Curriculum & Academic Vision
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43 meetings ·
2024-03-07 to 2026-10-01
Multi-year curriculum overhaul driven by the district's 'vision map' — algebra-for-all in 8th grade, NGSS-aligned science sequence, science of reading literacy framework with new literacy coach, and comprehensive math improvement materials.
Timeline (43 meetings)
Mar 7, 2024
Board of Education
Board Trustee Joshua Diamond received feedback from the CHHS Student Faculty Congress, mainly that it's about time we had this policy, they were receptive to it, but they had concerns about language defining diversity in education, the term "moving b…
Report: 9.2 Board Reports Advocacy: Board Trustee Anamika Bhatnagar reported that the committee has not met formally, but she attended legislative meetings with Dana Levenberg and Pete Harkham. Top issues included civil service exams and the irregula…
Supt. Walker is working on two presentations: Vision Map and Collaboration/APPR.
Board Trustee Ana Teague wanted to address concerns of the public that think the work may not be being done on the DEI policy just because it has taken so long. The urg…
May 2, 2024
Board of Education
Transfer to cover high school portion of tent rental for graduation ceremonies
5/2/2024
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Curriculum development- special program (HS)
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2020…
Let's not confuse critiquing this equity policy with not supporting equity.
Sara Boice asked the Board members "Do you understand the difference between equality and equity?" Sarah Carrier noted that Board members do not respond at the Hearing of t…
Elana Freyes quoted Ossining's DEI policy and urged a more collaborative effort.
Bob Wintermeyer expressed concerns about the DEI policy. He felt that the biggest concern is that DEI opens the door for teachers to discuss things that should be left…
What happened to the separation of church and state? Questioned the new math curriculum.
Kathy Connolly stated that DEI has become a religion and if you don't believe in the religion, you get kicked out of the church. Students are afraid to pick to…
Equity committee should be representative.
Andrea Furey thanked the Board for their work and noted that the accessibility of this document through translation is important and to consider word choices carefully.
Tony Granger spoke about the diversi…
May 9, 2024
Board of Education
Erica Lauden Corwin agrees how valuable teacher aides are. She noted that there is little to no budget for academic enhancements like robotics/AI. and is not seeing excellence in the curriculum.
Andrea Furey sees firsthand how important teacher ai…
Kathy Wassig has a kindergartner at CET and spoke regarding a perceived lack of academic rigor at the schools. Students performing at or above grade level are not being considered. She is also concerned about technology in the classroom taking over t…
May 21, 2024
Board of Education
Motion by Omar Mayyasi, second by Neal Haber.
Final Resolution: Motion Carried
Yes: Sarah Carrier, Neal Haber, Omar Mayyasi, Ana Teague, Theo Oshiro, Anamika Bhatnagar
Action (Consent): 9.2 Curriculum Coordinator - Recommendation
Resolution: That…
Jun 20, 2024
Board of Education
Mr. Haber went to graduation ceremony at Pines Bridge school at PNW BOCES, an emotional, heartfelt presentation of the 8 students who have come a long way. It's important that we support kids out-of-district in these amazing programs.
Ms. Bhatnagar …
Jul 11, 2024
Board of Education
Action: 6.02 Side Letter of Agreement - CTA
RESOLVED: That the Board of Education approves the side letter of agreement between the Croton-Harmon UFSD and the Croton Teachers' Association Bargaining Unit as presented.
Motion by Joshua Diamond, seco…
Curriculum Fellows 2024-2025, at a stipend of $3,000
Marlena Horton
Jennifer Rescigno
Sarah Wellman
Ashley Valentine
Motion by Joshua Diamond, second by Theo Oshiro.
Final Resolution: Motion Carried
Yes: Sarah Carrier, Joshua Diamond, Neal Hab…
RESOLVED: That the Board of Education approves the 2024-2025 co-curricular appointments as presented.
Marlena Horton, CET Chorus, at a stipend of $3,253
Kindness Club-Marlena Horton and AnaMaria Strattner, at a stipend of $2,471, each
Broadway Kid…
RESOLVED: That the Board of Education approves the 2024-2025 Curriculum Coordinator appointments at a stipend of $3,000, as presented.
Curriculum Coordinators
CET
ELA
Stefanie Liss
Math
Ana Maria Strattner
Social Studies
Ruth Sullivan
Sci…
Aug 8, 2024
Board of Education
Report: 2.2 Hearing of the Public
Jim Levy spoke in support of the pay package for the school aides and noted that many people share his sentiment, and that he supports a substantial increase as they are critical to the educational process.
Molly L…
Sep 5, 2024
Board of Education
Reports
Report: 2.1 President's Report
Board Vice President Omar Mayyasi gave the President's Report
Topics included:
Senior portraits
Back to School Nights
PTAs
Fall Sporting Events
Booster Club meeting 9/10/24
Meet the BOE sessions
Report…
Oct 10, 2024
Board of Education
And four, to include or add curriculum in practicing and encouraging civil discourse of challenging times. We are currently awaiting a response that identifies trust's plan for accountability assessment and implementation of the recommendations or a …
There are many resources many resources available to administration, faculty, and students, not just Jewish sites, the UFT, the NDA, and have partnered to create curriculum, which will help support the teachers on this sensitive and important matter.…
The other day, they've been relating to curriculum or facilities or whatever, but we're thinking about how and when to have such a session in the 2425 school year. We also discussed the possibility, which is still kind of information, to develop a ki…
Nov 7, 2024
Board of Education
Melissa Frie spoke to support PASA and urge acceptance of recommendations
Ed Riely warned against direct involvement of public officials (Croton Village DEI committee) who have a political agenda should not be in public schools. He noted that he wa…
Ms. Carrier attended the first Building Planning Council at the High School, topics included changes to the master schedule. Board Trustee Joshua Diamond attended the first CET Building Planning Council today, topics included scheduling, interdiscipl…
Nov 21, 2024
Board of Education
oh please on the question all in favor opposed obain motion carries item 2.1 work session is our work session on math and science curriculum
thank you so much Steve it's an honor to be here today discuss our plans for enhancing two Core Curriculum areas Science and Mathematics as Steve said we put together a dedicated team of Educators to walk through our planned improvements and explain …
no thank you for having us tonight we're excited at the middle school because over the last couple years we worked to better align the middle school science standards with the outdated 1996 standards and now we feel like we have a pretty good grasp o…
okay so just to take you through a very simple exercise traditionally it has been pretty common practice to give students the problem or question and from that they develop an investigatory plan or experimental design so to do a really quick demonstr…
thank you questions that can be tested exactly with inter aits yeah thank you Noah John next slide so we just want to make the board aware of how the changes in science the Middle School were brought about so as starting next year living environment …
I think it I think it does I guess my followup would be I think because I'm just sort of I think I'm trying to understand a little bit better but I think there'll be time to sort of see this is sort of like as it comes together for for parents and fa…
and part of our work for the future stem and Engineering courses So Jamie had mentioned bringing up some of the indiab conexs but we're also researching what's out there in the world of higher education and what the Virginia Industries are as we deve…
I have a question regarding this transition period because while while I think we're very Progressive and I think that we're very student focused in terms of curriculum development the world around us perhaps isn't right like colleges are still looki…
so I think what you're saying is it's sort of like that same idea of when you come from like Elementary School to middle school when you're in fifth grade you're still with like your core group for all those core classes while you get used to being i…
I mean the math in you'll hear to the math in particular take like fun a math presentation but from a college perspective one of the things that you're going to hear is that all of our students will have the ability to get to the highest level of mat…
I think that just reassures the community think that you're like also thinking of the end result on the on the on on the end the college end of that and that's realistic and we would never do something to harm our students chances of anything we what…
Phil and Tracy your leadership and rethinking the progression of mathematic learning at PVC has been really really impressive and thanks for taking the board through this next part of the even so before I hand it over to them we're just going to talk…
hi pH secondary math teacher at PV I want to start with the summer that Michael was just talking to us about we had worked with special colleagues and when we were creating this this this curriculum we saw that was very sequential and we were thinkin…
