Good evening, everyone. Okay. Education meeting for April. I'd like to call this meeting to order. Start with the roll call. Present. McGuire. Here. I'm here. This is Mealy. Present. Present. I'm here. Present. Present. First agenda item to approve the minutes from the March Education and Student Services Committee meeting. So moved. I. This will discuss approval of the agenda. Be it resolved that the Education Student Services Committee approves the April 15th, 2026 Education Student Services Committee agenda as per the attached. Are there any corrections that need to be made by PA law? Second. All in favor? I. Next item, community comments. We did not receive any, so we'll move on. Next, we'll discuss some information items this afternoon. First one is item 6.1, upcoming board meetings and topics. Presented by Dr. Zackin. Thank you. Um, share that uh April 16th, tomorrow finance committee meeting, it's now at 6:00 p.m. Um, the Friday, April 17th, we have our operations committee at 11:00 a.m. Our monthly school board meeting school board meeting committee of the whole, uh third uh Tuesday, April 28th at 7:00 p.m. Other topics, um on the heels of uh the fine arts festival last night and and the night before, I would like to share and recognize publicly uh our week-long celebration of the arts. Um and tonight being the continuation um with uh chorus night. Last night we were at we had jazz night and the night before that workers night. Thursday is band night. May 7th is our uh fine arts um senior artist showcase from 3:00 to 5:00 uh as well as the um Friday, May 8th, we have our we have our showcase our fine arts showcase from from 7:00 to 9:00 and that's a that's the 6 6 to 12 and I also recognize as well we have um that is uh catered by our family consumer science. And I have heard wonderful things about those nights and I can speak firsthand now to it as well, the fine arts festival. It's a really remarkable. Um I also want to just ask and I'm going to uh share uh with uh with you that uh another uh topic, if you will, uh Canvas. Uh just an update on Canvas. We had we had some information an informational item come come through um hot off the press uh 2:00. Uh just had a meeting about Canvas, which is our learning management system. The system we all use in our K-12 for um all things uh teaching and learning online. Um and uh I asked if Dr. Herman could speak to the the the nuances of uh the the situation and and a summary of our meeting and then I will uh I'll follow up in in my weekly board update for the entire board about this as well. Dr. Herman. Yes, thanks so much for a little bit of a unusual procedural here. Um but we did want to get the information to you as soon as we had it and we didn't get it until today. Um so Canvas is our learning management system. We've been a Canvas shop for well over a decade at the high school um and through very strategic planning um in the last 5 years we've expanded Canvas access to be our professional development platform for our faculty and then our support staff and even our um student service contractors now. So all of our teachers and staff are getting trained in the platform that we want them to use with our students. It's a great opportunity for us to model what online and digital learning should look like before they need to turn around and present online and digital learning to students. So that is another swath of folks that we've been putting in Canvas over the last 5 years. Um this past year we have formally adopted Canvas for elementary for our K-5 students as well. Uh you'll remember in previous years we used Seesaw K-2 as a learning management solution. We used Google Classroom as what we call a content management solution. These are just a little bit nuances of some different things you can do in the platform technically. We tend to sign 3-year agreements with Canvas. It's cheaper if we do it that way. We did was we were moving to a Canvas for elementary adoption raise the concern we know we will be using more Canvas licenses because all of a sudden there's three more schools of kiddos and their teachers that are going to be using our platform. They said, "No worries. When we get to the next billing cycle, we'll let you know what you owe us." And I said, "Great." Um so we kind of moved that along and and now that next billing cycle is apparently on our doorstep because they have called us and asked for a meeting and gone over some data with us. So we had traditionally been having about um three 3,660 Canvas licenses. With the addition of all of our faculty and support staff and our elementary learners, we've been using about 6,700 licenses for the past 2 years. Canvas has no problem with us having used that overage over the past year, but they would like us as we're going into contract renewal to actually pay for the licenses we're using. So basically from April now onwards, they're asking us to honor the fact that we're using 6,700 licenses instead of 3,660. We are still negotiating with them, trying to talk very explicitly about does everyone need full video access? Perhaps we just need view access as opposed to create So we're trying to kind of still wiggle some of their pricing down um but we do want to bring that exact pricing to this committee through Dr. Zackin's weekly. Um let you see those numbers and then we'd like to bring it to the board in April. We're just concerned about the waiting for another month. We wouldn't be able to meet for Ed Committee until May again