So with executive session, we ask you to make it three minutes. We ask you identify yourself by your Okay. I saw I'm sorry. This has been a day. So, we're going to public comment.
Um because some of them may have taken the Zella for the first time when they came to our school this year. So, we um they might not be able to be um in this data. But if you look at the data, um, our annual target was, uh, the percent of emerging multilingual students that increase one or more levels on the Azella will increase from 28% in August 2024 to 31% in August 2025. Um, and the percent of emerging multilingual students that increase one or more levels on the DNA English language arts assessment will increase from 10% in May of 2024 to 20 20% by May 2025. And our interim measure, the percent of emerging multilingual students in grades three through five that increase one or more levels of LEA will increase from 33% in May 2024 to 35% in May 2025. Um, and you can see here with our annual target with our preliminary results that we met the annual target based on the data that we have right now.
Anybody have any questions before we go through this? Maurice, you all set? Okay. All right. So, um I can do the first one. Um, so I'll make a motion to grant a variance from the Ashland Board of Health Regulations section 30311 to allow the the subsurface sewage disposal system to be designed without a garbage disposal with the condition that no garbage disposal be installed within the house and a deed recording be placed on the property stating no garbage disposal should be shall be installed in the house while the subsurface sewage disposal system is in use for 12 Oak Tree Lane Ashland. Second.
Anybody that has anything says please try to keep it within three minutes. Please identify yourself by name and address. And um anything you say is fine. Just know that the board cannot comment on anything that's not on tonight's agenda. So, moving right along. Anybody in the audience tonight have anything from public? Okay.
So we got 37% and our goal was 31. Um for our one of our current measures was the percent of emerging multilingual students they increase one or more levels on the DNA English language arts benchmark assessment will increase from 10% to 20%. Now this is the assessment we're using DNA that's measuring um the ELA standards not measuring language acquisition. So it was just the only assessment we had at the time to determine if that we can predict how they'll do on the Azela assessment. So this is our DNA assessment and the growth on that assessment. So our goal was um moving from 10% to 20%. Um and so when I go to when we go to the next slide, you can see that we got exactly. um which shows that even though this is not measuring language acquisition that even though our zela show that they were improving with their language acquisition they also you can see it's trending upward that we're moving um also on our ELA standards so we met this measure the next one is we were really looking at our third through fifth grade um students to move one or more level on the AELA so increase from 33% to 35%.
Any discussion? All in favor? I I like to do the next one. Okay, I'll do the next one. So, I'll make up a motion to grant the variance from Ashton Board of Health Regulations 303-15 to allow all components of the subservice disposal system to be located uh 27.6 6 ft from the wetlands versus 75 ft. I'll sec I'll second it.
Hearing none, then we'll go to online. Cara, you can open up. Anybody online have anything for public? Sure. So, if you're joining us online tonight, you can use that raise hand feature of Zoom and I will call on you by your Zoom name and you'll be allowed to make your public comment.
And so this is the same data where we have um 1,200 students data and then we took from there the third through fifth grade students that were of those 1,200 students. So um if you look at the next one, Dr. Pombo, I'm just going to interrupt you real quick and if we can go to that previous slide. I just want to point out that both of our dual language schools had the highest outcomes and I just want to say that in a public meeting in case anybody's watching and wants to say anything about our dual language programs. Thank you. Yes, we agree with that too that they showed the most growth. So if we go to the next slide, you can also see that we're trending upward from um 22 to 23 to 24. And for 25, our goal was 35% but we had 44%.
Any discussion? All in favor? I I make a motion to grant a variance from 310 CMR 15.405 to allow the use of a civ analysis versus the required percolation test. Second.
