Uh but some of the units that are falling at the end of the year that you know we're trying to make sure we're getting to you know if our scores are lower in those standards then I would say like I completely understand because they didn't get the full unit. We kind of just tried to get them make some gestures at it before the MCCAST and you know we're trying to send the message to the teachers too that they should be teaching to the test. um while also wanting your students to do as well as possible. So I think we will have to look at you know where our students did really well and you know if there's the second or third unit that teachers spend a really long time on our students don't do well that'll be a red flag to look at but if it's like looking at measurement that that's the last unit of the whole year and scores come down a little bit on that then that would be expected.
I I appreciate that Katie and we definitely need to have that conversation. So, is there a way adding on to that though because for myself like I I really don't want to spend a lot of time rewarding an option if we know it's not in line with anything that the board's going to go because I think we have limited time to kind of finish everything today. like is there a way where we can kind of run through to kind of I have a suggest like whittle them down before we do all of that. I and you know I'm I'm open but I also want to be fair to the interests you know that especially from the survey and then we did the interest and the stories and we came up with options. I just want to give each option a fair amount of time too but you are the team.
Um, so we're doing a lot of work over the summer thinking about our pacing of the curriculum for next year. And on top of that, you know, I I was reminded recently, and I don't know if you were with me, curriculum matters, but teachers matter more. So the curriculum is one thing, but the um expertise and the ability of teachers to reach kids and and teach them the math is also important, which is why our coaches are spending time in the classrooms teaching and supporting and coaching teachers to become better teachers. and while the why the when intervention block is so important is because when we see that students aren't meeting meeting benchmarks we have you know double doses of them. So, I think it's all of it together that we're hoping will help kids succeed on the MCCAST and, you know, in their mathematical lives.
I'm I'm open if that is something um that you would like to do. We're not finished with our process yet though. What I would like to suggest is that if you personally put up an option, um you can choose to take it off our list. Like you can choose to, you know, revoke the option and as long as no one else feels differently about it, I feel like this would be a good time to do that before we start revising language. So, if someone has an option that they suggested that they no longer feel like is something that's possible or doable or desirable and then no one else wants to take up the cause, I think this would it'd be okay to take them off the list before we fix up the language so we're not losing time. Okay. Well, getting back to Katie's comment, and the reason I said what I did, Katie, was are we given the option a fair chance if we haven't really settled on the wording of it?
And it's a fascinating thing like I talked to other assistant superintendents about it like I it's hard to figure out if you know there's this big growth. Is it because of the reveal program or is it because of the fact that we have had intensive professional development for the past year and a half. Every early release has been math, coaching has been around math, faculty meetings have been around math. So just the teacher discourse and the conversations they're having around math are the strongest I think they've ever been. So like I think it is the program but at the same time I think it shows like when schools can really dedicate themselves to focusing on something just kind of really amazing things can happen. So good question. Thank you. All right. Uh thank you for that. Uh we're going to move on. We have uh superintendent evaluation which uh Mark's going to take us through.
Does that matter to all this group? Does it not matter? I don't know. Like some I I know there's a specific option that I actually threw out there and then after listening to the board meeting and doing some pondering, I I don't want it on there anymore. And then even like listening to some of the other things, I guess I have other interests now, which I know we can't redo all of the interest, but like an example would be like we really need to talk about putting a lot more money into kindergarten because because and kindergarten aids and kindergarten teachers because that's where we're really losing our kids is as early as kindergarten because they come in quite further behind some of their peers. So anyway, that was just an example, but So, well, let's take a consensus vote then. Okay. Um, so is this team in agreement with just going through all of our options now?
