Regular Session -August 17, 2020

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Dates: 
Monday, August 17, 2020 - 7:30pm
 
BOARD OF EDUCATION
School District of South Orange Maplewood, 525 Academy Street, Maplewood, NJ 07040
REGULAR SESSION AGENDA      PUBLIC BOARD MEETING
Monday, August 17, 2020   
 
Using online video conference platform
(The instructions are placed at the end of the agenda)
 
REGULAR MEETING (7:30 PM)
Call to Order – Announcement of Notice
Pledge of Allegiance
Roll Call 
Approval of Board Minutes: Special Session-Board Retreat-July 11, 2020; Executive and Special Session – Board Retreat – July 13, 2020; Special Session – Board Retreat – July 15, 2020; Executive and Regular Session July 20, 2020
 
BOARD PRESIDENT’S STATEMENT
The school board meeting is a business meeting in public and not a meeting with the public. Oftentimes it may appear to members of our audience that the Board of Education takes action with very little comment and in many cases a unanimous vote. Before a matter is placed on the agenda at a public meeting, the Administration has thoroughly reviewed the matter with the Superintendent of Schools/Chief School Administrator (CSA). If the Superintendent of Schools/Chief School Administrator is satisfied that the matter is ready to be presented to the Board of Education, it is then referred to the appropriate Board Committee.  The Members of the Board Committee work with Administration and the Superintendent to assure that the members fully understand the matter. After the committee discusses the matter, it is presented to the full Board for discussion before any action is taken. Only then, is it placed on the agenda for action at a public meeting.
SUPERINTENDENT’S MONTHLY UPDATE
  • School Re-Opening Update
 
PRESIDENT’S UPDATE
 
STUDENT BOE REPRESENTATIVE UPDATE
 
HEARING OF INDIVIDUALS AND DELEGATIONS  
Please note that Public Speaks is not a time for dialogue with the Board of Education – It is an opportunity for you to share a comment with the Board of Education. In addition, by law, administrators and Board of Education members are not permitted to publicly discuss personnel matters, student discipline, or other issues requiring confidentiality.  While we may not respond to comments, all input shared with the Board of Education is taken very seriously, and will inform future deliberations and work by the Board of Education and its committees.  
 
