So, thank you very much, and these appointments are just just another reason why Gilbert Public Schools is the best school district in the country. So, we're going to go ahead and take about a 5-minute break so that people anybody that wants to say congratulations to the uh appointees can do so, and then we'll come back and continue our board meeting. >> Usually you'd hear me coming with my shoes. It's like hollow floors. >> Hey. >> How are you? See, perfect. >> I know, that's why I said it. I did. >> You all get the car? >> Yeah, they are. >> They're going to be like popping in there. >> What do you guys do? You know, like when you go in a wedding and the >> Right. >> Announce the bridal party and everybody goes "Ooh." And then he got to do a move. >> Go.
It could be a reading, it could be an activity that's going to engage them some places where you might get stuck with ideas now as an educator. Um, it can become a really good thought partner. Um, especially for differentiation as we're seeing greater and greater differences in our students within one classroom. Um, it can give really great ideas and tools that teachers can use to make sure that we are reaching all students, you know, struggling learners or students that need enrichment. Um, so it's been a great tool for that as well. Um, and then obviously not just teaching with AI, but teaching about AI and that piece of digital citizenship. Um, you know, there's a whole I've learned this within the past year. There's a whole vocabulary that comes with AI. Uh, so thinking about what an LLM is, AI hallucinations, a new one that I learned about as well.
>> We'll find out more for you, but I know remind. >> Okay. So, I think I would like to move that this subcommittee request to have the community engagement subcommittee. Um, >> hold on. Can I answer a question before we make a motion? Um, >> on my account it says messages you receive will be translated to your preferred language. Cool. >> Great. Thank you. >> So, you can in Remind change your settings to what you'd like to look at. >> You can also change your thumbs up to different color emojis. >> Nice to know. >> Okay. So, I'm going to move that we ask the committee to have that. Sorry, I'm trying to figure out the best way to phrase this efficiently. Sorry, it's taking me way too long and I feel like I'm wasting everybody's time. Um, >> is this a house thing or would this be like a good principal level thing would be my next question >> for the principles to like reach out to families and see how they prefer to be communicated with?
Robin's like "Oh." >> Not happening. >> Of course there's a million. >> Right, million. >> Online right now. I've seen the I I I stream it. I see the number at the bottom. >> Oh, the number counts? >> Oh, yeah. >> Yeah. >> Six viewers. One of which is going to be my wife. >> Right. >> I've been like Sean will be I told I told her a week ago. I said, "He'll be over here and you'll start seeing him." I kept telling her Put a timer on it. I told her I didn't tell her how to ask her. He'll start. >> How you doing tonight? >> I'm well. How are you doing? I got to go. All right. You're so sweet. >> Yeah. >> You're everything. You're the district. Oh, I watched the driver. >> Yes, I know. >> As soon as As soon as Don says, "Good evening." >> Okay.
Um, so making sure that our students are going in and they're having knowledge of this terminology so that they can um, be good digital citizens. Um, obviously knowing that there's operational responsibility, like Brandon mentioned, there's some hidden AI. Um, so just thinking we're in the middle of our middle school assistant principal search. Um, and just knowing that we have to be cognizant of any type of AI that might be used, not things that we're using ourselves, but could be used in advance in the programs that's built in that might have bias or might be filtering candidates in and out in different ways. Um, so like Brandon said, that human- centered approach is really, really important. Um, so these slides, you know, it's not a policy, it's a set of guidelines. Um, the goal is for this to really be living, uh, because we know how fast this is all changing.
>> True. That >> I would recommend it be administration in conjunction with the principles because you might between elementary, middle, high school. Well, then you have one I mean you want one survey obviously to make it easier but at the same time tailor made >> and um I don't know that's just >> yeah sometimes don't ask a question you don't want the answer to right you ask six questions you're going to get six different answers sometimes we have to make a decision we not just manufacture but US school as to how we're going to communicate because it's either the most costefficient or >> less troublesome >> as somebody who's worked in Greenfield for 10 years. Parents don't respond to surveys really well. The best way we get information is at all school meetings and we used to offer like candy or something if they did a survey on a Chromebook in the lobby.
>> So, we'll see how many of them are. >> I appreciate how this one is like >> I thought I just had my one and then I came in all >> Christian >> I thought So, I like just the idea of going just to see her cuz I love her. >> I've been waiting for this day. >> Sure you are. >> But I've still been waiting for >> Okay. Welcome back. We're going to go ahead and continue our board meeting and we'll move into 5.01 or five superintendent's report and I'll turn the time over to Dr. Shane McCord. >> Thank you, Mr. President, governing board members.
