DCRSD SC Mtg June 11 2025

001okay one lock a little louder good evening we're going to call to order the meeting of the dudley-chartland regional school district today is wednesday june 11th at 6 32 p.m we are at shepherd hill regional high school this meeting is being recorded and will be shown on our website is there anyone else here recording no okay great uh to start the meeting we will start with the pledge of allegiance thank you at this time I just ask that we take a moment of silence and tonight in remembrance of Michael Scarrs who was a student in our district this evening's showcase is the Heritage School Heritage Elementary School has a presentation for us I believe mr. Olsen if you wanted to come up I will share last week the gymnasium of Heritage School came to life

002and if anybody stopped by you were absolutely amazed as to what these young fourth grade students can do at 10 years old and and the research they do their memorization their costumes we had historical figures athletes musicians sorry Mr. Desto I didn't bring Bruce Bruce we did have a Bruce Springsteen didn't bring him I apologize And I could sit here and go on and on forever about this. However, Mrs. Furman, who has been involved with this far longer than I have and knows the history of it, she's going to come in and share a little bit about the Wax Museum and the history, and then the students will present. Can I just come right over here? Sure. All right. Yes, please. This is really a milestone event. I think as I looked out at the

003audience here, I think I've had actually a lot of your children in the Wax Museum over time. So a lot of you are probably really familiar with what this is already, but this is an enormous event for the fourth grade every year. We have probably, when 150 fourth graders come through and do the Wax Museum, there might be 500 people that come through that day from the community. Grandparents, parents, cousins, sisters, brothers come out of school to see this. So it's really a huge event for these kids. We start back in April with this. The kids have anybody in the world that they want they can choose from as long as they can find an age-appropriate biography is the choice that we make. We usually generally use the Who Was biography series, if any of

004you are familiar with that, but there's about 250 titles that they can choose from, and we don't get involved in their choices. They choose who they want to choose and who they're interested in. And then we give them kind of a timetable all along the way about picking the book and then reading the book and then getting their notes done and transitioning them over to a first-person speech, which they then come and deliver with their costumes on. And they practice that speech over and over again, probably hundreds of times. And what really is amazing is that by the end of it, I would say 99% of our students have memorized it completely without having to look at note cards or papers or anything. And that's a really hard thing to do to get up and

005then have that. but impressed by so many strangers and one day in just a half hour period they might give that speech 10 or 12 times at least. So we are always so, so proud of them and this is an amazing, amazing thing every year that we come and I think we do this every year, don't we come every year and do these presentations for you? So we're excited tonight. If there's anybody that has questions about the Wax Museum, I'm happy to answer them. No, all right, but I'm gonna be only the only thing I would like to add I would like to think the support from the fourth grade staff Not only the ones who are not here, but I think this is mid-large and mr. Dark Angelo that's coming to support their students

006as well Yes, absolutely what I'm gonna do I think is just introduce the four people that we have here because this is this is This is hard to get up here and do this I know that we're so proud of you for doing it So I'm gonna I'm gonna have you go first I'm gonna push your imaginary button then I'm gonna have each one of you push each other's buttons that work about that All right, so I have Owen Nyha here as our own Bob Cousy. Next we have Colton Cady as Tom Brady. And then A.D. Richard is going to be Jesus. And then Peyton Scott, last but not least, will be Sally Ride. All right, ready? Okay. My name is Bob Cousy. I was born in Manhattan, New York, and I came to town

007when life was difficult. I was a girl who had been a great defiant from my mom and dad. The first house I lived in didn't have running water. When I was 12, I was a girl who had been a great defiant from my mom and dad. In 2013, I started playing basketball and I've loved it ever since. I basically got onto the high school basketball team my first two years, but I made the volume team in my 30s. Then I got a college scholarship from the Holy Cross in Western Massachusetts. In 1947, I was the Holy Cross NCAA title. Right on back, back into the Boston Celtics. I was one of the NBA's first superstars by flashing moves. I was a 15-time All-Star, I won six NBA championships, and I was a 1957 MVP. I'm

008in the NBA Hall of Fame for a number of times for both the Boston Celtics and the White Sox. You might be interested to know that I organized and was the first president of the National Basketball Players Association. Also, I have a word name that goes to the best men's college point guard. I'm currently living in Worcester, Massachusetts. Please visit your local library to learn more about my life. My name is Convery. I was born in California in 1977. As a child, my life was interesting. My family always loved sports, so I played baseball, but when I was very young, I played seagull. At first my parents didn't let me play football because they thought it was too rough. But in high school I started to play football. In my first season we lost eight

009or nine games. But by my second season when I started to quit I became the starting quarterback. I worked out daily even after practice to keep my starting position. My sisters and my parents were my biggest supporters. I am famous because I was drafted by the NFL in the year 2000. By my second season when Drupal was injured, I became the starting quarterback. Over 20 seasons, I led the Patriots to win six of nine Super Bowls. From 2020 to 2022, I played for the Tampa Bay Bucks and led them to one Super Bowl win. I retired from the NFL in February 2023 at the age of 45. You might be interested to know that I am the only quarterback in NFL history to lead their team to a 16-yard regular season record in 2007. I

010currently have three kids. Their names are Jack, Ben, and Vivian. I'm currently living in Miami, Florida. I am also a sports analyst and you can see me on Fox News. Please visit our local library to learn more about my life. Hello, my name is Jesus. I was born in Bethlehem in 0-2 AD. I was born in a barn full of animals because the animals pull and I was born lying in a manger bed. As a child, my life was good. I spent my days helping my people and telling them about my father God, but my family was poor. I grew up to be a prophet and a preacher, preaching about my father. Also, as a child, my earthly father Joseph was a carpenter, and I worked with him to make chairs, tables, and other things

011made out of wood. I am famous because I died on the cross for all people's sins, and I am also famous because my Father is God, and I am my people's healer. I also create Easter. Easter was when I rose from the dead, and I also create Christmas. Christmas is my birthday. You might be interested to know that I am my Father. My Father is the Holy Spirit, and together we are one. I am a Christian. I am a Christian. I am a Christian. I am a Christian. As a child, my life was fun and filled with exciting adventures. My father Dale was a college professor, while my mother Joyce taught full-time, and when she had me and my sister Karen, she stayed on the margins. As a child, I loved to read. From the

012age of five, I've read the newspaper. I gotta say, I'm pretty proud of myself for that. Reading was a great indoor activity, but most of all, I loved being outdoors. Whenever I could, I would go outside and play sports in the neighborhood. After all, I was better than most of them. I turned nine, my father took me back to work, and my parents decided to go on a family adventure to Europe. While we were on our trip, my parents toured me and Karen so we could keep up with school. When I was in high school, I started playing tennis. It came so good that I got to play with Billie Jean King, a famous tennis player. I am famous because I was the first female American astronaut to fly in space. So little famous for

013me, because I just beat all the childs in the world's team for the first time. and how Santa Ashland's lot of sailors were used at a time when she needed for myself a safety in the space program. People called it the Ryan Report. I also play this. I was little and my son was just born. I could not pronounce her name, so I called her Bear for my parents. Another one is that the only reason I play tennis was because my parents thought that they didn't need to play football on the side of the street. In 2001, I found in my own... company on satellite science and it was for young girls and it made a big change. In 2003, I was born to the astronaut Hall of Fame, July 23, 1951, at the age

014of 61 in San Diego. I'd like to be remembered as someone who was not afraid to do what she wanted to do, but as someone who took risks along the way to achieving her goals. Please visit your local library to read more about that. Thank you. That was fantastic. Nice job. You did it. I know that's always one of my favorites to go watch and see. And there's a lot learned from that and a lot goes into it. So I love that. It's great to be doing something inspiring to them that will inspire us. Absolutely. Agreed. so give him a moment just to clear out there should be one another table next we have the recognition of our 2025 cool bodice recipients I'm very excited for this this is what I'm hoping working with you

015that we have a new tradition here in the Dudley-Shelton Regional School District to recognize our Quo Vadis recipients for the year of 2025 I am going to ask them to come up in a minute in a minute i'm going to ask them to come up to be recognized so what i will do what the way this will work is i will ask the individual to come up and join us at the table and i'm going to read the statement provided by their building principal as to why they are the recipient of the quo bodice 2025. then we will present them with a certificate represent them with their letter from Covattis as well as their grant from Covattis it is a thousand dollar grant from Covattis so congratulations to them and then we also have a

016bouquet of flowers for the individual as well so the first Covattis recipient that I'm going to start with is from Charlton Elementary School if Miss Susan Pucci could come up and join us at the table please congratulations so the letter to Covattis from principal Ramos she has the following about Miss Susan Pucci It is with great enthusiasm and admiration that I nominate that Ms. Susan Pucci was nominated for the Corvadas Educator 2025 Award. As a dedicated special education teacher at Charlton Elementary School, Sue exemplifies the highest standards of excellence in education. Her unwavering commitment to her students, colleagues, and the broader school community makes her a truly deserving recipient of this honor. Sue's dedication and passion for teaching are evident in her daily interactions with students. She tailors instruction to meet the diverse learning needs

017of each child, ensuring that every student feels supported and empowered. Her deep understanding of her students' needs, coupled with her compassionate and patient approach, fosters a nurturing environment where all children can thrive. Beyond her classroom, Sue goes above and beyond to serve the school community. She is a mentor to new teachers. offering guidance and support to help them navigate the challenges of special education. She continually innovates and adapts to new educational practices, demonstrating resilience in the face of change and an eagerness to embrace new methods that benefit her students. Susan's unwavering dedication extends beyond her professional responsibilities. She volunteers her time to organize school events, advocate for inclusive education, and provide assistance wherever it is needed. Her kindness, patience, and commitment to excellence set a benchmark for all educators to follow. For these reasons and

018many more, I wholeheartedly endorse Sue Pucci as the 2025 Covatus Educator Award recipient, which she is. Her impact on students and colleagues alike is immeasurable, and she truly embodies the spirit of the Sistine recognition. Congratulations, Sue Pucci. Congratulations. Thank you. And that's it. next I would like to respectfully invite up Miss Michelle Hooper to the table who's no stranger to school community meetings you've been here before so this is Michelle Hooper is from Mason Road Elementary School and she was nominated by her staff her colleagues and her peers and this is the statement that was written by principal Desko for you Since joining the Dudley-Chant Regional School District in 2007, Ms. Michelle Hooper has consistently demonstrated an unwavering commitment to student success and professional excellence. Beginning her career as a Title I teacher at Mason

019Road School, she quickly transitioned to first grade, serving as the seventh section teacher the following year. In 2009, Ms. Hooper found her true passion in kindergarten, where she has remained a steady and inspiring presence in Room 35. Over the years, Mrs. Hooper has actively pursued professional growth, earning her SEI endorsement and a master's degree in literacy. Her teaching license now includes pre-K to 2, grades 1 through 6, EL, and a reading specialist certification. A testament to her commitment to meeting the diverse needs of all learners. What sets this educator apart is Ms. Hooper's deep passion for targeted student interventions. Her comprehensive knowledge spans not only ELA and math, but she also incorporates occupational therapy strategies, enabling students, enabling to support students with the holistic and well-rounded approach. A creative and forward-thinking professional, Mrs. Hooper continually

020seeks innovative ways to enhance learning opportunities, including exploring and securing grant funding to enrich her classroom and grade-level initiatives. Her dedication, innovation, and student-centered mindset make her a valued member of the Mason Road School community and a model of excellence in education. Congratulations, Mrs. Hooper. Thank you we appreciate both your efforts in the district all the things that you do well deserved and next we have the recognition of our 2025 retirees Madam Chair and School Committee this is another tradition that we're looking to start here at School Committee I know that the retirees do get recognized by their buildings but oftentimes we haven't brought all of them together for some form of recognition and this evening starts as our first recognition for the 2025 class of retirees for the Dudley Chilton Regional School District so

021we have a number of individuals who are here this evening we do have some that aren't here but the way this will work this evening is we do have a certificate for the retirees from from the school committee chair Zeller and myself it is a certificate and we also have a lapel pin the little pal pin has a number 2025 on it for the year of 2025 for retiree and if you look really close because it's kind of small it does say you touch the future DCRSD for all those that are retiring this year so the way we'll do this is we'll ask the building principals to come up and speak for the individuals that are retiring from the building even if they're not here and we will provide them the certificates to bring back

022to those that didn't show up this evening but we will have I think every one of our schools has somebody except for Heritage Heritage does not have somebody retiring this year but we will start with Mason Road Elementary School with principal Jen Destow they might not be here in body but they're here in spirit that's for sure so first of all we have miss Deb Parmenter who is from our cafeteria and she was somebody who came to work at Mason Road School after working at Dudley Middle School for a year and she came into Mason Road and has worked with us for the past five years. She has decided now that she would like to venture off and spend some time with not only her husband, but her grown grandkids who have also walked the

