Any questions? I I actually have a question. [Music] Um number 10 on the supplement. Yes, she's leaving. had an opportunity to make $3. Oh, yes. I was really hoping that my kids would get to be with her. I tried really hard, but it's more money. All right. So we are looking at with our um supplement we have six new certified employees, three new classified employees, one new classified substitute, five resignations, one termination, six certified changes, six classified changes, one extra duty, and 141 time sheets. Do approve Okay. All in favor. Thank you very much. Okay. M my colleague, I have Mr. Lady before me. You didn't say your title, so she didn't know what was her. All right, I can go before Mr. Livingston. Good evening, vice madam vice president and members of the board. Um I'm in front of you today. Um Anger and Beverly um we're on my math committee.
and we are so excited to that we had a chance to work with you here in 308 and we look forward to your succumb of seeing hearing good news of your successes. So and with that I'll turn it over to our board members who have some additional shoutouts because uh there are so many exciting things in this district that we cannot forget some of those things and I want to thank the board members. It has been our tradition to share some of these updates. So you're welcome to join us in doing so. My son, Anna Singh, and Ariana Vargas of Asiggo High School will have their artwork displayed at the 2025 IAEA statewide student art show in this October. This artwork is part of more than 40 2D 3D pieces selected from over 700 submissions. Congratulations to these students and their teachers. Many of our students from Plank Junior High, Asiggo High School, and Asiggo East High School celebrated the end of their journeys in our dual language program at their graduation ceremony.
Now at this point everything after that is in green and the reason for that is that as soon as it passes over to all of you we have scheduling questions. Um, so the discussion that I had had with you when we were talking about timelines, um, really the couple of times that we've done it while I've been here has been that you would be finishing the search and would have your next superintendent at least selected. You might still be in contract negotiations before you broke for the winter break. Um, essentially then before the end of the calendar year. Now the what that means is that this this once this the semi finalists are interviewed and the finalists are selected the process turns back over to the school committee and so it's the work of the school committee that then happens between that November 10th date and the end of the calendar year um if there's going to be any sort of um scheduling difficulties if there's complications I know people make plans people may have holiday plans people may generally take various kinds of vacation during that time.
Now they start the middle school in the morning and then when that one's done they have a little short break and then they start the high school. So you'd host middle school through high school all day. We've had a lacrosse kinsley I believe last year St. John this year and in previously when we had hosted it we would host it at Ellenwood we'd have to use their place or we'd host it at Hoington we'd have to use their place. the league kind of came up with a a rotation of the schools that have a facility. Um, when I first got here, we had we hosted a triangular dirt track meet with Chase and Wilson, and I felt like it was a bad day. It was the week before CPL, which is the same time as when they had the middle school meet that same week, and really didn't want my kids running on dirt the week before going to the CPL meet, regionals of state.
So we've been looking at KA math curriculum. I've been looking at it since November. Um, but the staff has been looking at it since January. Um, we looked at the platforms. We looked at six different companies. We looked at platforms and then I held a curriculum fair, if you will, for a week and where they came in after school and previewed it. And I I was really pleased with the turnout. I was really worried I wouldn't have anyone that week. I had 46 people and so I was really really excited to have that many people. And um and then we met for a long day for present for six presentations and um after the presentations and looking at all the rubrics um the committee has chosen amplify and I ready to pilot for the fall. So, I'm here asking um your permission to pilot I Ready and we'll pilot I Ready the first seven weeks of um the fall semester and then we'll do amplify pilot amplify for seven weeks.
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If that is the case, we should know that now. We should decide that now and not commit to a timeline that's going to essentially not be something that we can keep. Um, if you do as a committee are sure that you will all be able to have the weeks of in particular, you would need to have a meeting that middle of November in order to announce the finalists. Um you committee members would need to free up some time during those week particularly the week before Thanksgiving. Um I also did include the 24th because there are two days of school in the the next week. Um to be able to visit the home districts the finalist. Um that is something that I think is actually a really good perspective for school committee members to have. You do that in nonquorum pairs. Um and yes it generally does happen during the school day.
Um, I'd have liked to see if we're going to continue doing it early in the year, not that late in the year. Um, so again, availability to be hosting a meet and I've had a lot of a lot of community members that were track people really stressing wanting to be able to host a regional, host a regional and that comes into with that track. Trying to get seven lanes out here with the way the bleachers got set out there is going to be tough. They'd have to shift some stuff to the west to be able to get seven lanes. We we would maybe be able to do eight straightaways on the west side that without moving the fence and the poles back, you're stuck with what you have. But we can get seven that way. He said maybe eight straightaway if we moved it straight away onto the other side.
We'll come together right before Thanksgiving maybe um when we come back from Thanksgiving and make a decision and I'll be back in December asking for approval on whatever um curriculum has been decided on. So you can see there I had um 14 teachers, two SPAD teachers, one EL teacher, a high school teacher, three administrators, three instructional coaches, and two board members, five parents. Boy, this thing is bad.
