Are there any questions in regards to this budget? um indirectly. So, um as we are preparing for the budget to be represented to us, um taking into consideration not removing any of our athletics, um or stipens, etc. Um, with our 2025 2026, I I personally would like to see the total athletic fees that were collected by all teams, including esports, football, etc. Total stipens paid out, total tax donations, you can go to that portion of the website and you can pick a team, cheer, soccer, etc. $200, $400. And then I would also like to see um a sum total of all of the students that participate in athletics and how that would affect our ADM if we didn't have our athletes. Thank you. Does this >> in regard to the budget discussion? >> Right. This is the for the 2526, right? This is for this year.
And you can find that format in your packet. And if you vote upon it, you get to use it. Exciting. The administration will create a styled PDF that members can access for this work, and we'll have them filed on the website and accessible to the public. We voted to add additional descriptions of the duties of the chair and vice chair to the handbook based on an actual list of duties and responsibilities discussed at the March 2025 executive subcommittee meeting. And the proposed section is in your packet. All right. We seek the blessing of the full committee to pursue two items of new business in the policy subcom. We'd like to begin to create an academic integrity policy to align with our digital use policy and an updated vaping and tobacco policy based on the student feedback from the Yellow conference. And that is it open to questions that that digital use policy is quite large and has many tabs.
So if everybody wants to like digest it and come back to it also like I'm kind of curious if people would like time with it what you all think I suppose that is my question. And is it appropriate to discuss it here or do we wait to new business where it's a separate item to discuss it? >> I don't know that. I think that would be up to the chair. >> I think that if it's already coming to us in new business, then we should take care of it then and focus on using this as a space to you what you did. Awesome. The votes will come and then you asking us to charge you with two new things, >> right? That's what this time can be for, >> right? So, >> yes. So, the two things, just to reiterate, is we'd like to start to create an academic integrity policy to align with our digital use policy and an updated vaping and tobacco policy based on the student feedback from the Yellow Conference.
>> This is for this year's budget. >> That's what I would like to see that for because we'll have that information. correct expenses. >> So, are you are you saying the proposed changes are for next year's budget um >> reflected upon information from? >> Yes, I can gather that for you and and bring it to you which would impact laterers. This is this year's budget. >> We do have to have this accepted by the 15th. So, I can get you this information, but I can't >> since you're Yes. Since we're on that topic, I just would like that since it's related to it, but ma'am don't want to impact this. >> Yes, ma'am. I can do that. >> Okay. Okay. All right.
So if everybody wants to like digest it and come back to it also like I'm kind of curious if people would like time with it what you all think I suppose that is my question. And is it appropriate to discuss it here or do we wait to no business where it's a separate item to discuss it? >> I don't know that. I think that would be up to the chair. >> I think that if it's already coming to us in new business, then we should take care of it then and focus on using this as a space to you've reviewed what you did. Awesome. The votes will come and then you're asking us to charge you with two new things, >> right? So that's what this time can be for, >> right? So >> does that make sense? >> Yes. So the two things, just to reiterate, is we'd like to start to create an academic integrity policy to align with our digital use policy and an updated vaping and tobacco policy based on the student feedback from the Yellow Conference.
>> And both of those are motions for new business as well. >> Yes. Wait, wait. Hold please. >> G and H. >> Thank you. >> Yes. >> So, it looks like we all we'll be taking care of all that. >> Okay. So, we'll just get out of the new business then.
So, if we don't have any questions about this item, I'll take a motion. >> I motion to approve the 2025 2026 annual expenditure budget revision number two as presented. >> I second. >> All in favor? >> I I motion carries four to zero. >> I'll need your signatures after the meeting. >> No problem. Okay. Um information discussion items uh 11.1 um CIA monthly report.
>> And both of those are motions for new business as well. >> Yes. Wait, wait. Hold please. >> G and H. >> Thank you. >> Good. >> Yes. >> So, it looks like we all will be taking care of all of that. >> Okay. So, we'll just scadaddle on a new business then.
