e good evening everyone I'd like to call to order the March 27th 2025 work session of the Clint hary Union police School District Board of Education item 1.2 approval of the agenda recommended action VI disolve of the Board of Education hereby approves the agenda so moved Neil question hi opposed abstain motion carries turning to our work session item 2.1 the 2025 26 budget reports building level and people Personnel budgets to Walker h thank you good evening everyone who thank you to everyone who's here in person and thank you to those who are watching at home we have a robust and exciting presentation in front of us tonight so I'll speak briefly I just want to say that aside from elbow to Elbow one of my favorite terms to use is that budgets are not just about dollars and cents they're about vision and values and tonight to be honest is one of the more exciting board meetings of the Year for me because we get a chance and the public the community gets a chance to hear from a phenomenal leadership team about not only the work that's been done in the past year and the work that we anticipate doing in 2526 but a broader and longer term trajectory for the work of our schools and the experience of our students so what you'll see tonight is a series of presentations beginning from from Rachel and then from C PBC and the high school that speaks really four things first the work from 2425 from the current school year that we feel great about and that have continue to advance the experience in our schools secondly what we're looking forward to in 25 26 in the upcoming 12 months of the experience of our students and how the budget serves to support that they'll share information about the facts and figures related to their particular buildings and departments related to that budget proposal and then some discussion of longer term vision and where all this work is taking us and taking our students in the years to follow so this is genuinely one of the more exciting board me board meetings of year for me and I'm excited to get it started turn it over to assistant superintendent for PPS Rich good evening everyone good evening so tonight we begin with my budget then we'll lead into cets pbcs and CJs there are common threads amongst us that's why I always tend to present with the school because PBS is heavily heavily involved in the daily operations of the school and the supports for all students so tonight as I present the pupil Personnel budget for the upcoming year we're reminded of the powerful Foundation that supports our school Community our vision is as outlined in our beloved Vision map centers on a culture of well-being where each child's unique needs are met and where we Foster an environment that promotes emotional social and academic growth at the heart of this vision is the belief that strong meaningful connections are essential we know that building direct relationships with our students and families is the Cornerstone of creating a supportive learning environment so creating a sense of community within our schools is not just an ideal it's vital to the success of our students and our families so tonight as we walk through the budget of our schools in PPS we will highlight how these Investments align with our commitment to nurture the whole child and create positive inclusive environments where every member of the Cent School Community can flourish so we will begin with our department picture which was a lot of f to kind of get everyone together because a lot of people tried to run out of the gym so I had to kind of start blocking and calling names on the microphone to get everyone to come back some may have slipped away but this is a very experienced thoughtful and Innovative group of special Educators clinicians providers of services to our multi- language Learners and support staff so I'm very proud of the work that we are doing together as a department yes you can play this is just a little snap 20 go ahead 25 30 35 50 40 40 go ahead CLE Isabella 45 45 45 45 50 50 55 60 woohoo 2 55 come here good job keep going 859 y 95 100 W Jaden listen to Jaden now 120 that is just a little snapshot of what our spark one program does the integration of kinesthetic activities multicentury opportunities for learning and retention of skills so that was like a second or third lesson in multiples of five so it wasn't exactly sticking so incorporating this the kinesthetic and physical aspect of it really help the kids generalize and retain those skills okay so I want to highlight some of our the great things that we've done over the course of this past budget year in financial fiscal year so we onboarded a new social worker and you guys have met her at our department presentation at one of the work sessions she's the first for our district she has done major work in making connections with our non-english speaking families and Community Resources supporting the families and comfortably integrating into our school Community the our families have reported that they feel welcomed they feel heard and they feel supported and they can actively engage in the in the education of their child because they have Liaisons like our community Aid worker and our bilingual social worker to support them we have invested and continued to and we will continue to invest in specialized programs so the expansion and the enhancement of our targeted programs those programs that we've been very thoughtful and strategic and creating to meet the needs of our very diverse Learners they have grown exponentially now we're starting see to see children that have made such growth start to mainstream more into the school community and that's what those programs are for build the skills build the independence so that students can gradually integrate into the mainstream settings our Unified sports Steve kind of highlighted he was the star of the unified bowling game this week8 118 our unified team is an integrated team so it's 50% typically functioning students and 50% students with disabilities so first season is bowling and then the second season is basketball so we just closed out our bowling season and now we'll be leading into basketball in the next week or so it is so heartwarming to be at these events and see the kids really the the level of sportsmanship and compassion and and support that the students show for each other it it gives you chills it really does give you chills and there were a lot of students that wanted to participate typically functioning students that wanted to participate to support their their peers at school which was great and the two coaches have made it such a great learning experience for them so it's definitely something we want to continue to grow as the years the years go by so with the work of our social worker and our community liaison we've enhanced and expanded Partnerships with Community organizations with the experience and the relationships a social worker had from lower Westchester she was able to make that connection with cro because we're such a little such a little pod and little community that we don't really realize what's out there what's accessible to our community and living in Westchester so we have I'll go on in a later slide about all of the connections and how those resources have been supported our needy families and our families that just need some support to get on their feet this has definitely been a a catalyst for for that growth in that Community as well we have invested in expanding the depth and breadth of the assessments that we use to identify students with disabilities and really work to dig deeper into the concerns that the parents have and or the teachers have that are making referrals to the committee on special education so we've invested in some very very intensive maybe timec consuming evaluations and evaluative materials but they are really creating a picture and a profile of the students that help us as a CSC meet their their needs more directly and we're able to Target those skills to support the students we on horded a part-time enl teacher at c the kindergarten registration last spring that really led into the summer showed a major increase in our incoming kindergarteners that had a minimal English language so through a screener that's done over the summer late June early summer we identified about 13 incoming kindergarteners that needed the maximum number of minutes so we had to really rush and identify that the need and try to manipulate the schedule to see how much our current enl teacher was able to support with grades one through four and then we realized that there just wasn't enough minutes in the day and or week for her to accommodate all students so we posted and hired A6 enl teacher to support the upper grades and our currently current sitting inl teacher supporting the K ones additionally interpretation Services the need has grown over the course of the past two years so of course the cost of providing that interpretation has increased however as I mentioned their lab just allowing parents to be able to be actively engaged in their child's education is worth the investment so just a little collage of some of the great things going on in our school supported by our pupil Personnel Department counseling special Educators our clinicians we have pictures of sensory gy we have an integrated art class some Hands-On activities outside in the hallway integrated our trip to the botanical gardens with the spark class we have some partner classroom work celebrating and supporting mental health month yeah just some great things that we wanted to kind of capture and showcase here tonight so I wanted to speak to our increased support how we've currently invested or how we've invested over the past two budget cycles and what our focuses for the upcoming school year to welcome so in 2003 we welcomed Our Community Aid worker Spanish speaking she works approximately 24 hours a week supporting families she is the the face that are entering Spanish speaking fames State she's there to help support them with registration and obtaining the correct documentation updating addresses getting access to our online platforms so she has really been a tremendous resource for our communities over the course of the past two years the connections that she has is continuing to grow because as new families move in they're like oh Paul Eva she'll help you oh Paul Eva she knows how to help you get that information from your landlord so word of mouth has really increased the her her connections with the community last year in the fall we expanded the support with a bilingual social worker and you know that's kman and that's that was really in an effort to better serve our diverse and growing Spanish speaking and non English-speaking community so as the number of students and families entering in the community has increased we realized there was need for this level of support as well as to serve our students in the schools as newcomers right that transition is very difficult our enl teachers our building supports team do work but our social workers able to help ensure that both the students and the families have what they need to feel part of the community so in the upcoming year looking ahead we're hopeful to further enhance the team by exploring and hire exploring the the possibility and hiring of a bilingual school psychologist at C so that role is vital to just support the mental health the social emotional supports and strengthen their connection to the community and at the entry level of C because that's where we're seeing the highest number of entering non-english speaking families so over the course of the past two years as I mentioned and then looking ahead our goal is to continue to welcome and support our families ensuring that Carmen and Eva have opportunities to help families exchange information making that a very smooth transition with registering your child making referrals to the committee on special education looking for resources that families need and helping them make the connections to ensure that they have access to these services that are available parent engagement the number of families that have been to parent teacher conferences schoolwide events districtwide events has increased exponentially because of the connection between our our team and they call up families they text families they're like they send reminders remember we have an event tomorrow night in our enl technology event we have family literacy night we have seen such great number in such a high attendance at these events that it really is it's and it just it's a testimony to the work that we're doing and the fact that these families are grateful for what we're doing and they want to be involved so we're constantly reflecting and evaluating I meet with that team month twice a month to ensure that any upcoming events or are appropriately marketed and messaged to the community looking at identifying needs what addition programs or supports do we need to consider to meet the needs of all of these families they're constantly doing needs assessments through e either phone conversations digital surveys to ascertain what do the families want and what do they need to help them feel as part of the community so that really has yielded some good data for us to use in our current planning you know that ongoing reflection of our current programs and practices as well as determining what our needs are moving ahead in the upcoming years so this was really just a highlight to capture all of the events that we have done to engage the Spanish speaking community and this is ongoing so our back to school nights are there are Spanish-speaking Liaisons that are making calls to all families that Spanish had Spanish is the language spoken in the home so they are making they're scheduling the parent teacher conferences they're scheduling with my department to make sure that there's a translator available to accompany the parent through their rotation of classes and that has shown again an increase in attendance and participation we led a technology event where there were different tables for each of the online platforms with a translator and an English facilitator to help parents sign up for Infinite Campus access the parent portal make changes to Transportation drop off and pick UPS so that event is leading and supporting them and gaining their independence and being able to navigate the same tools that the main the rest of the community have and accesses and how we do the majority of our communication to families our community Aid worker is in her third session of teaching English to adults at the library and the high school I think most recently at the high school she's running her classes so she was she started at the library with a small group of people it increased to about 20 then over the winter it dwindled a little bit but right now she's in a spring semester at the high school she holds the classes on Monday she has about 22 students and they are divided up amongst different levels of English so she is able to differentiate for those parents and those adults in that space to help them gain the knowledge of the English language feel comfortable in using it in the