and then not have that paid out until May. Canvas is asking for us since we have been going going so long at the overage to make payment before April 30th. So we are in a little bit of a time sensitive although they have tied our hands with their timeline as well. Anything else I can provide clarity or explanation on? Yes, so we're looking So we're looking for about to get us through the rest of the year, we're looking for about $6,000. When we are looking for a renewal again, 3,660 to 6,700. It's going to about double the licenses. It's going to about double the cost of the contract. So the current contract is about 22 to 25,000 dollars. Total it will add another between 28 and 30,000 dollars to that contract as we have to negotiate for coming years. All right, so 22 to 25,000 is going to add another 28 to that? So we So because the number of licenses we have plus the year 2026 pricing as opposed to 3 years ago 2023 pricing. So 53,000 about? I I About That's an estimate. Yes, we'll get you an exact number for a weekly update. Yes and um with Mr. Rutts's help looking at how we can negotiate that price down even lower with components of that that ensuring that we absolutely necessarily need and use for all the all the all the individuals that Dr. Herman just mentioned. So there there's there's there's a couple components of it. The studio was was was was an example. Um is is is the video the video presentations and that feature absolutely necessary for all our different um groups that use this. So we are going to we're going to work on that and get we'll we'll have the full number. I'll have that full number. A- And we will we will we will we will bring to the board the exact negotiated price um in our next meeting. So 6,000 to finish out this year and around We will only be looking for approval for the 6,000 for this board meeting. Once we negotiate and get basically all of our kind of EdTech tools renewal, we'll give you that same chart that we provide every year and build that into the budget for next year. So we're really just looking for the approval to go above what we had budgeted for Canvas for this year because they're they're telling us we have to. And Dr. Herman, when is our Sure, our EdTech tools tend to renew in the summer, so we'll look for a July 1 renewal date. All right, so before it was a 3-year contract. Would this be the same for the upcoming? So So this this would close out year three of our existing 3-year contract and then as an exciting time for Mr. Rutts, next year he'll get to renegotiate another new 3-year contract at the appropriate license number. Congratulations. Lucky you. >> [laughter] >> Like he doesn't have anything else to do. Um yeah, I think we're Yeah, that's fine. Are there any recommendations in the It's not It's not because this got So do you want to wait till recommendations? So stuff $6,000 for to finish out the rest of the 2019-2020 school year. I Next information item. Good afternoon, evening. Hi. All right. So we are presenting from the office of teaching and learning on a professional learning plan for pre-AP English. This is our new curriculum that's being brought in to replace springboard which has been sunset. So we're bringing in pre-AP English in ninth grade and tenth grade. And so we are adopting college board pre-AP. They have limited professional learning I would say and so we would like to go outside of the actual college board platform to bring in a very special guest Carol Jago who is a guru in the area of teaching reading. So she was the former president of the National Council of Teachers of English. She was also an advisor to college board who develops the AP classes AP literature but also that is obviously related to pre-AP which is preparing our students if they are to move on to a pre- to an AP course. She has over 30 years of experience in the classroom but she's also an expert in bridging the research to practice. So we had an opportunity to expose a few of our English teachers this week with Carol. We had a little zoom meet a virtual meeting on Google Meet and we were able to also collect some feedback from those teachers. Um My absolute favorite part was the virtual meeting with Carol Jago. This is directly from one of our teachers. Um A famous it's an honor to work with someone who is a famous expert in ELA. The former president of NCTE is exciting. It's empowering. She not only listened to questions but she actually provided feedback on some of the texts that teachers selected to support the pre-AP curriculum and the fact that we're able to bring back novels into that. So with springboard teachers were teaching with more of excerpts so short parts out of longer novels and now they're getting to bring back with the pre-AP framework they'll have model lessons and then they'll be able to teach these novels and this is novel to some of our teachers that are new. It's also >> [laughter] >> Thanks. It's also um it's it's reworking and rebuilding muscle memory for some of our veteran teachers who taught with novels before and now have not for a while and we're bringing it back. And so Carol is a a wonderful choice in this and I thank Mr. Rutts for suggesting this and reaching out to her and proposing that we put this together because I think that it's going to give us a really great foundation for bringing in a new curriculum and making sure that our teachers have the support that they need to support student outcomes. So we wanted to bring this to you because it does everything