School Committee: November 16, 2023

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0:02 um at Chi is gonna be able to gr but if you see John casell on there will you give him permission I don’t think he’s going to be here tonight but Stu you let everybody

0:27 in so I am gonna call us to order at 7 pm and we’re going to open with our commendations um is there any by any members of the committee yes I’d like to make all right go for

0:51 Brian as a former assistant principal at the village and a principal of the Glover school I speak from firsthand knowledge about how dedicated all our school Personnel are f filling our mission to support our students I will begin my Commendation as follows our custodians work hard both day and night to provide clean classrooms and buildings that greet our students when they walk in the door every morning the bus drivers pick them up and drop them off safely every day the nurses ensure that they remain healthy and provide them with the care they need the cafeteria staff Works tirelessly to provide nutritious meals to fuel students the secretary is are the heart of the school making sure that the following flow of critical information is taken

1:38 care of in a time and efficient manner par professionals and tutors dedicate themselves to ensure those students who need the sport get it there are Ela and math tutors who work closely with their professional learning communities plc’s to help students in areas they are struggling in the specials teaches provide our students with a rich experience and art music our media Specialists help instill a love of reading and teach a students how to research and authenticate their results our physical education teachers teach them health and the rules of fair play and provide them with exercise disguise this fun our Ela um teachers help our non-english speakers to successfully transition into the classrooms the school psychologists counselors social

2:36 um spend their days providing the much needed student support the speech therapist provide the required therapeutic interventions and the speech and language pathologist provide speech and language interventions last but not least are the classroom teachers and the special education teachers just like all the others listed above our teachers General Ed and special ed are the most dedicated hardworking teachers I have had the honor of working they spend their days and often their nights analyzing student assessments and creating robust lessons they know which students are working at grade level and which are not they work within their PLC grade level teams to compare student data to work on plans to help those struggling students cross the grade and to to ensure that their

3:22 curriculum planning is meeting the state’s standards teachers work with all other staff to ensure our students are getting the very best education can I can say without reservation that the teachers are acutely aware that student needs have increased and it’s much harder at present to meet those needs I want to thank all of you for the dedication and hard work you do to support our students and I pledge as a school committee member that I will work relentlessly to support all of you thank you very

3:58 much UMES anybody else have one um I’m going to welcome up um Jonathan heler and Sally and one more I just want to say one thing real quick um go leading into the week of you know next week will be Thanksgiving I just want to say I have such deep gratitude for every member of our school Community um from our staff to our students to our volunteers um you all really are the heart of everything and I just want to take this opportunity at this time year to to thank you all and to to let you know how deeply grateful I am and so I’m going to welcome up Jonathan and Sally for accommodation that they

4:47 have but we only have one chair there’s only one

4:52 chair so you guys can stand sorry guys it’s okay so uh Jonathan heler and Sally chrey and the co-presidents and we’re going to tie into what Brian said as well uh so yesterday Wednesday November 15th was National Education support professionals or ESP so Marblehead head esps are committed or ESP so Marblehead esps are committed to students in public education these dedicated professionals are carers tutors custodians cafeteria workers bus drivers and many more who keep the lesson plans flowing the car running the lunch Lines Moving and the buildings running their reach extends

5:37 Beyond M grounds and into our community as coaches as members of parent organizations as volunteers by working together education support professionals teachers and administrators create the exemplary Public Schools our students serve in honor of national ESP day our state representative Jenny armini and Massachusetts Speaker of the House Ronald Mariano have issue to citation recognizing the Marblehead head education recognizing the Marblehead education support Professionals for their hard work and dedication to keeping Marblehead public schools and students safe healthy and successful so this is the certificate from the massachusett House of Representatives

6:23 and what we love to do is present this to school committee and actually our first interaction with Dr mcginness um so this is

6:35 and we’re hoping that we can definitely have that H yes maybe F the yeah can seen by people definitely the highest black school of the district hang it in nice permanent place but they are really critical to all of our success in everything we do every I’m so appreciative for you guys coming and doing this and I’m going to make sure that um I hand that off before one of my little people ruins it if it goes into my car um and that we get that put up in our building thank you guys so much and thank you for Happy Happy Thanksgiving thank you so that’s gonna move us to public comment um I’m

7:21 just sorry uh so the St Lambert um hockey tournament is this weekend I think it started uh last night I believe and uh so it’s Marblehead Head youth hockey and uh so it’s Marblehead youth hockey participates in that with St Lambert and they come here and then we go there to Canada uh every year and I just want to wish the Marblehead Head Youth Hockey wish the Marblehead Youth Hockey Association the best of work so not really a combination but kind of I just want to make sure they know we because we always talk about you know Sports um and give those commendations as well and so I just wanted to say good luck to all of the kids it’s all ages that are participating in the St lamber tournament weekend that’s a great um youth Exchange program yes absolutely any any child I know that plays hockey looks forward to that it is

8:10 it is wonderful um so oh no magn okay um so that’s gonna bring us to public comment I’m just going to remind everybody we’ve gotten a little bit away from our public comment policy we’re gonna start enforcing it a little bit more now um by a little bit more we’re going to enforce it um three minutes for public comment for a maximum of 15 minutes total if there are still people want to speak at the 15 minute Mark then I will very happily open it up at the end of the meeting but um we’ve been encouraged to to follow our established policies so I’ll ask everybody to just keep it to three minutes and if we do hit that 15 minute Mark and there’s still people who want to speak towards the end of the meeting if you want to put your hand up then I can um reopen for public comment at the end of the

8:56 meeting um it can be motioned or to the discre of the chair um so if any body has public comment if you want to raise your hand in the participant window or if anybody in person wants to make public comment if you want to just come up and state your name and address for the

9:16 record hi it’s part 6 time with live M ahead I’ve been a little busy the last couple of time days making phone calls to people that I know in different cities and towns and this is going back to the flag situation so I don’t know if this is accurate information but I was told that possibly you have gone to cheap King please cheap King is that his thing yes our police chief is Dennis King but to my knowledge no one’s gone to him for anything okay so then um my information was not right so then I can go this I called a few people that I know in the

10:04 police department and retired chief of police just the last year or two told the situation that went on here so technically this woman did not break an entering because it was at night time she has a child in the school is that true I don’t oh yes we’re not engaging with I did forget my own rule we are not engaging with public comment I’m sorry okay all right so anyways if she came in without being authorized then there can be criminal charges in moving it if she came in and it was an event in the school and she has a child in the school system you couldn’t technically say break IM entance but and other lawyers

10:51 that I’ve spoke to the last few days said that it can be considered that vandalism for removing the flag has you gotten any any consequences whatsoever for taking it down has she written a letter of apology to the Comm to the children first of all and to the community is she going to get any consequences because trust me if I didn’t I’d still be handcuffed and Shackled down police depart all right so I ended up going back and reading about the platforms when you were running for office and each and every one of you said transparence I’m sorry transparency and accountability and since you have been

