, more economic design for the mechanical systems and Jeff can
come up and talk a little bit more about that. And then elevator, we're gonna make that an alternate, so that'll get separated. and you can either
do it or not. Depending on what the regular paste, it comes in it. That's removal of the older has been using it. That's not, you know, other there's
elevator, can central hasn't been used Kids, I have five years, how many, usually 25 years, 25 years ago, city or so, the plan was to pull that out and make that
storage space. But that's about necessary, that's a nice to have. So we're because of altered that way, it's a couple
hundred dollars a couple hundred thousand dollars. So For. This chimney. What's our goal are? We just demoing this chimney do?
We actually use this chimney? Are we trying to refinish the chimney? What we didn't know about, which we found which is actually in
Chuck sold office. surprise, surprise, again, raised the number. So we need to lower that should be down the basement. The restructure of the floor.
Something that happened a few months back. When we wake that up there, I was cutting holes through the floor. Set was fun going through that building the chimney that you see from the
outside is the historic piece that we need to retain. We don't want the historic preservation coming back and saying you're completely altering. The look of this, we
don't want to go down that path. So there are two options, one, what's currently in the bit is actually keeping that chimney in tack on the exterior. But
removing a portion of You're taking out something very heavy and impression Basically, you're taking out a section of, there's a lot of structural work. Especially to me, that's
from the 1890s. So bids, there's a lot of unknowns after talking to some contractors. And, by the way, after every bid, regardless the outcome, we
always reach out the cont. Ractor. The one we build a rapport with these contractors, we get the inside scoop. What hurt? What did not hurt? Or what else did?
The chimney was a big unknown. There are a lot of people that threw cost at it just to save their save their tails, Because
once you take that apart, you know, excuse me. What? You're getting into there. So, there is an option which we looked at the past week to keep that
chimney intact and not any structural work. Just requires us modifying, where we locate. There's an interior stare and platform lift for Ada, that connects the bells
together versus the slide that down so that and actually as of 6:30 tonight, my designer came up with a skiing that I think is
going to work. The second floor was the challenge if we keep that chimney that together the weeds, but I always said, if we saw this there over, it's just
gonna make those classrooms upstairs with a smaller. So we do have an option and we do have a choice to make but we can make this work by keeping that
which will save us up on our grant makes it and it makes it So I round it. Can talk. And
one of the goals that we had, it's called land to try to keep that chimney. So that the Preparation Commission. Yeah. Didn't you know because the worry there is once you start
working with that, that costs a lot more money. So the planes to do that, I still get the full width of the hallway. That was the dream, right? That's we came up with actually now that
we came back, lamb went back very quickly, actually, 72 hours and said We can still, we have to move the chimney. You still aren't having a preservation
commission. They can't, you know, weapon people the outside And here's a different solution, not as not, the perfect solution, but still very functional solution that guesses
where we want to and it's a cheaper. So it's not the perfect solution but it saves us. So it's a decision. We need
to be. And that's unlikely. They were going to in the future 20 years from now important. I'm gonna say those jerks, why
didn't they? I'm sure they will but right I mean I'm sure they well right. That, I mean more
people are populations. right? Like, Oh, we would have had three more classrooms if only we had taken that. Well, it won't make that much. our village of enough in your synchronic editions that he's a
blend right into all that you guys some other things going on. Yeah, that's what he downstairs. Yes, he came up the curtain in the auditorium behind the wall. You thought we told by everyone's had been
removed, 20 years ago just about, that's get that board. Asked, Well, that's a good point of the 1890s building. We were out there a couple like a month ago and I wanted to cut a hole
in the floor to see what the makeup was and they kept the old floor and went right over time. That old floor with two other floors. So we had the change our
bed, and put that in the bed, which that's another right on that. That's called. So three floors and 1896. Yeah, great.
Yeah. I mean, in my house and I have Number one. Okay, guys, and once you had such a Japanese team who we got
those b**** back dove, right? And found out. The crooks of what was going on, came up with the solution. I think is a good
way. Well, share that. I Yes. Okay. You're welcome. All right, Ms, Russo and Sister Pellegrini. Now, if I wrestle my friends and I right?
Everybody, I'm Katie Russo supervisor of Language, Arts and Social Studies. And I will let us celebrities. And we are here to present the
summary results of the New Jersey student Learning Assessment from 2024 2025, which is administered this past spring. So these are the things are going to be talking about this assassinated covers
English language, arts math and science will be talking about our achievement levels as they compare to the state. Our cohort growth three-year trends Assessments
DLM and wheat. And we'll talk a little bit more about what that is. And we will briefly share the Appendix, a few things to
say before we start our presentation one, is that This was the last year that Pearson was the testing. Provider for the New Jersey
Student Learning Assessment for English Language Arts and Math. The State Department of Education has contracted with another company called Cambium, which
will be in charge of the Spring njsla. They'll be administering a small field test, that will be participating in that we're
required to purchase in this assessment will be an adaptive test when it's administered in the spring. We're very much like the SAT has become so we don't really know
a whole lot about what that test will look like. The assumption is that it's not going to be too much different than what we administered in the spring. So
hopefully we'll have some results from that that we can compare typically I will say We do also provide you with the comparison during this
presentation of our results with peer district results. We call that district Factor Group Jay districts. There are similar Socioeconom Globals to have and
field. We do not have those results. Yet, we do have just kind of like a quick data point that will share about that but we are required by law to to share this
presentation with you. There's a statutory requirement to present within 60 days of receiving the results, from the states, we have to present
this. Even without that information, we will be updating this presentation once it's on the website, and we receive those results and sharing those
with you. So, those are just some excites before we start sharing some of our results, generally do like to share just
a brief overview of what this assessment looks like for English language arts students are ability to read fiction and nonfiction text or authentic texts our evaluated
with a variety of types of questions including multiple choice, drag and drop and then also some writing components to be assessment. It's a very rigorous task students.
