001Welcome, Dolores. All right. Well, thank you. Well, well, in continuing education, thank you so much for your time today. Um, tonight, Emily Davenin and I would like to present highlights of this year at continuing ed. I'd like to begin with child care. Child care registration for the three programs, the before school, the two after school programs. We open that registration on May 14th. We filled the two afterchool programs within five minutes. We're serving over 85 families and that doesn't include the before school program. Moving on to enrichment for young students, the trend continues seeing the most participation in STEM and sports programs. Some highlights include due to continued demand, we maxed out the number of students in all STEM and sports programs. This year we offered 10 new enrichment activities, five STEM programs, four sports
002programs, and three arts programs, and it included a really cool street art class. We continue to partner with teachers and staff for new programming. Highlights for summer which starts in about a week and a half include camp invention is back for its 11th year with it which is at capacity with 134 students in each week for two weeks led by Brian Andis and his team of educators. We also have power up a STEM gaming and drone camp with Tim Lie and it's in its 11th year and we're offering it for three weeks instead of from two weeks due to the demand. New and exciting this year is the Salimo leadership program and this initiative offers junior counselors a unique opportunity to learn from the youth a school and community leader. Yeah, for sure. Terrific. That's
003so terrific. We're excited. Yes, we're very excited to execute that program. Sal's very excited as well. Imagine. Yes. Yes. Correct. Uh for adult education, the primary program development considerations include classes that offer a strong social component by learn and and learning something at the same time. So classes like pickle ball, uh games, uh cooking, uh they rate high on that scale. So to end this discussion, uh we've traditionally like to end with the top five adult education programs this year. So the number four uh program was the number five program. Thank you. Um is the baking program. The culinary uh program is still going very strong. A little scary with the prices of eggs, butter, and but um that's a very uh strong program. We do a lot of our classes at the high school.
004So number five is baking. Number two, number four is pottery. Uh we have a strong pottery program. Number three knitting, group knitting, very strong knitts are very strong. Uh Mahjang not ranked number two and the number one program this year is pickle ball. Wow. Again the second or third year running probably maybe five years running. The only the only wish we had is uh dedicated courts. But anyway, do you would you have any questions? I just I think it's just fantastic that enrollment is up and they're fulfilling this need and um you're able to accommodate so many families. Yes. Well well the need is there for the child care definitely and um we do have beautiful uh facilities for that especially at Miller Driscoll we have dedicated space at Cider Mill. Uh thank you for
005that and um and the there is a tremendous demand in enrichment. I would say though for adult education um you know I still am trying to build that footprint but I think after COVID there's been a decline and also I must say with the um the onboarding process for adult education instructors is so rigorous uh that it's a deterrent for instructors to come in to do like one and two day workshops uh because of the amount of paperwork. that that has not really helped uh build our program. So, we're probably half of what we used to be in adult education. Okay, that's interesting. So, S's is this an older group now than he's because I know he's forever done the thing at Miller Driscoll. Yes. Yes. Grades seven through nine. Oh, wow. Entering grades seven
006through nine. Yes. Oh, he'll love that. Yes. Yeah. That's great. And these are some of the these are some of the kids that graduated right from the Be Good Sport program, right? And they're going right up. I have a seventh grader who, you know, was in kindergarten in 20 Yeah. 2016. He has quite a following. Yeah. Yeah, he does. Yes. Yes. No, that's fantastic. That's great. The child care selling out in five minutes. Yeah. So, do you what do you tell parents who are like that are on the wait list? Add your name to the weight list. Let's see if you can tell them first and we will get to places in town. Uh I I guess so. I mean there are definite competitors like the Y is a competitor create uh create down the
007road. We see long wait lists especially at Miller Driscoll especially incoming K. Yeah. And and the beauty of that program is the facility as you know the room is beautiful like it was built for it. Yes. Yes. Well actually that room used to be the Driscoll Library so it was never really a classroom. It was always a large space so we can accommodate that. And then I I don't know if you know this but we have a beautiful garden there and we grow vegetables. And right now, Louise Rothell, who's the manager of that program, uh we're doing signage around the beds and one large sign for the garden and it's called the Little Warriors. Yeah. And they grow vegetables and they have a whole Yes. The beauty of that program is the kids are already
008where they need to be. Exactly. Exactly. That is our I always say that's our business model. Yes. That is our business model. Yes. We have just keep them there. Keep them there. I mean, the only limitations we have would be space really. Yes, that's it's true. No construction projects in the future. Not at that. Do you think if if you did have enough space, which I know you don't have, but would you be able to staff it? Could you find the staff? You mean for the child care or other enrichment programs? Child care. I'm just trying to figure out. Well, I know that the space is the limiting factor, but if it wasn't, would we would we be able to staff it? I don't know. We'd have to put that out there. We haven't done
