Okay. Hello everybody. Welcome to tonight's board of education meeting. It's really great to see all of you here. We called our meeting to order earlier in our closed executive session and I hope everyone was able to recharge during spring break. And now here we go
for our regularly scheduled agenda. Um uh Miss Sata, do you have any comments you'd like to start us off with? >> Um sure. Thank you so much. Um I'm sitting in this evening as Dr. outerhold is away
um on a special invite to a conference and so um I'm just sitting in for this for this evening. Um first of all I know that we're going to have some honores in a little bit. So I'm looking forward to honoring some of our students um in our fine and performing arts. Um but
honestly I would like to give some credit to Dr. David Outerhold who had his uh book recently published and although not here this evening um when you do see him around the district when he returns um his book the octopus mindset a framework for educational
leadership um we all had the heads up that it was coming out but it is now published and I have the hard copy here with me um and so we look forward to we're fortunate enough to learn from him each and every day but um now others can do the same um through this helpful
guide. >> Awesome. Thank you. And uh Dr. Adhold, if you're watching, just a reminder to work on your uh autographs because we want signed copies. Thank you. And uh so next, I'd like to invite our student representatives from High School North
and High School South. So from High School South, we have Anna Chen. And from High School North, we have Logan Klein. Uh looks like Anna, you are going to start first. So thank you. >> Hello everyone. Thank you for having us again. Unfortunately, Alice was not able to make it tonight. We are well rested
from spring break and have many events planned as we enter the last marking period next week. Starting off with spring sports, the boys uh tennis team is currently undefeated and recently beat North and Princeton High School. Next, our boys volleyball team has also
had had a successful season thus far going undefeated at the Navy Nation Invitational. They also held their annual serve up hope game and raised a record of $3,419 for Joey's Little Angels. Last month, the head coach for volleyball boys
volleyball and one of our gym teachers, Mr. Cologne, raised $720 for the St. Baldick's Foundation, a program that funds cancer research. We are extremely grateful for the effort behind this fundraising success. On March 13th, North and South students organized a
walk out protesting against ICE in WWP. There were about 1,000 attendees between um North and South and students held speeches to spread awareness. We're so proud of the students for speaking out for other unheard voices. Prior to spring break, our orchestra, band, and choir visited Nashville, the city of
music. The students visited the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum and Elvis Presley's recording studio. They had a lot of fun and enjoyed seeing some of America's musical roots. Next, we'd like to highlight the student panel for Grover and South staff members. Two of our seniors, Aiden Edwards and Ryan
Thompson, MCED the event, and some students from Grover and South shared impactful moments throughout their time at WWP to promote belonging and inclusivity amongst our staff and students. Another senior who we'd like to congratulate is Annabella Ruiz, who
is this year's unsung hero. South hosted their annual unsung heroes event where all the students throughout Mercer County attended and recognized a student who consistently demonstrated um strong integrity. We'd also like to highlight the 165 students that
qualified for the seal by literacy an exam led by Dr. Ashley Warren and we are extremely proud of each student's hard work and dedication. We now like to honor the student teachers from colleges across New Jersey that have been assisting at South. We're so grateful for their help and we hope to see them
again at South in the coming years. We'd also like to take a moment to thank our counseling department who have thoughtfully be thoughtfully meeting with um students to plan out the next year's courses accordingly to help prepare each student for success. As for our competitive afterchool clubs, HOSA
and FBLA both competed in state leadership conferences and this past weekend model congress competed at Ruckers. Congratulations to all the competitors and award winners. Last month, our juniors held their annual annual um talent show and had an amazing
time. And now the junior class council is planning for an eventful prom themed story night. And later this month will enjoy their time at the 4Gate Country Club. Today the senior class took their yearbook photo with admin on turf and we were especially pleased by the warm weather and we hope to see the same warm
