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Anthony White: Right, well it is seven o'clock, so I'd like to call a regular Board of Education. Wonder if you'd all please rise for the Pledge of Allegiance I I'll start leading it

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Anthony White: pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic.

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For which it stands.

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Craig Wolf: One nation.

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Craig Wolf: Indivisible, with liberty.

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Craig Wolf: And justice for all.

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Anthony White: Right. Kelly, please do roll call.

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Kelly Pologe: Okay, um, this better been

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Is Flynn.

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Kristan Flynn: Here.

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Kelly Pologe: Sir, I can't ski.

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Mike Rutkoske: Here.

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Kelly Pologe: And Stadler here.

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Kelly Pologe: They're saying

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Kelly Pologe: Sorry this is saying.

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Kelly Pologe: Here.

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Anthony White: I don't see him.

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Craig Wolf: Here. Miss fewer

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meredithheuer: Here.

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Kelly Pologe: It's true. Right.

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Anthony White: Before we get the meeting started, I would like to request a moment of silence for Berta tie who retired after many years of serving as a special ed teacher at sergeant.

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Anthony White: Thank you. I would like to point out that Miss Ty was my first master teacher when I was doing my student teaching and she actually mentored me my first year when I was doing the reading program that was first implemented at Sergeant shoot the lights on a

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Anthony White: Just a aha moment to the students and her, she was, she was a great operational.

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Anthony White: So I just wanted for my personal Roberta.

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Kristan Flynn: She on this one of my daughters teachers and was a truly gifted special ed teacher that, you know, after years of

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Kristan Flynn: Struggling to be understood as a special ed students. It was amazing to see in a very short time. This is time.

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Kristan Flynn: On things and then kids feel safe and brought out the best in them. And it's a huge loss so deep inside

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Anthony White: Alright, we're going to start this tonight out with a 10 year recognitions and retiree recognitions arm so I'm going to turn over to Matt and I think Matt is going to have each principle announce

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Matt Landahl: Yes. Welcome, everyone. It's an exciting night to under our retirees.

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Matt Landahl: And Bill alone or assistant superintendent a organized kind of the order of tonight. So I'm going to let him help people.

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William Rolon: So, good evening, everyone. Members of the Board superintendent lined out tonight. I'm honored to present two groups to be recognized tonight. First we have 12 members of our faculty that have chosen to retire from the beacon Central School District. After many years.

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William Rolon: As a service. These people are, some of which some of whom are here with us tonight we have Robert at well 31 years 31.4 years

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William Rolon: Robert bulk 20.76 years but cider Catalano 33.55 years Maureen Clark 29.77 years Marta Cruz 25.78 years Diane diva 32.78 years Marianne height 31.78 years, Karen. He Kobo rela

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William Rolon: 13.78 years at one mil a 31.78 years David Riley 33.78 years Rebecca Simmons 13.78 years and Mary Toman 16.68 years. That's a lot of years. So, on behalf of the beacon school district, congratulations on reaching this milestone in your lives, and I wish you the very best in years to come.

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William Rolon: Here tonight also are members of the administration that have worked closely over the years, with many of

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William Rolon: With many of these people, all of these people. And so at this time, I will call on Elisa Soto principal Soto to say a few words about her retirees.

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Elisa Correa-Soto: Good evening.

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Elisa Correa-Soto: Word of education members dotted lines and his executive team. Thank you for the opportunity to speak about the following educators

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Elisa Correa-Soto: And I know that Dr. Long just mentioned, their names, but I'd like to just share those teachers that are retiring retiring from beacon high school that is Mr at well

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Elisa Correa-Soto: Mr Bosch Miss Catalano Miss Clark, Mr Malloy. A and Mr. Riley. So they have been mentors confidence coaches academic managers.

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Elisa Correa-Soto: And at times referred as father and mother figures to the faculty and staff at DHS, thank you, for teaching your subjects with passion.

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Elisa Correa-Soto: You're teaching skills made it easier and fun for every student to contribute actively there for making your classes engaging for all after many wonderful years of being part of Beacon Central School District. They are now off to a new adventure called retirement.

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Elisa Correa-Soto: I am sure that decision was not easy because of the connection to the HS students. It's staff and the greater beacon community that supported them.

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Elisa Correa-Soto: On behalf, on behalf of the beacon family. I want to thank them for their service at Lincoln High School. Every great teacher has to retire one day.

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Elisa Correa-Soto: But there's eaten teachings will always remain in the hearts of our students. The district will miss their service as educators, they have helped so many students to become better versions of themselves. Many good wishes to them on their retirement. Congrats. Congratulations.

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William Rolon: Thank you. Thank you. At this time I would invite

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William Rolon: Principal stole Tish to say a few words.

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Brian Soltish: Hi. Hello, everybody. Thank you. So I have three retirees from my building. And I would like to start with Mary Toman Mary tone was our math department, she started that Ron bout Middle School in

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Brian Soltish: She spent 17 years at RMS teaching math.

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Brian Soltish: Mary had a love for developing math talent within her students and also enjoyed the middle school age do it in which we all know is a hard thing to come by. Because middle school is definitely a special age, but she Excel.

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Brian Soltish: With our middle school students. She encourage the development of curiosity and orderly clear thinking

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Brian Soltish: Mary. Prior to working at Ron belt spent 20 years in airline sales and now she is going to enjoy her retirement and spend more time with her family and we wish her all the best and thank her for service.

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Brian Soltish: Next up from wrong bow. We have Diane

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Brian Soltish: Diane diva spent her entire career of 33 years teaching math at rombauer Middle School.

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Brian Soltish: Which is an amazing thing to do. So she's actually a historian from the biggest city school district and raw middle school, so we won't give all the facts that we have that I know that she's aware of

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Brian Soltish: But I'd like to highlight some of hers. She taught grade 789 and 10 is over the course of her 33 years she had 33 different principles and assistant principals somewhere repeat over her time at Rob about Middle School.

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Brian Soltish: Although I know that I'm a special principle for her because believe it or not.

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Brian Soltish: In the student teaching air that I was going through. She was my mentor teacher at round out middle school, so I had the pleasure.

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Brian Soltish: And privilege of serving under Diane duvet as a student teacher so she helped develop me and it came full circle. When I came down to around about middle school and I got to work with her on the other end.

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Brian Soltish: He was fun extremely gratifying. She, she enjoyed teaching and even this past year, smiling every day. So it was sad for her to have to end the way we did because she was just

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Brian Soltish: Loving Her final year of teaching loved her classes and never imagined being online for the last couple months of her retirement year. But nonetheless, she went with the flow and we are going to miss her greatly and we wish her all the best in her retirement.

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Brian Soltish: Our next teacher at Rob about middle school is Becky Simmons and Becky Simmons started at rombauer Middle School in 2006 teaching health

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Brian Soltish: Becky is an outstanding teacher because not only does she teach health, but she actually supports a vast majority of our students.

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Brian Soltish: socially and emotionally throughout our school day she's somebody that they were able to go to during their lunch periods, she made bonds with them. So the students in our school are going to greatly miss Becky, as well as

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Brian Soltish: Our entire staff Becky would tell you first that she loved coming to work. She viewed our school and our staff and our students as a family to her.

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Brian Soltish: And the bonds that she made will last forever. And I think the lives that she touched with her students will last forever. So I wish her all the best. I know that she's going to be doing a lot of traveling

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Brian Soltish: So I don't know how often will see her, but we wish her the best she travels country and Thank you Becky. For everything you did for the students that round out Middle School. Thank you.

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William Rolon: Thank you.

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William Rolon: I'd like to invite

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William Rolon: I'd like to invite principal Cahill, along with

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William Rolon: Director Jim meta

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Laura Cahill: Start, if you don't mind. JOHN. Thank you so much for this opportunity to recognize and celebrate Marian hate man is retiring after dedicating 33 years to the BC st all at South Avenue school

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Laura Cahill: Marianne has lived and worked through the many changes and education, most notably perhaps them felt Avenue changed into a magnet school and then return back to a neighborhood school

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Laura Cahill: Marianne is a proud intermediate educator working as a fourth and fifth grade teacher for the majority of her career mentioned that one year when she was assigned to second grade.

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Laura Cahill: But Marianne is a supportive kind and caring teacher, she builds strong foundations for her students and helps them discover their passion.

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Laura Cahill: I've seen quite a few high school students come back to South to meet with her and to share how important she was in their lives just left a mark on so many

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Laura Cahill: Additionally, she routinely hosts and teachers to help the newest teachers and training, get a feel for the elementary classroom.

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Laura Cahill: She's always ready to share her love the field and reach out to anyone who needs a helping hand.

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Laura Cahill: Although she is retiring Mariana still thinking about ways to help students during the next school year, perhaps as a tutor.

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Laura Cahill: For now, she has her eyes on vacation of a lifetime to Italy, a dream. She's had in forever. Her husband Ron has something to do with South that appreciate all that Marian has done for the south of community and we will greatly

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Laura Cahill: Wish Your healthy, happy relaxing and a well deserved retirement.

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John Giametta: Thank you. Can you hear me, I have some difficulty.

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John Giametta: Good. Okay, great. So I just want to start out before we get to Karen, I wanted the backup Brian salt is being that I would have the opportunity to work with Becky seminars for the last six years.

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John Giametta: Without taking too much time I did want to reflect and to come back on Becky and her teaching and always trying to find a common theme that I still want to the class from each time I went in there and

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John Giametta: After thinking about it more, the thing that I spoke from Becky was every class.

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John Giametta: For a while I was able to have observer. See, or with she made an effort to include the finest Chinese students and give them the invoice and power them. Show them support.

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John Giametta: Let them contribute to the lesson in a way that it's it's wonderful to see. I think that talks a lot about personality, how much he cared about.

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John Giametta: The students beat and making sure that everybody has a voice and felt important able to contribute to learning and education so

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John Giametta: Becky, you're certainly will be missed and quick, I asked me a couple of questions just to get some feedback of

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John Giametta: What she thought about her time Deacon when I asked why you decided to stay in the console want to choose this as you're

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John Giametta: Late her response was, I always felt like I was making a difference. I felt appreciated and I always look forward to coming to work every day and not many people can say that. So it's wonderful.

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John Giametta: Back everything to achieve accomplished, and as I said she's certainly going to be messed

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John Giametta: Up Now moving on to Karen, I can grow and brief message. I want to get asking caring about her thoughts and feelings of leaving this wonderful place of Beacon and

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John Giametta: She wrote a letter would have known to share to you a direct it's good with education.

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John Giametta: To the PCB Board of Education after teach for 10 years and stayed at home in the next race my three children all graduated from VHS ranking one, three and 400

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John Giametta: Class I started selling it in the UCSD in 2005 that he was looking for a p certified stuff and wanted to teachers was having surgery itself from Ralphs of pants, get the following year, I was appointed to miss.

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John Giametta: Always been a secondary level teachers side from to round out

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John Giametta: The beach at DHS whenever you have a class or to ask about teaching at the DSS was getting enough sleep, America, I have to say there's no better

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John Giametta: Teacher than her twice and district. I've been asked to teach in elementary school. The first kind of started five years ago where I'm very grateful to have the opportunity to work abroad once again.

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John Giametta: For the heart that I got from him. When it was time to go back to the middle school year. And there's so much to me.

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John Giametta: The second time was asked to teach elementary school with just this past year and South Avenue.

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John Giametta: I can honestly say that was the best years as a teacher. Everyone was great to work with the South administration, faculty, and staff.

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John Giametta: Dedication to the teaching profession in to our students. As for my co teacher colleague, Matt enforce. I just can't say enough

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John Giametta: Is enthusiasm professionalism every circumstances to be admired. I was truly a pleasure to work with them.

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John Giametta: during my tenure girls varsity boys JD tennis and enjoy the concert. Please PTO activities and feel days at the pleasure teaching a Tom Tom powers, my old school colleagues as well and get to know many wonderful dedicate

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John Giametta: My greatest appreciation goes out to Jean Marie shot my colleague mentor.

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John Giametta: Early in my teaching career experience how long I would teach. I said, until today.

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John Giametta: I said, until I didn't enjoy what I was doing anymore. Well, that is true. I love being the teacher and working with you.

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John Giametta: I hope, somewhere along the way. I made a difference in someone's life. I know my students have made a difference in mind, I would like to share my fondest memories, the teachers that happened just this past year I was trying to shoot later. One of my

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John Giametta: When I finished.

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William Rolon: At this time I'll open it up to any other administrators that would like to say something. I'm not putting anybody on the spot. But if there's something you feel you feel you need to say at this time, please do so.

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John Giametta: I'm starting to jump in real quick. I also wanted to congratulate three retiring coaches that we have coach Coach Malaysia.

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John Giametta: For the years of dedication that they provided to our beacon athletes. I'm hopeful that they can stay with us. But overall, once again congratulating them from the wonderful things that they've done for our athletes.

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rosemaryfaas: Can I just interrupt and say a few words. Yes, this is Becky I just want to thank, I want to thank the Board of Education for the opportunity to

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rosemaryfaas: To work at beacon for for 14 years. I want to thank Karen as a colleague in my administrators, as I said, Hey Karen as john said it's true everything every day. I couldn't wait to come to school. I couldn't come to work because you guys made it all feel like it was worthwhile and

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rosemaryfaas: As a, as a teacher, there's nothing greater than having the support of your colleagues and your administration and I just want to extend a great big thank you to you and in between my traveling, I will try to come and stop and visit

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rosemaryfaas: Thank you again. Thank you.

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William Rolon: Any anybody else.

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William Rolon: Was wonderful stories and it's you know it's an honor for me to be able to celebrate this this moment with all of you. And well,

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William Rolon: And on behalf of the district I you know I want to congratulate all of you wish you only the very best. And please know that this is not goodbye. This is. See you later. And hopefully we can connect

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William Rolon: In some way or fashion and another another time. So be well and good luck and God bless you all.

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William Rolon: So at this time. There is a second group that I'd like to recognize on the opposite end of the spectrum.

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William Rolon: And for your consideration 12 members of our faculty that have attained a different kind of milestone tenure.

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William Rolon: Or we hope so.

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William Rolon: Each of these individuals have successfully completed rigorous probationary periods are highly qualified and have received the highest recommendations for tenure.

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William Rolon: And here to further acknowledge these individuals are members of administration. But let me first read the list of people who are being considered for tenure tonight Shona Roland

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William Rolon: John fratto Danielle welcome Nick Pam see a totally Amy Dinkins Cynthia gooseberry Yesenia Pacheco Nicole Butler Aaron kolakowski Justine addy Jody Welsh and Cassandra or so. So congratulations to all of you. And at this time I would invite Elisa principal Soto to say a few words.

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Elisa Correa-Soto: Thank you, Dr. Malone.

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Elisa Correa-Soto: So I'd like to talk about Mr fratto I've come to know him over the last two years as his principal and administrative mentor.

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Elisa Correa-Soto: In the last few years have witnessed his dedication to students and as positive attitude he is someone who is passionate about his content and as students as well.

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Elisa Correa-Soto: Mr fratto has the ability to adapt to any situation. He has the experience working with students with a variety of needs and he has flourished in that responsibility.

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Elisa Correa-Soto: Over his four years at beacon High School. He has developed a positive rapport with the students that is built on respect and trust.

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Elisa Correa-Soto: Throughout his internship as an administrator, in turn, Mr Ferrata works closely with administration and built strong positive relationships. The beacon high school community.

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Elisa Correa-Soto: This was evident when he organized a PD is dodgeball tournament where he successfully directed the event, which helped raise money for PBS and related scholarships

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Elisa Correa-Soto: During his internship, Mr throttle worked with the athletic department and helped organize our newly formed students tailgate party, which is now held annually during Homecoming week

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Elisa Correa-Soto: Additionally, Mr Friday system administration on daily basis with enforcing the code of conduct, including most importantly spearheading several restorative justice meetings.

