001so you'll just be literally running for months yep so what did they place in New England um he didn't run because he had a hurt hamstring so he skipped it to save himself for Nationals right you're you're live soth and oh they made it in for the fifth all right wow hi everyone welcome to the Shelton Board of Education teaching and learning meeting we're running a few minutes behind today thank you for your patience it is Tuesday March 11th it is is 4:37 p.m. we will call the meeting to order Kaye roll call please here Kate cach here Patricia moonin here Lorraine Rosner here also in attendance Dr Ken serenic Kristen Santilli Tina Xavier and Dr Erica mcneel great if we could all please stand for the Pledge of Allegiance I pledge allegiance to the
002flag 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 okay can I please get a motion to approve the agenda I'll make a motion to approve the agenda second okay motion made by Patty second by Kate all in favor I okay moving on to item number three review and approval of the F following reports of the Comm committee which is I need a motion to approve the meeting minutes from the teaching and learning committee meeting on February 11th 2025 please so moved motion made by Kate can I get a second I'll second okay second by Lorraine all in favor I I okay moving on public comment did anyone send any public comments in Haley no they did not okay
003so then we're going to move on to agenda item number five which is science curriculum so today we are going to be talking about our new science curriculum and I am going to turn the presentation over to the director of curriculum Kristen sanelli okay thanks all right Ken I can just go right into sharing it's all it should hook up let me know if it isn't and I'll do it for you but all right can you see wait what I'm seeing y yeah all right let me go to slideshow all right can you see it yeah yes you're good all right so today we're going to talk to you about the um science uh program and curriculum that um Shelton has been um um piloting last year for a bit and now implementing in our
004Elementary grades um and on up and we have uh Dr Erica mcneel here with us today who is our curriculum coordinator 5 through 12 for science um who's been a part of this work along with myself and um Tina Xavier so today's agenda we're going to review the next gen generation science standards which have been around that's not anything new but it is something we've been striving to make sure our curriculum is aligned to because not only is it just good practice for students but it is um a requirement uh that we need to follow um we're going to talk about generation genius the structure of the program which is the resource that we are now uh purchasing and utilizing for our students to support the science standards I will talk about the pilot that
005happened last year in uh 2023 2024 with uh grade three at mohagen school in our current usage now I'm gonna hand it over to Tina to talk about ngss great I'm so excited we're actually talking about science and not Ela math so this is really exciting um so ngss is the new science standards that were actually adopted by Connecticut in 2015 um and again it's based on on a document called the framework for K to2 education it's very research-based and it's really about changing how we teach science and what the standards do it's really helped um students to understand um core scientific Concepts but it also includes um science and engineering practices so it's not just about learning about content but it's also those important skills that students need to do science such as develop
006skills in developing and testing ideas or hypotheses evalua scientific evidence it's very much um coordinated with other stem subject areas such as technology engineering math it also builds content knowledge across grade levels and the way the standards are written um and I'll go into it a little bit further details it's really about these 40 uh disciplinary core ideas that are broken up into grade bands and they're explored in k to2 then those same concepts are explored in more depth 3 to 5 then 68 and then high school so it really allows for coherence and for students to really develop understanding of these U main scientific principles that are covering life birth and physical science as well as engineering um and technology and again It prepares students for college career and citizenship and it's very much
007aligned to um our vog where students um are developing communication skills collaboration Innovation and so forth so it's very connected to what we want our students to be able to do Post High School there's a link if you have access to this PowerPoint that gives just an overview about ngss so ngss is very much different than the standards we had previously which really focused on grade level expectations and that was really just about you know students at this grade level need to know this content um ngss is three-dimensional and it really shifts in how we teach science versus like if you can remember one year at school is really about memorizing those vocabulary words it was very rot um was very disconnected students were learning in one topic it wasn't connected to other things it
