Eight, 2019 meeting of the Derry Township School District Board of Directors
to order and announce that this meeting is being audio recorded.
Mr. Friends, Roll Call.
Mr. Abel Here.
Dr. Cronin. Here is Drew.
Here.
Mr. Ristic. Here is Mimi here.
Dr. Schar here.
Mercieca Here.
Mr. Singer Here.
Ms.. Steiner Here. Nine presents arrives.
Please rise, if able, and join me
for the Pledge of Allegiance
to the flag of the United States of America.
And to the Republic stands one
nation, under God, indivisible,
liberty and justice for all.
May I have a motion to approve the April
eight, 2019 Board of Directors agenda?
So May 2nd?
Lindsay and Maria, is there any discussion?
This is a standard voice vote.
All those in favor say I always opposed.
Say no.
Kaye The motion carries
tonight we have we are recognizing the students of the month.
Mr. Jeff Smith
Good evening, everyone.
Board members, administration, students.
It is always a privilege to stand before this group as principal Hershey
High School.
This will be the last installment of our Students of the month,
which means that we're we're approaching the end of the school year.
And I'd like to thank you for allowing us to honor students in this fashion.
So just as a slight reminder, eight weeks from Wednesday night,
we're going to be across the parking lot for our 2019 commencement.
So it's almost upon us, and I know some of the
some of the seniors have been counting the days a little bit,
but the class of 2019 as a whole has done an absolutely tremendous job.
And they're fabulous role models for younger students.
They will certainly be missed.
So without any delay, I'd like to introduce Miss McKean Ebrahimi.
Good evening.
To begin, I like to thank the school board
for selecting me to be the April student of the Month.
And I'd also like to thank all the wonderful teachers
and administrators at my school for helping me achieve such an honor.
It is certainly a privilege to be recognized
as a student worthy of this award, an award I could not have received
without the relentless support of my parents.
In addition, I would like to congratulate the Fellows
Students of the Month on their accomplishments
since their hard work and perseverance
certainly certainly makes their awards well deserved.
In just a few weeks, my senior year will be coming to an end.
But I am proud to say that I will be leaving
Hershey High School as a better learner.
I started my freshman year off by participating in several science
based programs, sparking my love for medicine in the national brain
rigorous neuroscience competition for high schoolers.
I placed first in Pennsylvania and Top ten in the nation.
I received an internship from Hershey Medical Center as a result
of this achievement and began a two year long research project
investigating the verbal and cognitive deficits of Parkinson's disease.
Sharing the lab
and performing groundbreaking research with a claim neurologists.
Also, earlier this year, I was announced as a National Merit Commended scholar,
an award given to those who score exceptionally on the PSAT.
Beyond my academic achievements, I am a Penn State Hershey teen volunteer,
spending my summers and working in patient transport
as a part of national Honor Society.
I also volunteer in places
such as the Public library and provide tutoring to those in science and math.
In between studying and volunteering, I play the violin in my school's
advanced concert orchestra, and perhaps the most exciting part, a senior.
I decided, Well, we are going to college this fall.
I will be attending Johns Hopkins University as a neuroscience and biology
major on the medicine track and experience I am truly very excited about.
Again, I am grateful to you all for recognizing me as a high achieving
and hardworking individual is a privilege to be honored by both
you and my teachers. Thank you.
And now, Mr.
Anton, eloquent.
Hello, everyone.
My name is Anton, eloquent, and I am the April student of the Month.
First of all, I would like to thank
all of HHS administration and teachers, specifically John Walzer, Aaron Ives
and Megan McNichol for their four years of support and guidance.
I would also like to thank a machine for being the other student of the month
this month.
And finally, and most importantly, I would like to thank my parents.
If it wasn't for my family, I wouldn't be standing here in front of you.
The person that I am today.
A little bit about myself.
I like to think of myself as sort of a jack of all trades.
I am the high school team captain of a Hershey's swimming and diving team.
I've been swimming ever since I was nine years old.
I'm also an avid participant in theater shows in the community.
I've done shows at the Hershey Area Playhouse
and out there at the high school.
My most recent show was playing Eli Whitney in Anything Goes
at the High School.
Outside of my extracurriculars, I am a master of ceremonies
at Saint John of our church, where I helped the
mass service, the priests in the mass service.
And I'm also a volunteer for Camp Lionheart, which is a sleepaway camp
for kids with congenital heart defects in school.
