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Part 1 (Video ID: VE23r8xWDpM):
- 00:12:46: Board Meeting Commences: Roll Call and Executive Session
- 00:42:40: Meeting Reopens: Flag Salute and Student Representative Report
- 00:45:51: Recognition and Acknowledgements: Ben Franklin Art Presentation
- 00:52:34: Music Program Distinction, Ben Franklin Recorder Performance
- 00:58:46: Farewell Redeema Pandi, Welcome Abram Williams
- 01:03:53: Board Member Recognition and Minutes Adoption
- 01:06:03: Superintendent and Board Secretary Reports; Remembering Holart
- 01:10:59: Board President, Student Board Member, and Liaison Reports
- 01:20:52: Public Comment Introduction and Preschool Program Presentation
- 01:51:50: Preschool Presentation Discussion and Board Questions
- 02:00:14: Personnel Committee and Action Items Approval
- 02:01:50: CIPD Committee Report and Action Items Approval
- 02:05:40: Finance Committee Report and Action Items Approval
- 02:07:22: Final Public Input, New Business, Meeting Adjournment


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Thank you everyone for coming to our board meeting. Um okay, let's see. Sorry. Um Tom, um can we have our roll call, please? >> Miss Bose

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>> here. >> Mr. Caparata >> here. >> Mr. Clark. >> Miss Evans >> here. Miss Kroger >> here. >> Miss Kelly >> here. >> Miss Martinez >> here. >> Miss Pascouli >> here. >> Mr. Vanheis,

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you have a quorum. >> Thank you very much, Tom. Um, the uh New Jersey Open Public Meeting Act authorizes the board of ed to meet in executive session under certain circumstances. Um, that uh sorry, the Open Public Meeting Act requires the

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board to adopt a resolution at public meeting to go into private session. Um this evening we will be meeting in executive session to discuss certain items involving uh matters involving personnel issues including but not limited to the employment appointment

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termination of employment terms and conditions of employment evaluation of performance promotion or discipline of any public officer or employee. Specifically this evening we will be discussing the CSA evaluation. Formal action will not be taken. Executive session should last approximately 15 to

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20 minutes. Um, may I have a motion to move into all in favor? >> I make it quick. >> Okay. We'll be going into executive session and be back by about 10 minutes of 7. Thank you. and welcome to our board meeting. Uh,

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the New Jersey open public meeting law was enacted to ensure the rights of the public to have advanced notice of and to attend meetings of public bodies at which any business affecting their interest is discussed or acted upon. As required under the law, adequate notice of this meeting has been provided via

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email and or fax to the times, the Lawrence Ledger, the Trentonian, the public library, and has been filed with the municipal clerk. This notice has this notice was provided prior to the 48 hours required by the open public meetings act. The board reserves the right to limit public discussion of

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personnel items and other matters as defined in the law. Okay, we'll do our flag salute. to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands one nation under God

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with liberty and justice for all. >> This was the best flag salute we've had in a long time. Thank you friends. Um, okay. Student uh representative report. Do we have any peer leaders today? >> Oh, we do.

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>> Oh, yay. Welcome, peer leader. >> Hi, I'm Mia Adler and I'm a junior in peer leadership. For Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday in the high school, we had freshman and junior testing. It went smoothly. No hiccups. It was nice. I'm

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participated in it. So, it was good. Um, today the baseball team, the boys baseball team won 31. Very nice. >> Yay. Baseball team. >> Against.

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>> Yes, against Steiner. After the rain, it all worked out. So, it was amazing. >> AAPI celebration took place last night. It was an amazing turnout. If you noticed walking in, there was a whole array of decorations in the front

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office. They really celebrated their culture and it was amazing. Um, for next year, the class officers right now are getting their votes to be representatives, to be secretaries, all that kind of stuff. They're getting ready to speak to the classes to get

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their votes on who will be vice president, president, all that kind of stuff. the top six players for tennis. Next Tuesday will go off to go to states. We're very excited for that.

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>> Yay! Tennis, go-karts. >> And throughout May, student council has been hosting mental health Mondays where they did stress ball, DIY stress balls. They did yoga and origami. It was a

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really nice space for students to kind of decompress throughout the week, especially from HP testing. It was an amazing week, amazing month. Thank you. >> Thank you so much. >> Excellent. Okay. Uh recognition and acknowledgements. Dr.

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>> I'd like to call up Dr. Barrya for some a presentation. >> Good evening everybody. Uh for the folks in the audience and at home, my name is Dr. Damen Barrya. I'm the supervisor of mathematics, science, and the arts for the elementary grades here in Lawrence Township. On behalf of all the K12 music and art teachers of the district, and my

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administrative counterpart, Dr. Sarah Foster, I would like to thank the board for having us each month to give our students yet another forum throughout the year in which to display their artwork and to perform for the public. Our art display this evening is from Ben Franklin Elementary School and is one piece of a larger project in which all

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four elementary schools participated this year. Each school produced a panel much like the one you saw hanging as you walked in meant to represent the students of each school. If you attended LTEF's Lawrence Has Talent event uh last month, you saw they were all displayed together in the main entrance hallway to the high school. The intent of this

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project was to demonstrate that even though our students all grow from different elementary schools, they are all united under the commonality of being members of the Lawrence Township Public Schools community. Miss Jen Scarupa is the art teacher at Ben Franklin and she brought some friends this evening to share a few words with

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the board. Miss Karupa, bring your friends up. >> Hi, good evening. Oh, join us one. Good evening. I'm Jen Scarupa and I'm the art teacher over at Ben Franklin. Uh, thank you everyone for coming tonight and thank you for letting your children come and help present what we have for our

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board of education. We have a theme tonight with our flowers that were put on display for Lawrence Town along with the other schools of thank you for letting us grow, keeping us growing here in our district. >> Our students here at Ben Franklin, every third grader creates a play project that

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they get to take home with them every year. something we look forward to from kindergarten on that we get to get our hands on the play, create school, and make something that I'm sure these families will be taking home their kids artwork just like all the other families have that they'll keep and treasure

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forever. Um, we do have gifts for you, but before we present some gifts to you guys, we would like to share with you a little bit of how they do their in building. Hey You are. Wow.

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So, we go through the entire process of sculpting the clay, building, learning everything they need to know that when they get set up to move over to the middle school and high school, they know what to do when it comes to creating this type of artwork. And I'm very proud that was all third grade work. So, they did amazing job. There's some third

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graders here, third graders there. And they would like to share with you their their craftsmanship. So, So, I have a question. Do we have a kiln at Ben Franklin? >> We have A KILN AT BEN. >> WELL, that's amazing and wonderful.

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>> So, my son is graduating college tomorrow. I just have to shout that out. Who went to Ben Franklin and I don't know if they had a kiln then. I don't think so. But I have all of the pottery my kids did in every grade on my dresser. So, I'm about to cry right now.

