School Committee Meeting 5-8-25

001Thursday, May. Uh, please join me in the pledge of allegiance. business school. Hello. Can you hear me? At this point, I will take nominations for chair. Yes, I have a nomination for Zeke. Is there a second? I will second. So I have a motion and a second. All right. Do I have a second? I have a nomination and a second for Sue. Are there any more nominations? Once twice, three times. All right. All those in favor of Zeke being chair, please say I. I three. All those in favor of Sue being chair, please say I. I. Three. We have a tie vote. Neither has majority. Continue on. Mr. Chair. Yes. Uh I would like to uh propose that we take another vote and I would like to nominate Zeke as chair. I second. I have

002a motion and a second for Zeke. Zeke Lewis chair of the school committee. All those in favor I congratulations. I did that for you, Ellen. Thank you very much. Um, the chairman will now entertain a motion for vice chair. Nomination for vice chair. I would like to nominate for vice chair. Second. Nomination in a second. Discussion. I think you're going to do amazing. We're going to do great things together. Um, all those in favor say I. I. I. Those opposed, it's unanimous. Want to come down here, Sue? Sure. Beautiful chairs. One more vote. I'm free. Chris, will you help me with the swap? Oh, thank you. Nope. That way. There we go. I can bring one on the paper for you. A little different perspective on the world. Yeah. Right. Uh okay. We will now

003move to item four. Oh. Uh sorry. Before we move, uh I do have to take u I would entertain a nomination for Christine Weston to be our clerk. Don't think we have to read. We don't because she's already because she she's in place. Oh, brilliant. Okay. Awesome. U so then I will move to uh item four uh public comment. Um Ashley Freeny, Maple Road. I just wanted to publicly say thank you to some first responders of our town. Um the MKGPA PTA held our annual touch a truck on Saturday at the school. Um we had over 1500 attendees at the event as well as all of the first responders from our town including Gas and Electric, um the water department, multiple companies throughout the town such as um Reicho, LMM Asphalt, Waterman Roofing, OTMC, um

004BD Electric, Marks Towing. Um, but the reason why I wanted to come on the microphone and um, thank our first responders is because we actually had an incident at our event um, and they came. It was seamless. Our attendees had no idea it was happening. Um, the family was well taken care of and I just wanted to verbally thank them out loud um, for an amazing job. Thank you. Is there anyone else for public comment? Uh seeing none, we'll move on to the discussion items. Um uh f uh a 5A report from uh student representative. I know Ed isn't here, but I know that you have something. Mr. Chair, through you. I will, um share Eddie's report for this evening. Let's see. I just want to make sure I get the organization right. Um, starting

005at the Mech, uh, teacher appreciation week has been this week, May 5th through the 9th. There are upcoming events, including the Balmy Acres Farm Field Trip, um, May 12th through 16th, which is, you know, grade specific dates to be determined. Kindergarten field day on May 20th from 9:00 am to 12 pm. PreK funday on May 29th from 10:00 am to 1 pm. And a note about tuition for full day kindergarten, that's full day pre kindergarten is $4,200 per year with payment plans available. Um that's the update on mech. Um I don't we I don't have updates on the other elementary schools, but both principles are here tonight, so you'll hear from them. at the Nichols Middle School this weekend is the theater production of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. Um, I did get

006to see the dress rehearsal yesterday and it was amazing. Uh, the show times are Friday, May 9th at 700 p.m. And then Saturday, May 10th at 2 p.m. and 7 p.m. I thought it was 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. I think that's a typo. 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. Ticket prices are $5 for students, $10 for adults. There's also going to be flower sales, $2 per flower, or three for $5. Um, uh, math MCCAST testing has been happening at the Nichols Middle School and it'll be going on between May 6th through 17th with grade level schedules varying. There's a curriculum showcase night on May 29th from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. There's 8th grade recognition for cluster A, June 9th, 12:45 to 1:45. Cluster B on June 10th 12:45 to 1:45 and cluster C on June

00711th from 12:45 to 1:45 with the eighth grade dance on June 12th from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. for $15 a ticket. Um make sure you check out the Tiger Times. All of this will will be listed in there as well. And then at the Middle Burough High School in terms of testing, there are um AP exams are are near the end um between the 5th through the 9th. They have a whole another week next week. Uh oh. Well, then this week, this week, but I'm not going to go through each one, but AP exams this week and next week. Um, special events, unified track sectionals, rescheduled for Tuesday, May 13th, 3 p.m. at the MHS Stadium. The green bandanna workshop on May 9th from 4:00 to 5:30 p.m. in the Blackbox Theater. Come and decorate

008your green bandana in support of mental health awareness month month. Please RSVP via the link on Brand's Bulletin in your email inbox. The Junior Prom is May 17th. You can purchase tickets in the main office by this Friday, May 9th for $65. Uh senior deadlines, the yearbooks for $85. Final sales are May 15th, and graduation fees $50 due May 23rd, which covers your cap and gown. Um districtwide updates include kindergarten registration open now um on our website. Late bus schedule is Monday and Wednesday only, departs at 3:45 p.m. And then finally, there's a community program, Middleboro Matters terrarium workshop on May 10th from 1 to 3:00 p.m. at the library with a $10 uh materials fee. Thank you. Thank you very much. Uh we'll move to 5A reports from school committee members. Uh Shannon, we'll

009start with you if you have anything. Um, actually, can we get clarification, Caroline, on I because a parent of a child in this play for tomorrow and Saturday, I think all tickets are $10. Uh, are you talking about the Nicholls play? Yeah, the Nicholls play tickets $5 for students. Well, the notes I have are $5 for students, $10 for I just want anyone to show up and not be prepared. I just know the poster that I've been shamelessly spreading around said all tickets $10. Oh, thank you for the clarification. Yes, all students $5. Please definitely encourage students to attend. As I said, it was okay. Sorry, I wasn't wrong. Okay, thank you. Um, so yeah, I would like to really encourage everyone to go out and support all the students. They've been working really hard

010on this play. Um, so as Caroline mentioned, it's 7 p.m. tomorrow night and 3 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. on Saturday. Um, I just want to give a shout out to the MKG PTA. I wasn't able to make the event. Um, but I heard it was a great success. There was a ton of people there. I saw all the pictures. Um, I think that's a spectacular event that you guys put on. You should be very proud of yourselves. I'm sure it was a lot of hard work that went into that, Ashley. So, um, give yourself a pat on the back for sure. Um, and then this week, I know, is teacher appreciation week. So, if we could just kind of give a silent shout out to all the teachers as well as all the parents who

011gave all the donations to make this week happen and make it special for everyone. Um, I think everyone really went above and beyond to make it special for all the teachers this week. So, I just appreciate all the parents for doing going out of their way to make sure that the teachers are well taken care of. So, that's it. Alan, sure. Um, I was going to bring this up when I was sitting over there, but since we're sitting here, I guess I'll bring it up when I'm sitting here. Um, I just asked that all members of the school committee go through our policy handbook. If you one, so we're all familiar with it. two, if you if there's something you want to see changed, bring it up and we can have a discussion about it.

012But I it's pretty important that we are familiar with all of the policies and uh and we try to follow them and abide by them. And like I said, if you have any comments or questions about any of them, let's bring them up, have a discussion so we can it hasn't been updated in few years, so we might as well start thinking about that. Thank you, Jess. Um to build on what Allan just said, um I think I've mentioned it previously, but we're we're starting on the subcommittee to plug away at the policies. Um obviously, um time with other subcommittee obligations has impacted it. Um but there's a lot of policies. So if you do review and there's any that you feel uh warrant review sooner rather than later, that will help us prioritize um

013what we feel we want to bubble up to the top rather than um you know just going through section by section. So anything um would be appreciated just to uh make sure the most important things get reviewed first for updates. Um, also I wanted to just take a moment to thank everyone who attended town meeting last week and participated in the approval of next year's budget. So, thank you all who joined in that um process. It was it was a town meeting, but uh you know, it was it was lovely to have the support of everyone getting the budget approved. Um, and to echo what Shannon said, um, just with it being teacher appreciation week, thank you to all the teachers in the district and the staff who support them. Um, and, um, you know,

014we wouldn't we wouldn't get anywhere without you. So, thank you to everyone for that. Um, and then I do have just a couple other updates um, from the different PTAs. So, um, the Mech PTA was at the kindergarten information night. So if there are any parents of incoming preK or K students, they are um offering that they are available to reach out if they have any questions about the PTA and joining and becoming involved. Uh they also were um integral with coordinating volunteers and supplies for the kindergarten art show that happened on April 17th. And they just wanted to thank Mrs. W for doing an incredible job um putting on that art show. And uh thanks also to the high school volunteers. On April 29th, Drums Alive visited the Mech PreK students and it was

015a a wonderful enrichment that was sponsored by the PTA um thanks to an uh incredibly generous donation from Miss Kathy King. And as part of the staff appreciation week, the PTA has been treating the staff and um I guess they have a little bit more for staff coming up this week. I'm not going to say what it is in case it's a surprise, but they are um actively involved in making sure the teachers know that they are appreciated. And just to also note, on May 29th from 5:30 to 7:00 p.m., the Mech PTA has a spring family event planned. It's going to take place in the preK lot, the tennis courts, and in the Mech Gym. It is a free event for mech families to say thank you for their support this year. So, um

016look for more information on that and hopefully you'll be able to participate. at the Nichols Middle School. They just had uh their skate night this past Sunday here. It was a lot of fun and um there were lots of raffles and lots of prizes were given out. They are also helping celebrate teachers at Nickels with lunch and stocking teacher rooms with snacks and encouraging signs. Um at curriculum night on Thursday, May 29th, they're going to have another fundraiser there at Nicholls. So, it's called Tat the Teacher, but basically a TEU can purchase a tattoo, temporary tattoo that the teacher will then apply to themselves, and whoever raises the most funds will get a prize. So, let's see who has to scrub lots of things off with rubbing alcohol later that night because they have somewhere