comes with a cost and so we wanted to make sure that you were aware of the cost of that so that we can move that forward with this information for an approval. at the board meeting. This is for this year. So this will actually be a combination of this part for this year because we are transitioning in the fall. We want to have our teachers prepared before they leave for summer. So we would like to bring her in to the district potentially in person. We feel like that would be really just super effective and so we would like to have her on the afternoon of June 8th and 9th which is already professional development for our teachers at the high school. Yes. Correct. For next year we would come back and see because we do want it to to make sure that this is not one and done. So we would come back next year likely. We may also look for other experts in the field that we've been working with to see if they could also support teachers in this way. Yes. Yes and and so she has created and I think was shared in the documentation with you a contract. Is that a different Here we go. That mouse is finicky. Yes. So she maps out the scope of the work for June 8th and June 9th. The outcomes how we would go about paying that includes her travel expenses as well as her time to present those days. And we would then like I said love to work with her again in the future. But we would obviously bring that back to the board for approval if more money is needed for that. Correct. Yes. Please. Yeah. Is there is there's there's no one in this district that's able to provide her knowledge. I'm going to use the Mr. Rutts do you want to chime in with your analogy of science the science world? All right. [laughter] I'm I'm writing that name down right now. Um I use so many analogies. You you mean Bill Nye? Yes. Okay. So it'd be like bringing Bill Nye in to talk science. Um Carol Jago wrote um Miss Milly has had to stop me from fanboying out a little bit. All my years as an English teacher um Carol Jago wrote um a a seminal work in the world of English called with rigor for all um after the new state standards and core core standards were released. Um and I won't regurgitate all her experience. We don't have that kind of experience in the district. Um even I say this to you humbly because I have to stop myself from waxing poetic about English after my quarter century teaching high school English um uh even I don't have her expertise um on this scale um to do that. We do have obviously experience and some expertise um but not for the the the the level of um connection for professional learning um around engaging with texts um and teaching with texts um especially in the current environment um with students um in the digital world we live in. Um and that's one of the reasons why we reached out to her. We reached out to to a few people. So this was a big get. That was a big get um to be able to get her in here and work um with our teachers in person. And I just want to follow up say the idea we we we pride ourselves in OTL and never do one and done professional learning. So we would bring her back throughout the year for support but most likely that will be virtual. Um so that's going to be a much much much lower cost for her to hop on a Google Meet. Um but this is to have her in person um across two days two afternoons. And we do I just want to recognize some of the cost is increased because of travel etc. in our current environment. That's not an excuse. That's just a reason um why that was a little bit more inflated uh than maybe it it it would be. But I I I honor your question Miss Crozen. Um this is like I said this is like bringing Bill Nye in to talk to science teachers. Um she is uh she's written seminal work about this and is just an a guru and expert uh in the field. You could actually say it's cost effective because we're not sending our staff to her. Yeah. She's out in Chicago and we don't we don't want to send We do not want to send eight teachers out to Chicago for two days. That would not be cost effective and um yeah. Eight eight. Yeah. Ninth and tenth grade teachers that will be that will be moving to pre-AP. And if I might, if I might, we are really leaning into with empathy and with uh with being strategic about this. For some who have not been here or not on the board, um this is going to be in essence the third English curriculum in 6 years. Um the the previous previous English curriculum the McDougal Littell textbook. It was an old textbook series with an online component. That was actually sunset during the pandemic. While we were already out, they pulled McDougal Littell, the publisher, pulled the plug on the textbook. We quickly pivoted to SpringBoard ELA, which made sense at the time. It was a good curriculum. And of course, 4 years into that, College Board pulled the plug and sunset that. Nothing nefarious. They had a parallel curriculum known as pre-AP English. Um so we want to make sure we really set the foundation for teachers in English secondary who've been through multiple curricula in the last 6 to 7 years. To Ms. Mealy's point, because we've had some new hires um in this last 5 years, we do have teachers who have not taught with novels. With with having that familiarity, because it's been a very text-based curriculum or expert excerpt based curriculum. And I want to be I want to be really clear. There are novels in the in the secondary curriculum. But you're talking like myself, English teacher might be used to teaching five four