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to 3:15 p.m. uh if signing the child out early this is a critical safety concern angine can you show the sign that we put up at the entrance of the primary building to just remind parents uh not that sign show sign uh to just remind parents please um I didn't there um this has been a challenge we've been having this is a little cheap it's talking about so um until we have something more secure in place something like offense we have these signs posted right there at the primary building to make sure that the all parents uh you know even if they Park in the D Auditorium those spaces to still come through this is just stand in practice what other districts do to check in at the office and this is a concern shared by the school office by Miss Lopez and Miss Lun and miss jazna and misson Mr Casey that it just we want parents to sign in just so we can you know know who's on campus picking up their student verses and I'll share it with you right now so everybody can hear I was in the primary building a few weeks ago I had a parent come right into that gate area and I saw it came underneath the gate waited for them in the primary building they walked right up to a primary classroom knocked on the door looking inside waving I didn't know who that parent was so I did what I'm sure you guys all want me to do I want said ma'am uh who are you here for have you excited at the office she berated me she yelled she screamed the words were my parent ex or what else would I be doing that's my child I wouldn't just be making faces at my child I'm this is my child and I don't have to sign in no no stop telling everyone here in this room I'm going to keep doing that whether anyone likes it or not and the second any one of you say you shouldn't do that well then that's not right you guys would all be you guys you guys would all be disappointed in me if I didn't ask that parent mother or father grandmother or grandfather uncle or Aunt cousin Jethro cousin Alie May whoever they are got a chicken at the office I think you should challeng anybody camp and you would have seen I mean the screaming raising of the hands flaing of the arms the teacher finally came out that's when we started sending letters home that have that that message from that side please for safety purposes that we both decide trying to be proactive please sign in at the office we just want it we want trying to have as safest Camp as possible so uh Chief Tibet made a very good point um Angelina can you show the attendance signment from the parent confe October 3rd um I wanted just to share also again just to put some human element behind it we had almost 20 parents at our October 3rd parent Cofe always making on school safety and 90% of of our staff that were there are also parents so we had mostly almost 20 parents there and what resonated with me was the comments from the school staff and here from the district also that that we love to see who's coming in before they're actually on campus and walking throughout the campus and and I'm just giving you my personal experience before I was here inalis Unified School District there was W one one physical entrance every day that every parent had to do it was a metal entrance BR iron magnet door with magnets on the top for locks you had to hit the camera there was two principal clerks in the front office looking at the camera who are you here for they hear the name they check power school to make sure that kind of what I was doing with that parent who gr and yelled at me in a a control Tire rate in the primary so um every comment made especially by the school office by m in is their words were quote when are we going to do something we like to have more security around campus they decided the Georgia high school they decided can we have one entrance one exit where we know the parents coming in this and the people coming in right now especially if they don't check in we're wide open and I'm just sharing with you what what they shared with me they they are just and this was shared also Mr had some good comments too I mean um and Jose was at that pairing coffee October 3rd and and the comments were just well wide open you know they had and and and they can't Georgia must have been stated eight or nine or 10 times and I said well look guys I'll give an update I'll give an update to the board share your concerns and we'll do Jose Jose took the initiative and and we look for some some uh some some quotes and you have that before you I also want to share uh an exceptional comment made by Miss Olson shared with me earlier today um I always call you guys the day of the meeting to remind you about hey we have the study session any questions and she made an excellent point she goes what about rod iron it's not chain link it might be more expensive but in the long run it might last a lot longer and not be as expensive as replacing the chain leak over and over and she also decided to check other parts of of the fence that are west of our campus I'll go with tomorrow but um so that's that's the point to share with you too but I just want to share with you what what what what the parents were were saying what the staff is saying and that's for um campus fence uh I have to reiterate I kep caring one entrance one exit for families and students just so that the school office in Angelina made a good comment too so you can open who's coming on cus you have multiple entry points here well Road so yes it's going to be a challenge it's not going to be easy but at least we're trying to do something we're trying to figure something out I mean it's not an easy things but it's possible real quick yes sir um well I don't I don't know what the time frame is on getting certain items of stall like the AI aspect of the cameras you'd be able to really quick see which parents are the ones that are just free free-ranging campus not checking in and then establish a pack um second um I love the idea of a rod iron fence I understand I believe it's going to be like four times the cost of this if I'm not mistaken um and then you know I'm sure you guys have looked at a lot of things but one thing that pops in my head I was at to Middle School the other day the way they have set up but you know only to Corral the parents and people coming on with the one thing maybe make the office over there its own additional area fencing where they have to go through there and then they have be buzzed on the campus to the office and classroom well if every entrance is closed and they don't have put the I know but they can still just walk right on the campus yeah without having to going anywh they can just walk straight to the classroom it's just a thought this is this is great input and so we have something to work with um PO said did did I miss anything or anything you want to add he he deserves all the credit right now he's been doing all the labor you want to add anything we can have a buers and automatic doors that way if they come on this side which will be this gate and Angelina will have a bun to open it from inside that we don't have to wait for somebody to go unlock it for them or anything same thing on the other side Mar or will have a a bun to open Automatic so this fence on the south side of the campus replacing that yeah this this would tend to this would go from the south from go ahead yeah the way from the buses the corner of the buses which is a is a bigger place that people already has we're coming all the way around to somei so so the fence on this side over here is Up's already there no we're got to think that one should be demolished and we're going to go all the way to the buses to the back of the buses so all the way to the light there it's going to go all the way all the way here yeah so the taller fence that's pre-existing back there is stain yeah thats to the green part is I we tried to put it in but it kind of got lost the the green here is going to stay and then the green up top here uh is going to stay everything in red is going to be brand new so my question is is if we do chain link I pray everything we don't but that's just my how are we going to do with this wall is it going to go on top of the wall is it going to go in front of the wall is it going to go on the inside of the wall you guys you guys are on it you're on the wall this is good can you we got to go in front of the wall because that belongs to P County we have to go on the inside of the wall but when we do the walk through I want to ask the people who's going to do the fence to see we can put uh taller poles so we can start it at the wall six feet up but then your next question is how you going to keep Intruders or people from going underneath it they can be pipe in there if they do that it can be pipes that way they don't just bend it over SL in there so how you going to get emergency vehicles in after hours there's no Vis vehicles coming in here after so you have a kid that dies on a football field like we've had before you get an ambulance into that kid how would you go about doing that well you know Mr Mr this is and for everyone in intense this is a great challenge that be talking about the fact that we're here to where we're talking about how are we going to do this once we have this we'll figure it out we'll get with professionals the Security Experts we'll share with them these questions that are coming up Aesthetics is very important Tyler Moore our finance consultant shared that also about you know you want also you want it to look nice as well um at the same time we want to be fiscally responsible this is from our capital budget we have to remember once we spend this money from the capital budget we lose that Li but at the same time there can be no part on on safety and how can we improve how can we improve like a keypad a keypad so like so like let's say deputies or ambulance need to get on campus yeah we can do that I mean I mean St have a c tap it on there come in but cards AR practic yeah but need like a will be better like because fire department any time this is we can figure it out we can figure out guys the fact that we're talking about it starter this is a longterm is going to take time but we have safe haven and ver in short term as soon as possible so what is our time frame on the fence um I supp okay okay we can just call people we can just start checking we can double check about the rod iron let us check into that and and if there's anything in between if no the r iron is just really out there two 300,000 okay what other options do we have this is 66,000 let's look into those options and when we we made this map earlier uh the people haven't been out here yet right this is just not and said this and this is how many Fe whatever so um this is just preliminary the quote that they they're giving us this is fall Park if we decide yes then they'll just like R did they'll come down and they'll walk around and they'll measure and say this and that we can ask them all of these questions that we had so we're still in the in the very much planning stage but this is good but it's first step the next the next part on your report is uh wanted to give you also an update on lockdowns active through emergency response drills you have in your your attachment you have the classroom emergency guide from P County Emergency Management agency that we use lockdowns have been held over the last three years 2022 to present each semester school safety team has planned in advance prior to every practice lockedown and in partnership with Puma County Sheriff's Office they've done a great job working with us on a few occasions we have also had participation from the Department of Public Safety state troopers we've also notified parents in advance to keep them informed of our intentions when we first did lock just everyone knows we first would put a notice in the copper news but the last year or so we went down from doing that just so it would be more more realistic and authentic and so we will notify parents uh the week the week before hey there's going to be a practice lockdown not telling the parents or even the staff and students what day what period so everyone's ready um the district office communicates with our families via School message or text and emails during and after the lockdown emergency response je reviews have been held during professional development with all staff each semester over the last two years we have the classroom emergency guide that we follow from Emergency Management specific Focus as you can see on an active shooter lockdown protocol you see the different details there um we follow the Run height and fight model as it pertains to active shooter and lockdown our staff has been trained in this protocol but it's always good to revisit again uh We've shared this protocol during our Corby school safety meetings 2223 and parent coffees with the super intend last year of this year so uh 12222 2723 11223 12423 and 10224 we have had um practice lockdown simulations uh following the run and fight protocol and so just we want to be proactive with our student staff and families and so you have that in front of you this is in every classroom it's in school office F Services district office so we just I mean I come in to work every day with this be my daily calendar that's that's just how Mr Mr Casey Angelina I'm just always having this you just you just have to have it so um that concludes the school safety report we wanted to show all the different things going on we're excited about this and uh we want to keep it so all I want to say is well done well done say Well done Ian we I'm happy I'm very thrilled doing this right I thought it' be years before we get a fence around campus so I think this is this is just awesome discussion on this on to the next it discussion vote on possible future executive session uh Mr President for advice the district attorney I'm just going to share with you um the board must agree both to go into executive session at a future meeting member of the board has requested an executive session for the discussion or consideration pursued to AR 34313 manag Rel to school safety operations or school safety plans or programs so I wanted to try and give you as much of an update as I could on school safety for that being said um there is a part there that talks about school safety plans it's the emergency operation plan and I called Mr multiple timesday so you want to go ex session at a future meeting to to discuss the Emergency Operations plan um you would have to take a on it because it have Tove to go into it and he his advice was if you guys do uh move to go into an executive session at a future we talk about the Emergency Operations plan and until that's on the agenda then share with you that Emergency Operations TR to be discussed in the executive session or his his advice to to invite you to come in individ and talk with me in the office first you guys ATT to you to decide if you want to go an exective session talk about the well um given our I still would like to go into an executive session at a later date over this um but I would like to put it on December's agenda to do that because of the nature of what was brought to us today yeah so I would like I still would like to but I would like to do it next month if possible yeah yeah so I just okay clarification so we would have to vote at the meeting before the meeting we have in executive session have executive session at the next one okay that's so we can't we can't like say hey we want to go in an executive session today today it would have to be a future Mee we can do that put on okay so next it's not only a question but a request um if anytime we get advice or opinions from the attorney can we get that in writing from him so that way there's no oh let me reach back out said I would prefer that because you know you and Rodney are the ones that are talking to him it could be good if he has an opinion he just tell you he sends it an email at least that you guys can send to us but I can do this is from October 3 I can okay that might alleviate because people have questions that might alleviate he might answer it in his in can V on Wednesday v on it make a motion to to what date or what time you want I can't so I'm going to make the motion that we move uh the executive session for the school safety operations to Wednesday or Wednesday's meeting November 6 December December oh yes what is that date December 11 December 11th sure okay um all in favor say I I I all oppos say no motion approved now we have possible new agenda items for next week one that I and at this point we okay I have a question so can we have a I don't think we can a public discussion it may have to be a private one regarding the concerns that are brought of to date by parents um I mean I don't want to you know because that's a Personnel issue and involving students so have to be an exective session you know maybe let me see we do that how we do that and I will get back no if there is anything you could possibly share Wednesday that'd be great I understand the privacy concerns and everything else with this regarding students and teacher so there's not that's fine but if there is anything you can share um I'm sure parents will love an update on it if they can get it okay then at this point I need to ask for I'll make the motion to recess any I'll second we're going into an executive session now we haven't voted yet vote okay so all in favor of moving out of regular session I all oppose say no there you go thank you guys come and get an application from me oh should I stop and you being a substitute teacher

at Dak and then our finance and Facilities meeting is scheduled for December 3rd at 600 pm at Dak um I just first of all um thank you again to everybody but also to our Administration for working so hard and putting this together I um personally have fought for a strategic plan that um really utilized and center the of our community because when your voice is being used to build the Strategic plan um I really think that you then buy more into the school district and want to see us succeed as everybody has said tonight collaboration is critical to get our students what we want I too am an oitf mom Dr katti will tell you that I often say to him why can my boy not play on the field that he's going to eventually go to high school with I to have fought for that but what I encourage is and I'm speaking as one person not for the board it's really critical that everybody understands that we don't have any information and so all we know is what's out on social media we haven't seen plans we haven't seen any of that so really help us crystallize this and put it together and let us be part of it but asking us to stand behind something that we don't know a lot about is really hard to do so I just want to be very clear here as one person speaking not the board not the administration please don't assume that you know what we know and don't know and please don't assume because a lot of people have put out there that we have personal agendas please don't assume that we have personal agendas my agenda for myself is the students and the teachers and the administrators in this district and I fight really hard for them so I just wanted to share that I needed to address some things that were said in social media that were very upsetting so I just wanted to put that out there but we can work together and we will work together when all of the things benefit our school district and our community so thank you very much for coming out tonight please come to more meetings and please participate because it was amazing to have everyone here this evening you're the you're the reason I'm coming up here because everybody got thanked but we do have elected officials here and I thank them for coming um the you know we we touch a lot of municipalities a lot of different taxing bodies Montgomery uh Village of Montgomery has always been there to uh work with us and talk with us and it's greatly appreciated and so I had to come up here Matt because uh I had to remind you right of a conversation that we had and for those that don't know what was that seven or eight years ago seven or eight years ago we sat at asgo East right big lights right and uh failed refer ROM couple of them right um and if you remember one of the things I said was this is going to be painful for years perhaps a decade we will not recover in a year we will continue to have these pieces and as I listen to people um for those who don't know a little bit about me I uh reside here right seventh largest school district and I work in the ninth largest School District and my wife is in 204 uh so I I I get exposed to a lot of these uh Luda districts right and I will tell you that here's the painful part right um a lot of what we are experiencing is growth but on top of that and I always listen people get tired of me talking about this Illinois is a very unique State and there is a line of unit districts large unit districts that stretches from almost Wisconsin right down to here and next to those unit districts you have high school only districts and you have Elementary only districts here's some numbers for you Yorkville spends $115,000 per student Newark which is right next to it their High School District spends $22,000 per student this is going to be hard for me to explain but I'll try imagine if you will you have a unit district with a $100 right think of all the things they have to do now think of yourself if you have a high school district they got a $100 bucket and there's a bunch of stuff they don't have to do they don't have to worry about elementary students they don't have to worry about Junior High Sports and on top of that they've got an Elementary District in the same boundaries that have their own $100 bucket they don't have to worry about high school sports this is why Manuka spends $21,000 in their High School District on students now I used to like I'll be honest with you I went through covid and I thought man and then I thought to myself wait a minute maybe I got this all wrong I've been sitting here for years thinking we need unit districts we we need unit districts and those high school and Elementary districts were able to maneuver through covid quite frankly better than we were I started to rethink things Elgen u46 second largest District I believe uh glenbard backs up to it they spend thousands of dollars per student more than what you're going to get in u46 so I I always like to always play the educator and sorry some people hate that um but I I do like when the community comes out and I can only hope we take these macro pieces too because I guarantee they affect us I promise you even when you don't see it they affect us and and seven or eight years ago I said someday there's going to be a board up here trying to explain that and I hope we remember so thank you but on top of this thank you because you didn't have to come tonight both of you didn't have to yeah I know well he called me a hero one time for the grandfather uh clause on the Thompson to you remember yeah I'm GNA hold you to that um but thank you because uh you're here and um you remember those those pieces and you remember those words so thank you also to the elected officials obviously thank you to community members means a lot that's it okay now we need to conduct a little bit of Business board members um action item 9.1 approval of Transportation routing system can I have a motion please yeah you come yeah come on up here make a motion to approve Tyler routing system to replace Veris Veris versatran sorry as presented Miss vmou Dr Mario Miss Johnson Mr Cerone Miss similton hi Mr pler Mr Gatewood motion passes 70 okay action item 9.2 um can I have a motion to table this item and move to November 18th make a motion to table 9.2 and move to November 18th the approval of the radio and repeater RFP Mr Cerone Mr Gatewood miss vmou Mr ploger hi Miss similon hi Dr Mario Miss Johnson motion passes 70 action item 9.3 approval of policy 2 colon 125 school board can I have a motion please make a motion to approve board policy section two School Board two colon 125 as presented Mr Mr Gatewood miss vmou Mr Cerone miss similon I miss Johnson Dr Mario motion passes 70 action item 9.4 approval of field trip overnight and or more than 200 miles make a motion to approve the field trip for overnight and or more than 200 miles Mr Gatewood Dr Mario Miss Johnson Mr Cerone Miss similon hi Mr ploger hi Miss venoth motion passes 70 action I'm sorry uh 10.1 can I have a motion to adjourn

