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Um, but again, I just wanted to, you know, kind of reiterate that we do appreciate teacher input. We do survey a lot of times and gather data. Um but with this when it came to the display other than the size of the display which we went with comparable size to what they have in in the Smartboard one display over another display other than the ability to have the interactive touch. There's not a difference between one display over the other. We are p we're not purchasing the bottom of the barrel because we want something that's going to last. But again, when we looked at even the bottom um or the entry point for the interactive um smartboards, when I was just running very rough numbers, it could be in excess of $800,000 additional cost to go from what the display is. So, we have that cost plus $800,000 additional if we wanted to really look at interactive display.
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Um but we're still we're going to keep hard charging on it and establish that. Um you know I'm I'm being told that there are students out there that are like I don't want to have that meeting with lawhead and I'm like I'm cool with that. Um if that's your motivation fine, right? Um just so that uh um get that stuff done, right? Um we have some teacher testimonials. that I think are on here somewhere. Um I won't read all of these, but um happy to share with this past semester saw the lowest number of senior failures in this first semester that I've ever experienced in my time working with students. This plays a crucial role in keeping these students on track for graduation. Um I have one student struggled to turn anything in since our meeting. He's made up some missing work and has turned in four or six assignments uh since midterm.
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That's where it comes from. Yeah. And I would just add so definitely reach out to select board town manager. Um, but also reach out to listen because we know we can articulate a lot of the the needs on on the schools and they're real as as you know. Uh, but there's also real municipal concerns too, right? Um, you know, in during our our tri board meetings, they're talking about the need for a third ambulance. Right now, routinely 50% of the time they're both ambulances are out. And so if we had another call, we're, you know, mutual aid and we have a lot of demographics in in the community that would that are that have fear for that. So there's there's real needs and and and so it's striking that right balance and and these are big priorities and and they're and they're town assets, right?
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And you've been making it a a regular practice, which is new for us under your leadership to have someone taking initiative in our direction and giving so much time to one-on-one connection with us. So, I wanted to appreciate you for that. Um, okay. Uh, we'll move on to the consent agenda. Can I hear a motion to approve the consent agenda as presented? So moved. Motion from member Deniv. Is there a second? Second. Second from member Childs.
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It'll be a cool town too because they're setting it with a crane. So if we do that at the May meeting, that's still enough time. Yeah. Yeah. May. So it'll be at the May meeting. So you need like a motion just of support, you know, to move forward with it. I think right now I think we the May meeting we'll need a motion to spend the money, right? May that gives us just just this is more of a next month when we ask you to vote on this. You're going to say yes, right? Sure. I mean, that's a fair question. You don't want to want to go through the effort if there's no why say why you he you raised the valid point because May, it's the middle of May. If you're saying four to six, 4 to 8 weeks a special order tank, we're going to be into July.
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So, if I I don't want to rely too heavily on the same people. I want to write love to have all of you. Um, so I'm going to I'm going to ask uh Cara to send out a maybe we'll do like an Excel spreadsheet or something. And um hopefully we'll I'll work with you on the times. Um it's a little bit of a juggle because some of the groups like to meet right at the end of the day, others were for evening. Um and we are going to summer with the teachers. So um you know, I'll try to give you some sense of how flexible the time frames are, too. But you're wrong person. No, you don't have to take minutes to No, that's that's the bonus. Don't we sign up in the beginning of the year? Like when we sign up for our PTOs, don't we sign up for what?
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At first, it was kind of, you know, I don't have kids that go to school anymore. I don't know any of these kids. And now, as the year has progressed, I got these little buddies and they're so fun and she thinks I'm going on first grade with her. So, I'm not sure what's going to happen or not, but it's been fun. Um, and also I got to help out at the book fair at West Suma and it was so cool. I don't know if you saw it, but those of us who've volunteered at the book fair before, it's all computerized now, which was amazing. And they also said, "Do you want to round up to help the book fair?" And everybody I asked said yes, and that's just extra money that goes to the book fair. So, it was amazing. It was great and fun.