I'm very passionate about my academics,
and my two favorite subjects are probably biology and Spanish.
I am currently an intern at the Met Center in the H program
and I take two Spanish classes just to foster my love of language.
For next year, I will be attending Penn State University at the Shriner's
Honors College with the intent of majoring in public health.
And I would like to thank you all for giving me this chance
to speak in front of you today.
Thank you.
Thank you both for coming.
We appreciate it.
We love showing off our bright students at our high school.
And we wish you the best of luck in the future.
Tomorrow, two more months of high school and then you're off to great things.
So thank you for coming.
I would like to announce the board met in executive session
prior to this meeting to discuss matters of personnel
recognition of citizens.
This is an opportunity for residents and taxpayers
to address the board on matters related to the agenda.
Those who speak are asked to come to the microphone and state your name
and address for the record to provide other residents an opportunity to speak.
Each speaker during the public comment portion
is limited to 5 minutes of speaking, once recognized and limited
to one opportunity to address the board during each of the public comment periods.
If necessary, the board may set a maximum time
for the public comment portion of the meeting.
Speakers are asked to review the protocol for addressing the board,
which can be found at the sign in table prior to speaking.
Those wishing to present private concerns or questions needing
follow up outside of the board meeting are asked to fill out a comment card
contact card which can be found at the podium.
Completed cards may be turned to the members
of the administration to facilitate a reply.
Are there any citizens and taxpayers who like to come forward at this time?
Okay.
Standing Committee Report Curriculum Council met today.
We discussed our potential goals for the 20 1920 school year.
It looks like they're going to be very similar to last year.
One of our goals was oversight of the full day kindergarten program.
That was a three year goal.
So we'll continue that since we're just one year into full day kindergarten.
We would like to continue the grading practices, go through 2019,
2020, where we asked the high school to review the
the grading scale and possibly change it to a 4.0, which they will be finalizing
the details this summer and implementing that with the freshman class this year.
So we would like to keep tabs on that and then we are going
to continue our curricular goal, but we are going to add
oversight of issues related to our sex education program
and also community collaboration with equity and diversity.
We did approve three
French textbooks for 30 day review.
We approved the middle school remedial reading
program, Read 180 Universal for 30 day review.
We approved a fundamentals of Physics 10th Edition textbook for 30 day review,
and we approved three books that were related to
CP and honors English high School classes as well.
All of those books are displayed in the district
hallway out here for 30 days, if you would like to see them.
We also did.
We had a textbook come back, the American History, A.P.
textbook.
We also did approve that for a 30 day review.
And that concludes my report.
Are there any questions?
You simply physics?
I said the fundamentals of physics.
Yep. I.
Okay.
The policy committee met today.
Mrs. Steiner, do you have a report? Yes, I do.
Thank you.
Yes. The Policy Committee met today and we
discussed policy 707 use of school facilities,
which was brought back to us with recommendations from the ad hoc committee.
And then we want to thank the ad hoc committee for working on that
so diligently.
They their recommendations actually coincided
timely with the EPA recommendations,
which also had administrative guidelines issued.
Similarly, at the same time,
so the use of school facilities
that we are recommending and sending to the full board
is simplifies the policy
and then breaks down the
differentiate between
the fee charges
and administrative regulations
and administration regulations, use of school facilities
and administrative regulations, rules for use of school facilities.
And then there is also a revision of the actual request form
that organizations have to fill out.
So the biggest
the biggest change, I think, is that
group two nonprofits no longer
have to fill out a waiver
and they have all their costs covered except for labor,
unless they are having an athletic tournament.
So those are the biggest differences in the new
policy.
We also talked about policy
317 conduct disciplinary procedures,
and there was just a slight minor change
to clarify the reporting
required by employees regarding arrest and convictions.
So that was also approved unanimously to move to the full board.
And we discussed our focus areas
for the 20 1920, 20 year
because hard to believe that that was our last policy meeting of the school year.
So looking ahead for next year,
some of the things that we want to focus on are
continuing to review and
amend policies based on SBA recommendations
and other committees
that make changes that they as they come to our board as needed.
We also want to revisit policies
that dictate regular review within the policies
and make sure that we're not missing out on anything that has
a requirement stated in the policy that has to be reviewed every three years,
or if something hasn't been looked at, you know, in a really long time.
We want to make sure that we are reviewing that.
And one of those policies that hasn't been
reviewed in a while is the drug and alcohol policy.
So Mr.