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um Mr Hopkins here Mr K is pres stand by Mr Hopkins pres Mr K is pres mson here Mr mrz here I move second okay all in favor say I I all say no of the United States of America stands na [Music] yes meeting we have comments the visitors are welcome to speak on agenda and non-agenda items comments are limited to three minutes please state your name and address prior to making your comments please note that members of the board may not not discuss items that are not specifically identified on the agenda therefore action taken is limited to directing the administration to look into the matter responding to any criticism or scheduling the matter for further consider and com I have is Eric okay if you wouldn't mind I just want to state that this is me not as a board member making this comment as a member of the public and apparent to be student here so it's not an agenda item it's just need making a public comment just let's clear okay whenever you're ready let me know okay so Eric kard 220 West North Street um I already said my other thing here as a parent I received a lot of calls from relatives that have students in the school um I will not say what grade I will not say what age group but they shared with me some information about an assignment they were given to their student um I will be reading this paper without censoring it as is as given to the student so if anybody here want to hear no vulgarity or out there listing with children just so you know okay this is a Santa letter Dear Santa Claus two years ago I asked you for a Lady Gaga doll and you brought me a baseball last year I asked you for a Lady Gaga doll again and you brought me a baseball back this year once again I am asking you for a Lady Gaga doll if I see any baseball related [ __ ] under the tree I will have no choice but to hunt you down like the ignorant reindeer [ __ ] you are and break your fat [ __ ] legs capiche don't make me come to your house Merry Christmas love Tommy um I don't think that personally is anything a child should be given in school as part of any assignment um I feel it's inappropriate I would even feel personally that's be inappropriate to give to a high school student if that um I have family members in that class I will not say who the teacher was who the student was or what grade because I don't want to but I'm sure it's gone enough around town I just want to make it very clear that I'm not happy about that and I trust that the administration will be handling this appropriately that's all I have to say thank you next we have Brian Bell Brian Bissell 1722 North Washington Avenue um yeah the only thing I'd like to like to say is is on top of what uh Eric said so so my son's in that class um initially we were were led to believe by that teacher that this was the first time this happened now this came to light last Monday night and my son wasn't in class that day but we showed him the letter and asked him if he had recognized that letter and said yeah she's given to us that before uh the kids in informed her that there was bad words in there and she went on to explain to them that she that she will navigate them through them not to look at them and not to repeat them that's not how it's going to work they're going to look at the they're look at the words and they're going to repeat them um what's becoming kind of more alarming is as I discuss with other parents and people around town about this incident people are are are telling me a hey me too uh stories they all have stories coming so I don't know if this is the tip of an iceberg if there needs to be a a Readjustment in our teaching culture here um I understand it's hard to get teachers to AO okay I understand that but at at some point we got to make sure we're doing the absolute best we can to create a safe learning environment a good learning environment and where kids are being taught wholesome stuff educational stuff um you know I won't get too far into it but right away I was presented with what might be a cultural issue or a language barrier that may be but that in itself creates another problem if there can't be that translation to understand what you're given kids is completely inappropriate then that's not an excuse that's another problem so um as Eric said you know I have spoken to to uh our Administration I understand they are handling it just keep in mind that uh there's going to be lots of eyes on it so I hope it's handled appropriately thank you good evening my name is marget marget Bissell I've lived here for 30 31 years and um I have to disagree with Brian Bissell from my 30 years of experience the administration at AO schools have always sold AO short their glasses half full I have a an a experience with hila Bend Administration their glasses half full uh AO half empty he events have full and I saw the results and the difference I think a lot can be done to raise our profile so that we attract beautiful teaching step just to tag on to what he was saying about the culture and making sure we had a quality environment in addition and I'm here to speak about uh the incident that happens um I have a lot of thoughts about it don't have time to do it because I know this is just a call to the public uh if those teachers are on administrative lead and it this may become a a long drawn out process I'm a certified substitute teacher primarily I teach at Paloma but I am willing to be a long-term sub if that's what it takes so that our students our children have consistency I'm a very good sub I have a lot I'm not a teacher I have a lot of teaching experience so I wanted to throw that out there offer it up and if um that's a thing you all know how to contact me thank you my name Isis Co I live at 3755 I am also here to speak on behalf of the third grade teachers Behavior I do have this for you guys just so you guys can have a copy of it and behind there is a contract that the teacher himself made every single student sign and I am sure you all will see that part of that contract is no foul language no inappropriateness my thing is how does a teacher expect a student to abide by his contract and she break that contract also the other issue I have is what I believe is retaliation I went and spoke to miss Mercy about this on Tuesday brought up brought this up to her attention later that day my daughter came home in tears saying that her teacher cornered her in her classroom asking why did you tell on me you were not supposed to tell me we had a deal that is not okay you do not Corner a seven-year-old as a form of punishment she points lasers at their eyes what is she going to do when she gets a child one you know that's to me it's untolerable not safe for any of our children and if stuff like this continues and if something is not done about it I'm pretty sure the parents will agree with me there won't be a third grade class anymore because we will home that's my name is Carly Watkins I live on 130 Australia um my daughter is a student in that classroom um adding to everything everybody is already said I don't know if on that contract it has The Walking Dead on there number six um but we have all asked our kids what that means and she says if anything in the classroom that they deem to be inappropriate they are not allowed to talk to us they've been instructed not to tell their parents about anything inappropriate or also the principal so they're teaching our kids that it's okay to lie another adult a trusted adult tells them not to tell our kids stuff and that's not okay because living in AO there's a lot of bad stuff going like it's just like a thing um we don't want our kids to feel like if another adult tells them that they can't that they need to be quiet about something that they can't come to us and it's just it hurts good evening I'm Stephanie Buell I live at 17 to North Washington um my son I I have two sons now going to school here third grade and prek um I've lived an aul my whole life I've gone to school here graduated here in 2007 so I I've been um witnessed to you know the changes the and the flow of how it goes and I I do want to bring up the incidents with a third grade teacher and I want to make note that it it reminds me that long gone are the days of Mr or Mr farmer um Mrs Gren um so many others and um where you know was 20 30 or teachers that taught our parents taught us and I have to I asked myself this change of how um teachers are brought to the school does that benefit students or does it benefit the budget and is it possible that it only benefits one um because I have an opinion on that um so yes with the incident that the other parents have already brought up about the letter um that letter was sort of just the beginning and at first I was willing to just in my my opinion just be like okay well perhaps as a learning training thing it could be you know a suspension or a just something but now more has come to light that there's a an atmosphere of don't tell your parents um my son has told me she says I'm your second mom you don't tell your parents anything you don't tell the principal anything you don't tell on me um that's I dare to call that predatory grooming Behavior I'll call it um I no longer feel safe sending my oldest son to school here he's timid he's sensitive he listens to what adults say he's respectful he's not defiant that's not his nature and so um that's just that terrifies me that an adult I trust with my my beloved children would put him in that position to where he feels he can't tell us something um there are are rumors and reports and um that possibly this there's a couple teachers here that have had reports and things have been swept under the rug as a means to protect I don't know that's just a rumor but um we Al I also have concerns about the music teacher as well um about children sitting on his lap possibly allegedly um cradling the child and holding him in his arms telling telling the class he's my son everyone he's my son uh lots of concerns with that as well so now I'm just sort of we're sitting here wondering what else is coming to life and um it's not a good feeling I love AO I love this town that's why we're still here why we decided to create L here it's a choice and we'd like to keep it that way I'd like to have our kids graduate the same school we did um but that's becoming more difficult so thank you for listening [Music] begin first item up under information items president um Administration is seeking approval to pay a for jail anding during the prep period for special classes there is no board action necessary to St study session she the only she uh she's one of different right approve the other last addition yes what grade sheach next item is classifi res of teachers deah Mr pres de head school office schools has submitted her resignation she is moving out State her last day work was October 2824 there no board action necessary this is a stud session go the next volunteer position employment for basketball coach Mr President the board Miss AR mun who has been interviewed and has her IP favor print card is requesting to be a volunteer coach for the girls basketball team there is no board action necessary this is a study session item only [Music] and our next item is the approval for for for audit Services yes Mr President members of the board um for this item we're going to have our our finance consultant Mr Ty Moore he's going to join us and so um a unified issued a request for proposal RFP 20251 for the annual audit Services which must be rebid every five years a US currently the a US current RFP has expired multiple of the solicitation were sent out in addition a new a newspaper posting was also completed advertising and proposal for audit Services one response was received by the due date we have Mr Moore who's going to join us now I believe right Angelina he's going to give you a presentation on this item uh and we'll wait till he joins us can you can you hear me yes sir yeah good evening at BO president members of the board um Dr soer sums this up pretty good um I I don't have much to add I do want to note that uh this is the same audit firm that has served the District of the previous five years they did give us um in The Proposal kind of a different audit team which is uh um something we expressed in in the previous audit that you know we weren't getting the type of service customer service that you we deserved and so they did present a different audit team in this proposal um I do want to note that the cost proposal um all that uh the cost for the audit is reimbursable in the budget process the state mandates that we do an audit and they will pay for the audit in the budget process so um while the cost may look high or out of place um that is T that's a typical cost for an annual audit outside that I have nothing else to add unless there's any questions I understand you say that the state for thect that's correct the district issues a PO they pay for the initial cost and then in the budget process uh the district can ask for reimbursement for said audit expenditures so so what are your feeling why nobody else put in the F just one company well AO being a rural District um not a lot of we had an Angelina can speak to this as well we had a lot of people emails back and said they're either at capacity or they don't have uh a willingness to take on another client at this time so it's unfortunate I I reached out to a number of different people to try to get uh a bid on this and U I think there was nine different vendors we solicited and only one and only one bid so is this is this go ahead I think is this not something we would need to have the single vendor agreement with as well then the district followed all the procurement rules and so with there only being one vendor he this vendor did satisfy all the requirements I did call the auditor general and they said yeah with even one vendor as long as they satisfied the solicitation requirements which said basically turn in your bid on time please list your pricing um in your audit team and uh you they check all those boxes mistaken but we had the issue with of the one of the things that got brought up I thought was that it took so long to get the audit done and we've been waiting for that that but it took a long time for us to get our our audit back in order to that that was from a from a combination of they were also it was also had to do with te accouny the lien's office and the county treasurer's office the reconciliation not being done on time something out of our control and and you can also say technically I know talked about this something out of the audit control to where they're waiting for continuations to come in and it makes them late and turn in their audit so it was just was one of those challenging issues to where it was out of our control but this is what happened I believe we're having a new team come in this year so going to be good to have same firm or a fresh set of eyes coming in that's going to be good but I I I'm very confident with what Ty's talking about that they'll do a good job job we make sure to our expectations that we need to have this and what I believe the superintend county treasur there should be that issue this year if there is and they let us know we will get everyone to heads up it looks better this year than last year I remember you had the report had been submitted to the county superintendent but it was something on there and they didn't follow up the state time so that's what we kept getting those emails about you're behind your mind but it wasn't the district's yeah it fell on the county side there any further questions discussion that uh thank you your time thank you good night next item we have report on the ad yes Mr President board Mr Casey our data analyst Jack all trade and this will present to the board the latest information on school edre for the Y Elementary and AO High School I do have to State I believe this is real good news um we're showing steady growth steady Improvement Mr Casey going to go into more detail but we pretty much had a B+ uh for K8 a few points away from an A and we're at a C++ plus 900s of a point from a b so if you go from a a d just over a year ago year and a half to almost a b a c and K8 almost today um I'm very positive I'm just how I am you know get that glass half full and there's a lot of positive changes here in the district this is a result of a partnership with Beyond texbooks Veil Unified School District a district that's an a district so we're using a blueprint that an a district is using just so that everyone here and throughout the community and the public can I just want to reiterate that we have a partnership with an a district that is that is innovation that is not staying in the past and not doing things the same way we are trying to innovate our academic potential with professional leadership Community PLC team leaders looking at data we're also looking at just that Innovation so Mr Casey if you can please share um this great news of course we love to be an A and both but the research shows that steady growth is very difficult to do versus you go up really sharply then the regression analysis brings you back down quick this is this good growth and good data Casey good evening uh Mr President honorable members of the board Dr Salo misson and community members um I'm really glad to present the school grade report on November 1st Arizona Department of Education releases a school grade and also a district grade so I have here from 2017 2017 to 2020 we were allowed to keep pretty much the same grade that we earned in 2017 and in 2022 after covid our grades dropped down to a c and a d then last year we made Improvement sign a significant Improvement on the points and our grad SP up to a b and c for High School this year the grades are the same but the points are have shown Improvement so Elementary is a b and high school is a c and the district is a b g so it's a combination of lot of different components that um how they calculate the points it's out of 100 points plus addition bonus points eligible um the major part is the 50 points for growth for kindgarten through 8th grade and last year and this year we got 50 out of 50 for growth our students are consistently growing and we can see that um in the proficiency out of 30 points last year we had 8.91 points and this year it went up to 10.25 even though it looks like it's a small change um when you look at the number of students who improved so this is about like students at least being on partially proficient for them to earn points for the proficiency so what it means is like our students have moved from being minimally proficient to at least partially proficient and to proficient then the other points are 10 points for the acceleration and Readiness so that is looking at subgroup Improvement like by race ethnicity or socioeconomic status and migrant status and different subgroups if they are meeting or exceeding the priority year status performance and um we are also looking at some specific grade levels like 8th grade uh students if they are taking High School classes high school algebra classes and third grade students reducing the number of minimally proficient students So based on all that like a we ear more than 10 but it is cut off at 10 points so we got all 10 out of 10 points and the next is English Learners students proficiency and growth this was one area that made like commentable growth last year we had seven points out of 10 and this year we have all 10 out of 10 points overall um we had like a more than 25% of our English Learners getting reclassified as proficient during the reassessment so this was like a about the St da average and that's why we got all 10 points out of 10 for the growth as well as the proficiency if you look at this like we got the 50 out of 50 10 out of 10 10 out of 10 and the only area that we have room for growth here is the proficiency last year we got two bonus points for that is special education inclusion and like number of special education students served um in the district all based on the overall percentage and comparing that to the states percentage of special education students this year we received 1.5 bonus points so that is based on the number of students in the special education program um there is like additional points three points for the science uh fifth grade and 8 grade students take the science test but we did not earn points for that we didn't earn points last year we did not earn points this year either okay high school has a totally different criteria for calculating the grade proficiency is worth 30% same as the elementary out of 30 last year we had 15.85 points and and this year it is 10.8 so this is solely based on the junior class taking the ACT test and the growth component last year we had a different calculation we got out of [Music] 2018.75my they take the ACT aspir test and when they get to junior year they take the ACT test the state calculates the progress from 9th grade to 11th grade and compare it with other schools and other districts and based on that our students earned all 10 out of 10 points in math and 9.13 out of 10 in ela so our students are showing progress making uh Improvement showing growth at the Elementary and high school we also earned 10 out of 10 points in English Learners that is for proficiency our high school proficiency for high school students almost half of the E population got reclassified as proficient that was like sorry 15 out of 31 students like it was like 46% if I remember uh of the Year students who are reclassified as proficient we had a number of students like who has been in the intermediate very close to being proficient uh but they stayed in that area for many years we looked at under the guidance of Dr soltero and the E coordinator Mr VI seor and the whole eel team and even including the classroom teachers we looked at who are the students and what areas they need to improve some students were like slowing down in um listening they lacked the points in listening for some others it may have been the technical issue they were not familiar with speaking to the microphone on a computer like speaking to the mic so it was not getting recorded properly so once we resolved all these issues and gave them enough practice on the practice assessments they immediately move to proficient and that's how we earned all 10 points out of 10 for the English learners for the graduation graduation rate and graduation rate Improvement um last year we got 10 out of 20 points and this year it is 9.98 so the component one component is the graduation rate um they calculate for the four years and there is different weightage for that and they add it up it's a little bit complex calculation and we got out of 10 9.98 we got 10 out of 10 last year on that component for the graduation rate Improvement the criteria is either we show at least 2% improvement from the prior year or we have a 90% or above graduation rate if we qualify we get all 10 points if we don't we get zero so for the last two years we have received zero going forward we are looking at getting the time points from there then the next component is C CC which is College and Career Readiness indicators um different aspects we look at students taking CP classes students passing ACT test and students taking College during enrollment courses and um students who are taking AP courses and also meeting the 16 requirements required credits for the college readiness and other exams like other requirements like completing FAA and also taking all test like aswb and like a um CTS technical skill assessment CT license a lot of things we get points for each student last year we got 6.8 points out of 20 and we looked at where we can improve what we can do and the points went up to 10.5 points for out of 20 last year we had three bonus points and this year we have 4.5 bonus points points come from um special education students the percentage of special students in special education and students taking ACT Aspire percentage of students taking the ACT Aspire test so that is only participation students getting a valid score for the ninth grade ACT Aspire test this year last year we received one and a half points for AC Aspire and one and a half points for the special education this year in addition to those two categories we also received 1.5 points for the high school science test and this is the first time we received the science bonus points because we were close enough to the state average on the science test okay can we move to the next one thank you so at the K8 level we made Four Points gain last year we had already like almost maximized the growth component we already had a 50 out of 50 and 10 out of 10 in acceleration and Readiness and this year we improved points by getting more points on the E growth and proficiency component we got maximized points in that area too so the Four Points come from E Prof efficiency and growth as well as the proficiency growth itself and our total points was 81.7 84 will be an A and we are getting very close to that a grade only 2.25 points away from a grade but the challenging part is we need to continue to show that growth keep the momentum and show that Improvement to keep the a gr I mean to get to the a grade so we have to keep all those 10 out of 10 and 50 out of 50 and improve on the proficiency one other place we can look for is the science bonus Point okay let's move to the next slide for 9th through 12th grade we improved 2.51 points from last year year and last year we were already like close enough to a b grade and this year during their initial calculation we had a 20 out of 20 on the growth component but later on they corrected some mistakes or they refined their calculation so we only got 1991 sorry 19.13 I believe is the growth component point So based on the initial calculation I shared with the administration that we are most likely to get if they kept the same cut scores from last year we were supposed to get a B but then out of 900 of a point we missed the B so we were that close to getting a B for the high school but that will be the lower end of B if we were getting those many points 09 points and at high school we have room for improvement in proficiency graduation points and college and carer Readiness points so we can make significant growth and we are looking at making significant Improvement and getting a solid B and then move on to a a grade so the strategies um since the things that the strategies that we have used in the past years seems to be working and we seeing the results of that we are making progress so we'll continue using Beyond textbooks online curriculum framework and the performance matters formative assessment we like implemented with the Fidelity and we will continue to have the after school tutoring and J tutoring use those for especially for high school we don't have a dedicated time for retach and enrichment so we like to use those tutoring times um to compensate for or like mitigate any Miss time for retach and enrichment one new thing that we are doing is data meetings with teachers we have already had like a um all Ted grade levels we met with the teachers looked at the Benchmark assessment data and Dev data to see any Trends or any items that we need to address and also coming up with what we can do right now and what are the things we are going to address once the tutoring starts some of the things may involve like some SL schedule changes or identifying who are the students you need to be invited for the after school tutoring and um who other the students may not be able to stay for after school but can be addressed during the day okay okay that's all thank you thank you one question I have when when was the last time they changed that assessment tool so I know they change that every few years the test the state assessment we had act from 2022 was marri or ac2 it was AA before that like a high school changed into asa2 and before that it was AC see that whenever they change those tools the scores Dro down the first year used to working with that I wonder if it was related to that drop in2 I remember when you interviewed in your first um discussion with us you stated that you would really work with the yell program to bring the kids up and that would improve our school our great school our gr School look like you've been very successful I mean both both levels are 10 on 10 right right so we've done an excellent job with that good good teamwork great team from Mr B to uh the team leaders the teachers going Mr Casey um you know you guys are you know more than welcome to come and meet with me oneon-one and I can I still have the chart behind that door show just broke it down by student I love it pre much em basic Comm you heard him say the 50% reclassification rate what is this average State reclassification rate Mr Casey for high school I'm not sure about the high