11:37 sworn in we haven’t seen in I’ve been going around town people start people from surrounding towns call me up say what’s going on over you you need to be able for the rest of the community to support you and to believe you and a lot of people don’t I’ve had teachers come up to me some I don’t even know who who they are and say thank you I have principles that I know that don’t want to speak up and superintendent mcginness I don’t know if you’re related to Dick Mary and Mike but they’re an awesome family I hope that now you’re going to be inter we pretty much know minutes you’re gonna

12:24 be don’t let them manipulate you I’m going to ask you stop Mo the next individual thank you is there anybody else who would like to have public comment you do just um raise your hand or come up and state your name and address for the record come right up here and just say your name and address how are you my name is T I actually live in Boston from Gea Massachusetts and um I also had did a little bit of followup in regards to the flly being removed I know I had um made a comment I had something to say the last movie in regards to what had taken place and I was just wondering also if you guys had come up with a decision for

13:09 a consequence for this particular parent or whomever she was because I feel like our children are suffering because it was removed you know my son he’s a young black boy he comes to a predominantly all white school the only black kid in his classroom and well he does have another black K in his class however you know there’s some challenges that he has to deal with and for him to feel comfortable in seeing this sign up it’s like okay somebody does care but then when it’s removed and then it’s a big deal and it kind of leaks out and he hears about it that doesn’t make him comfortable and then he comes home to me and he you know we’re talking about certain things and he has to know he is different you know what I mean however

13:57 children are they can be crew but it’s learned behav from home so if this is a parent that comes to the school and rips it down for whatever her reasoning was she could have came to you guys and said listen I read up on this and it’s not real is it possible we can remove it instead of taking upon herself to remove it and make the other children feel uncomfortable like it just it’s not fair you know my son’s been here since the first grade and he did not come from a Boston public school which I know a lot of people have said that or he came from a Boston Public School he’s never set foot in a Boston public school he’s been in private school he’s been here called he’s been called a monkey he’s been called an asent by Mr Oda he’s um he’s

14:47 been bullied by a cafeteria staff five different occasions and it just makes us uncomfortable and I try to explain to him like buddy like we’re g to have to go a different world like I really want to remove my son from this situation it’s uncomfortable for me however he loves his friends he adores his friends and a lot of his teachers but some of them are just not so nice to him and for have that that flag to be removed and then there’s no consequence well no consequence that we know I’m sorry I’m not going to say that you guys are not taken care of but something has to be done like and I don’t want you all to think I my son should be treated like

15:33 he’s a charity case because he’s not but just like somebody needs to have some compassion to what’s going on my son gets up at 5 o’l every morning you guys children are still in the bed and he still when he gets here to Marblehead the children are still not in school yet and then he has to take that commute from Marblehead head all the way to from Marblehead all the way to Boston he gets out of school at 215 he doesn’t get off his us until sometimes 4:30 that’s a long commute a long ride and for him to have to come here and be treated like that it’s not and the kid is kind of oblivious to it I’m the parent I advocate for him and it’s not a good feeling so if you guys can

16:20 just kind of have some compassion and you know think about what you all going to do with that flag if you know you’re going to put it up back up thank you if you have a good enough reason for it not to go up then okay like if we could know about it thank

16:41 you um I see a hand online Nyla if you can just say your full name and address for the

16:51 record um hi hi uh it’s Nyla dub I live at 37 Green Street in Marblehead Head at 37 Green Street in Marblehead obviously um I just uh wanted to pop on quickly I was um just because I was listening to um I I don’t know what um I get the last speaker’s name and I think I saw her last week as well and I just I feel awful that there are any kids who feel like um taking down that flag was um a gesture of um racism um [Applause] I kids should not have to feel that way parents should not have to feel that way everybody should feel comfortable the

17:38 problem that I see with the flags is that they one while a flag might be you know a symbol of safety for one person it might be a symbol of something else for someone else and I don’t believe that the school really should be an Arbiter of who feels safe and who doesn’t because certain political symbols um I think that this should be a much longer discussion um I have a lot of information that I will that I’m in the process of submitting to you um this is too short of a forum to discuss all of the ins and outs of what I would propose

18:25 having either no flags at all um or if I mean it really has to be all or none right so like if you have all Flags then where are you going to put those and you have to be prepared for what flags you’re going to get right or maybe no Flags but there’s a bigger argument here and about just this war of ideas that we’re having about safetyism in school about um how kids are able to make their voices heard because they do have free speech um but we are also the parents so they don’t really get to decide where they go to school we do until they’re 18 right so there’s a lot to parse out here but I do want to tell that parent that I

19:11 just I emphasize with your feelings about seeing something that you think is there and and feeling like it may be a gesture of not being wanted and as another I know I’m lightskin but I am black or half black I mean that’s that’s another thing like who gets to determine whether I’m black or not you know like I grew up in Crown Heights Brooklyn and like 15 blocks from Biggy Smalls like I’m not you know the like I don’t know you might think my whiteness o supersedes my blackness but that’s for me to decide um but I do understand when you have a symbol that is that you feel symbolizes safety and then somebody rips it down that is that is hurtful um it’s

19:56 not necessarily what the intention was I don’t know um so in any case that’s all I wanted to say and I do appreciate your feelings the last speaker was and you’ll hear more from me and hi welcome

20:13 superintendent um don’t see any more hands is there anybody else all right so that will bring us to our student represent I looked down and didn’t see you Pat I thought you left us our student representative the high school entered Quarter Two the week on November 13th the National Honor Society has resumed their tutoring program which pairs students with peer tutors in every subject the Honor Society is also conducting a food drive for Thanksgiving Acappella is holding its annual sing Free or Die Hard concert on Tuesday November 21st at 7M in the High School auditorium the Animal Wellness Club is running a pet supply collection bin which they will donate to the Northeast Animal Shelter the Marblehead head drama Animal Shelter the Marblehead drama club will be holding auditions for the

20:59 the student written play it’s about Pirates and nothing else on Monday December 4th the high school will hold a pep rally next Wednesday November 22nd in preparation for the Thanksgiving football game the sophomore class is selling raffle tickets for a chance to pie a teacher in the face at the pep rally Juniors have started looking for items to sell off for the annual junior class auction they have also been selling sweatpants tank tops and headbands to show their spirit for the Powderpuff Powderpuff game on Saturday the Powderpuff senior girls have been participating in a spirit week in preparation for their big game seniors will also have a potluck brunch this Sunday November 19th in the cafeteria both CrossCountry teams will be advancing onto All Stage this Saturday the boys and girls finished