school environment and accessing it within the Comm and accessing the community so it's it's definitely a nice program that has been developed to support our adults buddy reading classes we had a buddy reading event last Friday where the high school enl students went to C to read to the second grade class they they practice and they scripted they made VOC visuals and Associated vocabulary with a visual to to teach the kids the vocabulary that they were going to read in the story so it was it was a great event we have multilingual multilanguage learner family literacy nights we have one at C we had capes of culture at PBC and then we have one coming up in late April at the high school where we facilitate round table and academic activities for parents so that they understand the the daily responsibilities of their child and they're gaining some insight into how can I best support my child in in their education we've had some fun activities we had a a Spanish author come and read her book she's a local from the nearby a nearby community she came and read her book to the families at CS family night and she did a question and answer she related she was able to connect with the families because of her story coming from Paraguay to New York's to New York and you know that really built the connection and it's a it really is a sense of and feeling of community in those spaces when we're together we this year we invested in a transition coordinator for enl families in the past we were investing in Luca which was an outside organization but we felt that who knows who knows our students in community better than our own our own staff so two of our high school staff members facilitated High School Success preparation nights and prepping the students for college and financial aid and that's the second a college prep presentation so we are we are definitely in it in it to support this community another little highlight so increased Community Partnerships we have the sharing shelf is located in Port Chester they are a essentially a clothing store so we put in orders for students that require clothes we take their size they tell us what they need jeans sweatpants shirts and we put the order into the sharing shelf we send our car down he picks up the delivery and we deliver it to the kids Westchester residential opportunities for our families that are experiencing or are at risk of experiencing homelessness we support them through the connections at w 914 cares is a resource center almost like a dial in you call in you tell them you know what you need and they'll connect you to the right Community or Regional organization to help Westchester Care Council gives out vouchers for child care for parents that are having difficulty securing child care and being able to go out and be G fully employed because of such they're able to provide get assistance provided through the West chest Child Care Council and we know our Cent care has been a staple here and they are definitely a big big supporter of our school Comm committee so our increase for social emotional support as you'll see and hear from the both C and the high school we are looking to continue to support our student Community through increasing the level of social emotional supports at both C and the high school so we are hoping to increase Staffing at by one at each building to support our students both clinically and as students that are at risk so the support that we're looking to secure is meant to provide academic counseling and guidance on the College admission process provide emotional social emotional supports making connections with outside resources if we feel there is a need for something more therapeutic and intensive than what we would typically handle or support through school looking to be that that bridge between school and home engaging families to ensure that both the families and students feel successful and integrated into the into the schools and we're looking to continue to improve the social emotional support and looking at the mtss or the multi-tiered systems multi-tiered systems of support and increasing the interventions that we're able to provide to our atrisk students to ensure that they have all of the supports that they need at as they as the demands continue to increase so as I mentioned we are looking to increase one FTE at c we are looking to hire a school psychologist specifically a bilingual school psychologist at C and we are looking to add a school counselor at the high school to to grow the high school guidance Department now the numbers so you'll see that as far as salaries the budget increase reflects the increase in the the collective bargaining agreement as far as salaries for instructional staff bosies there is you'll see there's reductions in our public tuition and our bosis so some of the children that were attending bosis have shifted into more of a private Day program and the students that were attending other public school has decreased because they've kind of been shifted amongst the other two day treatment programs and the Bose's programs but right now the amount of students that are out of district has been stable over the past few years we should see a bit of a decrease next year with some of the students that are aging out but right now it's remained it's remained relatively stable so there as I mentioned definitely a shi intuition bosis is growing their programs so they're able to meet the needs of some of our more therapeutic students but we can always rely on the day treatment programs to provide the highest level of support for some of the students that require it we do not have any students for a second year in a row receiving residential in a residential placement and that is that's good news because we want students sustain their homes School community as far as supplies it's more in line with our spending and the needs Department wide because PBS department does fund the PPS staff members in the other buildings supplies as far as evaluated materials any specific instructional materials that they require and then I I'd like to note that I always try to be efficient and be strategic but I developed programs here within the community so that children could have access to the leash restrictive environment so that's why whether the number has been stable and or decreased children are getting their needs met and with the majority of those children getting their needs met here in the community which is our goal on the salaries yes the increase 105 is that inclusive of the two positions no no the two the two positions are in the building bud thank you that would be nice two for one and then here's our little padra any questions just so we're clear the Bose's number that's for Bose's special education services yes so to the extent there is any charge for students who CT that will be in high school in the building correct corre and and I guess my other question is the projection is that tuition residential is going to be the same we maintain that in the event that there is a child that requires a residential facility [Music] so there's generally a lot of Shifting between those three codes depending upon the need right for example if a student was in a private Day program but yet was experiencing an intensive need for something more therapeutic and having difficulty maintaining safety within the home typically CSC would shift and make a recommendation for the next level of placement which would be residential so this year and Beyond so we are working now with our transition coordinators for students with disabilities similar ilarly to the enl transition coordinator to develop a transition support program at the high school we have identified specific students that have a profile that would allow for us to Implement some semester like programming to teach students soft skills applications communicating in the workplace providing them with opportunities for community externships so doing vocational assessments so we're kind of working on structuring that now which may take another year or so to kind of get it off the ground but we have community experiences at our middle school program so that's really the foundation and the the the part where we're going to start because those children as they progress up through middle school and high school they would be the ones that would be most connected to the transition Support Program providing them with opportunities to Su successfully transition postsecondary to adulthood and out of K12 system we'll continue to refine programs based on student profiles we do a lot of visitation and communication with preschools to try and get some insight into the students that'll be transitioning to kindergarten to best plan for them as far as special education needs and or tier two needs within the school to help them transition from some day program day preschools that have a more special ed based or SE it program Foundation so this being able to visit schools get to know the kids it allows us to plan because we start doing that like November January so that we're able to look at the kids identify where would their needs best be met once they come into school and then additionally as our students continue to grow and progress their needs start to change and their needs evolve and that's what we do as CC chairs the clinicians and teachers that support them and we're hoping that over the course of the next few years we'll be able to really develop a a brick and mortar Family Resource Center identifying and designating space within one of our buildings to be that Ground Zero for our families coming in because right now it's a bit fragmented like EV meet someone here or kment will go here so if we have one home base that would be the most ideal to have that continuity and parents know if I need this this is where I go so ultimately that is our goal yes so just the transitional Support Program shot about a couple minutes ago I know from my work atem imagine that there is such a program is this possibly this initiative are you anticipate that this may allow us to service in District students with those needs who are now placed out of District such as at bis for because they need that or is this for students you envision who are now in District but who are not going to graduate and who need to transition so I think it's twofold so the students that are placed out of District are there for very specific reasons with that require a level of special education that we were at the time unable to support but at every annual review we revisit their needs and we see is there a way to integrate them and bring them back to the schools community so that we can meet their needs the transition program that you're thinking of is something a bit different those students are a very different profile than what I envisioned the transition program today however there are aspects of that program act in New Yorktown at putam Northern that we are looking to tap into if not to replicate here just for an example they have an apartment on the pinesbridge campus where students are able to learn adaptive living skills right personal hygiene making their bed folding clothes managing their space so we are actually scheduling a visit with the principal of that that part of the campus so that we can kind of look to see what can we replicate here in the community but just as an aside those students that we've started this program with you know who we envision are going to be accessing this while it's complete the program those students currently are accessing the laundry they're taking the lost and found clothes at one of our schools wash they're laundering it Folding It sorting it by side sizes so we have parts of What that particular transition program does but the level of need for that particular program at pinesbridge is those students have an intensive need and the majority them their profile is more on the multiply disabled with coexisting disabilities that we do we do not service here within the hom School community so ours is more building a skill set that allows them to be employable in the event that they choose not to pursue a two-year or four-year postsecondary option one other question with regard to a number of the different programs I know when we established our ele school ungraded or multiple year classrooms and so on one of the things that we hope to invisioned of the possibility that we would be able to provide services on a tuition basis to other school districts which would bring Revenue have we seen that and do you anticipate what being a source of Revenue or to the extent you can talk about yeah absolutely so this year we have three students that are placed by their local District their resident District through CSC paying tuition to attend our specialized programs we currently have two students that have done two full day visits in our specialized program and we made we had provided them with acceptance letters so we'll be going to the csse to see if we are the chosen program for that those two particular students but over the course of this school year and we're only what six months in or so we've seen probably about 20 referral packets to our programs and I've rejected kids only because I I didn't feel that we could holistically meet their needs but I am hoping that next year the specialized programs that we have we can have a much higher involvment and the difference between our students that were servicing in that program will be those tuition-based students so I'm hoping to bring in more over the course people are hearing about our programs my secretary today just said hey Rachel somebody from kold and they wanted to know about the spark program I said they want to know about the spark program I said give me their number so we have directors come and visit us we've had assistant superintendant of PPS come and visit us clinicians visit our specialized programs here at the high school and at C specifically but we do have a specialized program at the middle school so we have been it's word of mouth I think think that is making the the biggest impact in helping us become get put on the map for it because I have families for me like oh I know some and some her son comes from Bronxville to to Croton can you tell me a little bit about the program that you have there so yes I'm hoping that over the course of the next few years we'll be able to see a major Revenue major increase in our revenue for non-resident tuition but understanding and I know this is always we first our kidss first absolutely our kids first I got to fill the class and then send our kids somewhere no but but there are some districts that really do this as a no I know as a means to raise revenue not just our programs are going to run for our students but if we have available space we're going to provide and open it up to public to other public school districts absolutely and I think that's just something oh yeah it's been Absol so that we're not leaving our people our our students aside absolutely is we Chas me money money's always chasing me unfortunately I'm never chasing thank you so I want to just commend you for the amazing work that is happening U with by you and the