Hello, Lindsey Kaku, second Lindsey.
True? Is there any discussion?
This is a standard voice vote all in favor. Say, aye, any opposed motion carries.
Thank you. I'd like to announce. The Board met in executive session prior to this meeting to discuss information items.
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Anybody in the room. Nope, okay. Anybody on line, Phil. At this time there are no hands raised, no hands raised.
Okay. If you put close down the first comment period, move on to item, to see Miss Carpel.
Do you have a community correspondence report? I do thank you for the month of January the district received 11 community correspondence submissions, comments and questions.
For this month included a work permit. Question, 3 registration questions, information about fundraising a letter regarding the 2023, 2,024 school calendar, and the religious holidays a concern about a sports, game information about the middle school, information about wheelchair access at the high school and
a question about marking period to report cards. That's all I have.
Okay. Thank you very much. Item, 2, d standing committee meeting reports the curriculum Council and the Policy Committee both met today. Dr.
Cronin, do you have a curriculum report?
I do during today's meeting. We discussed we had 2 Presidents one on a new Eureka Math program, and the other was on a social studies course.
Progression changes. Starting with the Eureka Math program.
This would be a new curriculum for K. Through fifth graders.
It involved 6 modules, and it is performed in a mastery approach rather than the everyday math which is a spiraling approach, and anyone who said kids going through going to the elementary math program that'll be very familiar to you.
This is spiraling everyday math. The Sixth graders would stay with Cargie Math and the Cp.
Algebra, seventh, and algebra, geometry would be with the Cp.
Math, Program, Budgetary, differences are that everyday math currently costs about 50. It's mostly for the consumable book that is given out to every student that they work in the workbook.
The Eureka program, the initial startup would be 150,000.
But that's for the initial kits, as well as some of the.
Gosh! What was it? Manipulative on my handwriting?
I did not know what that word says. Manipulative.
Thank you, and then, after that will be about 60,000 annually.
So pretty comparable. And then the second presentation was from the from the social studies at the High School, changing the course progression.
Currently the high school has eighth grade American history through to the Industrial Revolution.
Ninth grade. Does civics tenth grade?
Does world history, and eleventh grade? Does the American history, after the Industrial Revolution?
So the proposed changes to the Industrial Revolution. So the proposed changes is tried to try to keep the American history blocks together, so that in eighth grade you would do us history to the industrial revolution, ninth grade from the industrial Revolution tenth grade would stay at world history eleventh grade
would stay at world history. Eleventh grade would be civics, and which would be more of a interactive course.
Talking about. You know, government at a time when the kids are approaching the age to vote, and it would take about 3 years for this progression to change from students doing the current progression to the new progression, Ap.
Us. History would stay as an elective for older grades.
We then had a vote for a book recommendation, which was the Eureka Math book, which we did approve to come to the full board.
We did elect, we just we had to relax the chair, and I'm staying on as the chair for that committee.
We had no public comment, and then the next meeting will be March thirteenth, and thank you very much.
That's okay. Thanks. Congratulations on being reelected to chair it's fun committee, Mr.
Bennett, do you have a policy review? I do also also had an election for the chair.
I was elected to that position, and we viewed a quite a few policies.
This afternoon we had 14 that were revised, that we took a look at 13 of those 14 were approved for full board approval for the 30 Day Review.
So you can look forward to those coming. The full board here in the very near future.
We have one that was tabled for some wording changes.
That's gonna Mister Evely is. Gonna take a look at that and kind of get it some things revised and bring it back to the Policy Committee, and we'll to send that to the full board.
And then we also took a look at 5 of the review.
5 reviewed policies and voted on them, and they were also prove to come to the full board or third year review as policies that were reviewed, and then our next meeting will be on May eighth okay. Thank you, Mr.
Benton. Congratulations on your election chairperson. Thank you very much.
Moving on to item 2 E student representatives report representatives Aziz and Patel.
Do you have a report? Yes. 13 Hhs.
During musicians participated in the Pm a district 7 orchestra and 19 students went to District Band, which made Hershey the most represented school in the district.
