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Good evening. I call to order the June 23rd, 2026 meeting of the Matuchen Board of Education. Please stand for the flag salute. >> Where is the flag? >> The flag is in the gym.

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>> We could just >> gym is that way. So, we'll just stand that way. >> I was like, whoop. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God,

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indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Mrs. Ali Evett, notice of the meeting, please. I hereby make the statement to indicate compliance with the Open Public Meetings Act, known as chapter 231 of the Public Laws of New Jersey, 1975, which became effective 90 days after

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enactment January 19th, 1976. Notice of this meeting was given by providing the location, time, and date of this meeting and posting the same on the front door of the board of education offices, by delivering copies to the Burough Hall and the Matuchan public library, the home news and tribune, and by filing a copy with the burough clerk as

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prescribed by this law. >> Thank you. Roll call, please. >> Dr. Espiel, >> here. >> Mr. Bach, >> here. >> Miss Cheetum, >> here. >> Mr. Derlinger, he is advised he won't be here. >> Thank you very much. Mr. Glber >> here.

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>> Dr. Johnson Marcus, >> I am here. Miss Colleen, >> she's not here. >> Sorry. >> Thank you. >> She's She won't be here. >> Okay. Thanks, guys. Um, Miss Michaels Lortart is not here today.

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>> Mr. Sass >> here. >> Miss Zimmerman >> here. >> Thank you so much. Dr. Caputo, showcase of success time. >> Yeah. In terms of the students, probably the the biggest showcase of success that we do um every year, uh at the end of

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the year, once announced at the senior awards every year, uh which was just last Thursday night, um we salute the first and second in the high school graduating class. Um so I'll start with the saludiatoran. Saludiatoran this year was Ryan Stein. um an all-around great

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kid, participates in in all of our events, outstanding student and he but he was not able to make it tonight. We'll make sure that we get his name on the minutes and um that goes forward, but we are um thrilled that um our

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validatoran high school class is here tonight. Um we're very proud of her at the awards ceremony last week. I was just amazed at the at the the awards that that she received both for academics but also for all other areas

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as well all around amazing student. Uh Adrien Lee is our valtorin and we'd love to invite you up to the um the podium just to maybe say a word or two or just to thank you but just let the the board kind of um revel in your success and and and congratulate you tonight. Miss

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Aliage, thank you for getting the uh the lovely flowers that I see validictorian has. Thank you for making that happen. >> They do. >> That was coordinated. >> I want to say thank you for inviting me to be recognized as this year's

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valadictorian. I'm really grateful that I've been able to be at this district for the past 12 years. >> Well, thank you. >> Thank you for all your hard work. Hey Drew, >> we are delighted to celebrate you. >> Thank you.

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>> Tell us what what does what does next year bring for you? >> Uh my plans for next year are going to Ruckers and to study accounting. >> Excellent. >> Wonderful. >> My son's an accountant from the business school. He's a CPA now. So it worked out well for him. So >> my dad's a CPA. >> Oh, he is. Congratulations.

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>> Wonderful. I also hope to like continue like at least continue art at Ruckers by taking courses. >> You'll have an opportunity because obviously in accounting you have to take a lot of courses. So um not to bring up my son again, but 150 credits. Uh he had

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some credits from AP. I'm sure you do as well. And um and he was able to take all his in criminal justice. He actually w up with a a second major in criminal justice while he was there. So maybe you can do the same thing with art. >> Maybe. Well, you've chosen an excellent

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institution to study at. I'm a little biased, but I'm also right. But what you'll find there is that there are so many things that you could get up to to round out those credits. So, I encourage you to explore and have some fun along the way to that accounting degree. So,

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very excited for you. >> Thank you. >> Of course. >> Good luck tomorrow. >> Yes. And we'll see you tomorrow night again uh for your graduation. We just had the promotion in the uh new fieldhouse and it was lovely and your graduation will be even even better tomorrow.