team this is just extremely impressive stuff I had a question just about the welcoming and supporting fam's piece of the work and and I guess one of the themes between that and and maybe the social emotional supports is that you're really trying to figure out how to create a welcoming environment for families as well as the culture of belonging that we talk about for families and students and you mentioned the kind of continual needs assessment that you're doing to kind of figure out what are what's changing how you need to adapt Etc in both the kind of context of parent engagement planning and it I mean you can see you're doing it in the kind of identifying additional capacity needs on social emotional supports so I guess I was wondering two things one is could you just speak to like what what have you seen as the evolution and kind of the emerging needs in both the parent engagement planning and the social emotional support side and now and then what do you foresee in the coming years as of like even more capacity or different kinds of capacity in the future given what now and if you can kind of like look forward a little bit into what you what you see emerging needs the past is coming year so I think when you just to capture like the last three years and what we've done I believe that communication was probably the area that we were most deficit in right providing materials paper materials stuff that was backpacked in the family's native language so the staff at each building has been working diligently and asking for translation even using translation apps or resources to provide accessibility to families so I think that was our biggest area of growth and I think we've really leaned into being proactive in that regard where any of the opening year documents we request like the end of June so that we could translate it have it ready for you or have it ready for mailings in August the needs assessment it's a lot of Technology based needs I feel like some of the apps are a bit cumbersome and there's so many of apps and assess access points that I feel like that becomes overwhelming for anyone specifically someone that's struggling with navigating technology and school-based types of Technology those I really see is the current need and I think we're meeting those needs and it's evolving and it's a lot of One Stop like if you call say I need help with this we're very responsive to those needs and looking ahead what I've noticed and I believe the clinicians and school billing leaders could also attest to is the emotionality and the the trauma that comes with migrating into a new community in a community where not everyone looks like you're and there's not you're not overly represented in a small village like this so I feel like the seeing more people that look like you has been a has created a sense of comfort for some people even though they confuse me and Carmen a lot very helpful I guess we res each other as but we do get mistake confused a lot but with that I I think that with the increase in social emotional supports we can really establish like newcomer groups just brought an idea to me today and she said she spoke with Laura and the high school team about she wants to do like a co-curricular a newcomer co-curricular for new arrivals and providing them with Connections in the community and really just kind of speaking about culture and and you know what's expected of you in the community so with the increase in the request for the increase in the Staffing I think that's in response to what we see and foresee to become a greater need with the current climate there is a lot of fragility and the entire School Community is supporting through that but to have some touchstones and some people anchored across the buildings so that it's not just one person that has to get called to respond to I think that would definitely continue to meet the needs as they continue to evolve and grow I hope I answer question that's great thanks thank you Rachel oh thank you going to OPP for thank first I'd like to thank everyone for giving us the opportunity this evening for all the schools and for Rachel to go ahead with our proposals this evening our first slide here is kind of self-explanatory I'd like to dive into a little bit more detail if you'd like to take a look at the slide this is an overview of our journey that began in 2021 through the present and where we plan ongoing for next year the journey began in 2021 with the implementation of our house system the house system enabled us to support the social emotional learning Foster schoolwide relationships and introduce students to multi-age K to4 schoolwide experiences over the years C has added and enhanced our itad to create interdisiplinary activities and lessons and promote collaboration among staff and students instructional coaches now play an integral role in supporting teachers or professional development investigating curriculum and showcasing instructional strategies this year saw all of our C teachers pair with a colleague for multi-age teaming opportunities and the addition of a part-time literacy coach tiger day started just this January allowing for whole school learning experiences Innovative scheduling and the ability for classes to experience interdisplinary events and passion based Learning Without scheduling barriers these models and changes that you see in that timeline have us very excited not only for what has happened at C but what will continue to happen at C thank you and like Rachel we want to highlight some of the budget pieces from the 2425 school year last year we had put in for our part-time literacy coach she has been an amazing resource and addition to our faculty providing professional development piloting different assessments researching different literacy programs meeting with veteran and new teachers collaborating with our other instructional coaches I meet with that team every six weeks on a formal basis to check in meet and support their needs and she really has made in a wonderful addition to our faculty so she does part-time L Ela Ai and part and literacy coaching our school counselor became our social emotional curriculum coordinator that was a new position last year which allows her to now meet with her own curriculum team to help solidify the implementation of our social emotional learning curriculum thanks to help from our budget last year and Chef we reinvented our what used to be called a projects room into the Tiger Den which is a really Innovative learning space at the moment it is now our library that is very temporary pit stop as we start construction on the library but prior to that move we were able to see that Innovative space used for a variety of different events we've had up to three classes in there at one time working on multi-age activities we've had kindness Club activities where the senior citizens were invited in and it just creates a space where Cooperative groups can work it's a neat place where kids just feel comfortable they they dig right in and sit down and and it's just a place for them to be excited about learning again we added a section of second grade to support our enrollment for that grade level last year our ITC collaborations with our general education teachers in lessons and units has increased and then we had our hegr training and implementation for first grade as a tier one and second grade for a tier two and tier three and we were able to support the C Strings program by providing funds to have additional instruments purchased to store at school so that children do not have to travel back and forth or rely on parents driving their instrument back and forth so again an opportunity was provided for us to support the Arts at CET our next slide are going to show our five proposals that we're looking for next year at CET starting with the school psychologist we're looking to enhance our K2 literacy program program with purchasing some additional materials and looking at a different program we're looking also at our grades three and four word study program once again purchasing some materials to go along with the program also adding some co-curricular groups before school at C and also to improve our multi-purpose room sound system something we've been looking forward to do for quite some time like I said we'll go a little bit more into depth but especially with the multi-purpose room that's a room not only do we have all of our lunches in there but we do a lot of our tiger day assemblies we also do a lot of our house activities we have all our presentations all the wonderful grade level Productions that Marina puts on of course our back to school nights and a lot of our concerts so we've really needed a sound system for quite some time and I know in collaboration with that one's budget we're looking to improve those that sound system for a multipurpos the goal of our next few SES is to explain how those components fit into our vision map so the first area we're going to highlight is the reimagining learning spaces so this budget I'm sorry reimagining learning so this budget proposal supports an addition of multi-age experiences and interdisciplinary experiences sometimes when teachers come and they're so excited about an idea and they want to try something new and they want to work with a special area teacher or with a support staff member that takes additional money that we need to be able to say yes you can do that and here's the money to be able to purchase what you need to support those ideas some examples of that that we've seen so far this year was our third one of our third grade classes partnered with our art teacher and our physical education teacher and did a unit around the kids heart challenge where in art we needed extra funds to purchase some extra material so that they could make clay models 3D models of the heart where they then learned about the function of each part of the heart painted it labeled it and then they worked with the PE teacher to learn hands only CPR in conjunction with this last unit so again when those type of things come up and a teacher says I really like to be able to try this new activity or this new unit we are asking for additional funds to be able to support those innovative ideas we are also looking at the ideas in a few of our grade levels next year of what we're call team teaching we went back and forth between co- teing and team teaching co- teing generally is associated with a special education and a general education teacher in our team teaching model that we're proposing for next year it would be two general education teachers and two classes but the ability for the students in both of those classes to go freely between the two rooms and the two teachers and have the experience of working with a larger number of students which really allows U for a lot of different differentiation and instruction because kids can be grouped according to whether it's their interest their passion or their level within the same space of two classrooms and with two teachers but it allows for groupings that would be in hand without having two teachers we are also looking at other ways to differentiate our learning groups Craig mentioned the K through2 literacy program and materials and the third and fourth burden word study materials we've invested a lot of money in our previous budgets and having our teachers trained in a multi-sensory approach to teaching reading we have spent a lot of time professional development and collaborations with our instructional coaches on instructional practices to improve literacy instruction it is time now for us to clean that up and have a consistent program that covers all aspects of literacy K through to so we're talking about phic awareness we're talking about phonics we're talking about reading and we're talking about writing we're our goal is to have consistent language approaches and resources K through2 so that if a student is in one room it's not called a trick word and in the other room it's called a red word in the other room it's called a heart word we're looking for consistency that so that no matter what grade the child is in or which environment they're in they have consistency in language and we feel strongly that this budget will help support identifying that program and in third and fourth grade we're looking to find materials in the similar way to have consistency in word study programs in the third and fourth grade thank you Carri when it comes to Dynamic learning spaces I don't know if everybody's able to see in the bottom leftand corner of that slide that is the proposed drawing for the new C library and that's a space that everybody at C is really excited on I'd say it's like our Flagship space this is going to offer our students not only you can see flexible kind of furniture where we can move meeting areas around there's flexible little stools workspaces computer stations there's a whole steam room there's a sink there's countertops so we can really dive in Project based it's wonderful we're going to have a Promethean board on Wheels which could swivel all around it just really gives our gives c a lot of opportunity to bring different programming into runny space or Library space Also is only going to enhance our tiger days when we're doing that multi-disciplinary approach and we need a larger space you'll also see off to the side we're going to have an official conference room in there where we could hold parent meetings or professional development and we're really excited about that and if you look at the way bottom right hand corner there's actually an entrance to that conference room which you can enter through the main hole of C so anytime we've ever had to enter what's kind of our gray room in there where we do have a conference table we'd have to go through the library interrupt the library to head through but this enabled us to be able to go right from our Welcome Center bring our guests directly into a conference room another place we're really excited about is the Tigers end Rachel mentioned before a guest author our picture in the upper leftand corner that was our evening with our guest offer get author excuse me you can see some of the Innovative seating and mobile seating that we have in our Tiger Den it's great for small group it's great for large group kind of inviting everybody to a centralized space and then of course as part of our facilities project we're very excited about the CT Amphitheater which if you could picture C on our leftand wing which is kindergarten first grade and second grade that space that kind of is an island within those three wings that's going to be our new Amphitheater that's going to give us a space and it's going to have like a little sale on top for shading and I guess for light weather protection but we're going to have stadium seating in there so this will be a great place for once again multi-age groupings school presentations evening presentations hoping maybe to get a sound system in there as well so just a couple areas we're really looking forward to in the next couple of years and now we're going to talk about how this all this budget supports the culture of well-being and the over arching