School Committee: December 15, 2022

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0:30 everyone welcome everybody and call us at water at 702 tonight we are joined by the encourse youth um group and we should led by Julie for yes oh there Julius and I’m going to take it off to Julie to introduce the group I’m so happy you’re all able to join us hello my name is Julie Prius I am the orchestra teacher at Village and vets and here at the high school and it’s my pleasure to introduce Encore which is our extracurricular string Ensemble hosted at the middle school it features Sixth and 8th grade students who are looking for an additional challenge outside of our regular Orchestra classes as well as mentors from the high school orchestra so we’re excited to bring a little holiday cheer to the beginning of

1:16 your meeting tonight we will be playing a Hanukkah song Rock of Ages followed by Angels via bird on high for Christmas so we hope you enjoy both of these students

2:46 sometimes sometimes [Music] foreign foreign [Music]

4:38 worked so hard and um they’ve all done excellent and I’m just want to commend them all on everything does anybody else

4:50 um I just want to thank Dr Bucky for his weekly updates um and the thoughtfulness of them and what he puts into them I think that they’re a really nice addition to everything going on in the district and um yeah it was just I really loved the most recent ones so offer up a commendation for that and then also our teachers have been doing teacher conferences and I would like to commend them it was really apparent just how many positive changes have gone on in the district and I know we’ve had covid which has caused its own headaches and everything but just how thoughtful um the teachers are with these conferences and how well they’ve gotten to know our students at this point in the year and a lot of the positive and proactive sports that are being put in

5:37 and just it you know it I left feeling great as a parent and I also loved feeling great as a school member so nice job so I have one I just would like to commend the brown school PTO and all of the teachers administrators the students they’re the volunteers that helped put on just an absolute magical holiday shop father’s Fest it was just two days ago it was like it’s been a long week um it was just really magical and there were so many donations so the community should be commended as well for all the donations that they provided we are really grateful the students were really grateful I think they all had such a wonderful time so definitely thank you for that anybody else

6:24 loves to be thankful for right now um and our student representative yes thank you sir uh the at the high school uh the fashion Club held a winter gear drive for like uh through December 5th uh Jefferson Forum also helped a toy collection drive through uh December 13th for Pathways for children these sophomore class held their annual candy Grand candy gram fundraiser uh December 12th and December 13th and they raised 300. uh ngss the national green School Society uh they had a fundraiser with food supply company that has actually been expanding through December 28th and you can purchase sustainable gifts that will support ngss out of food supply.com

7:11 they are also holding a clothing drive through um January uh if you liked what you just heard from this orchestral group The MHS music Department’s annual Winter concert will be on December 19th and feature band tourist Orchestra and Ensemble groups uh mbms had their Winter concert on the 13th Village Band and Forest was also last week and Village Orchestra is upcoming of the 20th all performances upcoming start at seven and then we’ll be at the ambience

7:48 the senior class is continuing to work on senior show and they have picked out show hosts and the show will be on January the Juniors raised 400 off of their um Maria’s muffin fundraiser and they are currently prepared for the junior auction uh winter sports started up and a lot of sports teams have had their own main games uh MHS basketball first to have their tip-off fundraiser on December 9th and boys won their season opener against Beverly on the 13th Boys Hockey won their season opener against Foster 14. boys wrestling have their season opener against Denver’s on the 14th uh boys and girls track the spots on the 11th and on the 12th women died

8:51 I think that brings us to public comment if anybody who lost our house we have that person’s problem

9:02 um if anybody online would like to do public comment raise your hand and just note your name and address for the record foreign

9:29 yes uh Allison Carey uh has joined us and um she was recommended uh to us as a school nurse to fill the naked Glover position so now it comes interview

9:50 all right I saw your name if you want to just unmute yourself and turn your screen on

10:03 we perhaps move on to the next event hello it was Lauren hi hi I heard the name and I’m like wait a minute that’s not me I’m sorry Laura no that’s okay hi I’m Lauren Kinder um uh school nurse for their Glover School nice to meet everybody you as well I know this format can sometimes but so thank you for entertaining us um could you just start off by telling us a little bit about yourself and what you think feel you bring to the position is the Marblehead Public Schools sure um so I’m I’ve been a nurse for about uh

10:48 10 years I’ve worked as a school nurse um for about five years I was at Lynn public schools and then I worked in Malden Public Schools um I have a lot of experience working with children’s pre-k through 12. the current school that I work in is a K-8 school we have about a thousand students very busy school a lot of medical needs behavioral children as long as you know diabetic seizures so I have a good amount of experience with with that I’m very excited to start a Marblehead um you know kind of I’m excited to get away from the city a little bit and join um you know this community everybody

11:35 seems very nice I have um friends in this in this uh in this town and um just very excited to um to get started I’m gonna open up to the committee for questions well I’ve been a question hi Lauren I’m Sarah gold um hi can you tell me just a little bit about how you view your role um like with any kind of social emotional needs for kids I know you mentioned behavioral things that come into your office you just talked about a little bit um can you repeat that I’m sorry sure um can you tell me a little bit about how you view your role as a school nurse um as an as a social emotional support for students as well you had mentioned um

12:21 you know behavioral as you sort of citizen so sure how you see that within your work and then how you might be working with the school counselors yeah so um we deal a lot with uh children with anxiety um ADHD we have a lot of Behavioral problem you know issues with my at my school um so for something like that um you know the if it’s if a child’s in the classroom and is um you know it needs a nurse assistance we’ll go to the classroom we’ll try to calm the child down um you know we can bring them down to the nurse’s office um we you know try um you know as far as like we’ll have them like walk up and down the stairs or

13:07 we’ll you know give them something to drink we’ll sit with them we’ll talk with them they usually do open up with you know to us um we’re able to help calm them down if it’s something that um we can’t you know we get crisis team involved that will come to the school some students get sent out by ambulance to the hospital for evaluation so um you know my role is just to kind of be there for the student um and just try the best of my ability to get them in a safe spot for sure thank you so much yes

13:41 I have a question as well so Allison Taylor nice to meet you Lauren hi and thank you for you know you have some glowing recommendations which was nice to see as well uh I I just so having you just got that suddenly I’ve only looked at um at it quickly so I just wonder if you could provide just a little bit more context around the you know the changing of schools and the please do not contact this employer part of it since you’re not there anymore and you know just just wanted to kind of round out um that background as well as with Leahy is that just because they’re currently employed there which certainly makes sense as well um but without context or having much conversation with you it’s just something that I would ask

14:34 yeah um so I’m currently employed with Malden Public Schools but Leahy I’m not employed is that is that what you meant is that what you said yeah because

14:44 so I assumed maybe you were oh no um so with with Leahy I’m not currently there I was I was there um I worked for VNA um I left there in 20 uh 2018 and then yeah I’m not sure maybe the did the resume say present the one I have does oh okay sorry maybe that was an old one yeah that I um I worked for Leahy from 2013 to 2018. um so I’m currently only working from Malden Public Schools right now um it is there anything more that you can share with us from like what you would bring with you to Marblehead in particular or what you would be looking forward to doing here

15:30 in Marblehead that you’ve done either at uh edlin or Malden my mother was the guidance counselor and land for decades oh nice um so I’m excited I mean I would bring forward um I mean I’m a very compassionate person I love working with kids I have two little kids um myself um you know I’m very you know I’m kind I’m a team player um you know uh this is definitely my passion I always wanted to go into school nursing and that was my dream job I got it and it’s something that I see myself um do it until I retire I I absolutely love what I do and I feel that I’d be a great um asset to um models in public

