Board of Education, Regular Meeting

1. 0:28e e e e e e e e e m alance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands Nation God indivisible with liy and justice for all thank you.
2. 5:23missy Mar here Amanda here k wette Jones here Calvin Lewis Matt ma here Walker here thank you.
3. 5:56make a motion to accept agenda let present I think the the only change is we're going to skip the first executive session and just have second executive session okay.
4. 6:10second all in favor he old business old business.
5. 6:27so we have is this yeah it's on we have the second reading of policy number 4772 which is the graduation ceremonies um these all of these policies that we're going to be reading tonight they're up for second read um they are required for yearly review and they have been given to us by nisba so there hasn't been any changes and so we just need to um possibly adopt them tonight if unless someone has questions or wants to discuss it um so we do have this second read for policy 4772 graduation ceremonies.
6. 7:03I make the motion to if unless somebody has questions or comments I have a quick question so the it looks like paragraph one in graduation ceremonies is is changing uh it's going from a faculty selection criteria for speakers to a number of items um I'm not sure how it gets decided how they choose their speakers.
7. 7:30how does the faculty choose your speakers no it's got so it's got options including selecting valorian salutatorian allowing the senior class to select speaker of their own establish a committee designate senior class president or allow senior class to choose someone from outside the school and given that we're putting options in there I guess is it the principal who's deciding is it the superintendent who decides or the superintendent doesn't decide I have nothing I just just everything comes out of the heist.
8. 7:58yeah my assumption would be the senior class advisor would do it okay sure revise it to do that okay yeah.
9. 8:32so we're going to hold that one and just make that yeah we'll vote on that we'll revise it and bring it for another vote.
10. 8:55so the second read of 4773 diploma credentials options for students with disability any questions.
11. 9:05so I make a motion to adopt uh policy number 4773 diploma credentials options for students with disability second all in favor.
12. 9:18and for policy number 5500 student records and 5500r Student Records regulations any questions I make a motion to adopt policy 5 5500 student records and 5500r student records and regulations second all in favor.
13. 9:45and policy number 5550 student privacy any questions um oh never mind the question was my own inability to read it says 5500 Z and then 555 Z corrected by just reading a second time um I make a motion to adopt policy 5550 student policy I mean sorry student privacy second all in favor didn't my hand.
14. 10:25and policy number 8635 - R data privacy security breach and notification regulation any questions I make a motion to adopt policy number 8635 data privacy security breach and notification regulations second all in favor.
15. 10:50and policy number 11120 School District records and policy number 11 120- R School District record records um sorry the first one is School District records and policy and the second one is one 12-r school district records any questions.
16. 11:12do have a quick question um so I see we're appointing the Chief Financial Officer as the records access officer but it seems like it's been practiced that we're appointing somebody else in the district office into that position even under the previous policy which had the business administrator which was the old name of title is it Our intention that the CFO be the records access officer do we need to update our resolution from the or York meeting or um so it's just a contradiction of titles.
17. 11:48well I no I think the in our reor meeting we appointed uh aoto as I recall as record access officer and we're going to need to update our resolution I guess if we're making a policy that CFO is the records access officer or do we just need to change the name in the policy you're saying so that it matches previously cuz that's probably the default from this but in there right now right yeah.
18. 12:17is this 1120 or 1120 R sorry 1120 R sorry regulation okay yeah see.
19. 12:37so I think maybe we can we can table that one that and just make sure we address that whichever way we want vote on the first one and table the second one that works I'm that cool okay.
20. 12:51so we're going to make a motion to adopt policy number 1120 School District records and policy see second all in favor great thank you look here thank you Matt.
21. 13:13yeah a no no need for early executive so now we're going to Personnel genda.
22. 13:23I'd like to make a motion to accept Personnel GS items a through okay second all in favor and pulling l and m for yeah I'll refuse myself from items l and m okay.
23. 13:42so now make a motion to accept items l m second all in favor okay.
24. 14:01so uh good evening everyone we have a great number of new staff to welcome and I I'd like to welcome all of our new teachers sitting in the audience and new staff members so I'm going to read a brief bio about each each one and um if you would just stand up um when I call your name so that we will know who we are speaking.
25. 14:23so the first person on the list is um Dan hutnik hello welcome.