piece to that is the addition of the new school psychologist at C which will help to support our current clinical team that works very very closely together even though each of those clinicians has a defined role based on their title we work very closely together and when we have more support it enables more indepth use of our other clinicians so with the addition of our school psychologist we are looking for a stronger implementation of our little spot curriculum and having Robin woolly be available more frequently for Pushin fcl lessons more availability and visibility at recess time for our students as well as the ability to go in and co- te some of our social emotional learning lessons with our general education teachers and so again the addition of that clinician especially a bilingual clinician will help support all of our families in a higher level than we are able to support them right now it will help with testing of our students when students are in crisis and meeting the needs of our mandated counseling groups thank you Carri our next slide is pursuit of passion and exploration one thing I think for very long time that c has always envisioned and hoped for were some more student clubs in some of our co-curriculars and what we love about this is It's staffed by our very own staff at C but it allows our staff members to sh share their passions and their interests with our students and I'm sure I've said this before a board meeting when a teacher is excited about something and they're excited to share it students are excited to listen they become excited so it really is contagious so we're looking to bring four co-curriculars into C next year one will be a drama and a musical production okay according to the instructor who may be leading that club it's going to be like a mini Broadway mini Broadway where they will be building their own sets building their own kind of backgrounds making their own costumes and of course bringing it all into a drama format we're also going to be asking for a debate Club what we love about this is this really focuses on critical thinking and problem solving building up confidence of students there's also a tie in here to language arts where you have a main idea and you're looking for supporting evidence to support your stance so we love that mindfulness we're always looking for ways for students to be able to connect with other students to feel comfortable and to feel safe at school and also a very cool one I just learned about this recently linear math where you're actually replacing a number with a and it's all kind of concrete and you're able to do addition sentences subtraction sentences equations multiplication and division by looking at a que and a rod with just the color of it and the size and being able to put them together and building 3D models so really a different way to look at math for our students which we've never had at C before and lastly on there we'll see our Team teaching models what I think and I think kry would agree with me what we love about the team teaching discussions that we've had and we did present this just last week when we had our c placement meeting with our PTA meeting what we love about this is this came from our very own teachers it's not as if K I said Hey listen guys you know what we're going to make some changes here when we've been talking about the collaboration when we've been talking about giving students different opportunities and different experiences at schools our teachers really take that to heart so it really excites us when teachers come and say you know what we have an idea can we try this and when we're able to say yes we can try that but what's great about that is not only are teachers excited and looking forward to and motivated but but it's really going to bring an outstanding experience where our students are now going to have two instructors who bring all sorts of not only energy but their own Specialties into a classroom is really going to allow us to increase our differentiation across lessons and anytime you can bring two instructors together where they're collaborating throughout the day collaborating with students and modeling I think it's a win-win Marlene I just want to say if you were looking for adult participants in the drama and music the is ready officeat ex contagious right so our next slide is again the breakdown of the C proposed budget it unless someone has specific questions about that I'll let you kind of absorb us there but I have some notes here if you have specific questions in regard to any of our proposed budget for next year Well my M that just jumps out at the beginning in that first line that thank you the change in that in the curriculum development and supervision what what's driving that so a lot of our training expenses for the last couple of years were around imse and hegerty and that was a huge investment we now have our entire K12 teams AIS and enl trained in that so there's a significant decrease in the money that we're asking for to support that professional development that was a heavy lift for two years we were so grateful to be able to give that but since that training has now taken place we can dial back on me and the new and the the the program materials that you're talking about for k k through 2 and then the word study for here it's included in there yes also the implementation of the vision map so we had planned a lot of travel and professional development around that and so you'll see that across the board in all buildings so the on on the curricul devel development and supervision so that's for the training of that curriculum correct training travel we sent a lot of teachers out to professional development and we did a lot of virtual so all of that now kind of is cril all we're back to almost like if you went back a couple of years I'm sure this budget line looks more similar as it to what it looked like a few years ago there is still some PD money we are always looking to support our teachers in that we have a few of our Educators including Craig and I who do travel to conferences yearly to participate and usually present and so you'll see that still in there and so in terms of curriculum assessment where would that cost show up I know the budget code but I don't know actually it's not really budget question is more of kind of like a process question around it's just coming up because I'm looking at the numbers but the C went through I think all buildings went through a period of curc implementation how do we know that if this is a cc we're doubling down on or you know where where are we examining whether this is the rec for for students so we we what we are looking at closely is aligning our materials now with the training that they've had so we are very we know that the governor is going to be asking us each to do a curriculum review of our Ela programs we currently do not have a solid bla program so we are using that curricul review rubric and as a guideline for choosing the new program so we're looking closely ahead of time at what programs have the least red flags they call them so again we're really basing our decision on the guidelines that the state and the governor governor have put out for what would be a effective and I don't want to say acceptable but for lack of a better word acceptable program so we're looking at very reputable programs the actual proof of whether it was the right program is a couple of years out we are hoping to see a decrease in our AIS numbers we're hoping to see especially in third and fourth grade less children in need of that additional tier 2 or tier three support but because we have not implemented a curriculum to date that question is a little far up we're being very very for lack of a better word picky and full thoughtful we are looking at three programs in depth right now and we've been in contact with our Representatives we have people sending materials we have curriculum teams and our instructional coaches piloting and reviewing all of the materials so that we make the best possible choice that we can just like to add that in addition to that we we continue to board probably remembers that we have a universal screening that all students take corre in the elementary schools do star assessment systems so that covers reading and Mathematics and that's done three times a year and now with the grace and cent of our coaches we're able to really have those coaches just recently take some deep data Dives with classroom teachers to really take a look at the analytics and the data that's derived and really link that back and Target what might need to be strengthened in the delivery quick did that your question yes thank you absolutely no I just have follow up to that in terms of CL ification with respect to the K2 literacy program and the bra three report word study program that's something that's going to be selected this year and implemented it will be selected by the end of this year we hope to have it selected by May 1st we have spent the entire year from the initial superintendent conference day in August looking at programs piloting programs meeting with Representatives testing different things so our goal is to have a program for each chosen by May of this year to then be fully implemented in the 25 26 school year but what's really great with a lot of the pilots that we've done we will have teachers on each grade level that are prepared to support and kind of do some internal professional development and provide supports our literacy coaches whether they teach a grade level specific or not like our two instructional coaches are second grade teachers but they have been very involved in the looking at working with observing lessons in K And1 so that they can also be a support to our teachers even though it's not the specific grade level that they teach so it's it's a whole year of a lot of piloting testing dry runs and using all of that feedback and not only taking feedback from the teachers that are piloting it but then having them kind of share their experiences with their colleagues having our those colleagues be able to look at tangible materials what's really great is a lot of these companies have been amazing about sending samples so that teachers can really look through and pilot implementation so it's really been a fault just a year-long process that will conclude in Spring of this year for implementation next year I have a follow up on that so if you're if you're thinking I mean if you're looking to implement this next year is there is there like a potential budgetary impact to that in terms of either bringing in materials or software resources or how does that work so we've already budgeted for any software resource that's been included in it and what's really good is and I don't want to say we've made a decision on a program but the program that we are leaning heavily toward right now embedded in their software is online on demand training which is phenomenal because a teacher at any point at any juncture like you could say all right I'm moving into the unit on digraphs in second grade and you can go on on that site and you can put in the tutorial or the training for the diagraphs in that unit so it's very specific to each unit of study and each concept so it's amazing that that comes with the program and like I said we have currently have teachers in each grade piloting so they have lived it and they will act as resources to their colleagues as well so I don't again we have some budget for professional development as needed but it will not need to be sending an entire grade level to a training or having somebody in for an entire grade level thank you just want to ask a question about Tiger's Den Tiger's Den Tiger Tiger day we get all tiger Dan which is described here as an Innovative learning space I know when we're talking about Innovative learning spaces and we hear from the middle school and the Indie lab and Innovative learning space and we hear about what will be suggested is going to happen at the high school in the Innovative learning space down hall they have different different setups and different things and I know you mentioned Craig in the library that will have a steam component component with the 3D printer and the other things and sink and kids to work with what I mean is the how is other than the flexible Furniture what is what are the resources that are in and will be in Tigers Dan well I think the greatest resource is actually the physical space because it allows us to bring two or three classes into that room and as we move forward with all with our collaboration it's an area where a first and a third grade class can come down to do a Hands-On project they like with the flexible seating you have seating where it's comfortable for a kindergarten student or seating where it's comfortable for fourth grade student it moves around you can kind of have one class in there for an hour three minutes later Shuffle around the entire room and it's ready for another class we also have good news plenty of storage in the back of it we have a promethian board down there but I wouldn't say it has anything special as far as like maker space or anything out of the ordinary technology but it really gives us that flexible space where any teacher class can sign up for and once again it could be used for team teaching could be used for science could be used for social studies it could be used for our teachers when they do have professional development or for coaches to go in there during a lunchtime to kind of TurnKey something to a grade level okay so it's slightly different than the high school because High School actually it has different as the plans are to have different ways to section off parts of the room Etc that's not the space but it's how it will be used within the open space large space will be used and even just the furniture that we selected in in that room is conducive to a variety of different configurations and collaboration so we actually have two that they look like McDonald's booths with the seats and we've gone in there and we see kids like kneeling up on it leaning over but then they could be working on something that's entirely different from the group that's over on the couch or the group that's in the center horseshoe thing with their attention on the Promethean board so it really just lends itself to comfort accessibility to other students you know when you're in a typical classroom and you're around a rectangle table I'm thrilled we don't have desk that we have to configure out but in a classroom kids are you can only fit so many kids around that little rectangle table whereas when you go down into the Tiger's Den you can pull the low seating over you can pull a cushion over you can be sitting and doing and it and we've even we didn't even plan this but somehow they ended up down there and they're working at great we have of gin mats on the floor in the corner of it and so kids will go and huddle over there and work and so it's really more about the environment that they're working in than it is about the resources those resources that you're referring to like the Indie lab and what the high school that's more centered in