New York State cell phone legislation requiring distraction-free learning policies, tracked from state advocacy through legislative debate to building-by-building rollout at CET, PVC, and CHHS with mixed reception.
2025-05-08
Board of Education
So it stands for inclusion, diversity, equity and accessibility because we thought that those two values were very important to include. and just a couple things that we have coming this summer. so that you get an idea of some of the programming that…
The proposed budget also adds an additional clinical staff member, either a school psychologist or school counselor for CCT to continue to strengthen our support system for our youngest Tiger students. And as you've heard us say for some time, the id…
the we don't know as of this moment checked since we started our meeting whether this budget has been completely adopted but if this language is adopted it will require that the board adopt a policy on the use or prohibition of use of internet enable…
I'd also just like to add to keep your eye out in your mailboxes for the reflections newsletter. This will be going up shortly. I've seen a preview. H3 looks good. policy. Unlike the other president, we met we met on March 26. We met on May 1st. Our …
it was a very interesting presentation. It was very arty discussion about what this means for students and what it means for teachers. how it is to be used, how it will be rolled out and the sorts of professional development that will be undertaken t…
So in some manner which the committee will work on in along with the superintendent we will elicit that participation or consultation. the third policy that has wait Neil before you go on from that I just want to just raise this issue because I think…
The majority of the citizens in the village of Cro cannot attend many of the meetings that parents can go to. Closed meetings that you hold only for parents even though it's a public subject. One meeting is open, the next meeting is closed because th…
2026-01-08
Board of Education
And so, really what I was hearing from that is as much as we could put a proscription, a prohibition on the use [clears throat] of this particular form of technology, it really comes back to the parents and the community are to kind of develop norms …
So, I think to be able to hear directly from you about sort of what your experiences are has really great really great value as we, again, do the work of the board, but also for like our community and for our parents. I know for the CET parents that …
Recommended action, approves Be it resolved that the board approves It's it's on board on the big screen. the consent agenda as presented. What? I was like, "It's on the big screen." [laughter] No, I know, but So, It's in favor of the consent agenda.…
I can count on one hand the number of cell phones that I've had to take this year so far and in those situations they've been very respectful conversations. But I think from like a more regional perspective this is the topic of all of our principals …
Now I I just like to reiterate how thoughtful the administration was in considering especially the high school students feelings and the relationships that teachers have with students and the nature of implementing the ban and how kindly and gracious…
And to walk through classrooms at the high school now you continue to see that. The level of engagement from our students without these distractions is as high as it's ever been. And the feedback from the faculty continues to be that it's not a distr…
the only time that really I've seen anyone on it is during our off campus lunch where we're paying with Apple Pay at pre-show or something like that just I think everyone thought it was going to be a lot worse than it was coming into it. I think espe…
So, I think that's what I think we're trying to understand is like will this RFP include this potential offer or is that coming later on in the process? So, within the RFP there is a opening There's like a window of questions, a time where they can r…
So what I think the takeaway that many of us felt was that these are folks who are really thinking very seriously about their relationship with technology and have been doing so even before the state mandate on the cell phone thing sort of came down.…
Broadly the the feedback from the faculty is that it's going very very well. The number of distractions related to cell phone use in the building have decreased significantly from last year not that they were ever a regular part of the classroom inst…
I just want to note for the public that this documentary, which was shown at the Burns with a talkback by the director and producer of the film, will be virtually screened the Croton Free Library Okay, for the dates of January 18th through 24th. You …
So one of the other ongoing conversations in the district for the better part of a year or so now has been I think what we are all experiencing as a society and in our classrooms and our lives which is the saturation of screen time and technology use…
2026-03-12
Board of Education
the on technology I just want to say that I agree wholeheartedly that we are I I think as as anything in the district need to just continue improvement right continue working hard and looking at our use of technology and where technology also just ch…
I I just want to make sure we can highlight Omar on screen and please help us with the volume if needed. Greg, thank you. Omar, over to you. Thank you, Anonica. So, yeah, I wanted to build on the point Neil had made and actually, sorry, let me take a…
I think we talk about it a lot in committee, but one of our goals with this conversation this evening is to actually be able to talk about it here so that folks can hear in committee from different individuals. And with that, I turn it over to my col…
And in an effort to continue to make improvements in display technology in large group spaces, we plan for a new projection screen in the PVC gym stage area, sorry, projection and screen for the PVC gym stage area on the main floor, as well as sound …
So a lot of the things when we talk about the particularly the infrastructure upgrades are things that I won't really understand. I didn't either you and those things you worked but I would just ask administration Ellen and other administrators as we…
Our professional development this year has been shaped by increased access to professional learn learning services including but not limited to offerings of PNW Boseies and Lyric as well as opportunities for staff to engage on cross building days and…
so it's it's interesting because effectiveness of technology there's at at least in my experience there's very little quantitative data that I can go around I could pull right I can pull screen time reports I could pull app usage and right and and so…
and what you will see in later on in tonight's agenda is a resolution that we will bring be bringing forth for the board's consideration that I want to thank Denise Harrington Cohen our assistant superintendent for business who helped draft this reso…
I just before you I'm just trying to like try to get everybody in order where I saw hands raised and just because Omar raised his digital hand if you don't mind if we put him and then turn right back to you and thank you for your patience responding …
and I think one of the things that I think is a a bit of a challenging point and I think it speaks to what Omar raised is like what is the the decision-m process and the guard rails in place is I think there's sometimes a little bit of a disconnect b…
The number indicated for this upcoming school year is due to an increase in cost for such services including our Google for education suite from some core instructional tools such as Baby Casting, Infinite Campus and Renstar, but also our departmenta…
Technology is a powerful tool for rem removing barriers, enhancing learning, providing scaffolds, increasing student choice and voice, opening multiple pathways for demonstrating understanding, and ensuring that every student can thrive. To support t…
So item 3.4 under new business is going to be removed from the agenda. So with that said 2.3 also we're not removing that we're just oh yeah I mean we have still so yes item 3.43 for approve the agenda and with that be it resolved that the board of e…
When students have specific group projects or assignments, teachers can make the choice to send a device home. Additionally, if a student needs access to a device at home, we of course will fulfill that need. This shift will continue into the 2627 sc…
But I've gotten I can't tell you how many notifications about that specifically in the last month. It's ridiculous. This is not a social media platform. There should be no reward for like genuinating continuous activity and hijacking attention like o…
I this might be a little bit out there, but one of the things that I was thinking about which is a little bit yes to like also quantitatively looking at like assessments and things of that nature. But I was also thinking about like I've struggled the…
Many of the times these tasks are offline centered on hands-on learning, play, passion, classroom discussions, and creativity. When technology is integrated into lessons, we want our students to not be passive consumers, but adaptable, ethical creato…