>> Are there any questions or anything first? >> Questions for policy? >> All right. Wonderful. >> Thank you. Yeah. Thank you. Doing great work. Um, all right. Items D and E, no topics reasonably anticipated. Um, moving. So, we are now in item nine. Would members like a break now before we get into things? Great. All right. We've got We do not. Um, all right. It's 8:22 right now. Please. 823 right now. Please be back at 8:28. Hey, hey, hey. Heat. Heat. Please and thank you. >> All right, thank you folks. We are back from our break. Uh ready to tackle some new business. So, first item, item A, we have a motion from member Goodwin to direct the superintendent to conduct a literacy audit of the elementary schools before the end of the 2526 school year. The audit should include all components of literacy and be conducted by an experienced consultant who specializes in literacy and effective change.
Good evening members of the board, Dr. Wyman, audience members and colleagues. I'm here to update you on our professional learning that we had back in March. There's always a delay because of the turnaround time to gather all the information for you guys. Um so I want to celebrate all of these staff members um elementary through secondary who presented on this day. They facilitated sessions um for our whole entire district district-wide campus um sorry that's not the words I wanted to say. Districtwide staff attended sessions facilitated by these folks. So this is a great celebration that we like to do um every spring and it's our district showcase. Uh we had three choice sessions throughout the day and the quantitative data meant that um resources supported an understanding and implementation of the sessions that the people went to out of a scale from one to four was a 3.78.
>> Are there any questions or or anything first? Remember >> questions for policy? >> All right. Wonderful. >> Thank you. Yeah. Thank you. Doing great work. Um, all right. Items D and E, no topics reasonably anticipated. Um, moving on. So, we are now in item nine. Would members like a break now before we get into things? >> Great. All right. We've got >> We do not. Um, all right. It's five. It's 8:22 right now. Please. It's 8:23 right now. Please be back at 8:28. Go forth. >> Please and thank you. All right, thank you folks. We are back from our break. Uh, ready to tackle some new business. So, first item, item A, we have a motion from member Goodwin to direct the superintendent to conduct a literacy audit of the elementary schools before the end of the 2526 school year. The audit should include all components of literacy and be conducted by an experienced consultant who specializes in literacy and effective change.
>> Is there any additional motivation that you would like to give? Please, please. >> So much motivation behind this. three minutes please. >> I I will be um I will foreshadow um at our next meeting we will also have a motion for an ad hoc literacy committee. Um I have been an educator for a long time and I believe learning to read is should be a civil right. um our data um reflects that we need to do better and but um it's very hard um even as an educator who's in a system um to really understand what is going right and what is going wrong. So by bringing in a professional um literacy expert to come into our elementary schools and audit really get a handle on what's, you know, what is going on would help us um especially as um school committee members who um make budgets um and and make goals for our schools and give us information, our new superintendent information about what's happening in our K um for elementary schools.
So people very very much felt like they could implement that. They felt like the sessions modeled instructional delivery methods and they also feel comfortable um implementing that into their learning environment. some quantitative or qualitative data. Just to summarize, um staff had a deeper understanding of um the legal documentation within their IEPs and 504s through the sessions they attended. Um they felt like they learned some technologies to streamline their classroom and they were really excited to implement those and they gained some e strategies such as thinkalouds and vocabulary walks in that first session. In the second session that they attended, um staff liked the sequential approach to reading that they learned from our AD partners. They also like u gained some resources for social studies and make connections with ELA. And um they learned about number talks as a low stakes way of involving all students in mathematical thinking and they appreciated the critical thinking they learned with Socratic seminars that was facilitated by a social studies teacher at our high school.
>> Is there any additional motivation that you would like to give? Please >> so much motivation behind this >> three minutes please. >> I I will be um I will foreshadow um at our next meeting we will also have a motion for an ad hoc literacy committee. Um I have been an educator for a long time and I believe learning to read is should be a civil right. Um our data um reflects that we need to do better and but um it's very hard um even as an educator who's in a system um to really understand what is going right and what is going wrong. So, by bringing in a professional um literacy expert to come into our elementary schools and audit, really get a handle on what's, you know, what is going on would help us um especially as um school committee members who um make budgets um and and make goals for our schools and give us information, our new superintendent information about what's happening in our K through um for elementary schools.
there's people who are concerned and I think this is one way to get information that we need to move forward. Um, and I think I learned a lot um with a transportation audit that sometimes you think one thing but having an audit gives you information that you maybe didn't. You're looking at it from a different perspective. So um that is um the reason the request um and other districts have done this with great success and turned out after they were five years being blue ribbon schools and I hope we can set goals to be those type of schools. >> Okay. So need the motion in the second. I'll second it. Motion and a second discussion. >> So I think I think that we've said this is a priority that we've many of us have said. I just have a question. Is is this something that we think would be possible to do by the end of would this be by the end of June of this year?