school but overall it is like in the 20s 25 20 25 range we were double that and that that just speaks to the to the testing of the hardworking staff and the leadership team and Mr is coordinator always looking at the data how we can improve be proactive good job team team no further discussion on that to the next item which is report on the school yes sir Mr President M the board I wanted to give this presentation to you just to give you an update on on school safety and and what we've been doing here at UniFi School District so you have you have any attachments but I figured might as well show you all that we're doing so you and and the community and the public can can uh uh be aware of what we're doing and there's always room for improvement but I want to use that word again we want to be proactive and so I'm going to just kind of go through this one section at a time I'm going to go first through uh you know the safe haven defense and go to verata security cameras and the campus fence and then the lockdown active sh emergency response drills and there I'll just go to uh each of the attachments as we go through it so what I want to go through first is just kind of um sir you let me know what you want me to put on sure sure I'll let you sure um just going to read a quick intro of these security measures have been research and are critical to improving our school safety for the students families and staff we have been working with Security Experts on how we can provide the safest possible environment at all times we also maintaining fiscal responsibility so Angelina if you can pull up the SA defense attachment I'm going to read this from my report that you have but you can either do follow up there as I'm reading or here as I read through the report um Riot resistant security laminate explosion resistant anchoring C with the district office boardroom entrance district office entrance Library double door entrance school office principal door main office double door entrance ad Jason windows at the school office not included in the proposal due to the 18 in glass thickness they have to be a little thicker primary building windows also we have 18 small Windows nine large Windows nine classroom doors and just to share with you saita UniFi school district has also worked with Safe Haven and has the riot resistant Security lainate on all campuses throughout their districts so this is what other districts are doing um Bo Robbins is the person who I was fortunate to meet in June at the Arizona School administrator conference in Tucson he's our contact he's been working with Miss Ginger Wy from our finance office here you have the project total from capital budget but as you can see we asked Bo of are you going to do the windows on top so he said no we just normally Target right through what that door level the easiest entrance and all these if you look at the research he said and and that really stands out right there if you can show The schol Office Adina that's going to really make a difference we believe um you said you want to have those main entrance points covered that's what the research shows and what they do throughout throughout the country so um we're excited about this I believe Angelina the work's going to start next week right start on so all those windows are not going to be covered just the doors just the doors they're too thin they're too thin if they're a little bit thicker but Angelina has some good news she's going to share about this so I've been a from State Haven has a company that they work with that does glass and this is going to be probably not right away way but we're talking to the company about coming in and there's 37 teams with class um that go all the way around the school office um and they a lot of them have been there for a very very long time you can see down in the bottom corner these three were replaced like six or seven years ago because Rock came a lot more so um a lot of those windows a lot of those of those Frost glass they've been there for a very very long time so um we're trying to get the company out we sent them initial pictures um of the frames of the pieces of glass all the way around and um and we're working on that but that's like a stage two kind of thing so this is what we're doing primarily and then see that if it's I'm gonna this I tried to get a a sfb grant for the laminate but because it's not technically a necessity it's so if the window was broken or the door was broken and it wasn't like un natural or or this that or the other because of the insurance then sfb would covered it but because they're intact and they're working and they locked in they do everything that the door is supposed to do then I can't get a school Improvement R for it so but what I'm hoping is that because some of the glass so old um and so fragile that I can get a school movement grant for the replacement of the glass but it's still not defined yet but it's it's a kind of a different way to go around it but the actual laminate and the seal sfb considers it a luxury because it's it's not technically now if you had like a a fence and it like fell down and then um it wasn't something that had the insurance then sfb would totally cover it or like the roof that over time or whatever totally so like for some strange reason our door just fell out and didn't have anything to do with you know nobody's fault then SD would cover that because the Linate goes on the actual working door and the door works real quick so for those that may not remember that to be how every wing of the classroom was that same set up of Windows until it was bricked up and everything else were safe tell you can tell all the all the buildings theyed all the wings look just like that 70% glass then they changed I forgot how many years ago that's all brick with just a little bit on top yeah we whatever we can do to get the office protected too hopefully that works out we're working on it what's the next slide what else build the one I uploaded have theary building but all the windows are so the next one I'm going to go to R security cameras you can go to the uh the picture of the the bullet camera slides the second one slides five and slides 10 okay so I'm gonna ask Angelina to focus on slides five and slide 10 I think it's that video security second one if you can go to slide five GNA highlight the bullet cameras and slide 10 it shows you an actual visual of what they would cover so a risk ass risk assessment was conducted with the school safety team M Mr Casey Mr y Chief tibot Mr Simon and myself and our SRO on October 29th the verot team of pton grim we met at J July Arizona Association of school business officials meeting in Tucson Carly M faroh and Kevin Johnson the US USD school safety and ricot teams walked around the entire campus looking for the best vantage points that would provide maximum security protection facial analytics is a key component of the security cameras uh six security cameras that was an estimate they're a little bit more as you can see on the pricing as as Kevin sent that today in the high priority areas as recommended by the rata team we have the infrastructure to support this immediate implementation the cameras can scan IDs and the AI scanners keep track of all campus visitors Gilbert Higley UniFi school district has a system set up throughout the district so as you can see here Slide Five the bullet series built in with stand the toughest environments features a sealed aluminum housing ensuring cameras stay protected Zoom lands 365 days retention which is very uh which is very good and on you can see slide 10 you can go there it's very colorcoded very to show what it's going to focus on most weatherized camera built in Shield optional license plate recognition Optical zom um we really like that optional license plate recognition people and V analytics that is so critical you can see it it covers pretty much the entire campus and this is to get something started right away this is what we're gonna why don't we have one in the elementary pod I think we have one there it's one on the Auditorium R towards but why is there not one in in yes well we look at that I I think this is a good startle to least have some some set up we can always look at adding as soon as possible but but this is what when we walked around the team they walked with us we walked all the way to the softball field around the gym to the stadium South and they looked at all the areas and based on just the initial assessment to get at least something set up this is what they where they believe this is the best start to get something up right away you guys can get it and and you're good to go so but definitely we can look at um where else we can put more in the future I think do the entrance here the entrance here and the entrance here so to get to the auditorium you have to pass by one the aor the elementary you have to go through one of these areas you canot I'm not talking about people coming in I'm talking about also protecting like protecting of the Stu the students sure right that's yeah that's why they were focus on the entrances and where people would be coming in and out we won't have any cameras at we do have some but they're not this this capability we have some set up the north part of the campus the middle building area um the southern areas we do have cameras right now set up in the auto shop right we have so all those cameras will cover the primary they have the technology to cover all the way into the primary they are set up to cover the whole primary too there's one on the back of corner of the auto shop that will cover that playground and there's some to cover that front inside of the primary we have cameras right now that are set up on the auto shop facing towards the playround right now so we do have cameras right now and so we'll keep those other cameras also sure as well and who monitors these cameras we have um our C security monitor in our SRO in their room if they show together they have access to monitor the cameras I believe with this setup this will be able to be monitored by by multiple people on our school safety team not just through a monitor but through an app on their phone 247 ability to monitor uh and what's really good when when it when it says analytics so let's say a person goes and checks in the school office on a Tuesday at whatever time might be they're through these features that these cameras have when they go check in at the school office and the school staff has the main check-in iPads of this system here I believe if I remember correctly they stated that that that record or history can come up with while that faces been picked up by the C i' say if that person was walking on campus Saturday at 10 p.m that might show and then so what we're as a school safety team is this person coming in right now was on school campus at 10 that's how it works in the industri that's a real feure about the analytics it's not going to pick up animals is it because I would hate for it to notify you guys of animals at 2 o' in the morning that might Le the question I had okay so now you haven't touched on this yet cuz it's in your presentation but um is this going to be some installed before the fence at the same time because with the fence that looks ideal because it's entrance points you know we currently have open campus so we have a lot of open spots people can still Comm in yeah this is to get in place as soon as possible along with the safe haven defense I I'm just I'm just remembering some of the comments from the last few months meetings proactive so we're being proactive we're jumping on this right away you want to get something set up I wish safe haven could be here tomorrow we're going to be here next week we're getting something we're getting you know we're getting something in place to where we have increased security and you're right this is leading into the next part of the discussion but um the next part Angelina you go to the next I believe can you pull up the map Angelina that has the Northeast campus to the Southeast Campus so I'm going to read here um this is a campus f and uh you have you have a report M and brown Fence Company north entrance to the gym at the softball field along the rock wall South towards dorium parking lot to the corner edge of the a transportation bus lot the r in Sol approximately almost 1200 linear feet of six feet tall chain Le fence included in that footage are six new 4 feet wide W Gates one new 24t wide Drive gate um these are quotes uh you have one new 40 foot wide double slide gate other features I asked I asked Mr Jose to be here because he's been as facilities leadership he served as a Project Lead so you have in front of you we have this the map that shows he him and Ang help put this together um I I want to stress I want to also just just kind of share some more the human element to this we had our school safety team meeting um last Thursday October 31st and our campus security monitor Chief tibit I'm going to read his quote that really resonated and I want to share it with you quote we are still having a challenge with some parents not signing in at the office before going to their child's classroom we're having a challenge once the gate over by the bus B is closed erands can be seen going under the chain that is in place from the fence to the gate and they are not signing in at the office between the hours of 8:15 a.m.

Asel Community Unit School District Board of Education meeting for November 4th 2024 can I have a roll call please Mr Cerone Mr Gatewood Miss Johnson Dr Mario Mr ploger Miss similon present miss venm our student board members hope Bri here and if everyone could please stand for the pledge of of Allegiance and the flag is here I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all good evening every everyone thank you for joining us tonight and it's inspiring to see so many community members staff students and parents and it's appreciative that we are all eager and able to gather here tonight to contribute to the future of our schools as we begin this public forum focused on strategic planning I want to emphasize that this is a collaborative process we're here to listen to gather insights and understand what matters to most to you regarding our students and their education and their well-being strategic planning gives us the opportunity to look ahead to Envision the kind of school district we want to be and establish a road mapap to get there the plan will serve as our guide over the next several years helping us to set priorities to um allocate resources and measure progress all with a focus on preparing our students for success in an Ever Changing World our goal tonight is to learn together about the planning process and to hear directly from you your perspectives your concerns and your ideas the experiences you bring to the table are essential to building a strategy that reflects the needs and aspirations of our entire Community as we move forward let's keep our focus on students every decision we make every goal we set and every re resource we allocate should be driven by our commitment to their growth safety and future success thank you for being here for your dedication and for your partner ownership in shaping the future of our district we look forward to engaging in an evening of great conversation so thank you again for being here and now I would like to introduce our superintendent our Deputy superintendent Dr Heather concade to begin our presentations okay we're gonna do something different let's give our president a round of applause ultimately good evening everyone I'm Andel katti school superintendent it is truly my honor to lead uh School District 308 um and looking around the room nothing brings me Greater Joy than to see the passion and the commitment to getting things done for our district that is why we are here tonight and I am so grateful to the board's leadership in really empowering um the district our staff our students and really this evening to really initiate a process to think about how we Galvanize our resources resources are broad term that goes from everything from funds to time to human capital to how we think about our curriculum there are a lot of priorities and this evening as I look around I know that there are a variety of passions commitments concerns things that have brought you here this evening it's extremely whether it's from concerns about your child who may have special needs or your child who has not had the opportunity to to to experience accelerated learning or your child who has been subject to unfair disciplinary practices that have marginalized them in their school or your child who may not have the right equipment because it is outdated from decades long or your child who may be in a program that hasn't had the right curriculum for years and years and years years and only the teachers have made the time to make those changes friend that process of re of resolving those tensions those competing priorities is exactly why we called and we structured a facilitated conversation to make sure everybody's voice in this room would be heard and the board would have an opportunity to collect feedback on that information and to hear the feedback from that information what you will experience tonight is really a chance to think about how we start to think about those priorities Dr Con in a few minutes is going to walk you through the work that we are intending to continue this year that we're going to need everyone in this room support for ultimately this is not going to be my plan it's not going to be Dr K's plan it's going to be our plan and truly only through that collaborative effort will we get to where we need to with which is sustained plans for success and economic viability that is not going to be an easy Road and we have individuals who spend a lot of time thinking about how we can save every Fund in fact this month we are for the first time uh doing uh coordinated purchase of paper you heard me coordinated purchase of paper you may think wow what does that mean that means that we have essentially been purchasing retail schools have had individual rights to buy paper that friends is not the result of people not wanting it's the result of a lack of a system of support to ensure our schools had the right resources to do what they had to do we are moving in that direction and when I came to this District somebody said uh you know July of July 1st of 2023 together we started to really discuss a number of things that you see up here the challenges that I heard in those first 100 days that I heard as I met with community members why is an IEP in this building different than an IEP in that building why is my child excluded from school and I know th neighbor's child did the same thing and was not excluded from school why is there a 90% administrative staff turnover what does that mean if you're a teacher and every year you've got to call the district off and there's a new person we have changing needs in terms of our student population we're still relying we are still heavily in debt from a 2006 debt related to building our schools and what's coming up is those buildings are now getting ready to many of them because they were all built at the same time guess what similar needs building roof repairs repairs of our Windows repairs of things that are going to cost a lot we also have a low industry tax base raise your hand if you think your taxes already too high right so the reality is that you're already squeezed and yet we've got to figure out how to do with more with less in this District so ultimately though we have great schools we have Barnes & Noble doesn't decide to put a shop they left neille to come here what does that tell you there's a commitment to this community there's a belief in this community there is a passion for this community and that's what gets me going every single day and I am confident that together we will find a way to ensure that we are wise about our funds we are strategic in how we plan our future so that our Educators don't have to be the ones who we rely on solely to the to do the good work in this district and to move us forward and I am so grateful for the team that put together the planning of the organization for a facilitated conversation to ensure that every voice is heard this evening and that in the months to come we are going to rely and call on your support and we thank you for starting this so strong so I'm going to turn it out to Dr conade let's give Dr concade a round of applause folks all righty as Dr katti mentioned what you're going to see and what we're going to talk about for the next few minutes really starts upon his arrival in 2023 but all of us know that this really extends much much further in the past I myself have been a Community member for the last 16 years this is my sixth year in the district and my baby just graduated from OE last year so I walked into sag last week going this is the first time that I don't have two roles as parent and as District employee but I have seen my kids go through our elementary middle schools and high schools so we have a lot to share I'm going to go quickly because it's really not about what I say all of this information is being provided to you we want to hear what you have to say so I'm going to talk very quickly about opportunities over the next couple months and you will see them in your emails and on our district website so this is essentially where we've been and where we're going we started in July of 2023 and hold on there's supposed to be a clicker thank you kindly I'm gonna go back there all right so we started with a collective Vision we wanted to make sure that all of our team was on the same page we then are moving into Precision this year using that inform inform our goal as you can see at the end of the road is a new strategic plan so where did we start we decided that we had to start with a strategic road map we were coming out of covid there were gaps and holes all over the place we figured at that time to try to quickly put together a strategic plan would not be the most effective for our staff members for our kids for our community so what we did is we brought people together and we really focus on a strategic road map what did we need to address first like what was the most essential thing we then brought in an organization to do an organization and curriculum audit we needed to have some information because again we were coming out of covid so where are we now we're actually implementing that strategic road map and findings from the curriculum audit our learning Innovation station today has some of that information from from the curriculum audit but essentially this is where we are right now in our schools what you see on the left is what our school Improvement plans this year are focusing on we're focusing on high quality instruction every school in our district has a goal about high quality instruction we're focusing on equity and rightful presence as you heard Dr katti talk about we want to make sure each student not only has a voice but a place in our schools and third we're focusing on effective systems and teams again you hear about we need to work together collaboratively for a shared Vision what you see on the right is really the building blocks of our school Improvement teams what are they focused on throughout working through the plan these are really the building blocks that we're going to use to get from our strategic road map to our strategic plan so this is the how how are we going to go from a road map to a plan as you can see the three main areas we're going to focus on are the master facility Plan programmatic reviews and hazardous travel studies and then our strategic plan those will be encompassed in the wood so here are some information about the um individual uh projects so our Master facility plan is really in three phases phase one started today yes so Mr Queen and Andre both walked buildings we had four uh buildings uh covered today but phase one is a facility condition assessment over the next couple weeks phase one will be completed as our Master facility plan phase two then we start to look at the educational needs in our buildings so while the condition assessment very important Dr katti talked about roofs HVAC Windows all of that extremely important but so is how we use our buildings in an educational setting the third phase then is how do we want to use our buildings what are those needs what do we want to change in order to have an educational opportunity that we don't have right now so those are the three phases over the next year or so that we'll be engaging our community through our staff and our students we also will be engaging in a student assignment plan this year the focus is on a program review of our multilingual and our special ed students we know that we've got programs for these Learners at a variety of different schools we need to do an effective program review you to make sure that we are servicing our students in the best way possible coupled with this um we also have two Transportation things that we are looking at one is our hazardous Crossing review we have not done a hazardous study in many years the other part is really just a systems review we're currently using an Antiquated version of our routing software that we need to make sure that we update and include new geom mapping within the software so that routing our students as effective as possible all of this then will lead to our strategic plan so we're looking at our road map our audit um we have a team working on a profile of a learner staff member and leader so what are those qualities that we are looking for within our district and there will be staff community and um student engagement throughout essentially this is why this is what we're looking for ultimately is to accomplish our mission so these are our questions that we're looking for dreaming of trying to plan for for the best opportunity for both our students and staff so with that I would like to turn this over to Dr Waller who will talk about our next steps to get you going into one of our Five Focus areas here's your clicker so you're prepared wonderful thank you so much we are looking forward to having a very thoughtful and engaging conversation with all of you tonight um and we decided to do this in the form of a World Cafe Miss prior is going to join me up front um as she has been in collaboration with a lot of our team and putting some of these Parts together um but this is an opportunity for us to gain as much feedback from you as possible um so that it will inform our work moving forward thank you Dr Waller I did not realize how many familiar faces is in here I'm so happy