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Part 1 (Video ID: vf6nsgBjV2A):
- 00:01:44: Board Meeting Opening, Mission Statement, and Roll Call
- 00:04:11: District Goals Presentation: Student Achievement, Environment, Engagement
- 00:06:12: School-Based Youth Services Program: Mission and Overview
- 00:11:41: School-Based Team, Advisory Board, and Core Services
- 00:16:28: Ancillary Services: Career Expo, College Tours, Crisis Intervention
- 00:20:28: School-Based Highlights and Impacts on Student Services
- 00:25:56: Program Data Overview, Student and Family Support Services
- 00:31:07: Community Partnerships and Career Opportunity Exposures
- 00:33:16: Instant Decision Day, Leadership Conference Testimonials
- 00:43:34: Program Appreciation and Introduction to Strategic Planning
- 00:46:11: Strategic Planning: Vision, Consensus Building, Stakeholder Voice
- 00:50:05: Three-R Model and Phases of Strategic Planning
- 00:53:36: Strategic Planning Timeline and Board Approval
- 00:58:26: Addressing Questions Regarding Strategic Planning Cost, Implementation
- 01:03:31: Formal Nomination and Board Vote for Strategic Plan
- 01:04:53: Committee Formation and Discussion of Next Steps
- 01:05:24: Approval of Minutes and Board Committee Reports
- 01:07:18: Athletic and Arts Committee Report and Season Recap
- 01:15:59: Citizen Advisory, Education, and Marketing Committee Reports
- 01:16:48: Negotiation, Operations, and Policy Committee Reports
- 01:17:36: Technology Committee Report: Audit, Wi-Fi, Chromebooks, Calendar
- 01:20:31: Economic Development Council and Township Drug Alliance Reports
- 01:21:03: Planning Board and Adopted School Board Reports
- 01:23:29: Superintendent's Report Approval and Administrative Reports
- 01:25:55: Personnel Report Approval and Open Public Records Requests
- 01:27:05: Informational Items: Autism Awareness, Registration, Events
- 01:30:35: Old Business, New Business, and Introduction to Public Comments
- 01:32:12: Public Comment: Alicia Ajum - Track Jackets Acknowledgement
- 01:33:59: Public Comment: Jasmine Bridge - Eagles Landing Appreciation
- 01:39:11: Public Comment: Rose Williams - Acknowledging Winslow Advisory Board
- 01:40:36: Adjournment of Public Comments and Motion to Executive Session


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board of education meeting. It is a great day in the district of W. And welcome to the Winsow Township Administration building conference room. Today is Wednesday, April 15, 2026. Time is 7 pm. Public notice of this

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meeting was given to all board members and associates and a notice dated January the 8th, 2026. Adequate and electronic notice of this public meeting has been provided

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specifying the time, place, and manner in which this meeting is being conducted. It was advertised in the courier posted on all schools, the administrative office, the municipal building, the

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library, and the Bub Stubble Center, Edwood Acres, Mtown, and the Winslow Township Post Office. Mission statement. >> And this is our mission statement. The mission of the Winsow Township School District, a large, diverse, and growing

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community, is to educate all students to become independent lifelong learners, critical thinkers, and caring and competent members of their community. The district in partnership with the community and in a climate of cooperation and mutual respect will

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provide an academic environment which values excellence and diversity encourages students to strive for personal excellence and assists them in acquiring the knowledge, skills, and attitudes necessary to contribute

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positively to a rapidly changing world. >> Mr. Bole, roll call. >> Mr. Clark, >> please visual >> present. Miss Dreton, >> she will be acting tonight. >> Thank you.

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>> Miss Glory, >> present. >> Miss Martin, present. Mr. Matthews, >> present. >> Miss Neves, >> present. >> Mr. Shaw, >> present. >> Miss Pitts, >> present. >> And Mr. Thomas, >> present. >> We have a quorum. Pledge of

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>> Allegiance. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

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>> Miss Martin District goals. >> District goals 2025 2026 district goal. student achievement. Continue to implement researchbased best practices for delivering instruction and accelerating learning for all students,

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including all subgroups. This shall include conduct weekly administrative walking to monitor teaching and learning. Utilize the district diagnostic diagnostics assessment platform to analyze student data to

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inform and guide instruction. monitor and track measurable growth in ELA and mathematics in grades 1 through nine to implement creative ways to accelerate student learning by providing additional supports throughout and beyond the

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school day. Number two, promote a positive environment for students and staff. Enforce the co code of conduct to ensure safety for students and staff and compliance with district policies. Incorporate social emotional learning

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opportunities for students to celebrate positive behaviors. Develop strategies for students with significant behaviors to reduce the interruption of instructional time. Decrease negative actions and improve school attendance.

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Number three, increase stakeholder engagement. Explore and expand innovative opportunities to increase parent communication. create parent learning opportunities that can focus on how to support their child's learning. Continue to share the accompl

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accomplishments of Winfield students in all student activities. >> Thank you so much. Will there be any awards and presentations? >> Yes. Tonight we have uh Miss Darshell Brooks from Eagles Landing presenting on her program.

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Thank you, Mr. Peas. To um all of the board, school board, I thank you. Uh Winsel Township community, I thank you and I'm excited. Uh Miss Pence, it's been 13 years since

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I last presented to the board. 13 years too long. Um but it's a it's an excellent opportunity. is a PowerPoint. So, I'm not sure if you're going to be able to see it where you are unless you turn, but um and you also have just so you know that PowerPoint you can follow

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along. I I I get a packet of it. >> So, I just want to thank you for Mr. Peas for this opportunity with the board and all of the community that comes out. So, I want to spend a little bit of time um I'll wait for

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it up. Here we go. >> I'm going to be presenting on our middle and high school schoolbased youth services program. And uh for many of us throughout the state, they call it New Jersey's

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bestkept secret. But not tonight. I want to I want to unveil um this bestkept secret so that not only does the board know, even our new board members, but also the community knows exactly what this school-based program does, what we

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offer, our mission, and what our impact is and has been on this district. So, just follow me along and I'm going to just move through this. Our school-based mission, the New Jersey school-based Youth Services Program was initiated by the New Jersey Department

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of Human Services in 1987. We know now it's called Department of Children and Families to help young people navigate the adolescent years, finish their education, obtain skills leading to employment or continuing education, and graduate healthy and drug-free. And the

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story goes that there were some young people who felt like they needed a safe space. They found some social workers, probably much like Miss Pitts. I know you're a retired social worker. And they had this conversation with them and what

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their need was and why it was. And out of that conversation birthed a vision between a few social workers and they created this plan and they created this school base. And I have to say now um we are 90 plus in the state of New Jersey.

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We are in high schools that between that 90 we're in high schools. We're now also in middle schools and we're also in elementary schools. This school-based grant wraps around we call it a wraparound. We wrap around quality mental health and wellness,

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academic support, employment, post high school coaching and information and referral services to our middle and high school students. We provide services that are both core. They are required services for the grant. These are the these are the core services that every

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program within the state are required to do. And then they have ancillary. These are um services that are based on student population and the evolving needs of each school. So we have the I'm thankful that the department gives all

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of us as directors uh discussion with how we develop our ancillary services. So we assess what's happening in our particular building in our district and then we create services based on that. So what you'll see in the

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ancillary are services that I created based on the need and that need evolved over time and I'll kind of talk about that as we go through. And our middle school um is seven years old. Um I wrote the middle school grant in

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2019 because the way the system worked um with the state you had to have a high school for a minimum of three years. And when the middle school grant opportunity came up and RFP came out, you could apply with the goal and the idea being that the director of the high school

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would facilitate, initiate, and oversee the middle school and elementaryaries. if that came out and you apply. I just happened to run into the commissioner who was new at the time um back in 2018 and I was at one of her she's the

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commissioner for department of children and families and I was at one of her conferences. Um when she got done I spoke to her and I told her we need to catch the kids earlier than high school. What we're seeing is is that we need to catch them at the middle school level. We haven't had a middle school grant

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come out in 10 years and we really needed at our middle school and lo and behold within four months later one came out in the middle school. Not only was it in the middle school but it was in Camden County directly for us. So this was her response to that conversation we

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had. So, I was able um given permission by the board to write for it and I wrote the grant for the middle school and we received it in 2019 um really literally four months before COVID hit and so they started later

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because COVID hit and so they ended up running the program virtually. So, we also have as a part of the state requirement our school-based advisory board. I'm sorry, let me go back one slide. I want to go back to my staff. Um this is

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um uh the schoolbased team. So we call ourselves the team at the high school. It's myself as director. Um Miss Ritter, she's our mental health provider. Mr. Jenkins, Miss D. Isn't my staff here? I see our middle school staff, Gabby Self. And I also see Kayla Quarl. They're both