January's Trojan, 10 for Hershey High School are Mike Andrews and Edwin Guzman, Alvarez amate amore, Ashton, Regal, Beerbauer, Mason, Callaghan, Amar Zuril Gavvarez, Rodriguez.
Emma Koon, Isbelie, Meh Meghan Mcdonald, and Zack Jack Isakovich.
And in the elementary school coin wars is happening at the moment, and next Tuesday the 20 first is many, many fun which all proceeds are going to Hershey high schools.
Many bond, national Honor society is hosting a movie night on 5 on Friday, February 17, installed is taking place on February 20 s, which is next Tuesday at the High School Key Club, is hosting a toy drive to take to the Capital area, Head start for
pre-k children all across Central Pennsylvania and spring musicals coming up and all over the musical tickets are open online at the moment the Hershey Chi team competed in at the National High School Cheerleading competition on Friday
February the tenth, at Espnz.
World wide world of sports. Although their routine went well, they did not advance past the preliminaries. They they remain positive and supportive of their local and national teams throughout the course of the weekend, and celebrated their last night with all this all across the country in the hollywood studios.
Hi, everyone representative is easier. The Hershey Middle School choir performed the Star Singhal banner at the Hershey bears game on the fourth of February I was there did a good job course selection is going on right now for middle schoolers and high
schoolers. February first was national signing day, and we had several.
Rc. Trojans commit to continuing their academic and athletic careers in college, so congrats to all of them the combined double A and triple a made pencil. Mean championships were held. This weekend and our swim teams did pretty well.
Hershey High School took third place in the girls 200 yard medley you took second, the 200 yard relay for girls, and the girls also did also, first in the girls, 400 freestyle relay.
The boys got Fifth in the 200 yard medley, and they got fourth in the 400 yard freestyle relay.
Now for individual awards. There's quite a lot Natalie Colorasi.
One first place in the girls, 200 yard freestyle, and second of the 500 yard free style.
Maddie Surfass got third in the 500 yard Freestyle and third, and the 200 yard.
I am Kelly Oily took third in the 200 guard.
Freestyle, took first and also took first, and the girls 100 yard butterfly.
Jason Weller took fourth in the 200 yard freestyle and got second in the one hundred-yard bachelor backstroke.
Sunny Staz placed second and 200 yard. I am, and also got first, in the 100 yard backstage.
Gavin Tran took thirty- and the boys 200 yard.
I am, and got third in the 100 yard brewery Lydia Mcmullen took second, and the girls 500 a 50 yard freestyle and got second in the 100 yard back.
Stroke. Isaac Mcnatha was also third place in the fifty-yard freestyle, and also placed fourth, and the boys 100 yard freestyle, and ask of now our team rankings for the girls are third, and the boys are fifth, quite a lot.
But that's all for me. Thank you. I have a question for Ms Patel.
Did you ever hear? Did you say something in your high school?
Report about the Trojan 10. Is that what you called that?
Oh! What is that? Wait! I have a discussion.
So each month teachers nominate up to 2 students that receive this award, and students are recognized for the character, kindness, positive attitude, and like contributions to the school in general.
And there's like a group of teachers that help to facilitate all of this.
And they have 10 students every month that the teachers vote all grades.
Yeah, thank you. Hey? Any other questions?
Thank you very much. Representatives asise and Patel appreciate it up to item, agenda.
Item to F, the anticipated agenda items for the next board of directors meeting or up on the screen.
In a minute.
So those are the anticipated items for our next Board of Directors meeting agenda.
I am number 3. There's no unfinished business.
And item 4. The consent agenda contains routinely adopted items and items that normally do not require public deliberation on the part of the Board.
A board member we call items, which will then be discussed and voted on separately.
Have a motion to approve the consent. Items as listed so moved Maria Mammy, second, Lindsey drew.
Is there any discussion?
This is a standard voice vote well in favor. Say aye, please alright. Any opposed.
No motion, carries.
Moving on to item 5, ge gender. Item, 5. New business.
Approval of the 2,02324 proposed school calendar.
Dr. Winslow, the administration recommends the approval of the 2,02324 proposed school calendar I have a motion to approve the 2023, 24 proposed school calendar.
So, Lindsey, second Maria, Mummy, this is standard voice phone all in favor.
