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yep and i think i'm keeping score here for that it's really about the norms and i think agreeing to those collective agreements that how we treat each other is is perfect but we don't we don't have those right now i mean and then the last one yeah so self-monitoring governance team effectiveness i like that one i think it's a good opportunity for us as a governance team quarterly or whatever just to sit down check in make sure things are going so i like the idea of that checking yeah and csva has a really great survey already in place that we could do i actually we do it online they analyze it and send us back the results is that how it works yes yeah so csba has a survey for self-assessment for governance teams board members self-assessment yeah so we submit it and then they compile the information and shoot it back to us so i think that's something we should advocate for or we should work towards you guys this is this is oh this is exciting because you're doing what we said we were going to try to do today which is you know just clean around look around move things out shine light on areas so we can understand if we flex these muscles in this way it's going to get us well positioned better positioned for better deliberations and better actions resulting so i i as this my my notes probably yours do too it looks a little like a giant you know mega millions card when i go through it i never get any of the numbers but i'm always oh look i got one there or one there one there but but uh we we have really gleaned some stuff in the commonality that happens because this is what this is what an hpv you know high performance board is you you've got that unity of purpose thing really rolling along here you're starting to really communicate uh the the you've shared the importance of the common voice you shared the importance of trust and dignity and respect and collectives collectively communicating and taking responsibility collectively all of those are the uh from i think it's the lighthouse study a really quite quite impressive study in the field which is cited a lot i certainly quoted a lot but i that these are the characteristics of hpv high performing boards and that's where this this process which is not over today but which is really just sort of beginning for you in this new configuration board that's that's where this prioritization of the protocols happen so now what what if you wanted to develop a protocol so back to your workbook and go back a couple of pages to um page uh two pages up let's see page 49 because you know you you figured out why protocols are important they've helped you build a team yes that showed up in several of your choices they empower the team in good times or bad sometimes you really need to rely on that collective voice they as nancy just really helped us get the discussion going they really help you on board new members and doesn't the public deserve that don't they deserve a board member that can of course you're it's you know lifelong learners you betcha you betcha learning about the district about the issues about trends about needs about data yes but you want to get up to speed or something resembling it as soon as possible so protocols really help you on board new members and all of that together gets us back to this question of how are we enhancing student achievement and so it's not just to make you win a prize in the roberts rules of order competition for best parliamentary procedures who's the other one there's two of them there's roberts and then there's another one that's quite popular this time but it really really really does help you support student achievement and you know i'll stop singing that song you know that okay let's look at the page about the process for developing a protocol first one deciding what you want to develop look what you just did you just there was such a clear emergence of shared common protocol areas the example they give is staff board communications uh the process for board member site visits how you bring up new ideas etc i won't read the rest of you but step one that's what we just did you did and does it mean that's it written in the ink written in stone no you may go back you may be tonight go back and look at this 30 protocol list and say i can't believe i forgot that one that one's very key shoot it over to scott and carol so it can get incorporated into this but you've done step one which is make these determinations about what you want to develop which protocols to do and then the second one is a little more difficult because you've done it was discussing and prioritizing and i have a little bit of a contrarian point of view about prioritizing because generally in our work just like ilcap wants us to do we're supposed to be prioritizing because you know they say you can't i have uh one colleague who always says you know you should never tell a constituent or a parent or something that you can't afford to do this or that program because you can do anything you want to you can spend the money on anything you want to you just won't have it for something else you know there's a difference but i feel like to the extent your higher power brain can get you there prioritizing is the goal but sometimes we think they're all priorities you know that you saw that and sometimes you group together 21 and 22.
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they become sort of joined and merged when you are talking about managing resource flows and budgetary concerns and talking about community input for your lcap preparation of course the priorities must be vertically rank ordered but in terms of protocol i really see it more as whatever sort of graphic sort of a wheel a cycle a circle where sometimes we have to just suck it up and say they're all priorities so step two i leave that to you to ponder to agree or disagree with me there but that prioritizing the protocols is important but sometimes we have to just accept that they're all pretty darn important third one clarifying the issue this is where the parts of the protocol development process kind of come in so if we say priority is one identifying the the protocol need and prioritizing it then the next thing is what's the rationale for it i'm going to read this to you because you see it it's important to agree on the problem protocols intended to solve or as we said sometimes how we couch things in our verbiage and our how we express things or articulate them in a more positive manner agree on what the protocol is intended to do and here comes the rationale part why it's important and you often helpful to define the parameters of protocol rules and regs that must be followed sometimes protocols uh involve um execution by staff or something like that so if your protocol is to like del rey said um be respectful and mindful of the superintendent and his uh bandwidth whatever language you want which delray kept saying you know be mindful of what other time and such that might that sounds you know kind of nice warm and fuzzy but you might need to put some timelines or specificity to it you might need to say uh part of the rationale for this is that uh special reports to the board to to be presented at the board to be prepared in the board packet however you want to describe it need to be requested from the superintendent five business days before or something like that so give thought when you do the ration you know the rationale why it's important but then sometimes you need to clarify and put some guiding principles to it the fourth one identify the situation if necessary from different perspectives it's a topic straight forward minimal diversity step that step is important but i prefer that because you you've committed the time to do all this uh moving idle we do becoming a collective body that this is a lens always good to look through though i i enjoyed the interchange dory and steve as you were talking about sort of the the way you in with the intentionality that you brought to just uh reading uh facebook posts of a group that you're in that you you aren't quick trigger mcgraw and just jumping in there and get hitting that reply right away you're looking to say well i want i'm i want to be really mindful because what what might uh other information sources have gotten gotten through to this communication so appreciate that so it's it's it's not for the purpose of stifling or stymieing a colleague it's really more for the idea of understanding that as we said in that beginning quote when you gather more interpretations it literally strengthens it strengthens the outcome strengthens the work that you're doing so that's step four number five write the protocol just like most uh tasks of when you're doing uh individual district policies as opposed to those that come down the pike automatically that are you know mandated by changes in law that you get from csba but to the superintendent generally follows this task of writing the protocol but that means somebody's just got to start the process by putting pen to paper initially but that is just the beginning of the process because then each of you in this six-headed creature will be able to weigh in on the protocol that is how i think some some districts when they're doing their superintendent evaluation document uh rather than go back and forth and back and forth maybe one person will draft and the other board members will respond it's a similar workable process it keeps you out of um getting into a serial meeting or email meetings and that sort of thing so typically the writing of the protocol starts with the superintendent maybe the follow-up step is if you have a subcommittee of two board members that are charged with then reviewing with the superintendent bringing this up and then the other members of the government's team would weigh in before you actually adopt it because remember you adopt agreed on protocols not like well this is i like this one i like that one you're going to your protocols are going to be broadly adopted by by the collective body all right and then step six agree on and amazingly record the protocol it just becomes a lot more real when you say wow i am committing to not calling scott on the afternoon of the board meeting and saying i forgot to ask you but i wanted that discipline report from the data can you pull that together for me and then you remember you know what that is not in sync and respectful of the protocol which i agreed to so it makes us uh it makes you understand the importance of the common agreement of the protocol before you adopt it but when you record it it's there it's there until until you change it can i can i just take a segway from from that specific example how would you see us i mean i know this is something we're going to discuss when we develop the protocols but how would you see us um handling that situation if we email the rest of the board and say hey i'd like to request this information are we in any sort of gray area on violating brown act if i'm just saying i'd like to request this information are you guys okay with that or is that board meeting and say that would not work doing it at the board meeting there's no way because i'm i'm looking at the agenda the week before or i'm looking at no something not on the agenda like i want to know what the bus schedule is for all of the district if it's something you're bringing up out of clear blue sky at the meeting you would say i would like scott to bring up this report for me and tell me how many kids are getting on the bus at each stock and then is any other board member willing to request that or want that information to act on i think i i think i don't necessarily agree with that i mean i think that there are times throughout the month not necessarily at a board meeting where you need information or you you like to get information so that you have the time to really delve into whatever it is you're you're working on and i don't think waiting for a board meeting is necessary i think emailing all the board members that gets into a risky area perhaps a better approach is simply say hey is this a reasonable request can you guys accommodate this and you need to be willing to say right yes too much right right and you could never do that he's too nice well yeah but what we've done too is a lot of times me and board president the request might go through and now if it's the board president she wouldn't be requesting herself but that that's been done too now the night before or the day of is probably not going to be a request that anyone here is going to ask for anyway but it i mean an extensive extensive report um but i think maybe that's the check and balance too that we can end up getting into protocol is because you can't you couldn't email the whole board that because i do i think steve i mean even if you're just saying i want to request this information does anyone else want this information you're not saying what your opinion is you're trying to just respond to you and then based on your the responses you make the decision okay no well it kind of depends on what you're requesting to how much and how much well for instance time is a good thing i asked for uh which i knew already existed i asked for the listing of all of our hvac units and their their lifespans and where we were in the cycles of replacing them it was a lot of information it sounds like a huge request i know craig i know he's got it so i requested it um what i neglected to do was say you know it's not an immediate request and so i've gotten better about saying hey sometime in the future i'd like to see this information but i just feel like if we're really i'm sorry monica no kelly no no no no no is it no this is and we're really limiting the board members in their ability to gather information by saying we can only request this is the kernel this is the kernel of what we're talking it's we're talking about uh the board member uh preparation and deep learning pre-board meeting so that's let's come back to that as our topic but i think your discussion i'm hearing two components one is perhaps the type or amount of information that might be requested and the other is the timing of the request for the information so if you're if you're going to uh you you want to have at least one other board member join you in saying yes that would be value information that has to do with the type of information you're requesting a report on hvacs or or vans or whatever the issue of timing is a separate one and that could be the the protocol about timing and requesting uh staff information is a function of like del rey point about being mindful or or aware of the bandwidth the staff has so but but how this all comes together under the big umbrella kelly i think is the idea of each individual board member sometimes they're quite similar but different people have uh different uh at times of their career their board member career i mean uh may have different information gathering processes they do with the superintendent when i first joined i went this is the old days but i after i got my board packet i had lunch sit down one-on-one lunch with my superintendent i was new i was new we would brown bag it and go through that the whole thing sometimes the cbo would join us at parts of it um it that's not a process that i feel uh i i need to continue at this point because my experience has enabled me to get get my information away but but each individual board member scott probably uh is amenable i believe this you prove this and when i ask you about your board communications is that you are ultimately adaptable to how some people want the text some people want the phone calls some people want an email some people won't want this or that so kelly i feel like it's sort of an in the issue of having another board member say yes i would like that info too is separate and apart from the issue of not asking for a report too late yeah right yeah often times mine come after a training or you know a week before the board meeting where i need more information so um and like when i first came back on the board i felt like okay i i need to get caught up on some information so i was asking for quite a few things um and you know i just that's our job yeah but you've got to remember you have four others that are asking him to do the same thing and this carol yeah one time carol needs to speak scott we have six requests these are real similar um which ones are most important you know can we get back to the board members and say we'll get you this today this should answer all three of you guys questions this other request we're gonna wait until next week and you know that's that's you guys triage process right just because i asked for something doesn't mean i need it now right this second and if i do need it now right this second i will specify that and the other piece would be there there really isn't when you get big things you all get you know like if you ask for the hvac i send that everything you said it does uh i mean now if you call me one day and say hey i see this vendor what does this vendor do i'm probably not going to share that this music whatever i mean there's little there's different types of requests but if if it's a huge programmatic you know shift or something like that then that probably would come through a board meeting but if it's i want some gathered information that's there's there's it's hard to disorganize you know the history behind this and why it was done that way and you know if steve hits you with wanting information for the band department dale hits you with wanting information for spinelli and kelly wants information for the junior high school and carol's running the you know 50 mile raceway you think and that's the whole reason why we put that in in the beginning is just to be able to say kelly you're not allowed to ask scott five times a week for a different report and that's what it was being abused is what was happening but it hasn't been and it hasn't been by anybody here no but at that time it was being abused and that's why we had to have something put in to say to protect this not because we don't want it but again i really feel like that is the responsibility of the superintendent and to to triage that that and we can come back with timelines and there's no one on here that i wouldn't come back and say hey steve you know working on x y and z i'll have it for you next friday or tuesday or whatever look at this in june you know i don't see i don't at least not at this moment i don't see it but i think under another general understanding that there may be times where if i'm getting able to say things no we need to i need to be able to come back to you guys and say no we need to do this well scott this is what i'm saying because because there is a agreement that you play a special role in this governance team in in being the single employee of this this your employer uh that they not only expect from you but they uh uh respect that you will do the triage and that you will do that so that's where there are two other things i want to mention about protocol development before we talk about how what does this mean for center in terms of governance handbook and protocol development as the foundational architecture of governance handbook is that typically your protocols would be adopted in the cons by way of coming to consensus not by way of motion second roll call vote typically because um if if they work if they if they come together in the prioritized way and you guys saw the commonality of purpose how often the same numbers percolated to the top of your list here you have a very clear shared vision of what your protocols should be so usually they would be adopted by consensus uh rather than by you know individual you know roll call vote so that's that i would mention has been the typical way and the other thing is they should be and if you have a mechanism to make this happen whether it becomes part of your you know policy review to every 12 months or something like that or it's just a separate thing you put on your governance calendar that you monitor the protocols to see if they need to be modified tweaked eliminated strengthened just like policy that's the same thing we tell you about policy development that you you evaluating it after it's out there is the only way you know that it's first of all doing what you expect it to do and it's not having unintended consequences so your protocols deserve deserve the same monitoring evaluation after the fact so we always like to recommend that as you develop your protocols you build into that a mechanism for monitoring them and seeing if they're doing what you wanted them to do so we before we get get uh toward the actual end of our time boy diet today has flown by i want you to look again at a way there's i i hear the unsaid question and a lot of times it's said it's like you know we have so much in our agenda we obviously took this topic the governance uh approach and made it a separate meeting as a workshop meeting but there is this type of meeting which a lot of boards do not avail them of called the conversation discussion meeting and it's on that workbook starting on page 53 yeah so just take a second i'll go quiet and look at the types of conversation discussion meetings you might have so these would be special meetings a conversation meeting is an opportunity different from a study session for example your you might call an agenda posted public meeting that was a study session where the superintendent the cbo might go through a budget a budget workshop but this is for other issues and needs to where you really need this forum where you can have conversations and not just motion second vote motion second vote you know or i should say report motion second vote so these are the types of meetings you might have they yield incredible bits of enlightenment i mean i think i mean i've obviously learned lots about you guys as individuals in our conversations today and such i rather imagine you've learned something about your colleagues and fellow trustees as well today and the the normal if there is such thing the normal board meeting often is not the best environment for these conversational interactions to take place and one of the the areas where a conversation discussion meeting is about halfway down it says develop a governance handbook so uh i know you're all looking for more saturdays to give up but i think you will i i i'm recommending i'll put this in my follow-up communication that uh you're ready after doing this hard work about identifying proto protocol areas to have uh the the second conversation about writing the protocols and and adopting them and making them part and typically it's when that document is done and we can you can it doesn't need to be a 200 page tome you know or something sometimes it can be done in just a few pages and then it becomes something just like the superintendent evaluation where you all sign it adopted june 14th senator j usd board of trustees and you all signed it now that's pretty quick i'm not saying you're going to get it done but but that's my thought but you i i call this your attention because this is one of the best ways for a governance handbook to come into being by not having to reinvent the wheel but starting with the architectural foundation of the protocol priorities that you already said so look down just to repeat the top the subhead about rationale it says governance team members recognize the difficulty in finding the balance between one's own beliefs and values interests of constituents the needs of all children the pressures of wanting to work effectively together as a team we call that at csba the balancing act remember back before you were we you were i and you had that luxury i've shared this with many of my conversations with you guys i think that before you joined the board you had the luxury of advocating for an issue a school a teacher a program a topic you had that luxury and then you became part of the board derry i think you articulate very well at the beginning of our day it's different it's different when you get at the table and so this this is part of the rationale for a conversation discussion meeting because you want to have that positive environment you want to have norms that make positive environment a must but you can usually do that best in the type of a conversation meeting and it doesn't have to be a six-hour marathon as we pull today but i i do suggest that that become something that you begin to look at on your calendar going into the summer months of how you could take the protocols and and make the form the foundation of a governance uh handbook then at the bottom of page 53 um you see right there it it brings us back to the beginning of our discussion when we started out good grief almost six full hours ago we said we were going to talk about unity of purpose we were going to talk about roles and responsibilities and most specifically the difference between the role of the trustee vis-a-vis the role of the board and further specifically the role of the board vis-a-vis the role of the superintendent and his or her team then we talked about the importance of the positive culture we had a ted talk that led us gave us a little courage i hope about understanding that daring to disagree is a worthy goal because uh i how did heford in college she said that conflict sometimes is a way of doing your best thinking we talked about norms how we treat each other we're going to you have a lot of responsibility on your shoulders you've got kids at your what are you at 14 schools they expect you to keep the doors open keep the lights on keep you out of legal trouble where you're not spending lots of money you know paying lawyers to get you out of hot water those students each and every not just all are dependent on you to manage the reforce resources that allow you to put conditions in effect that are going to serve them best whatever their needs are meeting them meeting where they are that's exactly what so i don't want you to have to give up too many saturdays or having extra meetings you don't want extra meetings but that is my my strong suggestion is that you consider a conversation meeting where you can move ahead with your governor's handbook so that's where i find us today i want to thank you all for for for doing this it's been um really uh interesting for myself and others on the consulting team to have these conversations uh virtually i would ask you each to put out some good vibes to csba my employer so that they will stop teasing and taunting because i keep saying when are we when do we get to go back to districts when do we get to go back and uh they have hinted that they might be allowing 25 of the uh the regular staff go back into the office up there in the sacramento area in mid-june and they've hinted that those of us who travel the state might be able to meet in districts uh maybe in the fall so our paths may cross again i certainly scott will have follow-up a a memorandum which i'll send you your attention to share with the board um i will repeat uh my i i have no of financial advantage with the books that i recommended to you i just know they're awfully good call to order in governor's core there's one more that i like to throw in which is by covey not not stephen covey the famous one but by his son actually he's stephen m r covey called the speed of trust uh the importance about trust and how it can uh can color color our uh our conversations and the one that i'll leave you with from speed of trust is this he says the principle is simply this we tend to get what we expect both from ourselves and from others when we expect more we tend to get more when we expect less we tend to get less so my friends my colleagues expect more get more give more thank you for your time if there's anything else i can do you all have my email probably even my cell phone number scott the next step is for me to get you the follow-up memorandum and i will be following your progress with baited breath will we get you next time is it a set thing or is it up for grabs uh quite possibly if you yeah if you didn't it would only be a scheduling issue so the point is if we work schedules out in advance it would would not be an issue so we could request you yes certainly to certainly i think that consistency thank you very very appreciated thank you all so very much i hope that you uh endure the rest of the doesn't sound like it's been much of a holiday weekend for some monday uh hydrate hydrate hydrate take lots of water and i will look forward to our past crossing again and carol again jean and carol gene and carol big thanks to you for making it happen thank you
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oh sure mr grippo here mr white here miss helen mr chairman you have a quorum great um all right for the pledge mr sheldon do you have a flag or you have one in the background anyway oh here we go i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all that must always be fun seeing me get back into my chair i just like fall in it's like like a roller coaster okay uh let's see we have not had any public comment uh thank you dr sullivan just asking about that um all right so our first policy for review is student health services um it was there uh any i'm guessing there were no additional changes from last time no there haven't been any changes and you know uh basically as we've discussed previously um there excuse me let me get to that right so the uh there will be legal changes down the road at some point but uh right now we're just making some tweaks um to address a change in like language for medical advisor that's for us right now that's uh dr o'connor he's been our medical advisor for years uh updating some screening language sorry about that basically everything to comply with state law but really what we want is to make sure that next next fall when school sports begin that we have students that are receiving their uh screening that's required of them to play sports and have it be good for the full season um and not just expire in the middle of the season so this part here highlighted um so we you know have it good for 13 months um that all complies with law but again we want it to be good for the sports season so we can request that families have that squared away that's what we'll be doing next fall because otherwise it's it's a medical risk for the student and a legal liability for us i mean when we checked around other districts this is what people do to make sure that you know their students are healthy to be able to participate and that their district is covered from a liability perspective um so this is a second reading um are we will we have to have a uh another meeting to get this instituted before next fall i would think right we have our meeting on um the well we could put that procedure in place before next fall but we do have our meeting for the second reading on the third we could do another really quick meeting so that we could uh you know approve this at the business meeting on june the end of year fiscal meeting on june 30th okay so it would be a pretty quick meeting i think we just thought it would make sense because i'd love to be able to put all these in the past as we transition into the new school year start fresh in 2021 22.
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meeting of the curriculum meeting committee meeting to order um can we have roll call sure um anne harrigan here tony peregini here and faith ham here good to see you all like one to be here so we have one thing to do we do a textbook correct yes are we going to do the pledge as well we should okay okay because i have it ready to go oh awesome let's go one nation under god [Music] thank you so algebra algebra um and i will congratulate a really fascinating presentation and you might have to um put yours on mute i think the little winds down there are causing a little bit of a ruckus there we go and it's too relaxing yeah where is she is that north carolina it's gonna say it looks like it nice work um okay so um i don't tony i don't know if you had a chance to review but um it was a thorough presentation um i don't have any objections so um i guess we need a motion to approve and we need the full title sure it would be emotion to improve envision algebra ii and um the motion would be to recommend the textbook to the court of education for consideration i'm happy to make that motion go for it i move that we um that we send the that we approve the e-text algebra ii whatever kevin just said that it's called and move it to the full board for approval do i hear a second i second all in favor aye it's unanimous well i thank you all very much for coming to this special meeting i um i think this was great we will have this out for two weeks for public review um and this is going to take us a nice step forward in improvements to our math program at the high school so thank you very much for this today no problem for organizing yeah thank you kevin everyone for being on i know you guys are very busy sounds i'm very very busy especially anne it's got a lot going on i'm busy decomposing good for you impressive we don't want you to decompose you can't yeah you know yeah oh that was my male problem for the year right that's how decompressed she is right holy cow that's how decompressed i am that's great oh my goodness well i will see you all on thursday awesome look forward to it hey tony
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okay so we'll we'll plan for a real quick meeting then at the second half of the month i guess yeah yeah okay um uh can i have a motion to um bring this let's say policy number 5141 for a second meet for a second reading do we do we do the policy the motion first and then have discussion i do have one question on it yes yes okay so i make a motion to bring uh policy 5141 to a second reading i will second that okay um uh discussion tim go ahead yeah so my only question i can't recall if we really uh if i i can't recall an answer on this i think i mentioned it last month the um i'm looking for the uh so under students student health services it's around the middle of the document to tuberculin testing right uh number five lives with anyone who had who was in a homeless shelter jail or prison uses illegal drugs or has an hiv infection um i'm just wondering do how does that apply to so i guess if if someone's a high risk for this are police officers at high risk so if you're if you have a daughter and you're in a jail on a daily basis does your how does that impact your daughter do your parents know or you're a prison guard you work at a you you uh you know work at a soup kitchen a homeless shelter type of thing on a sunday afternoon i'm just curious how that affects because there's i'm sure there's kids i know i know kids who have parents who are police so it's that i mean at least in theory if we're gonna have real enforcement of this how does it apply in real life yeah so um i think that's a medical question that the child's physician because this is not the only um screening that they need would be required to provide of the the child um you know i can ask nancy for clarification on that one i guess i guess my question is is you know if it's just an annual thing it's one thing but is it i kind of wonder if this is written from the perspective of looking at it being a prisoner who's probably you might be in prison for nine months and then you come out and you're back with your kid all right now this kid has to do it in march whereas this is an annual test that most kids go through in august every year at their annual checkup so instead of getting that annual checkup done in august now your your father is home from prison in march and you have to get a test all of a sudden i could see maybe it's designed that way but does it actually end up capturing everybody else who works there on a daily basis anyway you understand the point i'm making that's that's the only question yeah it says that you know that it's recommended not required oh it does it says it's recommended that students at each mandated health assessment be screened for their risk of exposure to tb so it's incumbent upon the physician to ask okay okay um or if your child is at a risk factor and if so then they'd be screened for that so i mean i i honestly tim don't know how regularly physicians ask that question you know my only point of reference is my family yeah yeah i think you understand the point i'm making i'm it's not like i want to make a big to-do out of it it's just if all of a sudden there's you know something happens and then there's a tuberculosis breakout or i have no idea i just that's all yeah what i what i recall from my own blood-borne pathogen training is that um most of the people who would come in contact with that sort of in that sort of situation are normally inoculated against tuberculosis and hepatitis for as a requirement for their for their job um so the risk of exposure to other people uh in the household is would be very low anyway um unless they were had received an injury or something like that that's when it could be you know maybe a higher risk but if we're talking about corrections or police officers usually it's a very very low risk um so yeah i don't mean to slow anything down it just to me it's something that uh just to have some idea about at some point when you're talking yeah i asked i i just shot nancy stanton our nursing coordinator an email um with the language asking to connect on it tomorrow so you know at our next meeting we know like we said we were planning another meeting real quick to move this one maybe even nancy could attend so she's gonna answer any questions um okay so we have oh god well no my only point it's not that i need to know the details i just want to make sure that things run smoothly for the kids and the parents and stuff whatever we need to do that's that's my point and as long as you say it's good then i'm fine with it i don't need to ask another question about it just to know that the yeah works smoothly you know it's my curiosity now how frequently does that come up for us in a system with 4 200 kids and you know like you said i know there are plenty police officers corrections whatever um that you know would engage that i just i think back to i think back to the point where you were saying that uh what was it elementary school kids were required by law to have unsupervised playground time right rather than undirected instructors yeah you're coming from one perspective you read it in a certain way if you're thinking about the prisoners and not the police officers i can see where you might write something like that i don't know anyway that's all thank you i'm done thank you sir okay um seeing no further discussion um all in favor of uh moving the uh policy for a second reading all in favor it is unanimous of the uh of those present thank you um moving on um we have our policy 6159 individualized education program special education program um as it's a third reading i would suspect there's no changes uh but uh jeff you have it on the screen so quick review i guess yeah basically this is uh has been determined through the courts that the idea requires uh services for students with special needs up to high school graduation or their 22nd birthday it was always considered until 21 so um everybody was exiting students at the age of 21 but now uh the courts have determined it's their 22nd birthday it's through 21.
