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Well, this policy subcommittee, is there also is the handbook separate from a policy? So, the student handbook reflects um the will refer to the policy and then talk about the application that's either decided within the policy like our sexual harassment policy as it currently stands has the plan in it for how to address it whereas bullying it's a separate document. Um the handbooks would allude to this document if something happened around bullying. Yeah. I just wonder if there's an opportunity in the handbook to be really explicit about, you know, this isn't tolerated behavior and again be upfront, set expectations, and really come at it head on, even if to your point, like our hands might be tied on some of the uh behavioral consequences. Yeah. And I think again, April 30th, I'm going to say that over and over and over again, 6:30 in the high school library, um you know, our middle school health teachers will talk about the work that they did with kids in their three years here in this building.
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So imagine if we just got to the national average for funding, we'd probably be in the top 10 states for student performance. We we punch way above our weight class. But I learned many years ago that there is only one silver bullet for funding and finance in the state of Arizona and that's student growth. And so if you look, you want to see the richest district in the state, it's, you know, Talison Union High School District, right? They had an extra $24 million burning a hole in their pocket to help out Isaac. And why is that? Because they've been growing like gang busters. And some of that's just geography, right? Everybody's moving out west because things are more affordable out there. Housing prices have been high. But the other thing that factors into that is parental choice in the state of Arizona. And there are more options now than there have ever been.
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And then I know a lot of it's repeated in nth and tth grade at the high school. Um but they do have the school resource officers come in and talk to them. So it it be I think eye opening for people to know what the kids are taught. We just have to make sure it sinks in and it sticks. [Music] Okay. Any more discussion on this for tonight? Okay. I think we can move forward then with the with the vote to approve the bullying prevention intervention plan. Uh we'll need to do three separate votes. So if I can first start with the region. Sure. Uh may I have a vote to approve the bullying prevention intervention plan at the region level? Colle thank you. And may I have a second? Thank you. Any further discussion? All in favor? passes unanimously with Pete Potter absent. Thank you, Mark.
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Everything from, you know, let the superintendent of public schools give you $10,000 to keep your kid home to charters to private schools. You know, there's just all these different options and going to your neighboring district. and the parents who shop, what they look at is how are the kids that are in that district performing, right? So, it's why I don't think this is mutually exclusive. If we can find a way to sort of braid these elements together and do what best we can for our staff to make conditions and compensation and everything as best as we can in this district and get everybody to hang with us a little while longer while we can see the impact of the hard work that we're doing. As we start to see those impacts, we will also see an increase in our enrollment or at least a stabilization and a lack of decrease.
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Uh, do I have uh similar motion from Sherborn? Yes. Could I please have a motion to approve the updated draft of the bullying prevention and intervention plan? So, you Thank you so much, Becca. Do I have a second? Kristen, I really second. Thank you, Kristen.
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And over time, as that shifts from decrease to stable to growth, the other thing that we'll see is it will make a very big difference in our budget picture and our ability to look at things like, you know, solving some of the compensation problems that we have in our district. So, I wanted to end on that because I think it's really important that we don't see things as mutually exclusive. And I think it's really important that we see where our vested interest lies and and why the work's important. It's it's important to me because, you know, like all of you, I care about the kids and the families in our district, but it's also important to me because like all of you, I care about the staff and the teachers, you know, in our district. And I I would like us to be able to do more for them.
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Is there any discussion? hearing none. Um could I have a vote for uh all in favor? Could all in favor? Okay. Uh passes unanimously. Thank you so much. Okay. Thank you. And for the Dover School Committee, uh may I ask for a similar motion uh to approve the bullying prevention intervention plan? Okay. Cot. Thank you. K. Do I have a second? Second. I see. Thank you. Second. Uh all in favor? Okay. Everybody who's here? That's four. All right. So, that has then um so we've all all committees approved that one. We have another action item here for vote to approve polic policies FHL for our second read. Am I passing it over to Andy for any comments? So, um ju just to kind of piggyback on what we talked about. So, we have um a policy for our whole district and that's what these are.