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>> Okay. I'll have the speech prepared. >> Yes. >> I'm sure you'll do great. I still have to put a couple finishing touches on mine. Um don't make it too good though because I have to probably follow you. So >> that's all right. I haven't written mine at all yet. So

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>> it'll be fine. >> Congratulations again on your uh number one valictorian in the class. very very proud of you. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Oh, I have a I'm up next. >> Wait, no. Did you want to do the new

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hires? >> Oh, I do. Right. Before I do my presentation, >> I don't want to jump the gun. I have a presentation. >> Go shake your head. I mean, you could. Miss Taylor, as our personal coordinator, uh I know you take great pride in our hiring process and thank you for for taking time out of your night to being here to celebrate our

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newbies to the district. Um we appreciate that. Um we'll invite you up to the microphone. Maybe we'll start with the uh someone that's familiar with these mics in here and we'll invite her up first. Uh Michelle Cook, our new high school uh science uh social teacher. Welcome. Um yeah, welcome Miss Cook.

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Welcome back. >> Thanks everybody. It's much more fun on this side of the table. Um, no, but seriously, >> can you spell your last name first? >> And my address? No. Um, but really, thank you. >> So, I can speak up.

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>> I tried. I knew it wasn't going to be easy. >> I tried. I'm sorry. They're encouragable. >> It's fine. I'm I'm used to it. Uh, no, but really, thank you. Um, many of you know I've always really respected what this district does, um, you know, educationally, and it's exciting to join the team. I actually already met with

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two of them today to kind of try to drag some knowledge out of them so that there's no gaps for the kids as I take over certain subjects. So, and I already met with Mr. Smmedley about robotics. So, going to keep that rolling too. So, it's going to be fun to serve from this side >> um of the table and in a different

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capacity. So, thank you. >> Welcome back. >> We're glad to have you. >> Next is ELA teacher from uh Edgar School, Robin Gil. >> All right. Good evening, Dr. Herzog, Dr. Caputo,

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and the board. Um, 2019 was my first time working for Matuchen, and boy, it was a pleasure. Uh, earlier last year, you guys welcomed me back with open arms, and I genuinely am happy, and time after time, my leave got extended further and further out, and I was fortunate that, uh, Principal Asabo

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actually thought of me for the position for uh, Miss Linda Donahghue for next year. And so it's my privilege to gladly accept that position because Matuchen is quite frankly an amazing place to work. Uh so I look forward to doing some incredible things here and working alongside some of you guys, some

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fantastic people. Um and I hope that I can, you know, convey the mission statement of Machutin um and and and do good for us our community. Thank you. >> Welcome. >> And finally, Edgar School, James Borg.

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We're thrilled to have you here, James. >> Hi, everybody in the board. Uh, very nice to meet all of you. Um, I just wanted to say, uh, when I first stepped into Matuchin, uh, it was literally the exact place that I imagined that I would want to be. >> Um, it has been nothing but a pleasure.

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I enjoy everybody from top to bottom, including all of the kids. Um, they've become a part of my family from what it feels like. So, and I'm a pleasure. It's a pleasure to be a part of your family as well. So, thank you so much for having me and uh yeah, I'm really looking forward to next school year. So, thank you.

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>> Wonderful. Welcome >> again, Miss Taylor. Great job. And thank you for being here tonight to support your newbies. >> Thank you. >> Got a lot more coming in July. >> Yes. Make it happen. >> Yes. I see. >> Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Now you do.

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>> Yes. >> Thank you for >> Of course. Have a good night, y'all. Thanks for coming out. >> What? Michelle, you staying for old time sake. >> She's like, "No, >> just kidding. Thanks.