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so that's you know everything here is the same as we've always had with the exception of changing the date of uh exiting to 22 years of age to make 21 inclusive so everything here like you know you mentioned adam is the same as it's been i'm not just in the first and second readings but i i would stay even further back all the way you know since the date we adopted this policy okay um i would like to entertain a motion uh to move this for a third and final reading tim make a motion to [Music] move policy 61-59 to a third and final reading by the board i will second um is there any discussion on the motion seeing no further discussion all in favor is unanimous of those present thank you um uh dr solon is there any other uh business to come before the policy committee this evening no sir all right uh i have no other business uh i didn't tim i didn't see a hand i thought maybe i saw a hand no no no oh okay motion uh um i will second that motion all in favor aye we are adjourned wow that's a record time well we're gonna set a new record i think at the next one so yeah maybe
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[Music] whatever you want to do you have to do it is [Music] no of course [Music] there you go oh [Music] um [Music] is um [Music] real quick oh all right let's get started no uh have some fun [Music] is i didn't see it somebody called and told me just hanging that [Music] that's right [Music] tomorrow after us [Music] uh is [Music] how are you i'm good [Music] i think that's my new move um [Applause] thank you [Music] okay [Music] oh hey [Music] that's a great question [Music] good evening at this time we ask that everyone please stand for the pledge of allegiance and national income we will start with the national anthem [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all you may be seated good evening and welcome to our first annual clifton high school senior awards ceremony this evening is meant to highlight the accomplishments of our senior class in athletics and academics in addition to receiving their academic awards and their senior mvp awards our seniors will be receiving awards in seal of by literacy national honor society as well as various local scholarships in the past this event has been spread over three or four smaller events however as times are now we wanted to have an event that would highlight and celebrate the accomplishments of this amazing senior class while providing the safest environment possible for our students and their families i thank you for coming this evening and now with a few words president of the board of education mr jim smith [Applause] thank you president dr parents students fellow board members good evening what a great night this is for all the parents sitting in the stands that have worked so hard with your children over their years at clifton high [Music] school to be with them on this night to receive their awards in athletics in scholarship and most of all in academics [Music] parents you should be very proud of your students your children for the accomplishments that they made and students you should be very thankful to your parents for all that they did their dedication their devotion and their support during your four years in high school to be here tonight to receive your award that is a tremendous and great honor please don't put these awards in a box don't put them away and be forgotten about but hang them up be proud of them look at them from time to time and when you get older show your children the accomplishments you made in clifton high school be proud of these awards as we are so very proud of you at this time i would like to introduce my fellow commissioners from the board of education mr frank casper miss lucy danny [Applause] miss dana beltran [Applause] mr ferras awad mr jim daley [Music] and mr joe konova on behalf of the board of education [Music] reward award recipients we are very proud of you and we congratulate you on your accomplishments thank you [Applause] and now to say a few words our superintendent of schools mr danny roberto [Applause] good evening board of education commissioners parents guardians family members high school administration staff and most importantly the class of 2021 it is a privilege to stand before you tonight as your superintendent on such a significant evening seniors i want you to take a moment look around at your peers and notice that while you may come from very different backgrounds you share a very common thread not one of you to take an easy path throughout high school [Music] you made your education and your coursework a priority some of you excelled on the field or the court others devoted their time to volunteering many found their calling on the stage or in that awesome marching band and for more than a few it was all of the above and more and your journey hasn't been easy especially this past year [Music] but you set up a high bar for yourselves that require time effort and patience and most of all tremendous dedication to achieve those goals thomas edison the famous inventor from new jersey once said there is no substitute for hard work and he was right you knew inherently that there was no substitute for hard work so tonight that hard work has paid off and your perseverance is rewarded while you reflect on your success take a moment to acknowledge your parents teachers family and friends who encouraged you with each test that you aced point that you scored tune that you played or event where you volunteered there was someone on the sideline cheering for you and proud of you every step of the way the next leg of your journey will come with challenges but i don't doubt for a moment that you will be able to meet those challenges head on you have established and applied a pattern of good habits those good habits and those practices will prepare you for success in whatever lies ahead and i know some of you are sitting there saying who is this guy superintendent i heard of him i don't know who he is so i'm the superintendent my job is i'm the guy that closed the school when it snows and then some of you tweet at me or get messaged me on instagram that i made a terrible decision or that if there's a half an inch of ice on the ground we should close school for the week that's me that's my job that's what i do so for those of you who've never seen me i apologize i started in july 2019 i got to the high school a few times and then the world shut down so this is our first event together in addition to all of the academic success that we honor tonight we are also celebrating those students who applied for and are recipients of various local scholarships these scholarships are given out each year by various local organizations and community members typically scholarship night would be a separate night and each of the varying groups would be here to speak say a few words and give you your award obviously we were not able to do that this year so while the students will still receive scholarships you don't have to sit through the speeches except for mine because i have the microphone and i also have a superintendent scholarship that i am very very proud tonight to award to six very worthy students the danny robert jose superintendent scholarship fund was created in 2013 in memory of my parents who taught me the values of hard work and good character i lost my mother when i was 18 years old i lost my father when i was 19 years old but those values they instilled in me helped me be the man i am today in previous years the scholarship fund has given out between eight to sixteen thousand dollars to students but this past year due to the pandemic the typical fundraising events and the dinners that we would do were not held so working closely with my scholarship chairperson miss jen algieri yeah you could give a round of applause to mrs algieri she's amazing this year all we could do was write letters and ask for donations and that's really not the best way to go about raising funds so needless to say we didn't raise the same amount of money we have in previous years and i mentioned this at a board of education meeting and i was taken aback when one of our own board of education members reached out to me and committed a four thousand dollar donation to the superintendent scholarship fund and she's not going to be happy but i must publicly recognize the beltran families charitable fund and commissioner dana beltran thank you so much for that unexpected and extremely generous donation and thank you to all who have donated in their own ways you're making a difference in the lives of students so almost done this year we had six students and i hope that you're here i am proud to say that each one of these students has demonstrated tremendous character and will receive a check tonight made out to them for fifteen hundred dollars which is to be used for school expenses next year we'll triple that so please when i call your name come on up get your money barry mahmoud uh barry will be late barry's not here yet there's no way barry's here yet is he where is he oh come on all right barry run for that money that's amazing that's amazing that's amazing come on bear come on up he missed the whole speech but he knows he got money come on joshua miller [Applause] joshua here [Applause] congratulations josh chloe popovich [Applause] emily ramos [Applause] congratulations chloe mighty max reuben and finally mustafa yassini [Applause] thank you so much [Applause] congratulations to all the seniors for being here tonight for your academic recognition you have certainly earned this well-deserved honor and you have made clifton proud and it's always a great day to be a mustang thank you [Applause] and now for the moment you've all been waiting for before we get started i'd just like to explain a few things normally when we have graduation when we have large events like this we have the names going in rapid order today is going to be a little bit different we're going to call the name one of our people will be saying out the different items that the students will be receiving whether it's a scholarship an academic award an mvp a seal of bioliteracy and then the name will be set again at that point applause would be very nice to hear and then the next person will come up so we actually have a little wiggle room tonight so you can applaud celebrate the accomplishments of our great senior class at this time i'd like to introduce miss gassion miss carafine and miss schneff who will be leading us through the rest of our event tonight thank you once again i get to read all the names i love it that's for those of you who have been to the academic awards dinner as we call our students up we ask that they come up the side closest to where they're seated walk receive their diplomas their diplomas boy i'm jumping their tip receive their awards and then walk past and down the opposite side walk behind and go to your seats we're good south abdel kareem national arts honor society sal sabile abdel karim [Applause] abdel kadar abdel [Music] [Applause] four-year distinguished academic awards national honor society boys indoor track and field mvp the dan dolinski memorial scholarship mohamed abadrava distinguished academic awards carolina abdellah lopez [Applause] nicholas abraham four-year distinguished academic awards national honors society clifton high school orchestra scholarship nicholas abraham distinguished academic awards global and new jersey seal of my literacy in spanish [Music] christian [Applause] distinguished academic awards [Applause] distinguished academic [Applause] distinguished academic awards asks for [Applause] brian aguilar four-year distinguished academic awards national honors society national science honors society [Applause] distinguished academic awards global in new jersey seal of by literacy in spanish consuelo aguilar [Applause] distinguished academic awards [Applause] distinguished academic awards janine ahmad [Applause] boys indoor track and field mvp omar al-shahia naomi alcantara distinguished academic awards naomi alcantara [Applause] global in new jersey still by literacy in french adam ali [Applause] distinguished academic awards [Applause] four year distinguished academic awards joseph altillo [Applause] distinguished academic awards global in new jersey seal of illiteracy and spanish nicole andre villavancio [Applause] alyssa anello four year distinguished academic awards women's club of allwood scholarship alyssa annella daniel daniel aquino distinguished academic awards daniel aquino [Applause] carrie archer distinguished academic awards national art honor society kerry archer kayla arroyo four year distinguished academic awards kayla arroyo [Applause] distinguished academic awards victor ascencio [Applause] distinguished academic awards asked for [Applause] distinguished academic awards kearney federal savings bank scholarship president's award for educational alexis karam asap haley anthony kaylee antonis distinguished academic awards kaylee attenis [Applause] angela davila angela avila global and new jersey sela by literacy and spanish angela avila [Applause] distinguished academic awards [Applause] global and seal of new jersey by literacy in turkish cameron [Applause] four year distinguished academic awards steven ayub [Applause] distinguished academic awards rana bader [Applause] [Music] four-year distinguished academic awards national honor society clifton high school academic achievement award clifton high school perfect attendance award counselors academic achievement awards boys swimming mvp adrian barron [Applause] jacob bartnick distinguished academic awards jacob bartnick [Applause] isabella isabella barzola distinguished academic awards isabella barzolo [Applause] distinguished academic awards faiza layla layla bendig global in new jersey sealed by literacy in spanish national honor society lester robert dunham scholarship lightbridge foundation scholarship leila bendek [Applause] benitez [Applause] gabriella bermudez distinguished academic awards national honor society the lynn sargio memorial scholarship gabriella bermudez [Applause] justin betka distinguished academic awards justin betka [Applause] football mvp caleb bonaparte distinguished academic awards daniela bonilla [Applause] layla boy distinguished academic awards leila [Applause] jessica bracken distinguished academic awards international thespians honor society jessica bracken [Applause] daniel distinguished academic awards daniel frija [Applause] shaheen bunting distinguished academic awards jahim bunting [Applause] juarez jade mousto suarez global in new jersey seal of by literacy in spanish jade [Applause] rebecca juarez distinguished academic awards global in new jersey seal of by literacy and spanish rebecca cabrera [Applause] rose cadena distinguished academic awards rose cadenna [Applause] distinguished academic awards the danny listmeyer memorial scholarship karina calixto sarah calvo distinguished academic awards global in new jersey sealed by literacy in spanish sarah calvo [Applause] distinguished academic awards yami camargo [Applause] campos global in new jersey sealed by literacy in spanish campos [Applause] distinguished academic awards esky cameroon [Applause] gianna capone distinguished academic awards national honor society gianna capone [Applause] distinguished academic awards narixa cappillo [Applause] distinguished academic awards national dance honor society global in new jersey still by literacy in spanish ashley carbajal [Applause] jacqueline carmona distinguished academic awards jacqueline carmona [Applause] distinguished academic awards leila karaskian [Applause] distinguished academic awards jocelyn carrera [Applause] global in new jersey by literacy in spanish emily carrillo garcia [Applause] brianna castiano's distinguished academic awards brianna castillanos [Applause] cesar castillo distinguished academic awards cesar castillo [Applause] distinguished academic awards global in new jersey seal of by literacy in spanish castro tavares [Applause] bruce rest select distinguished academic awards global in new jersey seal of by literacy in turkish versacilic [Applause] crystals crystal cevallos four year distinguished academic awards crystal cevallos [Applause] kevin chavez boys tennis mvp kevin chavis [Applause] four-year distinguished academic awards national honor society clifton high school academic achievement award global in new jersey seal of literacy in mandarin lakeland bank scholarship president's award for excellence in education huffon chen distinguished academic awards vincent ciena sulo [Applause] distinguished academic awards vincent civitella [Applause] distinguished academic awards international thespians honor society theatre league of clifton scholarship olivia cornell [Applause] carla cortez distinguished academic awards carla cortez [Applause] [Music] borientos girls volleyball mvp arlene cosme barriontos [Applause] global in new jersey sela by literacy in spanish [Applause] valerie creek distinguished academic awards global in new jersey sealed by literacy in spanish valerie creek [Applause] nicholas cruz distinguished academic awards nicholas cruz [Applause] shane distinguished academic awards shane evelyn four-year distinguished academic awards national honor society school 16 alumni award evelyn [Applause] michael de silva distinguished academic awards national honor society international thespians honor society michael de silva [Applause] trevon daley distinguished academic awards trevin daley aziz adaya distinguished academic awards aziza daya [Applause] four-year distinguished academic awards boys bowling mvp tyler de benedetto distinguished academic awards jd de dios [Applause] jerry four-year distinguished academic awards national honor society montclair society of engineers scholarship for future engineers jared to guzman brianna de la cruz four year distinguished academic awards brianna de la cruz [Applause] de la cruz global in new jersey seal of by literacy in spanish julissa de la cruz [Applause] academic awards justin de leon [Applause] four-year distinguished academic awards national honor society clifton high school academic excellence award president's award for educational excellence dines in english scholarship anna marie delgarcio christine delgarchio four-year distinguished academic awards national honor society international thespian honor society clifton high school academic achievement award counselor's academic achievement award christine delgarchio [Applause] mia duback sorry he's stealing my mic i think we're good mia dubac four-year distinguished academic awards national honor society national hispanic recognition award clifton high school academic excellence award clifton high school perfect attendance award president's award for educational excellence community foundation of new jersey's bruno glazel memorial scholarship girls cross country mvp mia duback ariana dubos distinguished academic awards ariana dubos [Applause] kayla dunleavy congratulations kayla dunleavy national honor society kayla dunleavy [Applause] eric dimora distinguished academic awards boys soccer mvp eric di mora [Applause] senate zeigle distinguished academic awards global seal of violence literacy in serbian sonnet zeigle [Applause] distinguished academic awards national honor society aladine ewisha [Applause] president's award for educational excellence dominic alhatti [Applause] distinguished academic awards national honor society school 11 alumni award samantha and cesa [Applause] marcos enriquez distinguished academic awards marcos enriquez lucy knight alyssa esplad distinguished academic awards alyssa espla [Applause] sarah estupian geminis four-year distinguished academic awards national honor society global in new jersey cielo by literacy in spanish clifton high school's counselor scholarship sarah estupian yemenis moaz fahim global in new jersey sealed by literacy in arabic francis hayashi distinguished academic awards francis hayashi felias catherine farrell distinguished four-year distinguished academic awards national honors society catherine farrell iman fatima distinguished academic awards national honor society global new jersey seal of by literacy in urdu iman fatima kayla ferreira four four-year distinguished academic awards kayla ferreira kimberly ferreira distinguished academic awards kimberly ferreira [Applause] francisco figueroa four-year distinguished academic awards national honor society key club scholarship francisco figueroa leila figueroa four-year distinguished academic awards layla figueroa kiara fistback kiara fizzback girls soccer mvp kiara fishbach does mariah francheshi does mariah franceschi distinguished academic awards desmoriah francheshi selena fruit four years distinguished academic awards clifton high school perfect attendance award selena pruitt caitlyn galindo caitlin galindo four-year distinguished academic awards caitlin galindo nora gallagher distinguished academic awards nora gallagher julianne gammo girls bowling mvp julianne camo marielsi garcia mariel c garcia distinguished academic awards mary elsie garcia nicole garcia national honor society global in new jersey seal of my literacy in spanish nicole garcia luis geraldo para luis geraldo para distinguished academic awards global new jersey seal by literacy in spanish luis geraldo para anna gomez distinguished academic awards global in new jersey sela by literacy in spanish anna gomez gabriel gannell distinguished academic awards gabriel gannell andrea gonzalez distinguished academic awards national honors society global in new jersey sela by literacy in spanish andrea gonzalez doricel gonzalez four year distinguished academic awards dorset gonzalez justin gonzalez four-year distinguished academic awards justin gonzalez manuel gonzalez manuel gonzalez four-year distinguished academic awards manuel gonzalez alan gonzalez bravo four-year distinguished academic awards global in new jersey sealed by literacy in spanish alan gonzalez bravo sophia lozano sofia grace lozano global in new jersey seal of by literacy in spanish sophia agress lozano angel iguanga angel guangwa four-year distinguished academic awards national honor society clifton high school orchestra scholarship angel gwanga cindy guerrero ocanto cindy guerrero canto distinguished academic awards cindy guerrero ocanto daniel guerrero ocanto daniel guerrero canto global and new jersey seal of by literacy in spanish daniel guerrero ocanto maria guerrero payez maria garo paez distinguished academic awards global in new jersey sila by literacy in spanish maria guerrero piez stephanie guerrero ramirez distinguished academic awards global in new jersey sealed by literacy in spanish stephanie guerrero ramirez sunny guzman sonny guzman global in new jersey level by literacy in spanish sonny guzman leah pallak leah haleck four-year distinguished academic awards national honor society clifton high school academic achievement award investors bank scholarship leah halleck mohammed hamid muhammad hamid distinguished academic awards mohamed hamid adeles hernandez distinguished academic awards national honor society adeles hernandez ashley hernandez salutatorian four-year distinguished academic awards national honor society national science honors city president's award for educational excellence global in new jersey seal of by literacy and spanish global in new jersey steel by literacy in italian christopher columbus middle school award italian studies student award key club scholarship school 17 alumni award clifton elks bpoe number award ashley hernandez d'angelo hernandez d'angelo hernandez four-year distinguished academic awards deangelo hernandez janely hernandez generally hernandez distinguished academic awards national dance honor society global in new jersey seal of by literacy in spanish generally hernandez sebastian hernandez sebastian hernandez four-year distinguished academic awards sebastian hernandez carlia hilario perez carlia hilario perez distinguished academic awards global in new jersey sealed by literacy in spanish carlia hilario perez crystal hilario perez distinguished academic awards global in new jersey sealed by literacy in spanish crystal hilario perez [Applause] four-year distinguished academic awards national honors society global in new jersey seal of by literacy in spanish nyorka honoris [Applause] sarah hubra kakova four-year distinguished academic awards national honor society sarah hubrakakova [Applause] [Music] distinguished academic awards national honor society global new jersey seal of by literacy in ukrainian irena umichiaca omar ibrahim global in new jersey sealed by literacy in arabic omar ibrahim [Applause] for your distinguished academic awards faris igneel [Applause] distinguished academic awards jason jacquez jacelyn jacquez jason jaquis distinguished academic awards jacelyn jacquez alejandra jaramillo alejandra gel romillo four-year distinguished academic awards national honor society global in new jersey sealed by literacy in spanish alexandra jared miller sanja jarewala sanja jarawala four-year distinguished academic awards national honor society president's award for educational excellence sanja jarewala laura jenks laura jenks distinguished academic awards laura jenks shayla juarez distinguished academic awards shayla juarez mustafa kayali the mustafa kayali distinguished academic awards mustafa k-ali ian carney four-year distinguished academic awards national honor society international thespian's honor society president's award for educational excellence global in new jersey sealed by literacy in french clifton high school academic excellence award school 14 alumni award ian carney malach cater bella cater distinguished academic awards malach cater matthew kilroy matthew kilroy four-year distinguished academic awards matthew kilroy avery kim distinguished academic awards avery kim victoria clappa four-year distinguished academic awards national honor society school three alumni award victoria clapper holly conrad four-year distinguished academic awards national honor society holly conrad daniel kozell distinguished academic awards daniel kozell erica krakiel erika kakiel distinguished academic awards global new jersey seal of by literacy in italian erica krakiel [Applause] distinguished academic awards abdel karim krishna [Applause] distinguished academic awards malacca gronach lane ronald glade four-year distinguished academic awards national honor society clifton high school perfect attendance award roanoke lane isis land destroyed isis land destroyed distinguished academic awards isis land destroyed ryan loretano boys basketball mvp ryan lorentana robert lemanski four-year distinguished academic awards national honor society global in new jersey seal and by literacy in polish clifton elks bpoe 1569 award robert lemanski jimmy linares jimmy linares distinguished academic awards jimmy linares kayla linares kayla linares distinguished academic awards global in new jersey sealed by literacy in spanish kayla linares [Applause] yasmin luriano yasmin loriano four-year distinguished academic awards yasmin liriano luis lorena global in new jersey seal of by literacy in spanish luis lorena carlo lombardosi carla lomardosi four-year distinguished academic awards national honors society theater leagues of clifton joanne marseille memorial scholarship carlo lombardosi chris lopez distinguished academic awards chris lopez keely lopez national honor society keely lopez chelsea lucero chelsea lucero distinguished academic awards chelsea lucero amir lukovic amir lukovic boys soccer mvp amir lukavic and before we turn to this side we have two that i missed and i apologize antonio diaz distinguished academic awards antonio diaz marissa de barry marissa de barry academic awards marissa de barrett okay this side's turn william mccoy distinguished academic awards william mccoy [Applause] this side you guys can come up these stairs and go across all right cadence magboss four-year distinguished academic awards kleila cadence magabos [Applause] four-year distinguished academic awards national honor society global in new jersey sealed by literacy in arabic clifton high school student council award the dr danny a robertosi superintendent scholarship palestinian-american community center scholarship barry mahmoud gabriel maximum gabriel maxima four-year distinguished academic awards national honor society boys volleyball mvp gabriel maximum alfredo marcelo diaz alfredo marcello diaz four-year distinguished academic awards school 17 alumni award alfredo marcelo diaz elias morgana elias marjana distinguished academic awards elias morgana brianna martinez distinguished academic awards global in new jersey sealed by literacy in spanish briana martinez nick martinez nick martinez distinguished academic awards nick martinez yahara martinez yahara martinez global in new jersey sealed by literacy in spanish yahara martinez alejandro marillanda alejandro muralanda global new jersey seal of by literacy in spanish alejandro miralanda [Applause] distinguished academic awards sai mariama melanie mejia distinguished academic awards national honor society melanie mejia elena melt four-year distinguished academic awards national honor society global in new jersey sela by literacy in italian global in new jersey live by literacy and spanish clifton high school counselor scholarship elena arlene menendez four-year distinguished academic awards arlene menendez anthony menensis anthony menensis distinguished academic awards global in new jersey sealed by literacy in spanish anthony menensis john paul menensis john paul menendez distinguished academic awards jean-paul menensis joshua miller four-year distinguished academic awards national honor society dr danny a robertosi superintendent scholarship hso community leadership scholarship joshua miller michael miller distinguished academic awards c j unified memorial scholarship michael miller dane masara dane masera baseball mvp dane masara lana muhammad lana muhammad global in new jersey sealed by literacy in arabic lana muhammad rawan mode rwand mode distinguished academic awards rowan mode jada molina national dance honor society jada molina dylan montalvo dylan montalvo distinguished academic awards dylan montalva demi morales distinguished academic awards demi morales rudy marante roldan rudy morante rolled on distinguished academic awards rudy marante rolled on andy moretta distinguished academic awards andy moretta [Applause] global in new jersey still by literacy in spanish floor mozambique munez marion muffler mario muffler four-year distinguished academic awards national honor society national science honor society global in new jersey stila by literacy in italian president's award for academic excellence clifton high school academic excellence award key club scholarship school 4 alumni award marion muffler [Applause] distinguished academic awards national honor society maya musa [Applause] four-year distinguished academic awards school five bella pasternack memorial scholarship mustafa i am mustafa distinguished academic awards patricia mitchellwick patricia mislewick distinguished academic awards patricia mishluik christian neblama christian obama global in new jersey still by literacy in french christian [Applause] distinguished academic awards shaheen nator michelle navarro distinguished academic awards michelle navarro christina navarro rojas christina navarro rojas distinguished academic awards christina navarro rojas celine degree global new jersey seal of by literacy in spanish celine degree han ninja distinguished 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[Music] thank you good evening good evening and welcome to the colin lynch activity center i'm darmoth high school principal ross tebow and it's my honor and privilege to be here this evening to celebrate many of the outstanding members of the dartmouth high school class of and to recognize them as individuals who are being honored with a scholarship award or in some cases both at this time i'd ask everyone please stand and join me in the pledge of allegiance i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands indivisible with liberty and justice for all please be seated the class of 2021 has been an absolutely amazing class a pleasure to work with and has defined themselves by their remarkable resilience and perseverance through what has been one of the most challenging times in our nation's history over the past 100 years the pandemic has taken a great deal from us but tonight we once again demonstrate can do over can't do by coming together as one community to celebrate congratulate and wish our outstanding young people well tonight's ceremony will follow a similar format as the scholarship and awards evenings have in the past with some modifications including limiting the number of different presenters that will speak tonight to help keep the evening moving in addition i'd like to remind everyone that due to the public health guidelines we're operating under masks must be worn while at dartmouth high school at all times and we ask that you remain in your assigned seats for the duration of our ceremony i'd like to thank the members of the dartmouth high school administrative team as well as our superintendent dr gifford our lead teachers all who have contributed to tonight's ceremony as well as to the dartmouth high school faculty without our our outstanding teachers nights like tonight simply would not be possible i'd also be remiss if i did not recognize mrs kimberly peach our school counseling department secretary who chairs our scholarship committee as well as my secretary mrs donna floor who compiles all of the awards and also mrs delores consoled our athletic department secretary without these three amazing women tonight's ceremony would not be possible finally i would like to thank the many different community members and community partners who contribute so generously to the scholarships in support of our young people post-secondary education whether it be at a two or a four year a trade or a technical school it's not cheap and so every dollar helps ease the burden of the cost of continuing education and we're thankful to each and every one of our community partners who have generously donated to our scholarships this evening at this time i'd like to introduce dartmouth high school associate principal rachel chavier who will announce the first set of scholarship recipients this evening students if you hear your name called please stand up come to the table and receive your scholarship letter good evening the albertina g madura scholarship is awarded annually to a graduating senior planning to continue their education in the fall based upon merit this year's recipient of the albertina g maduras memorial scholarship is inez farias each year the dartmouth high school medical careers club partners with the american red cross to host blood drives at dhs which ensures that two scholarships are available to deserving students this year's recipients of the american red cross medical career scholarship are leah esplana and caitlin valverde the betsy w tabor scholarship is awarded annually to a deserving graduate who plans to major in either music art nursing business or agriculture this year's betsy w tabor scholarship is awarded to the following students lavender bork kylie late kristen medeiros and morgan piva the bryant prescott scholarship is awarded to a deserving male graduate who plans to attend an accredited four-year college or university this year's recipients of the brian prescott scholarship are jonathan carnes kevin kaiser and miguel pereira the buzzards bay rowing club scholarship is awarded to a deserving graduate majoring in health fitness environmental or marine science this year's buzzards bay rowing club scholarship is awarded to maya leonardo the carlos and mary ventura memorial scholarship is awarded to a deserving senior planning to pursue a degree in education this year's recipient is lauren nielsen [Applause] each year the club meredith ss sacrament award scholarships to deserving seniors who will be continuing their education at an accredited two or four year school this year at the club madanes sacrament scholarship is awarded to the following deserving seniors megan camara sarah hartman reese laconte maya leonardo jackson neves jason henry silva and ashley urell okay the dartmouth educators association scholarship is awarded annually to the child of a dartmouth public school employee who is an active member of the dartmouth educators association this year the dea is happy to award scholarships to the following dartmouth high school seniors matthew bernier amelia costa mia clark reese laconte and mitchell morin the dartmouth girls athletic league is awarded annually to deserving students who have participated in field hockey basketball and softball in the dartmouth girls athletic league this year's recipients of the dartmouth girls athletic league scholarship are audrey morin logan paiva catherine rosen ava rimzowitz catherine seguin and hannah wheeldon the dartmouth grange number 162 john h brown jr scholarship is awarded to deserving seniors who are interested in pursuing a career that may benefit sustaining our agricultural heritage our environment or helping to preserve natural resources this year's recipients of the dartmouth grange number 162 john h brown jr scholarship are jenna cadu ellie cook olivia dennis julia gonzalez sarah hartman maya leonato kimberly nuen and maya pinto the dartmouth high school class of 1940 awards a scholarship each year to a deserving senior who will be continuing their education at a state college or university this year the dartmouth high school class of 1940 scholarship is awarded to joya elves the dartmouth middle school parent group scholarship is awarded annually to a deserving senior who attended dartmouth middle school this year's dartmouth middle school parent group scholarship is awarded to mitchell morin each year the dartmouth high school pto awards scholarships to students who have demonstrated excellence in service to their school and or community this year the dartmouth high school pto scholarships are awarded to maya leonardo and catherine rosen this year the dhs pto because of the generosity of our community are happy to be able to award the following additional scholarships a scholarship made possible through a generous donation made in the memory of recent dartmouth high school graduate max stone is awarded to lucas [Applause] batista a scholarship made possible through a generous donation in memory of the former long-time selectmen and state representative roger l tugus is awarded to kristen medeiros a scholarship made possible through a generous donation in the