All of our support staff, our our bus drivers, our custodians, our food service workers, our SSAs, and and our aids. Uh we just we have an amazing team and um we're starting to see the work we're doing and particularly the focus we have with student outcomes focused governance um bear some results for us. And so I really truly believe you know we're only in year two. We didn't set goals until May of year 1. We didn't finish our guard rails until September of year two. And yet we're already seeing some of the results come out. So, um, I really I have a strong belief that in year three, we're going to have what I call a flywheel year, and we're really going to start to see some motion and see some of the trajectory start to shift for us. Um, in addition to that, in order for that to happen, there are a lot of people, some of them are here in the room with us tonight, who um are not out partying because it's summertime.
Um, it's listed as an EPA has an EPA registration number. Um, but it's not a category one or two. So, my recommendation would be that we just document that we clarified this at town meeting. Um, and that Garland 3A is permitted. folks think questions. So, we have a motion already. We have a motion to wave, but there's no reason to wave. Right. Right. Okay. So, we can just I I think like I said, we we've just um it's on record as that we've clarified the regulations and and let the town know what's going on. Right. Yeah. Right. Exactly. Yep. So, we don't even need to vote. Right. Okay. All right. All set. Thanks, Ed, for the clarification. Thank you. Thanks, Ed. Thank you. All right. Next thing on our agenda is a variance request for septic system repair at 12 Oak Tree Lane. I think you're addict.
Thus, she's successful with everything she does. But most of all, her positive attitude and perseverance is what exemplifies her with her peers. Congratulations, Lena. You deserve it. [Applause] our spring cherry. [Applause] Congratulations. Thank you for joining me. So, I want to congratulate all the students on behalf of the board of education. As I sit here, as I stand here on Friday, we have our graduation ceremonies. And I look out and as you walk up here, so cute, so adorable. I try to think about what you're going to look like when you're walking up on that stage to get your diploma from us some how many years from now. So, but I do want to what I do want to do though is thank the parents because what happens at Cherry Brook is the foundational start of their education career and it's so important and Mr.
They are continuing to plug away and work hard. And so I know we've had um our a group of people who are um doing the curriculum design studio work. Um they were working last week and I think this week as well, right? Um and so one of the things that they're working on is helping to develop some common formative assessments for next year. And that is an input that we determined we really needed in the system to be able to be more effective at diagnosing the needs of our students earlier and not waiting just you know when we get to the the point of benchmarks. So, um, so many thanks to those teams. And this Wednesday and Thursday, um, we've moved our leadership seminar up from it traditionally has been in July. We've moved it to the first week of June because we felt like if the work gets done earlier, then we can spend the whole summer getting ready for next year instead of the last two weeks of summer.
Yeah. Yes. Hi, this is Eric Dickinson with Civilized Solutions. Um, can you guys hear me? Yes. Okay. Um, let me see if I can I'm not used to the hybrid. Uh, okay. Um, I'm here on behalf of the applicant. I'm not sure if they're in the audience. Um, but this is 12 Oak Tree Lane. This is a four bedroomedroom single family house. Um, is it possible for me to share my screen? You're you're a co-host. Okay, let me try to do that. See? Try this again. Sorry. Wrong thing. Okay, let's try this. Okay, there we go. Can everyone see that? Yes. Okay, so this is uh 1203 Lane. This is a um a four bedroomedroom home built in 1956. It's a cave style home. Um, it has a se existing septic system in the backyard. Uh, located right in this area. Um, has a septic tank and we discovered a leech kind of a leech field over here when we were digging our test beds.
Emory does such a great job along with our staff and our teachers and our parents all the way down to the custodians. So much care goes into that school and maybe our buildings don't look the best or our grounds are the best, but what happens inside those schools is the best and we feel pretty proud of that, but we can't do it without your support and help. I also want to thank the Cherrybrook U PTO that does such a wonderful job and had such a successful fair uh this past Friday. Something that I participated participated back in the 80s, I think it was. kind of embarrassing, but uh it was it the tradition of that is just wonderful. So, I just want to thank everybody for that. So, what we're going to do right now is if the students want to come up, we're going to take a picture with the board of education right over there.