008was really about just having one right answers it was just one way of doing um science reading and answering questions out of a textbook it was worksheet um students followed the lab procedure did the experiment everyone was expected to get the same results and it really was an oversimplification of how do science what science is about and what NGS did ngss did those standards it really changed How We Do Science it's really about making science more handson more interactive students um testing their own ideas not everyone having the same um experiment to find an answer to a question so it really changed um how we teach science it was more about reading different sources of evidence and making claims and using that evidence to develop a reasoning as to why the scientific process actually happens
009um the the ngss was actually developed by States for States and currently 20 states in the United States have actually adopted it so it really revolutionized how we teach science all right so what does it look like in the classroom we're talking about high quality education standards that allow teachers to teach effectively moving their practice towards how students learn best okay you're going to learn science not by reading through a textbook answering questions you're going to learn science by actually doing science it's more Hands-On it's collaborative it's integrated um it's really about kids working in groups and again wondering about something asking a question developing an experiment collecting data and then coming up with a conclusion as to why the scientific principle actually happens so it's really rooted in um Hands-On inquiry based learning and
010what it calls for is for a more student centered classroom versus just the teacher delivering and being the stage on the stage and delivering information students are actually thinking on their own problem solving communicating collaborating in addition to learning obviously these very important scientific Concepts whereas our old standards just focused on those Concepts and GSS as I said is it's three-dimensional which I'll speak to in the next slide okay so this is what the standards look like and what students are expected to know and um do is called they're called now performance expectations and the reason why the um it's three-dimensional is that there are three components to every performance expectation and when you're looking at the standard it always includes in in the way the standards if you look at any document it's blue
011orange and green the blue indicates the science and engineering practice this is what students are able to do as they're exploring a science concept what's in Orange is the disciplinary core idea which is a scientific principle that the students are exploring and then the green um as part of these standards are called crosscutting Concepts and when the the standards were developed there are like seven lenses that students can learn a particular topic so it could be like a cause and effect it could be scale proportion it could be a system and so for every standard if there's three dimensions to and that's why it's called three-dimensional learning um so for instance this is a kindergarten standard so students will use and share observations that's what they're going to be doing okay they'll be using collecting
012observations um of the local weather conditions they're learning about weather conditions that's the concept that they're learning learning and the cross concept that they're going to be learning this through is through patterns so again every standard has three components to it a science and engineering practice a disciplinary core idea and the cross cutting concept does anyone have any questions oh that's great which is very different than before where it was just just the the content that students had to know so it's really make science more Hands-On for students good okay okay so these these are our current grades K through four units of study and science so you can see there are roughly between three and five units um per grade and they um you know build upon one another um that our students are
013having uh the same common assured experiences across our grades K through four all aligned to the standards that Tina was just referring to okay and for grades five and six the same thing um we have our three units uh and they also align and they as you see uh in grade six they are bundled so see weather and climate they're learning and building even from kindergarten all the way up to sixth grade about weather just a little bit you know higher level thinking as they go up and up and up and it bundles which is great so it builds from one skill to the next and like Tina said the cross cutting concepts are there to build as well through grades five six and beyond in order to support the this implementation of these uh
014units aligned to ngss we began last year a pilot that I mentioned earlier and uh at Mohan School in grade three um some teachers had expressed some an in an interest and we began to look at some of the resources that were out there and one of them is called generation genius and what you may ask why should we use generation genius so obviously when looking at um looking at identifying and choosing a resource number one we want to make sure that it's consistently used across all schools um but we also want to make sure that it's it is aligned to the standards which it is and that um it is uh 30 minutes or less in length because at the elementary level that is the amount of time that they have every other day