so just wanted to share with the board our goals in this all and these are goals that we came up with at the beginning of our work obviously we want to provide students with instruction that results in them developing skills skills that will help the…
next slide please yeah so when we're thinking about our redesign of the curriculum we're concentrating always on the strands of mathematic proficiency so in the five strands we have multiple representations of mathematics that we want students to kno…
yeah I guess I'll I'll start M it's I wouldn't say it's just small tweaks but there is where we teach beyond the standards always right so like I'm already teaching irrational numbers when I talk about rational numbers in seventh grade so like there …
so now that we're doing something where it's everybody out for all and we're all lock step as well as teachers and as a as a being together this and and kind of learning from each other learning our each of our curriculums as well even the fifth grad…
okay all right so this is our proposed amendments to our existing curriculum so as you can see we have two Pathways where students can choose where they would like to go so we have the applied pathway and theoretical Pathways of the courses that we w…
and then just going back to our timeline very similar to the science timeline we're just taking a measured approach over the time that we have to develop each of these new courses in a thoughtful way so we've obviously worked on and are still continu…
yeah there's a lot of so to speak about at least the algebra 2 trigonometry course we're probably one of the only schools that still offer Algebra 2 Tri Algebra 2 trigonometry so we're kind of like we took the summer to re look at our pre-calculus co…
the kind of follow on my question in the like the the changes that we're making in both the the science and the math curriculum are really exciting for our right for the this this current group of cohort of seventh graders that are moving through and…
Work Session (Thursday, November 21, 2024)
Generated by Denise Bisaccia on Friday, November 22, 2024
Members present
Anamika Bhatnagar, Sarah Carrier, Theo Oshiro, Ana Teague
Meeting called to order at 7:35 PM
1. Opening of Meeting
Procedural: …
Dec 5, 2024
Board of Education
yeah I would TR in just to say the same which is we so we we what was what was particularly unique about this opportunity to go into the schools is we weren't just racing from classroom to classroom so we were really in the classroom for a good chunk…
Jan 9, 2025
Board of Education
my name is Eric Linberg I am a resident of croon I currently live at Gorgan been there for about 10 years my children are Ben at Weinberg an eighth grader at PDC and Juliet Weinberg a 10th grader at C Haron High School I am here to support pasta as w…
Debt Service increase so debt services increasing by close to a million dollars this year though that will be offset by some state aid it is still an increased cost to our budget technology upgrades to infrastructure new spaces with been our new buil…
you said March 13th there will be a presentation on the vision that portion of the budget and then two weeks later being the school building budgets and the curriculum and instruction what's the difference between the vision map presentation and the …
Assistant Superintendent for Business Denise Harrington-Cohen gave a 2025-26 budget development update including:
Budget Timeline
Revenue Assumptions
Expenditure Assumptions
Next Steps
Budget Presentation Schedule
Board Trustee Neal Haber a…
Feb 13, 2025
Board of Education
meetings and public meetings and although this board and staff does a terrific job in terms of promoting individual meetings of the board some committees do a lousy job of scheduling the meetings and I've noticed in certain committees have been a pat…
so I want to begin just by sharing kind of my broad thinking around essential themes related to these goals as they are of course interrelated with but slightly different than District goals building goals and board gos and so for me U it's fundament…
so this is just a couple of years in review of our inflation factors and allowable growth Levy so as you see 2021 our inflation was 1.23% that became our allowable growth factor so we are constrained when it's low and we're constrained with it's High…
Provide leadership toward developing further cohesiveness between schools as we implement the work of the Vision Map
Develop leadership capacity across the system
Develop multi-year trajectories for goals, professional learning, budget, and curricu…
Feb 27, 2025
Board of Education
I need to commend Brad for his proactive leadership he is so committed to the project to this District so skilled and experienced he is just a pleasure to work with and what an asset he is with District thank you so some of our upcoming bring budget …
Mar 13, 2025
Board of Education
hi Alisa silverglade halfon Bay I attended the policy committee meeting yesterday and I just want to express that I was really heartbroken and at times disgusted by what I was hearing it seems very evident that personal risk aversion and anxiety thin…
yeah it well welcome everyone to our inaugural budget presentation for technology and Aesthetics for the 2526 school year okay so today we're going to review our Department's guiding principles key Investments budget breakdown future plans at that su…
we don't have any of that issue at the moment do good here's a break the budget so here's some future goals for athletics the plan is to strengthen our modified level programs this is eventually going to trickle up into the high school we're seeing t…
Ms. Teague attended Student Faculty Congress on 3/6. There was a lot of discussion on the cost of electric buses. Other topics included ideas for the upcoming 100 year celebration and ping-pong tournament. Also a committee was formed re: the parki…
Mar 27, 2025
Board of Education
thank first I'd like to thank everyone for giving us the opportunity this evening for all the schools and for Rachel to go ahead with our proposals this evening our first slide here is kind of self-explanatory I'd like to dive into a little bit more …
and now we're going to talk about how this all this budget supports the culture of well-being and the over arching piece to that is the addition of the new school psychologist at C which will help to support our current clinical team that works very …
Well my M that just jumps out at the beginning in that first line that thank you the change in that in the curriculum development and supervision what what's driving that
so the on on the curricul devel development and supervision so that's for the training of that curriculum correct
and so in terms of curriculum assessment where would that cost show up I know the budget code but I don't know actually it's not really budget question is more of kind of like a process question around it's just coming up because I'm looking at the n…
so we we what we are looking at closely is aligning our materials now with the training that they've had so we are very we know that the governor is going to be asking us each to do a curriculum review of our Ela programs we currently do not have a s…
well I think the greatest resource is actually the physical space because it allows us to bring two or three classes into that room and as we move forward with all with our collaboration it's an area where a first and a third grade class can come dow…
before Kerri jumps in if I could just share so these budgets are done based on function codes so unlike Rachel's which is one function she's 2250 so it's broken down a little bit differently it's BR went down by salary supposes Etc the building level…
any other questions about that current and we just have one more final thiry pie chart which breaks it down as well and then just our our final looking forward these are things that we aspire to look further into and would love to see as part of our …
so before we jump into looking ahead at our proposed budget we want to just take a minute to highlight some of the past budget items that have kind of come to fruition this year so at PDC we are super excited to be finalizing our instructional coache…
if you just go back there what I'm really happy to speak about tonight almost in a celebratory manner is that three years ago we came before this board when the vision map was still in the fledgling stages and we said what we wanted to do in that Vis…
we're going to move on to the next slide so we're talking about oh culture of well culture of wellbeing right we're very excited about our mixed grade advisories that have been going really well this year and they really allow us to dive into oural c…
so this time last year we shared this same visual with you and so we're using it as a reminder of where we've been where we're now and where we're headed so you can think of it please as a delivery on a promise as well as a continued commitment for t…
May 8, 2025
Board of Education
[Music] Hello, Tiger community. As we approach our upcoming school district budget vote on May 20th, I'm hopeful that many of you have been able to view our public discussions with the board of education, administration, and staff regarding our propo…
I am so just to be clear that's the English curriculum that's going to be rolled out 3 through 4 to be implemented in September.