023halls of Mason Road. Let me see, what else did she say? She said she's gonna miss working with these little friends, but she looks forward to relaxing with her husband and spending time with her own grandkids. We're gonna miss Ms. Parmenter, but we wish her the very best in her new adventure as a retiree. Then we have Mrs. Flibert, who is a paraprofessional. Mrs. Flibert has worked in our district for 18 years at Mason Road School. She spent 10 years supporting our little learners in kindergarten and the past eight years as a special ed paraprofessional in grade one. She is an amazing human being. She's always honest, kind. Sometimes she comes to me and tells me things that I'm just like... But she's always just an amazing human being. She has a very calm presence

024about her. She's empathetic and she has a commitment to students and she certainly has made a huge impact on all of our students. So we wish her the very best. And last is Mrs. Maglione. And I did ask the retirees to give me just kind of like a little blurb, just because I wasn't here their whole career in the school. And Mrs. Maglione made me chuckle. So she's been in our district since 1999. She started at Heritage. Then she came to Mason Road, where she spent the last 24 years. And in this time, she has, this is what got me, she's been collecting many, many things. So when I first got to Mason Road School, I said, oh, Mrs. Maglione, this is wonderful. But you might want to start cleaning out. And she said it

025was until this year that she started cleaning out her closets that she understood kind of where I was coming from. But she said that through the years, she has had... amazing, amazing commitment with her colleagues, her families, her friends. She's worked hard to earn her master's plus 60. She's worked as our ISC coordinator, the kindergarten rep. She's led the new teacher institute. She's supported the new mentoring institution. She said it's, she's again very grateful for her team and all who have been by her side. she begins a new chapter full of traveling her time with her grandkids and we have already got her on the books to be a substitute so we are so very grateful for mrs. Maglione and all that she's given us at Mason Road School as well so thank you to

026these wonderful people and they're gonna be hard to replace and we look forward to hearing about their adventures so thank you thank you next we'll invite up the elementary school It is my pleasure to be speaking for Dudley Elementary School on behalf of Principal Audette this evening. He is celebrating his daughter's high school graduation tonight, so he couldn't be here with us, and that is definitely... very important but i would like to recognize our two retirees from dudley elementary school this year the first one is laura vigent who is a special education teacher laura came to us in dcrsd starting her career as a secretary at charlton middle school she was there for a very long time doing that made a lot of friends at charlton middle and then she came over to dudley elementary

027she went back to school later in life got her degree for special education and became a special education teacher at Dudley Elementary School and she's been there for the last five years. So Laura's kindness is absolutely legendary. Every morning she's out there greeting everybody, her students, staff alike with encouragement, setting the tone for the day of growth and discovery. She has an extraordinary ability to connect with kids and to celebrate what makes them unique, which sometimes as a special education teacher is kind of your superpower. And she lifts them up when tasks feel impossible and that's what we love most about her. In the Dudley-Charlton Regional School District, your career isn't measured only in years. It is counted in the lives that you've changed, the confidence that you build, and the breakthroughs that you achieve.

028And every smile that Laura has fostered, every tear of relief that she wiped away, and every milestone that she cheered for kids. speaks to the enduring legacy that she leaves. She is an amazing, amazing, empathetic and just very powerful teacher and she will be missed. The second person that I get to talk about tonight is Wayne Tower who was my best friend at Dudley Elementary because he's the most amazing human being. Wayne is the head custodian at Dudley L. He's been there for 32 years. He can fix anything. He knows how to fix everything. He can build anything. He can plumb. He can do electrical. He does everything. He's a jack of all trades and he is amazing. He treats Dudley Elementary School like it's his home. And his home is really nice because he

029does all the work himself. So you can imagine what that means for Dudley Elementary School. He does an amazing job and he is so committed to that building, to the staff there, to the students there. The kids love him, the teachers love him. He's everybody's work husband. Everyone fights over him. They just love him. that's going to be a huge, huge loss for the school, for the community. I think we've already roped him into being on our insurance commission so that he's still around because everyone needs a little Wayne in their life. He's just an amazing person, and he will be. We need a little Wayne in our lives. I miss him terribly, but I still get to see him every once in a while, so it's okay. couldn't celebrate a better person to be

030retiring both he and Laura have extended family now they have grandchildren they you know they want to do the things that you want to do when you get to that age and want to be with your family and your kids and sail off into the sunset so that's what we hope for them so thank you Charleston middle school Tammy are you able to speak So Ms. O'Regan has been with the district for over 20 years. She actually started at Heritage. She started there with her field studies and completed her student teaching. After several years there, she went on to join us here at Charlton Middle School. Like Mrs. Desto, I haven't worked with her for very long, so we asked her to give us some of her thoughts and memories. So she wants to express

031her heartfelt gratitude throughout her career. She has been fortunate to meet the most dedicated, kind, and compassionate professionals. Your camaraderie, guidance, and friendship have meant the world to me. I will carry those memories with me into my next stage of my journey. Which is to move closer to the Cape to be with her friends and family and surround herself with the things she loves which includes flowers books Animals in nature. We wish her well, but we will miss her greatly Okay, next I'm not sure. This is the building with the most. I'm not sure if it's a reflection of the principal, but We'll try to figure it out Dudley middle school Thank you for giving me the opportunity to say a few things about some people that I really like and then at the end

032I'll speak about Mrs. Eagleton. Couldn't help it. Every compliment that was given by one of the other principals, she looked at me and said, are you going to say that about me? I couldn't, so I couldn't help it. We do have five people retiring this year, all of whom I've known for a good bit of time. And I'll start with... Shortly after I arrived as principal this summer, my entire second shift of custodians decided to retire at the end of this school year. So as Mr. Lamar said, I hope that's not a reflection of the principal. But nonetheless, I do want to speak about these two guys, great guys. First, Ron Conway. We call him Big Ron. If you've ever been in our school after 3 o'clock and you've seen Ron walking around, he's quite

033a sight. He's an intimidating presence. True story, in 2011 we had a concert and I needed to, sometimes we have to remove audience members who aren't behaving well. This happened to be a grown up. And so I'm a little nervous, you know, I'm not the biggest guy. So I called Ron on the radio and I said, Ron, I need your help outside the auditorium. So he came down with his cart, he's ready to clean up a spill or fix something or whatever it is that he needed to do. And I said, he said, what do you need me to do? I said, literally nothing, just stand next to me. And I went over and the guy gave us no trouble whatsoever. So that's Ron. But in all seriousness, he does look pretty tough and intimidating,

034but he's probably one of the, if not the friendliest guy on the staff. He's just a great guy, quick with a laugh. He's been working really hard, physical work for a very, very long time, and I'm really happy for him that he'll be able to give his body a break and spend some more time with his wife. So Ron Conway, he's been with us since 2010. He's not here tonight, though. And then his tag team partner for the last, for all 15 years has been Fred Smith. And Fred Smith has been, he was there when the building opened. So he's been in Dudley Middle School since 2000. He has been a very important part of our school ever since now like Ron he looks pretty tough But he's a really kind really easygoing person who's

035always willing to help he has many skills But he specializes in painting and anywhere you see paint at Dudley middle school It was probably Fred who did it unless it's in the boys bathroom Now I can't recall a single time when I've made a request of Fred that he didn't just say, got it, I'll take care of it, and that was the end of it. So like Ron, he's worked very hard for many years, and I'm happy for him that he'll be able to take a break now and go to the beach or ride his Harley or whatever it is that he wants to do. Fred Smith's been with us 25 years. Carol Harwood is here tonight. Carol and she's been working in in the Dudley Charlton Regional School District for over 30 years but

036she's been in our cafeteria for about 12 years since 2013 but I go back further with Carol because I've known her ever since I had her daughter Cameron when I was assistant principal at Charlton Middle School in like 2001 2002 somewhere in that area Most of you know working in a school kitchen is very intense. It's not long hours, but it's intense hours. And it's a very fast-moving job and everyone has to do their part or it breaks down. And sometimes the stress of that causes people to be impatient with one another. But not Carol. She is the steady hand. She may be stressed on the inside, but on the outside she always stays cool, kind, and level-headed. She sets a really good example for our students and for our staff, and we're really going

037to miss her consistent professionalism and steady hand. Carol Harwood. Congratulations, Carol. Come up and get food. Two more days, though. Two more lunches. I actually do have a... True, but kind of funny story about Julie St.. Francis Julie is here tonight Julie. Can you just raise your hand please? And Julie, I hired Julie in 2011, so she's been at Dudley Middle School for 14 years. And she had previously been very successful teaching at Millbury High School. She had a great reputation. She was doing a great job. And like any great teacher, she wasn't sure if she wanted to leave her students. But I was in recruiting mode, so I was going to try to find a way to get her to come over to our side. Now, she lived nearby our school, so that was

038helpful. But she really liked Millbury. So I brought her in for a second interview. and I put a picture of the Millbury Woolies mascot. You know Millbury's the Woolies, right? And it's like a sheep of some sort. And then I put next to that Rocco the Fighting Ram from Shepherd Hill, and I said, which team do you want to be on? You remember that? I don't know if that's what it was, but she chose Dudley Charlton, and she's been with us for 14 years. So she is a great science teacher, and we need science teachers these days, and I'm going to really miss having her. I hate to see her go. So steady, so consistent, no drama, just excellence in teaching and also in coaching. She's coached our cross country team many times and we

039won't be able to replace her anytime soon. Julie St. Francis. Come on up and get your certificate. And finally, I also have to speak about Mrs. Eagleton. A lot of people don't know, but Claudette knows very well what I call her, my nickname for her, ever since we started working together. She's been in the district for almost 30 years, right? And teaching health. And when you teach health to teens and tweens, you have to cover some content that can be difficult for a regular person to cover. But she's not a regular person. And she has no problem covering that content. And so I have gotten to call, I used to call her the iceberg. Now why do I call her that? Because it was an iceberg that sank the Titanic. And if anyone was going

040to say something in class that would sink my career, it was going to be Mrs. Eagleton. She knows. But what, the thing is, Mrs. Eagleton long ago stumbled upon one of the great keys to education. care about the students so much, build trust with them that's so strong that you can say things in an unfiltered way and they will know that you're doing it out of love and she does just that. Her secret, that's her secret in a nutshell. The kids, they don't want to let her down because they know she loves them so much and teaching the content of the health class is obviously very challenging in a lot of ways and I've never in my life seen anyone do it better. Outside of the classroom, her influence has been just as big on

041our school. The next time you go to an extracurricular event at Dudley Middle School that she's not at or she didn't have a hand in is probably going to be the first time. Her influence on the school can never really be quantified. She exemplifies everything that's good about our school, past and present. She's been students first all the way and we truly won't be able to replace her. But we're going to do the best that we can and we're hoping and we're thinking that we're going to be able to convince her to come back as a sub quite frequently. So Claudette Eagleton, come and get your certificate. Every day she plays the music in the morning when I unlock the door where the kids go down the academic wing. You get hit right in the

042face with some really loud music. And usually I have to say to the first kid in, tell Mrs. Eagleton to change that song. Thank you, Principal Desto. And last but not least, the mother chef, Sheffield Regional High School Principal Darren Elwell. Good evening. Just 10 days ago, we bid farewell to the class of 2025. And in a few short days, we will also bid farewell to Barbara Martirosian, Mary Salamita, and Greg Duvall, all of whom will retire at the end of our school year. And in total, their combined years of service to our district exceeds an impressive 90 years, which is incredible. Since 1999, Barbara Martirosian has taught a wide range of English courses from journalism and English 12 to advanced placement, English literature, and English as a second language, which is quite a range.

043Ms. Martirosian's passion for literature and other cultures comes alive in the classroom, and I've observed firsthand how her compassion has made all students feel welcome at Shepherd Hill, especially some of our most vulnerable populations. Beyond the classroom, Mrs. Martirosha never misses an opportunity to participate in Spirit Week, and her students always enjoy her regular presence and support at a variety of after-school events. Last year, when her department chair experienced a devastating personal tragedy, without hesitation, Barbara quietly stepped forward to lead her department with the understanding that her colleague would still benefit. That's precisely the kind of teacher leadership that I will miss and I know that we will all miss here at Shepherd Hill. Our school psychologist Mary Salamita has served in the Dudley Charlton Regional School District since 1991. Mary has worked to help

044students better understand their strengths, needs, and learning styles, all of which allowed them to more fully realize their potential. Above all else, Mary has been one of our district's foremost advocates for students and the enduring relationships that she's developed with students and quite frankly families and colleagues as well is a testament to her efforts. Throughout her career, Mary has conducted herself with grace and professionalism, especially during some very difficult conversations, most likely during any given team meeting. Throughout the past week, I've witnessed Mary's care and compassion as she supported grieving students and staff. And I speak for everyone when I say that we will truly miss her kindness at Shepherd Hill. And last, but certainly not least, our head custodian, Mr. Duvall. Now, I had just been born when the program first aired in 1985.

