School Committee Meeting 3-13-25

001oh yeah ESP Jingle Bells Jingle Bells anyway great song big Coolio F yeah I don't know what that was about yeah Allan will be on his way he's just running late so he might be here by the time just gets so I won't have to what's up yeah good yep I will now call this meeting to order if you could please stand we'll begin with the pledge I pledge alance to the flag United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and all right uh we move to uh three uh on our agenda which is public comment hello hi hi I missed a meeting a couple weeks ago but I came here I think it was February 13th um just to say how I wanted

002to let you know what a ton deaf display I thought that was from this committee now I'm going to be the first to agree with you that I roughly agree with what most were stating that name calling and prives are not productive ways to bring about change but there will always be people on every side of things that resort to that strategy and you simply have no control over social media nor does anybody need your approval and it doesn't matter whether it's social media or emails that are subject to public record coming from the superintendent's Inner Circle to you that insult the community those behaviors they're not great but they're coming from both ends so to sit there and say that this is the community that is acting this way and calling for more respectful

003behavior when it's coming from both ends is really toned deaf um what this committee is completely missing is that this really isn't about vitriol that is the problem people in public positions are open to criticism it is constant critique that is making it difficult to move forward people remember how they are left feeling after their experiences with the superintendent and no amount of you applauding her strengths in other areas is overcoming that being a superintendent requires that you more than balanced budgets and interpreting Desi guidance if you don't have the community's trust you're dead in the water being critical of her is not a reflection of the community not being kind or welcoming it is a reflection of their willingness to stand up for themselves their kids and not wanting to be steamrolled this community

004is making it difficult for the superintendent to do her job because they don't approve of things that she has done or that the committee has done in my opinion there are many issues but three big issues that they're not Community doesn't seem to be willing to get over is the hiring process nobody cared to listen to a lone Committee Member when or the community when they said don't do that open it up but five of you decided to keep it closed um the T-shirt nobody is getting over the T-shirt they don't care what the outcome is in court the court of public opinion recognized what happened and they are critical of it they will continue to be vocal because the superintendent's bias is on Full display the early contract renewal followed by attempt to exit

005stage left again the committee failed to heed the warning of a loan Committee Member when objecting to granting an early contract in the details of the contract they underestimated the community's disapproval and this was only reinforced when the superintendent attempted to find another position making the whole B desire to secure an early contract disingenuous only one statement made by this committee hit the nail on the head the community does not trust the committee and they should actively be working towards restoring that trust to do that you are really going to have to shake up how you do things you are going to have to actually engage in discourse you are going to have to hold the superintendent accountable for restoring C says three minutes and that is one of the reason that there is not

006trust how you doing tonight sorry I'm late is there anything else under the public comment moving on our school resource officer the SRO Brian wixen introdu the introduction of the Comfort dog Millie through you Mr chair yes so officer wixon if you want to come on up and introduce the newest member of our Middleboro Community Millie is a comfort dog that the Middleboro Police Department through officer wixon has secured um as he works with us here in our schools officer wixon will be with Millie and visiting um all five buildings um during his post um he is Millie's Handler and owner um officer or excuse me Chief Bob Ferrera reached out we had a conversation about um officer wixon procuring Millie we already have a comfort dog in our district at Berkland that's Prince and

007as you can see Millie will be joining um look at she's posing so nicely she'll be joining um our crew here in the district and we wanted to just take an opportunity to formally welcome Millie um and special thanks to officer wixon who is taking care of her so with that I'll turn it over if anyone has questions does anybody have any comments or questions I just a comment uh I was lucky enough to be president at uh School Street when officer wixon brought Millie by to meet the superintendent and I can fully attest to her comforting skills and also her extraordinarily good behavior she's a good good dog anyone else my comment is that I'm jealous you can visit her whenever you want you need her to come in for a meeting let me

008know I think I need her for every meeting how old is she uh she'll be five months on the 22nd and she's a yellow lab she has a yellow lab yes 99% of the time oh and so she'll be joining um how soon will she be joining us at school at on campus I plan on bringing her in tomorrow she'll be going through all of the campuses tomorrow she will probably mostly be in the high school just as she gets her first day under her do uh I've just got to be a little careful introducing her to too many people at once not to overwhelm her right away but as you can see she doesn't seem very shy at all um I need to thank the district attorne and uh district attorney Tim Cruz for

009putting us together through a Federal grant um everything that was done was help thanks to them and she's aware of putting us together and we are very excited to start our first day beautiful if she ever wants a play date I have a black lab and I'm about a mile and a half away from the police station absolutely so whenever she's off duty she's more than happy to play all right thank you very much she's she's gorgeous thank you thank you officer wixon thank for having me thank you all right we're gonna have a going take a couple things out of order we're going to have a report from our student representative Ed we get you out of here before the budget hearing I'm not going to run I swear um from the mech I

010have the Marion presentation on Wednesday March 12th students enjoyed enjoyed the Marion performance of sleep Sleeping Beauty by tinglewood the barn baby's visit was today preschoolers interacted with and cuddled baby animals from Barn babies family conferences are scheduled for next week to share student progress and celebrate their hard work with families nms hosted rate Across America week um nms students read The Day The Day You Begin by jacine Woodson to Mech students both virtually and in person person the event was a success and will be repeated next year WrestleMania will be put on by the PTA on Friday night March 21st technical writing presentations students presented slide decks on Research States showcasing their public speaking and researching skills unified basketball the first game was held this week with the next game scheduled for March 26th