you go and then I have one more I attended many of the events that have been mentioned previously. didn't have the opportunity or in fact I would have loved to but I didn't know about CT's storytelling event but I attended science research symposium …
Jun 5, 2025
Board of Education
7. Agreement for services between Croton-Harmon UFSD and Management Advisory Group Business Operations, Inc. (MAGBO) for Medicaid services for the 2025-2026 school year in the amount of $6,153.00 annually payable in monthly installments of $512.75, …
Jun 12, 2025
Board of Education
Nicole Curran asked the Board to postpone renewal of Superintendent's contract for community input. There is no strong elementary curriculum, it's inconsistent. She stated that there is a lack of communication to parents about curriculum, assessmen…
Motion by Neal Haber, second by Joshua Diamond. Final Resolution: Motion Carried
Yes: Anamika Bhatnagar, Sarah Carrier, Joshua Diamond, Neal Haber, Theo Oshiro, Ana Teague
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8. Closing…
She reported that 55% of voters voted for two women at election, it's a majority, not a minority.
Allie C (?) noted her concern with the talk of curriculum/academic rigor. There are many ways to assess what our children are doing and what their suc…
Jul 10, 2025
Board of Education
Gregory Gnos
Rosario Martinez
Xuan Myers
Grace Smith
Anna Tsagarakis
Alternating Driver Substitutes at contractual rate:
Russell Bauer
Gary VanAsselt
Cleaner at contractual rate:
Caroline Peckel
Motion by Omar Mayyasi, second by Anamika Bha…
Closing of the Meeting
Procedural: 11.01 Hearing of the Public
Erica Laudon, parent of twin boys in the district, reported that they will not be returning and she will be sending them to Millbrook School. As an advocate of public school, she felt t…
Sep 4, 2025
Board of Education
Leslie Pollak reported that the Village of Croton has endorsed a definition of IHRA and asks if the school will follow suit. She is requesting a response.
Kara Read, parent of 2, stated that she is discouraged by the cell phone policy. She asked w…
Sep 18, 2025
Board of Education
Croton intends to be active participant.
Board Vice President Anamika Bhatnagar reported that the Village Bicycle Committee has implemented crosswalk signs and is thankful this was made a priority by the committee and put into action. More discussio…
Oct 9, 2025
Board of Education
Superintendent Stephen Walker advocates for continuing with 4 drills. Board Trustee Theo Oshiro notes that families should also have a role in preparing children and asked if the District provide resources. Superintendent Walker confirms that yes, th…
Nov 20, 2025
Board of Education
from Imagination to Innovation. Students learn 21st century skills,
collaboration, and team work and communication, while applying
what they learn in the classroom to solve one of our challenges.
It's fun and a great complement to the school curri…
CHHS
PI Squad
Establish Club
Soyoung Lim
Pi Squad is a student-led math club open to any student interested in tackling challenging math problems and exploring advanced mathematical topics beyond the standard curriculum. Members strengthen th…
May 16, 2023: Item 5.1 Resolution Amendment
June 1, 2023: Item 5.2 Instructional Personnel Amendment
June 15, 2023: Item 7.7 2023-2024 Hearing Officer Recommendation and Item 7.21 Budget Transfers
July 13, 2023: Item 6.1 Employment Agreement…
Jan 8, 2026
Board of Education
Also highlighting the second round of electives will take place PBC on February 4th which was a half day. at the high school, last day was the 9th and 10th grade parent night which was virtual. If families weren't able to attend, they can access that…
Hi, good evening. my name is Laroue Shatzkin. I live at 132 Old Post Road North in Croton. I am the recently reelected town clerk for the town of Croton, which includes the village of Croton. I have never stood at a podium of a official meeting, alth…
Yeah, that makes sense. When the charts are generated they go by the highest number. Yeah, we've been thinking about if we can change that. So then AP chemistry and AP environmental science, we wanted to shift into science now. So you've all heard in…
And just note it's the same exam whether a school choose to do the project-based or the traditional curriculum. So I think that's some pretty confirming evidence about the approach. Okay. And then shifting to here's a slide of AP biology and AP compu…
As you heard, English Regents proficiency is the second highest in the region. We're one of three schools to receive that platinum award, 7% nationwide. We have a general trend of consistently strong performance on many of our AP exams and increasing…
I know, there was we as a board will be considering and we need to be working on this and an AI policy and then guidelines on how AI will be used in the school setting, both for learning, for teaching, for curriculum development, and for operations b…
ELA Regents as Compared to NYS
English Regents Ranking within Region: 2024-25
Global Regents Scores as Compared to NYS
Global Ranking in Region
AP Exams Offered At CHHS
AP Course Enrollment 2021-2025
English AP Average Scores
AP Calculus AB/BC…
Jan 22, 2026
Board of Education
All right, as we move on to the next slide, as Steve mentioned before, we're certainly proud of the academic achievement that we've seen throughout the three different schools, but it all comes down to are students happy? Are they comfortable? So, so…
Feb 12, 2026
Board of Education
We have identified and we've heard from the community in the last several years that the community wants us to have as a board and as a district a renewed focus on curriculum on achievement and on outcomes. And I have to say based off of my conversat…
Good morning everybody. My name is James Nadeau. Sorry, kind of losing my voice. Excuse me. since you lost your voice, could you James Nadeau app I'm going to talk a bit more about the timeline with the state budget. So, in the best case scenario, th…
So generally it's the principal and assistant principal and central office administrators. Technology is there, pupil personnel services, superintendent and assistant superintendent for curriculum instruction is there and we go through every budget r…
And also the principles meet too. Aside from that and and all of the building principles also meet independently with with Rachel with Ellen to kind of make sure that all the intricacies and the requests are also aligned. So there we have a lot of bu…
Feb 26, 2026
Board of Education
so this is your road map for our next presentation. So March 12th, get ready for vision app technology and athletics. followed by the school district bud the school building budgets curriculum and PPS and our superintendent's budget will be on April …
Mar 12, 2026
Board of Education
Donor Don Laird on met with Superintendent Walker earlier this year. and he mentioned that one device use was required for delivery of the curriculum through through second grade. I would just like to know why.
Well, while we're getting I don't really have a question. I guess about what is presented. I think we I'm not a technile. So a lot of the things when we talk about the particularly the infrastructure upgrades are things that I won't really understand…
So that all makes sense. I I'll just just comment just on your point now before turning it over to Omar who also has a question. But in terms of in terms of in terms of like again educational technology like one of the challenges I think we all sort …
So, one of the challenges I think that we face and I know that this is something that you're dealing with Ellen and I I think we're also going to hear from it in terms of our building budgets and then also when we talk further about curriculum is is …
Yeah. Mhm. 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…
To to add on to that, this year we have implemented a digital citizenship curriculum. I forgot to mention that. in our in PBC. So all of our students 5 through 8 at least one time a month. Sometimes it's more are engaging in a lesson based on what's …
Rather than focusing solely on traditional sports and health curriculum, our programs are designed to expose students to a broad range of physical activities, wellness practices, and interdisciplinary learning opportunities that encourage engagement,…
provide targeted professional de development for physical education staff to support innovative instruction, curriculum development, and best practices in student wellness and movement education. And one of the last goals is to implement a bike educa…
Yes. I I for a lot of things that's one of us but I'm just wondering about whether the curriculum offering in each of those subject are periods is going to be enough to sustain interest and commitment for students for an entire whether that be 16week…
Yeah. down at C there's not a health program. So our fizz teachers are integrating nutrition units into PE and really talking about it. health at PBC as well as CHHS, there is tons of nutrition built into that curriculum. as far as like wellness offe…
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…
But before we do that, is there also is it's just personnel. I thought I might get another subject to the curriculum and people personal services was listed on the agenda.