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So parents have to save it all. >> So come on over. >> Please enjoy. And our the plants provided were provided by our our PTO. So I think >> um they're sharing that with us. So >> Oh my gosh, they're gorgeous. Miss

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Garupa, >> thank you for spending your evening with us. Some little birdie told us it's a special day. So, we want to wish you a very happy birthday. >> You made this. >> Oh, thank you. >> These are amazing.

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>> Oh, that's for Mr. Kevin. >> Do they shrink? >> Beautiful. >> Do Do they get like Or does it say the same when you make it? >> The best one we've ever got. Yours like when you made yours when you make the >> Pepper needs a card. Pepper didn't get a card.

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>> Thank you. >> Oh, Miss Dr. Flynn needs a card. Any extra cards? >> Oh, >> Mr. Eldridge can get a card, too. >> I have one. >> Oh, he does have one. Okay. I love >> Wonderful. Thank you.

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>> Is this like wax on top and you >> did you guys make the cards, too? >> It's okay. >> Somebody else did them. >> It's right here. >> Wax color and you scratch out the color. >> We love your cards, too. We're missing

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someone. >> We're missing Mr. Vanheis. So, if you want to leave it, we can totally get it to him or whatever. >> Happy birthday. >> Thank you. Do you see the smiles because of you all? >> Thank you, Ben Franklin.

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>> See the smiles? It's because of you guys. >> We thank them for coming out. >> Sweet. >> Okay, >> that was wonderful. >> Try my best. Thank you very much, Ben Franklin artists. Since our last board meeting, we've learned that the Lawrence Township Public Schools has once again

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earned the distinction of being a best community in music education uh by the National Association of Music Merchants. This is our district's 16th time earning this award since 2004 and recognizes the commitment to music education not only by our students, teachers,

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administrators, and board, but also by the greater Lawrence community, families, community members, civic organizations, businesses, nonprofits, and other groups that partner with us in creating and sustaining the music education that students experience here in Lawrence Township. For our final

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board meeting performance of the 2526 school year, Miss Colleen Leaf Flamelain is here with her Ben Franklin third grade recorder students to perform two numbers for you. Ben Franklin friends, take it away. Luck. If parents want to come up

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>> to take you can stand up here. >> Feel free >> come around >> so you can see their faces. >> Take your pictures to play songs. >> Is it this one? Okay. Recorder friends. You're just going to wait while your grown-ups come around if you would like

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to. to stand behind. >> We are going to play you two of our favorite songs tonight. >> One of them is a classic with a little twist and one of them is about a sheep and you'll see what happens. >> All right. All right. Ready?

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Hot cross buns. Hot cross buns. One a two a cross buns. Hot cross buns. Hot cross buns. One a two a hot cross buns.

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Hot cross buns are a thing of beauty. You can eat a plain or extra fruipor. >> Hot cross buns. Grown-ups, could we just get a show of hands if you ever played that song on recorder? >> No. >> You guys look around. >> Did you ever play it that way? Never.

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>> Oh, probably not. Right. >> Not as good as they not as well as they did. >> All right, here comes Perry. the sheep fell asleep. Did a sheep sleep

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and ate a record. Now he talks like this. Now he talks like this. Oh the sheep fell asleep and ate a record. Say hello.

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Say hello. Oh, the sheep fell asleep. Did sheep walk and say, "I'm hungry." I'm hungry.

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Oh, the sheep fell asleep. Did a sheep sleepwep say goodbye? Say goodbye. >> We're going to turn and we're going to come. Thank you. >> Well done. Thank you. >> Thank you so much. Ben Franklin friends.

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>> Oh my gosh. So adorable. >> Okay. Okay. Good. Yes. Yes. Yes. Okay. Thank you to all our friends for coming out tonight and performing for us. We really appreciate it.

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Thank you. Um this evening I would like to take some time to recognize our 2526 student representative Redeema Pandi for her countless contributions to the board of education. Redeema, you've been a breath of fresh air for this board, for

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this to this community. You bring a perspective to the table as well as to the as the perspective of the entire student body here in Lawrence Township. >> We always look forward to hearing your reports, learning about what the students are experiencing and what we can do better. Most of all, we

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appreciate the way you deliver your report your reports with professionalism and poise. And we will certainly miss you having you on the board with us every month. We wish you the best of luck as you fly out of the cardinal nest. and we know you will do great things and we hope you come back to

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visit us in the future. Thank you so much. >> And we have a very beautiful plaque to present to you. If the board can just come around and we'll take a picture. >> Thank you. Sit down. >> All right. >> To be president. It won't be at all.

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>> Okay, we're not done yet. >> I'm gonna welcome up Miss Rensio, our student council advisor, because we will be welcoming our incoming 2627 student representative, Abram Williams. >> All right,

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>> Abram. Abram is seen as a leader by his peers and is a responsible individual by his teachers. He is an honoral student, a member of the LHS track and field team. >> Yes. >> Recently served as co-m of the LHS Black

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History Month celebration. I want to thank the high school selection committee comprised of class officers and all of the classes, faculty adviserss, student council who interviewed five students and then made a final decision to choose Abram. They

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wanted him as their representative. They will. He will give their voice. Although Abram won't be sworn in officially until September 9th board meeting, he's here tonight and up at the podium to say a few words. Floor is yours. >> Welcome. >> Hello everyone. How's everybody doing

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today? >> Good. Doing good. >> Thank you. Um so yeah, my name is Abram Williams. Um I'm a junior here at Lawrence High School. I will be a senior next year. Um cards, you know, go Cards. Um I'm very thankful for being chosen for this position. you know, giving students a voice and being a

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representative of the district is a huge responsibility that I am willing and ready to, you know, take up. Um, I was very nervous going out for this position, especially the day I found out because, um, Mr. Seno told me I need to go to Dr. Adam's office like randomly out of the day and I was like, uh, what

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did I do? Like, oh god. >> Yeah. And she was like, oh, take your stuff, too. And she didn't tell me why. I was just like, oh my goodness, what did I do? Like, oh no. Um, so yeah, she kept it very vague obviously to keep the surprise of everything and I'm very happy she did cuz you know it just added

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to I don't know like the surprise of finding out. Um, and walking into the office and telling uh them telling me that I got the position was just a breath of fresh air. I just felt like like I could breathe, you know, but um I'm very happy to take up this position. Um, again, thank you to the people who

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did choose me and I'm happy to see you guys for the next couple of months. You know, we're going to be brothers and sisters for the next couple months. So, >> thank you guys. Congratulations, >> Mr. Sensio. Did you want to say something? Yes, >> please. Said he took a breath of fresh air. Do you remember his reaction?

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>> That was literally the >> I said, um, take a breath. You can take your book bag off. He sat down with his book bag on >> and I said, you can breathe. And then he went, >> it was the most incredible response. It was super cool. >> We're very happy to have you.