017else to go, but it sounds super entertaining. So, get in on that field trip or fundraiser, sorry. Um, and then at the MKG, in addition to their recent reading event, they had the Touch a Truck event, um, with over 1,500 attendees. That's a lot of people. Um, and they I saw the pictures of the Edo Railroad dinosaurs that were there. Um, and the even though it was low cost for families with the Max and if you couldn't, you still got to come. Um, they were still able to raise over $5,000. So wonderful event for the community as well as as a fundraiser. Um, and a cool fact that I heard was that they had families from Framingham that came all the way to Middbor and there was a family from Newton that they came back

018from last year. They came back again because of how much fun they had the previous year. So stay tuned. They plan to hold it again next year. Um, and they also helped with teacher appation week with a lunchon and their last meeting of the year at the MKG PTA will be on May 19th. So, if you want to get engaged and help with those last few events, please contact them. So, thank you again to the PTA for um being so actively involved in the schools and especially thank you for helping with the um celebration of teacher appreciation week. So, that is my update. Thank you, Chris. Thank you. So, I got to attend the touch a truck. It was awesome. Trucks and dinosaurs is kind of a winning combination. There's also a a fun, if

019not almost deafening moment where uh it was an off-the- cuff hornoff where you had kids in different trucks trying to see who could push the horn longest and loudest. Uh quite a fun event. I do want to thank all the teachers uh this week. Um a very important profession, but also uh the nurses. It's nurses appreciation week, too. We do have a number of students with really important medical conditions that require the nurses to be on call and on point. Um but then there's the everyday bumps and bruises that our kids have. And um just thank you very much. And then finally, I'd like to congratulate our new chair and vice chair. Uh this is a moment where nationally and locally we're in kind of a a a uncertain point with education and um hopefully

020we can continue to celebrate and build off what we do great and uh improve and come up with new ideas with what we may need to do a little better. So thank you. Thank you Sue. Uh let's see. All right. I have to mention Touch a Truck, too. It was a great event. Uh and and I echo all of what has been said thus far. I guess I also want to emphasize um what a wonderful community event it is. Uh it benefits the kids and but it brings families together but also our partners within the community that step up um and um serve us by doing that. is a great example of how we can come together to benefit the town, benefit our kids, and have a lot of fun. So, uh, wanted to emphasize

021that. Uh, what else I've been up to? Uh I based on conversations that we had at the last um school committee meeting uh where we had a three to three tie. Uh and Allan brought up the point that this really is not uh the best of having six people on a board. Uh that you can run into this problem by having six people on a board and uh and so and talked about the need for us to look at our charter, but that typically that's not done until every 10 years. Uh then I heard about it again at the town meeting and so I contacted Jay Grail and asked him about the possibility of taking a look at our charter prior to um the 10-year overall review and he thought that that was something that's

022possible. Um we do want to follow up and make sure with our town council that that is um we don't want to be taking any steps that we shouldn't be. Uh but that is something that I think that we can be looking forward to in the future and I think that that would be good for this board and and it's just something for us to bring together to talk about. Um so I think that that that is good. Um in the uh ongoing list of reminding each other of the things that we have to do. Let's not forget our conflict of interest uh tutorial that we all need to take annually. um as well as uh as Jess, I'm surprised you didn't talk about this because you usually do the training opportunities uh for both

023new uh new members and also other roles on the on the school committee that we should be taking advantage of. uh want to also echo what Jess said about the budget and but in a a slightly different emphasis and that is once again I want us to celebrate um what we were able to accomplish in this budget and uh Mike and I I looking around at what's happening in other towns and what we've been able to do um by some of the creative ways that we have gotten income the ways that we are paying laying off things that we are not closing programs, we're not laying off people, and we are actually continuing to move priorities forward that we should. And I I really applaud um all of the effort that went into that. And

024I applaud at town meeting and through the finance committee and the selectmen that everyone was strongly on board and knew that that we had done a good job with it. And so I I think it's something that we need to highlight one more time. Uh also on uh this past week I attended the curriculum committee uh and that is a community w u committee that is represented by communitywide. It has um administrators, teachers, parents and whatever I am all of the above. community member, a community member, a parent, grandparent, um, and a school community member. Uh, and it's the second time that we've gotten together and I'm very excited about the curriculum committee. Uh, I like the way that it is moving forward at this last meeting. Um we looked at the um different standards

025and then we started discussing we broke up into subcommittees and we began uh talking about the artifacts and information and data that we would need to be take uh looking at so that we could do a really um best practices way of looking at the curriculum and how it should be updated, how it should be delivered and how it should be assessed. And I'm I'm very excited to be part of that and I think Terry is doing an excellent job in leading that. Uh and then lastly, I want to say that uh this past week that uh again based on conversations at the last meeting that uh Zeke and I have had conversations and uh that about um issu we should end up in this position where one of us was chair and the other

026one was vice chair and uh goals that we together that we share and ways that we can go about it and I'm excited for that too. So congratulations Zeke and I'm looking forward to continue to work with you. Thank you. And likewise, um, a couple things that I wanted and you're finished. Sorry, I didn't I'm done. Okay. Um, couple of things. Um, one, uh, I had this sort of epiphany. Um, based around communication. I know that that was we had gotten together. We talked a lot about communication as being a big priority of both of ours. Um, and I was trying to find a way um to outreach and I realized that on Tuesdays where we met at Milano Cafe, I am there for about 2 hours and uh I invite anyone uh from about

0278 to 10 I am there. Um I will make myself available and we can sit down and have a conversation at any time. Um and I will basically always be there. Um, I just thought I'd let everyone know um, so that they know where to find me and we can talk face to face and that might be better than an email or might be better than just public comment. We can discuss and have discourse. Um, second piece um, is that uh, we will uh, I we'll have to get together over the summer to assess priorities and goals for um, FY26. Um, and so just be on the lookout for an email from me. We'll we should probably discuss a day to get together um over the summer. And I would I know that we had

028uh someone from Desi come in and I I probably would love to have that too. And in addition just all of us being being there together. I believe he was from um Mass. Oh yes. Yes, absolutely. Yeah. Not Desessie. My apologies. Um and then thirdly, um subcommittees. Uh think about what subcommittees you'd like to be on. um we'll send there's like a document that goes out internally um and just and let me know. Um I will be obviously taking myself off a bunch of the committees. The only one that I think I'll be staying on is uh negotiations because because we're in the middle we're in the thick of it right now. Um and Jess and I will remain on that. Um question about that. Can we um can we review that um after we

029do our assessment and decide what our priorities are so what the active subcommittees uh will reflect you know what our priorities are. Absolutely. Yeah, I agree. All right. Is there anything else? Just a quick mention. I don't remember what we have currently scheduled. Um I think we have meetings scheduled through June. Usually in the past we've had one meeting in July and one in August. So something for us to slow down during the summer. We don't have to necessarily do it today, but might be one of those things to to look at and to um try to get set up before everybody gets all their vacations finalized and things like that. Um through you u what I can do tomorrow in the flash is just lay out the dates and just so you have them

030to in front of you. They'll be fresh, you know, on your email pile and then you can go from there. Go from there. Great. Thank you. Awesome. Great. Um, and I'll move to 5C reports from MEA co-presidents. I don't believe that they're here today. So, unless there's anything else. Yes. So, so we can uh we can move on from that and we'll go to uh the superintendent's report. Okay. Uh, thank you, Mr. Chair. Thank you, members of the school committee. Um, tonight in my report, we have a couple of things we're going to be talking about. The first is we're going to hear from our elementary schools on our school improvement um plan progress. We are going to have our first conversation about school choice noting that we will have a public hearing on school

031choice at our next meeting on May 22nd. And then finally, it's really a special projects update, but we'll be asking the committee to um vote on the bid award for the LDL roof. Um Director Peron is here to talk a little bit about that. And so with that, we'll turn into school improvement plans. And I will welcome um Principal Tracy Lord, Principal Ron Samour, and Principal White to the table while they get set up. Just by way of review, school improvement plans historically were only reviewed once a year in October. Oh, no, I'm sorry. They were reviewed in the spring around reviewed around May. And a couple of years ago, we decided that we thought we should do two of these meetings a year so that you could hear in October how the year is

032going to unfold with a with a firm school improvement plan using this meeting to not just recap this year and how it went, but a preview of what those goals are going to be. We felt like that one time in the spring, it left us in a little bit. you were either talking about the previous year or the fourthcoming year, but it wasn't enough to comprehensively review. Um, so with that, I'll turn it over to principal Lord and she can you she has the slides embedded in there. Welcome. Thank you. You can see the screen better over here than you can over there. Better angle better for your eyes. Oh, now you know how I feel. Can you see it? Okay. Um, so we are going I'm going to update on the progress um that

033we've done so far this year and then end with a focus for next year. So our first goal is through prof professional development and ongoing coaching. We will improve literacy and math instruction and student performance for all prek and kindergarten students at Mech. So some of the things we focused on this year, we developed and implemented a common math assessment for the beginning of the year, middle of the year, and an end of the year. So we use this along with other data points such as our early literacy assessment, our early bird dyslexia screener to determine intervention groups, um interventions in the classroom and to alter instruction as needed for the students. Another thing that we focused on is our PLC's which is our professional learning communities. So that's when grade level teams get together

034to look at data assessments. And we're continuing to refine this work and develop times for preK to also have some PLC time as well. We are fortunate to have an instructional coach who had focus weeks this year. So each week she would check in and work with specific teachers and that includes the prek K and our unified arts teachers and special ed teachers. So um she has what's called a menu that they can choose from whether it be um her observing them, teaching a lesson, helping with assessments, there's a variety of different things to choose from, but that worked out really well this year. and she also helped to run some professional development. We have members of our mech staff that are part of the VAT team which is the vertical articulation team. So we