011families are encouraged to attend and cheer on the students the positivity Awards recognize students for demonstrating respect responsibility and preparedness um some upcoming events for nms is the stem fair on March 19th um spring inter murals whiffle ball on Mondays volleyball on Wednesdays begin in late March and April spring Sports registration deadlines and parent meetings were held practices begin March 17th for the high school scw Crossroads um Massachusetts drama Festival semi-finals are being held on Saturday March 15th at Westford Academy and a special performance will be held on Friday March 14th at 5:30 p.m. in the auditorium Battle of the badg badges will be on March 14th 2025 at 6m World Language week was this week March 10th to 14th featuring events and activities to celebrate Global languages the boys basketball team celebrated for an

012incredible season and their pursuit of a state championship the masc state conference 20 MH MHS students attended with the TV production team capturing this event the students were recognized for raising $7,600 for the Special Olympics of Massachusetts and for being named a 2025 gold Council of Excellence the students reached their fundraiser goal before arrival at the conference making the student council adviser Miss Salomon participate in the annual spe Special Olympics of Massachusetts Polar Plunge the spring blood dry was successfully held on March 8th led by Olivia Cheney and her team of volunteers um the MHS yes club and Mr Harris outstanding work in bringing cooler mid midaro to our school on Saturday March 1st here the nms students showcased 3D models of the water cycle and the students worked on Project purified water demonstrating the

013engineering design process some upcoming events is the great Northeast career in college fair March 19th from 5:30 to 7:00 p.m. in the MHS gymnasium spring Sports parent meeting were held on March 12th and practices begin March 17th and that is all I have thank you Ed yeah all we have a couple more minutes do DOA all right um we'll have a report from the uh mea co-presidents oh you're here I'm sitting I can't sit good evening thank you for having us I'm G to let Donna give you your uh the update good evening um school committee superintendent Lions Administration um colleagues and members of the Community thank you so much and Millie and thank you so much for having us um it's day 117 so the uh our members are but who's counting and our

014members are looking forward to Spring hopefully arriving kind of sort of um we have just finished up conferences at many of our schools report cards will be coming out in the next week or so we are in the thick of negotiations with our school committee and the district we look forward to a fair contract we know that we can count on um all of our members here to work together to a great ending and we are definitely looking forward to our last trimester the last 63 days of school um and we plan in the words of the high school people of ending strong so thank you all for having us have a great night thank you thank you all right that brings us to 6:45 and with that I will open the public hearing on

015the budget for FY 26 I forgot to advance that slide this was the slide for Millie while director peron's getting set up you take it was there um a little info on Millie um but with that we will turn into the budget hearing um all information is online um on our website that includes the slides that director Peron presented um the last two meetings um it also includes a budget booklet of information that we put forward to the community um our actual budget book and uh recording of tonight's meeting and the forthcoming um select board meeting on Monday as well so with that I'll turn it over to director Peron good evening um so we did this uh presented a month ago and I'm not going to go through every single uh slide like I

016did uh a cou at the last time uh but I will touch on stuff and and the more pertinent stuff so uh the per pupil we talked about uh we're under the state average but uh pretty much in line uh with the majority um and we're at 19,1 165 and the state average is 21885 we also um Illustrated how we compare with our Dart districts and middle borrows again in the middle in the bottom just under the half um with our other districts there there's some new ones from uh that were uh added and some taken away uh the net School spending uh the big Takeaway on this is that uh what districts minimally have to spend is what net School spending is and Middleboro meets that so they are in compliance and that's the

017major takeaway uh net School spending as a percent of required um again we as I said we meet that and we exceed it by 118% and again if you look we're in the middle there on that um so what drives our budget there's a number of things um the strategy for continuous this Improvement um we have our fixed costs contractual costs and our salary increases special ed um we talked about that because there's been a u increase over the last couple years we're going to get a little more into that uh technology and Facilities curriculum costs and transportation all Drive the budget um the budget constraints this year again special at increases um the negotiation which are ongoing and um declining financial support so the first one special ed uh I just illustrate this that

018uh over the last two years we've had over a $2 million increase in our out of district tuitions from 2.6 to 4.7 million the negotiations um are an issue when you're in the um because we're doing the budget now you're going to vote budget number uh but we are still in um negotiations and so some cost will come from after we build the budget so that's always um kind of a difficult thing to deal with in the contract year um and we use the fiscal 26 budget uh represents a 3% allocation um and the declining financial support um two of our major uh Revenue sources are Chapter 70 and the local Aid um and we we went down in the percentage increase so we were getting a one we had a 1.0 increase in Chapter

01970 and that went down to 0.5 increase and our local Aid declined from a four 4.3% increase to a 3% increase uh and then we are looking at some reduction in our grants so the big budget uh salaries 36 almost 37 million our expenses are 11 A5 million and all funds budget is 48,51 10,792 76% of our budget is salaries 24% is expenses here's where we talk about our offsets so the total uh all funds request is 48.5 million we have 6.75 million in alternate funding sources and comes down to a budget 41 million 795 605 and that is the 3% increase as mentioned this slide shows all of the offsets that we just talked about um the major one uh is the circuit breaker the fourth one down we're using 3 million when we

