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e e e e this one okay sorry this is the February 18th 2025 meeting of the board of education at this time please stand for the pledge
to the flat I pledge allegiance to the flag un States America stand naice okay Mr SM roll call Sunshine nsman a roll call please yes this is the Wall Township Board of Education meeting for which
adequate notice under the open public meeting Act was provided by a notice to the co-star Asbury Park Press Township clerk's office all Wall Township Public Schools and a posting in the board Administration office on January 9th 2025 I'll take a roll call Miss
Adams Mr anesio Miss barbier here Mr Bon here Mr Buffa here m d Giovani here Mr Smith here Mr wandra here Mr MTH
here at this time I'm going to ask for a motion to go into executive session for those items indicated on the agenda I'll make a motion okay all in favor all right we anticipate uh coming back to General
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e e e e e good evening and welcome to the wwn Board of Education meeting for February 18th 2025 at this time please rise for the flag salute the colors provided by
the wall High School [Music] nncc AR right I pledge aliance to the flag of the United States of America to the it stands one nation God indivisible
liberty and justice for all right wheel okay Mr Smite may we have a roll call please yes Miss Adams Mr Mr anesio M barbier
here Mr Bron here Mr buffer here Mr djovani here Mr Smith here Mr wandra here Mason Adam Megan Cappy eron Richie Mr MTH
here thank you Mr Smite at this time we will have our student representative report we have officially entered the third markeing period and the students are continuing working hard starting off the marking period the National Honor Society students hosted their ceremony
for the new inductees after lots of practice the ceremony turned out wonderful and the seniors inducted the Juniors who are now officially in NHS congrats to them wall High School is hosting their annual talent show walls Got Talent on February 26 at 6 p.m. this
is where high school students can show off their special talents wall High School will focus on the attitude of gratitude mindset for the month of February during this month we will practice thaning it forward we want to thank it forward to focus on the good
things we all possess last week Our Heroes and Cool Kids visited all four elementary schools to discuss respect and the importance of being an upstander these these kids all love these visits and have a great time boys and girls basketball both celebrated their senior nights last week
it's great to honor the seniors last few games and recognize all they've done in all sports girls basketball has their first state game February 27th and hockey has their first dat game at the end of the week best of luck to those teams the wall High School school wait
the sorry the wall High School counseling department is continuing to celebrate the class of 2025 class of 2025 College acceptances many of our students have already received acceptances and decisions from early decisions and early action
deadlines we look forward to celebrating all of our students in May the school counselors have also begun meeting with their current students to finalize students courses requests for next year and beginning the next week they will meet with incoming eighth graders the counselors will start the counselors
will start to develop a four-year plan to help our students meet goals and guide postsecondary planning okay thank you Megan Mason and Erin and you're certainly welcome to stay but you don't have to so thank you at this time we're going to open the
floor for public comment on any school related issue if you would like to make a comment come down to the microphone below or the one up at the top of the auditorium bet gr I live in Wall Township I'd like to welcome Mr Cody
Smith to the board uh I just wanted to go over a couple of things uh I think you know the president um had a resending of a number of policies um
and there's something on the books now that says you won't get Federal funding if you require um any your sta for children to have vaccines and policy 5756 so if you could give us an update tonight I didn't see anything on the agenda I know Middletown rescinded
policy 5756 uh so I'm wondering what the board is looking to do with that in the near future so if you could comment on on that tonight it would be appreciated I know there was a letter that was sent
out on February 14th and you should have that and within two weeks uh you will need to prend those policies um or else you won't receive
state funding off hand I don't remember what it was I don't know 4 million or something like that uh I wanted to go over uh I got some emails back from Mr Smite today I think they might be overly redacted or if things if things are confidential I'm not sure why certain
items are being um released um I see that you know when I put in an Oprah request I have to answer certain questions but when another member of the public uh one of them was a Michael Shelton when he put in an oah request he didn't have to answer the
questions so I'm just wondering why there's a difference in how you return opras so I see we have a different attorney here tonight maybe if she could give her name because she is not Athena Cornell that's on there I think I would appreciate that but if you could go over
that is there rules for certain people um W Municipal is having some issues with their business administrator and um uh somebody had sent me a Facebook post um and Facebook is is great it gets gets
a lot of got of thing a lot of words out there that people um couldn't get out otherwise and uh Chad Clark who was a great police officer wrote this very extensive uh post that I hope that you know I'm
sure wall police is is advised Mammoth County prosecutor's office I'm sure has it maybe the Attorney General but you know we really do need to look into uh regularities whether they're in the municipality whether they're in the um Board of