Resolution: RESOLVED: That the Board of Education hereby approves the minutes of the February 26, 2026 work session as presented.
Motion by Sarah Carrier, second by Allison Samuels.
Final Resolution: Motion Carried
Yes: Anamika Bhatnagar, Sarah Ca…
Apr 9, 2026
Board of Education
When you look at some of the differences in some of the adopted and proposed and the changes, um our curriculum and development changes are mainly around uh PD opportunities that we want to offer more broadly to teachers and to teachers of different …
We have added a new co-curricular morning program in addition to our drama program that the fourth grade did for the first time this year with their success with Spongebob. So that's you know the nuts and bolts kind of thing. Um this pie chart just i…
Um we've noticed recently an increase in teachers pursuing different field trips and making connections for those field trips to um curriculum in the classroom. It's we were just talking about it today. We are seeing a huge increase in each grade lev…
>> Yeah. So we've been having a lot of sorry >> a lot of focus and we've been actually working with a consultant from Boseis on the model of an elementary world language program and our focus has been on less time at one given sitting period and more…
>> I have one just one question which I sort of I think Carrie sort of answered already, but I just wanted to comment to say I think in terms of the um the increase in budget for curriculum development supervision, it's great to hear that we're makin…
So, in our library and with the renovations, it's lent itself to be able to be both that innovation space and traditional library space. Um, so when kids do things like 3D printing or working with paper and pen and glue and scissors to create a craft…
So, so um I have a question that's a little bit t like I was also reflecting on the previous presentation by the students. So, um there's the new garden space that's being developed and it seems my impression is the initiative has been really spearhe…
>> Absolutely. So, and I I hesitate to use the word curriculum because really what the garden uh is providing are some suggested activities seasonal that teachers can use the garden space for. So, there's no curriculum. >> Okay. Thanks for clarifying…
Um, and we're really excited about what the future holds for our faculty under their their leadership, too. Um, so that professional collaboration, the curriculum development um that has been going on all year is something really to be proud of. inst…
So we have built-in support systems for success to ensure that all students are maximizing their potential especially in those two areas. Um that inquiry approach in science has really led to some great collaboration and experiences as many visitors …
>> Last but not least, so similarly um to PBC and CT, we'll start with our budget overviews slide in the circuit dollars and cents. So some of the key changes you see here um include an increase in curriculum development and supervision and that acco…
So although this year is a lot about deepening and expanding on what we have put into place, we can't stop ourselves from adding a few new course offerings too. Um so we are excited to once again be bringing some new rigorous course offerings to our …
Now with our new schedule um and create greater interest in the field at a younger age, we are also adding two new AP courses, AP business with personal finance and AP psychology, which have been met with significant excitement from our students base…
And on this slide, you can read a little bit more about AP business with personal finance and what the career kickstart program is. Um, and you also see a hint of the future that we're also looking at the possibility of offering AP cyber security in …
So overall, she shared that the Sunni classes ended up for her being worth the cost in high school and ended up giving her two semesters worth of college credits that were transferred directly to the University of Michigan. I know there's sometimes q…
And then in the biomed science and computer science tracks, there are additional sets of courses. Um this is just a a sample from the project lead the way annual most recent annual report metrics just to get a sense of the reach nationally um that we…
Spent some time with the project lead the way curriculum specialists just kind of mapping out a little bit about our vision map, what our student interests are, what our staff um interests are and um it's important obviously this is all a gradual rol…
>> the same person. So this chart that you're looking at is um kind of like a pie in the sky brainstorm of what it could look like. We're not likely to do all of the things on there, but it's looking at mapping what we could do. And a lot of these wo…
The PVC Middle School Experience … the Vision Map in Action
Evolution at PVC
Croton-Harmon HS budget was presented by Principal Dr. Laura Dubak and Assistant Principal Erica Fiorini and included:
Croton-Harmon High School 2026-2027 Proposed Budget…
Apr 21, 2026
Board of Education
We then engage in a similar process to what we do for faculty hiring, which is to send an email to those 24, 25 folks saying, here's our vision map. We would like you to share with us your reflections on what that means to you and how you can provide…
Yes, if I could. Yes. So we've spoken extensively about how you achieve longevity in the work of a school system. And in my belief, one of the ways that you do that is by identifying high quality leadership talent from within the system, helping to g…
Yes. Thank you. Yeah. So I think the term teacher leader is one that is regularly used and perhaps overused in education. But I think for you, John, it's an incredibly apt term. You are and have been a leader among the faculty innumerable in ways. A …
I wanna add on that point that would be it'd be helpful to go through more than just presentation on technology itself. I think with with the board what I'm asking for is the board member, I'm hearing from the community that has been coming and talki…
A parent of a kindergartner spoke regarding what her daughter has been watching in school every single day -- videos of books read by celebrities, low-quality, high stimulation videos, not educational tools. Corporate TV show is being used as math cu…
RESOLVED: That the Board of Education, upon the recommendation of the Superintendent of Schools, hereby approves the appointment of John Bohuniek to the position of Interim Assistant Principal for Croton-Harmon High School, effective July 15, 2026 th…
Leslie Pollak thanked the Board for not voting for PNW BOCES Board Trustee candidate. She requested information on committee member selection. She also asked for tenure rationales. Why aren't academics in the Superintendent reports? We need answers …
Discussion: 7.2 Polling of the Board
AB: Technology review -- process? AT clarified that ?s will be asked of admin, compiled so all can see, and responses to be shared.
OM: we need better understanding of how technology is involved with curriculum,…
Commended district on cell phone policy, but it has come in too late.
A parent of a kindergartner spoke regarding what her daughter has been watching in school every single day -- videos of books read by celebrities, low-quality, high stimulation vi…
Motion by Sarah Carrier, second by Neal Haber.
Superintendent Stephan Walker noted that the term "teacher-leader" may be overused in education, but it is incredibly apt for Mr. Bohuniek. He has proven himself in multiple roles, such as a curriculum…
Closing of Meeting
Discussion: 7.1 Hearing of the Public
Leslie Pollak thanked the Board for not voting for PNW BOCES Board Trustee candidate. She requested information on committee member selection. She also asked for tenure rationales. Why aren'…
Lack of instructional time. Ideology has to stop, especially re: college night.