020we use 1.5 this year so that is a major increase we also added food service that's the first time using funds to help offset the transportation budget is a total of 4.5 million these are all the different lines there's regular Ed special ed and our minibus um and our and contracted out uh again that is a $4.5 million budget and a 3% increase in that also so this is kind of a snapshot and probably the one we this is the biggest takeaways this is the all everything that we have in our budget so the operating again breaker 940,000 for the Ida those are two largest offsets and the 2.7 is the rest of the offset so the total of all sources is 53 m327 49 uh the superintendent touched on this um at the last

021meeting or when we presented this is uh potential FTE increases or or new positions and you see there's six or seven positions there not full some of them are 05 so um but they are again potential if we're uh have the ability to pay for those um I'll take questions now I guess if you want to do that and then we'll move to the there's uh a slide for the um public Hearing in the in the uh motion anyone have any questions Jess um I just is it appropriate to um have Mike clarify the end result of the grant that the discussion that came up sure last meeting just because I know we were worried about the impact that would have on both this year in next year's budget I have a uh through you

022Mr chair I have an update on fy2 um later if you I could go to that now or we can you have that on the agenda right so yeah I mean it's coming in my presentation but we the bottom line is there's no impact on the um FY 26 budget okay great thank you any other comments or questions any comments or questions from the public all right so there's the motion um come up on the screen here it goes I'd entertain a motion that the middleb school committee approve of 46 M3 to Dollar as the fiscal 2026 Lo local education budget such appropriation includes 41 m795 65 as the operating budget and4 4,521 n57 as the transportation budget and further that the total appropriation of 46 m375 62 is in compliance with the education Reform

023Act of 1993 and recommended by the superintendent of schools and further that the school committee direct the superintendent to allocate the following additional funding sources which total 6,751 187 fy2 anticipated circuit breaker special ed reimbursement of $3 million and revolving account and Grant fund funding totaling $3,715 one87 the final approved expenditures for the schools will be $53 million 32749 so moved second I have a motion in a second are there any comments or questions from the board are there any comments or questions from the audience all in favor I I opposed passes unanimously all right thank you very much all right reports from school committee members so uh thank you uh couple updates uh of what work that I've been doing uh one is uh serving with others on the um policy committee we met

024uh and uh had good discussions about different policies and and we're making good progress on that which chess will be talking about uh and the negotiations and um the budget committee uh the last one is uh We've the last two weeks uh we've had meetings with the task force uh that I serve on uh that is looking at the creation of the exit surveys that will going to bring a recommendation that uh in response to the school committee's vote uh of instituting exit surveys for all teachers and staff uh so that we get feedback um I believe that we've made great progress on that we have a draft that we're currently uh think that is good to go and we're beginning to talk about implementation and specifically how we can do it in a way

025that there's uh as much confidentiality uh for those that participate as possible thank you Su Jess um so also task force check that uh update works for me we'll talk about policy a little bit later um I think Zeke has a brief statement on the negotiations so I'll just talk about other things um just to Echo what Ed spoke about uh the high school theater group was uh gave a wonderful performance at the prelims in Bourne um it was a fantastic day of theater by all the the schools present um but it was wonderful to have mhs's uh Team recognized and uh they will be at Westford Academy on Saturday performing at 11:15 a.m. be happy you don't have to get there for the bus at 6:00 a.m. but would' love to see anybody who

026wants to come and get another chance um there is also an invited performance of the show Friday at 5 30 um it is uh requested for a $5 contribution to attend to help offset the cost of the um bus and truck to get everything where it needs to go um in addition the uh newly recognized as a nonprofit uh middleb Performing Arts booster club um is helping to try to raise funds to offset that as well there are some posts on um Facebook pages and things like that if you don't don't have any uh any access to the middle Roo High School page and you haven't seen it yet please definitely let me know and I can forward you the information um for either purchasing a commemorative coaster or uh making a donation um and

027that's all through the Boosters club it's not a school fundraiser so that's one that they're doing um in addition to stay on track with the theater stuff um right after the kids get back from uh Festival they will go into Tech week for Lys Strada that performs Friday the 21st and Saturday the 22nd both shows are at 6:30 p.m. it is a PG-13 performance so please just plan accordingly when considering who you're going to bring with you to see the show and then the last thing is um I was uh thrilled to be able to participate in the read Across America week at the kindergarten last week um thanks to the the presentation and Ed mentioning it and some of the kindergarten teachers being here I was able to reach out and uh I popped

028into Mrs Miss Stoker's classroom and was able to uh sit on the rug and read a story to uh her wonderful wonderful classroom um and it was just a great experience and I'm very thankful to have been able to participate thank you very much yes Chris I'm a firm believer that uh when students are engaged in activities outside of of the academic day it does lead to uh academic achievement and fights chronic absenteeism uh I was lucky enough to go to the spring Sports night and um it was amazing to see how many people were involved and shout out to the Athletics uh for their vertical approach going all the way down to the younger grades uh but not only that uh the auditorium was packed it seemed like every part of the school had