memory of robert and sylvia lamothe is awarded to kelly medeiros a scholarship made possible by the generosity of the alexander family is awarded to maya pinto a scholarship made possible by a generous donation in the memory of ryan perry is awarded to haley korea a scholarship made possible by a generous donation made in honor of francis james lassie is awarded to teresa inge the dartmouth high school music association scholarships are awarded annually to a member of the dsma who participated in the music program at dartmouth high school and participated in various dsma volunteer opportunities this year's recipients are ben aubin christopher coelho emma derek kaden lisa mitchell morin maya payton and zachary pereira the dartmouth high school music association robert m silva win would win scholarship is awarded annually by the family of robert silva to a would win player who has shown a passion for music and a strong student with leadership skills this year's award is presented to emma derek the dartmouth high school music association bancroft memorial scholarship is awarded annually by the bancroft family in memory of paul bancroft an avid supporter of the music program to a senior who participates in various music ensembles and dsma fundraisers who demonstrates leadership goes above and beyond and demonstrates excellent attendance and attitude this year dartmouth high school music association bancroft memorial scholarship recipient is noah angst the dartmouth youth soccer association is awarded annually to graduating seniors who participated in the dartmouth youth soccer association program this year the dysa scholarship is awarded to savannah freitas john kearney kristen medeiros catherine seguin and hannah wielden the dartmouth youth soccer association referee scholarship is awarded to a graduating senior who both played and refereed for the dartmouth youth soccer association this year's recipient of the dysa referee scholarship is kelly medeiros the dartmouth youth soccer association scorpions viper scholarship is presented to graduating seniors who played soccer for the gps vipers football club or its predecessor viper's football club for at least two years or is a sibling of a current or former player this year the dysa scorpions viper scholarship are awarded to annika furtado and maya leonardo the dartmouth youth soccer association coach charlie correa team player scholarship is awarded to a deserving female student who was a dysa participant or volunteer who will be continuing their education this year's recipient of the dysa coach charlie career team player scholarship is awarded to logan piva [Applause] the dr e dean freitas memorial scholarship is awarded annually to a deserving graduate who is an outstanding student athlete this year's dr e dean freitas memorial scholarship is presented to audrey morin [Applause] the david r santos memorial scholarship is awarded to a deserving senior who'll be pursuing a career in the health care industry this year's recipient of the david r santos memorial scholarship is sarah hartman [Applause] at this time i would like to introduce assistant principal michael martin who will continue with the presentation of our scholarships [Applause] good evening the demelo school pto scholarship is awarded to a graduating senior who attended demelo elementary school who plans to continue their education this year's recipients are emmett derrick michael oswald and hannah weilden [Music] the derek visal memorial scholarship is awarded annually to a deserving senior who will continue their education this year's derrick fassall memorial scholarship is presented to christian gavush sivera and lauren torres the dolores rose memorial scholarship is awarded to deserving seniors who will be pursuing a degree in nursing or the medical related field this year's recipients of the dolores rose memorial scholarship are grace george maya leandro and maya pinto the francis and mary howland scholarship is awarded annually to a deserving dartmouth high school student athletes who participate in athletics all four years at dartmouth high school this year's recipients of the francis and mary howland scholarship are jenna cadu and kelly medeiros mr george e grimshaw and miss irene s gurdwitz were former residents of dartmouth massachusetts and peterborough new hampshire they grew up in new bedford and attended new bedford high school they spent much of their working careers together establishing and later selling a very successful fast fastener manufacturing company george and irene devoted their retirement years to charitable activities revolving around education historical preservation medical research and the arts neither george nor irene had much to start with their success came from their hard work and their own efforts as part of their legacy george and irene established a terrible foundation that today carries on their support of various charitable activities there's hope that the recipients of the numerous scholarships awarded will utilize these scholarships to the fullest and someday have the opportunity to create a similar legacy of their own the grimshaw gurdwick's charitable foundation scholarship is ordinarily to deserving seniors who plan to continue their education in the fall this year's recipients of the grimshaw goodwitz charitable foundation scholarship are jenna cadu christopher coelho inez farias rhys leconte kylie lemieux maya leandro kelly medeiros and emmy [Applause] parker the james arsenault memorial scholarship is awarded to a deserving male student athlete who's a member of the track team who will be attending college in the fall this year's james arsenault memorial scholarship recipient is kevin kaiser the james m quinn elementary school parent group scholarship is awarded to a deserving senior who attended quinn elementary school and will be continuing their education in the fall this year's james m quinn elementary school parent group scholarship recipient is christian cervera the jean wilbur wilson memorial scholarship is is presented annually to a deserving female student who will be pursuing a four-year nursing degree this year's recipient of the gene wilbur wilson memorial scholarship is maya pinto [Applause] the kenneth and mildred gammon scholarship is awarded to a deserving senior student who will be continuing their education at a four-year college or university this year's recipient of the kenneth and mildred gammon scholarship is paige jacobson the christopher r versalone athletic fund scholarship is awarded to a deserving students who have demonstrated an interest in athletics and who have completed two or more seasons for two or more years this year the christopher r versalone athletic fund scholarship is awarded to kelly medeiros and audrey morin the lea oliver memorial scholarship is awarded to a female member of the graduating class who is in the top 25 percent of her class majoring in computer science or engineering and is an active member of the athletic program this year's recipient is catherine seguin [Applause] the marty mcdonald memorial scholarship is awarded to a deserving male student athlete who played both varsity and junior varsity baseball at dartmouth high school in memory of a long-time dartmouth high school english teacher and coach this year the monty mcdonald memorial scholarship is awarded to matthew bernier [Applause] the maradia family foundation scholarship is awarded annually to a senior who has demonstrated extraordinary growth over the course of their four years at dartmouth high school this year's marietta family foundation scholarship is awarded to lavender bulk [Applause] the mass higher greater new bedford workforce board scholarship is made possible through dartmouth high school's partnership with the mass higher greater new bedford workforce board which supports our college and career readiness initiatives as well as our internship program this year's mass higher greater new bedford workforce board scholarship are awarded to lavender bork christopher coelho and inez farias the pants commands engine company diamond fire district 3 scholarship is awarded annually to a deserving graduate based upon merit as well as character this year the past commencement engine company diamond fire district 3 scholarship is awarded to leah wilkins the peter j martin scholarship is awarded to deserving seniors who plan to pursue a career in the health care field this year's peter j martin scholarship recipients are miles de barros and maya leonardo [Applause] the potter school pto scholarship is awarded to a deserving member of the senior class who attended potter elementary school and who will be continuing their education in the fall this year's part of school pto scholarship recipient is ellie cook [Applause] the shg activities committee inc scholarship is awarded to a deserving senior who will be attending a two or four year college majoring in health sciences or related medical field this year's recipient is lea espinata the stanley m goldstein memorial scholarship is presented to a deserving senior who has demonstrated an exceptional work ethic and who will be continuing their education in the fall this year's recipient of the stanley m goldstein memorial scholarship is christopher coelho the van sloan foundation is a non-profit family foundation based in dartmouth massachusetts and was started in 1991 by neil and sue van sloan mr van sloan is the owner and ceo of silva nursery located in the town of westport based on neil and sue's hard work and endeavors the van sloan foundation's mission is to support this support the study development and promotion of horticulture veterinary and medical sciences land conservation educated and related fields the foundation supports various scholarships in both massachusetts and back in minnesota when neil van salon was born the van salon foundation also provides support to the cummings tufts school of veterinary medicine in north grafton mass by supporting the shelter medicine program the trustees are honored to award the 2021 sylvan scholarship to miss kylie lemieux and excited about our plans to be a vet tech at the university of rhode island we wish her the best [Applause] the victor ladetto memorial scholarship is awarded to a deserving member of the senior class who will be continuing their education in business or education this year's recipient of the victor ledetto memorial scholarship is awarded to michael oswald the westport art group scholarship is awarded to a deserving senior who intends to major in a visual or applied arts program this year's recipient of the westport art group scholarship is megan kamara i would now like to introduce principal tebow to award the final scholarships of the evening thank you the principal scholarship is awarded annually to two deserving members of the senior class based upon contributions made to dartmouth high school in the form of student leadership as well as academic achievement this year's principal scholarship recipients are sarah hartman and cayden lisa [Applause] the most improved student scholarship is awarded annually to a member of the graduating class who has demonstrated perseverance and growth over the course of their high school career this year's recipient is alexis louise each year dartmouth high school recognizes the outstanding academic achievement of our top three graduates and normally at this time we would do that unfortunately this year with the way the last day of school fell for seniors with the holiday our final grades aren't actually due in our system until uh tomorrow so that's when we'll run it and that's when we'll know the final three uh top three students so we will be notifying them uh as soon as we've run our final grades and they will receive their scholarship letter as we normally would in addition i wanted to draw everyone's attention to a couple of notes about tonight's program a number of additional members of the class of 2021 have been previously awarded scholarships from outside various outside agencies or organizations and they've already presented those scholarships to our students when we're notified of that we include it in our program to recognize those students as well so i would direct you to the program to take a look at the previously awarded scholarships and awards and also i'd like to draw particular attention to the many members of this class who earned a john and abigail adams scholarship based on their performance on mcas and they're standing in their class and we offer our congratulations to to our john and abigail adams scholars as well also i'd like to thank the dartmouth high school alumni association each year they award several scholarships through the alumni association and that occurred this past sunday so again we appreciate the alumni association's continued generosity at this point we're going to transition from awarding scholarships to presenting various awards typically these awards are presented by each department's lead teacher however this is one of the modifications we've made for for the uh public health guidelines to limit the number of presenters and keep the evening moving here so i will be presenting the first awards this evening and the first academic awards presented this evening will be from the mathematics business and computer science department each year a student who has taken and excelled in multiple business courses is recognized this year the excellence in business award is presented to emilia costa [Applause] each year dartmouth high school recognizes students who have demonstrated extraordinary skill and achievement in computer science coursework throughout the course of their time at dartmouth high school this year the excellence in computer science award is presented to teresa eng and nathaniel westfall the mathematics department recognizes students who have demonstrated outstanding achievement in the most rigorous mathematics courses offered at dartmouth high school not only in their senior year but consistently over the course of their time as a student at dartmouth high school this year the excellence in mathematics award is presented to grace george and sarah hartman our mathematics lead teacher mr lauer notes that mathematics can be a challenging subject and we know that students would often rather listen to their friends than their their teachers which is a good thing when a student is mastering critical concepts at a level where they feel comfortable successfully explaining it to a friend as a result each year the mathematics department recognizes a student who has demonstrated a willingness to help their friends master important mathematical concepts this year the mathematics leadership award is presented to sarah hartman one of the most critical human traits is perseverance especially in mathematics which can often lead a student to struggle and even grow frustrated at times yet we know success follows when we can learn from our mistakes and continue moving forward this year the mathematics department recognizes two students who stuck with it and as a result achieved success in their mathematics coursework this year the perseverance in mathematics award is presented to edward tibbles and john kearney okay each year the english department selects a student who has demonstrated outstanding achievement in our english department courses this award is traditionally presented to a student who excels in both the english department's flagship courses ap language and ap literature which means that this student must be an excellent writer of analysis and argument as well as a fluent critic of essays and literature this year the excellence in english award is presented to jaffa hariodano each year the english department also selects a student to receive the marty mcdonald english award marty mcdonald was a beloved dhs english teacher and colleague who passed away some years ago and his legacy the english depart in his legacy rather the english department offers this award each year marty believed in the well-rounded student who like him loved to read and write but also was passionate about other activities he loved to coach baseball but above all else he loved working with the dartmouth high school theater company helping to direct many plays and musicals here at dartmouth high school this award goes to a student who honors the same values this is for a student who has taken many of our electives in the english department and possibly major in english next year this year's recipient of the marty mcdonald english award is lauren nielsen [Applause] the wellness department recognizes a student who has demonstrated outstanding achievement in wellness the recipient of this award exhibits perfect or near perfect attendance over 95 percent of remote hybrid in-person learning this year demonstrates a strong work ethic outstanding performance in class work which includes presentations projects completed class assignments on time and physical fitness participation this individual is highly organized exhibits impeccable character and has internalized the importance of wellness education in their lives this year the excellence in wellness award is presented to lauren nielsen and matthew bernier the science technology and engineering department offers four awards for excellence in each of the disciplines within their department this year demonstrating excellence in every aspect of her science education the science technology and engineering department awards the excellence in physical sciences to sarah hartman the excellence in life in the life sciences is presented to a student who demonstrates a genuine curiosity for the life sciences which this student did by taking every single science course that could possibly fit into his schedule this year's excellence in life sciences award is presented to aiden morgaardo the excellence in engineering and drafting award is presented to a student who has demonstrated outstanding achievement in our engineering coursework this year the excellence in engineering and drafting award is presented to jaffa hariyudano the excellence in video production award is presented annually to a student who has successfully completed several courses in the dartmouth high school tv media production program and who has demonstrated outstanding skill in media production this year's excellence in video production award is presented to cayden lisa each year the social studies department recognizes a senior who has excelled in multiple courses offered by the social studies department including the most rigorous courses offered in the social studies department this year the excellence in social studies award is presented to lauren nielsen [Applause] this year the social studies department has added an additional award in order to recognize and celebrate the important characteristic of perseverance by honoring a student who has faced and successfully overcome adversity in order to be successful in courses offered in the social studies department this year the most improved student award in social studies is presented to lavender bark the unified arts department offers two annual awards the first is the excellence in visual arts award which is presented annually to a student who has excelled over the course of their four years at dartmouth high school in our visual arts program this student's passion for art and strong work work ethic enabled her to serve as an inspirational studio role model for her peers this year's excellence in visual arts award is given to megan kamarau our outstanding excellence in early childhood award is given annually to a student who has completed the early childhood pathway by completing both the introductory course as well as the early childhood practicum this student possesses an enthusiasm and passion for teaching is an excellent role model is supportive of others while holding high expectations and inspires others to learn this year the excellence in early childhood award is presented to mackenzie lima each year the world language department recognizes students who have demonstrated the highest level of proficiency in the target language have completed the highest level of courses offered in that language at dartmouth high school and who have demonstrated excellence and dedication to the study of language and culture this year the excellence in mandarin chinese award is presented to audrey french the excellence in portuguese award is presented this year to joshua bermudez [Applause] this year the excellence in spanish award is presented to miguel pereira the world language department also recognizes students who have earned the seal of bi-literacy with distinction and the seal of by literacy the seal of bi-literacy is an award that recognizes students who have achieved proficiency clearly i did not get this award i'm sorry let me try again the seal of bi-literacy is an award that recognizes students who have achieved proficiency in english as well as in one or more additional languages it is a statement of accomplishment that helps to signal evidence of a student's readiness for career in college and to engage as a global citizen the seal of bi-literacy with distinction in portuguese is presented to the following students bianca almeida joshua bermudez amelia costa inez farias and grace george here i guess the seal of bi-literacy with distinction in spanish is presented to bianca almeida and miguel pereira the seal of biliteracy in portuguese is presented to maya pinto and gonzalo felix the seal of by literacy in spanish is presented to daniel barachina long and sarah hartman the seal of biliteracy in arabic is presented to abed neuron we are proud now to present our ap capstone scholars award students who receive a three or higher in ap seminar and research and on four additional ap exams of their choosing are potentially eligible for the ap capstone diploma students who receive a 3 or higher in both ap seminar and ap research will be eligible to receive the ap seminar and research certificate the following students have taken ap seminar and ap research in addition to four or more ap courses throughout their time here at dartmouth high school these students are potentially eligible for the ap capstone diploma or ap seminar and research certificate our capstone scholars award is presented to aiden allen jonathan karns kyle chabineau mia clark leah espana inez farias audrey french sarah hartman alexander jacqua abigail kelly rhys leconte mackenzie lima rachel lynn audrey morin teresa eng lauren nielsen miguel pereira owen quigley mello catherine reno scott silva jason henry silva aaliyah mary stevens ashley urell caitlin valverde and kimmy vue oh i'm sorry my god at this time i will turn over the rest of the awards to associate principal rachel chavier every year dartmouth high school recognizes students who have contributed to student life the outstanding contributions to student life awards are particularly noteworthy this year as these students exhibited perseverance and passion to excel beyond the school day during this very challenging time the excellence in forensics and debate award is presented to a student who has been a highly active and enthusiastic four-year member of the debate club this student always impressed his advisor and his club mates with his broad knowledge of and passion for international affairs this recipient represented dhs several times on stage at the state competitions of the massachusetts speech and debate league and excelled in his competitive realm group discussion we are proud to present the excellence in forensic and debate award to ali hijazi the excellence endeca award is presented to a student who has been a member for three years has competed at the district state and international levels and has demonstrated leadership ability in the role of vice president the recipient of the excellence and deca award is presented to rhys leconte the excellence on the math team is presented to a student who has been part of the ma to seniors who have been part of the math team the team went on to win the south conference championship we are proud to present the excellence on the math team to aditya bala jonathan karns grace george sarah hartman jaffa haridano and miguel pereira okay at this time it is a privilege to introduce mr assistant principal martin who will be presenting the athletic awards for athletic director mr chrisa fully who was unable to attend this evening the excellence in athletics award is presented annually to a male and female student athlete who have excelled in athletics at dartmouth high school this year the excellence athletics award is presented to kelly medeiros and john kearney the athletes for all seasons award is presented to student athletes who have not missed the season of play during their time at dartmouth high school this year the athletes for all seasons award is presented to the following excuse me following student athletes mia clock john gamache mark good john kearney kevin kaiser audrey morin nicole nielsen emmy parker cole perry owen quigley mello jennifer scott caitlin sullivan jacob vanzil and michael vanzil the u.s marine corps distinguished athlete award is presented to a member of a varsity team who is a high school senior as well as an outstanding young young citizen this year's recipient is kristin medeiros the u.s marine corps semper fidelis award for music is presented to a student who has been recognized as an outstanding performer who has held a first chair position this student is a senior who is a leader among his peers and is an outstanding young citizen this year's recipient is zachary pereira at this time i'd like to introduce mr tebow thank you mr martin um i would just like to at this time um call up kimmy vu to receive her ap capstone scholar award that concludes tonight's scholarship and award ceremony again we congratulate each of our seniors who was who were recognized this evening and finally just as a reminder we ask that you please exit the building and that we don't congregate right out in front of the building and that request is made per the board of health again congratulations thank you to our parents for coming to support you tonight you
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start with our roll call that would be great yes i will allison buck here david recording esau progress oh i'm sorry i was supposed to say here and in ann arbor wasn't i supposed to yes yeah sorry david you're in ann arbor sarah fuller here in ann arbor sophie gray greg here in ann arbor john catarsky here in ann arbor peggy leonard here in ann arbor well santa young you're in ann arbor you have a quorum thank you i did not wait a minute i did not call travis radina you're in ann arbor sorry travis you're all right thank you uh next on our agenda is our approval of the agenda do i have a motion to approve thank you john second david thank you any a discussion of the agenda great all in favor of the agenda as it is i i any opposed great the agenda is approved uh next on our agenda is public comment the commission welcomes jennifer goulet except for i spoke with her and um she's actually gonna come to our august meeting um it was kind of short notice and so we've pushed it back one more time but she is the chair of the ypsilanti arts commission and she and i have been in contact and she's going to come talk to us about what they're up to and kind of introduce herself so we can have that uh conversation back and forth a little bit in august next on our agenda is trish duckworth did i say that correctly yes that's fine it's trishay but trish is welcome thank you okay so i'll just go go for it yeah all right well first of all i want to thank you all for um having us in in the meeting and on the agenda i also want to thank council person travis rodina for just everything you're doing how about that but for initiating and getting us into um before the art commission um again thank you all um so why are we here we are interested in doing a black lives matter street mural here in the city of ann arbor um it means a lot to the community right to see and to know i'm that black lives matter and that we're present in a world that tries to push black lives to the back burner and not really notice and see who we are as a people we are so excited because these murals are going up all over of the united states even right in ypsilanti we are so excited um we will actually be painting a mural in ypsilanti on saturday and sunday um the locations are south washington street just off of michigan ave and down into riverside park off of cross street see y'all even loves black lives matter you know what i'm being like hey so we are truly excited and just come before you all to ask if you would please um vote in favor of this mural it's not just a cosmetic statement right it's not just something that we want people to just walk by and look at um this is something that we are trying to do so that we can also push programming and um do certain community activities at the site um and and we'll talk a little bit more about the site in a moment that we are proposing to you all trevor will come with that but again this is not just a cosmetic statement this is something that we are using to push legislative change um this is something that we want to use to bring the community together about this very serious conversation and how we need to push black lives forward and enhance the lives of black citizens across the country right but even here in ann arbor as we know ann arbor is one of the most elite cities in the united states right and what an amazing feat that would be to have this mural have programming that would uplift the black community um so i'm going to pass it over to trevor and then he may pass it back to me in the end hey folks thanks for having us out yeah we really appreciate it can you all hear me okay yeah good okay hey is there any way i can share my screen to do like a 60 second presentation is that all right yeah do i need to be granted permissions or made a pro owner of ann arbor or something benitez can handle that if you're just in one second how about now trevor are you all set um it looks like it's going to work okay okay let me just scootch this around real quick and all right can you all see this yes yes great great so you know yeah as trishay said we are this weekend we're painting and a lot of communities coming together in ipsy to knock out two murals uh they are going to be sites for programming that that so we can celebrate black life and try to make black lives better um from from education to cultural to to you know legislative change that's what we're trying to do and so you know you all have probably seen these in the news right i mean you've seen this right so here we have san fran that's dc here's new york right and then ipsy's coming up right here so on south washington that's what that's going to look like by the tap room right off of michigan avenue and there's a big parking lot if you notice over to the right where you know we can just host a ton of program and put a bunch of tables there have all kinds of family activities uh the other one we're doing is is right off the cross street going down into riverside park and again yeah it's certainly not just cosmetic there are so many um you know cultural productions that we can host here so that's what we're excited about right um and then as far as ann arbor we wanted to chat with you all but we thought that let me get this how do i get the screen on a little bit you know there's the ann arbor african-american festival right and it happens uh down there on ann street so we thought this might be a good place to start if that space is already being utilized in such a fashion to celebrate black life then we were thinking about starting there um you know just it already is a venue right and and then we would like to maybe do another one but we want to take a minute to actually work with the community and you know and and work with a black community specifically to see where another good location might be um to to do that so so that's what we have right there uh does it does anybody have any questions about this location um i do um david he saw is the festival actually occur on ann street i thought it was on fourth ave so it's and and and fourth at the intersection really is the stage the section that you're seeing is generally um where mostly vendors are during that celebration okay so would it get covered up by vendor booths and in not necessarily uh covered up they will be able to see it um but there will be portions of it that will be people's tables and things would be right there as well remind me when that fair happens so it normally happens in june um i am grateful i've been one of the mcs of that festival for about the last 10 years now and um so really grateful for that opportunity um but it usually happens in june um looks like it could happen this year in august um but if it does not happen this year in august um we will come back next year in june but there is a strong push to move it forward to happen in august this year john just a second with senator i wanted to respond to trevor i think the place is awesome uh that uh particularly historically because there there were liveries and blacksmith shops predominantly black businesses right on fourth uh between maine and um on and between main and fourth and and on the corner of uh fourth and uh and and was the third post office of ann arbor and the second floor of that post office was where abolitionist met you know white new englanders met there and uh and they created a movement uh and right around the corner on fourth right by anne was the dunbar center it was the first african-american community center so i mean where you're situating this is absolutely perfect uh for the uh the history of of black businesses black uh social communities in uh you know in in ann arbor and and that uh birkenstock building it's the kaiser building it's called so it's where the the birkenstocks shoes are being sold that was the dunbar center and on the third floor were rooms that uh blacks could rent because they weren't allowed in any hotels in ann arbor so it really became a center of the black business community that it wasn't too much residential there uh but so it's an important site there is a mural already on the side of um i i i think it's a it's a retaining wall or it's a part of the uh uh the uh the parking structure yeah parking structure and and and it uh signifies several um uh black individuals in ann arbor's history uh there's uh some historical markers on the county building that talk about the black businesses on ann street so you know i think the the location is awesome i'm sorry with senator thank you okay um mike my question is why not fourth what you know over and yeah so actually last night when we had a conversation just talking about it we actually were proposing doing one on and and one on fourth that way it's on both streets um i was not aware of the full history so thank you so much i don't want to chop your last name so i'll say mr john um thank you so much for for giving that in-depth uh detail um but we do know that that is a the reason why the african-american downtown festival is there um because of that fact so thank you so much for sharing that and and our opinion my opinion i feel like having it on fourth and and is something that would be great great for programming not just at for the african-american downtown festival but even for other things that could happen there at that place as a matter of fact um we're proposing at the one in ipsy you know there's a black men read that they can invite kids out and have story hour with children there um we're looking and proposing to have students from eastern teachers come in and have their students to actually conduct class there right to talk about transforming policy and things of that nature high school is coming down so why did you pick n over fourth that's what i i'm wondering because for for me fourth gets a lot more traffic and visibility than ann does and so you know what made you go to ann um instead well i would basically say my partner no i don't wanna throw them under the bus but you know we're really big in in um in you know talking to the community um however we did talk to some community partners who felt that that spot um was good so we're actually looking to we're proposing two murals which could actually go on both fourth and end okay uh okay yeah sophie i see your hand up yeah i i'm i'm interested to hear that conversation about fourth versus anne because certainly ann is seen as more as a side street i think where his fourth is is very much a main thoroughfare a lot of people walk there as well as uh traffic so um so i'm just wondering were you were you planning to have one sort of say black lives matter and one more pictorial or graphic or what were you thinking about for the two sites if you do both you know at this point um at this point really when you type in black lives matter street murals there's a couple things that come up um all the beautiful murals that people have made and then immediately in that same batch of images usually there's just images of of people pouring paint on top people who don't uh feel like black lives matter who are not familiar with that what that's trouble and and so um you know the we decided for in ipsy our both the designs are using the official black lives matter font cornerstone and it's it's just in yellow and specifically because if someone comes and pours paint in the middle of the night or if it happens a couple times then it's going to be easy to clean it up make it look beautiful again and and it'd be much easier to repaint like a ladder and keep a line crisp than like a detailed you know a portrait with like you know transitional shading and stuff like that um so so i think the letters will still look beautiful but i think that you know it's like a placeholder for all the cultural programming that could happen there okay i see your hand up craig yep you yeah um so the bureaucrat will speak and it's um as you do this mural city code only allows you to use chalk paint within the right of way so it will have to be chalk paint by code uh and i want to make you aware of that so that would disappear pretty quick um um not necessarily if you look at oh the corner of detroit and uh catherine they're on the sidewalk there's a chalk paint drawing that's been there since fall it starts to degrade but that's yeah that's not what we can change that's cold the chocolate that comes like you're talking about the ones that come in like the spray cans commercial chalk paint it's not regular chop i i definitely respect um your feedback there sir um but i think anybody anything has a possibility to be changed when it comes to this mural but