Required to read multiple passages in a day of either fiction or nonfiction. It's administered over a two-day period. And for most students, it's a hundred fifty minutes
worth of testing for grade three. It is an additional. 30 minutes, so it's 180 minutes. We receive sub scores in these following areas for reading and writing and the scale scores
fall between 6:50 and 850 for all great levels. So this students results that will be sharing our categorized into five different levels, all the way
from not meeting to exceeding expectations, our goal as educators is for as many, many of our students to be meeting our exceeding expectations As
possible. All students take this assessment unless they are severely positively impaired. so these results may include results for all students. So this is our overview of our
grade level results for grades. Three through nine, for English language, arts and you can see here, we have a combination. What we do. As we look at the meeting and the exceeding percentages, we combine them and
say, These are our students who are meeting or exceeding expectations. And as you can see, our overall results are very strong especially compared
to the state but just in general, our results fall between 77 and 92 percent proficiency. Percentage of students that are not meeting expectations.
Partially meaning approaching, and then our meeting and exceeding, and we did put in this little detail here because we do know how important it is to to take a
look at our peer groups. So although we didn't have our Jade District results to present to you, we did look at the average of the last five years of those
gay district results and they were 81.6% For English, language arts, and our average. For this past year was 86.6% meeting or exceeding
as expectations. So again, this is a similar piece of information. It is helpful to see our comparison to the state in the sense that you can see, where does the state perform the
strongest or the chorus, where do scores go up or down at the state level? Because there are adjustments need to this to the assessment that can impact the
scores. So, as you can see, from this bar graph, a little more, clearly, the lowest scores at the state level are
found in third grade and ninth grade. And that is where our lowest scores were as well. One thing in particular, that stood out to me because we did have a
drop in our knife, create scores that I'll talk a little bit more about. That was the only grade level where the state also
saw a drop There scores dropped eight percent, because state level and every other green level had positive change at the state level. So that does tell me that there was something happening
with that ninth grade assessment that might have affected the results. These are our four-year trends for each grade level. So these are the same grade different
students and we'll obviously what we're hoping for is to see a positive trend positive upward trend. So you can hear See here
some notable Improvements. grade three, four years ago was at 71% I'm sorry that doesn't look great.
yes, it is 71% meeting and exceeding and they have increased to 87%, which is a 16-point game. Grade six has made some great growth from 73% to 85 and grade seven has made
the most dramatic improvements as you can see, from 79 to 88%. And what you can't see here is that the year before it was 62%, so we really made some amazing growth in seventh grade. We do have some
fluctuation in grades boring, nine grade four really had some nice food this last year and like I said, Grade 9 did have a decline that
will talk a little bit more about This next slide is our cohort growth. So this is where you have the same students and
you're looking at, how are they doing in subsequent grades. So the students that started out in third grade in 2023, you can see their progress from third
to fourth to fifth. It's really nice games there. They're cohort growth is really good and our growth and fourth grade, you see, it's solid level of
performance. The students who wants to say, just for each group, you can see that our variability again, occurs with that last group of students that are now 10th graders. And we had
some variability with our students who are now eighth graders. Although they did perform this past year. And like I said, one thing that is not on this chart because it
was your previous prior to this was in that last group of columns there where I said we had some very ability, they started out at 62% and then went
up to 60. They had that Rise in eighth grade. But then we did have some decline in ninth grade So really looking at these results. I like to first talk
about some of them, amazing Strengths that we see because our teachers, and our students and our families work really hard to have strong academic. Perform
Ance. And I think it's worth noting the strong proficiency rates that 86.6% of our students scored in the meeting or exceeding range across all grade levels.
Significantly outperforming the state, our long-term growth, although it was not. Really recovering from Covid. We have far exceeded our Pre-covid levels. So in
2018, our averages, our average was seventy seven percent proficient. So we've gone from 77 to about 87. So it's a nice growth from Pre-covid levels. One thing I
wanted to highlight work, just some specific grade levels here. The proficiency in fourth grade reached 89% which was really
great, especially two years in a row and it was a five point six percent increase at that grade level, seventh grade demonstrated
exceptional performance. I was really proud of them because that was a grade level. We had targeted when we had our ELA audit, and we need some changes to
the curriculum. So it's really amazed to see that almost 61% of our students in seventh grade were exceeding expectations, which is really unprecedented. That was the highest level of
exceeding. Expectations of all grade levels and 8th grade had a very similar result in that they saw 56.5% of their students. At the exceeding level, and had an
overall proficiency of almost 192%. So, it was an excellent demonstration of their academic ability our areas for improvement. I have three particular areas that I'm looking at one. Is that ninth grade cohort, And I say cohort,
as opposed to 9th grade curriculum, because we really Not made any changes to staffing or curriculum at the 9th grade level our curriculum is strong. Our
faculty is experienced, at that grade level, yet we saw fluctuation of a negative, 9.2 percent change. As I said before this particular cohort
has had our lows performing, scores in sixth grade and in seventh grade and then again in 9th grade. So this has me Sort of. Really focused in on this
particular group of students as they're now in 10th grade and will be taking the NJGPA for graduation proficiency next year. So we really want to make sure that we're targeting
these students for growth. So they had some areas that were weaker at writing and vocabulary and reading information texts specifically
We saw some weaker sub scores, and this is actually a trend over the years in the area of vocabulary and reading. And I
want to say that, I do think our students have a very strong vocabulary but the way these types of questions are posed. It's very much dependent on the
complex of the words. It requires most often for students to go back into the text, find the word, read that section of the text and infer. The meaning based on the content and
usually it's multiple meaning words. So words that in different context, what have a different meaning, so might be a word of students familiar with.