009that because, you know, we we are utilizing that space. Here's the other thing. We have the large space. When we start to move to other spaces, then we have to add doubly to staff because we typically have two instructors per every 10 kids. And that's why that space works so well. Thank you. Is it par profofessionals who stay on after school and stuff it? Yes, we do hire them. We absolutely do hire them. The only time we can't hire them is on those Wednesday professional development days. That's right. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you so much. Enjoy your summer. Thank you as well. In addition to the content's report, that's another like beginning of the end, right? Symbol that the end of the school years here. So, how long have you been doing
010the top five? Oh, forever, right? Yes, I guess for 19 years. Or maybe I should say 16 years because I I started in this position 16 years ago. Go back and look and see how the top five. Yeah. Has changed over time. is number two. Mahjang was a killer this year. Yes, we have a class coming up uh June 23rd. I can highly recommend it. I was one of the adult learners on Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Dor. Thank you. Thank you. Great. So, um next item is the uh 26 27 calendar. to work a year out. And we like to publish calendars two years in advance because families often um plan and well in advance uh for the February and April breaks. Um we nailed down the 25 26 calendar and then um
011when I was at Harvard um you guys looked at um what we're now calling version A or draft A of the 26 27 calendar. Um, we got some feedback from Peg in the WA asking a couple questions and just noting that, you know, in this particular year, school's going to start a full two weeks ahead of Labor Day. And so, she asked some questions about that. And so, we went back and looked at it and I think we've had, you know, this I can recall maybe one other school year in my time here where we seem to have a really early start and a really early end. Um, so what I'm proposing, um, you have two versions now. I have a draft A, draft B. Um, I made a very minor modification in draft B.
012And one of, um, you know, Peg's requests, you know, based on whatever conversation she had with the exec board was, can we shorten a week or two? And so, um, it's really we can, right? One day, um, to push everything a day isn't going to really be a big deal. I have, um, a very strong bias toward starting um, earlier and ending earlier. Once we get past uh Memorial Day, the quality of the instructional time just wanes and is the further we get into June, it just, you know, we're just not getting the the bang for our buck here. And so um this is it's an easy accommodation to make. Um there was another um request we had um pencled in on this 26 27 calendar um one of the uh PD days in October
013on a Friday. We just moved that off a Friday and put it back on Wednesday where it needed to be anyway. Um, so in the um, version B, we're starting a day later and we're ending a day later. Um, um, and it'll still be June 11th. Assume we'll have a snow day or two. And so, you know, we're back right where we typically end, which is somewhere around the 14th. So, I think it's an easy change. I have this just because it's a change for review and discuss. And so, we'll have this as an action item when we gather again in August. And that way, it'll be up there. And you know, as you're kind of roaming around this summer, if you have any particular thoughts about questions, we can get in August, but I
014just wanted to alert you um to that change into the the rationale for it. Thank you very much. So, if you know anyone has any questions over the summer or any um anyone out there, families or have any questions, feel free to um email us along. Okay. Uh moving on to um action items. Um we now have open choice um enrollment recommendation. I um supplied that you two weeks ago briefing and again the only change um here is that I'm recommending three seats in kindergarten as opposed to five. And um my rationale for that is really just keeping an eye on the total enrollment of our open choice students. Um there is some um although I think it's you know very minor uncertainty with kindergarten enrollment. I'm not expecting that we're going to have a
015whole bunch of new kindergarteners dropping on us that we haven't accounted for. So we're well within our range. We're within our class size averages. I've spoken to, you know, cath at least three seats and so there's no concern there at all. Um the kids that come to us from the open choice program are doing very well in our schools. Um so you know for all uh by all accounts it's a program that's working or serving those needs. They're integrating well into our school community. So the only change is just managing the total. Anybody have any um questions for Kevin on the um open choice proposal for next year? Is there a um motion to approve the superintendent's recommendation to open a maximum of three kindergarten seats to Norwok students participating in project open choice? Thank
016you, Nicholas. There second. Thank you, Pam. All in favor? I uh motion carries unanimously. The remaining item on the agenda is um the draft 2526 BOE meeting calendar that we looked at um at our last meeting. And the only um change that I brought to everyone's attention was that first um Thursday, August 21st meeting that we would meet an hour earlier to do a board retreat before our regular meeting and the year kind of um kicked off. Are there any um questions or concerns um about the BOE meeting calendar? Is there a motion to approve the BOE meeting? Thank you, Lori. Is there a second? Second. Thank you, Pam. All in favor? Motion carries unanimously. Um we're in a special meeting, so Yep. It's on the agenda. It's upon the agenda. So, is there um
017comments from the public? No. Okay. Um seeing none, um we'll let everybody know that the regular meeting that was calendared for Thursday, June 19th is cancelled and a meeting is adjourned. Thank you everybody. Oh, wait. Yeah. Enjoy the summer. Yeah. Well, we have an executive session, but that's we gave in separate for that. But for everybody else, oh my goodness, I should have said something. Enjoy the summer.