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>> Yeah. >> Thank you so much. We love our student uh board member. We are so excited. Every year we meet amazing young people who give a voice to all of the students out there to the board. So, we look forward to a great year with you. And

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may I share one thing? At our county board meeting that we had, our last one of the month, there was a board member who was just in your positions as a senior at the high school and now is a board member in Hamilton Township. So, hang on. youngest board member in the

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state of New Jersey. >> Wow. >> So, yes, >> we don't expect much. >> We do like to win. >> All right. >> Thank you. >> Welcome, Abram. Um, so finally, I have one more recognition to announce. Last

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week, three of our >> Oh, sorry. >> Oh, Abram, I do have >> Sorry, we have a gift. >> Thank you. >> Don't leave empty-handed. This is for you in case you want to leave. >> Yes. You don't need to stay for the whole board meeting

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>> this time. >> This. >> Yeah. You have plenty of time to spend with us in the future. So, >> all right. Thanks to Siri for keeping me on my toes. >> Yeah. >> Okay. So, one more recognition for tonight. Um, last week three of our

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board members were celebrated at the New Jersey School Boards Association County School Board's annual recognition ceremony for their milestone years of service to the Lawrence Township Board of Education. Congratulations to Michelle Bose for 10 years serving on

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the board. Joanne Groger, 15 years. Kevin Vanheis, who's not here tonight, another 15 years. I think we are unique here in Lawrence and we are so fortunate to have such dedicated board members. So, thank you very much for your service. You truly do

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care about the families and students of the district. Um, they also received their certificates last week. Um, but tonight, let's give Michelle, Joanne, and Kevin a big round of applause. >> Our pleasure, right? >> Yes, it is. Okay.

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>> Okay. Is that it? Am I up now? Okay. Um, oh, >> okay. Adoption of the minutes. Can I have a motion to adopt the executive session and regular session minutes from the May 6, 2026 meeting? So moved.

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>> Second. >> Tom, with a motion and a second, please. >> Mr. Caparata? >> Yes. >> Mr. Clark? >> Abstain. >> Miss Evans? >> Yes. >> Miss Kroger? >> Yes. >> Miss Kelly? >> Yes. >> Miss Martinez? >> Yes.

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>> Miss Pasculi? Yes, >> Miss Bose. >> Yes. >> Motion carried. >> Thank you very much. Uh, reports to the board. Superintendent report. >> All right. So, I just want to reiterate a special thanks to our Ben Franklin crew for the artists and the musicians this evening. It was so special and what

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a beautiful gift. Um, it was wonderful watching them literally grow in front of our eyes. Uh, May is mental health awareness month. You'll recognize that I'm wearing green. that signifies what I hope to be stigmaf-ree schools across the district so that we have an awareness that every child no matter

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what they need how they need it we're making sure to deliver the emotional well-being and support that they deserve creating self uh safe inclusive supporting learning environments is essential to what we do and as a licensed clinician myself maintaining my lensure is something that I deeply value

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because I believe it's important to support the whole child so again we are committed here to fostering all of the care connection and compassion possible in our schools. Thank you. >> Great. Thank you. Board secretary report. >> We are moving on with the school year

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for 2627. So as we bring this to a close, the budget is open for 2627. Um it seems like it's uh all too soon. Um but here we are. >> So our information was transmitted to the county board of taxation as well as

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uh our municipal government and we are off and running from the last time we met. Um, I do have one thing that I'd like to say tonight. Um, and that is, um, an expression of gratitude to Robert Holsart and company uh, who are our

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former auditors. >> Um, Mr. Holart uh, Jr. U, Mr. Holes Senior passed away last summer. Mr. Hollesart Jr. passed away last night. >> Oh my Um and so uh we understood that

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they were um under uh a great stress um from things that they were concerned with and uh they were unable to continue on with their business for those reasons. And um I wanted to just um just reiterate what we all know was that our

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auditing firm uh through Holart & Company was a silent partner with us who was always there when we needed them. Um, many of you have been on the board when they have come to the podium and explained anything that was asked of them. Um, they were behind all of the

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validation for our referendum and signing off on all of our financial paperwork. >> Um, they uh put people before anything. Um, they were always interested in the performance of our school district. They

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greeted you with a smile no differently than our teachers greet their students. This is who uh they are in culture, as a company, as a as a family. They were the same way. Um they had a genuine interest in Lawrence Township Public Schools and

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predate my arrival by many years, not just a few. And so um we understood uh that this was a possibility. Um, and it was a a life um that ended far too too soon.

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Um, and so I will remember and uh as we all do our heroes as we carry that torch forward, the world is a better place because of Bob Holert, senior and junior. And with that, I know that we

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will carry on the staff uh or excuse me of the flame rather and making sure that we greet people with a smile and we put people before anything. Um and so I wanted to bring that to you. Um they always cared for our board of education.

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They always liked being in Lawrence. Um and so um with that, I don't know that there's anything else to say but gratitude for people who make the world a better place. Yes, thank you, Tom. And I would like to say our condolence goes out to the

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entire family. Um, and they were a part of our family for many, many, many years. Um, and it's just I mean, I'm I'm just a little caught off guard because I didn't know that. So, thank you for sharing that with us tonight. Um, and I really feel um, as always, we are very

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fortunate in our district. We work with great vendors and um accountants and attorneys and uh we know them well and we're a partner to them and and so it does um always shine a light on the importance of relationships that we

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build and the people in our life and um I I wish that family their whole family my deepest consolences and um you know just sorry to hear just sorry to hear >> we'll make contact on behalf of the board Please do. >> We'll reach out to the family and if

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there's services we will represent the board. >> Thank you. >> Okay. Okay. Um the board president report. Um thank you to Dr. Clim for recognizing

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the service of the board. Um for me it is an honor and a privilege to serve on this board. um to serve this community, to serve this school. Um it's something I don't take for granted. I love this district, um the staff, the students,

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and and the board members. Um it has been an amazing 10 years for me. Um I'm happy to be part of the new future with Dr. Clim and all of the great things that we're doing in this district. Um, I thank Joanne and Kevin uh for their

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years of service, for their mentorship to me personally. I would be remiss if I didn't thank my my VP and partner in crime um Pepper Evans who has been here for 13 years. Um I think our community

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benefits from the um tenure of some of our board members. Um, and I love our new board members and I look forward to a future where we're all learning from each other. I always say we have a lot to offer, but our new

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board members bring so much more to us. Um, and I hope we continue to do well for our district. Um, and I hope everybody knows how much uh this board means to me and this community and our administrators. Um, so thank you for

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supporting me on my journey here in Lawrence. Um, and that's that's it from me, board president. Um, okay. Liaison committee reports. Our last >> report from our student board member,

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Miss Pandandy, the floor is yours. >> A so um, hi everybody. Good evening. I feel pretty emotional right now because I really did appreciate this year with the board of education. I feel like it definitely helped me learn a lot more

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about my community. I connected more with the students around me and because I was in the board of education and I learned about educational policy. I am majoring in something policy related now and I did completely attribute it. >> Yeah, I did completely attribute it to

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the board of education. When my interviewer and everything was talking about it, I was like, "Oh my gosh, yes." Like I talked so much about the board of education. And I was like, "Yeah, like I love everybody there. I love what I do so much and I really do appreciate everything that you guys have done for

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me and I hope that I was able to contribute to your understanding of Lawrence as well over this time." Um, I did have like a short report of things that I've heard because now that APs are over, testing's over at LHS, I did ask

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the students to kind of reflect on the year overall. And from what I've been hearing, it has been overwhelmingly positive. So, underassmen, first of all, are extremely happy with the way that things are being run at LHS. And freshmen especially, have reported that

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they feel way more welcomed than they expected to be. I think that even when I was a freshman, I feel like I was like, "Oh my god, I don't know what high school is going to be like. I think I'm going to get shoved into the walls every time I walk somewhere." But I do think the freshman loved their experience.