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>> You You clearly are on tonight." I see you. I see you. You must be well rested. Just kidding. Uh before Vince, uh I'm sorry, Dr. Caputo begins his presentation. We are open to the public. I see one member of the public. Any comments? No. See no comments. I close that section of the meeting and turn

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over to Dr. Dr. Caputo for the district goals presentation. >> Thank you very much. Um you know we work really hard not only in the formation of the goals which starts really in the springtime um and culminates with an August unveiling but then really hard throughout the year give two updates at

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Thanksgiving time and at spring break time and in a final report um at the second June meeting every year and our our principles work really hard to get me the evidence and the self-cores. Um the teachers and students work hard

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at these goals all year long in the classroom every day. Um and our our I guess our theme for this year kind of applies to every but every moment matters. And so these are goals that are worked on in every school all the time throughout the school year by all our

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staff. So I'm happy to present them to you tonight. Um for the last couple years we've shared this slide as our district priorities. Um you just saw the new teachers and we're really happy to be able to share them with you. But in every interview,

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Dr. Herszog asks questions of our new um employees around the district priorities. These district priorities also drive our PD, drive our um our goals and drive our everyday work here in the district. Um, you've seen these before about there are priorities around

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inclusivity, collaboration, communication, celebration, the whole child, social emotional learning, parent community partnerships, mental health and wellness, and academic achievement, enriching experiences. And I I think we stay focused on these these uh items and these seven items. They really drive our

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work um from all aspects. This year we had five goals under the every moment matters theme. The first was classroom and community engagement. The second was building forward together a play on the construction project. Goal three was sky's the limit with the New Jersey sky

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data. Um we've done this, you've heard me say this before, but we've done this since I think four or five years ago. Um when it was a pilot in the state, we were one of the first districts to do it. Now it's available for every district and we've continued to use it. Last year was the first time we we

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really put our foot um on the pedal to um to get a wide um and a broad uh cross-section of stakeholder input. This year we did the same. We just have the the surveys closed within the last couple weeks. Uh we'll be reviewing the data over the summer and we'll make sure

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that we include the data uh from this year's parent, student, and teacher survey. Uh build that into our next year's goals. Goal four is around information literacy and goal five the best me. How we measured our progress this year um are obviously our the top

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of the scale is a five and we hope to get there once in a while. It's hard because we set that as we did it well but that's not enough. We did it well and there's significant evidence of impact at the student level. Four is probably more likely um um our ceiling

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in some of our goals that we did it well and there's some evidence of impact. That's good. Number three is a good progress but not completed or limited evidence. Two, some progress that was minimal or not at the student level. And one, we didn't do it. We didn't have any this year, but we've had some ones in the past or in the interimm report, some

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ones that we just didn't get to yet. Goal one, I won't read you the key actions. You've seen these before. Um, but our final mean scores at 375 on that one to five scale and some of the highlights. Um, at Moss, they collected 600 pounds of um, food in the in the

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replenish drive in the spring. They collaborated with math honor students. Dr. Herszog and I got a chance to see the lessons and then visit with them at the pantry and it was just an amazing day for those kindergarteners. Um, they had a spring drive to connect the curriculum with the food insecurity and they collaborated with um, the Matuchin

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disco soup event. In fact, from those kindergarters on Saturday, I got my favorite, a chocolate uh ice cream sandwich because they were handing them out in um big um um containers and I was happy to get one of those. Great event. By the way, on Saturday, Campbell uh

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Campbell example of the evidence there was students participate in the share table initiative. Uh they demonstrate an understanding of food equity, reducing food waste, and supporting nutritious meals to families in need. At Edgar, we're really the where the share table started in Miss Bruno's farm stand. the

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students at lunch collected items and it filled the um uh the farm stand where all students can walk by and grab snacks. And at the high school, again, they participated there as well. But I chose this piece of evidence that um 70 trees, a lot of them at the high school where student high school students

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reviewed the plantings, worked with Will Salter, our engine uh landscape engineer from uh Speasel, oversaw the installation by Eastern Landscaping. um a total community project along the way led by students. They also created

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scavenger hunts to engage with the 70 trees that were planted. I added one piece on the bottom just district-wide for you. You've seen this in my um my infographic, but the final recovery stats for foods recovery with 3,400 meals served, almost 4,300 pounds of

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food served, over 17,000 pounds of CO2 avoided. So, um, really proud of the work, um, collaborating with our board committee, uh, led by our STEM supervisor, Kate Lemmer, and really teachers and students across all four schools.