035continue to work on that and our instructional frameworks that is basically a guide book for what literacy and math instruction should look like in all classrooms. We are continuing our SEAL screener, the teacher perception survey through Panorama and using Panorama for CST referrals and behavior tracking. So that was something newer this year. We also started implementing Lexia, which is a literacybased um online program. So it meets the students where they are at. They take a diagnostic test at the beginning of the year and then continue that throughout the year. So it is individualized for them and then we are ending our year with a common reading assessment that will move on to first grade with them. Our second goal is foster an inclusive environment for students, families, staff, and visitors so that every member of

036our school community feels like they belong and are valued and included. So, some of the things that we worked on is doing family surveys. We recently sent home a survey to all families for input to help inform our school improvement plan. We sent home holiday surveys to make sure that we include all families volunteer opportunities. There are multiple opportunities during the school day and outside of school for families to come in and be a part of our learning and experiences. We are working on developing our commitment statement through our lit team which is love, inclusion and trust. We started our Sunday night stories which is part of our Friday weekly um it the Friday weekly newsletter says I wonder who our Sunday night stories reader will be and different teachers read a story and they

037are recorded and the students have been loving that looking forward to who the Sunday night stories reader is going to be um asking their teacher is it going to be you this week um so that's been something exciting We started weekly teacher spotlights. So each week, three different staff members are highlighted in our weekly newsletter. We continue our staff shoutouts, which is just um recognizing staff for could be anything. Helping out in the classroom, um covering a recess duty, helping with a student. Um they can fill out a staff shout out and we put some QR codes throughout the building. So, if you're at the copier, you can scan the QR code and it brings you right to a Google form to be able to fill out a staff shout out. It's just a little

038easier than having to stop by the office and fill out a paper. And we have our word of the month um through our PBIS. So we have monthly PBIS meetings where we get the whole school together, they listen to a story, we do a song and then that slideshow is shared with families um in our Friday newsletter. And our third goal is continue to build a school culture that fosters teamwork, camaraderie, and shared goals. So, as stated in the previous slides too with curriculum and assessments, we've been working on common data points and just taking ownership for all of the students. So, it's not just the teachers classroom that we really are responsible and own all of the students. So, just working together to look at that. And as I mentioned, we have our MEC

039word of the month. We have a new motto which is be safe, be kind, be ready. And those are on posters throughout the school which is part of our PBIS initiative. So throughout the building there are expectations, cafeteria, hallway, stairs, bathrooms, and it has a a voice level on it and images and words of how they can be safe, be kind, and be ready in each of those areas. We have sent out SA staff surveys for input for a variety of things as far as communication, professional development needs, um, scheduling, and just having meetings with individual teachers and ESPs to get input. Again, our staff shoutouts. And we have had several mech mingles, which is just a way to get staff together outside of school to just have some laughter and and de-stress and socialize.

040So for our future focuses for goal one next year, we are going to be implementing ST math. So all classrooms will be doing this as part of a core program. We will be continuing learning walks for both preK and K, giving them opportunities to visit other classrooms and see different parts of the day. They sign up for areas that they're interested in seeing. Continuing our PLC's for preK and K. For goal number two, some teachers piloted a program called Harmony this year, so we will be implementing an SEAL program next year. um continuing curriculum communication. One of the things on our family survey that was mentioned um some families stated that they weren't very familiar with the standards that their children were expected to know and learn. So just continuing communication on that so that

041they're aware of of what the children are learning and what the expectations are. And then in our goal number three, continuing learning walks for teachers and ESPs and working on cross-grade transitions. So from preK to K and K to first grade and doing classroom visits, having preschool students come and visit kindergarten and kindergarten, visiting preschool and having them get together, just form that team, maybe having some kindergarten students read to prek students, share some books they've made and things like that. And that is all. If anyone has any questions, I will gladly answer them. Um, I think the this is a a fantastic update. Thank you so much for doing it. Um, I was thrilled to see how much um community engagement within the school itself. You've really been fostering this year um with the

042the families getting together as well as teachers and and having such a different variety of of ways to help just support each other. I think that's great. Um my question is um the surveys that you're utilizing how um how have you found like percent of respondents are are you getting um the the amount of feedback you are hoping for? Are you seeing that the surveys aren't as effective? No. And I think I just had a conversation with Carolyn about this today. So I am not very happy with the response that I got, but I already have ideas for moving forward. Um I know a long time ago in the past we had paper surveys. I know um you know in all areas we've moved away from paper a lot and gone to the digital but

043sometimes just having that paper there and the opportunities for them to fill it out. I was thinking parent conferences where all families are coming into the building, having those paper surveys there both in the fall for some input and what their needs are and then redoing a survey in the springtime just to get some some updated information how the year went, how communication was and if we met their needs. And then what about from the staff perspective? is are you getting a um staff has been um a better um response. I've had the majority of staff but same thing um we have found for different surveys that we've done. We've done several surveys through PBIS and we handed those out at a staff meeting and gave them 10 minutes at the beginning of the staff

044meeting to fill them out. Then they all turn them in or have it kind of like an exit ticket before they leave. Um and that seems to be a better opportunity for responses. Okay, great. Thank you. You're welcome. Similarly starting with the kudos uh this is one place that I get to watch in flesh and blood uh what goes on in that school and it's really fun to know what your goals are and then see daytoday how they're carried out in the school and that they really are that you know I can see them alive uh and working uh in that school because of my grandchildren being there. Um my question for you is I'm interested in hearing a little bit more about uh the reading assessments and the screening that you're doing for uh

045dyslexia and how well you think that or how much progress we're making uh with the approaches that you're taking now. So that's just one of the data points, but the early bird, which is the dys dyslexia screener, um it tests lots of different areas of literacy. So there's phinemmic awareness, letter naming, letter sounds, some rhyming, nonsense words, and we send those reports home. So those are done three times throughout the year. So we are able to look at beginning of the year data, compare that to midyear. Um we've definitely seen a lot of progress with our interventionist. That's great. Um so there are students who have graduated from working with the interventionist and you know between small groups in the classroom and intervention together. It's just made a big difference for the students. That's great

046to hear. Thank you. You're welcome. If I could just jump in on that last note. So dyslexia screening is something that the state handed down guidance um right around the COVID years. It was around you know 2020 little young where you know there there was just you know greater interest in making sure that school districts were more robustly screening um specifically for dyslexia. So early bird is actually a state endorsed screener. it was on kind of a pre-selected list and two years ago we onboarded early bird at not just mech but also Mary Kay good and also Henry Berkeland. So um this is an area that's been co-managed by not just the building principles but also the special ed department through Jennifer Healey. So I just wanted to add on to that answer. Thank you.

047All right. All right. Thank you Lord. And so, um, with that, we'll transition into the Birkeland Elementary School. Principal Ron Samborn is here to, um, talk about Birkeland and the good work happening there. Welcome. We had a water break. Welcome, Principal Samborn. Thank you very much. Good evening, uh, uh, members and Superintendent Lions. Uh thank you for the opportunity to share some of the highlights of the work that we've been doing at HPB this year. Um I would be remissed if I didn't thank the community members and all of their great work and assisting um with this presentation. So goal number one, we were working on improving schoolwide achievement in all areas through continued development implementation of curricula and related resources. And with doing that, developing the common expectations for high quality instruction. We've really

048spent a lot of time working on this um and having conversations about what this would look like during our grade level PLC's or professional learning communities as well as in our lead teacher meetings. also uh utilizing the district-wide curricular and approved platforms and resources to design rigorous standardsbased grade level lessons as well as assessments. Um we're lucky enough in the district to have a lot of um resources available to us. And so taking the time to look at those resources and platforms collectively um as a building as well as grade levels and seeing the work of the students and where we can improve. And we have uh this year utilized um those platforms and using them through the platform of panorama which is a student data system that will um calibrate and gather all that

049information for us to look at collectively for students individually as well as in grade levels as well as throughout the building. Uh and finally for this goal is establish uh clear communications for grade level PLC's or professional learning communities focused on student achievement and well-being. Um and so we this year have reformatted our structure um to include looking at a data cycle. We also uh take an opportunity to run through the particular data cycle that using the data that we have we decide and determine um what uh element from the state standards we're going to focus on. Break that down, come up with what students should know and be able to do and what that written output would look like. um take that opportunity between um meetings within that cycle to say uh what would

050that exit ticket look like? How are we going to collect that data and then bring that data back as a team and talk about so how has um the students done? Um and this has been a really exciting opportunity. teachers are doing a fabulous job with it. And we're really um taking the opportunity to break down the standards to see what parts or what elements from those standards are students doing well in and where might we need to um intervene differently to see uh greater results. So I appreciate all that work. Um moving to goal two, ensure the growth and development of each student through the implementation of a robust multi-tiered system of supports or MTSS. Here we are creating developing a building based data team. Um I'm proud to say that HBB has really

051um done some great work in this area. This year we have met five times as a data team. Um and we are looking at the our ELA data with the platforms that are available to us as mentioned uh by Superintendent Lions as well as principal Lord. We too use early bird. We use STAR um and for ELA as well as math. Then we look to see what the data is showing us in terms of trends where we might need to shift things where we need to celebrate and how we use the resources in our interventionists um the most effective way to support the students. Uh next is utilize the panorama platform to assist with datainformed decisions. Again, you you see this repeated here, but it is uh purposeful because we've spent a lot of time

052using that student platform and re and and analyzing the data that's available to us in Panorama. And that is really the vehicle that we use when teachers have concerns of students and they bring them forward to the child study team, which is what CST is. And we talk about where students are showing um their areas of strength and their areas of growth. We use um the resources that we have available in the platforms to do what we call as progress monitoring when you provide a level of instruction over a series of four to six weeks and then you reassess to see what the results are um and to see where you may need to pivot or or do something differently. Um and so this has been something that we have done um using a different

