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DTSD Webinars: It's the phone number. Is it? Okay.

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DTSD Webinars: I'd like to call the August 11, 2025 meeting of the

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DTSD Webinars: You can't.

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DTSD Webinars: Dude, let's be safe.

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DTSD Webinars: So I can't do with a phone number.

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DTSD Webinars: I feel like the motor, but he's doing it via the app.

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DTSD Webinars: Sorry.

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DTSD Webinars: Okay, alright, we're gonna redo this.

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DTSD Webinars: Sorry. That's okay. I'd like to call the August 11th, 2025 meeting of the Derry Township School District Board of Directors to order, and announce that this meeting is being livestreamed and audio recorded. Board members, please state your name prior to speaking. Mrs. AG, roll call, please. Dr. Sisik? Here. Ms. Drew? Here.

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DTSD Webinars: Mr. Haranoff?

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DTSD Webinars: Dr. McCarver? Here. Mrs. Renz? Here. Mr. Rizzo? Here. Ms. Romberger? Here. Mrs. Royo? Here. Mrs. Schmidt?

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DTSD Webinars: 7 present.

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DTSD Webinars: Thank you. Mr. Harneth is joining us, virtually this evening. Unfortunately, he, the connection is not listed as a panelist on the Zoom. Mr. Harneth, if you're able to unmute, you do have talking permitted to be able to participate electronically. If you could please let us know that you have that available.

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13105693169: If this is working, I have it available. Thank you.

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DTSD Webinars: Thank you.

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DTSD Webinars: Please rise if you are able, and join me for the Pledge of Allegiance.

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DTSD Webinars: Super glad.

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DTSD Webinars: to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

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DTSD Webinars: May I please have a motion to approve the August 11, 2025 Board of Directors meeting agenda? So moved, Jeff Sizek. Second. Jennifer Renz? Is there any discussion?

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DTSD Webinars: This is a standard voice vote. All those in favor say aye. Aye. Any opposed? No.

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DTSD Webinars: Our agenda is approved for the evening. First up this evening, I'd like to welcome Hershey High School Principal Ms. Schmidt for a cell phone presentation.

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DTSD Webinars: Good evening, Board of Directors. I had planned to welcome the community, but virtual community will do. I do have a presentation for you this evening.

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DTSD Webinars: But I can also just go off of memory.

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DTSD Webinars: Perfect. So I wanted to come to the board this evening just to give you an update after our first year of the new updated electronics policy, which had a very distinct plan for cell phones outlined in it. So…

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DTSD Webinars: I thought the first thing, which would be the thing that the community as well as the board might be the most interested in, was looking at the numbers. So, what you see there is we had 278 students out of almost 1,100 students last school year have one cell phone violation, which would have resulted in an after-school detention.

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DTSD Webinars: From that number alone, it drops, and those second violations had to have obviously had a first. So we go from 278 down to 61 in a second violation. You can see, as we move our way down, obviously, those numbers continue to decrease. We had a couple kids who really struggled with our, as you can see, who had 7 up through 10 violations. And for those students.

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DTSD Webinars: the cell phone lockup that we did, where I was explaining how we had the little holder in the main office, and we could have the kids key their phone in, and then they'd come back at the end of the day, really removing the actual tool itself

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DTSD Webinars: cell for the distraction or the violation was the key to success, for some of those kids. It was really an issue of just impulse control, as we really teased down when we saw more and more students repeating those violations, multiple conversations.

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DTSD Webinars: As well as consequences, we could really glean that the issue was that true.

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DTSD Webinars: true impulse control, the ability to not stop myself from pulling it out. Or, oftentimes, you would find a kid who was in 5th through 10th violations, it would just be a, oh.

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DTSD Webinars: I didn't mean to do that, type of thing. So really, we saw a decrease in the need after that first violation to be constantly checking the cell phone, and overall, to only have 278 first violations tells me

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DTSD Webinars: That between the board down, we've done a nice job of communicating what the expectation is.

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DTSD Webinars: We communicated with the students and families from day one of the school year, as well as leading up to the school year. We plan to continue that same type of communication this year, but then I think the real key, and we'll talk about it later, is the consistency factor. Our staff was bought in, and you saw consistency across the board with how we addressed any student with a cell phone.