Okay, hearing none, we'll close off public comment. Thank you everybody. Um, now we'll move right into the administrative reports. We'll start with the chairman's corner. First of all, I just want to acknowledge uh those that could walk for the uh for the Memorial Day parade and those who attended. I wanted to thank you for for coming to the parade and and marching with us. That was very great. Uh secondly, uh I want to recognize that at this point our two wonderful student reps have just been very impressive, very helpful. Uh, I know the schools enjoyed. I get you over there, too. Um, you know, you guys did a wonderful job and, uh, before I introduce our new rep, I'm going to ask Mrs. Hayes to make a few comments. Yeah. Um, so, Dr. Kidwell, Mr. Bishop and I met and we interviewed candidates for our new rising junior student rep.
And you can see that um 6% of our students increased two or more levels. That's that's amazing. Yeah. So, yay. Yes. Can I can I point something out there too that I think is important? If you look at 2122 and 2223, those are the two years immediately preceding the implementation of the student outcomes focused governance goals. Um, and what you'll see is while the numbers are different, they they total 27% both years. So with no change to what we were doing within the district, the numbers just remained flat, right? Um, and so but then you can see the boost we got in 2324 with the efforts that were put forward and then the additional boost in 2425. Mr. Man, so you mean to tell me that when you do different things you get different outcomes? That is that I'm just it appears to be correct and I and you know I know there's a lot of people who are involved in that work but as we talked about last year we have to give a lot of kudos to Sarah Beth George who who really led those efforts not only in that first year but in the second year as well.
Any discussion? All in favor? I. You're up, Maurice. I make a motion to grant a variance from 310 CMR 15.4051H2 4051H2 to allow a reduction from the four feet to two feet separation for soils with percolation rates greater than two minutes per inch between the bottom of the soil absorption systems and the seasonal high groundwater elevation. Second discussion in favor I last one. I I make a motion to grant a variance from 310 CMR 15.4051 4051 I to allow for the red reduction of the required 12-in separation between the inlet and outlet trees TE's sorry to high groundwater provided that all boots or pipe joints are sealed with hydraulic cement or installed with watertight sleeves and the tank is proven watertight.
and along with our current student reps and everyone agreed to elect Doodoo Mama as our next student rep. So, welcome Dude and would you like to share anything with your board? Um, sure. Um, I um that was involved in the community the past couple years production that's probably where you recognize. Yes, that's right. What did you play in the last one, Mr. I'm also involved in many leadership opportunities and I'm very excited to represent the student body for the whole of Canton moving forward for these next two years. Thank you for the warm welcomes. That's great. We we have a little bit of gift for you both uh to say thank you. It's a small token of our appreciation. We're we're going to miss you. Now, Mr. Bush was never a student rep, but here he is. Lived in town, lived in town, and came back and now is on the board of education, which I'm always so so proud of.
And I do want to add in the first year last year was a lot of compliance. So we were looking at compliance um with our emerging multilingual program. This year based on that compliance and classroom observations, we knew we needed to focus on instruction and training our teachers and coaching. So this year we were really focused on that cohort of teachers getting um specific training and coaching in the classroom. So whisper coaching like right neck while they're teaching there's a coach whispering to them um to improve their their teaching strategies. And so that's where I think you see the we can't correlate it exactly but that's the difference is one was um compliance and this year was more focusing on the instruction and thank you for sharing that Dr. for Pombo because that's one of the big things that I've seen in a different too is that we're not teaching to be compliant but it sounds like the district is moving to teaching to actually get results and that's one of the things that I think it's hard for institutions to get out of because it's so compliance compliance compliance and if you're doing X Y and Z bam so I really appreciate that the team has taken that added on step with this framework to start not being so compliant and really thinking about how Can we be compliant?
Any discussion? Okay. All in favor? I um so next steps for this homeowner is we'll have the date recording ready, you know. So I'm not in office tomorrow for a training. So probably Thursday or Friday we'll have the date recording uh uh the document for date recording ready and then we'll we'll give them a call to come and they have to do the date recording and once that we have we'll issue the permit uh to to install the system. Okay. Does that work for you? Yes, we we will contact them sir once once we have we we we we prepare a document for the deed recording in our office. Once that document is ready, we'll give them a call for them to come pick it up and then they have to get it recorded. Yeah. With the land records and we will call them once once we have that document ready.