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Our second goal was building forward together. Our mean score was 3.7 this year. Um, and this was again, like I said, this was all around the reorganization and the the trying to make sure that we educationally

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would be ready when the physical buildings were ready in the new spaces at Moss using diagnostic screeners for datadriven decision-making. They revised the conference schedules to align with Campbell and the trimesters there. And they adopted the my path from my ready uh which was individualized math

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program. And as we went to full day kindergarten, one of the things that we established as a goal was to invest in and increase our math instruction. I think we had gotten to a pretty strong point even when we were extended half day in ELA. The additional time allowed us to kind of meet that same standard in

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math. At Campbell, um we had a report card team. They created drafts. They gathered feedback and they finalized the drafts working with the SLT um and hosted a get to know the new report cards with parents with parents. So three to five will be these new

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standardsbased report cards now aligned with the uh the current New Jersey SLA u standards for learning at Edgar. The AI the play lab chatbot career in interest inventory was really wellreceived. We had community members come in to speak

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to students about careers as well as former students to talk to the eighth graders. And at the high school, um, uh, Mr. Prowski and his SLT developed these flexible spaces with their additional, remember, they're not gaining students and they got additional spaces. So with these additional spaces, looking for

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innovative ways, including ways to bring in the public into those spaces as well. Um, and we're excited that there's a humanities now stage. There's always been a stage, but that room we with a flexible space for performing uh or debates and speech presentations.

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There's a spend STEM room designated for consistent BTC classroom instructions with vertical whiteboards. Um, and that I mentioned that what's going to be called the core room for implementing programming that involves the public. Goal three, the sky's is the limit was

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our highest goal score, 4.13. Um we like I said for five or six years we've piloted this survey. Last year we made a requirement principles used it used the data with their SLTs. They shared out with parents and staff and

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students the the quick overview summary of their results and then spent the summer last year and all year working on the areas that we could improve on. Uh at MOS those teams there they analyzed the data and they goal set for uh collegiality among staff. They analyzed

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the school report cards and the subsequent focus on enhancing math as I mentioned already and absenteeism um was a focus of their INRS with collaboration at Campbell. Uh over 150 community participants. They were really proud of the end number that we received this

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year from from Campbell. Uh at Edgar again lessons were focused on empathy. you if you heard um Miss Oavdo's just like onpoint amazing uh remarks tonight um around empathy the impact of negative impact of jokes and gossip and their

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safety and climate team use the data to come up with uh school climate and they're use they're going to work on tardiness next year uh that was also data out of this the sky survey and uh the high school a final exam exemption incentive was put in place 340 students

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applied for and received at least one final exam exam exemption. Um looking at using positive incentives at the high school around attendance as well. These were the scores and we'll have a similar data chart. Um if it fits in with the goals, we'll put it there. If

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not, we'll share it on the website anyway. But this was the data from last year in the end numbers and we'll have similar uh chart for this year. Goal four is around information literacy and it was really important for me this goal. It was to equip students with critical thinking and sensemaking

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strategies to identify, evaluate, and navigate a wide range of information across digital, academic, and everyday sources, empowering them to become informed, responsible, engaged citizens. I talked about this in um my Edgar remarks, expand on them tomorrow night in the high school graduation remarks.

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Um critical thinking remains a um it's going to remain next year as a as the top goal for our instructional council as well. Our mean score was 3.83. The would the would you rather um activities at Moss were really wellreceived. Kindergarten bar graphs, preschool data

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graphing around how far can you jump? That was an insect study they did. Kindergarten math activities, um tallies, manipulatives, 10 frames all around collecting and analyzing information. At high school, I mean at the Campbell School, it was discussions and modeling appropriate use of AI. uh

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and teachers used prompts aligned to the prompt engineering work and that was one of our key actions from above at Edgar. The staff were all trained in prompt engineering. They incorporated AI. They used notebook LM. They were the first school to fully train and adopt that. Um

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and the a AI policy there is post in every room how it should be used in class. They're preparing our our middle school and eventually our high school students to be active but also wary users of AI. and we started something new across the district and several of the Edgar teachers this year were