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Events such as our AAPI month celebration, the mental health things that we do at the school, and other events in general have helped everybody feel closer together as a community. And students do attribute a lot of this to

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our incredible student council under Mr. Seno and how much she's been doing in order to connect the school as a whole. I think the biggest thing that people did report in terms of issues were all like kind of like nitpicky things. Um, like I think the biggest thing that

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middle schoolers and high schoolers reported was an issue with transportation in terms of when buses arrive and when they arrive in on Princeton, Gainsboro and there are extremely long traffic jams. But this was like something that was more

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sporadic. So it's hard to attribute to just transportation as opposed to weather, car crashes, other circumstances like that. And then another issue which I mentioned at our last board meeting was the fact that there's just a lot of things blocked on our Chromebooks which can be an

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inconvenience to kids when they're like like I know for me if I'm doing an assignment at 11:30 p.m. on my Chromebook and the one website that I need is blocked, it's a little bit stressful. >> Yeah. So there that was another issue. And then with the elementary schools,

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they are all winding down. They're all having fun now. They have upcoming field days. They've been celebrating mental health awareness month as well. And they've also celebrated teacher appreciation week this month, which they all had a lot of fun with. I am beyond

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excited for the future of the board of education under Abram. I talked to him the other day and he seems like an incredible person. So, I think that I like I'm leaving and I feel very confident that the board of education is only going to get better from here.

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Thank you. >> Fantastic. Thank you so much. >> Okay. Um, next we have Lawrence Township Education Foundation. Anything? >> There was no meeting. >> No, no meeting. Okay. Um, New Jersey School Boards.

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>> Okay. I'll try to make this quick. Uh, last Thursday was our last Mercer County School Boards Association meeting. It was held at Crockett Middle School. We were greeted by executive director Tim Pernell, Dr. Tim Pernell. He introduced new concepts of challenging counties to

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be more active. Um, our own Maryanne Freeman who is directing and guiding us for our uh strategic plan and future goal. She reminded us our superintendent evaluation is due and she's completed her part and I have to say expertly

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done. Any questions or things I needed to reflect back on? you connected and it made it so much easier for us to write your evaluation. So, thank you for your efforts and hard work. Um, we had the pleasure of listening to Mercer County's teacher of the year, Shakita Finelli,

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um, an educator at Joyce Kilmer Intermediate School. Her joy of teaching was evident and her passion was certainly clear. Uh we then had the pleasure of celebrating the milestones which we've talked about uh years of service and then my um happy time was we

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honored the school board member of the year which was Dana Krug. She um and I have been president vice president back and forth and we work so well together. Um she's just a joy, a wonderful person to work with. So I was happy to celebrate that uh milestone with her

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too. Uh stay tuned for topics for next year. delegates assembly report. I'll just quickly go through um all but one were passed. All the resolutions I read to you the last time. The one that wasn't was the choice of dealing with rank choice voting for schoolboard

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elections. They were saying we can't get people to come out and understand how to vote. So until we put the time and effort into educating and getting people to come out and vote, we shouldn't be changing the format. But it's left open for future. If we want to do it again, we can revisit it. But all the other uh

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resolutions that I read did pass. And that's my report for New Jersey school boards. Great. Thank you so much, Joanne. Um Lawrence Township growth and redevelopment. Kevin's not here. I don't think they met. Um anything on

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reconfiguration? No, nothing new. Uh student services. >> Okay. It's a little dated, but I will do the best I can to uh update the descriptions. Uh student services meeting was held on May 4th. In attendance, Vanessa Barsariac and

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myself, Arnell Clark. Highlights from the meeting included AP testing has taken place um for a twoweek span. Those tests took approximately two to three hours, and the span allowed students the opportunity not to be burdened with more

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than two tests a day. Uh the students are relieved that those tests are over and the process went very smoothly. Autism awareness month. Uh thank you to the students, faculty and staff for an engaging autism awareness month. From book reading to videos, students from

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various schools shared their talents with other students throughout the district. The attendance committee held its third meeting this past month to continue streamlining the attendance tracking per building and helped to create a new role

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for an official attendance officer to aid in the transition of information between schools and any legal obligations. In addition, an attendance process is being revamped and put in place for prek families.

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ESY and summer connect program. Uh class lists are complete and transportation routes are in the works. The summer connect program is full. New requests are still being accepted but are being placed on a wait list with notifications

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being made if an opening is presented. Uh positions throughout the district. Uh happy to say our nursing positions are filled currently. uh OT, speech therapists, BCBA, school psychologists,

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special education, uh teachers, those positions are all open and posted currently at the time of the meeting. This ends my report. >> Thank you so much, Arandelle. Um, review of communications. Seeing none, this is our first opportunity for public

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comment. >> Great. Uh, board discussion and work session. I am super excited because this I've been waiting for. Um I'm gonna call up our PA team because they're going to give us a state of the pea. Um Ignita

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Partardo who is our head of supervisor of preschool and her team. if you want to introduce everybody so that everybody could see who they are individually because I'd like the board to see our phenomenal

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team of people that we have. So, thank you. Okay, so thank you. Um, in front of you, everyone has a Cardinal Kids folder. Inside the folder is a copy of the presentation as well as some Cardinal Kids swag.