Ed Riely addressed the diesel bus issue. The community was to be blamed for pushing district into buying the expensive buses. He congratulated the Board for having tran…
May 7, 2026
Board of Education
And and that's what you know? And that's and that is an is a curriculum conversation, right? That's about curriculum and lesson planning. And so, you know, while I've been talking to Doctor. Extensively about this, this is a much larger conversation …
It's a process, and part of the process is being vulnerable enough to say, here's where we are. Right? Here's the state of of of play, the state of affairs, and then let's figure out, does this reflect what's actually happening in the classrooms? To …
Okay. And then Just just a brief note that I wanna remind the board and the community that for our policies, specifically policy 4200 curriculum development, that any changes to the curriculum needs to come to the board. So to the extent that the cur…
Yes. Normally, that's executed though more through the business office than it is through through that. So that's again that's why Denise has been and will continue to be closely involved in how that gets operationalized. Okay. I do have comments on …
And that's what we're talking about here is, like, we have to sort of figure out how these decisions about technology are integrated into the bigger picture. You can't just be looking at it as like we bought a thing. Right? It has to be part of the c…
Sorry. If I didn't say assistant superintendent, yes. Assistant superintendent. I'm sorry. So while that process is happening for a new software, I've also implemented this annual evaluation grants that I've only been attending to a month. So, yeah, …
Speaker I'm going to go on over here and just speak up for our Trusty teachers and say that I don't think that even they want more technology in the classroom. I don't think that that's, I think as a country, as a world, we're all moving away from th…
And so that's a good question. And again, I need to turn to our curriculum director. Yeah. But I do know that our we need to look as school library systems, they are guided by these standards.
So we often see shifts in society that, like, reflected in our educational system as we should. As we learn more, we can do better. Currently, we're in this moment where the pendulum has swung, you know, in COVID as a side society. We've been ramping…
Yeah. I mean, my question is I'm I'm totally fine with this if it's part of the curricular objective. And quite frankly, I'm surprised we don't have anybody here to talk about curriculum given the nature of this discussion, that you really can't sepa…
discovering a lot of this. Right? Like, that's it's I think it's even through this conversation that we're like, you know what? We really can't have this conversation without curriculum being a component of the an active component component of of the…
Second grade did the same Front shot? Yeah. He went to interview the shoemaker. He probably took some pictures in, you know, the shoe maker on the registry, wrote a report, and then probably, I don't remember, they presented in class, they presented …
For me, just going back to because I think where I sort of, like, got the disconnect I don't remember, Ellen, if you said that it was, like, it was impactful. If that I like, that I think there's just, a moment where I you know, and it wasn't like a …
And as you probably can't see, because the fonts are small, there's a mix of learning opportunities that strengthen instructional practice, enhance teacher efficacy, dive deeply into curriculum materials, promote classroom discussion discussion and a…
Right. I just wanna quickly build on that, and then I'll be quiet because I'm here. But Really? This is one of the reasons why I keep saying I it's like the, you know, the kiss principle, keep it simple, stupid. Like, this is why I'm saying to minimi…
So, yeah, I just wanna thank you for for walking us through this. I know it's a very complicated topic and a lot of our questions you answered some of our questions. I do believe that a lot of our questions were still unanswered Yes. On this. And whi…
Can I propose a charter? I I think at 11:00 at night when we yeah. Sure. Can we yeah. Let me just put it out there and then we can I'll I'll be done. You said, how is the use of technology instruction necessary, developmentally appropriate, and align…
On the question? On the question, given the last the last thing the discussion just had with technology, I'm not comfortable proving this at this point in time absent the further understanding of the curricular curriculum implications of these iPads …
May 12, 2026
CHUFSD Board of Education Candidate Forum 5/12/26
Thank you. I think that in order to best support our kids, we need to make sure that their input feels like they have the opportunity to thrive. I think that every kid should graduate from high school. Think it may take around the world. I think it b…
Sorry, that is a long question. I think that to just to continue the conversation that we've begun in recent years about academic rigor, we do have to continue to look at, the performance of our students across a wide variety of metrics. Test scores …
One of the things that I think we are contending with across the nation is the fact that we are in a post COVID world, and we saw a lot of changes to our educational climate during COVID. So one thing that I'd be really interested to understand from …
Thank you. So I think, you know, what we need to to do and what we need to continue to do and to do better is to evaluate a broad range of data. We need to look at quantitative data and qualitative data. We need to be hearing more student voice, and …
So as I said in the previous question to me, rigor means that every student of every ability is challenged whether they need, you know, extra assistance or whether they need, you know, more advanced classes. And I think that rigor is curriculum. And …
So as as I've heard from we've heard from other, candidates, right, part of the board's role is in policy development. It's also, in the setting the vision of our schools. So in both of those aspects, need to be looking at and regularly reviewing our…
Well, it's the it's the main goal of a trustee to set the vision and the priorities for the district. That's that's stated upfront in the budget statement. So it's our job. It's our job to do that. I think one of the first things I'd like to see is m…
And at board meetings, we would publicly ask those questions of the superintendent of, those who are developing curriculum. So that would be sort of my number one goal is to get a a program policy implementation framework in place and communicate and…
As Jake mentioned, the board plays an incredibly important role in, setting the priorities that is one of their main purposes. I would have three priorities, all of which we've talked about tonight. The first is to strengthen our accountability mecha…
Thank you. I think our first objective and first priority is to have a common understanding and a frank public discussion about what success means. What success means for every student in every grade, how we measure it and what we have in place as a …
I just I just want to comment because I think that, you know, on some of the comments that have been made about the vision map. I think to sort of keep centering the vision map when we don't have sort of like the things that we need to see sort of op…
May 19, 2026
Board of Education
And it's seen in a student who takes a challenging course because they finally believe in themselves and their own ability to succeed. You've built the foundation. The skills and the curiosity you've modeled have empowered the rest of us to continue …
Edwin has spent the last seven years to Croton-Harmon High School as an innovator, advocate, and intellectual thought partner within our school community, always pushing us to think just a little bit more deeply. He is a talented curriculum writer w…
They expertly wove together enduring issues and developed curriculum that allowed students to explore literature through history and to allow history to come alive through literature. He is also one of our first CHHS teachers to co teach multiple int…
Andy is teacher who has demonstrated commitment, growth, care, collaboration, and depth of skill in his time so far at CHHS. From the beginning, Andy approached his work with curiosity and eagerness contribute and help the math department develop and…
These facts ranging from the vanilla bean to New York State's first official symbol, the beaver, to the history and the ripe season of every fruit known to mankind. We've often we've often suggested to Ann Marie that she should sign up for Jeopardy. …
I have had the privilege of knowing and working alongside Kristin Noël Schoenleber for the last twenty five years. We began together as English teachers sharing Room 207, where we spent our prep periods discussing curriculum, grading papers, and rewo…
As as the boards liaison to the Village Bicycle Pedestrian Committee, I was very pleased to be able to participate this weekend in CET's bike rodeo, which was an incredible community event organized by Suzanne Leslie, our CET physical education teach…
Jun 4, 2026
Board of Education
>> Um yes to everything that's been said. Just want to add a little bit more to particularly the idea of the formation stage. To me, it's really important for people to have a common for us as a board, but also [clears throat] then that would be conv…
>> I I think what you're really saying is to define the scope of the issue and limitations of what that advisory group is going to be looking at. You have to know some of that up front and I think you were accurately said that there's some part of th…
>> Yeah, I I was just thinking about the fact that >> We've literally formed committees to take on one policy and not been able to accomplish that. >> But but but but if I can if I can continue um I was thinking that that and that task that ad hoc co…
I don't mean curriculum committee, that's what I was talking about too. Because that list of ideas is long, I was wondering if we could start with the like before we think about more new, think about >> Yeah. >> again for the the seven of us who've b…
There was agreement that there should be a specific charge with a discrete timeline and purpose and that there should be listening sessions (i.e., having the sub-committee hear concerns to bring them to the Board and have the whole Board decide how t…
Motion by Neal Haber, second by Anamika Bhatnagar.