DISCUSSION 
  • Committee Reports 
 
ACTION
 
4037
Approve: A) Memorial; B) Retirements; C) Resignations; D) Rescind Appointment; E) Appointments; F) Leave Replacement Appointments; G) Leaves Of Absence; H) Transfers/Reassignments; I) Salary Adjustments; J) 2019-20 School Year SOMEA Staff Perfect Attendance Award; K) Summer Employment; L) Stipend (Athletic); M) Approve Job Descriptions; N) Summer Curriculum Writers
4038
Approve: A) Appointment Of Summer Substitute Teacher For The 2020-2021 School Year Paid At The Daily Rate Of $160; B) Reappointment Of Substitute Teachers For The 2020-2021 School Year; C) Reappointment Of Substitute School Nurses For The 2020-2021 School Year Paid At A Daily Rate Of $215; D) Reappointment Of Substitute Teachers For The 2020-2021 School Year Paid At A Daily Rate Of $100
4039
Approve: A) 2020 Extended School Year Out of District Placements; B) 2020-2021 School Year Out of District Placements
4040
Approve: A) Financial Reports; B) Board Of Education’s Monthly Certification; C) Approve Attendance And Work Related Travel And/Or Workshop Expenses; D) Approve Board Member Attendance And Related Travel And/Or Workshop Expenses; E) Approve Related Service Providers For The 2020-2021 School Year; F) Approves Use of Vendors; G) Accept Donation To Parenting Center; H) Award Contract For Athletic Transportation For The 2020-2021 School Year; I) Renew Public School Transportation Contract For The 2020-2021 School Year; J) Approve Transfer From Maintenance Reserve Account; K) Approve The Purchase Of COVID-19 Air Quality Systems; L) Approve John E. Wallace, Jr. Esq. As District Monitor; M) Apply And Accept 2021 Cares Emergency Relief Grant; N) Accept FY 2021 Federal I.D.E.I.A. Basic Part –B And Preschool Handicapped Funds; O) Amend Resolution 4003H Approve Agreement With Frontline For The 2020-2021 School Year; P) Adoption Of 2020-2021 School Budget And Tax Levy; Q) Authorize Disposal Of District Property
4041
Approve: Book Adoption
4042
Approve: New and Revised Curricula - A) Kindergarten, Becoming Avid Readers; B) Kindergarten, Bigger Books, Bigger Reading Muscles; C) Kindergarten, Emergent Reading; D) Kindergarten, Growing Expertise in Little Books; E) Kindergarten, Super Powers; F) Kindergarten, We are Readers; G) Kindergarten, Giving the Gift of Reading; H) Grade 1, Building Good Reading Habits; I)  Grade 1, Learning About the World; J) Grade 1, Meeting Characters and Learning Lessons; K) Grade1 , Readers Get to Know Characters By Performing Their Books; L) Grade 1, Readers Have Big Jobs to Do; M) Grade 1, Reading Nonfiction Cover to Cover; N)  Grade 1, Word Detectives; O) Grade 4, Interpreting Characters; P)  Grade 4, Reading History; Q) Grade 4, Reading the Weather, Reading the World; R) Grade 5, Reading in the Content Area (Westward Expansion); S) Grade 5, Interpretation Book Clubs; T) Grade 5, Tackling Complexity: Moving Up Levels of Nonfiction; U) Grade 5, Maintaining an Independent Reading Life; V)  Grade 6, Deep Study of Character; W) Grade 6, Researched Based Writing (Argument Writing); X) Grade 7, Writing Realistic Fiction (Needs Special Edu/ELL); Y) Grade 7, Building a Vibrant Reading Life (Needs Special Edu/ELL); Z) Grade 7, Building a Writing Life; AA) Grade 8, Writing Investigative Journalism; BB) Grade 8, The Literary Essay: Analyzing Craft and Theme; CC) Grade 8, Restarting a Writing Life - From Notebooks to Independent Projects; DD) Grade 8, Getting Back into Independent Reading and Building a Vibrant Reading Life; EE)  Grade 8, Memoir Unit Plan; FF) Grade 9, English 1 - Reading and Writing; GG) Grade 10, English 2 - Reading and Writing; HH) Grade 11, English 3 - Reading and Writing; II) Grade 11, English 3HN/ Literature of the African Diaspora; JJ)  French II/II HN; KK) Elementary Self-Contained Autism and Multiple Disabilities (all subjects); LL) Middle School Self-Contained Autism and Multiple Disabilities (all subjects); MM) High School Self-Contained Autism and Multiple Disabilities (all subjects); NN) Intermediate Self-Contained Autism and Multiple Disabilities (all subjects); OO) Grades 6-8, Band; PP) Grade 6-8 String; QQ) Design; RR) Elementary Band; SS) Elementary Orchestra; TT) Film 1; UU) Film 2; VV) Grades K-5 General Music
4043
  1. Adopt: Policy 2468 Independent Educational Evaluations; Policy 6423 Expenditures for Non-Employee Activities, Meals and Refreshments, Policy 6450 Choice of Vendor; Policy 6470 Payment of Claims; Policy 6510 Payroll Authorization
 
  1. First Readings:
Policy 8420 – Emergency and Crisis Situations
Policy 5120 Assignment of Students
Policy 4212 Attendance (Support Staff)
Policy 3212- Attendance (Teaching Staff)
Policy 9150-School Visitors
Policy 8635-Student Transportation Vehicles and School buses
Policy 3510- Operation and Maintenance of Plant
Policy 8451- Control of Communicable Disease
Policy 5320- Immunization
Policy 5310- Health Services
Policy 1648.02- Remote Learning Option for Families
Policy 1648- Restart and Recovery Plan
Policy 1250- Visitors
Policy 3510- Operation and Maintenance of Plan
Policy 3541.33- Transportation Safety
Policy 5141.2- Illness
Policy 5141.3- Health Examinations and Immunizations
 
4044
Approve: A) Confidential Special Education Settlement Agreement Student ID# 9478440253; B) Confidential Special Education Settlement Agreement Student ID#1615235814; C) Confidential Special Education Settlement Agreement Student ID#8508474854
4045
Approve: A) SOMEA Grievance (ID#3440); B) SOMEA Grievance (ID#4397 and ID# 3309)
4046 Approve: Student Bill of Rights 
 
 
HEARING OF INDIVIDUALS AND DELEGATIONS
 
NEW BUSINESS
 
PUBLIC SESSION, August 17 INFO
 
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Meeting ID: 129 305 5669
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The Board of Education will meet in Closed Session on Monday, September 21, 2020 at 6:30 pm via online video conference platform to discuss personnel and legal issues, negotiations and other matters to be announced at a later date.  Immediately following the Closed Session, the Board of Education will meet in Public Session at 7:30 pm using the online video conference platform.  The community can view the meeting by following the steps below.  Action will be taken.
 
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