21:46 third and fourth respectively at the divisional championship this past weekend our Marblehead Runners Isaac gross and Mari oconnell won the boys and girls 2A races football is preparing for its annual Thanksgiving game at SW Scott next Thursday at 10: amm and if I understand you’re part of our I am congratulations thank you so much um does anybody have any questions for cat thank you so much cat we look forward to seeing you next meeting ni night um that brings us to our district updates with Dr Teresa mcginness thank you thank you Cat and uh parents who spoke and shared your stories and your experience appreciate it uh it’s my pleasure to be here with all of you this

22:33 evening um on this side of the table um I I look forward to working together um and I’d like to share a few updates um starting with uh a wonderful award um or ranking I should say that our veteran school um was um is celebrated in the newspaper today from us news and world report for being the 30th in the ranking in all of the middle schools in Massachusetts um based on well their mcast results is is what the US Department of Education uses um with 65% of students at veteran School scoring at or above or exceeding um in mathematics and 66% in reading so great job to the students for their hard work to the

23:20 staff for being so talented um and for principal Fox for leading so well at that school wonderful wonderful to hear um I wanted to let folks know that in the packet of school committee um items for review there is um a newsletter that’s attached inside my school committee memorandum if you I sent it out to uh the parents of the district but if there are folks that don’t have children in the district and want to read it that is a place that you could get it and it’s just sort of an introduction to a little bit of who I am and um how I’m starting leading uh the district at this time as the interim superintendent so I welcome you to um to read that um in just a few minutes assistant superintendent Cresta um will give us a a short budget update but I

24:07 wanted to let folks know that it is underway the fy2 budget process in that we’re starting conversations um as early as next Monday before Thanksgiving with our leaders our principles um to start to look at uh priorities and areas of need um and get some data from um assistant superintendent cesta we do know that giv the present fiscal challenges that have been for many years now and ongoing um it’s going to be a difficult process but we do promise that we will uh give updates throughout and gather feedback and make sure that um folks know um throughout this entire process this year um there’s something called the new superintendent induction

24:53 program um and it’s it’s done through a partnership between uh the department of Ed and the Massachusetts Association of School committees um and what that does is ensures that there is um support and strategy development um done with coaching through those two organizations so each new superintendent has a coach and my coach is Jean Trembley who used to be the superintendent in lynfield um she’s outstanding so you will be seeing her uh at one of our upcoming school committee meetings um but it’s a wonderful organization um which um will it’s a three-year process but for this year I’m here for this year and I start with that first year um Also I spoke in that newsletter that I referred to that’s on the memorandum a little bit

25:39 about the entry plan um in more detail um but right now I have had the pleasure with meeting with a lot of um community members and next week I have uh the chief of police and the Town Administrator as well um our Union leadership who you saw earlier met with a couple of times of course all of our district um leaders and our school committee members and you know hearing all the good that’s happening and I want to uh as we develop communication plan together I want to make sure that um you all know all of that good so stay tuned and in December we’ll unveil um how we want to engage the community and our parent community and our student Community um with some details so that’s upcoming uh we also had the pleasure

26:26 this week um Tuesday was Ruby Bridges walk School school day for Village and for Glover and for round school um and it included students um doing a little research reading the book um having discussions um which is wonderful but they also you know did A Walk To commemorate um the official day as well which was lovely and then today um at the elementary schools uh two third graders so Grace Cummings from Brown and Georgia Olen from lover were principles for the day and um I had the pleasure of having Grace come to my office and ask questions and uh talk about her observations of classrooms and all that so it’s just a lovely experience uh last week for two days uh joined by um some

27:12 school committee members uh both of our assistant superintendents and myself went to a conference that is run by um the Massachusetts Association of school committees and the Massachusetts Association of um superintendent was excellent com about crisis it was conversations and learning um from people in the field and it was conversations with superintendents and school committee members at these conference um assignments so more to be said I’m sure from that um but it was a great experience some notable dates Pat gave you a lot of them so I’ll go really quickly but um November 18 this Saturday and hopefully it won’t be raining is the annual parter puff game at Marblehead uh Marblehead against swamp Scott at Marblehead High School um for parents November 22nd 12 o’clock dismissal on

27:58 Wednesday the 23rd and fourth is Thanksgiving break so there is no school and the 23rd um on Thanksgiving is the annual football game Marblehead head against annual football game Marblehead against swamp Scott in Swampscott also November 21st is AC capello’s program’s first concert of the year um it’s called Sing free a aapola night uh and it features the Grizzlies luminescence and the jewel tones and admission is free for students $10 for adults and finally mood High School report cards will be available by Monday at the latest but maybe even tomorrow um it’s underway and I just wanted to say I also had the pleasure of meeting with all of the PTO and PCO leaders um along

28:45 with assistant superintendent fera and what they shared was just beautiful about the contributions that parents and community members are doing but a couple of them really Rose to the top that were really phenomenal so we want to give heaps of gratitude to the magic hat because once again from six months which the dates are April to September of 2023 they’ve donated $100,000 to the Marblehead Public Schools that’s on the heels of H 100,000 for this prior six months phenomenal and grateful and the whole system of magic hat is just something to be modeled across the Commonwealth for sure so thank you to all of them um and spur I also found out that 600 pound of produce

29:31 was donated from the village organic garden um to the Marblehead food pantry and 500 pounds um of produce was donated to the Salem food pry from the brown school garden so pretty phenomenal um the Partnerships in the community you know have always been strong and it’s so fun to just be here for just a few days and to learn how big they’ve grown and we’re just so grateful for that and that’s all I have for this week that’s a lot it is a lot a lot um and I just want to say I I’m I was rised to not open up with welcoming Dr mcginness um the only thing I can think of is it has felt like she’s been here well before this being her first meeting because a lot has happened we went to the conference

30:17 together you just give a very thorough report of the things um the people you’ve met with so I had felt you had been here with us before so I apologize we are so happy have you here thank you um does that kick us off to the FY 25 budget status update yes so um as Dr mcginness mentioned we are just starting the process for our FY 25 budget um the budget packets will be provided to principles in the next day or so we had hoped to have them out by today haven’t quite got there but just about there um the packets will then be returned to us by December 18th and we’ll review all that information and plan to have budget books to committee members by dece by January

31:05 12th this this year the town requested that we provide them with two budgets um one is a level Services budget and the second one is a reduced Services budget which maintains the current level of funding that we have in fiscal year 24 so the principles and directors have been asked to submit a budget to us which represents a level Services budget but there is a section that includes any um requests that exceed a level Services budget and then we can actually have a discussion and have some conversations regarding those items and see if there’s any capacity to include them or decide what we might do before we submit it to the town or to the school committee for final approval for Town um in order to arrive at the reduced Services budget

31:51 request really it’s a collaborative approach it’s not going to be individual directors deciding what’s going to happen so that’s going to be a long process and it’s going to involve our leaders our school committee and and really um a whole bunch of team members to come up with a reduced Services request and then the final budget recommendation will be brought to you and will consider it for recommendation before it goes to finance committee for the review and approval so I just want to highlight mostly for the community because I I hope the whole school committee understands the process and what we’re obligated to do the way the budget process works at town meeting our legal obligation is to bring in a

