And that's what my recommendation would be as well. If we can fit the tennis courts in there and make it work with a one-way street, I would recommend on putting it back there um for multiple reasons. So So why what would why didn't they like cuz I would think the lunch would be easier with options. Yeah. So our our main concern there was how that's going to be set up and then also the road being right there. They were a little unsure on how far it would stick out in that road or even that that road would be accessible on that side of it cuz it would be right over here on this little roadway. How would it I guess in that scene how it would I think that room goes right by it. That's just going to be gravel. It would. They were just worried about how this was going to be right in here when that playset because that playset's got to be a certain size for this.
Any questions about our title one SIP? Principles, you were here. Do you want to add anything? I know that you've uh spent a lot of hours on these factors and with your team. So uh just building on what Dr. Concage shared uh please feel free to come up and want to add [Laughter] concur. Um and I'm Phil Murray principal at Long Beach. Um I would say probably the biggest thing the collaboration amongst our schools as well and the work that we've done with Dr. Concaid having been in it for a few years. Um and as she mentioned like our real focus is on those teams and the parents and the community and the relationships if we can build those and building those bridges to our students too on there. But you're right Dr. uh Kgatti a lot of time a lot of input from parents.
um accurate, reliable, equitable services count. And they let us know a couple of additional areas that they're going to be looking at in future years um such as the percentage of children that make progress in preschool as well as the percentage of students engaged in activities after high school that meet certain criteria such as competitive employment, post-secary training, and education. So, we're very pleased with that um with the new rating and we are as I said digging into some of the data that came along with it because it is quite a bit of data. It's great news and I knew you shared that with CPAC as well too, correct? Yes, I did. Yes, they were pleased to hear that as well. Thank you. Great news. Nice work on that. Thank you. Um I didn't give any time for questions for Cindy or Janelle. So, does anybody want to take either one right now?
Whether it would have to kick out a little bit further or whether it would have to go there and then how it would look being so long and so I guess narrow is the way. He was just really worried about that road right in that area. So, how much further back can you push for option two? I think the one thing that Chris said is he wants to stay out of the goalie because if we get in that goalie, we're talking about a lot more dirt work and then we're talking about running utilities further. But he said he thought, you know, it would be accessible to move it back 8 to 10 feet, which would provide a little more parking and also could provide to space those tennis courts out a little bit more on how it would look in there. Well, and if we go further back between the road and the potential of addition of tennis courts, can we put parking there?
We had a s stakeholders advisory group group group this year for the first time and that was really important to get input from parents. um half of our group was made up of parents from children with disabilities. So to actually hear from them was very helpful as well and they've given us some good ideas for our planning for heading into next year as well. Great. Um so not to speak for the other schools but that's a little bit about what what we're doing and the support that we've gotten from both Heathers um has been great. So I thank you personally for that because it's it is a lot of work uh there. So thanks for acknowledging that. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Anybody? I just have one more thing to say. Yeah, please. So, one, I think it's great that you all are partnering. I definitely I don't believe that this work should be done in silos.
time. This is for Janelle. I just want to really appreciate the work you put into looking into how to make the bridges like sustainable and stable for the kids for the for the big picture long term because looking at nine kids in the Berlin classroom with the corresponding adults is that's crazy. It's a small classroom. It's unfair to everybody. And so to come up with a solution that works is going to provide them with long-term stability is great. I appreciate that. Thank you. Yeah, it was really a group effort. Um, but thank you. And I appreciate the explanation on the special ed coordinator. That was very helpful. Sure. My pleasure. Anybody else? And just the Memorial Day. Is that 2 p.m.? Yes. And then in Berlin, I think it's in the morning. Yes. The memorial day. Oh, sorry. Like, what time is that, Cindy? there's like a concert or a show.
Well, that's what that black is for the parking, but I will tell you this. No parking for tennis courts. No. Well, that because the black is on the the north side. It's not going to be enough room though, either the way it is right there because this is just a mirror image of what we have. And even if he added on three in a row, they would have to be they would be a longer back court. And then this doesn't have any room in between courts either. Um, and I know and I'm not sure what they are, but the, you know, there's regulations on how with the grant money is getting from USA on what size supports have to be. That's right. I like I like it back there. I just want Chris is on call. So if you'd like me to call him right now, I can call him and ask him how far he thinks he can push that back.