053format this year and as I said it was it's been quite successful. Next, clarifying expectations and improved protocol for the child study team. Uh we um at the elementary level, we talked a lot about um how to improve the work that we're doing. I spent a lot of time talking with assistant principal um Dyer from MKG um and and he and I had come up with a um a series of of ideas and and implemented them at both schools which actually mirrored the work that was happening at the secondary level here uh in middle in Middleboro. So, um, you know, at the secondary level, sometimes they're a little bit more technologically based than we are typically at the elementary level. And so, we we we married what we were doing with what we learned. Um,

054and it's it's it's um it's a pretty seamless process. Um and through um some of the priority work that I have led for the district um we really focused on if we're asking teachers to use Panorama then what are those areas for which we could support them in in knowing how to do things like upload documents and and to um design intervention plans and so on and so forth. So we've we've spent a lot of time um putting some really um quick videos together to support teachers and we've received some great feedback in doing so. Next goal three, continue to foster relationships with families that ensure a true partnership while also promoting the principles of our one mill borrow initiative and common ground charter. Um at HPB, we've established a lit team promoting the mission

055of MPS common ground. Um we meet as a group a lot. Um we have 12 members in this in this um vibrant and spirited group and we meet um two times a month. Um, we are looking to organize family events to strengthen the HBB homeschool communication. Um, I'm happy to say that we are embarking on uh trying a new um opportunity for families to come together at HB. I will say publicly it's not going to be at the level of the touch a truck yet, but we hope to get there at some point. Um, but it's just an opportunity for all of the resources available to all of the families here in Middleboro to come together and celebrate who makes us who we are. So outside agencies, support agencies, 4, uh we have performances by

056students, we have food trucks, uh we have we have asked families that wish to join us in sharing their celebrations and traditions as a family. Um to be part of of of this this event, which will be on June 11th. Um and more information to come. You may be seeing some signage with some QR codes. You will all be receiving uh invitations and we hope to see you along with the one middle borrower initiative providing multimedia opportunities to provide parents information regarding highinterest topics. Uh principal white and I have enjoyed um the two sessions of our podcast known as two homes one roof. I'm sure everyone has um listened to these um and if you haven't please do so at least for our benefit because we think that we're hysterical. Um we have done two.

057We will do a third this year and we just have a good time just talking about the events that are happening under one roof and making every opportunity to share with the community all that is happening there and how we're trying to build that connection having the unique opportunity of two schools being under one roof. You might want to consider, you know, you've seen those principles that do a rep or something for the weather reports. So, don't give her any more ideas, please. refine and communicate uh PBIS Berkeland's best and approaches to our pro-social efforts. So, just to highlight some of the things that we're working on and and and continuing this year, whether they've been rebranded or they're new, we have above and beyond awards. These are recognitions that are provided by all staff

058members to students and they are um publicly announced each week in the lunchroom on Thursdays. Um and it is a it's the highlight of my week. Um, I have second grade. That's the grade level that I do. Um, and they are just really goodspirited individuals to cheer on their classmates for just showing them being good humans and good citizens. So, we enjoy that. High- five awards are given by staff to other staff members and announced every Friday. Uh bus of the month is something that we started this year where we're just trying to highlight those those uh students who ride the bus that are following those expectations and we have uh really large magnets that go on the buses and kids have really enjoyed um being bus of the month and they get extra Husky

059Haven tickets for doing so and it's been a great initiative. We have students who really love to just mingle during lunch and have opportunities to sit at another table other than their designated tables for their for their classrooms during the cafeteria. Following those expectations, we highlight our trimester attendance recognition awards which really has been something that was started new this year and that kids really enjoy um being recognized for their efforts of coming to school as often as they can. And finally, I don't have formal goals, but through the council, these are the areas for which will be part of the goals that we will be working on um and also the feedback that I receive from my staff that will will lead us into the goals for the fall. But here are areas that

060um were part of the plan that we don't feel that we've done enough with. So this is really going to guide some of our work moving forward um to ensure the consistent implementation of SEAL lessons through PBIS committee to ensure that topics and common languages are and expectations are being used. Uh we've done some work but as principal um Lord said that we are talking about using a new platform possibly harmony. So that's really going to drive the work that we do provide various modalities of communication to keep families and community apprised of school initiatives. We we always do our diligence. We do our best, but we want to know what else we can do to make sure that we are informing and and reaching all of the families. So whether that be through a

061survey or we're still in conversations, but we know that we we want to make sure that we are doing our best to make sure that everybody knows all the great things that are going on. And finally, um increase opportunities for families to connect with one another. Um we we are having conversations. We're not there yet as to what it's going to look like in its formal state, but um we're just we're we're brainstorming ways that we can bring folks together um and have conversations and to learn more about what's going on in grade levels and and within the school um as a whole. So that is my report. Questions for Principal San? I I guess I have one. Um, so when you're building uh your plans, it's done. Um, my apologies. I always make statements

062rather than ask questions. It's meant to be a question. Um, do you do you frame how you are looking at uh what it is that you want to do next year through the lens of the overall uh improvement plan so that they would be in those different categories? Sure, I appreciate the question. It it's a bit of a process I would say. Um, so it would start with taking the data from what the staff feels we have accomplished at the district level um through the strategy work that we've done. And then from there we we take and synthesize that data and then it's almost like an overlay approach where we say so this is what our plan was 24 25 what have we done and what do we want to improve on and what what

063do we want to continue and then we have that conversation as as as a council but I also like to to take all of this information and share it with the staff and then ask them for feedback. So um and through through the lens of each of the categories of the plan. Sure. And sometimes the goals will change and sometimes they will morph into different things. Um but that's kind of like how the process that then those goals will be looking through the district lens and then the school lens to say where are our priorities going to be and our focused efforts moving forward. Thank and when will that work happen? Well, it starts after today. We have one more meeting as a council. I'll take the feedback that I just shared with you and

064and synthesize that and bring that back to the team and then we'll talk through that particular work. Then my team over the summer will kind of draft something and then bring it forth to the staff and then to the school council for its next iteration for presentation. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you, Principal Sandborn. And so with that, we'll turn into last but certainly not least, Principal Lisa White, um, who will be talking with us tonight about school improvement for the Mary Kay Good Elementary School. Welcome, Principal White. Thank you. Thank you to our school committee. Congratulations, Seek. Um, and to Sue and to Good evening to Superintendent Lions. This is always a fun time to come and talk about all the exciting things that are going on in our schools. I always

065look forward to these these presentations. So, thank you to our our members of our school council who have worked very hard with, you know, really looking at what we're doing and how we can improve and continue to work hard at what we're doing. So, um, myself, um, we have Susie Winterbottom, one of our, um, grade five teachers, Meg Larson, a grade one teacher, Liam Mashado, a parent, and Claire Jones, a parent. So, this year, goal one, uh, was to commit to academic excellence through the implementation of universally designed instruction, instructional practices that provide rigorous and engaging learning experiences for all students with multi-entry points while narrowing the achievement gap. So, how did we do this? through three areas through the areas of curriculum, instruction, and assessment. So, what we've completed is use of our instructional

066framework, the continued use of UFly, the grade level data reviews. We've uh really dove deep into each grade level and and standards. We focused, it's not that we didn't look at math, but we really dug deep into ELA. And then we looked at math in the second half of the year, but we really looked deep at each grade level um at the standards and where we were successful, where we were falling behind. And then we also shared that vertically. So, we shared that with the grades above and the grades below. Um things don't, you know, in in fourth grade, if we're missing something, if we if if students are struggling with multiplication, it's because we need to look at addition. So that's that's the the reason we're sharing that data with above and below us.

067Uh we are began our pilot um recently with grades one through five. So that's happening now. So that will become part of our plan for next year is once we have finalized what that resource will be um that will be moving into building part of our plan for next year under the curriculum instruction and assessment pieces at that time. Um we our focus a big focus area this year for us and and through our walkthroughs was focusing on high higher level student discourse. It's really important um as you know we learn to talk before we learn to write. So for our students it's really important to learn how to have those higher level conversations not only with our staff but with each other. That is key when we want our children writing has always been

068a a bugaboo for a better word for us and we're working on strengthening that with empowering writers um having that curriculum in place but really it's taking a step back and saying okay we really need to strengthen our listening and communication skills if we want our children to be better writers. So we're really focusing on that discourse piece again with our empowering writers in grades three through five. Um, our tiered support, uh, I'm very excited. Our our tiered support this year included Lexia, which I'm going to talk about a little bit more later, but, um, we were able to really target some skills in in tier two, uh, with our tiered supports, our level one, level two, and level three supports, and really strengthening strengthening those and keeping track of those. and our opportunities for

069project-based learning. Things such the as the career fair, things such as um we have the um wax museum coming up shortly. We have our science fair coming up. We had a a um cultural project in second grade. So, we had a first grade play. So, these are all project- based learning that give students other opportunities for learning and to show what they know versus just paper and pencil. Goal two, provide an equitable environment that inspires all inspires and empowers all students to increase their academic success. So our multi-tered instruction, which is our use of panorama for intervention plans, this was a gamecher this year. What we did with the use of panorama was our our staff was putting the intervention plans on panorama. So meaning they were student all teachers could look at them that

070that service this child. Also, it travels with the child. So we're not starting starting the car all over again in September. If a student had an intervention plan, they may still be ending the year on that intervention plan. So the next grade level teacher will inherit that child, be able to go right on, see what that intervention plan looked like, and pick right up. We may have had a student that came off of an intervention plan because they had great growth and maybe starting next year if things do fall behind. We do have sometimes that summer slide that occurs. We're not starting over that a teacher can go right back into that into panorama look at what that intervention plan was and pick up if that's a skill that the student is still struggling with.