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And those two things in my mind, for what it's worth, they're hand in hand and glove. There's just no there's no separating the two. So anyway, thank you. Yeah, I'm sorry to take so much. I always take too much time. I talk too much. I'd say I won't wax into philosophy and I do. I did give some actual data and facts. So, I'm going to call it good. I think it was helpful. So, good. Thank you so much. Okay. So, let's we're just going to do a 10-minute quick break and then come back. And my watch is battery is about 5 till. Okay, next on our agenda Huh? We could have everyone's uh everyone's sitting down. We're going to get started. I heard you. Thank you. Okay. Um, what we're going to do now, we're going to just reread. Uh, we had a group that pretty much was finished with their well, they were finished with their revisions, but they didn't share out.
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These aren't your handbook policies because that's school building specifics. These policies we should by law actually review every 3 years. And the thing about these policies as is we have to vote on them as an entire group. Um so it means that anytime anything need to be changed. That's why some of these are overly broad that we've realized and we have these do or sherburn specific policies that really should have gone into just like our handbook or building policy because if not then I have to call all of you in to change it and if not we could be in violation of some other policy statewide. So this makes sure that we are in line with our state policy. So we work with Alicia Min. She's with the MASC and so she does a broad read and she says you're compliant. Well, this policy, I don't even know what it says.
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Then we had another group that did not finish their revisions, so we might end up doing that as a group. Um, so I know Kelly was in the group that was right over here. Who else was in that group? Dorothy. And um go ahead if you would come up front all of you that were in that group. I have the poster over here. Dorothy. Yes. I would um Okay. So your group that we'll be sharing now those are typed up on that paper. Hold on. Correct. This one. Okay. This is the one we're adding to. And by the way, Maria, at lunch, we're going to try to give you another copy. We're going to try to give you a copy that includes all of them after lunch. Okay. getting relating to the options page with the numbers. The group that is going to share with us now their options are on here.
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I don't know why you have it here and why you would state all these things. Why do you have it? I'm like, okay, well, we don't need it then. And then she'll say, you know, some of your languages off and so that's what these are. So, the policy F that we're dealing with, it's our second read.
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If we decide we don't like what they decided, then we need to change it on this paper. Well, they're here. Yeah. Okay. And I don't even need the charts because they're on the paper typed up. Well, changes. Yeah. Okay. Do you want to give a little history? Do you just want to tell us what your issue was? My issue. So many. No, for this for this just don't read the um option. Tell us what it is. Uh we were seven through um 12. Okay. Yes. on this paper. Okay. So, we had numbers 7 through 12. So, we'll just start and read the reward. So, okay. Yes. Says, I don't know what I'm doing. Okay. Option number seven uh was changed to keep current tiers of longevity and increase the amount of each tier by 20%. And I think we had added beginning 2526 school year, but then I remember that we actually added that at the top of all of the recommendations unless otherwise stated, right?
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So, if you all have any questions, this is the broad discussion of it. This is about the facilities of Dober Sherburn. How appropriate because it talks about when to retire a facility when it's no longer maintaining its use. For instance, maybe when a chirp field is no longer safe. Um it talks about that the goal of the school committees is to provide adequate facilities from the number of students in the requisite schools and said facilities must provide the best support for educational programs. And the purpose also has to be mindful of the limited money we have as a district and the priorities to use the best available resources. The section also deals with the retiring of facilities when they are passed through useful purpose, how to address a new facility if one has to be procured and the procedures that must be followed. Additionally, it speaks to the naming of facilities and the guidelines that are to be followed.
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We're going to say beginning 2526 school year. Okay. And then we made a little chart which has the tier increases. So yeah. Yeah. Option number seven. And those are not the right ones. Well, because it's not rewarded. I'm reading the reword based on this. Oh, I see. Okay. It changed numbers. It's not seven on the on the big pack. I thought that's the one we had been working on. It's seven. We're using a little one now. Yeah. These are the revised. Okay. Cute. Whatever it is. Yeah. We um what we did is Maria took your charts Uhhuh. And she typed your words. Uhhuh. Yeah. This was the only one that we did not she did not type up. Okay. Does that make sense? I think so. Okay. We'll figure it out. So, option 11 on the small packet. Option 11 on small bucket. Seven in the overall list.