to see everybody we are going to engage in what's called A World Cafe I do want to preface with we love having everyone here and we have had to make some pivots because there are so many people here so some patients would really be appreciated as we go through the process so I want to talk a little bit about the things that you need before we get started everyone should have been given either a clipboard or a folder within that folder is going to be a AAA protocol and at the top you will see attendee notes you're going to see assumptions you're going to see a agree and you're going to see Aspire is there anyone that does not have that tripa protocol we have one person that doesn't have it I want to be sure that everyone has the has what they need in order to be successful so we have one keep your hands up please one two three four people someone over there does not have the AAA protocol let's make sure that they have that two hands one here one here that still need the AAA protocol don't be shy you're going to need it to be successful and we want you to experience success so if you don't have it Now's the Time perfect perfect everyone has it now so I said you're going to need three things one of which is the AAA protocol everyone has it if you have the AAA protocol you should have a one pager which is five sheets and those five sheets are the five possible sessions that you can attend and I'll go into more detail with that you're going to see one for Learning and Innovation diverse Learners transportation and finance Master facility everyone has that if you do not Now's the Time to say so we can make sure that you have those one pagers the reason that you have five is because you can only go to three sessions but you might want to get a slight overview of what's happening in the other sessions so we want to be sure that you're able to take that resource home with you does everybody have the five one pagers who's missing one pagers which one are you missing we're missing a diverse Learners one pager here can we get that over here okay perfect thank you and does the third thing that you need is something to write with why because you're taking notes right okay good all righty so if you can go back to the slide right before so let's go through our ground rules of World Cafe active listening active listening one person is speaking at a time every single voice is important and we want to be sure that we capture what you're saying so one person at a time respect being respectful of what people share it might not allow align with your thoughts or your feelings but we want to be sure that we're respectful of what everyone has to share in the space one person speaking at a time and then curiosity move into the space with curiosity just wanting to know more right and then open-mindedness all ideas are welcome one thing that's incredibly important we not only have parents here staff members here we have Scholars here right and what we're trying to build is the best experience for them possible so I want to be sure that our Scholars have an opportunity to be present in the spaces and then everyone has the opportunity to share so let's talk about the process all right so you can choose three of the five areas only three you probably already know your three but you can choose three there will be 15 minute sessions I will walk around quickly just to show you where you will go for each session but while you are while you are choosing your sessions and I am walking around please know that if a session is full there are three opportunities so move on to another session and circle back to that one that is full because you get three opportunities so over here can you hold that sign up for me please here these three tables are Finance technology and transportation one of the things that I asked is if you could please be patient we are going to create one more section for that and it will be these three tables so we will pull those tables together shortly okay this section back here can you hold that up for me please this is diverse Learners okay walk with me next session over here is learning and Innovation next session over here rightful presence and student voice and over here here is another place where we're asking for a little bit more patience because we are going to have two sections here is going to be Master facilities and operations we're going to do these three tables and then we'll do these three tables so we'll have to push these together just a little bit all right and these three also all right are there any questions before I move on with next steps no okay so you get to choose three of the five when you get to that section all right let me try this if you can hear my voice clap one time if you can hear me clap two times if you can hear me clap three times all right the reason I do that is because I want to be sure that everybody is paying attention and you know what to do all right have an idea of where you want to go each session is 15 minutes someone will give an overview one of the administrators and then they will begin to give you an opportunity to share any thoughts that you have from that AAA protocol there is a scribe at every section and they will just be taking notes to capture what you say and then there are two facilitators there to support any questions after the third round we are going to go into what is called harvesting ideas so after your third round you come back to your tables and we will ask you one final question to reflect on that gives us an opportunity to capture what we need to do to ensure that each and every student thrives does that all make sense all right do you know where you are going all right go and I will tell you when to begin do do do do do do e e is everybody going to hear because e e e facilitators if you have not moved on to the AAA protocol you have about 45 seconds to finish your overview and then be begin going through the AAA protocol if if you have not already started if you have not started the AAA protocol please begin that now when we have 10 minutes for this session e e e we have 1 minute and 15 seconds so wrap up your final thoughts e e okay if you can hear me clap one time if you can hear me clap two times if you can hear me clap three times all right we're going to do one more round if if you can hear me clap five times it's time to move thank you so much for your patience go to your second session I will tell you when the time starts we're moving to your second session of choice e e okay facilitators you can begin your overview I will set the timer for 15 minutes no more than five minutes on your overview and then begin asking your questions from the Triple A protocol e e e if you have not moved on to the triaa protocol you have 9 minutes and 30 seconds left in this session e e e we have two minutes left two minutes left in this session e e e all right I'm G to pause you for just a second I'm gonna pause you for just a second I'm gonna pause you for just a second okay thank you all right it is time to move to round three this section right here where I am Master facilities and operations if you want to stay for another round you may everyone else round three go to your third session please third session third session e e exactly please make your way to your third session your third session make your way to your third session we're going to begin in about 30 seconds we're going to begin in about 30 seconds make your way to your third session please make your way to your third session please facilitators one more round please give your overview no more than five minutes and then begin your protocol e e e if you have not moved into the protocol please do so at this time e e e we have two minutes left in this session two minutes e e e Please wrap up your last thought we have 30 seconds left all right when I say bring it you say back back bring it let's try it again bring it bring it all right please go back to your original tables if you were at table one at the start please go back to table one if you were at table nine at the start please go back to table nine if you were at table seven please go back to table seven quickly please back back to your original spots please go back to your original tables please go back to your original tables back to your original tables e if you are at a table without a number please move up if you are at a table without a number please move up if you are at a table without a number please move up you too if you are at a table without a number please move up any table go to any table sweetheart it's no not going to be wrong if you are at a table without a number please move up all right if you can hear me clap once if you can hear me I'm going to see who's listening to me if you can hear me clap three times if you can hear me clap five times yep I wanted to see if you were list listening okay this is very important so please have your listening ears on this very last question this is incredibly important right the goal of all of this all of the questions all of the feedback is for us to collect that feedback what you feel like you need in order to ensure that your scholar has the very best experience that they can so that they can move Beyond just surviving and they can actually thrive in the school district so here's the question that you will reflect on and talk about at your table every single table with a number should have a scribe that person again is taking notes of every single thing that you say so the question is in what ways did this learning experience shape or contribute to your ideal Vision ensuring that each and and every scholar thrives in this school district that is the conversation you will have five minutes your scribe will take notes so again the question up here in what ways that this learning experience shape or contribute to your ideal Vision ensuring each and every student thrives I am going to set the timer we only have five minutes for this activity so be sure that you give everyone an opportunity to share I'm going to start the timer right now and there should be a subcribe there to support e thank you e e e one more minute e e okay when I say bring it you say back bring it bring it you guys must be tired tonight when I say bring it you say back bring it bring it all right you guys let me say this number one keep in mind that our goal is to gather feedback for what you need our goal is to gather feedback for what you need what questions you have what our Scholars need in order to be successful that is the goal of this I want to thank everybody for taking the time I want to thank everybody for their feedback for their patience one of our core values is collaboration I do look at this as a form of collaboration because we will synthesize all of this information and I know that some people have so much more that they want to share but we only have so much time so again thank you I'm going to hand it over to Dr kelti he is going to close it out do that a parent came up to me and shared that there were some lost opportun opportunities tonight in terms of the structure in terms of some of the detail the feedback um in terms of translation for those who may only speak Spanish um in addition to other ways we could have been more inclusive so I just want to thank you for the feedback we're receiving about that we are a learning organization and we are committed to learning so I need that feedback we need that feedback it's the only way we get better we want our students to get better we've got to get better and we've got to do better and so I apologize for any missteps misunderstandings or lost opportunities I take responsibility and I commit to learning from it and to doing better and I want to thank you for your patience I want to say secondly I want to thank our facilitators can we give them a round of applause y all brought the fire tonight and I want to thank you for that because ultimately it's that passion that we need in our community to make it the best place because it is already an incredible place to come to work and to go to school and so we want to make every place of our schools better I want to now invite Mr Gatewood to come up and and share some fine and closing remarks can we give a thanks to the administrators and all the teachers and everyone who came out and to yourselves for this amazing amazing night this is one of the most well attended um forums and so we just most definitely appreciate you coming so thank you for being here and for all of your active participation um we've actually explored it's been some amazing conversations that I've been a part of a lot of great feedback and we've explored challenges and we've listened to your valuable insights um which are essential to help us to continue shape our strategic plan and I want to remind everyone that this is a collaborative Journey this is a journey and we we continuously will invite you to continue to share and to continue to engage in this in in this essential process for us moving forward and we'll be talk we'll be taking everything that you've shared tonight into important data points in order to con to include it and to inform our planning and we'll update you on our next steps and how we'll how on how update you on the next steps and how you can continue to contribute to that process so again we thank you for your support and for your dedication and together we are confident that we will continue to create a strategic plan that reflects our our shared vision and our values setting us up for a bright and sustainable future so thank you all so much for tonight finally some technology we've had a lot of it but we want to get we had a lot of paper and pencil paper technology tonight we're going to give be a chance to give you some digital techn technology on the screen is a QR code uh if you would take that screenshot also in the next uh two weeks I'm going to host a zoom version of a followup to tonight that you can come and join and give more feedback because tonight we could have probably gone till midnight if we had more time so here's an opportunity now for public comment so on behalf of the Board of Education I would like to thank the public for attending tonight's meeting and we value the feedback we receive from our members of the public and encourage everyone to take an active interest in their Public School Systems residents interested in speaking to the Board of Education we are asking that you complete a comment card and present it to the board of educ to the secretary to the board when the secretary calls your name I ask that you come to the microphone state your name for the public record and provide your feedback back please note that comments are limited to 3 minutes per person and 30 minutes in total and no responses to your questions are permitted comments should address the Board of Education as a whole and not be directed to an individual board member audience or staff the Board of Education will not address concerns against individual employees rather a complaint against an employee must be in writing and signed by the person who makes it and the Board of Education will refer any such complaints for appropriate review follow up to your questions or concerns will be addressed by Administration through the contact information provided on the comment card thank you R go ahead Ryan Dolan okay hold on Ryan do you have a timer do you have the timer okay we got a lot of comments okay all right hello um I got some notes I wrote down here so try to make it a little quicker uh my name is Ryan Dolan um I'm an owner of a local family real estate company called Dolan Murphy we out of Aurora been in asle we've lived in asle here for about 14 years um we specialize in commercial industrial Farmland investment real estate um company was started by my father Dan Dolan 1965 I've personally been a broker GR in 28 years I like to joke that real estate is my part-time job and volunteer Youth Athletic coaching is my full-time job um definitely have a passion for both I believe the two passions allow me look at what we're discussing today and U is everyone aware or has kind of seen the movement of aigo unity fields at all if anybody knows what we're talking about there um we'll have some more comment on it from others hopefully but um um as a as a coach I've traveled all over the country with uh with our teams and we've seen some tremendous facilities around the country um these facilities offer a unique a unique opportunity for the for the area Okay um seeing firsthand the positive economic the positive economic uh impact these projects can have on the local community I'm talking about there's a a park in betor F called tbk tbk Park um 15 baseball field soccer fields football fields that are host tournaments uh weekly okay their revenue generators their economic drivers to communities um and it's not just the thousands of people that come every week it's the it's the real estate development that follows talking about hotels restaurants um commercial commercial developments um what I've what I've come to find out tonight and I knew it was it was it was a hill to climb but we've obviously got a financial issue here that's that's greater than maybe we even known from the start um we need to create Revenue in this area we're not going to get massive industrial buildings Millions a square foot of industrial or or Corporate Offices here to help boost our revenue and if we have to rely on on property tax to be our main source of funding it's going to be a it's going to be a continued problem um this type of project just as an example new lenux is doing one now okay on 100 acres they're taking 10 acres they keeping for for restaurants hotels and such building I think 28 Fields um turfed um their projections for year one in Revenue are are 12 million a year in Revenue by year three double it to 24 million and by the end of that the Fulfillment of that project 34 million in 34 million in economic impact to the area okay to to new L this was funded by the city of New Linux they invested in this we have got to work collab is gotta sure no problem there'll probably be more okay thank you I'm gonna move it so people can see the timer that way that way Ryan Chrissy should be about 230 oh no rush rush rush okay where should I go restart the timer where do you want me to go okay to each of you here today whether you're a parent student and any of the students here awesome job by the way for being here um thank you so much for everyone's time for being here board and the admins it takes a lot to deal with what happened today so seriously mad props to you guys for sticking in and listening and all all those things I'm a parent of two students uh in the district I uh I am involved with asigo unity fields and asigo Catalyst group uh so both groups want to form uh a a collaborative effort within the governing bodies to bring something incredibly unique to the community this is more than just a project it's a smart sustainable solution that keeps our community dollar local in 2021 the village of oigo lost $287 million to neighboring towns due to uh economic leakage this is according to an economic leakage report provided to the group from the village with multi-use turf fields we can reduce the outflow drawing visitors to oigo and keeping our kids activities local benefiting businesses and fostering Community Spirit the space utilized for the project could be on current Parcels of school land and Park District lands the initiative follows a 3p principles public private Partnerships it aims to utilize underdeveloped public lands and outdated facilities within sd308 transforming them in versatile spaces that uh for new tax revenues it answers Key Community needs and concerns one employing financially sound model with no tax increase two unifying local stakeholders with support of sports organizations and investors three modernizing outdated facilities redirecting sd308 budget for necessary School infrastructure curricular needs professional development for staff based off the revenues coming in four creating revenue streams that benefit local businesses and public bodies alike five offering many of the schools instructional spaces and competition or practice practice spaces where all kids from all walks of life including Special Olympics can benefit from top-notch facilities in the end thank you to everyone that is here Administration board and concerned citizens thank you very much Sean McLure these other gentlemen so I got to pull it down here a little bit so good evening uh sha McClair 25e resident of oigo uh my wife Kathy actually went to asgo and uh so she's been here she won't want me to say this but she's probably been here 55 years when it's all said and done but uh I have two young boys uh one is Aiden who is a sixth grader at trer and Dean who's a freshman over at OS and uh I actually uh had the opportunity to see something great that our school board actually helped us with doing which was bringing la to asgo and uh in the spring we're going to have lacrosse as the first uh opportunity and we're going to have combined two high schools together ohos and OE coming together as one and that's what you call Community coming together is one you've already heard a little bit about Unity fields and when you say the word Community you get rid of the Comm what is left is Unity okay and when you look at some of the things you've already heard tonight um we obviously have some Financial issues that we have to address and I think the key understanding is that as a community our Revenue stream is not the best yes we have Route 34 which we have all kinds of retail space brings in tax dollars but what supports this community is us here the taxpayers and there's assets that our school district owns that can be modified brought up to today's standards which is sports complexes turf facil fa ities that could host some of the events that you heard tonight because I'm tied to Lacrosse I've traveled throughout the country and I've seen these facilities Rockford Illinois I was just there two weeks ago two-day event thousands of people come into Rockford for a one we in tournament brings in over 250k just the event itself not to mention the hotel Revenue the restaurant revenue and if I go to Grand Park which is part of our Park District they have a lacrosse tournament Every Spring but when people want to go get lunch they don't come into iGo they go south to planfield or they go east to neille so again talking about leakage our park district has an event in Grand Park where we do oytf practicing today but when people want to go and have food why the events are going on there's food trucks that do come in from planfield which again food trucks coming from outside of Osgo not even Freddy's is there but when you look at the unity Fields it's the asigo Catalyst group which is a lot of people in this room that really feel there's a vision that we can help our community and bring together what I call a community is your schools your village and your Park District that's what our community is and over the 25 years that I've lived here our Administration for the school board our Administration for the village and the park district have all worked in silos for their own benefit or their own goals today today I think there's a huge opportunity for our leadership at the school district our leadership at the village and our leadership at the park district to come together on this Unity Fields concept and not only bring Revenue but help the school district help the community and put us in a better place than we are today so thank you Kelly Kennedy thanks Sean I don't have to move the mic hello I'm Kelly Kennedy I'm the wife mother of four kids a public health professional small business owner and an active member of our school district and our community and I'm happy to be here with you all tonight I have to say we need more of this the dialogue is enriching and there's a lot to be learned and a lot of questions and comments I wish I could have heard from others that I know they didn't have the opportunity to share um you have already heard from some community members about Community Fields I'm going to come at it a little the bit differently I absolutely agree the foundation of that is motivated out of a need to provide funds and relief of our um economic bondage that we're sitting in um so as a member that's involved The Village um in Economic Development I'm 100% behind that however I want to also Focus how it can be a path forward to providing multi-use turf fields facilities for athletics which we all know is something that galvanizes and unites across diverse backgrounds so when we talk about Unity Alo Unity Fields provides that but it also offers an opportunity for activities that aren't Sports so think band competitions think maybe cheer competitions sorry that's athletic too um I know some people CL categorize it there but I'm just thinking outside of the box opportunities but moreover I'd like to point out that the up such upgraded facilities can provide opportunities for students and the community even beyond the appr vention this group The Catalyst Group which some of these gentlemen spoke about they're proposing accessible Fields accessible facilities and accessible playground um that is part of the concept plan so as our school district continues to focus on rightful presence and inclusion we can't just think about the athletes on these on these um these Adventures so let's not Overlook that some of our very first friends we made when we moved out swo three and a half years ago have a daughter with special needs and she's a model of joy and kindness and for me that's something we could all learn from I sat at the table in the um that Harvest conversation and that's what I I heard from one of the table members is we lack we lack civility sometimes here right so we need to do better we need to learn from others um who do it better from than us so Katie and other young people like her um participate in the area regularly in Special Olympics and I think um one of the gentlemen mentioned that earlier but for bot ball practice she gets to do that at um Fox Chase Elementary right here in aligo but for everything else they go to Yorkville Plano or much further beyond that um so I just want to point out that it's not only an opportunity for us to provide upgraded facilities which we know are clearly needed here um not necessarily a higher priority than our our classrooms in our instructional space but they're needed we are behind we are sometimes the embarrassing place for people to come when you compare it to the other places so let's not forget though that we should be delivering that we can be delivering with unity fields um on one of