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DTSD Webinars: So the perception versus the reality. The student perspective was really where we saw perception versus reality situation, but for staff, and we heard this a lot in our end-of-year meetings with individual staff members, and also, just from teachers in typical conversations, more time was spent on instruction, whether it was from them or the students, so they were spending a lot less time having to remind kids to put things

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DTSD Webinars: away, or remind them to stay on task.

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DTSD Webinars: and they also were able to themselves see more time of students spending on instruction. So if you're typically given 15 minutes at the end of a period to work on the work, oftentimes kids would pop out their cell phone, right? Now, they're working on the work. So we also saw a decrease in the number of missed assignments, which was key, and we're looking forward to a continued increase in the academics. We don't have a ton of data yet to

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DTSD Webinars: disaggregate if this had a major effect, but I would imagine over the next 5 years, we'll have a nice trend.

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DTSD Webinars: Students were engaged in talking with each other. That was something that I mentioned earlier on. It was just something that we had not realized how much we were missing until we saw it in action. Our kids were constantly with a device, and when you remove the device, you actually require kids to talk.

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DTSD Webinars: And in that conversation, they learn some very needed skills. So, problem solving with conflict, as well as the ability to just engage in a conversation that yields a result you're looking for. They wouldn't know how to do that, they would get right into their phones and send a message. There would be no thought in, how does that come across, and how is somebody going to receive my tone? Now, there's some thoughtfulness in how I'm delivering, because it's actually coming out of

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DTSD Webinars: my mouth. Other thing we saw was just less overall discipline involving student conflicts, and also just less drama in school. There wasn't the ability to just quickly engage in some social media drama that was happening or had carried over from the night before. Kids also knew that if they got caught in that, that then it sort of exposed they were on their phone, so it was sort of a double whammy because it resulted in maybe a contact

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DTSD Webinars: consequence, and also a cell phone violation. So we really saw a drastic decrease in the amount of time we were dealing with

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DTSD Webinars: social media issues, and just the Snapchat.

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DTSD Webinars: constant barrage of messages or the texts that would just be these quick, like, a situation happens, I'm sending something quickly, and I have no thought on it, and then I just engage in this conflict that I may have no intention of getting into in the first place. This is causing pause, which is much appreciated by the staff.

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DTSD Webinars: And also the kids. And that was one thing that the student said, is I just didn't have as much, like, going-on conflict with people. And I thought, I wonder what that was from.

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DTSD Webinars: So when we go to the student perspective, I'm gonna be brutally honest, the last one is very true.

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DTSD Webinars: They do wish they had access to their phones more regularly.

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DTSD Webinars: However, when we have those conversations with students, when they're like, well, I just wish I had it in the hallway or in my study hall, a teacher might say, do you think it would be easier to then stay off of your phone, or because you would have just been on it, do you think you would be more likely to use it quicker in a classroom and be in violation? And the kids were like, oh.

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DTSD Webinars: Actually, I guess if it's just in my bag, like, I'm not thinking about it.

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DTSD Webinars: So when you process with them, they understand. They do absolutely understand that it helps in class, and they will all say that. We have seen some workarounds, which we will talk about next, as ways that we could use your help. However, overall, I think the students did feel and see there was a shift in the dynamic of the building.

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DTSD Webinars: We saw kids, and the kids still talk about it to this day, and they were talking about it here.

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DTSD Webinars: the pep rally around the basketball thing, we have never had a student-led pep rally, and that… I still get chills thinking about it. That came directly from the kids, and I do wonder…

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DTSD Webinars: If they were able to be on their phones and interacting with each other all day long, would we have still had that same type of pep rally and that same type of buy-in to our community?

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DTSD Webinars: I tend to think not, but I think time will tell. However.

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DTSD Webinars: I can tell you that the staff, as well as the students, have mentioned there has been an increase in community and a feeling of connection, and that is our ultimate goal. We want everybody to feel like they belong.

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DTSD Webinars: And I think the removal of that device that protected people, from being maybe anonymous on a post, or just creating this quick conflict, has really required kids to pause and created a more connected school.

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DTSD Webinars: So here's where we could use some help, and what's next.

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DTSD Webinars: So we're gonna continue our messaging that we had last year, where you're gonna start to see on our Hershey Instagram page, which will be much more active this year, as we have an intern working with Mrs. Harmer. But you're gonna see the 7 days way to start planning for that detox, coming up for kids.

