Ryan Ditze

This proposal outlines a strategic partnership for the 2023-2024 school year, focusing on integrating 'Innocence as an Intervention' to support comprehensive and actionable equity within the Phillipsburg Career and Tech Ed department. The plan emphasizes a relational approach, including educator practice development through four sessions and leadership coaching, and a student leadership approach to equity with two sessions and adult leader coaching. Key outcomes include improving individual student results, countering stereotype threat and implicit bias, fostering a culture of belonging, and enabling staff and students to thrive within the department.

This document outlines the development of a new five-year Strategic Plan for The Phillipsburg School District. The plan is structured around five key goal areas: Student-Centered Learning, Expanding Student Opportunities and Equity, Social-Emotional Learning Supports, Home / School / Community Integration, and Communications. The strategic direction focuses on fostering student growth, ensuring equitable access, building supportive learning environments, developing community partnerships, and leveraging technology for effective communication with all stakeholders, with the aim of guiding the district's future endeavors.

The meeting addressed various aspects of school operations, including board affairs, business matters, personnel decisions, and school programs. Key discussion points included approving the Comprehensive Maintenance Plan, accepting the Superintendent's Report on Harassment, Intimidation, and Bullying, and approving school bus emergency evacuation drills. The board also discussed financial reports, building and facility requests, and the approval of volunteers for various school activities. Personnel matters included resignations, appointments, and the approval of leave requests. School programs involved home schooling approvals, donations, eye screenings, and field trips.

The meeting included a tentative budget presentation, discussion on interior improvements at the Middle School and the breezeway enclosure at the Primary School, and the purchase of chromebooks for grades 3-8. The board also discussed a sidebar agreement with the Education Association, revisions to board committee policies, and a memorandum of understanding with the Warren County Prosecutor's Office. Additionally, the awarding of the New Athletic Field House bid, personnel resignations and appointments, approval for volunteers and teachers for various programs, and acceptance of donations for school programs were addressed.

The document is a budget summary for Warren Phillipsburg Town, including advertised enrollments, revenues, appropriations, recapitulation of balances, per pupil cost calculations, a blended resource statement, shared services, estimated tax rates, and an employee contract list for the district.