or five six novels in a year. SpringBoard had one core novel and one core play. So now they're going from maybe teaching To Kill a Mockingbird or what was the other one? Fahrenheit 451. Just picking novels. Now you're exponentially raising that to four or five novels as part of the pre-AP English curriculum. We want to make sure we do it right. And this is not an overly exorbitant amount compared to what we would be paying if we were bringing in someone from College Board, but it is our our professional opinion that this is going to be way more impactful. They would charge a similar amount to bring someone on site to work with just our teachers. And they would not potentially have that expertise that Carol has in terms of she is out there in the field. She's referencing other researchers because she rubs elbows with these people. She's you know, and so she's very well respected. Um and she she's really offering us actually a great deal, I think, for what she >> Yeah. And I might be off a few dollars here. I think we've you know, we've had SpringBoard now for four or five years, so we're very familiar. Again, we had a multi-year PD plan. So we had SpringBoard in four or five times. And I think the last time we we had them and I think it was 3,300. Don't quote me on that. But I think it was $3,300. And I don't know that we got a lot of juice for the squeeze with that. Where with Ms. Jago, I know we we are. And that's one day or one you know, session where she's coming over 2 days, two half days, but willing to then, you know, carry on that learning so that we can really build that relationship and trust and get her just knowledge. We're going to soak up all we can. I have a question. So let's say I didn't realize that constantly in the time option, but they're in pre-AP English. Thinking about paper novels or electronic novels. Like how Paper. They yep. So and we order yeah, we we that's another one that will be for next year is the permabound hard copies so that they're durable to keep lasting over the years. I liked how you put it when we when we presented to the board, can we start off with the previous two have been sunset, that they're no longer available, that we're not just saying, you know what, let's try this. Let's let's spend some more money. Let's make it crystal clear that it's just not an option anymore. That you know, we do need to make this change and we need training. It's absolutely necessary to get through. Just so people know that you know, it's a it's a must. It's not a a want. And also Ms. Mealy that this is something we did with SpringBoard. We brought in we brought in consultants always. Yep. What was it? Mr. Ross, not enough. We didn't get we didn't get our juice for our squeeze. Yes, sorry. Another dad-ism. Yes. I I if I could build on it, I think one thing we get and it's not it is not specific to College Board or SpringBoard. A lot of vendors are like this. And I'm using this pejorative term. Sometimes the professional learning for teachers in any, whether it's math or science, can feel or seem canned at times. Um they're going to come in with their messaging that aligns with their products and their program and that's it. Um the time we've spent with Carol Jago already was basically an open forum Q&A, what do you need to get back on the horse with teaching novels again? And what does that look like for students in 2026? And for a very veteran staff, especially the high school secondary, what does that what does that mean for you when we were used to coming in in the for some of us last century. So um those helpful tin tips are are so valuable for our teachers. We often talk about, you know, teach me things I can do on Thursday. What's the what's the tip or the trick I can do on Thursday? Not nothing theoretical, but what's going to work in the classroom with this novel, with this text. Thank Thank you. 7.1 That's okay. Joey's going to pull it up for me so that I don't have to deal with the finickiness. So good to see you again. So it's been just about a year since we last discussed the planetarium funding and we wanted to come back and give you kind of a yearly update on where we are with the Betty Huff Planetarium. Um so just a quick timeline as a reminder like I said almost a year ago in June, the board approved kind of the initial funding we needed to even get the planetarium turned back on for lack of a better word. Um and so we're going to see lots of images today about what that $85,000 investment did over the course of this year. In September, we brought out Spitz. That's our partner from Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania to kind of give us the specs on the planetarium. The good, the bad, the ugly. What are we working with? What can we do with this? Here's our pie in the sky dreams. Do we have the builds to get there? What else is going to need to be done? Starting in the fall, once we had the blessing of Spitz, we ran test internal field trips. So all of our third grade classes have been to the planetarium by this point. We have been able to do a program and lesson that is aligned with their Wit & Wisdom curriculum into science, things about constellations, Native Americans relations to constellations and astronomy at a third grade level. In March 2026, so just last month, our StarLab opened. That's our classroom that goes with the planetarium. So remember we're not just talking about the planetarium space proper. We have basically like a 21st century learning lab next to the