Robots are designed to perform tasks that would be difficult, dangerous, or time consuming for humans. When we start this program, we introduce students to a variety of different types of robots to make that realworld connection. Robots have a significant influence on industries like healthcare, manufacturing, and space exploration. So, robotics isn't just about technical skills. It fosters higher ordered thinking and assess essential social emotional skills. complex thinking is identified with students I'm sorry students are identifying problems and they're breaking them into smaller parts and they're analyzing programs to test them. If we think about the social emotional learning, Stephanie and I had so many experiences of well, we had to learn to take turns. That was really hard. Or um I had to wait. I had to be patient for my partners to finish running their program so I could run it. or I know that they don't know how to use that screwdriver and I have to wait because it's not my turn yet because they're supposed to be the builder right now.
It's going to be take this on the record so you guys understand that's Eva Plains from Poa Limits to Black Rock Nakuli. That's our community. You guys keep calling them Capo A. And don't get me wrong with the Capo A people, but I'm saying when you guys make development, reason why you guys getting confused on the books cuz 96706 is being left out cuz you guys keep using Capo. Capo is not Croc Center. That's Ever Beach. A new development of Hawaiian Homes is in Ever Beach. The new elementary school is in Ever Beach. A new high school is in Ever Beach. So that's why when you said the highly impact areas to be used, we get families in Ever Beach have to same like Senator Kim said, bail out because nobody in Ever Beach has $6 billion. You know how much an average home inside uh in Ocean Point going for right now?
So that means that they are disagreeing about what? Well, it didn't meet the criteria for the teacher monitoring and tracking student progress. So it might mean like a lot of those indicators are all some few. So, you're going to get a disagree if it didn't have it that you didn't see the teacher monitoring all students. Maybe the teacher only made it to two tables. There's a lot of criteria with it. Um, have it back at the office. But if you saw the rigger walk 2.0, it's kind of the the tool that goes with this that explains what each one is and the criteria to meet it. Well, that's fine. But you know, as a lay person, yeah, reading this graph, it does make a whole bunch of sense because everybody's disagreeing about I don't see any agreement on there at all. So tell me where the agreement is.
Yeah. Oh, you are? Total chance. I didn't know that. I could sense maybe something was going on here. When it gets down to it, when you think about what's the greatest thing about we go, we go madness here, students, the student body, you know, freshman through seniors, all 2,000 of you or prom. If you had to pick a champion and our We go madness here. Students or prom, who's the winner? You guys can collaborate on your decision if you want. I'm going to say students. Yeah, I agree. Students. Whoa. Okay, they're they're on the same wavelength. Maybe that's why they're going to prom together. They both say students. Our winner. All right. So the greatest thing about March Madness is anything can happen and truly anything did happen this morning. We saw upsets. We saw favorites. Professor, I don't think there was going to be any surprise.
Seeing no one from the public appearing. Um are there any board members that have any questions or comments? Made my comments the last meeting. Do you remember when was middle school? I don't know off the top of my head. The last real renovation though I believe is the late 90s. Right. 90 I think they finished that right after the high school. So 96 98ish. Does that sound right? It does. Yeah. So I can find that out by the end of the meeting and let you know. Mr. Russell kind of looked at like when we replace the pool people's still new. It's like no it's already years old or whatever. Same with the middle school central. It's a lot older than we think. I went there. I went there. It wasn't there. I think you just you just proved proved this point. My junior high got tore down.
Um, Nina Montino. No. Okay. Joseph [Applause] Norton. Here you are, Joseph. Bitter bitter. Yeah, it becomes my diploma. Okay. One of our freshmen, Zoe Ranger. Congrats, Zoe. Yep. And our other freshman, Katarina [Applause] Rutka, Eric Vong, [Applause] You can go. I'll give you yours. I have to find Carter Wang. Congrats. And then Hayden [Applause] Wang, Matthew [Applause] Wild and Christina Young. You guys want to kind of come together a little tighter? We'll do a quick picture. Actually, you're right, Jeff. I have the wide angle. You sure? I have Samsung. Not a not a lousy. Yeah. No, I got everybody except you now. No, it's okay. I'm kidding. I'm kidding. I got you. All right, everybody. Look at me. Smile. You already over there. Smile. All right. One more. Somebody else want to come up. This is kind of like a Guinness book sort of event.