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Elisa Correa-Soto: Based on his, on his success and commitment to the students, he engages within the classroom and outside of the classroom as well as his dedication to the beacon high school community as a whole.

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Elisa Correa-Soto: I recommend the john frightful tenure with the beacon City School District is well prepared and motivated to continue to have a successful teaching career within our districts

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William Rolon: Anybody else

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Elisa Correa-Soto: I do. I have shown a moment. And I'd like to talk to you about. So it has been a privilege to work with Miss Donna Roland during the last two years in high school.

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Elisa Correa-Soto: She's a special education teacher who primarily teachers United States history of nations courses in doing so she demonstrated high level of professionalism and commitment to excellence.

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Elisa Correa-Soto: Because of these attributes in this role and was able to foster significant intellectual growth and academic success among our students.

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Elisa Correa-Soto: Miss Roland demonstrated tremendous initiative and organizational skills which is necessary for special education teacher each of her lessons with stuff was thoughtfully planned and structured in order to address the applicant political context standards and maximize student achievement.

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Elisa Correa-Soto: By framing per unit in a single big question, Mr. Ron was able to create the consistency and structure necessary for students to navigate complex devices three topics, in essence, she developed a wonder and cross and curiosity in her classroom.

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Elisa Correa-Soto: The skills together without her outstanding classroom management and positive before with her students allowed her to create you maintain a highly effective learning environment.

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Elisa Correa-Soto: To compliment your classroom teaching experience he has chosen to be involved in several after school extra curricular activity.

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Elisa Correa-Soto: In the last four years he has coached the girls soccer team and has developed a deep connection to the beacon community. In addition, Miss Roland has volunteered to chaperone a high school prom and she can really bring up the dance for

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Elisa Correa-Soto: This demonstrated her commitment to the student to student relationships. She has also made herself available to help her colleagues on school based initiatives.

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Elisa Correa-Soto: All of these qualities, but earned hopefully will earn her tenure at the school districts. Michelle and Donna Roland as a fine representative of Beacon High School in a role model for our students.

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Elisa Correa-Soto: She is well prepared and motivated to continue to have a successful teaching career here at beacon city school districts

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Thank you for your time. Members of the Board of Education Dr landed on his executive team.

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William Rolon: Great. Thank you so much.

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William Rolon: At this time I would like to invite principal cultish to say a few words.

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Brian Soltish: Hello again. So we have one teacher at Ron Bell middle school and her name is Erica kosky

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Brian Soltish: And Miss Carla kosky came to us from New York City schools. She was tenured in New York City schools, but has is a graduate of Beacon high school so

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Brian Soltish: From a scholar kosky she was able to come back home, which we always love and she's done an outstanding job for us teaching sixth grade la at brown belt Middle School.

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Brian Soltish: She has also been involved with coaching are modified girls basketball team, we can count on her to chaperone many of our events and she actually joined us on our DC trip in 2019

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Brian Soltish: But it is a pleasure to recommend her to you for tenure as she does an outstanding job with our sixth grade students. So congratulations. This is Tarkovsky

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William Rolon: Thank you.

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William Rolon: I'm

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William Rolon: A principal sessoms could not be with us tonight so she has passed on this message for me to read

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William Rolon: Good evening, while I'm unable to be there in person. I could not allow this milestone of tenure to take place without providing a few words regarding the tenure recommendation of three phenomenal teachers. This is see a totally

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William Rolon: This is Dinkins and Mrs gooseberry are all such an asset to our school community at JV for us to elementary school, their commitment to excellence rapport.

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William Rolon: With students and families Responsive Classroom environment and management style. Are some of what makes us fortunate to have them among our faculty

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William Rolon: They each have poured into our students and our staff serving in a range of roles outside of their classroom teacher wells, including extended school year equity team building leadership team.

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William Rolon: Data Coordinator, and I RP I'm proud to serve and leading alongside these great educators and it's without hesitation that each received my highest recommendation for tenure to the beacon City School District. Congratulations.

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William Rolon: At this time I'd like to invite principal Cahill.

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Laura Cahill: Thank you for this opportunity you recognize Yesenia Pacheco for tenure in the area of school social worker.

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Laura Cahill: This is chieko joined begin with some experience from the White Plains school district port drove a school district.

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Laura Cahill: And her tenure in 2016 and this work itself of during her tenure. She is an active member of our school community. She brought the girls on the run program to sell that

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Laura Cahill: She collaborates with Hudson Valley seed land to learn and kind of ground mom to provide food backpacks to our students who are food insecure.

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Laura Cahill: She is our student advisor organizing projects to help veterans victims of domestic violence and multiple populations in with you.

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Laura Cahill: She's also a member of our equity team building leadership team and build an emergency response time. This is Pacheco his greatest strength is her ability to read the needs of her students and support their social emotional growth. She is kind and compassionate.

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Laura Cahill: And was all students that maintains calm composure at all times, even through stressful and challenging situations.

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Laura Cahill: Mrs Pacheco listens to the students. And as well respected by both the teachers and the students, she interacts with

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Laura Cahill: She has consistently demonstrated the skills and knowledge required for superior performance as an experienced school social worker.

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Laura Cahill: And he years itself elementary Mrs Pacheco has shown the ability to succeed as a school social worker, it continues to grow and the position.

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Laura Cahill: And has shown the ability to meet each child's needs within our diverse school environment. I'm very pleased night to recognize the ascending Pacheco for tenure tonight.

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William Rolon: At this time I'd like to invite

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William Rolon: To say a few words regarding special ed teachers.

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Dawn Condello: Oh, thank you for the opportunity. So I will start with you, Sonny essence. That's where we ended up. I've had the pleasure to do

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Dawn Condello: The ability to be able to go into her counseling sessions and talk to miss Kayla regarding the level of support in the building.

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Dawn Condello: parent engagement is top priority. And she fulfills that with stellar skills keeps the building principal on myself.

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Dawn Condello: attuned to all of the work that she's doing with the families and I know the staff feels that they can depend on her and her level of support. She also supports our mechanic Vento and connections with outside agencies, so congratulations and I'm very happy that she's on our team.

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Dawn Condello: And so, Alyssa may be saying, a couple things for

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Dawn Condello: For stuff but but I do want to say is, although Pam co totally was recognized as agenda teacher. She has been here in the district for quite some time started off for years as a special education teacher

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Dawn Condello: When she told me she wanted to go into Jeanette my heart dropped

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Dawn Condello: But I also knew that we were able to maintain her in the beacon City School District, which was a plus, because I saw how she was able to work with.

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Dawn Condello: Students with variety of different learning needs and knew that she was going to be able to do a fantastic job with moving over to the Janet setting applying those same skills and techniques. So congratulations to you.

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Dawn Condello: Amy Dinkins I gave, I recommend any Dickens 10 year way back when we were at go on them together. So Amy has

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Dawn Condello: leftist for short period of time. I thought she came to my office to tell me she was expecting. But she was telling me she was sleeping and then we were able to have her back.

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Dawn Condello: And again, Amy brings in a variety of skill sets to address various learning needs of the students as well as a technology background and her collaborative nature. So, congratulations.

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Dawn Condello: Cynthia gas Barry comes in with such a great background with her early childhood education.

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Dawn Condello: And one of the things that we admire a lot about Cynthia is for curriculum planning or organizational skills and I've learned a lot through our time doing the distance learning

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Dawn Condello: And the creativity that Cynthia has been providing there in her kitchen to address the needs of all of her students and she has great connections as well as all the other teachers.

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Dawn Condello: Regarding making sure she's keeping track of her students and I have to Alyssa jump in to talk about the high school for Shauna

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Julisa Rincon-Tomizawa: Thanks, Don. Sorry, just my my audio jumped a bit but, on behalf of the entire department. I definitely echo all of the

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Julisa Rincon-Tomizawa: Sentiments from all of the administrators and the department as a whole, all of the teachers and Miss Pacheco in her role as a social worker have definitely contributed

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Julisa Rincon-Tomizawa: To the development of all of the programs and services that we offer in the district. It is a pleasure to work with the administrators as well to help address the needs of the building.

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Julisa Rincon-Tomizawa: As well as individual families and we definitely applaud them for all of the support that they provide, not just to the students that they service directly, but to their entire

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Julisa Rincon-Tomizawa: Building community in the in the buildings that they serve their definitely all very flexible and always willing to try any crazy idea that comes our way.

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Julisa Rincon-Tomizawa: And they are greeted giving us feedback to when things don't work out and we definitely have enjoyed learning from each other and with each other. So congratulations to all who are recommended for 10 years

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William Rolon: Thank you, Lisa. At this time, principal

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William Rolon: Or, sir.

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Cassandra Orser: Good evening, I would like to recommend Justine adding for tenure in the area of elementary education.

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Cassandra Orser: During Jesse and I met Glenn and she has demonstrated for flexibility and do great experience.

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Cassandra Orser: She started working with veteran team of teachers in her first year with able to navigate and developed her own unique teaching style.

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Cassandra Orser: He has been flexible and open minded teaching three different grades in the short for years, but she's gonna go on in Gen Ed and I think the classes.

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Cassandra Orser: She has had the opportunity to work and collaborate with many teachers in the building, and they all have helped to say for teaching

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Cassandra Orser: Because it has embraced Responsive Classroom practices and immerse yourself into extracurriculars to build connections to students.

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Cassandra Orser: She has taken part as the map and stem club advisor, a yearbook advisor, a math IR PE teacher and she was also Detroit and running club coach.

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Cassandra Orser: She has an advocate for the students that she works with just the end recently completed her master's degree in the area of childhood education with a focus in STEM.

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Cassandra Orser: And she continues to be an asset at Clinton elementary I've seen as kind and compassionate personable professional courteous and always willing to help out where there isn't.

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Cassandra Orser: This is it, we're just seeing how to join and enhance the gun and family. Her professionalism type standard and commitment to academic excellence, or what makes us truly fortunate to have her among our faculty and school community.

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Cassandra Orser: I would also like to recommend Miss Judy Welsh for Kenya as a level three teaching assistant

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Cassandra Orser: Jody. Well, she has been employed to be considered school district for five years and has excelled as a teaching assistant over the past four years. She has been at Glen them with me now for the past few years.

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Cassandra Orser: Throughout her tenure with the district. She has worked in many grade levels in various capacities.

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Cassandra Orser: She has great work ethic and a high level of enthusiasm for her job. She's always smiling and laughing

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Cassandra Orser: Jody has worked in the self contained class ICP class and math classes. She has formed a great working relationship with all of her comments and have proven to be a valuable resource in the building.

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Cassandra Orser: I have had the opportunity to serve God and the ICT class facilitating small group instruction and encouraging students when they're having a tough day

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Cassandra Orser: God has always provided assistance and lesson planning and has also provided assistance, the lesson planning and writing activities to go along with craft for student work explain

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Cassandra Orser: I recommend these 10 years so she can continue to be a positive influence on our students for years to come.

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archer.b: She's definitely best. We have one teacher sergeant, who was retiring. This year marks our crews she taught pre k at Sergeant this past year and was in our district for 26 years

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archer.b: It was wonderful visiting her classroom. Every day I witness how caring and patient, she was with every student. The kids love her.

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archer.b: Her work touched so many kids lives. She handled her teaching and all the little prices that take place with grace patients Susie as and kindness. She's a funny person and I hope she's looking forward to

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archer.b: Her years traveling and her retirement. We have congratulations Marta, we have two teachers at Sergeant up for tenure this year.

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archer.b: Nicole Butler and Daniel What cannock they're both hard working, teachers, and they've been wonderful assets at Sergeant Nicole got her start teaching fifth grade.

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archer.b: Since her first year. She's taught third grade, and fourth grade in both gen ed and inclusion settings her students and parents love her.

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archer.b: The calls and meticulous less than planner ensures that every student gets opportunity to share their experiences, our classroom isn't, it isn't inviting and fundraising and call attendants SUNY Oneonta and New Paltz

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William Rolon: Principal Archer and I'm terribly sorry for missing out on market cruise

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William Rolon: Around. Yeah, thank you for for for doing such a great job with that. And then lastly, our superintendent land Alfre Cassandra.

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Matt Landahl: Is my pleasure tonight to recommend 10 year for Elementary. Elementary principal sit for Cassandra or Searcy

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Matt Landahl: has really done a strong job. Excellent. And the last several years as the principal. She's a strong instructional leader. She's very dedicated to the Glen and community attends all events, is that the school for long hours and

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Matt Landahl: And she passes. I think one of the most important tests for an elementary principal or really any principal and excuse me, and that is you cannot walk down the hallway.

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Matt Landahl: For longer than a few seconds before a student stops her to talk to her. Say hi.

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Matt Landahl: Or or just check in and and she always knows everybody's name. And so, that to me means a lot is someone who is the principal for a long time myself.

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Matt Landahl: So Cassandra. Welcome aboard, and I just want to say

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Matt Landahl: To everybody else for the folks receiving tenure tonight.

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Matt Landahl: It's just kind of the next step in the journey and we're very excited to have you with us for the long haul, and

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Matt Landahl: And be a part of, of all the next steps and exciting things that are happening in education and happening here in beacon, and we're really also glad that you've chosen to be with us and to to all the folks retiring.

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Matt Landahl: It's, I think, I think it needs to be said.

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Matt Landahl: Of experienced educators that are leaving us this year.

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Matt Landahl: That from my perspective and probably from a lot of administrators perspectives and

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Matt Landahl: Certainly a lot of other people in the community. It's actually a really scary thing to be losing that wisdom and that experience and that collegiality

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Matt Landahl: That teamwork, all of the above. I'm incredibly grateful.

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Matt Landahl: To have worked with all of you, the past three years.

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Matt Landahl: As a resident of Beacon as a dad for the last 10 years you put in to the because the school districts. It's really a powerful group of people

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Matt Landahl: But receiving to here tonight enough so retiring and like it's been said a bunch of times. My hope is for the retiring that you say part of our lives and saying let's help us out.

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Matt Landahl: Thank you all for your service. Thanks for the principles for coming tonight and thanks for all the folks either receiving Tim year returns for being part of the zoom. That also goes without saying that we'd much rather be doing this in person and

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Matt Landahl: And that although where I know we're getting really used to doing things this way and and it's just become becoming for life.

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Matt Landahl: Really miss doing doing this evening person and look forward to seeing you all soon. Thank you so much and thanks for putting this together tonight. Thank you.

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William Rolon: Thank you. An excellent closure.

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William Rolon: That was, that was that was worth 39 minutes for such an amazing group, wasn't it, yeah. So thank you everybody.

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William Rolon: If I did not mention just quickly the names of people who have retired this year.

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William Rolon: As well like earlier in the year, Sheila Blair blush driver after 17 years Edward Adele maintenance mechanic after seven and a half years, Candace Betty veg na TA after 40 years we have

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William Rolon: And Jolene van or deal. I apologize for chopping up the name typist for 21.1 year so lots to celebrate. Congratulations to all of you and I wish you all the best. Thank you.

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Anthony White: Thank you, Bill. I just wanted to give another moment if the retirees wanted to say something, you know, you can put in the chat feature and Mike will unmute you. I didn't know if everyone had a chance if they wanted to address and talk story or something.

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Antony Tseng: All right, Anthony.

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Antony Tseng: Yes. So before I move on to make a motion to flip item three without him.

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Antony Tseng: I noticed that, um, we have workshop after public comment. Usually we have workshops before public comment.

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Antony Tseng: I'd like to say, I know there's an I know there's some folks here that are looking for the workshop and are here to provide public comments.