Say, aye, any opposed?
Motion carries. Thank you. Item, 5 B train agreement. Dr.
Winslow. The administration recommends the approval of the train agreement for the repair and replacement of the High School. H. Vac.
Equipment, I have a motion to approve the train agreement for H.
Vac repairs and replacement at the High School so moved Maram Emmy, second Erica Schmidt.
Yes. There any discussion?
This is a standard voice. Vote all in favor, say, aye, aye, any opposed? No!
Thank you. The motion carries. Item 5 c. Personnel resignations. Dr.
Winlow, Dr. Winslow. The Administration recommends the approval of the personnel resignations I have a motion to approve the personnel resignations.
7, Lindsey drew second Maria, Mammy, is there any discussion, Mister Singer?
I would just like to add, I don't think we ever look forward to personnel resignations, but my least favorite personal resignations of the year is always, when retirements come up, and so I just felt that I would be remiss to not say thank you to some of the absolute dairy township
legends who are on this resignations, list, and retirement, whether our children have had them in the elementary school.
Some of us have had the fortune, good fortune, of having some of these teachers in the high school ourselves, but the individuals, Mr.
Biddinger. This is there's a shrift they have just done an absolutely incredible job for a really long time, and left a mark in a great legacy as educators and I just wanted to say, Thank you.
And my son was fortunate to have some of these folks.
I'm sorry that he won't be able to have some of these folks. I'm sorry that he won't be able to have others in the high School because of the timing of it, but congratulations to them on retirement, and thank you for so many years of service in dairy
Township, Mister Singer. I just wanted to to say as well.
With these retirees, as their letters came in to me, because they did come in to me.
My impulse was to stamp them denied, while I knew some of them were coming, some of them I was.
I was not expecting but even the ones that I was expecting.
This was a hard batch to receive this year, and I've been trying to take advantage to get into as many of their classrooms as possible while I can still can, because these are semical classrooms, and it's gonna be hard to replace this kind of talent and this
kind of dedication. And so, if Mrs. Lassard is listening, she hates when we come in her room, but her room.
It's wonderful. And I already told her, I'm gonna be spending a lot of extra time there.
Oh, thank you, Mister and Dr. Winslow, for your comments, and I'd like to add something. I don't want to be repetitive, but I specifically, when I looked at this, I had texted my kids because we've my kids. Have had 4 of these teachers 5 of my kids all had 4 of these teachers 5 of
my kids all had Mr. Bit, and when they saw his name on the list they said, Can we get in touch with him? How can we let him know how awesome he is?
So that was really interesting that they immediately responded, he's gonna be solely missed.
They all will be. Thank you. Thank you for sharing that.
Anybody else have anything to?
The motion has been made and soed. We've had our discussion.
This is a standard voice. Vote all in favor. Say, aye, any opposed.
No!
Thank you. Most. Okay, item, 5, d. Personnel, general, Dr. Winslow the Administration recommends the approval of the listed personnel and recognition of any list of transfers.
Have a motion to approve the listed personnel and recognition of any listed transfers. So moved Maria.
Mammy Second Mike Brazil. Is there any discussion?
So standard, voice, phone all in favor. Say, aye, any opposed.
No motion, carries.
We're up to agenda items. 6 delegate reports the Pennsylvania School Boards Association Report is attached. Dr.
Crona. Do you have anything you'd like to add?
Thank you.
The capital area, intermediate unit report is attached. Dr.
Cuck. Do you have anything you'd like to add the only thing I would like to add is, we had a budget presentation at this passport meeting, and there was no increase to school districts.
Contribution to the State this upcoming year.
You've gone to 2 meetings now. Great hmm!
Good. Well, thank you for handling that yes, actually, can I add something?
Because I forgot I wasn't here at the last meeting to make a note.
You may have seen it but for the Psba they have changed their liaison addition to the las on Digest.
I liked it into a reader's Digest. The little quips are much shorter, and it's I think they do it almost every week now, but it's a shorter read each time.
Just just add that, in case anybody missed it. Thank you.
We're up to. Item 7 special reports. Are there any board members who would like to give a report Mr. Singer? This is Lindsey Drew. I just wanted to add, for a delegate it came in after the cutoff, but as a reminder.
