Um, and we just appreciate the fact that you shared your heart with our kids. The next item on our agenda, excuse me, would be audience participation. If there should be anybody who would like to speak, please go to the mic and state your name and address. Seeing none, um we are going to move on to the consent calendar. I would do call for a motion for the consent calendar. Please, >> Mr. Aki, >> that the board of education approves the consent calendar as presented. Is there a second? >> Second, >> Miss Fitzgerald. >> All those in favor of the motion that is on the floor. One, two, three, four. Unanimous. Thank you. Moving along, we're going into the committee reports and curriculum. Miss Cullinin, you're up, madam. remember two weeks ago I I believe we presented the um new OSX physics for high school textbook.
>> Yeah. >> For our discipline. Um and then in section four it notes the superintendent instructional advisory committee and would this be new? this would be new um using a small amount of money just if there was need to pay folks to participate and it was a strong request to the community that they really wanted a metric and so u Mrs. Nelson, one of maybe I'll let you speak to that if you wanted to mention. >> Yes, it's been a discussion and it would not just be um we have student advisories and we have parent advisories. So, it was bringing in um instructional staff to sit and have discussions about next steps and have their feedback so that when um you as board members have ideas of things that you'd like to see us do, I would like to be prepared to at least have staff input of what they believe should be happening because really we're here to support them.
And according to the, uh, the a situation like this, where the monitoring report came back. And according to the, uh, the interim data, it looked like monitoring report came back. And according to the, uh, the interim data, it looked like monitoring report came back. And according to the, uh, the interim data, it looked like things were great, but the according to the, uh, the interim data, it looked like things were great, but the according to the, uh, the interim data, it looked like things were great, but the superintendent actually can't interim data, it looked like things were great, but the superintendent actually can't interim data, it looked like things were great, but the superintendent actually can't even said my interpretation is, things were great, but the superintendent actually can't even said my interpretation is, things were great, but the superintendent actually can't even said my interpretation is, we are way off base.
Lucy, which some of you have already spent some time on. Um, and we're excited for all of them. So, lots of celebrations going on over the next two weeks and just wanted to be sure we recognize them here. I've heard so many of the stories over the as they've started to be celebrated and the impact these these educators who spend their most or all of their careers with us is really hard to capture. Um hopefully we send them off well and their next phase of life is what they want it to be and for them and not for others in the same level that they've been doing for all of us. So those are my highlights for tonight. >> All right. Um I don't know that I have any chair updates in the last 50 minutes, but do you have anything? >> I do have a couple things.
Um it was shared with the curriculum committee. It was out in the community for community review for the past two weeks. And now we would like to make a motion that the Cheshire Board of Education approve the purchase of the following textbooks. OSX physics for high school as recommended by the curriculum committee.
And so, um not unlike times where the board has said to me, um we need to do this, this, or this. and I'll say well um students don't agree under um student advisory they have provided the following things as their most important areas and so not unlike when I've shared those ideas and said that um we're here to serve the students and their ideas become the most important to us um this would be similar to that and being able to provide feedback >> thank you so instructional staff that would be uh teachers or administrators I already meet um with principles and co-administrators on a regular basis. So this would be certificated teachers. We might include some um pair professionals because they are also instructional staff. >> Thank you. Um and I'm excited about the success that we've had with the technical assistance model with CB SBCSS for our African-American students.
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Um there's a chair's breakfast. So uh that is Wednesday 17th or sometime in that week. So that is Zoom only, but typically they do meet in person and they just want the new chairs to know when it is and start going to it or send somebody in your place. And what time is it? So that's at 8 o'clock in the morning. It's usually the I think it's the third Wednesday of the month. Um that was the first thing. At the select board meeting on Monday night, they put forth the town meeting calendar. Now there are a few different dates that were discussed and so I said I would bring it back to the school committee. There is now a Saturday preview meeting on January 9th. Um the tri board meeting with BCOM select board and school committee will be on January 11th. and we have a school committee meeting that week on January 13th.
Any discussion? Second. Discussion. >> No discussion. >> No. Mr. White. >> Yeah. I'm just wondering if we could get a a quick recap on the nature of it being online >> online versus actual hard cover hard copy books. Just really briefly. Yeah, absolutely. And um it is an open stacks resource. I we actually have Miss Julie Barker here this evening. She is the chair of the department and teaches physics. So she's happy to field any additional questions, but this is an online resource. It is something that is part of a platform that all of our students can access and it's free. The the platform is free. We can also purchase books as necessary. So, we had talked in our curriculum committee meeting about any student who um has a visual impairment or has a 504 plan or an IEP who is registered to take physics next year.
um and that we're even now looking to extend it to our foster youth. Um I personally would love to see this program in action. I don't know if that's a possibility. I was just curious um Superintendent Nelson, I don't know if you're the one to ask, but um could somebody coordinate that for me? >> I I'm going to um speak on this. We have to build relationships with our families directly. And so what we have done so far is Renee Castillo has worked with families in a parent advisory model. I was there for the beginning of that, but I did step out so that they could have honest and um open conversations about the needs. And so I'm going to recommend that we get it moving and then if you would like to observe a portion of it, absolutely. Um, but understand that when we change the dynamic in the room and um, it becomes a problem for us and we want to be sure we're supporting our families and having them feel comfortable with what they're having to share in those rooms.
