West Babylon UFSD

Responsibilities of a Board Member
With schoolchildren always their ultimate focus, school board members act officially at the board table, working with other board members to serve students and accomplish the following:

• Create a shared vision for the future of education
• Set the direction of the school district to achieve the highest student performance
• Provide rigorous accountability for student  achievement results
• Develop a budget and present it to the community, aligning district resources to improve achievement
• Support a healthy school district culture for work and learning
• Create strategic partnerships with the community stakeholders
• Build the district’s progress through continuous improvement
• Adopt and maintain current policies
• Hire and evaluate the superintendent
• Ratify collective bargaining agreements
• Maintain strong ethical standards

• We dedicate the resources of our school system to develop the capacity of our students to take personal responsibility for their learning and well-being in order that they may become productive members of society.Trustee, employee, parent and student cooperation is vital to these efforts. Thus, we encourage respectful dialogue among all those concerned.
• We promote high academic achievement for all students.
• We commit our energies to enable students to understand and appreciate the Constitution of the United States,Bill of Rights and the civic virtues necessary to sustain a democracy.
• We promote among students respect for oneself and for others, a sense of personal integrity and commitment to community service, as well as a sense of fairness and honesty.
• We provide protective care for our students in response to their needs for security,support and encouragement.

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For Individual Board Member Contact:

 Mr. Christopher Paolillo, Board President

 Mrs. Chirsten Johnson Tymann, Vice President

 Mrs. Katie Armato, Trustee

 Mr. John Evola, Trustee

 Mrs. Cathy Gismervik, Trustee

 Mr. Stephan Maucere, Trustee

 Mr. Franklin Medina, Jr., Trustee

 Dr. Patti Neville, Trustee

 Mr. Anthony Raccomandato, Trustee

 Mrs. Amanda McNamara, District Clerk

• We, the West Babylon School Community, declare our commitment to provide educational experiences of quality which enable all students to learn, share, lead and compete in the global community. Our commitment is to provide a school system dedicated to the proposition that all students will become lifelong learners who take pride in their work and in their service to others.
• We, therefore, endeavor to continually improve the quality of our work.