Education um minutes to me they're just not up to what they should be um I I did post I don't I I I I think I emailed you back like my questions that I had on all the minutes mainly with Mr buffer um so
if you could you know maybe answer the questions that that I put it put in the fnf minutes and any other um policy minutes curriculum instruction I would thank you Mrs cross I would greatly appreciate it thank you and then are you
going to go over the student safety data system hopefully you go over that tonight thanks thank you Mrs cross anyone else for public comment seeing none we're going to close public comment at this time and at this
time I'd like to uh turn over to Dr Haman who will uh introduce the special presentation thank you so much Mr malof um we have two presentations here this evening uh our first is an up midyear
update on our seven mindsets program and it'll be the the first one up and it will be presented by Miss Tiffany Steiner and also miss kin Gil our second presentation will be um on our midyear
update for our district goals and that will be a presentation from our assistant superintendent Miss Jennifer McAn and Miss Kelly Bond now to um to facilitate this at this point I would like the Board of Education and members
of the de if you could take a seat one of our reserve seats out front to help us provide a little more of a seamless transition transition to the presentations thank you okay Miss Steiner Miss gilver I'm going to turn the program over to
you thank you Dr hander hand and thank you again to the board of education for having us um we are part of the wellness Department I'm Tiffany Steiner the director of wellness and kayn gilar is with me who is our district select leader um she also serves as a member of
the child study team in our intermediate school so tonight what we wanted to Showcase was some of our work as a wellness department and then we wanted to scroll down and speak about some of the accomplishments of each of our schools so we are midyear through but we
are through a bunch of our mindsets we in October had our first mindset which we did speak about at that meeting and this meeting we're going to talk about from November to February we did Passion first we are connected 100% accountable and attitude of
gratitude um with each mindset it's always our goal to be Fidel to have Fidelity in instruction and make sure that we're teaching on all of the components we also weave in some Ingenuity with some extension activities we have this year Incorporated wellness
webinars and mindset mentor into the instructional model our Wellness webinars is like a technology infused experience using a platform like Google meet where our students um get an opportunity to meet as a class online
reinforcing digital digital citizenship in necticut our mindset mentors are students who were selected by peers to be leaders of our Wellness webinars so it's a great opportunity for grades three to five to begin to um get
involved in student leaders ship this year our Wellness in the works I put 2.0 because we took some feedback and made some improvements our goal this year was to be more inclusive of our community so we asked um for assist from assistance for Mrs mccan our assistant
superintendent who has submitted in our newsletter a Chicken Soup for the Soul um which is accompanied by our food services manager Mr pittington who pairs what Mrs mccan um selects a book book to represent the mindset child's book and
it's paired with a soup recipe from Mr pittington um we also have engaged our School nurses to contribute directly into our newsletter and um we're finding some success with that our back to school nights this year
our counseling department wanted to become more active and be active participants in the experience of back to school night and they did some and offered some pre-presentation prior to the beginning of the back to school night program finally We are continuing with our
family nights um we have one coming up about parent Partnerships and community supports was our first one our next one um is coming up in about a month or actually in about two weeks yeah yeah Mrs um gilvar will speak more about that
but we also um in accomplishment of the wellness Department was we did just recently have a community provider panel where we invited 10 different community resource providers to review their services their
programs This was um professional development that was offered to our case managers our child study team our school counselors our school principls but we also this year wanted to extend it to other community providers and we engaged
um other districts like Briel madisan seagert and those counselors attended as well so um um you know we're all about growing Partnerships and working together at the school level you can see we have some collages up there of
different activities that reinforce the mindsets these are also found in our Wellness in the works newsletters there are two showcases that I wanted to speak about um one from Allenwood school one from Central School Allen wood did something unique this year with their
mindset mentors and incorporating an initiative in students changed hunger campaign the students got involved in you know food donations as they began to collect food our mindset mentors became very
interested in what goes on once the food is delivered what is on the back end what does it take to run you know a organization that provides meals and food to others so this fundraiser kind of food
collection then kind of became a service learning experience for our mindset mentors who then also went on a trip field trip to the um fulfill Center and came back and TurnKey their experience to other students in their grade level
so it really was a springboard into two more campaigns that Allenwood ran to for donations for even more food and now they are being named to the 1,000 pound club which is um very cool experience um