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So, I did voice my concern of having three uh meetings that week for us and the professionals involved. So, I think that I would say to the chairs, if you could work with the chairs, the select board and kind of give some feedback back, that would be great. If anybody has any concerns on that, but I thought I'd just bring it to you guys. >> At the very least, we we can do it virtually some of them. Uh yes, you probably can. But the tri board is a little bit tricky because it's in the hearing room, >> right? >> Um and then lastly, graduation was just really amazing. U Brian and Lynette joined me and I mean all the speeches, Lori did a speech, Katie and Brian had speeches, we heard from the class president, Sierra, uh I think the Senate moderator Ley and it was just a really nice day to celebrate with all the families.
We would pre-purchase those books. If a student needed one, we could certainly purchase that for them. But that most of the goodness of the uh the resource is that it's online. There are videos, etc. It is not a PDF that is just on the computer. So that's part of what we discussed last time. Our old our our former book is from 2012. So we needed some updating and the updating is um more so that this resource is in line with how our curriculum is written and the changes that Julie and her team have made over the years. >> Thank you. Yeah, I I I think it's uh I think it's really valuable to have the online for the age we're talking about. It's age I feel it's age appropriate materials. We're talking generally junior seniors who are taking physics as compared to kindergarteners who it wouldn't be appropriate for in my opinion.
>> AB: Absolutely. I was just curious about the technical assistance model. I know we've been using that with our African-American um, students and I'm seeing growth with that. Um, so yeah, I was just interested in the program. So I appreciate you. >> It's not a program. Um, so I I'm going to let Mr. Schloer answer that. There is no program that comes with this. This is us working with the county on best practices and then them supporting those with linking us with um different community members and organizations to make these things happen. Mr. Schller. >> Yeah, that's right. Essentially, what the county is doing there is they're providing with to us uh change management guidance. So, the protocol that they're providing to us Do you need a pen? >> Yes, please. I'm like, wait a minute. Thank you. >> Our our uh technical assistance from the county comes in the form of they've got um Tamara Simpson who they've assigned to us and what she does is she's um taken our initial planning day where we sat down with um a lot of folks team members in a foster parent kind of out looked at the data and then decided we really wanted to focus on two main areas.
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Um, I think that the rain was the rain was what it was. But you know what? I they did a really great job. And big shout out to the junior parents who set up graduation. So that happens too. And all the custodial staff and all night live is happening at the same time. So it's really busy on the campus. And I think they just did a really great job. And just, you know, personally, thank you to Conquered and Conquered Carlo Public Schools because my kids have been here since 2005. And I've said it before, I think we've I've had almost 300 teachers and tutors and staff and everyone else and it's really been a wonderful experience pre-K to 12. So, thank you to all of you for everything you do. All of our principles, our administrators, our teachers. It's greatly appreciated. >> That's it. >> No, I do love graduation though.
Um using lots of online materials anyway. Yeah, I support this. So thank you. >> We are um purchasing a set of books though to have a hard cover to have them available for any students who may need them. Any other questions or comments for the motion that's on the floor?
one um parent engagement and thus the foster parent advisory that got going which was lovely and then the second thing was making sure that there was kind of a foster youth liaison point of contact at every school site and so principles have designated that person we're going to work on getting training going it's not their program but they have said oh we know someone in Chaffi who's done that they've connected us to that and we've been able to get good ideas and we're going to be building that training for the fall and So, um, it's very in-house and organic. They're there to make sure that every two weeks we have a check-in. They have allowed us to continue to check in with Shireena Beders, which she was our technical assistance provider for African-American youth. And we we don't want to let her go because we love her.
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I am 0 for two when it comes to the weather. So, >> you've only been indoors. So, indoors. >> So, rising seniors may want to force me out of town. Um, is there are any updates on the conquered side? >> Not since our last meeting. >> Okay. >> Sean, do you have any? >> Yeah, the MECO staff is organizing a semiformal dinner for Saturday and the kids are really excited to get dressed up this Saturday coming and um they're going to give out some little awards to students and recognize the fifth graders going on to sixth grade. and all the kids are really excited for this event. Um, next Wednesday the Metco family friends are doing an ice cream social after school at Alcott. Um, with a late bus coming back. So, the kids are also excited for that because as we bear down on the end of the year, everybody is just like, let's do fun things and be done with school.