26. 14:32following his Graduate Studies in clinical social practice in schools with adolescents and children at the New York University silver School of Social Work Dany became a licensed Master social worker and certified School worker in the city of New York Department of Education at a public high school in the Lower East Side of Manhattan. Mr hutnik served as the Director of guidance until 2020 when the impact of the covid-19 pandemic led him to begin an expansion of school Support Services as a psychological counseling services provider in Early Education. a fun fact about Danny he hosts karaoke twice a month at a local restaurant near the town where he lives with his husband and their 2-year-old son welcome Mr hutnik welcome.
27. 15:33next we have Charles Lynch. Mr Lynch's education background is an as in history education a ba in history education and Ms in instructional technology an e an ed educational professional practice concentration in neurod Divergent education. also his experience include 13 years in the field of Education primarily teaching computer and Technology from turning on a computer to a web and video game design nine as oh as an Adjunct
28. 16:13professor for courses six as a summer camp instructor at a college grades 2 through six as a as a teacher assistant in Special Needs classroom for all subjects um 5 years as an instructional technology special specialist at a college which includes LMS admin responsibilities as well and then certificates in very topics of Education including gamification AI design cahoot Ed puzzle and more a fun fact about Mr Lynch is that he recently married this year he's an avid gamer he used to be able to run a mile in less than five minutes has a dog name a Beagle named Zero named after the dog in the nightmare The Nightmare Before Christmas and has met William Shatner so welcome to our one of our new information technology coaches uh Mr Lynch.
29. 17:18next we have Zachary Kent who will serve as a social studies teacher at our Junior High School Zach Kent is by is a bilingual nationally board certified teacher with nearly 10 years of experience teaching Ela and social studies at the junior high and high school levels. he graduated with honors from Vasa College in pipy New York and earned his Master's in art of teaching from tus University in Malden Massachusetts after teaching and instructional coaching in Boston and and Austin te in Boston Massachusetts and Austin Texas Zach is thrilled to now be joining the Hudson City School District where he's not in the classroom when he's not in the classroom you can find him baking bread and climbing mountains with his partner five month and his five-month old daughter and belov Trail Dog welcome Mr
30. 18:32next we have Walter Voss and who is also an instructional technology coach at the Junior High in High School Mr Voss has been an educator for eight years working as a teacher in New York City Green County and Massachusetts he has extensive experience with educational technology and platforms helping to integrate tools and platforms into schools that he has worked with as well as having a background with designing and developing Educational Tools. he earned a bachelor's degree in neuroscience and biology from Brandis University in Massachusetts as well as a master's degree in education from St John's University in New York he looks forward to working with the team and community of Hudson school district and is excited to advance the mission of successful and impactful integration of technology and tools to help people grow and learn welcome Mr Boss
31. 19:42Next we have Miss Shannon vanon Miss vanon will be a technology teacher at the high school Shannon Van loone is our new technology and physics teacher awesome her previous job experience as a nuclear engineer brings a unique perspective to Hudson community she gained her mechanical engineering degree from Binghamton University in 2016 and has experienced teaching science and physics in Sleepy Hollow Rybeck and Bronx New York. miss van loone aims to encourage youth to become involved in stem and art she believes that every scientist is an artist and every artist is a scientist Shannon is proud to have an identical twin Max Max is an artist and scientist himself as themsel as well as an educator living in Wisconsin miss van loone looks forward to working with the intelligent and gracious members of our Hudson community welcome Miss van
32. 21:02we have Miss CH Khloe okain she'll be an enl teacher at mcses Chloe oain grew up in Cornwall Connecticut and attended Connecticut College she began teaching as a refugee resettlement at the refugee resettlement Center in New Haven Connecticut after college after that she taught at a private Elementary School in Boston for 2 years. she then moved to New York City to begin in a master's t-saw at Bank Street College of Education she studied she student taught in a dual language classroom for a year and worked as an enl educator at a public elementary school in Brooklyn for 2 years she's so excited to have moved back closer to her family so she can spend more time with their with with their assortment of farm animals including alpacas sheep and a cow welcome
33. 22:12Miss Miss jacquelene tell T toriso did I say that correctly oh perfect U Miss toriso will be a fifth grade teacher at MCS missia completed her bachelor's degree Dee in business management at Georgia Southern University in 2018 and her master's degree in childhood education from Liberty University in 2021. for the last three years she has been an instructional assistant at Bedford Hills Elementary School where she worked with small groups of classified students to modify and differentiate instruction monitor progress of IEP goals and create Behavioral Management strategies for each student her most recent experience as a leave replacement teacher in Weak and pipy districts have provided her with tools and experience she needs to excel in her own classroom. in her free time she enjoys traveling and in the last two years she has been to three countries welcome Miss tario welcome