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Antony Tseng: Related to the workshop. So I wanted to see if we can consolidate that and just have the workshop. Number two, first, before the public

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Antony Tseng: Yeah, folks from a meeting that we participated on Thursday that that were interested to hear the workshop and then provide public comment. And they weren't aware of the Wednesday statement that we had made. So I think would benefit everyone to hear the workshop. Well, they may comment.

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James Case-Leal: Can, can I ask a question related. Do we have a set schedule for the workshop or a structure for the workshop

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Anthony White: Oh yeah, asking, James.

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Matt Landahl: I think my thoughts were, I was going to try to sort of on a more informal basis share some of our thoughts about some next steps we want to take as a district are planning on taking his district and then let the board.

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Matt Landahl: Discuss, I think, although I'm not the one who sets the agenda, I think, I think the thought for having

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Matt Landahl: Excuse me for having public comment first was, we have done it a few times this year and it was just because people

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Matt Landahl: Would be joining the meeting and be able to let them.

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Matt Landahl: Share what they need to share

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Matt Landahl: You know, at an earlier part of the meeting.

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James Case-Leal: I think it's great. I know we're all excited to hear the district report of what we have done with the next steps are. And in terms of the the board discussion and the board comment. Well, we all have time to kind of just respond to what we've been listening to and to have sort of

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James Case-Leal: This is kind of an open opportunity for everyone to kind of say what they feel like needs to be said at this moment addition to discussion.

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Anthony White: Oh, this Court committee reports including BOARD COMMENTS. So if you have any comments that I mean they're not

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Anthony White: The rationale behind the public comment. Being first was when we were developing the agenda, we thought it would be good to hear what the public had to say. So we can intertwine it into the discussion as to the board statement.

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Anthony White: So that that was the rationale behind it. I have no strong opinion. Either way, um, I think mutually agreed upon between the people that were setting the agenda.

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meredithheuer: Well, and I think, you know, we have a long history of public comment. We've made some changes over the years we've made it longer.

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meredithheuer: We've moved it around the agenda. I personally have always felt that it or earlier in the meeting.

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meredithheuer: That it gives people the opportunity to say their piece and then not stay on for the rest of didn't want to. I understand that.

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meredithheuer: You know many people who are making public comment tonight if they are, it's going to be related to the workshop. I also think this is one of many workshops on this subject, so

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meredithheuer: I don't know. You know that we, and I would personally love to hear from people

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Anthony White: The emotion is on to oh customer you're trying to say something.

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Kristan Flynn: I just thought, also, um, if anyone raised in their comment that not could speak to them and made sort of sense for comments.

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Kristan Flynn: For the workshop. So it can be woven into his remarks.

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James Case-Leal: We have, we have to comment periods one before. And when, after

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Antony Tseng: I mean, that's what I was trying to avoid I know man has made

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Antony Tseng: Responses to public comments during his superintendent report. So that's why I thought that that would be appropriate there.

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Antony Tseng: But if you want to public comment periods. I mean, I'm fine with that. I'm just trying to engage the Popo

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Anthony White: That's not on the table, what's on the table is to switch three and four. So we have to address that first. And if there's wants to make another motion to add item to the agenda that can add it. And then the board would vote on it.

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James Case-Leal: Can I, can I am in the motion to to make. I'd like to men, the motion to have two or comments, one for one after

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Elissa: Games. Did you say to board comments or to public comment.

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Elissa: Here's how.

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James Case-Leal: To to public comment periods.

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Anthony White: Is there a second to the minute

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Anthony White: Alright, so we're voting on a comments or questions or discussion about the amendment, which is to add two workshops city and additional work. So I put a comment to the agenda which one before. And then when after

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James Case-Leal: I say my thinking is just why not. If it makes settles everyone's concerns and offers more opportunity for more input more input is better.

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James Case-Leal: Than

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Anthony White: Any other comments.

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Anthony White: All those in favor of amending it to have a workshop before in a workshop after

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Antony Tseng: Me hold a comment, comment.

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Anthony White: Public comment before and then a public comment. After

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Anthony White: Virtual can just so I make sure that it gets account correctly. Can I do cool, I'll just ask as we go.

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James Case-Leal: Sure.

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Anthony White: I'm going to go on my screen, Meredith.

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Anthony White: Kristin.

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Anthony White: Thumbs up.

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Anthony White: video feed. I'm sorry.

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Anthony White: Yes. Okay.

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Anthony White: And I'm fine as well.

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Anthony White: Alright.

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Anthony White: So now we need so we accepted the amendment to add a really wasn't an amendment, it was more of a new resolute a new emotion, but

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Anthony White: Yet, it would draw on your emotional

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Antony Tseng: Whatever's club.

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Anthony White: Anthony is gonna withdraws motion.

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Anthony White: Alright, so we have a

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Anthony White: I need a motion to way policy, public comment to allow the public speak via video conferencing.

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Antony Tseng: So moved. Anthony

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Craig Wolf: Is there a second. Second.

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Anthony White: I forgot to call you before we

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Anthony White: Okay, with the amendment.

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Antony Tseng: Yes. All right.

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Anthony White: All those in favor,

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Anthony White: Ocean carried nine oh, even though policy 1230 is ways we're still going to ask the public to stay to four minutes and we're going to keep public comment.

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Anthony White: For no longer than 60 minutes. Um, so if anybody would like to address the Board, there is a chat feature. All I ask is that you type in your name.

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Anthony White: And then what we'll do is we'll will recognize you. When it's time to speak. I'll keep track of who's typing on the chat feature, and then I'll have. Mr. Kelly to unmute you.

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Anthony White: And recognize you to speak to the board for

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James Case-Leal: Just a clarifying question, can, can the same speaker speak both times.

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Anthony White: Now that's so typically in 1230 we're trying to follow policy 1230 even though it's video conferencing and we have to wave it. We're asking the people to still out here to policy 1230

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Anthony White: Procedures as to the four minutes address the board wants and then the Polycom will go no longer than 60 minutes

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Anthony White: So I do have one person that has a chatted and who was Aaron.

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Antony Tseng: Anthony. I have a question. I'm sorry.

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Antony Tseng: What was James was James question that you answered that the same person cannot Kate and both public comments sessions are just to sit. Same public comment session.

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Anthony White: There is technically no board policy because we suspend policy 1230 what I was stating was we're asking

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Anthony White: People to that are addressing the board to still practice policy rules, even though it's through video conferencing have four minutes and no more than 60 minutes

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Anthony White: In regards to addressing the board twice I there's two public comments, I would say that they still had here. So I don't know if you want to do 30 minutes and 30 minutes

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Anthony White: Or if you wanted to do 60 minutes and 60 minutes I'd say, typically we wouldn't allow public people want a lot of public to adjust to board twice. However, it's a workshop style so

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Anthony White: That's up to the board to the side. Let me get through that first I would say, let's get through the first public comment.

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Anthony White: Aaron. I see. Um,

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Erin Giunta: Hi. Um, is this the right time to talk on behalf of the parent group for a sergeant PTO

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Anthony White: Is it in regards to the board statement that we adopted last board meeting, or is this just an update on the PTO

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Erin Giunta: Nope, just a parent group update on the PTO

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Anthony White: You can share at this time it is a public comment. So you can share it doesn't have to be to the board statement on to the board statements. So you can share it at this time.

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Erin Giunta: I don't want to take away time from the public comment if if my my time would be could be used at a later time.

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Anthony White: I just have to review the agenda to see if we do have something we do not have

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Anthony White: We don't have on the agenda tonight about a student and pair of parent comments. So this would be the only time to do it.

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Erin Giunta: Okay, then I'd like to speak. Thank you.

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Erin Giunta: Hello beacon city school district administrators and the Board of Education.

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Erin Giunta: I, my name is Aaron Giunta on the president of the sergeant elementary PTO

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Erin Giunta: On behalf of the sergeant board members, I'd like to say thank you very much for the terrific job you've all been doing since mid March to help the students of beacon.

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Erin Giunta: Receive healthy meals continue their education via last minute distance learning protocols and work to implement a safe and enriching learning environment in the upcoming school year.

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Erin Giunta: We acknowledge that these past three months have been extremely challenging and we commend you for your dedication to our kids.

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Erin Giunta: This goes to all the teachers and staff for all of the schools. Thank you.

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Erin Giunta: I wanted to update the Board of Education and the community on just some of the sergeant PTO activities that we've been doing since mid March.

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Erin Giunta: Just before school is closed in March, we lost a fundraiser to purchase seeds from Hudson Valley seed company we quickly transition the fundraiser to be available online.

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Erin Giunta: After the schools closed and we raised $575 from the greater community and Sergeant parents

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Erin Giunta: During that fundraiser. Thank you to all this board sergeant and the Hudson Valley seed company by planting vegetables and flowers to help benefit our local ecosystem.

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Erin Giunta: With the money raised from the surgeon student body during our first Penny worse, more than 1800 dollars we purchase and install the red maple tree in the sergeant traffic circle.

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Erin Giunta: Thank you to a sergeant family owned local business when nature for the donation of the installation and labor costs.

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Erin Giunta: Thanks to PTO vice president Eileen shepherd for spearheading the project and the teachers and staff for being so supportive

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Erin Giunta: Of the collections, the volunteers for helping click and count change, and especially to the kids and the families who brought in their change to make a change.

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Erin Giunta: We donated leftover snacks from our, our PTO closet with all of our snacks that we don't really have

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Erin Giunta: Events to miss Pagano to distribute to fairground and all the grocery distributions. At the end of the year, we want to thank very much Miss Pagano.

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Erin Giunta: fairground and the dozens of teacher and community member volunteers who help distribute meals and groceries to this community.

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Erin Giunta: The PTO funded the purchase of your books for any fifth grader at Sergeant who didn't order one. So, to ensure that they ended their school year it with a book of memories of their last year at sergeant.

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Erin Giunta: The PTO purchase target gift cards and distributed them to every staff member and teacher at Sergeant for teacher Appreciation Week.

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Erin Giunta: And finally, the PTO awarded to $750 scholarships one to Briana Richardson and went to Sabrina to Topsy beacon high school seniors who attended sergeant.

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Erin Giunta: Congratulations to them and to the other outstanding candidates who applied. We were extremely impressed with the caliber of achievement that our applicants demonstrated

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Erin Giunta: These are just a few of the many projects we've been able to accomplish with the financial support and donation of time from our parent and caregiver community.

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Erin Giunta: teachers and staff and PTO members. This is how the PTO spends money raised from fundraising efforts from membership donations family fun nights book fairs and

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Erin Giunta: Events like trivia night all money raised goes back into our school and our community. This is all possible because of support from the parents and the community and teachers at sergeant. You are the PTO. Thank you.

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Erin Giunta: Beginning earlier this year that PTO has has been having an ongoing discussion of an action plan to support diversity initiatives within our school district.

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Erin Giunta: We released a statement on June 9 available on our Facebook page.

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Erin Giunta: Which says, We the board of the Sarge elementary school PTO want to express absolute support for movements for black lives and racial justice.

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Erin Giunta: We hope leaders in our school district and buildings and the parents and our school community will commit with us to face and address the roots and destructive impacts of racism, both historical and present day.

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Erin Giunta: In all areas of society, including the educational system we commit to increasing the PTO support and advocacy for anti racism programming for all members of our school community.

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Erin Giunta: We advocate for curriculum that is inclusive and empowering of non white perspectives we support productive efforts to hire more teachers who are people of color.

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Erin Giunta: And we support policy changes that will ensure black students and all students of color. It feels safe reporting experiences of racism at school.

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Erin Giunta: And finally, we work to increase the involvement of people of color in the school community planning.

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Erin Giunta: We welcome and invite any member of our community to work with us to help make our PTO meetings and our PTO board more representative of the community we serve.

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Erin Giunta: We acknowledge. We can do better. And we are energized to build new ways of engaging and evolving all of our school families we humbly ask for any input support suggestions and volunteers.

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Erin Giunta: Will be hosting our final PTO meeting of the year, the school year this Thursday, June 25 at 7pm via zoom

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Erin Giunta: The link is available on our Facebook page. We will also be hosting and listening and Q AMP a session later this summer about the PTO we welcome your attendance and we welcome your feedback. Stay safe and healthy and have a great summer. Thank you very much.

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Anthony White: Oh, Mike. Up next is Miss Anderson. I'm Tara

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Josayne Anderson-Tejera: Hi, I'm here. Can you hear me.

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Josayne Anderson-Tejera: Okay, thank you. Board of Education, pretty much. She summed up what I was going to say in terms of the diversity initiatives that

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Josayne Anderson-Tejera: We would like to see as a, you know, parents and communities. I'm a long time Glennon resident start at my school at Glen them graduated 99 from DHS

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Josayne Anderson-Tejera: parent of a student who just graduated 2020 VHS and just as we reimagine education for New York, I would like us to reimagine American history US history so we can have a multicultural approach to our students and their education. So I just wanted to

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Josayne Anderson-Tejera: Propose that to the board and I can. I also send an email. I'm going to rescind the email to the general mailbox with some resources and tips because I'm also involved.

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Josayne Anderson-Tejera: With diversity and corrections I'm involved with other nonprofit organizations for diversity and inclusion and in criminal justice as well so

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Josayne Anderson-Tejera: I think this is a starting point of the conversation, I would like to see where it's going to go in the near future and beyond. So that's all I wanted to say this evening.

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Anthony White: Thank you.

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Anthony White: Miss Friedman.

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Anthony White: frydman

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Ilana Friedman: Hi.

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Ilana Friedman: I'm coming from getting my video started. Hello, my name is Ilana Friedman, I run the BHA preschool at beacon Hebrew alliance and I've been teaching for almost 20 years

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Ilana Friedman: And my husband Brian Quinn. He's the director of one major who has helped design. The we woods and the new park at Green Street, as well as making the donation Aaron mentioned

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Ilana Friedman: And I want to start by just reiterating how grateful I am and proud I am to be part of the district. My daughter just finished first grade during one of the most challenging times that we could have imagined our district was led by

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Ilana Friedman: Some very compassionate and proactive leaders. So this is a statement. I want to share as contingency plans develop for our schools fall 2020 programming.

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Ilana Friedman: I would like to make the case that outdoor spaces are key to a positive outcome mounting evidence indicates that coven rarely spreads outside

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Ilana Friedman: Very few cases around the world can be traced to open air interactions.

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Ilana Friedman: Now, many progressive public school districts and private schools in the USA, as well as entire school systems abroad are looking toward open air school time to help mitigate the risk of spread

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Ilana Friedman: For some, this means outdoor classrooms with whiteboards and logs or chairs as seats for others. This might mean increased supervised playtime and fields and forest or even on blacktop

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Ilana Friedman: VCs, the staff did a commendable job of developing online learning on the spot. Now that we have time to plan.

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Ilana Friedman: We can develop components to remote curricula that includes physical, material outdoor activity in the green spaces around our schools.

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Ilana Friedman: Children receiving special services such as physical and occupational therapy.

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Ilana Friedman: Thrive from outdoor sessions with their therapists community building and social curriculum like responsive classrooms morning meeting can be all the more joyful and meaningful on a grassy field. I mean, I, you can, you have to leave right now. Thanks. Sorry about that.

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Ilana Friedman: Common core math and La lessons, as well as science, social studies and art curricula.

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Ilana Friedman: Are easily explored was seated on a circle of stumps, or by observing the natural environment gathering data questions and ideas on clipboards or and notebooks.

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Ilana Friedman: Throughout my professional life as a teacher and as a director of garden based programming. I have observed the countless benefits that come from natural play and learning spaces, especially when children are otherwise asked to turn to screens for learning.