029something going on it truly is the school that doesn't sleep um so I just wanted to say thank you to all the staff that put in you know the long hours to make it possible for our kids thank you thank you Chris Mary Zeke uh yes very briefly um for negotiation subcommittee um everyone has put forth their asks both sides um and we are as was said in the meeting ready to rock and roll uh and uh we look forward to uh coming up with a a fair contract for every one involved beautiful thank you Zeke uh I just want to quickly say thank you to Sam MOA I was lucky enough to attend the uh dress rehearsal for Crossroads the other night and uh I really enjoyed it so thank you very much Sam

030I thought you guys did a great job and I was I did not know that you only had a certain amount of minutes to set up and break down I thought that was kind of an extra flavor so it was uh it was very cool to watch thank you um all right and with that we'll go to the superintendent report uh thank you Mr chair members of the school committee tonight I have a couple of items that we're going to be covering um the first is a special education update with director Haley we'll then go to a technology update with director Siciliano I will then revisit the fy2 grant update we have some good news that we're excited to share um and then I will end by going through an update of my goals for

031the 2425 school year um so looks like they are queuing up director Healey slides but welcome and uh take us away all right good evening school committee um thank you for having me it's about this time of year where I come and give you an update on what we've been busy with um the past year in the special education department um we've had plenty of things to keep us occupied and to improve overall learning and experiences for our students so I'm going to touch upon a few things that we've been doing and also just give some reminders of who to contact UM and maybe a a quick snapshot of what we're going to do in the future um so just a reminder I always like to start by talking about our leadership team we are

032very fortunate to have um four special ed coordinators who help to facilitate team meetings really are invested in the building understand the curriculum that's being um being implemented in the classroom rooms understand how disability impacts the classrooms so that they can overall provide the best experiences and so we have Miss Melissa deutman at the Early Childhood Center um overseeing our prek and K students we have Miss Megan janess over at mkg and hbb overseeing our first to fifth grade we have Miss Kathleen Cornell over at the Nichols Middle School who oversees sixth grade through 8th grade and we have Miss Kimberly orc at the high school who oversees 9th grade through our um 12th grade and our postgraduate program which is our 18 to population um I also like to highlight our our new staff

033in the building um but first I want to talk about the fact that we have um a really robust team of Educators who have been with us for a long period of time um and so while I am going to talk about our our new members I also want to give a quick shout out to all of our special Educators esps related service service providers um who make the daytoday uh work for us they put in so much effort um and they really care about our students and they work Beyond you know what you could really even imagine um to create an accessible environment for our kids um with that we get to welcome some new faces to middleb so at the district level Justine McKinnon is our new special education support specialist which um

034serves as more of a special education coach uh assisting teachers in good strategic intervention in the classroom providing um different reinforcements in the classroom for behavior um all of that stuff we have Marissa Slavic who is our bcba our board certified behavior analyst um who oversees the district and also oversees our Behavior Department um and we have a very new registered Behavior technician who will be starting with us shortly um but has signed with us her name is Alexa deaso um so we're really lucky to bring that registered Behavior Tech on board at the high school we have an inclusion teacher who's new to us Leo Orlando at Nichols Middle School we have a seventh grade inclusion teacher Jenna Fess who has come on board um at the Mary Kay good we have Jill Alexander

035and our rise substantially separate program we have Christine Ward as um an inclusion special ed teacher in the fourth grade and we have Karly Wilson as an inclusion special ed teacher in the fifth grade and at hbb we have Melissa dagel who is one of our TLC special education teachers as one of our substantially separate programs and we welcomed Susan Fletcher as a new speech and language pathologist um and actually the the mech did not have any uh new hires this year in the special ed Department we've had some changes in nursing and although that doesn't necessarily fall under the category of special education it falls under um my category so I I do oversee the nursing population um and so we were we are very fortunate to welcome uh coordinator of nurse nursing Rebecca

036Deon to our team she has come with wonderful ideas on how to organize some of our practices she's really taking a good Peak at our procedures making sure that we're doing things in compliance with the state and with um the Department of Health we also welcomed to the mech Kelly weth as our um building nurse she did um work for us last year as a float nurse and we were so happy to have her um apply to this position we also welcomed Victoria Frasier as the Nichols Middle School building nurse and we welcomed Nicole melow who is now our district float nurse um so some of the things that uh Rebecca Deon and the nurses have been working on is increasing our staffing um specifically our substitute population so um often time we know we

037can't open a building without a nurse and so it is imperative that we have coverage in those nursing offices when somebody ultimately needs to be out sick and so um Rebecca has worked very hard to you know extend her reach outside of middleb advertising for things and really trying to um pull in some substitute nurse so that we can have safe and healthy buildings um always like I said she's been doing some updating of protocols and um streamlining some of our practices looking for ways to make things more efficient um we she's been doing some staff training she's found a lot of low or no cost trainings for the nurses um and then also just an update that we were awarded the cshs grant again this year although not as much as we've received in

038the past but we did get 37,500 and um that money is going towards funding um part of the float nurse position as well as three new Med uh medication cabinets that we were so desperately needed um and some other PD opportunities can you do would you mind a question now no go ahead um around the nursing staffing are the ratios of nursing nurses to students are we in the same average ballpark as other districts like districts yeah we we are um when there are I think what we look at is when there are other things going on so for instance um when we have screenings going on in the in the buildings we often will pull a substitute in even if there's you know no coverage needed um those screenings sort of take the attention