Um, so making sure that we kind of make this promise that we're going to continue to adapt, educate ourselves, um, and knowing that all of these things that we just talked about are going to continue to grow and evolve. Um, so kind of our next steps with this, uh, you know, kind of rolling this out for students and educating them more about all of these guidelines and guardrails that are into place. Um, a lot of students are becoming familiar with the green light, yellow light, red light system. Um, so rolling it out to students, you know, having this live on our website, so it's a public document, but again with that disclaimer that it is going to change, it is going to evolve. Um, and making sure that we're updating people when there are changes and evolutions in it. Um, any closing words, Director Hall?
I mean, that's how I did my um school council votes. Everything had to be done in person. Um that way you got full like a good representation because if you sent out a survey um maybe you got five responses instead of hundreds of responses which is what you were looking for. So I think my motion is for our subcommittee to request from the community engagement subcommittee information on famil family's expectations and needs regarding communication and social media so that we can ensure that we are paying for the right services and subscriptions. Can I do a friendly amendment in conjunction with the administration of the schools because I mean they're getting feedback all the time. So I think it's a >> Sure. I I'll >> Okay. So that is my motion. Is there a second? >> Second. >> Okay. Let's do a vote. Member Goodwin. >> Yes.
Good evening everyone again here tonight and those that are online. Uh just some things that are going on in Gilbert Public Schools this week. March 30th through April 3rd is Pave the Path Week. Right? There you go. That's what I was waiting for. Um in our elementary schools and I'd like to thank our preschool and kindergarten teams who are supporting over 800 preschool students to spend time inside kindergarten classrooms doing activities with kindergarten teachers and students to support them and their families in their move to the next level, which is kindergarten. And uh we'll hear from some of our preschool folks this in a little bit. Just a reminders the school calendar survey is out for staff and families for the 27-28, 28-29, and 29- 30 school years. The survey end needs to be completed by Tuesday, April 7th. And this Thursday at 4:30 p.m.
>> No, I think that hits it. Um, I mean, it's changing quickly. We are trying to stay in front of it. Uh, as are the other districts in Massachusetts and we're we're all learning on the fly. There's no there we we created a road map, but there is no road map. >> Can I ask a question? Um, so I love this. I think this is great to have the guidelines. Is there a plan for governance around this just as far as like if we are seeing a lot of utilization or since it's changing not even recognizing utilization what is the governance around kind of talking to students about it and being it being more structured? >> Sure. Our our our main focus is that students are using tools that are safe. Um right now the stu the tools that we know that are safe are Gemini from Google uh Notebook LM which is another Google product that will summarize research and things like that.
>> Member Webb. >> Yes. >> And I'm a yes. So that passes. >> Okay. Um, member Goodwin, did you have any questions from the first packet of warrants? >> No, my questions have been answered. >> Okay. So, for the administration, were there any other questions that were emailed to you gentlemen that you would like to address now or just something if you want to have out there and settled from the first packet? I don't Andy, >> I haven't received that. >> Okay, so moving on to the second packet. Member Webb, did you have questions for the second packet? >> Yes. Hold on a second. Questions slingering from last year. I had a question about a stove. >> Okay. >> Who's >> What about Go for it, Member Webb. >> She's muted. >> I wonder if she's just going through the packet to find the right page.
at the DoubleTree Gilbert, we will be celebrating our annual Employee of the Year event. Uh this is an evening where we honor teachers, support staff, and administrators for their tireless dedication to our GPS students and community, and congratulations to all those being honored. And coming up, this is the month of the April is the month of the district art shows. Thursday, April 9th, is our high school art show held at Gilbert Global Academy from 5:30 to 7:00 p.m. Monday, April 13th, is uh and through Wednesday, April 15th, is our elementary art show held at the Norwood Furniture Complex downtown Gilbert from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. And the junior high art show will be held on Thursday, April 23rd, at the Gilbert Global Academy again from 5:30 to 7:00 p.m. Uh so, please come check that out. You have no idea how talented our students are till you see that work up on the wall.