071So, we've really we've really honed in on those on those plans for for our students. also extending the learning. Intervention is not only looking at students who are behind, but what intervention plans do we have in place for students that may be exceeding the grade level and what does that look like for students? Our ch child setting team creating support plans. Not only are we writing the the intervention plans, but within those other other supports that a child may need. It could be a referral to um a a counselor. It could be a referral to a lunch bunch. could be um you know something we need to look at through attendance. Um we recently joined in with CCBC through through Taton counseling. Um is that a referral that we we need to to put forward?

072There's our tier 2 and tier uh tier 2 and tier three instruction which includes Lexia UFly our small group instruction. We had the opportunity um Kelly Stukenberg uh was able to get us a fourth grade online inter uh through Desi intervention. Um Lexia in in particular this year was um an absolute success for us this year. Uh Lexia is an online program that fit it's a it's a phonics and reading based program that looks at the phonics skills as well as comprehension and fluency and it's done in our building from grades 1 to 5. Um we have had some amazing data that we just uh were able to meet with the Lexia department um excuse me the Lexia company and we're really excited and proud of of the work that that was that was done

073this year both with the hard work of our staff and students around around Lexia and not only the online piece which is great but they have a very robust offline piece for small groupoup instruction and our teachers took full advantage and we're we're really seeing some success with that uh data reviews, our BOI and MOI, grade level and teacher reviews. Uh the admin were trained this year in data teams. So next year we're going to be expanding that to have a MKG data team. This year we focused on having our grade level data teams looking as I said into those specific grade levels and standards of where are we what are we doing right? What do we still need work on and what does that look like moving from grade to grade? Just sorry. That's

074okay. Can you define BOI and MOI? I'm sorry. Beginning I do not yet know. That's okay. I'm sorry. Beginning of the year and middle of the year. Say again. Beginning of the year and middle of the year. You are welcome. Professional learning. Our teachers always receive professional learning in the areas of math, writing, early literacy, and aligning our curriculum. We we are always doing our attendance reviews. Um Mr. Dyer, our assistant principal, does a great job with reviewing our attendance and reaching out to families. Uh, you know, sometimes attendance issues don't always there's always sometimes root causes to attendance that we need to dig into. So, that's always important for us to do that. A third goal to ensure a safe and secure environment for all students and staff and visitors at MKG. A safe

075school environment addresses the emotional and physical safety of students and staff by using a comprehensive approach that engages school staff, district staff, students, families, and community. So, professional learning, our safety care, excuse me, our safety training, our harmony, uh, STAR 360, uh, Stmath, Lexia, all of this provides training for our staff for them to have the adequate training and resources to be successful in their teaching and learning. Kim Choice, Character Strong, we have our PE with purposeful people and social thinking. We, this will be the last year that we'll be formally doing any work with Climate Choice. we will be moving forward with with Harmony and we piloted in grades one and two and there were a few other grades a few of the teachers that have been added to this um as we've gone

076on but it looks like hopefully we can get that across the board next year. It's a great program. We are continuing with our grade level meetings, our grade level town meetings and there is where we discuss our behavioral expectations around our around our school. you'll see a behavior matrix and that describes what the expectation is in a spec it it doesn't look the same whether you're in the cafeteria looks different than when you're in in the hallway whether you're in a classroom so our PBIS team have put that together and it's posted and we'll refer to it we'll we'll we will we will refer to that poster um you know to students and and they're aware of what that means. We've done some uh internet work this year with internet expectations and internet safety. Um

077we're looking forward. We're adding some things to that for our plan for next year as well. We had our bullying uh bullying prevention. We had Mark come uh which is from um Bridgewater State and they did our fall presentation for our students. Our PBIS again we have the behavior matrix. There was a lot to work with. Not only that, but um working with our staff on the positivity of our building and our culture of our building, not only with our students, but with our staff as well. Our family support. Um I can't say enough about the positive relationship that we have with our PTA at MKG. Um you know, it's we really are excited about the partnership that we get to have with our PTA. um not everybody gets to have that and it's amazing

078that we we get to we get to enjoy that and our families and the support that we get to see from all of our families come to the events or we'll email or send in things for our students and send in items for our teachers and it's it's amazing and and thank them very much so we do our universal screener which is part of our p panorama panorama and our social emotional and we keep you know reviewing that data for we have intervention groups um through and we've brought in, this is uh Mrs. McHugh, our school adjustment counselor this year with looking at our panorama data. We brought in our specialists, our art, music gym, our computer teacher to do interventions in the morning. Sometimes those are the people that kids want to have that

079connection with. So, we've been able to kind of bring them along into this intervention piece as well. Our emergency planning, uh, Mr. Dyer actually spear spearheads this with our BERT team. He does a fabulous job of keeping us safe and making sure that you know we're looking at all of the different areas in our building that that need to be updated or uh you know fixed or or safety procedures need need to be you know aligned. our common ground and our love inclus inclusion and trust team. Uh we created a mission statement in in that team and we uh met with our staff and we did a great staff activity with with what does this mean for them and how do they they see themselves in this mission statement. So we look forward as part

080of our plan for next year to rolling that out to the the families and be part of um our overall mission at Mary Kate good for next year. safety are ongoing of course our ongoing review of faculties and grounds restorative practices our behavioral interventions and our support through PBI PBIS finding alternatives to you know sometimes kids don't make good choices okay so how do we work through it through education um working through those situations and you have to learn from these situations so we we don't repeat them and that's key uh a welcoming environment for all families which again is our lit our common ground our family nights that we've had our our PTO our PTA um relationship with you know having our around the world event was was important for us this year so

081next year when I met with the school council um we went through the plan and we started to build our goals and started to put kind of those you know having those conversations about what it looks like um the funny thing was they said Lisa they're really wordy goals so I said okay I like that feedback. So we worked on how do we make these a little less wordy. So our goal one was to commit academic excellence through inclusive, rigorous and engaging instruction that in supports all students and narrows achievement gaps. Two, foster an equitable environment that empowers all students to achieve academic success. And three, ensure a safe, secure, and supportive environment for all student, staff, and visitors through a comprehensive communitygaged approach. So that's the end of my presentation. If you have any

082questions, any questions for Lisa? Oh, I'm just excited to hear about the the successes of the the curriculum changes and and what it's bringing to the students in our district. So I look forward to hearing more about those. Awesome. Of course, I have one. Uh I agree with what Jess said. Um, and one of the the things that we've talked about before is I'm very excited to see how the foundation of data is being built and and I know that that takes time. Um, two questions I have around that. One is uh one of the things that when Zeke and I were doing the budget uh visits with in the different schools, one of the things that we heard that had nothing to do with the budget uh was parents saying that it's great that

083the schools are now communicating more of the results of the assessments home. um but that um when they get them they don't really understand them and sometimes it causes them alarm that they don't need to have if they really understood what it was saying and I was wondering if that um is anywhere in the plans of how it is that we communicate with families uh not in educational lees but in a way that maybe they can understand better. So, as as principal had mentioned, our podcast um that that's a great way we've had these conversations about, you know, looking looking at more ideas for our podcast and having some of those ideas, having some of those discussions at those podcasts because it, you know, it's hard for families to get to an event to hear

084us in person. But if you're at home and you can put something on, I think having one middle bar is important for families to have that communication at their fingertips. if you're home and you know doing doing some some work at home and you can you can listen to it. So I think that is something we can certainly have a conversation and and do our maybe one of our first podcasts at the beginning of the year or right before those assessments go out to really explain what you're looking at I think is something that we could absolutely put on our we're always looking for more podcasts right Mr. one. And my second one is um and I'll apply it to the goals that you just had now. One of them being about um reducing the

085achievement gaps. Uh do you think we're getting close to a time where uh when you're doing a report out that we will see through data how successful you were at completing that? I knew you were going to have this question. Did you? I did. I had a feeling you might have this. I'm going to share this with you. This this was Alexia. So, just one quick uh piece of this that I will share with you um to to explain what you're asking about closing that achievement gap. Um so, this year uh students that met usage uh out of those students, the start level um 47% of our students were two two plus grades below two plus grades below where they were. This is at the start. 24% were one grade below, 30% at grade level,

086and we had zero students above grade level at the end. Now, when they say the end, we still have a month of school left. So, when I received this report from the company, it was last week. Eight only 8% are two plus grade levels below. Every student does Lexia pretty much. 21% are one grade below, 42 are at grade level, and 29 are above grade level. Wow, that's wonderful. Yeah, really congratulations. The offline support which is our tier 2. This is a kudos to our teachers. Last year they had so they have what's called skilluers and that's the offline piece. So they have to do downloads and and pull that stuff offline. In the last school, last school year, there were 295 skill builders that were utilized, downloaded, as of last week, there were 1565.