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If Dr. Wyman rescues a basket full of kittens tomorrow, uh, it the number could go up, too. I mean, so I mean, definitely do that. And and I know he would, too. But the the whole idea is it can certainly go positive. If there was a scandal tomorrow, it certainly would go. I mean, things like that certainly can impact. Just being very direct here. It's it's been in the news. Um, schools across the nation are under scrutiny for DEI. If we were to have the um situation presented before us um to make a decision for our district um one that would be putting us towards um selecting something that maybe the conservative base since we are highly conservatives is not a fan of how would that change their approval of the bond and the bond effort if they chose to rally against it that would certainly create challenges.
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Is that yeah kind of so if you look at so when um Mr. Janzik is talking about that black circle that says classroom instruction and then that down arrow we have stu so we give benchmark assessments we also have data points a student may not have to go through that whole process to get two t tier 2 intervention if on the academic side currently the star assessment and other classroom assessments show I'm in need of immediate tier 2 support I don't my teacher doesn't have to take me through the process to get those supports or for the same thing and then on on the social um emotional side, Desa and Seka, I got it right, are other social emotional screeners that we do and kids can be flagged on that. So, social workers, classroom teachers are having conversations and the student may go into a tier 2 social emotional group or receive other tier 2 supports without having to go through the process.
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Agreed. I'm sure we don't need every lengthy bill that comes to the floor. There are plenty of bills that die right at that time. Okay. So, we're all good with um willingness to check in. So, and then in the meantime, y I'll make sure to make it obvious on why we need this, right? And then 2160 is the next one. Correct. 2160E is was not included in the manual. It's it's new to D26. It's checklist for selecting a board attorney. Um it's not included in the draft, but this exhibit serves really only as a guide for the board should they need to use it. I understand the um board has very specific attorneys for very specific reasons. Um, I'm not bringing this forward for any other reason than for future boards and their guidance. I'm not looking to get a new attorney. I'm not looking forward to change anything.
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Um and then then the second piece was um you know we've even considered we had K2 teachers reach out concerned about losing that as well as math teachers. The struggle with that is these aren't movable. Um and so a classroom could be a kindergarten or first grade or a second class um grade classroom today and then in a year from now it could be a third grade or a fourth grade classroom and then we're we wouldn't ever be able to keep that structure or that pattern in place where some classrooms have interactive and some classrooms um don't. And then that that equity issue came into play of well who gets an interactive and we have some teachers who don't use their smartboards really at all or um don't use the interactive piece at all either because it's no longer working like this one's um missing components to it.
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Uh that is a vast improvement for him and he's passing now. Again, we want to catch him early. We want to build this sort of culture of um it's not about the work, it's about the learning, but you have to illustrate that and sometimes that's through the work and uh we can't do that if you're not turning things in. So, I'm going to turn it over to Mr. Dan Grill. Thank you, Mr. Lawhead. Um, let's see here. We're gonna keep going back a couple more slides. All right. So, um, what's what's pretty cool, um, is not only, right, we're we're Mr. has been talking about the MTSS and and right that's really focused on um students that are are struggling right and that is super important but I get to talk a little bit about what what what's going on like for um some of our um AP students um we have some here um tonight as well um so a little bit about uh we did start the MTSS and the working lunch uh late term two um we we were able to to work with some seniors um there was just a a small decrease in and fail failures data that we looked at with term two course failures.
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So um you know they're they're for the school they're in school day and during school programs, but they're they're you know, first foremost also town assets. So it's important. Uh so I I would definitely recommend select board you can send it to finance committee because they're involved in some of those conversations as well as um and and go there to voice your your opinions and make sure you're you're heard but also listen to um it's not as one-sided because we you know we can articulate a long long list but I can guarantee you the the town departments could could articulate probably an equally long long list and and all of it's important right it's all important so like the big part of the discussion is how do we get to you you know, the list and how it should be ordered. But the other thing is, and we did talk about this a little bit at our tri board, and this is a conversation for every single person that's involved in this community, whether you want a better music program or better fields or better uh more teachers and more electives.