Epstein recommended that we have an ad hoc committee
develop next year to look at that policy and really examine it to
to to bring back to the policy Committee.
And the other focus areas are
we want to develop use of therapy
and service animals.
That's something that the administration is interested
in developing so that we can use that more with some of our students.
We also want to look at LGBT
circumstances with our employees.
We've done a good job with students,
but we want to make sure that our employees are also covered
and continuing
to focus on policies related to social, emotional learning
and school climate in the context of overall school safety.
So those are all discussed
and approved for our focus areas for next year.
And that concludes my report.
All right.
Thank you very much.
Student Representatives Report.
Mr. Gove, Ozzy and Mr. Mangia.
Thank you.
Good evening, Madam President.
Derry Township board members and public.
Just to echo what Mr.
Smith said, I'm not going to lie here, but we do have a countdown going
in the back of my French class.
I think we're at 58 days till graduation.
That's regular day.
So yeah, we're getting pretty excited.
But we'd like to thank everyone here for letting us
or helping us throughout these four years
of our high school career and through our all of us here at Hershey.
So to kick things off this week, we wanted to recognize
some of the students both at the high school
and the middle school who competed at this year's C.U.
Media and Design competition.
So we had a lot of people placed in the top three in our third place bracket.
We had Astrid Peterson in computer programing, Justin Griffin
in 3D Design, and Emma Burke and website website design.
In second place we had and I'm sorry for butchering this person's name
because I don't know them.
The two are for digital movie.
And then our first piece winners were
Catherine Tuition and Lisa Wang for their animation.
Ling Wu for her digital and digital movie.
And again, I'm sorry for butchering this person's name.
Tim Tomar Ebrahimi and Zheng Faison as the.
So I thought that our first website design and all these first place
winners will then later compete at the state
competition, which will be held at Dickinson College.
So not too far down the road from us.
Also, as a student who has frequently participated
in the music program, as you've no doubt have heard, that our school district has
been recognized as one of the best communities for music. The
music education.
And as a student, I want to thank not only the teachers,
but you as the board, for your continuous support of the music programs here.
Another impressive thing that happened
just recently was actually yesterday at the Walk for Clean Water.
There was a lot of participation.
A lot of people went there and walked around
and they were able to hold the jugs
and see how much it weighed and how they were able to connect with
how the Africans would have had to walk to get to their water sources.
So it's a really fun and cool and enlightening activity for the students
to participate in.
So with that said, the Key Club was actually the one hosting this,
and they had great leadership making sure everything was running great,
as well as the good advisors helping the leadership.
There was a lot of participation
not only from the school but outside in the community.
And there was fundraising done before these days at Chipotle and Panera
and some individual students were even able to raise more than $500,
which is really impressive from one student.
And then all of this money on the day of the walk, it was total
to be 21,831 $0.92, which is just short of the 24,000 goal.
But recently on the website, it said that it jumped up to 24,000.
So that's awesome.
That's going to go to support two wells and Swasey Land, I believe,
for the community there.
Also this weekend on Saturday night, there is the HCA talent show,
which is a talent show filled with 20 acts ten from our high school
and ten from Milton Hershey High School, and they competed with a bunch
of different skills and talents, such as dancing, singing.
There was Speed, Rubik's Cubing, and also a Vine compilation.
So props anyone who knows what that is.
Also, our school dog Gem came to support and she was wearing the two school's
one Hershey shirt,
which is a shirt that the NCAA made to help link the students together.
They also handed out free candy and 40 students
Artworks were displayed in the lobby right before the show.
So the top three people who won was there's a dance group
filled with entirely Milton Hershey kids and also one Hershey High School student,
which is really awesome seeing that the first place team was someone
who was able to work together with other people from a different school.
Second place was Julissa Akers and Claire Williams, who did a new Claire played
the guitar and Julissa sang a song.
And third place was a original poem written by Emile in Hershey
School students.
So that was awesome to see all those events
and all the people that came out to support.
We had a really packed auditorium, which was awesome.
Also, the club is also
holding their annual exchange today.
So kids, some some kids got to go over to Milton Hershey
High School and some of the Milton Hershey kids got to go over to our high school
and just explore the new communities.
And we took some of the kids on a little tour during our study hall,
which was really fun and awesome way to connect the two schools.
The next thing we wanted to mention on was the state band.
So five days ago, I think from April 3rd to April 6th,
there were about seven students that headed to Pittsburgh to compete
in the state band competition or the the conference level.