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Ilana Friedman: As the director of Beacon Hebrew alliances garden based preschool.

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Ilana Friedman: I have witnessed the joy of families as they return to our school garden during scheduled intervals. Children are thrilled to return to their learnings place to do familiar school activities.

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Ilana Friedman: And this summer. They'll be visiting regularly to water the garden and check on the vegetables and also borrow from our new mini anti-racism library.

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Ilana Friedman: If in person. Education is not allowed this fall, or if it is only possible to host students on staggered schedules. Our students would need real life places to learn and play with social distance, all the more

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Ilana Friedman: If we are not able to open for a full school day for all children. I hope that BCS D commits to providing quality child care to families in need of it during regular school hours available opener spaces would make this easier.

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Ilana Friedman: BCS these partnership with land to learn rain teens common ground farm and the rec center, among other groups that specialize in working with students out of doors would surely be valuable resources in this effort.

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Ilana Friedman: My husband, Brian, as I mentioned, the principle of one major

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Ilana Friedman: On in his company has been responsible for helping renovate some spaces like this, and I hope that one nature and my school BHA preschool can be of service in developing student outdoor

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Ilana Friedman: Access on school grounds as well. I advocate that BCS D band together with existing partners right now. During this time of planning to build infrastructure provide professional development or provide staffing support.

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Ilana Friedman: mounting evidence points to the intrinsic value of being outdoors. It boosts students, social, emotional and mental well being.

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Ilana Friedman: These are of great importance as we welcome everyone back to school following isolation and in many cases trauma caused by the pandemic.

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Ilana Friedman: And remember the virus is rarely spread in the open air. There are many hurdles to starting a new school year. Again, no matter how you cut it.

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Ilana Friedman: But the hurdles involved in ensuring more outdoor school time are relatively small, while the potential games are groundbreaking

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Ilana Friedman: AS SERGEANT parents. We're really grateful to have you at the helm of Beacons schools.

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Ilana Friedman: And we would like to offer our energy resources and experience to ensure outdoor learning and play time for students when school resumes. I thank you for considering this appeal and I await your response as to how we can help with the next steps.

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Anthony White: Thank you.

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Anthony White: Miss Nicholson.

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Donna Mikkelsen: Hello. Hi there.

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Donna Mikkelsen: Can you hear me.

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Donna Mikkelsen: We're good. Okay, great. Thank you. Thank you so much for having this forum. I just wanted to. There's so much to say. But I wanted to just make the point that there's only 75 people on this conference call.

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Donna Mikkelsen: And last week I learned that the survey that went out there were about 1000 you can correct me if I'm wrong about 1000 responses from the survey and I was. Is that correct, Matt.

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Donna Mikkelsen: How many responses you got

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Matt Landahl: Yeah, for the distance learning survey.

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Donna Mikkelsen: Yeah, so I just want to point out that there's there's about 3000 students in the district. And if you times that by to counting the parents. There's at least 606,000 sorry parents, caregivers who are responsible for these children.

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Donna Mikkelsen: So out of the 6000 only 1000 of those 6000 actually responded to the survey. So, those numbers are really small.

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Donna Mikkelsen: And one of my concerns and something I really hope that the Board of Ed and the staff will consider is really making a concerted effort to reach out to the communities that are not having a voice right now in these types of forums.

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Donna Mikkelsen: There's a lot of people right now really struggling. They're struggling with the pandemic, they're struggling with the racial injustice that's happening.

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Donna Mikkelsen: So so so it's it's important that we make the effort to reach out and activate the community. We have amazing resources in beacon. We have people who are already doing this work, and I'm sure if we activate them we can really accomplish a lot. I just really want to make that space.

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Donna Mikkelsen: Available for people, which was my intention with hosting a talk last week.

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Donna Mikkelsen: Because we need more platforms we need more people represented and I really truly believe in all of my years of being in education and working with school districts and running a school

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Donna Mikkelsen: That parents are an integral part of the education of their children and we are all in the trenches right now.

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Donna Mikkelsen: And we need a voice all the parents need a voice. And so I really want to make the

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Donna Mikkelsen: plea to you guys make the effort and there are mechanisms out there. There's people who would volunteer.

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Donna Mikkelsen: I want to offer my services, let's activate the community so we can really get an understanding of where parents are at what their needs are and let's talk to the kids because they should have a voice in their education as well. And I'll leave it at that for now. Thank you.

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Anthony White: The next person. I have is Priscilla's iPhone.

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Anthony White: I don't know if you want to make a comment.

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Priscilla's iPhone: Hi I'm Priscilla Kelly. I'm from New Covenant Learning Center okay to not 95

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Priscilla's iPhone: And I just received this a couple days ago. Um, I guess this adopted statement and I have. I'm very concerned.

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Priscilla's iPhone: I just had a meeting with the superintendent on Monday last Monday and I have just simple questions I'm

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Priscilla's iPhone: Like it states that it says, while also recognizing that we still have much to learn and changes in order to

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Priscilla's iPhone: fully address the racism in our institution we recognize that our school have not always succeeded. Glad you recognize that at the at this and apologize to those who fail.

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Priscilla's iPhone: To serve I have simple questions, like we've been in existence for 12 years at 95 Catherine and we can get simple things like a phone call returned an email return an answer to simple questions as far as

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Priscilla's iPhone: Why haven't my teacher been paid for three and a half months, stuff like that. Um, I spoke to the superintendent. I've asked Eric right I spoken to.

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Priscilla's iPhone: And Marie. Still, we cannot get the answers. And it's been a long time coming on.

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Priscilla's iPhone: I've been lied to. I've been ignored our students haven't gotten the things that they deserve.

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Priscilla's iPhone: And we would have to first start acknowledging first that there is a problem which you have and identify where the discrimination stars, and I believe it starts at the top.

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Priscilla's iPhone: And I would like to sit down or even one on one with someone, but it's it's gotten to the point where enough is enough. Our school has been neglected.

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Priscilla's iPhone: Ignored act like we don't exist, but yet still we're doing the best that we can. We're producing students that are excellent and the academics.

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Priscilla's iPhone: We have a daycare. That was ignored. I have a parent that applied for that grant and she was they were told to the arm. She told me today that they denied her because she was wanting to send her child to new covenant Learning Center.

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Priscilla's iPhone: And that I was very distraught. Why should you just pick one daycare when we have all of these other daycares that's available. That's actually a school slash daycare and we were ignored.

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Priscilla's iPhone: There's a lot of questions on that needs to be addressed and we have to also first

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Priscilla's iPhone: Identify where all the discrimination is taking place. It's easy to say that it's happening. But you have to pinpoint where it's happening. And it's definitely happening from the top and slowing down and I'm, I would like to have that addressed.

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Thank you.

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Anthony White: Thank you.

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Anthony White: Next up is Christina like Elisa

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Christine Alicea: Hi everyone. Um, my first time here parts meeting. I just wanted to

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Christine Alicea: I guess given update that I had produced a scholarship called the VHS students scholarship and I was able to raise $1,350 in a matter of three days.

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Christine Alicea: I'm the scholarship recipient has been selected to a wonderful gal by the name of Dr guillen's she's an outgoing energetic athletic and academically driven individual who is aspiring to become a future Electrical and Computer Science engineer.

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Christine Alicea: Part of my, my first time experiencing the scholarship coordination process. I had the opportunity to

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Christine Alicea: Listen to these students voices and hear out their concerns in regards to their high school and the programs that they are being offered at this time I'm

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Christine Alicea: You know this year has been such a year and it was definitely a place in my heart to really want to connect with the students personally and to really hear out their voices.

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Christine Alicea: And and to really hear out their challenges that they face and how this pandemic headed affected or, you know, challenge their

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Christine Alicea: Learning capabilities and connecting with others in the community. So a few of the concerns that they had a voice was

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Christine Alicea: And this is something that I definitely want to advocate because of the concern of, you know, based off of what Donna had mentioned about certain families are not being reached out to

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Christine Alicea: You know, some of these students had mentioned that they want more classes pertaining into life set skills like more financial literacy programs I had spoken to a student who lives in a home with 11 other family members and

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Christine Alicea: Struggles, and you know through daily life and have to share one bathroom with 11 people in her home and

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Christine Alicea: These are the students that I'm legitimately concerned about because they're doing everything in their willpower to

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Christine Alicea: Do the Right Thing follow the rules, the system, you know, confide into their counselors guidance counselor's social workers, but

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Christine Alicea: They had express and voice your concern that they are hungry to learn them that they want to be able to be successful in this world and

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Christine Alicea: I definitely commend you guys for, you know, increasing the computer science programs that

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Christine Alicea: Computer science programs that you guys have advanced, but people. I mean, students have voiced the concerns of more finite financial literacy, which is definitely lacking in a in the system and it's a big concern for me because coming from

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Christine Alicea: I'm Tina woman and that wasn't a program that was provided growing up. And so I definitely want to advocate whether if it's literally setting up a table at some of these health clinics that are in our community.

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Christine Alicea: Kind of stemming off with what Donna was mentioning, part of what we can do to advocate and to reach out to certain community.

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Christine Alicea: Especially with a financial hardship and feelings of concerns of not being heard, or being supported, I strongly believe that that I mean I'd be happy to advocate and reach out to those certain communities that are

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Christine Alicea: Somewhat segregated segregated from not knowing what to do and

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Christine Alicea: So I'm willing to do whatever it takes, and whoever I need to partner up with our speak to you, I would be happy to do that.

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Christine Alicea: I'm telling off of the whole financial literacy. I am very well connected with a lot of people who are in nonprofit organizations that promote financial literacy in

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Christine Alicea: The city bound schools. And so, you know, I, I'm just kind of coming up to you guys saying that hey,

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Christine Alicea: By the tools students, especially in beacon because I live here and really it was just really great to speak to all the students who had applied for the scholarship and just express their concerns.

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Christine Alicea: You know, to be honest, some students are just really shy to ask and you know I think that there is a level of

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Christine Alicea: Uncertainty that they're just they don't know how to begin. So it really takes that courage to step up and say, hey, teacher, I need help.

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Christine Alicea: And lot of times those students don't take that step. So the students that had applied to the scholarship

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Christine Alicea: Had made the effort to connect to those students to guide them and tell them what they know. But I'm just seeing that there is a little bit of a hole here that I would love to help contribute my time.

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Christine Alicea: To really support that area, especially for the students who are just

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Christine Alicea: Not

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Christine Alicea: Knowing what to do or how they live their lives.

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Christine Alicea: I think that's it. Thanks.

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Anthony White: Thank you. And you'll notice that the scholarship designed for approval tonight. And tonight's board meeting, so thank you.

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Anthony White: No one else has a went to the chat feature to express that they would like to dress the board.

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Anthony White: So seeing that no one else says, use the chat feature to acknowledge that they want to address the board. We can move to the workshop feet piece, um,

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Matt Landahl: Oh, go ahead. Anthony, sorry.

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Anthony White: No, you're good.

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Matt Landahl: So in the letter that the port put out

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Matt Landahl: The letters stated that tonight was an opportunity to talk about or develop some strategies for moving forward for the district so

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Matt Landahl: Instead of doing a formal presentation. Like I said at the beginning of the meeting. I'm just going to kind of walk through some steps that we're taking either the summer or for next school year, or both. And, and then I thought it would be good to just have the board.

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Matt Landahl: Open into a discussion about it so

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Matt Landahl: I I mentioned I sent an email out to the

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Matt Landahl: To the community on Friday that at the beginning of my time here. I use. I had different talking points that one of them was the phrase, listen. Learn lead

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Matt Landahl: And that's, that's not a that's that's. Those are three words that need to keep happening and need to be a part of the process of leadership at all times.

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Matt Landahl: And so until you'll see part of our thinking is is really emphasizing the listening part and so

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Matt Landahl: I'm very appreciative to all the people who spoke during public comment. I'll follow up with

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Matt Landahl: With folks who asked for follow up and so thank you for coming to the meeting tonight and speaking. And one of the commenters mentioned really emphasizing student voice. And so one of our first plans for this summer.

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Matt Landahl: Is to is to do

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Matt Landahl: As large number of possible talking circles that we can do with our high school students and our middle school students.

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Matt Landahl: We, we want it to be a safe place for our kids. So we've we've worked with depth mediation.

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Matt Landahl: They do a lot of our circles. Anyway, we've had a relationship with them for a couple of years and they are the group that

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Matt Landahl: Has helped us implement or begin to implement restorative practices that are secondary schools and so they've agreed to work with this, the summer.

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Matt Landahl: Along with next school year, which is already being plan, just to see to see sort of talking circles either depending on healthy guidelines, either in person in a socially distance unsafe manner or online.

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Matt Landahl: And so will be working with our staff at the high school and middle school will be working with folks in the community, parents, students a student leaders to generate a lot of students to be a part of this. I think I my sense is that the conversations will probably go in a lot of directions.

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Matt Landahl: Because I know there's a lot of concerns on the minds of our students. One of the things that we'd like to do if if some groups feel safe. This is to be a part of the conversation and that the administrators, either at the school or at Central Administration, or both.

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Matt Landahl: To be a part of the conversation in hearing what's on students minds and helping them inform our work with him for

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Matt Landahl: So that will be starting

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Matt Landahl: That's just mediation is in the midst of kind of an intense week this week doing some community work. And so we won't be able to start with them until after this week is over.

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Matt Landahl: We will start reaching out of recruiting students within the next few days and into next week to get this going. But it will be a process that takes place over the course of the summer.

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Matt Landahl: We will keep working with restorative practices, that's something that we have been working at for a couple of years that are secondary level.

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Matt Landahl: We want to expand the professional development that the teachers have received, and we also want to expand the number of circle of students experience we're pleased as a first step that we had a

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Matt Landahl: Weekly circles that a number of students were involved in and and we think it's healthy to expand that.

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Matt Landahl: As a side note, even though this is very important, the equity report card is something that we've been working on for a long time.

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Matt Landahl: We have some bumps in the road in terms of changing staff and also it closer with the pandemic sort of gotten a way of getting some of the sun with both the outside person we're working with an internal folks.

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Matt Landahl: At the federal equity report card movie coming out, probably, I think it would make sense to discuss of that. The second board meeting in July, or the first one in August, or both.

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Matt Landahl: Or having been part of the ongoing conversation. But one of the things I can preview is that if you look at our

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Matt Landahl: If you look at our discipline data for our secondary schools from

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Matt Landahl: Up till March 13 and you look at our discipline data from this past year, up until March 13 fo

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Matt Landahl: fo from out and beacon high school. We saw a decrease in suspensions a decrease in the number of the amount of time students were out on suspension a decrease in in school suspension and we said, we think that's directly tied to

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Matt Landahl: To obviously a lot of changes in practice, but it's directly tied to the restorative work.

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Matt Landahl: You think it's just the first step, but it's a good set and we want to keep going down that journey at the elementary level.

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Matt Landahl: We've invested in training teachers, the last couple of years and Responsive Classroom.

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Matt Landahl: And it's a community building model for elementary I was mentioned, I think, in one of the comments as well. So we have another cohort that we're going to be training the summer and that

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Matt Landahl: And and i got the pleasure of seeing a lot of different elementary teachers. Keep doing it. During the closure, even though it's harder to do on a Google meet to keep doing it and implementing and that was really powerful.

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Matt Landahl: I think another really important step that we need to take this summer is to work on curriculum and and really try with our curriculum to make it more affirming for our students more reflective of the diversity of our student population, but also grappling with difficult issues.

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Matt Landahl: That we're facing in society, we're facing in our community and we're facing in our district. So this is not, this is not a list.