So, I think it's an excellent idea that you are partnering with multiple stakeholders, specifically parents as called out earlier today. Um, I was just wondering if you all, and you don't even have to answer this now, but just food for thought, if you are considering work recovery um, for these plans and how you will embed work recovery into these plans specifically since you have a um, population of students who are struggling with attendance. Good. Thank you, board. Thank you for your feedback and your um, reflections. Um, oh, now Dr. Concade, I think we're going to the next one. All right, busy. Okay, so uh moving on to 10.5. Um so as was mentioned in um our board committee uh report we several times a year we receive from press plus um a update. Uh this was this month was one of those updates. Typically the policies that we bring for um uh review kind of fall in one of four categories.
Okay. Uh next um so uh we've been very lucky for the past um prior to this school year five years working with a organization called education development center and they um partner with DESIE in the digital literacy and computer science department. Um they were we were well uh lucky to have an extension of that grant for this year. And so uh as a result of that we were able to use some of those funds to develop a new coding course for our high school students which uh is showing a high number of robots which is very exciting. Um, and we also, um, our eighth graders taking computer science discoveries created some applications through that course that were helpful to younger students in grades K through two, um, and learning some basic things like alphabet and numbers and colors and things like that. They were invited to Wister State College over the winter for our university, I should say, um uh to participate in an exhibition where they won a couple of awards and um as a result, they're also being invited back to a second exhibition that's going to be taking place on June 3rd.
I don't know what to do measurements. Okay. I mean that. So So he said 8 to 10 foot would be doable. Um if we get any further back than that 8 to 10 feet and that's whenever I visited with Michael, he thought that if we could push that, you know, that far back that it would help with the distance between the two. Yeah. So I like option two. Okay. The next step would be if we give them option two. When I talked to Sarah, Sarah said that you just need to tell us where you want it and that's where we're going to put it basically. So it would be a little change to our agreement just in the placement. It would be the next step that Chris's crew would take is they would come out and survey that site for anything that might be a hiccup or you know on the way to give back give some feedback back on it.
Uh one that we're required to change policy. Uh two that process recommending that we change policy. Uh the third is we internally decide to review our policy. And then last some required kind of footnotes and legal review. So tonight in all of the policies that you see uh for your first read are focused either on the 2024 Title 9 revision or reversion to the 2020 Title 9 regulations. Um, another significant impact um was public act 102466 um where they added additional uh requirements and supports for students uh due to pregnancy, parenting or concerns arising from domestic or sexual violence. Um and then the third was changes to our staff development requirements. So all of those policies impacted by those three things we are required uh to make the change. The next set um is really based on recommendation. The first one mentioned uh 480 was the capitalization threshold press is re recommending an increase from 5,000 to 10,000 um with cons consultation with our finance department.
Um they changed the location a couple times and they've even changed it one more time since I've submitted this report. So, it's no longer at EDC and Waltham, but at a tech company in Burlington. But, we're very excited for them. I plan to go to see how that that's going. Another um piece of information about grants that's exciting is that um through one of our ESSA grants, we were able to fund um a presenter, his name is Eric Lendes. is actually a former colleague that I worked with when we were teaching at Hopkins Middle School who left teaching to create a leadership academy for students um that builds students self-esteem, confidence uh that teaches students about you know um giving 10 out of 10 for every all the things that you do. Um so from part of that grant we were able to fund him to come in and present to our sixth, seventh and eighth graders.
Yeah, I think that if we can measure everything out and know that it can be in those locations, that's a good good spot for So, if we go with option two, do we have expense to improve that road to get to the new road between the tennis courts and the school or is that expense going to be coming out of That's probably going to be part of what's incorporated. ated in the process for them to build all of. Okay. Now, whenever I did talk to our maintenance staff, one thing, you know, in the future, we talked when we talked to Chris, he talked about some sort of crushed concrete with some sort of a padding down to try to keep it impacted a little bit more so it don't run out like the rock does on us, right? You know, I I say we use that for a couple years and see how it's working.