So they were really excited
to go out there and perform with the other outstanding musicians from the state.
They really enjoyed playing with these students, playing with the conductors.
They created new friends
and they got out of their comfort zones to be in this sort of big arena.
And then the last thing or the last thing I want to mention on was Elementary Band.
They got to perform at the Hershey Hockey
Bears game.
They performed the National anthem.
And not only is an impressive that there's 90 kids, 93 kids in the band,
but they had to perform over
in front of over 10,000 people, which is something I would be scared of.
So props to them.
Also, over at the elementary school,
they were gearing up for their annual run walk the Race for Education.
The event happens in late May, but this past
couple of weeks they've been having assemblies and stuff to get them ready.
I think they had a troll versus minion dance off or some of the teachers
dressed up and got to dance around, which is really awesome.
I think the high school should do something like that.
I'd love to see some of my teachers dress up and do a little dance.
So maybe next year we'll see.
But it was really awesome to see the kids get excited to not only raise money
to help the school, but also get some good physical fitness in for them.
And as always, thank you for your time and feel free to ask any questions if you
may have them.
Thank you.
Any questions?
Thank you very much for your report,
Mr. Trojan.
Do you have a community correspondent's report?
I do a very brief report for the month of March 2019.
Of the districts received six comments v.r constituent contact form.
They included a question regarding high school curriculum.
A request for an interview from a Cub Scout.
We had a note of appreciation from a parent.
We had an inquiry about an individual food service account.
We had also had a request from
an outside organization to distribute materials.
We also had a sale solicitation as part of those checks as well.
And that concludes my report.
Thank you very much.
The listed items are on the proposed April 29th, 2019
Board of Directors Agenda.
Looks like we have a presentation from Dauphin County Tech School.
Okay.
There's no unfinished business.
The consent agenda.
The consent agenda contains routinely adopted items and items
that normally do not require public deliberations on the part of the board.
A board member may pull items which will then be discussed and voted on separately.
May I have a motion to approve the consent agenda items as listed some
second.
Lindsay and Donna, is there any discussion?
Yeah, I just have a question on the tobacco nicotine one.
I just wondered the thought process.
I saw that the language for e-cigarettes was taken out and vaping
and I'm just wondering, that was PSB, a recommended language.
We actually had amended the policy previously to allow for
electronic cigarets, but that was just the language that PSB recommended.
And it covers I think it's is it now nicotine delivery product, right?
So it covers everything.
So that's why they took it out to be to be over encompassing.
So it's not just right.
So I just know some of our other policies
were so specific and we name every little thing, right?
In this one we're leaving pretty broad and I just think vaping
and e-cigarettes is big and are just catch words that draw people's attention.
So I was just wondering the thought process of why they were taken out.
So it was
more to follow what the SBA did with their.
Yeah.
Any other questions about the consent
agenda items?
Okay.
All those in favor say I. I opposed.
Say no.
Okay.
The motion carries
to new business
approval
of the Caq 2019 2020 General Operating budget.
Mr. McFarland.
Thank you.
The administration recommends the approval of the 2019 2020
Capital Area Intermediate Unit General Operating Budget.
Derry Township School District's contribution to the general operating
budget is $51,596.85.
May I have a motion to approve the 2019 2020 CTU General Operating budget?
So moved Donna.
Second, Maria, is there any discussion?
I just want to thank Joe for mentioning the amount.
There was a lot of pages related to that budget that took a while to find it.
So thank you.
And again, just so the public knows, that's something that's preset.
That's not something that we determine.
Right.
And the other discussion is the standard voice vote.
All those in favor say I was opposed.
Say no pay.
The motion carries acceptance of the gift.
2019 Fall Speaker Mr.
McFarland, the administration recommends accepting the listed gift.
May I have a motion to approve the 2019 fall speaker gift from Mr.
and Mrs. Mike Leonard?
So moved second as Lindsey with that Maria?
Yeah.
Was there any discussion?
Yeah. I'm sorry. I was just going to say.
Ever since I was first on the board, they were always so involved
and so willing to give.
And I'm just so appreciative
that their of their continued involvement, even if it's from afar.
I would say as a district, we're so thankful.
They're incredibly generous and supportive.
I just wondered,
was there something specific they wanted that like a certain type of topic,
or did they just leave it up to the district's discretion?
They had brought forth someone they had heard, and I went back to them
with someone that we were looking at, and they were very happy with that.