16:16 I’m sorry Marblehead Public Schools you certainly seem personal and that’s right thank you ages it’s nice it’s it’s nice to have that calm and warm feeling yes yes I have a student at Brown so I completely understand and having someone that would be involved um you know not not simply in their office waiting for someone to come but you know that would kind of be a hope that I would I would look for as well yes yeah I yeah I you know like I said I always look at it like um how would I want my child you know treated um and I always that that’s how I look at it when I kid comes in the office you know I always look at it like if this

17:03 was my kid how would I want that child to be treated and um so that that’s you know that that’s what I bring um to work every day I don’t necessarily have a question um you know I know you’ve been vetted already by the principal and the superintendent um but I think your passion comes through and that’s really nice to see and I love that the school nurse is your dream job so yeah you know that’s that goes a long way that’s something that you can’t that’s not a skill you can teach so absolutely absolutely thank you thank you

17:44 um Lauren your your current position can you tell me what the roughly the ratio of nursing just how many students you are in charge of um Family nurses are in your building sure so the the building I work in is a K-8 school there’s two nurses and we have roughly a little under a thousand students maybe if not about a thousand students at that school um the other schools there’s seven schools total in Malden we have five uh K-8 schools one ELC which is just Pre-K and then a high school and there’s roughly two nurses in every school except the ELC there’s only one nurse because I think there’s only about

18:31 less than 300 students in that school I’m not sure exact amount and then I know this is listed you are current all certifications for Jesse Yeah there’s you could slide into this role and meet all those things yes yes I um I did my mtels in 2019 um and that’s when I received my license for uh Jesse I I know that the committee doesn’t like things at the last minute and since we’re headed into the holidays I do have a call to talk about a transition because whenever we take an employee mid-year

19:18 we’d like to broker a transition so if you’re more comfortable tabling this for this evening we can pick it back up to the first game um thank you for offering that that actually is wonderful um we typically like to um we’re very excited you were able to come and meet with us tonight that’s that’s wonderful many of us didn’t get this I think all of us didn’t get this um because of the time of your interview today until this afternoon where some of us have some little luck we were flying a little bit blind so um that thank you for offering that I think that that will be great in especially since by the time you a video saying broker the transition um we will be behind any time so if we can table this our next meeting is that first Thursday in January which is the fifth so um

20:04 um um no we don’t we don’t because we don’t have a motion okay um so I I’m so thankful that I’m such short notice you are able to join us for the interview Lauren this was wonderful we were able to meet you and talk to you and then we’ll just do the formality of the vote on um

20:25 thank you very nice to meet everybody thank you have a wonderful nice to meet you thank you happy holidays um that brings us to our superintendent’s report and MCAS testing will introduce Village School principal Mandy Murphy to go through the Village School results and kind of look forward for what they will be doing

20:54 thanks for having me um so um

21:00 [Laughter] [Laughter] I kept in the first slide um that talks about the administration where our history was sent it’s the Athletics exactly [Laughter] um so I have two different stories that you’re gonna see here you’re gonna see another story tonight um and um our numbers at Village have been um a little bit of a um a point of um

21:46 digging in the weeds with a lot of our teachers so far this year so um our teachers have really been looking at the numbers taking it a little personally and then also looking at the reality of where we’ve been so when you look at that first slide that Nana put together for us and it talks about the administration of that class where students they were took full and passed in 2019 201

22:13 half of the test administered and they’re at 22 a full-time students so what you have there also is you know when Matt talked about his own test scores last week for Veterans School all right we look at our students and the test is newer overall so whether or not they had this disruption they’re learning how to take care um so they’re learning how to be a student they’re learning how to PAT test taking strategies their learnings and advice testing so we really saw that impact here and we saw the impact foreign

23:18 but also I want to highlight some of the things that we’ve already done this year proactively when we saw the preliminary result system okay so grade four summary um so in 2019 uh 57 um meets and exceeds expectations and so you’re going to see this spend over time in another school where we look overall um the percentage of students that need or exceed expectations um drops um so from language arts it drops um and I’ll talk a little bit about what the teachers have done to provide into some of this specifically during their plc’s time as recently as this week so we go through grade five language arts also a significant problem go through grade six language arts last of a draw um actually they

24:05 um improved a little bit last year which was nice to see for our sixth grade teachers and then math I just want to highlight a little I’m not making excuses um stating facts and we took on a new network and we’re still learning it teachers are learning it and students

24:30 you’re going to see a difference and we saw um so that’s not an excuse it’s just a reality so fourth grade scores um actually are improved a little bit which is nice to see um our fifth grade math Sports um significantly don’t and I want to talk a little bit specifically about fit right yep um I asked everybody do you want questions as we move along or at the end you can ask questions one thing I I wonder just having kids as you know in this demographic those fifth graders last year ones that really in third grade when we shut down lost a lot of the math facts and you know that automaticity that might be relied on especially on a

25:15 timed exam is there a way to tell from the data that that may be a factor here so there’s a couple of different factors that being one of the teachers are using a lot of that practices also um when this fifth grade group went remote they lost for two years in a row it lost the last they’ve lost geography they’ve lost a fraction and so we’re looking at specifically those or maybe you’re seeing those are the units that they actually draw with Boston and then it wasn’t taught before the students took the MPS so we’re looking at maximum sequence too to say okay what can we push up a little bit in terms of those areas um the other thing to note with fifth grade math especially is that um Ipswich

26:02 and songs that are two schools have also took on this curriculum and they dropped significantly below the same too that’s not to say there’s something wrong with the curriculum but it just does make you look at okay what is it in there specifically that you’re looking at for standards that were addressed or need to be looked at or what are their supplemental materials so I think our teachers are probably going to reach out to school with my question and they were they were having me about that yesterday and talking about it so they’re they’re in this to say okay what can we improve what are the areas what did you guys notice with the curriculum what did you notice with your source and so that is a piece that we’re looking at me in the debt the data that comes to us and

26:47 comes to those districts should be you should be able to see are they all failing on the same questions and then like you say we might be able to come up with a supplement of us um and then fifth grade science um and then and then um

27:15 so I’m going to go on actually to our celebrations because we’ll talk about the reason I want this on highlight sixth grade is because sixth grade has actually um most consistently being meeting or exceeding expectations

27:32 that when you look at this data watch too cool and you see that the grade 5 or grade 4 and pass uh you want to compare it to the cohort of students so you don’t necessarily we’re looking at grade fives for us but it’s also important to look at that group of students and if those Sports and longitudinal groups seem to be pretty similar so they’re not so the group is keeping the same behavior foreign

28:09 for most of our areas uh Village is above the state so we’re still saying about the state expectations which is good you know we started to drop in most areas along the state then we start to look at them and say okay we really um have a lot of things to discuss but we’re saying about this week which is good so our wonder is the biggest section there um and I’m going to talk about that a little bit about um I talked about the curriculum but I want to talk a little bit about what we’ve done this year and what we’ve um when we saw the impasse data at the beginning of this or at the end of the summer I went to a teacher and said our MCAS scores are not looking great right now we are going to ask you if you will do interventions rather than having a

28:54 classroom and so we took a classroom teacher to have them run in interventions from the entire school that teacher has gone above and beyond she is building RTI Cycles every six weeks she’s collecting data from teachers on empaths on i-Ready on their assessments that they’re taking their regular thesis she’s targeting the areas that we need to Target just taking kids within six weeks across all three grade levels completely it’s already wind and they’re improving and they’re going back into the fashion so the interventions are working with her coordination computers yep um

29:34 but uh but uh my question is where I looking ahead to the numbers where we may have to return her to a classroom teacher I don’t know those numbers off the top of my head is she able to then do a trade Trader model and work with the this other staff to kind of then utilize her successes and recreate so I’ve been talking with Nan a lot about this in terms of budget for next year and looking at the partnership between the teacher that’s doing the interventions and all of our curriculum instructional coaches and that collaboration that’s been really successful and also putting in an intervention um teacher for this year so that’s you’ll hear from me in a couple of weeks