087That's incredible. That's incredible. In the last 30 days, our staff data, our staff data shows that our on an average, our our teachers are looking at this data 23.7 times. the it I saw this and was amazed like this is fantastic. So, we're waiting and this ties in really great with UFly with what we're doing with UFly as well. So, I'm really excited. Um I'm really excited about the end of the year star. I want to see the correlation if you know I want I'm I'm a little bit of a like you su I love data. So, when I saw this I was very excited. And I don't know if it's at this time of the year, but at some point, I would really encourage all of uh the school leaders that when we report

088out that whatever in any way that you can to show in that kind of information um how you've been able to how far you've come in your goal, I think is something that will highlight even better um the work that's being done and what it's really achieving. Uh so this is thank you for bringing it. Yeah, I knew you I I this this is last minute. I'm like I think Sue might have a question. This is really about the hard work of our teachers and students. Um you know there there are minute you you know they call it uh students meeting the usage and fitting it in is not always easy you know and and students you know they it it it's not the always fun you know it's it's computer stuff but the offline

089stuff is just as important and the online stuff can only do the online stuff can only do so much. It's really that offline piece that our teachers are, you know, doing the small groups and really, you know, focusing in on these these areas that students are are not being successful and I was blown away. So, thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Principal White. If I could just piggyback as she's backing up. Um, just ask one thing before and Lisa, you can keep walking. You're fine. It's okay. You can still hear me. when we talk about the panorama interventions and I'm just thinking off this because I know in a situation um like our children have been in I mean we've had to make the switch from NK MKG to HPB because we moved so at

090the end of the year you know we make that that switch down the hall so when we talk about the panorama interventions you say it can carry yeartoear so with the collaboration uh between schools is there any type of um plan to kind of carry those interventions school to school and not even just from HB to MKG but maybe you know the elementary to the secondary level. So once they're in So once they're in Panorama, they stay forever. So if a student transfers from MKG to HBB, it goes perfect. Okay, great. Y and if it goes to the middle school to the I mean so eventually what our the plans will be if a student receives a an intervention in second grade and Mr. Branigan gets them at the high school, they will be able

091to look at that second grade intervention. That's great. Yes. First, we had to fix the seating arrangement. Oh man. So glad to have you on board, Alan. The you just works better. Then we don't have to do this. I don't have to do this around. Yeah, exactly. Poor Shannon. I don't know who you're talking about. Um I I I just want to reiterate what Shannon was saying. The um the continuity with the intervention plans on Panorama is is huge. Um it's starting over is brutal for these kids and for the parents. And the idea that now that once you're in Panorama, you're in there forever. I think can't be overstated enough of how important that is to the the kids and the families. I greatly Yeah. I mean, I think it's just seeing the big

092picture. You know, students that, you know, when even when my son graduated and you get that folder, you know, and you look through in their paper and it's like, oh, this would have been great if this was housed somewhere. And if teacher, you know, first grade, you know, you may have a tough first grade, might have a great second grade, third grade, you know, when you have that change from reading, you know, reading to learn, learning to read starts to happen and you start to see maybe a little slip back. It's great to go back to that and say, okay, oh, okay, in first grade, we had a little bit of issue here. So, let's take a step back. Let's look at this intervention. Let's look here and see if, you know, if this is

093what the issue, it may not be, but it's great to have that. we put our, you know, behavior support plans in there. Sometimes, you know, our friends need a little bit of extra support in that area and then they don't, but then they might again. So, we don't want to start over, you know, and especially when you have a student that you've had for an entire school year, you know that kid pretty well. And for that teacher now you're gonna we don't want to waste time you know six eight ten weeks of school to learn this student to develop something when we we have it ready to go on the leap from elementary to NMS you know we have one teacher dedicated to the the kids we're trying to fix that for a year and

094then you know five teachers get them for you know a couple hours if they can look at that and get a glimpse into it an idea of how to handle someone like say one of my kids. Listen, he's a great kid. If I could just ask one more. So, in just in preparation for my own 504 meeting, this I mean this is great information to have. I mean, just in preparing for that, I mean, you especially if administration is still relatively new or hasn't really had a chance to get to know your child, having this information ahead of time, especially when it comes to behavioral type of concerns that parents or, you know, teachers may have. just pulling one teacher from the team isn't a great global view of the child and then you know

095I know I myself as a parent coming to the school with this huge B binder from you know K through K through six it it would be just great to have all the information kind of in one and what I say to what do I say what I say to the teachers at MKG is what you put in Panorama or what you know those intervention plans or those support that support information that you put in I always say what do you want to get because whatever you want to get you want to give. So, you know, that's that both sides of that. You if you have a student that's struggling, you know, with fractions, um, you know, you want all the details because when that child hits your classroom, you want to be able to

096support that child in fractions when you get to that, you know, to that unit. Well, maybe we we were great with successful and we we we closed that gap with fractions, but there could be another area. Maybe multiplication's now become an issue. give that next teacher that information, you know, that great information because again, it was so valuable to you. Now do the same thing for your colleague who who's now going to inherit this student. I think it's it's been a game changer like for us. It's really look it's really interesting. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you, Principal White. So, that concludes the school improvement plan presentation, but only for this evening because next meeting we'll come back with the middle school and the high school. We also made the decision a while

097ago to break this up because we felt like five presentations on this in a given meeting is a bit much um in terms of just listening and and uh stamina. What I do want to just piggyback on what principal White was saying uh about data and it's kind of funny Sue you must have been rooting around my brain earlier this week. Um director Siciliano and I met and you'll see it in the flash this write up. We got together to talk about this exact point that there's I can point to data in all five buildings that not only will impress you but really puts credit where it's due, which is at the feet of students and teachers in this district. and you're going to be seeing a more pronounced effort for us to not just

098name the data but do our best to explain it in a way that's easy to understand um and absolutely take that sort of victory lap with what's going on because I I can point to data points all over this district and I think we can do a better job at talking about that um be it through social media you know newsletters I I don't want it to get buried so it's probably going to be standalone director Siciliano and I talked for a while about what that might look like and what that might sound like so. Stay tuned and please give me feedback. Tell me if you're seeing it. Tell me how it hits you. What do you what do you think about it? Caroline, if if I could um just suggest that um especially in

099areas where we have already implemented a new curriculum. Sure. you know, showing any kind of comparison of improvements in certain scores with from the that that appear to be connected to the changing curriculum would also be very helpful to, you know, all the progress that we've been making in these um you know, the English scores here. This is spectacular. But as we go into the English curriculum review and then we see what gets implemented, you know, it would be even um better to now see how does that data maybe um even hopefully increase our percentages of of improvement as we implement any changes to curriculum. So yeah. Well, and to bring not to bring everything back to financing, but it it does all come back to your budget because what you want us doing is

100analyzing what is it that we're using? Is it effective? And if it isn't, then you stop spending money on something that is not effective and you pivot into something that is. Um, and that a lot of credit is due to our curriculum department and our principles on that front. Um, because our programs have implementation plans where we're looking at this information at a regular basis. And that's exactly what you want to see happening. and also not only curriculum but um some of the other goals that are sometimes a little more difficult to uh assess you know creating a welcoming environment uh for everyone all of those kinds of things of finding ways that we can um other than I can feel it but um that we can demonstrate either that it's an area we need

101to focus on more or how look we focused and and look at the improvements that we made. Absolutely. if um one of the principles can just go up and get us back to our other slide deck. You stranded me on um your slide deck island. So, I'm going to move into the next item, which is school choice. And um what I can tell you is that this is our preliminary discussion earlier today and it you didn't have a lot of time with us, but that's because we have a whole another two-eek period. I sent you a packet of data and um if you print it, it's very small. So, I recommend you look at it electronically or increase the font before you hit print. Um, just as a glasses wearer myself. Um, we will have

102that public hearing on the 22nd. And I wanted to remind everybody that you have to have this public hearing prior to June 1st. The school choice law is linked. I'll attach this slide deck to the flash tomorrow so you can review this. For those of you, if you haven't read MGL chapter 76, section 12B, it is worth a read. Uh it's one of those statutes that um you can read it every year and learn something new. But I think it's important for the school committee to understand thoroughly what this law encompasses. It is your choice to make and um my job is to give you all the information so you can feel informed as you approach this choice. Um school choice is that district receipt of non-resident students. Schools receive tuition money in exchange for

103that enrollment. The presumption is that all school districts are school choice unless you elect and vote otherwise by June 1st. So that's an opt out. You have to be aware of how the law is structured. Everybody's presumptively school choice which is why every May we have this meeting. We actually have two meetings and then we ask you to vote. Um I will report the school committee's decision by June 1st to DEESSE. It is a yearly decision determined solely by the school committee. You can what you choose this year may not match what you choose next year or what you chose last year and that's perfectly fine. By way of review, I gave you a history. This is one of the reasons I want to attach this slide deck so you have it at your fingertips.

104You don't have to, you know, write write notes on it or anything. Um, last year the school committee opened school choice on the limited basis to siblings of existing school choice students and it was one seat. I believe two were open but only one was taken. Um the year prior we did the exact same thing for four seats. Um and then the several year there was a 22 23 year where we completely opted out and then the years prior going all the way back to 1819 we opted in at varying levels and numbers of seats. So I I didn't go give you everything, but if you want more of that information or that history, please let me know and I can provide it. There are factors that you should consider in making this determination about

105school choice. The first, of course, is monetary gain because it is $5,000 per student each year. Families have the opportunities to keep siblings together should you choose to continue on the path that you're on where you're welcoming, you know, families um and siblings within the same family. While some schools can adopt rules for enrollment um and you have to be very careful within the law in looking at this schools cannot discriminate on any protected basis in their decision making and en enrollment and admission for the purpose of school choice. Additional factors um students admitted through school choice shall remain here through graduation. So there is no moment where you can change your mind after that point in time um unless a student so chooses to unenroll and withdraw in another school system. Um students must

106be Massachusetts residents and schools must um establish a sibling preference policy um for admitting I think that should say may I don't think that should say must but may establish your a sibling just as we have had here. The only thing that I wanted to point out and this comes up periodically is that schools cannot establish a preference for children of school district or municipal employees when admitting students. So you can't open school choice for the limited purpose of taking you know uh faculty member students. Just an important nuance in the law and that comes from a Q&A. In fact, I'll attach the Q&A. There's an advisory from DEESSE that just breaks down the legal ease into English I think a little bit better. So, I'll make sure I attach that to the flash to

107mark because I think it's a good um a good tool. Um more factors, the application process must be blind. Um and as I said, once you've accepted a student, you can't resend that or take that back. If you open up school choice and that student is enrolled in an out of district place, n out of district placement, they must be admitted even though that student is going to stay in that placement. You have to consider that, too. Students who participate in school choice do not receive transportation unless it has a specific listing um within the IEP, which is the individual education program. And then finally, um this is what is in your packet of information. It includes your current number of school choice students, total enrollment um across the district from 2018 to the present,