weather on Friday for a spring prep rally. Speaking of which, this week student council is holding their annual spring spirit week. Monday was Hawaiian day. Today was Disney. Tomorrow is pastel. Thursday is twin. And Friday our pep rally is class color day. We're excited to bring new pep rally events to
the field. And after the pep rally, students have the opportunity to collect candy and free prom te tickets hidden hidden in the field. Recently, SASA has been particularly busy. Last month they held mahendi night where everyone was able to get mahendi done by professionals and enjoyed some food
afterwards. This Saturday SAS is holding their annual show full of cultural dances across India. funny skits and more. And we can't wait to see all the hard work they've been putting in for the last past months. And as the third marking period wraps up and students are preparing for the AP exams, seniors
commit to college, and um juniors begin their college process. We can't wait to see what the spring will bring us. And now we are ready to pass it on to North. Thank you. >> Thank you. To start off, we hope you guys enjoyed your break and the warm weather outside. Prior to leaving for
break, the freshman class council hosted our spring pep rally. It was their first time running a pep rally on their own, and they did an amazing job with fun new activities like a food relay and an interactive scavenger hunt. Moving on to sports, all our spring sports have been
having such a great season so far. We want to highlight some achievements from specific people and sports teams. Congratulations to Eva Gedric for breaking the school record for the javelin throw by throwing it at 34.01 m. And congratulations to Li Canaden for
having a 100 draw controls in lacrosse. Continuing with sports, North and South volleyball teams have their annual serve up for hope game on April 10th. It was a fun watch despite a sad loss from North, but it was a good cause with proceeds from the event going to Joey's Little
Angels. Moving on, North Sasa held their annual show on April 11th. They had a soldout theater and part of the proceeds were donated to South Asian-Americans for a change, also known as SAFC, a nonprofit
dedicated to providing mental mental health resources to AsianAmerican youth. The show consisted of various specialty dances consisting of classical, Ross, South Indian, hiphop, and pongra. It was such a fun night to see all the hard
work of the members of North Sassa. Moving on, the North Student Council will be ho hosting our annual Blitz on April 19th. Blitz is an opportunity for us to receive donations from various local businesses to help run our event tonight show, which is on May 30th.
Additionally, the annual West Windsor Plains Art Show has their reception tonight from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. The art pieces range of students in various grades and we showcased for a month. To wrap it up, the junior class is getting ready for their prom on Friday at
Forestgate Country Club. They'll they'll enjoy a night in the Midnight Garden, and we hope they have so much fun. Awesome. Thank you guys for the report. It's so nice to hear about all the advocacy work and charity support you guys have been doing and a lot of events
and recognition showcasing um your talents and uh different cultures and language fluency and uh what else? Oh, and you mentioned the art show tonight. So, lots of great things happening. You guys just do not know how to slow down. So, thank you so much for the report.
It's great to live vicariously through through these updates. So, thank you. And uh next, uh I'd like to move on and give the floor to Mr. Jeff Santoro. He's our fine and performing arts supervisor for K12. And uh he's going to be giving
us an acknowledgement tonight. All right. Thank you very much. Um, thank you to Dr. Adhold, the entire board for the opportunity to be here this evening. Um, as was just mentioned, I'm Jeff Santoro. I'm the supervisor of fine performing arts. Um, and I'm really excited to be able to be here to
acknowledge some of our students. I'd like to begin by stating that while we are acknowledging some individual students here tonight, there are thousands of students in our school district who are doing amazing things in their art, music, dance, and theater classrooms every day. As many of you
already know, our students are regularly regularly presenting to the community all their hard work in concerts, plays, musicals, dance performances, and art displays both in the schools and around the community. In fact, just last night and this evening as well, we kicked off the district art show at the Plainsboro
Recreation Center as well as in the West Windsor and Plainsboro libraries. Student artwork student artwork will be displayed in these three locations throughout the month of April. And I encourage you all to take a time to visit these three displays. I can tell you I go to this event every year and I'm continually blown away at the