30:20 on that please um along with skill tutors to work underneath her in order to provide these interventions with their leadership to all of our students in both language arts and math but right now we’re really taking a large focus on math because that’s where we see our business workers so that is that’s something we’re doing now and something that we’re looking at in terms of budget from each year that we have such an alignment with here we have this data and for planning um so our teachers are working they’re analyzing the data last week we were in the fifth grade when dark studioski and the teachers were looking at writing

31:06 samples they they’re working to look at last year’s writing samples from manifest because we can get all the results of the writing samples and look at those and they’re targeting that area and development rubrics to look at what can we do with that and sharing it with each other to compare into protocols so if they could do it they could work really hard on that piece I know that they’re also looking at across grade levels doing an intervention so the teachers are taking a leave of that intervention teacher and doing that within all subject areas so yesterday the trainers are actually seeing this role model working and saying here’s something that we’re going to do within our PLC time there’s some work we’re going to look at and we’ll see it looks in January and we’ll be back and tell us

31:53 a good story about a possible story about

31:58 I love what you’re doing with the teacher that’s building and developing these um rtis what are we doing about the students in that fifth grade class that we’ve really identified have this I want to use the word deficit but clearly had a drop part of it might be the curriculum but I I do suspect part of it is where they were in their math learning path when covet hit how are we addressing those needs of those students as a whole group and are we identifying the ones that might not have the automaticity or might not have this or that and is that part of this RTI person specifically honed on those students

32:44 part of it is the teachers have reports on the students at leadership and domains and it breaks it down um to look at that specific so that’s also the area that you have to look at in terms of what did you get so there’s a couple of pieces of that is what overall do students Miss and are we focusing on the whole grade level of fractions and geometry um or are we targeting those specific students that were uh you know that we’re a little bit lower so it’s all it’s a team effort and it can’t be done just by one person feeling we’ve got someone leaving those interventions but it’s also in collaboration with all of the teachers really looking at that data and really welcome into it you can get awesome

33:31 cats data but it’s really important and the teachers are taking it seriously looking at it all the time with their family or using times that aren’t even their DLC time to talk with one another and so I think it’s you know that’s that’s the important piece is

33:53 um so what are we doing with this data as I talked about using the interventions um during the walk um we carry domains we are ready and student growth assessing areas needs to be taught and possibly supplemented and then um you know as Matt said last week studying that vertical meetings for our teachers

34:15 on each level and we have the opportunities to also work in the elementary school that it came for again foreign

34:28 can you talk a little bit um kind of rewind back to the the data that you know like within the new math curriculum fractions and geometry um cast the past assignment on passes taken and so looking at that when you say you know we’re we’re looking at this open sequence how does that translate because you know I I don’t think that we’re teaching to tests I don’t you know and I would assume we’re not squeezing more into it it’s you know that’s a the same amount of time so how do you like how does that process look like when it comes to students so I think you have that opportunity because you don’t have to necessarily

35:15 keep going with the smoke in the sequence but then you know that this is an area that has to be taught and students can have a small group instruction um special education students support during that time they may have a little bit of help during that time but there are regular education teachers have looked across the three level that’s the flexibility we can have um with our schedule four days a week and so I think that peaceful plus a lot we can also look at our other lessons within um the curriculum that maybe the students already shown us nicely with so we can you know something like that with lessons that needs to be done

36:10 um now here some of your sixth graders are in Matt’s building right now are you I’m assuming you two are working together on these scores to see if there’s any interventions that can be applied to those sixth graders you know similar to what you’re doing that’s really good um and so he’s already he’s doing perfect um and then forgive me if I misunderstood my understanding is particularly I I’m focusing on this fifth grade because I I’d be lying if I said I’m not concerned um it’s my understanding my understanding tell me if it’s wrong is the current curriculum that we’re using does not

36:57 teach all the standards that are being tested

37:05 yes so yes so um when they were in remote learning we shot down the year of 2020. didn’t we all didn’t get as much instruction

37:25 so that’s a piece that you definitely looked at last year they did not get to that piece

37:34 so so when you look at the results of looking at different standards of women in that you can see clearly the area that we just didn’t get to so and this speaks a little bit to the calendar too I think I wrap this up a meeting or two about a noise Mr Dr hockey about it I’ve been hearing some parents at the high school level about APS in our calendar and I I hadn’t thought of this but it really pertains to advertise everything too where we kind of start a little later and run a little later when these tests are on a set day other schools are testing against may have had five or six more days in a curriculum before they sit for that test then we do it’s not that they don’t have 180 days and we do it’s just we might go a little

38:19 bit later in the year and is this something we’re developing our calendar we might want to be looking at a somewhat earlier star so that we have more days on learning in before we sit for you know these tests because again we don’t want to teach to a test but at the same time we want to get back to create accurate data back that we are teaching I’m not gonna I’m not the expert on us okay all right but I think empath that’s their dates when they set their dates and what we need to do is just look at the you know the domains in the areas that we were weak in is that okay what needs to be taught ahead of the test and what you know what areas

39:01 I mean for Middle School we have three grade levels you know fifth grade has

39:14 so that it’s you know the end of the year but you also have to take into consideration we have my writing testing at that point too so we don’t really want to have all of that tested

39:26 I’m not an expert academic calendar for Marblehead but that just is my okay um and this is the first year that those fifth graders

39:44 comparison for the aps that you’ve got both states that are starting in the marketplace right right so whereas this is all Massachusetts like yeah probably a lot more just but it’s just something that had never occurred to me until I heard from a few parents and I thought oh well if we I’ve always been of the mindset why are we going back and forth Labor day but now I’m starting to look at it that yeah that’s the reason baby all right thank you

40:15 next up we have Ricky our athletic director Dan Bauer High School principal we’re gonna give you um a brief overview of some of the work that we’re doing to talk about pleasing and harassment um certainly it’s been a topic uh in the news on the North Shore and I know I was at the parent presentation that Greg did and so I just thought it would be insightful for the committee to have some perspective on the work that we’re doing to be proactive so great good evening everybody I’m just going to try to like John mentioned uh look through the slides that we did at the parent video [Music] Sports 3D um

41:05 which was great so um if you have any questions please feel free to drop me um so beautiful um

41:19 so we just started kind of talking about the expectations of student athlete Republican um and addressing some of the hot topics on our handbook as well as some of the major Mia uh recognitions and rules they have the full expectations here but it’s it’s more soldiers talking about you know the correct behaviors of a synth athlete and how it’s uh it’s it’s a privilege to play athletics

41:49 is classically and how we want to make sure that uh you know all of our our kids are representing probably high school ads

42:01 again it’s kind of like I mentioned that yet we’ll see uh really more so uh attending our High School athletic events um Mr Bauer and the uh administration myself have really tried to crack down on you know being appropriate at events and making sure that we’re sharing Marblehead at high school instead of cheering against opponents uh making sure that the spectators are positive and they’re really focused on cheering for our teams and making sure that they’re they’re positive and this is supported by m.ias excuse me their student athletes

42:47 we also talked a little bit about making sure that all of our student athletes and students in general are on time for school but making sure that no one game-based a lot of our effort to wear their uniforms and making sure that you know that’s number 20 late again or something like that all of our synaptics are you know being appropriate and being on time for classes foreign

43:40 um making sure that we’re stressing to what coaches uh and our student leaders to make sure you’re being hyper visually in the areas um that are kind of down diversity the weight room will work out before after practice making sure that everybody’s really you know behaving themselves and not doing it it’s also trouble and you’ll need to talk getting ready for practice

44:12 uh each each year or to each season we have our coaches agree um this this needs of law it’s the uh right from the