They may think they know the meaning in a different context. They be right? And that will be one of the choices for that question and that's sort of like that that
trick that testing creators do is they have that distractor in the choices so that is an area that we want to focus on how are we addressing vocabulary
classroom are we emphasizing the importance of context especially with me For meaning words. And then we've talked for several
years about the gap between fifth to sixth grade and If you saw, or as you saw for a sixth grade scores over the course of the last four years, they are
increasing and we have a great trend with our sixth grade scores. However, now that we're having that positive trend, now, we're going to look a little bit
deeper and we notice that we have students who have this mobility and that they're dropping from exceeding to meeting and even though they're meeting and that's great. We
want to ask ourselves a lot. Why are they moving from exceeding to meeting? It is a transition year, It is a trend for all districts, who have that transition from the sixth grade? They are middle
schoolers and they do go from 120 minutes of ela instruction. In fifth, grade to 50 minutes in sixth grade. So there is, you know, there are all of those factors that we maybe can't control, but there
are things that we want to look at to make sure that we are continuing to support the rigor and within our sixth grade. so,
there are some action steps that I'd like to take as a result of this data. So our next steps include looking at not just ela 9, but really also talking about those CLA 10 students. So increasing
opportunities to read and analyze academic particle articles and our teachers have already started doing that. The intentionally brought in some academic science, related articles, very early on in the school year this year, which
they don't typically do for teach for students to annotate and analyze. They're targeting writing instruction reinforcing, authentic and
on-demand performance tasks which is what students have to do on mjsla. It's not a process piece. You don't get a month to work on a piece with rough
drafts and peer reviews, you have to write on demand and so teachers are having students practice that and also
reinforcing the skills. That's support that type of writing We also worked last year and over this summer to develop a district-wide
writing progression of skills. And the purpose of this is so that all teachers who have writing assignments in their classes, understand what's expected based on the standards
at that grade level. So if you're supposed to be able to use a semicolon, to generate a complex sentence in my three, we
want all of the teachers teaching, 9th grade to have that expectation for to be reinforcing that skill and so, I worked on that writing
progression for high school and for middle school, So we now have writing progressions. Delineating the skills for writing all the way from
kindergarten through Grade 12 and that's not just punctuation. It's also things like introductions conclusions,
support evidences like that. So that work I'm hoping will build some more consistency. and rigor with our writing we are considering reinstituting the link at benchmark to provide some practice but also to help
us to identify students mid year who need support before they're taking and jsla. And that was something that we had dropped. If you years ago because
students are tested quite a bit at the high school level. They do take the PSAT but the PNC does not give us the level of detail. That's the linkage
benchmark and njsla gives us in terms of student performance and we're all so shifting, how we focus on teaching vocabulary, like I
mentioned before really emphasizing the importance of meaning within context for Are Multiple Meaning Words in grade
6, we're continuing our small loop intervention program for students in English language arts that happens during the tutorial program. We
identify students based not just on the jsla. We also administer an ISL benchmark and we also use information from the elementary
school to identify student. To receive support or intervention at beyond that tree level. We also instituted required time for independent, reading during
tutorial, and what that does is it frees up sometime during ELA? Like I said, students, the time drops from fifth grade to sixth grade. So rather than using
class time to have students read the text, they're supposed to be reading. They now can do that somewhat during tutorial, which
the ELA teachers have said, has really helped with their instructional time. And we're also, like I said, using Ixl and a more intentional way. We have
a benchmark assessment that we use, I excel for, and then what it does is It develops, an action plan that's individualized for each
student, so it provides differentiated targeted instruction. So students are missing skills from lower grade levels. It provides instruction and practice for
those skills if they're exceeding expectations and also provides enhanced practice for them and above grade level with Grade level skills. and then,
in terms of vocabulary instruction specifically, because as I said that has been a trend is one of our lower so. And when I say lower, it's
relative. We are still far above the state when it comes to that sub score, but we kind of look at when what, what areas maybe
holding us back from even growing more, and that will have Larry piece was identified. So we did implement last year for the first time in explicit
morphology program in fourth and fifth grade. Apology is a way of looking at. understanding words, using their roots. Suffix is prefixes. Using the meanings of those parts
boards. Not just how to spell them, not just identifying them. But what those parts of words mean, how words relate to one another and really helping to build vocabulary knowledge and
we also have some professional developments scheduled for elementary teachers to emphasize that connection between words, that and
vocabulary development. That is it from English language arts. I'm going to turn it over to Russ and then at the end any questions? Yeah. Do we want to ask questions for Ela first?
So thank you so very much. Sure. And the ninth grade school. I think that it's great that you were looking at that color. And what were they? Where were the
weaknesses and how do you address it? That's perfect. but it's not just that coward because the, the scores drop With this thing as well. Correct. So and wait until we get the peer comparison that
I'm very interested in seeing what the peer comparison if their scores dropped as well. That will give us a better idea of whether this was a testing
issue, okay? if that's where you have sorry. Yes, yeah, yeah. I just wanted to say thank you. I think the idea of bringing in the over talking about In more like scientific articles and research articles. Yes.