Um, and so we will have a couple of things happening. We have a new tool set called Edge Climber which will help us with our um MTSS process, our multi-tered system of supports and being able to look at students holistically, not just their grades, but also everything from test scores to attendance. Um eventually we'll have a a social emotional survey that will be online that will automatically feed into it. Um so all of our leadership team is being trained uh tomorrow on that. So after they leave tonight, they have to go home, get some rest because there's going to be a big full day of training. Um and then on Thursday, we are going to be working on um preparing some of the proposed draft interim measures for next year. So um throughout the district, there's people working hard. We've got summer school coming up still.
Um, as you can see, it's uh it's got a lot of constraints. It's got a wetland system in the back, wetlands on the side. Um, this wetland system is actually the one if you had your back to kid Fenwall, if you looked across Main Street, it's that large wetland system back there. Um, here's the associated buffers. Um, given my experience at 20 Oak Tree Lane, which we just completed, I had a good feeling that the soils would not be great and I would need uh more room than in the front yard for the replacement system. So I tested in the backyard, did these three test bits. Um the soils were as predicted. There was a lot of fill, high ground water at 36 in. Um then we had weeping coming in. So there was water coming in each of the test pits. Uh I could not run a percolation test.
So, if the children come up, moms, dads, parents, grandparents, you can take your pictures as we stand up there and and get that that photo up. Okay? So, come on up. Mr. So as we take these pictures, how you doing? [Music] Get out of the way. As many as you want. [Music] builds [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Thank you. [Music] [Applause] [Music] We got money. [Applause] This is my wife. [Applause] [Music] [Applause] The next [Applause] [Music] [Applause] one. Congratulations. [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] It's all about [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] What happened to the Yes. [Applause] [Music] [Applause] I just [Music] [Applause] All right. Okay. Okay. We're going to reconvene the board. Oh, yeah. I got to see you. I sprinted there and back. Should have seen before we got to No, seriously. So, okay. We're going to reconvene and uh right now we're going to move to public comment.
Um so there's a lot of activity that'll be happening during the summer. And I just want to extend my thanks to everybody for putting that hard work in as well. Thank you so much. And one of the things I'll just add on to that is that this is a continuous improvement framework. And that's what I love. And that also sends a message to our students, right? That it's a continuous evolving. It's okay. We make mistakes. We we pivot. Now we know what the need is and we give you the tools and we move on to the next. So that's one of the things that I always love to point out that this is not asking for perfection. This is not asking for you guys to get it done now. This is continuous brief conversations on how we make the system better for our students that we're actually meant to serve in this K through8 institution.
So I had to send this the soil off to a laboratory for an analysis. Um it came back similar to 203 lane which is um the loading rate was a very low loading rate which means the soil or the septic system is going to be larger. Um it means basically that the the effluent does not travel through the soil very quickly. Um that being said with the um with the uh high groundwater and the um the loading rate I decided to use an IA system. And this is a microfast um treatment system to geoflow. These are drip tubing. Um if I had not used that system, the patio in the backyard right here, there would be a twoft mound that the owner would step up on uh would kind of ruin what backyard they have. Um the uh I oh I I received approval from the um we recently received approval from the conservation commission uh even though we're very very close to the wetlands um and uh let's see they yeah they are requesting some wetlands bounds around the property so that uh the house is actually on the market so that the new homeowner will not um encroach upon that area with any ex any lawn or anything like someone had done in the past.
And uh as we move to public comment, I'm just going to remind anybody in the audience or anybody online that wants to speak. Public comment is a time for you to speak about anything you'd like to speak about, but it's something that the board will not comment on only because uh we're bound by our agenda. So you can make your comments.
And with that being said, I'll move it over to 4A, which is our student outcomes focused governance. In the fall of 2023, Kraton School District adopted a student outcomes focused governance framework to ensure a focus on improving student outcomes. This framework is grounded in six research informed competencies. investig monitoring and accountability monitor communication and collabor collaboration collabor and the last one continuous improvement evolution constante guided by these six competencies the board created a set of goals and guardrails. The goals reflect the community's vision for student success and the guardrails reflect community values and set boundaries for leadership. Progress monitoring the progresso within this framework. One of the most critical components is progress monitoring. Progress monitoring is a structured conversation between the board and the superintendent where we ask. Does student performance match our goals? Is there evidence of growth towards the goals? Is the strategy strong enough to produce that growth?