44:26 they sign off that each they used to navigate what this law is and then they submit that back to myself and I convention to all of our student athletes all that was freshmen through uh RC here on this the rules to make sure that um it’s acknowledged by myself in addition we also have all of our activities foreign

45:27 we’re on top about our academic eligibility um pretty straightforward if anybody’s uh has a feeling where they’re ineligible for student Athletics you know we are student athletes in the first and make sure that we’re taking care of that uh

45:46 we’ll talk about extra help making sure that uh our coaches are aware that if there is a student who’s in needs that could help after school that is an excuse uh situation they just get a note from their teacher and make sure they bring that down to practice and um like I said we’re student athletes of course make sure that they need an extra help they’re getting taken care of and thinking of practice

46:12 uh you come to help people need to Touch Too Much on that again

46:18 that’s just the am I able to talk about it’s just a very straightforward process of uh a perfect resolution again uh we have um all of our student athletes make sure that they are seating up for themselves making sure that they’re you know becoming young adults and growing up coming from the federal school of devices would make sure that they’re you know they’re about to themselves if there’s an initial on a team if there’s a plane time issue they want to talk to first kind of go through the process of um

46:53 now for probably the reason I’m here is we should we talk about um this conflict how how great it was uh Mr Bauer and I attended this last Thursday over at TD Garden um it’s called address Hayden School sports uh it was put on by fraternity General governor elections uh or Healey in her office the attendance was her her herself um

47:22 as well as a long list of Representatives of a major Boston Sports the Celtics the Bruins the Patriots the Red Sox there was uh representative football team as well as uh representative Pride who is a top team it was a great showing it was the conference itself was very well attended um they had a couple different breakout sessions which I found to be very valuable I think it was allowed into coming into that year um the first one they need to talk about is called examples from the fields which is kind of a plan works um there was an example of two schools by the situation of advice that’s been at one of their names uh there were some languages that was uh obviously

48:08 inappropriate and they talked about how they kind of worked through that uh within their two teams within their team administrations as well as the Mia as a

48:21 if there is a situation between two schools during contest which report to the Mia within 24 hours uh two schools uh would obviously meet and talk about the situation and ways to address it um you know they get this specific example they had for school administrators involved they had the inviting walls uh they introduced some student athletes uh to investigate the situation try to resolve it and then we’ll support each other learn from the situation and what what happens um communication and quick action was key to this to making sure that they took care of a timely manner they kind of discussed the difference uh bias incidents that could happen in a different context uh the other part of of this this

49:08 breakdown session was um the Kingdom High School athletic director and one of his coaches talked about their Cactus bees and how they um they prepare to defense which I thought was titles

49:23 um you know they they actively prevent incidents by continuously assessing the team’s culture in the greater schools environment but again I thought it was was a high school there they talked about how they meet with their Catholic mainly it starts two weeks prior to their season and give us some stuff that uh and I are really trying to implement and talk about that in a second but um like they need to respond to season starts um there’s a trade that’s involved to address teasing um leadership building uh culture building within their team um and you know asking for help from yeah

50:03 they educate their team leaders to help prevent a decision coming up uh and if if there is an issue that the student athletes

50:39 um we’re meeting with our captains the first time on Monday next week um the 19th and during magic what was a great science to not interrupting any any team practices to discussion with the time they practice at all hours today

51:02 uh actually uh very excited about the program it’s um we’re working in developing and connecting with those students establishes so Baseline being a funding your advantage upon uh for us I think the other thing too is that biggest piece is culture right so establishing a positive culture reinforces all of our students that treatment of others really builds a better team a better program and such that leads to success and that was a big part of the message that I’ve pulled out of the presentation on Thursday I think it was very Crystal it was crystal clear it has to be decent um and our student athletes they want to do a great job unfortunately as we know on Traditions are not necessarily good

51:48 things at some point the great in a lot of ways there’s a lot of very positive ones and I think working through that and developing a culture that works to make things that all of them take care spiritual we also are looking to organize our student leadership as a whole as a school so we’re working on that process too I’ve been working with some students I think you haven’t done a student-led editions critical as well and we have started we’ve had a mandatory meeting for all of our student athletes in the winter before they even had their first practices had more in practice but you know it’s after school with everything with them we’ll continue that for the spring in the fall and also we have a coach training program that we implemented continue to work with as well and trying

52:35 to shoot that so about all those areas there’s obviously a lot of work but people really good about being the proactive piece um and certainly have understood methods being empowered and have that student voice as well as all of our communities and then the second breakout session they had was uh run by the defamation League um

53:00 they talked a lot about different isms that were trying to move away whether it’s uh some examples of usual ageism ableism classes of sexism racism and the whole variety of different things that they talked about which I thought the message I got across from that one said the school administrators coaches and they actually uh taught about officials as well as they were the ones who were kind of on the fields over the courts and you hear things that sometimes uh us on the sideline came here they talk about how they must collaborate to provide secret support environments

53:43 very important very important um the Attorney General’s office in the Mia will be all different trainings across the state uh throughout the rest of this school year um that’s being um it’s being helped uh by the center of the study for society Eastern University uh they’ve taken a I guess I guess they’ve taken um

54:27 as well as well um uh what Dan also mentioned does that mean we have those trainings for our students they’re also required to uh blockchain implicit lives be openly sign off on the thing watched um I myself sitting with our SAT team as well we just needed to talk about any issues that we have um with some of our student athletes and if you know there’s an opportunity for me just to talk about cultures sometimes um our student athletes like to trust their focus maybe more so than a teacher and that’s an opportunity for them to help and do the best they can there

55:06 um and again and I are meeting with the first time that happens on Monday next week and we’re Gathering resources and different training utilizes our faculty staff here at the cabin nice job um and I also show up to the hematic record to see kind of how we started processes you know we’re excited to start working with captains a lot more often um hoping that this is a great time you know um starting a lot for us

55:44 go ahead so I I don’t know that I have a question I I have a son who since it is five who’s killed on baseball he plays football all year round flag but um and I I’m very mindful of this as well and I try to you know just eat now but I try to instill those things how important these things are even at that age is I and it just this conversation has made me think you’re saying words like proactively and culture are their opportunities or could be potentially consider some opportunities where you know your student athletes and your captains could have sessions or have kind of an open

56:29 Forum to speak to our younger athletes or maybe it already happens and I just don’t have anybody at that grade yet so I don’t know um but even at these I will tell you even at age eight flag football things happen it’s not hazing but you know there are there are things and I just think it would be a great example um to start it off start that culture be proactive about starting that culture even more so

56:57 but I I think this is great and I love both of those works so and I understand how important they are and they can make a break so yeah I know that uh Every Spring I bring a number of our capitalism we can talk about uh transitioning from middle school to High School athletics is very different 513

57:28 you know answer questions from the kids and if there’s anything that they can do to help them if they want to talk with the captains after we’re taking that you know as as rise of ninth graders talking about rather than hearing from me yeah no absolutely I think here you know I’m sure my son would like to hear it right but you know being respectful and and to your teammates your teachers your coaches everyone really um I just think that that’s

58:11 I think I think absolutely yeah I think it makes kids the younger kids excited oh gosh getting up to this level as well yeah it’s almost like talking to your hero ES yeah thanks Sarah so thanks for the presentation this was really you know I’m glad that it’s a probably not just a marble head but kind of across the board Dan you mentioned something about the culture and that really struck me because I think you’re right in that any type of culture change takes time to kind of see that to fruition so I’m just wondering how you use events that come up whether it’s here in Marblehead or in other districts or

58:58 other teams so that we can really use those experiences as learning opportunities um and making sure that there’s space for our athletes to process those things