our library because it's part of our library curriculum so I mean what you're describing seems somewhat similar to what happens in the Middle School in that area where the seating has come in where it's just a place for kids when they are working you know however they are comfortable working in groups and coming out of classrooms I mean it's different but it's we were very cognizant to make sure when we selected the furniture in there that there was enough seating for at least two classes Plus so again it's the only place in the building that would be conducive to bringing that many groups together and still have all the children have access to whatever it is they're working and it's very conducive to team teaching where if you have two teachers or three teachers come together they could give their lesson and then it's very easy to break those students up into smaller groups to differentiate and they can grab a pad grab a chair grab a stool and go in and then continue and as a matter of fact it's so Innovative it's now our Li so one other question real quickly you had talked about one of the goals for next year is to improve the multi-purpose room sound system the thing about that room it serves multi multiple purposes but it's also a very large box which as we know has a very sound Echoes sound bounces off the walls sound system is not conducive to dealing with that in terms of the cost and where that funds will come from do you have any idea Denise do you have any idea where you may be looking to pay for that so we we put it into we're splitting we can both talk to so I met with Ellen moitz before we made then it's coming partially where we got an estimate for how much it would be to upgrade that system and I have placed into my budget for half and Ellen is funding the other half with her budget Co sponsored initiative Neil if I remember I think that original system is out of the 50s Mar might have a little bit more information and if you've been to some CT events it goes out at the most opportunity I have experienced it I'm I'm wondering is there anything in the budget related to that around just acoustic environment improvements in that space one of the things that makes it a difficult space is that it is so live so much hard center block and glass and the hard floors some acoustic baffling might make a significant difference in the effectiveness of our audio equipment that our new audio that we' put in there we we we agree but it was not something that was attainable in this year's budget to add that in addition to operating the sound system right but from a capital project perspective we are giving that whole Space face facelift and if there is money available the capital budget thinking just some simple Sonics padding on the walls would make a huge difference yeah who was a member of the community who a number of years ago donated some sound bath I think well I don't know came out of some studio that was being renovated no it came out of some studio that was being closed and so he donated the school district but I know that was just whatever he had but it wasn't really comprehensive yeah that's very different from what you're thinking about from actually hiring an acoustician to come in and and do appropriate treatment of the space and just I'm just thinking that it might be actually more cost effective to do Acoustics and audio equipment at the same time because the nature of the audio equipment may change depending upon the Acoustics of the room so this is not a new sound system it is an upgrade to the assisting right I I just want to be clear that we're not investing in a full new sound system it's just up understand I it as you also discussed having the outdoor air be add as to one of those spaces where you could actually do that did I hear you Craig say that you were thinking of doing at some point in the future did I hear foreshadowing as we would would love to we'll leave it there for outdoor audio is even harder go back to the budget can you just briefly kind of go through a rundown of the the major variances that that ready what do you mean by that before Carrie jumps in if I could just share so these budgets are done based on function codes so unlike Rachel's which is one function she's 2250 so it's broken down a little bit differently it's BR went down by salary supposes Etc the building level budgets I'm very sorry the building level budgets have multiple functions they'll have curriculum development they'll have 2110 which most people know which is instruction they'll have guidance psychology Etc So within each of those functions are the entire budget so it's salaries it's other contractual Services it's substitutes it's tutoring it's supplies of materials So within each of those so where you'll see teaching that's basically the 2110 code so that includes bosies and a number of other things the other thing which you'll see throughout all the budget presentations there are variances within salary so when we are projecting budgetarily we may say okay we need a guidance counselor I say okay we need guidance counselor then as we go through the budget process maybe and start interviewing it's like well we really need a clinician we need a psychologist or a therapist so initially again the budget is finalized in April right so there'll be some shifting where it was originally put in guidance and then in May or September we moved it to psychologist because it was a clinician the other thing that I did want to point out is also last year when this budget was approved we had an unsettled contract with the CTA which is our largest our largest bargaining unit so there was some contingency for salaries for Lane changes for tutoring and other contingencies so now that we have a year to really reflect look at where things like we've shrunken that contingency considerably so you're going to see some tight lines and and also you'll see some shifts so like I think Carri I can't really say I think we had originally had the bilingual school counselor budgeted in guidance and I I put the the notes for you there's some shifting of people yes so you'll see those says reclassified coding psychologist and Bilingual School counsel originally budgeted guidance now they're moved to pych right got notes so Omar when you ask that question it's hard for me to answer because to Denise's point when I work on the budget I'm looking at like these are broken down into like seven categories when I look at it I'm looking at about 40 categories and so it's hard for me to answer your direct question about when I put I needed this for this where that shows up in this if that makes sense and I don't mean to be vague but like I said I'm used to looking at multiple multiple budget lines for specific things not categories splitting them too they're doing like 40% yes yes so there so that's a variation of like a part-time FTE for yeah that was added and then L and the other thing is each of these components remember includes the same thing salaries supplies materials bosies other contractual services so it's really Consolidated so some of the increases are offset by some of that contingency from CTA being removed many yes which is yes yeah okay that's help Contex thank you any other questions about that current and we just have one more final thiry pie chart which breaks it down as well and then just our our final looking forward these are things that we aspire to look further into and would love to see as part of our vision in the future so we talked about our team teaching models that we're very interested in implementing for the 25 26 school year but looking ahead we would like to research the potential for a multi-age classroom for example a 34 mixed classro or a two three mixed classroom so that's something that we will be researching and looking for some models to see how that can look and how that would fit into our C culture and clment we would like to invest some money into our ICT classroom and enl classroom redesigns the reason that that's highlighted as a potential moving forward is because as our population at C is growing our ICT special education teachers who once had their own Standalone room are now losing those spaces so they will be working full-time in the classroom with the general education teacher and we'd really like to create learning spaces where it is conducive to that team teaming separate areas where there might be two Promethean boards so that classes can be broken up for instructional grouping where there's more flexible seating and movement so we would like to focus on that to meet the needs of our ICT teams and once we have our curriculum programs in place we would like to then look at reviewing our report cards and assessments to align with those instructional practices and philosophies so that we're giving very specific and feedback to families and students that is aligned with our instructional practices so that's us looking ahead any other questions thank you s very happy thank you for your questions one quick question in terms of the ICT classroom design excuse me for the sake of the public we got we have to watch these acronym well integrated coing thank you sorry integrated co- teing class and you would said I know that we still have the necessity to provide some individualized teaching by the special Aid teachers that they would that they do in their own spaces yeah so the way around that so for example right now our ICT special education teacher in kindergarten and our ICT special education teacher in first grade they have one room that they share and their schedules align so that one can be like Miss Walters can be in there with a group and at another point of the day Miss Valentino is in that group so instead of having their own separate classrooms they share that space currently our second grade ICT teacher shares the space outside of Lisa Fri room next year we will be asking our third and fourth grade ICT teachers to share one space and again their schedules a line that they won't both be in there at the same time so they will still have that space that they need for resource course room and pull out but the majority of their time as an integrated co- teer will be in the one classroom so we want to make those rooms conducive to that space so one other question I know the board in previous years and I just thought of this has always gone through an analysis or has heard about class size and sections at CDT and I know we had it a second grade section this year because of class size needs I'm presuming this it's not in here that there has been an analysis of class sizes in each of the grades incoming K which we don't know but then one two three and four and that we are not looking at an issue of either too small capacity usually presented another no I can tell you just I can let you know that this moment we are not 100% sure whether we will have five or six sections of kindergarten we currently have six but our in Rolland projections are lower so there's a high probability that we would go to Five sections of kindergarten our current kindergarten going into first will go from six sections to five which we are very comfortable with those numbers in first grade second grade will remain at six sections the current six sections of second grade will move to third grade and that's why we're adding a section of third grade and our current third grade is supported by five sections of fourth grade so we will have four five or six of K likely five five sections of first six sections of second six sections of third and five sessions of fourth so if I follow that that means that either there will be one fewer classroom teachers needed or the same number of classroom teachers because of re we are completely covered and not losing any FTE right but if you determine that we need six sections of kindergarten then we would be a higher and I believe that's contingent in the budget we we've planned for that as a contingency okay thank you so before we jump into looking ahead at our proposed budget we want to just take a minute to highlight some of the past budget items that have kind of come to fruition this year so at PDC we are super excited to be finalizing our instructional coaches and have really been working all year to bring algebra for all to our eighth graders in September and excuse us for being late that's where we were talking to our seventh grade families about some of those transitions along those same curriculum related lines we are confident in our Transitions and new approaches to science at the middle level and the amplification of the social studies in ela becoming a Humanities interdisciplinary offering in both seventh and eighth grade next year our staff has really embraced the creation of elective courts offerings and as we move forward into next year's budget you'll notice we intend to really maintain and highlight The crucial aspects of what make an effective Middle School things like teaming social emotional learning academic supports enrichment and of course student agency and flexible learning spaces that being said if you just go back there what I'm really happy to speak about tonight almost in a celebratory manner is that three years ago we came before this board when the vision map was still in the fledgling stages and we said what we wanted to do in that Vision map we made a promise to this community that that is where we were going to be and tonight we we're saying that we kept to our word that there was Fidelity in what we said and so there's no Bombshells in this budget presentation of new stuff to the fact of oh where' that come from it's it's very easily connected to the vision map and so as we go through this we'll show you in each of these areas how that relates and again I'm very happy to say that if people were following what Steve Walker wrote what I write the budget meetings the curriculum meetings when we come to these work sessions they would say that these people are staying true their word and the budget process enables them to do that and that's what I want us to think about tonight as we go through this and not just for my building but for all the building so first off we have reimagining learning obviously last year we came and we talked about modifications to our schedule the zero period to promote passion-based learning obviously we want to keep that and we're going to continue to make modifications to scheduling tweaking things with the feedback of our teachers and other instructional staff the big piece here on this slide is the instru the fruition of the instructional coaching and the first thing that I really have to say about that is thanking because unlike the other two buildings we're the last ones to implement this and I say thank you because you gave us the time to build up our support networks and our AIS apparatus at the school so we can do this and continue to support our students if you recall three four years ago PBC had sparse academic support staff and today we feel we're in a much better place and we can throw ourselves into these other areas because we've take care taken care of the foundational aspects of learning for our instructional coaching staff we will have two