Any other discussion?
This is a standard voice vote.
All those in favor say I was opposed.
Say no pay.
The motion carries on line sale of busses.
Mr. McFarland.
The administration recommends the board approve the foreign 20
online auction services for the auction of the listed busses,
which will be replaced at the end of the 2018 2018 school year.
May I have a motion to approve the online sale agreement with
for 22 online auction services for the listed busses?
So moved second, Maria and Donna's or any discussion.
This is a standard voice vote.
All those in favor say I opposed say no to the motion carries
approval of RFP for special needs transportation.
Mr. McFarland.
Thank you.
The administration recommends
the approval to advertise an RFP for special needs transportation
due to increasing demands of the service and cost comparison
to the current services provider by the CIO.
May I have a motion
to approve the request for RFP for special needs Transportation?
So moved.
Second, Maria and Lindsay, is there any discussion,
Donna and Lindsay?
Donna and my voice.
Okay. This is a standard voice vote.
All those in favor say I was opposed.
Say no. Okay. The motion carries.
The board of directors recommend the approval of the 2019 2020
Board of Directors meeting date.
May I have a motion to approve
the 2019 2020 Board of Directors meeting dates?
So moved second, Donna and Lindsay.
Was there any discussion?
I just wanted to to make you aware of the fact
that typically we do the second and fourth Mondays,
but in October you'll see we're doing the first Monday
on the seventh because we are going to avoid the Columbus Day that Monday
holiday, because that is now a day that everyone's off school.
And then there's an in-service the next day.
So we didn't want to have
the teachers aren't here on that Monday, so we can't really have
committee meetings.
And then
so that that is a change.
Okay. This is a standard voice vote.
All those in favor say I.
I was opposed. Say no.
The motion carries.
May I have a motion to approve the listed resignation?
So moved.
Second, Donna and Maria is there any discussion?
This is a standard voice vote.
All those in favor say I was opposed.
Say no to the motion.
Carries personnel, General. Mr.
McFarland, the administration recommends the approval of the listed personnel.
May I have a motion to approve personnel, General?
So moved seconds, Maria.
And Lindsey is there any discussion?
And this is a standard voice vote.
All those in favor say I.
I was opposed.
Say now the motion carries I you, Mrs.
Mimi, Do you have a delegate report?
It's attached. Thank you. Okay.
Mr. Singer, do you have a better together?
A Derry Township report?
Yes. Just very briefly.
There's three school board members that are representatives
on that forming group.
Judy have Ristic and Tricia Steiner and myself.
And I just placed a copy of the the letter.
I don't know if that's the letterhead you like or not.
No, I don't like that letter. That's okay.
Anyway, the organization is just in the process of forming
is representing a coalition of organizations
throughout the community to promote
and support active and healthy living.
The organizations represented so far as part of the coalition
and are Penn State College of Medicine, Penn State Health,
the Derry Township,
Derry Township School District, and the Georgia Sports Foundation.
Our first meeting is set for Thursday, April 25th,
from 7 to 830 here at the District Administration Building.
So if anyone is interested in attending, you're all you're all welcome.
Thank you.
I thank you for your report.
Mr. Abel, do you have a Trojan Foundation report?
Madam President, another very
March 27th.
The Trojan Foundation met here in the morning,
did a sort of a recap of Taste of Hershey and.
And talked about how successful that program is
and looking for ways to to improve the program into the future.
The board also had approved on a first reading a grant application
that would be investment portfolio for accounting three students.
Essentially, they would manage a store, a stock portfolio with a return
is going back to the Trojan trading post or to their scholarship fund.
So that will go off for a second reading and approval of a specific amount.
But we went through that the first time on March 27th.
Okay. Thank you for your report.
Board members, are there any board members who would like to give a report?
I have one.
Lindsay, I wanted to just first say thank you
to the administration, DOE and to the board for allowing me
to be one of the representatives at the SBA conference last weekend.
We spent Friday two Monday in Philadelphia,
attending with 7000 other administrators and board
members and
educators from across the country.
And it was such an incredible experience that I'm still trying to wrap my head
around it because sometimes conferences seem really exciting to
to think about, you know, and look at the sessions and go into them.
But you come away not having really tangible things that you've learned.
And this one for me was
completely different.
And from the speakers and the experience and the conversations that we had
to the sessions,
it was
just, I feel like I've learned and made able to grow
so much as a school board member and also just as a person and professional.
