What it's not it's not an evaluation tool to decide whether or not somebody is going to move forward with an IEP or assessment or a 504. It's no such thing. There's no high stakes tied to it. It's more in the line of progress monitoring and making sure nobody falls through the tra the cracks. You can take this spot. Okay. Oh, good. Um, so as Heather said, this is all fairly new within the last couple years. And actually the um the uh the state approved four screener options and they released that list just at um just this past December with the expectation that schools will adopt and have it board approved to start next school year. Um, so when we're sharing this with our staff and with our teachers and our admin, I just wanted to kind of put the two timelines aside to show um, again what Heather had been saying is we've really been doing a lot of this stuff all along the way.
Lot of aerials, you know, a lot of aerials. It's the same problem with King DDD. A lot of room to work with with all those aerials. A lot of surface area, I tell you. That's nice. Do you think you're Do you think we're going to win at state? I think so. A good shot. Allighty. The man himself. The man. Mr. Mr. Almost triple three stock in the in the second round. Almost. If I didn't fight a Falco. Do you think that was just matchup? Do you think Do you think he would have just went for the triple three stock if is Falco good against Isabelle? Falco was great against Isabelle. Yeah. Mhm. So all I'm hearing is skill gap. We shouldn't say that on stream about them in case they're watching. But we love you Purdue. You did good. You did good. Yeah. Keep it nice.
Uh, but we're going to do what we can to to hold the line. Uh, and have to be nimble financially as we see what comes next. A lot of our research are just so many So it's shutting down. So we are shutting down possibly shutting down ALS heart disease diseases that affects in addition researchers both the researchers So we're losing this generation. So look at it. No, no, we're living under a veil of doom and gloom right now. Michael, you had a question then. I don't know if there's anyone um select board member, sorry, school committee who um wanted to chat or say anything. If you do, put a raise hand up already so I can be aware of that. But Michael, want you go you want to Paul? Okay. Um Michael, why won't you go ahead? Thank you, Madam Chair. Um, Madame President, Representative Lewis, thank you uh for everything that you do for the town.
So um, as she said, you know, at least since 2012, we've been doing um, we've had a K5 um, assessment system with um, a variety of literacy assessments. In September of 2023, we um hired um well, within that time, we um hired uh elementary reading teachers. And then in September of 2023, uh we trained um I trained all of those teachers as well as our title one teachers in um the Dibbles, which stands for, and I'll get to that on the next slide, dynamic indicators of basic early literacy skills. Um and so because as intervention teachers we need to know are our students progressing with the skills that we're teaching with them and these dibbles assessments or lectura for uh the Spanish version are not curriculum dependent. So it's whatever curriculum we're teaching are are they still learning those basic foundational skills appropriate at their grade levels.
Keep it nice. PG. Unfortunately, I am one with Isabelle as you can see. How sad. He is Isabelle. They call me Oh, I heard that. The only thing he's missing is a custom hoodie. True. And And I have to bleach my hair to make it the same color as these ears. That's true. That's true. So, you obviously performed phenomenal in your games. Thank you. Thank you. So, were you just like just locked in? I think so. Cuz like when we were watching I I come to you like you just looked stonefaced, just no emotion, just just pure focus. Yeah. I I was very focused. I was very uh I care a lot about the outcome of this matchup of all of our matchups. You know, I bring the headphones to lock in throughout school. Like, you know, I think about school, but I'm, you know, the match.
Um, Karen, I've I think I said the last time you were here, I've been I've lived in a district was on a fincom in a district where was the home to both the Senate President and the chair of the Ways and Means Committee and what they were able to contribute to the community was just fraction of what you've been able to do. So, thank you so much for uh for everything that you've done both on the financial level and the and the policy level. And Representative Lewis, thank you as well. It's it's been interesting seeing you grow in your influence and and the way that you have used those those powers to help your district. Um Ashlin being your favorite. Um and um but uh thank you as well for everything that you've done. Um, and I just want to, you know, bring it back to the housing conversation, but I want to maybe approach it from a bit of a different angle because, uh, sometimes I think we get caught up in the same type of arguments, but what is what is driving I don't think what's been sufficiently explained is what is driving the need for more housing in Massachusetts.