the pillars of who we say we are and who we want to be and who we're striving and what we're striving to do which is be inclusive um so thanks to the Board of Education thanks to the administration for the opportunity tonight and thanks for your emphasis on providing opportunities in and outside of the classroom for all students ban Dolan I'm going to call someone that had a different okay Shani Ria hi I'm Shani Ray um I so basically my husband and I we run a wellness company called ninja Science Academy he has taught science to over 15,000 students in all the districts in the Chicago land area in like you know schools hire him for like assemblies where like he blows stuff up but one of the biggest things that he has to offer is that he takes like very complex Concepts and makes them simple beautiful and increases um like curiosity in every child so that's his passion and for me I'm a double black belt a national gold medalist I competed internationally and nationally I'm in Taekwondo karate so martial arts has taught me the discipline and together we' created this company called ninja Science Academy and I feel can really like this program can really help enhance the the school district um overall because our son he goes to the school district so we're kind of passionate about bringing our program and helping to enhance the quality of the schools by offering like well like ancient Wellness techniques that like you know it's a really good balance between technology and modern education so using those techniques to like really help Foster learning Foster curiosity um and also just you know helping to build like so using this concept and I love like the unity Fields concept of like you know really bringing the community together um we would love to offer like fundraising opportunities and like events and ways that we can really uh bring in revenue for the school and also just bring to make our community stronger so that was kind of my point if anybody would love to connect I would love to um offer um our skills to the community this is our first this is my first time attending a public forum and I'm super excited to be part of this community and I hope there's a lot of room for collaboration John mold hello everyone um I kind of do stuff off the cuff there's been a lot of great speakers here a lot of people that have we got a lot of good information tonight Dr kilat has been very open really appreciate him you know talking but I am part of the asle unity Fields ASO Catalyst group and I've been a Community member for about 40 years so I've seen this town grow from here to here now as we talked about tonight our schools a lot of our schools were built 20 years ago or more a little bit more recent so we see these Financial you know downfalls of previous administrations okay what we're doing I'm a big part of oitf there's a lot of oitf guys here it's a youth football league we are playing in Yorkville okay this these are all mostly asgo kids we play on a Hayfield in Yorkfield basically okay it's very embarrassing I invite friends and family out that go what is up with this why am I coming to Yorkville why why can't oitf for the asgo Bears we have great representation from the asgo Bears here tonight that why can't we play in asle the asgo Bears play in a at AU we play in Yorkville we practice in plain field at isas school district but to have pride this community was built on taking care of its kids okay somebody we've already talked about the three PS we've talked about you know private public you know partnering and what we're trying to do is without increas in taxes improve facilities bring money in for our kids I mean this affects all kids we're talking any any kind of extracurricular activity which most kids in our district do we do something you know band is a huge thing it's a huge draw our Fields sometimes are muddy we can't use them I mean baseball teams got to go play in Playing Field or Yorkville you know what we're trying to do is trying to bring the school board the park district and private funding together to make us so we go a better place but also to bring in tax dollars you know economic we over there what is Aso missing we don't have huge you know warehouses we don't have that people fight that I understand that people don't want semis driving through Orchard Road or 34 but the partnership we're talking about is to bring tax dollars in but also improve to help the school not have to spend money just let us use your facilities let us get a lease on land get a the old trer has been sitting there empty it's very embarrassing in a way for us to do you know this is just something it's very passionate because I take great pride in asigo you know I consider this place my home and it's always going to be my home and I want to have pride and I don't right now it's very embarrassing even the the high school football field okay thank you peace out Faith cardo hello I am not a speaker um and I did not prepare your speech because I wasn't supposed to be able to make it here tonight but I will um I am not here to talk about the field I'm very I support everything that you guys want with that that's great but figured we could mix it up a little bit um I am here to talk about just the need for more um I think that a lot of times when we're talking about inclusion of neurod Divergent individuals we're talking about coming in them into our classrooms and that's great that you will allow my neurod Divergent son in your classroom thank you so much for not making him sit outside but I would like to see more neuro affirming classrooms more neuro affirming practices more neuro affirming um development with the teachers a lot of the teachers that are teaching in the schools were taught years ago and I mean if you think about what our knowledge of say you know I'm going to use autism for an example because that's what I know about that's what my son has a lot of these teachers went to school when autism was UN understood completely differently um and so if there's not continued education and professional development directed to develop or to I mean updating these Educators on how to be neuro affirming specifically then all these children are falling through the cracks um my son his this isn't this isn't an issue in the Stars program that his Stars teachers are absolutely amazing and so just wonderful with him so loving and warm and welcoming and and and thorough with him and everything but then when he goes into the janed classroom that's a different story he is treated very differently there were multiple instances in which he was kind of being excluded from their lessons um and I feel like I have been to multiple forums about these issues and every time I'm told that my feedback is welcome I give my feedback and nothing happens and it's kind of just swept under rug and pushed aside or I give my feedback and they say what can we do to make this situation better and I tell them and they say oh no no no that won't work so it's almost as if they already have an answer in their heads this is how we're going to handle it and I feel like they could benefit from humbling themselves a little bit in taking in this parent input okay maybe you don't have the resources to fully educate all these Educators on these advancements on the new understanding and everything then humble yourself and understand that as a parent if I'm telling you I know what my child needs maybe you can accept that and understand that also just the fact that one of my son's educated the general Educators um was not sending the newsletter to the the kids from the Stars program that were integrating so my son and one other child um come into this uh Jed classroom to get math reading social studies different items um that teacher was not sending her newsletter covering what was being covered in class to the students from the Stars program and when I asked her about it this is someone who's been taking Stars students for five years she said no stars family has ever come to me and told me that they had an issue with the newsletter not being sent to them well I'm sorry that these parents who probably didn't know your newsletter existed didn't you know come to tell you that their child has an equal right to an accessible education um so I realized that I'm out of time and I didn't get to a single point that I wrote down um um I'm also neurod diversion I have ADHD so you know I try um but anyway so I would like us we we have this community here we we all have this need we acknowledge this is a need there's so many parents that have vocalized this over and over and I'm not seeing any progress um we do need to have some type of professional development targeting neurode Divergent education and inclusion included in the professional development thank you Jamie Howard hi thank you for having us my name is Jamie Howard I've been a resident of asigo for over 25 years years I've spent almost 20 years coaching travel baseball and football and I'm currently the president of asigo utle football and cheer I'm also part of the unity Fields collaboration oitf is one of the largest and oldest football programs in the Chicago land area celebrating our 45th season and home to over 600 young athletes age 6 to 14 for both football and cheer we're also one of the largest tenants of the asiga Land Park District but as mentioned earlier we practice in planfield two years ago oitf reviewed options to deal with space constraints in game for games due to our significant growth we had over 25% growth coming out of covid we signed an agreement to move our games to a privately owned facility in Yorkville called Go Fort Sports the decision was based on criteria that would Elevate not only the players experience but the family's experiences such as basic field facilities like pay parking restrooms and power all things the park district when we asked for their support in that couldn't provide it over the last two seasons oitf has hosted approximately 180 games on one field one grass field 180 games on average a high school season sees 15 games on one field and we've had 90 just this season alone so there's absolutely no way that we can maintain and take care of a field with that type of participation we've paid over $40,000 in the last two years to an organization outside of our community we see approximately a thousand families a weekend come to our games in Yorkville okay and go and patronage local shops and restaurants in Yorkville not as weo there are 22 towns in the bill George League that we belong to and oitf is only one of three towns that do not have any type of turf playing facility we have grass for 90 games in one season our grow plan includes adding competitive cheerleading and gross flag football we're we're expected to grow with over 200 participants in the next couple years we need a long-term solution we need a longterm partner I've been asked by parents by school officials and by other organizations why don't we play in asigo it's easy answer there's nowhere to play nowhere to play when I moved here over 25 years ago I moved here okay thank you and I really hope that we can continue our support and work together I will Michelle Trager hi Michelle Trager for kids in the district um I want to talk about Boulder Hill tonight specifically in relation to what I talked about at the last board meeting which is mental health but but first I just want to share that I was told tonight that Boulder Hill is getting a new playground it's a guaranteed Grant and it's going to be adaptive and beautiful and the timeline is that as soon as the school year is over they're going to start putting it in and that is a huge positive thank you to everybody who worked on that it's going to show those kids that they are valued by our district and that is very important um so that's really exciting um but I what I want to talk about is um the issue of Social Work at Boulder Hill um I believe we have not had a stable permanent full-time social worker at Boulder Hill all year we have two and a half Social Work positions there that need to be filled we've had one temporary contractor and now another and I believe that person is not full time kids who have IEPs with social work minutes how are those minutes being met are they being met those are federally mandated minutes there should be some urgency so we're not in violation of the IEPs I know we can't get blood from a stone as far as making staff magically appear but I also know there's a TA at Boulder Hill who has an mssw but not the school certificate part is this something that NextGen can be used for because she's been told yes and she's also been told no she's had virtual meetings scheduled with HR about it and she has been blown up other schools may have more than one social worker as well as interns those interns are now a quarter into the year and should be able to take on some of the case load could one of the fulltime social workers slide over to Boulder Hill at least part of the time we know that Boulder Hill is the highest need Elementary School my daughter has had a wonderful experience there but some students aren't getting support they need and crucially we need to give our wonderful staff some relief so please act with urgency in trying to find a creative solution especially when there are people who God love them are willing to possibly take on that role thank you Michael gilio good evening members of the Board of Education and fellow community members uh my name is Michael julo my wife Brandy and uh we are we are parents of student athletes in School District 308 uh like many families here I'm incredibly grateful for the athletic programs that help shape our students teaching them valuable life skills teamwork and resilience however as we continue to prioritize our students growth I would like to highlight a concern shared by many of our parents regarding the current funding for our athletic programs as it stands parents contribute a $300 fee per sport each year per student expecting These funds will support their child's activity directly it has come to our attention over the course of time that these fees typically do not directly benefit the athletic Department's uh related sports equipment facilities or even even events related to that specific sport instead they are placed into a general fund which is then redistributed to School District 308 priorities however administrative leadership at Central offices decides uh this seems to or this seems a bit like bait and switch in uh in our opinion when on top of these significant fees families are frequently asked to participate in numerous fundraisers just to cover Essentials like equipment and other resources that are critical to these programs uh this cycle places a significant financial burden on parents and families and it may limit access for some students whose families are unable to cover these costs or meet the fundraising demands opportunities like the asigo unity Fields initiative offer a potential path forward and one that can help directly improve athletic facilities and programs without raising the taxes of our local citizenry by exploring Partnerships like these we have the chance to expand resources that support our students while also reducing the financial strain on families and our district and creating a more sustainable funding approach this kind of investment would not only benefit the students directly but would also help our district and Community by bringing in additional revenues ultimately reducing the financial load on taxpayers over time while improving facilities more than just improved facilities public private Partnerships as proposed with unity Fields would ensure that our extracurricular programs are accessible inclusive and fully equipped to Foster Student Success Athletics play a pivotal role in this physical social and mental well-being of our students and every young athlete should have the opportunity to participate uh participate fully regardless of financial means thank you for your time for considering solutions that prioritize our students needs and well-being while also benefiting the larger Community I pray I pray that you will stand with the community that want this for the community so very much okay I'd like to give our board members an opportunity to have any final thoughts any of our board members have any final thoughts where are you guys want to come up yeah because we need to hear you in the microphone I'll just be quick uh because I know it's getting late at night but I want to uh on behalf of myself as a board member and likely the other board members thank everyone for coming out uh we enjoy the energy uh when we sit at board meetings we don't often have this many people in the room so it's nice to get to sit next to people and talk about the things that we talk about on a regular basis to note uh we have several meetings a month that are public meetings so you are always welcome at our regular board meetings and we also have several committee meetings a month as well uh and so we invite discuss or we invite you to attend those as well and learn even more in depth about the um items that um come to our full board meetings as well so thank you again everyone for coming out I appreciate it okay so I just want to give the details on those meetings Okay so our equity and learning and Innovation meetings is scheduled for November 6th at 5: PM it's they're at Dak right the district office our policy and legislative meeting is scheduled for November 7th and they're both at 5:00 P p.m.

[Music] good evening everyone I like to call this meeting of the dman school committee to order for Monday November 4th 2024 would you please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all please be seated well good evening once again everyone like to welcome you all to uh dmouth High School in our November meeting of the dmouth school committee our first meeting anyway or I think our only meeting this month no we we don't yeah three weeks from tonight three weeks from tonight thank you I John wasn't sure if we had uh decided to go that route just a reminder that this meeting is being a video taped for a future broadcast on our uh YouTube youtube.com dhsv media channel it's also being live streamed there as well as Dartmouth Community television on Channel 9 on Wednesdays and Thursdays at 5:00 p.m.

at this time if you have any uh cell phones or electronic devices we ask you to please silent them roll call please miss G Chris Oliver here best Coughlin here Mary Beck here John Nunes Kathleen Amaral here thank you very much to my committee members uh at this time we have allotted uh 10 minutes for public comment anyone wishing to speak on any of tonight's agenda items we ask you to please approach the microphone keep your comments brief uh to 3 minutes or under and keep it relative to uh any of the topics on tonight's agenda and it looks like we have no takers this evening very good we're moving on from public comment at this time if it's okay with the committee I am going to uh turn it over uh before our approval of minutes to uh Dr Saba Maguire uh for some recognition great thank you so much Mr Oliver so you know oftentimes we talk about our educational support uh professionals and talk about the work that they do in our schools and how much they truly are the backbone of our community and how needed they are and how much we depend on them every day and so we invited uh a couple of our esps here and I'm going to ask Dr Thomas uh to come up and to speak to uh a situation an event that happened just last week this past Friday at the Quinn school and I think that in this way no more does this illustrate how important our esps are in our school Community than what um Dr Thomas is going to share with you this evening thank you thank you Dr Sabre Maguire and members of the school committee for allowing me this opportunity to speak of two of my educational support professionals if I could please have Sarah Martin and Lexie Whitney come up with me and I'm just going to interrupt very quickly for the record I just like to say that this does fall under other items that may not have been anticipated at the time of the agenda for anyone that may be watching at home so as we all know teachers and staff wear a many hats and uh student safety is our number one priority last Friday was no different when in the cafeteria one of our students began to choke and Sarah and Lexi acted immediately and calmly and were able to perform the heick in order to remove what was lodged in the students throat they are being commended this evening not only for their quick thinking but also for doing this in such a way in which no other student in the cafeteria and there were approximately 100 students in the cafeteria at that time were the wiser they had no idea that this was happening when I asked Sarah and Lexi if they could come this evening both of them shared that this is just part of their job this is just what they do and didn't feel like they needed to be publicly recognized and we disagreed which is why they're here this evening um they both shared that other power Professionals in our school and staff in our school would do the exact same thing any given day and although they are correct we felt it was really important for them to be recognize this evening so I thank you for this as one of the leaders of the Quinn school I am so proud of these two standing with me I have an amazing staff and I want to just give certificates to both of them that state for your courageous and quick thinking that saved a life your bravery in a moment of Crisis was an inspiration to all and has earned you deep gratitude and respect from our school and after speaking to this particular student's mom over the weekend she was so happy that we were recognizing both of these individuals this evening and wanted to make sure that I also told them how happy she was that they were here being honored this evening so thank you very much also have some [Applause] thank you well thank thank you thank you Dr Thomas and thank you both uh on behalf of the dmas school committee as chair of the D of school committee I personally want to thank you for your quick actions um it's you know it's truly um something you probably you wake up in the morning it's one of those things you don't think you ever would be doing that you know you just go into action and you just do what you have to do to keep the kids safe and you would hope that someone would do it for your child so that's right well thank you thank you thank you and if we could just have you come up here and we want to make sure we get your picture Dr Thomas do you want to get in the picture no it's okay well no we want you to Dr Tom so again and thank you I see your families are here Sarah and Lexi your families are there in the back again we know how proud you are thank you so much for coming out tonight again just a small way for us to recognize what we consider to really be hero heroic uh work that you did so thank you so [Applause] much it's always nice to start the night on a positive note for sure unfortunately it's unfortunate that it happened but we're very fortunate that we have staff members that are trained and willing to jump right into action for sure any of my other colleagues like to share anything or you said it all you did thank you perfect uh next up uh chair will entertain a approval of the regular session minutes of October 21st 2024 so moved second motion by Mr noon second by Mrs amall on the motion any further discussion J hearing none all in favor I oppose osed motion carries unanimously thank you uh next up we typically have uh our student representative report um I'm assuming that there's a lot happening uh this week very busy tonight we have teams everywhere playing this evening it seems that way so uh maybe uh maybe uh he or she will pop in yep we'll later on moving on under I'm sorry uh before that presentation uh overview of mcast results turn it over to do our superintendent of schools Dr Sab thanks so much I'm going to invite um Dr tibo and um Mrs Pavo up um we're going to share and again this is a highlevel overview of the district's uh mcast results from this past school year and it certainly is a timely topic isn't it where we know that uh there was a ballot question that addresses this um very question about the uh the mcast being used as a graduation requirement so for the focus of this discussion though what we're talking about is how our students faed because regardless of what happens on the question tomorrow the mcast is actually not going away and we're going to continue to administer the mcast and as we've said before the mcast is just one measure and it's an important measure of how our students are doing academically and just for us to continue to monitor their progress toward meeting the standards so Dr TBO and Mrs Pavo I'm going to turn it right over to you turn right back oh I'm going to talk first about our mission statement so I I mean I do think it is important for us to continue to connect whatever work we're doing in the district to our purpose and we've talked a lot in the past couple of months about why a mission statement is so important and what it represents for us as a district and so we have committed to working with our students our staff our families to and right there cultivating safe supportive we heard about safe and supportive just a few minutes ago that's an ex a really I think an excellent example of how well supported our staff is to be able to perform something that really when we talk about heroic it is because acting in that moment had to have been somewhat um uh not somewhat had to have been challenging for those two folks as individuals but we also talk about inclusive learning environments and how we want our students to be compassionate informed and contributing members of our local and Global community and the mcast is one way for us to measure student progress toward that goal our core value vales again I love that what we've talked about with core values is they're kind of their static but how do they show up in our work every day uh and we talk about mcast again I just pull out personal excellence and responsibility because again mcast one measure one way for our students to demonstrate personal excellence and the responsibility that they have as students in engaging in in what is a high stakes um assessment and so Vision we're going to keep talking about this and how it ties to our work uh we definitely are committed to the unity piece of one Dartmouth and that's coming through uh louder and louder which I love I see it in different aspects of the work that we're doing across the community at large and certainly the school community and we're