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Matt Landahl: It's not an exhaustive list, but some of the first

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Matt Landahl: Some of the materials that we're looking at our, the National Education Association, their diversity toolkit, especially the ones with race and social justice and then they have another have a variety of toolkits that they have one also on sexual orientation and gender identity.

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Matt Landahl: So that's a good resource. We've had a number of teachers actually over the last few weeks, reach out to us.

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Matt Landahl: Which is great. That is kind of coming from both sides. Teachers wanting to take time this summer to either incorporate into their existing curriculum or develop new curriculum.

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Matt Landahl: With using that tool kit browser, looking at the teaching tolerance website.

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Matt Landahl: And their materials, not just their website and trying to incorporate that into our curriculum work. And then lastly is some work. That's a little bit closer to me.

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Matt Landahl: It's the some work from the district that I came from in Ithaca, the last couple of years teachers in that district have developed with a call anti marginalization units.

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Matt Landahl: That are I think kind of span K to 12 and the two

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Matt Landahl: Chief learning targets that they have for their units are one is I can recognize and respond to complex issues of identity diversity prejudice and power in their own communities.

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Matt Landahl: The second learning target is I can explain how marginalization is constructed as an individual and and and at an institution institutional level. Excuse me.

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Matt Landahl: So we feel like we have in definitely internal folks, we have teachers reaching out wanting to make the changes restructuring our curriculum were

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Matt Landahl: To reflect that. We also want to partner up with some outside experts when applicable and and when we can do it so they can provide feedback guidance for some of this curriculum work.

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Matt Landahl: The first major step. I mean, some of this has been happening with individual teachers over the past several years, that

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Matt Landahl: This is a multi year effort will take a big first step for sure the summer and the FDA and the board in the community and I work on that.

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Matt Landahl: I think it's also impossible or excuse me, it's also important with our curriculum work that we developed or utilize some sort of rubric for the different aspects. I've been talking about, just to make sure that it can be applied over time to every teacher's classroom.

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Matt Landahl: So communication is definitely obviously a huge part of this this past year we had a I think

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Matt Landahl: At least in my opinion we had an active diversity committee. This year it's switched over it used to be a board committee and it became sort of more of Administrative Committee, I honestly don't really think that's the important part.

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Matt Landahl: But this year we decided to make it more of a working group and we form three different smaller groups and activity.

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Matt Landahl: And one focus on our code of conduct and restorative practices, looking at data, looking at what we're doing as a district. Another focus on our hiring practices and just to briefly talk about that.

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Matt Landahl: I as the superintendent of the districts and Bill Malone's job is to work closely with this part is to

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Matt Landahl: Is to really dedicate ourselves to diversifying our teaching staff or administrative staff and in all of our units. And so with every hiring. We try to cast

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Matt Landahl: As far look as possible. We try to have a diverse group of people in front of our interview committees and we're committed to overtime making beacon a much more diverse staff.

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Matt Landahl: I should have mentioned work both with the curriculum work and the restorative practices work in the Code of Conduct revisions.

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Matt Landahl: Eric Wright is the point person that or other assistant superintendent and, you know, part of our inspiration for doing talking circles. This summer was that Eric to the number of talking circles.

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Matt Landahl: A year ago last spring, when we are revising the code of conduct and he met with a lot of different students at the secondary level.

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Matt Landahl: To talk about the changes and things that they wanted to see in the code of conduct and we've been pleased with the implementation for that this year. So back to the communication part

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Matt Landahl: There's, there's two major things we need to be communicating about this summer. One is this work that I've laid out and I'm just giving you some some broad strokes, because I want the board.

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Matt Landahl: And and our staff and other community members to to weigh in and give us their feedback on it, but is to communicate about that work, but also

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Matt Landahl: We have a large task ahead of us. And it's been mentioned as you have the comments as well about reopening the districts or what the plan is for next year.

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Matt Landahl: Like I said a few times, either in writing or with groups. I've spoken with that we are eagerly awaiting the state guidelines and once we get those we're really going to dive in.

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Matt Landahl: If it's kind of conjecture. At this point, I mean we can guess that seemed to say guidelines really helped guide our work.

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Matt Landahl: And we're looking at a lot of different things we're looking at the possibility. And I think some of these decisions will be kind of above

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Matt Landahl: Our heads, so to speak, as a district that could be that were closed again and doing full distance learning and now there is some sort of hybrid social distancing is required, and we cannot have all of our students from school and then another. It's just that we're open

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Matt Landahl: We're open with the with the full amount of students with health guidelines. So there are probably 1000 or two questions that need to be answered with that and a lot of input that we need to gather

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Matt Landahl: So once we get the state guidelines. We're going to be working with the school community to develop plans. We obviously have to make them consistent amounts for six schools.

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Matt Landahl: That we want input from our internal stakeholders and our external stakeholders with that too in terms of the distance learning. I think one of the we came up with some really

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Matt Landahl: Sort of summary of the responses for that. And I think this is I'm just trying to kind of respond to some of the comments that came up

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Matt Landahl: In the presentation. I think definitely we need to have a bit more structure. Definitely. Students are craving some more authentic learning experiences and

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Matt Landahl: More accountability with the whole mouth from all ends and and more interaction and that being the most important part. And so I saw as a parent.

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Matt Landahl: And I know a lot of people saw this, that the the interaction part was a struggle to do it online. It was such a big change to do it on the zoom. But even so, it was very important, and we definitely need to increase that so um

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Matt Landahl: So we have a lot of things that we're working on.

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Matt Landahl: The statue, the student voice part. Sorry, I missed part of what I said we have one of the principles mentioned this in the 10 year review, we have equity leadership teams and all of our buildings.

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Matt Landahl: Right now those are filled by adults. And so we want to add students to those committees and we will ask you to those committees that will be

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Matt Landahl: At at all of our schools, high school, middle school and elementary school. So we want to increase student voice. We want to do a lot of listening to our with our students.

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Matt Landahl: either in person or through a mediator this summer to hear what's on their mind. We want that to help

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Matt Landahl: Inform us, we want to use data to inform our practices we want to build on some of the things that we've already started like restorative practices responsive faster. We really wanted to start taking in news exciting to see the high level of teacher motivation on this end.

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Matt Landahl: To making some revisions and changes and overhauls to our curriculum.

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Matt Landahl: Through a lens of inclusion and diversity and anti racism.

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Matt Landahl: We've offered to purchase the book, How to Be an anti racist or anyone in the school district any internal personas with district.

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Matt Landahl: We have a large number of people take us up on that and so will be getting those books out to folks, probably in the next week or two. So we have a lot of things that we're building on a lot of steps that will feel new

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Matt Landahl: I think it's also important to note that this is necessary work.

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Matt Landahl: And it's also uncomfortable for some folks. And I think that shows growth and so

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Matt Landahl: So I'm not at all at any sort of end game. I feel like we've just started to take the first few steps. I'm not at all satisfied with where we are. But, but I will say, I've been very, very

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Matt Landahl: Proud of the number of students who participated with us in these conversations and discussion to the number of teachers and administrators who joined in all this training with us.

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Matt Landahl: And this work over the last few years. So I just wanted to provide kind of an overview. I wanted to do it. Informally, and I wanted to throw it out to the board.

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Matt Landahl: Just to discuss because that that's what you all say to them, the ladder. So I'm going to give you a chance to talk about it a little bit. Give us feedback and also answer questions if you haven't

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Any questions.

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James Case-Leal: Do I have well

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James Case-Leal: Probably have a lot of questions.

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James Case-Leal: That also really great. Thank you. Thank you for that very, very important. It's great to hear. Um, I have some comments on on a lot of things, but I don't want to give it all at once. So we have a little bit of a back and forth.

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James Case-Leal: I'm particularly interested in the talking, talking, circles. I think that's a really, really cool idea. It's a really great idea.

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James Case-Leal: I think it echoes, some of the comments that we were hearing from some of the parents who spoke up just about wanting to have more more access to, to how we're going to listen.

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James Case-Leal: This has been something that that I've been trying to wrap my head around for two years since I've been on the board.

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James Case-Leal: Is I so often will find myself I seek out groups of students and I

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James Case-Leal: I've been. I've employed students have gone to green teens. I've been around many of the protest and activism is happening and I talked to the young people.

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James Case-Leal: And I find that literally every single student that I've ever spoken to from grade for to seniors, I said. I said just. Have you ever witnessed or experienced

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James Case-Leal: Any prejudice at school or discrimination or bias and every single time a student will say yes, they won't shut up about it. Honestly, there's like they want, they just be me walking up to me saying, can you tell me about that. Tell me.

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James Case-Leal: But then, there seems to be some obstacle to these complaints being building up the ladder and making their way to any kind of formal

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James Case-Leal: Impression to kind of know so it's kind of, I'm always, you know, from from my side of it.

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James Case-Leal: I want to, like, well, the district wants to hear this and it seems to be some resistance to the students voluntarily seeking out that so listening start talking circles. Certainly seems like a great first step in that

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James Case-Leal: I had the thought of a series of it's possible to do some kind of survey that maybe it's like the could be bilingual survey that gets mailed to students and their families.

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James Case-Leal: Really literally asking them if they've witnessed these kinds of situations.

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James Case-Leal: And maybe also be useful to reiterate the process for registering formal complaints. So that's kind of a common question I'm putting out there.

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Matt Landahl: Sure, yeah. We will look into a survey.

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Matt Landahl: To both see what's out there and see what we can get out. I will say this is this is anecdotal that I have seen

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Matt Landahl: I've seen more things I've seen more

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Matt Landahl: The right word. I've seen more kind of

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Matt Landahl: Movement on both ends, both on the student end and the administrator in to try to seek out some resolution some issues.

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Matt Landahl: And I think part of is because of the circle work and the restorative practices work but and I'll say this a bunch of times, we have a long way to go with that. And I certainly

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Matt Landahl: Wanted to district where students feel like they have someone they can turn to and either report things or try to work through a problem.

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Matt Landahl: But I have seen some things that maybe a few years ago, I would have seen sort of come out in a different way. And I saw groups of students and staff try to work through some issues, especially this past year. That was nice to see

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James Case-Leal: As a, as a follow up, could you reiterate the process for

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James Case-Leal: filing a complaint or registering a plane or a student or parents perspective.

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Matt Landahl: Sure that would be officially under the dignity for all students act Eric is our. Eric Wright is our district dasa coordinator and so I'll let him speak to that.

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wright.e: Yes, whenever. Thank you, Dr. Lander whenever a parent or student has a complaint to lodge, they

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wright.e: One way that they can go about it is that they can fill out the form that's on a district website that's a former district website a form of dental normally to the school principal principal is the data.

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Matt Landahl: Code or

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wright.e: Whether they're building it from there.

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wright.e: And

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wright.e: The student may be called into have a conversation, you know, with the with the student who's making a complaint may be called in to have a conversation with the administrator

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wright.e: Which is the data coordinate, as I said, and then from there, and investigation is launched. Normally, I would say.

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wright.e: Most times if not all times. I am informed at the very beginning of the process so that I can now know what's going on. And I can give support, you know, to the coordinate axes building

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wright.e: You know there are times when we have to involve our attorneys for some support. Other times, I'm able to handle it and make sure that it's gone about the right way.

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wright.e: As at the end of the investor ation are. There's a piece within the form that has to be filled out by the Data Coordinator, and then the form is

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wright.e: The form is kept in in the findings are given to the parent in the student

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James Case-Leal: And can I ask one more question about that. Just response to that Eric and there. Thank you for that answer.

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James Case-Leal: Are there any explicit protections that we could could vocalize now to any parents or teachers or sorry, parents or students

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James Case-Leal: Who might have apprehension of reporting something because they will still have to work with that teacher or security guard or whoever, whatever center students, whatever the situation might be. Is there any protections we can offer is

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James Case-Leal: reassure them.

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wright.e: If they are some discomfort.

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wright.e: Basement report directly to me, you know, as the district bass a coordinator and then from there, I will work it back to the building level, ensuring that the feel comfortable within the process.

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Antony Tseng: Those Anthony, I guess.

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Antony Tseng: Is the

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Antony Tseng: So I look forward to when the report card comes out. I'm

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Antony Tseng: Sure, it's a tool that we can use. It's not the the end I believe would be the beginning

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Antony Tseng: Of data that we can use to look at

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Antony Tseng: Issues that may be happening across the district report card will not only have statistics. But what had recommendations as well recommendations would be like a second second tier work.

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Matt Landahl: Well,

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Matt Landahl: It would just have data. But, you know, we're already, in a sense, kind of doing some of the recommendations or strategies right now and trying to strengthen them.

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Matt Landahl: But I think through looking at it with both staff and the board and others will develop some more strategies as well that it could involve either policy changes or practice changes or all of the above.

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Antony Tseng: And I we memorializing those changes somewhere so that the parents can see whether it what's happening.

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Matt Landahl: memorializing changes.

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Matt Landahl: Strategy changes.

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Antony Tseng: Yeah, he said strategy said policies, you said a couple different ways.

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Matt Landahl: I mean, if, if we're, you know, we try to inform folks in a variety of ways. But some of the things we're doing. We always can do better.

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Matt Landahl: So I think if we're trying a strategy.

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Matt Landahl: Like restorative practices or the classroom is something that we try to update the community about in different ways.

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Matt Landahl: And I think, I think it's really important from an accountability standpoint. And I think that's a, it's a big next step, not a next step, but it's, it's something very important for us as a district.

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Matt Landahl: To communicate very regularly about what we're saying. Tonight I don't view, this meeting is or this work is like a one off, kind of thing. It's a very much pretty

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Matt Landahl: Besides reopening school right now it's, it is the main thing that we are working on and talking about and has been for quite some time.

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Matt Landahl: And so we need to update update the community and in a way that keeps us accountable about moving the world forward. So I'll do that part in regular emails and we in this got thrown off by the pandemic and this will closure, but we also have

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Matt Landahl: A strategic plan tool that will kind of it has like a public dashboard that will update the community through our work moving forward on that too. And so we'll be able to unveil that later in the summer.

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Antony Tseng: Thank you. One of the early results. So in the report card. It's just an example on was that the AP English is is had

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Antony Tseng: Very large participation of of white students, but had very low, but especially for non white students, but something like he

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Antony Tseng: Was AP math had a actually a pretty much equal participation by white and non white students, um,

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Antony Tseng: And it was drafted data. So I'm not sure if it's still consistent today. He goes draft data from a few years back a couple years back.

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Oh, yeah.

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Antony Tseng: I mean, is that something that you think still prevalent now and it's what would be recommendations for something like that.

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Matt Landahl: Um I you know I need to look specifically at that and I'll be prepared to do that.

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Matt Landahl: At probably the meeting where we do the equity report card. I was thinking, it'd be the second meeting in July.

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Matt Landahl: But

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Matt Landahl: You know,

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Matt Landahl: You're right in pointing out that we in in in some of our higher level classes. The enrollment is very diverse and

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Matt Landahl: probably much more so than some other districts. But then in some other classes, we have some ways to go. And I'm not exactly

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Matt Landahl: Sure, for all the reasons. So I know we've had some initial conversations with the high school about that, but we need to have more. And I think that's something that the board can have some involvement. If it's a change. And, you know, academic

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Matt Landahl: I don't know if it's a, you know, capital P policy, but if it's a change in our practice at the high school. I think that's something that the board can be involved into

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Matt Landahl: But

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Matt Landahl: The short answer to your question is I need a little bit more time to tell you if

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Matt Landahl: If it's still the case.

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meredithheuer: And had a question about the curriculum writing this summer. I mean, that's, that's something we we did budget for some curriculum writing the summer, but do we need

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meredithheuer: Extra PD to support the teachers in that or what will that look like

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Matt Landahl: Well, a that is a great question. We

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Matt Landahl: And since there's a lot of people listening tonight.