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actually former students, too. So isn't that wonderful? >> Winslow. >> Winslow. >> Winslow. So they're former students. and some of our middle school staff uh is what is who's here. So I I thank them for being able to come here. As many as

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my staff could come, they were able to come. Um on the well next I'll get to the advisory board. So every every um every program is required to have a school-based advisory board. It consists of uh an administrator within our

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schools can attend as well as families, parents, especially students from each of the schools. uh also local and community providers and these are the ones that we have for this year. So we have a great mix of students, we have a great mix of parents, we have our HSA

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presidents from both the middle and both the hive. We have a community program. We have the perfecting ministries a few good men who sit on this board. We have the um county DA townsen who's with the municipal alliance. She sits on this board. So, and then we have our

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students, Alicia Walk and Ali M, uh, Alli Murphy. Um, and then we have some parents. So, it's a great mix and they kind of help us. Um, we meet quarterly. We talk about programming. We talk about what they're doing. We talk about what we can do together. We talk about what

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kind of things are needed. So, it's a joint effort uh within the um within the within the um advisory board. So these I talked about our core services. These are the core services that the state requires individual group

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and family counseling. All of both of our middle and high um have staff who do that either licensed staff or is for is seen by a licensed person within each of the programs. Academic support, employment coaching, health and youth

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development, information and referral services. We each have a summer transition program. Our summer transition program for our middle school would be all of any any sixth grader coming in to the seventh grade. We generally send that information out over

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the summer. Uh all of the parents get invitations. It's normally a four to possibly six week uh summer program and it's really just to get them prepared for coming into middle school to to get them started early. at the high school.

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We take any of our incoming um freshmen into our high school program. And the way our program is set up, we like to take those students in the middle school who have been in our Eagles Nest program and bring them in. We call it they start at Eagles Nest and they land at Eagles

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Landing. And that's what kind of that's the way that process kind of works for us. We also have student assistance and support. I'll talk about that. Um so the the state um because it's department of children and families

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they have a budget line which allows us to support students and families when and if necessary. So in that particular line item uh we're able to support students and their families with some various issues. I'll talk a little bit

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more about that as we go through. Um you'll begin to see where that is. And then we have our lounge safe space. Every program has to have a lounge day space. I invite you to come see our facility if you haven't. We have three levels. We have a lounge for students,

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comfortable furniture. If you saw the uh opening of the middle school, you will have seen what that middle school program looks like. But it is a safe space that they're allowed to access during their lunch periods. So, we call it safe space because what we're finding particularly now, it's probably more

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than we've ever seen students coming and crying. um teachers sending students down in tears, uh anxiety. We definitely have a lot of students with anxiety. So, a lot of those students we already know, so we allow them a few minutes upstairs. Uh we have things in that space for

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them. There's always uh relaxing uh quiet instrumental music, but we also have widgets and fidgets and things that can help enjoying things that'll help. and we just tell them to go ahead up a couple minutes, work with the widgets and fidgets and begin because that's part of the process for them bringing

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themselves down from their anxiety. And in our middle school, we have what we call youth thrive. This group meets twice a month for student leadership and development through workshops, community service, mentoring, and parent engagement.

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So that's a unique piece to the middle school that was required with the grant that they have this um this youth thrive program. Next I'll talk about our ancillary services. These are the services that we created based on the need that I saw

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between our middle and our high school and our middle school. uh my middle school coordinator Priscilla Curillo Coleman is able to identify what trends are happening at the high school and we can create groups. Sometimes they're short four weeks say u anger is going on

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and kids are fighting you can create an anger group in four weeks to sort of process those kind of things. So those are the kind of things that we have in our ancillary services. We have our Korean trade expo uh that's been a yearly event. We have everybody there. We have all the colleges, the trade

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schools, the unions, the employers, um the municipal services, anybody that has come. We probably have over 60 vendors there um who come. We are actually we were in our 18th year in 2023 uh running that career expo year after year. Um we

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also have our career conversation with trade professionals. So that career conversations now is the new version of what the career and trade expo was. So what happened was I realized that it wasn't enough that students walk by table to table and get information from

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all of them. I decided that what needed to happen now was student students needed a more intimate conversation. So we created these career conversations and Mr. Shaw and some others came out when we had one. We had the carpenters there, union there. We had other trades

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there and it's a more intimate. It's a smaller environment and it's terrible to students who are just interested in that career. We bought we brought all the medical services. We brought Cooper in for the nurses and they were able to just talk to students who were interested in that career. And not only

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did they talk, but it was conversational. It was a lot easier to handle and students could make one-on-one contact. postsecondary exploration and college tours. Uh we go run college tours in our summer. We just left Penn State

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University. Um had a great tour there and we run those during the summer and during the school year as well. And part of that was because we realized that our students didn't just need to hear about college, they needed to actually visit college. And um and we go so far as to

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make sure that our students also see dorm rooms. I only went to college to be honest with you is because I knew it was one I was getting out the house under my mom's rules but also when I got on the college campus I realized what I didn't realize in high school that this is

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where I wanted to be. It was as simple as that. When I saw the dorm rooms I knew that's where I wanted to be and that's where I was. So we we realized this for young people. So we make it a point of doing it. And our college tours, we've been doing for well over 15 years. And I have to say we have that

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waiting list for our college tours. So we know that these students do enjoy them. Crisis intervention services. Um at the high school, we are part of that crisis risk assessment team. So if a student needs to be assessed for a crisis, if they need to go out, if

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there's been a suicidal ideiation, we make that determination and we send the student out. Leadership development. This is a personal passion of mine. So we provide leadership opportunities through group activities and training through

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workshops and leadership conferences. So um I have a passion for leadership. I have a passion for developing young leaders. I think being one over 30 years myself in leadership um I I just have a passion for guiding young leaders and helping them to see that really we're all leaders in one aspect or another.

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You're leading you're either leading them in a positive way or you're leading them in a negative way but you're leading somebody. You are influencing somebody. So that's what we try to talk about. So based on all of our services and what we do, the question I had to ask myself and that's the next screen is

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what's been our impact like what what what's been the impact. We've been around since 2006, our middle school since 2019. So that's what kind of what I want to talk about here. A few school-based highlights. Well, we created the high school's girls and guys group. This was the first high school

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girls and guys group. our girls and guys group. Our girls group meets really where we're meeting weekly for about 10 years and the guys group and it was open to any student and we deal with everything that it takes to be a young woman and we deal with everything it

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takes to be a young man and able to navigate high school and thereafter. We are currently in our 20th year of running these groups. We also initiated the career expo with over 50 vendors. As I said, um 23 marked our 18th year, 18th year. We

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transitioned it to our career conversations. We've had uh Turner Construction, the glazers union, the carpenters union, the electrical, the pipe fitters, the medical, the culinary, the diving, the cosmetology. We brought them all.

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We also brought instant decision days to the high school with universities such as Stockton, Lincoln University, and Bloomfield College with over 30,000 in scholarships awarded at the instant decision day. We also connected the Camden County

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Workforce Investment Board to the district. They brought programs such as the Atlantic City Electric apprenticeships to our senior students and they also brought summer paid internships. And I'll just take a one minute to tell you a story about an internship.

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We selected five students to compete for this summer internship internship with the Camden County Workforce Investment Board. All five students got in uh into that. But what was particularly interesting is two of our students, one of them wanted

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to be a doctor, the other one wanted to be an engineer. We got them placed one at Cooper Hospital and one in Camden County Municipal for Engineering. And I have to say that the one who went and got their internship, this was paid. And

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at the time, this was about 20 I'm say 17, 16 or 17, they were making $20 an hour or 20 hours, 20 25 hours a week. Good money when you're in high school at the time. But the medical student who

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got our student who got into the medical program saw a first heart surgery that they had done this particular procedure and he went on he's actually a doctor in Maryland. So it worked out well. Our engineering student that's

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Miss Tucker's son uh daughter she went on after having that engineering stipen and during the summer went on and she's a wonderful engineer with the with with the engineering company locally. So it does work and that's what they're still doing and we're still doing that because

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they still have summer paid internships. We also created wellness gardens. So um right after COVID happened uh we saw the impact uh what was happening with students and masks and we really felt and I felt it and I think we

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all felt the need to be out and breathe and have a moment where we didn't have the mask we would actually breathe and relax and based on that there was some additional funding that the state had so we applied for it. I applied for based on a proposal that I wrote to the state

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and I was surprised to find out according to my fiscal administrator they have never given money for a venture like this to a school but they did this time. So they gave us well over $50,000 to create a wellness garden and that's what we called it. It was a place

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it's a place where our students can go uh and like I said it was during CO and it's outdoors it's fully seated. There are tables. There's umbrellas. I'm hoping we're going to have a a open house some point soon in the spring. We work this garden in collaboration with

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our environmental club. They are doing the planting. It's a beautiful space. Uh the middle school has one as well. So, uh we're excited about that as well. So, we invite you all to come check out our garden. I'll let you know when we get to the open house of that. It's a it's a

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it's a and it's a place where they're going to be able to go out and kind of relax. We have some activities and some encouraging things that they'll be able to see in their garden. Next, I want to talk about our our impact on student services. Our high

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school has served over 4,628 students through individual services. Those are all outlined. Mental health counseling, academic support, employment coaching, healthy youth development, post high school plans, and distribution of supplies. So, what that means is

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we're are allowed to get supplies for students. So, we've gotten uniforms when we were wearing uniforms for students who may have needed them. We have book bags. We have everything that's needed to to to make it in class. Pencils, pens, binders, all of those things.