015so one day might be social studies the next day might be science and so on and so forth um and a lot of the resources that are out there uh required 60 Minutes uh in length and so that was very difficult for us to try to fit into our schedules because we are um you know very heavily in those lower grades looking at you know our um weaving it into our reading and writing and math as much as possible and this this does that so they um generation genius it's a resource that brings um the standards to life for kids it includes videos um there's lesson plans for teachers activities uh reading material and more and they are the videos are produced as you can see with the National Science teach uh National Science teaching
016Association which is aligned to the standards in all 50 states one of them being Connecticut chist the um 30 minute lessons is the video 30 minutes or it's the video plus activities equals 30 minut yes so here you go this is what the screen looks like when a teacher logs in I'm going to show you I'm not going to show the whole video for purposes of time but I'm just going to show you can you all right Tommy can you hear this okay so that's 11 minutes okay to 32 wonder I'm Dr Jeff and today we're going to learn about seasons summer fall winter and spring yes it all happens in a pattern fall so as you see right goes through to show you to show the kids to but we can't because that is
017true is the teacher putting this up on their board yes that's what I was gonna ask how they're they're doing so the kids all watch it together and then engage after okay I was gonna say because we don't all have individual Chromebooks at that age right okay and then where am I hello it's okay all right he I don't know why that happened um okay so it goes all the way through to show you um he you know models you know with with everyday materials like that you might have in your house like a cup or paper clips or a straw so on and so forth and in a demonstration and then the kids have the opportunity in the classroom to utilize those materials and to um practice with that experiment as well um and
018then obviously there are actual teacher lesson plans aligned to it as well with with um other extension activities and things that kids can do um as well as quiz even quizzes um but all of this can be done the the beauty of it is within a 30 minute within a 30 minute time frame so just to give you an idea for you to you know if you want to look further at generation genius uh one of the things they also provide are the um discussion questions before the video after the video as well as the vocabulary which is really important that we um make sure that we're pre-teaching that vocabulary um before and and during and after so that students U better have an understanding getting into the content of it one thing I was
019Christen if I can add if we go back to the beginning and you know you see the I call him a glorified Bill NY but he's introducing the kids with every ngss there's a phenomenon which is an observable event so the kids automatically are like okay why does it look different during the seasons so they're introducing them to them to kind of prime their thinking and so this program is very much aligned with the science standards in that three dimensional learning okay um and then it also provides you as you could see the reading materials they teachers can download it um if they download it they can to Amy's point they can put it right up on their board in their classroom um or print it for students if they if they um are going
020to do it it oh it reads it allow for students that might need that um and it breaks it down um to uh you know scaffold it for students that might need that it provides you with the materials as you can see they're very basic materials of things that um are readily available or if we don't have we look in the look in the district or in the school to use so it's not asking us to spend a fortune on materials uh to to do this and uh the the instructions it just tells you exactly what to do um to implement the experiment within the classroom and just to uh add to what Tina was saying um if you have ever watched Bill NY I I think I feel like all of us have watched
021it especially you know in the 90s it was big deal right um Bill NY was great but it was not aligned to standards so they actually the professional development that we went to said that this company got their idea from Bill NY so it's you know an engaging video and then at the end if you remember Bill NY used to have a activity that you could do like in your kitchen or with any sort of materials that you already have and that's where the idea came from except aligning it with standards and um with the national uh science Association and this is an example of like Kristen had said um just a regular cup with duct tape and the materials are very DIY which the kids really like how do the kids take to the
022guy in the upper grades they find him nerdy or does he change that's a great question Kate um you got to see a video for kindergarten kindergarten that's what I figured yeah and so he does he's he is he is kind of like cooky and and and like uh fun for the upper grades as well but he does play towards the grade that it's for because because it's standard-based they know what the video is whereas sometimes with Bill NY that was just a TV show you know it wasn't geared towards kindergarten or fifth grade so that's a great I can see fifth I can see fifth through sixth grade if they were subject to them rolling their eyes come on you know no um I was in a I was in a fifth grade CL