045But I've done some research and I think we can safely say that you are our very own Shepherd Hill MacGyver. Technically, Greg has been walking the halls of this building for over 50 years, having first attended Shepherd Hill in 1973 as a seventh grade student when the school first opened. For over 30 years, Greg has poured his heart and soul into his work, taking pride in the condition and appearance of our building and grounds. Greg is a humble man of many talents, and whether he's coordinating transportation for a last-minute field trip or responding to an alarm or boiler emergency in the middle of the night, Greg's unwavering commitment ensures that we are in a clean, safe, and functional environment at all times. No matter the request, Greg's response is always, we'll take care of it.

046And after all these years of service, I hope that you can finally take care of yourself and enjoy a well-deserved retirement. In recognition of their decades of dedicated service and lasting contributions, I'd ask for another round of applause for these outstanding individuals. Exciting time for all of you. We wish you all the best of luck, and we thank you for all your service and hard work. Your dedication to our district will not be the same without any of you, the impacts that you've made for all of our students and the community and staff as well. So thank you very much. At this time, I think we'll just take a quick five-minute recess, if that's okay, for the retirees. We do have some cupcakes here, and we'll just do a brief recess. Can I get some

047cupcakes, please? You're all set. Okay, thank you. Okay. Thank you for that. Now we will get back to, this is not today. Sorry. Next up on our agenda is the consent agenda items, the approval of the warrant and the minutes from May 14th. Does anybody have a need to pull those meeting minutes? Start time. So I went back and it was right on time. So if we can amend to reflect 630, then I'll make the motion to accept with the modification. Does anybody have any communications to report out? First communication was while I was still a private citizen, there was a motion by the federal government to cut and remove E-rate. So I wrote letters to Senator Markey, Senator Warren, Representative Neal, and... One of Senator Markey's representatives, one of his aides, got back to

048me last week and said, the senator has time to meet with you today. So I'm connected with Mr. DeSantis, and I was only able to get a hold of Town Administrator Andrew Golis and get the data on what our E-rate... Line items are currently we're a tier one. So we are We're putting in at 40% which means the Fed picks up at 60 and if those line items were to be eliminated be a Substantial cost I could actually defer to mr. DeSantis if he wants to put a price point on that about 117,000 just for the district. Yeah, so We in that meeting there was a it also affects libraries libraries are also under the tier 1 e rate program So that would be a substantial hit to the municipalities and the school district, and

049so I thought it was a very important meeting to take, even though it wasn't a lot of time to prep. But we provided that data to the aides and had a meaningful conversation about advocating to make sure that that program is not canceled. Also, I was reached out to by the... Charlton cultural council and they'd like to set up a time with mr. Elwell to develop a program that they would sponsor it was the It was the poetry something Mr. Lamar do you remember what that was? I in my head I only have poetry contest I don't have yeah, I'll follow up on that but the cultural council wanted to start a program with the high school so that's what I got for communications okay thank you anybody else next is the superintendent's report a

050couple of items in my report we've already covered it was the quobatas and the retirees but I do have at least three other items to cover the first one is very difficult because I share with profound sadness that we continue to mourn the unexpected loss of Michael Sklarz, a freshman here at Sheppard Hill Regional High School. On behalf of the Dudley Child Regional School District, we extend our deepest condolences to the Sklarz family. The pain of losing a child is unimaginable to all of us, and our hearts are with them during this time of sorrow. Michael's passing has deeply affected his family, his friends, his classmates, and the entire school community. We recognize that grief is deeply personal and that each of us processes it in our own way. In this moment and in the

051days ahead, we remain committed to surrounding the Sklar's family and our community with the compassion and unwavering support that they deserve. This is a heartbreaking loss for all of us. Please join me in keeping the Sklar's family in our thoughts and in holding space for one another as we navigate this grief together as a school district. and during public comment I am gonna ask principal Elwell to come up as well because he has some more to talk about regarding that the next item in my report that I'm going to share is I want to sincerely thank the voters of Dudley and Charlton for their support of the Dudley Charlton Regional School District FYI fiscal year 26 school budget their continued investment allows us to provide students with the high quality education resources that they deserve

052Looking ahead, our focus remains on responsible planning and communication with an updated five-year district improvement plan, renewed five-year technology plan, five-year curriculum development and review plan, and a 10-year capital improvement plan in place. And we are well positioned to align our goals with the evolving needs of our students, staff, and our facilities. We are deeply grateful for the Town of Dudley-Charlton, their trust and support through the budgetary process. Together we will continue to build a systematically strong and sustainable future for the Dudley-Charlton Regional School District. The next item I have is yesterday, myself, Assistant Superintendent True and Director of Pupil Personnel Services Harriman attended at Heritage Elementary School, one of my favorite events of every year. We attended the impact program end of the year recognition. The impact program is for students who need a

053little bit of adjustment, a little bit of time before the school starts. It's a voluntary program at Heritage Elementary School that's been going on since the year 2006. In 2006, the program was started by Ms. Donna Morin, who was there yesterday, even though she's retired. She came to the celebration, which was fantastic. It was also started by Ms. Morin, Ms. Lorinda Allen, and Mr. David Deremian. back in 2006. And it is a great example of engagement, self-regulation, executive functioning, expression and communication for the students at Heritage that are supported by their teachers. As I have shared in the past, it is a remarkable celebration of students and a gem of a commitment by the volunteers. And it's led now by Miss Amy Paquette. our teacher for Ed Heritage in Charlton Elementary School and also Miss

054Ann Marie Clem who's been part of it for a number of years as well who's fantastic and Miss Patricia Harkins who's been a Title I teacher at Title I for a while as well it's a great program it's great to see the families the kids the kids get up and present which is obviously as you know very difficult sometimes to publicly present but these kids did a phenomenal job The impact group puts on a little bit of a spread, morning spread with coffee and juice and stuff, and the parents get to come in and get to see the other students that are in the program. Again, I've been going every year since I've been here. It's fantastic. I was glad to have Assistant Superintendent True and Director of People and Personnel Services Harriman come with

055me this year, or they actually came on their own. They didn't come with me. It was amazing. But it was a really fantastic celebration. And again, it just goes to the things that we do that don't always rise to... this level or to other levels. It's a volunteer thing by the staff and it's just great for the culture and for the students at Heritage Elementary School. And then the last item I have is just a quick reminder in case somebody missed something somewhere. The last day of school this year is Monday, June 16th, 2025. And it is, yes, it's an early release day for all students. So, yes, do I feel bad? Have I been cornered and asked why can't we just wave the day away? We can't. parents can obviously but we do have

056to continue to have school for the requisite number of days and so we do have school on monday the 16th but it is the last day of school for the 2024-2025 school season uh which has been a great year so uh that concludes my report this evening thank you thank you very much busy time of year okay um now we have public comment do we have anybody here for public comment i know mr ll planning to come speak evening again I have a message that is scheduled to be sent to parents and families shortly and I wanted to take this opportunity to share the message in advance with the committee and also for viewers who may be watching at home. As we continue to process and mourn the loss of grade 9 student Michael Sklarz,

057I am writing to share a potential resource that is immediately available to members of our community. For the past week, our school adjustment counselors, guidance counselors, and school psychologists have all worked collaboratively to counsel both staff and students. Although we've resumed our typical school routines, we remain flexible and accommodating to those who require a little bit of extra time, space, and support. Additionally, the student-teacher relationships that are a hallmark of our school have also been beneficial for many students during this time, those connections with teachers and other staff. Recognizing the need for support beyond the school day and beyond the school year, which is fast approaching, we have coordinated with the Seven Hills Foundation in Southbridge, which is offering expedited intake sessions for outpatient therapy. I want to specifically thank Ms. Caitlin Coughlin, with whom

058I met yesterday. She is the Assistant Director of Outpatient Services, and I appreciate that they are offering our families, students, and faculty members priority consideration, which for those of you who know this arena, it can be difficult, and it's not always timely to go through the intake process. So parents and families are encouraged to submit a referral. or members of our guidance department are also available to help facilitate the referral process with families. But either way, requests from the Dudley Charlton Regional School District will receive priority screening in the days and weeks ahead. I will be sharing that link via email with our learning community. And as we all know, we have unfortunately seen a lot of tragedy in recent years. But in times like these, I continue to develop an even greater appreciation for

059the generosity of spirit in our community. And I'm also, I continue to be in awe of the resilience of our students. It's really incredible to see. Should any members of the community or parents or families have questions or require assistance with securing additional support, please do not hesitate to contact the school. Once again, this message will be going out shortly. We are very mindful of the fact that once school is no longer in session. Many students and families might still require support. And we as a school, of course, will continue to be responsive and present in our main office. And we can, of course, accept phone calls and respond to emails to help direct people in the right direction for support. We are also working with Riverside Trauma. to be able to provide some expedited

060intake for their services as well. And of course, the Massachusetts Behavioral Health System is another resource. But I especially want to thank the Seven Hills Foundation for reaching out so quickly and for establishing this for our students and families. Thank you. Thank you. I guess we will move into the presentation of our school improvement plans. Madam Chair and School Committee, so a draft district improvement plan was presented to School Committee that's obviously not finalized and that we are preparing. We did take the feedback from School Committee. We are preparing to send out to the community for feedback. as requested as we suggested but also as requested to try to get it to the town halls as well for people to provide us some feedback but the school improvement plans were based off of the guidelines

061or the guidance of the sketch of the district improvement plan so they are here this evening to present we are looking at three-year plans for our school improvement plans we do have representatives from school councils here too which is fantastic to see I greatly appreciate that You know, we typically start with, you know, the primary elementary schools, but why don't we jump in and have middle schools go first because we'll just switch it up a little bit. So we'll have the middle schools come up first to present their school improvement plans. I would suggest we do it together. Obviously, Principal Alwell is not going to, you know, unless you all want to join him when he comes up. Yes, I would have you both come up. Yeah, I think that would be best. So we'll

062look at the middle schools first. Good evening, everybody. Thank you for the opportunity for us to present the school improvement plans. I'll begin with Dudley Middle School, and if it's okay with the committee, I will just... we'll hit some of the highlights of what it is and then if you would like to ask any questions you certainly may do so when you look through our plan and then you look through charlton middles you'll see that the format is slightly different but a lot of the themes are the same and that's because we based them on the district plan okay so if i might first introduce a couple of members of my school council who made the trip tonight i would like to do that first we have a couple of our teachers here with us

063miss laporte christina laporte who's seventh grade social studies teacher was kind enough to join the school council also fifth grade teacher samantha gatsogiannis is here with us and one of our parents made it the tallest one derek donahue who is the father of two girls one of whom is the eighth grade and will be promoting to ninth grade on friday night wonderful kid one of my one of the just just really as good a kid as as ever was created so we thank you guys for not just being here but also for the time you put in during the year and a lot of input into this plan i'd like to start if i could just by looking at the big ideas and i put that there as a reminder to myself it's on page

064three really just a reminder of what are the big themes that we want to work on this year and we agreed on these three creating an academic culture a place where when students come into the building and they cross that line they are able to because of this what we put in place they're able to kind of like leave everything at the door and just focus on being a student first our motto is students first and it's not just it doesn't just mean we put the students first it means the students are students first when they're in the building So that's a big one and that's really hard to do. It's always been hard to do. It's harder than ever in 2025 because there's so many distractions that our young people deal with in any

065community. So that's number one. We also always want to be looking at and reflecting on the safety and security of our building both physically and emotionally. And so we want to enhance that every single year. We're always kind of in this place of reflecting on it and trying to get a little bit better. And the last one is about community. Charlton's got the same thing in there, where we just want to become a centerpiece of the Dudley community and a place where people trust, a place where people love to send their kids, a place where people are welcome to come because it's their school as much as it is ours. So those are the three big ideas. I'll just hit a couple of the highlights that our school council is really proud of. Under goal

066number one, which is to provide exceptional learning opportunities and consistent high-quality instruction, I just want to highlight the second block there where it says increasingly life-relevant course offerings. Due to the good work of the DCTA and the school committee and Superintendent LaMarche, we negotiated into our newest agreement. the idea that every teacher will teach a intervention or enrichment block during the course of the day. Those can be small classes where kids can either receive some of the intervention that they need, an extra dose of instruction, or if they're on stable ground there, they can try something that is more of an enrichment type of thing, something that we might not have time for in a regular core class. And some of those we would like to try to... more systematically make into things that are

067life relevant for kids going into the getting ready to go to high school and then maybe college and careers. Stuff like financial literacy. We've been saying all for so long, why don't they teach us about credit cards and taxes and those kind of things? Well, why don't they? Why don't we try to do that if we can? Probably not for every kid, but for some. And then some of the other things you can see there. Under number two. which is strengthening students' feelings of wellness and belonging in our school. We're looking to bring back the volunteer mentoring program. It's the second-to-last check on the page. What this would be is that we have a lot of staff members who are willing to volunteer. to take on a kid who might be a little bit at