108including projections for 2526. And the thing about projections, and I want to just caution you all, it it is an educated guess, but it is very much a guess. I don't want you to feel like that is a number you can hang your hat on. It's just not. What we do is we take our numbers, we base it in our our SIMS reporting, our October reporting, and then we add a small percentage. But quite honestly, there's no way to know if that's true. So, I just want to give you that caveat about projections. Um, I we also talk a little bit about the current building projects in Middleboro. Uh Bob Whan and I were trading voicemails today. So I'll talk to him prior to next meeting. Just because I always like to talk to the

109building department and make sure I'm not off on my estimation of building projects that are going on. And again, just because there's a building project doesn't mean there's a big enrollment. You won't know until they're actually occupied. So it's important to kind of consider that information with care. Um current school choice students with unenrolled siblings, we've already done that research. um there is one only uh one desired sibling for entrance so that you understand that um and to the extent that you want more information if you if there's anything I didn't capture or if there's something specific you're looking for please let me know and let me know if you have any questions prior to the 22nd any questions for Carolyn uh I I do have one and is can you give us the um

110or can you get for the next meeting the projections that you gave us for 2425? I just I'm just interested to see Yeah, I'm interested to see and compare what you projected this year versus what you projected last. Absolutely. That's a that's a great uh request because you can see how accurate or inaccurate um those projections may be. Yes. And if you have data regarding the previous years that more than one would be would be great. I can talk with our registar Katie Gdine is the one who helps me with the projections. So um I I'm sure she's watching. I will uh meet with her and see how far back we have those projections and and bring them forward. This comes up during um our meetings with the town around budget season as well. So

111we do periodically collect this information but truly it does shift and projection I mean um enrollment shifts uh throughout the year and and you know obviously our admission is rolling so it can look different throughout the throughout the calendar year. Any further Caroline? Just one quick question. Um I think my quick little read of the tiny little type. Um the the family that has a current school choice student that has a sibling um that sibling would be coming into the kindergarten similar to what happened last year. Correct. Okay, that's exactly right. I also gave you the um total in this data. I gave you the total number of enrollment of school choice students over time. And I thought that was important for you to see because what's what's we've opened it up for a limited

112purpose now for a few years after it was also closed during year. So what you're going to see is a declining number which makes sense as these students are aging and graduating through the system. That number is necessarily going to go down. So it's just something for you to consider. It's not good, it's not bad. There's no valuation with it, but I included that very specifically so you could have an understanding of what's happening with those numbers. And just Shannon, so you're aware of how we the past couple years we've sort of I don't I don't want to say rigged it, but our our focus was on the families with current school choice students and trying to allow those families to have their students all in the same district. So knowing that there was interest

113because when you open up say one seat, you have to take applications, but you can give preference to siblings. So that sort of helps us allow that family to stay together. But if they don't apply then it is a lottery kind of random selection and it is what it is. So great. Okay. So with that uh director Peron has already come up to the table. We have a special projects update for tonight. And with that I'll turn it over to Director Peron to give us a little update on two projects. one completed and one ongoing. Welcome. We have two special projects updates. Um, is it not? Did you load the You should be able to click in. Do you see? Oh, there. I'm sorry. On slide 12. There you go. If you want to click

114in, you should be all set there. Okay. Which one? Got it. Thank you. So these um the two that we want to talk about uh is the NMS chiller which was funded through capital planning during the 2223 school year and the LDL um funded through facilities rental account. The NMS uh chiller was delivered on April 23rd. The installation took place over April break and the facilities team was on site. The project is complete and the total cost was 398,792. So a thank you to our facilities team and the planning committee. And what was the budget for it? 398. Um yeah, it was 398792. of that was both the budget and the actual um actually this started before I got here so I believe um the amount originally was less um and so we took some

115from uh facilities because it was over two years was it partially funded a couple year or few years ago by capital planning 222 23 was funded um but the cost escalated over the last couple years. Um the LDL roof uh we went up to bid March 2nd. Um there's a mandatory walkth through on March 9th. Um we received nine bids which was very good and we open those on March 16th. The lowest responsive bidder was WPI at a cost of 427,500 and that is what we're seeking a vote to award this bid and hopefully we'll get that started uh soon thereafter and we hope to have it finished in June. Mr. Chair, yes. make a motion that we uh we award the the bid for the LDL roof to the uh WPI and the amount

116presented. I have a motion for the bid. Do I have a second? Second. I have a motion to second discussion again. Is that what's budgeted? Um well, we are taking that. We didn't have anything budgeted for that. We are taking that from uh facility usage. So, the roof needs to be done. We went out there. I'm not I I'm just trying to keep track of dollars. That's all. Yeah, it's We didn't know what it was going to come in at. We estimated around 500,000. So 4275 is good. I just wondered if we were in the ballpark we thought we were going to be. Any other questions for Mike? Uh all right. Uh after no further discussion, uh all those in favor say I. I. I. Those opposed, it's unanimous. All right. Thank you, Director Peron.

117And that completes my report for this evening. Thank you very much. All right. We'll move on to uh six, which is superintendent evaluation. Um six and seven both have the superintendent evaluation. So, Jess, I will leave it to you. Okay. Yep. Okay. All right. So, um the you all received uh today. we try to not send it around electronically uh until it is approved. Um the summitive evaluation um so I'd like to start by just going through the process that I used to aggregate this summitive evaluation. So um we received five out of six uh members completed the evaluation um that was due prior to the town election. Um and similar to what I did last year, I went through each of the um so I went through each of the um goals and the

118standards and I looked at the individual scores and I took through the five different individual scores and I found both the mean and the median and almost all of the time they were the same. um using both a textual and numeric analysis so that I could ensure that we were um you know making sure everybody's everybody was heard and um that I was truly kind of trying to find an average of what everybody used for those scores to come up with those um you know the the ratings that are either the four-step or the five-step rating between um you know needs improvement, proficient, exemplary, those kinds of things. So that's how I use for the the ranking. Um for the comments, I actually uh this year found a very good use for AI and I

119took all of the individual comments from each evaluation for each text box and I used AI to aggregate that into a single comment. Um and then I reviewed it manually to make sure that again everyone's voice was heard. Um, I thought it was a good way to ensure that there was no um no unintended bias um for on my part in making sure that what was in the final comment truly represented what everyone had incorporated into the comment. So unconscious bias is the word that I was looking for. So yay for a uh a very valuable tool for AI. Um and I found it a very interesting endeavor. I was very polite to the computer when I was asking it to do that work for me so when they take over the world they remember

120that I was nice to it. Um so um so that's how I I tried to to aggregate everything. I really wanted to make sure that um I did whatever I could to remain um fair and that everybody's individual um evaluations were incorporated into this final evaluation. So, any questions on the process I used? Okay. Um, so just to kind of summarize, um, if this is, uh, Shannon, since this is the first time you're looking at it, the first two pages are really, um, kind of a summary of what is after. Um so starting on page three is where we um note this is also kind of a summary page but that's where um we take the goals that are developed at the beginning of the cycle and we document them. But then each of the

121subsequent pages is focused on individual standards um for each of those and they each get um kind of that overall rating at the end and then that overall rating comes back around to the beginning and gets copied down. Um so in general in terms of progress towards the goals for professional practice, student learning and district district improvement, the aggregated data all found that Caroline was meeting those goals. In terms of assessing the performance on the standards, um looking at instructional leadership, uh we found Carolyn to be proficient. Uh the same with uh family and community engagement and professional culture. Um but we all did score um Carolyn in terms of management and operations as exemplary and um some of the things that we've talked about at past meetings um looking at the budget process and

122some of those uh functions is really where um there was a lot of note in uh the comments supporting that that process is really one that that you excel at Carolyn and that um you know everybody expressed the the gratitude of having a balanced budget this year for sure. Um so and then we have just kind of an overall summitative performance um of finding Carolyn to be proficient in this her third year as superintendent. So um does anybody have any questions from your review or anything in in relating to what I put together for this evaluation? Um, Caroline did receive the evaluation as well and had the opportunity to review it in case she had any questions that she wanted to bring back to the evaluation committee before we all met publicly today to do

123this exceptionally uncomfortable process of having a staff evaluation in public. So, hi. Um, thanks Jess. Um, couple questions. I I was on the evaluation committee with you and and I think that the process has been a a very solid one. Uh and thank you for leading it. That's number one. Number two, when did everyone get a copy of this? Today. Okay. Unless you were on the subcommittee. Yeah, I if you're on the subcommittee, you got it in advance. Everybody else got it today. Yes. Sorry. Thank you for reminding of that. I gave you guys the copy for review. The subcommittee got copies to review before it was presented to Carolyn. Once the subcommittee signed off on the aggregated copy, it then went to Carolyn to review in advance of this meeting. Um, giving her the

124opportunity to ask to meet with the subcommittee. She did not uh need that opportunity. Um, and then that allowed us to now bring it fully to this meeting. Great. Thank you. Um, I just wonder whether uh uh it makes sense if people just received it um and have not really had a chance to really read it um whether a vote to approve to approve it uh is appropriate. I don't know if people have had a time enough to I don't have questions but I helped I had a long time to ask you questions because I was on the subcommittee but other folks have have are just receiving it. uh and so I just wonder if it's appropriate to to vote that quickly. And secondly, um as far as the process is concerned, uh I think

125you've called out some comments. I think that it's appropriate to to really give the balance of the of the comments. If we're going to call out some, then I think and there are absolutely areas that there's been commendation and rightly so. There's also been um comments that are written that are uh talking about areas that we think that there are some challenges and I think that it's if we're going to call out some that we should call out the others also and whether that's tonight or wait. I was going to read the the summitive comment the overall summitive comment that is on page two um into the kind of public record. Um, I just wanted to give everybody a chance to um to ask any questions or anything beforehand. Um, I totally understand your point