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4,83 students through our group services and 164,48 students through events. We've had 500 events over these years and 54 students do our distribution of supplies

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and if you have any questions just just just feel free because I'm going to go through it. I want to give you another look. I created this this document because the document before and the numbers before are data that's collected by the state but I came up with data

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that we that we collect that we can actually share with the district. we can share with our principles of our buildings like what does a year look like for us in our programs? Well, for the high school from 24 to 25, which is our last completed year, we had 670

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appointments with students. What that means is is that we have seen that many students 670 for any of those issues. Uh mental health, it could have been academic support, whatever those were. We've had 287 students use our safe

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space lounge. We had 341 students just walk in. So walk-ins are students that don't have appointments. They come in, something's going on or uh the security has brought a student down. They were in the bathroom crying. They pulled them out. We've gone in bathrooms, gotten

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students out and brought them to our space. 14 program events through this through that year. 2425 178 appointment request. That's how many students request appointments to see us.

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and then 73 referrals. Those referrals can come from anyone. They can come from the staff. They can come from parents and um and any other outside source that wants to refer a student. Most often uh what we find now because we've been here

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since 2006, our students bring other students. So they they come themselves. They know where they know who we are. So we're happy about that. Let's talk about the impact in our middle school. They've been they've been

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around since 2019. They served over 448 students through individual services, 462 through group, 5,483 through events. We've had they've had 87 events um throughout those years 2019

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and 25 and 16 students through distribution of supplies. And you can see the same breakdown for individual and group uh as well. And then we'll look again at their

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program data for that last year 2425. 71 appointments, 513 space safe space lounge students, 341 walk-ins, 14 program events. Those events could be assemblies, workshops. We do quite a few

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assemblies for for the schools. 18 appointment requests and 83 referrals from staff or parents or any outside source. So this is this is yearly program data. This is good for our schools, our districts to know what we're doing, our high school, our middle

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school principles to know what we're doing, what our contribution is, what what we look like through the year. We keep this on a monthly basis. So at any month a principal can say you know how many students have we seen last month we can give them that picture.

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Our impact continues. Next I want to talk about our total student and family support. So this is the line item that we have and over the years um I got a chance to work a lot with our

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seniors. I had two seniors uh that was in our in our district, but I realized that senior year is very expensive. >> Very expensive. It was more expensive in my day because we had we had rings.

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Remember we had school rings back then. So you had the rings, the pictures, we had a lot. But so again, this is an ancillary. So this was created based on what I felt like our high school needed. So we've contributed over $58,638

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financially which served 22,565 students project graduation we gave over 19,000 cap and gown over 10,000 that middle line is the amount of students 288

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students were served over 19,000 was given to project graduation capp and gown 246 students Over 10,000 yearbook support 123 students over 10,000 senior trip six flags 52 students over 5,000

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senior picnic 667 over 3,000 senior class 82 over 5,000 the prom we supported 34 students over 3,000 in high school activities that would be um we did the um honor roll

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breakfast which was a full hot breakfast for 330 36 and 1,800. So this is the impact. This is what we've been able to do. Programs we've been able to support. We are fully integrated within the high school and

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the middle school. So we work with various clubs. We probably work with every club. We supported every initiative that we could. So we've used those funds to support all of those initiatives. Our middle school is still very young. So their budget's a little bit different than the high school

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budget. So they have not been able to, but uh they will this year hopefully. So uh and so this is some of the companies that we brought to Winsow. We brought the International Painters and Trades. I talked about the Glazers, the

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Carpenters, FedEx, US Post Office, Millennial Pools, Department of Labor, Atlantic Shores, Offshore Wind, Local 68 Operating Engineers, Superior Court of Camden County, and the South Jersey School of Etiquette. All of these

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programs, all of these services have been brought to Winsow. And for me, it's about exposing our students to everything possible. What are all the career what are all the career possibilities other than college? If that's not your choice, these are the opportunities. And we do know and Mr.

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Shaw can attest that these are good salaries. >> We all need electricians. We all need we all need everybody in these trades as well. So my role is to to look at what's needed and look at the broad scope of our students. And because I've been a

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30-some year resident of Winslow, I do have the privilege of not just working for Winslow, but I see these kids in the community. I know their families. I sat on the municipal. I sat on the zoning board. I've been active in the community. So, I got a chance to I get a chance to know families to know

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students. I see them from when they leave to where they go. And even to this day, I see them at the gas station. And I I always say the same thing to them. You working? That's good. And then I tell them to give me a call because nine times out of 10, Department of Labor has something that I can get them into. And

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so that that's that's our goal is is I always tell the kids when we meet with them, particularly when it comes to career, the only thing you can not you could you can't do is do nothing when you leave. I'm not going to argue about whether you feel like you need to work. Some kids say that, well, I can't go to college. I need to work for the family.

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That's okay. Let me show you how to get the work that's going to move you up and get me the income that you need. Next is just a few slides. Um just a few pictures of some of our instant decision day. Um this was our women of excellence in

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business and leadership awards ceremony um on in March women's history month several years back. We honored three business women. We worked this one in combination with our future business leaders of America program within our school. We honored Lisa Davis um from

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the Mona Lisa Spa, Tina Briglia. we all know from Dela Deli and Tracy Medley from Millennial Skate. And this was a wonderful opportunity. We had a hundred fresher girls who were there that we brought in just for this and this was

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not just a ceremony. It was a panel discussion. Um several questions were vetted through our future business leaders of America. These students were able to ask them how they got started, what it took for a woman to to make it in business. So it was a great conversation. It was awards Samaritan

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ceremony and they were able to have lunch all of the 100 students with the women and have more personal conversation. Next uh I have just a picture of our ribbon cutting. Oh, here you go Miss Fitz. That's our official ribbon cutting

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ceremony for our middle school when we got that in 2019. Next is just a picture of uh middle school paint with a twist. They have a family engagement night. It's a wonderful activity that will be coming up soon hopefully where we bring

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the parents in and they really get to to paint and spend some time with the students. So that will conclude that portion. I want to take one last minute of your time and I want to show a video. I received this video. Uh I told you I

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think already that leadership is big for me. So I do take the students in a lot of leadership. Well, for about three years, we were able to take students to the Elks. New Jersey El New Jersey Elks had a leadership conference. It's a weekend. It's beachfront. They go

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Friday. We come back Sunday. They have probably close to 5,000 children from across the state of New Jersey. Every culture is there. It's a wonderful experience, but they have a ton of workshops for the students. And we were able to, we worked in concert with our National Spanish Honor Society students.

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We took about eight or nine of them on this trip and I was there as well as their their advisors were there. Um we all like beachfront but it's a wonderful place. It's in Long Branch, New Jersey, Ocean Place Resort and Spa. And uh I received this video and I just wanted to

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share with you what they came up with. That's one of our >> Hey, it's Sandra. Um, and this past February, I had the lucky honor to have been able to attend the New Jersey Elks Peer Leadership Conference alongside my fellow Spanish Honor Society um,

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officers. So, I just want to say a big thank you to Miss Brooks. Like, we see all that you do and we're really grateful. That event was so invaluable. I think we all left with a lot of good lessons and a lot of good friends that we still talk to after the event. Um, and I think a cool activity that we did

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there was when we all had to brainstorm what type of initiative and impact we can make at our own school. as we go back and um as the Spanish society officers, we came up with an initiative that would help new students who speak primarily Spanish. So, I think that was

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really cool that we could take something back from the conference and apply to like a need that we saw at our school. So, I think the event just had a lot of good lessons to offer. It was such a fruitful event like the speakers and all

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the um different mentors and all the connections we made too. So I just want to say thank you to Mrs. Brooks. Thank you so much for all you do, all the efforts you give to the school and to us students of course. So we're just really thankful to you and um we'll miss you

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and we love you. Thank you. >> Hi, my name is Alana Costa and I attended the Elks Peer Leadership Conference. At this conference, students from all parts of New Jersey and guest speakers came together to learn about

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building trust, speaking our minds, and just building friendships in general. And I was able to learn a lot through the time, the short time that I was there. Um, I was able to see that people who seem like they might not be going