59:11 I think that’s a very important point because um you know obviously being able to use scenarios that is part of the coach training but also part of the captive training as well it is important to provide those situations for students can understand figure the role to talk in terms of like what we have led to that and probably they have acted in basic situations like that that’s coming that part of it I think is we reference some of that within our general meeting that we have with the winter sport athletes and piece but I think giving smaller groups so that way that can be sent back into a larger program so our work coming up with our student leaders will take place within those models

59:58 that breakout session they provided us with a handbook 25 pages long worth of different scenarios you can talk about in different ways to uh

1:00:14 people okay great thank you I’m I’m so glad that you guys came to talk with us because I think I have had a couple of conversations with both of you over the past few months about you know different athletic pieces and I’m so happy that this is getting brought out to everybody because I do think that there’s even as a parent with a student who plays Sports some of it is just sort of I hope this is going on you know and I think it is so I think you know it’s really great that we’re communicating this out to the community is to sort of what we are doing and how proactive we’re being and that this is really a priority within our school because when things pop up as they have through the last few years you know I think it strikes a real fear in a parent’s heart at least that they’re that their student could get caught up in something like

1:01:01 this so I’m really happy to hear about the work that you’re doing with the captains because I think that’s you know in that upstandard type behavior and because that’s a great place to start and I think I think you know that’s probably one of the hardest things for kids to really do because you can’t plan to really you can’t really plan to be an upstander it’s it’s in the moment and so you have to really have been thoughtful about this before so that you have that that thought in your head to say oh wait stop I need I need to I need a moment before I react here and make a decision Dana no you know the conversation you and I had about intent versus impact and and really having those those conversations with our student athletes and our in our

1:01:47 captains because you know and I think the broader work as Leaders of building captains as Leaders really speaks to that because I think you’re getting in there so that again they can make the better choices in the moment and that hopefully not make such a big mistake where it has really lasting consequences because we know that they’re kids and that they’re going to mess up and they’re going to make more choices and so how do we really work within that as a learning experience and hope that the consequences are you know moderate and and you know more of a teaching situation instead of a true you know tough consequence um so I’m really happy to hear about all of us integrated well taken on the work

1:02:33 that the overall work doing with coaches as well as referees and you know that this is really being brought out to all aspects of of student Athletics um because it is that’s such a valid point that you know our referees are really oftentimes the ones that are going to catch on on field bad behavior um and that was part of our conversation station that we had and you know I think that it’s that’s that’s tough for referees too um so I’m really just I’m so glad kind of to your point that these conversations are happening on a really large scale and at a truly an organizational level because you know it is it is an important culture change and I think you know there’s oftentimes you

1:03:19 know the locker room talk type behavior and we do sort of want to move move forward out of that and I think all of these pieces are key to that and I think you know we’re not a D1 school with with all kinds of kids going off to play professional sports what we’re really building here are leaders to move forward that are going to lead in many different other ways rather than Sports and so I just think this work is so great and kind of getting kids in things that aren’t quite as boring to them as academics often are and really you know speaking to them like when we’ve got them where they’re at so great work guys I have a lot of questions and that’s mostly because um I this was this is not my real house

1:04:07 I served on the um reopening Community for stores I think it was clear this is not my wheelhouse so I tried to dig into some of the Mia stuff and different links and I I just have some questions from some of that um I saw there that they have a student leadership conference to any of our students have they in the past or are we planning to send any of them to this so so they they have uh Mi ambassadors that we have a couple of uh each year uh to our female students and attend uh three or four different conferences

1:04:46 um and what is our coach education like I saw on the Mia website that that there’s um certified coaching a list of certified coaches we only six of our coaches currently are listed as sort of Mia certified is that a requirement we have what is the process for that he manages that and really what is our professional development look like for a coats to come off so so there’s a there’s a specific support um Professional Knowledge that they have we also have a problem are supposed to continue um I can I can look back and see how how oddly that this is and that’s totally fine

1:05:34 um but to answer that I’m sorry no no that that’s the piece that we’re working on in terms of the educational piece we’re trying to bring in all the other stakeholders that work for our students because that traditionally has not been something that is

1:05:51 the same employees so here we put that together working again special education as well technology and certainly um so for mental health clinicians just to work on this this amount that we’re going to developing and that shows a lot of problems that’s that’s wonderful um so to add to Sarah’s point I see you know High School and Middle School athletics really in any town or city but I know some some cities seem to produce more knowledgeable but you know it’s that’s not necessarily the goal nor is it the statistical probability but the skills they learn in team sports are things that are going

1:06:37 to make them successful at all venusable um and so my question is how how are how are we training our you talked about having the weekly meetings with our captains but is do some districts have a policy for captains to go through a training themselves to kind of to be a leader that kind of brings their team along to build each other up because I think what we see I think particularly about females but because I I’m so female focused with things that you know that that in sports in particular that they’re taking these team roles as an opportunity to bring each other up rather than a way to kind of it look like a Lord of the Flies Feeding Frenzy

1:07:24 so what PD are we doing what training are we doing with our students or what are some of these districts I think we saw Hingham on there do they have a model that we might want to look at or a policy maybe that you want to look at that could ensure that any of our captains have have gone through a certain amount of training so that they they’re set up for success in their role to really bring their teammates Along on how to be positive yeah so I think we jump to anything about our character he has um someone who he runs the needs but yes it really helps kind of help that curriculum that they have um like I mentioned they need to inspired to see some kind of start that

1:08:11 dream and start that process um you’re a junior and all of a sudden you need a captain you’re supposed to have all the answers right away so yeah it kind of falls on on us to help those those student applications

1:08:35 help those in applicant scenarios that they may be showing what they’re seeing is there an opportunity perhaps for one of our counseling staff because they don’t have enough to do right yeah they’re not already going to protect to be part of this conversation and whether it’s training or working with these players and also with the coaches because you know I see it starting quite honestly like you’re like we’ve heard here at Youth Sports where sometimes you’re at you know I’m not just speaking from here that you see in town I go to see my nephews and New York and I’m watching some of these adults and I’m thinking with you know seven and eight year old kids in the baseball field I’m thinking they’re looking to you to see how to act and this might not if you had a mirror I mean so so how can we kind of work with our

1:09:23 new sports in the areas to and again be a fabulous volunteers I don’t want to say we don’t but I think it’s something worldwide we have you know these coaches are here because they’re enthusiastic and they’re passionate and care about and stuff but sometimes as all adults do we get we get a little carried away sometimes I would suggest that the information is received heard understood much differently coming from a student athlete or student athlete leader than a coach even I can speak for by son and his friends and when they see when they go to the basketball clinic in the summer and there’s high school players there it’s you know it’s it’s just amazing we’re in the summer when they play baseball in the Youth

1:10:09 Baseball League or in the summer when they do the summer July week that they have now and there’s high school players that help out they just I think so many of them want to be there to get that access to those high school players because when you Aid your goal of looking in the NFL actually but your goal is to play in high school so that to them so hearing that kind of information how important that culture is and that that behavior upstanding mentality is I think is super important and I also just want to say I think Sarah brought a great point the skills are so transferable right whether you’re in a work meeting and you need to say take a take a break before I respond to that email or you know you backspace

1:10:56 um but you know we may not turn out 100 D1 athletes or professional athletes but even if you’re gonna you know my brother play it Bowden you still have to have that same those same qualities or if you didn’t play anywhere you still need to have those qualities in the workplace for life that’s really important to know I think something great about our community

1:11:22 so you know our range is Far Cry and with the amount of synapance

1:11:32 yeah that’s a close supporting thoughts yeah he said it’s important too we have a number of our teachers they are very the second piece is this is about awesome

1:11:51 it doesn’t matter the outcomes athletically and the experience a lot of success we’re trying to build Future Leaders right so that piece is transferable that’s why I say the umbrella we appreciate your happiness and I’m really happy to hear you guys are really really start you know some of this and put it into practice and what’s in the outcomes for maybe some of our team captains you can join us absolutely thank you thank you

