>> Okay. So, yeah, I can definitely see that. Um, I'm trying to think because I know at the full committee meeting we recently had a social media presentation. So, I'm trying to figure out. >> Her numbers surprised me though. I'm glad she did that because it really kind of shows you're not reaching as many people as we thought we were. >> Yeah. >> What are we talking about? >> Oh, we're still talking about the social media piece and how the numbers that you gave us show. But then again, >> I don't feel like we are engaging enough on social media. Personally, I can tell you that we run social media accounts out of every single PTO. The ghs has a social media account. GMS has a social media account. AL has converted to Instagram. That's how they do all their socials to the parents. We also get monthly updates from principles.
>> Any opposed? And that passes. Thank you. >> Congratulations, Elise. Come on up. >> Mike Microphone's always going to be tricky. >> It's okay. You can take it out. >> Oh, it goes lower. I'm truly honored to accept the position of principal at Gilbert Classical Academy. Thank you, Dr. McCord, Dr. Ryan, Ms. Taylor, Mr. McIntosh, members of the senior cabinet, and members of the governing board for giving me this opportunity to serve the students, staff, and families at Gilbert Classical. I firmly believe that Gilbert is a special community. Gilbert Public Schools is an exceptional organization, and GCA is an extraordinary school. I'm both humbled and excited to join this community as we continue our pursuit for excellence. During the interview process, I had the opportunity to watch the video of Dr. McCord you passing the torch to Dr. Ryan in this very room. That moment has stayed with me.
278,000 dollar debt amount, which obviously I will talk to the town administrator about tomorrow. So, um but you know, that's up to you folks to decide where you will want us to have, but but yeah. Anyway, two garden stabilization is 367,000. Well, okay. Made some interest and stuff. Yeah, okay. So, that's I had >> More than we thought. I had 300 on the brain. Mhm. My feeling is we spend it however we spend it, I'll defer to the professionals. But it should be spent in one way or the other. Yeah. I mean Sorry. Yes, Mr. News. Um I agree with you, Chris. I mean, because look, somewhere down the line in all seriousness, and leave school choice out of it for a minute, we're going to have to expend, you know, all the the quote and unquote surplus money or available funds that we have to be able to use before this town is even going to start looking at overrides.
And so um in English we have in history as well we have something called revision history. So I can see uh in real time or like a like a video clip uh you know keystrokes. So I can actually help students when they get stuck. I can see where did you get stuck and how can I help you? Um, so we look at revision history not as uh necessarily as AI detection, but more like process like a process summary. Um, and that oftentimes will allow us to help sort of encourage students to make sure the learning is their own and that it's not just like all of a sudden three paragraphs show up in two seconds, right? So, I think just showing the kids revision history um and explaining how we use it and we use it as a way to help them with the writing process um I think has been really helpful.
So, the only thing I haven't seen is Roland Roland's updates, you know, >> putting you on the spot here, sir. Um, because we used to get updates from uh Pato weekly, but I haven't seen a lot of superintendent updates. I'm just trying to figure out the best place to slot in a social media efficiency discussion because we need to pull up the data from the presentation. Uh we need to figure out who would actually do social media if we shift it out. Need to figure out what social media we want done and need to figure it out in a way that it's not regular operating and is policy. Is this a conversation maybe with it? >> It's definitely a conversation with someone, but I'm not sure who. >> Well, I think we need more information like like maybe a survey of parents and families like how would they like to receive the information?
The respect for the past, the excitement for the future, the strong sense of team, and the genuine connection among all stakeholders was palpable. It speaks volumes about the culture here when building trust, collaboration, and a shared commitment to students. I'm especially excited to build upon the strong foundation that Dr. Hood has already established at GCA. Because of that foundation, the school is already exceptional, and I look forward to working alongside with the community to continue to strive to make GCA the number one school in the state. Thank you very much for the opportunity. Appreciate it. >> Thank you very much. Moving on to 9.04. Is there a motion to approve Tyler Dumas as assistant superintendent of teaching and learning for the 2026-2027 school year? >> I'd like to motion that we approve Tyler Dumas as assistant superintendent of teaching and learning for the 2026-2027 school year.