32:38 balanced budget which means our proposed budget for the article that is approved at town meeting and is free from any any additional requirements of funding has to match what the town has in their coffers to to fund this we there projects to have I’m sorry or projects to have there is by law there’s no other mechanism you have we have to produce a budget a balanced budget so I know that I’m I’m already Hearing in the community this idea of well you can find it um by law it has to be balanced so that the town has told us to

33:25 be balanced it would be a a zero growth budget um and so when Michelle talks about a reduced Services it would be a zero growth budget um and that’s just our legal obligation at this point and so there will be that and then there will be another number that we also work on but the one that will be guaranteed the only number that is guaranteed funding is the balance

33:55 budget um all right I would like um Michelle would you mind just because I I’ve never seen that first step the document that goes out that you ask the directors and principes to fill in um can I would I know I would like to see what that blank document looks like um because I think the more we can talk about the process and be educated in the process the better we can advocate for it so if you want to share that blank document with the school committee members as well just so we see what that starting point looks like it’s a different packet for every director but I can either share one or I sure all of them I would like to yeah so then the more education we have really our job this year is to Advocate and I I want to have all the information to do that

34:40 absolutely um so if you can share those with us at you on the look out the next day or so you careful what we wish for right um and I have been in touch with um the chair of incom and we’ll be planning our first joint meeting with incom the aons which were just determined in the last week or week and a half um and that that is going to be Al Wy who’s the chair of incom Pat Franklin and I know her name Mollys yes Mollys who’s wonderful um and those will be our three ladies on so we’ll be meeting with them setting up a meeting with them for the beginning of December all right does anybody have any

35:27 questions for Dr mcginness or or Michelle were you there part of that all right that brings us up to our consent action agenda items schedule of bills I will ask for a motion to approve the identified schedule of bills totaling $768,500 $768,500 yes yes Brian Oda yes Jen Shatner in favor Sarah Fox in favor motion carries five to zero um then we had three different Dees

36:13 of meeting minutes in your packet so I will ask for a motion to approve the minutes for 824 23 9723 and 10 1123 Sarah actually I uh wasn’t there for the 24th so I’m abstain from that one so maybe we can do them do that one separately um yes so I will ask for a motion to approve 824 23 so moved moved by Jen shner approv uh seconded by Brian Oda roll call vote um I just say I I’m GNA email that um I haven’t met is it Alison Alison but my name is spelled incorrectly so just just also on all of these um when she we

36:59 talks about other individuals present um your title for these meetings should be switched to Acting Superintendent she has you as assistant superintendent but because you were sitting at the table in a different role that if she can just switch that on there so we’ll approve it um yes so I’m looking for a motion to approve pending those um edits um Megan Taylor St stain okay uh Alon tiller yes Brian Oda in favor Jen chatner in favor Sarah Fox in favor motion carries four to zero with one exstension I’ll ask for a motion to approve the minutes from 9723 and

37:45 10123 so moved moved by Jen Shatner seconded second Brian Oda roll call vote Megan Taylor Sarah just on these I did send an email to Lisa with some M like just some minor tweaks like you know like Jen had mentioned wrong names in some places or um for example CPAC wasn’t wasn’t um written correctly so I can approve them with those but just so everyone knows that I sent those um changes to her okay and then just moving forward if you can just let um send those to me as well sure thank you and just so it’s a different it’s not Lisa just I think it’s Allison Alison McMahon I haven’t met her but she’s the one doing the minutes so oh I didn’t know we had

38:31 someone I it was Lisa yeah it says submitted at the end of the the minutes it’s the final line who is submitted by all right well my email went to Lisa Manning so hopefully it’ll get to the right person um so did we have a i’ asked for a motion to approve 9723 and 10 1123 it was moved by Jen seconded by Brian I’ll ask for a roll call vote Megan Taylor yes with those changes Alon Taylor yes Brian Oda in favor Jen chaper in favor Sarah Fox in favor motion carries five to zero um that brings us to school committee communication discussion items um on the first agenda item here is forum and Community

39:19 discussion topics um we had talked about this has been a topic that we’ve been saying for a couple years now and I’m happy to say we’re going to implementing it now we will have a series of public Community forums um where there is a discussion with the committee and the public the public can ask us questions that we’ll answer we are here to hear from them it’s it would be a two-way dialogue versus I think a lot of times people are trying to have that in public comment which is not um public comment is for the public to make the statement not to have an interaction with the school committee so the first one we’d like to have is on budget um and we would like to have that in the beginning

40:04 of December so um I will send out dates and I’ll give everybody um two to three days to get back to us on those dates and we will pick whatever one works for the most people um given up hope a little bit of making it work for everybody so we’ll do what works for most people hopefully get it capturing us all and it’ll be a great opportunity to really have that dialogue with the community hear what they with their questions that they’ll want answered through the budget process the goal here will be that as we go through presenting our budget through the budget books and the budget um workshops and things if we know the questions people have up front we can answer them up front in those presentations and they’ll they’ll be more fruitful as far as um working with

40:50 the community so we’re going to invite everybody to attend that and we’ll have much more communication as we as we come up to those dates on where they’ll will where they will be located what the format will be and so on and so forth and if if there’s um feedback from the committee now would be the time to share that well we’d be trying to do more than one right yes this this one yes is the first one great that’s great and we’re I’m gonna this will hopefully be the first of a successful group of community discussions all right so we have the approval of school Improvement plans next I’m going to ask um principal Mandy

41:35 Murphy to come join us and present The Village School Improvement plan and then we’ll move on to bber and

41:46 BR do you want Frank to pull your slides I I don’t have slides but might be easier for the audience

42:06 right thank you um so for Village School we have three goals and I’m just going to give the three goals first and then I’ll go into details on each goal our first goal for teaching and learning is 100% of Village Ela and Math teachers will Implement and provide high quality instruction to all students using Whitten wisdom and illustrative M our second goal and you can just say there um is with the assistance of our coaching staff and teacher leaders Village will create opportunities to offer relevant PD through staff and PLC meetings in order to strengthen our teaching and learning and then our third goal is Village will Foster un strengthening a sense of belonging for all students within the Village School Community to promote inclusivity

42:54 recognition education and Foster relationships so if we look at that first first goal of teaching and learning as you can see on your screen um we’re adopting a new curriculum as everybody knows this year um and our teachers are well into learning with and wisdom and this is a team effort um I want to say it’s it’s a unique opportunity to present this school and gr with as we’re in the middle of for you know a couple months since the school year so I can speak to a lot of the things that we’ve done so far and then what we’re going to continue to do um our teachers are working dur during their PLC time and after school um collaborating together they all have common planning time so they’re using that to really help each other we’ve even had Parents through our PTO coming in and helping with some of the little