planetarium that we can use for a teaching moment after or before students have seen a show in the planetarium. So it's a nice pairing there. Busy March. We also had our task Oh, I'm so sorry that I forgot to mention our inaugural task force meeting back in December of 2025. We've met twice now and I'll share kind of the work of that task force. We are starting to explore some grant funding. So we have congressional funding through represent state representative Brian Monroe to raise the other $287,000 that we need for more hardware if we really want to bring the planetarium into the 21st century. And then of course, our wonderful CEF has looked at what grant funding we can do for software for additional programming so that we could open the planetarium to the community. That $85,000 that the board approved for a hardware refresh finally got put in. It was finished last Friday. So this is like as timely as can be. We did turn around training on that day with our instructional coaches, with OTL and with the tech department so that we have several kind of internal trainers here in the district. And we are so excited to start gearing up for next year looking at internal field trips for more grades, external field trips, start advertising the planetarium to other school districts to start to get them to maybe invest a little bit, pay to come and see and experience our resources here as well as some great community events. I could never tell it as well as images do. So we're going to get a pretty image heavy presentation here. I did want to start with the mission, vision, and t-shirt tagline that our task force developed. I'm a particular fan of the t-shirt tagline, the Betty Huff Planetarium, bringing the universe to our community. We haven't made shirts yet, but once we get a little funding trickling in, that's definitely top of mind of thinking of how we can get some swag made that we can then sell back to make more funds. Starting with our field trips. I got to work on the resolution. Maybe I'll bring the lights down when we have the full board here because that contrast will be so important. What you're seeing here, these are our instructional coaches in our StarLab. So Mr. D'Andrea and Ms. Linville. We can put one to two classes in here and they do a lesson with a smart board. We've got manipulatives. While one to two classes are over with Miss Dale Miller in the planetarium proper watching the show. Here's kind of a a more up-close and personal image of some of our third graders in the planetarium proper. We are going to invite you guys over there for community events. If you were able to see breakfast with Santa there, um it it pictures do not do it justice, right? I'm trying to capture a dome image here on a picture. It's incredible. Some more of our third graders in I'm sorry, I believe these are our second graders. We just brought a second grade group over here in the spring doing a lesson out of the Star Lab on molecules. And a third grade class, happy customers after a trip to the planetarium. Yeah. Some of what our task force has done, um not as many pretty pictures of our task force, sorry, but there are there will be some. Um internal stakeholders and external partners. So, we really do have diverse representation in this task force. We brought together parents, students, teachers, admin and instructional coaches, as well as community partners like CEF, Bucks County Community College, the BCIU, the Johnsonville Center for Fusion Science Museum, and the Rittenhouse Astronomical Society. Again, this was our big kind of mission for the first task force meeting was developing the mission, vision, and tagline for the planetarium. And then in our second meeting, this is State Representative Brian Monroe first talking to us, but then of course sneaking back to get a chance to meet with the kiddos. Um and this is kind of how he's thinking of breaking down our next step of the project. Again, nothing's a guarantee, but we're keeping our fingers and our toes crossed every second of the day that this can come through. Um the idea here is that our current projector is a big podium in the middle of the planetarium. It cuts down on our ability to be accessible, and it's not actually the right equipment for a dome of that size according to our partners at Spitz. Ideally, we would have two cove mounted projectors, which would kind of go up just right behind the dome. Um unfortunately, that's a $300,000 project. We have $18,000 from an EITC grant that CEF worked on. State Representative Brian Monroe is working on the best way to get us kind of the rest of that funding to support STEM programming for the county. The Amazon funding we're looking at would be for software. It'd be for community programming so we could run weekend shows, perhaps charge admission, and start to make funds back for the planetarium. Costs about $8,000 for five shows that we then spread out on weekends over the year. We can show the same show multiple times, so it's not just five viewings, but it's five shows, you know, one for the month of October, Mars Attacks, one for the month of December, we have um uh the the one that we ran for a breakfast with Santa, so that would be the idea there. Also should note that we're looking at a 2026 environment environmental literacy grant from PADEP. That would be um geared towards programming and staffing. And a little on staffing to come as well. Some of the events our task force is thinking of all geared towards raising money for