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identified as top dogs around AI at the high school. Another uh uh action item there and I I want to identify this one a really successful voter drive as you know 17 year olds were able to vote um in the primaries this year. So we made that a highlight um around this

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information literacy goal at the high school and goal five the best me with a mean score of 3.92. This included story time, SEAL story time at Moss, the classroom kids kits, neurodiversity week around whole school engagement. Um, and we had of course

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many themes aligned to read across America. At the high school, we'll have more updates around the light bulb lunch group. Um, at Edgar was designated a a statewide uh no place for hate school. And during those lessons, they reflect on the bulldog values. Again, you heard

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that in Miss Oavdo's remarks tonight. Um, and those are like what happens every day around those bulldog values. Again, positive values to address some of the uh behaviors we want to uh improve. And um these activities were posted throughout the building as reminders for students at the high

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school. The student assistance program and Welston program they collaborated around these tableabling events to empower students building healthy relationships and recognizing their innate abilities. So all along you've seen this chart, but what we did this year, we aligned and

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we've done this before as well. We've aligned the five goals to ASAD whole child tenants and um averaged the scores in the areas that crossed over multiple goals um and shared those scores out as well. These scores were all around the same. I'm not sure how much the

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difference in these numbers are going to help us, but it was important for us to align these to a standard set of standards um in in these whole child tenants. Similarly, we align them to another tool that we use, the school quality review indicators. Again, a little more spread, a little more um

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opportunity for us to look at curriculum, pedigogy, assessment, environment, expectations, resources, goals, supervision, shared leadership, improvement, and student growth to see where um our goals um intersected with these school quality review indicators. So, again, we're using those over the

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summer as well to help develop our um our goals. That's it questions for the final goals update. Again, we're already working on next year's goals and I I encourage um our staff members listening and our

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board to um share those ideas with me. Send an email or fill out the the Google form that we've shared across the district. >> Actually, Dr. Caputo, you said you shared a Google form to collect goals. We did with the board and with all of our staff in the district and then with

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our parent advisory board and our student advisory board. >> The board got it as well. >> You did Friday packet. I'll send it again this Friday. >> Yeah, there's a lot in the Friday packet this >> There's been a lot in the Friday packets recently. >> Yes. >> Other questions or comments for Dr.

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Caputo? >> All right. Thank you, Dr. Kaputo. >> Actually, great job. Thank you. I have just two more. All right. Yeah, I'm just trying I smudged it, so I didn't want to smudge it again. Smudge

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now. Alrighty. Um, now we turn to the reports. I do not at this time have a report, but I imagine Dr. Caputo, after your fantastic goals report, do you have more or >> just to say we're so proud of the eighth graders tonight. I've mentioned that a couple times. The promotion new fieldhouse um really went seamless.

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We'll debrief tomorrow with Miss Havo, Miss Evans, and Mr. Ortman and and Matuchin police. But seems like it was a great night. Sound was great. Thank you, Brandon. Um and um we look forward to tomorrow night for our first graduation in the fieldhouse. So get there early,

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get your seats. Um and uh we come to celebrate the uh the MHS class of 2026. >> Thank you. And indeed, Mother Nature had something to say about us being inside because uh we usually are outside for these celebrations. So I'm grateful that we have this new fieldhouse. Thank you

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Mituchen community for allowing us to have this fantastic space to hold our gathering in because if in case of rain, we would have been in here and we would have had a limited number of >> instead of six tickets per family. So >> exactly. So it worked out really well. Thank you to our community again as

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always for their support. >> All right. Um are there at this time any committee reports? I don't believe there were official meetings, but I know construction often has updates as well as negotiation. Yeah, I'll do uh construction and then we'll save the negotiations for when we

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get to the finance section. Sounds good. >> So, the construction committee added in a meeting on uh June 15th, a virtual meeting um with some of the professionals >> as well as our administration. Um we discussed the UVs, the unit ventilators

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uh in the building. That's what provides the air conditioning and things like that. Um, and there was uh we're continuing to work on balancing those out and understanding fully how they work. There were some the units that were ordered were not configured in a