That's right. You know what I mean? If If we sit in Now it's And I apologize. I had 300,000 on the brain, and I apologize for that. But, you know, to go to town meeting and say we need an override, and oh yeah, by the way, we got 367 in the kitty, uh we're going to get laughed out of there type of type of deal. But I think what it has to be done. But So, Mr. Kylie, the Dr. Sebold Maguire, are you looking for a motion from from us for the 58.2? So you can go to your meeting tomorrow. Well, I I think we're at the point I mean, I obviously, I you know, I didn't prepare the budget motion for a vote for this meeting. Because well, I mean, you're still going to vote on the 13th. So um I thought we were too and and Kathleen's not here.
And some teachers may ask students, you know, if >> if there's any question about authorship um they may say like can you explain this paper to me? Um, I don't think that happens very much to be honest, but that would be something that we would definitely want students to know that it's not just like to Brandon's point, here's my product, but you might also have to explain it. Um, you know, a little bit more than just turning it in. Um, before I start, I just really want to applaud Gretchen, your colleagues, our educators at the middle school and the high school because they're having really hard discussions with each other as not only colleagues but human beings living in this world. Then they're having these discussions with students and students are asking really interesting questions like if of their teachers like if you make slides of AI are you going to tell us like if this worksheet was like they they want to know they're very curious about how teachers >> are using it as well.
I know when we did went to some more um Jake Tumi was the first principal to do that >> and we surveyed parents and the response that was pretty overwhelming. They liked getting things in their email. And in my school, Samore was really welcome because it had all the different languages and people could respond to me and it would even translate like it like I would send a some more parent would responds to me in Spanish and I can translate the response. So it was really facilitated great conversations. Um, so we went we all went some more like that sort of became and Karen was using some more with her updates as well. Um, so I think that sort of became instead of we were using school messenger all the time and that was not my favorite thing. I hated school messenger >> and it just so and half the people had um school messenger blocked on their phone and so what would happen when we sent one out they would realize it was a school and then the school would be flooded with phone calls because they were afraid there was an emergency but they had it blocked.
>> Thank you, Ms. Humphreys. Is there a second? >> Second. >> Thank you, Ms. Murray. All those in favor of approving Tyler Dumas as assistant superintendent of teaching and learning for the 2026-2027 school year, say I. >> I.
No, no, I was just Some consensus in terms of where we are, I think would be would be critical so I can relate that to the um town administration and make work with the select board. I'm good I'm good I'm good with the, you know, much to my chagrin, I'm good with the presentation. Yeah, I'm good. We can certainly defer till our next meeting. Agreed. Okay. I will keep you posted and get ready for the next meeting. Yep. Good luck and thank you for Thank you everybody. Yes, thank you. Well, well well, that's great. Yeah, thank you for all the work. So uh so we are going to adjourn into executive session um for and I don't have the words up here. >> Contract negotiations. Um collective bargaining. Uh for to discuss strategy um that would have a detrimental effect on the school committee bargaining positions for the DAA, DEA, and AFSCME.
So, it's just been really really good discourse I feel like at all the levels. Um, and Brandon has been a really good steward of leading that discourse as well. >> Yeah. And one of the things that my students were horrified about is that teachers might use AI to draft parts of a letter of recommendation. And I said, "Okay, so we all agree." It was actually helpful to me that they freaked out a little bit. And I said, "I'm certainly not going to do that." I said, "But you know, like I'm glad that we all now recognize there are certain things you write. Like I would want it to be my authentic writing voice and you want it to be yours." So to your point, you had a really good discussion about >> um you know, just why you might use that tool in your professional life and why you might not.
>> So some more became the the thing that parents seem to be positive with. So what so would it be accurate to summarize this by saying that what we might want to do is a motion to ask the full committee or to recommend to the full committee that we survey our families to find out what their social media needs are and what they want and expect. I think be social media or would it just be communication? Because like I can say at Newton, parents prefer a paper >> um newsletter that comes home in their kids' backpack that they put on the fridge that they're able to visually see dates. >> We used to do both. >> So I think this might be something that we have to ask the community engagement subcommittee to tackle coming my way. >> Sounds delightful. >> Okay. So, do we want to have a a motion to have this subcommittee request that the full committee charge the community engagement subcommittee with providing for us the information of what the communication and social media needs are so that we have that information for budget purposes.