Uh the recommendation is to leave the threshold at 5,000. Um the reasoning is really uh internal controls um within the department in uh the district. So that gives us a better um kind of overall inventory and review of capitalized versus non-c capitalized uh equipment. Um at one point our finance department was considering lowering the threshold from 5,000 to 2500. So their recommendation at this point is to uh remain at 5,000. The other policy recommendation is within 6235 press is recommending some framework around AI. um essentially asking the schools then to through district coordination to develop an AI plan that requires not only a plan but professional learning and review. Um we would be recommending uh essentially that framework to be added to board policy. Um then once approved we would be working throughout the district on what that plan would be. Um so those are the two policies um with recommendations we would like to support to move forward.
They um each had a separate presentation. He's very dynamic. He's very engaging. he gets them up and moving around. Uh they really loved it. We had a a survey done to collect some data on how teachers and students felt about that and the results were really positive. And uh what's also really exciting is that he takes the fee that he charges and gives it back as scholarships. So we actually have an opportunity for three of our eighth graders going into ninth grade to attend his um enjoyed um education academy at Baton College this summer. So the counseling department's in the process of choosing those students right now. So that's very exciting. Um development I just kind of gave a little overview of some of the things that uh we did this year. Um and you know as you saw in the report uh we did a lot of work with safety care and ABA training.
And if we have to come back at some point and talk about, you know, making that road better, whether that's different rock or asphalt or what that looks like, then, you know, we can cross that bridge when we come to it. He said they've had really good luck with the the crushed concrete underlying I'm not a road guy that he was um talking about that they used at some other sites. So, I mean, I just want to just so that we're all kind of on the same page. I think that's a good option, but just like everything else, we want to make sure that we're not building oursel into a hole and that hopefully we can work out all these great plans that we have for the future. Do we need just a consensus? We just need a consensus that everybody's on board with moving forward with option two rather than by the north of the football field.
The policy that fits um internal review is policy 130 which is our school district philosophy. Um the current policy um is tied to envision 308. Um so now with our uh strategic plan being approved by the board um what we have done is realign the school district policy to our five priority areas. Um this is directly from our strategic plan. Um but we wanted to recommend the replacement of the connection to um envision 308 to our school or I'm sorry to our strategic plan. Uh the remainder of the policies really fall into that require footnotes and legal review.
Also safety in general for the entire district. Uh we did have some vertical alignment uh sessions between grades five and six for all four of the core subject areas. Um we also did some book studies. Uh our staff here at Tanto um some of them read the book High Expectations Teaching by John Safir and then the counseling department had another one called anxious generation and uh our own admin team is doing a book study on the book Teach Like a Champion by Doug Lum. Um also we um had some topics about uh artificial intelligence in the classroom. There were several series of professional development. For instance, at the elementary level, there's the year of math. Um, and there was also at all schools, uh, a lot of work around schoolwide goals that have been developed to help reduce gaps between our high need students and our, um, non- high need students.
That way when they do the the I don't think we're to the motion part yet. If as long as we had everybody on board with that then we can come back whenever they do the site and inspection and make sure that we're all on board with where the placement of that is moving forward. So So option two as presented as presented. Yeah. If everybody's on board with that as of right now, we have to have Chris and answer by tomorrow. That way they can get the site planning and inspection done on that side. So, did they say why they went with Brentwood instead of Yeah. um they thought their bidding was a little bit more concise and not just an overall this is the amount you're going to spend. They had things broken down a little bit more. Um they've worked with Brentwood Builders in the past two years on some of theirs.
Um so but is there any questions about our just I don't have any questions but I just uh because we reviewed these at the policy and legislative committee. Uh but just a note about the AI we had a little bit of discussion about it at our committee um and you know developing that framework. Obviously through press a lot of districts are going to be doing this all at the same time. So it's a great time for collaboration and also just to keep an eye out for what other people are thinking and doing um because uh it's already here and um you know um everyone has uh with you know lighter hand or more hands make lighter work. So I think that would be beneficial to be connecting with other districts on that. Dr. Paul and her team have already been working uh with the high schools and our instructional technology coaches.