023uh fifth grade class that uh watched the video and um they were going to do the hands on activity the next day and they were like we do it right now you know so um they they're engaged in the activity when they see it they want to start doing it and this is the teacher resources as well there is a lesson plan there's a teacher guide and something really great especially in the upper grades um there is an assessment and you can make it into a exit slip that's where the students do it right at the end of class to make sure that they understand it and this is an example of the kindergarten one um which is a challenge it's to label the pictures with the correct word from the word box and you
024can print this out you can send it to the Google Classroom if you're in an upper grade um you can make it into a Google form and you just click a button and it does it all for you and um you it also links to something called cahoot and quizzes um which is a game for the students so the teacher can actually assess them using a cahoot game which is played live in class um students answer questions there is a winner and it's very exciting um and like I said it links right to Google Classroom either as paper quiz as discussion questions as an exit ticket all the teacher has to do is Click make a copy and it's right in the Google classroom as I said oh go ahead I was just going to
025say how many districts around the state are using this one I don't know the number however we have been at a bunch of science um meetings uh and everyone's talking about using this using this good good and I think at the elementary level what makes this so attractive is the fact that you're able to get to science in a reasonable amount of time I and some of the other programs that we looked as Christian had mentioned are much longer and they take more time so the fact that the students are being exposed to those science standards at the elementary level I think is a win for us yeah cuz it always got bumped when I was teaching you'd run out of time and yeah also and you can relate to this too Kate when you're
026in the classroom it it's I don't want to say the word hard but if you don't have materials that the kids especially in the lower grades know what they are you know the the DIY stuff they want to jump in right away they already know I'm going to take the cup and I'm going to put the a string over it and I'm going to do this and I'm going to do that and then they can really build on it and they could go home and do it if they want because it's everyday materials and and you guys are sending the teachers the cups and so they don't have to run around that's a that's a great question um we asked for a list of materials that they were going to need and then also throughout
027the district because of my position I'm able sort of to gauge what is at what school and maybe some schools have um more strong cuse than others that they have for an experiment and maybe this school needs you know it's a cost savings when you have somebody that has eyes on all of the different science closets right and I that hey this teacher needs you know six cups or this teacher and it's in a closet uh at sis and you know it's hard to round that stuff up when you're getting the rest of the day ready it is and and I was able to get a list from the teachers of the resources that they needed and um then we were able to give it to them or I was able to find it for
028them right okay so as I said uh last year I I worked on a pilot with a mohan School third grade uh Tina pentis the math specialist uh was really um providing some support with science and with with the um third and fourth grade teachers and we had two teachers Janelle Durant and Michelle Isabella I have to give them both credit um for this pilot they said um if you can get us access we want to um implement this and we will show you uh the results uh and so we ended up um utilizing it in the spring and they did a few units um and you can see one of the quotes that that one of the teachers said she said I have used generation genius in my classroom and it has increased my
029students interest and engagement in science students are very excited for Science and love to do the do-it-yourself science projects that align with the videos uh and they hear some pictures of kids just doing just that and you can just see um the kids are you know not just sitting and doing a worksheet they're they're they're getting out of their seats they're moving around they're having access to the materials uh and they're able to you know work through um just as we do in in in in reading and math we have that productive struggle for our kids to do you know that Project based type learning this is exactly what our students are doing and if you look at the materials they created weather veins and they simply use a paper plate looks like a straw
030a pencil and they're able to then learn about what causes winds and and so forth so very simple materials that are utilized so the have gone away and we just kept all the straws and paper cups pretty much so our implementation plan this year teachers participated in Virtual um training with generation genius in the fall um and professional learning Choice activity of utilizing science was offered to teachers on election day in November um we have ongoing support from principles in our our office as well as from the um vendor uh that that creates this this resource and feedback survey is going to be administered in the spring to gather teach input and insights uh and then again again this is a picture of a sixth grader you can see um the teacher said that they've