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through a lot could be going through the same struggles that I have myself. and you're able to just really connect with others and ground yourself and create such a positive environment and support each other. And this is something that I will take with me

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forever going through college and adulthood because I was able to learn how to build a better support system for myself and the people around me. And I feel so much more confident with being more present in my community as I gain

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the skills of helping out others. And I think it's really important to know that leadership isn't just loud. It's about listening, speaking up for ourselves, and coming together. So, I'd really like to thank Miss Brooks for giving me this

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opportunity to attend this conference because it really just changed the person that I am today. So, thank you. >> I've been at Winso Township ever since I was in preschool. So, for the most part of my life, I've been surrounded by

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familiar faces. I was used to seeing the same people every day and that became what I was used to. So when I came into Elk's peer leadership conference, which was an environment filled with hundreds of people my age who I didn't know, that was a big change for me. But that turned

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out to be one of the best experiences I ever had. Being able to meet new people outside my English circle, hearing different perspectives and building genuine friendships was incredible. I still talked to some people of that I met at the conference and I'm really

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grateful for the chance to connect with them. It showed me how powerful it can be to step outside your comfort zone and thanks to Elks I was able to see a different diverse group of people. >> Hi, my name is Ty and I'm really glad

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that I went to Elks. For me, the most memorable part about it was like meeting all the students from across New Jersey. And I felt like that made it more fun having all these students from different parts and getting to meet new faces. And I didn't really feel reserved. Like

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usually when I'm in new places, I reserve and I don't I like to talk to myself. But being at like I everybody was so friendly. Like all the events with the guest speakers when they would um help us interact wasn't awkward. It

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was really fun and I really love the connections I made at Elks and yeah, Elks really pushed me out and I really love how the guest speakers like help us to interact and through the speeches made us interact with other people. Feel

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like this was really really a fun event and thank you so much Miss Brooks for allowing us society officers to go. Unity is a state of being united or joined as a whole. The ELF's leadership

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conference brought me and my friends together. They paired us up so everyone had a partner. Right as soon as we started, we were told to maintain eye contact and put our hand on their shoulder. Although a little awkward at first, the awkward laughing gave us

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something to talk and bond about. The events are made to make people lower their defenses and get them to talk with each other. Everyone was connected through multiple fun and encouraging events that were made to connect us. I made so many new friends from different

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schools or even different regions. We bonded and learned from each other's past experiences. And going to the conference was a new experience and I loved how many great friends I met and excellent mentors I took advice from. The Elks Leadership Conference

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definitely boosted morale and made me learn that life is too short to keep to myself. >> The Elks Peer Leadership Conference was an amazing opportunity filled with new friends, upbeat activities, and many learning experiences. One of the key elements of the Elks

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experience was getting the chance to listen to so many inspiring stories from the motivational speakers including Craig Jandi, Lorie Hayes, and Wes Morris. Craig spread the message of the influence of positive choices and how it can affect your life. His expressive

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storytelling kept us all engaged and ready to learn more. Lorie Hayes energetically shared a powerful and inspiring message while constantly including the audience, getting us up on our feet, singing and dancing. She had a way of creating a fun, safe,

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inspiring, and comforting atmosphere. Wes showed us the power that we hold within our own lives. And no matter what cards we were dealt, we can make a change and change our lives for the better. I feel so honored to have been able to listen to these speakers touching stories and gain a new

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perspective on life as I move forward. They inspired me to be the best version of myself and not take anything in life for granted. Their stories will stick with me as I continue in life, being one of the most memorable and motivating things about the LSP leadership conference.

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Thank you. Before I leave, I just want to say that uh I just want to thank some people. The Department of Children and Families for continuing to support our programs. Williams Winslow Township Board of Education for supporting us, signing off on all of the initiatives and things

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that we're doing. Mr. Peas, Miss Clement, Mr. Morala, Mr. Shop principles, our school-based advisory board, uh the Winsel Township mayor, she's never missed an event we've held over the last 20some years. Uh even Mayor Barry, the late Mayor Barry, never

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missed an event. He supported our program completely. had my cell phone number when he wanted to donate some stuff and he did and he donated a lot of his own stuff and money for some of our programs as well throughout the schools not even just ours and the and the

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municipal alliance they pay for this trip through municipal funds for the students to go. So most of the students who go to that Alps um because it's a drug-free program that the stresses the importance of um having a drug-free life

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and teaching children uh the teenagers to resist drugs. They have a most of those students are go through the alliances. So most of their alliances who have drug money, this is what it's for. And so our township has said this is what it's for. If you don't use it, it doesn't get used. So we want the

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children, the staff and the teenagers to use it. So they have been uh more than gracious with us and of course I'm sure you probably know they have I sat on the Alliance so I know that as an alliance as a former municipal alliance uh member we pay for a lot for the district for

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schools for events for seniors uh and that that's what we're there for and also our Winsow students and staff and families who keep us working. Thank you. >> Thank you. Thank you, M. Brooks. >> Thank you.

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>> Next, I would like to bring up Miss Michelle Kenny Kennedy, a senior field, serve as representative from New Jersey School Boards Associations to go over strategic planning for our board and our audience.

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All right. Good evening everyone. Again, my name is Michelle Kennedy and I'm from the field services team at New Jersey School Board Association. I'm actually filling in for uh Lori Banlow. So, I'm just going to take you through our services um that we offer for

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strategic planning and I'll be more than happy to answer any questions that you may have. Um so, in terms of what is a strategic plan, so this process will allow you to create your five-year road

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mapap. Um, it will allow you to have a clear vision um into the future. And during this process, it allows for your stakeholders um to be a part of this five-year plan that will put together to elevate

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student achievement. And within this plan, um you know, action plans will come out of it. And this is the aligning piece um that you know we at New Jersey school boards like because this allows you to plan accordingly. It allows you

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to um align your budget um in terms of you know what the next five years um could look like coming out of this process. And then we talk about these key questions um that comes out of the plan. So where are you today? So that's

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the baseline of getting the plan started and then we move into where do you want to be three to five years from now and that all takes place in a visioning um exercise and then that last piece is how are we going to get

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there. So that basically makes up the road map of the strategic plan. Now why strategic plan right? If you think about it, um this will allow a common vision to come out of this

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because during this process, we focus on consensus building and all of your participants that are in the strategic planning process. We talk about how you have to come to a consensus to help put

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this plan together for the next five years. And then you talk about the visionary leadership piece and this just allows for some forward thinking because again you know you're looking forward to the next you know five years. So there

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are some exercises or activities that will help all of the stakeholders who are part of this process you know look forward to that visionary piece of this. And then my favorite part is the stakeholder voice because this is

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the opportunity for your parents, your teachers, your staff. You know, I' I've done strategic plans where students were involved, your community members. So, this is an opportunity for everyone that's a part of the Winslow Township District to come together and have a

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voice in this plan that's going to, you know, be in place for the next five years. And then it's that proactive piece of it. So now you're not being reactive. You're intentionally thinking

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about the educational needs for your students over the next five years. And then that last uh piece talks about resource optimization. So again, this is, you know, where your business administration or your your business

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team will come into place and allocate funds appropriately and accordingly um for whatever comes out of that next uh five years. Now, this is just a three-R model that we use um you know, we talk about reflecting because you have to

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build that baseline. So when you're reflecting, you're going to take a look at what's currently going on in your district. now. Okay. And then you're going to talk about what is it that you envision that the

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future of Winslow will look like. So you're looking at your current reality and then now you're moving forward to the future and coming up with different ideas as to how you're going to get there. And then that last piece is the

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actionable plan that will come out of the strategic planning exercise. So you know we like to say that this approach will allow all of the stakeholders to come up with the what like this is what

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we feel that our students will need and then it's up to the administration team to come up with the how. How are we going to get there? So that's stressed throughout throughout this process the what and the how. Um so everyone can

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understand you know how the process will align to get to the final strategic plan. Now here are some of the phases of the three model. So you know we'll kick it off with a pre-planning phase and this

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is where we will talk with the superintendent administration team. Um, you know, some boards have a strategic planning team or committee. So, we'll all come together and just talk about uh what the process will look like, set the

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expectations. So, the administration team, superintendent, administration team will put together what's called the state of the school or state of the district. And then this is just where you know your current realities will basically be talked about um during that

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process. And then we'll also talk about what the first exercise will look like, which is identifying your strengths and challenges of your district and then coming up with the commonalities

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of your top 10 strengths and challenges. So that's all part of the pre-planning stage which will move us into that meeting one. And during the meeting one, we'll still carry over that exercise of the

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strengths and challenges. And then when we move into meeting two, this is where the visioning piece will come into play. So this is where an activity will be put into place where all of the stakeholders