Yes. Thank you everyone. Um I think most of you have a blue folder that I handed out tonight but there could be one or two. Yeah. So this were um on the school committee last April. You would remember perhaps that um Maggie and Judy at the regional level and goalie for Sherborn and um Kristen for no goalie for do sorry Kristen for Sherborn had um represented the superintendent evaluation subcommittee and they did a lot of work um mapping out kind of how can we as a collective group reflect on um Miss McCoy, Superintendent McCoy's goals that were set and agreed upon September 10th of 2024. Um, and also on just her performance according to the state rubric. Um, so what you have in the blue folder is kind of a timeline for our broad committee's work in the month of April and also your um subcommittee representatives.
and we can determine if we want to keep them or not keep them instead of taking the time to reward the remaining options. Why don't we just go person by person and if anyone has an option of theirs that they would like to pull, we can get it done if they Well, first I want to take a consensus vote that we're not going to take time to revise options. We're instead going to go around and determine if we want to eliminate options. Just to clarify, since I'm new, when you mean revise, you mean kind of change the wording. Correct. Like we did last meeting. Oh, yeah. Okay. So, let's just do yes, that's what we want to do. Or I'm not sure or nope. I want to spend time revising the remaining options. So, can you just say all of it again? So the the option is to remove options right now before we reword and words smmith the options.
So this year I want to thank goalie for continuing to represent Dover um for Christine Walsh for representing Sherbornne and for Angie for representing Sherborn and me representing Dover at the regional level. Um we are your point people if you have questions over the next few weeks. Um I also work you know in a school system so I'm quite familiar with the whole tool and process the ins and outs. Um, so I'm happy to be, you know, a son and board point person on that as well. Uh, I say that because I think we had a separate workshop last year. I'm willing to run it again if there's enough interest, but if we think there's enough kind of expertise in the room, then we may not need that. Um, it is kind of a busy month if you look at the memo. So what I wanted to um just walk through is uh if you just kind of skim this right here few of the dots this document here is going to be shared in a digital folder.
We're we're not going to revise options. Well, yes. If some of them aren't revised then I guess and we want to keep them we'll revise them. Okay. So in giving a thumbs up you were saying I am okay with eliminating options right now before we go ahead and reward them. Okay. I'm confused if you didn't hear from last time. Yes. if their options are still there, if we haven't eliminated them. Well, I want to make sure you understand. So, what we're doing now is we're going to possibly eliminate options. We're going to eliminate it. But what if other people in the group still like the option? Then it's not eliminated. We have to come to consensus. don't want that one eliminated. And this just for you to know this could take a very very long time. Uh because we'll be we'll be doing consensuses consensus votes if you want to eliminate it.
It will be something you can just write on directly. Um it is the evaluation um tool that we each use. So it's like many hands making light work. I think what we should think about in this document is there may be areas which we can't comment on. We simply don't have enough um background on all right or maybe we have an intimate uh kind of a deep story because we had a encounter or experience that was unique and so we should comment collectively. We'll have um all of the information kind of put together and we'll also be highlighting a few kind of key elements here. Um you can see the rubric has many rows of um basically standards then indicators and key elements. We'd be highlighting on the ones that we see most reflected in the goals from this year as well as just the experience and items that were shared at our school community meetings or you know experiences we've had within the district and seen.
We just can't have the person who decided on that option determine if they want to eliminate it. The team has to eliminate it. Well, what if instead of taking consensus for each one, if somebody has a rub with one being eliminated, then they speak up. But otherwise, if someone says that one is eliminated and there's no talk against that, then it's just Okay. So, what you're saying, do you want Well, first of all, we're let's do the consensus vote that we want to change our agenda and go ahead right now and possibly eliminate options. Consensus vote. And you two three Rebecca are you okay? Are are you able to live with this? Okay. Okay. So that's what we'll do. Okay. So now what Kelly I think is saying is instead of going through all the options individually and by the way that handout that you have that doesn't list all the options.
Um, I think tonight reflected a beautiful example of the way that Beth, Denny, and Don work together as a solid team, well organized, welloiled machine. And, um, part of that is kind of the the leadership, not just on the individual, but how they bring in others for their skills. There are a few dates to be aware of, and that is on the second page. So today, Beth actually did share um the superintendent and goals and evidence. So even though the timeline says sometime this week, she's got it all in your email today. It's an eight-page document, extremely well organized. No surprise, but it is by um district goals and you can she'll talk about that a little bit in a minute, but I think that that will help. There are links to kind of supporting documents that may refresh our memory as well. I take my own notebook from these meetings and look through that um when I'm writing.