068risk in some way, whatever the reason, and then every day when that young person comes in, the first thing they do is they find their mentor, and they go and they say, Hi, Mrs. Panzik, I'm here today, and Mrs. Panzik says, Okay, did you eat breakfast? Did you have your homework done? Or whatever it is, and just have someone to look to, and then once a week, they will meet with them for a little bit longer and maybe go over grades and things like that, but just become a go-to adult that they have to see every morning. So we're looking to bring that back. We had a pretty successful one there years ago. And the last thing is, which we had wanted to do this year but time got away from us, is to do

069a school climate survey to gain insight into how students are feeling, where they're feeling unsafe, what kinds of things they'd like to see different, things like that. So we want to get at that right away next year. And our last one is to improve relationships with families and strengthen our connection to the community. there's just so many things here that you could you could talk about that we want to do but I will focus on one that we discussed quite a bit at our last school council meeting and we have a couple of people on our council who are teachers in other districts we talked about researching and considering using a school-wide communication app a lot of districts are doing that and I don't know enough about it or about what resources are required to

070do it or anything like that but some of the things they were saying to me sounded pretty attractive so that's something that we're going to at least take a look at and then under the second box Each grade-level team next year is going to do at least one event that brings families into the building because, as you may have experienced yourselves as parents, when they get to be middle school, it's all of a sudden like, doesn't anybody want us to help anymore? So we do. We want you in the building. We like that, and we're going to try to do a better job with that. I'll turn it over to my colleague, Tammy. Thank you. First I'm gonna give a shout out to our school council. We have been so lucky to have them They've

071been amazing and lucky for us. They all asked to return this year. So next year, so that's great for us I also want to thank you. Mr. Obey you were even though you were not listed on our school improvement playing as you left us But if you do better things and not better things greater things different things greater things. How's that? You were crucial in building this school improvement plan. So, thank you. So Similar to what Mr. Desto said, our plan does follow along with the district plan, so I'm just going to highlight some of the things that we have discussed. We talked about MTSS this year. Dr. Monette and I both started bringing into our meetings, having discussions about MTSS and interventions and what it looks like. And as Mr. Desto said, we have

072a wind block this year that's going to allow us to do... interventions and enrichments based on data and based on student needs so we're very excited about that go on to our next goal wellness and belonging we are going to look at our positive behavior intervention systems we started this year with grizzly bucks which students have been very excited about it's really taken off What our hopes are, the students actually created the star pillars, so we're hoping for next year to start the year with posters that have those star pillars written out, that's present, the students can read them, they understand the expectation, staff can use the same language, so it's used across the building. So we want to just really enhance what we've started and continue on with that. Also, we want to look

073at the conducting comprehensive safety audit. Our goal in doing that is to assemble a school safety team, and that school safety team will review current safety protocols, building security, emergency response plans, supervision procedures, and communication systems. We'd also work with the police and fire department to get recommendations for improvement. We want to assemble a student advisory group to get student input. They're going to gather all this information, create an action plan with deadlines. So that's our hope moving on the next three years. And then our last goal is operational effectiveness. And like Mr. Desta was saying, we want to increase our community partnership. This year, well actually for next year, Dr. Monette has tasked each grade level to complete a community project where members from home can come to see students' accomplishments. This year we

074had grade eight civics project and grade seven poetry, and it was very well attended. Parents were thrilled to see them, so we really want to continue to grow that and have each team do a project. And then lastly, we talked about ways to increase our community partnerships. This year we partnered with Charlton Public Library. They came in twice a month, and our students were actually able to go into the library, take out books, and use our library. So it was very exciting for them. And we also had partnered with the... Recreation Department where they came in did a pickleball court. So we're hoping to continue that. We're also going to look outside of those two partnerships to continue growing our partners. If anyone has any questions? Comments, please. So I read every SIP plan several

075times and then took them apart and put them on the wall and was comparing them. And I just really want to start with thinking. the building leadership and every person who came and joined all the school councils because this work is really important it's the framework of how to move forward and with with goals and objectives and and there was a lot of parity but I do have a couple of things that really rose to the top on some of these for me so I'll start with DMS because it's on the top of my notes The first was on goal three. I really liked how you mentioned create a middle school survival guide for families in one document. I think that's one of those things that even at the higher educations that's the first thing

076that they give a freshman is okay so you're here now what do you do and I really like that because I think that it's really daunting for a lot of the families coming in and not just if it's a transition into the year as a first-year student at school but it could be a transfer student and sometimes we forget about those groups. Another one was the goal three of improving existing programs like a social media education for families and parents. I know that the district co-opt with the district attorney on that earlier in the year. I attended it and unfortunately wasn't as attended as much as we'd hoped, but perhaps with your goal in mind and maybe during an orientation when families are coming in for the first time it might be the proper time

077to because it's so critical and it's becoming more critical day after day so i really appreciated seeing that and i know that the committee took time to to address that because they felt strongly about it um and in parity with that the last one for for dms is under through was the revisit SEL and attendance social media presentation during student orientation that comes right in and attendance has always been a focus of mine because you can't be ready to learn if you're not there so I really appreciate it and there was lots of good material in there but those three really stood out in the DMS for me I have a couple of points for CMS The first was under Goal 2, the PBIS, Behavior and Interventions Support Framework. I really think that is a

078super great focus to have. And I'm curious, and maybe Ms. True can rope into this, how it might evolve, because this is a three-year plan and we talked about RULER. And so will we maybe tweak this? after we've trialed that to incorporate that because it's a district initiative. So that's what I was thinking. The second was I really liked the goal to conduct a comprehensive safety audit. We live in a world that's far different than when we all went to school and there can't be enough focus on it. And I'm glad that it made it to the SIP because we had many discussions in the school council on it and it was a near and dear thing to everyone on that committee's priorities. my kudos to making that a top focus and the last was

079goal three of enhancing communications multilingual communication tools used to increase family engagement because we do have multilingual families and sometimes they might have some more barriers and if we break those barriers down we're only helping those students achieve educational excellence so I really those are the three for each school that I saw that really rose to the top of these these sip plants thank you thank you there's a lot of information here i thought they were really well done do you want to end i had some comments i'll start with dudley elementary school i mean sorry dudley middle school sorry about that um i will first commend you on your format it's beautiful i had a lot of help with that but thank you yes yes The one question I had is that the other

080ones were three-year plans and yours was a one-year plan. They're all going to be three-year plans. So I see a difference in a couple of them. Oh, okay. I thought it was really helpful for me to understand what you were doing year one versus what you were doing. So for that, it was helpful for me to understand that. and and I liked that so thank you and I also really appreciated that you tied it back to the main district plan because I think it keeps us based on going back to things so I guess some of the things that I would just have questions on as we increase the life relevant course offerings to think about just an equity lens of that because if we have it during the enrichment times when our special ed

081students and our EL students and other students might be having related services then those students can't partake in those things I don't, I mean, I think it's just something to keep in mind. Yes. Because they definitely miss those things. Agreed. We are having those discussions and trying to see how many places we can offer things. Yeah. Thank you. I really appreciate your communication to families. I think you've definitely tried this year to create different ways of communicating through even just some videos within your messages, which have been helpful. But I agree. Like, I think. not just your school but I think district-wide we need to think about a communication platform that is helps our multilingual families and we can just to kind of promote equity there let's see so the other thing with your your

082guide to middle school is great and then talking about improving your existing programs with meet the teacher nights I really appreciated that including the school brains workshop and I think we talked about that like I think that's so helpful because I I don't know that teachers understand what it looks like from a parent perspective and parents don't know what the teachers have like and just having that perspective would help and even I would encourage you like to have like a parent panel on like when the fifth graders come in or a student panel. Because I think it's always important to hear from the older parents or the older kids. But yeah, that was great. So thank you very much for that. And then for Charlton Middle School, I had specific questions about just how does

083some of our data... some of the data initiatives that you're doing align with the PD initiatives that you're going to do district-wide and do you need to upgrade update based on those just to make sure that we're all in the same alignment because you had something year two that I wasn't sure if we were doing year one but that was all um and then the the idea of the comprehensive safety audit gave me pause I will say I know you're probably you were said you were excited to have it but I I just, I don't understand what data might have led to this. Like, I don't want people to take away that Charlton Mills School is not a safe building, you know, because it's, I think we have data to show that we are doing

084certain things in safety. We made significant upgrades over the past years, and I just, I don't want people to come away thinking that it's not a safe environment there. And I think anything we do to always take stock and think of ways to improve it is good. want to be careful of the messaging and the other thing too just I saw many different plans talk about developing community partnerships and I think as we think about that it might need to be at your principal level to talk about We need to just be careful about who we hit and how we how we how much how often right like just Understanding like can we get a concerted effort at the district level to think about okay? Like if we're gonna bring this company in how what

085do they want to do? What like how can they serve different schools and see what their needs are and what their wants are and then match things up? That way just as everyone talking together because I don't want to exhaust our efforts of our local businesses and different things, but I think it's also important to bring in lots of different places, too. So thank you for that. That's what I got. Thanks. I just have a comment actually about the safety part of it or audit. We had rolled out Alice and everything the last couple of years. So maybe incorporating that as part of your feedback and maybe how it's working or not working in the school. Because I know we rolled it out and we were talking about it and then we really haven't heard

086about it. But it might be a way to also bring that back to the forefront and see if that's working for everybody. Thank you. Okay. Thank you so much. Thanks for all your work on this. So if I may, I'd like to invite Dudley Elementary School and Heritage Elementary School on. And as a reminder, Principal Jack couldn't be here this evening because he's had his daughter's high school graduation. We have a guest speaker. Ms. Sapkowski is here this evening. Ladies. Good evening, everyone. I'm a member of the school council. We worked really hard together. We had great input, not only from our committee, but especially when it comes to our mission and vision, input from our team at the school. And that all aligns with the three core values as you look in our plan,

087academic excellence, wellness, and belonging, and operational effectiveness. A couple of the things that I wanted to highlight that we were very excited for was the common planning time that was going to be worked in to our schedule next year. That will allow for all teachers to collaborate and truly become those architects for the learning experience. We're really trying to go with more student-centered learning, where they are directing more of their learning. That just means that more planning is involved. ahead of time so we're very excited as a staff to see that on our schedule we're also looking at common writing tasks across all grade levels while we're looking at student work writing's been an area of focus for us and that is something that we want to highlight on this plan um lighthouse classrooms is

088something that also really excited us as we were talking about what we wanted this plan to encompass and Not only do we want to look within W elementary school we want to look beyond we want to find those beacons of educational innovation in ways to push our students further and to further foster their loves Outside the walls. We want to know more of what gets there excitement so we're very very excited about that we're also looking to invite community professionals to town hall meetings to share their careers and to host an annual college day this is to further that college and career readiness area we wanted to also provide another opportunity to have community members within the school In terms of wellness and belonging, we did work together, as I said, on our new mission

089and vision statement, which I believe is on the first page. And we are also looking to push our top dog branding and marketing around the core values, the mission and the vision. Youth leaders program around student leadership is also something that we were very excited to bring in. In the past we had had peer mediators, which did touch on the social emotional piece, but we really want to start developing those leaders, our future leaders. For operational effectiveness, we're going to be continuing with data dives so that we are continuing to make database decisions. and also build the capacity around personalized learning and tech integration so that we can further enhance educational success. It's a tough act to follow. Oh, thanks, Pete. First, I'd like to thank the members of the Heritage School Council. For our

090teachers, we had Mrs. Nicole Brown, Mrs. Maggie Corazzini, and Mrs. Chelsea Garso. Parent representatives, we had Mr. Billy Krakowski, Mrs. Kara Holland, Mr. Kenny LaFerriere, and Mrs. Jessica Pontbrand. All very integral parts of a variety of steps in this. Our plan as a whole is focused on three very important goals for the success of students, as you'll see. We very much align with the district plan and goals one and two, goal one being academic excellence, to continue to implement and refine practices. I know in working with the district, and it kind of falls into goal two as well, we're looking for a new social-emotional curriculum ruler. And I'm looking, we'll be looking to implement a ruler team. The other piece on the, lost my train of thought, on the academic excellence is I'm looking to

091refine our wind block. I don't believe at Heritage School we've used it as effectively as we should. And we started working with the school council to put a new focus on that and to provide the students the opportunities that they need to be successful. Part of that is looking at the data and doing our data dives and making sure students are getting the help they need. And social and emotional learning, and you know this goes all the way back to my days back at Dudley Middle School with Mr. Desto. I always have thought that was a strength of ours at Dudley Middle School. Want to make sure we carry that over through our side of the district which it was at Charlton middle as well But in a different level at the elementary school Biggies