1:12:33 Buzz through the district updates the thought Exchange closed we got some great feedback we’ve had 339 uh people that uh participated that offered 172 different uh perspectives on budget priorities um 12 000 people rated there were 12 000 ratings to that and um I remember our onboarding consultant said that if you get like 20 to 30 star ratings that’s great we had 71. so again people really took to this and overwhelmingly the top 24 thoughts for the budget was compensation for staff tutors parents attracting and retaining

1:13:20 people by Leading way of compensation curriculum came up next tuition-free kindergarten into kind of the third uh spot then more compensation and materials and supplies teachers facilities maintenance and infrastructure safety Mental Health Nutrition and Technology it is interesting lengthening the school day came in 120th out of 172 Thoughts with an equal divide between strongly agree and strongly disagree which is interesting because if you listen to

1:14:06 voices out there it would be you know that is a clear must have but there was clear Division and something that very much surprised me was transportation came in 158th out of 172 with the overwhelming majority strongly disagreeing and it said bussing Transportation traffic which from the original exchange you wouldn’t have got that but when people looked at it as a budget priority do we want to prioritize transportation and I’ll do a work regular Overview at our first meeting in uh January but I just want to give you a flavor yeah no I’ve been tracking that closely

1:14:52 and I know I love that um so obviously and this one wasn’t surprised in the compensation but that I don’t I don’t know that anybody’s surprised about that one um I was very happy to see that people understand that in order to fill all these vacancies we need to change our complication structure because at the end of the day it’s not that we’re not trying to kill these vacancies it’s just there’s a shortage of everyone and you have to be the employer of choice and that’s you know okay benefit and so we need to look at that um I know we have a contract coming up my question for you and I don’t expect an answer right now is can we afford to wait to have that conversation and go and because we really I wonder if we

1:15:39 need to look at that compensation and have that conversation ahead of our next um contract and I know that you’re probably thinking you know no I’m going to look for Michelle to start smiling because we have met with two different vendors on redistricting and compensation and just I before anyone panics redistricting is on the table it is a conversation that we have to have because right now there’s a discrepancy between brown and Glover if 131 students it is not for September 23. this is not on the table for but we are engaging vendors to look at how we compensate staff and where we draw our district embodies yeah so stay tuned yeah because

1:16:25 we we have to get set we have to get tutors we have to get Paris and and I understand how we got to these these pay structures but we can’t we’re not going to be able to continue to meet people’s educational needs unless we can get set um so we’re gonna have to to deal with that sooner than later so it’s happy to know that the community is aware um and there seems to be a lot of fashion around curriculum so um we will assume that that will be coming to us in those presentations as well um any questions quick question if you don’t have the answer to it that’s fine this evening let’s bring it on you because I know you regularly work with the powers that be at the thought exchange

1:17:11 you know successful use of it do they have any thoughts on the participation rate because to me sort of didn’t buy very limited statistical classes that I never liked very much anyways so you like getting over the average is a great thing but when you blow something out of the water that makes me a little uneasy that like what are is our data how values are data at that point or do we have a situation where people have figured out how to kind of navigate the system and our kind of manipulating the scores in a certain way um so I just wonder if they have any thoughts on that and maybe that’s just totally like me being ridiculous um but it’s just an interesting question

1:17:58 that wasn’t no you’re being ridiculous that means I will ask a question because uh I have a post exchange meeting each time to review the participation yes um and just have the exchange again

1:18:16 students for the first time and I don’t need results but just did you have a good turnip to put you guys on the spot so you don’t I’ve just been wondering did you get a lot of students yeah we had um 363 participants um we have about 200 thoughts about 5100 ratings so we had an average we asked students do 20 and we added 25 Rings um so don’t give them any results

1:18:47 um and what was really nice is uh we had almost the same percentage from all sixth grades anywhere from well one grade was lowest of 12 but all the other ones were about 16 to 20 percent so it was really nice it was a nice representation because that’s great and and so you got useful data out of it yeah all right I’m just happy to see that we’re utilizing it with our students and that they had it good and hopefully the next time you use it we’ll get even more students I was really upset my daughter oh I’ll tell you what was nice and I’m not gonna go into the results yeah I think what was nice is which is under comments and really we had one that made a throw out um and and like four were like off topic and so we moved those we’re talking I

1:19:33 mean I was 107 that were actually made I think we used 200 comments this is and some of them not some of them the vast majority were well thought ourselves I mean across all the grains it wasn’t just we were just weren’t just thought it was every grade that seems really sort of putting there the best foot forward and be honest with us well if you only had four kids out of all those get off topic they did better than the adults that’s what I’m saying and then that would be inappropriate in the 13 to 18 year old range I’m very proud of our students it was very nice

1:20:19 how many of these uh that’s great I can’t wait to see the result um um so other updates uh covid-19 test kits we’re going to send all staff and students home again for the holiday break uh principles will be getting that information out some principles are going to start as early as Tuesday uh to send these home and we’re asking people about mandating it’s not required but people were a little anxious last year when we made it uh a request but didn’t provide the test kits so now we’re providing the test kits right uh there’s a superintendent coffee on Tuesday December 20th at 8 30 at Village School

1:21:04 Village School Village School um and then next is what I would call a superintendent PSA um school committee members uh whenever you’re wearing your school committee hat and have questions about facilities special education technology those should originate with me so that I can then get the answer for you or connect you um having lived on an island for 12 years I know how blurry those lines can sometimes become and how the boundary lines can shift just coming through conferences the strength maybe of our committee is

1:21:50 that you all have children in the system a vulnerability could be you all have children in the system and so whenever you’re advocating as a parent that 100 makes total sense but whenever that shifts to my role as a school committee member or my authority as a school committee member for the work that I do for the school committee that opens us all up working so so just as a public service announcement if you’re meeting in that transitions leaders will likely say we just need to stop no and I think that’s actually a great reminder for all her all as well because I I think it’s probably hard for them to see us as

1:22:38 parents correct and I I I’ve had the experience of would this be happening if I wasn’t where if I didn’t also own that other hat so I think it’s really important for everyone to be mindful that we are all parents can’t and have a right to be parents absolutely um

1:23:02 there’s no question from the rooftops as a parents I don’t think I think you’re right yeah I don’t think anyone goes with Evan pension but just to Transitions to I’m getting a lot of calls that or as a school Committee Member I that changes the check yeah um so on I was trying to figure out where this kind of fits and it was scheduled bills which is next or you know it came up in thought exchange um one of the things that thought exchange that came up was you know the communications director and it it was ranked at the bottom or very close to the

1:23:48 bottom one of one of my the things that came up this week in the schedule of builds so I reached out to John first was um a name jumped out at me because I just want to be um the conference and got a chance to sit through this presentation and it was a wonderful presentation it’d be wonderful at what he did but I was unaware that we have been contracting a um communication system my concern on that is that I was unaware of that um and also that you know when we propose to FY 22 budget it was pulled out as something that we weren’t able to

1:24:33 fund at that point so my question is um is this something that you know we you would like to present in Apache request again but currently I just I felt like I it was really important to lend some transparency on this piece given you know where we are with the budget right now I wonder if not that communication is not wonderful and not important um I just wonder if now is the time to to utilize those funds or if you want to wait to wear a little more flush to do that um and and that really was just a conversation I thought you know we

1:25:21 collectively should have and um also moving forward how do we bring Consultants into the district um how do we have these conversations about you know whether the communications consultant or these other Consultants how do we talk about okay how do we decide what new initiatives we want to fund this year um and how we can move forward with this Megan I see your hand race yeah I guess