the planetarium. We could do a great 5K. We tried to kind of map out an idea around the William Tennent High School to do a 5K in the fall. An e-sports tournament, how great to get to play video games on the dome one night. Dinner under the stars, again in the planetarium, a kind of gala event. Putting out some receptacles in our elementary school, having our um youngest students bring in their pennies for the planetarium. Getting community sponsors to sponsor seats that we could engrave with name tags. And of course, our t-shirts and swag, swag, swag. Oops, sorry. So, just um just wanted to highlight the board investment from last year. Here's our new computer. And I know pictures of a computer are not as exciting as pictures of smiling children, so I do apologize. Um but what I think the really like aha moment last Friday is once we got the computer powered on, once we got the dome lit back up, the planetarium has been offline basically since we revitalized it. It's just not safe enough to connect under the Windows 7 device that was still running. This puts us back in touch with the world. So, all of a sudden the cloud was open to our dome again. We watched Artemis 2 footage on the dome on Friday. So, that programming that comes with open-source cloud-based programming that NASA's putting online, that NOAA's putting online, we have access to as of last Friday again. Um so, it was just a really like I'm I'm tearing up thinking about it again. I was tearing up on last Friday getting that access back. It it means everything. I'm not without my requests though. So, nothing for today, nothing for you know, in two weeks Wednesday. We're not asking for anything at this time, it's just information. But don't be surprised when I'm standing in front of you sometime in the future. You know, we do need to kind of establish a pricing structure for the planetarium rental. We already have folks wanting to use that space, whether it's the Bucks County Workforce Development Board, whether it's various scouting troops. So, we need to get that in place sooner rather than later so that we're being fair to the community while it's still inviting them in. Investment in quality program is an ongoing opportunity for us. Um field trip program, it costs about two to $3,000 per show. So again, we can use those shows over and over again, but every time you want a new one that's not cloud-based open software, that's about the price tag of of a of a of a quality show. As I mentioned, the community program runs $8,000 a year. There is potential to offset the cost based on the event fundraising we do. So, if we have a very successful space race 5K, perhaps that offsets some of the costs that we need for programming. We're thinking thoughtfully about staffing. Obviously, our instructional coaches have done a a very heavy lift this year. I don't know how sustainable that will be for the future of the planetarium, especially as we're thinking now we've got things going on in school, we've got things going on on evenings, we've got things going on on weekends. So, we'll need to think thoughtfully about that. And then talk about your pie in the sky. Um when our Spitz crew was out installing the new computer this past Friday, they said, "You know what would really put this planetarium over the top? A 5K sound system." And I said, "Talk to you in five years." Um so, I mean again, just this is the future of the planetarium, but these are the things they recommend for a planetarium of our size. That's what I got. Questions at all? So, I think thank you for the presentation. Looking in just Bucks County planetariums, is it just really William Tennent and Central Bucks School District that has planetariums in their high schools? I don't know if you would know that. I know. See, they don't have one. It's just No, CB doesn't. Just Central Yeah, it's the only one in the county. >> like star lab? Yeah, the star lab. Yeah. The one where you can like belly crawl in and out >> Yes, it's very very stinky. Very stinky. Yeah, it's no good. The the nearest ones um are um Upper Dublin. North Penn. And Methacton. There's also one in Boyertown. Hatboro-Horsham Horsham did have one in Keith Valley. That was our closest one. So, when they renovated, they tore it down. All right, so we're we're kind of it. Don't know. We have to do So, we've got to take the team's got to take some field trip I don't want to step on your toes, Dr. I'm sorry. The team needs to take some We've been in like slight contact with some folks um while the project's been going on. We've got to take some field trips, so to speak. Maybe the summer, really talk to North Penn and Methacton. I'm not as familiar with Boyertown's. Um Upper Dublin's got a good one actually, but Methacton and North Penn just as a citizen, as a dad, I know they have very very robust um uh planetariums, and robust meaning not just in-house, but they do a lot of community events. Um as Dr. Harman was saying, like they'll you know, the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown will run, you know, once a week in October and November. And that was awesome to see that on the big screen. Um Stuff like that. They've got the um you know, uh local community college might run courses, astronomy courses out of their facility. Um so, there's a lot of opportunities there. So, I would say the the two that I know of that are most robust in the area are Methacton and North Penn. Upper Dublin's got a good one, and Boyertown's got a good one, too. It's