just one moment when it comes to the mural when it comes to black lives matter this is something that we don't want to go away i respect that i was speaking okay um and so this is something that we could actually even go to city council about and ask them to actually change the ordinance so when i mean that you know something can be done that is exactly what could be done i think city council is in the light now where we're at right now we can't accept something that would just go away right because that's been the existence of black people where we just want to push off in the corner a downsize or or or make it be something that really does not matter and we want this to be a staple in the community for as long as it can possibly be so if that is um something that is a barrier um then it would be something definitely that we would want to talk to the city council about that was one of my questions was how how long you wanted it to because all of the projects we've seen in the streets recently which have been monumental because we trust me there's been mural projects proposed for the streets for years that have been said no no no no and then now we've been able to do a couple that were temporary and i think the whole fact that they were temporary area was a good selling point for them so i was wondering what um if if it if your intentions were for it to be a long-term project or not so it sounds like long term yeah not temporary cool okay ipsy's letting us use asphalt grade paint you know what i mean so that it stays yeah the same that they use for like crosswalks right exactly okay go ahead craig actually craig if this is a continuation of what you were saying go for it but sophie did never it is it is a continuation and thank you uh because you were saying exactly where i was going to go is to change the code we have to go to city council and we would look at travis to sponsor those changes it would be a two-step process to change the code to allow uh non-chalking drawings within the right-of-way so i i'm not against your direction at all right away includes what exactly within the road basically in the downtown it's building face to building face oh so like the whole road yeah so so i guess what i'm saying is uh i i agree that if you want to put it in permanent we we go ahead and ask council to change their code sophie your hands up well uh can can travis speak first and then i'll sure um yeah i can jump in i guess one of my questions is a follow-up to craig's which that was my understanding as well under the current code because it was something that we ran into when um i was still president of the gym toy center and there was some talk of doing some art on the street and things for for pride um but um i guess i was wondering when it comes to the chalk piece uh the the chalk based paint piece um you mentioned i mean there there's stuff that has lasted since the fall in terms of cost is there is it more expensive less expensive than traditional paint is my first question because i wonder if this is just something trevor mentioned that there's kind of some plan to um potentially have to um to redo some of this anyway if hopefully this does not happen um but it as it as we have seen elsewhere where some vandalism has taken place things like that it sounds like there's maybe some plan to make sure that there's continual upkeep i wonder if that's something that could be planned in if it's not um if it's not cost prohibitive um and then i guess my second question and this is probably also for craig as we are looking at some of these locations that are proposed are any of those locations immediately being planned for any type of street or surface repair and replacement that would also factor into needing to redo the artwork itself so for your first question on cost of chalk paint versus regular paint i will admit i am ignorant of that i have not a clue um and we can look at the next 12 months of resurfacing and get back to you as to what are the intentions for those uh pavements my recollection is fourth is in pretty good shape as is and so i'd be i well i just don't want to speak because i'll misspeak without looking at any schedules so if if it is um the case that there's going to be some repair then it seems to me that to hold the place the chalk would be okay to hold the place and then when the street is repaired to have it then painted and this way you can remove the you have time to remove the obstacle of what kind of um paint or you can use you know if there is going to be some kind of repair stuff going on i would like to see it still be done you know and held in place by using the chalk paint until that resurfacing is is done if that's going to happen so you've had your hand up for quite some time yeah um i i agree that we need something permanent for sure um the chalk paint at mainland liberty lasted only a few days because there's a lot of traffic there but um i'm wondering whether they could be in order to speed things up as as uh wasanto was pointing out whether there could be a variance at least to start with is that a feasible thing whilst you know the actual code itself is wrangled with over a longer period you're you're asking a legal question which i don't know about granting variances to that part of code that's not within my purview to grant travis you're saying something he needs to be unmuted oh bonita can you run re re-unmute travis please old habits i muted myself um that is something that i can ask about as well i can um ask about what the options would be there in terms of um whether or not we can grant a variance or if the entire code needs to be changed great sarah you have your hand up yes i was uh just wondering if um if repainting is needed in any way is there a way that we could get the community together to help with re painting the mural um it's something that you know we we saw with the a2 net zero mural uh with gives 365 in the parks and rec department where the community came together as volunteers and actually helped with the repainting and that if this is something um you know again permanence is um i think honestly really required in this type of situation but um if it's going to take a minute to get there is there a way that we can involve the community in the actual painting so that there is um that kind of ownership and commitment um to the ideals of uh of what this mural actually means um and then i did have another idea uh or just you know thought um if the festival may or may not happen in june or august of this year um are there any streets that might be closed off for other festivals i know main street obviously is is one that is closed off pretty consistently during the summer months and um why not try main street maybe even this year i mean really to give it um the visibility that uh you know that i i think um would be great for the city to have um and if we're closing off streets for restaurants to have more patio seating and things like that um is there any way that perhaps we could think of main street also as another forum okay i'm going to come to you in just a second before we jump i will say that the um the gutman gallery and the guild is located on 4th avenue right before you hit ann heading north and we are will be applying soon to host a art fair in october 8th through the 10th closing down all those streets so that could be another event i mean it doesn't sound like it's quite as nicely aligned with all of your values and everything that you would want as the festival you've chosen but would be another date that the streets would be closed and we'd be glad to have art happening on the streets that's amazing um actually to your point when we first talked about this um because i so i'm not sure if you all were i'm sure everybody in washington county seen the crew report right and um we seen um the atrocities happening at the prosecutor's office and um how black and brown people uh were arrested and convicted at higher rates and um so our first thinking was hey we need to put this in front of the courthouse right so that we can remind the courthouse that black lives matter and then we also did talk about sarah main street in that area um that is closed off because as a matter of fact we came through there protesting many times last year um and so you know those sites um would be great as well and honestly uh more visible like you said um how can we put it out front and get it out front um the only reason why we were kind of sold with the and and fourth area was just because of the programming there but programming can happen anywhere um the mural can be placed anywhere right we just wanted as you stated to be visible and i think some of those sites would make it more visible also to your second point yes we would love for the community to be a part um as a matter of fact this is a community driven project and that's the model that we're using in ypsilanti so we will have um volunteers and we will have painters we have a muralist leading but community members will actually come out and do the rolling right because we want the community to be vested and feel like they are part of this project again it brings community togetherness that unity peace standing arm and arm i'm doing something that is very meaningful for the entire community excellent peggy you've you've had your hand up for a while peggy are you muted again all right vanita can you meet peggy she did so i just wanted to add a couple things i'm really excited about this project i i'm excited for it to move forward and i love your energy um i do know just because i was involved in painting the mandela that we did in april that chalk paint is twice the cost of other paint so i think it would be worth getting a variance and getting a permanent paint and we all know that that mandela mural only lasted a few days so i don't know if the street wasn't prepped right or what happened but there was a lot of work that went into that mural for it to only last a short time and as easy as it is to say well we should repaint it's a lot of work to repaint a mural touching it up is one thing but actually actually repainting it is a huge project and a little bit demoralizing when you put so much time and effort into it so i don't know we'll have you'll have to have some discussions i don't know if that intersection at maine and liberty because it gets so much traffic maybe that was why it washed away and i know we had rain but anyway it was just latex paint it wasn't chalk paint no i talked to mary about it afterwards and is that why she thinks it washed away it was only intended to be temporary but yes oh well more temporary than like one day but anyway yeah okay well i'm excited about your project and i hope you can get a variance to get a paint that will be permanent yeah it sounds like that sidewalk stuff would be correct i'm sorry can you say that again so only chalk paint is allowed but in fact the mandala was latex paint yep right how did that happen because i believe because the paint was donated oh we could do that donate the paint hey but it didn't work so anyway i don't know that project didn't come to us for approval we did not give them the same recommendations with our city crew as part of it so i don't know um so i mean personally i think it sounds like an awesome project i think actually the site you guys have selected is ideal regardless of what event you do it with or how you get it done i think having done a lot of research on the area and ways of tying into the black history of kerrytown you know whether or not you do that block of anne or if you do fourth avenue um there's just rich history of the businesses that have been along that area that you could tie into and really absolutely and celebrate and you know bring to light which i think would be important um to talk about the rich history of what you know what kerrytown and the area and everything so um while you might get more people seeing it in other areas i think it would have more of a you know a tie and a purpose and really engaged with the area in that space so like john it's a really awesome location for the his rich history that goes there and john is our local historian so he can really fill you in although i will tell you from doing a lot of research the library has a lot of awesome pictures and articles and things about that space as well that can be picked up too jen uh in addition there are a group of uh historians in town that recognize the deep uh african-american history of that area and so you could get folks to be storytellers you know kind of on the street and being so if you have it in that location is what allison is saying is that you might be able to tie in a lot of this stuff and there's there's a group that wants uh african-american history black history to be more uh prominent in in the way we tell stories uh and uh so you could uh you know you could use that as leverage if if it's that location using the dunbar center and and the african-american businesses on and the dunbar center on fourth and in in that particular area but amazing yeah um john was talking i remember some months ago about increasing the number of informational street signs um especially around that area so i wondered if that might be something can be tied in and maybe inaugurated at the same time or at least started or something i don't know whether john you've had any thoughts on that since then or well part part of it is money part of it is uh you know moving things forward and trishay and trevor i think have provided that impetus a reason to bring this front and center and uh you know what uh sophie was talking about are the glass panels and there are i think about 20 uh glass panels the group that has been responsible for those and they most recently have been identified as public art uh and under the city's purview uh and kind of under the art commission this is a new thing so there's a group of local historians the downtown historic street exhibit program i'm on the board of that and they give annual tours to high school students all over the downtown area and uh that group uh has been wanting to include more and more stories about african american history so this could be the impetus to move that particular project forward i know that they would prefer not to increase the number of glass panels but rather to increase the use of those glass panels i think this is a perfect exception just as painting the street in a more permanent paint than maybe adding one of these glass panels i think you could get a lot of traction a lot of support it's gonna probably cost about fifty thousand dollars to do one of those glass panels um but you have the community foundation kind of right around the corner and they might be able to provide kind of some funding so this could be a synergy in particular if you kept the location and and forth um but i don't i don't think there's a reason if you move it to maine why you couldn't also accentuate this particular area that's my input and i uh you know i applaud your energy to to go forward and i think we would all help in any way we can it won't be easy but you know anything good isn't easy to do and david i'm sorry you had your hand up and i just kept going on and on yeah i have for a long time um a couple things i've been wanting to ask first of all does it have to be yellow letters on on the paving is that a national standard somehow that we have to do that i know that's what was done it seems like many people have done that there's been other versions of that but that's been one of like the staples like an easily recognizable symbol of like you know this um not new movement but of the current like you know version of what's happening these days but what are your thoughts well a couple things first of all just looking at google street view of that corner the the mural that john mentioned has big blank walls on either side of it that you could paint on with the county's approval and not have to get variants from the city and not have cars running over it and wearing it down all the time there's also a couple big blank walls on some of the businesses around there that would have some room to paint if we could get approval from the owners the other thing is just yellow letters on pavement is not doesn't really have an aesthetic component which is the primary thing reason that this commission exists it would be nice if we could get something that added i mean this it's an important message but that added something aesthetic to the community instead of just yellow letters um you know could they be outlines that are painted in with with different colors and designs and stuff or surrounded with with other designs or something like that definitely something to consider you know i i think i i maybe depends on your aesthetic taste i understand what you're saying that it's not like a full-blown detailed you know uh floral mural in a sense but but it could be uh you know personally i you know i have simple graphic uh you know appreciation kind of of those aesthetics so you know i've always appreciated that starkness but but but but please let me think about what you said you brought up great points well you know art in and of itself doesn't always have to be beautiful you know and colorful art makes statements you know art pushes buttons art causes people to think so you know i don't i don't necessarily see it that way i see that um it's almost like um the guy who did the campbell soup cans you know so to speak that was considered art and yet at the same time it wasn't aesthetically pleasing you know um i've been to the uh metropolitan and not the metropolitan the uh martin museum of martin art in manhattan and i almost walked on something that was a piece of art that were bricks on the floor i said oh let me go this way and i'm like oh wait that's a piece of art so i don't know that as the name art means it has to be that so i see um those yellow letters as a statement as a political kind of artistic piece in and of itself so sophie um you guys we're going to start wrapping up this conversation i know we're all very excited about the project obviously i have lots of comments and things to tell you about um i think there are a lot sounds like there's a couple ordinances and variances and and things that you'll have to navigate and we're here to support you through that um but we have lots of ideas and we could go all day so i'm going to start wrapping this up so if your hand was up and travis your hand was up and we'll go in that order yeah just quickly on the the yellow letters in that font on on the black pavement i think that it's not just about what's happening in our city the point is to connect up with all the other cities so it would would make sense to to do the same it's like a logo you know people recognize it even if it's upside down or they can't read or whatever it's it's a recognizable thing so i think there's a reason to keep it that way even if you add something else some something else somewhere else yeah travis yeah and i i i will not say any more on that i agree with both sophie and macenta on on kind of their comments there i think there is there is something artistic about the statement that's being made and the simplicity with which it's being said um and and trishay we we've talked i think you know that i'm i'm excited about the opportunity here and um i will wrap up this part of the conversation by saying i i have written down the follow-up pieces that we need to follow up on and we can just continue to stay in touch and i will do my homework and work with staff to figure out what kind of bureaucratic hurdles might exist that we we need to consider and and potentially work through as well and um we can kind of continue to work on that and of course as well so trishay and trevor i give you the floor to wrap up this conversation awesome thank you so much um thank you all for your feedback um even mr craig i'm so sorry i just get so um passionate about things like this and so no harm at all sir my opponent i'm taken at all appreciate um very passionate but i don't want to be rude and so this is why i want to offer that apology to you not needed not needed at all okay thank you um what we will say for our final ask if we could do fourth and main street fourth and main street um i think that would just be amazing and i would love to just walk over black lives matter as we're protesting out there right um you know and i just thank you all for the opportunity uh to be here to present um you could have turned us down and not even allowed us to come in and present and so we thank you so much just for the opportunity and we are looking forward um to building um i will say as far as i don't know how you all do this um as far as do you cover expenses and things of that nature but we've actually raised money um and so we are so excited because we got all the money raised for the actual mural and the celebration um and so we hope that we can follow suit and do the same here in the city of ann arbor trevor yeah you know what um i i just i just want to say i think that that this is like a real chance to bring people together i was a program manager at a riverside center for the uh arts you know for a while and and and that really it was about there was definitely a lot of art on the wall and and and poetry and music but it was really about bringing people together and and we went through like the painstaking process of like filing all these different individual community groups to bring them together over and over and over and really made some great connections between people and i think that that's what this uh space can also be for actually i might be doing some consulting with uma um and they basically said we're racist and we want to have a more integrated you know community we want more black and brown people in the space and on the walls you know as far as art and stuff like that and so you know even like some community building we might be doing with them going through the student groups that that are u of m the black led student groups that there's there's so many there's so many there's so many separate pockets of community that could come together to make great uh you know community contributions you know educational social and civic and i think that really we're not just doing a mural we're making a venue for these people to come together and make these contributions so anyway thank you so much for taking the time to listen to us and and uh sophie it's good to see you again and uh you know so i will say we um we're movers and shakers as far as things go we can like track it down answers to questions you might have you know we can have travis throw around his weight at council and you know see what he can do to support the um changes that we need to make that happen we don't have a city budget ourselves the arts projects that we recommend are part of the capital improvement projects so when we were talking about the resurfacing i was thinking well if they're being resurfaced they'll probably be repainted and maybe we can sort of tie it into that that's how i'm thinking about how we could get it funded um so that's how we do projects as far as like if there's a project happening that's a city project and we can tie in design aspects to it that's where we recommend projects happen as opposed to having separate budgets for projects so when we get answers about resurfacing we'll be thinking about that also not necessarily like oh it's going to have to be redone then but maybe it could be done then with the resurfacing and we could support with them permits and things that are going along with that project to save you guys funding all at the same time so thank you yeah so let us know if any questions pop up we're here um you know i think you probably have all of our emails because uh vanita included you on our agendas but you can reach out to myself i'm the chair and sarah's the vice chair and of course benita and travis or whomever if anyone had these great ideas you want some historian reach out to john you know so thank you so much for coming thank you she probably can on mute results when i did it i thought oh shoot now do you uh vote how does this work do you vote on it and then you put a recommendation up or i know that's how we did an ipsy so i was just wondering sometimes we do vote for projects to go forward i mean i think we could move a motion that we support the project but we'd have to um there still have to be those variances and things that would come do you want me to do kind of a what what it would take and then maybe we can bring something formal back to the commission at the next meeting that factors in all of those pieces i think that would be great i think you'll get our support for sure thank you thank you thank you all right have great days thank you for your time yeah good night good night awesome great way to start the meeting so the next thing on our agenda is approval of minutes do i have a motion to approve thank you sarah and david can be my second uh do i have any um conversation about the minutes discussion i only had a couple really really really teeny things vanita and maybe it's better if i just email them to you but uh i believe the green fair they're not spelling it f-a-i-r either spelling it f-a-r-e just a small thing um and then it says an opportunity to profile sustainable local and plant-based cuisine i'm thinking you didn't mean the word profile like try try out i don't know those were the only really small things that i found when i looked at it how about highlight highlight that would work any other discussion of the minutes sarah and david would those be friendly changes that you would move forward with sure all in favor of the minutes any opposed excellent the minutes are approved next on our agenda is old business which it looks like we don't have any uh and then new business which we don't have any of it's gonna be a short meeting um and then we have report from staff ann arbor area community foundation update do you want to do that bonita or i can jump in fanita if you want um do you want to allison talk about how you arrived at your dollar amount and then i'll talk about process yeah so we explored um whether or not there were specific projects that we wanted or that were here right now that we could be investing dollars into um you know i thought about the pickle street project but we haven't heard anything about that moving forward for sure um we thought about maybe putting some money into the mural where there was supposed to be one happening with um i want to say argus but that's not what it's called the berm project but just didn't see any fits for funding but we did really think it was important to put some money towards um communicating and marketing out about our current collection and then celebrating the golden paintbrush awards um since that we're bringing that back and it's a great way to encourage the community to participate in public art projects so we looked at doing some advertisements that would allow us to shout out who wins that as well as lead people to our public art tour collection our website so we priced out the observer brick magazine and a couple different other options and with all those put together we came up with the number 2500 as a number of dollars to take out to pay for a round of advertising that would go out um once the golden paintbrush awards are announced so probably like august or so we would announce that um depending how you guys are on timeline with that um so that's what we were kind of thinking as far as we didn't want to take out all the money um because we didn't have specific things we wanted to spend it on but then we didn't want to just not do anything we thought it would be important to use some of the money to we've continually said we want to communicate we want to get out there and tell people about our collection and what we have going and get people excited and we don't know how to do that and now we have some funding to do some of that with so that was how we came upon that number and i'll jump in with the process uh the community foundation will move the money over to the city in july and it's available for the commission to spend through june of 2022 so that's fairly simple the other piece is asking the commission to think about their next draw on those funds not for a dollar purpose for a dollar figure so that when these budgets are put together in december in january next year we can have that money baked into the budget and we may not have to do any slights of no travis block your ears you may we may not have to do any slights of hand to take the money in and spend it without an appropriation so that's that's it any questions feedback what did you say the amount was 2500 is what we're taking out there was i think there was around 7 000 available to us and the remaining amount we're going to just leave available we're not putting it back we putting it back into the fund we're just leaving it there in case next year there's a larger project we want to take more money out for great i don't see any questions so i think unless is there anything other um items you guys want to report out staff wise that's not on the agenda uh i'm sure there is but i'm not thinking of it right at the moment i know reviewing the minutes it said that um the mayor was going to be tentatively set for may 17th at city council agenda the city flag thing uh sarah higgins has repeatedly reminded him of the city flag memo that we've drafted and it is within his purview or court to bring it to city council okay i i can follow up with him but i know she did it as recently as the end of last week i i would assume i don't know i don't want to speak for him but i would assume that with the budget and then we have a very long agenda for june 7th that he might be waiting to get past a couple of those things but um i will follow up with him and see great thank you all right so we can move on now to the report from the committees the first uh working group that we have um on our list is the business owners and developers work group i believe that would be you john nothing to report at this time uh the design review board hasn't met okay uh capital improvement project working group david nothing to report now great communications work group that's sarah and i and basically our update would be that we are going to have money to do some advertising with so we're excited about that um the fundraising work group is myself and i i'm sorry i don't know who else is in that group we haven't met recently um we haven't done any fun reading you on that one okay okay and the fundraising work group would encompass any grant opportunities because i know we had been speaking a little bit about a current or upcoming grant opportunity right um that vanita has been sort of spearheading um so we'll we'll let you know if we apply for that see if we can move forward with that you're right i was thinking the grant was under something else but i don't know where else it would fall so it's definitely under that that one yeah um leadership forum work group uh has not met but i will i don't know if i have shared with everybody that while deb is no longer on the commission formally she has said she would be involved with that working group still so she'll she's still gonna be helping out with that which i'm excited about um but we have not met to do anything with that currently now that we can actually get together with people in person more maybe there will be more prospects for that the nominations and leadership review work group are two work groups that are kind of lumped together but as far as nominating people for our openings because you can see it's a small group tonight uh we have two openings going up that are open right now deb speak and spot and jonas and travis has been really helping me out with recruitment and if you want to go ahead and give it up to travis i can give you a little bit of an update um because i also have a question into the clerk right now about this um but with my and allison's recommendation the mayor has decided to nominate two i think outstanding individuals both of whom were actually um appropriate enough for this meeting involved in the library um bor or the library's uh black lives matter mural as community panelists um so he is planning to nominate uh marionetta porter and jamal to serve on the art commission um for anyone who doesn't know i can briefly read the paragraph that i sent on each of them to the mayor um marionetta porter is a professor at the stamp school of art and design her research and scholarly investigations are grounded in the study of african american history culture and representation the themes these themes encompass various genres ranging from ethnography and folklore to visual culture language and religious traditions she's particularly interested in the ways the these complex relationships are woven into the fabric of everyday life through the language of visual art porter seeks to draw a correlation between historic memory and modern african american life to give voice to the history of diaspora and to acknowledge the importance of its influence in the birth and blooming of american culture and jamal buford is a rapper and songwriter who co-founded and runs the rap performing arts group the black opera alongside many other artists he's also a project specialist with washington on my brother's keeper and was re and recently partnered with afc ann arbor the rob murphy foundation and the mighty oak youth project to launch clclr academy which is the weekly program supporting young kids right to dream believe create and explore through sport nutrition reading and writing and so he has decided to nominate both of them i thought at this upcoming june 7th meeting but for some reason only professor porter is appearing on our list right now as a nominee um i did follow up with him today and he said that he as he expressed to council plans on nominating both of them so i followed up with the clerk to find out that was an oversight in not including him so hopefully they will both be voted on at the june 7th meeting and we will have new commissioners for our next meeting i wonder if jonah hasn't officially been taken out of the system both are there are two vacancies showing oh okay on the system yeah okay yeah i'm very excited um they're both going to add a lot of depth and i'm so excited we're gonna have a performing artist involved and someone with the university and they both have such awesome backgrounds and it's gonna be awesome so um hopefully they will go forward i don't see any reason why not um and they will be able to join us by our august meeting so thank you travis for helping push all that through and for helping with that process for those who don't know people apply online but we also in addition to getting random applications we encourage people to apply and then they apply online and um so that was the situation as that reached out to these people and said we think you'd be awesome on the commission and then they applied so um glad to have those visions filled with really awesome candidates and hope that they will join us in august so that's exciting um policy and governance work group you haven't had any policy or governance unless you talk about taking money out of the community foundation as uh governance and that's been covered um special projects work group um sophie or peggy yeah we've um we've been working on on getting the judges for the without naming any names for the uh golden paintbrush award and um perhaps sarah would like to talk about it actually because she's she sent out letters and got responses and so we're at the point where we just have to um we've got criteria from the original thing but we have to create the um you know the this sort of worksheet for how you judge people there's a word for that which is eluding me but anyway sarah yes so we do have four confirmed judges now so that's an update actually for the for the golden paintbrush special projects for group as well so we're almost to our goal of five um i am planning out and sending another reminder email to one of one potential judge and then probably going down our list and inviting one more person um so we're close to uh being able to move forward with putting together that packet of information for the judges and setting some meetings up so that they can all um speak and uh move forward with then uh the actual announcement after the selection um which should which would be really exciting so and we have marketing dollars now to put behind that announcement um and hopefully just grow a larger and larger audience uh for the 2022 golden paintbrush award as well um so moving forward on that danita can you remind us um how many applicants they were for that submissions submissions yeah you're muted um don't quote me i think the total may have been around 24 or 25 i remember you saying 24 and then we had a few overlaps of nominations which i believe um we would actually want to let the judges know that you know there were projects that were you know nominated multiple times yes okay and this is a big deal that we are up to five judges because the commission might be interested to know that we've had trouble getting people to commit to judging we're not sure why right sarah but i think it has to do with people becoming re-engaged with work and not wanting to take on anything more but we're continuing we're pushing on so yes yes and we do have um an invitation from lucy ann vance um potentially to go on her talk show she won't be able to be a judge this year but she would love to get the word out so that's something that we can look forward to as well there you and i have attacked before but if you need any help with getting any more judges or names or things like that just let me know thank you and thank you to everyone who submitted all these names and you know we've we've had a good response and and again getting the word out most important thing travis did i see your hand go up no okay all right anything else from special projects oh okay uh youth outreach work group which i think you're the lone person on that now peggy yeah so we're gonna have to find some more people for that yes so if anyone is interested in participating in youth outreach um let peggy know well hopefully when our new commissioners get approved and i'm going to say when they're approved that might align perfectly with some of the work that jamal does outside of the commission as well yeah that might be something he is interested in perfect thanks i also know that when we continue to move forward with the city flag project we had talked about trying to engage some of our high school students in that civic engagement project so anyway that might be a good way to reach out to the youth definitely all right any working group items that may have been missed somehow okay um before i adjourn are there any um personal announcements or things you would like to share sophie well i'm gonna share again because you can never share too much um the westside art hop is going ahead for instead of usual may in june uh 12th to 13th so we're doing it over two days and so far the weather looks nice um and also i'll be talking about it on the lucian lance show on tuesday so that will be broadcast um well i'm going to be talking to her and the recording will be broadcast on tuesday the 8th in the morning and the afternoon so listen out for that and we have over 50 artists so i thought we'd have not many people applying and not many people volunteering to host but happily we've had lots of people on both sides so though we've always got room for an extra lovely porch if you live on the west side let me know and sophie i do have a shout out from colleen crawley who heard you on the radio um and and told me that you i i unfortunately missed it but she said you just did a fantastic job um and we're actually going to spread the word at motowee certainly um with a bunch of artists to definitely participate so um great work so sophie if uh individual wanted to just like come as a spectator how do you get involved like yeah the best the best thing to do is to go to westsidearthop.com where as soon as i have five minutes to put together i'm going to put the addresses on there and so you'll be able to follow a little trail and go to each of the venues which are mostly private homes garages and porches and carrots and driveways oh thanks that'll be fun yeah i'm gonna stop by my house there will be an artist at the end of my driveway i was i was gonna give the same shout out to sophie and i actually have the the wemu story pulled up still so i'll send it out to anyone who missed it thank you i like it thanks well i will let you all know if you haven't heard already the ann arbor art fair is happening uh it will be three days not four this year thursday friday and saturday no sunday um but we're going forward so come out support your artists support your restaurants sell your businesses i hope to see there are no more announcements i will uh is there do i have to get a motion to adjourn okay thank you do i have a second second peggy thank you uh all in favor of a journey great uh any opposed okay good everyone have a great evening i'll see you later take care you