So it was just a really fantastic
time and I want to thank you for investing
in that opportunity for us as board members to receive education.
I don't know if I'll steal Thunder in
another report, but my son is a third grader
and he received his dictionary that was donated by the Hershey Rotary Club.
And so there was a presentation last week to all the third graders
that they received them.
And so we spent the entire weekend looking up
every word I use that he didn't know immediately what the word was.
So I just want to say thank you to the Hershey Rotary Club for that,
because I do appreciate it. Despite being
definition checked for everything.
And I also just in one final thing, wanted to say
thank you to Mrs.
Steiner and to the Policy Committee for their work on the policy
we approved tonight
for the nondiscrimination for transgender and gender non-conforming students.
I'm really proud of this board in our district that we can create
policies that are mindful and thoughtful and important
and that encompass the needs of all of our students
without discrimination and without
going above and beyond, you know, in any one way or the other.
And it just makes me really proud to be a part of this board
to work with such a group of people that are focused on wanting to
do what's best for our kids.
Thank you.
Any other reports?
Tricia, I have a quick one. Thank you,
Tricia.
And then John
Kerry.
Judy, I'll go with.
Okay. Okay. Okay.
Thank you, Lindsey, for that.
I echo your sentiments and also echo your sentiments about the an SBA conference.
It was an invaluable experience.
And when the three of us get together, we're going to streamline
everything that we learn.
So we don't talk about it for hours
on end, because I feel like I could talk about it.
I could have my own conference about it.
It was really wonderful.
And so I also just wanted to remind everybody
that Advocacy Day for SBA is on April 29th.
So any buddy, if anybody's interested in attending that, make sure you register.
It's a really great day. I went last year.
It was just Mr.
Macfarlane and I, but we had a
it was really interesting experience meeting with the legislators and
it was it was just powerful to see, you know,
that part of it in action advocacy for public schools.
And then I also wanted to just announced to
everybody that bike to school day is May 8th.
So and that's, you know, a coordinated effort between,
you know, the township and and the school district.
And it's a really fun for especially for the elementary school students
I've been going to every year, even though my daughter's
not in elementary school anymore, I still like to go to it.
It's a lot of fun to see all the kids come in and Koko the bears there and,
you know, there's like little freebies and stuff there.
So I encourage everybody to come because I think
it's just a nice it's a nice event for us all to be a part of.
And just to echo on that,
we were
asked, there are flashing light keychains that are being given out,
and so we were asked to be able to help pen those out
as school board members of anyone would like to participate in doing that.
I'll be picking up a box of these keychains
and it'll be at starting at 745 that morning on May eight.
That right by Memorial Field,
we'll be handing those out to all the kids, biking to school.
Thank you, John.
Judy, go ahead.
Someone's got to go right now.
Those will be quick.
Madam President, I was able to attend the latest
presentation by the Hershey All Things Diversity.
On March 27th, we had a really powerful, dynamic speaker Ms..
Dale Snowden accomplished in this particular field.
She talked about promoting social justice and equity
and creating multi, multi, multi, a digital identity
and gave a lot of practical advice.
It was a very dynamic speaker.
She had us break up into small groups.
I saw Dr. Winslow there.
As long as some other people from the from the district.
A couple of things that I've a couple of takeaways that I had,
and I'm reading from the township website that kind of did a good job
summarizing some of her major points.
One was learning to become aware of our unconscious bias,
engaging in some some awkward dialog, but learning to kind of get through that
to keep an open mind.
And a lot of good practical advice that she had for him for the entire group.
So I would recommend folks go to the website.
The next one is addressing the needs of individuals on the autism spectrum,
and that will be on Wednesday, May 8th.
And John Register, that is on YouTube, because I couldn't make it that night.
I was able to watch it.
And so if you go to township's website and there's an article there
and there's a link to there to her bias training, it was really good.
But thank you,
Judy.
I just want to echo to what Lindsey and Trish were saying.
The NSB conference was just amazing.
It was a great opportunity and very beneficial.
And so I just want to thank the district as well and our own solicitor, Mr.
Z, presented and he did a tremendous job.
And thank you for your time and willingness to do that
because you just provided a lot of great information.
And as Chris mentioned, we learned we will be sharing with the rest of the board
as well as the administration, which is some ideas that we came back
with just to hopefully incorporate into our district them.
And just a reminder that on this Wednesday
night, Dauphin County Technical School is having their joint
meeting and
all members of the board are invited to attend that as well.
