Board of Education Meeting Minutes

April 4, 2006

BOARD OF EDUCATION

APRIL 4, 2006

ATTENDANCE: Thomas Vetter, Chairman; Rosa Murray; Rob Polley; Jody Bishop-Pullan; Susan Hamilton; Richard Fuller (8:50); Bruce Kimmel (8:50); Gregory Burnett

STAFF: Dr. Salvatore Corda, Superintendent of Schools.

OTHERS: David Liberatore; Laura Fiore; Dr. Karen Lang.

I. CALL TO ORDER

Mr. Vetter called the meeting to order at 6:37 p.m.

II. PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE

Mr. Vetter led the Board in the Pledge of Allegiance.

III. INTERVIEW CANDIDATE FOR PPS DIRECTOR

DISCUSSION OF ASSISTANT SUPERINTENDENT CONTRACTS (Executive Session Anticipated)

** MOTIONED FOR THE BOARD TO GO INTO EXECUTIVE SESSION. ** SECONDED. ** MOTION PASSED UNANIMOUSLY.

The Board recessed the regular meeting and went into Executive Session at p.m.

IV. RESUME PUBLIC MEETING (approx. 7:45 p.m.)

Board members Bruce Kimmel, Richard Fuller and Gregory Burnett arrived at the meeting at 8:49 p.m.

The public meeting was resumed at 8:50 p.m.

Mr. Vetter led the Board in the Pledge of Allegiance.

V. SPOTLIGHT

Mr. Fuller read the Spotlight report into the record.

VI. SUPERINTENDENT’S REPORT

Dr. Corda stated that for the sake of time and the presentations to be made, he would not give a report this evening.

VII. PUBLIC COMMENT

There was no public comment.

VIII. ACTIONS

A. Consent

1. Approval of personnel actions 2. Approval of budget transfers.

** MS. HAMILTON MOVED TO APPROVE THE CONSENT ACTIONS. ** MS. MURRAY SECONDED. ** MOTION PASSED UNANIMOUSLY.

B. Approval of Field Trip(s)

** MS. HAMILTON MOTIONED TO APPROVE THE FIELD TRIP(S). ** MR. FULLER SECONDED. ** MOTION PASSED WITH ONE ABSTENTION (MS. BISHOP-PULLAN).

Dr. Corda asked the board members to submit the list of 3/21/06 corrections to his office.

VII. INFORMATION & REPORTS

A. Curriculum Report – Physical Education

A presentation was given on the curriculum for physical education by Mr. David Liberatore; Ms. Laura Fiore, and others. The curriculum still focuses on social behavior (sportsmanship) but also perfection of skills from one grade level to the next, so that at certain levels the accumulated skills can be put together in a series of steps to create the performance of the sport in the correct manner. There are soft standards that are clustered by grade levels. As far as electives in high school, there are a dozen or more for students to choose from.

Mr. Fuller stated that, as a former high school coach, he looks at the middle school curriculum as preparation for high school. Mr. Polley said this appears to be a modern, enlightened phys ed program.

B. Curriculum Report - Health

A presentation was given on the curriculum for health education by Mr. David Liberatore; Ms. Laura Fiore, and others. The presentation put together all the components of a health and balanced lifestyle. On the one side was health, and on the other was physical education, and Norwalk should be up to date with health, obesity, food pyramid and the Internet. There are built-in assessments to see what students know. The appendix of the report has the State standards, and the report broke them down .

Mr. Vetter stated that the update of the curriculum was long overdue and he expressed his thanks to everyone who worked to put it together.

C. Board Members Announcements

Ms. Hamilton distributed documents to the Board and informed them of a seminar entitled, “Change Leadership: Rigor for Reinvention” to be presented on April 4th at 6:00 p.m. by Dr. Anthony Wagner.

Mr. Polley stated that he had attended the presentation given by Dr. Kunjufu at Norwalk High School and found it to be very informative and illuminating.

Ms. Murray thanked the members of the Board who had attended Dr. Kunjufu’s presentation.

Mr. Fuller stated that Dr. Kunjufu’s presentation was very important and he also found it to be extremely interesting.

Mr. Vetter stated that the Board woud not have to meet on April 18th as had been expected.

** MR. FULLER MOVED TO ADD TUESDAY, APRIL 18, 2006 TO THE AGENDA IN ORDER TO CANCEL THE MEETING. ** MR. POLLEY SECONDED. ** MOTION PASSED UNANIMOUSLY.

** MS. BISHOP-PULLAN MOTIONED TO CANCEL THE MEETING SCHEDULED FOR TUESDAY, APRIL 18, 2006. ** MS. HAMILTON SECONDED. ** MOTION PASSED UNANIMOUSLY.

Mr. Vetter stated that the Board would resume Executive Session at the close of the regular meeting.

** MR. POLLEY MOTIONED THAT THE BOARD RESUME EXECUTIVE SESSION TO CONTINUE THE EARLIER DISCUSSION. ** MS. HAMILTON SECONDED. ** MOTION PASSED UNANIMOUSLY.

The regular meeting of the Board of Education was adjourned at 9:45 p.m.

The Board recessed for a five-minute break before resuming Executive Session.

Executive Session was resumed at 9:51 p.m.

X. ADJOURNMENT

** MOVED TO ADJOURN THE MEETING. ** SECONDED. ** MOTION PASSED UNANIMOUSLY.

The meeting was adjourned at 10:15 p.m.

Respectfully submitted,

Linda J. Hayes Telesco Secretarial Services

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