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Any discussion? Secretary Dun. Will you call the vote? Hold on a second. Yes. Uh, Chair Johnson. Yes. Member sex. Vice Chair Saxon, yes. Secretary Denim, yes. Member Goodwin, yes. Member Childs, yes. Mayor Disorger, yes. And member Martini, yes. Motion passes unanimously. Okay. Um, for our next item, I have um prepared some comments which I'm trying to find right now. They were here not too long ago. Here we go. So, our next uh agenda item is um redistricting. And we've reached a c crossroads where our redistricting plans are coming up against new data and new financial challenges. As a school board that is always focused on the best interests of our students and our citizens, we need to be able to adjust in these fluid times. In light of the mayor's proposed reductions in the school budget, the superintendent met with school committee members individually to discuss the impacts of this reduction.
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The installation it the installation I'm not worried about. I'm worried about getting the tank ordered. But it makes no difference. He would order it now and it'll be in a July installation, but it doesn't have any impact on the school program for the summer. Correct. So, it doesn't matter whether because putting it in should take them no more than a couple of weeks maximum. Yeah. Yeah. But I just like to have grass back there. What's that? I like to have grass. It is what it is, Sean. We'll do the best we can. All right. Put side in the mix. Let's not get carried away. Okay. So much money in the rain account. What? We have so much money in the race. I would I would I would say we could put some astroturf astroturf. But I I'm sure we're going to fight on that one.
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Like we do. I think we have two people maybe three in each in non-certified and certified. I can certainly pull those names for the certified one for the teachers and we've already got those set for this year. But the others are so many it would be a lot for only two people. Okay. Okay. So, I have to spread the wealth a little bit. Thank you, Kim. Thank you. And I'm sorry I'm over with you. Last thing I want to u remind members because I forget and we all have other duties to do this last chief with all the dates and times of the place. You know, I just had mine up above my computer. we all be calling car all the time and and uh you know so I'm telling you it's it's printed right there where you have to be if you want to go on this last sheet on her you know I want you to notice that the date for uh the closure of the schools should be the 26th and not the 27th of May for Memorial Day.
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And anyway, so that's all I have to say today. Thanks for letting it. Yes. I just wanted to uh thank everybody for their efforts with that the I Ready reports. That was a a lot of work. I know it's a work in progress and uh it's it is progress and I I like seeing that. I I read those things really quick and I like them. So, I'll keep it up. Thank you, Denise. Um I went to the knowledge saves lives presentation and um it was really neat to see the kids asking a lot of questions and also them getting the knowledge that their digital footprint doesn't go away was a giant I think wakeup call to some of these kids when when that presenter said every photograph every text message every email everything you've done is saved and he said I can find in five minutes and the kids were like so yeah.
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I mean but it can be any number of things. So sometimes I see schools struggle with things that they didn't even do themselves, something that's happening in across the country. They they get they get vict, you know, blamed for something that happens in a school district in Chicago or elsewhere. I mean, quite frankly, locally here within the valley and within the state, I'm concerned about what some of the school districts are doing, the ones that have, you know, went into receiverhip. What does that do to the overall perception of uh education? I'm also concerned about a very contentious uh primary for the superintendent of public instruction next year. I think that certainly is going to be a big impactful issue as well. There's a lot of forces out there. There's a lot of talk of still and it's been ongoing for several years critical race theory.
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What we've often found is sometimes a student's not picked up on those benchmarks or those screeners. And so we need to take a deeper look at what's happening in the classroom and how do I access supports and other services for those students that typically aren't found in those regular screeners or those universal benchmark assessments. Right? So the circle going straight down that would be like a score and that that would go right into wins time for remediation and that may be working specifically with the reading intervention is that in that case. Okay. So the student would have to struggle in reading to go they would just go right there. Got it. Thank you. All righty. I'm going to pivot back to Dr. Thomas who will start off with just kind of talking about how do we right now identify students for these supports. I'll revisit MTSS that we just had a little conversation about um previously um after Miss Rivera goes after Dr.
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I just believe that this is an exhibit that is for board reference and that's it. one this is one of the ones that we had asked um IASB about uh with exhibits and is exhibit is it just guidance or is it part of policy and their response was that it's part of policy so that an exhibit that is part of policy needs to reflect the actual practice of the district. So my only suggestion would be that if this were to be brought in that we align this with what our practice is of how we hire a superintendent. So because what's on here is not what the district currently does. So that's that was the recommendation they had is make sure that your policy your exhibits reflect the actual practice. This was a checklist for the board attorney. I know which one you not the superintendent.
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