instructional coaches next year that will work on the elementary level and due to that we will hire another FTE in the elementary area to support that we've been meeting with the coaches or proposed coaches and talking about how great it is to be the last on the train because we get to learn from our colleagues and also develop our own kind of flare in this area so I'm sure that in the years that follow in the next year we will have more and more to say and to report back about the instructional coaching aspect we also look forward to those coaches and our other colleagues to interact with the people at the high school and the Elementary in this endeavor we also will continue to promote co- teing in the middle school last year we came before you and we talked about co- teing our opportunities and we will continue to promote those whether it be health and fitness in the interdisciplinary setting of humanities in the seventh and eth grade that will give those teachers more opportunities to help kids make these connections as they did in the fifth and sixth grade we are on the precipice of redesigning completely science to focus on phenomenon based science approach we're very proud of it and we're in a really good spot like tomorrow we can launch algebra football our Math teachers have worked diligently and this budget will support the resources that they need and the materials they need to make sure that happens and what more that our students will have the support that they need to prepare them for that class and also to ensure that their safety nets which we spoke about in previous meetings we also want to talk about to use one of Craig's words piggy back off of what Rachel said that's word back all right that again always looking at how we restructure AI how we structure AIS how we use our interventionist at the middle school as well as how we support our enl students obviously if you've come to the middle school you'll see that there's Flex ible Dynamic learning spaces all over the place you're walking down the hallway you're like why is that all green because the fifth grade has made it a green screen that's why but that's just one of many examples obviously with our student support Suite coming online we want to be very cognizant of the fact that other areas like the flexible the flexible flexible support area as well as the teacher workroom is all going to come online by next year and support that as well we've been working with Ellen we're a year ahead of schedule in the implementation of a single device at the middle school where we had Chromebooks and iPads by Next Year everyone will have the iPads a much more stable durable and student friendly apparatus thank goodness dur durable and last but not least we also have Outdoor Learning spaces that will be coming online hopefully over the summer with our new field and our new Outdoor Learning space so now the P pursuit of passions Nicole already mentioned that since day one of this year we have spent a lot of time focusing on the development of elective classes and in collaboration with the elementary school and the high school we're really looking forward to launching those next year obviously these will require certain resources excursions and special items we know that this budget supports that and we reassure our colleagues our teachers that we will have the finances to support this passion based learning obviously we will continue the passion Pursuit and the passants 28th and 29th and that's what we'll do our co-curricular code clubs also continue to help middle schoolers at this pivotal age pursue and learn about what their interest are we have TW over 20 clubs and co-curricular activities don't forget one of those activities has a wonderful show this weekend at hendri Hudson High School you're all welcome to attend and it's a great show it's going to be Peter Pan Jr and why I identify because you can ask my wife I haven't grown up we're always very cognizant of how we group our students in the class size and we want to promote the best combinations of students to create the best learning environment possible we're going to move on to the next slide so we're talking about oh culture of well culture of wellbeing right we're very excited about our mixed grade advisories that have been going really well this year and they really allow us to dive into oural curriculum practice mindfulness and and restorative practices a highlight of those restorative practices are connection circles that have been woven into the fabric of PVC not only by staff but by students alike so that's exciting as Michael mentioned enhancing our flexible support program and our room so we're very much looking forward to that new space it's currently under construction and working very framed out right now which is kind of cool so all of these things are helping us make strides in our climate which we are very aware of and and centering inclusivity at PBC continuing to offer those inter murals and curriculars like Michael mentioned we know are a valuable part of our middle school and really the effective back bone of of an effective middle school but we want to continue to do that we are also housing our Child Nutrition program and so we're partnering with Aramark in a variety of different ways to ensure that our kiddos are all really well cared for and well fed of course and lastly community events so some our Internet safety with the Westchester County DA's office and our kind Works Community night are just a few examples of ways that we're trying to connect with our families and continue to educate the whole child specifically during their adolesence in grades five the reading and support their families to that's very important and just to drive the point home our vision for a middle school within the vision of the vision how many times you say Vision all right is we don't ever want people to forget that the budgetary foundation is aligned with the vision map that basically we're looking to use our budget responsibly and be good stewards in order to promote Innovative teaching and an enhanced feeling of belonging to encourage our students and our staffs staff to pursue their passion and to allow the vision to continually evolve and last but not least to create an environment that feels good that is good that makes people feel welcome and to know that we're never done with that aspect of our work and looking forward we have this slide which seem to create so much questions I'm just going to keep going but as you'll see with this slide Neil put your hand down very similar to CS with the same thing and and I think what it really illustrates the overview here is that when you see the minuses and you see the areas that have increased slightly but you see the overall change it's a very responsible rendition of what a school budget should be it's saying what's important what can we scale back what can we bring to the Forefront to meet the needs of our students of our staff and our community and here in the next slide you see the salaries and other breakdown and Denise did a really nice job of explaining all this and really at this time the only pie I'm interested is in key [Music] line last but not least obviously our future goals are the ones that we talked about 3 years ago but we're in a much different place you know when you climb up a mountain the purpose of being on top of the Summit is not just to say you got to the summit it's to say that you see other Summits that you're also interested in summiting and that is where we are and we also think that like a posted stamp you got to stick to something until you get there so moving forward we want to obviously Implement and enhance algebra for all we want to continue this evolution of learning spaces we want to support and grow we know it's not a one-year deal especially with our seventh and eighth graders in terms of the inary courses and the Thematic work that they'll be doing together that's important and next year we want to focus a lot on aligning more and more our assessments with the vision map and with 21st century skills we've done a lot lot of work on that in terms of behaviors that promote learning the changes to our report card but we're not done yet and then of course we want to support and integrate our instructional coaches and while we are going to stand on the shoulders of the other two buildings we also want this to be a uniquely PVC thing that we can look back and claim our own victories and successes and last but not least I just want to point out that we want to continue our relationship with the community we've run so many community events learning walks senior proms that we think that is one of the highlights of working at the middle school is that people in our community know what's going on there they feel welcome to come into the building and to take part of this great growth and it's not just a feather in the cap of the middle school but I would say our whole District so thank you for your time and Josh I really like that jacket I don't question I want to ask questions about algebra for all because I'll be hearing about that tonight when I get home the person who went will fill me in but I wanted to I wanted to I saw him good I hope you had a good he was there good so in terms of just just to sort of understand because the the idea of having the opportunity to take elective classes in middle school is pretty cool I just I you probably talked about this before and forgive me because it's late maybe I'm not remembering but but what is what is sort of like the programmatic thinking behind that in terms of like how is that is that like the intercession thing that we had talked about okay that's what I wanted to confirm so it's so it is something if you could just explain like how it touches all of seventh and eth grade rather than me trying to articulate it myself from want I remember the intercessions well the elect like how the electives sort of fit into the schedule for them because they're they're they're not selecting courses across the board for the whole school year but you're offering in a unique way what we're talking about with our colleagues is the perfect time of year to initiate this we also would like to obviously in years that follow be able to offer CES across buildings right but basically what we envision is a cost catalog where we say to this students sometime in the late fall hear the offerings and for them to be able to choose a class or two because some of the classes would run the whole day the experience some of them half the day and then it would have other implications which would be mixed grade lunches and so forth and again right now I think we're up to 22 different classes that have been designed learning experiences from crocheting to outdoor survival skills and everything in between financial literacy and so forth so again I think we'll have to do some unpacking with students in small groups grade level groups to help them understand what is available and then we're going to have a choice menu where obviously you know if there's a rush on one class we'll have to say you need two choices or something like that but what we where we see this going also is imagine if high school students one day can offer some of these classes and imagine a time where middle school kids might be able to design their own classes or learning experiences for kids with proper adult supervision does that answer your question spot it sure does but I have one more please so just looking actually at the at the actual budget slide the can you speak to a little bit the change in your co-curricular budget yeah so we had some clubs that really weren't well attended over the last three years so in order to dedicate our finances other places including co-curricular areas we got rid of those okay great so to follow up just so I understand because I don't have any school student in my house anymore the what we're talking about for this inter this cing learning courses is say is an intercession which would be a period of time let's say a week that we would move away from the traditional yeah we put that all on hold for a week and then students would have the choice of and go to one or another of these interdisciplinary classes so last time I spoke with my colleagues we talked about three success consecutive days do that so the only other thing I would say it's not really a question one of your future goals and I Know It Keys into some of these other areas is strengthening assessments to line align with the vision act and 21st Century Learning which is not on the slide but you said it and I would just ask that since with all the things that the district is doing each of the schools to kind of upset the apple C or throw things out and try new things we do want to make sure that we are that students are at each level are getting the the foundations that they need and the public is going to ask that question and I'm just hoping and I'm expecting that from next year we will hear some of those things from each of our building administrators as to how the assessments connected with all of the great things that you're doing can show that we are students are gaining those skills it's not a question it's just it's a great statement Neil because I think that when we use the word assessment we're talking about a broad array of things not just a traditional assessment or summative assessment but we're also talking about the use of formative assessments metacognitive activities to help kids understand where they are in the learning process to set goals and so forth but I also think that if you have interdisciplinary classes between Ela and social studies that we call the humanities that the social studies test that you used in 1979 might not be applicable anymore right in in it in its form and again I don't see a day where we get rid of all traditional tests I want our kids to be good at traditional tests and every other type of assessment that there is but most important is the assessment that is intricately connected to learning where the kid understands or the children understand that they did learn something they did accomplish something and it didn't come at the end of a learning episode that just a number but it also was accompanied by a feeling and a gaining confidence and also an articulation of that student of this is what I was able to do and this is how I grew and I think that is going to serve our kids in the latter half of the century more than scantrons well that thank you I'm passing this along because I don't even get any other idea thank you very much bring it on home so this time last year we shared this same visual with you and so we're using it as a reminder of where we've been where we're now and where we're headed so you can think of it please as a delivery on a promise as well as a continued commitment for the future each year is a chapter in a book that tells one story it's not about how school can be different each year but rather about how each year we can put pieces into place that enable us to implement this one Collective Vision so tonight we will continue to show you that our budget is not just numbers on a spread sheet but rather