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okay hello arms i'm here with uh my name is dr laroche and i am here with andrew laurian who is a local climate change hero uh hi andrew yeah how you doing doctor i'm doing well thank you thanks for joining us today thank you um so i'm student someone just you've had a little bit of an introduction already to andrew's work uh and some of you got to uh do a workshop with andrew this morning but i'm just going to share a little bit about andrew so andrew is part of the northeast organic farming association also known as nofa he works in urban landscapes of springfield to build community and grow healthy food for families dealing with contaminated soil and vacant lots while building community gardens can be expensive and make gardening in the city seem almost impossible andrew works closely with two youth programs in springfield to conduct on-site trials of bioremediation techniques where heavy metal contamination and carbon-based pollutants are a concern and are removed from the soil so i think some students got to do that with you this morning andrew is that right yeah we said some microbe traps to uh try to discover what's underneath our feet and introduce ourselves to the worlds of micro mycology fungi awesome thanks so andrew um before we begin i know you have a presentation um i just was hoping that you could tell the students a little bit about what brought you to this work yeah um mostly what brought me to this work is a lifetime of um just feeling for people um loving others and just uh wondering why well why is there people that are hungry out there why is there poverty why is there injustices and not really understanding um you know the reasons for it because i see the world as a bounty for a plentiful place um that you know there should be enough food for everybody clean air clean water shelter arable land and a relevant education for everybody to me gardening on a small scale especially here in the city is a good way to tackle those problems at the core you know um there's no better way to see it to do it um than through gardening in my eyes that's what led me here to this work thank you i really appreciate your um connection of the of the work to the community and that's a big part i know of what you're going to be presenting and sharing what you have done um and giving students insights to ways that they might be able to also engage in this work it's um incredibly valuable uh teachers who are um with students in classrooms um throughout the presentation if you have questions that you want to type into the chat on youtube go ahead and do that and andrew will make sure that we have time to address them either during the presentation or at the end but go ahead and put them in as they come up so i'm gonna be navigating the slides on my end while andrew is talking so uh at times he might tell me to forward the slide so that's uh we'll have a little bit of that as well all right so andrew i'm gonna go ahead and start us up here yeah welcome welcome to our project um so what we're doing is we're taking practical approaches to urban soils health and remediation so in general in a city when we want to farm and think about farming and growing food our space is limited so the space that we do have we want to make sure it's viable to grow in a lot of times we deal with contaminants in the soils like lead from houses um hydrocarbons you know oils gases from cars and traffic so we want to make sure that we're growing um a lettuce or collard green [Music] so what we do is uh when we approach our sites we want to look at them from many ways you can uh go to the internet and get to google and see the different maps that they show us uh the different layers as you can see it gives a little contour to our map you can see that there's an old garage broken down there so we already know we have some rubble and some material that we might be concerned about in growing in this space here's our another view of our our lot um as you can see is right next to a housing complex so with this amount of space uh to grow food in it um and to claim it as a space of our own you can see that there's many families that would benefit from this just from the beauty of seeing the flowers outside they're seeing change right now it's an open lot there's signs that say do not enter so the kids can't even play ball here or anything so we have to determine what we're going to do with our open spaces in the city that's a this is a video walkthrough we can skip this video it's just uh showing us our plot and we kind of marked it out to give us parameters and um you know focus on where we're going to be doing this work this slide right here i'm going to read it to you the people the place and the way we feel are all a part of this remediation process okay when we're thinking about remediation and fungi and soil science and all this um you know you think about a lot of science things and and research and you you don't realize that this is community you know like the people around us what do they want to see here do they even want to see a garden what kind of space do they want to feel you know how do how do we feel working in the space as people are traveling by and seeing us do the work um all of that is very important in a remediation process to get the history of the place you know what has happened here in our field what has happened in this vacant lot previous to us trying to make it into a field of our greens when we're coming into our spaces uh we like to document everything because when we don't want to go and attack just what's wrong or what the problem is we want to look at the healthy function what is healthy on the soil what is working uh the weeds and the flowers and the everything we find on our site they're all telling us the story and as you skip through this slide you can see all the different um plants that i bet a lot of you from new england will recognize uh you got the violet there uh you got some i believe there's doc and then we have the garbage you know the the real the realistic um truth about working in the city is you're gonna have people throwing stuff around and it's important to document that too to show change and show the space as um somewhere that we value and people will let be less likely to literally enjoy trash in these spaces andrew we have a question from a student uh wondering what does remediation mean or what does bio remediation mean yeah so there's two words there you know we got the the bio and then remediate so what we want to do is uh by naturally um by organic ways take the soil that is contaminated or damaged and remediate it or make it better uh with healthy practices um so instead of what what we can do is just go in with a dump truck and just remove all the soil that's there and contaminated and you know bring it to a another site or a dump but what we're doing is just we're moving our trash somewhere else to be contaminated somewhere else and that's expensive to do that when we're talking about grassroots operations and getting in here and claiming these spaces in between buildings there's not a lot of money to go in there and scoop out dirt and to replace it so on by by remediating the soil we're um taking natural methods by using fungi plants and bacteria to uh make the soil more viable and healthy to in i hope that kind of answers it thank you yeah so like we found this rusty pipe in the ground um and it it just brought to my attention that you know the ants made use of it what is it telling us you know there's something to be told about um the creatures in the soil and the spaces they live in fire and um it's very important to document as we're just going through these slides just uh documenting everything um the way it looks the different scenes what what parts of the grass are growing healthy what parts are dead um because there's there's a story to be told underneath [Music] so as we're going through our project we also want to take in account that we have a little bit of slope in our lock so um right here we're doing the old uh a squared plus b squared the c square and all these um charts and stuff that i thought i'd never use in school but guess what i was googling it and i had to be um you know brush up on some of this a simple basic man that a lot of us might think is useless so we were able to find like a nine percent slope here and you know we're just thinking about um the rain water and how it could erode um away our natural you know top layer of soil like that we're just using pipes and spring we're using a level very simple tools this process and um it's good to have partners and and people to look up to and people to ask questions in this work i've even had experts come and join us on the field and i'll ask them a question um hey what's this plant right here you know what do i do in this uh particular instance and they're moving you know so a lot of um a lot of our our work and research throughout life gardening climate change whatever you're doing in life it is okay to not know the answer and but to know how to find it you know and to research i just wanted to um you know express that to you guys that you know it's okay to not know and it's better to even ask to further not okay so we got our site we got our pictures familiar with what's going on we see our healthy functions we see our problems now it's time to dig in okay when we're digging in we're using these protocols that um nofa mass had put together to uh observe the biology in the soil so we simply just take like a hula hoop place it down anywhere random in the soil and then go ahead and take a closer look at that okay so when we're looking in there we can see that there's some dead grass in there there's a little bit of newly planted grass maybe on some the the larger ones are maybe some crab grass we see a dandelion which we know has a long tap root so we're um just soaking it all in and then as we keep going in our slides we'll see that we're going to make a hole and then when we make this hole we're checking for root depth we're checking for earthworm counts we're checking for soil aggregation um we're talking how far down the deep the deepest roots go uh just to get a measure of compaction and as you see this here this is a clump of soil and we're looking for aggregates now aggregates is the parts of the soil that will clump together and hold together and you see that that stuff's just falling apart so and you see also the root system here so there's important to know the different root systems some have long roots some have shallow roots and the role that they play that's purslane right there so i'm just shooting things at you i'm excited about this work okay guys so purslane is a plant that's found as a weed all around the gardens and it's edible so you'll find um in your garden there's actually many things that people pull out to plant other things in which could have been harvested and eaten we do a texture by field procedure where we'll take the soil into our hands and we'll like kind of rub it in like a little ribbon just to see if it sticks together if it's clay or if it's sandy and we document everything we we can come up with to kind of get a whole story of what our soil is like we'll even do a slate test where we'll take a ball of aggregates which is the soil clump together held together by roots and biology and we'll put it into the this water and see how much of it will fall to the bottom now if a lot of it is falling to the bottom and your water is really cloudy and that means we got on the poor soil if the water stays more clear and the clump stays together that means we got a real strong system of aggregates that are sticking together we check for infiltration we um put a ring down into the soil hammer it in a little bit then we fill it with water and we time it to see how long it takes for that water to seep through the ground now a good soil you know it'll go right through here and here's a demonstration on our project partner carol rozelle has uh demonstrated to us uh like runoff and um what it is to have a healthy aggregate versus a poor aggregate and as you see one plate has flour in it and one plate has a bread in it now the bread is the healthy soil with all the aggregates and all the ingredients the starch everything that's keeping it together where the flour is the poor soil and it's missing some ingredients in it now when that rain water hits that flower it's spreading all around it's getting messy uh it it's just it doesn't hold together and all your nutrients that you would have had in there all spreading all around there's uh josh and bernard they uh help us out in our project in springfield uh they're great guys yeah so um what was that last slide again uh did i finish that thought yeah so she oh yeah so just well it was just about the aggregates and just making the bread when you pull the water on the bread that's going to stick together and you'll see you know explanation of what it is to have poor soil which is loose and a healthy soil which is i love that demonstration with the flour and the bread it really helps you to understand it it's really great sorry that you just advanced past it before early there was a question before about um about cover on the on the ground a question about was that local cover or just a regular cover crop that we saw earlier yeah so i don't think we got to the cover crops yet okay this grass is just um you know what what they had in their lawn and they come in and they maintain it with their mowers but cover crops is definitely part of our remediation process as it is important to keep the soil covered um right here um we're measuring compaction and um dash is taking this uh instrument and shove it in the ground oh no so what we're doing is we're not measuring compaction per se we found out that it's compacted by using this tool but um we're taking cores and we're sending these off to our soil lab so we have we use the soil lab at umass page laboratory and we also use uh connecticut yukon's laboratory and they they do good with giving us an analysis on our soil to let us know our organic matter um any heavy trace minerals i mean our metals that might be in our soil and um magnesium contents you know different phosphorus contents and things like that yeah so if you can um get a sample out of whatever plot you're working on and get it to the lab it costs about fifteen dollars if you send it to umass and they'll get it back to you uh pretty promptly this tool right here is a pentrometer and this is the tool that we'll use to measure compaction and it just has like a tip on the end of it um and you press it down into the soil and it'll measure uh pounds per square foot i believe um to tell you how compacted the soil is and um in some places we couldn't even get that thing in the ground the soil was so bad all of those protocols we had just went through you can find them on nofo mass website uh they are the soil carbon grower protocols so and and they have a video of how to do the test that we had just went through if you're interested in you know gauging what kind of land you're you'll be working with compost um i was fortunate enough to have a truck and um we went and we got a yard of compost for about 40 bucks now i say that to highlight the fact that when you make your own compost you're saving a trip to the place to get it you don't have to pay for the gas you're not having this bulldozer you know do the work we're we're doing the work ourselves we're taking care of our waste and that's what we want that's what our goal is but for now we bought some compost and that was our first um advice that we had gotten from our project partners is to compost the entire plot we also once we got the compost in there we use the broad fork to kind of incorporate into the soil so you shove the broad fork into the soil and pull it back just to kind of break it up a little bit uh that's better than using a tiller because a tiller on a machine as the blades roll that bottom where you know the blades are hitting it creates a compaction layer which is we don't want andrew we have a question from the chat what are some of the negatives of heavy metals in the soil so why do we not want them in there yeah um one of the most common um heavy metals that we deal with is that we find in our soil is lead um and i'm not um a complete expert on you know the effects of of lead and heavy metals but i do know that we should only be taking in but so much um heavy metals consuming them and you know they're not it's not made for us to ingest and um particularly here in the city a lot of our houses uh earlier on were painted with lead paint so um you know that's that's something that we just don't want to ingest um i think that i need to do some further research to completely understand you know the heavy metals but just um you know thinking about it is i don't want to eat that stuff you know thank you yeah and there was another question about how composting helps yeah so composting is a great uh way to add organic matter to your soil so um it's filled with all kinds of microbial life in it it has um some carbon in it from you know the wood chips and the browns that we put in our compost piles so um adding the compost to the soil will help enrich it and add some nutrients and bacteria into the soil are you still you because can you still hear me sorry i apologize that was me um i was just saying that we do have a couple minutes left um if if there are more questions folks want to put in the chat and i can also go through the slides a little more yeah i'm down for some questions i love questions so let's see what there were some we got through the ones that are in there so if teachers or students want to add anything more to the chat they can we'll i'll go ahead and push through the slides a little bit as well yep yeah here's our team again we had just laid the compost i think i'm coming up with uh we had um some cover crop coming up bernard uh there's anthony he's our photographer he takes really good pictures which is also you know everybody's a part of this team so it'll have a role here's one of his great photos so you know it goes a long way when you can see yourself doing the work and you can feel proud about what it is that you do which is another reason why we document everything beginning to end is our team some of you guys will meet sister hannah a little later today so here's our cover crop we got this um mix from nofa it's a winter kale mix um there's different seeds in there we have a question from the chat um andrew how long did it take to complete the garden okay so um as far as it being complete it's a working progress but um within a few weeks we had gotten a lot of the testing done um the results had gotten back and we were able to share our results um as far as our photos on what's the healthy functions um what what did we learn from umass and from contest labs and we were able to send that to our project partners who who then helped us design our garden so um since then we had installed about 30 to 50 plants um ranging from we gave them a plant list of things we wanted to see grown and from that plant list she chose uh which plants would work together well um some having different that occupied space underground some that keeps high space above ground um in different ways um to create an environment that will help the soil become more healthy steve a more personal question what's your favorite plant species and why oh man plant species um i have a love with cucurbits uh so i'm saying that right so like the family where the cucumbers and the melons and and um the squashes are in because and those are the ones that always have the like those yellow flowers that real bright they attract a lot of pests now you would wonder why they're my favorite and they attract pests but it's because i think there's um something to learn there you know about inter planting um crop rotation and um beneficial pests and bugs and insects so it allows me a better space to you know once those beetles and bugs start moving on in um how do we deal with this problem you know how do we move forward and how do we mitigate the risk for next season i think you're on mute dr druch thank you i keep clicking the button and then it unclicks on me so uh thanks for that so we just i'm going to do a couple more questions because we um started a few minutes late um we do have a question about how many projects you have going on at once okay so we have um the bioremediation project has two sites that we're working on and then um i also work at gtc which is garden in the community and we're doing um like a total makeover on one of the sites uh to really get it into production state and then um on my own i i just do personal gardeners and whoever will allow me to in space you know like as a farmer in the city and i'm telling you um i don't have acres and i have acreage so each plot each backyard that i'm allowed to grow in you know it could be simply a friend saying hey you can use my space to grow now i'll go in there and grow food and now hopefully the neighbor will see me doing it they're asking questions they want to do it the kid's coming outside he's eating tomatoes that he says he doesn't like now he likes you know so um that's my favorite part of my work is being able to um take advantage of spaces like you should see the amount of food i grow in the space you can park a car like that little like like four by eight almost kind of space you can really pack it in and get a lot accomplished thank you um so one follow-up question how many of the gardens have you done you may i don't know if you kept count yeah so um i i continuously i'm only working on about five right now i had to i'm not spread myself so thin um but i think we established 10 12 like 10 to 12 gardens something like that and it's beautiful because in those gardens like i'm saying the neighborhood now he's garden now he's got a space and you know like so it spreads it's like fire great more more practical question um is there a compost that's best certain material yeah um is there a compost that's best i would say there's kind of a two-part thing because first of all you want to use um uh what you got and you want to get rid of what you have in a conscious smart way so i mean your food specs your yard waste that will usually go to the curb and a truck's gonna pick up your bags of leaves um so all of these ingredients are very good ingredients for the compost and you also want to keep a balance you want to keep about 70 of browns and you want to keep 30 green we're uh we have our some of our math and science teachers have been texting about how excited they are about how much of what what they teach is connected to your work so i think we could just kind of wrap up with um what's your favorite part of your job and what's your advice to students yeah all right so i think that's like one answer right there and my favorite part of the job and my advice to students is is to not be afraid to learn like seriously um i get myself into even like doing these presentations like i i don't have a lot of experience doing these presentations but the only way to get that experience is to do it you know and i think um getting through these humps and the feelings of being nervous or um unaware or maybe feeling not um completely knowledgeable like it's kind of intimidating being in this field knowing that there's an expert out there somewhere on um microbe traps who might be able to offer a little bit more but the important part and my favorite part is to teach and to learn thank you so much andrew i do appreciate so students we're going to go ahead and and teachers we're going to say um thank you to andrew laurian our our local climate change hero and uh i certainly made a few mistakes andrew in our in our presentation today with my mute button um but i appreciate your efforts and um and patience with me on that um and most importantly um thank you for uh inspiring our students to make the connections um and knowing they can make a difference um taking what they're learning in school and and applying it to help their community absolutely thank you guys for having me and um i appreciate i have some conversation with some of you out there and you guys are you get it so um just keep on getting it just keep on getting thanks andrew take care thank you
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hello greetings amherst middle school uh i'm dr laroche and i am here with a special guest today for our uh look at uh climate change we're here with dr michael mann hi dr mann hi it's good to see you thank you so much for joining us so uh students dr mann uh is actually an amherst uh are you an amherst alum did you graduate from amherst schools i absolutely did spent my whole life uh growing up in amherst well thank you so much um it's it's a pleasure to have you join us back in amherst virtually uh you're where are you today do you want to let us know absolutely i'm right in the middle of pennsylvania in state college pennsylvania which is where penn state university is where i teach and uh dr mann is the director of the earth system science center uh and was critical to helping people understand uh climate change and so we would like to hear a little bit about your your research and um how how you've helped us to advance our understanding of this important topic well thanks very much it's great to be with you um virtually back in amherst i'm sorry i can't be there in person um but uh some of my fondest memories are growing up um and going to school back in the day it was amherst regional junior high school now it's the middle school but uh this is the same school that i went to and where i first began to learn about science um back in the night uh i think it was the the eighth grade we had a course with a teacher named charlie davonzo which was uh learning about the natural world i think was the title of the course and that's sort of where i first became introduced to science to physics and chemistry and math and earth science and ultimately i went on to do my degrees in college in applied math and physics went on to graduate school to study theoretical physics and then got interested half halfway through uh in sort of earth's climate in understanding earth's climate using math and physics to model the behavior of our climate system that ultimately took me down a road that led me right into the center of one of the most contentious issues we've ever dealt with which is human-caused climate change and what we need to do about it but i would say that the solid training that i got in math and science in the amherst school system really prepared me to go on and pursue a career doing what i love doing trying to solve interesting problems um and so that sort of that that's sort of my my history um how i got into this uh and um you know it's an interesting time because back when i was in high school decades ago you know climate change seemed far off it seemed theoretical it seemed very speculative well today that's no longer true because we can see the impacts of climate change playing out in real time in the form of unprecedented heat waves and wildfires and floods and superstorms and i want to ask the students a question if i might because i was an amherst hurricane i ran track and cross country and had one of those jackets that was emblazoned one of those maroon jackets emblazoned with the amherst hurricanes moniker do uh any of you know why we're the amherst hurricanes that's an interesting question so students and um teachers who are out there watching on the youtube channel um teachers can go ahead and uh respond in the chat to dr mann's question so the question is um do we know why uh we are called the amherst hurricanes and i have been teaching here since 2003 dr mann and i actually don't know the answer so i'm really interested um let's see if anybody wants to put anything into the chat um it might take just a minute for it to come i would say i would like to think it's because we were so ferocious um and intimidating to other schools but at least during my senior year i don't think we won a single football game so that's probably nothing that's not it must be something else i have to show you that i'm wearing our new staff shirts and it says sunshine mixed with a little hurricane which um is appropriate for our for our talk well hurricane season just uh started two days ago the official hurricane season so what a perfect time to be talking about it so i'm seeing in the chat that uh mr kelly is saying a hurricane came through here a really long time ago is that the reason absolutely it's the 1938 new england uh storm which at one point was a category five storm by the time it reached rhode island it had weakened to a category three storm but it basically followed the the connecticut river right up the kinetic kinetic river uh valley and made a direct hit on amherst and if you go online if you google the images you will find images of total devastation of homes and barns farms uh here you know in in amherst massachusetts so it was indeed this ferocious hurricane that um gave us our name the amherst hurricanes today of course we're seeing uh ever more intense hurricanes we're breaking records both for the strength of these storms the intensity of these storms and the um and the the sheer number of them last year we had 30 named storms in the atlantic hurricane season we went halfway through the greek alphabet we've never done that before so this is another profound impact that climate change is having and here's the sort of cruel irony for new englanders and for folks in massachusetts and amherst one of the things that the science has led us to understand over the last really just over the last decade is that climate change is not just causing these storms to become stronger because there's more energy a warmer ocean provides more energy to strengthen these storms to intensify these storms but climate change is also shifting wind patterns it's shifting the jet stream in a way that's causing many of these storms to track further north than they used to so storms that would have made landfall in the past say along the coastline of georgia or the carolinas or jersey are more likely to actually track north into new england and so there's the possibility that we will see more of those ferocious storms like the 1938 storm that gave us our name well as a social studies teacher um i appreciate that history lesson dr mann and i will definitely be exploring that it sounds like our students also were some of the ones who contributed the answers so uh are writing also in the chat via their teachers so they're sharing something yeah so i really appreciate that students for for your knowledge as well um and at this point i want to allow for i know dr man probably has some more things to say to us but i want to just let teachers know if they can go ahead and collect any of the questions that students have for dr mann and type them into the chat we will try to address those um in the next part of our our segment we have about 12 minutes left with dr mehan um so thanks very much um so dr man um you had talked about how when you first started your um your work um it was controversial um and in our um civics work in in our school we're kind of thinking about how do we take action um and what are you know what did you have to come up against and how did you proceed to to um come up against that controversy because we don't always take action without any uh reaction yeah and you know it's it's sort of interesting sorry i was sort of a computer nerd in uh junior high in high school in fact i used to hang out in the computer room on friday nights with my computer nerd friends and we'd be doing computer programming and eating pizza i guess we're not supposed to sorry i let the the secret out yes we would order pizzas and bring it into the school um but um that's so you know i was sort of a geek a nerd the last thing i expected as i pursued a career in science was that i would find myself in one of the most contentious debates um that we've ever experienced but my work ultimately led me into the center of the climate change debate back in the late 1990s when i was in fact pursuing a postdoctoral research fellowship at the university of massachusetts i literally moved back home to do my post-doctoral research with a professor named ray bradley in the department of geosciences at umass and we published this curve called the hockey stick which extended temperatures back a thousand years and it placed the modern warming in a long-term context it allowed us to see how profound the warming trend that we've experienced over the past century really is and and how obviously it relates to fossil fuel burning the industrial revolution our dependence on fossil fuels the burning of fossil fuels that's generating carbon pollution that's warming the planet and because that science has implications for some powerful vested interest the fossil fuel industry you know the science tells us we we need to move off of fossil fuels we need to move towards renewable energy and that proved a real threat to the fossil fuel industry and uh they in many cases actually funded efforts to try to discredit and attack the science and the scientists and i found myself right at the center of that it's the last thing i expected it's the last place i expected to be as a computer and science nerd who wanted nothing more than to be left alone in the computer room working on problems solving interesting problems but my science led me into the center of this very contentious public debate and ultimately i've come to embrace that role because it's given me an opportunity to inform the conversation about what is arguably the greatest challenge that we face as a civilization and i feel privileged to be in that position even though it's really not what i signed up for thank you and students have learned that uh that your emails were broken into and they're curious about what happened to those people who broke into your emails did they get in trouble did anybody hear uh yesterday that uh anthony fauci um a public health expert anthony fauci who's been very instrumental and government efforts to confront the coronavirus pandemic his personal emails were released through a freedom of information act uh request and it's sort of amusing to watch him go through that because of course many of us have gone through that there have been all sorts of efforts to try to discredit us because of the implications of our science the implications that are inconvenient to for example some powerful fossil fuel interests and so one of the means that they've used is literally to steal to hack into you know university web servers to steal emails and they stole a number of my emails many other scientist emails and they would take things out of context for example in science you know we often refer in fact some of you probably have used the term um you know in your algebra homework or what have you hey there's a trick to solving that problem a trick in science and math means a clever but not obvious approach to solving a problem to to um you know a a sort of shortcut um a clever sort of um uh sort of uh way around the problem um so it's a good thing it's you know scientists and mathematicians look for tricks uh to solving difficult problems uh but if you take that out of context hey look these scientists they were talking about tricks clearly they're trying to trick the public they're lying about climate change these are the sorts of attacks that we were subject to again because there were some powerful interests who wanted to see our work discredited ultimately there were a number of investigations that looked into it and there was no impropriety revealed by these emails the only wrongdoing that was revealed was the criminal theft of the emails in the first place but you have to grow a thick skin and you have to be ready for these sorts of assaults if you're going to be a public figure in areas like climate change where there is great conflict and contentiousness thank you so much students are curious about um how you got your idea about the data collection that you did can you explain where you where your thinking started yeah thanks um so