amazing artwork that our students uh present every single year. Uh in addition to the great work our students are doing in the classrooms on a daily basis, many of our students choose to go above and beyond the curricular expectations and they go on to receive honors and awards or acceptances into
very competitive regional and statewide music ensembles. So this evening, we're going to take a moment to recognize some of those students. First, I'd like to recognize a student um in our area of visual art who did a really neat collaborative project. Uh, the green stitch project was co-created by high
school south senior Rachel Berliner and Emily Cleet, who is an art teacher at Village School. They turned an idea about sustainability into au student- centered learning experience. The project was co-created and it resulted in 1,100 clothing donations from the WWP
RSD community. Fifth grade students transformed the donated t-shirts into tote bags. and fourth grade students explored and created fabric suns sun prints, helping students connect creativity, art, environmental responsibility, and community service action. Rachel then took the fourth
grade artwork, the extra donated clothing, and co-designed an art installation. Uh, their collaboration extended beyond just the classroom, and into Vill's library, where this final installation continues to hang. Because of Rachel's leadership and service, village students
experienced art as a way to care for their school, their community, and the environment. As an additional result, uh Rachel and Miss Clelet co-wrote an article that was featured in Davis publication school arts magazine, which reaches about 37,000 teachers internationally. And the article was so
well so wellreceived that it was a featured article in a limited print edition given to all members at the National Art Educators Association conference this past month. Um, Miss Clay couldn't be here tonight, but I'd like to ask Rachel to come up to the front to be recognized for this amazing
amazing project and achievement. And if you're at Village, I encourage you to swing through the library and check out the uh amazing installation that is there. Uh, all right. We're going to move on to our music department next. There are two organizations in New Jersey that offer honors ensembles to students to audition
to be accepted into. Uh, the first of those I would like to speak about tonight is the Central Jersey Music Educators Association or CJMEA. That's comprised of the six counties that make up the Central New Jersey region of the state, including Mercer and Middle Sex. Now, we have many, many more students
than you're going to see named here tonight that prepare, take the time to prepare and audition for these ensembles, but we do get a lot who get accepted each year. Um, so you can see on the screen here all the different um CJMEA ensembles that students can audition for. Our state organization,
the New Jersey Music Educators Association, is comprised of schools from all over the state, and their structure is very similar to CJMEA. They also provide these honors opportunities for students who for the most part have already been accepted into the regional organizations. So what I'd like to do
now is recognize students have who have been accepted into these ensembles. As you will see on the slides, many students were accepted to multiple ensembles, some CGMEA, some NGMEA. It's also worth noting that due to how the performance calendar is structured for these organizations, some of the
students were accepted last year but performed this school year. Some were accepted this school year and will perform last school year. It's a little bit hard to track in that sense, but essentially these are students who were accepted approximately over the last 12 months into one of these um organizations honor ensembles. So as I
read the names, I would like to ask that any students who are in attendance to please come to the front and just remain here while all the names are being read. And in the interest of time, we're going to hold our applause to the end. So we because there's a lot of names to read. Um I will point out that we have some of our students here tonight. There is
actually a youth orchestra on rehearsal at High School North tonight that a lot of our music kids are in. So, Tuesday night was always going to be a conflict with them, but I'm so glad so many of you were able to make it here today. Um, lastly, before I read the names, I just want to take a moment to recognize all of our teachers who work with these
students as well. Um, Jesse Argentiano, who's the band director at High School South, is here. So, I want to recognize Jesse and thank him for being here. As you would expect with a bunch of musicians, um when I asked them if they could be here tonight, most of them had gigs and couldn't uh make the
commitment, but um they are very proud of their students and are here in spirit for sure. So, we're going to start with the students from High School North and I will do my best to get through these uh in an efficient manner. So again, if you're here students, just come on up. Um first we have Ashani