031been enjoying generation genius um she's been focusing on Earth history and how the layers of rocks can help to tell the story of Earth um she showed the video and it was very informative and provided a great visual for what uh they had been discussing in class um she was able to print a copy of the quiz from the website and they filled it out as they watched and and they had uh they used the discussion points afterwards and she also utilized the go Google form exit ticket provided by the websites so that uh the students completed all of that for a grade so um the teachers are finding it very teacher friendly everything is right there for them they're not having to go and uh create any other materials aligned to the lessons except
032for get you know Gathering the materials so again as I said when we we brought uh you know wit and wisdom and we brought um the new math program you know my goal was for the office of teaching and learning is to put curriculum and resources in in teachers hands so that they work smarter not harder and this is an complete example of what um this has done for our K through six teachers I feel like it's fun for the teachers as much for the kids yes and this Kate you you were talking about fos we do have um several resources that they can use but this is our new resource especially at the five through you know five and six um they can supplement other things too not just generation genius um but this
033is really how they've been implementing new you know videos and Alignment um with it's all there I stop sharing where am I stop [Music] sharing it's okay can always leave it up if you have to Kristen there should be on your screen at the very top says stop sharing like a red button see that I'm sorry oh stop share here we go all right is that better yeah so any questions comments I know that was kind of quick to bring you through it but we just wanted to give you um a taste of what's happening with science Amy yeah I have a couple questions I was writing down as we were talking um so I I we you know I'm just going to go with it um the false science kits that we used to
034do so we're no longer using using them we we're fading them out five and six are still utilizing that they had they were the last two grades that got the most updated kits about about four to five years ago um so they they they they still have those um and they are utilizing that as a resource as well to teach the standards and the kids had a lot of materials in them that were not consumable that make sense so okay every year you would have I mean we have meter sticks for days magnifying glasses and magnifying glasses and so every year you know to get the consumable stuff there would also be the non-consumable stuff yeah kind of what I was speaking to if um if one class needs something for instance I have probably
035like 150 little magnifying glasses right if a class needs 10 magnifying glasses instead of buying the magn fing glasses I'm going to go to where I know the 150 are that are being stored nicely and I'm just going to take those 10 and bring them to the teacher they say like hey I need 10 magnifying glasses I bring 10 magnifying glasses so we don't need to buy the resources that were in the fosit that we have and anybody that's taught especially at a younger level um at an elementary level they know that the fos kits came packed with so many different materials okay um when I say Amy Amy I will say this the cost differential between Foss and this is huge right I would assume I could tell yeah I was gonna get we're
036we're saving a lot of money yeah before I go into that I was gonna just say um it's a annual subscription but LIC is per um seven schools yep yeah or yeah not seven I'm thinking five schools yeah um 30 um K through okay the 30 minutes you know lessons what is um okay the 30 minutes it how what do you are you are they every day is it three times a day three times a week like what's science like it's based on their program of work based on their grade level so there's a ke of work and then there's a three four program of work and then a five and a six program of work right so the younger kids are doing it a couple times a week yes right because they have to
037and then as you go get older you're building on it yes right well 5 to6 they get science every day five six okay okay yeah and then at their lower grade so they have to incorporate social studies so they're sharing that block of time with social studies got it yeah that's what I I remember it used to be like that but I was just curious just in case do something changed there are students at the 56 school that get science every other week if that makes sense but it's the same amount of time so one week is social studies the next we is science the next week is social studies the next week is science okay got it and that way it makes it continuous their learning is continuous and not broken up so that
038it's every other day and how is this tied back into our testing because we obviously you've obviously it is some way somehow you've OB T the testing is is obviously aligned to ngss yes right and so the Science assessment begins in grade five and they're they're assessed on their content knowledge from um grades three to four so it's in grade bands and then they take the ngss again in grade eight and that the content allow knowledge is from grade six to eight and then in 11th grade that um the NGS ngss is a state assessment for science at the high school so they take the Science assessment three times everything I thought there was something no nwaa doesn't do anything on science though I thought it does we we we administered the NWA in science