039away from the the building nurse so we're able to pull in sub Subs to come and help assist with that that process so I think some of it's situational like when we have certain things that are happening for our students um the district float nurse originally we had a0 five with this grant we were able to increase that to a full-time float nurse which has been wonderful because what we're trying to do is utilize her in our busier um buildings specifically around lunchtime when we know that students are coming in for either medication or um some of our diabetic students might need to be testing blood sugar numbers before lunch so we're we're trying to be very purposeful in when she's coming in um and assisting in those buildings thank you sure um so we've

040had a couple major lifts in the special education department one being the new IEP Improvement project and I talked a little bit about this last year because we were doing a lot of prep work for it we knew this was coming this is a new form that's come through the department of Ed and um essentially what the department had shared with us is that all all um departments in Massachusetts needed to have full adoption of this format by the Fall um they actually had given us until roughly around Thanksgiving but we and middleb prepared to do that in September knowing that you know we needed to get started with with this transition um so some of the things we did in preparation of that is last year through our 274 Grant we were able to

041high are five um Liaisons who worked with the special ed coordinators and myself to develop a new IEP resource guide and these resource guides were finalized and um distributed to all special ed staff at the beginning of the school year with some additional training um and the purpose of the guide is that when you're a specialed teacher and you're sitting down and you're trying to transition to this new form you may not have somebody at your fingertips to ask questions of but if you have the resource guide um you able to then kind of go back look at some notes there there were some suggestions made some um explanations for this document in different um portions of the document and what really needed to belong there and so we were trying to give something to

042our teachers at their fingertips to make this process a little less cumbersome um overall the document I think has been well received um I think specifically for families the feedback I'm getting at our CPAC meetings and the feedback I'm getting from families at Team meetings is that the change over to this new IEP document makes things much clearer for our community and I think that's really the goal um our previous document while it was sufficient and it had all of the information that was needed was very um educationally written so so very hard to navigate if you're not necessarily working in the special ed department and I think this new document really lays out for families exactly what their child's disability means what it looks like in a classroom what that implication is and then

043what are the strategies that we need to um provide to those students what are the the Strategic interventions and then also what are the accommodations that we need to provide in the classroom to make them successful um and so I think that has been very successful overall we're continuing to do professional development we started the year with multiple different ways to engage our staff with reminders and um revisiting of the form again I mentioned that we've done it um we did an overall presentation last year at our CPAC and um we did another review this year and our CPAC um and you know we'll we'll continue to push some of that out to the community going forward because it it has been a major change um I have sat in in multiple team meetings with

044our special Educators as well and I've watched them explain the new document to families and they're doing a wonderful job in you know step by step walking through these documents because we're talking about you know a legal document that could be 30 plus pages long so um you know it is a process that that really does require explanation and um and support um I mentioned that we had the 274 Grant last year and with that we were able to fund the um hiring of five special education Liaisons as well as the printing of all of our um new IEP resource guides we have that electronically but also in hard copy print um and so this year we were fortunate enough the department of Ed um put the 274 out there again for districts and we

045were awarded $220,000 um and so right now we're actively engaging in some work in onboarding a program called goal book um so far I've sat in with um a representative from the program as well as the coordinators to vet the process um and so there'll be a few more steps in in trying to Pilot but what we'd like to do is bring this um program on for our special Educators in being able to develop um stronger IEP goals being able to help support them when we're writing um specifically how the disability impacts students in the classroom being clearer when we talk about present levels of um ability and so this program allows for that it's a great way it helps um essentially what you do is you sort of plug in some of the information

046about the student um you know as specifically as you want and the program will help to develop a goal that is reasonable that is um measurable and um targeted and aligning with our our state standard standards so we're able to then do state standards um goals and benchmarks uh which I think will be really helpful going forward the program also helps to develop um different accommodations and you know provid some some different resources as well uh for Progress monitoring so we're looking forward to engaging in that work and seeing how that program goes um through the use of our grant tiered Focus monitoring I've presented to you a few times on so I won't go into great detail here um this is a major lift of the special education department we are in year three

047um and we are actually getting close to the end of our our monitoring um we have one more progress report to submit April 11th um and at that point at least for the special education portion um the department of Ed will send a representative to come onsite and review our record again um just to ensure that we are compliant in the areas that we were um previously found um to only have partially implemented and so again I've already kind of gone through this I'm really proud to say that out of all of the different indicators we really only had four um as far as TFM goes two in special education and two in civil rights that we um were found partially implemented and so we've been able to submit those progress reports both in January

048and March and so we have their final one in April and I'm feeling really good about you know those final results um so far we've been very successful in what we've we've submitted um one of the other major lifts um that has kind of come out of both TFM and our new IEP is um currently our department has been updating our procedure manual so we have a very um a very comprehensive special ed procedure manual that was last updated I think it was originally written in um 2017 if I'm not mistaken turned from a hard copy to a more digitalized version and then it was updated different sections of it in um 2021 but it is prime for um updating at this point in time because we have a new IEP uh format so there