092are Partner with community organizations I get all the time from parents and it's frustrating when you don't always know and have the resources We can't get our kid into counseling the weights two years long though and We need to use our resources and our school psychologists and our school adjustment counselor as well as ourselves to help them find these organizations. I know we worked with Mass Behavioral Health Services and I've had a little bit of good luck with that helping parents at least touch base in crisis modes. And there was some assistance there. That was a big help. But we need to do a better job of finding our students what they need not just inside of school but also outside of school where we did go a little bit away from the District improvement

093plan is our goal three is collaboration and communication I've always been of the belief that the more parents are in the building and I go back to my childhood My mother I think lived at my school And because of that I think I worked harder because I knew she was there And I think having that relationships between families in the school is going to build greater success for students. If they know we're working together, they're going to step up. Big part of that, too, is also communication and collaboration with other schools. Charlton Middle School is right around the corner. We don't go there enough. We go there for our band chorus concert so the kids can see what they want to do for music. and we go there for end of the year to go

094tour the building. We need to get there more, but we also need to invite them to us more. Big area with that is we had a couple students take advantage of our school and trying to get NJHS hours and things of that nature, and we both benefited from that. We need to advertise that to the NJHS students as a whole. These two students that came to us did this on their own. They connected with specific teachers. We also had one who participated in our after-school programs and helped with our after-school programs. And they have buses that stop at our school, let kids off, let kids off for the champions, and they still will have 45 minutes to an hour where they can, and if they stay at the after-school program, another hour where they can

095help us. So that's a biggie, and then also I'd like to see more opportunities with Charlton Elementary. That's a little bit more of a challenge because we do require some transportation for that, and as you all know, that adds cost. However, you know, seeing the Charlton Elementary students in our building, was it last week, was absolutely amazing. We need to do that more, seeing the joy on their face coming up. We need to find ways, even if it's just offering our auditorium if they want to have a concert or they want to have a special event, but then providing some of our students to help with that. But as a whole, we are aligned with the district plan and look forward for the next three years and hopefully building this more. Thank you. always come

096volunteer whenever you feel like one of those parents who live back in the day at the kids school but I'm not sure about they they always wanted to boo-boo get her because I was there but it depends on the child because they're all so different I joke but this is a lot of work went into this both both of these as well all of these and I do like how they're correlated to our district plan so I'm sure Anthony If you've taped them all up to the wall and compared them all, I'll let you go first if you'd like. Well, you know, it takes such a village and such a lift to come up with this material in a methodical and thoughtful way that it deserved the attention I gave and probably more. Poor Mr.

097Olson was stuck with me for three years. Come on, I loved it. But, I mean, again, we've got so many great things on these SIPs, but there was a couple things that really rose to the top on those plans. So I'll start with, if I can find my notes. Of course, we went out of order from when I wrote them. One of the things I really liked from Mr. Olson was a narrative. It was a short, concise, easy to read, manageable thing that any family that's not doing deep dives into education could understand and wrap their arms around. I found a lot of value in that because it made the rest of the document a lot less intimidating to go through. And I think that was valuable for anyone who picks up that document to

098make it user friendly. I really appreciated that because I it gave another level to the document that Made everyone's walk of life be able to relate to it The next thing was page two. I thought it was really great to have the student enrollment right there So we can wrap our arms around the goals to the number of students that we're talking about and that year-to-year progression. I know that when I was on the school council with Mr. Olson, we had that in our packet every single meeting. And it just gave perspective to what we were working with. And we would see, oh, wow, we've got a bigger class coming next year. We've got a smaller class coming. And how does that line up with some of these goals? It might seem kind of unimportant,

099but I thought it gave perspective to some of these goals. I did also read into the wind block that you alluded to, and we had... several discussions in previous years about it and and the committee and the faculty and the whole schools of group really worked hard to continue migrating that forward and I have no doubts that they will continue and that that was so that's that's my feedback for it for heritage and I lost my place The MTSS, multi-tiered assistance and support, I think it's extremely important. I couldn't agree more, and I'm so happy to see that as a focus by the school council and the membership. The whole child well-being and... social-emotional learning you know it seems to be this recurring theme that we're all talking about so it's good to see that

100we are all on the same page vertically and horizontally on alignment there because as we work as a group we can lift up all the students collectively and so that that's exceptionally important and so I mean you had so many points on that so I won't pontificate forever but I was really happy to see that focus It has been a humongous focus the last couple years and our school adjustment counselor is largely responsible. She has taken huge steps in the last few years to really help us work on that social emotional piece and we're just excited to move forward. The need is great and the students are deserving so we need to support them inside and outside schools with whatever resources we can provide and collaborate with. I just have a couple comments. Second, what

101Anthony said, the demographics, I really appreciated that as well to get a better understanding of who, you know, the students and who's actually being impacted by this plan. So I appreciate that. Thank you. And then... For whatever reason in my head, I was thinking that Daly Elementary was Mason Road and that the college and career readiness was quite lofty for the pre-K and kindergarten population. But I'm like, hey, why not start right at the back? We're planting the seeds. Now that I actually put it together and realize that it's the grade level that it is, it... it makes it even more impactful and I think that it's nice to touch on that because a lot of the classes and the pathways that our students go on you know into middle school they don't know and

102maybe parents don't know either and I think it's something to incorporate with parents because maybe the parents didn't go to college or Or they just don't know exactly. You know, things have changed. And, you know, your pathway in middle school and into high school obviously does give you guidance in where your life path might take you and what college you may or may not be able to go to. You know, so I appreciate that a lot. Thank you. we were so excited about that part because obviously we're laying a foundation at the elementary level for when the students move to middle school that's when they start thinking about what their next steps are and that's when you have a lot of children thinking about possibly going to Bay Path but you also have to make

103sure that it's so competitive now that they understand that they can't just want to go there that there are action steps that they have to take as well. So I think by starting that conversation earlier, we'll be setting up our friends for better success. I'll start with Dudley L first. Thank you. It was an impressive plan. I think that your measurement and outcomes, some of them I just wasn't sure what you were doing in which year. So that would be helpful. And I think depending upon who your audience is of the plan I would just be mindful of the acronym use for people that are non educators if the plans going for families that's all and then let's see I think you had some really lofty goals like implementing daily instructional rounds I think how

104How are you doing that every day? Well, Mr. Audet has his rolling desk. Okay. And he is rolling, like, I want to give him a song. We see him rolling. He just is rolling it all through. And he is stopping in classrooms, and he is speaking with students to see what's going on. And I think that is the intention of getting around every single day. Okay. I can't speak for him. However, that is what I'm assuming. I think that one of my thoughts was for your MTSS in 1B, you talked about monitor enhanced multi-tiered systems of support to provide targeted interventions for students who struggle. And I guess, you know, I'm sure that you already probably have this in place, but like what are the benchmarks to determine struggle? And, you know, how do we

105set those and making sure that everyone's talking about the same things. And then, as I thought your college and career readiness was a great idea, I would say when you have your college day, you may want to think about it as a career day where people talk about what they need in their career to get there so that... We have a lot of families in Dudley that may not be able to afford to send their students to college or maybe kids don't know, like they may not want to go. But if you could talk about the careers and then have people talk, okay, well, I would need a four-year degree or I would need, I can go to a program after I graduate from high school for a trade or something. Just another way to

106think about it. But I thought that was great. And I think that's, it's really good to have kids start thinking about it and realizing that middle school counts, high school counts, and every day counts. So that's important. Yeah, I talked about, I put notes on myself about another thing where we're talking about family engagement and the need for that common, the language translation and everything. And I think that might be more of a district-wide need, too. And a lot of different surveys were talked about. You talked about developing a student profile survey to enhance our knowledge of students. And I didn't know if you were having like, are parents filling that out? Are students filling it out? You know, and just things like that. But I thought it was really good. And I just, like

107for both of you to think about too is that when we think about like, oh, let's get 60% of our parents to commit to those surveys, I would honestly look and say, who are the 40% that are not filling out our survey and why? Should we do more focus groups? Do they not have the access to, you know, Google Forms really stress them out? you know like what's what's that barrier to that access and just think of that but I think it's really great that you thought about all these different things and and I wish you the best of luck and then as far as heritage I think one of the things I was thinking about too you talked about disruptions that you wanted to reduce the amount of disruptions in the classroom and I

108think that's so important to really label out what's a disruption because when I think about teaching my ability to handle a disruption like I may have had more of a like it can be different between two teachers you know I mean and it could be different on the day like so I think if we label what the behavior is to be able to monitor that the same way for everybody and even to let parents understand What that is so that I can communicate clearly to my child send you know when we go to school You don't want to do this particular thing you want to think about that ahead of time That's gonna be really important to communicate that with parents One of the things I really like the idea of getting your families more

109involved and one of the things I was thinking about is like when you have your first back-to-school night or like meet the teacher kind of day is that you almost do like family like I like have all the quarry checks ready to go have each family fill it out right there like really get them involved right off the bat so just something to think about but thank you I appreciate it I guess now I'll invite up Mason Road and Chattanooga Elementary School thank you for your patience you guys usually always go first I just wanted to mix it up a little bit I do have to say after listening to them ours looks very different first I'd like to say this year at Mason Road School we've had a very interesting year because our turnover

110in our school council has changed we had a teacher that was with us but then she left we had a parent that was with us but then she left but I've had some great Great families, great parents that have stayed with me, Stephanie Rice, Nina Darling, and Jillian Anderson. They've been a very integral part of what we really talked about a lot this year. And then Michelle Gray, who's our reading specialist, she stuck with me. But Jillian Anderson is also a teacher in Auburn, so she brought a lot of insight to us as well as what she sees from her lens as another elementary teacher. So one of the things that I... we've talked a lot about is our little guys they come in and We don't know what's going on in their home. We

111don't know what's happening in their world They can't communicate their needs and there's been a lot of kids that have come in over the past few years that are coming in with a lot of trauma They're just coming in but they can't communicate their needs They can't meet with the counselor and tell them what's wrong And that's one of the things we talked about as a school council is it would be great if we were start to look at things from a different lens at this very level because as they get older we need to try to hope that they have some compensatory strategies that they can use for themselves again even as a five-year-old learn strategies for themselves because their lives are they're rocked they've got a lot of things going on in the

112little world and our teachers can't recognize that as trauma they look at it as behavior and it is behavior but it's a result of something else so I think one of the things that we talked about a lot was having That's one of the biggest things I think that makes up our whole school council goals, including preschool, of course. That's always been one of our things. But even with our SEI curriculum is bringing our teachers to have a strong understanding and have good knowledge base and good training on and understanding the difference between trauma, behavior, 5-year-old, 6-year-old, 7-year-old, to be able to have a more productive. day because when behaviors start sometimes it takes a whole day to get one little guy under control so that's one of the biggest things that we looked at

113at Mason Road that was under our goal number two was the being trauma-informed and I was very grateful and lucky and thank you I went to some trauma training this school year and I've met some great people that have brought so many different things all at once and of course you just want to go back and do it all that just got me to look through a different lens so i was able to bring that to the school council um jillian anderson was great to say like yes these are things that we look at at our lens too and i know like our level again like they're not communicating as like like your elementary or your middle schoolers can be a little bit better at um And I think the two of them, the trauma-informed

114and our SEL curriculum, and we are going to be using RULER as well. I didn't specify it on here. But those are kind of intertwined. But I think that we really need to focus on that as early as we can. And then the other thing that we have is our preschool, because I think preschool we look at every year. We want to get the very best we can. We want to get as many kids as we can into our buildings. and we just want to find a way to make sure we're reaching out we're going out to the daycares we're making sure that parents sign to a consent that way when they register we can call that daycare and then we can even put up flyers in the daycares or the um where we got

115the head starts the anything that in our community the just the home daycares the preschools everything around us because there's so many kids that we do miss and when they come into kindergarten and we didn't have our eyes on them then we're seeing a whole we had no idea what we have when we have them in this class but really they should have been in this class we just really want to try to fine-tune how we're bringing kids into our buildings especially at this little level so quick easy done Good evening. So I would first like to thank our my CES school council for their dedication to the students and staff this year. The guidance throughout was very much valued and appreciated and Mr. Albee I know you were on my council throughout your your

116time until you were now on school committee, but I appreciate that and the rest of the parents and staff. So I'm just going to summarize my plan We developed this as a focused school improvement plan and has enhanced academic achievement foster student well-being And strengthen school operations and it's structured around three goals, which is also in alignment with the district improvement plan so number one is academic excellence the school will aim to evaluate student outcomes by improving instructional practices that include providing targeted pd in literacy and math using data to inform instruction strengthening collaborative planning among educators implementing that cpt time within our schedules integrating developmentally appropriate and engaging teaching strategies such as play-based learning Number two is wellness and belonging. The plan to promote a safe, inclusive, and supportive school environment. Key strategies include