originally my phd research in graduate school actually didn't involve climate change i was interested in studying very long-term cycles in the climate uh oscillations in the climate record long-term oscillations and we were um you know interested in understanding whether there are some very long-term natural oscillations well the instrumental record of temperatures thermometer based temperature measurements around the world only go back about a century and a half so if you're interested in seeing if there are much longer term patterns of variation uh back in time then those thermometer records aren't adequate you need to try to extend the record back in time and i ended up doing getting a postdoctoral fellowship from the department of energy that allowed me to come to the university of massachusetts and work with one of the leading experts in the world in uh studying long-term longer-term records which we call proxy records that's raymond bradley in the geosciences department and so we ended up looking at things like tree rings and corals and ice cores and lake sediments in fact i worked with another umass professor julie brigham gretty and a student of hers tammy rittenhour we were actually looking at lake deposits that go back thousands of years to try to understand the longer term patterns and we had all of these records from different parts of new england that covered different time periods as the glaciers moved north at the end of the last ice age and left behind these lakes as they melted there were these series of lakes and you can look at the sediments but there was a piece missing we would have had a four thousand year record but there was one piece missing that we needed to fill in and we finally determined where the optimal place to find those lake sediments was it was the soccer field at the university of massachusetts we ended up drilling down through the umass soccer field because that was a pro-glacial lake that was once part of the glacial lake hitchcock that was left behind as the ice sheets melted so we have these long-term records i was interested in in what they can tell us about the natural variation in climate but when we piece together the puzzle of how the climate changed in the deep past it gave us this result the hockey stick shape this dramatic warming of the last century which is like the blade of a hockey stick um and so it had implications for climate change even though it wasn't climate change that drove our interest in that work in the first place and that's a lesson about science it's sort of what i call a random walk you don't really know where it's going to lead you and we'd like to think that everything is well planned out in the project and you've got the grant and you know exactly what you're going to do but in fact it's just like life you learn things along the way certain things don't work out you get lucky um and and sometimes science takes this erratic path and so it's about using your your mind but it's also sometimes about following your heart i'm using your intuition as to where to go what to investigate thank you that that was really helpful um there are a number of questions here we have a few minutes left a couple minutes left um around what um actions people might be able to take to stop climate change so for example question is do trees help climate change more than solar panels is there a technology um that can be used to stop storms so what are some actions that might solutions that you can talk about yeah great questions folks um and i wish we had more time for q a i should spend less time talking and more time addressing your questions um great question there are so many things we can do and there's no magic bullet um we need individual actions of course things that we can do to decrease our own environmental impact and our own carbon footprint um uh you know bicycling rather than driving if you know you guys aren't driving yet but um encouraging your your family to use more fuel efficient uh transportation um you know changing your diet in a way that's climate friendlier more vegetables less meat um there are million things you can do individually but the most important thing you can do is use your voice and demand action and part of the reason i'm optimistic that we are going to rise to this you know this immense challenge to avert catastrophic climate change is because of folks like you the youth climate movement kids your age who have marched out on the streets uh i hasten to say actually struck it went on strike against school every friday i don't want you to necessarily do that but they used creative ways of getting their message out because you know kids aren't in a position of um of authority yet they can't make policies they can't even vote you guys can't even vote yet and yet we are making decisions today that will have you know a great consequence for the world that you inherit and so there's so many ways to use your voice and use it um speak out about climate change make sure that the adults in your life are aware of the crisis that this represents and how it threatens your future in particular um and that's the most important thing you can do be the change as gandhi said you wish to see in the world i would say one more thing if i may a good friend of mine you guys might know bill nye bill nye the science guy um you know bill likes to say at the end of his um you know public presentations he'll say change the world i like to tweak that a bit change the world for the better thank you so much dr manon um i'm glad to hear you talk about those steps because our students are in fact already engaged in those um they are very using using their voice um learning about the variety of solutions that that people can take um and today's workshop um is gonna be continuing that so we're doing an entire day here at amherst middle school where students are going to be attending workshops and learning about both the action steps in terms of using their voice and and civics as well as the science and the solutions um so we're bringing it all together in our day and um i'm so happy to have you be our kickoff for it it was very appropriate to have not only an incredible and esteemed expert on on climate change but a graduate of amherst schools it's my pleasure thank you so much our very very last question and um if you don't mind i might send you some of the questions from the chat in an email and we can maybe get back to the students later sure the ones that we didn't get to but um i know you're busy very busy so we'll let you go in just a moment but the last question is what elementary school did you go to i went to wildwood elementary i grew up on wildwood lane in a house just uh just up on a hill uh wildwood lane um right near the uh the cemetery and the pond and i would walk uh to to wildwood elementary school uh every morning uh for kindergarten and then elementary school so yeah then we ended up moving uh later on uh other side of town sunset avenue um just down amity street from the town center and the the walk to school was it was much longer at that point well thank you so much again dr mann for um taking your time out of your busy schedule to talk with us about climate change and your and your work um we truly appreciate it and uh students uh you can and teachers you can go ahead and say thank you in the chat i see that folks are already doing that and um we're gonna get ready uh to move on and and uh i really just appreciate so much you taking your time out today so thank you well thank you dr laroche it was great talking with you and with the students and arms you make us proud change the world for the better thanks everyone you
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rock is red glare the balls bursting in air gave proof through the night that our flag was still there does the star spangled [Music] and the home of the hub please be seated district committee members honored guests administration faculty parents family members friends and most importantly the amazing greater lawrence technical school class of 2021 bienvenidos and good evening thank you for joining us as we celebrate the accomplishments of the greater lawrence technical school class of 2021 my name is susan zielinski and i'm the interim principal it is my pleasure this evening to introduce our honored guests here seated on the stage first our district committee members marilyn fitzgerald from the town of andover zoyla disla assistant treasurer from the city of lawrence leo lamontagne from the city of lawrence vivian marmal vice chairperson from the city of lawrence and frank cerullo chairperson from the city of methuen we are also fortunate to have honored guests join us this evening as well state representative mr frank moran the honorable mayor of lawrence kendra's vasquez we are proud to have our very own cassandra jean-marie class of 2016 as our keynote speaker this evening i also want to recognize a special member of our faculty who is out here somewhere with us tonight mr thomas hayden glts class of 1976 and senior auto body instructor for 27 years his presence here tonight is nothing short of a miracle before we proceed however i'd like to take a moment and ask for a moment of silence in memory of gloria gigi mendez a former member of our class of 2021 gloria was a loving daughter and sister an amazing friend to many reggies here tonight gigi came to glts during the summer of her eighth grade and was a force to be reckoned with from her very first day at glts gigi had a vivacious personality and was so full of life please join me in a brief moment of silence in memory of gloria mendes thank you this is a monumental night for the entire greater lawrence tech community as we are gathered here in person for the 2021 graduation ceremony and what a great night it is seniors you've been on the run to 2021 and what a run it has been for all of you some days it may have seemed like you were jogging while other days may have seemed like more of a sprint there may have been hurdles along the way but you continue to navigate the path brilliantly you began your journey freshman year trying to traverse a large school make new friends choose a career get involved in your school community through sports clubs and activity this presented many hurdles but you persevered and kept right on running sophomore year arrived and the impact of gas explosions was felt among our sending communities and our school yet another hurdle you faced and bested junior year marked the beginning of the pandemic you faced challenges that included remote learning and fear of the unknown the way you normally learned was altered but you worked so hard to overcome and adapt to 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okay good evening everyone today is wednesday june 2nd and i call the regular meeting of the brookfield board of education to order um before we start with the pledge i just wanted to remind everyone that tonight we are going to be adhering to mask wearing policies we are still indoors in a school facility so we're going to ask that you keep your mass on tonight and with that let's stand for the pledge on their way um but we are very pleased to be here in person tonight because uh we are here first and foremost to recognize staff and students and so the first item on our agenda i'm very pleased the board would like to recognize the following teachers of the year and i would just ask that when you hear your name called please come up and if you're comfortable shaking our hands with the board members and we have a little something for you so at center elementary school rosa barrero [Applause] huckleberry hill school d pearson [Applause] middle school kayla ryan so and at brookfield high school also the district teacher of the year social studies teacher chris buckley okay the board would also like to recognize the following 2021 staff members of the year at center elementary school beth o'connor thank at huckleberry hill school renee byrne [Applause] dennis hill [Applause] and at the town school office terry cavanaugh okay and the board would also like to recognize the top 10 graduating seniors from brookfield high school class of 2021 for their academic achievements and with that i'd like to invite mr bellanda up to properly introduce them i'll try turning it on there we go that'll work you all right you sweating yet okay it's okay if i could call you up at the same time i would you can get off the stage but um so it's my pleasure tonight to introduce uh our top 10 students for the graduating class of 2021 at brookfield high school in no particular order i'm going to start on the far left side and so our first student i'm going to introduce and bring up to the podium i'd like you when you come up to say your name where you plan on going to school your possible major and then get ready because as i told you the board might ask some questions okay so our first student is mahika yara okay so it is customary for board members to ask our top 10 graduating seniors a couple of questions um so since your first year it's going to be easy we'll get some softball questions first um oh yeah absolutely go ahead share with us where you're going hi my name is and i'll be going to stony brook university majoring in biochemistry would you say was your best memory from bhs oh there's so many to choose from um i'd say i can't choose the best story but my most recent favorite memory was definitely seeing everybody at the prom because this year has just been so difficult with covid and everything so we were all doing social distancing and distance learning so we're all remote um but the teachers and the staff really tried really hard to make sure that we were still like talking to each other and they all pulled together to make this prom like the best it could be under the circumstances so it was really nice to get to see everybody in person one more time before graduation and you know foster those friendships and see all those teachers again so i say that was one of my most recent best memories that's a good one [Applause] um yeah so one of the ones that i was in was hosa so that's health occupation students of america and um that was one that i joined freshman year and it really introduced me to the different occupations in the healthcare field and they have a conference that we go to every spring that they brought in different people across the healthcare field whether that was doctors or health administrators and they really showed us that there's a variety of different careers in the healthcare field and something else that i'm a part of is creative writing and that was just a nice creative outlet to go through because you know going through academics can be stressful sometimes and so having like a creative outlet was really nice [Applause] so mr velven's here so just get ready he has some tough questions i'm so excited he's here and avarice is now sweating because he realizes like if i keep going this way he's nervous uh so our next student introduced um would be grace hodginostan [Applause] hello my name is grace hagenosto i will be attending gordon college in massachusetts and my major will be mathematics and neuroscience so my daughter's entering high school on next year what would be the best piece of advice you have to give her there's definitely a lot of advice that is helpful but i think something that i've truly benefited from is taking challenging classes and even though it might seem maybe a little terrifying at first i think that has truly benefited me and helped me be very prepared for college and beyond and it's also helped me foster relationships with both my peers and teachers because we've been able to meet after school and also zoom this past year to go over difficult concepts which has truly been a great experience for me [Music] is there a particular teacher or class that had the biggest impact on you uh i would say mr vistasio definitely had a great impact on me he was my honors pre-practice teacher last year and my ap calculus bc teacher this year and i just seen him be such a genuine teacher and also been able to teach very difficult concepts like calculus in a not a simpler way but just a way that really helps us all understand it better and he's able to cater to all of our different types of learning and also he carves out a huge amount of time to help us and give us your help sessions like even on the weekends and during during weekdays even when it's during dinner time or when he might have already had plans he likes to make sure that he has room to always work with us so i've truly been blessed to have him thank you yes mr estacio did a saturday uh practice ap test a couple weeks back uh all right i was debating switching it up to give you a break but since jess recognized me at the reception before and thanked me i'm going to go with jessica so come on up jessica um hello my name is jessica huang and i'll be going to to northeastern university in the fall and i'm studying computer science she just said that it would be a layup for me asking you computer science gonna do questions so northeastern what a great college i mean what that's my son is a phd candidate in northeastern right now what is it about northeastern other than the academics that attracted me there oh there's so much well besides the academics i love that it's located in the heart of boston and it gives you so many opportunities to have internships like right in boston and as well as their co-op opportunities how i think it's like a thing to have about two co-ops in your career for undergraduate so i love how northeastern prioritizes real world experiences and that's what really draws me towards it as well study abroad programs and the whole environment and what they value is really important to me and i really appreciate that is what particularly in brookfield has helped prepare you for that oh i have to say to teachers like um you're mentioned that before in the library um all the teachers that are invited today there's a reason why you're invited you guys are great teachers and that's really what um drives us to do better and i have to say that like especially the math department has been really influential to me for deciding to major comp side possibly minor stats all the teachers have built me up and taught me life lessons and taught me how to have a great work ethic do things on time really they have encouraged me to do better and i love that about our faculty okay so if someone happened to be putting together a basket for a senior what is one thing you would definitely want in it number one thing or top three [Music] i have to say northeastern sweatshirt at the moment because i don't have one anything else honestly that's kind of good at the moment up next every one [Applause] all right uh hello everyone my name is avery huang and i'm also going to be studying computer science at european state university avery is jess your sister nope so what do you love about computer science uh i would have to say it lets you do so much like just like take your imagination and make a reality if you you know know how to program and know what you're trying to do it just lets you do so much with it it lets you make games it lets you make artificial intelligences it's a very large spectrum of things you can do well speaking of that then what do you plan on doing with your degree um graduate research maybe not really sure yet i guess so i'm just warming up guys so we're the board of education right if you were looking back over your experience here in brookfield what would you advise us to work on to improve you brookfield i think it would be simpler if you pulled a question from the ap calculus test and asked me that um we're as a board of education we've all raised our hand and said our whole goal in life is to make our schools as good as they can get and you've been a student here you've gotten some good things out of brookfield there's probably things you said and that could have been better what are the things that could have been better and you won't hurt our feelings by the way i guess i would say like offering more progress but in at least in front of high school students can just make clubs as they wish um i guess uh better technology at the high school let me just make it a follow on that so in terms of you're going to be a computer programmer and by the way i was computer programming in statistics that's why i didn't ask you questions on statistics and computer programming equipment programs around that area did you find you have enough or did you find yourself asking for more in general i had enough i was fortunate to have my own device for school but even in the um computer labs like those computers were always enough for what we needed to do the programs thank you [Applause] actually i'm going to say it differently it's elvenbee at us.ibm.com [Applause] computer science so i'm wondering um so you're going to have two friends at northeastern already which is great how do you think about um sort of making your own path in a new place even though you have some familiar friends to rely on how much you do that how are you thinking about that um so i would also actually think about that question just in general which is very nice and i kind of know how to answer it um i would say although i did there's definitely friends i'm going to have at northeaster that i already know i do have like specific interests i was thinking about enjoying maybe like the rock climbing club or there's just so many different things to do at northeastern and i think just with our like the nuances and our interests we're just going to eventually branch out and find other people one way or another so i'm not really too worried about that so i think it'll just happen kind of organically how have you persevered through this past year have i persevered through this past year um staying home a lot trying to stay motivated always trying to keep in touch with all your friends because you can't really see them in person and once we started getting the person just making sure you keep those connections never really forget uh like how you have your uh like i guess it's gonna sound cliche but your determination originally like i used to work when there used to be a lot more stuff to do and just kind of like sticking to your passions even if you're not really feeling about um so one thing that always interests me is that we sit here at you know close to your graduation and we're usually talking about colleges and we're talking about your high school career i've always been interested in what was it earlier in your life that most influenced you in middle school and elementary school at home what what what has formed adarsh as a person not related to whatever you want to talk about um i would say i've always been involved in community service i think since like i don't know maybe i could walk my parents do community service all my grandparents my aunts my uncles were just always involved in that so ever since i can remember i've always been doing anything related to helping the community and actually at uh bhs i was in key club red cross nhs and i did i had my own math club on the side that i ran so anything i guess helping the community and just kind of just by starting to do that i just kind of started um like interacting with all sorts of people you see people from all different types of uh different walks of life and it just kind of opens you up to a world kind of um yeah i guess you're just getting more experiences meeting new people and yeah that's how [Applause] all right next up we'll go to ian bells [Applause] hello everyone i'm ian bellis i will not be going to northeastern for computer science i'll be going to springfield college to study physical therapy [Applause] physical therapy um what what do you spend time here with panic what are you most grateful for let's see i'm grateful obviously for my family we've been able to stay together and stay healthy this entire time we've managed to figure out things to just you know stay happy stay positive we weren't able to like get all over the place and go out and do any like anything over these past couple of months this past year but we've managed to work with what we have and had a good time and you know make it to today we're all still here while still happy so yeah i'd say i'm very grateful for my family and helping me get through this so what draws it to the human body and biology in general um ap bio sophomore year was it rocked my world like hardest class i've taken to date but i just become entranced and everything um in that class you know it was a challenge but i learned more than i'd ever learned in my life so that was the like scientific aspect of it and then on the other side i played soccer since i was like two years old i played basketball i run and all that so i it was kind of like a perfect combination for me between the two aspects that really got me into the field hi han i'm wondering now that you're a senior and you're looking back over the last four years is there anything you wish you've done differently it's kind of bittersweet but um you know like all of us here we've all worked really hard to get here but sometimes you can work too hard maybe study a little too much instead of you know so like it's almost a piece of advice i would give to get out and have fun like there's a perfect balance you can have that i learned later on in high school where you can go out hang out with your friends you know have a have a fun night while also still getting the good grades and making it onto this stage so that's one thing i would uh offer as advice [Applause] up next this afternoon is paul kirkjee [Applause] uh hi um i'm paul kirchy and i will be majoring in chemical engineering at carnegie mellon this fall how would you describe the culture at vhs and or in brookfield think of your whole um i'd say that honestly the culture here is it's pretty good i'd say i'd say definitely the teachers are very supportive of the students just along the way in general since elementary school and i'd also say that the students you know um i think for the most part people are generally really friendly to each other um and honestly i'd say that's really sparked like good collaboration and generally i'd like to see a lot more of that in college and i think i'll get that that's what i've heard about elise carnegie it's a very collaborative school and i mean i am i don't know if i'm looking forward to much in terms of change necessarily i mean i like to see um that i'm just in a community that's like very full of driven people who are all very um i guess laser focused on their goals i guess that'll be a good change oh boy so i've got two the first one is what do you know about buggy races oh i know they have um they have an annual buggy race at carnegie mellon yeah i forget the name of the partnership whatever you do do it okay it is so much fun i will so um and uh and i guess the question i have about brookfield is you know you've done a lot of different things here in your career at the school um who is it that influenced you the most that's not the teacher or the principal uh i'm just trying to think of a specific person's person maybe i'll say i'll say my older sister honestly because i think um if it weren't for her i wouldn't have um driven for um as high of achievements and academics because she kind of set a good example for me in that regard and i think um i saw what she did and i think it kind of you know motivated me to kind of try to do the same because i think it put her in a good position and i think it definitely it definitely really helped and put me in a good position for the future in college [Applause] this has been good practice for two of our speakers up here because they'll be speaking at graduation um you know it is my pleasure to introduce the class of 2021 valedictorian matangana cheri hi everyone my name is matani military and i will be studying economics at the wharton school at the university of pennsylvania so i'm wondering you're entering in a field that is probably traditionally more male dominated how do you see your role as a young female entering that field and what challenges might you anticipate oh boy um well i think that the mindset that i've always had is if you act smart people will think you're smart so i think just going into it i'm gonna be confident and i'm not gonna let guys treat me like i'm not smart so so brookfield and philadelphia are very different what are you most excited about in learning about philadelphia i mean i think the obvious answer is brookfield is a suburb and philly's a city a big city and so just going into it i'm excited to meet so many new people i'm excited to try so many new foods and just the idea that there's always going to be something going on any day of the week if you go out to try and find something hi what positive outcome or aspect has come out of this past year for you uh like in relation to the pandemic or just the whole year um i mean it's been a rough year for everyone but i think one thing that i've actually been doing more of is trying to set a goal for myself to make more friends and reach out to more people realizing that the pandemic is kind of representative of later life sometimes you're not going to be in school every day seeing people every day so you're going to have to work harder to go out and meet people if you want to keep staying in contact and hanging out with people so something that i've actually been doing more of is reaching out and getting closer to more people this year [Applause] up next is by far the best dressed student hands down i'm rocking some argyle socks to the influences that uh mr chris estinal our class of 2021 salutatorian christ uh hello everyone my name is christopher esnal i'll be attending yale next fall and studying molecular and cellular biology with a possible minor in american history or gender studies all right well you have most likely been very focused on your academics uh for the past probably several years uh what would you say is a personal goal of yours as you grow as a young adult um i would say this goes along with kind of like a regret i had um leaving high school it's like kind of bittersweet because i've like made so many amazing friends like right at the end of my high school experience and i was always so scared i always had like a pretty good group of friends um throughout my four years i always made sure i had like a solid group but i was always so scared to reach out to reach out to people that i thought were different from me in like any way possible um and i so i think moving forward one of my biggest goals is to surround myself um with people who uh can challenge me to think differently um and will open up my perspective and my my thoughts and how i see the world which i'll be able to definitely get so i'm so interested in your two majors which are so different what attracts you to each of those fields um so yeah so um cellular biology uh i've always loved uh science like starting freshman year my freshman honors bio class with miss beyondcarey it was what started my my love for science and so ever since then i've wanted to go into the health field possibly medicine maybe research and i just love biology so much and i'm interested in american history because my hands down my favorite class junior year was my ap united states history class with miss blake um and i had up until taking that class i had hated history i didn't understand why we needed to sit in a stuffy room trying to memorize facts doing debates things like that i just didn't like history i liked math and science um and after taking that class i realized that history is probably one of like the most if not the most important um class in high school because you you learn how to like contextualize the world and better understand the world you're living in um whether it's um whether it's gender inequality or race riots or um anything like that economic troubles um when you understand history you are a more informed person um and i can use it for medicine medical anthropology um so yeah that's why awesome as a history teacher i thank you you're welcome and last but not least you know her as our board of education student representative but we're happy to introduce as part of the top ten uh tandy china hi i'm chambi chanru and i will be attending boston university majoring in europe science i know i asked this before but what club or activity or sport did you engage in throughout your high school career that really positive impact on you um i think the one with the most positive impact was the girls swim and dive team freshman year i joined that team and i hated it because it was so hard compared to middle school but i think just continuing doing that sport i met so many great people and that team is just such a close group of people that i met so many lifelong friends from that team as well hold on what was the most challenging part of your senior year i would definitely say the distance learning part of senior year um i know everyone already has like senioritis as a thing and the distance learning did not help at all because i was doing work for my bed um but i think i kind of self-motivated and i had my friends to motivate me because i don't i have had many thoughts of just like oh i don't have to do that assignment because you know i don't want to but like i just have that self thing where i have to do good and like my friends are like pushing me and they're all like working hard so i'm like okay we'll work together so i think just having each other was very important so i'll start by making a comment bu and northeastern aren't very far apart stay connected with your brookfield friends northeastern was an option i chose the universe they are very close so um one of the nice things about boston is there's so many universities that you can you have an immediate network from people from brookfield who've been there and then your network will all grow and then that becomes friends of friends and friends and it's always great to see in boston so um my question is about the board here you've been our representative and i want to from all of us appreciate you know than your participation in our board meetings thank you what have you learned the most from your time that you've spent with us um i learned that there's a lot that goes into the school um i know mr velandez told me like oh you can leave once you're done with like your part but i've stayed and there's like an insane amount of subcommittees about like small things that you wouldn't think so i guess it's just like a lot of gratitude of like having to run the whole district and not just brookfield high school because i'm just representing the high school students so just like all the work in it is very important you went through all 13 years in brookfield right um almost i moved here in the middle of first grade so basically basically so looking back on all those years not just high school is there a teacher or staff member or administrator or coach that really made an impact on you throughout those years um most of my team no all of my teachers have had an impact on me but specifically i know this was a while ago but my fourth grade teacher mrs cirillo had a big impact on me just like moving on to middle school and high school um she just saw that like i was able to do more and she always gave me extra stuff to challenge me and like going into middle school i was able to like skip a greater math because she was able to push me and like give me fractions when other people were doing multiplication like things like that so definitely say thanks to [Applause] [Music] would like to thank you for here service to the board of ed thank you so much [Applause] stay close but congratulations again to the top 10 seniors all of our teachers and staff all right the next item on our agenda is public comment is anyone here for that is report so okay so for the final time i'm tandy cheneru as a brookfield high school student representative um so seniors had prom on the 21st and 22nd which was so much fun and as a part of student council everything really came together super well and way better than expected so we definitely can thank mr belanda mr buckley and all the parents that helped with donations and setting everything up um most ap tests are over except there's still a couple left like i still have statistics on june 10th which is like last day school but we'll get there um sports have finished swc's and have started states so some sports like baseball are still going through their state tournaments juniors and seniors have one more event to look forward to before graduation which is the powder puff game on june 7th which will be held after school senior awards night is next tuesday the 8th at 7 30 here in the auditorium where students will be presented with academic and athletics achievement certificates and scholarship scholarships from the high school and local organizations and for those who can't come it will also be live streamed the distribution of caps gowns tassels and tickets for graduation start on june 9th from 1 30 to 3 30 in the cafeteria there will be a graduation rehearsal on june 11th at noon at the vhs stadium outside on the turf where grad party will also distribute additional raffle prizes and grand prizes and finally graduation is coming up super soon on june 12th where like i've said before there'll be the parade from the with from wisconsin to the high school and then the outdoor ceremony after that and that's all thank you thank you tommy great job this year we're very proud of you and good luck with everything thank you so much have a great end of the year curriculum [Music] uh approval of board minutes um the next item is the superintendent's update thank you rosa i'll be brief this evening um i wanted to first uh some additional recognitions i think the board is aware of the celebration and recognition of mrs dumbald our fourth grade long-term substitute with the regional impact award from ess we're very proud of her and thank her for subbing in and being the teacher for our students during a very difficult transition and we couldn't thank her enough and also our high school security guard and coach of many sports coach nick castellano nick was recognized by the southwestern conference as the unified sports coach of the year so it's an annual honor for only one coach for all the seasons for unified sports and our only castellano was recognized we couldn't be more proud of him coded update very brief in terms of our school numbers and town numbers we continue to hold that downward trend uh one case so far this week only one case last week so we really are doing well let's not forget last weekend not memorial day weekend but the weekend before