049is a lot of things that needed to be changed within that document we have updated disciplinary laws within the past several years that will impact how we um how we describe discipline for special education students we have advisories through the department of Ed for special education on multiple different topics um and we have our results from tiered Focus monitoring so all of those things sort of put us in a a great place to get in there to really read line for line um and update one of the major things we're trying to do with this document because as it stands it is a I believe 278 page document it is Big um and it's not super um easy to navigate for a special education teacher and the whole purpose is for them to have this

050resource to be able to go back and make sure that they are in compliance with this process and so one of our goals is to create a a sleeker more manageable document um something that people are able to go to um and and really get the answers quickly because otherwise is if if it's too much of a hassle We Know Myself included you're not going to look up that information so we're trying to make this um as as userfriendly as possible um while also ensuring that we have all of the the pieces in place um to maintain compliance um and so that's sort of the process now what we've found in going through this process is that we also are going to create some offshoot resource guides as a result so um for instance our

051new re our new IEP resource guide is one of them we've already sort of created that so anything that's in that document can be taken out of the procedure manual um we are also pulling out anything that has to do with our transition um services or our postsecondary services because it really relates to students only 14 and older and we're creating our own transition um guidance so we're kind of creating multiple different places where people can go to get the information and we'll kind of house it in the same place but rather than having a 200 plus page document we're hoping to have some smaller manuals that will create more management for our staff um and so we are on track to fully update this uh prior to next school year I put July 1st

052just as a marker but we should have this completed and ready to um to hand out to staff um by the Fall professional development is always something in the special education department we're looking to improve upon and add to so this is just a list of some of the things that we've done this year um within Pockets within the district uh safety care training is always important we do need to have several staff in each building have safety care training in the event that we have a any kind of crisis with the student and we want to be able to deescalate um ESP orientation happens every year um at on one of the beginning days to make sure we have you know new staff come on all the time we want to ensure that they

053have an idea of what the roles and responsibilities are for that position uh strategies for deescalation again assisting with that safety care protocol and our behavior um we had the opportunity through grant funding to send um again multiple staff to the um imy comprehensive Orton Gillingham um program last year we were able to send 10 special Educators from our elementary we're working our way up we've sent a few people from our U Middle School specifically our language-based program because we know that that's where the students with the most significant reading disabilities are are being serviced um so we've been able to send some some people to that um we've done multiple trainings for new IEP Improvement we have also created our own supporting all students with inclusive practices um and overview of cod teing and

054it also dips into specially design instruction um that we delivered to our secondary um teachers um all both General educator and special educator and then we've done some trainings on our tiered Focus monitoring corrective action trainings um one because we want to make sure that we are compliant and that we are able to fix those problems and two that was actually one of the progress reports um that were required through the department event so we've completed all those um and I I did make a I start a few items there actually almost all of them except for Orton Gillingham and I I just want to note that we have some really really talented human beings in this district and so um because of that we are in a unique position that we're able to offer

055internal professional development um which means that we're not having to spend a lot of money on professional development in the special education department that's one of the ways we're able to um you know offset other costs within special education so as you can see everything that starred there was um presented by a member of our our own staff um at low to no cost um something that's a little bit on the newer side in the department is um we've created a few internal consultations or plc's um within special education and this came from the fact that we know in each building you have multiple special education teachers and they're able to work with their content um General Educators excuse me but they're also able to see each other throughout the day um however there are

056these positions that exist in buildings that are are really single so speech and language pathologist there's typically only one um maybe sometimes two in a building psychologists there's only one in a building and so as far as what they get to do with Consulting with each other they're Consulting with other people in the special education department within their building but they don't get to talk all that much with people of the same job and so that becomes problematic because some of the the best ways we're able to problem solve is bouncing ideas off of each other so what we've tried to do this year is create opportunities for those groups to meet periodically throughout the year um through consultation sometimes we do that in person with myself at the school Street Building and everybody comes

057over and um we have an agenda with some some hot items that everybody's facing in each of their buildings but it's a great way for us to align um and we're finding when there are differences how can we make things a little bit more streamlined so the expectation is about the same in each building um and so these have been great opportunities we've done it for the school sites this year which has been new um we've done it for speech language our coordinators have been part of this so that everybody's on the same page um another thing that we've we've done this year is for our staff who um complete the mcast alternative assessment portfolios for our students who do not take the um the general mcast testing um these students are have a little

058bit of a different tracking model and so what they do rather than take the um the test you might normally see they create a binder of all of their work it's actually a really heavy lift for the student but it's a wonderful way for these students to demonstrate their knowledge and so um we have a few staff members within the building in each building at each level who assist in in putting together all the student work and submitting it to the state and so again these typically there might be one or two of these teachers who do this one thing so what we tried we did this year I called it a summit because we just we did it one time before they were able to submit we we brought them all together for the

059day and they brought all their portfolios they got to ask questions um and work together and work with myself and one of the other coordinators who's been trained in this process um so that we could you know get them to almost a final state for um submission next year what we'd like to do is um create a consult model where they're meeting periodically throughout the year so that they can we can check in and ensure that we are submitting portfolio those that are um are really quality and that will come back you know fully approved by the state um another um type of PLC that we've run is the curriculum and special ed coordinator PLC so typically I meet with the special ed coordinators twice a month regardless what we've tried to do now is