very few schools are named for being able to collect that much food so um what started with one fundraiser really manifest into something much bigger at Central School this year they
Incorporated a community outreach program in order to be inclusive and provide opportunities for all children All Families um it's very similar to kind of what we try and do with our family nights but this is done directly after school there are parents are
invited to join their children in activities transportation is also provided so we removed that barrier often children at the elementary age it's very difficult for them to stay after because they don't have that Transportation home um the goal really
is to bring the kids in to let them bond with their peers to let them bond with their friends to let them bond with their teachers invite parents if they would like to participate as well and to Foster positive relationships in the school so those are two unique
experiences that incorporate the mindsets that we're really proud of this year uh Miss galary would you like to present on the next ones thank you perfect um thank you so much for having us back I appreciate it um I want to talk to you a little bit about what Old
Mill did now we went through about four different mindsets since we saw you last so we've been busy little bees um and I can't go through everything but like Miss Diner says we wanted to just showcase some of the things the buildings did do so Old Mill did a Super
Bowl excuse me with cultural celebrations so we realized that or the Old Mill realized that we're right around the time of football and what a great way to learn how to everybody gets to form an opinion everybody gets to have a cause so they did this where just
instead of donating cans which we do and it's wonderful for the mammoth County Food Bank they got to pick a team they got to pick a team in the Super Bowl everybody got the same information who was going to win who they want to bet but what they were really able to
embrace was that they were allowed to have different opinions and demonstrate those different opinions what without being judged without having any negative connotation to them um and really understand that they can have different
opinions and still get along now we all know the right team one Birds but they were able to participate in a way where not only they brought the community in and were able to recognize helping out like I said the cans went
back to Mammoth County so that was a great resource for them and a great ability to have that Community involved but also to step out of their box and be able to make a decision on their own with the information they gathered and um participate in that fun event so old
M did a great job with that super fun Wes Belmar did something a little bit different which was awesome they had many things going on these past few few months but one of the things that really C caught our eye was their ability to do
this Community Partnership with caught being kind so every month the school teachers can catch them being kind and I know we have it in some of our buildings they all do it in a different way but West Belmore really has this ability to
to recog ize the students who go above and beyond and that's the foundation of seven mindsets to show the approach of what we're looking for but in this every month there's a raffle so if you're caught being kind you get a token you get to put it in the raffle but they
took it even one step further with just being recognized they went to the community and they partnered with Mike Subs Mike Subs was able to come back and say we value what your students are doing on a monthly basis and we want to
give them them and show them that that value leads into how to be a true leader and the community will recognize it so when they won Mike's provided lunch for them which was super cute but in turn the kids got to see how good deeds also
relates to and and really TR what's the word I want to say really pushes into the community and then you can be caught not just in the school um which is really good being kind so we were really happy to see that and it's something they continue and that Community
Partnership um really leads by example so we appreciate everything West Belmar does there let's see if I know how to work this I win okay um let me get through Intermediate School
we have also been very busy we had a great couple months um we had a hard couple months but one of the really fun things that we did that we wanted to Showcase is the counselors our school stack came up with an underground Spirit Week what we wanted to do is have the
kids try to look at what we were doing through a different lens it's very um the kids love Spirit weeks when they get to dress up they love to wear their pajamas or their sports gear but what we wanted them to do is really use some
thinking skills to figure out what we were doing it allowed the staff to really come together it unified us as a group um we were allowed to have fun they saw us having fun but to give you an example one of the first days we were
it was the blackout date so everybody wore black but it happened to be just off of the weekend that we lost President Carter so we had a lot of kids come up to us and say are you doing this to to show your mourning and your respect to the president and the fact
that the kids in in Middle School were able to make that connection that that's how you display respect or that how certain cultures display respect that we were doing it as a unified staff and we were like no but oh my goodness I wish we had thought of that but they were
thinking outside the box and as the week continued it got a little sillier but what they were able to really do is see that there is a playful side to their staff um that we all came together we were unified and that's just something in the Intermediate School were constantly striving for the respect