we had two different uh prom celebrations for our senior class and as far as we know there are no positive cases that came out of that so we really are able to it's a credit to the high school team and the students themselves and the values the families have instilled on the students about how to behave and get through this pandemic and still have a great time and you heard some of the kids talk about that tonight so we're really proud of everybody there in addition to that um to follow up with some of what time do you was just talking about mr belanda is working for this coming fro next friday june 11th to be an early release day for grades 9 10 and 11 and the 12th graders will stay for graduation rehearsal um you may recall that in typical years we had exams so there's four or five short days where seniors have those opportunities with the administration and their teachers to work on graduation rehearsal we're going to be on a shortened schedule for that this year so june 11th mr glenn will get notification out to the students and family soon the other piece is it's my final uh piece of the report this evening i sent out an update j-1 yesterday and that was in regard to opening the school year in the fall i know we're talking about closing school right now and all the celebrations but one of the requirements from the state department of education is that our reopening plan from this year is updated with a safe opening and continuing continuity of learning plan to that end it is a requirement the plan is to ensure that everybody in the state is in five days a week we are already in five days per week so one of the pieces to this is that if it is a requirement so i sent out the updated version of the plan uh some people i think we're disappointed that there's not that many updates to it and that's because we don't have the new guidance from cdc dph local health department and state department of education there are still many things out there we don't know such as masking distancing cohorting quarantine regulations we have to wait on all of that uh most superintendents i talked to we're hopeful we get that information sooner than later and we'll make sure we disseminate that to everybody as time goes on so that is my report for this evening i don't know if anybody has any questions all right thank you thank you uh okay so we had a great meeting about a week ago um our first was a presentation which i'm not going to say too much about because it looks like he's on our agenda mr keith johnson gave i'll just give you a preview a really cool presentation about world languages um and about what kids are doing with technology so i'm going to save it all for him but it was really really great we were super impressed and then our second item of our agenda we had a discussion that joy and mike led really focusing in on ensuring objectivity in our curriculum and of sourcing of information with the teaching of current events and non-biased teaching and we had a good honest conversation about really how difficult this is in the times we're living in we know we're living in sort of hyper partisan times we know it's challenging for teachers but we know it's really important and and that teachers present both sides of an issue and offer sources of different sides of the issue we acknowledge our support of teachers that maybe additional professional development could even sharpen their skills we acknowledge that really what's the skill students need and it was great to hear from christopher about the importance of really understanding context and point of view in analyzing history and why that's so important so that was really exciting to hear that because i echoed a lot of our discussion at our meeting and dr ruby shared that um the building leadership um has been reviewing the board's related policies on current events uh with their staff to make sure that the policy is reviewed and that there's a common understanding amongst the staff so a really important timely topic that we really want to support our teachers in doing really the great work of helping kids grapple with difficult issues uh and that was our meeting for last week and we're looking forward to hearing more from mr johnson okay thank you any questions all right special finance subcommittee i will be very brief this evening we met on may 26th it was a preview discussion for the arp esser that's on the agenda tonight so i'm not going to say anything more we actually got a preview and gave some input and advice and had some good is the discussions agenda i'll move that the board approve the items on the consent agenda which are resignations and retirements second all in favor just like to say a brief congratulations and wish susan schmidt our huckleberry uh technology uh person uh susan has been with the district for 32 years she started off as a teaching assistant um and that was the former term for paraeducators and uh so she's been with the districts the district quite a long time we thank her for all of her service and we know she's going to have an extremely active and busy time in retirement we just look forward to all the best for her and thank her for just incredible over three decades of service to brookfield so congratulations susan [Applause] yes dr ruby's up to introduce mr johnson so we're really pleased that mr johnson was able to come again this week to present what he's going to share with us is a really i think excellent example of the work that we've done this year in all of the schools with a variety of teachers and that we need to continue to do this is one of the i think the positive outcomes of what we have experienced with the pandemic because we've been hearing about one-to-one technology in different districts for a number of years and we've been trying to increase the number of devices that we have available to our students but the real question is not how many devices you have it's what you do with them and we know that sometimes districts have purchased ipads or chromebooks or whatever the device of the of the year was for students and they became glorified notepads so with the the pandemic and the need to have distance learning and really support our educators in using technology we availed ourselves of the services of jackie whiting who is a technology integration specialist at ces which is in trumbull it's a one of the rests and i was able to procure a grant for her services and she started work at before the grant came in she started work at the high school and worked with every single department and then we moved down into the middle school and the elementary schools and so all teachers and all all the departments at the high school and pockets of teachers that would be teacher leaders in the other schools have been trained in our initial efforts to really capture the power of technology in um educating our students and so i don't know kevin if you wanted to say anything at all you're just here for support because kevin has really taken this you know the bull by the horn so to speak with the world language folks and keith is here to show you exactly what can happen when we support our educators to use technology for the benefit of education kevin did you want to say anything just having keith on the hot seat a little bit longer thank you dr rizzi good evening everybody um i wanted to once again thank uh dr ruby for bringing uh jackie whiting the innovation and technology specialist from ces to each of our buildings and uh really i'm here to present our uh world language team member mr keith johnson he is our current french and spanish teacher at um wisconsin middle school and we were fortunate enough to adam on our team just a couple of years ago and really keith is here because he is a true innovator and pioneer with uh technology and bringing it into the world language classroom and i can't tell you you know how many conversations keith and i have had outside of the classroom he's devoted so much time to this project and you'll see how it really comes out in this presentation and without further ado here is mr keith johnson [Applause] so yes fantastic all right so thank you for giving me this opportunity i've been uh waiting since uh i think 2 24 today at school to give this uh this presentation so if i don't know it now um yes i am here i'm fortunate enough to have uh you know we were all of us we received good i think some really good professional development on the technology and one of them caught my attention was flipgrid and so i explored flipgrid and wondered how i could use that in the world languages there it is all right good and so good many of you are probably aware of it you might have used it or your children have used it and basically it's a learning platform where teachers will create these classroom groups and they'll put in a topic question there's something of course related to the the unit that they're studying and uh the students respond and they can record themselves via video which is the primary you know that's what you do with flipgrid you can also do it through just written or audio but it's primarily just recording the videos and then there's the grid pals same exact thing however is applied throughout the world and currently there are about 40 over 40 000 schools throughout the world that are participating in grid pals right now um and as far as as far as world languages are concerned uh i think it narrows it down to about 900 which is all the different topics so this isn't just world language this is something that many of the other disciplines can use and so yes it gives these students an opportunity to communicate here here it is why use it but you know this intercultural experience i mean how often as a world language teacher do we try to bring some of these videos to life and everything like that um in order to activate these this student learn and get their engagement uh going and um that here we have it we have this opportunity where students in the other schools in there you know they're trying to learn english we're trying to learn either spanish or french and we are addressing issues or talking about a particular topic and so the students are really there's that authentic audience that they have for one there isn't as these made up things they teach we do our best in there but there is just nothing like this in all my years of teaching that i've encountered and i'm sure there are many other uh you know technology uh uh technological uh device that that they can use our different types of apps or different platforms they can use but i found this extremely effective increases their engagement i think if if most of the students at the end of the year i always have a reflection for them and if they had if they talked about what if i asked them which i will what is the most memorable thing they have i imagine most of that would say being able to communicate with these students in other countries in their target language so it's very of course it's meaningful and it can be applied to like i said i'm imagining it can be social studies i'm at the middle school level but language arts you name it it could be applied so how do i how do we access it you have your flipgrid account and there's this little icon you click on it and you can set up your own description of of the class of the uh of our student class so i would put in my name brookfield connecticut and at the grade levels in a middle school level and a world language teacher with spanish wrenching and uh provide that contact information i did a little note there seeking parental consent that's just not just written pals but also the flip grid in general that went out i think that does it with certain whether technology using certain technology or what that has to go out there but even if a parent wanted their child to opt out of it the student can still participate in it just not they're not recording themselves but they can still watch the other videos and they can still if they want to they can respond to either audio or typing as well just in text so as you can see here look at all these little dots well those in the u.s those are all the ones that are participating in grid pals right now and i just focused on this little section here of central america northern part of south america those are the ones that that still hasn't been filtered because it's much less than that dealing with world language but uh just to give you an idea roughly of the schools that are participating and so how do we collaborate well i put the filters in set that up and then uh i would go you saw all those little dots they just go back you see all those dots i would say all right i'm interested i try to set my students up with a school in columbia i go in and click on that and there would be the little right arc on on the school let me just say without the teacher's name and what grade levels age and what whether it's languages it might have science on there who knows but i've already filtered it out so just wrote languages and then i'd reach out i would just reach out to them i click on it it's a little email and say hey listen we're at wisconsin middle school brookfield connecticut i have so many students are you interested in partnering having a partnership or collaborating with my students and you know it might be discouraging because sometimes you won't hear back from them right they may have just too much too many things going on especially nowadays coded and everything or they may say oh they might get back here and say i have uh sorry i'm already i'm already collaborating with three other schools maybe another time but once you get that first connection and i'll show you later about four i have four schools that are participating with my students it's just it's so amazing at the end of course i saved the description at the end you'll see some of the students showcasing them right so how you collaborate i did that uh and make i just have to make sure i think the teachers if i ever do uh i get a chance to either coach or give them a uh give some advice on how to do this you share your upcoming units tell them what you're pacing like i'm covering this in september this is november such and such and uh you gotta you gotta be proactive you gotta communicate constantly with these teachers uh because they're all busy and it's easy to forget you get caught up in things it's easy to forget um in order to harbor you gotta like i said you gotta communicate sorry about it um and so we gotta negotiate topics like in my i might have a unit and all of a sudden the teacher proposes a different topic and i somehow will try to relate it i said i just can't pass this up put on others on hold a little bit let's dive right into this because you can still you can still uh work on different types of learning modes whether it's interpersonal intercultural presentational interpretive types of learning modes in the language so sometimes you just don't want to pass up those opportunities all right and i'm almost there um and so i usually assign them somewhere between midway and towards the end of the unit because they develop the skills uh they have enough vocabulary enough expressions uh you know whether they just have to feel comfortable enough in order to explain themselves if i throw a certain topic question at them and it usually takes me about two or three class periods to do this um what i have them do is they're writing they're typing working on their scripts those scripts or what they're going to end up it's like many little uh oral presentations almost right they're going to be work they're working on that so they share with me at google doc that way i can monitor and see what they're doing give them guidance and also i have them share with the students other students in their class so they can peer edit and peer you know give them that little that feedback that they need say hey you're missing this or why don't you add this this is great and then each day i'll show example ours of students who actually like it's really like really nice what they've done and that way students can actually visualize and see okay this is what we're going after all right so let's see different types of griptile assignments all right we have the related topics of course and the initial introduction is great because they're doing it they do it in the target language and then they also do it in english i like them to introduce in spanish and french and also like part two is in english as well that way the other student then other students they're trying to learn english they can understand everything especially the introduction so video recordings questions uh presentations a presentation on anything even could be science projects they could present a science project and then you connect with a a group at a school in indonesia or singapore or you know anywhere in asia and and um and get their feedback from peers and other you know that are trying to learn english it's fantastic and then of course i put giving opinions read poetry that ties into zoo meetings because i have this uh monday to have a zoom meeting scheduled to a group in argentina uh one of the schools i'm collaborating with and um and it's great as far as zoom meetings one uh one breakout room will be all in spanish the other one could be all in english and then we have different topics like all right this breakout room is going to deal with cooking this jacob room's going to deal with sports this breakout room and so and then i'm there just navigating down to like pulling kids out okay we're done in this tough you want to go on the other one they're kind of jumping around and everything and it's really exciting i've done it a couple times so far already for my french class grade 8 but this is a grade seven and i got permission from the other teachers all the other classes during that period of my spanish students are going to participate in it too it should be interesting so now those those are the schools that i have so far and the great thing is about is each one of those most likely will continue next year as well in subsequent years because it's been such a positive experience so bordeaux france on the on the western side of france uh maxine that's on the riviera and that's really a tough life there wait do you see your presentation you'll just say okay why am i living there raphael argent argentina that's the one i have this monday and then in spain northwestern uh part of spain so let's see if i can activate this yes so the topic question was let's see you have to uh demonstrate what you do in the kitchen you have five or seven different actions that you do most likely it is related to cooking um you know cooking a particular meal and let's see we'll start off with we want to see uh where we want to see their students only up four that's it so and i won't have you see the whole thing because we'll be here for a while i'll give you a little snapshot well i'll show you ourselves yes hi today i'm going to be making a grilled cheese for lunch to start i turned on the lights and got the ingredients i opened the pantry door and got so she does the first half in english for the students ingredient so isn't this i mean this is fantastic and that mark my seventh graders can see that as well and then other classes very inspiring to other classes we we comment on each other's uh other classes comment on theirs and never mind of course the other school and they can comment either using a video which which is great they video vague and usually at the end of these we'll have a question what is your favorite food to make and then the other others will respond and it's just a very good let's see if we get another one here that's enough from ours let's try this tough guy here here you go hello everybody i am going to perform my recipe of 34.
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call the meeting to order roll call maria or para present rick rawley here wilson so dennis mender here at the lion blasting game absent will you please rise for the pledge of allegiance and mr roll will you please lead us in the pledge sure please join me uh i pledge allegiance the board of trustees would like to remind members of our community that you may remove your mask while making your public comment if you feel comfortable kylie do we have any cards we do not thank you close session we need to go into closed session to discuss the following uh item b or excuse me item one public employee discipline dismissal release reassignment transfer leave title certificated and classified employees number two public employees appointed brexit nation retirement reduction title uh certificated and classified employees item three conference litigation government code section five four nine five six point nine subsection a and current litigation six cases one eight one three nine five two one nine zero seven one seven two two zero one one one eight three two zero and excuse me um and five four nine five six point nine subsection two e and subsection one anticipated litigation four cases 2018 slash 1919 220 21 05 2020 2107 2020 2108.
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um so [Music] cheese [Music] good evening team it's very nice to be with you again um i will go ahead and start our meeting and get it started right on time uh mr ortega uh will be joining us shortly but i want to make sure that we go ahead and start just general housekeeping reminders personas so those of you who would like to get this meeting in spanish we have our translation services by selecting the globe below i'm going to go ahead and start us off because we did not finish the presentation um on um staff um support staff um so i'm gonna go ahead and get us started and and present that so bear with me as i uh start presenting my presentation and because i am not an expert and and zoom um can you all see my presentation hr reorganization beautiful love the thumbs up um and so like i said this is a continuation from our first presentation and my first presentation on support staff i had most of it covered last week and i do have one slide that i want to get into with regard to classified and that's for the 712 model and then i'll get into certificated positions the just the caveat a lot of what i'm discussing involves positions which invariably involves people and we do work with our bargaining units for um to negotiate the impacts and effects for the decisions that we make and in some cases we still we negotiate the decision itself so none of this is going around that process these are just preliminary thoughts to provide the team as we get into the reorganization discussion more fully all right so i want to um share with you this is still staying unclassified uh this is a 7 12 classified position so in the 712 high school or secondary school um you we we would have um five secretaries um and there would be eight hour positions um and this very similar to what i had shared in my presentation last week that regardless of the size the number of secretaries in this case would stay at five number of health aides on is one eight health paid at this 7-12 school uh also one eight-hour library aid at the 7-12 school community liaison an eight-hour uh position i want to clarify with regards to the computer tech this is a tech three position which we already have in our um csca bargaining unit so the the title computer tech is a additional um tech three position and at a 7-12 school we would have one eight-hour computer tech dedicated to the 7-12 school plus a 0.5 fte or four hours uh so one for our ft uh employee so the way this would work conceptually is uh this would be a split position between the two 7 12 schools custodians it would be the floor would be six and then i want to make sure that i state that in this six you have different positions like you have a senior custodian uh but we're we're we're saying we're calling them all uh custodians here so six eight hour custodians and then as we get to this higher band of of enrollment uh we would increase by one and then school clerk would have four eight hour school clerks at the um at less than fifteen hundred and uh we would increase by one if we go above fifteen 1500 and then campus aids we have um 32 hours as our floor um the school site will decide how to spread out those um 32 hours between the the um the different positions as we go up in enrollment those 32 hours will grow to 40 hours so that's the last slide on classified support positions for this reorganization any questions the question from miss avison good evening everybody i was just wondering about asb clerks i did not see it specified in the um for model 3 with middle schools or specified here at the 712 so um what how were our asb clerks going to be handled just as a school clerk because i know they have a very different training yeah so we're not calling out um the asb clerk as a different position so what the high schools are currently allocated at is what they would have um and for the middle schools we didn't contemplate having an additional separate um asb clerk added okay um how will that um with the model 3 with the asb clerk and knowing that band and choir and the sports all the fundraisers and running student council and things like that you do need somebody to be prompt with getting the paperwork done so it has been thought on how that's going to work because i know the model that's this school year has not worked well as far as making sure things are done um on time um before the deadline there's a lot of deadlines so just kind of trying to figure out how that will work okay um this is the first time hearing about that particular concern so i'd have to interact with our our middle school administrators and um mr latasha's team to see where the gaps exist and see if we have to revisit that any further thank you for your input since you asked for an administrator at middle school input that would be me um yeah the the asb basically asb has come to a halt middle school we've had zero access to our funds and and basically not being able to operate that part of the budget or monies that were there this school year um that that's kind of where we're at right now and nor do we yet have a process in line to how do we access the money that used to be their other accounts um even running an asb et cetera so that that hasn't been there and and i'm i'm appreciative of ms anderson kind of mentioning that if we did go to one big middle school that might be something to reconsider but going back to the site as well in order to get the sports and everything else kind of taken care of so that would be something i would hope we would consider okay okay so moving on to our certificated support staff um in the elementary um we have um i listed the positions and although we are not going to start calling the principal um or we haven't defined it previously as a support staff i wanted to make sure we are highlighting them here so the the elementary sites will have the principal um a resource teacher and then um this is a new term that we're going to be using here an scl coach so scl stands for social emotional learning coach and so each site would have point five of an sel coach so and point five would be at one site and the other point five would be at another site um this uh position um is uh which are what you won't see um in this uh subsequent slides here or in the subsequent slides is a any point on social workers um but we would definitely want to make sure that we are highlighting that in my conversations with administrators as in preparation for this particular presentation the need for support um with our what students who may be exhibiting some some need to either reconnect or have additional supports at the site having a social emotional um learning coach and i could work with students that could work with the staff i could provide professional development that could um be a a bridge for on either additional services in the community um and within the school site on that that this could be a pretty beneficial position um i um i'm gonna see if uh dr mitchell wants to add anything to this or clarify anything i've already said regarding this position i do not have any other clarifications to that um and i think you explained it very well uh in terms of just social emotional learning and being able to provide support uh for students in that capacity there is a question from isabella yes um can you explain the reasoning behind not having a scaled [Music] model for these positions and the increase in positions based on student ada right now you know we have middle schools that have 250 kids with an administrator a half-time assistant principal a full-time counselor um or say you have ellington where you have 400 kids and you have a principal a half-time counselor i mean a half-time principal and counselor whereas you have hodge that has 600 kids and a principal and none of that extra assistance and so i was very pleased to see that the models for secondary were graduated i say graduated meaning more assistance based on number of students why was that not applied here so i i are you asking why we didn't have an assistant principal um added to this because i mean we the um we have a resource teacher and an scr coach at least half time at the site so i'm well but my question is let's just talk about like the principle this isn't even about assistant principle this is about you know having a counselor having an assistant principal you know right now you have a school and let's just go apples to apples elementary school you have a school like kaja has 600 kids and 28 teachers that means that that principle is dealing with more families more evaluations of teachers more classified personnel whereas a smaller school and i'm just going to use dalton because it's down the road or i'll use powell you know they have 250 kids and that principal has i think 12 or 13 teachers and so she has less than half of what the hajj principal has but gets the same assistance and so in your other examples you gave models models of of employees whereby you'd get the assistance from more classified employees as there were more students so i'm wondering why we didn't or why the voice was made not to also do that here for elementary because our elementaries are going to get significantly bigger and the administrators are going to need more help um okay thank you for the clarification man uh so the the from the different models as i was understanding them i they were going to have a similar um relatively similar band of students so um the you would not see um very many schools if any at all that were in the 200s or 400s and as opposed to being most of your schools being in the 600s and as we look at comparable districts for elementaries and additional administrative support um i am hard for us to find a elementary that has additional administrative support for school sizes of 600.
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virtual classes clubs activities workouts and who could ever imagine virtual shop through it all your teachers and classmates learned together and supported each other you pressed on you kept moving and here you are today ready to graduate and you're continuing to run to your future martin luther king jr said if you can't fly then run if you can't run then walk if you can't walk then crawl but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward my advice to you tonight seniors is to always remember to keep moving forward it doesn't matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop on a personal note i'd like to thank mrs rebecca webster my class of 2020 advisor partner she was instrumental in ensuring a fun filled supportive four years and always had you all moving towards the finish line remember you will always have a place here at greater lawrence technical school as reggie's and proud members of the class of 2021 congratulations to each and every one of you [Applause] it is now my honor and privilege to introduce to you our superintendent director mr john lavoy also a proud graduate of greater lawrence technical school thank you susan good evening district committee members distinguished guests parents grandparents staff faculty students and graduates congratulations to the class of 2021 i have to say you look all amazing in person much better than zoom i know this year was very different from what you had hoped for and no other glts students before you had ever experienced such a senior year but on the upside no other graduate has been better prepared to meet the challenges brought by unexpected changes change may be a word but more importantly it is about an experience you that you can either resist or embrace you have risen to the occasion all year and embraced change in a way that has prepared you for the most difficult challenges of your future although the challenges with this past year may have been more difficult for some of you than others the outcome is the same you are all graduates of greater lawrence technical high school as graduates of glts representative frank moran class of 1989 committee member vivian marmo class of 2005 leo lamontagne class of 1974 keynote speaker cassandra jean marie class of 2016 and myself class of 1968 we are all proud to have you join the ranks of an alumni of the best vocational technical high school in massachusetts today brings closure to one chapter of your life and opens the next chapter a chapter in which i believe you can achieve greatness to achieve it though you must always commit yourself to rise above the standards of expectations seek excellence in everything you do and you will stand above the crowd be respected and become a leader in your career and community like the graduates on the stage here tonight as a leader you will have a responsibility to lift others to be the best they can be never fear the strength and ability of those you lead as they can only make you better and your team better as students here at glts you have learned the importance of being a committed team member that can contribute to the goals of any team you aspired to be part of being part of a successful team will give you a sense of belonging and make you feel valued which is what all human beings seek participate in your communities organizations events and government don't be afraid to speak up for what you believe is right be fair honest and most importantly care for others today's graduation is not only a celebration of the class of 2021 but everyone who supported you over the last four years and made this day happen i would ask that you stand and applaud for those people your parents grandparents sisters brothers aunts uncles and friends i also want to thank them for being a part of our school community the last four years before i close i want to thank and recognize our entire staff this year to ensure that we had quality building and most importantly quality instruction i do want to thank everyone about about one of i do want to tell everyone about one of many extraordinary efforts this year that resulted in the success of many students in the class of 2021 graduating when it seemed as though things were hopeless our senior academic and vocational teachers along with 12th grade guidance counselors reached out to a numerous struggling numerous struggling 12th grade students were in jeopardy of failing and told them we are ready to do whatever it takes to help you pass and graduate we believe in you as a result over 100 students overcame one of the biggest challenges of their lives and i want to personally thank each and every one of them for caring that much and not giving up on you thank you very much to our senior staff faculty and guidance counselors again congratulations on your graduation go out make your mark on the world what you bring to the world matters thank you at this time i would like to present the superintendent's award it is my pleasure to introduce this year's recipient of the superintendent's award yobella furman could you bella come up your bell is a top student in greater lawrence technical schools carpentry program your bell immigrated to lawrence massachusetts from the dominican republic when she was seven years old with no english whatsoever and has demonstrated an unmatched determination and charisma jebel has consistently challenged herself by taking the most rigorous academic program available and excelled at this level your bell has a weighted 4.09 gpa and ranked 17 in the class of 390 and is a member of the national honor society the varsity softball team as well as an active participant in the unique and highly regarded squash busters program in addition to challenging herself with rigorous classes your bell has demonstrated courage and skill by selecting and excelling in the career area of carpentry at glts she has also participated in the school's co-op education program assisting with ninth grade students in the glts's exploratory carpentry program being one of only a few girls in the carpentry area your bell has demonstrated an ability to succeed in a male dominant arena this experience will serve her well as she pursues a career in the architecture field those who know you belle will agree that she is humble intelligent courageous and determined and a determined young woman who has worked very hard to get where she is now your bell and her family are proud to report she has received a full ride scholarship to continue her studies at northeastern university studying [Applause] architecture ybell received a certificate of recognition from marva for a non-traditional student achievement award and was nominated for the massachusetts vocational association's secondary award for non-traditional congratulations your belt at this time it is my pleasure to introduce this year's recipient of the valedictorian award ashley lima medical assistant student has been a student at greater lawrence regional technical high school since september 2017 she has studied in the medical assistant program and is looking to further her education in an english field in college as a student at greater lawrence she is certified in cpr first aid in osha and is a certified medical assistant ashley has field experience as a medical assistant at stuart medical group doctors park in andover and at stuart medical group in methuen ashley was also a caregiver assistant at new england cardiology in lawrence mass ashley used her career area skills and knowledge to work as a medical assistant at new england eye and facial specialists in lawrence massachusetts through our cooperative education program ashley will be attending northern essex community college in the fall ashley has been very successful in her academic coursework at greater lawrence with the 4.39 gpa and is currently ranked first out of 370 students in the class of 2021.