>> Any opposed? And that passes as well. Thank you. >> Mr. Dumas. >> Quick question. Do you remember when we had a conversation before you came over to Gilbert Public Schools? >> Yeah. You weren't going to come at first, were you? >> I wasn't. No. >> No. But here you are. And how blessed we are to have you. So, congratulations. >> both ways, absolutely. So, good evening, President Thompson, members of the governing board, Dr. McCord, Dr. Ryan. Thank you for your trust and for this opportunity. I'm honored to serve in this role and support the continued work of teaching and learning in Gilbert Public Schools. I'm grateful for the leadership that has taken place and brought us to this point, and I look forward to building on that as we move forward. I want to take a second to recognize my wife, Paula, my children, their constant support, and they always ground me in what matters most.
Um and do I have a motion for that? So moved. And second. >> to return. And local. So a motion by I'm sorry cuz we were all talking over here. By was it Mr. Oliver and then seconded by Ms. Beckwith? That's my I did Mr. News I didn't make that motion. Okay, Mr. News made the motion, seconded by Ms. Beckwith, and we need a roll call vote, please. Ms. Copeland? Yes. Mary Beckwith? Yes. Mr. Oliver? Yes. Mr. News? Yes. Thank you. Thank you. Roll The executive session
>> Um and it's been so interesting to see the ways that AI is being used in education. This is a really interesting example of the University of Michigan for their honors program for the essay that they gave potential applicants. Um, so the assignment for admissions was to take any AI text generator and to write an essay on why the University of Michigan honors program would be a good fit for me. And then they had to copy and paste that AI generated essay into a document and then basically critique what the AI uh text generator produced. Um I've heard of a high school Massachusetts where they had students, it was an English class, they had students look um go into three different AI generated chat bots and asked the question, should cell phones be banned in Massachusetts high schools? And then students analyzed each of the three AI generated pieces of writing.
It's not a lot of time. Get it done. >> No, that does not I don't think this is something that can be done. >> Take a year to do that. >> Yeah, it would >> next year, right? >> Yeah. because it's unless it's the kind of thing that as we go during next year and need to pinch pennies where we can to make >> the current contract that you have with us regarding doing this does include the ability to do surveys. >> Oh, that's cool. >> Oh, perfect. >> Perfect. So, so Andy, have you ever done something like that like in a district like survey which >> because I mean it may be school messenger that we say we're not paying for that anymore because that's not facilitating what we need. I mean I used to I would get the call go to school messenger and I'd be like this is awkward um when I could some more in seconds.
At the Campo Verde community, and to our staff, students, and to our families, thank you for allowing me to serve in this community that I actually call home. And all four of my children have attended Campo, graduated from Campo, so it was a meaningful very meaningful place for me. So, I'm grateful. I'm excited, and I'm ready uh for all the work ahead. Thank you. >> All right. Um I just wanted just take a brief moment and uh underscore what Dr. McChord said. We are truly blessed here in Gilbert Public Schools uh to have the best administrative staff and staff in the entire country. You thought I was going to say state, but it goes beyond that, and we are truly um can we are I I'm continually impressed with the level of professionalism and the talent that Gilbert Public Schools attracts, and it's because of you and because of your hard work and your dedication.
They looked at the tone. They looked for differences. They looked for inaccuracies. Um so it's interesting to see the way that critical thinking is being is being redefined and changed a little bit um with some of these AI tools and that um we're starting to see ways that educators um do Sherborn and you know throughout Massachusetts and the United States are utilizing some of these tools in their classroom. Um so obviously we have the two pieces of AI literacy. There's teaching with AI. So what our educators are doing and they're using it uh in some really clever ways um helping design personalized learning for students. Um so it is really neat that if you are having a student maybe that you're having trouble connecting with you find out what one of their interests is, you can throw in the state framework, the content objective, the language objective and say they're really interested in Pokémon and it'll help you develop something.
Um, and I always figured that was um, so I I So what's the other one we used during the pandemic? Um, >> we're going to remind >> Yeah, >> we we Greenfield schools are going to remind >> instead of school messenger >> July one. Yes, >> we use Remind. >> Okay, that's what we did during the pandemic. And when I text, it goes right to my kids' phone, my kids teacher's phone >> or their desktop maybe. >> So will it be s'mores is more for newsletters. Remind more for the communication if I'm direct. >> I don't trust >> I feel like we have a lot of ways we communicate. >> So I Yeah. >> Remind multiple languages. >> I don't I don't know. I think that was >> my assumption would be yes if they're doing it. >> I think we should we'll double check.