showing respect of each other um so that was a really fun week and they really got to see that through a different lens they got to look at it as as staff as humans but we represented something different to them um and it was really fun so we liked that was there a video
for that do I press that button no [Music] [Music] he so you can see as the week went on we got a little sillier you can see the second day was the two shoe day and I
think some of the kids really thought we lost our mind needless to say we had a good time with it so it was a great example of what we were trying to prove for that um for those mindsets um thank you for playing that the high school also in their unique
selves um did something really kind of fun and it was the Polar Plunge but they took it again to a whole another level right Mr Davis so um what they did is they not only we all have heard of polar plunges and there's usually a a um
charity or cause behind them well the high school took it along with the anti-bullying task force really wanted to hone in on on a population and services that were really getting our feet wet with with Unified sports in both buildings um and they used Special
Olympics so we're talking again about people with all different types of disabilities and then showing that we support that and we want to encourage there to be um that representation at wall high school but what they did was
they challenged the students to raise a certain amount of money a lot of money to get Mr Davis in the in the ocean so Mr Davis was so willing and it really showed his leadership his humanistic
side his ability to get down right there with the kids and get dirty um and really show what it means if you have a cause and you want to fight for something that you stand up for what you believe so the kids came together as a group really pulled their money and sent
Mr Davis and Mr tarington who was one of the advisers into the ocean um and it was quite funny but what what it really signified was that they came together they had a common goal they used their resources and they got Mr Davis in the
ocean and it was really really cool and I just want to say that what our kids are starting to really see is our staff has stepped up our students have stepped up our administrators are stepping up our parents are stepping up when we have
evening events so seven mindsets is not just lifting the students in the classroom it's lifting the administrators in their offices it's lifting the board every time time you have us here and support something we're doing and it really sets the pace and the the drive of what seven mindset is
all about so um I don't want to hold back because I want to show you this really fun video but I want to say thank you to all of the buildings because they were quite amazing in these these past few months but let's all watch Mr Davis be really really cold for a
minute it was a very cold day there he is see him Mr tarington is right next to him I'll uh commentate they had to go all the way in look at this
oh no but I would like to point out here's the kids coming back Mr tarrington checks on Mr Davis multiple times making sure he makes it out he's like you okay see you okay see one more time you okay he was very worried about you see
he made it he's still breathing so thank you Mr Davis [Applause] and thank you to the high school and the anti-bullying task force and all of those students that participated in that um it was it was truly a great event all right so now let me wrap up for you guys
real quick we do have our next mindset coming up which is live to give um lots of amazing stuff planned as you know we each building will have three lessons and one webinar lesson so we're continuing with our format which we're finding success in our counselors our
teachers our media specialists our Sachs are doing a phenomenal job delivering them um we're upping the game once again on our parent engagement we have a really really great one coming up um on the 27th multiple agencies or not agencies
but multiple partners are involved in this so the wtaa again is always so wonderful to support us to provide funding to bring in these amazing speakers for our parents and our students um we have the wellness Department with Mrs Steiner we also have the department Department of special ed
with Mrs Kelly Bond excuse me who taking this to the next level and looking at your child's executive functioning Mrs Bond was able to get us a contact through Ruckers so we have an amazing doctor coming in um to present
on this to our parents and executive functioning I'm just going to plug it because it's all about time management your ability to be a human in a very hard work world so when we talk about basic skills that affect us on a
day-to-day basis like time management daily living skills all of those things affect all of us but having your parents get a front row seat to how to help our students succeed I think it's going to be a wonderful event we do have it advertised on our website so if anybody is listening to this or wants to join
please fill out the zoom or the Google form we'd love to have you um continuing the Community we have our next Wellness coming out um The Wellness website is always updated I think Miss Steiner you do a beautiful job with that and
Leadership we're going to leave you with this last piece read Across America is coming up we're going to do it seven mindset style so what's going to happen is the Elementary media Specialists are going to display books that represent
each mindset in their I'm going to say libraries but in the schools thank you media centers um 2025 kayin 2025 so but not only are they going to display books
we're kind of going to kick it off with the next of ask me which mindset so it's going to allow there to be more conversation about the book and why it represents that mindset it gives us a conversation starter for the kids it gives the teachers a conversation
starter it really helps open that language so not only are we reading but we're compreh attending and we're learning and we may have more in the works of that continuing but I'm going to leave that to just next time um but