getting to this place where we're talking about unparalleled opportunities for our students and making that connection between current and future generations and the importance of that and building toward a healthy Community uh for again for the future and so we're going to talk to you tonight about what is mcast and why does it matter um and I I think again I want to make the connection not to the vote that's happening tomorrow because this presentation was happening this evening anyway but this is a way for us to put mcast into its proper context thanks Dr so um as I'm sure we all know by now mcast is a series of standardized tests that began in the late '90s to meet the requirements of the Ed reform law it's given to students in grades 3 through 8 and grade 10 it seeks to assess student in District achievement and growth in the areas of English language arts math and in grades 58 and science so the mcast uh exam why does it matter um it provides the school community with uh some feedback in terms of how students are doing on grade level expectations in the areas of English language arts Mathematics and Science and Tech engineering it's also part of our accountability system uh at present so uh deter uh based on how our students perform um on mcast the state ends up um uh sorting the schools and determining what level of assistance uh schools need in order to make progress so that's the accountability piece at the high school level at least as of tonight um mcast is also used to determine whether or not a high school student meets the competency determination and as a result will receive a high school diploma and so that's uh true in English language arts um mathematics and um science at the high school level in addition to that based on student performance students may also qualify for scholarships the John and Abigail Adams scholarship and or the um Copic uh certificate of Mastery and each of those the the benefits of qualifying for those are it reduces the cost of college for our students who are going off to one of the state universities um so that's why mcast matters for us I we do think um and this is when the state presented the state results they kind of talked about this as well we really need to look at our data in the context in which it's been administered over the past 5 years and and um you know we all know and we probably don't need any more reminders but um in 2020 we faced a global pandemic um you know for the first time in a 100 years that really um rocked our um you know our profession our communities and whatnot so 2019 is the last pre-pandemic mcast uh data that we have and then 2020 2021 well 2020 we didn't administer mcass at all um but then in 2021 we administered a shorter mcass uh at the elementary level and Middle School level and a full mcast only at the high school level um and then in 2022 uh I'm sorry in 2023 it was a return to full mcast across the board um the state last year was kind of quick to say oh the the slide on our mcast results has been halted and recover is fully underway I think they were optimistic and they were trying to project that optimism I think this year's results showed that maybe it was a little premature um because the mcast results across the the board in the state of Massachusetts were not um as uh positive as they had been the previous year and um in addition to that though it's important that we take away from from this the idea that the lingering effects of covid are going to show up in our data for several years to come our youngest Learners during the pandemic were in prek and K when that pandemic hit they're just entering the testing window now in grades three four and and five and so um the impact is really just being seen and so I think uh it's a reminder that there is a great deal of work to be done in order to uh mitigate the impact of of covid still on our uh Learners so how did the you know how did Massachusetts do on mcass so I'm want to just give a sort of high Lev look at um Trends across the state as a reminder um students all students L the screen okay I I got I'm GNA try not to touch anything I talk my hands and that's not always a great thing uh all students receive an achievement score don't breathe um Dr Sabre Maguire doesn't have the clicker this time so we can't blame we can't blame her innocent so just as a reminder all students uh who are a testing grade receive an achievement level it ranges from 440 to 560 and uh within that score it breaks down into four categories we have students who are exceeding expectations meeting expectations partially meeting expectations and not meeting expectations and we tend to look at meeting and exceeding together we tend to look at partially meeting and not meeting as a group together um and so you'll see at the state level this is sort of again we're talking about a very high level look we're talking about across grad spans this is an aggregate score we C are doing a much deeper dive at um individual grade levels within within subgroups but we wanted to talk at the high level about how the state was doing and talk um a little bit about trends that we're seeing that are common between the state and with our students here in Dartmouth so as Dr Teo alluded to um in ela we saw declines across all grade levels and uh the sharpest decline was seen in grades five and seven so those are our students who are currently in grades six and eight uh the thing to remember about students who are in grade six are those other the students who were in first grade and never finished their first grade year had an interrupted second grade year so we're talking about foundational reading skills our students who are in eighth grade were in third grade when they went home that's the shift from learning how to read to reading to learn so as we're seeing our kids start to do deeper reading we know that there's a lot of work to do it's not a simple matter of just filling in holes it's matter of going back filling in holes and keeping them moving so that they can continue to attain grade level work um the results in math were a little bit different they were more relatively flat in a little bit of what we saw last year there was a little bit of a of a positive in increase across the state in grade three with math um and we'll talk a little bit more about what that meant for us here in Dartmouth science results were mixed across the state we did see Improvement in grades 5 and 10 while again we saw a decrease in our grade eight science scores across Ross the state and so we went from looking at our state level data to looking at our students here in Dartmouth um and before we do that I just want to talk a little bit about why it's important that we look at the state first I'll go back to that for just one second um we're certainly more laser focused on our own students here but it's important to get um a barometer the state the state results kind of act as a barometer for us so that we know that if our if our results are sort of trending in the the same way across the state or is it an anomaly here in our in our district so one of the things that we tend to use our data for is to look not just at how our students are achieving but how are our students achieving using the tools we're using for that could be a different that's that's a variable that's different town to town right so if you have towns or other places in the state that are outperforming you and you are not or vice versa you have to look at what variables are different within your town and so it's important for us to analyze both the state data and the local data as we continue to do that and so we're going to look at our uh Dartmouth data I'm going to talk a little bit about our three through eight students and then I'll let Dr TBO talk about the high school specifically um again you'll see that this looks very similar to the state demographic once it's hard because I want to flip back and forth between slides I want to talk a little bit about what the overall says and I'll come back to the numbers if you want to look at them but one of the things that we are proud of even though we know there is work to be done is that we continue to outperform the state in ela in math and in science in grades 3 through 8 and um one of the things I said I wanted to talk about was our of particular PRI Pride for us is our grade three math scores and when I alluded to talking about um the impact that curricular materials can have so our students who are in grade three are our first students who have had the bridges for mathematics program all the way through since they started it in kindergarten and so what we start to see is students with flexibility of thinking students who have multiple strategies to attack a program and that's you know you never you can see in the day-to-day as we said this is one snapshot but it's always very reinforcing when we say that work that they're doing on the day-to-day is transferring over to the standardized testing that they're doing as well so just to speak to the high school a little bit um one of the previous slides when we talked about the um Trends across the state it said that Ela declined across all grade levels for us at the high school level here in darmouth grade 10 we didn't actually decline we stayed at 64% meeting or exceeding which was what we were at last uh school year as well so while the state declined we stayed uh flat which we you never want to be flat you want to make Positive Growth but again in context of how the state performed on The Great 10m cast I think we can um be reasonably uh proud of our of our efforts here in Dartmouth uh in terms of math uh the percentage of our grade 10 students who are meeting or exceeding continues to be above that of the of the state and the one I really wanted to highlight is our Science and Tech engineering um results in the high school last year that was the one area where we were a little just a little bit below the state in terms of our performance um in uh at the high school level there was an increase of 11 percentage U of students meeting or exceeding uh and that is definitely attributable to the U hard work of our biology team here at the high school um really digging in and and doing some uh hard work with our students and making sure that they had what they need um and so we're 55% meeting or exceeding uh compared to the states at 49% also um you know you can see the note here where the eth grade is just above the state uh in terms of meeting or exceeding um and again there's there's work being done at the middle school level specifically looking at high quality instructional materials that are inquiry based that are more up that are better aligned to the types of simulations and questions that students are going to start to see on mcast related to uh science in particular so um you know our teachers uh and our uh building leaders are all working extremely hard to make sure our students are well prepared uh to to be successful continue to be Su successful another group of students that um you know so that was those Trends were for all students uh across Dartmouth Public Schools um and this slide here here takes a little bit um of a more pointed look a deeper look at a specific subgroup of students which is um High needs students the department of Elementary and secondary education Massachusetts defines High need students as students who are economically disadvantaged students with disabilities uh students who have ever received any English as a second language instruction um those are the the major groups that um student groups that make up this High needs group um and in terms of trends for our high needs um the good news is our our high need students are outperforming the high need students across the state um pretty consistently um and you can see that in front of you in the presentation um but uh while it's an area of strength that we should definitely recognize and take some pride in at the same time we need to um really dig in on the fact that there's a significant percentage of our students particularly in high needs who are not meeting uh or exceeding grade level expectations so yes it's a source of Pride and a source of strength and it's also an area and an opportunity for us to grow and to continue to improve our practice okay actually can I just go B sorry go back one more thing the other thing that I'd like to highlight is um you know just thinking in terms of our strategic plan because I know that that is freshen on everyone's mind right this is the type of work that you see that falls under that uh Focus area one of teaching and learning but also in Focus area two of the safe and supportive schools the supporting piece what what do we need to do to make sure that we're supporting all Learners and all truly means all sorry no you're good um so you've heard us talk in past years about our Dart schools and so this is another way to continue to look at the data so when we talk about State data we're talking Mount all com all districts of them in Commonwealth and so what the department of Ed does is also pulled a group of schools which have similar demographics and these are the schools that are considered our Dart schools so they have a similar um enrollment they have a s similar low income percentage and we look at compared to students coming from districts similar to ours how are our Dartmouth schools uh and students performing and you can see that we are especially proud of this data they certainly again this year um are above the mean and the median in all areas and uh really outperforming the majority of the schools that are similar to to to ours one area that I um actually didn't speak of before and that I want to call to your attention as well is that our student growth percentile um student growth percental is different than our achievement data in that it looks at comparing students to those who scored similarly to them the year before so rather than just saying in the aggregate this is how our students fall uh the department groups students of a similar score band and ranks them against each other the following year and then they create a percentile of growth so it allows students who may not be a high achieving student to also be able to show good growth and so the goal obviously is to have high growth and high achievement um but there are categories of growth is this where we're getting into that I'm ahead of myself right so um obviously 50 being the middle of the road 40 to 60 is considered typical growth um and so anything above 60 is considered high growth anything below 40 is considered low growth and so um you know we are pleased to see the majority of our grade bands be on the upper end of high growth we know that there are still areas um that we need to work on for student growth in particular at the high school and I know Dr TBO will talk a little bit more about that um but overall when we talk about Dartmouth compared to similar districts to ours we are more than holding our own and certainly proud of our students and staff thank you Katie so yeah one of the areas um that we continue to be concerned about is SGP in math and Ela um the way I think of SGP is it's just about our all of our students growing right our achievement levels are are good but are all of our students growing our high Achievers as well as our struggling Learners we really want them all to be growing and that's what SGP is a measure of so um you know uh grade 10 Ela and math are areas that we need to dig in on and one of the um things you know there's a couple of things we already are addressing uh this with and that is by making sure that our students have access to high quality quity instructional materials we're piloting um you know Carnegie in grade 10 math um it's important if all students are going to grow that they all have grade level rigorous learning task in front of them and we don't want to ever be in a position where we're saying these students can and these students can't right we want to provide a challenge for all of our students and so that's one of the uh that's one of many reasons why high quality instructional materials are important because they've been vetted their grade level they're rigorous and we know that they're aligned to standards so in mafro Pilot and Carnegie what we haven't talked about as much perhaps is that in ela we're we're piloting um preap strategies and embedding those into uh our ninth grade ELA courses so that's upping the rigor there so that our students will have access to uh more rigorous challenging tasks on a daily basis and hopefully you know we will eventually see the benefits of that uh in terms of increased SGP so what are we doing with this data right we this we have all of this data and what is it that we actually do with it so uh it provides one data point that's used to inform and adjust our curriculum and instructional practices at the elementary level data teams uh analyze individual student data as part of the beginning of the year student data review this information is reviewed when making decisions about intervention services uh in student support some differentiation and then Additionally the curriculum teams will look at uh item analysis data to identify areas of strength in areas for growth at each grade level and that doesn't just happen at our tested levels I think it's important to Remember at the elementary level our kindergarten first and second grade teachers are looking at this mcast data just as closely as our tested grades they provide the foundational skills so our success in grades three four and five is yes we have wonderful teachers in 3 four and 5 but it starts in kindergarten right and so the work that the kids are doing in 3 four and 5 really does begin and if for lack of success if we have areas that we need to grow in we need to go all the way back and find out where that problem starts and so we're doing a deep dive of item analysis looking at individual questions the state is not re releasing questions this year much to my shin but looking at individual questions and looking at individual standards and making sure that we are um adequately preparing our students to be able to do work um and so that we can ACH maximize our student achievement similarly at this secondary level teams um get together and analyze um the the data conduct uh item analysis uh item analyses I guess would be the plar of that um in fact just last week I was over at the middle school um and and brown our math coach uh over at the middle school was leading the um curriculum planning time and they were looking at the math data it was the eighth grade team they were looking at the eighth grade math data from this year but also the seventh grade math data uh as well as the 10th grade map data so really trying to take that vertical um you know uh look at at our data Trend in map um you know and G Gary laau our Lead Teacher here uh does similar uh work with the math department but also he uh one of the things that we're trying to do is improve vertical articulation as we've talked about and so Gary and an myself we meet monthly and then we uh visit one another's common planning times as well monthly so Gary was at that meeting as well and it really led to some rich discussion around uh Trends and uh curriculum uh and instructional practices at uh the e8th grade level as well as um at the nth grade level uh so that was helpful and that's the type of work that uh is ongoing uh and so I think to always end on a high note we are exceptionally proud of all of our students in schools during this mcast season but we'd like to call out in particular the Quinn school who has been named a desie School of recognition each year the department identifies schools that have demonstrated progress toward their accountability targets and award them with this distinction Quinn school was one of only 57 schools across the Commonwealth to be recognized uh this mcast season and we want to wish our sincerest congratulations to the students and staff of the Quinn congratulations school so at this point we want to say thank you and we'll take any questions thank you very much for that very detailed presentation uh questions from any of the members um great work glad um we're doing better than State averages um but I guess my question is with constraints on The Bu budget um what are we not able to do because we don't have the money or um you know do we have enough teachers do we have the right um instructional material do we need you know we always need more I I I just so I I think that those are obviously that's a really important question and so closely tied to our district strategic plan and how effective we will be in implementing the district strategic plan which is tightly are very closely tied to our budget um so uh we mentioned and I know Mr Kylie is going to talk about the budget subcommittee meeting and just a couple of minutes that happened uh just a couple weeks ago but one of the things that we're finding ourselves um having conversations about as we get excited about the work is saying are we going to have the funding to be able to do this and recognizing that there are very specific steps that we need to take that do involved Personnel decisions uh that we will absolutely be coming to the committee with during budget presentations and talking about what we need to be able to support our plan and one of the simple I guess when you think about curriculum teaching and learning of the curriculum pieces curriculum costs money and not only do the physical materials cost money but the professional learning that comes along with supporting teachers and the use of those resources es is also has budget budgetary implications and so yes those are things that we worry about so we have to balance our excitement with um the work that we're doing that is happening in this district with also recognizing that we do face budget constraints that might and might not but might slow us down from some of the work we need to know uh we need to know is going to happen and I think the SGP when you look at it particularly at the high school um and Ela and math and think about the importance of um SGP again acronym student growth percentile um but percentage and what we want to see there is we want to see that increase because when that SGP student growth percentile increases you're also going to see that student achievement that's going to be in tandem student achievement is going to increase and I'm going to tie that back to uh curriculum teaching and learning and making sure that our faculty and our students have the highest quality resources and professional learning to support them in this kind of work because that is that's going to be a Difference Maker and yes we need a budget that supports that given the um pilot the various pilot programs you're running this year curriculum um and I know some of them aren't directly related but what data are you going to be most interested in looking at at this time next year given those Pilots so I think when you're implementing the thing you have to remember is that you have to be ready for an implementation dip right and so we have to be realistic about the fact that this is not a light switch change that we're going to be making that you're just going to see all of a sudden it happen part of the reason for that is that you implement across grade levels so when we talk about vertical alignment right we talk about curriculum building on itself year after year you are going to be talking about grade levels of students for whom this is new and they don't have the previous years so I think we will be um cautious when we look at the data and that's where looking at individual standards and looking at individual um item analyses of what are the things that we knew we were not doing well are we improving in on those areas um but I think we need to be cautious and then also look longer range so you're asking what I'm looking for next year that's where I started to allude to the third grade data in math this year we also look long range when we have a implementation um not mcast I'll talk my other my other area which just dibles our early literacy right so those kinds of um data take a minute um and so I guess my short answer is we're going to be cautious but deep in our looking at the information next year great thank you thank you Mr chairman uh one thing I would in I had written this down usually so you me you made a comment about the fact that the state wasn't releasing the answers to the questions or questions themselves the questions themselves correct type of deal so I mean how are we supposed to know an issue that you know if all of a sudden you know 20 students got question a wrong why you know was it the way it was worded the way it was taught you know that type of deal that were they looking for an entirely different answer type of deal how were we supposed to be able to so that deep dive into so that is that is the challenge right and again I mentioned the eighth grade um meeting they were doing exactly that the state didn't release the the actual item but what they released was the standard and a description of what the question would have been like um so it's not the same as just releasing the question itself right but in years prior they have so we do have partially they haven't they've never released the whole test right so there are try out questions and then there are unilateral questions and so they releas some not all um but to your point and to to what Dr TBO was saying like if we saw across the state State across the district that 80% of students got a question wrong we're not that's not really where we're putting our emphasis right our emphasis is on a question that 80% of the state got right and we're only 50% right and so that's what I mean when I say like we have to look at some of the um the state data and those trends that multiple kids outside of our district are doing compared to our district but it certainly does make it more difficult to do that deep analysis without the actual question in front of us we have some information we know which standards um but not the actual question thank you I'm good I just had a question for um for viewers um if probably Ross um in with your focus on the upper grades um sort of relating to the question on the the ballot tomorrow and folks like maybe voting one way or the other because they want to get rid of the mcast but we are keeping the mcast it just the question is whether or not the compet it towards the student competency um whether or not that passes could you talk a little bit about um is it a oneandone um the retake process um perhaps I don't expect you to have it but maybe you do the data around those students who