Rachel DePaul

Are excited to announce that the district will host its first annual family welcome event on Wednesday, August 26 from six to 8PM at Carrie E. Tomkins Elementary CET. This event is designed to welcome families who are new to our district and introduc…

So it's all new family. So let's say a family has existing students in the system, their incoming kindergartner, they wouldn't be invited to that. But they will have a kindergarten orientation to help acclimate them to the school with Tiger.

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Every student the Every Student Succeed Act requires that every school district report chronic absenteeism as part of their indicators that they report on annually. So chronic absenteeism is when a student misses 10% or more of the school year, which…

Yes. It does. Excused and not a lot. So, yes, it includes both excused and unexcused absences. So the national rate is about twenty two to twenty three and a half percent, and we are on average about six point one percent. So we are very, very low co…

20. Fewer number of absences, but a larger number of students. Indeed. Okay. Yeah. Thank you for clarifying. Yes. The building principals and I also have plans to look at, you know, specific students that we may have missed or, you know, some of our …

At this time UPK enroll continues to follow the established process outlined on the district's FAQ page. In recent years, the lottery has typically taken place in the spring and it is anticipated to occur late April or May for the upcoming school yea…

We've had some of our newest clinicians um meet with the parents of students that are both classified, have a 504, or are um or are uh considering um you know, seeking some support for their students that are struggling through understanding my child…

In 2425, a district social worker who was shared amongst our three buildings. And in this past year 2526, we had the addition of one school counselor at the high school and one school psychologist at the elementary school. This slide just captures so…

So initial in the fall we'll have a cohort of students doing that same soft skills training and then with the intent that in the spring they'll have some opportunities to get some on the job training and exposure in the community. And our goal is ult…

And so it's wonderful that with the support of assistant superintendent Rachel DePaul, who has encouraged us to make sure that we have a parent actually to fill that role, that has now happened and we're we're we are up and running to be able to do t…

Yeah. Wonderful. Well, thank you. Thank you for that. We move to item 6.3, next board of education meeting. So, our next meeting is scheduled for March 26th, 2026. It is a work session where we will be covering school budgets as they relate to curric…

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If I may, before your D, just one thing that I note for us to think about. Can I just because you're going to move on to something else. I just wanted to add on to that and correct me if I'm wrong, but it's it's it's your determination as to whether …

So, as it relates to the survey design itself, we wanted to capture the students voice as it relates to emotional safety and a sense of belonging. So we did work to craft those questions for our specific survey. We had initially I think when I had st…

So, as you could see, as I can now see on the same so as noted here, these four district initiatives have proven to have a positive impact on overall school sense of on our students overall sense of belonging and feelings of emotional safety as evide…

Our bilingual partnership based outreach exceeds national averages and represents best practices in ensuring equitable access to our families. Compared to national trends, our district supports substantially exceed typical practice. the enhanced coun…

So, some of the efforts and these efforts really were, due to the hard work of Lauren Carroll and, our team to since our last meeting when we, we really heard you and as Steve had mentioned, we value the relationship with, our UPK providers and we do…

No, I will circle back to that in January. But yes, so to Anamika's point, we enter into a contract with a provider for a term of 1 year and we have an option to extend. Both they can opt to extend and us and or after the 12-month period we could say…

So, the RFP has specs or specifications that align both with what our needs are as well as what New York State requires of a pre-K provider. So, we worked very hard, Denise's department and our our representatives that supervise the UPK program to re…