And it was this constant um perseverance that they had to go through every day. They had to share ideas with their peers that were sometimes shot down. You know, Johnny doesn't want to do the program that I wrote, right? Johnny says it's not going to work. Well, why? Right, they're presenting ideas and giving feedback 100% of the day. Like, it's just the way the class runs. And then I just listed other things like compromising, your hands-on learning, problem solving, uh, emotional regulation is the kicker. Fine motor skills, follow through, and of course, your perseverance and trial and error. Um, I'd like to go ahead and introduce one of our fourth grade teachers at Chapman Elementary who'd like to share what he experienced with his students as the program was being run. And I'll let him introduce himself. He's so wonderful to be here. Thank you.
Huh? $5 million. Anybody in this room, we can all put together. We're not going to afford that house. Our community is going up. The impact is going up. Yes. But the big picture was the large developers. Hiko, Gentry, right? They are heartened, right? Co Ridge, all all those areas that making big impact, right? Not saying they don't. You're talking about you like the you like them to give to take away the impact. Okay, fine. But don't take away the land. But you guys got to specify to this committee. Don't just get the land. You got to have the developer build the infrastructure. Mhm. Because I can give you land. I can go have all these developers give the DOE land. Do you have money to put in the infrastructure? Do you have the money to put in the infrastructure? No, we require them. No, but that's what I'm saying.
I can tell you, Miss Sabraski, that going from strongly disagree to disagree on some of these hard level skills, uh, when it comes to students acting on feedback from teacher and peers to achieve the learning target and teacher monitoring is a good thing. Kevin used to tell me, Julie, disagree is a good thing. You move from strongly disagree. So, it's trending in the right direction. It's a tough cell. I get it. But, um, there's that piece to it. The other piece is that I can tell you that we have learned since we've done this implementation, even from August. So August, what we what we consider teacher monitoring and tracking was a different thing than it looks now because as administrators, we're learning as we go as well. And I hate to tell you that, but sometimes it's a little bit of a floating target depending on the intake of information you're getting.
I mean, we had some fun along the way, but it really was decided. We have the best students. Of course, they were going to dominate in every possible way. Yep. You know, it wasn't just the team that got hot. It was the best team that won this year. Let's make it a fun Friday. Good luck with your brackets. One more week to spring break. Prom tickets go on sale Tuesday. We'll see you soon. [Music]
So, so I I uh close the public hearing and I ask if we have a motion. Mr. President, I move that we approve the 1028 preliminary determination resolution for the 2025 middle school central and districtwide go projects. Thank you, Mr. Alexander. Do I have a second? Second. Thank you, Mr. Russell. All those in favor, please signify by saying I. I. Opposed. The eyes have it. 5-0. Um, a few announcements here. Um if any of the members of the public would like where we will have good for the grove this evening after the uh session closes. Also there will be a public works session on April 9th 2025 at 4 o'clock in the IT learning hub. We will post notice of that. Uh the gala for the grove at the garment factory is April 12th, 2025. Be in Franklin this year instead of downtown. On April 17th, we will have an executive session at six o'clock uh which will also uh be be published.
Congratulations guys. [Applause] Just one more quick comment. Really folks, I am so proud of you guys. I love all of you. Congratulations. And I'm probably going to mess this up. So, so um please correct me, but I believe congratulations in German is Oh, yes. Okay. I remembered. Thank you. Awesome job. Congrats to everybody this evening. Um, next item on our agenda is actually the audience section. So, if there are any audience members who would like to go up to the podium to make any comments, um, please do so. and we'll just wait. And you're all welcome to please stay for the remainder of our meeting, too. I just want to make a quick comments on behalf of all the German uh student family. Thank you the board for supporting German learning. Um I very grateful for frazza has uh supporting for the case not as learning a new language but also experience the culture and the German kids are actually I mean German ning students are going to the German trip this year.
Hello. I'm Tanner. I'm a fourth grade teacher at Chapman. And yeah, I just wanted to come and share our experience uh my experience and my class's experience. We were one of the first classes uh we were part of that first rotation um back at the start of the year that got to experience the new STEM program and it was really just an awesome experience for everyone um myself and the students included. You know the the STEM program really made an incredible impact on uh my class from the very first day. They were super engaged. They were just wanted to be hands-on and that's what STEM is like. They were just really just diving right into everything. Um, the hands-on nature of the program allowed them to just get right to problem solving, coding, collaborating in ways that traditional lessons uh don't always replicate. Uh, one of the biggest takeaways with how they I was very surprised how they just really uh grasp the the blockbased coding that was part of this robot um program.