So, I'm hoping someday when I'm in my 80s, you guys will be back in town and you'll be running this board of education at some point. Am I missing anybody else? No. Okay. So, open up the gift. Yeah, let's see what you got for a gift. [Music] Thank you. Get your start for the fall. You want to stand up to [Music] that? Congratulations. Congratulations. Okay. Uh, that's all I have. So, I'm going to move to the superintendent announcement, please. Dr. B. Super. Thank you, Mr. Daniels. I want to welcome everyone here. Mr. Emmy did a great job introducing our Cherry Brook accomplishments. It It's been quite a run the the past couple weeks and next week it seems like every night we have an event. Whether it's been a a concert or an art show, the the schools have really been doing a lot of celebrations towards the end of the year with I I would probably say the most important event that we have within the public schools is our graduation ceremony.
And also it needs to show in our outcomes and our results and this is a an amazing storytelling of that. Exactly. So I really appreciate that and the compliance is is the first step like we had to have that first as a foundation before moving forward. So we're just excited to see see the results. Okay. So I'm going to turn it over to Miss George about our inputs and what we did this last quarter or update on our inputs. Yes. Okay. So, as the year closes, we have a lot of inputs that just say we've completed everything. So, you'll see that in the first two sections for professional learning and instructional coaching. We did complete all of those plans that we had in place when we look at instructional materials. Um, we have talked at previous board meetings about a program that we have specifically for groups of students who are multilingual learners who are at the same level on Azella.
We'll give them a call. Yes. And then usually an attorney do the do the read recording. He will do it. We can we can you can just pass it on to him. You know, once we have the confirmation that it's recorded, we'll issue a permit to to install the system. Yeah. Right. I know. And they I guess no, but I think um you you said that if if this all can get done this week, then the person said they could have everything done by the 18th. Yeah, absolutely. We we we have to do actually four mandatory inspections, you know, when when the system is getting installed. There are different steps. I'll be out you know at the property doing inspections with the installer you know so but we'll have the document ready as soon as possible you know so if it is ready tomorrow we might give you a call tomorrow you know but I'm I'm just not in office but I'll coordinate with Laura we have the document ready you know it need to be you know two true two true test copy need to be done with the clerk's office you know so there are couple of steps for us to prepare the document and we'll have it to you as soon as possible possibly we I should mention that it's common for attorneys that I work with um to be able to record those from their office without going into Cambridge.
And I know Mr. Dipo and Dr. Kidwell are working really hard preparing for the ceremony. Um weather is um a 50/50 call right now. Um, and we're in contact with our meteorologists and it's not just snow days that we have to think about. It is graduation. So, we'll make sure that we are communicating with the public on uh what we're going to be doing regarding graduation and um I'm for one that I always like to go outside and we'll have both areas set up um indoors and outdoors to provide Mr. Nippo, Dr. Kell and I with the most flexibility of making this decision every year. We're right under last year just as we all closed out the ceremony. So, we'll do the best job that we can. Um this evening at 7:30 is athletic awards. So, maybe after this meeting we'll be able to go down.
And so we can't always move staffing and students around so that students are grouped homogeneously or with at the same level, but when they are, we have a specific program that they're able to use. So for example like all pre-emergent emergent students. May I ask what would be a barrier for that to be accomplished? Staffing. Okay. The number of teachers available. Yes. Okay. Thank you. Yes. Um and so we throughout the year we increase from six to eight teachers who were able to use that program and we are using it exclusively during our summer school program. This year we're offering um a few different sections of um instruction just for our multilingual learners at the pre-emergent emergent level and we are using language power and we had a couple weekends ago we had our training for our summer school teachers and one of our teachers who is currently implementing it was able to train the teachers who will be using it this summer and the feedback was really positive around like I think this is great for our students and I love that a teacher who's been using it all year trained me in it so that felt Right.