we as you can see we've done amazing things I think the support of all of you in this room the board administrators staff teachers the union everybody I just want to thank you and thank you for giving us time to kind of showcase one more time anything else Miss Diner no
thank you so much and have a wonderful night just speak a little oh here we go I was gonna say I can get really loud um thank you so much Miss G and Miss Steiner for giving us um an amazing update on all of the activities and messaging and just
really the really the positivity um again I've mentioned this I I have the privilege of being in the schools during the school day seeing the seven mindsets in action every single every single day and it is a true pleasure and um you know it's really nice to see U this is a
multi-year sustained effort and to see momentum build is uh it's quite special speaking of updates it is my pleasure to introduce uh Miss Jen mccan and Miss Kelly Bond our assistant superintendent and this evening they are charged with
providing our community and the Board of Education with an update on a midyear update on our district goals so at this point I would like to turn the program over thank you all right thank you Dr handan um so
back in August the district approved um five goals that are aligned to our three-year strategic plan each of those goals has a specific Focus the first one is a focus on academic Excellence our
second goal is around student parent teacher and Community Wellness our third goal is centered around strengthening engagement and inclusivity with our students and our community our fourth goal is around fiscal responsibility and
maintaining our facilities and the fifth goal is on um ensuring our our communication strategies within internally and externally with our community so from September till January
30th um we have specific things that we have accomplished throughout the course of the school year that are aligned to each of our goals um with our academic goal we were focusing on and strengthening our instructional programs
we have continued with our magnet reading literacy portfolio um last year we started with K to2 this year we have implemented it in 3 four and five we've also taken a um a look at our
mathematics programs in grades 4 through 12 specifically at the secondary levels with algebra 1 Algebra 2 and geometry um we've expanded our K through 12 multilingual lingual multilingual
learners program um and also um improved our English curriculum in grades 6 through 12 and also expanded and implemented our dual enrollment program at the high school we were able to expand our
enrollment with nncc um and we are currently in the process of evaluating our world language program as well as our science program and our elective courses at the middle school in addition to our our programs
we've also wanted to maintain our best practices um we've implemented new Assessments in K through2 making sure that they were aligned to the standards that the state requires in each grade level and each content area um like I mentioned we continued with Magnetic
reading portfolio which is a uh science of reading approach to teaching reading we've implemented something new this year our elementary grade level leaders in Special Ed education leaders um it was a leadership opportunity for our
staff members and they meet with our staff once a month um and we are currently in the process of evaluating um our Intermediate School schedule sorry excuse me schedule um and also our current grading policy and high school
transcripts and student achievement acknowledgements at the high school level in terms of data analysis we have implemented and continued to use um Universal screeners in K through five we use a Dibbles assessment for reading and
we also continue to use I ready Assessments in K through 8 for mathematics and for reading and we implemented the linkit program which is a data warehouse as well as an assessment platform in grades 6 through 12 um for different content areas um
which allows us to do an analysis on the standards and focus on the ones that we need to impl Implement um and strengthen within our curriculum um which happens during data chat meetings I'm now going to pass it over to Miss Kelly bond to
talk about the next two goals you thank you um I'm going to talk a bit about goal two which um you just heard a bit about in regards to what the students are doing and what's going on in the classroom but I'm going to focus a lot on um what the wellness department is
doing to support all of those initiatives so we're implementing seven month mindsets for another year there have been significant strides um in expanding this so you heard the students are um being taught more lessons this year than they have in the past so it's
a more comprehensive experience for the students and um we continue to prioritize staff development for all of the staff at all of the levels so there have been District ride trainings as well as more targeted small group trainings for administrators the
counselors at each individual level and for the um staff who are responsible for the lesson implementations this targeted approach ensures that each group receives really truly what they need to be able to incorporate seven mindsets into daily practices Community
involvement remains a Cornerstone of the program's success um you heard a bit about the different ways that the community is being engaged um through parent nights and the Wellness in the works newsletter which is always a fun read um and in terms of our postvention
and our crisis management We are continuing um to look at our practices and to um really ensure that we are prepared in the need of a in in if there were to be a crisis so there are very targeted PD and planning sessions um and
those are done separately for different groups of Staff members so they can be very targeted and specific our nurses anti-bullying Specialists our homeless Liaisons our counselors and our administrator ERS to ensure that we are really looking at our students well-being and what they would