43:41 nitrd details of uh copying and making c um word walls and all of that so it was really helpful to have the whole Community involved in learning wisdom um so for El I was in fourth grade today and they have a teacher who was um facilitating the PLC and they were doing an amazing job they’re really talking about the upcoming lesson and looking at where they would be going and then working backwards from there which is really helpful and doing it together as a team and then she provided time for them afterwards to be planning and collaborating with one another and it’s nice to see that happening across the Great levels um this is our really our first genuine time with an pla curriculum that everyone is using so that’s why it’s really important for us to say 100% of ELA teachers will be

44:27 teaching that curriculum and Math teachers as well um so math um our teachers are um in their third year of illustrative math so they’re really looking at what’s been working what isn’t working identifying areas of need and working together to problem solve through that Angie Riano I have to give her a shout out um working between vets and Village is really doing a great job to help the village and vet teachers to be able to collaborate with one another looking at data and really informing your instructions that’s been really helpful she is an absolute rock star so excited to have her this year um and then that alignment um we’ just had a meeting with 4 through S so we’ve already been doing the alignment meetings which is really huge we will

45:12 continue to have vertical alignment meetings what we also noted is the last time that we had our ELA teachers meeting with one another and our Math teachers meeting with one another um what was interesting is we don’t ever provide the time for teachers across grade levels to really work with one another so we saw that there was importance from fourth to fifth grade or fourth to sixth grade for them to be sharing what their curriculum looks like and that was really important so we’re identifying where we’re going with that plan moving forward so we can really dive into those areas um and this is a need across schools but also within our school too so it’s important to have those dates on calendar thank you to Julia for providing those ahead of time really important to have those so that people know what they’re with be go to

46:00 our second goal professional culture um and working on um relevant PD uh we’ve already had a couple opportunities this year with PD our staff meetings are taking taking a different turn this year we do um I do a village communication out to all the teachers and it’s just a running record of everything that I need to communicate out to them and then our staff meetings are taking on so every single staff meeting that we have is a te teacher Le p and it’s been really important for teachers to be able to have that time to work together um so we’re creating surveys for what um yesterday we had our PFS meeting which is in line with that and they created a survey about what are you looking forward to learning and what

46:45 is it that you have as a level as an area of expertise that You’ be going to be the staff meeting on so we already have those experts within our building but then also providing those opportunities for staff to go out and take part in PD and bring them back to our staff those staff meetings that committee has been putting together resources of PD free in the area um sometimes it’s not free um Julia has been doing a great job weekly sending PD so we’ve been using that as well so it’s really been a nice team effort there where we’re providing all of that those opportunities and then bringing it back in our first staff meeting that um I would say sticks out again is Angie and she led us through MTS and cycl as fans talking about what that looks like for

47:31 all of our teachers we’ve been doing that for a few years but we really are so working through the pieces of how that looks on a regular basis um and and from there we were able to provide opportunities for looking at all of our students we’ve got enrichement opportunities now which is different from what we had before we were just targeting students um for interventions for Math and then moving more towards Ela but now we have newspaper club which is happening during that time so it’s been really meaningful for for all the students it’s really turning into to Wind Block and that’s with that help of having a p schol and having people researching and looking for other resources to um we also had our e teachers do a presentation and they talked about what elel looks like and how that fits into

48:18 the ELA curriculum as well and so that was really important for all of teachers because we don’t quite have that opportunity always for all of our teachers to learn about what you so that was fantastic um our third goal I know I’m sending a lot out at you if you have any questions you have it all in front of you um and we can talk about it after um diversity Equity inclusion um so we have a group that’s our um Dei group and they’re part of our PFS they met yesterday and three times during that they came to find me um to with the ideas that they’re really excited about we have SE day coming up next month or next Wednesday um rock your rock your mocks so U talking about mopin and

49:04 everyone in the school is going to wear turquoise um and they’re providing opportunity for staff to give some feedback on what that looks like in order to be inclusive and give recognition to everyone whether that’s neurodiverse whether that’s culturally diverse um they also came to me saying we love to have a student Leed group so get a little student voice um in terms of what students may see and want to improve upon and how we can be more inclusive in that piece so they’re really excited to get that started that could even be at 215 to 245 so that all students are able to participate in that so we after yesterday I feel like we’ve got a lot of these things that are already in place and it is a unique opportunity to talk at this point in the

49:50 year um but um we we’re we’re working hard and the teachers are really committed to all of our goals any questions

50:00 I am really excited to hear about the survey that you put out just yesterday and I’m excited to see what the results of that are um because I do think we have so much talent in our buildings and if we can we can have our teachers leading some uh you know it’s the whole train the trainer model or letting our our staff show each other what they’re excelling at um it also I’m not going to lie helps our current budget situation because we can still be having this PD we can still be providing things that our our staff needs but it’s a way to get a productive outcome while working within the confines of tough budget I’m happy to here I like the way you’ve

50:46 changed your staff meetings to be more PD focused and you said you use teachers to provide some of that how do you select those I mean is it based on topic of that particular fact staff meeting it’s yeah so last year we had teachers that came and noticed that executive functioning was an area of need and with mtss and when that was really something they were feeling passionate about so they went out to a p on Executive functioning and came in and said we’d love to do this so if they go to a PD then they’re actually expected to come back and teach the rest of the staff okay um the survey that went out to staff also asked people if they were interested in doing this and the teachers created this survey you know this is a team effort it’s not just me it’s people really taking the lead which

51:33 is really great it speaks volumes about our teachers so so they want it and they’re ready to dive into it which is really great so anybody else have any questions for me great um I’ll probably approve everything all in one

51:54 motion I’ll invite um Mary and hope up to share the Glover in Brown School school Improvement plans which are now um one document they used to while that be separate documents I like this speaks to how we want to align and you have the same experience whether you’re a brown student or a Glover student so this is great it off to you guys everyone good to see you um so you did such a great job I’m just going to say for the first one ditto because um what you’re going to hear is a lot of the same kinds of goals and uh the same kinds of strategies and that really speaks to the alignment that we are really seeking across the district

52:39 and I think when NY spoke about you know it’s the first time we really have had this you know alignment for her her uh grades for math or for the Whitten wisom pce we’re see we’re doing that he all the way up right so you’re going to hear a lot of that same same kind of language there so our first uh our first one is our teaching and learning and again it’s fully aligning uh with our uh our multi-tiered systems of support and I do want to talk a little bit about um our efforts to demystify mtss and try to really help people understand it because it’s um it is I I tell I tell the teachers uh multi- tiers multi- years it

53:25 takes it takes three to five years really to to um have change really make the impact that it’s designed to make and um it it has a a budget impacts as well right so people need to understand what it is that we’re asking for when we when we say things like well our plc’s or mtss or so we’re working really hard to sort of demystify those things because you’re going to heing that not just hear it last year you’re going hear it this year you’re going hear it next year because it does it takes a right um so in that multi-tiered uh system we really want to increase overall achievement and uh strengthen that teacher capacity to really look at that