Because one of the when we did that alumni feedback a couple years ago and I know that this science program had talked about bringing in more more research articles, but the
alumni had reported one thing. They felt like they were missing was more practice and learning of reading research articles and I know when I teach English cop, that was it's a
very explicit instruction of that and it's not intuitive. So I think learning to read those. young are great because I think it'll really compare them to college. They're actually a
couple other things Now, that you mentioned that that we are doing, That relate in that in the elementary grade levels,
we're starting to look at how can we bring science-based reading into our reading instruction and we are looking actually at scientific articles
even at the elementary level that relate to our science standards and science. Curriculum and the other piece that and now that you mentioned in
English Comp is that by adding AP lit to 11th grade as an option which we do are doing for the first time this year. Our hope is that we will have more students able to
take AP Comp senior year and that as more students take that course, that will also give them more foundations and more foundation in that. So thank
you. That's great. You know, it's also important for the writ Russian short is not just for English teachers. No rights for his new teachers and her mavericks that way, any teacher
Who has something that something written in front of them has that same same expectation. So it's not just English teachers. This is a way to establish across the board. That's what
ninth graders are supposed to be able to do as a history. Teacher. I expect you to do that my cluster. Yeah, in the fall but it's something we'll be continuing to
look at. It is LinkedIn, the presentation for the public as well. well, they also be talking amongst each other like
say if the history teacher notices, that a particular student is struggling with writing concepts. So they in communication with the writing
instructor, he said the same office, that's sure, that's the hall. There's a lot of conversation. Between those
teachers, yeah. Okay, thank you. Okay, um, so I'll be introducing the math and science results. I'm gonna start
with math. Like Katy said, the math test will be changing this year. So, last year, it was ministered, over two days at high school, three days, the
elementary school middle school, it's 180 minutes long. There's really three types of questions that they go through. They have the force answer question, which is either multiple choice
yet. There are specific value on the second one is a student generating answer. This is looking at mathematical reasoning, so a lot of times they have to Excellent show all
of their work and explain how they got to a conclusion. And finally, they look at mathematical modeling, so our word problems in our Applic.
Ation. Scores, just like LA or between 650 and 850. And then, there are the five levels, exactly, like English English
language arts. So when we look at it here, there are five levels and just like English English language, arts and struggling. the green levels.
We kind of grouped together in blue over on the right. I think some things to kind of jump out at me, elementary grades, really do fantastic compared to the state. We have a dip in sixth grade. We are going to talk more about that, but that is mirrors. What goes on in
ela, um, although there are some things that we have in place to kind of really concentrate on that grade level. Note Math, 8, and Algebra 1.
This is where this chart gets a little bit different than ELA because this is for each test and in eighth grade. Some of the students take algebra one some of the students take math 8. So you can
notice that there. there's only 85 students who are taking the math 8 and the stronger. Mathematical students were taking the Alpha rule exam. Algebra, one is a mix on this
chart. We will look at it when it's broken down by grade level, but on this chart, this is everybody that took the algebra one test, so both 8th graders and ninth graders. So that's a mix
there. And then geometry, those are specifically, 9th graders in geometry who are Are you know, quite accelerated.
We did again. Compare this to district factor groups by taking the five-year average of their since we don't have this year's results. and hadn't feel this slightly
above, that almost a percentage point above other data districts. Looking at it on this chart here, we're on average 32 percentage points
above the States meeting exceeding. Across there, a couple areas that we are going to discuss more. We will discuss
the, You know, sixth grade there that dip from the elementary grades into the middle school. It's kind of pronounced. Also, our difference compared to the
state is not as big in sixth grade. So that's one again, where we I think we want to look at eighth grade. We do want to discuss it, but I do want to
note that, although it's only 41% it is more than double what the state is. So when we look at that, you know, you look at the sixth grade, that's a little
bit more concerning because the percentage above the state is not as high. Back up in Algebra 1. Quite strong. And then again
geometry as we kind of expected was very strong. When we break this down, in terms of grade level, here we have it across from 2022 up until last year some things that
we can see, again, the elementary grades quite strong, and I think we see a lot of positive growth in there, you know, I think we see that fourth grades, got that upward trend.
Third grade, he's got an upward trend kind of dip by a percentage point here, but that's You know, quite small. I
think all things considered Fifth grade and dip and then we kind of bounce back last year, sixth grade again, an area where we have a little bit of concern there that it's, it's a
little bit lower there than we would like to see seventh grade, eighth grade again. Positive Trends. What I think is interesting here is after Katy
talked a lot about the 9th grade, as a cohort, maybe having a little bit more difficulty. It's again, kind of showing up there and that we had positive
trends in ninth grade and then all the sudden we have a dip last year. So and again we have some things in place there to kind of support those students
and support our ninth grade, the new 9th grade students as well, um, this is the same students moving
through, I think again we can kind of see very positive in the elementary grades and that dip in sixth grade that transition year. I think again, I think there's two things. In fact, it you know, factoring in there. I
think we have curricular questions that we want to look at in sixth grade and we are addressing in sixth grade. We also have to kind of address the fact that that transition year
from elementary school to middle school. Um, I think one of the really positive things you can see is that once they are in middle school, that sixth seventh and 8th grade is a
complete positive trend if we look at the last one, we have that dip in ninth grade and we're gonna talk a little bit about how we can address that
from a cohort, stand. Moving on to science science, a little bit different in that scientists the science exams only administered in fifth
eighth and 11th grades. It's taking over two days. It's still 180 days of testing. essentially similar in that they have both forced response questions and constructive
response questions for students have to kind of justify their thinking. Scores there between a hundred and three hundred and here, they're only four
categories from minimal proficiency to advance proficiency again. What we want to look at and what the state wants to look at is look at those top two categories that's
not too tears. Here's fifth, eighth and 11th grade. You can see, fifth grade 65% compared to the state. I think one thing I want us to notice is that the science state
results are considerably lower than math, which is actually again lower than Ela, the eighth grade results, 39%. We're going to talk a little bit about Worried that actually is a big jump. It's
more than double the state, the state's only 19%. I did reach out to the state to kind of get a little bit of clarification as to exactly why only 19% of 8th graders in New Jersey are meeting the
standards that we're setting. I didn't get a super clear response on that, but we were going to talk a little bit of what we have in place. It's a
support our students moving forward, and some things that we're doing to kind of make students connect, what they're doing in the classroom with what's going on in the state
test and states. Again, we compared it to district factor Group day districts, we are slightly lower than their five-year average or for your average and
it's only a four year average that's all the test was given. That's They started giving the science exam looking at this in kind of chart form again. Um, we are
double or nearly double what the state averages are and that doesn't mean that there's not room for improvement there. There's a dip in eighth grade similar to what the state has.