117staff training and trauma and culturally responsive practices, implementation of social-emotional learning curriculum, for example, zones of regulation or ruler, and the creation of calming spaces to support student regulation and belonging. Number three is the operational effectiveness. We seek to improve operations through effective use of data, strategic staffing and resource allocation, and proactive family management. This would include establishing data teams, conducting regular data reviews, aligning resources with student needs, and developing a long-term facilities improvement plan. We envision where all students can thrive and feel valued and supported and benefit from a well-managed ready learning environment short and sweet Thank you any comments or input on the elementary school plans First off, I have to commend you on your measures for success having like targeted percentages and in that I think that really Shows like that you're

118really being honing in on that data, which is great. I wondered We talked about increasing the total pre-k enrollment by 20% over the next academic year, and I just didn't know is that with the spacing and staffing that you already have So what this year we, this current school year, we kind of changed the dynamics of the preschool and we've opened a three-year-old preschool sessions in the morning and then we did four-year-olds in the afternoon. And right now our three-year-olds, it's kind of hard. to get some of those three-year-olds to come in. And we need peer models because it is a special ed program. We've got students that qualify under their IEP, but then we need to find some peer models that can come in and join them. And getting those three-year-olds into the schools

119right now, we've got to keep word of mouth, get out there, but we need to increase that because we want to have equity and so that we're in compliance. So we've got to do better at getting that word out. It is our first year doing it, but we've got to try a little bit harder. Yeah. And then when we talked, I was thinking about the enrollment and increasing that and thinking about the underserved populations. And I just wonder, when we look at that, thinking about the barriers of attendance, I would have loved my children to go to Mason Road for preschool. but as a working parent, I could not do the hours. And even thinking about, oh, could I possibly get them to have transportation? There's barriers, and I just wonder, do we work with

120other programs around to see what we can do to get some of those populations in? But, yeah, I mean, I think, you know, you're working uphill anyway, so that's hard. I do know that, you know, obviously every year we would love to see a full-day program for preschool. We would love to. And, you know, if we can ever get to that point, I think that's our big high. That will be the sunshine when we can have our full-day preschool. So I think it's just taking those steps to at least try to increase our population. Again, it's a lot of word of mouth, but you're right. We do have a lot of families that walk. they walk their kids to preschool every day or you know they they can't come today but they can come you

121know next Tuesday because of transportation but it's been in the schedule yeah no but I mean I think it's so important like we think about you know five years ago or however many years ago, we were just hoping to be able to keep a full-day kindergarten. So how lucky are we that full-day kindergarten is universal right now in Dudley-Charlton, and we're looking to think about how we increase our pre-K. I had a couple other things, but I can always talk to you later about it. think there's just funding questions I had about like we talked about different funding needs that you needed and I just didn't know if there was you know as we think about the budget going forward like thinking about like okay you got to make sure like we put all these

122asks in and and think about their importance because they're sitting certainly there and as far as Charlton Elementary When you talked about, first off, thank you. It's beautiful. I mean, it's so nice that both your teams did such a nice job thinking about, you know, how to improve education for our littles. It's so important. You talked a little bit about developing a long-term facility improvement plan. Do we not have that done? I thought that's what we did. No? when we talk about developing a long-term facility improvement plan yeah we have that done right yeah but I think Laura was talking more about her building and other things in her building okay other things capital okay improvements okay specific to just my building okay perfect yeah that's I just didn't know how it connected so okay

123perfect yeah thank you I can't thank the two principals and your teams enough because it sounds like a broken record but the importance is really here and it's on the pages and embedded by a wide group. if I could start with Mrs. Desdeaux I really really like the organizational part of 2.1 2.2 2.3 it is so easy to follow and when we're having these dialogues we're bouncing around I don't get lost and start missing the conversation when I'm going through so I really appreciated that and I'm not taking away anything from any of the other SIPs but but if that really I really liked it. Thank you. I had the same question about the 20% with the pre-K, and I think that was very well. explained and I was really excited to see the strong

124focus on sections 2.1, 2.2 and 2.3 the whole student and this seems to be this recurring theme and I can't it's because it's so important and it's so true and and I have a little short story to share with the group but I'm going to share that after I get to CES. So thank you. I really appreciated the detail in this. For CES, I'm a lot more familiar with it because I worked on it. with so many great people in the community and Principal Ramos. I really like how we had a focus on the strengthening of the PLC collaboration and planning. We had many discussions around that topic, and we had a lot of feedback from OT faculty and pre-K faculty, and I know pre-K has been a real big focus for the district this

125year. We had a lot of input, and we had a couple little bumps, but... Every time there's a migration there's there's there's always a slight imperfection and I think we carried out Pretty near flawless. We worked hard on this a Lot of credit to Heather Harriman too for that with the pre-k program. So I didn't want to leave you out of that Goal two, we talked about the whole student and well-being and SEL and one of the things that seems from feedback of families particularly and some of the faculty teachers on the staff was some implementations that were done with the adjustment counselor as well. where they had calming corners and zones of regulation and more staff training. And of course, we can never have enough of those. But even the weighted blankets that were

126acquired made monumental differences for the littles, as you said. And they are coming with a lot of baggage in ways that they can't articulate what their feelings are. And it does come out as... issues but it's really more the coming to this the short story I wanted to share was when I was on school council with mrs. Ramos was we learned from a family that there was a a little girl that was struggling emotionally. She performed very well academically and loved school and has great little friends and school was the world for her. That was her safe place. But she had struggles to get to school day in day out. Couldn't get in gear, couldn't get motivated, couldn't put the shoes on, couldn't get the breakfast. The parents were... had a great relationship with the

127adjustment counselor and the principal and reached out to them that morning said I Had to throw her in the car and take her to school. She missed the bus. She doesn't have shoes She didn't eat breakfast and principal Ramos said we got it Grabbed that student by the hand brought her to her office slapped the breakfast on the desk and said okay Let's get ready for school and that was a lot of getting over the hump that the student needed and I and I know that that's not a one-off story that that not every one of these principals have done because I'm sure they have but sometimes we forget to tell those stories about about those achievements that they did for families and I can't thank these principals and all the others for all their

128great work and all the work of the school councils on these topics so I just wanted to give them one last they did they do marvelous work and they deserve all the credit and I can't wait to see these goals come to fruition thank you me too thank you So we'll welcome Principal Alwell up for Shepherd Hill Regional High School. Hi, it's me again. So representing the mothership and the school council and the faculty of Shepherd Hill, we have pretty consistently identified four overarching objectives. Number one is we want to boost achievement across all content areas, across all student groups. Boost achievement. Number two, it's been my mission, it's been our mission to expand programs wherever we can. Number three, we obviously need to continue to prioritize wellness. I think it's clear that that's important

129to this community. And number four, in this building in particular, we need to continue working toward a true 21st century learning environment. Those are four critical objectives. And those are the four critical objectives that you'll see reflected throughout this plan. all of the main goal areas and sub goal areas are the same as the district improvement plan and I learned a long time ago that it's always wise to ride the coattails of the district improvement plan because that typically means you benefit from the professional development that the district's providing and also the funding that the district is allocating for the dip so there is a good degree of strategic alignment throughout this plan And so relative to the first main goal area, academic excellence, the first action step for us as it relates to high

130quality instruction is to conduct a comprehensive curriculum inventory across all content areas and pursue HQIM. Admittedly, this is a little bit of an HQIM desert. The HQIM train hasn't made it yet to Shepherd Hill, but I can hear it in the distance and it's coming. we a few meetings ago disposed of some some curriculum materials in the 1960s so we have started looking at what we use for our curricular materials and resources we are discarding what we can but next we need to take a look at how what we currently have aligns to the frameworks that that we teach so I look forward to the HQ IM train arriving here at the high school In addition, we need to continue to utilize student achievement data and the universal design for learning, the UDL professional development

131that the district benefited from in order to purposefully plan for instruction. The professional standards for practice begin with standard one, which is curriculum and planning. Good teaching requires a good plan. And so we've spent the last couple of years here talking about the anatomy of the instructional block, making sure that lesson plans have certain components in order to take advantage of the full length of the class period because there's always a little bit more we can squeeze out of that. So that continues to be a priority for us. As a measure, you'll see that the high school is also moving forward with the MAP assessment. MCAS continues to be a hot topic. We found that with grade 9 this year, MAP gave us some really good data for both ELA and math, and it's our

132plan to continue that through the high school so that that can be a source of data that's passed along year to year. We have the historical perspective, but it also gives teachers real-time data. And so you'll see... We could... Okay, yes. So, you'll see though that we're going to rely on MAP to give us some measures of progress in this particular area. With regard to eliminating opportunity gaps, develop and implement a multi-tiered system of supports to deliver high-impact intervention programs to accelerate learning during the school day. We, this coming school year, will be able to implement both a math and reading Tier 2 intervention in Grade 9 with, again, the understanding that if we pilot it in Grade 9 and do some fine-tuning, we can continue to expand that. to other grade levels as well.

133Additionally, we will offer opportunities for interventions and credit recovery outside of the school day, so we'll have both intervention during the school day, but also outside of the school day during school breaks. As we've done this past year, we just completed, well, it's not just, it's June now, but it feels like it was just April, and we had close to 30 students who attended four days. throughout the vacation to regain credit that was lost. And I would say of the class of 2025, there were at least a handful who benefited from credit recovery throughout the year to get across that stage. So it's proving fruitful. With regards to college and career readiness, we will continue to provide access to rigorous college prep courses for all students by expanding inclusive supported classes. We've talked before about

134the need to move away from our foundations classes to more supported classes, which would allow all students to receive the benefit of not only the special ed supports, but also the expertise of our gen ed teachers as well. And finally, accelerate opportunities for career exploration, work-based learning, and post-secondary pathways through internship and apprenticeship opportunities. We have our BioMed pathway, we have our engineering pathway, and now we have our clean energy pathway. An important component is making sure that students are making those industry connections. We have some more work to do in this area. And so that will be an important focus. We also know that outside of the pathways in our own district, we've had success with students and their internships and education throughout the district at the elementary school and even the middle school

135this year. And that's been a fantastic experience as well. So we do want to accelerate those opportunities. Moving into wellness and belonging. support and build the capacity of all staff to implement affirming, welcoming, and trauma-informed practices. We will be implementing an advisory model, a hybrid advisory model, in the 25-26 upcoming school year, and that will entail implementation of RULER. Thankfully, we can do two sessions a month, two 30-minute sessions, and be able to make our way through almost all 20 of the lessons, which will give the faculty an excellent program to deliver. So we will move in that direction in the coming school year, in addition to providing a continuum of mental and physical health services for students and families. in school and beyond where applicable. Again, you heard a little bit earlier this evening

136how we are forming some of those partnerships because it's going to be critically important that we work together with those agencies and those organizations. With regard to operational effectiveness, data-based decision-making, we are a little bit of a data desert. It's time that we dedicate the time that is needed to truly implement cycles of inquiry, to take a look at our data, to identify root causes, and to lay out a thoughtful path forward. And so we intend to build the capacity of our staff and our school teams, specifically our departments. to really use the data to improve achievement, but also to inform the lesson planning process. We also, I've incorporated NEASC, because I would be remiss if that acronym didn't appear in here at least once. It's looming. We have a collaborative conference visit the first

137week of October, and coming out of that, we will have some goals to work on for two years before the big decennial visit in 27. So, I've left the door open and I've included this in data-based decision making because again, we're going to have to go through a cycle of inquiry to address some of what is identified. And finally, modernizing infrastructure, upgrade and maintain the facility in order to maximize student learning, prioritized by areas of need. To Mrs. Carmagnani's question, beforehand, there is the capital plan, but we are trying to pursue other opportunities to upgrade what we can. Last year, thanks to our budgeting practices, we were able to refurbish the gym floor. This year we're taking a look at where things stand to see if we can upgrade the stage in the auditorium at

138this point for safety reasons. So we're trying to address some of these critical needs one project at a time, one program at a time. We've also applied for $85,000 through a grant to upgrade the science labs on the third floor, which would entail capping off gas, the installation of... more modern and better placed lab benches. So we are going to try to tackle as many of these projects as we can with these different funding sources that we have. I'd be happy to answer any questions. again like we've been talking all along this year so I mean some of the things I've had in here for notes we've already discussed but I I wonder like at some point if you and I can have a separate conversation about dropout rates and and looking at like ways

139to think about different credit recovery systems for them and I can share some things that I had done with my kids but I was wondering, you know, one of the things from one of the studies that we had was really talking about building that capacity of our, like, mid-level leaders and, like, our department chairs. We talked about building the capacity of staff and school teams, and I just didn't know if you had specific things that we were doing as we get into the next school year to build the capacity of the department leaders to talk about instructional practice and how they will lead their departments. So Mrs. Tru and I have talked about different options for professional development for our teacher leaders for our department coordinators I know Mrs. Tru has reached out to other