54:10 tier one instruction the instruction that all students receive um and we want to do that uh by obviously implementing WT and wisdom consistently across all grade levels making sure that um all students have the same opportunities and experiences um and we also want to give um multiple opportunities for teachers to visit other classrooms to see what does it look like in other classrooms and we’re um actually now working on a schedule for teachers to be able to do that because it won’t happen with a schedule we can say it like oh when I get into your room I get but until we get that schedule so we’re working on that now um we’re ongoing training with the Wht wisdom uh ongoing coaching uh

54:55 and that’s really that tier one piece is for the um the the IM math program also the Whitten wisdom um but for the mtss multi-tier systems of support uh foral we need to do that as well right so that tier one um looks like uh responsive classroom training uh pvis in all classrooms uh what is it what are zones of Regulation and how do we teach that and how do we help kids access those things so those are all the things that we’re also trying to align in our tier one space so that all children have the opportunity to take a break and what what are the kinds of tools that we’re giving them before they get to tier two in three um so we’re working really hard

55:42 again um having boards we had uh some great um uh support from the district level to have some responsive classroom training and um at both schools and and our specialist teaches yes they’re actually going to a training next month December y they’re going to one so we’re really looking at consistency so when you know when a child goes from P to one to two they’re still hearing the same language the same um approaches the same opportunities um seal wise but also academically and um socially and their expectations and it’s um and that just gives you a sense of Safety and Security as well for a child they just they know they know they’re in a safe and secure place when they know what to

56:32 expect um and then uh we will have uh we started a math wi block as well as so now we have both an intervention period for literacy and we have one for we’re still developing that this is the first year it um but uh really excited about the um frequency in which teachers are progress monitoring their students in which they are designing intervention um instructional routines and um learning how to progress monitor that over a six week period and how to analyze that data to make the best decisions they can about data instruction so that’s sort of the B of our first goal on this learning and that Hope G

57:18 Talk and we’re doing that both schools yeah just miring each other um this goal is professional culture and the goal lover School staff will engage in multiple opportunities brought here to develop and strength a positive engaging and unified professional culture where staff members pH of belonging PR as Educators and you heard Randy mention that s that school Improvement plan groups we both have school Improvement plan groups at our schools that monthly on Wednesdays after school and they’re they groups that are working direct directly with our school just want to ask a question that’s your school advisory Council right no our school advisory council is a team of parents and teachers that

58:04 meets monthly and we review updates for the school and schoolov that’s a little different this is our teacher working on our school hate to throw a wrench things School Improvement plans should be coming through your school advisory they should be developed in your school the expectation is they’re being developed in your school advisory

58:32 ioke that’s aligned I think maybe yeah so it’s it’s um the plan for Success a districtwide document that feeds into our school Improvement plans we have working groups that are working on different things that that go into but our our school Improvement plans are developed our school because they should be entirely owned by your school advisory Council and no one else right they’re they’re actually just doing the action steps like work they’re implementing the one that was approved last year rather than developing the coming presentation yes okay you got you got I was like that’s perfect so for example one of our uh goals under tier one is to make sure

59:18 that everybody has responsive classroom training and understanding one of the groups is on responsible implementation yes perfect let’s just call a second

59:33 okay and we have groups to strengthen that mtss talking about we’ve got a PBIS group we’ve got a responsive classroom group social emotional learning group we have a diversity Equity inclusion group a math data group and an e Ela facilitation that’s working on that new this leads me to my question yeah combining the two schools in one school Improvement plan sort of makes it sound like both schools are identical but they’re not brown is much larger than Glover there are different teacher groups there are different parent groups I don’t understand how you can have one plan for both schools especially if it’s going through the advisory system used to have two because the schools are

1:00:19 different for example your mcast SCS they not the same so your school Improvement plan to improve mcast should have very different goals between two schools yet you’re not representing the year in one plan for both schools so I just wondered why we combin them in the first place they used to always be separate because the schools are different maybe that’s something for the interim superintendent to look at at some point in time sure uh that’s a good question Brian um I I think it’s best that they are the same and we had three elementary schools in my former district and what we did change to this model and it’s similar to the tiered system that you’re describing for students tier one

1:01:05 is we’re all working on the same standards for the grade level because in the past if you were in a sub separate class or you were an eel student you might not be learning the standards that people were learning in a gened class that didn’t have those kids in it so similarly everybody has the same goal but based on your data that’s the key part here mcast is different at schools so you’re what you’re doing and the outcomes that they share that they will share are going to be different but they’re all going to be working on the so it’s a theme it’s almost like if you think of the school improv hoods as tier one this is what we are all implementing Wht and wisdom so we want to do it with Fidelity and integrity uh but it will be different at different schools because you have different resources you may have different number of instructional coaches you you know you have different

1:01:50 Personnel Resources that have different strengths too so I see what you’re saying absolutely how do we then articulate that and probably in your small working groups that’s how they do it because you’re right the the data is different and the needs are different for your student body um at the two different schools I know that um but I think what the the theme is is that the cohesion um across the schools meaning in every second grader is going to you know but they’re going to be at different levels and different student make up in your I also think that it’s um probably because we’re trying to implement this muled systems of support and there’s such there’s a lot of work to do around that that our our Improvement plans are really about

1:02:36 building those systems so so firmly so that we don’t have kids slipping right so that really is our plan for both schools however I think um you’re absolutely right when we have those data meetings and honestly they didn’t never had those right so this is new um in terms of really disaggregating the data so that they can create those plans the plans won’t look the same right in terms of in the classroom or what the coaches are um helping each PLC to facilitate but the system will be um consistent so I’m gonna let you finish because we haven’t finished your

1:03:22 plan but I will say um maybe what we want to talk about is I I think the goals need to the goal needs to be the same the metric by which we measure the goal needs to be the same the action items May differentiate because the action item in brown would probably be different than your action item at Glover because your data that you’re putting in is different your scores your this your your um class sizes all that we wish it wasn’t different and we’ll get to that point but it is now so um we’re not going to switch it in this plan just going to put that out there I think um but as we go through the process of developing next year I think that that’s something you guys will want to look at is goals should be the same metric for measuring should be the same but the action items I think should be

1:04:08 more school supps specific and and that’s you know I I how do you get two separate School advisory councils to agree I mean are you bringing it back to them sort of after each iteration iteration so um I I think this is a goal of the district what we’re developing these systems I mean we 2012 is when uh you know Massachusetts really push for ntss and it really has not developed yet in to be um perfectly honest so we that has to be at the top of our list and we need to do it across both schools so um I