1:25:59 I guess I’m wondering why this is an issue at this moment I mean I’m pretty sure we’ve been using this consultant for a while now it’s not like this is new um so I guess I’m just wondering why this why you feel this hold on let me finish why this um requires a school committee conversation at this point in time and the other piece I would question too is like the superintendent is responsible for managing the day-to-day operations and this feels operational to me so I’m just trying to get clarification really fair enough so let me explain um when I go through the schedule build as you’ve seen our schedule bills there’s often hundreds and hundreds of receipts attached so I match the

1:26:46 date and the amount I don’t read you know each line item of how many tubes of Gorilla Glue which by the way this I wound up reading every line item and I we

1:27:00 um so because I went to the lecture by this individual when I saw his name as a consultant it jumped out because I knew this individual’s name knew the fields he worked in we had we employed so many consultants whether it’s special education or different fields you know it a person’s name would it wasn’t something that was resonated so when it did I immediately reached out to John we had a really good conversation I felt he was able to talk to me to talk about some of my concerns but I was also said to John you know I feel it’s important that I also bring this up because my concern is you know we’ve heard so much from the community about chance guarancy I thought if we did bring it up then this would come out to buy this later so this is I I get that this is a

1:27:46 conversation that might feel a little uncomfortable but at the same time I think it’s important to just recognize when people have concerns um and as far as the operations my concern was that in FY 22 this was a request that was pulled out of the the priorities um and the budget but then immediately added on as a consultant and I just worry that that can become a slippery slope where we pull something out and then put it in and use you know a grant to fund it so because I believe this was funded through the Essa Grant up until this year I guess I would I agree like a communications director

1:28:33 but this doesn’t feel like a communications director to me because that price tag absolutely would be much more significant and would be an ad to staff and then would probably be a different conversation but everything we hear from the community and from this committee is that communication is important and I think John does a fabulous John job with communication but I also feel like if he has some support for that especially when we get into situations of Crisis management when we want our superintendent on the ground addressing the situation versus sitting in his office crafting the perfect statement you know that is what this is doing it’s supporting John’s communication it’s not

1:29:19 a communications director which is a very different conversation but that’s just my two cents on it that we well know just because something gets pulled off of a list that to be funded doesn’t mean that the need goes away and so I think you know this is one of those pieces to Megan’s point where a directors multiples of what this contract is for and and you know and we’re not as we saw last year we’re not paying insurance or benefits for this person you know that this was a way to to support the you know to support being more transparent you know that that was a huge Conversation Piece within the hiring of John was effectively communicating so that people

1:30:05 knew what was going on with the previous superintendent this conversation was broached as well of it seems as though we need somebody to help communicate effectively because although we can have expectations on the superintendent and you know they’re well educated and well spoken and a presence to the public they’re not Communications experts either and so I think you know in this day and age that type of thing becomes really important I don’t think we’re the only budget town that supports the communications firm of some point of some type um and I think

1:30:48 um just lost my train of thought um I think that these things are going to continue to pop up you know we’re not getting any less complex and so how do we balance all of these needs and you know we’ve got we’ve got to change on one side pulling information and kind of tabulating things and then we’ve got your scoring on the other side pulling information kind of figuring out how to correctly put it out so that it’s digestible and understandable to people and you know I just I think I think that that’s an important piece and again to me it’s it’s more about ironically I think there is miscommunication on this and that we could have just said this need is still

1:31:34 here if but but it was never I mean yes it was in schedules bills but I I was never informed that we had this insulted and I think I don’t think that they’re I just want to be clear I cannot think that there was anything nefarious about this I just think it’s ironically was poorly communicated and or lack from so my concern is where we know we have a tight budget that we we want to make sure that any available funds up to the point of hopefully finally getting to where we need for funding are 100 student focused that’s just my key and you know I I want to make sure that

1:32:22 ideally we get to a point where we are flush and we can we can fund all of these items but in a hierarchy of needs this was below this was on the lower side in my opinion and I just wish it had been a conversation so my concern was I saw it it became a concern if I didn’t you know if I did not have this conversation with all of us would that then later on you know come back to bikes so I I felt to do my due diligence I needed to have a conversation as a committee about that um and and then I’m happy to say we’re able to do that

1:33:10 I do I do think that this is an operational piece so too that that you know we I think you know we all should be meeting with Dr Bucky on a regular basis and finding out some of those nitty-gritty pieces to the daily operations and I think that that’s a really great place for things like this I’m sure you know that’s how I knew we were working with Chris Warren um but I don’t know that we I think we’re waiting in the dangerous territory if we start kind of micromanaging the I just to me it was a priority prioritization of thoughts and I worry you know where we already know we’re we’re running ahead on some funds and right now because we have vacancies

1:33:56 we’re able to backfill some of those but if we’re able to fully reach all of our vacancies I just don’t want I don’t want to have to say no to anything that’s student focused for something that is more or less student focused I want to make sure that like that when when those questions come up that there’s not a time ever that we’re saying that you know students could benefit for this but we can’t we can’t do that this year I want to make sure we can say yes to all of our students Focus needs primarily and then move on to these things

1:34:33 sorry sir just following on for that I guess I am a little I’m still confused and I don’t want to belabor the point because it’s already 8 30 but I mean in terms of priorities we spent a similar amount on the thought exchange and this committee was like completely fine with that and so it’s a very similar thing we’re talking about how do we communicate how do we get feedback I mean I guess I’m just unclear on how we prioritize that and that’s okay but yet we’re calling out this one particular cost especially when it is so operational I 100 agree with you Megan but thought exchange is another example that we did not know about prior to the contract being signed we knew after we already

1:35:19 owned the program and then my thought was We Own the program we own the contract let’s maximize it let’s use it with students let’s use it for staff We Own It Let’s maximize it and I and so that’s my point is when we enter in I mean we vote on contracts like the elevator all these different contracts but then there’s some contracts who don’t vote on and so my question is where is that line drawn and is it is it when we get into for for I’ll be honest what are the biggest bones of intention on this was it was a priority request that then was deemed not to be a priority but one month later a contract was entered into so that that is concerned

1:36:06 so I’ll just clarify that piece was put in the FY 22 budget as a requests there was Universal support for the need for that but you had a public State communications director position so either through that as one of my budget requests there wasn’t a question about the deal and I think we have a lot of things that we need that that we know so I mean I will move us along to the next question I forgot I remember when I was lost my opinion of God this is also a piece that on an occasion last year at some point or the year before I can’t remember when I was having with everything presser and she actually asked do you guys have any conversations about putting some type of communication support in for John because it really seems like you have a district that

1:36:53 would highly benefit from it so you know and I think the reason I think it’s actually two years ago because I think it was um correctly so I think you know this is a thing that a lot of districts are doing doesn’t eat there and if we really do want to be the best we could be I think it’s important piece you know I I understand your points for sure um and you know that I’ve not been the biggest fan of the thought exchange so you know I think you know that that these types of things yes I I get what you’re saying and I think it’s operational and and overall I think you know we’re seeing benefits from thought exchange it you know and and we have benefits from this too and I’m not I’m not arguing to that my concern is

1:37:39 concern is concern is we need to be able to present things in a in a way that we all know what’s going on and I I sat through a lecture and had no idea

1:38:01 so that that is like that is so I will focus on sorry sir this is somewhat related but this is kind of the second time this has come up and it makes me think about the protocols that we all kind of agree to and so you know it came John mentioned earlier um about some of the protocols we have in place and then this is another one where we you know part of the protocols is making sure that we’re meeting with the superintendent on a regular basis because these things would come up in a regular meeting with John I mean that’s how I knew about Chris horn because I meet with him regularly we can talk through some of those things rather than having to kind of you know take this time which we should definitely be more