Looking at it across four years. I think that what we see a couple things first, there's a rising trend in all of them. That's positive that, you know, there is improvement there is
again room for more improvement but that's nice to see. I also thought it's nice to see that, although eighth grade is low. There was a big bounce in eighth grade back from the
previous year. and I think that was really positive. That we're at 39% overall. We're approaching that district factor group results, 56%. and
the rising trend. I think is something that's really positive. And I said, We're going to kind of dig into areas of improvement, also, strengths, as well. Starting with
highlights. I think we have some very strong proficiency rates in mathematics, almost 76% of the students meeting or exceeding levels across math significantly, outperforming the state. Again, it is about a
percentage point higher than what the previous years DFG, results are the interesting to see where that comes in when those results are released to
us. Hopefully, in December growth. And math 3.3 Percentage point increase in the number of students that we're meeting or exceeding, that's across all
grade levels. So that is an increase for us. strengthen elementary math. I think that there it's very clear that the elementary math was, you know, far above the state standards there and in the
meeting and exceeding categories, 37 points above the state. I think that we want to acknowledge that there is growth in science. That there is a positive trajectory and that's
a really good thing. We are seeing growth the science testing results of the highest that have ever been in the district this year. The night 2019 was the first year. The
science test was In New Jersey and we are higher than we were then. Eighth grade rebound. Rebounded, it was a 15 percentage point. Increase
again. we're going to talk about some stuff we have in place for science to get even better but I think that is a positive thing for those teachers to see you know it did
bounce back from where they were areas for improvement. Ninth grade students taking algebra in high school under form compared to their peers again This is something that an in Katy talked about when we talked about Ela
that that ninth grade cohort, might need a little bit more support. Especially as we move towards the NJ GPA testing the following year their junior year. Sixth grade math. This continues to be
a difficult year, not just I think because of transition but we are looking at curriculum changes. I'll show you the next slide and then science again. I
think although they continue to improve there is room for improvement there to really get those results, you know, higher and also to bring us up to, you
know, above hopefully our peer district. so I'm looking at each of those six, great math, sixth grade math, this year is implementing a new curriculum. It is the curriculum that was implemented
for the first time last year in grades hatred 5. You can see the elementary had improvements. It'd be nice to see sixth grade also kind of seeing those
improvements. I think Alignment's gonna help there. The fact that students are used to the curriculum. It's an increased rigor, more evidence-based, curriculum
students are more eng. With the mathematics and required to make their own connections with this curriculum. And the sixth grade teachers are working very hard
in implementing This is big change for them, so that's something that we're working on is something that's going to take time. There is professional
development. during the November PD days. Myself, I've been working with them at least every week I was in there. Today we met with the I-READY team again today to kind of look
at implementing that curriculum. Some things that we can do to really kind of help the students there.
And we've also looked at small group targeted interventions support. We use last year's njsla, results, as well as the i-ready diagnostic and previous year link, it results. Kind of identify students for small
group intervention during their tutorial period. Looking at ninth grade ninth grade similar that we're looking at intervention things there to
kind of help that cohort specifically. So we've increased spiral review throughout the year specifically addressing standards that we identified in
the njsla as students struggling in this was particularly functions and like domain and range and a lot of how those apply to real world situations. So we want to kind of be able
to circle back to things that they were either doing. previously in math 8 and then for our sophomores what they were doing previously in Albert One just in a geometry class
where they were spiraling. some of that in terms of parallel lines and perpendicular lines. Yesterday stays gone. But um, students who struggled in the previous two years of njsla,
kind of did a data analysis and then we're pulling those students for small group intervention during dog time and their lunch as well. So that's
again, more support we have for that ninth grade cohort. um, science, there's a lot of professional development that we have right now for science teachers from middle
and high school grades in looking at, they're doing phenomena based learning in the classroom and the science classrooms are doing a lot of really awesome things in terms of hands-on stuff. What we want
to make sure is that we can take that hands-on labs and everything they're doing and then connect that back to the standards, we have professional
development to full days during November. And another day February, we're a team coming in that specializes and taking
phenomena based learning and then connecting it to each. and three areas of standards for the anti-sls. So that's something that we're really doing to kind of hope that we can take a lot
of what we're doing that, I think is really awesome science work in the classroom but allowing it to connect back to New Jersey standards. It's kind of improve test results there in the high
school side of things. We have two new courses running this year in the high school, the physics of sports and the natural. Disasters. Course both
of these Is their design so that students can be exposed to both the Earth. Soft standards, Earth, Science, Standards and Physics Science, Physical Science. standards at the high
school. I think. In years past what we had as students either taking a physics course their junior year or an environmental science course, and then they
were there for maybe missing some of the state learning standards in that third. Science course. So now these are semester long courses designed to kind of bridge the gap. If
you wanted to take AP environmental science, you could then, instead of taking another full year course, take a semester long course in the physics of sports likewise. If
you wanted to concentrate in physics, you could then take a semester long course in natural disasters, which really spilling in those Earth science standards
both those courses again I was in them. I've been in a fair bit since their new courses being run. There's a lot of really awesome stuff that the teachers
doing there to kind of allow students who might not be as engaged with physics or environmental science connect with those standards. Their
Little rockets and they were dropping balls off of the stadium over here to kind of predict where they would go in the physics. Course, the environmental science course,
they were doing a lot of looking at rage to kind of predict where earthquakes would go so on. So really neat stuff for them. And again all that's tied to the state learning standards.