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can envision that the Winslow Township, you know, won this prestigious award. How did they win it? what made Winslow Township stick out from all of the other school districts in the state of state of New Jersey. So that's that visioning

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exercise. And then on the recalibrate or meeting three, this is where you will come up with your goal statements and your objectives to put into place to help form the action plans that the superintendent and

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the administrative team will um take away and finish the actual plan. Now, this is just a summary and timeline um as to what it could look like. And this, you know, just taking a look at

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the month of September um when we do a kickoff meeting. Again, just going back to what I just talked about, that's that pre-planning piece to talk about the expectations and you know what it is that we will need over the

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next three months to um you know go through the entire process of this plan. So looking at a September kickoff, October will be your first meeting because we like to do three meetings over three months. So October will be

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the first meeting. Again, identifying those strengths and challenges activity. November could be meeting two. This is that visioning exercise where you're going to be doing some forward thinking. And then your meeting three could be in

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December. And that's where the goal areas, the goal statements and objectives will come out of the plan. And then normally it takes about two to three months for the superintendent and the administrative team to put the

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action plans together um based on all of the information that have come out of the meetings. And then March we come back and do a final presentation and kind of a celebratory moment where the

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plan is introduced to the board um and then the board can approve the plan at a later date. So in terms of that final presentation and celebration, um this is an opportunity for all the stakeholders to

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be a part of this to see that plan and all the work um that they put into it over the the three months um of the time together. Also within that plan um everyone who was a part of each meeting

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will will be recognized. for me um will be included in that final plan. And you know this is just an opportunity to um celebrate the success that have come out of these three you know three four

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months um of hard work that was put in to looking at what Winslow will look like for the next five years. These next few slides, these are just some pictures and testimonies um of other districts that have taken part in

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the strategic planning process and just you know hearing how um it was very beneficial for their district and it allowed opportunity for all the stakeholders to come together and contribute to um what the next five years will look like which will help to

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increase or elevate student achievement. So that's it. Um, you might not recognize any of these districts because I cover Atlantic, Kate, May, Cumberland, and Salem counties. So these are, you know, some

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of my home testies. So can I answer any questions for you about the strategic planning process? >> Yeah, I do have one question. So the information gathering from the stakeholders, who is responsible for that?

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who will coordinate those meetings? >> Well, the information that you get from the meetings in and gathering and making sure that the people that you need in the meetings are there. >> Yeah. So, when we have our pre-planning meeting, we'll talk about different

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advertisement techniques um that most districts use to get the word out and to encourage stakeholders to come and be a part of that process. And after each meeting, there are outcomes that are put together in a report um to share out so

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you can have that data over the next two to three meetings. And that's how we're we're building the um strategic plan >> and what is the district responsible for? So, of course, the space, um, advertising, you know, getting the

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people to come to the meeting, but New Jersey school board will be here to run all of the three meetings. Um, your superintendent will need to have the state of the district or the state of the schools available for meeting one to talk about the things that are going on,

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the trends and the challenges that are going on in your school district. And then New Jersey school boards will coordinate the rest of meeting one, two, and three. And then goes back to your superintendent and administrative team to kind of take those um goals and

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objectives that are going to come out of meeting three to formulate an action plan as to how all of this stuff will be accomplished or achieved. >> Board members, we have any questions? >> Yeah. How much does this facilitation

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cost? >> This is uh4500 4,500 and it could be split over to to um school cycle. So it could be part could be paid if you're looking to start it um

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in the fall, you could do half and then 2627 and then the 2728 if that's what you need to do. We've done that for for quite a few other districts. Can you explain just how the school boards kind

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of keeps the mission and the goal of the strategic plan uh in place when you have different personalities in a room and you know someone's wants and needs may be totally different than what the board or the school district is able to

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provide and how you provide a realistic approach to a quality strategic plan. >> Yeah, so that's a great question. So with all of our strategic plans, your mission statement um is in the forefront. Um we we promote that. We

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tell all of the stakeholders that you have to keep the mission statement in mind. And then we also talk about consensus building. That's in all of our meetings. That's very important that you know you have to understand that this is

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about all the students in your community. So we have to come to an agreement, right? You may want something, the person next to you may want something else, but at the end of the day, it's about the consensus as to

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what's best for the students within your community. So we promote that. You know, we walk around, you know, we listen in on the conversations. If we see that the conversations are going in a totally different direction, which I have seen plenty where sometimes, you know, people

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start to teeter in into the half, right? And that's the role of the superintendent and the administrative team. We know that as board members. I served as a board member myself for 18 years, right? So, we have to sometimes, you know, pull people back in to let

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them know that, you know, that's not your purpose. you know, this is your purpose. But, you know, we we do that in all of our meetings and we we've never really had any push back. It's just the process of getting people to understand

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their role with this the strategic plan. >> I think it's also important that, you know, we want our stakeholders to be a part of this process. That's this is what makes it work, the strategic plan. And but I think they also need to be clear on the how piece. the house

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definitely coming from the administrative team and the teachers that are the boots on the ground when it comes to implementing a quality strategic plan. >> Yeah. No, absolutely. And that's something you know we stress and um you

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know I just think sometimes you know when you have people who've never been a part of strategic plans or or thinking it's one way and it's not. I think once we communicate and go through, there's a PowerPoint presentation at every meeting. Once we go through it and talk

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about it, I think the light bulbs sometimes go off and they realize that okay, um, we're a part of this process. We're given ideas. We're given feedback, but it needs to be a consensus approach. >> Question. So when you when you say

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advertising, so when you're advertising to the stakeholders and if we're advertising, would that allow more than four board members to attend? Yeah. So that's up to you. So if you want all of your board members to attend, you just you just advertise as a meeting. You just have to open it up as a meeting. But we do like to say, you know, if

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board members are there, allow your stakeholders, you know, to speak and, you know, allow them to do a lot of lot of talking first and then of course, you know, feel free to jump in. That's that's the only thing we ask. Yeah, you just advertise open up close and you

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know all board members would be the attendant could attend if you have a board. >> Last time I was a part of a strategic plan, Jesse Adams was still working for you department and >> he always run a u yeah pretty tight kept people online. So

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>> y >> uh it's important that uh ground rules are uh absolutely upfront and people understand the process of uh doing strategic plan. >> Yeah. And we also talk about paraphrasing too because you know sometimes you know you may be saying the

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same thing that the other person is saying but saying it differently. So sometimes the strategic plan there may need to be some tweaking done some words smmithing done. So we talk about that as well um so people won't get offended if they see you know their exact

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word is not there, it's because, you know, we had to word smith it or, you know, do some paraphrasing. So, >> board members, any questions? Uh, does any board members have any objections to this moving forward?

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Can I can I can I get a nomination to uh bring this service to the Winslow Township School District for a five-year strategic plan involving all the stakeholders of Winsow Township. >> I make a motion for nominate um to bring

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in the fiveyear strategic planning involving all the stakeholders involving all of the stakeholders to be involved in this fiveyear strategic planning. A second. >> I second it. It's >> Any questions on the nomination?

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>> Who Who did the second? >> It's a It's a motion on the motion. >> Motion to accept the program. Accept the program. >> So, Miss Claw did the >> motion. Who did the second? >> Matthew. >> Matthews did the second. >> Now, I'm asking if there any questions

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on the motion. >> Roll call vote. Miss. >> Yes. U Mr. Clark. Yes. >> Well, yes. Oh, hey, Mr. Clark. How are you? Doing >> well, Miss Glo.

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>> Yes. >> Miss Martin? >> Yes. >> Mr. Matthews? >> Yes. >> Miss Neander? >> Yes. >> Mr. Shaw? >> Yes. >> Miss Pittz? >> Yes. >> And Mr. Thomas? >> Yes. >> Okay. The motion has carried. >> Bob, your strategic plan, here we come. Thank you.

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>> Thank you. >> All right. So, next steps, we'll just take the contract for I probably will be working on this. >> We gonna have a committee. We we gonna develop a committee. I'm ask Mr. Matthew chair this committee. I'm going to be on

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the committee. Mr. No is going to be on the committee. Mr. Paul will be on the committee. But we're going to open it up for every meeting for every school board member to participate. >> Oh, that's awesome. >> All right. Thank you for talking with you. >> Have a great night.

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>> Moving on to correspondence there. Mr. Do we have anything or was that correspondence enough? >> Uh, Mr. B, do we have any correspondence? >> No this evening. >> All right, we're moving on to the minutes. I'm looking for a motion to approve the following main amendments for the board of education. The regular minutes, Wednesday, March 2025, 2026

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open session and the regular minute Wednesday's March 2025 2026 closed session. Can I get a motion? >> Motion to approve the following meeting minutes for the regular meeting session on Wednesday, March 25th, 2026. both the open and closed session.