060create another experience where our two curriculum coordinators also join us um in a meeting where we get to really kind of talk about those two entities um you know special education should be woven in everything we do so it's important for us to be on the same page with curriculum um it it's it's exactly how we have to strategize and help support our students be able to access curriculum so we've been able to have these meetings which I think has been really helpful in you know keeping clear communication lines and and overall supporting our students um we always look at our our different programming in Middleboro and so we longstanding have looked at our therapeutic programs especially with the increase in mental health that we've noticed and so this year we have looked a little

061bit more closely at our TLC program at the elementary level um and so we've had several TLC program meetings to talk about um you know different kind of positive incentives that we need to put into place different structures different approaches and so those meetings are ongoing but they've been really fruitful and helping us to kind of realign to some practices that you know need to be a little bit more firm um and then we also I meet with the behavior Team every month um our bcba and our rbts and we go over all of the different things that they're seeing districtwide um you know any kind of students that we're noticing major concerns about that we need to talk about also any kind of evaluations so anybody who is due for a functional behavioral assessment

062um and we're just kind of working through those problems so that's another consult that's been really fruitful um another program I'm really excited to talk about is our partnership this year with Bridgewater State University um so we have been able to engage in what they call the tab program which is transitions at Bridgewater this is a program that we onboarded this year um we were able to do this out of a grant but it is built into the budget for next year because it was such a you know a successful model um and we wanted to you know vet it before we built it right into the operating budget um this is a program for our postgraduate students um criteria through Bridgewater State is that they have to be 18 plus um but essentially they

063go on Fridays we can take as many students as we like um for one fee which has been really nice because we've been able to take our entire program um they go on Fridays to trips to on campus workshops which are um created and implemented by uh transition teachers from from all over so um our one of our uh special ed teacher who runs this program Valerie rufo has gone and taught lessons to other towns um who have you know engaged with that and our students have been able to sit in workshops from other special ed teachers from other towns so it's it's really it's a lovely experience they get to walk around campus they get to have a flavor for what that that life feels like um and they get to have social engagement

064social experiences with other students from similar programs in the area um some of the topics you can see are things that are very meaningful for them going forward like career Readiness managing medical needs um goal setting they get to do some exercise like yoga and Zumba um team building activities things of that nature um one of one of the most important ones I think is understanding your accommodations because again these are adults who are going to be going out into the world at age 22 and they need to be able to advocate for themselves um and so really this program has been lovely in opper you know social opportunities travel training for our students um and it's also been really helpful for our staff making connections with other um special ed teachers who run very

065similar programs because if somebody doing something right in a surrounding town we want to know about it so that we can improve our practices here um and and pick their brains and vice versa we're doing some really great things here that we want to share with other people because um there's no use in keeping it a secret um so this is a program we're really excited to continue and to explore more options with Bridgewater State I will say that my high school coordinator Kim orc and that special education teacher I referred to Valerie rufo are both at um Bridgewater today and tomorrow for their transitions conference um and so far in speaking with them it sounds like they are gaining a ton of information that they're going to be able to bring back to help

066reinforce that program so we're we're really looking forward to that Jen can I just ask um any sense of how many different districts bring students to I know the number that may come on one day versus another may vary but how widespread is it like what kind kind of a community are our students able to build through this so it um what they do is they break it into two cohorts because there's actually a lot of interest um and so we I believe we're in cohort B um essentially when I look at the spreadsheet it looks like there's probably about 10 towns in cohort B that are you know it doesn't mean they go every single Friday it really depends on their schedule but um it's it there's a a hefty number of um surrounding

067communities that engage in this work which again just gives our students a network right it's fantastic thank you and about how many of our students are going it's our whole postgrad program so I am going to say five or six students within our building are going um it's tough when we have it's tough for some of our senior students who might be 18 because they're also still engaging in some of the academics in a high school schedule so to say every Friday they're going to go they're going to also miss something so it's not not doable um we certainly can make those accommodations and look at scheduling but um it's a little bit easier with our postgrad because they run on a very different schedule than the high school anyways they're typically out in the

068community for most of the day um if not all of the day either in work you know in job sites or at the YMCA doing a fitness and Leisure program or now at Bridgewater so um you know really preparing our our adults to um to go off and and be able to be as independent as possible um so yeah right now we have about five or six great do we track our students postgraduation in the from the program what they do afterwards we do track through so the the state asks us to track um through some data collection I indicator 14 is one that we have to submit um yearly we typically through that we are um we're reaching out via phone to uh or email or mail to uh past students so students who

069have either graduated students who have unenrolled or students who have aged out um we typically get maybe 50% response we do our very best to get as much but it is hard to to connect with them sometimes after the you know after the fact because they're off doing their own things so that is a tracking mechanism that we have um and we do that yearly I'd say more informally is that a lot of these students keep in touch with us um and so you know we are able to know what they're doing because they they will still swing by sometimes or they'll they'll let us know what they're up to but um on a formal measure yes we do some data collection for the state thank you okay um and just an update on Unified

070sports um we continue to make this program grow um the athletic department is amazing in um and Ryan in particular uh director Sylvia is has been amazing in onboarding this this has been such an amazing experience for our students um and it seems like every year something gets added which is great um and so what started as high school basketball has just um blossomed at the mkg we did track and field basketball and team games this year um which I was told was mostly kickball but they want to expand next year they mastered kick um at the Nichols Middle School they did botch basketball cornhole and I'm hearing that there's possibility of bowling um before the year ends and then at the high school basketball track and field bachchi and then we have our unified