That's only the ones. Um, it was this teams and I think Kelly, your teams are on there, correct? Even though we didn't vote on the revisions, the only ones that aren't on there is of your teams options aren't on there. Sorry, one more clarifying thing. When we say eliminate, let's not let it fall into a black hole. I know Joel's been like very um diligent with the capturing and linking and all the things. So, if we can just make sure that they live somewhere because I think they are all valuable and I don't want someone to hear like that idea was terrible. Like that is not the message. But as to Katie's point, like the board has a very, in my opinion, narrow focus on what they want us to do. Um, which I also have opinions on that because it seems to be outside of what mean Converse focus is a table that says options for that would be amazing.
But basically um again trying to um write where you feel you have something to comment. That would be most helpful. Don't try to force something if it feels stressful because that probably ends up being not reliable data for us. Okay. Um we have enough people that if we each are writing a little bit um then we'll get a nice hopefully reflective story of the year. Also, um it's just saying by April 15th, that's two weeks from tonight, that is when we all the subcommittee would hope that your writing is in to your um representative, okay, at the Dover, Sherborn or regional level because then the four of us will um schedule a meeting. will be um shared, but we will organize kind of how to synthesize into one feedback document. Sometime between the 15th and 29th, we'd want to have all of that thought organized.
Yeah. Yeah. I think in the same Yeah, in the same document. So just so that they don't fall off the map and if someone does have passion around them that we can make sure that it comes up and then next year we can start with those or at least look into where where we're at at that point. Okay. So what we will do with the ones that we don't want to deal with this year, we'll table them. Is that what you're saying? Are we in agreement with that? Let's do a consensus vote. Okay. then we'll table the ones that possibly um team members speak about. Okay. So, I'm going to give you time to go over the options, read them over, plus I think this handout um that listed all the options. I don't know. I can't recall when you received it. Was it not last meeting?
On Tuesday, April 29th, we have another joint school committee meeting here and that's where we get the opportunity to share out with Superintendent McCoy just the collective kind of experience we've had, the kind of feedback we have. Um I find in my own work this cycle of you know reflection and feedback and goal setting to be a pretty productive experience and um I know that superintendent McCoy is a very reflective and responsive person. Um, I think that our feedback will be helpful and hopefully we can kind of celebrate the things that have really gone well and still be able to kind of push as we always do kind of think of things that would help um for reflection and maybe goal setting for next year. So, this does do the overview. Um, any I thought these are the e best things to have a paper copy of, but I will send them digitally and I'll organize everything in one digital folder.
Maybe the meeting before. I believe it listed all there were n 19 of them and I didn't put the dental care on that one and um so that that's the handout also the this handout that lists all them doesn't have the revisions in them though the wording revisions just so you know and this can be confusing because we're changing it up a little bit I'm all right about change um But this one right here that you received this week, the new one, those are the revisions minus Ivan's group. Those options aren't on here. Okay. To even make it more confusing, Kelly's group's options are on there, but we never agreed to the revisions. We just went ahead and typed them up. I think it was group two, right? Was that your you guys were like one to seven or something like that? And okay, so I'm going to give you um you can talk to your partners.
When you submit your work, if you can submit digitally, that is much easier for us in terms of being able to read what you wrote. Um, we can check back if we need to if we don't understand a certain aspect of your uh work, but basically that'll be much easier for the group, the subcommittee to collectively express that. So, there's the beginning of the process. Um, I'll be in touch quite soon with an email just reiterating some of the key details. And if you ever have questions, you can ask the subcommittee members um or just forward it to me and I'll take the response. Mark, you might say this in your email, but my memory last year, we all made a copy, put our own notes in and then it was synthesized. Is that how you want us to for of this digital copy? You want us to do that again?
I'm going to give you what 10 minutes. You think that's enough for you to go through these? You can converse. You can get up, walk around um and then we'll have our conversation. Welcome back. I hope everyone is ready. Um, do we need a couple more minutes? Okay. [Music] I haven't thought about it in my brain. But you know, I guess and then the other about what options, but I guess that doesn't fully make it hard for me. Like I did this in like less than a minute. I know xxx I think that everyone pays attention. We do not have to say anyone. Everyone ask we can go really close. Okay. It's gonna be a lot of Okay, everyone. Let's get in here and get started. Sorry. All right. Okay. So, this is something kind of new this team is doing. We'll see how it goes.