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way that was initially expected. Um, so they're working out some of those kinks. Uh, but overall it's been pretty positive in terms of us being able to get through some of the hottest days of the year um with having the full days. Um, but we are continuing to learn how

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to use those units properly. Uh the cafeteria at the high school is anticipated for completion July 13th. Um and board just so that you're aware there might be some minor changes to what you received based upon further

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information that we got uh afterwards. So um we were concerned about the pace of the project there, but there has been a positive meeting with the construction company Eminem uh since that point. Um, so we're feeling more positive about the

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completion of of the project. At Edgar, there's uh not specifically a date for the punch list items at this time. Um, and at Campbell as well. We're waiting on some dates on some finishing punch

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list items. Um, we are in the process of setting up a meeting with Epic, uh, the construction company that's responsible at Edgar and at Moss to try to nail down some final timelines there. At Moss, um, there's an area in the courtyard where

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some cement needed to be poured and they were waiting for school to be out. So, that should be happening very soon. Uh, as well as drainage around the playground uh, that needs to be put in. Over at Moss, we are trying to pin down some specific dates for that. Uh there

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are still many punch list items. We also discussed the stairwell at Moss and we're um just looking at some minor tweaks over in that area. Um and then we discussed the bridge over Grove Avenue. That's not part of the

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construction project. So please don't email us or the uh or Dr. Kudo about the bridge over Grove Avenue. That is a state project. It just happens to be adjacent to the high school. Luckily, they were waiting for the full closures until after uh school

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ended. So, that's a positive. Uh the construction company that is doing that work is using a piece of our land that we had agreed to. They are looking to use more of that land and we were trying to uh work out an agreement on that

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topic uh to make it as convenient for them as possible so that they can get the project done as quickly as possible. We certainly didn't want to be um holding up their project any anyway because we are hopeful that they will complete it before the end of the school

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year. So those are the topics that we discussed. Um we are still having there'll be more information about it but we are still planning to have uh open houses at all of the buildings. The September and October meetings of the board of education will be held at each

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of the different buildings so the public can come early and have a chance to tour that space as we approach the dates. We'll continue to talk about that more. And we also uh have a date in the summer at the farmers market. Uh, currently it

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is in August and I'll follow up on that at our next meeting as well. So that's the committee report for construction committee. Thank you. >> Wonderful. Thank you, Mr. Glasburg. Any questions or comments on that committee report? >> All right. Fantastic. Are there any

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other committees who want to give an update or Yes, Mr. Sus? >> I'll just do the quick for for Elite. Uh, Miss Colleen. >> Yeah. So there was a um for those of you remember the uh we just hired a new football coach

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>> and uh the administration has been working very very uh quickly to hire a set of assistants which they've done. So in order to get that and you'll be voting that on tonight in order to get that done we had a very uh quick meeting today of the extracurricular committee uh where we looked at the various

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assistants plus the cheerleading coach. >> Wonderful. Thank you for that update and thank you all for being able to move so quickly. >> Yes, thank you. >> Thank the administration for moving so quickly. >> Yes, all around thanks. Wonderful. All right, folks. Uh I think we're good on

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committee reports at this point. Uh our student board members not here. We are in a transition phase. Uh so now we open up for old business. The only old business I will share is that we are at the end of the school year. The kids are counting down. The teachers are counting

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down. I don't know if the parents are as excited because their kids are going to be home before camp, but you know, we'll make it work. Uh so, congrats to all for finishing out this school year. Um I hope you all have wonderful summers and have a great time and maybe, you know,

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uh try something new. All right. Uh moving to new business. Is there any new business from the board? Nope. All right. Seeing none, I'm going to go ahead and move to approve the minutes of the June 9th special business meetings one and two and the board meeting. Is there a second?