a Strategic investment in one long-term Vision that continues to take shape year after year so as Erica said our vision map Journey has involved strategically planning for each budget cycle over a series of focused on 26 27 is sort of our guide post for being at full p to realize the budget the vision map prior to this year our work was all around setting the stage for professional growth and learning through things like building our instructional coaching program and the curricular work on our first interdisciplinary courses as well as some additional Staffing in math and science and that's all through our budgets of the P so we have all that in place 24 the 2425 school year is our year of implementing our interdisciplinary courses having a wellestablished coaching program it's hard to believe work in year three with that already we added our dual enrollment courses and we had year one of academic concentrations currently happening we have also fortified our staffing with a social studies position this year so that's where we're at now next year for the 2526 school year we are proposing the addition of an English teacher as well as a school counselor physician and that will finally round out our staffing plan to make the dreams of the vision that a reality in addition we are planning we're asking to shift the students position to an assistant principal position recognizing the importance of internal growth opportunities and the kind of instructional leadership that is needed to grow and sustain the kind of work we're doing at the high school we'll also be implementing our new high school schedule next year adding even more interdisplinary Court courses implementing yearlong grading as part of our work on grading and assessment and utilizing the exciting new spaces including our Innovative Learning Center that will fingers crossed be completed this summer and working towards our alignment with the New York inspirers plan so that's through 2526 and then in 2627 you can see a preview of that will be sort of the Year where the high school stops asking for things famous last word that when we finally get that point that will be a year about curricular revision and development where we'll be imp implementing our revamp Math and Science sequences focusing on growing the experience that we're able to offer students and staff in our new schedule and we anticipate that we will be beginning the development of new Assessments in the part of New York inspires as well so here I just want to highlight our interdisciplinary courses because that's such an important part of what our budget represents and how by bringing our three-year Staffing plan to fruition we can grow even more coures and maintain our current one we've learned that sort of the timeline from the conception of an idea to building curriculum for these courses is about 18 months so it was really necessary to have this long-term Staffing plan that allowed us to make some pretty rapid progress on this work I often forget just how much has been done in such a short period of time and by some pretty hardworking teachers but this list represents the collective work of over 20 teachers and an impact by next year on almost 300 discreet students who will be taken to all of these courses so these 300 students out of our approximately 500 students are having a part of their day spent in interdisciplinary classes for poor credit and that's something that we're all really proud of as DHS and appreciative that we have the budget to do this for our staff and students and just wanted to briefly share a bit of some some Snippets of research and programming from higher education to highlight this work on interdisciplinary courses as something sort of much bigger than chhf so there's long-standing academic research around the value of interdisciplinary education and particularly the impact on student outcomes so you can see a few quotes in the research here and I'll share some more of these in depth with you in the upcoming weekly if you'd like to read some of them and you can see some screenshots up here too from two top tier institutions Duke University and Stanford University who are among the many highly respected higher education institutions who have interdisciplinary studies and programs as an integral part of their programming and if you look across the board at almost any higher education Institution this is a part of the fabric of what they do so we often talk about it this exciting thing that we're doing at chhs but it's part of the the broader landscape of what our students are going to be experiencing in higher ed to so we've talked previously about our change in the master schedule and our budget supports that and our master schedule is intended to support work for doing the budget so it's intertwined in that so this takes this schedule is being implemented next year going into effect with a couple of key things in there that were including extracurricular time during the school day and consolidating lunch into a single period which is sort of facilitated by the intense construction that's going on in the building right now to build a much larger cafeteria and sending us out into the road regularly for fire and drills that plant but we're looking forward to the to the next year and trying all of this out we're also going to be introducing a once to twice a month tiger Tuesday that Erica is going to tell you about next as Mark explained one Innovative feature of our new master schedule is the introduction of tiger Tuesdays which is dedicated time intended to enhance academic engagement passion based learning and experiential opportunities for our students there will be about 12 to 15 days per school year that follow this special schedule so on a monthly basis students will be assigned to or be able to choose in some cases two or three sessions after their lunch these modules of time can include opportunities for academic enrichment such as seminar time for classes extended science labs AIS test center time musical Ensemble practice is in academic concentration and seal of by literacy meetings and work sessions special programs including guest speakers and field trips for all planed and please note that student faculty Congress in chap which were previously held during other days in our cycle have now will now meet on tiger Tuesdays so since all of these sessions are prescheduled and integrated into Infinite Campus students will always know their assigned locations and activities which should help to ensure a smooth process and as Mark mentioned you'll also notice that every day now includes a community lunch that an enhancement which is made possible by our expanded cafeteria as you heard recently when we presented about the school climate survey we talked about how having lunch with a friend was one of the most highly rated factors that impacted students feelings of belonging at phhs so to capitalize on this opportunity to create an even stronger sense of community Comm we plan to include a co-curricular lunch and tiger Tuesday coordinator who will organize both lunchtime activities and tiger Tuesday events which could include recreational activities as well as guest speakers and assemblies so both of these enhancements tiger Tuesdays in community lunch reflect our ongoing commitment to student centered learning and to our strong schol culture so if you look at the numbers on this next slide you see how college application Trends which are very very much in line here at high at Bren high school with the region but you see how those how you know that has been impacting work that's going on in the school counseling office and that goes and good what part of the ways to explaining the need for additional support in the counseling office we're building personalized support for students as we do this looking to increase mental health support and as well as support during transitions in ke years for students we're targeting an increase for the nth and tth gr graders in individualization that is one of the areas that through our districtwide committee we know as part of our evaluative process that's it's one of the weaker parts of our plan and that's directly related to to the amount of cant support that you have you know what is a case load directly impacts what you can do for your younger high schoolers and increasing support for the for our enl population and trying to build better connections with regional representatives from universities and colleges so all those are goals as part of this one of the other things we're looking at in the counseling department right now is a program it's a platform called DEA and we're working to try to implement that actually starting this year with our Juniors and it's a it's a platform that seeks to fill the the gap between High School counseling colleges and universities and the and the what students already get from the navian platform so specifically what it does is help students build a list of colleges narrow down that list and manage all the applications deadlines that come from having a list of 10 colleges that you're applying to that that's a real Gap in what navian provides our students so something new this year it's a it's a new platform that we have not found a here for it's filling a gap that we know exists so we're going to give it a shot and here is our breakdown slide I won't go through all of it unless are specific questions but some of the changes you'll see obviously are in guidance services with the addition of a counselor and then some changes sort of in movement of where the social work where the social worker salary comes from and obviously a like change in supervision to account for the additional admin the change in administrative position and removing that from the teaching position then finally just going back to future plans so next year is all about bringing our new classes programs and schedule to fruition with our staffing plan being complete and then beyond that there's so much we need to maintain such as our continued investment and coaching now the k12 and a continued investment in our Active Learning spaces this is work that needs to be carried through each year even if it's no longer something new but it's really becoming an integral part of our school so we have to keep making sure that that's featured in our budget we also know that our future pland include doing quite a bit of in-depth curricular work and revision particularly with our math and science sequences much of which is already begun but it's going to be a long labor intensive process and while we put so much work into our intradisciplinary courses part of our future planning is that we don't want our interdisciplinary courses to be courses that we keep just because we've always had we want to be able to have people propose new ones to rotate courses in and out out we don't want it to turn into another thing that we just stay the same for decades like so much of what education already has and we also anticipate that there will be a great deal of work in the very near future on transcripts in conjunction with New York inspires that will allow our students to show the depth of their learning as they look towards post-secondary options so it's been an incredibly busy and fulfilling few years at the high school and we're so appreciative of the support we get through the budget that allows this to all happen question first question so I noticed that the there's a continued upward Trend in the number of college applications per student and I I'm not sure whether this is actually a question that anyone in the room can answer but the the the question is fundamentally is that a good thing or I mean is there any hope that this new platform might help students to better focus their applications on schools where a that that are actually a good fit and B that are where they are likely to be successful in their efforts and therefore not have wasted a lot of time writing writing essays that they don't need to write like that the platform definitely has the has the possibility of improving sort of the whole process for students right and I think a lot of it has to do with sort of managing if you think about you know what what a student has to do in managing 10 different applications it's a lot a lot of that is just research right like what what is each of these 10 schools require as part of their application process and building that list in timeline of what has to be done so if there's an efficiency process there and you can align your essays and try to get try to write essays that will maybe meet requirements for multiple places right that's the type of thing that can that we can benefit from as to why why this is happening one of the biggest factors is that more and more colleges in fact there was just an email sent sent by our counseling department in the last 24 hours to all of our students about being weight listed colleges are weight listing more students than ever and that is you know that's influencing future groups of students as they develop their list of colleges to apply to right if you get weight weight list if you're going to get weight listed from A majority of where you apply you might want to increase the number of schools you're applying to so that you you you have a better shot at an acceptance a full Acceptance in there so the email that just went out today was about how to strategize for your weight lists and what steps should you do when you areed so this is but this is the world out there that our students are living and the landscape is changing so yeah numbers are going up it's not just here at Bron High School everywhere in the US numbers of applications are up I I also note that the the shocking number of early decision early action yes applications that is is largely related to free admission right applications which are all early through the skills right interesting and this isn't really a question specifically for the high school but rather a a general question that applies to both PVC and the high school because I wondered if we could get a list of the significant changes to the co-curricular activities I vaguely remember having a discussion about this at some point over the past few months where there was a list but I don't think it was final at the time so I I'd be curious to see that I think that would be I may maybe partially out of curiosity and partially to see like how are the interests of our students changing think could be interesting to see and presumably now I know that a lot of the stip ends in fact I think all the stipends for co-curriculars are dictated by are dictated in the CTA contract and so that prob that has a significant implication presumably the Teachers Association has some thoughts about it which I won't willine on had another question but don't remember what it is right now so will yield can you explain just on the budget chart what the reduction in Social Work Services refers to specifically student assist so we were working with Student Assistance Services to for some subst sort of like a substance abuse New York State grid funded program so over the last three years we've had so much interruption in service in terms