34. 23:30[Applause] Mr David OK Conor Mr OK Conor will be a business teacher at the junior high school high school and he will be teaching our financial literacy classes there David or Dave o Conor graduated from chadam high school in 1977 and Union College New York in 1981 with a ba in English. he has served 20 years as a surface Warfare officer in the United States Navy and retired with the rank of Commander 0 to5 while in the nation while in the Navy he was assigned instructor Duty for newly commissioned officers before they reported to their first ships and he completed a master's degree in public administration from Troy State University following his Naval career. he completed licensing requirements to become a registered representative and financial advisor for Edward D Jones and Company he retired he retired from Edward Jones after 20 years leading Branch offices in Saratoga Springs and chadam most recently he has worked as a substitute teacher and teaching assistant for Hudson for two and a half years his fun fact is that he was a former Board of Education member in the chadam school district for approximately 10 years
35. 25:06Kaitlyn Davis Kaitlyn Davis will be our counselor for the blue hawk Academy Katie Davis a school counselor from pipsy New York will join the Hudson community as the blue hawk Academy school counselor for this upcoming school year Katie graduated from Western Connecticut State University with her bachelor's degree in Psychology and then continued her education at Mercy College where she earned her master's degree in School counseling. during her counseling program at Mercy College she needed to complete a 2-year internship which she completed at Hudson schools under the guidance of Rocky paint once she completed her internship and graduated she worked as a school counselor for Hudson senior Junior High School summer school program she then went on to work in a private school for 2 years as their sole
36. 26:07counselor for grades 6 through 12 outside of work Katie enjoys spending time with her family and a little boy she enjoys crafting and playing softball and she also enjoys volleyball welcome I should say welcome back [Music]
37. 26:28next we have Andrea Simmons special education teacher at mcses Miss Simmons earned her bachelor's degree in art therapy this program combined elements of psychology and creative arts teaching her how to use art to help students Express themselves and to heal she then pursued and completed a master's degree in elementary and special education. this advancement this advance program prepared her to work with a diverse range of students with many abilities and talents and for the past eight years Miss Simmons has been applying what she learned by working directly in the classrooms from grades prek through six.
38. 27:15her Hands-On experiences has allowed her to make a real difference in children's life and become a strong Advocate and support for her students and Miss Simmons were are so proud of you because you are moving from a TA position into an actual certified teacher position and so congratulations of course Sophia fumo Sophia Miss fumo will be an AIS Matt teacher at the junior high school.
39. 27:52Sophia fumo is from Pleasant Valley New York just out outside of pipy she attended the duchess Community College her first two years out of high school and then she transferred to the University of Albany to complete her bachelor's degree in mathematics recently she received her master's degree in adolescent education from Sunni new pults one fun fact about her is she competed in Dan in dance since she was nine oh she's been competing in dance since she was nine and continued that Journey with u Albany Dance Team Miss fumu is excited to be given this opportunity and start her teaching career here in Hudson welcome.
40. 28:43Lissa Johnson pre kindergarten teacher at MCS Lissa Johnson knew from an early age that she was going to be a teacher. this led her to the College of St Rose where she studied Early Childhood special education her student teaching placement was right here in the Hudson City School District she graduated with honors in May 2006 she began teach in prek as a special education teacher in July of 2006 she continued to teach preschool in various settings over the next 14 years and in 2014 she earned her M's degree in early childhood literacy from Sunni Albany.
41. 29:31in 2023 she found her way back to Hudson City School District as a prek teacher through Questar a fun fact is that she has held a baby gorilla so um we're glad that you chose us and welcome I love all right Aden Ostrander.
42. 30:02Miss orander will be one of our agriculture teachers Miss strander started her bachelor's degree in Sunni Koba skill majoring in agricultural business and plant science with a minor in agricultural education over the last 5 years she has been working at Cur Lea New York first as a lead grower for 3 years and then her Reg an irrigation irrigation technician in the second two years while working at Cur Lea she obtained her master's degree online from Sunni poan in management.
43. 30:37a fun fact is that Miss Ostrander is that she trains oh she's trains in jiujitsu welcome um welcome again to all of um our new um teachers and staff thank you thank you yeah thank you everybody very impressed with everybody's unique abilities and backgrounds and very excited to have all of you here thank you for coming.