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And then you also would be able to run would need to be um able to all be here to run interviews during that first week of December. So really the main question, Mr. Chair, for you all is whether or not that is something that is achievable by the committee. Um because it's entirely it's entirely up to you. Um it's you know we can we can reschedu this to be happening at January. It does mean that you won't be finishing the search by the end of the calendar year. Um, I try not to be sort of fear-mongering, but I will say that having searches completed by the end of the year does tend to be a sort of fairly traditional pattern. So, what that does to less those who apply, but whether or not we get to a point where finalists are taking positions other places because you're waiting until after vacation, that is always a possibility and um sort of, you know, to be realistic.
But he hasn't got all of that back to me. He's waiting on his AutoCAD engineer to give me the full layout drawing. Um but we'd be able to host regionals which is a huge draw to bringing in schools here too. Um I want to touch on too on the hosting with the youth track meet. those numbers have grown and I've got a lot of those numbers here and some pictures in my spreadsheet when I get to that and bringing in some revenue for that wreck set for the wreck. Also, um average entry fees for those wreck track mates is like $10 to $20 and I've been down to Holster where they've had over 500 kits at $20 a piece. That is a that's a big boost for the community and for the the wreck. So, other things is speaking with the rec center, being able to utilize a new track for Memorial weekend, a 5K, 10K, other activities.
by parents and the the district it need um so anyway um sorry for a squirrel move back to it normal location thank you I appreciate that so anyway I'm here to ask for your approval do you have any questions for me yeah is this basic math or algebra it's K8 math so basic math uh no algebra Okay, I just want to say Julie, thank you guys so much for answering all of your questions. Yes, I'm pause for just one second to make sure we answer Marsha's question. Eighth grade algebra book is we teach eighth grade algebra for high school credit. So we use the high school algebra book for algebra in the eighth grade. So it's general. Yeah. I just want to make sure because elementary level school. So I just wanted to make you know so there's there are algebra standards that start in kindergarten can attest to that.
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So, but again it is entire it's your search. It's your decision. Um it's your calendars. You know best um whe what you can keep to and what you can't. Um but that last part in particular would be what I would be interested in from the school committee. Although of course I'm happy to discuss any other part of this. Mr. Chair, thanks Jason. Uh first question is anybody have a major problem with those dates of the November December or right? I mean not now. [Music] Yeah. I mean it's May so well and so then I think processing this return then that really becomes I mean honestly one of the things I like about doing this to be quite honest with you is that I then go in and I actually put it all in my calendar and I already know if you all are willing to make that commitment such that you know you're just going to be scheduling everything else around this because you want to make sure the search gets done by then.
Um, Saturday when we just went to play with her two days ago, I called them this morning. They had 334 kids at $28 ahead. And I said, "What kind of deal do you have worked out with the high school?" She says, "That is our only fundraiser for the wreck. They let us use that money for everything that we use to support our wreck sports. and if it comes down to expenses for some things, if they have to do something, they contact us and we try to help kick back a little bit what we can to help with their facility. Um, I come from a big 3A school where we have a relay for life walk every year on the track. Those are always nice for the communities and to bring people around too. Um, some elementary teachers have talked to me about having a school play day.
So algebra standards actually start in kindergarten. So all the algebra standards and instruction is woven through all the general curriculum, but algebra 1 as a standalone uses the high school book. Yes. Thank you. I just wanted to clarify that myself. I I have a comment and I I just wanted to say thank you to Julie for spearheading the organization of this. It's it's I I could tell it was a tremendous organizational feat to put everything together, to put all the studies together, to gather the different people, the different stakeholders, um, and really get into the specifics of of KQA, be able to serve the books and, um, and then get feedback from everybody. It was a tremendous job. Um, and I have to say I thoroughly enjoyed it. I learned a tremendous amount. I don't know how much I contributed to it, but but but I I agree and I I was I very much approve of this.
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I mean that you again you know you're so nobody has a vacation in advance. Exactly. I mean my schedule comes out four minutes in advance. So, so I I'm curious like the you said set time aside during the school day. How many days of those weeks are you imagining or is realistic or so going by so understanding of course that we don't know for sure how many finalists you'll be presented with right I will tell you upfront I always tell school committees search committees um they need to bring forward um at least three um just because sometimes finalists say no um and as you may or may not know if you can't bring forward only a single finalist because then you've completed the search and executive session and you'd have go back and start it all over again. That's literally illegal. So, um there I got to have starters bring forward five finalists, three finalists, four finalists.
When I was in school, we had a little fifth and sixth grade track meet and it was just the kids signed up to do multiple meets or multiple events. They came down, had little ribbons to hand them out and just get the kids out there burning off a bunch of energy and it was just a great activity. I loved it when I was a little kid, too. Um, but just something to just kind of make it into sack lunches, picnic lunch or something. We did that too when we had ours. And then additions, um, there's been a asked if if we could get something moving, we'd be able to get a walking trail around the whole place. Um, not only community members could walk on that track, but they could also walk the trail around the whole area. So, this is just some benefits that I've kind of summarized.