I'll take questions before I'm going to tag Katy back in for Dln and Rita. On the science. and you don't want to teach to a test, right? I mean I know you know that it's a card because I think sometimes when you do more
of the project-based learning projects research, it doesn't always translate to to standardized tests. And, you
know, so it's yeah I feel like you explicit like Yeah we know this is the standard, we're trying to reach. We know that this is the standard that the lab is showing us that the kids are playing with something. How do
we make that explicit in the right up? Yeah, that's true. Like yeah I think you supposed to be the lady. We have common is supposed to be really awesome. I get to get a little
Foreshadowing of it. I'm going to the NJ Science Convention on Tuesday next week and I'll be able to see her workshop there and connect with her connect
with her already online via zoom, but kind of see a little bit what she does. But that's really what she does. As she looks at the njslas has three main areas for science and all three days. Each
day is just concentrating on one of them whether or ideas science engineering practices and so on. And then saying, All right, what are we doing? Phenomena based, How do we draw
back to this area of the standards? Don't think that she pretty, okay, thank you. Overview. DLM and wheat are to standardize assessments that are administered in our district to
very few students. However, we are still required to report the results of those assessments. The DION is the dynamic. Learning maths assessment It is
administered to students with severe or significant cognitive disabilities. These are students who have to meet certain criteria, those criteria on this side. So you can get a
sense of the students that we're talking about, it is fewer than 1% of the students in our population, and it's an alternative to the njsla administered in grades three
through eight with those students. And during an IEP meeting the case manager and the family and the teachers will determine whether the DLM is appropriate for that student. Whether the student
has matched a criteria for this. So the DLM score reports provide scores related to their overall performance in these four categories that you can see here. And last year we have
fewer than 10 students, taking this assessment. So we were not allowed to report the results this year we do have 12. So as
soon as the number of seats 10, then we are able to So, we want to report those and this information is probably not going to give you too much
detail because this is all of our students in creates three through eight, who took the assessment. combined. We cannot say, what grade levels, they
were in because it would make those students identifiable. So, these are how our students
performed In ELA and in math on the DLL. Guida is very similar. This assessment is administered to students. Who are
multilingual learners again in other districts, you might have a much higher number of students that are taking this assessment for us. This
assessment really guides our teachers, who are working with those students, who are teaming learners so that they know exactly what skills to work on with them. So, This. I'm not
going to read all of these details to you, but you can take a look at these if you're interested in what the wida assesses.
Here's our population. We had nine students so because once again, we're under 10, we can't report the results of these beacon sort of see the
distribution of our ML learners in the district, by taking a look at this chart. Again, once we have the peer comparison, we will be updating this presentation but we will
share the presentation now as it is. Yeah, the only other one is we do have an appendix in the appendix stress is all of the subgroup reporting. We're not
going to go through the other, I don't know. 40 slides, if you on this, but this is of course available. And as Katy mentioned, we're gonna update
with the DFG reports and the other one is really what we're looking forward to seeing what will happen with the adaptive test, Okay, thank you.
for the DLM. Is that just students that are within district. So any students that we've sent out of districts? No, they're not, just we're responsible for, for testing District, even if they're out of place in the out of district
place, is it helpful for seeing? If the out of district placements are effective or Yeah? Yeah, it is a, it's a single data point along with the other child
study team testing and your progress monitoring data that we take a look at it. Certainly does provide a whole foods. And thank you, appreciate that.
I know a lot of work went into it. Thank you tip, for curriculum Committee manager. That was kind of it, right? Yes. Very much Katie and Russell for this beautiful presentation, we
got to hear. We got to hear yesterday, too. So we're really good but just really exciting to see and, you know, watch the incredible ways that we're analyzing this data, the
incredible performance of our students and teachers and that we're continuing to improve. It's exciting to see. The only other thing I'd say is we took a peek at some new and revised
maps. Being reviewed now but will not be on the agenda for approval till November and there were three of those and that was it.
Thank you. I'm great. We do not have finances facilities yet policy we did last time lrfp, we had learning colliers. So all right, ETA updates. I have an update from Lizzie. Okay, and I met with the Elizabethan PTA
president who happens to being ableist. She is very excited about how things are going so far. I think rightfully so they had a really great turnout for
their first meeting 25 attendees, which is pretty Big. Sheet attributed not to that to Mr. Bissinger, doing a
state of the school address again, highly dating on a school level basis, the njsla results, and the school climate survey results. They are at 194 PTA members when
she, and I spoke, which was up from 130 last year. The fall fair was the most financially successful they've had to date. Raising funds, which support
the district including field trips. They've granted every teacher wish list request so far. They use those funds to provide three meals for
teachers during teacher conference weeks. They're starting a lunchtime gardening club noon time in Richmond sign UPS will be coming up in summer and the PTA is providing field trip T-shirts
for the kids so that they haven't a designated shirt to wear on field trips. Sounds like a great. Had.
neural ownership meeting last night which I attended a couple of reminders for this a whole week. There's a diamond donate on Wednesday. This coming Wednesday, October 22nd, and
Shake Shack. And then on Thursday night, There's the fall parent. Social Atkins River Brewery, that's from 7 to 10, no tickets needed. People can stop
by and you do have to mention that you're there for the team. Social Thank you. Yes. Dr.