140school districts to think about how we could partner with other districts But also there are different PD providers and so we Actually as a side note We are finalizing the master schedule, but this year, for example, it was such that we had a common prep so that, in theory, we had a period of time to meet with all coordinators to do some of this work, which, as you know, can be a challenge to get everyone together for that PD in addition to the typical business of the department coordinators. So I believe we have some of those same mechanisms in place for next year. to collectively build our capacity and that includes myself working with the department coordinators. So I'll narrow it down to two points because a lot of things overlapped with a lot of

141the initiatives from the other SIPs. But one of the things that you kind of touched on a little bit was your reference to the NEAS self-study process and the faculty school improvement committees. I sat on the NEASC reaccreditation for a small college, so I'm very familiar with the process. And if done right, a self-reflection for the reaccreditation is very valuable, especially if you have a... deficit of data to go on so it's a good starting point I think so I was happy to see that especially because it also shows that you are preparing for stage one stage two stage three as part of your sip which I think is very responsible the other thing I took notice to was on your first goal the subset of college and career readiness I really appreciated that there

142was a collab it was noted as a collaborative between the director of pupil personal services and the assistant principal. I appreciate that because we have... all kinds of students and we need to make sure that we raise all of them up they need all of our attention and we sometimes forget when we start looking for goals that we take big swaths and we sometimes have some fall off the plate I don't so I appreciated that that wasn't an oversight and that was meticulously looked at so I just wanted to really highlight that one of the one of the best programs that we currently have for career readiness is our postgraduate program quite honestly because they are in the community every single day at more than a half a dozen job sites and And they are

143in the community, in these vocational settings, in potential careers. And so to that end, for all of our populations, this is a really important focus. This isn't simply about choosing what one's major will be in college, but rather what could a career or a job look like for me as soon as 18 or even 22. Thank you. Well done. This will probably be my final appearance this evening. Thank you. We'll see. It's clear a lot of work went into all of these, so we appreciate it. Before we move on from there, is it okay if I just make a quick statement about the school improvement plan? Please. The only thing that I wanted to mention is that we are going to be, and I think I spoke about this at our last meeting, we're going

144to be entering into a grant with CLEE, which is the Center for Leadership and Equity. And as part of a focus of that work, actually almost all of that work is focused on helping principals and administrators to bring their school improvement plans to life. So that is really what that grant is about. They offer leadership coaching. They offer principal coaching. They coach principal supervisors. And it's all part of the bigger package. But when they're coaching principals and when they're working with the administrators. Their main focus is how to take your school improvement plan and actually follow through on all of the steps that are in there and how to make that come to life and really how to evaluate the things that you're doing in there, which is great because it doesn't always, you know,

145it's not, the school improvement plan is there, but it's not always an in-your-face kind of document. So, you know, having that routine to come back and look at it over and over again is really helpful and that is going to help us through that process. That's all. Thank you. I appreciate that. Okay. Any other talk about this school improvement plan? Okay. Then... Just one final comment. Okay. And I had a side conversation with Kathy, and so if you want to jump in at some point. But I think the material on every one of the SIPs was excellent. But when you're looking at seven of them and you're trying to put them side by side, it just would be very useful to have the formatting line up. because they all have a charm to them. And

146so it's not a disparaging comment. But it is hard to compare when this one's 2.1 and this one's a Roman numeral and then this one's a – it's just hard to line them up to see the consistency. I put that on my to-do list to make a standard template. It's actually on our admin agenda for next week, end of the year. debriefing so we'll take the feedback from school community this evening and incorporate that as well yeah I mean yeah I'm not suggesting you have to reinvent the wheel for these okay we're moving on to the director of finance and operations mr. DeSantis Thank you Madam Chair. I only have a couple of quick updates and one voting item. First update is in relation to the FY26 budget creation. approval which Superintendent LaMarche already kind

147of referred to in his superintendent's report but the school committee approved FY 26 operating budget was voted and approved by both municipalities of Dudley and Charlton on May 19th 2025 Dudley approved the budget at a greater than 80% approval rate Charlton approved the budget at a greater than 90% approval rate I believe these percentages are meaningful in the sense they reflect a strong level of support from our member communities which again is something that we are extremely thankful for as a regional school district. Following up to that, the FY24 audit has been finalized. The financial statements are just in creation. There were no findings from our auditing firm, and a managing partner from our audit firm is expected to provide those results and speak to them in further detail at our next subsequent school committee

148meeting. So I'm happy to take any questions on either one of those two subjects. Yep. Well, I enjoy the fact that it was an 80% approval rating. I think it's really important to think about what was it 80% of and there were probably only 150 to 200 residents in the room. So I think we definitely have we need to keep our focus on Getting the word out there about why our budgets so important and we've been doing a great job about that I just think we just definitely need to keep hammering that all the time consistently because It can turn quickly if all of a sudden The wrong 200 people are in the room Absolutely true, right? So I want to make sure that we We keep getting that Yeah, well and to you know

149to build upon that point I believe the quarterly budget reports that you know we've been presenting at school committee meetings have value so hopefully if the public You know is paying attention to those Hopefully that you know creates a level of clarity and understanding that may not have been present before but to your point yes, that's something So the only other item I had on the agenda is the vote and approval for French River Education Center's bids. For those who may be unfamiliar, the district utilizes FREC as a third-party mechanism. in order to annually vet vendors and get the best prices and options for a good number of our school supplies and products from copy paper, fuel oil, school supplies, frozen foods, non-foods, computer, custodial supplies, etc. So looking at the bids as they came

150in this year, they were relatively consistent year over year from last year. Some had several decreases in prices, small decreases. Some had small increases. But the net was generally favorable for the school district. So it is my, I respectfully request the school committee to vote to approve the FREC bids for fiscal year 2026. Any additional discussion? Okay, all those in favor? Aye. Thank you. Thanks, Joe. Okay, Director Harriman. I am at this time requesting an additional special education teacher at Dudley Middle School for our therapeutic learning center. Due to the number of current fourth grade students transitioning to the middle school. the therapeutic learning center is projected to serve 13 students at the start of the 2025-26 school year this projection does not account for any additional students who may enroll over the summer in

151just an example not this past summer but the summer prior we had three to four students move in over the summer for the Dudley elementary school therapeutic learning center and three to four for the Dudley middle school therapeutic learning sector so that number can increase at any time so we are definitely having a minimum of 13 students in that program at the middle school While several students are transitioning, there's only one classroom at Dudley Elementary School at this time, so it's not like we can move that teacher. And we need to maintain the Dudley Elementary School for current and future students. At this time, there is only one therapeutic learning center classroom at Dudley Middle School, so a total of 13 students exceeds an appropriate capacity for a substantially separate therapeutic program, given the intensity

152of student needs and the individualized supports required. In order to maintain a safe, effective, and supported learning environment, I'm requesting the addition of a second special education teacher for the program for the 25-26 school year. And this would allow two TLC classrooms at Dudley Middle School. The source of funding would be through the hiring process. The variance would be covered by circuit breaker funds that we have available. And the additional staffing would allow us to appropriately support student needs and continue to provide high-quality programming within the TLC. Thank you. I was just gonna make a promotion I guess but like from so a motion to approve the hiring of second special special education teacher for the 2025-26 school year at Dumpton additional discussion I like the idea of having two teachers only because I think

153with that many students like Are you going to be able to possibly break them up according to grade levels? Yes. I think what we would do is a grade 5-6 teacher and then a grade 7-8 teacher. That does, because it really is difficult to have, be responsible for all of the core subjects across four grade levels. That is certainly a challenge. kudos to Jamie DeMille she has done a fantastic job in that program it is it's an amazing program and I think too when you think about the developmental needs of a fifth grader versus an eighth grader I think it's really great to be able to separate that if you can thank you I was just curious how many students are currently in this program at Danes there are seven or eight right now and

154that was the program that started with me those some of them are from Charlton as well right yeah it's a combined program and there are a few students moving up to the high school but then there yeah quite a few students moving up from additional questions or discussion all those in favor thank you okay assistant superintendent true you know okay and here we are so before I make my actual request for additional intervention teachers I would like to update the committee on title 1 and what is happening there and so our title 1 grant we were lucky enough to have our Charlton elementary schools both Charlton elementary and Heritage School grandfathered in under a clause to be able to offer services at those schools even though they don't qualify through the Title I formula which

155is based on free and reduced lunch. We previously had services at the middle school that we had decided as a district to move down to the elementary schools to try, as research shows, to get kids, you know, when they're... To try and get kids when they're at their youngest. so that we can solve some of those challenges so that hopefully they wouldn't need that when they get to middle school. And so we've had our Title I people working at the elementary schools for at least the last three years, but we are no longer able to grandfather our Charleston schools into our Title I grant any longer. So I do need to remove this. the Title I staff from those schools, which does create an enormous hole when you're thinking about intervention and services for those

156students. So each of those buildings right now have three interventionists. They have two Title I teachers and a reading specialist, and they deliver the reading and math intervention in both those buildings. So I would be taking two Title I teachers out of each building, moving those positions over to the Dudley side, and... my request would be to replace at least a math interventionist at each school which would require me to add in those two positions for math so they'd have a reading specialist that can address some of the reading concerns certainly not all of the reading concerns in each building but then they would also have a math interventionist as well So I am respectfully requesting the addition of one math interventionist position each for Charlton Elementary School and Heritage School. Both positions will be

157funded through the hiring process and the variance will be covered by school choice. Okay. And I look for a motion to add one math interventionist specialist position for the Charlton Elementary School and one for the Heritage School for the next school year. Discussion? I guess I have some question about... As we're hiring intervention teachers, I'm just wondering, you know, we talked really about do we need to be hiring almost like a math coach that can do the work of making sure, like, would it be more impactful to coach the teachers through intervention, tier one intervention strategies within the actual classroom? or more impactful to do the tier two work? So we're actually doing both. We're not hiring a coach. So with the Title I grant, one of the things that I'm still working through is

158what I want to do with all four of those positions. So two positions for sure are going to Dudley Middle School because they do qualify for Title I. So two positions will be going there. I have the potential for deciding what to do. We don't have to always take salary out of Title I. So that could go for materials. It could go for other programming. It could go for tutors. There's a lot of different things that you can do with Title I funds. So there is potential there to do something with an instructional coach. It's just... it would be what it's not a lot it's not a lot of money so you would you might have one person for a whole district that you would be able to get out of that grant and and

159you can only use them in title one schools if you're funding it out of title one so but there is some potential for For that through that programming we are working. I think I've talked about before next year We're focusing on tier 1 math and making math accessible to all students at the elementary level It's an intensive professional development next year for all elementary teachers and it's all about tier 1 and it's all about making math accessible Inviting all students into the learning of math and doing that so I feel like we are working on that We are working on tier 1 and we are going to be working on what's happening in the classroom with those students so that we still have the need for kids that really have those gaps and are struggling

160that need to have some of that remediation and we won't have a person to do that. I will say that it's nice to hear that you're bringing back some of the Title I services into the Dudley Middle School because I definitely... You know as I walk through the school sometimes you get teachers kind of like we need those we missed that and So yeah, that's helpful and that has actually allowed us to make some other changes and moves And mr. Destos schedule by adding that support in so it's it's been a benefit in a lot of ways I guess I had a question about funding and about we talked about the the variance in It talks about the through the hiring process are we talking about the fact that like maybe the person that may

161be retiring in the new hire you're talking about the variance in that in those savings salaries okay and then where are we on school choice like how you know how much do we have really wiggle room there so we have we do have the wiggle room there we tend to carry a small percentage year over year of what our operating budget is within school choice so we stay in those parameters and within those parameters we have the ability to pay that variance through school choice okay I mean I think because we've talked about the goal of eventually not being dependent on school choice and I just want to make sure as I do as we're hiring new staff I don't want to always be like oh we're gonna use school choice for that so okay

162thank you anybody else okay all those in favor of all right okay next we have the adoption of pre-k high quality instructional materials director Harriman and assistant superintendent yes yes three in a row right so I know at the March 5th school committee meeting assistant superintendent true and I did share that we established a preschool curriculum committee in February to address the absence of high quality instructional materials in our preschool program The committee reviewed Launch Pre-K from TeachTown. We looked at Experience Curriculum, Frog Street, and Creative Curriculum. And we also obtained and reviewed sample materials from each of these vendors. I'm happy to report that the committee reached a unanimous decision that Frog Street is the curriculum we would like to adopt for our preschool program in Dudley-Charlton. Frog Street is a comprehensive, research-based curriculum

163aligned with state standards across all developmental domains. It is designed to support all learners in an inclusive, play-based environment and integrates instruction in literacy, math, science, technology, engineering, and math, also known as STEAM, physical development, and the creative arts. Frog Street provides structured weekly lesson plans, embedded instructional strategies, professional development opportunities, and digital teacher resources. It includes two distinct curriculum tracks, one for three-year-old students and one for pre-kindergarten students age four to five. This structure aligns seamlessly with our district's programming in which three-year-olds attend morning sessions, as Mrs. Destew had pointed out earlier, and four to five-year-old students attend in the afternoon. We would like to express our sincere appreciation to the Preschool Curriculum Committee for their thoughtful and diligent work. Their commitment to ensuring high-quality instruction for our youngest learners has been invaluable throughout

