Northern Lehigh School District will apply for Flexible Instruction Days over the course of the next three years.

The school board on Monday agreed to the measure to meet the 180 instructional day requirement for the 2021-2022 through the 2023-2024 school years.

Also on Monday, the board approved an Extended School Year Program for students with special needs from July 12-15, July 19-22, and July 26-29. The program will run from 9 a.m. to noon.

As part of the motion, the board agreed to employ Kayla Perkowski, Ryan Stilwell, and Greg Deiter for four hours per day at the Teacher Collective Bargaining amount of $30 per hour plus completion bonus of $1,000.

The board approved employing paraprofessionals Stephanie Stilwell, Lisa Fisher, Robin Blocker, Joan DeSousa and Megan Faras for three hours per day at their agreed upon 2021-2022 hourly rate, plus a completion bonus of $750.

The board agreed employing Tracy Hoffman as the school nurse for three hours a day for $30 per hour, with a completion bonus of $1,000. This will be fully funded through the ESSER grant.

Other action

In other curriculum-related matters, the board:

• Approved a six-week elementary, middle school, and high school Summer Academies for summer 2021 to be held Monday-Thursday, June 21 to July 8 (no session July 5), and July 12-30, at no cost for students. This will be fully funded through ESSER.

• A tuition-free one-week elementary summer band program, as well as a stipend for summer band program director Steven Jonkman, whose stipend will be $1,000, to be paid out of ESSER funds for learning loss. The summer band program will run Aug. 16-20.

• Agreed to continue to employ Jennifer Haas as transportation paraprofessional.