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DTSD Webinars: We're gonna start day one as we did last year, so kids and parents, received information today, they will receive information next week about the cell phones, and then they're going to get a reminder ahead of the actual start of school, and then they're going to homeroom first thing, where we are going to start with the expectations and what it looks like to be a Hershey High School student.

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DTSD Webinars: Which includes no cell phones. We are going to use that cell phone lockup more. We had…

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DTSD Webinars: been hesitant, just because we wanted to see, and kids do feel like, this is my personal property, you cannot have it. However, the impact it had on some of our multiple violators, we are going to be using it more for those kids, to try and honestly help them. It is an actual intervention of support, because it is removing the device that's causing them to get in trouble.

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DTSD Webinars: And then we're going to continue to remain consistent and communicate with our families.

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DTSD Webinars: Over the course of the year, I did ask our assistant principals. We had… I had a total of three, and they each had a total of 1 parent complaint as we were divvying out these consequences. So overall, it feels like our community is rather bought into this. While there might have been some frustration with

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DTSD Webinars: the after-school detention, I think everybody did understand that we had communicated our expectations, and they… they did know that a consequence was necessary, so…

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DTSD Webinars: Positive from the community.

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DTSD Webinars: Ways we can help. So here's the real, meat and potatoes of it. The kids did figure out workarounds, and we knew they were going to. So the iPads are a workaround because they have opportunities for conversation. Google Docs, our Remind app, ways that we want to encourage communication is also being used as ways to continue to communicate.

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DTSD Webinars: Positive on that.

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DTSD Webinars: is we have access to all of that. So, if and when anything becomes inappropriate in violation of our AUP, or in violation of any of our policies, for that matter, they are on devices that the district owns, which does allow us to

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DTSD Webinars: act on them, it allows us to search those devices or confiscate them. The thing that was really the ticket for the kids were the AirPods.

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DTSD Webinars: So… and shame on me for not being in the know, but my own kid was, doing it, and I didn't even know she was doing it. So they hide their AirPods in their ears, they put their hair down, or they put a hoodie up, or they turn their notifications to red, and any time a text comes through, it reads it in their ear.

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DTSD Webinars: So they are well aware of all of the notifications they're getting, whether from Snapchat, Instagram, or text messages. It just depends on how they set up their notifications in their cell phone.

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DTSD Webinars: So…

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DTSD Webinars: This year, the students are going to be told that they are not permitted to have AirPods in… while in instructional classes. We are going to allow the AirPods, if a teacher is saying, hey, I'm giving time, and, you know, I've got some kids that it helps them to focus, that becomes a teacher discretion, and then it's up to them to monitor that. But they have our support at any time while in an instructional space to say no AirPods.

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DTSD Webinars: We will have students who have the ability to have AirPods or headphones written into IEPs and 504s. That will obviously be allowed. And we will permit them in the hallways and non-instructional spaces, like study halls, or if they, you know, are in the building for their

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DTSD Webinars: flex for some reason. There will be opportunities for the AirPods to be used, but it will not be in any classes.

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DTSD Webinars: And we could just use support as far as, if people come to you and say, why would they do this? If you could help with that understanding of it was the way they were getting on their cell phones and staying connected, which is what we're trying to, break for that time, give their brains a break and let them just focus on school.

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DTSD Webinars: So, with that… Questions?

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DTSD Webinars: Sorry, this choshes, but even with the AirPod notification, they couldn't really respond. Correct. So they couldn't really hold a conversation necessarily, just more of a…

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DTSD Webinars: It was a notification, and I will say, often, that notification, depending on what it was, would lead to a bathroom request. Gotcha.

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DTSD Webinars: And so, we are also reminding teachers that it is okay, unless it's an emergency, to say no to a student who is constantly going to the bathroom in your class. They're here to learn. Obviously, we are not going to be saying kids cannot use the bathroom, I want that on public record, but we are reminding teachers that

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DTSD Webinars: when all of us went to school, I'm sure at one point or another, we raised our hand and said, can I go to the bathroom? And our teacher said, hold on, I'm in the middle of something, I'll get right back to you, unless it's an emergency. And so that would limit the notifications. But yes, they get the notifications in their ear, and then they cannot immediately get their phone out.