Banery, Rehea Kadami, Arav Gupta, Romit Kundu, Yashant Yo, uh Yogaraj, Kevin Long, Emily Louu, Arsh Mahan, uh
Walker Pelawu, Rayanch Pier, Wallace Snow, Samrat Solanki, uh Mika Servastava, Parker Woo, Eddie, Xiao, and Shannon Shu. So, let's give these students that are here and all of them a big round of
applause. Thank you guys. Um, I'd like to now move on to the students from High School South. And again, as I read the names, if you're here, please come on up and stand in the front to be recognized. We have Kaya Ambashta,
Anaga, Vananam, uh, Pisha Bakshi, Amma Bach, Joy Deep Basu, Gornel Batra, Sedant Botra, Sedant Burough, Trista Chow, Nathan Chow, Kaden
Co, uh, Jesna Dharmajan, Anelie Gdam, Uh, Devout Cower, Surabi Guha, Richard How, Nicholas
Hudek, Navia Ja, Dennis G, Neil Kamath, Anna Kang, Neil Cacturi, Noom Kenb, Vsha Catheri, Annie Lochman, Jeremy Malletki,
Silano Masa, Vera Mhortra, Adit Ia Nerkar Mak Paul Alkia Parmimi Arya FK Rashad Ramak Krishnan Leon Sato
Sashwat Senuk Kumar Mahad Sabrish Sharma Olivia Swarup one more uh Pervika Talagatada Sraia Tangatururi Bajia Vakaro
Sloka Vendra, Hagana Venude, Shrea Vis, uh, Visanathan, uh, Ashley Shu, Dennis Yu, Andrew Yuan, Annie White, Kevin Jang. Let's give
these students all Oh, wait. Hold on. All get up there. No, no, go ahead. I wanted to wait for the applause. Here we go. Big round of applause. Thank you so much everyone. You can have a seat. Um now, believe it or not, we have just as many students who do this at the uh middle school level as well.
Um but realizing that that would be a lot of people here. Um I'm hoping we'll have an opportunity to invite them in person as they continue to do this in the high school. But I do want to just point out that at the ele uh middle school level, it's called intermediate. Similar structure. You'll see a lot of
the same types of ensembles here. I'm sure a lot of the students who are here tonight were in these ensembles as middle school students as well. I'm not going to read all the names, but I'm going to show you their names. And I want to give a round of applause for them anyway. And they can watch on the live stream. So, we got two sets of slides for the community students. So,
here's some of the students that were accepted to some of these organizations on honors ensembles over the past 12 months. And we have a few more on the next page as well. I'll just give it a second here so we all have a chance to check out the names. And here's the
second page. And I'd just like to give these kids a round a round of applause as well. And we have three sets of slides for the Grover kids. So here's the first set of Grover kids and slide two
and a few more on slide three. So let's hear it for the Grover students as well. And I just have um just a few more really quick uh acknowledgements here on this last slide. Um Ashani, who we mentioned earlier on the High School North slide, uh came in second in the
NJMEA Young Composers Competition, and her piece that uh she got second place with is actually going to be performed by our high school North band at their concert on April 30th. So, if anyone wants to come out and check out that concert, you will hear the world
premiere of an award-winning piece written by one of our very own students. Um, and not to take anything away from Ashani, but I'm proud to say not the first student we've had premiere, do a world premiere with our groups here. So, that's a really cool thing. So, if you're around on April 30th, you can check that out. Um, and this is perfect
because Mr. Argentiano is here. Um, two sets of his students performed at the New Jersey Music Educators Conference in Atlantic City back in February. The High School South Wind Ensemble, which you see pictured there on the left, gave a a concert performance at the conference.
And a little while after that, in a lobby performance in the convention center, the picture on the right, the High School South Saxophone Ensemble also gave a performance. So, this is a a conference that is attended by about 3,000 music educators from all over New Jersey. and they had to apply to be
accepted um you know competing against bands and small ensembles from all of the other high schools in New Jersey and they were selected. Also not the first time Mr. Argentiano has had the wind ensemble perform at the conference. So I'd like to have a round of applause for the students at South that were part of
that and Mr. Argentiano. So once again um thank you very much to Dr. Dr. Adhold the board um for the invitation to be here tonight. I hope we can make it a regular occurrence. Thank you so much to the families and students who are here tonight. I can't tell you how proud I am to work as a supervisor that oversees the department with so
many talented young students. So, thank you for being here and have a good night. >> Wow. Thank you, Mr. Santo, for all that. And congratulations to everyone um who was here or um watching from home. uh amazing talent in the district.