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>> You have a second. >> Any questions? Roll call. >> Mr. Clark. >> Yes. >> Thank you. Miss Glaude. >> Yes. >> Miss Martin? >> Yes. >> Mr. Matthews? >> Yes. >> Miss Nandez? >> Yes.

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>> Mr. Shaw? >> Yes. >> Miss Pittz? >> Yes. >> And Mr. Thomas? >> Yes. >> Motion has carried. >> We're going on to the board committee reports. Any reports out of our applic? >> Okay. Looking for a motion to approve the following minutes from the board of

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education. Special meeting Thursday, March 19, 2026, open session. The special meeting Thursday, March 19th, 2026, close session. Can I get an nomination? >> Uh motion to approve the special meeting minutes from Thursday, March 19th, 2026.

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Both the open and closed session. You >> have a second. >> Any questions? Roll call. >> Mr. Clark. >> Yes. >> Thank you, Miss Claude. >> Yes. >> Miss Martin? >> Yes. >> Mr. Matthews? >> Yes. >> Miss Neves? >> Yes.

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>> Mr. Shaw? >> Yes. >> Miss Pittz? >> Yes. >> And Mr. Thomas? >> Yes. >> The motion has carried. >> Now I can go to the committee reports. Anything coming out of the athletic and arts committee? Miss Law? >> Yes. Um, I would like to give a um end

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of the seasons. Winner winner athletics end of the season 20 202526 a high school sports recap wrestling head coach Jones had three athletes make regional sophomore Noah Young freshman

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Shila Fleetwood and junior Messiah Washington Shiloh also made it to group three NJSA state championship pro program is steadily improving um there are nine graduate seniors, their conference

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record is 1 to7. Overall record is 10 to13 and team GPA is 30 3.01. The girls head coach, the girls basketball head coach Jordan, the team qualified for NJSIAA state playoffs as a

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15th seed. They lost the first round at Cherry Hill West. They are graduating five seniors. The program has improved 114 in 2025. Their conference record was 3-2. Overall record was 1313. And the GPA of the team is 3.46.

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The boys basketball team, Coach Coach Ellis, the team qualified for the NJSIA state playoffs as a 11th number 11 seed. They lost lost in overtime by two points to Ocean City, group three state champions in round three. Last year's

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record was 181. The team will be graduating six seniors. The conference record was 68, overall record was 1412, and GPA is 2.81. In the girls indoor track, head co head coach Brown, the team will be graduating eight

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seniors. The team was crowned multiple championships during the winter season, and the team's GPA is 3.89. The Olympic Conference champions, the NJSAA group three South Jersey um sectional champions. At the SEC sectional championships, the ladies

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outscored second place in Ocean City 114 to 67. This is the most points ever scored in a group three sectional meet. The ladies scored in every event that they completed they competed in. Special congratulations to the super sophomore

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Jasmine Jackson for winning three events in sophomore Annabelle Cassidy for setting a new school record in both the 1600 and the 3200 meter runs. the NJSIA group three state championships champions. The ladies outscored second

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place to Ridge High School 66 to 40. With the win, the ladies scored the 11th state indoor championship, scoring the second most points in group three history. The 11th state championship win is also the most wins by the p by any

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public school girls team in New Jersey history. This has truly been a historic hertoric season. Jasmine Jackie Jackson two state champion 55 meter hurdle third place 400 third place 55 meter dash

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Messiah Bronner second time state champion high jump fifth place 55 meter hurdles Nyla Williams fourth place cobalt first time in school history scoring scoring at a state meet the 4x400

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Olivia Coro Leah Joseph Na Love Lace Crump and Sayia Robinson first place won first place. New Balance Nationals 10th grade Jasmine Jackson second place 55 meter hurdles at nationals. The shuttle relay her relay team of Jasmine Jackson,

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Messiah Bronner, Sayia Robinson, and Justice Green placed fourth place competing amongst the nation's elite. The 4x400 relay team of Mariah Amayra Orango 56.37, Sayia Robinson 55.17,

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Olivia Caro 56.70, and Jasmine Jack Jackson 5512. They who broke their own South Jersey record and are third in the country overall, running 3.43.3 43.3 while finishing at the top public school

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team in the race. On signing day, Leah Joseph signed with St. Joseph University, Olivia Caro, University of Connecticut, Yukon, Messiah, Brana, Kentucky University, and the boys indoor track head coach

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Cotus Curtis. The boys won the Olympic Conference Championship and had several individual placements at NJSIAA sectionals and state championship. The team will be graduating eight seniors. The team GPA is 3.26.

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>> Play second overall as a team at the state championship meet. SHR 4x 55 meter relay champions at the state championship meet. Karan Ali, 400 meter champion at the state championship meet.

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Elijah Delaney, 55 meters um sectional championship. Freshman Kan Ali played second in the state championship meet. 4x400 champions at the sectional and state championship meet. Vincent Perry

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currently broke the school's record in the one mile and two mile. And I'mma give you the middle school recap and I'll be almost done. the girls basketball team for the middle school. Though we were off to a rocky start, by the end of the season, the seventh graders really stepped up in

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leadership. We had several girls playing for the first time that had had a facility for the sports and became team leaders. Even through our season, even though our season was short and the games got cancelled, leaving us with a one and three record, these girls showed

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a lot of heart and did it to represent hard this team worked. record was one and three. The boys basketball team, boys basketball ended four and four on the season. Same highlights from the seasons were our 72 to 70 22 victory over Glassboro Middle School. Dwayne

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Glenn's third 23-point game against Williamstown McGee 15 points game against Woodbury Middle School in a dramatic one-point loss. Although we started zero to three, we preserved and went on to be a four-

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zero run. record was four-4. Wrestling individual wrestlers Jeremy Jackson finished regular season in tournament undefeated 14-0. All wins were pinned. Tavon Fuller finished regular season with record of seven to one. End of the

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year tournament we have four wrestlers finished with medals. Jeremy Jackson finished with a first place. Tavon Fuller finished with a fourth place. Carter Pittz finished with a fifth place. and Braden Liry finished with a

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sixth place. Record was 011. Um, basketball, we will be voting on installing a a shot clock for the varsity team at the NJS IIAa legislation voting season and wrestling officially confirmed. Girls are now an official

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independent sports for boys. They cannot wrestle against boys or alongside of boys during matches. Girls wrestling programs must have a separate schedule and a regional state regulations. Flag football started 20 2026

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2027 season with its own competitive structure schedules including the regional and state tournament regulations. The boys lacrosse will be voting on install on the shot clock for all varsity games at the NJISAA legislation voting season. And Olympic

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conference updates. The contradic vision will be realigned for girls basketball next year for the 26 27 season moving from division three divisions to two divisions. This will be a huge disadvantage to our girls basketball team. They will go from having 8 to1

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conference games to having 12 to 16 conference games. And that completes my um end of the season um report for the Winslow athletic department and for the theater department. Um the sh the play

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Chicago was a a superb um um theater presentation. If you didn't go, make sure you make the next one because our theater department is on fire. And that concludes my report for the athletic and the theater department. Such a

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phenomenal report in this. Thanks for your intensity and your enthusiasm while we celebrate our students achievement. I really appreciate. We're going on now to the citiz citizens advisory committee. Anything coming out of that committee? >> No minutes this evening. You'll see

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those at the next meeting in April. Our next meeting is uh May 14th at 7 p.m. in the administration building. >> Thank you. How about our education committee? Anything coming out of that? We >> uh not at this time. Our next meeting is set for April 29th.

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>> Thank you so much. Marketing committee. Anything coming out of that marketing committee? >> Yes, Mr. President. Our marketing committee uh will meet uh on Thursday um April 29th at 6 PM just prior to our regular board meeting. And uh Mr.

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President, if you have the time, if you can fit it into your schedule, uh I would like for you to attend that. >> Absolutely. >> Thank you. >> Negotiation. Mr. Sean, what we doing down there? We got everything everything still negotiated out. >> Fine job down there. How about the operations committee? Anything come out

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of operation? Mr. Dton's not here. Anything, Miss Bo? >> None at this time. >> Policy committee. Anything, Miss Paul, come out of policy? >> Um, only thing we're um we're still waiting for the um the final um drafts of the new policies that needed to be

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updated um from Strauss Esme. Um we also are going to be having an a meeting on 4:22. I will email the policy committee the time and how either we're going to do it in person or WebEx. Once I speak to you to see which one is more convenient for each of you ladies um and

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administration, I will let you all know. >> Thank you so much. >> All right. Thank you. >> How about the technology committee? Mr. Clark, you got anything for us? >> Mr. Clark. >> Yes, sir. >> You got anything coming out of the technology committee?

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>> We had a meeting last night. Uh, Miss Naveves, can you read those minutes for me? >> Yes, I can. >> Okay. >> Um, so we did meet last night uh from 5:30 to 6:00 PM via teams. Present were Mr. Peas, Miss Clemens, Mr. Clark, Mr.