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DTSD Webinars: This is Tracy Royo. If they can use the AirPods, though, why would they need the AirPods at all if they can't have the cell phone in those times, like lunch and hallways? So their iPads are set up where they can get music, or if they are listening to the

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DTSD Webinars: a podcast, and we do, like, our AP classes use podcast… all of our classes actually use podcasts now. Kids can make podcasts and turn those in as assignments, so they're going to want the headphones for that. So they're not using them to use their cell phones, it's to link… No, it is just that… absolutely. So there is still no cell phone usage, but…

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DTSD Webinars: I can't take an AirPod away from a kid who needs to listen to a podcast to write a reflective essay on that, in their study hall, but that would be why then they would be permitted to use them in the study halls, because they should be used for education.

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DTSD Webinars: Other questions?

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DTSD Webinars: On the, the first violations, with there being 278, did you see a concentration of… towards the beginning of the year, and then it significantly dropped off? Like, if those are 278 unique

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DTSD Webinars: You know, violations being the first one. What was the… kind of…

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DTSD Webinars: break down across the year. The first marking period, we saw the largest percentage.

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DTSD Webinars: We also saw a bigger uptick right after the holiday break. And that was just, again, so we did, when we came back from our holiday break, and we will do this again, we did a few community periods as some resets, but that community period isn't till third period, so we did have a couple kids who forgot and would be walking in after the holiday, and they're on their phone going.

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DTSD Webinars: forgot. So, nothing super intentional, and the other thing I would like to note, because it really speaks to who our students are, we did not have any student who was belligerent or defiant when a teacher said, hey, that's a cell phone violation, and I do need to give you a detention. We had prepared for that, but not one of our students responded in that way, and I do think that is an absolute positive, and also really speaks to who our kids are.

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DTSD Webinars: And the community as a whole.

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DTSD Webinars: Hi, this is, Josh again. Just to refresh my memory, the policy was that, well, there was no wiggle room on a… on a…

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DTSD Webinars: first violation, it was detention. So, it looked like that was very effective, because it dropped from, what, 278 to, like, 60? 60, yeah, 61. So, rather effective, and I have to say, I was hesitant on that. I'm like, oh, they should get a warning.

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DTSD Webinars: And our dean, I gotta give Mr. Painter some credit, he was like, that's gonna be such a bad habit to have to break if we're giving them a warning. So, Mr. Painter was like, let's push it for a level 2. That's when I came and presented and said, we really believe it should be a detention first, and I think those numbers speak to exactly what he was saying. That… that detention for many kids was the end-all be-all. Okay, I don't want that.

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DTSD Webinars: Fair enough.

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DTSD Webinars: So… I want to say thank you for the work that went into implementing this. I know that,

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DTSD Webinars: Through last summer, and heading into the start of the year, everyone was just a bit, kind of.

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DTSD Webinars: apprehensive, like, kind of waiting to see what was going to happen and how it was going to be received, you know, how the kids were going to do. I'll share that when I've spoken with students,

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DTSD Webinars: it's been really interesting to see the turnaround over the course of the year. A lot of kids said, I was really against it before, now I understand it, I don't miss it anymore. You know, it seems like that

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DTSD Webinars: that mentality shift has been there as well, from a policy perspective and, you know, why we did it. And, you know, I often joke and tell this story that my son

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DTSD Webinars: routinely jokes that if I embarrass him in public, he's going to yell, that's the cell phone lady.

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DTSD Webinars: You know, when we're in a crowd, so that he can put me on blast as one of the policy writers, but, …

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DTSD Webinars: seeing on this presentation more instruction time, less drama in school, less time being spent on managing discipline around social media conflicts, like, that's the spirit of why we did this, and what, …

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DTSD Webinars: what was really at the heart of it, and what the research shows would happen, you know, if we were doing it. So, I'm really encouraged to see this feedback, because I think that

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DTSD Webinars: it achieved, you know, exactly. And while we don't have specific data, the overall sentiment seems to be it was a success, and really started moving towards achieving the goals that we were seeking to, accomplish with this.