126of are those who haven't seen it yet able to vote on it. Um I am solely going by past practice really how it's been done in the past and the whole process of how do you make uh how do you make the committee aware of the evaluation at the time when it becomes public without it then being officially voted on. I have never asked the question of is there a different process that we could evaluate you using but it is something I can definitely seek guidance on for you know if we were to choose to wait to vote on it at another time um you know what what happens with this lovely piece of paper and and the public record and all of that. So, um that's more the the kind of protection of the

127public evaluation and um is it available for public consumption before we've officially voted on and approved it as a committee for the evaluation? And I don't know the answer to that. Well, I think to Sue's point, I mean, obviously this is the first time I'm seeing this, so I haven't had a chance to review it. Um I obviously wasn't part of the committee that put this together. Um, so for me, I mean, I would have loved to have seen this maybe like yesterday if I could. Yeah. No, we've just always had a past practice that we don't share it electronically. No, no, that's fine. I mean, even if I met up and we did some secret handshake in front of the library. Yep. Um, you know, just something just to have eyes on it a

128little bit sooner so I'm not kind of I wouldn't say I'm blindsided. I just would have liked a little bit more time to take a look over it. So, just for future practice, I guess if we could maybe put something in place to that effect of being able to to do that. Um, I have a little secret dropbox. Yeah, literally like a physical one with a lock, not the electronic one. Um, so that's that's really just the point that I kind of wanted to make just to piggy back off off. Yeah, I'll definitely ask some other um you know ask MASC and ask some other committees how they how they do it just to to balance the when does it become public and how does everybody get a chance to review it. For sure. Uh

129Mr. Chair, uh I'd like to make a motion uh just so we ask the question um of whether uh I don't know how to make a motion as a question. I'd like just to be able to ask the question of um whether we uh wait to take a vote. I guess I will move that we wait to take a vote on uh the report until people have had the opportunity to read it. Uh we have a motion on the table to table uh this uh superintendent's evaluation um so that people have a chance to look at it. Do I have a second? Second a discussion on the matter. Yes. Why don't we just ask? I didn't hear what you said. Why don't we just ask ask you guys okay voting on this or not or

130do you want to wait? I guess my my So I have a question. Is it is um because I'm uncertain is it's not detrimental that we hold back for a week. No, it's not wise. Yeah. Timing wise is nothing. So I'm absolutely okay. Personally, I'm I'm okay holding off so that everyone can have a chance to look at it. Yeah. I mostly just want to ask Caroline, um, you know, do you have any concerns with this potentially now being considered a public document but not being voted on until a future meeting? Yeah. No, I don't have any concern. Okay. Then I have no issue with, you know, I think what we're saying is we have a motion to table this until the next meeting. Correct. Table the vote on it. Yep. Motion on table. Uh,

131all those in favor say I. I. Uh those opposed, it's unanimous. Okay. So, we will bring it back up at the next meeting. And um at that point, I will read that comment into the record and this way everybody has a chance to review. Um the only other thing I want to mention um just briefly is to remind everyone of kind of the cycle that we had discussed. Um it is a very unusual kind of setting to want to do the evaluations. Um based on the the um the schedule of town meet like election to election is when we want to try to make sure that everybody who has been involved in the process and has the ability to do the evaluation is allowed the chance um prior to the election. Um but obviously that

132doesn't align with the school year all that well. Um so what we had kind of established last year is that in June or July um Carolyn will give us kind of a wrapup on her annual goals and then in July or August the subcommittee will work with the superintendent on the creation of her next set of goals um that will be brought to the school committee um in that same general time frame for approval of those goals. And then in December, we ask for like a mid-year update. And then in April, um prior to the town election, um Caroline gives us another update on where everything stands in order to then have um all of the data put together for a package before we do the evaluation. Um, so it is a little difficult to

133write goals that can be measurable but measurable in some way before the end of the year while still giving Caroline goals to work on between April and June. So um, one of the ways we we tried to accomplish that last year was to set, you know, certain dates for certain things like this will be accomplished by this time and that time. Um so what I would encourage us as we look at this in the future to think about um you know what would the expected progress on some of the goals be in April even though the goal itself runs through June so that we can do a true evaluation of you know where where are we at with the goals that have been able to be met but anything that we don't expect to be

134met until June as long as we are at the point and the progress has been made as expected then we know that the goal has been met based on the progress and that just kind of helps with the mindset of how do you evaluate this wonky cycle we're on. So, um I don't think us moving this to another week out changes any of those those schedules and those kinds of things. So, dependent upon how we rearrange subcommittees and those kinds of things. We'll see. But I do think that whomever continues on the superintendent evaluation subcommittee just plan ahead that the June July time or the the July August time frame is when those goal setting meetings happen. um within that subcommittee so that we can then bring those back to uh make sure that the

135goals are in place before the school year begins. Mr. Chair, yes. Um I also think it would be a good idea that the current subcommittee Hi Jeff uh that we reconvene and I think Alan was on that also uh just to review and if we have any recommendations having you know thought about this going forward is there anything that we think should change. Yeah. in terms of the process that we um don't need to wait till summer to do that. That might be something that we can do prior. Sure. If we can find a date. Yes, that is absolutely fine. We can try to find a a date before um you know end of year. Um and then subcommittee uh updates on policy. One more thing. Yes. Sorry again. Way down here. Um just a

136huge thank you to um to the subcommittee and specifically Jess for the amount of time and effort she puts into this. It's uh she goes way beyond, you know, and it's uh it's greatly appreciated and it's not said enough. But honestly, uh thank you very much, Jess. I I have an idea of how much time and effort you put into this and how much it means to you and I can't tell you how grateful that we all are for the amount of work you put into this. Thank you. Thank you. It it it was um unfortunate that the turnout to the uh town election was so low, but it was side note fortunate that it allowed me some free time to do some uh aggregating of uh evaluations while I was there wishing more voters

137showed up. So, and the discovery of the using the AI was the AI. I mean, that takes hours off of code. It it it did but the biggest part for me with the AI was um you know it's very difficult to to take someone else's words and incorporate them with someone else's words and and to try to have what is a meaningful comment for the superintendent. You know I however we feel about this the my take on an evaluation is that the evaluation is for Carolyn. this is for her to help her in her goals and her improvement and um you know it's it's one of the major responsibilities for us as a a school committee. Um, but everybody speaks in a different voice and utilizes different words and um, I was hyper aware of

138the the risk of unconscious bias coming into it and that was really what what led me to that is um, you know, wanting to make sure that it was as fair a process as possible um, and that Carolyn was able to receive all of the feedback from all of the members who contributed to it equally. um and that something wasn't given more weight than uh something else just because of a choice of a word that I made. So um I did, as I said, I did review it myself just to make sure that it um sounded right and uh encompassed everything. Um, you know, it's uh it's it's an it was a a interesting experiment and one that I would highly recommend continuing to use because it sure made things easier. Thank you. You do

139a tremendous amount of work, not just on on this committee, but on every committee you're on. It's fantastic to see you just like in almost in your elements often. Thank you. It's not a spreadsheet, but well, it was a spreadsheet. It was a spreadsheet. Okay. So policy updates. Um the policies that we approved um last time have been posted. In addition, the the policies that were there were some of the the the tail end of the the section B policies were missing. We had them. They just weren't available online. So that's been corrected. So they're all there. um the um the guideline that we mentioned probably two or three meetings ago now um for the communication guideline for um family um and district communication. Um I have now gotten the the sign off that we're

140ready to bring it back. So that'll be on the agenda for um next meeting so that we can look again. It's not a policy, so it doesn't have to go through the same three reads process, but it's just a guideline based on a policy we have to try to make it easier for everybody to understand um you know, what's the best communication process to to help everybody when they have a question. Um so we'll see what you think of that. That one I'll um you know, I can send that one out after this meeting so that everybody has the max amount of time with it. Um, the other thing that I was thinking of as this meeting was going on is I do have the next round of policies queued up um for the subcommittee.

141So again, as soon as we can meet um I've gone through and reviewed them compared to the MASC policy um so that we're ready to to go when we are able to meet the next time and start going through those. Um the travel policies also um those those are close. Um I was able to get some additional feedback. Um I also but I had an outstanding question about the outofstate field trips that um I I got something from MASC but they couldn't I haven't yet received the supporting information. So, I searched through all the Mass General laws again um this week and everything talks about late night and overnight and I could no longer find anything specifically stating out of state. So, I just want to make sure legally we're covered before we bring that

142up for further review. Um and we'll we'll loop back on that one. So, there's a bunch ready to go and um we'll start working on getting those um those meetings scheduled and uh getting back into the fun of policy. But that's what I have right now. Thank you very much. Uh moving on to uh item number eight, consent agenda. I will uh chair will entertain a motion um to approve the consent agenda um as presented. So moved. Do I have a second? Second. Um I just want to uh read them out real quick. That's the meeting uh the meeting minutes of March 13th, March 27th, and April 20 uh April 10th. Um the donation Middlear Elks Lodge to the futures program and see the approval of warrants. Um all those in favor say I. I.

143All opposed. It's unanimous. Um we already uh voted on the roof bid, so we will move to item 10, which isformational. It's nice to see an informational instead of in the in the consent policy in practice. Yeah, exactly. Um, I'll just read this out. It's the fundraiser uh for Middle Bar High School GSA selling t-shirts. Um, and then one last thing before uh we adjourn. I just want to thank uh Zoe up here. She was doing it all alone for for the mics and audio. So, excellent job today. Thank you very much. Um, chair will entertain a motion to adjurnn. So, move. Uh, second. Thank you very much. All those in favor say I. I. Those opposed, it's unanimous. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you.