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Matt Landahl: You know, it's funny. I'm usually I tend to focus as the superintendent on

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Matt Landahl: On the community and the district. And I don't think as much about the state level, but we are continually

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Matt Landahl: Either told or hinted at that we are looking at a

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Matt Landahl: A drastic cut and state aid for this upcoming year. And so, you know, the federal government, there appears to be continued in action on it and the state level appears to just be sort of waiting for the feds to do something so

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Matt Landahl: If you, if folks feel inclined to advocate with

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Matt Landahl: With who seems appropriate for that. I know some board members, maybe have some more specific thoughts.

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Matt Landahl: Because due to these drastic cuts that might be coming our way. We have, we have a more limited budget for this work, it's just kind of a reality. So

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Matt Landahl: We are trying to put as much of our resources towards this as possible. And, you know,

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Matt Landahl: Like the work with the restorative practices Responsive Classroom the curriculum writing work where we're trying to

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Matt Landahl: If we have an outside expert helping us it's it's hopefully another teacher maybe from another district who has some experience, which would be maybe a little bit more of a cost effective way of doing it.

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Matt Landahl: But I worry about the financial side of this, and it's real. And it doesn't seem like it's going. It doesn't seem like it's getting fixed and maybe there is no fix. I completely understand that we're in a tough very tough spot.

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Matt Landahl: As a country,

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Matt Landahl: Terms of the economy.

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Matt Landahl: But, but if we have a lot of challenges in front of us from a financial perspective and I I don't say this to be little or to say, other things are less important, but we also have unexpected costs with potentially reopening that

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Matt Landahl: That we haven't even begun to really tabulate and that's part of the work of the summer. So

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Matt Landahl: So yeah, so. So the fiscal part is a concern that we will put our curriculum writing work toward this we will put the PT money that we reserve towards moving this forward as well. We probably just won't be able to do maybe as much as a previous year. Just, just as a reality.

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meredithheuer: Games. Um, I just wanted to follow up on that, just to say that I do you think that looking at the way that public education is funded in terms of being an equity issue is really, really important.

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meredithheuer: And, you know, maybe the PR committee can do a workshop on that. But it's, it's something that we have been, you know, kept in suspense for

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meredithheuer: Over 10 years about foundation aid, which was a bandaid to fix what was already not very equitable funding situation in our state. And so I think that

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meredithheuer: If people want to join us and check in with their legislators, even now on a daily basis and ask them what they're doing to try to fix that. I think that's really

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meredithheuer: Essential because it does. Yeah, I mean, as it is. We're cutting back on PV that we had already planned for and a three year cycle where we will not be able to finish it, as we have planned at this point.

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meredithheuer: And that's really disappointing considering how successful, it's been

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Matt Landahl: Yeah, and we

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Antony Tseng: Can we supplement. I'm

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Antony Tseng: Gonna be supplement that need with with it with an ass to the community to see

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Antony Tseng: What enough talent we may have in the community. I mean we we mad. We definitely Matt has done a great job trying to find in house talent within the district, but maybe the talent is not an employee of the district, maybe, but with both still within the Community.

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James Case-Leal: Into your existing like a volunteer.

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Antony Tseng: Volunteer or I mean we've heard tonight about a couple of

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Antony Tseng: Organizations nonprofits that at offer offer some services of a specific kind. I mean, there's other specific things that we're looking for in terms of

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Antony Tseng: Professional and stuff. So, you know, we may

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Antony Tseng: There may be some in house talent in within the community that can help with certain things.

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Matt Landahl: Sure.

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Antony Tseng: And I know and I know at one point we had a parent coordinator. I think we still do. I don't know if we ever had a community coordinator, and I don't know if we need one per se, but you know, I don't know if we ever had a formal system of Community asks, and in our community offers

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meredithheuer: I agree. Anthony that, you know, taking advantage of our community is really important and and we need to figure out how to do that better.

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meredithheuer: Regarding that particular professional development. I feel like it was it was it took a lot of planning and a lot of

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meredithheuer: Careful choosing to decide which way to go. And it which is directly tied to our strategic plan.

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meredithheuer: Um, so I feel like. And I feel like at, you know, with all the instability that the district saw over the last 10 YEARS BEFORE MATT came

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meredithheuer: There was a constant like stop starting and then starting over because new leadership. So it's just especially disappointing to not be able to finish this plan.

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Matt Landahl: Yeah.

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Matt Landahl: We, you know, we are we are trying hard to keep the momentum going, for sure. I think one aspect that we would like to develop with the community this year. And this actually goes back to

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Matt Landahl: One of the comments made as well as to have

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Matt Landahl: I think, I think there's a really

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Matt Landahl: Large need for mentorship in the community and so

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Matt Landahl: Kind of over the

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Matt Landahl: You know, the challenge of the last few months, I've had a lot of different people communicate with me about stuff and and i think i think tapping into

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Matt Landahl: Tapping into people who are willing to mentor.

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Matt Landahl: Better one of our young people and there's ways to do it. Even when we're in the midst of a pandemic and so

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Matt Landahl: I think that would be something that we would love to kind of partner with the community to create and you know I speak as someone who I think way back when.

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Matt Landahl: Many, many years ago what started me in education as a 19 year old or something in college was that I was a mentor to student throughout all of my college years and

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Matt Landahl: And you don't have to be a college student, obviously, to do it. But I think there's a lot of folks in the community wanting to connect in a way. And so I think that's a potential areas. Well, we have a lot of students that I think would benefit from that.

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James Case-Leal: Hey, well, I have a question related to the curriculum, kind of going, taking a step back, looking at it from a different angle.

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James Case-Leal: I know that the board we approve all of our textbooks. Do we know where we are on that cycle of when we have the next. Is it is it piecemeal, are they all come at once, and if so, kind of, where are we in that on that schedule.

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Matt Landahl: It's a little bit piecemeal, but I'll let Eric jumped in.

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wright.e: Yes, we have a middle school. We're going to look at this, so she studies textbooks.

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wright.e: The Social Studies coordinator put in a proposal to have new materials purchased

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wright.e: The coordinator know the department vetted some some materials from different vendors, they found they found a resource that they really liked

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wright.e: Unfortunately, one of the things that happened was that when the person was supposed to present. That's when we went into distance learning. So he was not able to present you know to the curriculum committee, um, I had the conversation with them. The discuss

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wright.e: The process that they went through he violated the paperwork and so we moved to the law.

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wright.e: So that's where we are in terms of like our social studies department. One thing that I want to go back to that that our data Landau had alluded to in terms of, like, just some of the planning, you know, that's taking place, um,

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wright.e: Earlier doing public comment, one of the presenters talked about US history in American history and how they are there ways to actually really

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wright.e: Hone in on on basically accomplishments of people color.

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wright.e: And so one of the things that I'm planning to do this summer is have was take a look

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wright.e: At American history in US history, you know, whether at the high school or, you know, US history, you know, you know history in our, in our, in our

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wright.e: At our middle school level and begin to really focus on those areas that haven't been tapped into much and really bring out the contributions of

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wright.e: Of of people during a time. So we construction area and even through the back and moving forward now. And I think that's really important because if we want to really have

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wright.e: A community in a country where

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wright.e: Where all people of the or we're all people really matter. And at this point in time of black lives matter, we have to build the conditions we have to create those conditions for empathy.

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wright.e: You know, to really, really be accepted and understood. So, therefore, you know, if you begin to really hone in

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wright.e: On those areas and much more detailed and it has been in the past. And that goes and that comes with curriculum writing what will happen is that

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wright.e: Um, you know, our students, we really understand you know what happened during, you know, during those time periods. And then from there I really think that they will leave school system better for

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wright.e: You know, and be to really make great contributions in society. So, you know, a lot of that has to do with

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wright.e: The textbooks that have been ordered, but it also has to be the point outside of those textbooks and, you know, using those sites like Facing History

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wright.e: Teaching tolerance. There's curriculum that the New Jersey Department of Education has adapted, you know, the star curriculum just tapping into all those resources that are available to really help us to just improve the curriculum that we are we are teaching tools.

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James Case-Leal: That's amazing. Eric, thank you. Really appreciate that work, and I appreciate that you are guiding hand on that work. That sounds very promising.

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James Case-Leal: In the interim, can we, I'm just curious. And actually, I have never known this right before the pandemic, the shutdown kind of hit you had delivered us a list of the textbooks as part of this conversation. So the first time we talked about it.

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Yeah.

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James Case-Leal: Would it be possible or is it standard practice for board members to have access to borrowing any copies of those books for own personal review and preparation for any for the curriculum workshop or approving these in the future or anything like that.

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Matt Landahl: If yes, the short answer is yes. I keep giving wrong answers. Everything tonight. So the short answer is yes. And, you know, a member of the public. And actually, you know, asked to see a textbook and we would make one available to them to see

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Matt Landahl: So yeah, yes, you can.

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Antony Tseng: I just want. I just want to thank Eric for for that detail and Matt, thank you for your comments as well the the mentoring project, something that was mentioned on think about four years ago at a

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Antony Tseng: At a NAACP event in one of the schools. I'm glad you you're bringing that back up again.

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Antony Tseng: And I think we've had some some good ideas in the past as well. So you know I don't necessarily feel that I that any one of us is

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Antony Tseng: Owns the best idea. I think as a community, we will come up war come up with good ideas.

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James Case-Leal: I had a follow up, it's actually going back to a comment.

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James Case-Leal: Anthony saying had made before talking about

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James Case-Leal: The old data on AP classes. I actually looked at the report card. Earlier today I was looking at 2919 and I didn't break it up by subjects, but I did see that there's a pretty clear.

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James Case-Leal: The it's pretty clear that looking going as far back as honors courses in the middle school. The, the demographics of the Honors classes and advanced classes don't match demographics of the larger population.

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James Case-Leal: Seems to be about a 16% discrepancy

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James Case-Leal: It raises some questions for me. Sounds like even just as a parent with my own experience with middle school students. The process for

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James Case-Leal: Students, kind of, it's a it's a tracking thing right you know like once you six seventh graders when you start to students start to get recommended for honors courses.

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James Case-Leal: That process. I think even speaking to other parents is pretty nebulous. I'm curious if that's

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James Case-Leal: If we could describe that if you could speak to that a little bit, Matt. The process for that. So our students get into honors courses.

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James Case-Leal: Of course, if you're an honors courses in seventh grade, you're more likely to be an AP classes I school. And if that's an area we could look at as kind of like what are those criteria around those recommendations getting made and. Is there potential for that unbalanced to start

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Matt Landahl: Yeah, you know, there's the short answer there is a

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Matt Landahl: Pass grades and teacher recommendation and sometimes says standardized test score if there's one that's applicable.

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Matt Landahl: You know i i think this particular subject would be

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Matt Landahl: Whether it's in a board committee.

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Matt Landahl: Or full board meeting, or it's in a committee first or whatever the process, we thought, I think this would be a great one.

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Matt Landahl: To discuss more as a board.

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Matt Landahl: I know you know what we can do.

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Matt Landahl: For a future meeting and I would, I would think it would be good to have this to do this conversation this summer is we can show our current state and then also look at what some other districts are doing

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Matt Landahl: And I know we've taken maybe some small steps. Isn't this, but I think this is an area.

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Matt Landahl: I think this is an area that the board can can get more directly involved in

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Matt Landahl: Or we can facilitate however you want to say it, but I think this would be a good topic for

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Matt Landahl: It could be kind of like the sole topic in a way

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Antony Tseng: So matter your credit when you first started here. You, you also did community meetings as well. And I think you you were able to collect a lot information to that isn't again. And I know you're applying to continue those in

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Antony Tseng: The pandemic started but I'm

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Antony Tseng: Hoping you will also continue that effort as well.

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Matt Landahl: For sure. I mean, I certainly did a lot of concert things my first year, but I kept doing a number of community meetings and events.

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Matt Landahl: Through my three years and, you know, I forgot to mention something in my, my little preamble, that the diversity committee, you know, with the pandemic and the closure just sort of all the I hate using the word chaos, but all of the

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Matt Landahl: Just sort of figuring out our new lies that went on for a couple of months.

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Matt Landahl: Kind of that work to the committee went to the side. And so I know there's a number of people wanting to continue in and I for sure do, too. And I know Eric and bill.

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Matt Landahl: Who co facilitated with me do as well. So, so we're going to get that going. Again, as well. And I think this the smaller working group model really seem to work. And I think it felt. I won't speak for people, but I think it felt productive on some level, so I think

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Matt Landahl: You know, I think sort of along with like the talking circle plan that we have for the summer, we want to get these working groups coming to because we know we've generated a lot of great ideas and the diversity committee this year.

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James Case-Leal: Everyone one final common question which I'm actually talking about moving forward looking at

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James Case-Leal: Our yearly review the Code of Conduct policy.

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James Case-Leal: Code of Conduct this summer. Typically, you know, for those who don't know, typically policies will be reviewed in the policy committee.

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James Case-Leal: This is such a

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James Case-Leal: Big step for us, you know, we did. We did a lot of work as a district. And I think we're we're excited to hear that there's a lot of progress because it's been such a success. I was thinking to suggest

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James Case-Leal: I don't know if this is relevant to my leaving the chair of the policy committee but suggesting that we review that in a normal meeting.

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James Case-Leal: I'm sure there will be some minor changes the world is a little bit different.

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James Case-Leal: There's certainly some things that I think are

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James Case-Leal: Very important to right now and it's important to remember that code of conduct is not just a disciplinary method in many cases also where we offer protections for a lot of students. Um, so I think that'd be a good idea for us to make time to have that on the, the general meeting.

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Matt Landahl: Yeah, I did. I think that's a great idea. And I think, I think it would fit in nicely with the

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Matt Landahl: Equity report card as being released and and so I think that makes a lot of sense. I would suggest, if we want to make changes.

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Matt Landahl: To the code that it goes that it is done through the committee just streamline it a little bit. And, you know, so could be more of a working meeting, but I think it's a great talk about it in the larger

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James Case-Leal: Meeting. I mean, not, not to get in it, but I specifically have in my mind think we did a really great job in the tears models of defining sort of levels and the restorative

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James Case-Leal: Project, the program and we did a really great job of making a distinction between profane language and keynote speech and at the time I think we were trying to imagine which symbols of hate word explicit nexus kind of the, the world as it is.

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James Case-Leal: Considering the conversations that are happening. I think adding we have swastikas, for example, identified if it's useful to maybe revise that about adding better flags nooses

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James Case-Leal: There's a more clear nexus at once. So just as a as a foreshadowing of something. I think that we might want to consider looking at and talking to change.

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Anthony White: Do any other board members 70 comments.

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Craig Wolf: Yeah, I do. I have a question for Dr. Lando

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Craig Wolf: Create wolf here the comments made about. We don't know exactly when we're going to get word from the state about state aid decreasing. Could you elaborate on that and tell us what you know so far.

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Matt Landahl: And remind you need you to jump in on this. I just know that, you know, we, it's like the moving the goalposts that we, I think we've been sort of had we've had this when we get state aid dangled in front of us for feels like a couple of months now.

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Matt Landahl: And I understand that it's, I think, on the political level that they're waiting for the federal government to do something before they do what I think would be kind of a drastic cut but and read you know anything more specific.

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ann marie quartironi: There's been discussion about the state's cash flow issue, which is a problem because they extended the deadline for filing taxes so they don't have the cash available.

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ann marie quartironi: On but in the guidelines. The second look back period was at the end of June. So the end of this month. So they'll look at that they'll see what their projections are based on what the budget was and they probably would give us more information. Sometime in July.

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Craig Wolf: It will be staying with we wound up losing some programs that were aimed at improving equity.