are willing to retest what that process looks like sure that I can speak to I I so the the data that the state sided when they presented the mcast results this year because one of the other things to keep in mind and I didn't mention this but on that timeline Slide the other thing to keep in mind is that during just before mcast just before the pandemic mcast was also transitioning to NextGen mcast so there was a transition to a new form of mcast different style questions then the pandemic hit um so that's an important piece to keep in mind um along with that the cut off scores for meeting and exceeding and all of that at the high school level also changed it was increased um after the pandemic and so to meet that competency determination the bar was actually raised a little bit and so the data that the state uh CES is that um there was a about a I believe prior to the increase it was 4% of students who um did not meet the competency determination across the state and there was an increase of 4% with the new cut off if I'm remembering correctly so it's a small it's a relatively small percentage of students who don't uh meet the competency determination across the state um certainly there are communities where it's much more impactful than here in Dartmouth um Dartmouth every year there is a small percentage of students who don't meet the competency determination and they have opportunities to retest uh in November again in February um and then in certain circumstances at the uh you know in the spring as well depend determining uh based on their unique Mr Dr T students have opportunities to retake the test and that there's no limit toties thank you I think that's important for the community to recognize that there are those options it's not just a because it is like it you it's worrisome when you you know so anyway thank you for sharing that you're welcome that's all I have thank you Mrs Amal I'll just close by saying a very thoughtful presentation to both of you um I think as a whole my personal opinion is Dartmouth we're holding our own I think uh like you both re reiterated several times as well we as we've heard in the past is um we certainly have some work to do around curriculum we know I think we know that um I also appreciate uh you Katie coming out and saying that there we should be expecting a uh a dip possibly implementation dip uh which is certainly uh we should be mindful of that um but but I think at the end of the day uh with the Strategic plan Dr Sab McGuire's entry findings as well as uh what we've been hearing from teaching and learning is that uh with high quality curriculum uh and then the training to go along with that uh I think we'll you know ultimately see some increases um in our scores for sure uh the other piece that I'll mention is when you look at not so much that I have the dart districts pulled up here but not so much just the dart districts but when you look at scores in general and you compare uh per pupil expenditures there are some clear Trends um not completely but there are some clear Trends with uh those school districts that have a a high achievement level or a higher student growth uh level and their higher uh per pupil expenditures uh so they're at the end of the day they're they're spending more money on their students and they're seeing the results in their performance so uh just something else to to keep in mind but uh thank you both thank you thank you thank you thank you uh next up under old business uh preliminary FY 26 budget this is a standing agenda item um and I'm going to turn over to uh Mr Kylie uh which uh we had the opportunity to attend uh the last budget subcommittee meeting and he has some some things to share with us thank you Mr Oliver so as as you mentioned on October 28th we had a budget subcommittee meeting uh in which um we began to discuss um where we are number-wise for FY 26 and and I guess um I think what I stressed at that meeting is that um all discussions were extremely preliminary and um that we're still in the process of developing um the a draft FY 26 budget we as you know you folks were good enough to approve our district strategic plan on October 7th we're in the process of um completing School Improvement plan plans that'll be coming forward to you for your approval um there's a lot that still needs to be shaped in that budget process um and as um as you were just speaking about I mean the impact of the Strategic plan is is a key element and we want to make sure we get that right and bring that forward to you in a thoughtful way um which we will be doing so we're continuing continuing development of the budget um and and we'll continue to have preliminary conversations about that until we get to the point where we're ready to present to you a a um you know a a budget proposal um I'll just add also that I had mentioned at the budget subcommittee meeting that I began conversations with um the town Administration um regarding the budget and so far they've been very open to discussions so it seems to be um a good situation hopefully that uh you know we we can hopefully problem solve together on on things as we move forward so that's really the update of where we are with it at the moment thank you Mr Kylie uh M cofin do you have anything else to to add from the meeting not much but I'm hopeful that we'll be able to figure it out with other Town agencies um and support our strategic plan and support our students and educators yeah no I I certainly agree and I I think the we're still a little bit too early but obviously based on some of the early projections as well as what we've spoken about in the past is the use of uh one uh onetime Revenue which would be school choice funds um to help uh get us through the FY uh 26 budget and then beyond um but there's also there's there's definitely some some other things in play for sure so I'm looking forward to continuing these conversations uh at the budget subcommittee level and as soon as we have more developments uh we'll bring them back to you any comments questions concerns from committee members work in process constantly yes it will change thank you thank you Mr Kylie thank you uh next up continuation of discussion on the masc resolutions I believe do we leave off on five or six we left off on eight but we were going to revisit five oh okay you want to hold oh yep decide on do we want to hold that to the end or yeah let's is everyone all right with that we'll we'll revisit five after we get through sure yeah sure so resolution 8 Equitable funding for non Regional School Districts with high Transportation costs uh this was sponsored by by the Plymouth school committee whereas many non-regional school districts face significant financial burdens do the extensive Transportation cost and longer routes required to serve their students uh and then it goes on um you have this in front of you uh let's see let me just get to the end here uh where is the last paragraph where I'm a little confused here I look at it from here and it would help if I brought my glasses with me too hang on that's which one they want an annual report on adjustments busing and then that's eight The End Of Eight Annual reporting and adjustment requires school districts to submit annual reports detailing the actual busing cost the number of buses used and the miles traveled based on these reports adjust the reimbursements for each district to ensure they're aligned with actual expenses comments questions thoughts uh we we like to from Mr Kylie on this here Mr Kylie yeah sure i' I'd be happy to uh speak about it so um I don't think from what the uh rationale that was given by masc I don't it wouldn't we would not qualify for um for this um it it relates to our per our costs in relation to um comparison to State average so my thought is uh first of all the state has failed to meet the requirements that are currently in the law in regards to Transportation reimbursement to Regional School Districts so they haven't come up with the money to do that on a regular annual basis I highly doubt that they're going to come up with the money to do this and it wouldn't apply to us so I feel like it if they actually did do it it would be some Di verion of resources to somebody other than us anyway so um I don't I don't think it particularly behooves us we about um about State average in transportation spending so um and they were looking at 125% to be the floor um which I I don't think we'd ever be there so that's that's my opinion um I'd rather see resources spent on actual ISS issues uh in terms of being able to support um our students in another way like rework the Chapter 70 formula rather than do this but that would be my my my thoughts on it books and papers put the put the money to books and papers that sounds good you know yeah I mean I I I thank you for sharing that Mr Kylie and it just you know reframing this whole thing these are resolutions these are ultimately ways in which masc wants to Lobby on the behalf of districts for certain things and um I do think it it would beho us to you know I know we last meeting we were just looking through them and saying yes or no and what that might look like but um for us I would suggest that we really only focus on supporting those top priorities that would be of benefit to us in the global um Chapter 70 formula Rec you know fixing um so that you know Mass masc goes to State Legislature with like 40 asks they're going to say sit down in the corner but if masc comes with three four real powerful asks they're more likely to to to get some Buy in um and so I would I would ask that as a committee we really think about what our priorities are what the priorities of the state are in terms of fixing that formula and and only supporting I know we didn't do this last time we were looking at the one to one but in a fresh lens and it just um yeah that's my thought any other thoughts it's good we either vote no or we just abstain that would be you know I think we should I think abstaining would be the better of the better of the choices I'm good with that I'm fine with that as well um and I agree with what Miss samal said um yes we we should be supporting things that will behoove all school systems um not just Regional Schools not just rural schools not just schools that have huge Transportation costs um this is just Band-Aids on a bigger problem yeah um and so I think we should also go back to what we voted on no last week and perhaps abstain for them as well it's not that we're against other schools trying to get help for this that or whatever but it doesn't seem to be the right path yeah no I'm I'm certainly fine with that like I said I think this was our first time going through this as a committee um so okay we had voted no on resolution six I can change that to abstain a resolution was the um western Mass schools yeah rural support of legislation to improve the fisical health of rural school districts I'm fine with an exstension on that yeah okay that's more Let the they they need to Lobby the their specific legisl agreed legislative members type of deal any other no votes there no that was the only no vote okay yeah no I'm certainly in agreement with uh my fellow colleagues so I would uh looking at our next resolution resolution nine msba Grant evaluations grants evaluation for chapter 74 SP by Tri count Regional Vocational Tech Technical High School committee and this has to do with msba funding for Vocational Technical and agricultural high schools uh in uh rating their project rating projects across the state in a tiered system which really I don't think would benefit us not at all not at all I suspect the next one's going to be the same same thing resolution 10 expansion in capacity in chapter 74 Vocational Technical program Tri County Regional Vocational Technical High School abstain yeah abstain okay good and is that it and then the rest is expiring y yeah we have to go back to number five number five five thank you uh resolution five aligning taxing Authority with the required local contribution thoughts comments questions what do you want to do well at the last meeting Mr Kylie said um that it certainly wouldn't behoove Us in the short term but perhaps 10 years out it might um it it seems like it's a broader answer to the question so I personally would be okay supporting it um um but don't feel strongly yeah Mr Nunes yeah Mr chairman my my only concern here becomes the fact that you know in some instances the state's having problems trying to fund everything type of deal and if you all of a sudden start you know pulling a dollar here a dollar there type of deal the dollars are going to run out type of deal and they're going to they're going to sit back and look and they're going to take something like this and they're going to say well you know great idea but we can't afford this and it you know gets put on the shelf and that and you know well you want to bring it back next year and we'll we'll look at it type of deal I mean you know two and a half is personal opinion two and a half's outlived its usefulness but that's a discussion for another time uh but I think I best my opinion type of deal I mean is to uh just let just abstain on this one that that that would be my suggestion okay anyone else I mean I don't have an opinion on this one yeah I'm good with abstaining you know I mean I don't feel strongly one way or the other yeah yeah I'm fine with that yeah on this one so yeah exension good to go number five all right well we thank you in advance for your uh for your dedic a to the cause all right next up under new business uh superintendent evaluation and I would be happy to turn it over to our evaluation uh committee uh members um if you want to explain uh the process uh as to what we did or I'm happy to do that as well and whatever matter whatever is however you want to go about it it's fine I'll turn it over to you Mr NS all right so number one first and foremost thank you to our everyone everyone for your uh comments very thoughtful uh process that uh you went through uh also thank you again uh we had hoped to have this at the at our last meeting but uh Mr Murphy took over so that took of that that situation but so be it type of deal my personal thanks to miss Amaral because she does all the computer the computer stuff so that is uh fantastic and and very helpful to me uh we did meet uh via Zoom this afternoon with uh Dr Sabre Maguire to uh to go over this uh I'm assuming you guys it has been forwarded to uh to everyone uh again just for the benefit of uh our audience at home um there are uh five different uh performance goals it's you know did not meet some progress significant progress met and exceeded type of deal so the committee uh has put everything out in we've compiled everything and with regards to uh the professional practice the goals we have a meet met um student learning goals met District Improvement goals met uh that was step one step two is assess performances on the standards uh checking one for each standard standard one on instructional leadership was proficient uh standard two management and operations was proficient uh standard three family and Community engagement was uh proficient and uh standard for professional culture uh was also proficient let me take a step back there are four categories here uh they're unsatisfactory needed to Improvement proficient and exemplary uh proficient practice is under stood to be fully satisfactory this is a rigorous expected level of performance so this is what we came up with uh as a committee uh the step three overall uh subn subna performance is proficient uh the comments uh the committee provided individual evaluation response and below is a summary of those comments the school committee provided comments to describe Dr Sabre Maguire's demonstrated exceptional leadership this first year notably her proactive engagement with staff parents community and school committee members and how she has fostered a collaborative environment ensuring everyone feels heard and valued the committee also commented on her deep understanding of the strengths and needs of our district and her belief in datadriven curriculum as a vehicle to students and achievements additionally it is clear that she is dedicated to building buyin from all stakeholders beginning with staff in the classroom and families and community members the committee described Dr sael Maguire's highle level skill in articulating goals seeking information and synthesizing both qualitative and qualitative data are the words that came out in each committee's member evaluation described Dr sa Maguire included effective intentional strategic available supportive overall the committee shared consensus that Dr Sabre Maguire has demonstrated a strong first year committee members described her as approachable and visible she spends time getting to know staff students and makes herself available to family and community members she is identified with d Public Schools do well and when where there are opportunities for improvement uh the superintendent's performance goals uh professional practice uh again there are uh five categories here did not meet some progress significant progress met and exceeded and on the professional practice uh the new in superintendent induction program uh she met those goals District Improvement goals goal one by late spring the district will have a broad recognition by key stakeholder groups about the district's most critical needs will have a widely understood process underway to identify the strategies and goals that will address those needs most effectively and the measure that will be used to assess program progress and that goal was met District Improvement goal two says uh maintaining momentum during a transition keep the district moving forward during this year's transition in leadership by working with principles and other District leaders to ensure that meaningful progress is made on critical district and school goals and that was met superintendent performance rating for instructional leadership uh curriculum [Music] in uh excuse me I apologize ensures that all instructional staff design effective and rigorous standard base units of instruction consisting of well structured lessons with measurable outcomes and that was proficient they use just letters yeah messed me up a little bit uh instructions ensures that all practice in all settings reflect high expectations regarding content and quality of effort and work engage all students and are personalized to accommodate diverse learning styles needs interest and levels of Readiness and that was proficient assessment ensure that all principles and administrators facilitate practices that Propel personnel to use a variety of formula and informal methods and assessments to measure student learning growth and understanding and make necessary adjustments to their practice when students are not learning and that was proficient evaluation ensure an effective And Timely supervision and evaluation of all staff in alignment with state regulations and contract provisions and that was proficient data informed decision-making use multiple sources of evidence related to Student Learning including state district and school assessment results and growth data to inform school and District goals and improve organizational performances educator Effectiveness and student learning and now was proficient student learning demonstrate expected impact on student learning based on multiple measures of student learning growth and achievement including student progr ress on common assessments and Statewide student growth measure where available that should be proficient that's proficient and then uh the overall rating for uh instructional leadership is proficient uh comments that were made by the committee members Dr saber Maguire has shown leadership in steering the dmouth public schools towards rigorous standard based units of of instruction as evidence by the implementation of Hager and Foundations kat2 horizontally through our system through K to5 literacy Pilots through grades three and four Desi social study Pilots the math pilot and the World Language pilot at DHS through the silence pilot science pilot at the dooth middle school through curriculum Summit in a principal teams meeting team meeting on elll and then another comment says Dr saber Maguire has shown a dedication to using multiple sources of evidence to inform curriculum choices using mcast Dibbles star and teacher input through the curriculum review cycle and there's uh performance for management and operations uh under environment executes effective plans procedures routines operational systems to address a full range of safety and health and that was proficient uh human resource management and development Implement a cohesive approach to recruiting hiring induction development and career choice career growth that promotes high quality and effective practice that was proficient scheduling and man scheduling and management information system use systems to ensure optimal use of data and time for teaching learning and collabor collaboration minimizing disruptions and distractions for school level staff and that was proficient law ethics and policies understand and compiles with state and federal F state and federal laws and mandates school committee policies collective bargaining agreements and ethical guidelines and now was proficient fiscal systems develops a budget that supports the district's vision mission and goals allocates and manages expenditures consistent with district and school level goals and available resources that was proficient and the overall uh rating for management and operations the educational leader promotes the learning and growth of all students and the success of all staff by ensuring safe efficient and effective learning environments using resources to implement appropriate curriculum Staffing and scheduling and that was proficient uh again ments required uh not required but provided uh by the committee members Dr sa Maguire has shown Earnest effort in developing and executing systems to address a full range of safety health emotional and social needs for our students through the deib reviews DLT meeting and a good working relationship with our local law enforcement reports to the committee about safety concerns and how they are addressed transparent proactive about sending letters to families and another comment uh Dr saber Maguire has shown a firm understanding of laws mandated and policies concerning our schools she definitely welcomed our newcomer students in the fall of 2023 understanding pla versus doe decision of 1982 she has looked at mcast data to see how dth educates equitably in compliance with student opportunity act she demonstrates High concern about policy and law and she engages with the union and meets regularly uh superintendent the next standards the performance for family and Community engagement engagement uh actively ensures that all families are welcome members of the classroom and school community and can contribute to the effectiveness of the classroom school district and community and that was proficient sharing responsibility continually collaborates with family and Community stakeholders to support student learning and develop an atome School in the community and again proficient excuse me communication engage in a regular two-way culturally proficient communication with families and Community stakeholders about student learning and performance and that was proficient family concerns addresses family and Community concerns in an equitable effective and efficient manner and that was profis and the overall rating the education leader promotes the learning and growth of all students and the success of all staff through effective Partnerships with families Community organizations and other stakeholders that support the mission of the district and at schools and that was again proficient again comments provided from lettuce to parents on how best to view the solar eclipse to the August welcome back school letter to the families Dr Sabre Maguire has communicated with families and Community stakeholders to support student student learning not just in the schools but at home and in the community parents and family surveys strategic planning committee and work working well with school committee and one other comment Dr Sabre Maguire has engaged in two-way communication with families Community stakeholders about student learning and performance during every school committee meeting she has communicate communicated the business of the school with enthusiasm and Clarity she held a Family Forum in the spring of 2024 where she presented the business of the schools and took comments and questions from attendees and the last one Performance Reading we have is professional culture and uh committed to high standards Fosters a shared commitment to high standards of service teaching and learning with high expect expectations and achievement for all and again that is proficient cultural Prof proficiency ensures that policies and practices enable staff members and students to interact effectively in a culturally diverse environment in which student backgrounds identifies strengths and challenges are respected and that was proficient community ation demonstrates strong interpersonal written and verbal communication skills continuous learning develops and nurtures a culture in which staff members are reflective about their practice and use student data current research best practices and Theory to continually adapt practice and Achieve improved results models these behaviors in his or own her her own practice and that is proficient shared Vision successfully and continually engages all stakeholders in the creation of a shared educational Vision in which every student is prepared to succeed in postsecondary education and become a repon responsible Citizen and Global contributor and again proficient managing conflict employs strategies for responding to disagreement and dissent constructively Revol revolve resolving conflict and building consensus throughout a district or School community community and again proficient and the overall uh rating for professional uh culture is proficient uh some comments made uh Again by the committee members for Dr Sabre Maguire everything stands on the foundation of Ethics she Fosters the shared commitment to high standards of service teaching and learning with expectations for a achievement for all because she has lived it and is Guided by it and the last comment Dr sa Maguire demonstrates strong interpersonnel written and verbal communication skills from one-on-one meetings the weekly updates to the school committee school committee meeting presentations