1:38:47 student focused so I wonder if there’s a way that you know a chair or maybe we have to wait until the summer but really think about how we not just sign off on the protocols but make sure that we’re really following them and have checkpoints um throughout the year I know we’ve talked about it a number of times before but it’s kind of come up twice in this meeting so I just think it might be more positive frequently and I sat next to John in Chris Lawrence some lecture and still had no idea that he was a consultant of us to go there but I will and am moving us on to the next agenda item now and I will hope that everyone

1:39:34 in the spirit of respecting protocols will understand that the chair has disability to do that brings us to the schedule of bills I will we all hit a packet in our

1:39:49 um are we all had that schedule in our packets and I will ask our emotion to approve the identified schedules totaling 654

1:40:01 349.52 so moved with by Sarah gold second buddy Allison Taylor I’ll do a roll of them they’re both yes um Allison Taylor yes Megan Taylor yes Sarah let’s see motion pass three two zero one extension that moves us to the school communication discussion items um you all in your packets had a projected um proposed budget calendar um which mimics very closely the or it should have been in there I thought yesterday

1:40:46 okay okay um okay so that did not mean so um yeah I know she had a lot of trouble figuring out the thread yesterday um so the budget and priorities everyone can have a chance to look up that list that was um was that Dr Bucky had drafted up as a takeaway from our last meeting is there anything to discuss on that

1:41:24 would you like a motion to approve this or just a possession they’re your priorities so at one point but yeah so is this something we want to take a vote on or just open your discussions

1:41:40 kind of a pretty thorough process on this okay all right so I will open up a motion to approve the presented um project priorities some of Sarah gold second second Allison Taylor will follow several yeah Allison Taylor yes Megan Taylor yes Sarah um um the school Community member vacancy update I had reached out to Kyle yesterday to see if she had um any information back the last communication that happened was um she sent out a

1:42:25 um to see what dates work for everybody um when I talked to her yesterday she was still waiting to hear back from one individual and but I asked her at that point do we have a consensus yet up until this point and my understanding was there was no consensus so she was going to set it out another doodle um I did not get a chance to talk to her today to see where she was at and get that final number had been able to weigh in on that but um that’s just present I think we’re just waiting for Kyle to kind of work out everybody’s schedules and find a date where everyone is available um do we know at what point we just move forward with this regard like you know I think it’s a great idea that we have everybody there and I

1:43:10 understand the you know not wanting to have us like both that’s obviously not a good situation either but you know I feel like I I asked at one point um and I can’t remember if it was Thatcher or Moses the reply was if the individual can’t make it says I am okay with you proceeding without me then they’ll proceed without that but it will not proceed together so and there were some dates in January that though it’s not worthy there was no so sir the 20 January 23rd could everyone on this committee make I know I said I couldn’t so that’s why I’m asking was everyone else able to make the 23rd

1:43:56 by me by me I think I was I do one of the reasons I reached out to um Kyle yesterday as I’m waiting on a surgical date for one of my kids and um hopefully in January possibly beginning of February I hope to have that by Tuesday I have no control over that date what they give me is what they give me um but as of right now I don’t have a problem with January 23rd I don’t know if how that works I’m tired then I can double check with her so so in full disclosure I’m the one that hasn’t replied to Kyle I didn’t actually receive the poll um so I still haven’t gotten it um I did speak to her yesterday on my ride home and she said that the Selectmen are all available on those

1:44:41 three dates they gave us and I know I said I couldn’t do the 23rd it’s my first day of my new class but I will reach out to my program and see if I can get out of that class if it means that we can all meet on the 23rd and let her know I will but I want to

1:45:02 want my one is free on the 29th and as of right now like I said the one thing for me is that surgical date which I can’t I have no control over but okay but okay but I can look back home I’ll put um and then if you can just find out about your program if you can miss that date um and then send that get back to us I will if if I am the only barrier to the 23rd I will make it happen okay all right um so I’ll I’ll look back to her and see what we can do on next um so that’s where we are with that and then we have subcommittee and liaise on upbeats

1:45:47 well I think it’s been a really like tight feel like the last two years anyway um he had a we had an issue with posting by the way for anybody that’s trying to post a meeting right now the town emails Town um the emails for any Town officials there’s a problem with their server so some aren’t coming through and sometimes they can’t access it I don’t I don’t even try to understand what’s going on so some postings were not being received and um so things did not get posted within the 48-hour window so if you’re if you’re posting something make sure you’re looping back on the actual official website so things to make sure it’s up there don’t assume it is

1:46:34 otherwise because we had any two issues um so we’re reposted we had another one of those then can everybody be 500 email changes and we’re re-hosted um Monday at 1 right now um but just as a reminder everyone can share with those postings and give yourself an extra day because it just seems to be um problem

1:47:08 so I asked Michelle when we um would need to meet because really the next thing we’re meeting on is um the big ticket item would be the warrant and she’s waiting to hear from that or some information that she needs so I’m hoping um my understanding from Top manufacturers and stuff right now my hope is that by the time we come back we’ll be ready to do that we just don’t have the information we need to to have it um and then John and I met with

1:47:57 routines to kind of work on tweaks to the current mou that we have that makes it more functional to both parties and so he had he had uh they’d asked that whole chairs [Music] um and so they’ll be seeing that coming in front of us soon as well um you know just very high level when we were there

1:48:22 I I did say I did let them know who will be having conversations about our properties and let them know that because I know for instance we constraint was something they were interested in so we let them know to to start thinking if there’s conversations we want to have that’s coming up um and so after the person here I’m really glad to hear that’s happening because I when we first did the mou in a similar fashion and brought it I knew that it was not exactly where it needed to be so I’m really glad your parents and I think it was a really good conversation I think um a lot of positive things will come out of it and the idea is if we all disappeared is this stuff would this document lay out a roadmap to to how these two departments have worked together and should work together

1:49:10 um so I think that the new document will flush that out Megan is that a new pm yeah sorry I may have missed the budget calendar piece is there a budget do we have a schedule yet to drive but the problems Lisa had with the drive we do have one it didn’t get it was one of the pieces that got dropped out of the drive so so we should see it soon yeah it’s I can have her updated tomorrow it was okay something that exists and we just she she had trouble getting minutes and she was working with um a little bit we just had some problems with the drive yeah

1:49:52 she referenced that too so um and it’s it’s not it’s not you know it’s nothing that leads to get on her and it’s just a technology and just following on from that we’ve worked with the town like fincon so we’re we’re good with their dates too yeah they’re they’re having a joint meeting with us and we I believe so Michelle drafted the calendar

1:50:16 and he worked with fincon to get those those lined up okay thank you um all right so that brings us to closing business anybody have any new business business um excellent sorry I do um it came up when um it made me think when Yasin was giving his update he mentioned some things about um sustainability group at the high school but can we just get on the agenda I mean it’s not the highest priority but an update on where we are with composting recyclings and all the sustainability practices at our schools

1:50:59 can we let you mention that because I continually think about driving around um Tyler um Tyler and his yeah Eagle project yes yep I do still see him at like different events Brothers goals so well if anybody’s looking for an additional deduction before the year closes it is a very Noble boss so I encourage you to find him um and sir I have one other question too is um and you made me think of it earlier in the conversation about the school calendar typically we have the first draft of it around this time so should we expect to get that sometime soon I know we have to vote on it by our second meeting in January so yeah um John and I

1:51:45 have been talking about that he has already Works through track one I believe I haven’t seen it but I know he’s done one and I’m assuming working with any mea on that and so he’ll have some things for us so we’ll get that in the next meeting um first meeting will be presenting a draft yep all right um correspondence I don’t believe there was any I’m trying to be back in the last two weeks there was other than the correspondence back and forth regarding um dates which we’ve had a lot of um but I don’t know

1:52:24 um all right so I will wish everybody a happy vacation week that everyone you know gets to you have some downtime and with that I will adjourn us es thank you very much