Oh, Dr. Priolo yes. Trying to take notes. and he had this. So we had a wonderful recognition tonight. I appreciate those who were able to make it for 25-26. Educators of the year I get to talk a
little bit about this last year. I credit Mississippi, who's her idea to honor our recipients for football games. So I'm hoping this will be now annual tradition with it. Last week, we kicked off the 26-27 educator of
the Year. Award process, nominations we're sent out last week. I strongly encourage folks, to nominate, deserving educators, that closes, at the
end of the month. Thank you for those. I heard back from. I'm still looking for three board members to serve on this year's scoring communities, if you want
shooting email, if you're interested, I promise I make it as efficient. As possible, so
that's fantastic. Oh, I also want to announce that next month. I think it's during the work. No, during the action meeting,
I'll be presenting the district-wide results of last spring's climate survey. So, a lot of good and interesting work happening there. And then finally, we
finally received our 2025 Cusack Scores. And there's yeah. They're not.
little bit the good news is we pass in? All right, The other good news that we scored a hundred percent in what is most software refers is the most challenging category to score 100% in, which is the personnel section. That means all of our evaluations and
guidelines, and regulation. It is one of the more heavily regulated areas and a very proud that we scored 100%. I'm going to temper it
with I, I would like to see higher scores in our other areas. but the silver lining in that is that all of the areas we received reductions are easily
remedy. We're not talking about anything that require like we were missing curricular requirements or other areas that require any kind of wholesale change. Of all the categories that you
receive points for across the five domains. We got deducted in seven areas. and that resulted in the 8989-91-91 and there were things like
ours, bus safety drills were linked in our agenda as opposed to being specifically in agent. That's why. if we like lost six points,
another area we lost six points in was board members. Note public, may not know that all board members and school district administrators have to file ethics disclosures every year.
Well unfortunately one staff member that submitted it a day late. So we Lost all of our points in that area here. So those are the kinds of 9 here to get your testing done and those
are the things we received productions for so on on one and like, there's no award or no incentive to have a perfect score, you know, from
the state's perspective, you just have But darn it. has very nice. So, I actually have I have until Tuesday to file any kind of appeal with any areas. So, we just got the
scores, what last night. last night. So, I have a week to do that. I've already gathered our, some internal members of our team to look at. where we wanted people. I am
going to appeal the bus safety one, I want those six points so much I can do with the ethics disclosure, but there are some other areas that we might be able to regain some point. So
my hope is, I come back to the board in a couple meetings to say that we were successful in those appears. It's important note with the instruction
program. That a big 60 points that is based on test scores, right? So all the curriculum work was a hundred was got full credit for all the cricket all the stuff it's
just that when they are test scores came back yes you get based. So you point conducted for certain for not doing expires. That's it. And all the
points we received on the curricular work. I I can't credit, Ross now, I'll try you. Have deserved the lion's share of the credit for that. So thank you. Thank you.
Well done. Well, thank you here. So very Indeed, you know, once that leaderboard is that, I mean, so Chuck said it's me and I'm like, My response was what's with the 895.
But what we're like, we passed. It's a really hard. I thank you for your hard work. It's very details. A lot to organize over
and above all the stuff you normally do it. And you know, as much as I I won't and grow to about this. Times. It's a good
opportunity. Every three years. You're a really deep dive into all of our processes and procedures to make sure we remain aligned and doing what we're statutorily and and what we're required to to
do. Yeah, I I think it hurt us those years, we were performing or whatever they said and we didn't have to file them because it did it hurt us. Like there's
a reason why you do these You know, and why, you know, forces you to reach out what you're doing. And make sure you're all up a lot of those things are dictated
by the 397, whatever policies that we have, that have all these sometimes embedded statutory requirements, and due dates. And the state is actually
done a better job in communicating and sending reminders to school districts about that. Because sometimes it's easy to lose sight that in policy. 5751,
there's a requirement by October 1st, every third year that we have when you're running the school district,
right? But it's it's good to have, there's a good reason why they're there. And even if we don't agree with the reason, you know, we have a moral ethical responsibility to the top of all
of those things, we're going to continue to keep our eye on the ball in Louisiana. Okay, great. Thank you. Okay, this class a
few things I spoke with Rob the safety plan. He's discussed Last week, he's making those language showers. I'm working in the formatting changes but He's got the States. Really
completely redoing it this year. So as he's reformatting now it's gonna be gross, a new version of that collaboration. So that's I want, you know, you
look at that. Um, it is October 16th. Which means our student accounting. Up those state was. Yes, you know. So now as we were hoping
our our friends who are moving into the place of Haddonfield got in In September or August. We're now hoping they did in mad
because not see any funding from those fat. Any new students we get from the place I had until we wanna see funding from them, till the 27 28 school year from
them. That's that that could be that's the only funding we get. That's right that's the only time only right now. It's not a fault of their own. Oh no. But yeah, we thought
like we have other fun but you, one of the things you look at there's very likely to be title. One funny coming with that which could be significant
and that's now two years out. Thank you for that. Um, we were informed last Thursday to board meeting that our transformer up back with Will um Pseg was out. They're