The next Hershey. All things diversity is on March the first at 7 0 P. M.
And the topic this time is understanding. The Muslim community.
So we's one to encourage everyone. There are online links to be able to register for that event.
That will be on March first, and then the other thing I just wanted to mention.
I saw an announcement that the property tax rent rebate program for 2,023 is now open.
So just wanted to encourage folks. If you are, Elligible for that, it's I believe it's 65 in older widows and widowers, and people with disabilities, there are tax credits that you're able to receive through the property tax re rebate program that's supported by the
Pennsylvania Lattery. So encourage owners to take advantage of that, if eligible, and I do think we have that on our website from mentioning it in the past.
But a lot of folks don't know about it. Thank you, mister.
Any other board members like to give a report.
Okay. We'll move on to Dr. Winslow do you have a superintendent's report?
I do. It is much shorter now that the students have given them.
But I am glad that I don't have to list all those swimming stuff because they won a lot.
I appreciate you doing that. As they mentioned Saturday was the upper district, 7 Band Festival, hosted by Hershey High School, and specifically Mr.
Brandon, Booterball. It was a phenomenal concert.
The kids did an amazing job. And it was held at the Whitaker center, which was really, really cool.
That was a great venue to have it in, so really enjoyed being there, and was really impressed at how well the whole thing was done.
Boys. Basketball did make it to District 3 playoffs, and I believe that we will be hosting the first round on February the twentieth, at 7 p.
M. Tickets are on sale for the musical Oliver and that will run the first weekend in March.
I definitely encourage people to come out to, to see the musical.
They always do a fantastic job, and that concludes my report.
Thank you. Dr. Winslow. We're up to item 7 C.
Board President's report. I do not have a report.
Agenda. Item, 8. Recognition of citizens.
This is an opportunity for residents and taxpayers to address the Board on matters related to the agenda, or matters of district governance, not on the agenda.
Those who speak arrest the file. The same guidelines outlined at the initial public comment portion of our meeting.
I will ask board treasurer, Mrs. Sickert, to please keep the time.
Are there any residents or taxpayers that would like to make a comment at this time?
I see no head shaking. No, in the room looks like I see handwriting. You've been.
You've been given permission to speak. Please state your name for the records.
Good evening. Oh, my Molly, I just want to thank the School Board again.
This time virtually and on behalf of the Hershey elementary Pto.
I would like to accordingly invite our School Board for our upcoming Science Fair.
That's going to be held on Thursday, February twenty-third.
From 5, 32, 7 for our elementary students. Thank you.
Thank you.
Do we have any other hands raised? Okay?
Seeing no further comment. Is there anything else for excuse me, for the good of your order.
Mr. Singer. I'm sorry I forgot the cheerleaders, and I know the students did mention them, and while they did not move on from my understanding, it was a phenomenal learning experience to be on the national stage, and to compete at that level, oh, my report is concluded thank
you. I think we have a board member that could tell us a little bit more about that.
She would like to I would just reiterate what Dr.
Vincent. It was an honor for them to be there, and I think that they did a fantastic job I can't imagine how overwhelming it was. There were just that the there was a national competition.
So you can imagine the talent that was there. So they were just very fortunate to be part of that whole scene.
So thank you. That's great.
Okay, we're up to item 9. I know the one that everyone disappointed to see Mister Singer.
There's a handwriting representative disease here.
I'm just wanted to comment on Mister Bit, because I know he is retiring this year, Mister, if you are watching this, thank you for being a really great teacher here, you know me, Melana.
Reckoned for my school, so I know he's a great teacher, and he's been he's been like a real mentor to me.
So, Mister Ed, if you are watching this. Thank you a lot.
Thank you. Anything else.
Okay, what type of item number 10, item, number, dime adjournment.
The next public board of Directors meeting will be held. Heybruary 20 seventh, 2,023, starting at 7 p.
M. Please ref to the district website to register for virtual attendance.
As the meeting draws closer, I have a motion to adjourn this meeting so moved Lindsey Kuch, second Maria, Mamie, all in favor, say, aye, any opposed?
No