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Um, if you look on that specifically, that's when perhaps you have a student who passed away, they they do not encourage, you know, like permanently naming on facility things that are already named. You don't go and take the name off, but there was just a kind of a statewide policy that it's it's not maybe to do with scholarship or something else in their name. Um, so those are those are the things in there. So you can see most of these you can see where we had to remove certain things because it's a redundant policy like section FA- E it was redundant. So there are certain ones that you can see we removed them for section FB1 and FBAA were removed because they were encompassed in another section. There was a lot of duality that happened. We'd address it in one section and it' be addressed again and again and again.
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Um, so the only things we did is change the word same to current, add it of longevity, and then we included the little chart. So, after 3 years, the current amount is 1,000. The new proposal is 1,200. After 5 years, current is 2,000. New proposal is 2400. 10 years, 4,000 to 4,800, 15, 6,000 to 7200, which is all an increase of 20%. Are we okay with that? Just they just made a couple wording changes. Um, let's come to consensus on that. You're just agreeing to the language of the Okay, go ahead. Proposal. Okay. Option 812, is that what it is? Yes. Um, is after first year of employment, staff who return are moved from level A to level B on the salary schedule. So, this is a way to increase longevity for folks that say after one year without adding it to this table by moving them up on the salary schedule.
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And so it made our manual really large and it just didn't need to happen. So all of these are um reflected by the MASC version. So it's all covered. Um and then policy H is the next policy we have to address and it's about negotiations which is timely because we're coming up on that time again this next year. Um and so it's the process of negotiating with the bargaining units recognized by the school committees and authorized by state law. It just mandates that the committees may hire a negotiation negotiator and duties of the negotiator because we when we deal with um our teacher committee, they have a negotiator on their side and we also have a lawyer that helps our school committee representatives in negotiating policy. Generally that whole policy is fine. It's all aligned with the MASC guidance. Um the titles that were changed were just to reflect there in the policy and there were grammatical corrections that was made.
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So, you just changed the word staff to certified teachers. Uh basically yeah we yeah essentially okay we Katie if remind me of the process so it you're proposing this as being one of the options but if we would like it like have an idea for rewarding is this the time for that or no yes this is the time yes okay um I have an idea okay yeah go ahead all right um can we say and I think that this is where like we connect SOFG with with the work here um is after F because one of the things about us losing teachers is we train them up in in our first year we put all these resources into them they don't make enough money and then they leave us well trained to go to other districts so I think that it should say after first year I could I could live with first year or second year of employment and successful completion of new teacher induction program because I think that's part of the training that goes along with being a first year teacher and then the rest are there staff that complete their first year but don't complete the first year of induction training.
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Um there there was a lot of change on that with regards to it. So we did it as a total rewrite but if you read it, it's exactly in line with our MASC policy. And section L is the H education agency relations. um that's a policy to encourage the liaison with other educational agencies to broaden the scope and effectiveness of learning. So that's just essentially if you if you looked at it, it's it's how we um deal with different um different co-educational opportunities that we have. So, and there was not there was some overlap and so we took out some of the existing language that was in different policies and then we changed grammatical problems. Um, and that was that was about it. Um, this was just about how to organize and dedicate the the different educational learning ideas. Um and a lot of this is things the school committee we don't have a lot of impact into that unless it's you know for hiring for allowing another position to be added for our finance areas.
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Yes. Oh, I wasn't aware of that. Okay. Yeah. What are the requirements to attend that um once a month meetings? Okay. And they don't have to be a part of a committee. That's their committee. Yes. Some people aren't coming to Right. So if it if it's mandatory and they're not coming from it for it, shouldn't that be reflected in their evaluation by their evaluator? Well, attending a PD would be in domain four. So that's not on our evaluation from an evaluator. That would be through progressive discipline. However, there was a lot of discussion on the table this year that people shouldn't attend new teacher induction because they shouldn't have to go to a committee or what have you. And so now we're kind of dealing with the fallout of that and and a lot of new teachers are not attending that. Go ahead. Uh I I would just like to add that if we added that verbiage to the option then it's it's not really penalizing anyone.
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