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there is you see the ingredients are lettuce porridge tomatoes red onions the wet pepper 2 hard-boiled eggs on choice tuna balsamic vinegar olive oil salt and pepper [Music] so of course it deals with fish and he's fishing for the fish he's cooking it so he goes all out but a great way is what i really like the most about it is our kids also get to see the other students struggle learning the english language so they're not the only ones that feel like oh this is really hard possible well they're having a tough time with english and they've been spending the last 10 years doing this is your first year doing or this is you've been doing it you know partially the last eight years or what so you know we kind of draw comparisons there a little bit and uh it makes them feel pretty comfortable so i think that that was right here i'm so used to going around the class so um so if you have does any of you do any of you have any questions because i think i don't know how to get back to this i was just gonna say it's so wonderful this is great let's see how it'd be absolutely motivating it's a nice tie into diversity and equity i know my daughter was listening to your presentation when we were when we met she's like i can't wait to do that so i hope that it branches out to um you know high school or other classes you know with teachers because this is wonderful [Music] oh my god um i just wanted to also say uh credit to keith too because he's really inspired the rest of the world language teachers to um really bring these authentic learning experiences into the classroom and what's awesome about this is talk about the opportunities that arose out of the pandemic it really had educators thinking outside of the box and you know what a great way to learn languages and to also develop that intercultural confidence i mean we heard our top 10 students just talk about how during the pandemic what really kept them going was authentic relationships and this i was just so inspired when he showed me this as where his peers particularly at the high school level where they've begun uh to engage in this project in texas performance-based uh learning in our high school classes as well so we're just very excited to you know have keith as a master teacher at flipgrid and to you know this is a great example of how an effective professional learning is brought into our district it inspires teaching leaders who then inspire the rest of the team so thank you so much keith thank you and i just want to give a quick thank you just having the professional development was because i mean i would not have discovered this if it hadn't been professional development so you know if we can just keep that going uh because there's just so much technology out there it's not the amount of technology it's how you use it it's what you use and that seems to be the message we're learning each time so i'm hoping that you know we get to roll this out more and more of the subsequently here so thanks again thanks for this opportunity all right thanks rosa so as mr belden said um the arp esser grant is uh something we talked about at the special finance committee meeting and i really have to thank bob and um rosa and jen and ken and dr ruby for all the help as we brainstormed and worked our way through uh this major uh third frankly installment of the federal grant monies that are coming in the next slide okay so okay so it's very important for the public and the full board to understand uh the rps grant um formerly known as sr3 it is uh 800 and uh almost twenty thousand dollars and in this grant um it is very similar to sr2 in that it's got four key tenants um academic support for our students addressing learning loss from the pandemic certainly learning acceleration and recovery and you'll see throughout the items we were putting forward to use to use the grant funding for very much about recovery and of course learning also number two uh we could use them for uh healthy school environment type items such as hvac if we so we're so inclined and of course social and emotional well-being of students the third piece is technology staff development for technology we just heard about that closing the digital divide and of course family and staff connections community connections community engagement so we're really excited about this opportunity to launch us even further forward from sr2 and point number five it's very important one of the requirements of the grant is of the eight hundred and twenty eight thousand dollars a hundred and sixty seven thousand or twenty percent of those funds must be used on social emotional learning supports as well as either learning loss learning recovery that kind of a thing um so everybody knows arp esser stands for american rescue plan elementary and secondary school emergency relief so everybody's familiar with that there's a link there for anybody who goes on the website and looks at this presentation later one of the things the state department of ed is really encouraging is for districts to use the funds to launch forward not just for remediation but that learning acceleration uh closing the digital divide and moving the district forward and we really are taking uh advantage of that opportunity and capitalizing on this moment to not only take the incredible support we have from our community in the operational budget this year and the work frankly we've all done over the last six years um in building our school budget which is the main resource that supports everything we do but also taking the last two installments esther two and s esther three are better to really launch us forward into the future of this district and build our capacity another piece that i took from the finance committee when we met last week they suggested in this presentation to the full board and to the public that we put the strategic plan goals up here to demonstrate the alignment from the esser grant and the needs and the requirements of the grant to our strategic plan and really you can see that they're they're quite aligned so our to remind everybody our goals prioritizing student learning goals to ensure success in life learning and work beyond school supporting learners to ensure rigorous digitally supported experiences aligned with the student goals above developing measures or assessments of student and adult success aligned with student goals and then aligning all of our organizational systems to ensure the acquisition of those goals so a brief summary of the recent grants we've received over the course of the past year a lot of money has come in there's been a lot on the news and on social media about all of this federal stimulus that's come in and recovery recovery monies um so as a reminder there was an sr1 or the cares act um that was 74 000 and you may recall over the summer it was really survival mode and we purchased 300 chromebooks with that as we prepared for the beginning of the school year there was an additional 54 000 uh relief fund that came in and we used that to offset cost of the kindergarten bus runs you may recall with kindergarten we did half day sessions for the first few weeks of school with the students we also purchased additional cleaning supplies and some services with those funds recently over the last probably six weeks ago i prepared a presentation and we had a board discussion of the sr2 grant which is worth 328 000 and i outlined that in just a second on the next page for you um esser ii like i said those priorities are aligned with sir three or the art best of the grant and then the recent uh ester grant goes through 2024 or for basically three years uh we have to spend down that 828 thousand dollars and we just received guidance last week on how we're going to apply with that we have to have an august submission part of applying for this grant as i indicated during my superintendent report is the fall opening plan which builds upon the reopening plan we have this year so everything is linked in terms of the requirements to acquire these funds all right brief reminder sr2 this is the 328 000 i talked about i don't know why this is misaligned it was lined up before so i apologize but you can take a look we have summer school there's some technology pd a tutor for center school for math the science and social studies instructional coach positions parent engagement and some professional development for coach the coaching of the the science and social studies coaching positions excuse me and then there's a year two plan in there so those are the the items that we're using the sr2 funds for for sr3 i again apologize for this misalignment this was nice and aligned before it got up here we are um continuing we're going to spend over three years and we're going to outline this on the next page continuing with supporting our summer school program we're looking to buy 600 chromebook books over the course of three years 200 per year to really get us to a point where we're one to one with our younger students as you know grades eight through 12 are already one to one we're proposing for a technology integration specialist um to and that's over the course the grant will pay for that for three years and that is exactly some of the work you just saw mr johnson present someone who has that professional background to really have us utilize all of our technology to absolutely maximize how our staff effectively uses that with our students we have an instructional tutor for the high school a part-time instructional tutor we also have a paraprofessional for the year for center school just with some of the needs of our younger students that we've taken a look at with mrs diamond it's really important that we put that extra support in there for the year funds for community and staff engagement this could be supplies professional learning bringing in speakers all the different things we need to engage our community social work services also at center school and the second year of a math tutor so at center school what i'd like to do now is i'm going to open this link up and turn the presentation over to ken what's important here is ken is going to scroll through this and share and we did this with the finance committee last week is how we take these funds and we avoid a budget cliff going forward i think that's really important to see how we ease this and phase in uh to the operating budget over the next few years so can i let you take over thank you so the top section section is the sr2 the middle section is the art besser that dr harrell just went through and the bottom section will be the operating budget impact when i scroll down there and you'll notice that a number of the items have letters next to them on the left hand side that indicates items that will be gradually phased into the operating budget things like the technology pd from sr2 the uh high school tutor and art messer do not have a letter and they are just one time fundings so they're not going into the operating budget so the bottom section with the operating budget shows where all of these items will come into the budget and for example letter a summer school you can see is funded in the first year in sr2 and then in year two and year three it's in the arp esser and then in year four it's phased into the operating budget and so on with all of all the other items so you can see that at the very bottom in year 2223 that accounts for 144 thousand dollars being into the operating budget and that would be on the investments we bring forward that year and then in 2324 the incremental increase again would be our investment of almost 104 000 and then in 2425 the incremental investment would be a little over 70 000 and that would gradually get all of those items into the operating budget and ken um could you because it was mentioned in the finance of freedom could you explain that the incremental increases that we see there are essentially the increases that we would see they wouldn't be on top of new investments in that particular budget year but they would most likely be the entirety of it certainly in the first year of 22-23 that would be the only investments unless something dramatic came up that we needed to address this would be our intent and one of the things rosa and we talked about this finance committee meeting is we're all very cognizant the whole administrative team is working together we're monitoring as always the special education budget because that's that's our most volatile department in terms of student needs and we've talked about that at length in addition to that ken um is going to be working with the finance committee and we'll be going out to bid in september for the update to the transportation contract and obviously that involves the new school and the new start times and the bus run so we're keeping an eye on that as well and then a couple of other things i'm going to let ken speak to this in just a second so pardon me ken is we've worked with um mrs marion and mr dunn this week and looked at the bubble years which we are approaching in terms of debt services and so forth um so we're very cognizant of that in our planning and then the final piece in that is uh one of the things every um you know five to six years it's very important to take a look um in a collaborative way with our faculty the administrative team the board uh some parent representatives other stakeholders at some of your curricular programs and in our case specifically we want to over the next year to two years three years be looking at whether we need to supplement or look at different programs for both english language arts and mathematics so those are some other investment areas that we're really taking a close look at as well paying attention to but specifically where you see in 2223 the 144 thousand dollars the phase in so when we come to you in december this coming december likely unless there's something we can't predict today we're looking at a status quo budget plus that 144 000 give or take obviously as where the investments would be like i was saying earlier we're positioned well as a district now especially with the ester funds to really launch us forward i think what i like i'm excited about with this plan is that it seems to accelerate us to the point where essentially we should be which would otherwise take us maybe a decade to get to this point i mean 800 27 000 is it's quite a bit of money and so we want to capitalize on the opportunity but one of the things i know the finance committee and even working with mr dunn and chatting with some of the board finance members and border selectmen and other superintendents the one thing we need to and i mean the nation needs to pay attention to this you can't just buy lots of people and then expect to to magically have them stay with you you have to have a plan to phase this in over time so there isn't a shock to the budget it's critically important for good financial management so um i appreciate that you recognize that rosa thank you any other questions joy just brought up a good question and i think it's embedded within this plan but maybe we should highlight it how might some of these investments service our enl population english language learners yeah did i say that right yeah well one of the things is the the tech integration specialists and the instructional coaches are there to raise i apologize i've got the mask on i feel like i'm stumbling over my words here um or to raise the level of our effectiveness for everyone so that's going to reach all students but don't forget our operating budget this year we received everything we asked for the board the district the principals that means the faculty everything we asked for this year uh for next year we received in our budget and that includes a second tesol teacher so that's another piece that's going to help in that area specifically yes that's true but looking forward to the following year looking forward to to beyond that we did recognize and bring it to the forefront that we didn't need more in that area um so looking at like so summer school are we targeting a specific group of students you know thank you jerry for that question actually dr ruby is heading up our summer program so i'm going to turn it over to dr ruby students are being invited to the summer school program based on the work that the teachers and the administrators have done in vetting their the student data and so we are inviting students based on their their need and that is stated in the invitation letter um and we have a you know without disclosing information about students we have a very systematic approach to how students are being invited into the spaces that we have available in the summer school we also have both of the programs have a certified tesol teacher because there are other teachers in our district who have t-cell certification who are in other roles but we have a tesol certified teacher at both the k-4 site and at the 5 8 site to ensure that we are giving the teachers the support because we're not taking students who are second language learners and clumping them into one group they're you know we're including folks and that those tesol teachers will be supporting um the teachers our real goal here is through the coaching and the technology integration what not is to really be able to provide that targeted pd for our educators so that we can really raise the level of on the educators that we have in our district really to build capacity so that people have the skill set to solve the problems that they're facing instructionally and in any other way in their in their own classrooms which then just feeds upon itself and builds capacity and efficacy over time so we're really looking not for a band-aid approach which sometimes is appropriate it's the only thing you can do when you're facing a crisis but we've come through such an evolution in the past six years in the terms of the way our principles are really strong you know they're strong instructional leaders because we've done a lot of pd with with our administrators our teachers and we did what i called and everybody calls it the same thing pretty much spring pray type of eating where you have to get everybody together and do the same thing to roll out things like our graduate release of responsibility framework those are things that we had to do in mass to because we were delivering content to everybody in the districts that we'd all be operating on the same page but now we're i think i talked about this a couple of meetings ago now we're at this this level where just like we need to differentiate instructions for students we need to be able to provide differentiated targeted and supports professional learning opportunities for our teachers and so that with the tutors that are in here and in the sr2 that john was talking about earlier is important supports because it's the teachers that direct the tutors to what they're doing the tutors don't do it you know just of their own volition so we're really committed and i think that mr johnson uh you know the appreciation that that he expressed for the pd i think that's that's what teachers are looking for and so this approach really allows us to do that which in the end impacts students all students specialist students regular students elle students everybody yes i guess that was my question do we feel comfortable that this proposal or summary reaches all students um even for learning acceleration as it's covered and as they're current too like i just feel that confidently this is a proposal to even help our accelerate students so that the um learning acceleration is also going to be addressed through um through coaching because if i'm a teacher in the idea of coaching where a teacher is working with a coach and a coach isn't supposed to be a guru of all things that person doesn't exist that coach is a resource so if i have kids like the one student who was accelerated by her classroom teacher in mathematics that if a teacher has brings that as a problem to a coaching session like i'm not really sure what to do with you know joy she's really appears to have you know a a real draw to mathematics or science or whatever it might be you know what can we do for her that's so before who did you have to talk to really you know you can talk to the principal but they're so busy doing eight million things now this coach is going to be able to work with that teacher to try to advance that student also remember that the curriculum development that we've been doing we're now at the stage we didn't get to do it during this year because of the pandemic but we're at the stage where we're about to add that context that authentic context which our technology integration specialists if they find the right person will be able to help us do so that students are able to take in the way we're designing the curriculum those last couple weeks of a unit one and a half to two weeks there's time that will be built into if you want to call it the pacing guide or the curriculum timeline of the unit so that students will be able to do their own study in whatever the unit is that they're studying and that would be appropriate for those children who are more advanced and ready for something more challenging like the okay type of assignment that's self-selected so you get that engagement or students who are still earnest learners that need a lot of support will still be able to engage in an independent um study of interest that's related to that unit but they're going to be able to get that support and since everybody will be working on something that is a um an individualized personal project kids aren't going to be able to tell who's who like you know you're you're the top student in the class you're you need to teach your help we want everybody to have that same opportunity which is why we're doing the work with marie alcock in our curriculum development that we're doing so that all students get the opportunity to you know do independent study on a topic that's related to the united states that they're involved in in some way because kids are going to be more invested when they're studying something that they're interested in and that's with the youngest learners the other thing i'll add in that is an aspiration for us as a district with regard to what we've been able to see with when you have the support of some of a professional developer who really understands technology integration and the power and how to really help teachers operationalize that is digital portfolios for all students starting at the very youngest grade levels and that will also tie it into our portrait of the graduate concept and those senior projects that the high school has to work on that are a requirement for high school graduation you know we talked about that in in the cave committee and the earlier we start with the children on this portion of the graduate the more likely we're going to be able to achieve that goal because culture undergraduate doesn't start when they get to ninth grade and i think that that's um that's kind of how a lot of people have been doing it because we think of it as when they get to high school we do this we want them to be collaborators creators but you know all the c's we talked about we have to start that as soon as we get our relationship started with still with our students and we want to teach them how to capture what they're doing and digital portfolios are the way to go but the teachers need support so we're very proud of this work and the thought that's behind it and we do think that we're focusing on our teachers and the support of the students so that all students no matter what your label is or you know what group you fall into you are going to get the the type of education that i would want for my student and that you would be proud to offer your student so that's that's how we're looking at this i guess my question really is if i look back to the beginning of the presentation when john you said that they they really encourage districts to be bold and innovative with the use of this money i i'm not getting a sense of that right now maybe maybe i'm just not understanding how all of these how all this new staff will execute things in a bold and innovative way but i guess i was hoping to see um equipment or programs things that were aspirational that we never thought we could get but now we have this 800 thousand dollars um i'm seeing a lot of people and i'm seeing chromebooks and those and i think i agree with rosa if we could get all these people it would really move us farther along the path that we have set for ourselves but i'm not i would love for you to explain what part of it really addresses sort of the bold and innovative use of performance sure i i would say that bold and innovative is instructional coaches and a technology integration specialist to be very honest with you i think tutors and like are and even summer school to some extent although very important are a bit of a mandate to be very honest and they're not really bold but they're important to bridge the gap and and build from where we are and we need bodies that are directed by excellent professionals to as maureen explained i won't get into all of that um the other piece is in terms of this is a great question that about you know is there equipment or things we really need and a lot of i'm not sure which one of the students said it today um but one of the questions was asked was there something they needed in terms of computers or equipment or or software and they really said they pretty much had what they needed we need the equipment and we need the faculty expertise to be those guides on the side for our students to do that work and those that the extension work there and i think that's really the bold place is that individualized pd for our faculty i think that's really the bold piece and the uh opportunity that we're using to capitalize on to build district capacity to do that so that's how i have seen it uh in this part here and i i wish that was clear for you but i hope that helps thanks maybe you could explain what a technology integrator is and maybe that would help sure sure well we actually got this this is this is a great one here so we just literally are i did we actually posted did we post it at the technology animation yeah we just posted it so we have the job description up there so really it's exactly what we've been explaining and what keith was talking about today it's someone who's a professional in the area of technology and software but is an expert teacher and professional developer as well is to take curricular assignments right and extend those assignments for students and take the opportunities to build whatever it is that we're working on so actually doc i'm going to turn it over to dr ruby because we're really just going through this and a cape that was one sliver of what uh keith presented tonight that could be done for example with grid pals but there's a whole host of other things we can do so turn it over so if we have a lot of devices in the district we had devices in the district when we first came in we had a lot of ipads but if you really asked teachers what they were doing with the ipads we weren't really doing that much with them so a technology integration specialist and i would i wish we'd have the job up on the um screen right now so you can see it they are people who have expert first of all they're certified teachers and they have been they have expertise through their study they could have a variety of different certifications depending upon what kind of study they've done they also might be google innovators they might be google certified teachers there's there's just so many ways that they could have gotten their expertise and they also are they have a lot of they have coaching skills so they know how to work with teachers without making them feel like they don't have any skills so these people will look at the work that a teacher has to do and find ways to use technology to number one make the the content more accessible to students in an engaging way also offering students choice i think that's important to joy's question because when you have a standard that you're required to get students to mastery of their that's that's what your goal is but there are many ways to get there and there are many um everybody does not have to do the same assignment the assignments that will help you demonstrate your knowledge of the um the content or the mastery of the standard can be varied and through working with a technology somebody who's got expertise in technology they can help you find and learn ways that are they become very simple like flip grid if you've never done blooper before you look at it you're like oh my god how do i use this once somebody shows you how to do it and talks through your ideas with you it becomes if you're like how could i ever thought that this was so difficult and then that's step one and you get to see all of the other things that you can do with it grid pals is just one little tiny sliver of flip grid there are so many apps that are available that the state of connecticut has you know they required agreements with those con those companies that we can legally use but we don't know teachers don't know how to use them so if you look up at the qualifications there are many and the performance responsibilities you know providing teachers with strategies on how to use technology to achieve the district goals and expectations um that's that's really in it can be done and we've done it we have principles here we've done it in all the schools um with just just to get the teachers give them um give them a leg up in this very difficult time because we have all we've got all these kids on zoom and we're trying to manage it we're trying to do sel and so they were given just a small taste of how they could manage their classrooms and keep kids engaged so we want the technology to be a learning tool and an opportunity we want to be able to support the teacher also staff not just not just the educators but the staff and the students in developing these skills in technology and being able to use all the stuff that the taxpayer is paying for for us to have in our school and be able to use it in the service of learning not to be enough to be using it as a notepad if you were to go on to ct reap or any of the other job sites for teachers in connecticut you will see that there are several districts that have these positions posted now because they are bold moves they are they are new positions for districts that they are realizing because of the pandemic that we thought we were maybe tech savvy we kind of were fooling ourselves because there's so much that we did not know how to do and there's so much that we can do and um you know i think that we would be best to show you examples i i'll tell you that i've sat in on the pd that we've um you know this was like zoom that we've done at the different great uh great spans one of the things i don't know mr volandis still here oh good mr velanda one of the things when we started the high school was what we heard when we met with students every we met with students every week last year from the time they were put remotely until the end of the year and what we constantly heard i can't remember whether it was wednesday or friday that we met but i'll say wednesdays we met with them every for an hour and a half every after every wednesday afternoon and they they talked about engagement they talked about boredom it talked about meaning to be connected and so one of the things that we started with in high school was social emotional learning and the use of technology is correct in in the classroom so when i met with this person that we hired for the pd i said here's the deal you're gonna you're gonna be working with these different um content area features you know because that's how we have them grouped for their plc's and i said you can't come in and do the same thing with the history teachers and the same thing with the math teachers because for that we should have like a big you know everybody in the auditorium if that was legal at the time but everybody on zoom doing the same thing it has to be specific to the different um content areas can you do that she said yeah i can do that i was like yeah okay we'll see about that so i'm going to turn it over to um mr bellanda because it was miraculous yeah so some of the things that i was particularly impressed with with this particular presenter was they were um specific strategies like some of the ones that i honestly typically that i um when we plan for professional development oftentimes we focus on the core subjects right we talk about reading you know uh humanities literacy science like those are i don't want to say easier to plan for but they're more in the forefront of our minds so some of the things that i was really considering is okay how do we how are we going to plan some of the stuff for the business and the cte teachers what are we going to do for pe and health right because these are you know one-off electives that are critically important but in terms it was and i still have them uh saved in my google drive individual presentations that were connected to everybody's content so for example some of the engagement piece like one of the ones was for pe and health it was a they were talking about it involved not just the idea of running right and for health and exercise which is clearly something we talk about all the time but it was development of a tool that would allow someone who was blind or hardly difficulty seeing to actually run like a marathon right so for the first time this person was cited they lost their site there's a challenge put out there and you know this technology team developed prototype that actually allows somebody to run without the support of anybody else around them so somebody has no sight so it's just such an engaging gripping thing that involved both current technology and things that are cutting edge also problem solving it just got the our pe and our teachers so engaged in you know what can we do how can we hook our kids what can we do particularly the distance learning which is such a challenge this year right and how do you teach distance learning pe i think that's not an easy thing to do um so she gave them all kinds of strategies supports and resources and continued to find him and was sending things to us so and it was really tailored to each uh content there was really um you know language there was conversations about charlie hebdo and some of the things that happened there um you know in paris several years back there's also conversations um and i'm trying to think of the other ones i don't have all the top of my head but being in science i can't remember what that one was everything was tailored specifically too it actually made me feel somewhat i don't want to say inadequate but in terms of the ability that this person had to integrate the technology piece into um really diversifying professional development for each set of teachers was just remarkable and then when we went to the uh when we got the grant okay so we used pd rpg money at the high school because there was such a student need for engagement and we had a focus with our teacher evaluation as you recall when the state gave us the leniency to go off of the regular teacher evaluation plan and focus on seo brookfield high school was the last school in the district that was launching ruler and so this was more of a challenge for the teachers at the high school because they didn't have the same experience as the other teachers so that's why we looked at social emotional learning and technology integration for the high school after we got the grant i said okay so now we're going to work with the other three schools we have to take the same approach as we did with the different content areas of the high school and now you need to make sure content area at the middle school but the age level is different of the students and then at the two elementary schools it had to be age appropriate and i'm not going to put the other principles on the spot i only put mark on the spot because they'll they would tell you that we were able to focus on the age level of the kids so the people at huckleberry didn't get the same presentations as the people at center school even though it was the same topics and so this is really about differentiating instruction i can guarantee you that as good as our teachers are none of us have background in this and so none of this can happen and we can't advance it and these are the skills if you look at our portrait of the graduate as we wrote it a year and a half ago these are the skills that come shining through in this type of work using technology really focus on that and i'm going to go back to what i said about joy's comment that use how to use things like choice boards so that kids can pick what it is they want to do or be engaged in to demonstrate their learning so everybody doesn't have to do the same worksheet that should not be happening in our classrooms kids need to they need to belong if we didn't learn that from this past year and a half we didn't learn anything they need to belong they need to have their voices heard they need to be engaged they need to like the young man who talked about i think mike you asked him about how he got interested in physical therapy and he talked about you know it was it wasn't even on his radar and he didn't say that but that's the message until he took that one course and he was hooked when he took it was heather's class right that was i mean these we need to do things that that kids can really sink their teeth into and the technology is a way to get it there's ways to gamify and i'm not a video game person i'm not talking about video games but there are ways to use technology to get kids to be able to work with the content that we're responsible for that they need to have but in a way that appeals to how their brains work would your brains work and kids work a little differently than ours did um in others there's science on that so i don't know you know we can we can bring you examples um but it's really transformed the way we operated this year and we want we don't want to lose that thank you mark i appreciate it i don't know if that helps thank you yeah thank you very much um but i don't know personally i think that you know you can buy a bunch of things but ultimately i mean what are you really going to do with that i would rather see even though they just look like positions what these positions ultimately give us is a deeper the opportunities for all students just seems more more widely available with these particular positions so i think they're bold for baroque field i think these are positions that where it would probably always stay aspirational for many many years so the fact that we could get i believe three of these coaches right the science social studies and technology i mean that's that's pretty cool i like that i'll just say one more thing this for me professionally like the technology integration specialist has been paramount for me i mean it's really transformed my teaching and i don't know how i would have gotten through the past year without the several that we have now um it really i don't know what we've done and i've really taken our teaching to a dependent level so i see the value in that for sure and it's very much needed now more than ever just to kind of summarize to go back to deb's earlier question about bold i think i'm imagining what kids are doing in our classrooms will be bold and exciting because of this work you know so we it probably is more straightforward to say we're going to have a new course called x and that's like sexy and exciting and that's easy to understand but i think this program will really develop exciting bold curriculum and opportunities for all kids and in a more sustainable way so that's exciting any other questions or comments i think that's enough so we can move on food service contract extension the extension of the woodson's food service contract for the 2021-2022 school year that's recommended by director of business and operations and post okay um [Music] when i first came to the board and asked for permission to take advantage of the uh the opportunity to extend for a year and the board agreed with that so we have the extension document within your packet uh which was reviewed by the finance committee at the our last meeting and they endorsed it so we simply need a um vote of the board to approve that and then i can have the chairwoman signing i can send it into state for approval the document that you see before you is dictated by the state word for word the only thing we fill in is the numbers the only change would be an increase in the um management and administrative fees for witnesses the state said we could go up to 4.5 increase we negotiated down to three percent again that's not this is not out of the operating budget this the lunchtime any other questions we have the subcommittee meeting scheduled for july through december i'll know that the board approved the subcommittee meeting scheduled from july to december 2021 as discussed with adjustments at the may 19 2021 board of education meetings all right any other questions or you know comments changes edits to this okay looks good okay so all in favor [Music] elementary school building project i actually don't have any um updates on that umc no the only thing was mr checko talked to me today and asked if during the summer the nbc meetings could be held at huckleberry so they can do the walkthroughs of the project before the meetings and not have to do a drive that's really the only update and please check out the camera or drive by on non-school hours to see the walls that continue to go up foundation is like we said the majority is in and the walls are starting to tower i mean it's amazing what's being built there all right so we are on to three main points definitely the yeah it is a recognition of the top 10 students and the teachers of the year in each of the schools and um i think mr johnston's physical presentation yeah i agree all right upcoming events okay at all schools um collecting of school-issued devices will begin next week it's already done at vhs next week at the rest of the schools the last day of school is monday june 14th that's an early release at center school tomorrow is the smart spare via flipgrid there's a pto meeting tuesday june 8th and a community meeting and spirit day on friday june 11th at huckleberry on june 4th is the virtual second grade field trip animal embassy june 7th through june 11th is a scheduled incoming second grade virtual meet and greet june 8th is the scheduled incoming fifth grade virtual meet and greet june 9th is a virtual author's visit for all grades june 10th is the fourth grade end of year celebration and june 11th is a virtual pto meeting at 9 30.
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