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Matthews, myself, which I forgot to put here, uh, Mr. Lazero of Aspire who the individuals who are doing our technology audit. Um, so the Aspire team has completed the vulnerability governance and risk assessment portion of the audit. Uh they stated compared to other

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districts and entities they have worked with they advised that we were in pretty good shape compared to most uh scans were done on all devices and servers. Mr. Aante noted that the few critical areas areas that needed to be addressed have already been addressed or the equipment has been ordered to remedy as

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soon as possible. As far as the Wi-Fi in the district prior to the audit even happening, we had ordered 100 access points. Those have since been installed and we've been able to work with our internet provider uh to have a second internet connection

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established. Uh looks like we're in good shape for state testing which will be starting soon. Um there are no final calls for all the other fixes that the audit um has uncovered up until this point. Also discussed um was the possibility of having wired phones in

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classrooms. Uh that's something we'll look into for this summer, particularly in schools where we know self-service is an issue. Um we also had some discussion in regards to the Chromebooks. This year was the first year we all middle school and high school students uh were issued

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their own personal Chromebooks to go back and forth between home and school. Um, Miss Clemens reported that as of right now, just in the middle school alone, we have 137 damaged Chromebooks and these repairs are in excess of $13,000.

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Um, so this is something that I think we're going to have to look at how we're rolling this out and and what's best moving forward and is going to be most cost effective. Um, there was also some discussion in regards to the digital backpacks. I think they're finally

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starting to catch on. ers are are aware of them. Um, and it was also brought up at the CAC as well that not every school there's there's a lot of old flyers on there or they're in alphabetical order so it's not easy to see what's there, what should be there, what's the most

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current. Um, so we talked to Mr. P's about fixing that. Um, we also had some discussion regarding having a district calendar with all schools events on it. makes it easier for parents who have children in multiple schools for the

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HSAs to coordinate so they don't plan certain things all on the same day and have that made available on the district website as well. And that concludes that request. >> Excellent report. Veryformational that technology committee and really

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digging in deep and I really appreciate it and thank you there Mr. Clark for uh heading that up. We're going down to the economic development council meeting there. There's no report coming out of that. We to the township drug alliance. Mr. Matthew, may anything? >> Not at this time.

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>> Thank you, Mr. Shaw. Anything coming out of the planning board? >> Uh, not at this time, but there is a planning board meeting um tomorrow night at 7 p.m. at the municipal building and I will report out on that on uh our next.

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>> Thank you. Any adopted school board? Any school board representatives want to talk about their school? I will say something about school 4. School 4 is having a dine to donate at the Texas Roadhouse and that's from

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Tuesday May 12th from 400 pm to 10 p.m. you get 10% donation night. So go to the Texas Roadhouse Tuesday May 12th. 400 pm to 10 p.m. and get yourself a steak. 10% of that will go to the W Township School District and SAJ what they're doing

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over. >> Thank you so much. Moving right along to the superintendent. >> I had school five. >> Okay. Go ahead. That's what I wanted to Oh, you you you let me serve it up a little bit. Okay. All right. >> Start. Uh so school five, not to be outdone. Yesterday they had their family

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fun night for the fourth grade. I know I drove by because my son had te-ball and parking lot looked very full. So that looked like that went well. This Friday, they are actually having their first annual color run. So, it'll be interesting to see how that will go. Um,

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if everybody can come out, our spring band and orchestra performance, this is school 5 and 6 combined, will be April 28th at 700 p.m. I want to say it's school six. Probably the one thing I didn't look at, which I probably should because I take my child. Um, so they'll

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have that. She's got to be there. Um, so last month they had their readathon as well and they managed to raise $4,691 during their readathon. Minutes read by all students who participated, $96,945

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minutes for all the students who participated. They also had a book drive last month which got a little competitive from what I have told and they brought in 4,071 books. >> Outstanding.

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>> School seems to be bringing in a lot of uh resources over there now in school. >> They like to read at school five. >> Good stuff. Thank you so much. Really appreciate it. Miss Boo, I'd like just to make an amendment to uh what the minutes on number two. I would like to

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abstain uh from the minutes from the special meeting of March 19, 2026 and March 19, 2026 open and close session. I would like to abstain on that extension. >> Thank you. Moving right along. I'm

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looking for a motion to accept the superintendent's report that begins in the middle page three and goes all the way over to the top half of page seven. >> Motion to accept the superintendent

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report at the middle of page three to the top of page seven. >> We have a second. >> Any questions? Roll call. >> Mr. Clark. We might have lost the connection for a

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moment. Uh, Miss Galor, >> yes. >> Miss Martin, >> yes. >> Mr. Matthews, >> yes. >> Miss Neander, >> yes. >> Mr. Shaw, >> yes. >> Miss Pit, >> yes. >> And Mr. Thomas, >> yes. >> Motion has carried.

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>> All right. Now, we're looking for a motion to approve the Venice Administrative Board Secretary report. That's at the bottom middle of page seven and going all the way over to the back of page 14 to the end.

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>> Motion to accept the board secretary and board administrative report at the middle of page seven of page 14. >> You have a second. >> Any questions? >> Roll call. >> Miss. >> Yes. >> Miss Martin? >> Yes. >> Mr. Matthews?

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>> Yes. >> Miss Nether? >> Yes. >> Mr. You you have my my list, right, Miss Boil of extensions? >> Yes, I do. >> Okay. So, I Yes, on everything except for uh letter B 6A on the vendor's list

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of every the list of that I gave you for extensions. >> Okay, Mr. Clark. >> Yes. >> This is for the business administrator. >> Miss Pit. >> Yes. >> And Mr. Thomas? >> Yes. >> Motion has carried. Miss Miss Claude.

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>> Yes. >> Respectfully, could I um point you to page 13, item 21? >> Oh, that's right. Because they paid for >> you consider abstain abstaining from that particular. >> Thank you.

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>> I'm abstaining for page 13. Um item 21. >> Thank you, ma'am. >> Yes. >> All right. Now, we're at the top of page 15, the personnel report. We're looking for a motion to approve the superintendent's recommended approval of the following action beginning on page

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15 at the top and going all the way to page 18 through the middle. Motion to approve the personnel report on the top of page 15 to the top of page 15 to the top of page 18. >> 18. Where we at?

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>> 16. >> Bottom of 16. Bottom of 16. Good call. Can I get a second? Any questions? Roll call. >> Mr. Clark. >> Yes. >> Yes. >> Miss Gloyd. >> Yes.

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>> Miss Martin? >> Yes. >> Mr. Matthews? >> Yes. >> Miss Miss Neans? >> Yes. >> Mr. Shaw? >> Yes. >> Miss Pits? >> Yes. >> And Mr. Thomas? >> Yes. >> Motion has carried. >> No amendments. Any open public records

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request? >> Yes, we received one from Sunlight Access. They wanted copies of the most recent contracts, agreements, amendments, and renewals by Winslow Township School District from January 1st, 2020 to January 29th, 2026.

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uh in connection with the following vendors that data was compiled and uh submitted. >> Thank you. >> Informational items. Do we have any? >> Yes. Uh just want to make sure everyone

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is aware that this is World Autism Awareness Month, Library Recognition Month, and also stress awareness month. For those who are stressed, this is your month toress

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out. >> But I also like to remind uh our parents that preschool and kindergarten registration, you need to get your paperwork in uh as that time is quickly uh passing us. So if you haven't done

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so, please make sure you turn in all your documents. also like to thank our HSAs and PTOs and PTAs for their hard work and their communication with our principles and providing excellent activities and programs in our

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buildings. also uh like to announce that our championship jackets for the football team and track teams uh will be getting processed soon and those uh jackets will come with a link to allow parents to connect with the company to

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put orders in if they like. Also, I'd like to uh announce that uh Winslow is also uh including a new program uh through our officials uh scheduling and this program will

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allow our officials to be paid uh at a more expeditiously uh rate. So, uh we're excited about that and that concludes my report. Thank you. >> Thank you so much. Uh, moving more to old business.

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>> Oh, I have anformational item. Go ahead. >> A couple information items. Um, this Saturday, Rubies and Pearls will be having a a spring a spring fling for the youth at the Budal Center at 5:00 p. p.m. They'll be having a chess tournament, funs, food, and games. and

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the village of Camden County, GL Family Circle and the VFW Post 303 will be having a home buyers workshop on April 25th at 4 PM at 506 Declar Avenue at 4 PM. So, if you're interested in buying a home, buy an investments or a new home.