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Mr. Bot. Miss Ellich, could I get a roll call, please? >> Of course. Mr. Bot, I'm sorry. Dr. As >> Mr. Bot, >> yes. >> Miss Cheetum, >> yes. >> Mr. Glber, >> yes. >> Dr. Johnson Marcus,

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>> yes. >> Mr. Sus, >> yes. Miss Zimmerman. Yes. Motion carries. >> Wonderful. Thank you. And I'm moving to the recommendation of the superintendent of schools. Oftentimes, it may appear to members of our audience that the board of education takes action with very

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little comment and in many cases a unanimous vote. Before a matter is placed on the agenda at a public meeting, the administration has thoroughly reviewed the matter with the superintendent of schools. If the superintendent is satisfied that the matter is ready to be presented to the board of education, it is then referred to the appropriate board committee. The members of the board committee work with

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the administration and the superintendent to asssure that the members fully understand the matter. When the committee is satisfied with the matter is presented to the board of education for discussion before any final action is taken only then is it placed on the agenda for action at a public meeting.

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At this time I would like to move personnel items A1 through A7 because it is that time of year. >> Thank you. Um, I also want to note that for item A2, there is a typo on the

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agenda. It says 2025 2026 school year. We are not retroactively doing things here. We mean 2026 2027. That will be updated later on, but I did want to make sure I pointed that out. So, moving personnel items A1 through A77 with that

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caveat on two. Is there a second? Mr. Mr. Glber, are there any questions or comments on these personnel items? Seeing none, roll call, please. >> Dr. Oswel, >> yes. >> Mr. Bot, >> yes.

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>> Miss Cheetum, >> yes. >> Mr. Glber. >> Uh, yes. I'm going to abstain on nine. A >> nine. >> The first name on nine. >> Okay. All right. And, uh, Dr. Johnson Marcus.

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>> Yes. Mr. Sus. >> Uh, yes on all except for nine. Yes on Lewis, Curtain, Bosgra. No on all others. >> Okay. Thank you, Miss Zimmerman. Yes. Motion carries.

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>> Fantastic. Thank you. Now we're turning. I'm sorry. I'm still scrolling to the 77th. Mr. Sus Finance. >> Yes. I'd like to move items B1 through B41 as listed on the agenda. >> All right. Is there a second?

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Miss Zimmerman, are there any questions or comments on the finance items? Mr. Glasber, I was >> No, I was going to point to you actually. >> Okay. >> So, it items 35 through 39 related to the contract negotiations, which I'll hand over to Mr. Glasburg.

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>> Sure. Okay. >> Here's Mr. Glasbber. >> Thank you for the introduction. Um so we have we are voting on negotiations with the different units today uh the MEA and the paraprofessionals and the

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secretaries custodians and also principles and supervisors. I was the chair of the committee for negotiations for the MEA the paraprofessionals the secretaries custodians and Dr. Johnson Marcus was for the principles and supervisors uh was the negotiator there.

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I just want to point out how collaborative that the process was with all of the units. Um it was an extremely positive experience. Um we were very interested in hearing uh their points of view and some of the things

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that they were asking for and we were able to find a lot of a lot of common ground that I think are in the best interest of our students and that's what it's that's what it's all about trying to find find that right balance there. Um so I want to acknowledge um the

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members of our committee um was myself, Dr. Johnson Marcus, Mr. Derlinger, and uh Dr. >> Cheetum. >> You've given her doctor. You got a doctor today. >> Sorry, >> and Miss Cheetum

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uh for the board. And uh for the MEA, I want to acknowledge uh Mr. Schlavis, Miss Gavea, Mr. Fitz, Dr. Fitzgibbon, uh, Miss Kalantoni, uh, Miss Serach, Miss Bruno, Miss Centieri, Miss Savice, for their par

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profofessionals, uh, Mr. Deglio, Mr. Tay, Miss, uh, Pullman, and Miss Dougen. And for the secretaries, Miss Coleman and Mr. Chioano, and for the custodians, Mr. Alivic, and

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principles and supervisors who was with uh, Dr. Johnson Marcus, Mr. Powski. I just want to acknowledge them all because they all put in a whole lot of time uh along with us to have these conversations and to reach these agreements for the next three years. And

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it's no small task um labor negotiations. Uh it could be a really uncomfortable situation. It could be really one-sided type situation, but I think that everybody really brought a positive attitude to the conversations.