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Craig Wolf: To actually at this time. Is it something we might want to consider reaching to the community for specific projects or a GoFundMe or some similar approach.

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ann marie quartironi: We are not allowed to

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ann marie quartironi: Do GoFundMe Craig.

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ann marie quartironi: Or that would be a great idea. But we're not allowed to do that.

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Craig Wolf: You know, I can do it though. Yeah.

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Matt Landahl: I will say this, I, you know, we really

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Matt Landahl: We really put a lot into planning for this year we there is a few positions that we did not replace three

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Matt Landahl: At the teacher level that we don't feel like we'll have you know a negative impact on students next year, there's been some other areas where we've pulled back funds, a little bit to plan for this.

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Matt Landahl: This cut whenever this cut happens from the state.

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Matt Landahl: You know, so I

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Matt Landahl: It's just, it's, it's difficult to sort of juggle all that but but we really tried to do a lot of advanced planning on that realm and then the community supporting the budget, like they did with the absentees. But this year was really great. And you know when and when I talk

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Matt Landahl: About this stuff we

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Craig Wolf: Are worries go

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Matt Landahl: You know, sort of beyond this upcoming year and more to, you know, beyond because it looks at the state.

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Matt Landahl: Will be having revenue problems for obvious reasons for possibly a while several years. And so anyway, we were very committed to try to, you know, not cut student programming and keep all this good stuff going, but we're also looking to

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Matt Landahl: You know, use our resources wisely whenever we can.

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Anthony White: Any other board members have any comments.

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Matt Landahl: I just, I just want to say, I've been paying attention to the chat and

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Matt Landahl: Certainly folks can say this in public comment. But I'm seeing a few people saying that they would like.

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Matt Landahl: Talking circles for parents to so we can talk with that just mediation about how much we can expand that someone mentioned a program for us to look into. And certainly we will look into that.

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Matt Landahl: And then someone asks, Are there copies of textbooks available at the public library as reference material and I do not know the answer to that. I'm not sure if any buddy on my team knows that.

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Matt Landahl: And if the answer is no. I think that's a great idea. So, we will look into doing that if we're not doing it and I'm looking at people's head shaking. So it looks like we're not doing that. So that would be something that we do, too. So thanks for sharing that.

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Antony Tseng: I checked with my kid was in school. And isn't it on there.

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Matt Landahl: Okay, that's a great idea.

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wright.e: And just to piggyback off for the SoCal apparent when we were looking into revising the code of conduct. We did have a circle with parents as well. I mean, it was a great opportunity to although it wasn't highly attended. It was a great opportunity to have that conversation.

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wright.e: So we look forward to doing that in the future when different topics as well.

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James Case-Leal: Now I'm just looking at a comedy here. I haven't checked. But someone is pointing out that

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James Case-Leal: Maybe it would be great to have Eric's email directly on the tip line dasa complaint.

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James Case-Leal: Which would be an easy fix on the website, if it's not already there.

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Matt Landahl: To granted. Okay.

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Anthony White: Alright, so at this time I'm going to open it up to public comment. If you would like to address the Board, please use the chat feature and acknowledge that you'd like to address the Board and I will call your name and then Mr. Kelly will unmute you. So you could adjust the board.

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Elissa: And if they actually wanted to just make a short statement that I've been writing. Sorry, I didn't hit unmute fast enough, is that okay

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Anthony White: Yeah, absolutely.

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Elissa: Matt, I just want to thank you thank you for the initiatives that you've taken and that the district has taken over the last couple of years. I feel the work you're doing is good and sound. And we know that it wasn't taken lightly and took a lot of time and planning and money.

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Elissa: To make this work.

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Elissa: I really think that, you know, we've been lucky that what's been happening over the last couple of months has happened when the kids have not been in school, because when we all come back, we'll have the benefit of some time to reflect and some new perspective. And I think that

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Elissa: Everyone will be holding themselves to a higher standard and be ready to do the work, even in the face of the budget cuts that we might be facing so

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Elissa: You know, in the face of budget cuts. I think that if we stay focused.

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Elissa: On doing this. Good work, and holding ourselves to that higher standard. We can keep doing this. Good work, even if we

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Elissa: You know, are doing it with a with a with with less resources. So that's all

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Anthony White: Right.

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meredithheuer: Everyone I also wanted to throw one thing out just for the board to consider is that we

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meredithheuer: I don't know what this would be. But I feel like it might be helpful for the board for next retreat to choose equity as an issue and really try to dig into this subject more and

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meredithheuer: You know, different paths we can take to to improve the situation.

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meredithheuer: So I just wanted everyone to I wanted to plant that seed.

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OK.

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Anthony White: So the board does have

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Antony Tseng: I'm sorry, I have a question. The public minutes coming up. We talked about whether people can talk again. I mean, I saw Evans comment about us.

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Anthony White: To their Anthony

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Antony Tseng: Thank you.

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Anthony White: So I see I don't see that Aaron wants to address the board by do see that time Nicholson, Miss Nicholson doesn't share the address to board and our

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Anthony White: 12 to 1230 I think it says that it only states that you can only adjust the border. We adhering to that. Are you guys okay fine with them repeating

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Antony Tseng: I'm finally

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Anthony White: Thumbs up if you're okay with them, addressing one, the one

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meredithheuer: That's fine. There was someone who wanted to come in right at the, I think it was ARIEL ARIEL

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meredithheuer: Had asked rate as we end in the last comment period. She's still on.

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Ariel: Yes, I'm here.

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Ariel: Hi. Um, thank you for giving me an opportunity to talk. Um, I just have a few comments.

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Ariel: I just believe that there needs to be better communication between the district and the community as a whole, but especially with private institutions.

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Ariel: And administration should acknowledge the other schools in the district that make up the community and have a direct impact on the students that we want to attract

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Ariel: Equality and the racial injustice is I think administration as well need strike clearly identify who's in charge of which programs.

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Ariel: And what groups parents can be a part of, for example, is the first time I'm hearing about the diversity and just a side note, another discussion of the mentorship program, but

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Ariel: I read I helped several of Beacon city high school students, some that have graduated and some that actually is still attend beacon.

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Ariel: And look into the prep schools, instead of going directly to call it. That's another great resource for you know some of our students who

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Ariel: Are struggling or, you know, the parents. You may not may be too afraid to take on a financial responsibility of college prep school is a great option.

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Ariel: For beacon high school students and should be aware of that. So I just thought that'd be a good thing to have a good idea to include as part of the mentorship program. Thank you so much.

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Anthony White: Thank you.

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Anthony White: It's Nicholson.

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Donna Mikkelsen: Thank you for letting me speak one more time and make it really short just

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Donna Mikkelsen: Love all of the ideas. I want to iterate reiterate again the need for really reaching out to the parents and having these facilitated conversations

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Donna Mikkelsen: I appreciate using Duchess mediation. But I also want to add that we have so many resources within this community. There are people who live here who are doing the work, who have been doing the work for years. And I think it's important we use those resources and

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Donna Mikkelsen: I think, you know, these are people who want to contribute to the community. These are our kids. I wanted to just speak to what Craig suggested I know the school district can't do a fund me, but I believe that the community would be

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Donna Mikkelsen: Very, very supportive and for those who could contribute if we were facing a crisis we I don't think anyone would want this type of programming to be cut.

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Donna Mikkelsen: And the community needed to rally to support it. I am sure that we can find a way to make that happen. And I think we're unfortunately facing

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Donna Mikkelsen: These cuts as you were saying that it's really a little daunting, but I do think more than ever. This is when we need our community to rally.

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Donna Mikkelsen: And that includes the parents and also business members and other educators that live here that have a lot of experience that we can draw from. So we really, I think, together, we can use the support of the of each other.

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Anthony White: Thank you, Don. Are there any other comments.

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Antony Tseng: It was a comment on school ambassador program.

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Anthony White: Is that Matt read about that Anthony he read

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Anthony White: He acknowledged it in chat. He read about it and said that they'll look into it. Thank you.

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Anthony White: See no other comments, I'm going to ask someone for a motion to adjourn to executive session or view the employment history or particular individuals and to seek legal counsel to discuss

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Anthony White: The proposal acquisition sell or lease of real property, but only publicity would sustain us essentially effect devalue their, their have

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Antony Tseng: Anthony. So moved.

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Flora Stadler: Second floor.

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Anthony White: To questions.

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Anthony White: All those in favor,

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Craig Wolf: I

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Anthony White: Post motion.

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Know,

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Anthony White: The board will return as soon as possible.

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Mike Rutkoske: Can you hear me.

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Anthony White: Alright.

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Anthony White: We're gonna move along to land, all you have a presentation for tonight.

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Matt Landahl: Know, just, just a brief update that

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Matt Landahl: We are really excited to be in the final stage of graduation 2020. And so our graduates. We're going to be going to the Hyde Park Drive in Wednesday night to

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Matt Landahl: See at 830 is when it starts to watch the watch the movie that they we've been putting together over the last few weeks. We're very excited. Lots of things have happened a huge

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Matt Landahl: Huge. Thank you. I'm sure I will miss people, but I want to highlight the work of Elisa Soto for putting all of these different events together. I want to highlight challenging and meta who's done a lot with honoring our senior athletes this year.

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Matt Landahl: And I also want to just recognize my curse for putting

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Matt Landahl: The movie together. And so we are really excited to see it and really excited for Wednesday night, and it's different and but it's been it's been special in its own way. So, so we're very excited for Wednesday night, and I just wanted to share

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Anthony White: Thank you.

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Done.

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Anthony White: Alright, we're going to go to facilities operation committee Kristin.

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Anthony White: Muted

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Kristan Flynn: Sorry, we had a discussion with nice sorta and

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Kristan Flynn: The contractor that we'd like to go with for the real time energy Manager Program.

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Kristan Flynn: I am getting the next steps for the process for applying for that. I think what one of the good things that there's up to $250,000 for

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Kristan Flynn: Any projects that move towards efficiency in the district plus and three quarter reimbursement rate from nicer to and the cost of the project should what we pay should be offset by whatever savings we get, then the real time energy manager is

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Kristan Flynn: Similar we have I think up to $100,000 for that. And again, three quarters reimbursement. And we showed in what we see from it receive

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Kristan Flynn: Receive greater savings. The nice thing about the cleaner, greener community program from nicer is that as we continue to identify projects we can continue to reapply for the $250,000 I'm going forward. So it's something that

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Kristan Flynn: When we're thinking about all the budget concerns we have that we could, you know, start to be start shrinking our costs through this program. I don't have a meeting date, Matt, because we haven't talked about a follow up since then. We're hoping the other nice thing about it is

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Kristan Flynn: With the energy manager, we had talked about since we're likely moving forward with a much bigger architect engineering firm that it would be really good to have someone just focused on beacon really thinking deeply about our buildings and facilities and operations.

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Kristan Flynn: Because even though I know that we're going for the highly professional

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Kristan Flynn: Firm, you know, these large firms, they, they know exactly how to, you know, make the most you get their biggest ROI for what they're doing. And I think that what we, the reason why we had picked BBS in the beginning was because we thought they would give us a more

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Kristan Flynn: Kind of careful hands on approach. I think with this will be getting the best of both worlds. We just need to move the application processes along so that everything's in place in time for capital plan development.

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Kristan Flynn: Thank you. Kristen.

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Anthony White: Any questions for Kristin.

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Kristan Flynn: We wanted to do the, the next meeting.

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Matt Landahl: I will work around people's schedules. I am here.

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Kristan Flynn: Okay, does anybody else have

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Kristan Flynn: A night that's know

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Anthony White: July 4

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Kristan Flynn: Okay. Yes, I know. I feel like we've all been through a marathon of many, many meetings. If it's okay with the committee. I'm going to advance the process of the applications and I can keep you in mind I have via email if that's if everyone agrees with that.

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Kristan Flynn: Do I do boring comments. Now to

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Kristan Flynn: Craig. Did you have a question.

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18457633727: No, it sounds good. Good. Okay, thanks.

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Kristan Flynn: I just wanted to thank

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Kristan Flynn: Matt. The exam will congratulate everyone on their retirement, welcome everyone who we we extended tenure, we will soon as we vote on it tonight.

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Kristan Flynn: Sounds like some very exciting people that have joined the deacon team and

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Kristan Flynn: And I just appreciated the executive team specifically that

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Kristan Flynn: You know, being responsive to having a detailed discussion around hard issues tonight.

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Kristan Flynn: I know that all of that is going to be ongoing and

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Kristan Flynn: I think it's, you know, it's great that we're ready for it.

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Anthony White: Thank you.

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Anthony White: James policy.

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Anthony White: Guns James

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James Case-Leal: I'm rolling my time, Todd.

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James Case-Leal: I want to thank the Board in math for us having this tough conversation tonight.

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James Case-Leal: I know it's not our first conversation about this subject. It's certainly not our last

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James Case-Leal: But I think we're also aware that the, the world is a little bit different outside of

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James Case-Leal: We're not in the building, but outside. Um, and I think there's there's always the there's always the fear of getting it wrong. And I think it's it's it's great to know that we probably will get it wrong, and we'll keep getting wrong until it's right.

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James Case-Leal: But it takes a lot a lot of courage to take that on. I appreciate everyone's contributions to that that effort.

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James Case-Leal: Because I think we are. I want to end up in a better place. I'm

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James Case-Leal: Policy. We don't have a date. Actually, I'd like to set one I'm looking at the calendar. We pushed it back just because we administration and ask for a little more time.

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James Case-Leal: Matt bill. Do you all Emery. Do you all have a sense of when a policy committee would be your schedule. The next few weeks.

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Matt Landahl: I'll stay with that maybe after the fourth maybe after the fourth

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Matt Landahl: And

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Matt Landahl: But I'm I can work with anything.

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James Case-Leal: About the 13th of July.

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Matt Landahl: Okay.

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James Case-Leal: Now,

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James Case-Leal: We have a sorry we have a meeting that night.

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meredithheuer: Do you know what

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James Case-Leal: I'm looking at my calendar says, Oh, no, we don't. I'm sorry my calendar. I was looking at the wrong day. Yeah.

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James Case-Leal: So we can say July 13 at 7pm.

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James Case-Leal: I work with

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Elissa: That works for me.

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James Case-Leal: Okay, great. So we'll set that as

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Elissa: You say, James.

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Seven.

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meredithheuer: Can I ask a question. And since we keep having to waive the policy. I mean, the public comment and policy would it be useful to create a zoo. Public comment policy, it was basically like the one we have, but for

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Anthony White: Incorporated into the policy.

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meredithheuer: Yeah, may be worth it just

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Anthony White: Maybe we can have legal look at it and see how we can incorporate

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Anthony White: Video conferencing.

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James Case-Leal: It's good idea

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Good question.

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Anthony White: Any other questions for James

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Anthony White: Hi, Anthony.

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Antony Tseng: Good evening, I'm like to congratulate all the tenure candidates and all the retirees and those were wonderful presentations on their behalf.

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Antony Tseng: I also would like to thank all the public that came and spoke. You know, I don't. I think it's very important that we hear

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Antony Tseng: Some, some of it'd be hard, just like James said, um, you know, it takes a community.

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Antony Tseng: So, uh, in terms of

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Antony Tseng: diversity committee for the district hasn't met so

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Antony Tseng: For obvious reasons. So, but I think that all these efforts.

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Antony Tseng: Should still continue night and I thank Matt and Eric

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Antony Tseng: For that for for the presentation today on those items and look forward to future discussions on that.

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Antony Tseng: Two things I wanted to bring up to the board arm.

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Antony Tseng: That there is a

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Antony Tseng: Deadline is that deadline coming up for resolution submission. It's July 17 5pm Friday.