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Um we will have a loan organizer there, credit advocate and a broker salesperson uh from Keller Williams um to give this workshop and there will be many more like this um probably possibly every quarter so that we can try to get some new home buyers to start purchasing

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homes. And that concludes myformational items. Anyone else got anyformational items they'd like to present? >> All right, Thomas. >> Yes. >> Um I believe the township still having their career uh fair on the 25th. uh at

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10 10 10 a.m. to 12 pm 12 pm over at the Bud Dooal Center. So um look out for that. Uh I forget how many different employers uh will be there. I know a bunch of the trades will be there. I'll be there with

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the carpenters. So, um, that's a great opportunity for anybody in Winslow Township that is looking for employment or looking to join a tree to come out and, you know, good. Thank you, Mr. Shaw. Anyone else got anyformational

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items? All right, we're moving on to old business. Anything under old business? Seeing none, new business. Anything under new business? Seeing none, public comments there, accomplished. Thank you, sir. The Winslow Township Board of Education

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highly values the input of citizens in making the important decisions that affect the children of our community. We believe in the rights of citizens to observe board meetings to ensure that all of our citizens have the opportunity to attend schoolboard meetings and offer comment and to ensure that the board can

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conduct the important business of the district. We'd ask that speakers follow the guidelines for making public comment. The board secretary will recognize those individuals in the audience who wish to make comment. We'd ask that you respect the following procedures. One, all members of the

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public attending schoolboard meetings must treat each other and the board with respect. Two, please state your full name and only your town of residence. Three, please limit your comments to four minutes. Four, in the event we're unable to answer your questions, please feel free to submit them in writing to

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the board of education with your name, address, email address, and telephone number where you can be contacted, and your questions will be answered within a reasonable period of time. Uh lastly, individuals offering citizen comments are not permitted to make personal attacks on any district employee, board

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member, other testifier or member of the public. Thank you, sir. >> All right, there council. Can I get a motion to go to public comments? >> Motion to open public comments. >> Yeah, a second. >> All in favor? >> Other comments?

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>> Um, Miss Lisha Ajum. You said it right today. >> We've been practicing. >> Yeah. >> So, Lisha Jum, New Jersey. I was very surprised. So, you guys released a

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little bit of my stress because I wrote in and Mr. read my my speech last month about um the jackets for the students from 2025. Correct. >> And I appreciate that. So, that was that was good news today. So that that's why

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I came. I delegated all my responsibilities and I said I got to go and make an appearance. >> So quick, you know, you ready to go back to your seat. >> Stress reliever month. So I really appreciate um you taking the

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time not to just listen to read and do everything, but um to to actually make a difference. So it's I don't speak just to hear myself, you know. So, I appreciate you um taking the time to So, on behalf of all the track parents, the

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busy moms and dads out there, um we thank you for listening and and also um giving back to the students because it's really important that they that they feel recognized, they feel, you know, so because if we if they do something bad, we want to punish them.

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>> So, it's important for when they do something good that we reward them. Yes. So, thank you for the reward. I appreciate it. >> Yes. Thank you. Have a good night. >> Uh, Jasmine Bridge. >> Good afternoon everyone. My name is Jasmine Rich and I am from Winslow

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Townshipville. I had to come to this meeting today when I found out that Miss Brooks was talking about her program. My oh my. Let me tell you something. I used to volunteer at her program and boy is it awesome. Let

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me tell you something. The greatest creation God ever made was woman. If you don't believe me, ask Adam. As soon as that woman appeared, what did he say? Whoa. Sometimes we don't know the influence that we have and where would this world

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be without our women, you know, but let me tell you something. Miss Brooks's program is there to motivate our women. And I have been honored for many years. I think it was 13 years I've lost count that I used to be able to volunteer. I

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would speak to our young ladies. First of all, if you walk through our high school um hallways, you will notice that the young men would be looking at the freshman girls because the young men have an idea. Okay, I'mma get those girls. So, we had a program where we would talk to them. We would get a

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chance to explain to them, watch out for the young men. If they say, "Baby, you so beautiful." Say, "Yeah, well, what else to do? I know that already. >> Watch out." Because they had another plan in their mind. We were able to tell them to be careful. Watch out for the lines because they don't want to have

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any teenage pregnancies. And some girls, if they're not told how beautiful they were, if they didn't have a father growing up, then the first guy that comes and says that to them, then they just fall for it. So, you know what? We were right there. We volunteered. And you know what? I used to do the presentation on the virtuous young

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ladies. And this freshman young lady out of out of one of my uh presentations came to me. And you know what she said to me? She said, "You know what? My parents always said to me, "Don't do it. Don't do it." But she they never explained to me why. And she said, "You did?" She said, "I'm going to keep

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myself virtuous until I get married." So I was like, "Are you serious?" That was to me the best news I've ever heard. But not only that, but you know, we we would uh do sessions where we would teach young ladies how to walk with confidence because sometimes they might not have been in a situation growing up where

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they were confident. They come in shoulders bent over and we would teach them stand up straight. We teach them how to walk, you know, teach them how to sit in front of a person that they're going to go for an interview for. And we, you know what was so awesome that we did with our young girls? We would do role plays. And those young ladies from

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Miss Brook's program, they were able to leave the high school with confidence that they never had. And I am so thankful to have been able to be a part of that because you know what? Children are our future and we need to have people in place that will continue to

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motivate them and bring forth those programs like Miss Brooks does. I have never seen anything like that. Even my husband would say, "My god, when I was coming up, they didn't even have anything like this." I said, "That's Miss Brooks. She's a woman of excellence. All her programs are of

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excellence." And I'm just so thankful to be a part of that. Now, I brought a young man to her once because he was not really into his education. He grew up thinking his aunt was his mother and he really had a rough life. So, he went I

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when I brought one of his uh one of Miss Brook's opportunities to him, this young man went from making $12 a hour to $60,000 a year and now he's an engineer making over a hundred,000. So, I'm

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telling you, don't ever underestimate the value. If you have children or family members or friends, do not ever underestimate the value of being a part of Eagle's Landing. And it's so wonderful that it started in the middle school. So, I am just so thankful to be

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able to come here and express that because that program is awesome. Thank you so much. Um, do you have any questions for me? >> No, thank you. >> Can I make a statement real quick? >> Absolutely. So, I will tell you right now, Miss Brooks already knows what I'm

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going to say. My niece is a proud recipient of Miss Brooks's love from Eagles Landing, and she gets married next Saturday to a wonderful, wonderful, good young man that I absolutely adore. And she probably wouldn't be where she's

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at if it wasn't for Eagles Landing and Mrs. Brooks's attention to her >> because my my niece was a very troubled young woman when she came to Winslow Township. >> So Eagle I we owe Eagles Landing and Miss Brooks a lot in my family. So I can

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tell you that we we really do. We don't even recognize her like she should because she's such a behind the person, you know, behind person, but she her program is awesome. She is a woman of excellence herself. And you know what? You're gonna get nothing but excellence when you come to

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Eagles Landing. I'm so sorry that I don't work there anymore. I That's the one thing I miss being able to volunteer for her program. Thank you for giving me this time. >> Hi. >> Yes, we have one more public comment that came in over um

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>> I guess the computer or the network. Uh unfortunately, the back end is cut off. So, I'm going to read what what's visible to me. Uh, it came in from Rose Williams in Cichlerville, New Jersey. It reads, "Good evening. We want to

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acknowledge the work of Winslow Township Advisory Board led by Miss Darcel Brooks." It looks like maybe this is I'm thinking they are doing a great job of bringing programming and activities that best fit the needs of the students.

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Uh, we I don't know what's next, but it's off and it says harmful. H A R A social services is looking forward to an opportunity to share our programming teens in charge.

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I can't see what dress but shoes. So if we're charging shoes, I'm on board with that in the new the near future. Thank you, Rose Williams, executive director. >> Thank you. >> Is that it, Miss? Yes, that concludes

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those that have signed up. >> All right. Any questions or comments? All right. I'm looking forward motion to adjourn public comments. >> Motion to adjourn public comments. >> You have a second. >> All in favor? >> I executive second. >> Yes, we do have a a hopefully I believe

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a brief one. Um, in accordance with the requirements of the Open Public Meetings Act, we'll be adjourning into executive session on tax day, April 15, 2026 at 8:40 p.m. >> tonight. In case anybody forgot, you still have three hours to get your

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>> uh of the nine items, uh, this matter will be items related to conditions of employment. Item eight with respect to the Winslow Township Transportation Department and I would guesstimate approximately 30 minutes.

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>> Looking for a motion to go into executive session. >> Motion to go into executive session. >> You have a second. >> All in favor? >> I roll call. >> Roll call. Miss Bole. >> I'm getting there, sir. Mr. Clark.

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>> Yes. Miss Lloyd, >> yes. >> Miss Martin, >> yes. >> Mr. Matthew, >> yes. >> Miss Nan, >> yes. >> Mr. Shaw, >> yes. >> Miss Pitts, >> yes. >> And Mr. Tom, >> yes. >> Motion has carried.