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DTSD Webinars: One question I do have is, I know that there were things throughout the year. Can you kind of talk us through the process of, deciding when they were and were not, you know, permitted for…

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DTSD Webinars: Non-instructional time? Yes, so we… as we worked through the year, and we sort of knew there were going to be some anomalies or things that, in the process of planning, that would come up, and we would say, alright, this is one we have to work through. Field trips, that was an easy one. They were taking their phones on the field trips. We… we, as an administrative team, and you as a school board, had said that we don't want them to miss that opportunity to

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DTSD Webinars: document those experiences. So that was a non-issue. The ones that became issues, and we did have to sort of draw a hard line, because I go back to sort of what Mr. Painter said, once you start that, you're never going to bring it back.

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DTSD Webinars: is the during-school events. So senior events at the end of the year, they were allowed to take those phones out, because that sort of felt like…

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DTSD Webinars: well, A, as a parent, I would want my own kid to be able to have… those are memories you're never going to have again. So, of course, they were able to have their phones out on the walk, and during some of the daytime senior events.

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DTSD Webinars: Other events, so our pep rallies, we did…

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DTSD Webinars: We worked with our band director specifically in the beginning of the year to talk about iPads and stands, and if they were not comfortable, and they had to work through this as well, but if our director wasn't comfortable with using iPads and stands, we would have allowed the iPad, or the cell phones for the band.

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DTSD Webinars: That would have been difficult, because the second a kid sees a cell phone out, we do have kids that are going, well, if he can, why can I not?

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DTSD Webinars: And in the mob of…

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DTSD Webinars: stadium, or in our basketball arena, as I call it, it is hard to address every single student with those cell phones, if one is out, or if 100 have their phones out and the other students don't. So we worked through and we reflected, and internal events, we did not allow the phones. They can document with their iPads, …

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DTSD Webinars: And the pep rallies were successful without the cell phones. We did allow students to wear press passes for other big events. That was sort of our way of setting aside. So at our Trojan Buddies event, we had 3 kids wearing press passes, they had their phones out.

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DTSD Webinars: But they also… the district has been supportive in other ways of our photography program, so we have cameras and stuff that then the kids were able to use as well. So, each event we sort of worked through, and I would say, moving forward, if there's new, unique events, we'll work through them as well. But overall, the staff felt really good with the decisions. We worked hand-in-hand with them. I would often call Stacy and say, here's what we're thinking.

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DTSD Webinars: You know, from the board's perspective, would they be okay with this? And overall, I think our choices landed us in a good space. Obviously, we're always up for reflection and feedback, and have talked to the kids about that.

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DTSD Webinars: this year, we are going to be back in our home stadium on the bleachers, so Mr. Bouderbaugh has already been working on a plan for our pep rally and our kickoffs and stuff like that, so I think we're in a good space with that, and I think it's been easy to draw a line of field trips and also press passes and the senior events.

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DTSD Webinars: Thank you. Of course, I should mention, and I apologize for not doing so, really another kudos is to the staff. So, you guys provided a space and a place for them to draw the hard line, as well as for our administrative team, and because of that policy, they were able to remain very consistent.

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DTSD Webinars: really set us up to be successful, so thank you for that policy, and also kudos to our staff, because they were very hesitant as well. I think everybody in this room was, and so were the staff, and they did an insanely incredible job. They showed up from day one, and they remained consistent, even when there were kids, they were like, oh, that one was tough.

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DTSD Webinars: Or, oh, I know it was an accident, I saw her, look at it and put it right away, but they remained consistent, and I do believe that's why we saw a big decrease from 278 to 61. So, kudos to them as well.

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DTSD Webinars: Thank you. Does anyone else have any other questions or comments?

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DTSD Webinars: Alright, thank you. Thank you all.

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DTSD Webinars: I would like to announce that the board met in the executive session this evening, prior to this meeting, to discuss matters of personnel.

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DTSD Webinars: We'll now begin our first public comment period, which is an opportunity for residents and taxpayers attending in person or virtually to address the board on matters related to the agenda. If you wish to speak on matters not related to the agenda, an additional public comment period will be provided later in the evening.

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DTSD Webinars: Each speaker is permitted up to 5 minutes of speaking time during each of the public comment periods in order to provide other residents with an opportunity to speak. I'll ask Board Treasurer Dr. McCarver to please keep time. When necessary, the Board may set a maximum time for public comment. As a reminder, all public comments are part of this evening's public record and minutes.

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DTSD Webinars: There are not any in-person participants this evening, so I will turn it over to virtual attendees. If you're participating online and wish to speak, please raise your virtual hand at this time. You must have registered individually with your full name and address in order to be recognized.