039starting in grade seven okay grade seven okay nwaa is grade seven right so we're we're yeah it's the upper grades grade s and I knew that was 581 yes and the reason why the testing occurs like every three years is because recall that those standards are bundled in in grade bands so it's K to2 3 to 5 6 through 8 and then High School okay so let's talk about cost obviously the F science kisss were a lot so we're getting rid of those you brought this in obviously everyone is happy and so it's digital so what's the so it's the subscription and then like you said and it's just then the cost of supplies which don't seem to be obviously as bad as as what it used to be you know I looked at that
040one thing it said construction paper and bowls we know we have glue sticks and the other things I mean that's just one assignment and we've been um communicating with principles and you know asking them if they if theyve been any issues with obtaining the materials a lot of them have basically started a collection of materials within their buildings so it seems to be working really well and go ahead at the 56 um they are using Foss they're they don't get the kiss I supplement the teaching teaching learning through the um actual School supplements the consumables so if they want to do a false lesson there are a lot of false lessons that don't they need like salt you know so in when you you used to have to pay Foss I'm I'm using like random
041numbers a bag of salt at Foss would be like five dollar yeah but salt in Walmart or Stop and Shop is not $5 so yeah you have all the consumables you know given to you for a higher price it kind of makes no sense once you have the you know standard non-consumable products right but so then this overall is going to be better for us because we could maintain the price per year than what we've been doing so you think there's a cost savings or equal to after what do you think significantly less signicant L okay um I know you girls are very creative in there so I'm just you know having a conversation you guys do wonders to get this stuff done so a license per school is $1,300 to give you so and
042then we get a discount for doing multiple schools so it's significant if you're looking for an actual amount I have last year's quote and it was $6,995 for um that was for six schools okay so like seven Grand a year yeah one F kit was a lot more yeah significantly more I mean yeah it was those are they're expensive we obviously found a way to say we could still give great instruction and good good curriculum and meet the standards for less and actually provide an opportunity for them to actually do science in a you know given given their um schedule so er Eric I know you you're saying how you'll bring magnifying glasses or something like that but is there someone you can't be everywhere is there someone building based at each building that might
043be the go-to person I know you know there everything's in this class that and I'll help you oh yes all the teachers as you know K all the teachers have all of their materials in their closets it's you know if somebody's like hey I want to do something extra and I need you know a magnifying glass right I I only have five I need 10 more I'm like oh yeah I know who has has them and and then I go and I say hey um are you using them and that happens on a day-to-day basis with all teachers if you're in if you're in second grade and you know that the you know fourth grade teacher has something you're going to go to the fourth grade teacher and say hey do you have this but
044um I've had teachers reach out to me um from the 52 level and say hey we've talked about it is there is it anywhere can can we get a certain number we need extra I don't know calculators for this particular um topic that we're teaching and I said yep the sis hat can bring up you know a bunch of calculators for this amount of time and we can bring them back so I think what happens too because Erica obviously is you know goes to the three schools right 5 through 12 so if something comes up in K4 they um they contact they'll contact our office um and then I'll you know reach out and say hey Erica do we have this or do we not have this you know kind of even with an email
045I did just pull I'm in the process of getting quotes for next year the price for next year is 9,400 93 uh for for the program K through six that's seven schools that's uh no that is k6 so that's six schools six okay okay so it jumped up a little which happened with a lot of quotes this year yeah yeah sure but still that's very minimal to provide six grade no seven grade levels in instructional res Source just so you don't need eggs for an experiment yeah yeah that one would be a demonstration you would do it as a demo oh yeah and and uh Tina brings up a great a great point if a teacher wants to do something as a demonstration that's also you know a wonderful thing a do- it-yourself demonstration if
046they just make it right in front of the class if they feel like hey this might not be something that the whole class is going to do um and I'm just going to do it myself uh so that they could see it maybe either to move curriculum along or if they feel like maybe they've done something similar maybe to Kate's Point especially in 56 maybe they have something in Foss that they really like and they like generation genius too maybe they're going to do the demonstration of Foss and do the do yourself um you know activity from generation genius they're able to weave it together which is really nice any other questions comments oh I think it sounds fantastic next agenda item is doing what we're doing in social studies in the alternate days absolutely