On the question: Superintendent Stephen Walker reported that he and CHHS Principal Laura Dubak met with the CHEF board re: the grant process and it may evolve to in-person presentations with grant …
Action (Consent): 5.3 Math Curriculum Coordinator Recommendation
Resolution: RESOLVED: That the Board of Education hereby approves the recommendation of Kym Garrett, CHHS Math Curriculum Coordinator for the 2025-26 school year, at a prorated stipend…
Jun 11, 2026
Board of Education
>> Yeah. So I think broadly what we look at is um when do we have sort of aberant scores u and we haven't at least in the past year or so what can we attribute those to is it a change in personnel right is it u and often frankly it's that it's someth…
Um, but you know, all of those things are are ongoing conversations and one of the things that we start to do more regularly is devote time during our summer administrative retreats to looking at this data and starting to ask questions about it and t…
>> Um thank you for preparing this. Um I think what I would like to see as you said this is an ongoing um process is for me I would like to see a breakdown of threes versus fours. Um because I think particularly I mean I recognize that um there can b…
And one of the things I did like about your presentation is how you talked about the progression and how, you know, we're looking at how students are progressing over a period of time through the curriculum and how different things are experiencing u…
Can I just piggyback on that because it's um that's where I was going to go with with my comments. This is very helpful to have. Um it kind of describes where we were and where we're going. Um, but it doesn't doesn't tell us why. And that's the next …
What are the best practices in terms of how we should be engaging in things like how do you tell a student that they haven't made one of our teams, right? How do we assess and evaluate and provide feedback to coaches? uh we provide feedback to our st…
mandated like compliance plan, right? >> Yes. which is a little bit different from some of the other >> this is an instructional technology >> plan right >> um >> which is a yeah state compliance document >> sure but we can still have we have a littl…
>> so I I would I think everybody raised some very good points and I just part of my statement before was really to address those absolutist focus. >> Yeah, I think I would add that when we within the time constraints that we had to develop a policy,…
Jul 16, 2026
Board of Education
I think the energy of the students and faculty and staff isn't there. But it does give us an opportunity along with the faculty to do some really high quality and important curriculum development work, professional learning, facilities planning, goal…
Thank you, Steve. This summer, nearly half of our faculty will be engaged in summer curriculum work. At CET, some of the highlights include diving into the Hegarty bridges to reading and writing work across grade teams. At PVC, several of our grade t…
I can share some preliminary things. Sure. Mostly about the high school. Okay. Great. I spent most of the time. The interdisciplinary courses, the ideas for interdisciplinary courses come from student and staff interest. And so that's where the initi…
But, like, you know, field trips is, like, one example. But then also, you know, in terms of how much of their curriculum you get through or what what choices we have for reading, etcetera. So that idea of sort having these conversations about the un…
For the benefit of the public, again we didn't say this earlier, this is a list of mentor appointments, curriculum coordinators, facilitators, and other annual functions and other appointments that as well as special education recommendations. Typica…
that we have. Okay. Yeah. So there are a couple of things that are on the back there, which were budget and discussion of curriculum. I think we need to sort of, again, use our retreat conversation as well to sort of surface not to decide, but to loo…
New Business
Action: 8.01 2026-2027 Facility Use Fee Waivers
RESOLVED: That the Board of Education hereby approves the 2026-2027 requests for facility use fee waivers, as presented.
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Aug 6, 2026
Board of Education
great. Thank you. Yeah. We all have it. It's just a matter of Yeah. It's also just being able to put it on the screen so everyone can see. Rebuild trust through timely, transparent, and meaningful communication and engagement with the community is nu…
Yeah. I I agree with what Theo said. I I guess what I would just add is, yeah, I'm I'm overall supportive of these. I and, you know, I also think about our role as a board is to be a liaison with the community. We're elected by the community and to h…
And I don't think the community at large knows a whole lot about New York Inspires and how big of a shift this is gonna be in New York State all across the whole state and how quickly that's coming and how many questions there still are about that an…
Do have anything? Oh, I have a question about the way these are ordered. Is is this any particular order? Or No. Just okay. Cool. Again, they're designed around, like, three main buckets. Gotcha. Yeah. I do wanna add, I think, obviously, these are go…
Yeah. I I would say as much as I do think it's important to start exposing the community to New York Inspires, the challenge that I've been hearing or the challenge that I feel and experienced myself around rebuilding trust with time transparency and…
Said what I was gonna say, but thank you, Betsy, for reminding me that it's not just New York inspires. It's every building where my kids are. I've just been trying to wrap my head around New York inspires as much as I can lately. But, yes, obviously…
Okay. And I think bottom line is the research behind the Blue Ribbon Commission, which is a national commission, not a New York State commission Right. Is all about what's best for kids in terms of curriculum and education. I I think that's a good po…
Thanks. And then just just a quick just, again, I think for the benefit of those who haven't been following this conversation. So the Blue Ribbon Commission's findings and research also informed, like, the first iteration of the state reevaluating th…
And I think the other thing that I would argue is, like, we also have to be careful about, like, the fact that, you know, there's a new year, there's a new governor, there's a new political situation, and all of a sudden, you're having a conversation…
The reframing that Ana proposed, which is examine student curriculum, including measurable student achievement to ensure continued academic rigor. That's a reordering, but I think it actually it does put the focus on looking at student curriculum. An…
So then going to number two. We had some input before. Number two, it was examine student curriculum, including measurable student achievement to ensure continued academic rigor as compared to continuing to strengthen academic rigor for students achi…
I was just gonna and then. Yep. I was gonna say if we're gonna continue on sort of the high level goal framing start, then I would I would flip what what the suggestion was for the reframe and just say, ensure the continued academic rigor or I still …
I get, like, persimmony about how do you work strength in two times or no, but Yeah. I do like it. I I I kinda like the way it was written, like, continue to strengthen academic rigor. Curriculum coherence to me through the process of, like, curricul…
Just like someone else has said, I think think that the phrase curriculum adherence is really, really important to what we're articulating as a goal because it's it's something that we have identified or educators have identified or building leaders …
Jacob, you can take off. No. No. I I don't have any I mean, it it sounds fine. What is the main difference between the two? I see it. He's curriculum
coherence. If we're studying student curriculum versus talking about strength strengthening the coherence of the curriculum and and thinking to some degree, at least from my perspective, beyond the kind of term, The curriculum coherence was also one …
That's a good unpacking of curriculum. That's all I think. Sure. A couple of comments. I don't think it's a good idea to say bye because that's that's really not our job. That'd be the administration's
In terms of comparing the two statements, it's examine student curriculum and examine as an action. Mhmm. True. Well, examine it. Okay. And and then what? Right? I think continue continue to strengthen goes back to board responsibility. And what I re…
Motion by Omar Mayyasi, second by Allison Samuels. Final Resolution: Motion Carried
Yes: Anamika Bhatnagar, Omar Mayyasi, Theo Oshiro, Allison Samuels, Ana Teague, Jacob Day, Elizabeth Laird