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So, good evening and thank you for the opportunity to share the state of Cardinal Kids Preschool. My name is Ignita Partardo and I am the supervisor of early childhood. Tonight, I am proud to highlight not only how far our preschool program has come, but also

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where we are headed. When we think about preschool, we are not simply talking about early academics. We are talking about building the educational foundation for our district's youngest learners. Before I begin, I would like to take a moment to recognize our pre

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some of our preschool staff in the audience tonight. The work you do matters deeply. You are you are often a child's very first school experience. The care, patience, and dedication you bring to our youngest learners help shape not only school

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readiness, but a lifelong love of learning. Thank you for the heart you put into the work. This work is also deeply collaborative. So, I also want to acknowledge our preschool team. With me tonight, Miss Dana Schneider, our preschool instructional coach,

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Dr. Victoria Loane, our preschool intervention and referral specialist. Miss Kim Grohowski, our community parent involvement specialist. Our Lawrence Day School administrative team, Miss Regina Layman, owner of

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Lawrence Day School, Miss Amanda Bellish, assistant director, and Miss Sam Sittins, director. She's not with us tonight, but I know she's watching wherever her. This partnership, their partnership, expertise, and

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unwavering commitment have been instrumental in the growth and success of our program. As Lawrence begins the development of its new strategic plan, this is a meaningful opportunity to reflect on the critical role early childhood education

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plays in shaping the district's future. Preschool is not simply a standalone program. It is the foundational infrastructure that supports long-term district success. The very priorities that guide strategic planning such as

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student achievement, equity, and access, family engagement, wellness, and instructional excellence take root in the early years. As we envision the future of Lawrence, it is essential to recognize that the investments we make in our youngest learners today directly

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influence the outcomes we hope to achieve across the district tomorrow. These images reflect what preschool truly looks like in action. Joy, discovery, language development, problem solving,

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creativity, and collaboration. This is intentional learning through de developmentally appropriate practice. Our vision for Cardinal Kids Preschool is clear to ensure every child has access to a high quality inclusive and

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nurturing early learning experience. This means creating classrooms where children feel seen, valued, challenged, and fully supported as learners. At the heart of this work are three common three core commitments that guide our

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program. Nurturing growth, creating belonging, and ensuring equity. The research is clear. The early years matter profoundly. With 90% of brain development occurring before the age of five, the experiences children have

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during these formative years lay the foundation for future learning, development, and success. Highquality preschool supports critical areas such as language development, early literacy, self-regulation,

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social emotional growth, positive school attendance habits, and long-term academic achievement. Just as importantly, early childhood education is a powerful lever for equity. High quality preschool helps

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close opportunity gaps by ensuring all children have access to rich, equitable learning experiences that build the skills, confidence, and foundation needed to thrive. Today, Cardinal Kids is a full day

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preschool program serving children ages 3 to five across six locations, including our community provider partnership with Lawrence Day School. We currently support 255 students across 17 classrooms with 25 seats intentionally

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reserved for students with individualized education programs. All of our preschool classrooms are integrated, meaning children with and without identified disabilities learn together in the same classroom environment, fostering inclusive

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inclusion, belonging, and peer learning. This reflects our district's commitment to creating inclusive learning environments where children with diverse learning needs learn, grow, and thrive alongside their peers from the very beginning. But goals in preschool is

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simply not about adding seats. It requires the infrastructure to ensure quality and consistency across every classroom. Today, that infrastructure includes P3 certified teachers across all locations,

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instructional assistants, a preschool instructional coach, a preschool intervention and referral specialist, a community parent involvement specialist. These roles are not simply staffing requirements. They are essential components of the highquality preschool

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system. Each position plays a critical role in ensuring children receive the academic, developmental, behavioral, and family center supports they need while also providing teachers with the coaching, intervention, and

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partnership necessary to deliver to deliver equitable, inclusive, and high impact learning experiences. This slide tells one of our most important stories. In fall 2023, prior to receiving the preschool expansion

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aid, our preschool program operated with five classrooms across two sites with no dedicated coaching infrastructure and no formal family engagement support systems in place. Today, we are preparing to serve children across 19 classrooms and

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six sites. This represents transformational growth not simply in access but in the systems, staffing and structures needed to sustain a high quality early childhood program. Growth of this scale does not happen by chance.

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It required intentional strategic planning, strong partnership development, thoughtful staffing, a complete operational redesign of how we deliver preschool services. Most importantly, this has been a true district-wide effort made possible

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through the collaboration, a shared vision, and a collective commitment to expanding opportunity for our youngest learners. This growth would not have been possible without the continued support of the board of education and under the vision and leadership of our

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superintendent Dr. Clint alongside assistant superintendent Mr. Desai, business administrator, Mr. Eldridge, central office administration and district leadership, whose shared commitment to early childhood education has helped turn this vision into

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reality. I am honored to be able to contribute to this work and help bring that vision to life for our youngest learners. Get a little emotional. As access to our preschool program has expanded, so too has our physical footprint.

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This growth is significant because expanding access is not simply about adding seats. It's about meeting families where they are, increasing equitable access, and ensuring that every child, regardless of location, experiences the same highquality

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preschool program across all sites. This is one of the clearest indicators of our progress. Since 2023 24, preschool enrollment has grown from 105 students to 255 in the current school year with

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projections for next school year reaching 285 students. A clear reflection of the significant growth and expansion of our preschool program. During this same time, the percentage of our preschool age universe has increased

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from 27% to 67. An extraordinary level an extraordinary level of growth in just a few short years. And yet, even with the expansion, family demand continues to exceed our current capacity. This year alone, we received

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267 preschool applications, leaving 106 families on the wait list. This tells us two things. One, our community deeply values early childhood education. And expanding equitable access remains

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at the forefront of our work. As our district demographics continue to evolve, so too does our responsibility to ensure access, opportunity, and strong educational beginnings for all learners. This level of growth reflects a clear commitment from the board of

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education and our superintendent to expand access, closing opportunity gaps, and ensuring that children who have historically had limited access to highquality early learning experiences are given a strong educational

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foundation from the beginning. As our preschool program grows, we have remained equally focused on strengthening teaching and learning systems. This includes robust coaching structures, instructional support, data-driven professional development,

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and targeted development for instructional assistance to ensure consistency. We have also intentionally strengthened our preschool to kindergarten transition work, recognizing that preschool serves as the district's first instructional data point. Through teaching strategies,

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gold, developmental progress monitoring, collaborative transition conversations, and kindergarten readiness planning, we are able to provide kindergarten teens with meaningful early insight into each child's development, strengths, learning

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needs, and potential supports before they enter an elementary building. This matters because pre preschool is more than an entry point. It is critical educational infrastructure that strengthens continuity. It informs

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instruction and lays the groundwork for long-term district success. Preschool is not separate from the district work. It is foundational to it. In fact, I would argue that prek is not an initiative. It's an infrastructure.