need and in addition we are always um continuing to provide essential trainings on 504 plans harassment intimidation and bullying um and also our intervention and referral services procedures by consistently um monitoring
reviewing and revising those processes um and again you heard about our family nights that are really focused on topics that are um health related Trends and social emotional learning goal three um this year we've
continued to expand and enhance our Unified sports program so once again we're partnering with the Special Olympics of New Jersey to provide students with meaningful athletic experiences we've broadened our offerings this year so we have bowling um our last meet of the season is
actually this Thursday where we're taking on Perth Amboy it's going to be awesome um and um at the high school this year we dedicated a physical education period for Unified sports this allowed students to express an interest in wanting to be
a p a part of and support the team by selecting this particular PE class this initiative is a resounding success um and the energy and the camaraderie that is displayed amongst the students at the events demonstrates the program's impact
at w Intermediate School we created a ified Club where the athletes get time to be with their peers where they can practice the essential skills that are needed for competition and they can foster that trusting relationship that's really needed for that program to thrive
um within the special services department we've initiated several new initiatives um for so we can meet the needs of various types of Learners so um at elementary and intermediates uh intermediate grade levels the students with IEPs who are struggling with
foundational literacy skills um we're continuing to implement the sundai system and this is based in Orton Gillingham practices and is also grounded in the science of reading it complements rather than replaces the district's reading program so it helps
to give additional support and to bridge the gap for students who are in need and The Rise program which is now in its sixth month has continued to provide restorative and indic individualized education um for students who are struggling with significant School
anxiety and mental health challenges our goal is to provide um a proper and inclusive program for students within their neighborhood School we've partnered with clinicians who specialize in uh providing supports for students who are experiencing these types of
difficulties we meet several times a month to discuss the students their clinical plans their academic plans and to make goals for their future um and The Rise program began with four students and we now have seven so we're really proud PR of that um and to further engage in support the families
in Wall Township special service department had its annual parents night out in December Polar Express which was great we have an extremely active parent advisory um special education parent advisory group um otherwise known as cpag um our parent nights and
presentations have have had a variety of topics transition to adulthood um special education trusts transition in between buildings and our UPC coming where we're partnering with the wellness department and we'll be talking about executive functioning skills um and also
culturally responsive um leadership uh so all the work within goal two and three are um designed to create a sense of belonging promote Community involvement inclusivity and strengthen peer relationships I'm going to pass it back to miss mccan to go over
goal four thank you um as mentioned earlier goal four is centered around fiscal responsibility of maintaining our facilities um so between September and now or even over the summer um we have
completed a number of events in doing so we continue to provide updates um at the board meetings regarding the referendum projects as well as update the website um there were a number of summer projects that were completed um between
updating um bathrooms in multiple schools Roofing in multiple schools Paving in multiple schools um we are on the right track of following along with our multiple year plan in ensuring that
our referendum um goes smoothly and our facilities continue to be upgraded um with regards to um facility needs throughout the district we continue to retain a company um to assist us with
conducting a demographic traffic study and looking at our capacity within each of our buildings um along with monitoring housing developments that are happening within Wall Township um and in addition to that um with facilities to
support our district Support Services which includes Transportation um operation central office staff we continue to look for funding options and building options um in order to support those services
and last but not least goal five which is our Communications goal um to ensure districtwide Communications um we continue to utilize our district website um as our hub for communications as well
as our social media posts um we also are have memberships to the national school public relations and the New Jersey school public relations associations um where we have staff members who attend their um quarterly meetings on a regular
basis and their professional development opportunities um we also are working um to continue to produce positive and collaborative relationships um with our community um through Dr hander hand's
Communications as well as the principal smores that um come out twice a month as well as Miss Steiner's Wellness in the works and also through those community and parent workshops that have been mentioned um throughout the
presentations internally we have monthly administrative meetings as well as um curriculum and instruction updates that go out on a weekly basis uh we also have our monthly Elementary grade level meetings that were mentioned earlier as