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DTSD Webinars: For all speakers, it is only necessary once recognized that you identify yourself by providing your full name.

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DTSD Webinars: Mr. Nicholson, is there anyone wishing to comment virtually?

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DTSD Webinars: Not at this time, no.

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DTSD Webinars: Thank you.

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DTSD Webinars: Okay, then we'll move on to our community correspondence report. Ms. Harmer, do you have a report for us, please? I do. For the month of July, the district received one Community Correspondence submission. This month's community correspondence was an inquiry about the plans for the new elementary school from a vendor. That's it. Great, thank you.

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DTSD Webinars: The items that will appear on the screen in just a moment are on the anticipated August 25th, 2025 Board of Directors meeting agenda.

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DTSD Webinars: Thank you. There is no unfinished business this evening, so we'll move right into approval of the consent agenda. The consent agenda contains routinely adopted items, and items which normally do not require public deliberation on the part of the board. A board member may pull items, which will then be discussed and voted on separately.

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DTSD Webinars: May I please have a motion to approve the consent agenda items as they are listed?

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DTSD Webinars: So moved, Chief Sizek. Second, Jennifer Renz? Is there any discussion?

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DTSD Webinars: This is a standard voice vote. All those in favor, say aye. Aye.

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DTSD Webinars: Any opposed, no?

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DTSD Webinars: Consent agenda is approved.

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DTSD Webinars: Moving on to, new business, our first item of new business is the approval of the 2025-2026 bus stops. Dr. Winslow? The administration recommends the approval of the 2025-26 bus stops. The administration also requests authorization to change bus stops for the following reasons.

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DTSD Webinars: Safety, efficiency, and also due to the transportation of new students.

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DTSD Webinars: Thank you, may I please have a motion to approve the listed bus stops? So moved. Second, Jennifer Renz? Is there any discussion?

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DTSD Webinars: This is a standard voice vote. All those in favor say aye. Aye.

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13105693169: Hi.

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DTSD Webinars: Any opposed, no.

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DTSD Webinars: Item is approved.

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DTSD Webinars: Our next item of new business is the approval of attendance officers. Dr. Winslow? The administration recommends the board approve the listed district staff to serve in the capacity of attendance officer for the 2025-26 school year.

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DTSD Webinars: Thank you. May I please have a motion to approve the listed staff to serve in the capacity of Attendance Officer for the 2025-2026 school year? So moved, Jessica.

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DTSD Webinars: Second, Jennifer Renz. Is there any discussion?

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DTSD Webinars: This is a standard voice vote. All those in favor say aye. Aye.

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DTSD Webinars: Any opposed, no.

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DTSD Webinars: Item is approved.

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DTSD Webinars: Next is the change order for the Rattu, Addendum Number 42, addendum Number 4. Dr. Wenzo? The administration recommends the Board approve the addendum for Ratu to revise the elementary project stormwater management plan and land development plans to utilize spray irrigation.

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DTSD Webinars: Thank you, may I please have a motion to approve the change order for Route 2's Addendum number 4? So moved, Justice? Second. Jennifer Renz? Is there any discussion? Mr. Drew, I just wanted to share that,

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DTSD Webinars: We will be talking about that in more detail at General Services, and we appreciate the approval this evening so that they can get to work on designing the plan.

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DTSD Webinars: This is Mike Rizzo. Can you explain what spray irrigation is? I can try. I mean, just general high level. So, what happens is that rainwater is collected in

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DTSD Webinars: A storage basin, and then it connects to our current irrigation system.

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DTSD Webinars: And instead of paying for water, we will use water that we've collected to irrigate, and that way it spreads out the water volume over a greater area of land, and also eliminates the risk of sinkholes from the initial infiltration basins that we were looking at. Thank you. You're welcome.

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DTSD Webinars: There are no other questions. This is a standard voice vote. All those in favor say aye. Aye.

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DTSD Webinars: Any opposed?

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DTSD Webinars: Item is approved. I'll also note that that General Services meeting will be on August 25th.

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DTSD Webinars: Our next item of new business is personnel resignations. Dr. Renzo? The administration recommends the approval of the personnel resignations. Thank you, may I please have a motion to approve personnel resignations? So moved, Justice. Second, Jennifer Rent. Is there any discussion?