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It is the educational foundation upon which so much of our district work is built. supporting student achievement, advancing equity, strengthening family partnerships, and shaping learning outcomes. Preschool strengthening strengthens instructional excellence through data

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informed decision-making through teaching strategies gold environmental quality measures such as echo and curriculum fidelity tools. Preschool provides meaningful data that helps us monitor student growth, evaluate pro program quality and continuously

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strengthen teaching and learning. Preschool also builds internal capacity through aligned professional learning through coaching, curriculum endorsement, structured observation reliability, and embedded professional growth. We are creating consistency in

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instructional practice while investing in the growth of our educators within our system. Preschool also deepens family and community partnerships through ECAC, parent information sessions, open houses, community partnerships. We are building strong

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family school connections from the very beginning. Advancing our district's commitment to engage to engagement, access, and belonging because when preschool is strong, the entire district is stronger. We're gonna give Miss Partardo just a

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quick rest bit there. Um, again, my name is Dana Schlider. I'm the preschool instructional coach and I'm here just to introduce the role a little bit and let you know about what that means for our teachers and our preschoolers. A large part of my role is working directly alongside the teaching staff as a

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collaborative support partner with the guidance of evidence-based developmentally appropriate strategies and the reflective coaching cycle. I work to help teachers implement data-driven instructional practices rooted in our performance-based assessment tool along with moving toward

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curriculum fidelity. Additionally, by administering environmental rating scales, I have real-time data to coach teachers in building highquality classroom environments for our students. I am also proud to be a part of the team looking ahead to the transition from

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preschool to kindergarten and school age expectations. We know this can be a challenging time for our little learners and their families. However, through ongoing formative and summitative assessments, baseline assessments and screeners, our students have a

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comprehensive profile moving forward with them into kindergarten, which includes not only academic data points, but data points correlated to social, emotional, language, cognitive, and even physical skill development. In essence, the instructional coach role is about

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building teacher capacity for strengthened instruction and thorough data collection to support a well-rounded learning experience for the district's youngest and very eager learners. Outlined for you is a schedule highlighting a typical day in all 17 of

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our preschool classrooms. The tools of the mind curriculum uses structured routines, pure learning, and scaffolded activities to support children's academic successes while also growing independence, executive function, and self-regulation skills. Additionally,

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the Tools of the Mind curriculum is designated as a Castle Select program, having met Castle's highest criteria for highquality design, implementation support, and demonstrated effectiveness in social and emotional learning.

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>> Hi, I'm uh Victoria Loane. I'm the preschool intervention and referral specialist or the PERS. Um, similar to the preschool instructional coach, my role is also centered on building teacher capacity to meet every student where they are. Programwide, I support preschool teachers in promoting social

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emotional competence and addressing behavioral and learning challenges across our classrooms. A core component of my work is implementing the pyramid model, a tiered framework of social emotional supports and positive behavioral strategies that help young children develop self regulation, build

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relationships, and navigate challenging behaviors in early learning environments. This model intentionally aligns with the school age model of the intervention and referral services processes process creating a continuum of support that follows students as they

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transition to kindergarten. Accepting kindergarten programs across the district receive documented information on the interventions each child receives in preschool ensuring continuity of care. In my practice my work takes several forms. I conduct regular classroom visits to model evidence-based

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strategies and provide targeted feedback to teachers. I coordinate developmental screenings and I collaborate with teachers to support children with persistent behavioral or learning challenges. Together, these efforts strengthen our inclusive environments and improve outcomes for our youngest learners.

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>> Good evening. Hello, I'm Kim Graowski and I'm the community parent involvement specialist for the CPIS. My role helps build strong partnerships between families, schools, and the community in support of our children. In this role, I provide information and

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resources to our families. I develop a community needs assessment or a CNA through the Early Childhood Advisory Council or EAC. The ECAC the ECAC meets four times a year. The community needs assessment survey provides ECAC and myself necessary feedback that enables

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me to prioritize our family's needs and provide those resources to our families. With this information, I can also move forward in planning family engagements and workshops while as well as forming partnerships with community resources. The CPIS serves as an important role in

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bridging schools and community to ensure all children and families feel supported, informed, and connected. Thank you. >> Okay. While we are incredibly proud of the growth and progress of our preschool

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program, we also recognize that with expansion comes opportunity. Opportunity to strengthen, refine, and build for long-term sustainability. First, as our program continues to grow across both districtrun classrooms and our community provider partnership,

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there's an important opportunity to strengthen consistency across all program sites. While our commitment to quality remains clear, continue alignment in instructional expectations, communication systems, and overall family experience will help ensure that

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every child and family experiences the same high quality preschool program regardless of location. Second, we see an opportunity to further strengthen family communication and navigation support. For many families, preschool is their first interaction with our

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district and systems such as enrollment, transitions, and program expectations can feel complex. By continuing to refine how we communicate and support families through these processes, we can build trust, improve access, and create

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a strong sense of partnership from the beginning. Finally, as our program expands, we must continue investing in internal leadership capacity. Sustainable growth requires more than adding classrooms. It requires strong systems of coaching,

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teacher development, and leadership structures structures that preserve pro program quality over time. These opportunities are not gaps. They are the natural next steps of a growing and evolving program. and addressing them thoughtfully will ensure that

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preschool remains a strong and sustainable foundation for the district's future. The road ahead. Looking ahead, our work remains centered around three clear priorities that will guide the continued growth and strengthening of our preschool program. Priority one,

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ensuring program quality. As we continue to expand, maintaining high quality implementation across every classroom must remain at the center of our work. This includes strengthening our coaching systems, creating opportunities for instructional rounds, and collaborating

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collaborative learning, and continuing to use data monitoring to guide decision-m, identify trends, and drive continuous improvement. Priority two, expanding access. While we have made significant progress in increasing preschool enrollment, there is still

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work to be done to ensure that more Lawrence families can access highquality early childhood education. This includes continued enrollment growth, intentional outreach to connect with families who may not yet be engaged, and the planned

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opening of two additional preschool classrooms in September 2026 to further expand capacity. Priority three, strengthening preK through kindergarten alignment. Preschool should not function in isolation. It should serve as the first

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step in a seamless educational journey. This means deepening our preschool to kindergarten transition work, strengthening communication between preschool and elementary teams and creating stronger vertical curriculum alignment. It also means leveraging

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preschool data to better support smooth transitions into kindergarten through teaching strategies gold and developmental progress monitoring. Kindergarten teams can enter the school year with meaningful insight into each ch child's strength, learning needs, and

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potential supports, allowing for more planned, more informed planning, stronger continuity, and a more responsive start for our students. Together, these priorities position preschool not simply for growth, but for

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sustainable impact, ensuring that our earliest learners enter the district with strong foundations and that our systems are prepared to support them every step of the way. Thank you for allowing me to share this work. I'm incredly incredibly proud of

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the work we have built through Cardinal Kids preschool program and equally proud of the extraordinary staff whose dedication, expertise, and unwavering commitment have made this growth possible. While today we have discussed systems, strategy, expansion, long-term

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impact, and the and long-term impact. At the heart of all of this is our children. I'd like to leave you with a short video that captures the joy, curiosity, and promise that makes this work so meaningful and remind us why

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investing in our youngest learners matters so deeply. 31 star. Days of the week. >> Days of the week. >> Is today a home day or a school day?

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>> I won't play with my friends. >> Math. >> We count and sort. I'm going to eat snack. >> I'm going to take care of it all day. >> Yeah. And give her some food.

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>> I have free to choice. >> Going to play with her with the rolling pads. >> I am going to wash the dog.

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>> I am going to stack. My message said I am going to wash the dogs. 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Which >> one does it look more like?