going to be amazing again. Yeah. 100% team effort. There's a reason I feel very confident turning it over to Mr. to address the answer questions. The whole team has been part of the many strands that come together in standing up something the size of a planetarium. Yep. Oh, yes. All right, so Recommendation to move the PCCD CCD contract agreement for the 2026-2027 school year with GHR to the full board for approval. Two, recommendation to move the library books for Log College Middle School to the full board for purchase approval. Recommendation to move the library books for Gayles Elementary [snorts] to the full board for purchase approval. Recommendation to move the library books for William Tennent High School to the full board for purchase approval. Recommendation to move the donated book summaries for donated books to the full board for approval. 8.6, recommendation to move the databases, licenses, software renewals, and consumable purchases to the full board for approval. And item 8.7, recommendation to move professional learning plan pre-AP English 1 and AP English 2 to the full board for approval. Second. Discussion? Yes, go ahead. Why are we ordering books so late in the school year? We talked about it at the last meeting. Correct me if I'm wrong. I think the reason is Oh, we talked about this. >> Yes, Dr. Zacca. Right. >> this point in my understanding is at this point in the year um if we don't order now a lot of titles will not be available. The librarians take stock and they are looking to ensure they have the titles of the books that of [clears throat] high interest for students for for next year. And some of those books and those titles are um are out of stock. So, they want to take advantage of the time and and purchase them now. Um I did want to discuss item 8.5, uh that recommendation. I know it's in our our information. Mr. Paulo, pardon me one second. Can I just speak to Dr. Maguire's question? Just for the record, so we know going forward, cuz this has been a pattern the last couple years. I guess only if you geek out like us about this stuff, but um the uh most of the book awards the Prince awards, the ALA awards, the uh they're all they're not released till February or March. So, the librarians always keep some funds in arrears until those book books that are awarded get the awards are released, so they can swoop in and get the buy those books that have just received the awards. Unfortunately, the book awards don't work on our fiscal calendar, so that's why there's always this end of the year purchase a lot of times because at this point like I said, uh American Library Association, all those organizations have awarded the books, their awards, now they're they're out. Yes. They're done. Yes, thank you. So, recommendation 8.5, I just wanted to you know, mention what that was about, the donation. So, there's an employee who is making a donation 1,332 books in honor of her mother for the book the summer book reading So, Mrs. Pasquini, you're saying Can you Can you discuss what you were telling us earlier? Can you mention what you were telling us Yeah, I was talking to a Colleen Harris and I said tell me a little bit about your mom and she said every year when I was young, we used to get this uh Scholastic books from the book fair at school. And she said, "My mom always saved money and put it aside and gave it to my classroom teacher for any students whose parents could not afford afford the books. And I just told her, I see where you get your kindness. Thank you. I just It's really a really wonderful gesture. Where are we um what what's going to happen to the books since we're not doing summer packets? So, the plan for the books is to we we only have enough books to hopefully cover our kindergarten through second grade students, and it would just be one book in lieu of five books. What we are doing is we're working with the librarians at the elementary schools. They have been so kind as to say that they would use one of their library cycles at the end of the year so that um they can help steer students. They'll have the selection. There's nine titles in total, so um Colleen and I had worked together to to look at what titles might be good and try to get the best deal on the books and use coupons and gift certificates, and she is amazing. And um just amazing. We would like to um then advertise that would be sent out through a way communication of from the buildings, from the principals or the librarians at the school just saying in library this cycle your student your K2 student will have a chance to to choose a book if they want and take one home. Um and that's so that we can try to keep encouraging that summer reading. We'll also advertise it in the CSD weekly so that parents are aware that that's happening, and we'll put something in there that it's in memory of Eileen McAdams. And through that donation is the way that that was possible. So, thank you. So, additional public comments by residents. Seeing we have none. Before we adjourn into our new discussion Did we vote to move all the recommendations over? I'm sorry, we did not. Thinking about the book donation. I'm sorry. I make a motion that we approve the recommendations presented today Second. Aye. Again, before we adjourn, any comments or discussion? Okay. All right, then. Thank you. I'd like to go to the planetarium. I invite you to come watch, but I know you can't come during the day. I know. Or it's a hard sell on a night I know. I know. Silly work lady.