Discussion: 5.5 Discussion: Board of Education 2026-27 Go…
1. Ensure timely, transparent, and meaningful communication and engagement with the community to build trust.
2. Continue to strengthen academic rigor, curriculum coherence, and measurable student achievement.
3. Strengthen governance and accounta…
Aug 27, 2026
Board of Education
So it was a jam packed whirlwind two days for them and took a bus tour of the community. But they're ready. And they're excited, and they're ready to add to an already amazing faculty here. So it's relative of our our new times. On Tuesday of this we…
And so probably the biggest shift in this work, and, you know, that has been spoken about a lot with the the community, following extensive collaboration with our wonderful faculty as as Steve had mentioned and our building administration. We really …
We will continue to, a district, as a building administration team, as staff developers, curriculum coordinators, provide support for our teachers moving forward in the instructional planning, material allocation, and implementation as we continue th…
And then a little bit more for grades five to eight. Lab period is something that we've talked about and has, come up. And so for the upcoming school year, PVC has readjusted and reevaluated the lab time so that there are not time requirements for us…
So there are programs, for example, like Hegarty that come with, I think, pretty excellent resources like slideshows used for choral reading for phonics instruction that are quite effective. But then there are other programs that come with curricular…
Thank you. So before we go into board questions, just on behalf of the board, I wanna thank all of you for putting together such a robust, thoughtful presentation. And I also wanna, go back to Ana's point. This has been work that has been going on fo…
The the shift in thinking about that it's really student need based and not just sort of, like, a number requirement, that, again, I think is that shift in thinking to, like, really looking at technology in terms of, like, what's the curricular expec…
Board President Anamika Bhatnagar spoke on the following topics:
BOE meetings to resume in the CHHS Library with new sound system
Summary of the agenda
Busy first week for the district
New Teacher Day
Superintendent's Conference Day
DJ Dance Pa…
Sep 3, 2026
Board of Education
And I want us all to remember that the work to improve our students' educational experience is ongoing and never done. Just last week, like many of you, I'm sure, I read The New York Times article titled How Big Tech Captured America's Schools. The s…
This is, I think, unquestionably a point of pride for our community as we begin the year, and we look forward to, seeing this continue to evolve as we go forward. And just one final mention in terms of what's next. We have, of course, the the great o…
Some of those include, how are counselors communicating the purpose, academic value, pathways of these interdisciplinary courses to students and families throughout? Are colleges and admissions officers being made aware of why these courses are being…
My freshman year, I was in the maps, connections, and timelines course. So while I assume there has been up there have been updates to the curriculum and such, I might be able to answer some questions you have. I also think when, interdisciplinary co…
Thank you. Thank you, Anamika. I think that was obviously incredibly well put in a in a great segue, along the theme of ambitious goal setting on behalf of students. Whether it's technology or, our curriculum and instructional goals, all of them shar…
Right. So you'll see on this slide, on the left, you'll see the three board priorities. And what we tried to do, following the Board of Ed and administrative retreat this summer was to really match up the district goals directly to each of the board …
So our next goal, is around horizontal curriculum alignment. So we began work this summer with our teacher leaders in an effort to be ready to focus on horizontal curriculum alignment, and that is about ensuring that our curriculum is aligned across …
And what was shared with me was actually very consistent across almost everybody, And what parents want to really see is key content by unit, core texts and resources, key assessments and projects, and student experiences such as demonstrations of le…
So that kind of context paired with the fact that we are now using the algebra for all model in eighth grade makes it really essential for us to invest a deep look in our three to seven curriculum to ensure that we are best preparing our students and…
And then shifting to English language arts, where, as Anamika referenced earlier, thinking about this as in in in some of our other scopes of goals in a multiyear case. So, for 2627, thinking about how we can further the work, deepen the work of the …
So in year one of the class, I think when you started, Madeline, there were only about 50% of the ninth graders that took it that year, while the other group of ninth graders took the Global nine course. And then in year two of the class last year, a…
I just wanna thank all four of you on that side of the table. I know how much work has gone into this over the last several weeks, and I the the specificity of these goals, I think, is really fantastic, and we're really headed in a great direction. S…
Echoing the appreciation for all this. This is a lot. So I'm sorry. I've I have a I have a laundry list. So just, if we could go to, like, say, one of the slides that let me see. That has, like, a 5% on it. Yeah. That. So, that slide says the goal is…
Then the other thing that, just wanted to, like, bring up. So when I when I'm looking at this, like, thinking about it, like, Laura, this is a lot for you, particularly. Like, falls under you and, like and you're in a new role. And then I was I was g…
But I I just with this, I'd like to make sure that we're also looking at what other other schools in our in our in our neighboring communities are doing in terms of some of their curriculum. Because that you know, when it comes to rigor, it's not onl…
Okay. Sure thing. Sure thing. So so just to sort of reiterate that I think that for this evening's presentation, we specifically asked for a focus this year on, college and career readiness through the lens of our educational program in terms of core…
He also spoke regarding educational reforms, big tech companies.
Report: 2.3 Superintendent's Report
(see presentation on agenda)
Superintendent Stephen Walker spoke on the following Points of Tiger Pride:
Welcome Back, Tigers!
Tiger Tech Reset
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Board Trustee Theo Oshiro thanked the committee, and noted that, while the priority is our district, he encourages the committee to think outside Croton, and share with other districts. Board Trustee Betsy Laird noted that CHUFSD seems to be a leader…
Focus on Grade K-8 ELA curriculum development and assessment (to occur over the next 2 school years)
Evaluate college and career readiness across pathways
Develop a regular reporting schedule to allow for a comprehensive public presentation and dis…
6. Closing of the Meeting
Report: 6.1 Hearing of the Public
Chris Steel addressed the college & career slide of the District Goals presentation and noted the gaping miss by not discussing other avenues than college.