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And I think that we were able to, like I said, make some positive changes that will benefit the students in our school and the staff members in our school as well. So, thank all of them for their efforts and uh we're going to vote on it now. >> All right. Thank Thank you so much, Mr.

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Glasber. I will echo your kind words, but I will also share my kind words for you because this is your first year chairing negotiations. And indeed, uh Dr. Caputo often talks about us as a collaborative district. We live and breathe this for real, folks. This is

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not just pretty words that we say. I was truly impressed the first time I sat on negotiations committee to see how cordial the relations are. Obviously, folks may have differing things that they want and can't everyone can't always get what they want, but always we operated with respect and care for the

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work that is done by the folks here in our district. So, I only had one little piece um the principles um negotiations, but I I do my hat to you and the work that it takes to manage all of the pieces in this negotiations process. So,

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well done on your first uh go round and I'm sure Mr. Lifton would be proud. >> Thank you. I hope so. >> Thank you. And I think that do we want to Oh, and I also want to shout out Mr. bought for stepping in as we needed another person uh due to some um con

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conflicts. Let me explain that. So, Mr. Glber and do uh I'm giving people doctorates now. Mr. Durflinger and Ms. Khen are all members of a union that we were negotiating with. So, we c we have to conflict them out in these kinds of

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scenarios. So, that's why I stepped in. Miss Cheetum stayed on as well as then Mr. bot stepped in so that we had a negotiations team to connect with Mr. Powski. Um, so well done everyone. I am really proud of our district, especially

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the way in which we did this with such grace and care. So, all right, now we go to voting. Yes, unless there's more comments. Any comments? All right. Fantastic. Roll call, please. Mrs. Elliavich. >> Dr. Oil. >> Yes. >> Mr. Bot. >> Yes. >> Miss Jetum.

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>> Yes. >> Mr. Glaspber, >> yes on everything. and I abstain on the principles and supervisors contract. >> Thank you very much, Dr. Johnson Marcus. >> Yes, >> Mr. Sass. >> Yes, >> Miss Zimmerman.

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>> Yes. Motion carries. >> Wonderful. Thank you, Ms. Jetum. >> Thank you. I'd like to move items C1 through C10 is listed on the agenda for approval. >> Wonderful. Is there a second for these policy items? Miss Zimmerman. All right.

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Any questions or comments on the policy items? Seeing none, roll call, please. Miss Alvich. >> Dr. Oswel. >> Yes. >> Mr. Bot. >> Yes. >> Miss Cheetum. >> Yes. >> Mr. Glassber. >> Yes. >> Dr. Johnson Marcus. >> Yes. >> Mr. Sus.

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>> Yes. >> Miss Zimmerman. >> Yes. >> Motion carries. >> Wonderful. Thank you. I'd like to at this time move curriculum item D1. Is there a second? Miss Zimmerman, I'm looking at you. Let's go. All right. Are there any questions or comments on these

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curriculum items? >> Seeing none, roll call, please. >> Dr. Asil, >> yes. >> Mr. Bot, >> yes. >> Miss Cheetum, >> yes. >> Mr. Glber, >> yes. >> Dr. Johnson Marcus, >> yes. >> Mr. Sus, >> yes. >> Miss Zimmerman,

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>> yes. >> Motion carries. >> Thank you so much. At this time, we are open to the public. You sure? >> Yeah. All right. Seeing no public comment at this time, we'll close that section and toss it over to Miss Zimmerman for the announcements.

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>> End of the school year. So, last day of school tomorrow. Everybody's excited. Um, thank you to our teachers, our staff, administrators, and students for a great 2025 2026 academic year. Congrats to the class of 2026 graduating tomorrow.

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>> And our next board meeting is July 21st. So, have a restful couple of weeks until we see you all again. Awesome. Thank you so much, Miss Zimmerman. Way to keep it tight. At this time, I'd like to move to adjourn the meeting. Is there a Oh my

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goodness, Mr. Bot. Let me finish the sentence. Is there a second? All in favor? Good night, everyone.