And then the afternoon session that they attended, um, they learned some PBIS strategies that were given by some of our middle school teachers, specific deescalation techniques that they learned from our counselors and social workers that presented, and they prioritized um, learned how to prioritize problem solving and productive struggle in math sessions that they attended. Um, at the end of the day, we had some campus work time, and they found this time very valuable for those same areas that we talked about earlier. and some of those qualitative feedback pieces that they talked about. A summary would be they really enjoy that collaborative planning that we've brought into our professional learning days. They were able to create some assessments to target students that are struggling with specific standards. And I think that was specifically our ranch teachers that did that. Um, at Simon, our teachers celebrated talking about their 2 by10 strategy that they were going to implement, which is having two minutes for 10 days to build relationships with students.
There's people who are concerned and I think this is one way to get information that we need to move forward. Um and I think I learned a lot um with a transportation audit that sometimes you think one thing but having an audit gives you information that you maybe didn't. you're looking at it from a different perspective. So um that is um the reason the request um and other districts have done this with great success and turned out after they were five years being blue ribbon schools and I hope we can set goals to be those type of schools. >> Okay. So, we need the motion and the second. >> I'll second it. >> Okay. So, we've got a motion and a second. Discussion. >> All right. So, I think I think that we've said this is a priority that we've many of us have said.
this this particular school year. That is a question. >> Obviously, if we're charged with this, we'd have to look into it. We've gone through talk about bidding tonight, right? Um could be possible bidding implications there where we'd have to put things out. So, that adds to a timeline. Timeline probably seems pretty tight. I don't want to say the word impossible, right? with potentially a little over a month left of school. Probably not going to get done then, but um obviously we would start on it if this was the will of the committee. >> I support this idea. Uh and I want to point out that uh it is um that we we've heard from our our principles recently about the improvements in our schools on literacy and uh I I think it's important for all of us to acknowledge that there's a nationwide literacy crisis that our district is not alone in having struggles with literacy and that there there are a lot of factors and uh so going forward I think it will be very useful for all of us to um have clearer information about precisely what is going on in our district on this question and then for all of us to be sharing information about what constitutes best practices in literacy.
And then at Harmon, there was a modeled lesson by their instructional coach and their principal, and they learned about the essential elements of instruction. So, a really big day to celebrate all of our wonderful learning throughout the year. And moving forward, um, well, this is what we did in March. And then moving forward next Friday, we have Mr. Ray coming from Solution Tree to continue the work we've had with the 15-day challenge, which is planning for instruction, using our standards and assessments to drive our instruction. And then, um, we have new employee orientation that we're already organizing and including these different pieces into in July. And our back to school PD, I know we're just wrapping up one year, but we're starting the next. And we have our um new ELA adoption that was approved, the HMH for K5 as well as the 95% group for early literacy and the CLT um which is our world language training that will be coming and the 612 will continue their 15-day challenge planning and something I left off of there and our CTE folks are in the room.
I just have a question. Is is this something that we think would be possible to do by the end of would this be by the end of June of this year? This this particular school year? That is a question. Obviously, if we're charged with this, we'd have to look into it. Uh we've gone through talked about bidding tonight, right? um could be possible bidding implications there where we'd have to put things out. So that adds to a timeline. Um timeline probably seems pretty tight. I don't want to say the word impossible, right? But with potentially a little over a month left of school, probably not going to get done then, but um obviously we would start on it if this was the will of the committee. Uh I support uh this idea. Uh and I want to point out that uh it is um that we we've heard from our our principles recently about the improvements in our schools on literacy.