Uh it's got a lot of it's kind of a Swiss Army knife. um and and focusing on those two tools and encouraging students to that if again the golden rule piece, right? If the teacher says that it's okay to point them in that direction. Um and that, you know, um make adjustments on the fly, right? Use professional responsibility as a teacher and say, you know, we want to work on these particular skills. We don't want them to use AI to do those particular skills. We feel like there's mastery in these skills. we can we can use the AI to to kind of speed up the process and that so we can really focus on something else. >> And I think that um for the academic integrity policy we just added >> using AI with without permission is kind of just another like buying a paper online, using your brother's paper, having your tutor write a paper.
>> Oh, sorry. I have a I have a number. I have a reference number. Okay, >> it's 1 13344237510 0. >> Let's see. Count build two. >> Sto. >> Okay. And so what is your question about it? >> I was just curious who needed a stove and why it wasn't in the food service department. Is it one or how many subs was it? >> 1 13344237-51 0 0 is the account number it got charged to. >> No, >> I'd also like a list of the account numbers like a dummy sheet so when I'm looking at things I know where they're going. >> Do you have the full PO in front of you on that one? that number that you're reading or No, >> no, that was the invoice PO account. That was the account number, I think. >> That's what I'm trying to ask. I'm trying to see like how how many still how many >> it was just one.
We have Battle of the Books, April 21st at Mesquite Junior High, uh and that will be at Mesquite Well, again, at Mesquite Junior High, and it begins at 6:00 p.m. And last but not least, April 20th through the 24th is our Support Staff Appreciation Week, and we just want to thank all of our support staff for showing up for our kids and our staff every single day. We thank you. Back to you, Mr. President. >> Thank you, Dr. McCord. We do not have any requests to speak to the board tonight, so we're going to move past that and go right to section seven of our agenda, 7.01, Teaching and Learning Academic Spotlight. Dr. McCord. >> Thank you, Mr. President and governing board members. I will turn this over to Dr. Ryan and his teaching and learning team. >> And I'm actually going to ping-pong this on over to Dr.
This is just another author. >> Um but I think that's a good question because that's what the students want to know. I feel like with academic integrity, at least in the English department, I think in all the departments, it's a conversation. It's never like I look at revision history and I'm like, you know, zero, right? Like it's always a conversation because ultimately I care about students showing mastery of these skills, you know? So oftentimes it'll be a conversation and then like, okay, so let's talk about this evolving technology. What happened? Let's try again. you know, so that we're trying to, I think, make sure that we're having good relationships with our kids so we can have a conversation about it. Yeah. >> Rather than have this be yet another like, you know, I this this machine told me this and and now, >> you know, now you're in trouble.
I can give you the amount. It was $4,77.92. >> Does it have a name on it? >> No, I I mean I just wrote stove >> home teacher name. It's not >> I don't I don't want to assume anything. That's a cafeteria. >> Huh? >> It was not in the food service pamphlet in the packet. It was in the regular warrants. So, it was not food service related. >> Okay. Mystery to be solved. >> Well, we'll figure it. It's not a mystery. >> No, it's not a mystery. I think we need a little more. >> What's the What was the amount again? >> 4,000. >> It was in the Amazon funds, >> right? Amazon capital. >> Yeah. >> I just thought it was odd buying a stove from Amazon when we have mayonnaise down the street. And I think it'd be strange buying a commercial stove from Amazon, too.
Martin as uh tonight's presentation is from our preschools, and uh Dr. Martin and the Community Education Team look after our pre-K programs in our school district. Dr. Martin. >> Thank you, Dr. Ryan. Thank you, governing board members. I'm excited tonight for our preschool team to be here to share with you some of the exciting things that we do with our three- and four-year-olds that only uh compounds the academic excellence and the great things that happen in Gilbert Schools kindergarten through 12th grade. So, I'm going to invite up Dawn Koberstein, our director of early learning, to start off the presentation, and I know she's going to introduce the rest of the preschool team. So, and preschool has been here in Gilbert Schools for over 40 years, and so um what they've done the last few years is uh just build upon that legacy, but make it even stronger than it ever has before.
So that that's the way that we kind of approach it. >> Thank you. So >> Jeff, >> yes, question. So I love the governance and everything is changing as we every every day there's something new coming out. And from say middle school down through elementary school, like a lot of this makes complete sense. Like at what point do we start looking deeper into the actual curriculum and how we're actually fully embedding some of these workflow processes like into into what we're doing. So I think this is a great like guard rails and like how to start, but at some point like our juniors and seniors like they need to actually know the relevant tools of the day. Um, and so I would just put that ask out there that we like keep pushing the envelope there um of of how to make sure our kids are ready for it because I've seen it left, right, and center uh in the corporate world like jobs are gone.