family forums convocation addresses to her report of Entry findings she does not fail to share in concise clear Pro and speech that's what's there thank you very much Mr Nunes Mrs Amaral we certainly appreciate that uh before I turn it over uh to our superintendent Dr sa McGuire any other uh closing thoughts uh from our committee members uh anything that was not said or you want to share you can start down there this amiral I'm I'm cons I'm I'm curious as to what hopefully we captured it all we really didn't we were trying not to be repetitive um those comments they were a little repetitive but I felt that uh we wanted to share them individually because they weren't necessary um but they were accurate I think um uh you know we spoke to i i in meeting um in meeting earlier today I I shared that I I tried doing a word cloud but my my menty meter let my it just wasn't working um but it was uh interesting to see the words that that came out um of all of our uh evaluations uh in terms of describing Dr Sab Maguire's um you know who who she has demonstrated herself to be um through what she does and how she interacts uh and you know some of those it is true effective intentional strategic available supportive um but there were several others that were common threads throughout all of our um evaluations um and so I'm just that's all I have to add uh and and I would also add that I think John talked about you know proficient equates excellence um and uh and that's the average so some folks did score exemplary in certain areas um but but we taking into account the average uh and you know that more so proficient than Exemplar not that it wasn't it's just that you know desie does sort of guide with don't only if there's no more growth to be had you know on very rare occasions they're they're really hone in on that is you know be careful if if you do it because it's really got to be there and you know that particular person could be a leader someplace you know doing you know teaching that particular that area of it type of deal so just have to be careful no disrespect you know because every you could make everything excellent and that yeah I said n such we will talk about next steps for exemplary because you know I'm a little competitive yeah I think we had this this this afternoon we had this conversation when we were putting this together it's a good starting point this bew um I just want to thank you both because I think you really did a good job at synthesizing um our intent in our um shared evaluation and I just want to acknowledge how award awward it kind of is you know thank you in my world evaluations are very private so um so I just want to acknowledge that and um and thank you for your I think I used word awkward a couple of times today so thank you for acknowledging I'm glad you saw it before um we were here tonight yeah um really A lot has already been said I don't know that I could add but but it was a great first year thank you yes and I look forward to the next yeah same thank you to Kathleen and John much appreciated uh there's a lot said uh certainly a lot said and I think that's a a testament to uh how last year went and uh just it solidifies uh my my feelings on the decision of bringing uh Dr Sab Maguire in as I heard and listened to uh the comments uh in those sections just I just jotted down a couple just a couple of things that really stuck out in my head as well as that I personally think uh you know it's very commendable job and just a couple of things that I that I heard committed to Improvement approachable impeccable Communications in care is about building relationships yeah that's that's kind of the gist of I synthesized everything and put it into just a couple of words there so uh thank you uh on behalf of the school committee Dr s McGuire for a successful first year uh we look forward to many more great if I could just offer a few comments um first of all thank you to the committee you have been an incredibly supportive committee and you've made that part of this work really not easy work but you've made it easy um for me as a brand new superintendent coming in so I can appreciate so much um and I just want to say that the comments actually have more weight for me than the actual ratings and so again it's humbling and at the same time really validating to the work that we do uh every day in our school district so a superintendent doesn't do their work alone and a committee a school committee a supportive School commit who is as invested in the school district as the superintendent and who has the right commitment to the right things um makes this um this opportunity and this made this opportunity and transition for me um one that has been incredibly meaningful to me in my life and in my career and I want you to know that um Additionally the committee I mean I have a a phenomenal central office leadership team again the support that uh we have for one another and getting our getting the work of school done because in the end it's all about us and I've said that's being in service um to our schools uh our families our students our Educators our staff Our Town leaders um you you mentioned in the report the union that's been a very important relationship um and I appreciate the uh the commitment that they that Union leadership has had I'm looking at Mrs paresi cuz she's right in front of me this evening um but again Mrs Vieira everybody part of that leadership has been really important in um dealing with some of the difficult things and at the same time celebrating what's really wonderful that's going on here in the district uh Town leaders have been wonderful here too I felt so welcomed by Mrs H Mr tattle buom um I could name all of of the folks that were involved in the work that we we've done together but this is really about moving not only a school district forward but how are we partnering with this community to really become that Vision that we all have for being one Dartmouth in our commitment to the betterment of this community because it's our young people that are going to be the folks that are stepping into those really important roles that we're all talking about tonight and that our educators are the one are the people the people out in the school who are supporting that learning and that growth um so again um I just have to say that I am again humbled by your comments I thank you so much and I cannot in any way overate how important you have been uh to making this a wonderful year I'm looking forward our district strategic plan is launched um we have a lot of work to do and that's the great thing about our work is that there's always a lot of work to do um and that's what keeps us moving forward uh as far as like ratings are concerned I just want you to know I am a little competitive so I will be working very hard to get that coveted exemplary and that's also the work and the conversations that I have with with the staff that I work with every day about what you know what do we do to take ourselves to the next level because that's really what it's about what do we need to do in order to take us to the next level and so thank you so much I really I'm I'm truly um so pleased to be here and looking forward to another wonderful year in darmouth lucky to have you we're pleased to have you thank you thank you Mr chairman you yes Mr Nunes we do need a motion to approve this evaluation type of deal and then we need uh Mrs Amaral and I have signed it and we just need Dr Sabre Maguire's signature on it for for her file okay because this is part this is has to be done an open session and this is a part of her personnel file and such understood chair will entertain a motion uh to approve Dr s mcu's evaluation so moved second motion by Mr noon second by Miss Beckwith on the motion any other the discussion chair hearing none all in favor I I oppos motion car is unanimously good job I'll get her sign it after thank you again thank you uh continuing on uh superintendence update I know I'm right back into it so um I am happy to share all that's happening here in the Dartmouth schools and every time I put together a report to share with you at a school committee meeting um I just I always realize how it just gives me moment to pause to think about all of the Great things that are happening here and all the really good hard work that's happening so I'm going to give you a quick update under teaching and learning you've already heard from ktie and Ross who gave you an overview of our mcast results I thank them so much they did a wonderful job and I think gave us a really high level and detailed view of what's going on in terms of student performance related to our standardized testing um I would mention and I know you've heard this pilot pilot pilot but we started our second ell Ela pilot and simultaneously Mrs PVE was able to take a team of people to barington to talk with folks who were using um one of the resources that we're piloting I want to thank those folks in barington and I want to thank Mrs poo for bringing a group of folks out to another school district to see um some of both the challenges and successes that they've had because this is a big decision for us and so we are in the process of the implementation of the second pilot looking forward to feedback from our Educators um really uh again their positive approach to this work is making a big difference and I do believe in the end using the data that they give us and what they're sharing with us will we will make a great decision to lead the the Dartmouth literacy um the learning for literacy of our students in uh pre really K to 5 um same for Dartmouth High School leadership um I'm particularly going to just pick out the uh the math department I did have an opportunity to sit on in on a recent math common planning again those are things that I think are really important Dr t-bo makes himself uh available for those Tye types of meetings too more to be listeners um and listen to our teachers talk about the resources and what they're grappling with what they're finding success with because it does help us as a district when it comes time to make those important decisions of the direction that we're going in I was really pleased to hear them talk about how some of the students are um demonstrating uh better or or a more um uh more understanding of the material in this new resource because it is a it's a really different way for our teachers to teach and it's a really different way for our students students to learn and so again thanking the Educators for being willing to take those kind of risks both for themselves professionally and also with the students with their students so we thank them for that I am pleased we had mentioned project 351 we are hoping to hear from them soon we did and uh we have been accepted into the project 351 Pro initiative again again Dr tbol works with uh again Folks at the middle school high school but this is a highly selective process and so being part of this initiative is a big deal for us here in this community and we look forward to having our students come and talk to you as we did last year about the work there were that they're doing and what that looks like uh in terms of the other students and how they're being impacted so again thank you to Dr t-o for a stewardship throughout this process um next uh quick update on where we are with budget Capital Improvement HR so uh Human Resources I want to mention to you and you've heard it the elll teacher we're still in the process of interviewing for an elll teacher who will be shared between the high school and the middle school we think we might be making some progress and hopefully at our next meeting we'll have some good news to share with you uh at the same time you know that we've had a change in leadership at the kushman school right now we have have Mrs Heidi Brooks and we also have uh Mrs Karen McCarthy who are sharing the duties of supporting the kushman school as we begin the process of reviewing applicants and we'll begin interviewing and selecting a new director we hope that we're going to do that fairly soon and at the same time we we're aiming for a January start but at the same time we know we're in good hands right now with the two people who are very experienced Educators who are uh helping to support the kushman school right now while we go through this process you know I'm going to mention monitors substitute teachers ESP it's just it's it's all the time that we're looking for folks our food service workers you saw tonight we had we honored a few of our esps tonight for the work that they do and again we talk about them as being our unsung heroes and in many ways all of those positions that I just talked about I just said that we're we're continuing to look for folks to fill positions they are some of the unsung heroes in that work in schools um Mr kyy now I think wants to do an update on some of the work that he's doing with capital Improvement projects thank you Dr sa Maguire yeah real quick on um our Capital Improvement plan we're working on our FY 26 through 35 Capital Improvement plan which you know the five-year Capital Improvement plan process that you know I've done every year since I've been here um has a fair amount of margin of error particularly when you're talking about 70y old buildings um but the 10-year Capital Improvement plan has a quite a um it's that's a pretty broad time frame to be trying to um you know estimate everything that a 70 and at the end of this plan 80-year-old building is uh is going to need so we're in the process of doing that um we're working working with our administrators in the schools they're preparing um preparing their thoughts uh for the end of this week and those will be submitted to me and then we'll do some more homework and have some talk talking about that um with everybody and then uh we'll put a plan together to bring it forward for the group so right I'm going to move right into family and Community engagement I think I said this at the beginning just a reminder the way that we've structured the superintendence report support is really around the four Focus areas of the district strategic plan and so with f I'll actually go a little bit out of order because it's just a quick safe and supportive schools update um Kim redlon who is here tonight um she uh is meeting for the first time with the district crisis team meeting this coming Wednesday and so we'll be looking forward to updating you as to the outcome of some of the work that's going to be going on with that team in in um a future school committee meeting and so under family and Community engagement again this is a strength here in Dartmouth there is so much going on with family and Community engagement at the same time we won't to be intentional about how we're engaging with families in the community since our last school committee meeting we've had several opportunities to engage very intentionally with the community uh as you know we hosted a community Forum to introduce our district strategic plan we appreciate those folks who showed up to hear our presentations um again Mrs Beckwith thanks for being there and we did have a few inperson people but we also want to thank our at home viewers um at last count and I check every once in a while we are up to about 280 views so perhaps you know people are maybe not showing up in person but that doesn't mean they're not taking the time to walk watch and to listen and to learn about the work that we're doing I've actually had a few people comment to me that they've seen it and that uh they're excited about the work ahead so that's been important so again viewership is up um even if iners wasn't uh wasn't quite what we'd H but next time because again we're going to continue to do this kind of we're going to continue to host these kind of opportunities uh Dartmouth High School hosted its open house for our eighth grade ERS uh again really pleased that so many families attended and they weren't just all students from the Middle School we did have some students who are attending maybe private schools or other um opportunities for educating for education and they are expressing interest in Dartmouth High School uh so I also had the opportunity to tape an episode of what's cooking in Dartmouth um mhm so this allowed me to talk about our district strategic plan and share my baked mac and cheese recipe so apparently it will be on uh shortly before the holiday because it's a great side dish for Thanksgiving um so I want to thank uh Magnolia mccomish and the folks at DCTV I was so impressed with the their operation I don't know if you realize if you've been in there but they actually have a kitchen that is designed for this kind of cooking show now I wouldn't hire me to be the person who hosts the weekly cooking show but we'll see we'll see I did get some good feedback about the mac and cheese uh so again impressed with their operation and their professionalism they are such a really a valuable asset to not only the Dartmouth schools but the Dartmouth community so also this past Thursday Dartmouth High School hosted its annual unified Halloween ball I think that's what they call it um it was quite a party lots of students and staff here Refreshments kids students were Dan students and staff dancing um you know again the commitment from the between the staff and the students is really palpable here as this was an after school event there were a number of Educators here working with the students um and the students were having so much fun and it was just really nice to see that collaboration between all of our students regardless of of their background I'm going to give a special shout out for a minute to Daniel and Avery So Daniel and Avery are our um Dartmouth High School students who apparently watch all of our meetings and they do some commentary on them so thank you to Daniel and Avery and uh we appreciate that we're going to have to look at one of those versions of our meetings to see what they really think about our school committee meetings be interesting I'm going to invite Mr gashaw oh he looks surprised yes I'm going to ask you to come up and to talk about where we are with the website as Dr sa Maguire begins her quest for exemplary we start with something that she's been uh driving me for the past months and months but mostly supporting me uh she's she's been to a lot of our our uh meetings where the the tech people have gotten together to build pages and such and she drops in whether it be at the in the conference room or in the office just to give input and and comments about what we're looking at so um as part of the Strategic plan uh we are providing one of the elements of family uh Community uh communication and Outreach um it's very important that'll be our new website um we have been working for months uh building a new website uh We've weeded through the old website trying to clean up uh documents and forms and uh links and such it was very important to to go through all of them to make sure they're accounted for so on the new website we're keeping it um mostly simple as we develop more uh forms and documents as we build them uh and when you do that you must make sure that we have ADA compliance it's American disabilties act so that documents can be read online uh also multilingual and such like that so it's a work it's definitely still a work in progress I just wanted to thank um some of the people in my office Tom farz and and Tracy bis who worked really hard at doing this as well the instructional tech people administrators uh We've we've gotten together uh people at all over the high school that are having part certain parts that they update music department Athletics and so on and all their parts um as well as the library um and the secretaries as well who will control the calendars from each of the schools uh we chose tomorrow at 3:00 to flip because we figured nothing else would be going on in the country so we thought that tomorrow might be a good time to no it's trly coincidental we didn't plan that but at 3:00 we'll be working with the domain name Services System basically it's the same site Dartmouth School just a new look so what happens is they point the Dartmouth do school to another uh website and the old website right now we've been working in what's called a sandbox with the new website and it flips so the old website will be in the sandbox and we can make reference to anything we've also put on the new website this is a new website please give comments questions links you know if there's something missing you can't find something let us know so we can take that input as well so we look forward that tomorrow at 3: so be patient uh maybe you can check on anything else that's in the news uh at that time but at from 3:00 hopefully it flips within a matter of 30 minutes but there might be a a a Twist between that so I just wanted to announce that and we're on our way to exemplary Dr s mire so we'll be good I'll be counting on that Mr G thank you yeah the emails that are that we have you know saved and file folders those are all going to flip over oh they're all fine yeah every everything else around us it's just um how we present schools with uh we brought in the parent Square feed we brought in new you know latest updates uh principal messages uh Calenders pictures uh lot more Dynamic but there's still the busing listings the nutrition for the menus uh the calendars people these are important things to families and parents and such uh so so we're always uh you know open for suggestion people pto's community uh community links a lot of um it's a great place for links for you know software and links for do documents and forms and such for people registration and such yeah well we will send out a message to the entire parent parents yeah yeah to the parents to our staff letting them know I I mean it's not going to disrupt anything that they're doing but we want them just to let them know that there's a new look website that will be out there yeah and so the way they navigate might be a tiny bit different like whether they're getting to teach point or something that's part of their regular practice but we will be sending out a communication Mr I just had a quick question if it will still continue to um operate through the app oh you know actually there'll be a new app there'll be a new app not tomorrow but um the the new app will be unveiled very shortly what it is is the actual website can be viewed on a phone uh as if it's an app but there's also an app that will come with that excent so um yeah cool great looking for yeah there'll be there'll be um I'm sure some bumps but I we'll make sure it's it's uh very prominent of how to call or how to write if there's a problem um but we also place things exactly where they were in the old website so the familiarity of going to Aspen or the uh the menus or the calendar are in the same spot so we figured people by force of habit would go right to that spot great thank you thank you and I think just just a couple other quick things because there are a couple sports events going on right now actually um we have boys soccer I think it's over so they so they lost so that's unfortunate but again oh the girls we did find out that to the girls um field hockey and we have volleyball going on right now so I've been listening to see if I could hear any cheers but it's been a little quiet for the last few minutes but we'll definitely be peeking in to see how they're doing um and I know Mr Nunes is going to give his update about how our award-winning band is fairing so thank you thank you uh for the report of the chair uh just very quickly in my uh and this is where that thought earlier came from in my uh bi-weekly meeting with the superintendent uh we had discussed um our next meeting on November 25th that's the week of Thanksgiving uh it is a what we felt would was a very light agenda and probably it not necessary to take up everyone's time uh that week of Thanksgiving um if anyone has any uh any objections to that or are you okay with uh having the night [Laughter] off oh that's good that didn't take too long what would in all because I have missed putting it on my December what's up meeting date in December meeting date in the 16th yep yes the 16th okay that'll be our only one yeah that's our only December I'll fix that I'll fix that so anything that uh okay I'll take you thunder Mr noons and say any any warrants or anything that may need to be signed yeah yeah yeah we can contact you all and yeah arrange for signatures perfect so you can wipe that off your calendars Monday November 25th uh and that's all I have uh for this evening um I'm turn it over to my esteemed colleague uh Mr Nunes for the report of the Dartmouth High School Marching Band thank you got a got a couple of things uh we do have a uh a football game Friday night the football teams in the in the state tournament they ranked number six I believe in this in a division type of deal so we're hosting uh uh Milton High School uh 7 o'clock Friday night so come out and support the students and such uh our high school band wow keeps keeps on trucking uh on October 27th up in STO um they were the US band's Massachusetts state champions uh they had a score of 95.0 for division 4 and um winning all all the captions as they've kind of done all year uh then this past uh Saturday we went down to uh metti stadium in East Rutherford New Jersey uh where the Giants and the Jets play and uh the band uh came came in first place in division 4 so they are national champions again uh with a score of 97.65% that's how close some of the some of these are type of deal but uh they've had a a great year so now we just uh get ready to uh move on to indoor percussion indoor winds and uh indoor Color Guard both of varsity and juniority on the color guard so that's there and again you know Dr McGuire talked about you know the teams in the tournament so you know volleyball's playing now hopefully it continues that's all I have Mr chairman they're up two sets To None volleyball yeah yes we have a really nice system of being able to watch the games when we're not there so it's really good camera work watching this the entire meeting but I am impressed notice you're a little distracted I'm impressed with the quality of the video anyone else Noe all right uh so with that chair will entertain a motion to adjourn our next school committee meeting is Monday December 16th Happy Thanksgiving everyone Happy Thanksgiving safe travels so moved second motion by Mr noon second by Mrs Amaral on the motion anything else J hearing none all in favor I I opposed carries unan unanimously meeting is adjourned watch I'm of vot [Music]

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