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Antony Tseng: Berta send me to 2020 resolution kit.

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Antony Tseng: The deadline so fast I you know I but we should we should I think discuss whether we want to submit a resolution to this ball.

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Antony Tseng: One resolution that I was thinking about is

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Antony Tseng: Allowing a school district to set up a either ward or neighborhood voting districts

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Antony Tseng: You know i i'd like to either put on a future agenda or something so that we can talk about what resolutions we would submit that for consideration, um, the second thing I want to mention is that

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Antony Tseng: I did.

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Antony Tseng: Talk to

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Antony Tseng: Some informally to some of the city council members about Doc, you were and

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Antony Tseng: They were using using a benefit to the school district as a selling point get approval their plan of the end result of that informal conversation is that we should submit a letter to the

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Antony Tseng: To the city of Beacon asked to be an interested party. I did get a copy of the version that city beacon scented a ton of Fishkill

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Antony Tseng: So I also would like to make that a future agenda item to to discuss agree and

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Antony Tseng: Approve so we can send that to the city beacon to get injured party have any plans that mentioned the school or. So what other condition.

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Kristan Flynn: That we have that with fiscal you can unlock ensures that that's the great that should be the letter that because it was written around Edgewater

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Antony Tseng: But we do because that wasn't clear to me when I spoke to

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Kristan Flynn: You should probably resubmit it

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Kristan Flynn: Just because a few things have slipped through

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Kristan Flynn: So I think it's something we should look at again just resubmitting it to

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18457633727: Them.

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Kristan Flynn: By the shipping.

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Kristan Flynn: The letters to all he can fish go off injures

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meredithheuer: So yeah, I would like to make it

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meredithheuer: Sorry, I would like to amend it to say that if you know if one of these developers says that they're working with the district.

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meredithheuer: That that that gets confirmed by us that. It just can't be put out there is this thing to make them seem like a better partner to the community, because the doctors were saying is just not true. Especially not anymore.

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meredithheuer: Like

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James Case-Leal: Like to add, if I could.

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18457633727: Think it's a great point.

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James Case-Leal: I, I was at that meeting as well and I overheard the mayor's response to Anthony's question. And to be honest, I feel like maybe we should take a look at that letter.

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James Case-Leal: As we're amending it and think about how to I feel like we're we're framing the question as kind of asking the city to to keep us in mind in these kind of negotiations.

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James Case-Leal: You know, as an institution, our school district is three times the size as the city. We are the city's number I off top my head. I think we must be the city's largest employer.

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18457633727: You know,

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James Case-Leal: A huge percentage of the city population.

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James Case-Leal: Attends our schools are connected to our school community. I don't think it's too much to ask to expect our city.

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James Case-Leal: To actually really internalize the needs of Beacon students in the district in all the negotiations, and I think that's something I was, I was a little let down on

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James Case-Leal: What listening to that conversation with Anthony and the mayor is I felt like there was this expectation that I think explicitly. I think we explicitly said that

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James Case-Leal: The District needs to be paying better attention if that's something we're concerned about which I found to be a satisfactory to be honest I FEEL LIKE WE COULD USE STRONGER LANGUAGE And

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Kristan Flynn: We do have a new

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18457633727: Mayor and we do have a new chair of the planning board. So it's always good to reiterate, whatever it is we said before, and possibly to amend it

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18457633727: I think that their, their agenda is there are online and easily read to so perhaps some of the responsibility is with us to be monitoring what they put up

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Kristan Flynn: I think that, um, in terms of it sounds like two different tracks in terms of

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Kristan Flynn: I think legally rewarded it as strongly as we could, because

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18457633727: We, we asked as an interested in

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Kristan Flynn: interested party and it's strictly if it's usually related to school impact studies or if there will be any negative impact on us and that's part of the secret process that's where we're supposed to be.

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Kristan Flynn: Notified that's our that's actually our only official Avenue. Um, I believe to be to seek

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Kristan Flynn: Information and inclusion as an interested party. It sounds more like it's a relationship.

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Kristan Flynn: Issue where we need to develop a relationship with the city where

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Kristan Flynn: We work together more

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Antony Tseng: When I could read

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Kristan Flynn: Taking like a strong approaches a way to do it.

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Antony Tseng: So the example that I got from

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Antony Tseng: Beacon, which was a letter. They sent to the town of fish go was this topic was notification of projects.

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Antony Tseng: You miss Africans in this Coloma

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Anthony White: Can we add this for a discussion later on. This isn't what our comments are meant to be as a full blown a shin about something.

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Antony Tseng: Well yeah, I asked if it could be a board.

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Anthony White: All right. So why are we having discussion. Now we can add it on after the new year.

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Antony Tseng: For the

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Antony Tseng: Late what I got to the board, I guess. In the meantime, by email or do you want me to attach it to the board agenda.

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Anthony White: You can email that's fine.

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Anthony White: Greg.

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18457633727: Thank you, with regard to resolutions that we would suggest to miss. But the New York State School Boards Association.

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18457633727: That deadline is kind of close, we've talked about this before we would obviously need to have something in preparation for a board meeting, so that the entire board could

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18457633727: Stand behind it and send it on its way. I don't know if it's feasible.

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18457633727: We would have to get committee reading going between now and the next board meeting, I think that might be pretty challenging

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18457633727: But I'm amenable to it. If we have others who are interested, I should say that there was another idea that came up

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18457633727: A couple years ago after the great storm that interrupted our election healthy years ago and it was to suggest that there'd be some means of creating

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18457633727: An authority figure who could do some emergency arrangements upon approached by a board when you find, you've got, you know, trees down on the roads and so on, as we did and we never did pick that up and run with it. So that's another issue that could be addressed.

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18457633727: I would like to say that in terms of advocacy. We're in a bit of a holding pattern right now because

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18457633727: And the federal level, there has been discussion about what to do about aid to states or a to other people in general. And that seems to have gotten a little stuck.

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18457633727: In the political thicket. It's not like the first time around when there was brought bipartisan support for the huge relief programs that we have been enjoying

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18457633727: It's gotten tougher. So, Governor Cuomo strategy essentially a good one, and that is to try to use with influence he has tried to get something from the federal government.

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18457633727: Before the state tries to do something on itself. He's not talking much about that. I think that's the reason why, by the way, he's got a fairly large amount of cloud considering

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18457633727: I have heard, I can't vouch for this, but I've heard that his comments are reached about 59 million people. It's about three times the population at the station.

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18457633727: So he's got a big horn there.

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18457633727: And bigger than ours. Anyway, so I think the status right now is that we should wish him well and we should be

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18457633727: Probably talking to the federal level, the state. What are you guys going to be doing over there.

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18457633727: Because we do need this assistance. Otherwise, we're going to be having some problems because our state aid is that a ratio of something like what maybe 45% of our budget and someplace in that neighborhood you take a big bite out of that and it's going to be a big net fight.

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18457633727: And we're going to feel that either immediately or in some future year so

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18457633727: I think we should get a meeting together.

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18457633727: Sometime fairly soon. And I'd like to know if the members of that public relations advocacy legislative committee are are up for getting together sometime before our reward meeting a real meeting. We're going to set that tonight, right, that's going to be July one.

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18457633727: Right.

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Anthony White: Yes.

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Okay.

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18457633727: Thanks.

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Anthony White: To store data out there, Craig.

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18457633727: Okay, July one perfect timing, we've got

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18457633727: Possibly Tuesday's a serious

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18457633727: To say that 30th work.

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Elissa: That works for me, Craig.

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meredithheuer: I can do good.

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18457633727: Yep, we're good. Okay, seven o'clock. Perfect. After that it

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Antony Tseng: Went into a quick, but the last thing I wanted to mention was the city beacon wanted

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Antony Tseng: Also to have quarterly meetings with the school district.

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Antony Tseng: It also talk about that in the agenda item.

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Anthony White: And questions for Craig.

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Elissa: I have a general crush question about a topic for the PR the public relations and advocacy.

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Elissa: Committee. It's a year since our since I was elected and in our first meeting of that committee or my first meeting of that committee, we had a long discussion about the district website and about

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Elissa: Designing and choosing a new template.

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Elissa: Is that something that is still on our

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Elissa: On our agenda for

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Matt Landahl: Yeah, we were

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18457633727: We were going to cover

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Elissa: Sorry, Matt, what did you say we were going to do that what

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Matt Landahl: We were gonna do that the summer.

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Okay, great.

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Elissa: I

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18457633727: Think it's more on the radar than it is on the agenda. Yes, he said, summer. So we're getting into summer. So I think after the, you know, real

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18457633727: Right.

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Elissa: And I wanted to mention it because

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Elissa: There are lots of people in the community who are looking at our website.

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Elissa: What happened.

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Elissa: Before I think, and I've

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Elissa: Read some comments that it's

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Elissa: There, they're struggling with navigation. So I just thought we could revisit that. Thank you.

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18457633727: Don't want to go right into your

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Anthony White: Or comments, Sarah.

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Elissa: Thanks, um. Congratulations to our retirees and tenure recipients

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Elissa: And I also would like to thank everyone for tonight's workshop and our I think we can pat ourselves on the back a little bit for

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Elissa: You know having these discussions amongst all the other difficult things that we are dealing with. Especially you, Matt. I know that this is probably between the pandemic and

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Elissa: The budget and everything that we're dealing with is, I'm sure. The biggest challenge that you faced thus far, I suspect, correct me if I'm wrong.

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Elissa: So I just wanted to commend everybody for, you know, just powering through

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Elissa: Thank you. Thanks.

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Anthony White: Questions for less.

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Anthony White: Laura.

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Flora Stadler: Hi. So, you know, the committee hasn't been meeting with summer but on you know on wellness. I just want to say that I was really heartened to

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Flora Stadler: Have so many responses to our survey for students talking about how they're feeling and how they're handling the, the current situation with Cupid and the movement for racial justice and

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Flora Stadler: Just all of the the people that they're experiencing right now. So I look forward to see seeing how we use that information to serve our students emotional well being in the school year and also beyond that and not, I wanted to ask you if the, if that's still open to be responded to.

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Matt Landahl: Say that again.

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Flora Stadler: I just wanted to ask if the survey is still open for responses.

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Matt Landahl: I'm yes

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Flora Stadler: It is okay so I know it was sent around in my email. And it's also posted to social media.

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Flora Stadler: But I will, I will try to share it again this week, just in case anyone missed it. Um,

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Flora Stadler: I guess in terms of my own personal comments. I do want to say that I appreciate hearing from community members and people that we haven't heard from before, and getting new perspective.

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Flora Stadler: And I am also, you know, I'm excited about the initiatives that are ongoing. I am worried about the budget. I think we're all worried about the budget and about what we we can make possible with it, but

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Flora Stadler: I feel very confident with record and and

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Contentment that we're going to do, I'm going to prioritize what's important and

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Flora Stadler: I think that I would also like to use, you know, this is a seemingly small point, but I think it is important to

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Flora Stadler: To add to what Alicia was saying is that the part of communication is, you know, people coming to light. So I look forward to trying to make that more clear. And I've seen the comments as well. So, keep it up and Good, good.

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To have it.

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Flora Stadler: All for me I throw on. I did want to ask you if if we were going to plan to have any meetings this summer. Eric or or what you wanted to

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William Rolon: Do in terms of, I think it's important that we get together this summer so that we can start gearing up for next year. Absolutely. So

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William Rolon: Hopefully, you and I can connect and plan that

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Flora Stadler: Okay, yeah, that would be great. That'd be great.

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That's it for me.

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Anthony White: Any questions for flora.

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Anthony White: Meredith

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meredithheuer: I also wanted to say thank you to the retirees for your service and and congratulations to our soon to be new tenured

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meredithheuer: Teachers in administrator

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meredithheuer: I feel that, you know, I don't think we'll be doing curriculum meetings this summer.

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meredithheuer: In the way that we do during school year, but it sounds like Eric had some great ideas tonight. So I really look forward to updates on that as they come. I think that that would be

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meredithheuer: Great for the community here inspiring to get us ready for the fall. So please, please keep us updated with that.

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meredithheuer: And that's it.

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Anthony White: Any questions from Earth.

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Anthony White: Mike, I almost forgot your mic.

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Mike Rutkoske: Wondering, I say, what about the water

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Mike Rutkoske: My arms or something.

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Mike Rutkoske: Just congratulations to the retirees know that you've made a significant impact on so many students lives include you know

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Mike Rutkoske: You know, most of them impacted all four of my students. So really appreciate the time and effort you put into students and enjoy your retirement and also for the soon to be tenured teachers administrator congratulations and look forward to a long

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Mike Rutkoske: You know, long service in the district. It's really, really worthwhile. So thank you all for for wanting to do that. And that's all I have. Thank you. Alright.

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Anthony White: Any questions for Mike

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Anthony White: All right, I just have a couple board comments. One is, don't do not forget to do your evaluation on that, that needs to be done ASAP. So it could be could be compiled

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Anthony White: Arm you need assistance with it, please don't hesitate to reach out to me. We do have a board meeting on July 1 it just, it is the reward meeting. Um, I would like to point out that I'm

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Anthony White: Kristin Craig and myself will be sworn in, and then we will also be doing, members of the committee as well.

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Anthony White: Um, I would like to say that, um, I like serving as president for four years. However, I feel that it's time for me to have a change. And you know, I will be nominating Meredith for for that role at the reorder meaning.

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Anthony White: Arm and it's been a pleasure. I just feel that it's just time to, you know, have some change for years and people get a customer things, but I think it would just be good to have some change there and Meredith has shown that she's

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Anthony White: Ready for that that's going to be my my nomination at the board meeting.

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Anthony White: And I do not have any other comments, besides thanking the district for

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Anthony White: Everything that they're doing i hearing great things about graduation I'm hearing great things about the middle school moving as well as the fifth grade moving up where the teachers have really taken initiatives and

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Anthony White: Done something special and make the kids feel special. So I think it's great that we're honoring our seniors, but we're, we didn't forget about the other important movement.

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Anthony White: Move ups with eighth grade, ninth grade and fifth grade two sixth grade. So I think it's just something to acknowledge that our elementary schools did a really good job with that piece as well as our middle school with moving up to the high school

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Anthony White: All right.

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Anthony White: We're at that point for the cassette and and Jenna.

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Anthony White: Use of the Consent Agenda from as a board of educate me Board of Education make more effectively. So it's time, but that is a single emotion to cover those relatively routine.

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Anthony White: Which are included in any member of the board who wishes to discuss individually for each piece of business than the concert concert and Jenna may so indicate and that will be considered in voted on separately. That's preserving the rate of our board members be heard on any issues.

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Anthony White: Is there any item from the consent agenda that a board member like Paul

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Anthony White: Hearing none, I need a motion to approve the sentence agenda items 8.01 through eight point 14

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Antony Tseng: Anthony. So moved.

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Elissa: Alyssa second

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Anthony White: Comments or questions.

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Anthony White: I would just like to make a comment about

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Anthony White: And about

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Anthony White: I appreciate people stepping up and coming to different revenue sources for kids to continue their education or post secondary career as to what what they wanted to do so I think it's great that they're getting a donation and a scholarship donation as well.

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Anthony White: All those in favor,

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Aye.

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18457633727: Aye vote both

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Anthony White: Ocean carry nine oh

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Anthony White: I need a motion to adjourn. I'm adjourn the meeting.

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Micro task at

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Anthony White: All those favor

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I

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18457633727: Posed

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Anthony White: Motion carry nine oh

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Anthony White: Alright, and that was at 1041

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Anthony White: Thank you, everybody.

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Elissa: Good night, everyone.

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Anthony White: Good night.

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Mike Rutkoske: Good night. Good night.

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Good night.