Board President Anamika Bhatnag…
Sep 17, 2026
Board of Education
Opposed? Abstained? The motion carries. Moving into item 2.1, the president's report. Good evening, and welcome to the members of our community in the audience watching the livestream and listening at a later date. Welcome also to our building admini…
Thank you, Erica. We also wanna make sure that the community had a view into the work that takes place during the summer, particularly with regard to curriculum development and refinement. I'm happy to turn it over to Lori to provide an overview of t…
So now that our community has heard about our district goals and is about to hear about building priorities, we wanted to share a little bit about the curriculum planning and revision work that is done by our faculty over the summer. While we often t…
So we have a long history of being fortunate enough to offer ample summer curriculum work time for our faculty and we've refined that process over the last couple of years to ensure that approved curriculum work is really focused on our vision map an…
So let's start with an overview of the next step regarding the committees that will be paused for this year. The Literacy Committee's work last year helped to solidify our priorities as it relates to our work this year, including finalizing and publi…
I just want to open it up for board questions. There's a lot of information, a lot of really great information. Does anyone have a follow-up question on what Steve presented? Okay. I'll just chime in and say I'm really, pleased to hear the, report on…
So how you've articulated the work this year, it I think we have a lot to look forward to, and the board will look forward to hearing on progress periodically throughout the year as the work continues. So thank you very much for that. Thank you also,…
Thank you. So we are excited to go first today for a change. But at CHHS, we looked at the district goals, the work we have already been doing around the implementation of the vision map, and the feedback from our teachers about what they feel should…
We also want to capture the optional opportunities that are available outside of the classroom as well. This will not only ensure more equity in terms of access, but it will also help students as they explore their interests and build their own indiv…
As all eighth graders are taking algebra one, we want to ensure that those in need of reinforcement are getting it while still moving on to geometry as ninth graders. Because all students took algebra one in eighth grade and a form of geometry in nin…
The majority of our teachers in the math department are new to the district, and the curriculum writing is a huge lift, especially in this short amount of time. So action two. We are now in year three of the interdisciplinary humanities course, which…
As we said, curriculum alignment is part of the district goals and is a multi year process at the high school. So this year, all departments will be taking an inventory of their common assessments. Final exams, essays, projects are already in place. …
So, again, as we're developing the vertical curriculum, we're exploring these courses as the next step that we can take so we can build out that program. Some of our interdisciplinary courses and our electives are stand alone courses. So we don't wan…
two levels of geometry. We had applied geometry, and we had, you know, our standard geometry course. So there's always going to be the need to have different levels to be able to meet the needs of the students and where they are, at that time. So by …
the second one. Okay, awesome. So as you were saying, curriculum alignment is part of the district goals. It is a multi year process, but that's what I already talked about. So now we're actually on priority two. So we aim to create a system that cap…
Whether that's just tech support, whether that's help from our instructional coaches, whether that's opportunities our curriculum coordinators can find them for PDs, whether it's work we can provide as an admin team. This consistent support of not ju…
There okay. So there's probably three I can think of off the bat. One, our mentors understand our community. They understand how to communicate with parents. They understand how to build trust with kids. We have veteran teachers coming into this dist…
Alright. We're ready for four. Priority four is communicate facets of the student experience to families in the broader community. And I think you'll all recognize the alignment of that priority with board priorities as well as district. And the firs…
The counselors are very active in the classroom all throughout the year as well as doing individual meetings. Our target here is communication about that program and helping people to understand what's happening. Similar to getting a report from your…
That makes sense just in light of the fact that there's gonna be more because I one of the gaps that we identified as a community last year was that getting sort of, like, that feedback in connection with teachers was a little bit harder for some fam…
create and enhance learning experiences through rigorous standard aligned curriculum, collaboration, and, of course, quality instruction. Maximizing planning time is key for us, so we don't want to leave the learning and the instruction to chance. So…
So your learning journey is really all about a a collective yet individual journey. And so we at PVC really want students to receive valuable feedback that reflects growth, drives mastery, and, of course, staff and students alike. Right? We want that…
So we're gonna continue to survey students and see what's working for them, of course, is our priority, And also continue to share out those curriculum overviews this year to the community. So that will drive a lot of that work as well. So we're exci…
So instead of it being part of our special schedule, we are now back to a five day letter day cycle. And Spanish has become a push in instead of the pull out forty five minutes. And one of the benefits that we're already seeing from that, and it's on…
So as we take a deep dive into our priority of curriculum review, Our goals for this year will be a program review of the implementation of Hegarty curriculum in grades two. So we are in year two of full implementation of the Hegarty phonemic awarene…
And what we mean by that is how are we telling parents and letting parents know what their children are doing in each curriculum discipline as the year progresses. And we are going to review the implementation again of the world language instruction …
the of these, the biggest lift in my opinion is the continuation of this literacy committee and the grade three and four review. And that's ongoing because we really wanna take the opportunity to look at what we're using, what else is out there. But …
resources? So a first step that we're going to do is actually Craig, Laura, myself, and I believe administration from PVC are going to attend a vendor review of two programs that Great Minds puts out. It's being hosted by Lyric in the beginning of Oc…
new program? I think I'd just also add in terms of timeline what we're looking at for this, and I'd I'd share some background about arts and letters. I think it was last week in a board weekly and some reviews of it from a curricular standpoint. For …
Yeah. Just to say, when I saw that in the weekly, I was extremely excited because I have some teacher friends who have been implementing it in Byram Hills and some other places and they think it's a really stellar curriculum and I also think I know B…
because other systems make that shift at a at a different place. Are there any other questions on the three to four? Because my question is actually about the k through two before we move on. Okay. So the I guess one question, Carrie, I think you men…
So now that those same kids that had it in kindergarten or in first, I will be asking my first grade teachers, because they had Hegarty in first grade, and last year, your first graders, you were having concerns about encoding, are you still seeing t…
Yeah, just a follow-up question. I mean, related to what you were just speaking about. One of the goals is to ensure that the curriculum that we're implementing is the best one for our students in terms of achievement and learning. As you're looking …
So one of the, I'm just pulling up from the old board report. There's curricular review tools that we use that you can access, but you can subscribe to them as a district. But a lot of these curricular, the companies will actually publish their resul…
Well, I'd love the collaborative approach between working with PVC, CET, and then having Laura with her curriculum background. I think we've got a strong team and we'll make a decision and keep you apprised along the way. Yeah. Got really, like, almo…
opportunity. And I was like, oh my god. Because another conversation is looking at math curriculum. And they also are the vendor that puts out Eureka Squared, which is the newer iteration of the Eureka math that we've been using at CET. And so when I…
So instead of saying it's forty five minutes every six days where you're sitting there for forty five minutes and then it's six days before you're getting anything again, the way that the schedule lays out now, which I'd be more than happy to include…
and then happy to meet and talk with groups, individuals, anybody that has a question about what they're looking at, I'm happy to go deeper into it. Alright. Does that sound helpful for I mean, to in terms of the questions that we've had here? And th…
I think because because of the board's oversight function in terms of curriculum selection, if there's a budgetary piece of it Right. We haven't come up we I know there's gonna be, but we haven't come up against that question in some time. And so for…
So we invite you to now move on to your next topic. All right, sounds good. Our next one are grade level anchor experiences and some of the common instructional experiences that students at CET will have. So our bullets here and our goals, identify a…
I know Carrie mentioned this earlier, but something we're very proud of is that all of our teachers, k to four, send out a weekly newsletter, and they highlight whether it's literacy with ELA, social studies, math, science, exactly what they're doing…
Okay. That started last year with the our requirement that teachers send them out weekly. The added layer to that this year is making sure that there's a reference to each curriculum discipline and what they're working on. And when they shift from on…
So one thing we're really proud of and I'm gonna give credit where credit is due throughout the district. We have amazing instructional coaches, and we've got three ourselves at CET. We had two of our instructional coaches. Carrie and I sat down. We …
Just a quick one that I'm so excited about the literacy curriculum page, even just from the quick glance. Think it's gonna be impactful for parents. And wondering if you are thinking about doing something similar for mathematics at Okay, any
with with technology, with social media, right, with kids, right, where we're gonna be really emphasizing how we communicate. But I think it's really important to make sure that these conversations that we're having tonight over the past couple of we…
Report: 2.2 Superintendent's Report
(see presentation on agenda)
Superintendent Stephen Walker spoke on the following topics:
National Merit Scholarship Semifinalists from CHHS: Spencer Celente and Sean Ossowski
Update on Varsity Football
CHHS A…
3. Work Session
Discussion, Presentation: 3.1 Building Priorities for the 2026-2027 School Year
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Superintendent Stephen Walker introduced the presentation with an overview of District Goals at a Glance.
Erica Fiorini, …
Oct 1, 2026
Board of Education
where I'll be reading, and then we'll be happy to hang out and talk about, some work of the Tiger. So, thank you as always for the opportunity to share some of the highlights of the past couple weeks in our district and a look ahead to next week, whi…
Much of the work that afternoon will center around continued work on our curriculum overview templates and we intentionally moved our half day conference day slightly earlier in the year than it has been in the past to keep with the continuity of cur…
Mr. Ed Riely spoke on the following topics: free lunch is offered, yet students are going into town to buy meals, people signing into the school using aliases. Should require valid ID, Cambridge University Professor, hired because of DEI, no one allo…