1:04:53 absolutely said to our school advisory Council this is what we need to be doing here’s how I’m thinking about laying it out here’s what Glover is thinking about here’s how we need to implement this what do you think and they’re absolutely um did I feed that to them 100% 100% I you know but um do they have a greater understanding of it now they absolutely do and they’re incredibly supportive so I think we have some discussions and work to do moving forward on on really look reviewing the guidance from the state on what an sa’s goals and objectives and um guidance from the state are and what they should be because it’s mov went from site based to school advisory and

1:05:40 it they lost some of their teeth quite frankly when we made that transition and just aligning that as we move forward those are reflective of that um not having tonight get that um and so I mean I would think that school advisory councils would have similar experiences throughout the school like there should be also consistency there too I would think right so they’re different right they’re developing different plans but the process I would think would be the same or this exp or the sort of experience that the members of SEC have and I will say some of the disconnect I think for us is coming from up until two years ago um there was always a school committee represent on

1:06:28 the sa’s so we kind of saw the sausage being made um and then we made that shift as a district away so when these come to be presented to us it’s a little bit more like explain to us how we got here because we’re not seeing it um so I think you know that was a shift in the district that happened so th the more questions um all right you guys have another goal and I didn’t my invis Council today

1:07:00 um and we’re going to provide opportunities for teachers to learn professionally from one another that was the other part of it right now I know with responsive classroom that’s one of those two one supports that we’re working to implement our teachers a lot of them have been trained or specialist teachers trained but um we’re surveying teachers and seeing who want some more training observing other teachers they’re sharing out at faculty meetings so that train and trainer mon to show teachers here some resources you can use more so that’s something that’s already St it’s really exciting and they’re creating resources for teachers to share with one another so we’re not entertaining that’s been exciting to see um our last goal is diversity the inclusion and round staff members will

1:07:47 work to ensure accessibility as it relates to students as measured by the implementation of the Decap and sharing best practices during professional development time the Decap is the district curriculum accommodation plan and those are accommodations Sol for any student we want to make sure all students belong and all students have access so that’s something that we’re looking at to um our action steps provided PV teams and mental health teams ways to develop protocols to collect some more data on our students um continue to build inclusive practices and to use commonly gener schools along bis and schoolwide expectations I know my school one thing I’ve been really excited about our PBIS

1:08:34 they make little videos to share the um expectations for the month and they’re they’re pretty professional looking they have a little lobster cartoon that talks and talks about how we show responsibility different parts of lover they’ve been doing a lot of work around that um it’s really so’ been working on and our d team right now is working to provide some opportunities during our next faculty meeting and having teachers just take a little deeper into the Decap and Survey them about what are some trainer trainer expert training that you want with so do you need more social emotional training we have people that can do that Ty so you need some more academic training and what can we do for you so that’s

1:09:21 teach um any other questions from the committee all right so I am going to ask for an approval of the school Improvement plans as presented for the Glover School the Luan Joseph Brown School in the Village School moved by Jen

1:09:41 shner by Brian OD I just has a question um Dr re she may not know this but what is the normal cycle for this or calendar this if this should be done in the spring um we usually prove them in June yeah we and we have in the past um absolutely we will ship that for this year yes um they will they will be um my goal will be to have them on the last meeting in okay um so again uh the motion on the table roll call vote uh Megan Taylor yes Alison Taylor yes Brian Oda

1:10:26 approve Jen chaper in favor Sarah Fox in favor motion carries 5 zero thank you um one thing before we move on well kind of merges into the subc committing L on updates I’d like to talk about is you know we did choose to go to take the school committee gison off of the school Improvement plan um I would like to discuss that again because I think that it’s a really nice collaboration it’s a way for the school Committee Member to really hear more granular level what’s going on in our community and it was nice as each of these plans came up when there was questions you know if say I was on when when I was back on Bell um I’ll use that because it doesn’t exist anymore no one

1:11:13 can feel left out um it was really a way for me to say well this is this is what was the conversations that went into this this was really helpful and people felt really strongly and just kind of having some of that background information is helpful um so we don’t this isn’t something we need to decide tonight but I I would like on the next agenda to talk a little bit more about this and um see where the committee sits with it um just on that piece if we are going to talk about it in the next meeting I would ask Teresa if you would maybe get some feedback from the from your team on what is helpful for the principles as they develop their school Improvement plans because that’s really what we’re looking at right how do we we add you know does it add value to that process

1:11:59 so if you could provide some feedback on that that would be helpful um so subcommittee in liaison updates and discussions uh already talked about how we are going to be having a our first finom leaon meeting the beginning of December um one thing I just want to talk about was the conference we were able to attend there were some really wonderful workshops um we all attended different ones and were able to kind of bring back some different data and brochures and different things like that one that I attended and I believe Jen Michelle Michelle May or at Chapter 70 um so it was on Chapter 70 and it really explained you know the Chapter 70

1:12:47 funding what goes into it and factors that can higher or lower your threshold they offered to come out in communities and and to do the presentation free of charge in the community so I immediately charged up to the woman at the front and asked her to come to Marblehead um particularly with our funding where it is there’s a lot of Chapter 70 funding seems to be really a mystery out there I will say it is the number one largest state revenue stream that comes into Marblehead um so it’s it’s important it it’s a big number and it’s important so I’m going to be working with that individual to see we’ll start with her calendar because it’s going to be tighter than ours and um I will work with fincom as well because I would like to include them coming and hearing this

1:13:33 and also there’s any members of the board of Selectmen and we’ll have it open to the whole Community because since it is one of the main Revenue drivers in uh Marblehead I think it’s really important for us all to understand what is Chapter 70 but funding how is the formula made why do we get so much less than other communities um because it’s the scale of what people get is drastically different um one other piece that I went to on funding you see a theme Here was U medicate funding that’s you know they talked about money that districts are leaving on the table unfortunately it’s one of those things I remember years ago and we talked about doing some grant funding for for technology and the

1:14:19 question was well why have we not been doing this we were too poor to do it because you have to spend so much to get so much back so there are a lot of things that we’re leaving money on the table because we just can’t afford to this kind of seems like one of those we would need to hire more staff to adequately do the Medicaid building which will then bring more money into our Revenue stream and Marblehead we can’t afford the staff to get the money it sounds crazy but um it’s kind of where we are at it was another really good seminar I thought that explains it might help to just say briefly the way it works is I learned learn a lot that a lot of the services that are provided to our students through the district um whether it’s occupational therapy Physical Therapy speech language that is

1:15:07 all eligible to be reimbursed some of it to be reimbursed by the Medicaid system um so there you know there’s a lot of stuff that has to go through to do that but it it is a revenue source and so we you know probably should be looking at how we can make that happen in a way that is net a net gain for us and for our budget um and it might actually be worthwhile do have that person out too that’s another option um just so that we understand you know so that fincom and the public understands this is what it would take to be able to do just the administrivia as I call it um to uh to be able to access the funding source um for the