So, we started using it with our intervention team and then last year um we actually uh piloted it with um one of our school sites because we knew this was coming. We just didn't know what screeners were going to be approved. Um and so Hooker Oak um wanted to be the pilot site so that they could do it schoolwide instead of our intervention team who was doing it with just the groups of students that they're working with. So last year our DLC approved that Hooker Oak would do it schoolwide. Um and they've been pilot piloting that this year alongside all of our intervention teachers. Um this past fall we worked with the the company Amplify who um houses the um like a digital um assessment platform for these assessments. We worked with them to get all of that information transferred into Edge Climber um as we heard before to really give that whole picture view of the student.
Yeah. Going through. I think about it the entire day. Nervous about it the entire day. I learned that Jigglypuff match up with on the topic of whatever question you're about to ask me next. Probably who's the best player? Um, I would say the Falco, but like I spent last night learning the Jigglypuff MU, getting very used to it. The Jigglypuff probably could have been their best player in my eyes if I didn't, you know, know that matchup and not really know the Falco. Yeah. It's those elements of surprise that go against what you plan. It's annoying. Yeah, exactly. But yeah, I I was locked in today. I'm proud of myself today. I did good. That's That's good. That's good. So, how do you think we're going to do at state? I don't really know. It's scary that I don't know. It's exciting that I don't know.
We hear that we need more housing. We need more housing. We need more housing. what is driving that need? Um, and correspondingly, what is is there any evidence that has been shown that, you know, the way that we're going about trying to solve that would actually work? Like a two-part question. I I'll just say I think what's driving supply and demand. They can't live in their home and even then the homes are way overensive. They can't find a place that rent is can't find even single bedrooms. It's outrageous. So there is a shortage of housing. So part of what is driving housing we as a state um have not been building as much states that have lowered the cost. So some of it is housing production both for affordable and market rate when we did that tax relief bill. Um we put in tax credits to build our affordable housing communities and market rate.
Um, so we've done a lot of work with them to to to have our teachers be able to go to one spot to look for that information. Um, and then the list was re uh released in December and Dibbles was on the list. Um, yay, big yay. And um, so in February we um started sharing all of this information. Many all of these slides are from the presentations we've shared with our staff and our administrators. Um and so um in February we started talking with our elementary administration team more in depth about this particular um assessment. In March um our districtwide day was focused on sharing this information with our staff so we could get their feedback and questions they might have. Um, and we're coming to you tonight hoping for um an approval of the Dibbles um screener for Chico Unified so we can start um using it next year with our students.
It'll be cool to fight a youth PR player to see how I stack up because they don't really interact with the Indiana youth scene all that much. Just means they're just young and good, right? Yeah. They're just young and good. Like top 10 in the state. Good. But Jaden could also be one of those players secretly. Yes, secretly. I might be the secret boss. We're going to find out. I'm obviously scared, but that's exciting. We're going to go, no matter what the outcome is, we're all going to go to state. We're all going to play our best. You're going to win and we're going to win. Mr. Cook, would you like to get an interview? Put you We're going to put you on the spot because why not? Uh, I won't say too much because it's it's this team that that just did that that you guys watched there.
We want our police firefighters other work in the um and that's why you know we have tried I think build more didorous putting tens of millions towards housing production and rehabbing housing. There are across the state those There are lots of other things to turn office that's really expensive office builds kitchen. But it's a possibility. So we doing that as well and we're looking and I actually this new housing care on the Senate side has issue too and I've given him the mission I said nothing is we need to be bold and we need to be creative meet with people from all different backgrounds all different what can we do and do The housing bond bill is great, but you know it takes that is my Jack. Oh, I think on So, 13 years ago, my husband and I bought our house in Framingham. It was $235,000.
So what is Dibbles and Lura? Lots of acronyms as you know. So like I said, Dibble stands for dynamic indicators of basic early literacy skills. It's been around for um a long time and heavily researched by the University of Oregon and it became more widely available in 2002. Um it's a collection of normed assessments that measure um certain literary literacy skills at each grade level and it's actually available in kindergarten through 8th grades and then also in English and in Spanish. McLass stands for mobile classroom. That's just the digital platform. Um I actually um was using dibbles in my previous school district and it was all paper pencil um and so then you have to after each assessment you know kind of configure with the percentage and all of that stuff. So what MClass does is it allows us to administer the assessments with our computers click when the student is doing you know saying a wrong letter or wrong word and then at the end it's like this student falls within this this particular range on that assessment.