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>> Like a rectangle. >> How many sunny days? Let's count. >> One, two, three, four. >> So, if you were an alligator, where would your mouth go?

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>> Tells you, >> oh, where's the bunny on this page? >> Make the letters O and also T. So, where do we want the T? water. Hey I school just turned into a veterinarian.

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>> I gave him a We grew the dogs. The trainer which trains all the dogs for he can be trained you which one you like donut over here and I also like to build it with with

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the blocks over there. >> I like the frogs. Have to switch the senses. >> I like to go in the library. >> I like to read the books and draw cuz there's drawing pads.

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to play outside. Does it look more like eating the most delicious YUM YUM? ONE JUMP into the pool. Nice and cool.

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Good afternoon. We'll see you here on Wednesday. And that's why I like it. That's why I like us. I cannot take credit for that video. I just want to acknowledge the work of

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Jen Baldesari, our wonderful director of communications. She went out, visited all our sites along with our CPIS Kim, and interviewed our students, put the video together. I know it look it took a lot of time and hard work but it's so beautiful.

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>> So thank you. >> Thanks. Thank you. That was fantastic. As you know I am a lover of our program. I think you're doing a great job. We are so fortunate um in our district. Um we are doing very very well. So I wanted to

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just see if any board members had any comments or questions or anything that they want to share or reflect. I just want to say the video is amazing. It really shows the hard work of all across the district and the staff that I think the whole world need to see it more.

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>> It will be on the website >> and parent orientation is June 1st. It'll be aired >> June 1st. Yes, June 1st. >> There you go. >> I had a few questions but I thought I'd just ask you one here today right now. So there's significant growth attached

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to the 26 27 school year. you have a 12% increase. And then I saw toward the end that you had mentioned there would be two new classes in 26. Um I was hoping you might be able to talk a little bit about that. And then you also said community outreach was an important part of you know building you know continued

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student engagement. So I was hoping maybe to hear a little bit more about what you thought was important in terms of community outreach also. So in terms of the growth, >> we're currently serving 17. We have 17 classrooms serving 255 students. In

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September, that's where we see the jump. We're opening up two more classrooms, adding an additional 30 classrooms, uh 30 seats to our program to bring it to 285. So that's where that growth comes in. For September, we'll be opening two new

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classrooms. This school year, we opened nine. So we partnered with Lawrence Day School over >> last year and in September, this current school year, we opened four classrooms at Lawrence Day School, five in district with an additional two in September. >> Great.

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>> Um in terms of community outreach, you know, one of the things that we're learning as we're expanding is, you know, how are we getting this information out to to parents who don't have children in the school or just moving into the community. So I have um identified that this that is an area

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that we need to work on in making sure that our families not only that are in the district or that have students those families just entering the district have access to the information about what our preschool program is in the district. So really trying to close that gap for those families um that they you know

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they they don't have kids here so they there's no talking points right. So, how are we getting to those families and to the families who, you know, again, are underserved in our in our community. So, that will be a focus for for our program next year is making sure that we're targeting and being intentional with

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those pockets of population that we need to target. >> That's great. Yeah. And it's a new opportunity of outreach just for us in general at LTPS, being able to offer this as a as a service for people new to the community or new to, you know, the districts. >> Yeah. And you know, now we have a dedicated CPIS, Miss Grohowski. So that

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also bridges that gaps and allows us to give that the attention it deserves as she is continuing to build partnerships with various community members. >> Great. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. >> You said you had a few. >> We don't have to go into all of them.

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>> I have uh so just thank you and it's really exciting and thrilling. And I love that you underline the equity and and then moving forward for the outreach. Um I have a question about now that you've expanded so quickly and h and you have such great supports, how do

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you all make sure that you're aligned? So like as we bring in more supports to the teachers, how are we making sure that they're getting the same message and and the same kind of um focus on on their instruction? >> So we meet as a team. So I meet with the

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coaches regularly. Um as Miss Lighter mentioned in her in her presentation, right? Um she's using data. So she's going in using our environmental rating scale and she's assessing um the program quality. So using that data is how we

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structure our coaching and our feedback that we're giving the teachers. So we're using that as our starting point. So when we're having conversations with teachers about instruction, about the environment, we're basing it in the data that she collects in those um eardr observations

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>> and training teachers on on using that. >> Correct. So um Miss Schneider went through a few rigorous um professional development trainings. She she went through a training with tools of the mind um that's only offered to teachers

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who have received all three years of training. So she went through a tools endorsement. So she is a toolsendors coach meaning that tools of the mind themselves have deemed that she met the criteria. So she is knowledgeable in the

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curriculum to turnkey any training. So she does a lot of the turnkeying of the information. The same with our eers our um environmental rating scale. She went through a state um state professional development. So she is considered again that was a rigorous

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professional development. It was days of training um where she went out to different locations and she practiced the fidelity tool. She was tested on her implementation of the fidelity tool and having passed all that she is considered

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an anchor in the RA in the fidelity tool. So using all of her um knowledge and her background and her training allows us to really dive into the data and make sure that the data that she's collecting is reliable so that we can

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use that to inform our instruction and our practices. >> Thank you. And I have to do a little shout out to some people who helped my daughter very much. So nice to see my friends. And we still have our tools of the mind

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worksheets. framed. We don't have pottery, but we have framed tools. >> That would be so good. >> So, thank you. And I think for future conversations, I'm also curious because we're building such robust instructional base moving forward. It means that, you

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know, after next year, we'll have 285 students entering kindergarten. So, I saw alignment being a goal for K, but I'm thinking it's really alignment to K3 and how are we building capacity as our students are starting with this much stronger base, you know, making sure

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that we're um helping them move and now that kindergarten teachers and first grade teachers are getting such a diversity of learners and exactly my question as well too. And people who don't have access to the program once you get into a kindergarten situation. Exactly. Creating that parody. I mean

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it's definitely an ongoing conversation and we recognize that again there's work to be done in that alignment. Um we have begun the work with kindergarten having vertical articulation meetings. Um my team and I are meeting with each um building administrator to review the

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incoming um students that we have in our programs and we're even looking you know how can we I just revised the prek uh report card so that it aligns with the kindergarten report card. um there are new preschool standards. So I took the

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new preschool standards. I looked at the newly revised case report card and I aligned it so that if the report card on the kindergarten the kindergarten report card has counting for instance I made sure that that's also reflected in the

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prek so that whatever indicators kindergarten is using is reflected with preschool so we can track our students right from the beginning. So that work is being done and I do recognize that more work needs to be done in the future and those conversations are ongoing um with the district. >> It's a testament to your great work and

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the leadership that we're having this great advance. >> Thank you. >> Great. Thank you so much. Thank you to all of our >> Miss Baldeseri. Since they are so wellcoordinated, can you just get a nice picture of all the PA team and teachers?