047yeah they they just came out with standards last year so we are in the process of looking at that and um to be continued yeah I'd like to see how map skills and Connecticut history and things like that are woven in I I will say this to you as well um through our wi and wisdom there are so many um uh uh social studies and science aspects to that curriculum as well so our kids are really not just getting it through that 30 minutes but there it is it is weaved into into that program and I'm very happy to to see that that's happening reading reading and writing about it yep yeah absolutely that was the point of that program right there right to keep throwing it non-fiction absolutely um what else do I have
048p KS yeah no I'm excited I'm glad that you guys found this program and you said that the teachers did you said professional development but they they already started that obviously because you yes it they had that at the beginning of the school year okay and everybody's adapting well yes I mean yeah it's very easy very e yeah it seems very like right I mean it sounds like I'm sure they'll pick it up quick hopefully yes well they love they love how user friendly it is I mean it's designed by it's designed by teachers right so it's they've thought of everything and we have good Wi-Fi in the school now is to run the program so the the computer shouldn't be lagging to pull it up on the screen and then there's the promethium boards
049yeah I know but I thought about that that I'm like but the promethium boards well you know what the kids could all hover around in a circle watch the video together at the teacher thing they they'll improvise those teachers will improvise if it goes down one day they will um yeah no I'm I'm excited I'm glad um I don't have anything else anyone else anyone I guess we just now need to uh we still always say we got to work on 7 through 12 it's always the next step right it's always more keep going keep going ladies uh I guess if we could move on if we are all set Mr sanch do you have any comments uh nothing other than you know I know that this was an issue for the board or or
050a Target area when we looked teaching and learning looked at science data last year so it was something that the team made a priority on to find uh an engaging science curriculum at a great cost and it's definitely getting um really great feedback from stud students I've spoken to students I've seen it in class I've talked to teachers um seems to be well received all around so we're very excited about moving forward and have great expectations um and I know Mrs Romani just said you know 712 moving forward but we really need to establish that science based at a younger age and I think it would show it's going to show a lot of you know um results moving forward so Absolut great start absolutely um yeah it is a great start Ken um um
051but I I I love the fact over the past you know so many years now that these ladies here are great they're not scared to go out there start looking at things you know they're well they're always welcome change they're always looking for ways to save and that's why I said you know seven through 12 I know they're gonna find something you know and that's why I say that because they do and uh way the generation genius does go through eighth grade we just were really focusing on Elementary but it is something that we can look into for seven eight to see if that seventh and eth and then and then yes the the high school is a whole different ball of wax of course it's all that's all separate and just we talked about
052that Amy and to Kate's um point before we felt that having generation genius um from kindergarten all the way through 8th grade the same guy like Kate was saying um we wanted to see how it rolled out first before we brought it all the way to seventh and eth you know because that's a lot of years yeah and the other thing too um is the 7 through 12 those teachers are very content specific and they're very comfortable with teaching the content versus at the elementary level they may not feel so comfortable so this provides them a resource to be able to be able to step into teaching science you know at a level where they feel comfortable so was clapping to that I agree absolutely my exist was trying to teach sixth grade science yeah
053back in the day get older I'll leave you on this note we do we do know and we do hear to Dr serin's point that um s science is something we do have to look at in 78 due to our test scores so we recognize that yeah we do it's always but but no this is a great start I'm very excited um that you guys found something new and that you like it and it's working well um and we'll hopefully keep with the positive feedback and uh let us know what else you keep finding out there and then when you're ready for the social studies absolutely we'll bring it in and you could show us as well what what is happening in there with those with the with the um New standards that's all I
054have to say I'm excited I'm glad we were able to do this today and give us that presentation it looks great maybe one day we could always do a school visit we don't do school visits enough you know so we could always sneak into a classroom once in a while and see what they're doing in the elementary schools it would be great to see okay anytime if if there are no further questions and if we are all set then I guess I will ask for a motion to adjourn the meeting okay second all in favor hi all right ladies thank you thank you everyone for your time we will