1:15:53 services that they talked about how um um there is no community in the Commonwealth that is actually meeting what they could be getting for the fund funding um for the Medicaid there’s so much more you know there’s there’s two Fields the money can come in with you can just kind of do a flat fee from an administrative and then you can do like a billing almost like a medical billing for all these Services we’re doing which by the way from what it sounded it sounds like some of what we’re doing in the classroom not just the OT the PT the each can also get reimbursement um and they will come in and do an audit I think is what she said can we afford to get the staff we need to get the money I don’t know but this is a this is great data to have if these services are free and we have the

1:16:42 band with to do them then um so we can have the data to then go back to fincom and say this investment or in the town this investment could yield this Revenue stream so just a little plug on you you know there was some really good information that came out of that conference and we’re going to uh like our professional development for teachers we’re going to see what we can bring in for anybody interested in our community that will then be able to further that any other uh subcommittee and liaison updates um so the policy committee has not met I don’t since the last meeting because I gave an updated the last meeting I’m trying to actually set it up Elis and I’m going to send out to you

1:17:28 and Julia Dr m is um maybe hopefully meet the maybe right after Thanksgiving we can find some time um to do that we have a number of items um to cover um I did receive back a commentary from our Council in regards to the draft flag or I we’re calling it actually signage policy um so we can review that at that time and and have some discussion around it there are a few other policies that we need to review do wanted to still talk about the recess um that’s been out there um we still have the student actually may need you to or at least Steve we had the student um electronic usage policy we had some questions on so we need some followup to that um so yeah so we’ll be doing that hopefully Alison I’ll work with you offline if we can

1:18:13 find a time um one of the things that Dr M and I spoke about earlier was um we’ve received some communication from a number of students in the district uh basally around um the discussion we’ve been having on potential again I’m calling it flag policy but sign into policy and there there appears to be a a not appears there is a strong desire by some the students to uh have a opportunity to speak about how they feel about this um and while we certainly have public comment during um during our policy meetings they one we did have was during the day during the school day so that probably wouldn’t work so Dr mes I talk about maybe there’s some opportunities for us to get out into the school um probably the high

1:18:59 school but maybe Middle School too and have an opportunity to hear from the students directly so Allison will work on on that as

1:19:12 well um no the superintendent’s safety committee meeting has been moved to Wednesday before

1:19:21 Thanksgiving it’s the fourth Wednesday mon yeah the fourth Wednesday it just it fell that way yeah we have okay all right good to know um and then Megan do you have anything from CPAC or Meco updates okay um so that brings us to new business school committee announcements and requests I have oh go ahead oh no Megan please no go go ahead it’s all right um I would like some information at a future school committee meeting and we can talk about about um how long the runway needs to be to get some information on this Ai and how that works into was it was a seminar I didn’t get to get to but Ai and how we’re using

1:20:07 it in our schools what the future of it might be in our schools and I’m GNA guess we’re gonna need a lot of PD for that because it’s new but it seems like it’s coming at us really really fast so what that looks like and what’s possible so if we want to talk about that um on a future in agenda it’s definitely an interesting and the say for me a little scary topic so I’d love to hear some more about that um and then a quick question for you Julia I ready I know our teachers use the data within the school year do our teachers have access to last year’s data to see the growth Trend over multi-e or no yes we can do that but they wouldn’t have it readily in front of them because it populates

1:20:52 with their current students okay we could do that during like a data meeting which structure for um so we have the data it’s always archived but we would pull it for who they had last year again it populates current rosters right now okay so is it a program that there’s some capabilities of specialization with the company or like for instance um when those come home to a parent you can see the growth within this year but is there a way to have that populated like a growth chart at the pediatrician where you see a multi-year growth projection so you see our they tell you when your child’s growing at the pediatrician your curve is your curve not everybody’s curve is the same um is there is that a data capability of

1:21:38 the program to to see a total life of the program growth curve it may not that’s I don’t believe it is but a great question um but we can also see how far we can go back with our family reports which we do give to families so we can I’ll check to see if we can go back previous years and those have fames access that so I’ll look into it it’s a great question so yeah because I mean I hope that families are looking I mean this is this is a great tool our staff is clearly using it um I hope families are looking at it when those reports come home because it can be a great tool for families as well um I hope all parents want to be engaged with their with their kids education but um I I think of it kind of that growth curve with height and weight education too are what’s your

1:22:25 and just so if for families watching some families are going to get those at the conferences that are coming up okay and some are going home with the students just depending on age Lev okay um so I checking my notes I think Megan oh yes Megan um so it’s been great to have Dr mcginness at this first meeting it sounds like she’s been very busy over the past two weeks obviously there’s a lot of lot of work to be done and a lot of I’m sure information flying flying at you um and so one of the things we talked about last meeting was putting together the list of priorities for the interim superintendent job um or you know position here through the end of the school year I was a little bit surprised that it wasn’t on the agenda

1:23:12 for this week so I’m just wondering when we are going to as a committee uh lay out what the priorities are for the interim superintendent role so that Dr mcginness can be fully focused on and aware of what her expectations are so I think um we had talked about that work happening in a workshop model um when that did come up last week I’d referenced the um her contract that we all read that talks about that masc conference um and we have next week is the Thanksgiving week so I would I’m gonna hope to get that plugged in that first full week of December so that would be two weeks out so that we can have a workshop model because I really think that workshop model of us being

1:23:57 able to to sit and and check off those two things you know the the interactions and the Norms um as well as the goals would be the most fruitful place to do that rather than the typical business meeting so you are you suggesting that we have a workshop and a school Comm meting and a school committee meeting that first week that’s what you’re suggesting yes okay so I just think everyone’s schedules are super busy so we should get the that plan like ASAP so we can make sure that all committee members and Dr mcginness can be there and I just you know like at that point a whole month of her time here in our district will have passed for a seven-month job so I just think this is

1:24:43 something that quite honestly should be one of our top priorities so that Dr mcginness can be as effective as possible do we want to do it the week we could do it we could do at the week of the 27th there are five Thursdays in November so on the every other week Cadence we could most certainly meet on November 30th to do that that’s the every other week so let’s everybody please pencil that in November 30th um to do our school committee

1:25:23 Workshop perfect done um and then I did have my my one other question I have here is in the minutes we approved this Michelle question I got to flip to it um from our August meeting you talked about um the pay to ride program you had had gotten a tremendous response to and there was a small weight list do you have to know off the top of your head um if we still have a weight list or we were able to accommodate those students no we do still have a small week okay do you think we may be able to accommodate those or no haven’t reviewed that data lately so I will get back to it yes I’m not sure yeah I just when I was reviewing the minutes is when it popped in um because I know that Transportation last year we were able to accommodate the whole weight list by

1:26:10 about this time so I’m hoping that we can but I will take a wonderful thank you very much um so that brings us to 8:26 and I will adjourn us 8:26