That was all them. Um, they put in the work. They've been practicing throughout the week. They were ready for that team, ready for that matchup. Um, shout out to Purdue Polytechnic for that. Um, they are a great team. Um, you know, some of our players are just so incredible that they they made it look easy, but that they are a fantastic team. Um, and good competition there. So, yeah, I'm excited to see uh what happens at State. This is uh, you know, a team that's put in work all throughout what started in August, September. Um, something like that. So, it's been it's been a good run and the the run continues off to state um face uh Hobart um and the the championship next Saturday. So, that should be a good Yeah, a good matchup. Um but we'll we'll be ready and we'll we'll give them our best.
Uh I think our mortgage is $1,300 a month. Uh but it was the only house 13 years ago that two people at that time no kids me my church salary his nonprofit salary could be approved for a mortgage for uh my neighborhood in Framingham is mostly teachers uh social workers nurses folks that bought a house around that same time that it was the only place in the metro west area they could afford a house. Bram used to have that reputation. my now house is now worth two to three actually three times what I paid for it based on what my neighbors identical house went for. Uh and what I'm finding is the teachers that used to work in places like Welssley and Newton and Nem even Ashland but couldn't afford to buy a house here had Framingham and to to some extent Marbor as well.
And then MClass also generates um reporting for teachers as well as reporting for parents to s to um share here's where your student is and here are some things that you can do at home to support the student. Um this is just a quick look at the different assessments. Um so the green bars, those are the different assessments. So everything from the very bottom it says letter naming fluency. Um these are all key skills that um we know students need to become readers. Um to phone segmentation, um nonsense word fluency, uh word reading fluency, which is like um high frequency words. And then oral reading fluency is like reading a passage. And then the maze is actually a computerized one where they're given a passage and every so often there's a word missing and they have to choose one of three words. So, it's measuring their comprehension and their um knowledge of vocabulary.
You guys beat Hobart, correct? Yeah, we have. But they in between season one. Yeah, they they gained their youth PR player. They they gained Bubba Beans. That's Yeah, his name is Bubba Beans. He's a pack man player. It is a good name. Was it like a super close match up pre- Bubba Beans? Yeah, it was a pretty close matchup I believe if I recall correctly. Don't give away our strategies for the match up here. I I I was just I'm not exposing anything cuz I don't even know what's going on. Watch it was like 99% Jordan talking and me going, "Good job. That was a good attack. That was a nice dodge." Yeah. Hey, at least you're able to see what's a good attack and a nice dodge. Yeah. At least that's good. All righty. Well, with all that being said, that's it. The Bluffed Cyber Tigers are headed to state once again, and you are invited to come and see them and our Tetrio players, Hunter and Bartolo, as they compete at the state competition at Ball State on April the 26th.
Uh but unless you bought a house 13 or more years ago you can't not just buy a house uh but these apartments that are being built are luxury apartments. I I will not go down the road of what it means when somebody's paying 3500 for uh rent. And I promise you, it's not hurting your property values that they're driving a Lexus and uh moving into their luxury apartment. But that's not what teachers can afford. Uh it's not what nurses can afford. Uh we thought ours would be a starter house. You know, three kids later, it's now our forever home and probably our retirement home. And as much as my colleagues mistakenly often tell me I'm the the gentleman from Ashland, uh I correct them and often tell them the truth. Uh I love Framingham and I love Ashland. Couldn't get approved for a mortgage in Ashlin 13 years ago and I don't think I would be approved today either.
Um and then you can see across the bottom, they're not administered at every grade in every um trimester, but they they kind of grow in difficulty with those skills along with the the growth in grade levels. And then, uh Lectura has similar assessments all in Spanish. again starting from very foundational of syllable segmentation all the way up to the maze um and the oral reading fluency for those higher grade levels. I wanted to interrupt to do two things. Number one, thank you for the um science of reading lecture presentation that you did at the last board meeting. I I learned a lot. I I I just, you know, you think you know, but when somebody else puts it in front of you in black and white and it goes, "Yeah, that's what I thought I knew." And then the other in reading this presentation uh in the board packet, I learned a new word.
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