And I think, Mr.
Franks, you probably received from Maria just the increase.
They want to keep more of the
so you pay aware of that and that that fits in with our budget.
That's an okay. Just want to clear that with you.
And they did a play this weekend.
The Wizard of Oz at the Dauphin County Technical School.
I went to that and that was just great.
They did a wonderful, wonderful job of that.
You Thank you, Terry
Oak on behalf of the Joint Sports Foundation.
I just wanted to announce that we've been working
collaboratively with the positive Coaching Alliance,
which is the national coach training organization
that the high school has partnered with over the last three years,
and the Hershey High School
to develop a scholarship opportunity.
It's called the Triple Impact Competitor Scholarship.
It is for seniors who are also athletes at the high school.
And the nice thing about it is, is it picks up on principles
and things that were taught through a course that the positive coaching lines
delivered to virtually every athlete
in the fall winter and spring season.
And so it's seeking to recognize individuals who are considered
triple impact competitors, which means that they work
hard to improve themselves, their team and the sport.
And that's it.
Thank you. Thank you.
Any other points?
The deadline is April 15th for the scholarship application,
for any host procedures that are interested.
Any other board members feeling left out?
No. I think.
Mr. McFarland. Do you have a superintendents report?
I do.
Thank you.
This morning I attended our region's inaugural Capital Area Alliance for Career
Pathways Breakfast meeting, which was with regional business leaders.
ACP, a works and the Partnership for Career Development.
This is something that we finally got organized.
It's something that the superintendents have been working on with the support
of the IU to expand our scope of opportunities and reduce
the duplication of efforts across the districts in the ICU.
The goal of our group is for schools and businesses to work together
to translate the K-12 career development into workforce development
by giving our students, which are over 85,000 strong in the IU region,
the knowledge, experiences and guidance to shape their career decisions.
And I'm happy to say we had about 35 business leaders
in attendance for the first meeting, which was a good first step.
Also got great news today.
Pleased to announce that 15 of our eighth graders who applied
to attend Dauphin County Technical School were accepted
into the school next year.
And that's the largest group that we've had in
than any time I can remember in one class going in tech school.
A huge thank you goes to the middle school counselors and especially Katelyn
Burdick for their work, advocating for our students
as they continue to discover and grow their passions and talents.
Several of the students noted today
that they couldn't have done it without my Botox encouragement.
So a really excited about that.
Just to give you a perspective,
right now, we have anywhere from 10
to 12 sophomores, two seniors, and only three freshmen currently.
So this is fantastic, great news.
And finally, we met today to finalize plans for Link Crew and Bridge Day.
Bridge Day Slash Link Crew will be Wednesday,
August 21st for rising sixth graders and rising ninth graders.
Link Crew
is the new component, but that'll be it'll be kicked off on August 21st.
But that's a year long leadership development mentoring program.
Juniors and senior
students will be partnered up with about ten freshmen
and they'll be sort of their mentors throughout the whole year.
There were 140
what are now sophomores and juniors that expressed interest.
Initially came to some lunch and learns to learn about it.
And out of that 104 of our students applied.
So today, Mrs.
Clouser and Madame Kent held interviews, which were interviews,
but also doing some work together to see how they worked
and problem solved and showed leadership.
It's a diverse group of students representing
all all facets of our student population.
And now they have the task of narrowing it down to about 84,
that there will be a initial kickoff training for those link leaders,
June, probably June 6th, and then Sunday, August 18th.
I think it was or whatever that Sunday is right before opening
day will be a full day, training 11 in the morning till seven at night
for the link leaders.
So I'm very excited about that.
And to my report I think you board presence report.
I just want to thank
Lindsey, Tricia and duty for attending the conference in Philadelphia.
We appreciate you taking your weekend
and going down there to learn more about being a school board member.
So thank you so much.
And now it's time for recognition of citizens.
This is an opportunity for residents and taxpayers to address the board on matters
related to the agenda and matters of district governance, not on the agenda.
Those who
speak are asked to come to the microphone and follow the same guidelines outlined
in the initial public comment portion.
Are there any residents or taxpayers
who would like to come forward at this time?
Okay.
None.
Adjournment.
The next Public Board of Directors meeting will be held Monday, April 29th,
2019, starting at 7:00 in District Office Board of Directors.
Room may have a motion to adjourn this meeting.
So move Second, Aria and Donna.
Now, those in favor say I have.
The meeting is adjourned at 744.