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DTSD Webinars: This is a standard voice vote. All those in favor say aye. Aye.

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DTSD Webinars: Any opposed, no.

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DTSD Webinars: It is approved. Last item of new business this evening is Personnel General. Dr. Winslow? The administration recommends the approval of the listed personnel and recognition of any listed transfers.

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DTSD Webinars: Thank you, may I please have a motion to approve the listed personnel in recognition of any listed transfers? So moved, Chair Zizik? Second. Jennifer Renz? Is there any discussion?

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DTSD Webinars: Ms. Drew, I just wanted to acknowledge that Mrs. Jodi Dermo is in the room, and she is being approved as our new business manager, and we're very excited to welcome her to our administrative team.

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DTSD Webinars: Thank you, Dr. Wenzo. I would like to, echo that and say welcome to, Miss… Mrs. Domo.

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DTSD Webinars: There's no other comments or questions. This is a standard voice vote.

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DTSD Webinars: All those in favor, please say aye. Aye.

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13105693169: Aye.

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DTSD Webinars: Any oppose, no?

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DTSD Webinars: Item is approved. That concludes our new business for this evening. Moving on, the July, CAIU board meeting was canceled, but the all-in document is attached as a delegate report. Dr. Sizek, do you have anything to share? Yeah, even though the board,

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DTSD Webinars: the meeting was canceled. We had a board retreat to discuss, new ways to run the board meeting, so…

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DTSD Webinars: Changes are on the way.

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DTSD Webinars: Thank you.

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DTSD Webinars: Are there any board members who would like to give a report this evening?

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DTSD Webinars: Dr. Winslow, do you have a superintendent's report? I do have a brief report. Thank you, Ms. Drew.

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DTSD Webinars: I just wanted to, let everyone know that we welcomed our new teachers for the start of orientation and induction week, and I was going to do a count, and I didn't, but there's somewhere around

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DTSD Webinars: 20?

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DTSD Webinars: Yeah, right around 20, maybe 21.

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DTSD Webinars: Thank you. As well as two new psych interns, and very exciting, Sarah Noble, who is also on our,

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DTSD Webinars: list this evening for personnel is the former Sarah Haberstick, one of our graduates. So really exciting to see a graduate coming back and teaching in our buildings.

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DTSD Webinars: So it's always exciting. I love having the new teachers back, and I'm sure that by the end of this week, they will be very overwhelmed and forget a lot of what they learned in these days where we cram all kinds of information in. But it makes us feel like we're there, school is starting.

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DTSD Webinars: I also wanted to point out that our rental bleachers for the fall season began installation today, and they will be up and ready to go by Thursday afternoon, so that they'll be set for our scrimmage this weekend.

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DTSD Webinars: And all staff will return on Monday.

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DTSD Webinars: And it's very exciting, because each time somebody… like, each group comes back, it means we're closer to the kids coming back. And the kids being back is when all the energy and excitement really hits the buildings, and it's what we're here for, so…

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DTSD Webinars: I'm… I'm very excited. I'm always excited when the kids come back.

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DTSD Webinars: Even if the kids are not. I'm excited.

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DTSD Webinars: Great, thanks, Dr. Wenzo. Thank you. For Board Presence Report, I'd just like to say welcome back to all of the staff. Our next meeting will be the first day of school, so hope that everyone enjoys the last couple of weeks of summer, at least from the student perspective, since staff are preparing to come back.

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DTSD Webinars: We'll now begin our final recognition of citizens and public comment period for the evening. This is an opportunity for residents and taxpayers to address the board on matters related to the agenda, or matters of district governance that were not on the agenda. We'll follow the same guidelines outlined at the initial public comment portion of our meeting, and I'll ask Board Treasurer Dr. McCarver to keep time once again, please.

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DTSD Webinars: Mr. Nicholson, is there anyone online wishing to comment?

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DTSD Webinars: Not at this time, no. Alright, is there anything else for the good of the order?

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DTSD Webinars: The next public board of directors meeting will be held on August 25th, 2025, beginning at 7pm. Please refer to the district website to register for virtual attendance. May I please have a motion to adjourn this meeting? So moved, Mr. Sizek. Second. Jennifer Renz. All in favor say aye. Aye.

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DTSD Webinars: This meeting is adjourned at 7.36 PM. Have a great night.