well as department meetings and faculty meetings and last but not least our website revision that happen on a continual basis to ensure communication um continues if you would like to see more
details of each of those particular goals and specifics of can somebody click on that I thought I could this document will be provided on the
website can you scroll down keep going keep going there we go the nitty-gritty of everything that we have accomplished and summarized here tonight is listed um in full detail for anybody
who is interested in looking at what we've accomplished from January to now I would like to say I'm pretty proud of everything that we have been able to do um as an administrative team we sat and talked about about the activities that we wanted to accomplish throughout the
course of the school year and I would like to think that between September and now we are on um a really good stride of continuing to meet all of the goals and activities that we had set forth as an administrative team over the summer so
thank you to everybody Dr [Applause] Henry for okay I want to thank Mrs Steiner Miss Gary uh Miss Bond Mrs McAn for those uh
for those special presentations all right the board greatly appreciates your effort there also like to thank Mr allworth and the uh uh technology team for all you do to set up our meetings and make sure that uh uh that we can get this out not only to the people here but
also to the people in the community so thank you very much uh I'd like to read our uh students of the month for uh January of 25 grade nine we have Allan bag bagum grade 10 Brianna bukus grade
11 Elena uh CIF night of the week grade 10 Maya Yates grade 11 Caitlyn Espinosa and we have our students of marking period two uh for art we have Claire Marie Force for business meline walenta
for English Michael coplin for math Logan Wells for media and TV Sam Elliot not the actor Sam Elliott I don't think right right uh music Liv Perry uh PE Health Landon Goodrich science Lauren
tremble uh social studies Carly Missour technology Ed ainley M and World Language Abigail Kingman uh just a couple other things I'd like to say I did attend a couple of events this past month uh at the schools
I was at the uh uh Elementary School orchestra concert which was held here which I enjoyed very much as well as the high school Winter concert and the uh uh NHS induction ceremony at the uh the high school which is a is a really nice ceremony if you ever not have an
opportunity to uh uh to see that it's a it's certainly a very nice ceremony uh board member just want to mention to you that uh youve received some uh correspondents in your emails lately um contacted maybe if anyone's involved in
participating in the uh read Across America events at uh I know Old Mill maybe some of the other schools are doing it too but if you uh can take the opportunity to do that you know please respond to that uh as well uh also just
a a note up coming next month on March 27th will be the uh Crimson Knight Foundation gala uh honoring uh community and school members I see Mrs Gail Moore here tonight and she's going to be one of the honores so we're looking forward
uh to that event okay and at this time I'm gonna turn it over to Dr handrian thank you very much Mr malof uh good evening again I'd like to formerly thank the wall High School color guard and Colonel Jax for opening our meeting I would also like to thank our student
Representatives Mason Adam Megan Cappy and Aaron Richie for joining us this evening once again thank you Miss Tiffany Steiner and Miss kayn gavar for providing us with a midyear update of our districtwide seven mindsets programming it is truly a pleasure to see these efforts take hold across the
district I would also like to thank assistant superintendents Jennifer mccan and Kelly bond for for reporting out on our midyear District goals as you can see from their presentation The wtps Faculty staff and administrators have
been extremely diligent in making progress towards these goals I am extremely proud of all of their hard work behind all of these accomplishments thank you our Collective wtps family if you wish to see I just want to reiterate what Miss mccan shared
on the website if you wish to see these specific objectives and activities that support the district goals please visit our website if you are just tuning in now rewind a little bit because we were able to pull it up before so you can see what the document looks like and again
this will be posted on our website tomorrow morning kindergarten and preschool registration is underway if you have an incoming kindergartner or if you wish to register your child for preschool please do so as soon as possible it is important for budgeting and planning
purposes that we have the enrollment information as early as possible so um if you um if you haven't registered yet and your your intention is to send your children to Wall Township Public Schools kindergarten please come on down and
reach out to uh check out our website and uh any questions I direct them to uh our district registar miss Karen Macwan speaking of budgeting our 2025 2026 budget Workshop session is
scheduled for Tuesday February 25th at 5:45 p.m. this open to the public meeting will also be live streamed each year superintendents are required to Port report out on data pertaining to school violence and vandalism that occurred during a
designated time period the school violence and vandalism reporting categories include alleged hibs confirmed hibs acts of violence vandalism weapons and incidents involving substance abuse please visit the district's website to review the
specific breakdown of reporting for each of the schools the data from time period 1 which is September 1st through December 31st 2024 speaks to the number of closed matters any ongoing matters would not be
reported during this reporting period so during reporting period one wall High School had a total of 19 New Jersey Department of Education closed categorized incidents two confirmed hibs six alleged hibs one incident of