of Staffing from that organization Okay so we've decided not to continue with that makes sense thank you that's the second straight year we've taken funds from SAS and shifted to hiring our own team members obviously has several advantages in doing that in terms Hiring Our Own people retaining them improving their quality and evaluating them ourselves yeah I think that's great I just it just was a big Delta so I was trying to understand that so I have a couple of questions the first is that on your future PL last bullet talks about expansion of dual enrollment opportunities coed with AP courses just want to get an understanding for of how the opportunities for students to obtain college credit either through AP or through the other programs that we have had had will be affected positively or negatively by the changes that we're I'm talking about in terms of in disciplinary courses and the other work that's that's being done that's a good question so there's not really U we're actually continuing to add more dual enrollment coures so all of our dual most of our dual enrollment courses with one exception are all proceeded with at courses so students have the opportunity to attain college credit and two Pathways and for most of our students they Avail themselves in both Pathways because you may as well particularly for our Juniors that are taking them that don't know to college yet sometimes for a seniors where they have a sense of where they're going they can make a better choice about which which path that they going but the goal is to have dual enrollment opportunities alongside AP opportuni so that students can do both so our interdisciplinary classes don't yet have dual enrollment associated with them because there has to be an equivalent College course that then we would have to apply for and signed so we haven't found as many of those yet but we haven't reduced and do not plan to ever reduce any of our DU enroll AP courses so the interdisciplinary are all in addition to our current for okay so so the student who desires to basically look at things what I will call maybe more traditionally as a College Bound student trying to get AP credit and or dual enrollment credit will have those opportunities they not being taken away actually the most of our students who are kind of on that more traditional I guess pathway they often take an interdisciplinary report in addition to their standard so now have a question that goes to another part of what our responsibility we've done talked a lot about in disciplinary fores in the district talked about I just asked about dual enrollment AP but there's a certain segment of our high school population who are not really looking at that track and we know that with the blue ribbon commission and the the heightened emphasis that we will hear on Career and Technical education which may lead to college or may not with Bose's providing programs you speak to how I mean I know well I know that adding a counselor will allow the C School counseling department to be better able to meet the needs of those students because it just be more counselors to help know what's going on but can you talk a bit about how we will in the future be serving that segment of our high school so I think we're still still a little foggy from their conspirers on exactly what they're looking for in terms of that CTE requirement we've heard a lot of different things about that down to even allowing you to count what you do in in the Middle School in terms of CTE to count towards high school so that part's probably the least clear in the New York inspirers plan obviously there plan to support our students fing to the CTE programs and bothies and we get more and more applications for that every year so it's becoming increasingly popular option so I think that the answer is we're not sure yet what that is willing to look like from the New York inspired St and I think two important points too is thinking about our interdisciplinary classes it was important to us to make that available to all students so we do have the American history through literature which is a special class that is taught by two teachers in addition the concentration program some of those classes on all of it says if you are in a particular program at Bose of botch program that fits in with one of those concentrations those count towards your academic concentration as well so I think we are thinking about our entire population as we're coming up with all of these Innovative programs to make sure it's available to everyone in some form okay I just want to I asked that question here as been wearing the other hat you know that bosis is talking about the need to expand capacity at bosis for Career and Technical education and we know that you probably heard that we'll probably be talking maybe about that when we go to our regional session this next month in May and so it's it's just I don't want to forget that a year a hard year I just have one quick question with respect to assessments and to your point Mr Max regarding all the weight listed students right so key to some of their continued process while they're in limbo is that they have to report or it's help sometimes for them to report their their senior grades midy year can you just speak to how the year-long rating how would that impact them I mean well it's so wouldn't impact their ability to report right we can produce reports at any point for for colleges and we do and will right you know that's the plan and and we have students in and our we have some pilot classes going this year we have seniors in those classes that have year-long grade books and we did their midye reporting and it's really having a year-long grade book doesn't stop you from knowing where you stand in any class at any moment right and therefore we can report them right it's it's just a little bit different of a concept in terms of kind of how the grade is calculated through S yeah yeah I just want to say I think this this presentation really reflects some of the concerns that we've heard as a board regarding the changes that are happening at the high school so I I mean well done this is just really informative I think and hopefully our community finds it informative as well I would add that I think at each of the schools what we're doing and how each of the schools are going to tie that in and we're asking I ask to tie that in to ensuring that our students are to the greatest extent possible achieving core competencies while as Mr plin said having a joyful and I will say unique educational experience that will serve them in in higher grades and then outside of after leave our system is what we I I appreciate and I certainly want to hear more about I also wanted to add just something I think for me today just to be able to hear to be able to to look at the budget for the for the upcoming year with the context of the last three years was really like that was really very very helpful because I think we have gotten now like a real view to what those like what those changes in expenditures resulted in completely on a year-by-year basis and I think to your point like I mean this is something that this group has talked about the administrative team has talked about that goals and and planning and budgeting should not be on a year-by-year basis but a multi-year basis but what I liked about this conversation a lot was not just the multi-year ahead but also sort of like that multi-year look back because I think at least for me I feel like it was very helpful context and and I would say yes I think congratulations on promises made and Promises Kept so thank you for that you didn't like to post a stamp analogy comment because I didn't know where you were going with know I just want to say as somebody who grew up on 80s t right there was time when I watch The A Team a lot feels like it's an appropriate thing to say tonight's Point several points we've been talking about these things in the vision for several years and what you see tonight is evidence of in several ways kind of a culmination of some initial work there and some planning that's happened for the past three years and then a glimpse into what we see is next and I would just say to the people watching in to the people who look at these slides take these slides and compare them to almost any other school district's budget presentation from their leadership team and tell me how much compability there is right the level of innovation and creativity that is happening in this district is continues to just be stunning to me and it's in certainly no small part because of the the eight people you heard from tonight so outstanding Jo outstanding thank you thank you thank good night thank you we're just gonna wait the next okay the next agenda we'll next thanks everyone point1 the memorandum of agreement of United recommended action whereas negotiations have been ongoing between the bargaining team for the the proing Union School District and the bargaining team for the AIDS of Cl United n y s u t a f t Nea for a successor to the 2021 through 2024 agreement between the parties and and whereas those negotiations have resulted in a tenative agreement contained in a memorandum of agreement stting March 20th 2025 which has been ratified by the membership of the unit and whereas the Board of Education of the cro and Harmon Union Free School District has reviewed the terms of the memorandum of agreement and finds that a settlement consistent with the terms contained therein is in the best interest of the district now therefore be it resolved the Board of Education of the Clon Harmon Union Free School District hereby approves and ratifies the terms of the afores said memorandum of agreement and hereby authorizes the superintendent of schools and the board president to execute a collective bargaining agreement consistent with the terms thereof so moved sir on the question all in favor opposed abstain motion carries I want to thank both negotiating teams and everyone involved in this process thanks moving to item 3.2 2025 2026 vehicle proposition resolution recommended action the resolve the Board of Education hereby approves the vehicle proposition resolution as presented second on the question all in favor I I oppose abstain motion carries item 3.3 the 2025 2026 notice of annual meeting and budget hearing recommended action be it resolved that the Board of Education hereby approves the 2025 2026 notice of annual meeting and budget hearing as presented so moved second all question all in favor I oppos abstain motion carries moving into instructional pronel item 4.1 recommended action be it resolved that the Board of Education hereby accepts the instructional personal resignation of Kiera Herbert fifth grade ELA teacher at Pi van Courtland School affected April 21st 2025 so second on the question all in favor I I oppose regret abstain motion carries item 4.2 instructional person Personnel recommendation leave replacement recommended action be resolve that Gina be appointed to a 1.0 lead replacement position for Kira Herbert as a fifth grade ELA teacher at Pierre van courland Middle School effective April 7th 2025 through June 27th 2025 subject to continued need unless terminated earlier by the Board of Education and compensated at an annual salary of 6,43 ba step one to be before we move that and actually motion I'm just wondering it is denominated as a leave replacement but we have accepted Miss Herbert's resignation so wouldn't it more since she's not leave wouldn't it be more appropriate and I just thought of it to be denominated as a long-term sub hiring at the same in the same manner I don't think that leave has to be temporary right it's just leave for the rest of the year Well except she's not leave normally we have a situation where somebody is on leave whether a terminal leave for the rest of the year or something but she's actually resigned she's not on a payroll so it's not like she's on leave I don't know if that makes a difference this is a fairly standard practice for us when someone resigns in the middle of the Year typically the conversation is is it probationary or is it a wee of some kind and so our our collaboration with the CTA allows us to to list these as Lees because to recruit and hire for a probation position at this point would be right so this this is our Senor practice okay so so it's not a leave because we said she M her departing but that's what we denominated okay that's fine so I'll move it NE plus second question all in favor oppose abstain motion carries item 4.3 instructional Personnel unpaid leaves of absence recommended action be it resolved the Board of Education hereby approves the following instructional Personnel uning of absence as the I I'll hi thank [Music] you on the question all in favor I oppose abstain motion carries moving on to our donations item 5.1 donation from the Marland Legion box eof post 55 for two pro and Haron High School 2025 scholarships recommended action be a res the Board of Education gratefully accepts a donation in the amount of $1,000 from the American Legion foxof Post 505 as a contribution to the Dominic anti fatro Memorial Scholarship and the mateline g dos Memorial Scholarship $500 each at croen Harmon High School for 2025 some moved second question all in favor I oppos abstaining motion carries item 5.2 donation to David Hackenberg and Catherine MC gumley Greg Rodriguez scholarship fund recommended action be it resolve that the Board of Education gratefully accepts a donation in the amount of $100 from the David Hackenberg and Catherine Montgomery from David Hackenberg and as a contribution to the grad Barz scholarship fund at cro and Harmon High School for 2025 this donation is managed under the purview of the pro and Herman high school student faculty Congress so moved second on the question all in favor I oppose abstain motion carries thank you for your generous donation item six we move into our consent agenda item 6 point1 approval of the consent agenda recommended action be it resolved the Board of Education hereby approves all the items under the consent agenda and I'll give use a moment to R anything oh [Music] you we have a correction to the consent agenda so to move item 6.14 of the consent agenda no no we can just edit this no you can just edit that because the actual motion is to adopt with the proper dat with the typo the subject matter the heading The Heading so it's fine so we just need to correct the yeah can we correcting the agenda correct the agenda on 6.14 it should be the minutes for March 13 2025 in the subject line and in the recommended action okay I'm still writing 2023 we have motion second on the question favor oppos obain motion carries moving into our close of our meeting the board will be moving into an executive session it after which we will immediately leave executive session and jour meeting but we willing theis portion of this meeting our reporting portion in this me so thank you everyone who watched is here recommended action the resolve the Board of Education hereby enters into the executive session to discuss the employment of a particular person or persons so move second on the question on mes session at 10