But then you got to be clear to this committee that you're not only requiring the land, but the infrastructure to put into build. Correct. Right now, two of the schools in the district is not going to get built anytime soon. So that's what I'm trying to say. So I I battle with this a lot. Don't get me wrong. I support the fact because we need to get Hawaiians in homes. But the question to the fact is that what Senator Kim is asking regardless of and and I don't want to keep hearing that um the people not there anymore. So did the computer blow up? Did the notes they took prior is it gone? Don't you guys can access these guys records? Cuz if you guys cannot, they're not understand. But don't tell us that all these guys left for really. You know what I mean?
Okay? But if I was to draw a trend line, a math trend line from the beginning data in August to the ending data in whatever was it uh February. Now go back to the other one. Let's stick with one. Oh, well, I wanted to give you a good one. No, I don't want I don't want a good one. I want Okay. Well, this is the end of the road one. So, this we'll tell you this is the end of the rigger lock and the these are the levers that we're working on right now. Okay. Well, that's fine. But all I'm trying to I'm just trying to figure this out in my mind. So sure, I'm not being disagreeable. I'm I'm trying very hard to make a decision tonight. So I have to have some information. Okay. Okay. So if I'm drawing a math trend line, which is a straight line, it's not a little big jaggy things.
The executive session closed to the public. Following the executive session, also on April 17, 2025, we'll have a 7:00 board meeting right here. So, those are the official announcements on behalf of the school. Mr. Russell, do you have anything to add today? No. at ISBA board of directors meeting. We're fighting hard on this budget situation that's going to come down the pike. Thanks for the update. Anything else, Miss Downigan Smith? Um, I think you guys probably all got an invitation, but the first robotics team here is moving on to state, which is going to be hosted here. So, that's really exciting. And they won the biggest award last weekend, which means they're eligible to win the state version of that award. qualifies them for world. So keep your fingers crossed for that. Thank you. Miss C, do you have anything to add? Mr. Alexander, nothing this evening, sir.
Uh they are very excited and then I thank the board for supporting that activity as well. Thank you. Thank you. All right, seeing no audience members, we're going to move on to the next item, which would be our committee reports. And first up is Miss Cullinin for the curriculum committee. Thank you, Madam Chairman. Um, our board of education curriculum committee was held on Monday, March 10th, uh, 2025 at 7 p.m. And the new business, and I'm going to turn it over in a minute to Mrs. Solano. New business, um, was brought to the committee and we discussed the math benchmark assessment, an update on that, an update on the safe school climate survey. Mr. Hanland went through the algebra 1 resource update and then onformational items we had two. One, we discussed proposed projects for the summer priorities for curriculum updates. Um and finally we received an update on the presentation at the Connecticut Literacy Council meeting by Dr.
They quickly were comfortable with sequencing. they were able to figure out how to program the robots to go forward, backwards. Um, eventually some students, one of the videos was of my students who with the sensors, they were able to figure that out, which was again kind of a next level thing um that they were able to work out a as they were working with the robots. The trial and error process was not frustrating for them. Um, it was something that they were more motivated by than getting frustrated from. They embraced the challenges that were presented before them and they showed persistence and critical thinking so that they could debug the codes that weren't working and to work together to find solutions. Beyond coding, the biggest thing about this program was the collaboration that it built within the students. They naturally took on different roles. They communicated their ideas to each other clearly and they supported each other uh in a way that made the learning process even more meaningful for each other.
I understand that. I understand too because I I I'm I'm a new senator. I took over from my last sir. You don't hear me blaming my previous senator for things that because you're not here. You take it up, put on your big boy pants, and you move on. Don't tell us because the person will leave or anything. Can cannot we cannot do that. And I and and I know you long time. You know what I mean? We worked long time together. You you know the projects we worked on. But the impact fees was never to hurt the small guy. So, I need you guys to just go do some homework and work with this committee and the chairs to figure out how if we be salvaging anything and how we're going to salvage. You got to give more details. Thank you, chair. Thank you. Members, further questions.
Okay. And I go from the beginning to the end. You see what I'm talking about where Matt? Okay. I am not seeing a whole bunch of improvement incremental incremental. Okay. It does go up and it does go down, but if you do a just a trend line, a regular mathematical trend line in this data. So, it doesn't true. And you can see in the trends we're seeing we're we're citing that it is a flat line between 13 and 15. So if you see the full first bullet on there it will say that. But I I want to mention to you that all from August on our focus was not on levers 13 and 15. Okay. Go back to one then it shows some real progress because that's the end of the road for us. Okay. Just show me. So, let me get a good one.