Um given the uh the design uh there were a few variances. Would you like me to go through them? Uh you you can Eric and can you also just say a little bit more about what the conversation with the conservation commission? I don't remember reading that. Uh oh, it it you couldn't hear me. Is that what you're saying? No, I didn't I didn't see that in the letter um in the request. If it was in there, I'm sorry. No, no, it's um it wasn't. But the um basically the uh we did we're encroaching upon the buffers the 25 ft the 50 foot and even the u well we're out we're outside the uh the 100 or we have no work outside the 100 foot but the project did have to go through their permitting um with commission and they are requiring that the applicant put these wetland bounds in around there's I think there's five or six of or there's Yeah, there's one.
Please make it in three minutes. And um in those three minutes um I know I just saw that. So, so I'm going to I'm going to pause for a minute and uh what I'd like to do is invite Mr. Remember back up and so so Will can get his award. And now the spot Will, you know what the best part about this is? The spotlight's on you. You got the whole floor. Way to go. Here. Will come stand up next. [Applause] So William Carbon or we call Will Adam soccer player in second grade in Mrs. Olson's class is being recognized for our bare necessities of being a contributor and integrity. Will is a wonderful role model for his peers. His curiosity and passion for learning is infectious and he is constantly willing to help others. His willingness to help others is a testament to his tremendous character.
When all this is done well, monitoring supports the district by modeling reflective leadership, clarifying strategies and next steps, setting clear priorities across the system and providing continu continuous feedback for improvement. This is how we hold ourselves accountable to the outcomes of our students and the outcomes they deserve. This is how governance truly serves its community. And with that being said, we will get started on goal three progress monitoring report 4. And I will turn it over to Dr. Pombo and Mr. Man. Feel free to go ahead. President Gio, um members of the board, Superintendent Man, we're excited to present this evening. This is the goal where we saw the most um improvement in go growth. So, we're excited to share what we did and and the data. And I also want to introduce um Miss Sarah Beth George. She's our coordinator for language and literacy.
And what that is is that this is all a lawn area right now. So the new homeowner, whoever buys the home, I think it's it's actually sold. Um these they these bounds have plaques on them and they um they state that no work or filling or anything in this this area out here, which is currently lawn. So as you can see, there's a bound there, there's a bound here, and there's one up here. basically their only usable yard um will be in this area where the system is. So um it was kind of imperative that I used a uh a system that is not mounted so that they have some backyard to use. Got it. Thanks. Yeah. So, you're going to be looking for two, three, four, six variances, but yeah, the the 310 CMR 15.45 1E um we could probably not we might not need to do that one because the Ashland bylaw is 75 feet where the state one is 50 feet.
His understanding and application of learning materials is equal and impressive by his enduring compassion towards others and his radiating leadership qualities. Will embodies all of the characteristics which we should strive for can't graduate to have. Congratulations. And I can tell you that Will is my neighbor and I see him. I see him every day as he goes up to the bus stop. He's always practicing something. He's a hard worker and a great neighbor. So, Congratulations, Will. Why don't you come up here take a picture of the board of education? You didn't get a chance. So, we can make you circle around space. All right. Okay. Moving back to executive session.
So, she's here to present with me. So, this goal is to increase English proficiency for emerging multilingual. The percent of emerging multilingual students that increase one or more levels on the AELA will increase from 25% August 2023 to 40% by August 2028. Um what I want to share when we're looking at this uh data is that we have 1,500 um emerging multilingual students. And this data um from the AELA results that we've gotten so far represents 1,200 students. So 300 of those students came from outside our district and started our school this year. So we do not have their Azela data from last year. We only have this year's data. So, we couldn't see if they grew from last year to this year. So, these are preliminary results until we get the static file to show um how all 1500 students did. So, we only have 1,200, but it's most likely that it'll be trending this way with our students.
Are you in agreement with that? I am. Yes. Okay. Yeah, cuz they they both would kind of contradict each other. Yeah, they overlap. Right. Right. So, you're better off with the Wayland I'm sorry, with the Wayland with the Ashland. Um um 75 ft. Correct. Yeah. Um which uh Yes. All right. So, the lo the local regulations are more strict, right? Yes. Okay. So, we have to do each one of these.