164this process. The preschool curriculum committee includes all four of our preschool teachers, Terry Nolette and Samantha Johnson from Mason Road School, Holly Provost and Erin Goyette from Charlton Elementary School. The remaining members include both of our early childhood principals, Mrs. Destow from Mason Road and Mrs. Ramos from Charlton Elementary School, as well as Andrea Ostrowski, Special Education Coordinator for preschool in Mason Road. We're excited about the opportunities this curriculum will provide for our students and grateful to the committee for their dedication to this important work. At this time, we request that the school committee approves the adoption of Frog Street as the curriculum for our preschool program. I obtain a motion to approve the Frog Street curriculum for the preschool programs. Anthony? Okay. Discussion? I guess I have a question. Are there local schools that

165also use this program? Yes. And how have they found it? We've actually... have been some people in my special education directors group they're using it and they really like it and actually a couple of our preschool teachers have colleagues in other districts that they have reached out to that also use Frog Street and it has really great reviews and it really can align with our half-day programming as well so that was another that was the biggest challenge yeah is if you have to adapt a five-day program down to a half-day two-day program it's it's way too much work for it to be worth it. It's really hard. So that was a huge benefit of this program was that it does have provisions for shorter term. I'm not totally familiar with preschool programs. Did they go

166through the curate process as well or for high quality instructional materials? What determines them a high quality instructional material? So they don't go through Curie, or at least Front Street, as far as I know, hasn't gone through Curie. They don't, I don't, I mean, I don't want to say they don't do that with preschool programs, but I haven't seen any preschool programs on there, so I'm feeling like they probably don't do that. But there aren't a whole lot, believe it or not. There's not a huge plethora of... preschool curricular out there, we looked at a whole bunch of a lot of different things and we really went on its alignment to things like the science of reading, like does it have like you know the things that we're looking for kids in preschool to have

167that support our program in K. You know so like that to us made it kind of a high quality instructional material because it's it's alliance with early reading and early numeracy skills. So there's not a whole lot to go on like a curate or something when it comes to preschool programming. Also keep in mind that pre-Ks don't fall under DESE, they fall under the... EEC. EEC. A little different. But yeah, and I haven't come across too many when I was looking for programs either. They have some that are pretty comprehensive. One of the ones we looked at was pretty, I was like, wow, you know, for preschool, that's pretty comprehensive. But, you know, Frog Street, I think, is going to do great things. I think the teachers will be really happy with it if that's

168what we choose. And does it have, like, multilingual options as well? Yep. Good to see it. All those in favor of the adoption of Frog Street? Good luck with it. Can't wait to hear all about the successes. I want to see it again. It would be good to have something. Me too. So preschool will be focused next year, professional development on Frog Street. Great. Okay. A few more things. Superintendent Lumos. Madam Chair and school committee, the policy subcommittee reviewed is still working on policies. We have two for distribution. These are two updated. These are current policies within our policy index that we're looking to update. So tonight is the distribution part of this. Obviously we welcome feedback during the distribution phase of this, but after this evening it will be sent out to the community

169for feedback. The first one is policy. GCG this is substitute teachers this was last updated in 2019 and we just made a couple of updates here that are pertinent to substitute teachers within the Dudley-Chapman Regional School District one of them is we were like for example removing the term certification it's licensure now the other is long-term subs to identify the fact that long-term subs exceeding 90 days need to have a license a DESE license in hand after 90 days But they can also qualify or they're eligible for health insurance benefits as well after 90 days The other is see the full year substitute this one I've worked with over the past couple of years and this is why it's one of the reasons why it's coming forward as well If we hire somebody for the

170full year, we were we were giving them a dollar figure per day That was not that was per diem rate, but it wasn't like step one of the teachers particular contract but that year counts for credit for their credit for professional status if they stay with us for a couple of years so this puts them on at least step one of the contract whatever that looks like so it doesn't we don't have to keep adjusting the daily rate i don't have to keep coming in and i As this gets passed, I do want to bring in the substitute rates for us to look at as a committee again for updates as well. But it doesn't require an annual update if it moves. In this way, it puts them on par with step one of the

171teacher's contract depending upon their master's or their bachelor's. It goes hand in hand with giving them that full year of credit. for teaching for a full year for us for those that teach partial years we do have the long terms of the 90 days so it does address that as well and then there is some need for a little bit of flexibility in here because if we are in a critical shortage area we can't find anybody at all and there is competition out there the example I'll give is call it like a high school foreign language teacher or a high school science teacher there needs to be a little bit of flexibility here that some adjustments can be made to that so that we're not locked into a certain value for them because I've had

172people turn us down and say I'm not gonna work for that I can go somewhere else and get a full pay for that so I just so that's why D has a little bit more flexibility in there for those that are more of a long-term sub that we really need in a critical shortage area which has happened from time to time our district and happens in every district so that's kind of the gist of the the edits for GCG moving forward I'll be happy to answer any questions I just wonder I know we have some students that are newly you know maybe they have finished their first year of college something for us which wouldn't necessarily be an associate's degree but still quite employable and needed and I just wondered you know if you need

173to include something of that language or not sure thank you god yeah joe was looking at that he was doing some comparables as well so we'll be bringing that forward yeah great the next policy is an updated policy two for ke this is the if there it was previously called general complaints from the community uh policy sub thought it would be better to retitle it parent guardian guide to address concerns in the doubly child regional school district and then it really looks at um you know other vehicles or what people are responsible for the previous policy had level one two three and four We were looking for a little bit more language around the concerns that come forward or complaints that come forward and how to really address them and where to go. And so

174we've kind of listed a little bit more in there. If you look at page two, we have, you know, the teachers and specialists. If I have questions about homework assignments, that's where I go. This helps us with there are, it is periodically used, the policy. I have had conversations with individuals who've come straight to me and I ask if you've gone through the proper channels. Those four levels did help, but I think that this would help a little bit more. to guide the individual as to where to go. It's not that I gave them bad advice, but I just think it's just helpful to have something in writing as a school committee policy that if they had concerns about special education, where to go. School committee matters, you know, you're listed in here as well

175as a group. Director of Finance and Operations, obviously go for transportation, facilities, budgetary matters, things of that nature. So this was a little bit more prescriptive as to where if someone in the community had concerns, where they would go. So the policy sub worked on this and is bringing it forward for distribution moving forward. Obviously we welcome the feedback and policy sub will review all feedback that is presented as we send this out. Any questions? The only concern I have is that, you know, I think... Did you go to the right category? No, I'm just kidding. Right? I think I did. Yeah, I'll bring it right to you. One, we've definitely, we've changed it from community to parent guardian. So I guess we're like how we handling if a community comes to me community goes

176right to you Yes, okay I would ask all principal because can you you know there may be a concern about a building or about a stop sign or something like that That should all come to community should come to me, but that's not spelled out in here Yeah, okay, and I typically have not given the community policy to say this is sorry you've got a question about WL you go there no I think it would just be important when they taught when we talk about school committee about what is our scope that we can actually take complaints about because i don't like i think that people have this feeling that i can take a complaint about a personnel matter it doesn't say that in here correct it doesn't say that but i think like maybe

177stating like what Please note the committee cannot take complaints on personnel matters or something. Well, the way it was listed here was to where to go if you have your concern. That's obviously not in your category, so we wouldn't advise somebody to come to you. Obviously, the school committee can direct them to us. Right. Yeah. Okay. But it wasn't listed. I understand what you're saying, but it wasn't listed the opposite of what you're saying. Yeah, yeah. That's okay. Yeah. Any questions? Thank you. Okay. next is the school committee review of goals I would respectfully ask that we table this till next meeting and move right into the school committee summer schedule since summer is only days away or at least school is over soon I know our next scheduled meeting is June 25th our future

178agenda items obviously school committee reorganization title one update no yeah thank you you're right okay I didn't know if there was another one but it's on that handbooks update staff resources in July and our goals and the review of our goals we can move I know we discussed doing a workshop I did reach out to a masc regarding a workshop neither of the dates for our upcoming meetings worked for them or their the people that present information but they did give me a few other dates i don't know if you want to pull them out for discussion we can see what you want to do but i wonder if we should maybe just think about the dates that we like knowing that we're going to have which date we're going to have july the july

179meeting at because i i think that as we do the reorg the this schedule would really be dependent on, you know, obviously if you're still the chair, you'd be still continuing on that schedule, but if there's another chair, they'd be working on that schedule too, and I don't want to take that away from whoever that might be. Down for July of the 23rd was the date that we had chosen at the beginning of the year for our school committee. We did, okay. Yeah, we had a whole meeting plan we did at the beginning of this year, so that was the date. We had July 23rd and August 20th. our summer meeting dates so June 25th July 23rd and August 20th I mean obviously moving forward if they need to be changed but those were the

180chosen dates that we had set and MAAC cannot do either of those dates so if we wanted to do a separate workshop it would have to be a different date anybody thoughts on that I mean I don't have to reach out to them tomorrow either I just did reach out to them because that was the request so they mentioned that there was a few dates available but nothing that fell were they Wednesdays or no no hold on let me see if maybe one of them was sorry I have it in my phone so give me one quick second I will pull it up July 10th 14th 15th 16th 30th or 31st I don't know if any of those are Wednesdays Can you read that? I missed it. Nope. July 10th, 14th, 15th, 16th, or the

18130th or 31st. The 16th is a Wednesday. The 16th is a Wednesday. And so is the 30th. Those days. Anybody else? Thoughts on that? The 30th, I wouldn't be available. Anything else is fine? Our family vacation is usually the last week in July 1st. Okay. Maybe the 16th or something. I will be gone on the 16th, but I don't. I can submit my questions for somebody else to ask for me. That's a better day for everybody then. To the chair, are we confirming the 25th is our June meeting, at that meeting? Because it usually runs on vacation schedules as well. That's the only one you can make? I mean, I was planning to be here, so I did have it on the calendar. You're out of state, okay. Anthony, did you have that on your

182calendar by chance? I don't really have too many conflicts coming up. I can move things. Okay. so stick with the June 25th meeting and then potentially a workshop on the 16th you also mentioned the 14th 15th well I think if we were trying to stick with are you out that whole week I'm out that whole week oh okay the 10th yep 12th through the 19th I'll be gone will the 10th work oh the 10th Thursday the 10th I can do Thursday the 10th Are we leaving? I could do Thursday, I guess. It's close for leaving on Friday, but I could do that. Should be all right. I mean, it's hopefully not going to be three hours, so. And still have the meeting on the 23rd, or just have the 10th and then go right to

183the August meeting? Is there somebody? I think we found, like, if we had the 10th, we could always do a special virtual meeting if you had something important to do. like if you need it passed I think we just what we had on the tentative plan I guess was school committee workshop in July as well as the goals as well as goals oh do you what do you think I would think you were gonna do the workshop and goals at the same meeting no oh our next meeting we can start discussing yeah you might be a little quick to think about goals school committee goals oh school school his goals are stated for September September I mean I also have I think school committee goals we could be like are we doing that as part

184of like I think that could be part of that June 10th July 10th okay and if we can't we could always continue we can start discussion at the next meeting anyways and everybody can kind of come with their ideas and then we can sure that way it's not a full-fledged just and what what was that topics we were having a masc do we have that I sent them I don't know the exact but more of school committee goals superintendent goals and review and aligning them kind of like so that our goals slightly aligned with superintendent goals as well as understanding how to do like how to do the review of the rubric of the review is what was suggested so that's what I reached out about if there's something else that you want me to

185ask them to present I can do that but that was what was suggested information criteria desi's rubric setting targets and expectations for our goals and superintendent goals and review that's what I reached out about okay so next meeting June 25th and then July's meeting will be July 10th and do you know where will that be yeah we're rotating then yes yeah June the June meeting will be a trial middle right yeah yeah yeah not the 23rd we'll just do the July meeting will only be the 10th but that is a Thursday Unless something else comes up, obviously. Right. There were times where the MASC people liked us to start a little earlier if we could because sometimes they travel far to get here. So I don't know what the earliest time people can start is.

186I don't know. Thursday? That's the Thursday one? Yeah. I'm open. I'll make it. It would be 6 o'clock for me. For you? 6 o'clock. Okay. So I will reach out and request that day, and I will follow up if there needs to be any changes. Otherwise, we'll plan for that here, July 10th at 6 o'clock. Okay. And then the August meeting, I have August 20th, just so that we all know. Any other meetings later? Yeah. Stick with the plan. Okay. Sounds good. Then I think that's it for tonight. motion to adjourn please