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Please join them in the back. So, Miss Baldesar, I can take a picture of you. >> I'd be remiss if I didn't >> recognize how well you all look >> and coordinated. Okay. >> All right. >> We're going to keep going though.

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>> Um, next will be um board discussion and action items. >> Uh, personnel committee report and personnel action items. Okay. Personnel did not meet. We met earlier this month. So, I'll just jump on to tonight's

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agenda. Um, you'll see an adjustment, an amendment, uh, correction. You also see approvals for summer positions, termination, um, staff due to clearances, non-tenured staff for 2627,

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school year, EDPs, nurses for 2627, substitute teachers, transfer, unpaid leave, and staffer preschool program. you'll see a retirement for Joanne Rees. I think that's how you say in Riaz.

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>> Um she's a special education assistant at LIS. She's been on the staff for 25 years. I've heard from a few of her colleagues that she is extremely positive, always helpful, and brings joy into the classroom. We thank her for her years of service, and I know that

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students and staff will miss her, and we do wish her well when her retirement begins. With all of that, I'd like to move P1 through P17, please. >> Second. >> Tom, with a motion and a second, please. >> Mr. Caparado?

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>> Yes. >> Mr. Clark? >> Yes. >> Miss Evans? >> Yes. >> Miss Kroger? >> Yes. >> Miss Kelly? >> Yes. >> Miss Martinez? >> Yes. >> Miss Pascali? >> Yes. >> Miss Bose? >> Yes. >> Motion carried. >> Thank you. CIA PD report and student

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service action item. >> Sure. CIPD our curriculum committee met on Tuesday May 12th at 8:00 am the board of education conference room uh in attendance I was me uh president Michelle Bose vice president

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Pepper Evans Paul Caparada Dr. Clim Gene Mooie Miss Jen Baldesar and Mr. Neil Desai we talked about uh a lot of the updates on the our district priorities and thanks to Dr. for clim for walking through her goals and progress so far as

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it related to the curriculum. So that was really our curriculum committee. So that was uh exciting and we look forward to the summer strategic planning and goal setting for next year. >> We also uh and we so we learned a lot

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about the different progress that the district is making with putting in a lot of the systems as you we just heard about data driven systems and like that's pretty wonky, right? But basically it means getting real information about our kids, figuring out what they need and building systems

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around that so that our instruction is matching the what we see from our students um and making sure that that's kind of happening more across the entire district. So that's been a lot of work and kudos to them. Um we also learned a

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lot about some educator programs that we voted on here. We've supported through stipens and we've talked about early in last September. So it seemed like a very successful year with our teacher leadership pro both for teacher leadership and aspiring uh administrators. So that was exciting as

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we build our educator pipeline from our experts here in the in our district. We also talked uh got a little brief overview about our summer programming and the plans for that as well as an update on the world language curriculum.

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and we reviewed our visitor policy 9150 and regulation 9150. And just want to thank uh both just the different staff for from the CIPD perspective. Staff took back some of our questions and really reworked some some of the policy

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to make sure that it reflected different security protocols that are um unfortunately continually ramp up every year uh in our world. But then also they took a step back and made sure that it kind of matched all the way through all of the schools. So, uh, you know, I

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think that was just really meaningful and I appreciated the work that went into that. And then, um, we I thought there's So, our next meeting is Tuesday, June 9th. And I also want to thank Mr. Desai for being very flexible. was able

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to call in that day um the last minute, but it was a very productive meeting and we really had a great time. It's a party. All right. So, uh for I'd like to make a motion to approve the travel log. You see OIS1

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and OIS2 for the donation of 2,895 for clarinets for instructional use LIS. Very exciting. as a clarinet player. I will not play for you. And then there's al I'd also like to make a motion for OSS1 uh for an out of district placement

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for Hamilton Township. >> Second >> and Soss uh and two the H report >> which we motion to approve the report. >> Okay. >> Second. >> Thank you Tom with a motion and a

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second. >> Mr. Caparado. >> Yes. Mr. Clark, >> yes. >> Miss Evans, >> yes. >> Miss Kroger, >> yes. >> Miss Kelly, >> yes. >> Miss Martinez, >> yes. >> Miss Pasculi, >> yes. >> Miss Pose, >> yes. >> Motion carried.

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>> Thank you, Tom. Finance committee report and school business management action items. Finance Committee did not meet since our last board meeting, but on your agenda, you will see Bill's budget transfer uh

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grant approval uh change orders to be ratified at our next meeting. There are professional services uh going out for athletic trainers, speech therapy, OT, physical therapy.

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Um, see, we've got professional services, we've got speech and language, we've got nursing services, we've got a carpentry bid, we've got a bid for painting. In

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new business, there's a bid for ramps and railings at Slackwood. And you'll see uh a lot of transportation, a lot of transportation renewals. renewals and

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I think that's it. Okay, with that I would like to move SPM 1 through30. >> Second, >> Tom with a motion in a second. >> Mr. Caparata, >> yes. >> Mr. Clark, >> yes. >> Miss Evans, >> yes. >> Miss Groger, >> yes. >> Miss Kelly,

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>> yes. >> Miss Martinez, >> yes. >> Miss Pasculi, >> yes. >> Mr. Bose, >> yes. >> Motion carried. >> Thank you. And we have our final opportunity for public input. Seeing there's none, we'll move on. Uh, new business.

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Oh, wait. Just one second. Joad wants to >> I just forgot during my report on Sunday we had three athletes from 77 to 78 >> make uh were inducted into the athletic hall of fame for track and field in

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Mercer County. Karen and Kim Hatchet and Lorie Dows some of them hold records and they will never be broken not because they're the best that will ever come out of Lawrence High but the track was measured in yards >> and now it's meters. So they'll never be

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broken. I just wanted to give them congratulations. >> Congratulations. Thank you for that. >> Okay, Olga, please. for new business. Uh motion to approve uh printing and services

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field trips, travel logs to accept grants um transfers uh for tenure staff, non-tenure staff for the year 26 27 school year.

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Um sorry to motion to approve the revised uh LTPS calendar for the 2627 school year attached. Motion to approve the entering into joint escrow account.

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Motion to approve the awards for concrete steps and railing replacements at Zackwood School. With that, I would like to move NB1 through MB10. >> Second. Tom with a motion and a second.

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>> Mr. Caparata, >> yes. >> Mr. Clark, >> yes. >> Miss Evans, >> yes. >> Miss Kroger, >> yes. >> Miss Kelly, >> yes. >> Miss Martinez, >> yes. >> Miss Pasculi, >> yes. >> Miss Pose, >> yes. >> Motion carried. >> Thank you. And um I have a motion to

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adjourn. >> So move. >> All in favor? >> A second. >> Sorry. >> Second. And all in favor? >> I. >> So move. Thank you very much everybody. Have a wonderful evening and we'll remind you next Wednesday. Oh, and a

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wonderful Memorial Day and next week we will be having our second strategic planning meeting. See you all there. Thank you to the board. Good night.