44. 31:08um and also don't feel like you need to stay for the rest of the meeting and thank you for sharing so many interesting things about [Music] yourselves thank you night [Music] okay bye bye you can [Music] [Music] stay Drive looking forward to a karaoke so sweet public form Nikki Jano okay.
45. 32:10Nikki hi everybody um my name is Nikki janito I am the uh president of the age unit I also work in the high school I just had a couple quick things um if it is possible it didn't get done this year and I know there's a lot of changes but if at the next board meeting we could recognize my um retirees it never got done this year and um I had some that have been here quite a few years and um I had a quick question about the code of conduct um I've been asking to be on the code of conduct policy committee when it when it ever came up I've asked my my admin I I've asked a bunch of people but um I hadn't heard back anything about it but I saw it on the last board meeting that some people were approved for to be on a committee for quot of conduct I was just wondering if there's any more information on that if people can be on that committee if there's a way to find more information about that I'm very interested in that thank you all right thank you nikk.
46. 33:03you so um Miss janito I had a celebration for all retirees at the end of this year so I will double check with Tracy to see if um your colleague was on the list I I had a special recognition night where I invited all of our reti recognized officially at board meetings and it's usually on the board meeting agendas um it was at least I don't know about the teachers I apologize I'll check with Tracy tomor will you just send me her name and I'll make sure that it goes on the next board agenda all right [Music] mhm okay the consistence agenda superintendent oh superintend see.
47. 33:58so good evening everyone this is an exciting week we've had some great weeks this summer but this is an exciting week for us so tomorrow we begin new teacher orientation tomorrow we also have our Verizon Innovative learning schools roll out it's really exciting our students are coming their parents are coming to pick up um their devices their onetoone devices um also this is I'm so excited about everything but this is what I'm most excited about we have new furniture in our cafeteria and tomorrow evening between 6:00 and 7 the um everyone is invited to come and see what our blue hot cafeteria will look like next year.
48. 34:44we uh it it's it's it's it's just you know a state-of-the-art cafeteria Now by must say so looking forward to all that also um I would like to thank the following teachers for um their work this summer on our mtss process and the branch and mind framework um so uh Marina puszi Alison hagner Lynn Clark um Mr Kenny bear um Mr Brenan um all of the assistant principals um and and principles from the from the school um Karen ker Jill Hanley Jennifer Nixon Dr Courtright Torres um Eric Clark Julie Corel Dr
49. 35:39coriel um Angela Sparks Michael Frances Kim Carnegie Cheryl Rabinowitz Derek Reen Michelle noat um rad Cooper Molly zuer Carrie patch um we um spent quite a few days here here just really working on our mtss framework for next year and so um everyone that I've named and everyone that's been here this summer from I'll name the um restorative practices as as time go on I'll be congratulating many staff members but also after they're congratulated once after the board meeting ends and next week in school um they will each receive a certificate from me um just thanking them and saying that um they um participated um in the summer uh uh professional development for these areas and so look forward to me just you know giving thanks and kudos to staff members um at board meetings going forward.
50. 36:40so oh and I do need to thank um uh I forgot we need to thank our HDA president he did attend one of our he he did attend one of our our professional development um session this summer and um I'm just um so thank you thank you.
51. 37:11okay now the cessor agenda anybody have any questions about any of them before we no okay I make a motion to approve consistent General items a through e
52. 37:26second
53. 37:28all in favor
54. 37:30okay audit committee uh the audit Comm minutes are part of the agenda um uh just a few items that were addressed uh I've been appointed as the audit committee chair so you'll be hearing from me if we need to talk about it uh and uh an item I was discussed for uh future consideration uh is the need to update the audit committee Charter uh the current Charter and the committee policy were adopted in 2007 and I think there are some changes that need to be reviewed whether it's nisma template or just making sure it's meeting our needs um we're going to be taking that step next
55. 38:15thank you man' oh [Music] thanks two
56. 38:25okay thank you
57. 38:32okay important dates September 10th 20124 Board of Education meeting High School library at 600 p.m. September 24th 2024 policy committee meeting High School library 5: to 6:00 p.m. September 24th 2024 board education meet in high school library at 6 p.m.
58. 38:58at this time we do need an executive session for the person for the purpose of reviewing the history the employee history of particular persons or person at 6:35
59. 39:18second all favor
60. 39:24okay know this this after is thank you e

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