Congratulations on making it into these prestigious organizations and for um the art projects. Very ah you're still glowing. I love it. Um I'm hope hoping uh we get a chance to to see your art installation at Village soon. Um so we will continue with our regularly
scheduled program. So, if you're not um planning to stay for the rest of the very exciting agenda items, okay, the next thing is the public comment period, but this would be a good opportunity to, you know, um
scoot on out of here if you so desire. Loved having you here. Really did. But I get it. I get it. Yeah. So uh in just a moment I will read the statement for the first opportunity for
public comments as everyone's getting resettled. We still have some people left. This is exciting. Well, the board invites thoughts and reactions on agenda items and items of concern from members of our community who are still present. Each participant
is asked to give his or her name and address prior to making a statement which will be limited to three minutes in accordance with board policy 0167. All statements shall be directed to the presiding officer. This public comment period shall be limited to 60 minutes. Any takers? Seeing none, I will close this public
comment period. And um there were no committee meetings since our last board of education meeting. So we don't have any reports. And now on to the voting portion of our meeting. So, um, can I get a motion for administration items
numbers one through four? Uh, Liz and Pua. Um, any questions or comments on administration items? Nope. Okay. >> Okay. We'll we'll start with Miss Chenier. >> Yes. >> Miss Sha.
>> Yes. >> Miss D. Sebastian. >> Yes. >> Miss Krug. >> Yes. >> Miss Maliga. >> Yes. Yes, >> Mr. O'Brien. >> Yes, >> Miss Bonsel. >> Yes, >> Miss McKuan. >> Yes. Uh, we have no curriculum and instruction items to vote on this evening. So, can I get a motion for
finance items numbers 1 through 11? Dana and Paul, any questions or comments? >> Okay, we'll start with Miss Krug. >> Yes. >> Mr. O'Brien, >> yes to all with the abstaining on number
four. >> Okay, got it. Miss Dbastian, >> yes. >> Miss Chinier, >> yes. >> Miss Maliga, >> yes. >> Miss Shaw, >> yes. >> Miss Bonsel, >> yes. >> Miss Mcuan, >> yes. Um, can I get a motion for personal
item number one plus the green addendum with a quick verbal correction um for uh Latrice Doctor listed on here, there is a capital T in her name. Just wanted to make sure that was clear. Um, Ajanta and
Ly. Um, any questions or comments? Okay, I'll sit. >> Okay, we'll start with Miss Shaw. >> Yes. M >> Miss Maliga, >> yes. >> Miss D. Sebastian, >> yes. >> Miss Cheni, >> yes. >> Miss Krug, >> yes. >> Mr. O'Brien,
>> yes. >> Miss Bonsel, >> yes. >> Miss Mcuan, >> yes. Uh before we move on, I do want to acknowledge two retirements. Um each of these two have uh dedicated 25 years of
service to WWP. So thank you to uh first Steven Best. He is our special education teacher at Milstone River. And then we have Charmaine Shft, secretary at Village Elementary School. So uh thank you once again and congratulations on
this next chapter. Uh enjoy and um again thank you so much for your dedication. Uh next uh can I get a motion to approve the board of education minutes? Um let's see. Liz and Paul.
>> Yes. Uh all in favor say I. >> I. >> I. Uh any abstensions? Uh I'm not sure if Sharon you may need to abstain from March 19th. Cool. Do we have uh any board of liaison
reports? New business. Uh that takes us to our second opportunity for public comments. The board invites comments from members of our community who are present. Each participant is asked to give his or her name and address prior to making a statement which will be limited to three
minutes in accordance with board policy 0167. All statements shall be directed to the presiding officer. This public comment period shall be limited to 15 minutes. Um anyone change your mind want to add something? This second opportunity. All right. Um seeing none I
will close this public comment period and move to adjourn. Um can I get a motion to adjurnn? Uh Ly and Anjanta. Uh, all in favor say I. >> I. >> I. All right. Well, thank you so much and have a good night.