substance confirmed use and possession eight incidents of substance possession one incident of assault and one incident of simple threat while Intermediate School had a total of 19 NJ dooe closed categorized incidents six confirmed hibs
11 alleged tibs one incident of assault and one incident of a fight Central School had a total of two NJ doe closed categorized incidents one confirmed Hib and one alleged Hib Old Mill school had a total of six NJ
doe Clos categorized incidents six alleged hips West belmare School no in no incidents Allenwood no incidents and Wall primary no incidents if any member of the public has any comments with
respect to the data from time period one you will have the opportunity to share that information during the section of this meeting dedicated to public comment our total District enrollment numbers for January 2025 are as follows
prek 76 kindergarten 229 first grade 224 second grade 232 third grade 249 fourth grade 234 fifth grade
282 sixth grade 240 7th grade 258 8th grade 258 8ighth grade 258 9th grade 221 10th grade 218 11th grade
253 and 12th grade 233 that concludes my superintendent report for this evening I thank you and back to you Mr malof thank you Dr handan uh at this time it's a board of education update any member of the Board of Education
wish to make a comment at this time okay you want to give the oer report go ahead Mr thank you Mr Smite okay with regarding the open public records act the district uh to date this is for our fiscal year starting in July have received 69 oah requests uh 65 of those requests have
received a response and are considered closed uh of the four outstanding uh one request has received a partial response one request is pending clarification as required by the recent amendments to the Oprah law uh and two requests were
received today and are outstanding of those two one request is for the payroll record of all School Employees for the past year and a half and one is for the Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield invoices for employee health benefits for the past year and a half uh with regard to
public records provided the district has provided 9,647 p of Records um since July 1 to date thank you thank you Mr SM committee reports are uh all online and can be uh can be
viewed at the uh in that in that fashion uh at this time we're going to open up uh public comment second public comment for any items that appear on tonight's agenda anyone wishing to make a uh a comment please come to the microphone
bet cross I live in Wall Township um I just wanted to get the name of the attorney who's here tonight was there a reason that why AA Cornell is not here um I think it's appropriate to say what the attorney's name
is uh I think it's Lori Brown sternbeck is that correct uh no that's not correct it's Angela Guerrera Angela Bella can you just spell that and can you turn the time off I shouldn't take up my time I think you should have introduced her
Miss Mr malof g r e r a right is there any reason why Miss Cornell isn't here tonight and why we haven't received the attorney bills for November and December anybody know maybe Kathleen djovani can look into that she's an
attorney on the board m m Miss Cornell was not available to come to tonight's meeting that's why she's okay so she's still going to be the attorney that's correct okay just want to be sure okay um like I mentioned I did put in
um some opras and I don't know how things are going into a spam folder now um but hopefully you've corrected that uh that would be great so that that doesn't happen again because it's happened a number of times at Mr SMI so we just don't know if that's really the
case so if your it person can can confirm that I'd appreciate it um are are there different rules for different different people of those 65 opras was I only the one that was required to answer the questions um I guess I'll have to put
in uh Mr Mal I I'd like you to look into that because I feel like I'm being discriminated against so if you could let me know if that's actually the case I'd appreciate it um Michael Shelton got a opener response back in 24 hours
didn't answer any of the questions um I don't answer the questions and I'm asked seven days later to answer the questions so there's something off uh we only went over two Oprah opras you should have an Oprah log and put what all the opras are
not just say what the outstanding ones are now that just doesn't really make any sense um hopefully you're going to comply with uh president Trump's um order that would be appreciated uh the 25th of February is actually day that
Scott prester is going to be in Mammoth County um so it's not a good day for me for the budget um fnf minutes you know we really need to do better if we have attachments that you were reviewing in the meeting from
the architect you just need to attach them to your minutes because I know how this works when we go to find the information on the referendum years from now they're gone because that whole tab gets gets removed so we really need to have the information when you're reviewing it
attach it to the minutes we used to actually do that Mr malof so you know I I really think you need to start doing that going forward for transparency and accountability to for the hundred million that were uh paid in the past
year between the referendum and the uh taxpayer base okay thank you Mr scz thanks okay at this time I'm going to ask for a motion to approve the consent agenda items 12
13 uh 14 15 16 17 18 and 19 m d jaani I'll second Mr buffer Mr uh SMI roll call please Miss barbier uh yes but I'm going to abstain
from 16a section 6 item 14 and 16a section 7 item 8 noted Mr buron yes Mr buffer yes Mr D Giovani yes
Mr Smith yes Mr wandra yes Mr Mr MTH yes but I will be abstaining from uh 16a Roman numeral 6 number 35 yes on the rest noted okay at this time I'm going to ask
for a motion for adjournment Miss djovani Mr Baron all in favor opposed meeting adjourn thank you see you next month see you at the uh uh budget budget meeting