gonna replace a Transformer but they don't know how long was leaking oil. So, oh great, they actually have to do a dig underneath this for environmental purpose of other
they pull up the stuff. They're the dig underneath and see how deep you will goes. So, the high school facilit complex will be without power for 16 to 32 hours while they
do all that works. It keep testing the soils, a good digger deeper. So we're planning that for a January. I'm sorry
November 6, which is For alternative covering that testing who's paying for the PSG? um, The six, which is a
Thursday for during teaching convention, we were going to try to go earlier but that same week they're bringing cranes in the middle school because of the HVAC system so they can't
use case in middle school. So we have to have PD somewhere. So all PD's, the high school. So we're going back that four-day
weekend we're doing so they can go Thursday, Friday, Saturday. If weather is terrible. I guess we'll ask them to wait until
winter break. Because can't be in the building, there'll be no service. Let me know systems in the building for safety. Um, Finally. I start, I think we've talked about before I have the
student advisory panels one in middle school went to high school. We start meeting this week. The high school. It was fun just after six weeks of discuss, I
gave them blank calendars for the 27, 28, four years. They're gonna come back with calendars so we're basically pretty good. With students think the school
calendar should look like, so it'll be have you. Yeah. No they had to follow there where they need to be there. How many days have that? So they're gonna come back
with that. So that's our first project doing there. Um, I was originally, we talked about me developing the calendar versus marketing here, just be kind of the principles. So we're talking that middle Middle school is coming up with
parameters for e-bike and e-scooter, safety rules around us and consequences, not following. So, we talked about if Mr. Mchale's outside, you see a student without a
boyfriend, without a helmet on? what do we do and they're talking about education, They're talking that one person that we need to bring in trauma,
sir. A trauma doctor to talk about what happens when you hit the ground with other helmet kids, learn that they talked about maybe having helmet
vendors. Come in educate families and students. So they can see what the helmets look like, um, and things like, you come without your helmet, Maybe
you should get a lunch attention, you have to do a worksheet on. like helmetry. So we'll be presenting. Probably them again in a couple weeks. So we're gonna come back here. I'll
help. Maybe I'll have them come, or I'll just present the right days. So that's the kind of stuff we're working on this type of thing, so that there's
both be started off great night, but frankly into it both kids have great. Up. And once again,
it's funny because They want regular lunch, detention 10 years. Just look at the high school, right? When they we had to talk the committee for the
code of conduct they want, right to open campus. And because they know it's like, Oh yeah. So they won't. Very well. It was it.
Was great. Um, okay. Nothing from me side from reminder to purchase your rally in the alley tickets, they are up for sale. Okay, we'll go on to pop
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And approval of. The 26-27 Academic Calendar Motion. Make. And stuff. Well, just oh,
It was just. Yes, question about the location of the the bus driver. Sorry. Sorry. I will say that I think my daughter's having about, I
really like being in the school district because you girls and we didn't do that. Okay. Mike are Bruno so Jackson
clap. Yes. It's Hollywood. Yes. Mr. Ritter yes. This is the
deep. Yes. Vice President Hobart. Yes. It's beneke. Yes, to all, but F1 Distress. Yes. President
Cricket. Yes. Hey curriculum, special education, approval field trips conferences. Traveling overnight field trips resolution to approve the
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and Visually Impaired. Motion. So, Tom work. Okay discussion
because He especially, all right. It's Holland working.
Still. Yes. Cindy. Yes. Vice President Hoover, yes. It's
finicky. Yeah. The stress, yes. Dressing player. Yeah. President Corkus yes. Person. Now approval of personnel, transfer
salary, upgrades mentoring extra Coaching point, and fleas of optimism resignations resolution for Elementary Teachers to Be Paid Curriculum Rate Resolution for Carolyn Taylor to provide
who have instruction resolution for Madison brazowski to provide home in instruction, Resolution for compensation, for Caroline Brown for additional three
hours, Resolution to approve compensation for Megan's gavada. To move her classroom resolution to compensation, for carrying
Hanzo to her classroom. Resolution, to approve, Ashley Miller from her gun instruction resolution to improve the following employees from Havana
instruction for students. Alright, Goshen. Dragon Matt. Questions. Are we missed? Mr. Wailing. Our new students was
here tonight. Yes, So I get to introduce you, I I'll make sure he comes back another time. Yeah, I got. We got some of that
I and he starts one one. Five five? Okay, I was thinking business service. Yes yes, we're here to break. Do not understand.
Okay, Mr. Ritter yes. The city. Yes. Vice President Hill Girdle. Yes. It's beneke. Yes.
The stress. Yes. Mr. Messinclair, yes. This Holland worth. Yes. President Crooked. Yes.
Okay. This is in finance approval of the receipt of the budget, calendar for 2627 approval of the annual maintenance budget. rejection
of all bids for the interior, alterations of the 1890s building at central payment of bills, budget transfers board, secretaries, and forecast
Summer Review course. Motion. Okay, Jeff. my staff and say, I swear. Yeah, I start to like I
get like the sun down here. um, Subsection D. It looks like we need a five at the end of October. we're not the year
200, so There are 202 bills. Yeah. The other couple. Okay, you call it. Straighter. Yes. This is
the deep. Yes. Vice President, Hobird. Yes. It's beneke. Yes. This dress, yes, Mr. Essence
player, yeah. This hauling words, yes. President Cricket. Yes, approval of the minutes from September
11th and September 25th. Motion. Absolute Questions.
Okay. Mr. Deep. Yes. I started in Hobird. Yes. Disconnecting.
Yeah. The stress. yes, abstain Feet press and player. Yeah.
It's Hollywood. Yes. Mr. Ritter yes. President Griffin, yes. Items for students future
consideration by the board. Okay. Listen to turn. Okay, not evidence.