Joseph Ugoliero, assistant superintendent of educational services, presented the New Providence School District's annual self-assessment required by the Anti-Bullying Bill of Rights and described the state-issued rubric the district uses.

Ugoliero said the rubric measures eight core elements: programs and approaches; training on the board-approved policy and procedures; staff instruction and training; curriculum and instruction on related information and skills; HIB personnel; school-level HIB incident reporting procedures; HIB investigation procedures; and HIB reporting. He said each school's safety and climate team rated specific indicators and the maximum possible score is 78 points.

Ugoliero reported the 2024'025 self-assessment scores as follows: New Providence High School, 70 out of 78; New Providence Middle School, 75 out of 78; Salt Brook Elementary School, 71 out of 78; Allen W. Roberts Elementary School, 76 out of 78. He said those results produce a district average of 73 out of 78.

Citing common improvement areas across schools, Ugoliero said the district will continue work with school safety and climate teams on identifying patterns of HIB and using that data to inform programming and training. He described focusing on developing team skills and training them on best practices for pattern identification and data-driven planning.

The board chair declared the public hearing on the district's 2024'025 self-assessment closed; there was no public comment on this item during the meeting.