071gym classes um which has been helpful and this is just an ongoing partnership with the Special Olympics of Massachusetts that has that organization has just been so great to us um just a quick update on extended school year here so this is our program for students who we are concerned about demonstrating significant regression over breaks in instruction um that would be determined by your team meeting and discussed with your team members as to whether or not your child um meets a criteria or is eligible for this program but this year we are doing our open house on July 1 um we are avoiding the holiday and then we are starting our full program on July 7th to August 7th um and our tutoring starts the week after that on July 14th ending on the same

072date um and so I'm happy to say that that we were able to get these posted today actually um positioned so that we can hopefully have a a full um Staffing we were fully staffed last year and it was a successful program so it is my hope that we are fully staffed this year I'm happy to say my inbox already has quite a few applications and we only posted this morning um which is a good sign um and then I always like to just um talk about our CPAC our special education parent advisory Council our president is Nicole Nicole Kelly and they meet on a monthly basis um they have done a lot of great work uh but are certainly looking for new members if anybody um would is a parent of a special education

073student and would like to join for some support this is a group of lovely ladies um and we're looking for you know dads grandparents any any Guardian who would like to attend um to get a little bit of more support and understanding for their special education child um some of the things we've done this year is I presented on basic rights earlier in the school year to the CPAC I've presented on the new IEP process and the TFM process um they've also done some holiday Gatherings they did a Valentine's Day paint night um and they just had a meeting last night they ended up doing virtual because everybody body seems to have um either the stomach bug or a cold or something of of the like um next meeting is April 10th um Then followed

074by May 7th and then they do an end of the year review on June 11th um but there'll be some upcoming different activities one of the new things that we've been able to do with the help of principal branagan is get some volunteer high school students who have provided child care and activities for some of um the parents you know our students but also even younger students who may not even be with us quite yet um during these meetings because it's it's really tough if you are trying to come to a a 6 o' 6:30 meeting and you've got your family so we were able to make that happen um the high school student the volunteers they are awesome they love the kids they have fun activities planned um and they really enjoy it so

075and the parents I think feel a little side relief that the kids are enjoying themselves and not sitting through a meeting where adults are just talking so um that has been a great addition to this group Kudos and that is my last slide um but if you have any questions I'm happy to answer them anyone have any comments or questions okay thank you very much thank you thank you director you very much if you just want to toggle out of your slide deck and go back to the other one um next we have a technology update by director Sean ciciliano our technology Department's been extremely busy since really last spring and he's here tonight to give an update on some of the completed work and ongoing work um and work still to come so with

076that I'll turn it over to you director cisano thank you very much um thank you to the committee uh just have I didn't do a slideshow I just did bullets just going to run through some stuff um first of all I just wanted to take a minute to thank our staff the IT department uh we have seven and a half employees um it's a full it's a full person he only works part-time that's where the half comes from don't be scared um we have Robert who we just brought in in November uh he's our new network manager uh Mark is our tier 2 technician he deals with a lot of deployment Windows uh high level Windows devices things like that uh Katie goodine is our regist in CIS admin uh Nick CA our av uh

077media specialist and then our technicians Eric Curtis and Earl and then MO is our part-time uh technician so just wanted to thank them for everything they do um they're really working every day to kind of turn around devices as quick as we can to to get them back into the hands of kids if something goes wrong uh the the damage screen or the keyboard or the the mouse stopped working or it just doesn't run like it used to um those guys are really Hands-On we have one full-time Tech in the high school one in the middle school and then one that goes between the mech and the two complex buildings um first thing I want to talk about is our uh CCTV uh security camera update so this was a project that we started this

078summer uh we really kind of dove in uh middle of the Fall by the time we got everything uh on site and we got everything ready to go um this was after the security audit we realized that we had some holes in our in our camera system and we wanted to we had some money that we could kind of fill in and and fill those gaps with our with additional devices uh we added over 75 devices uh 75 cameras a lot of these cameras uh about 47 maybe even over 50 um have multiple lenses inside the camera so it's one camera but you can see kind of 180 degrees based on four different cameras that are in there um which really give you a lot of diversity um the complex is getting uh or got

079cameras indoors and replaced a lot of the outdoor cameras the mech got new indoor cameras the Nichols Middle School got indoor and outdoor cameras um and the high school we uh added one camera in the stadium underneath the bleacher area um so a lot of work uh that was with a vendor custom computers they came out did a did an audit for us to see where we where we wanted to add cameras uh they recommended the different models that we should put in and uh we're rolling that out now we had to do some server updates in the background to kind of make it easier for everyone one uh but we are well on our way to that we have a couple cameras left uh we just need a really high lift so we can

080get to the complex to the top of the gym um and a day where it's not 30 Dees so that's the plan we should be done in the next couple weeks um and then we have a couple more to do in nickels as well uh two-factor authentication this was something that we started this year um two- Factor authentication is obviously something that nobody likes but you have to do it um and we're at the point point now where we're going to push it out to staff uh I was at a technology conference today and the the conversation keeps coming up of when are you going to push this out to students and the vendors love to say when are you going to push this out to students and all the it directors cringe um so

081we're we're working as a as a state and as a tech uh Department as a state and throughout the country the best way to roll this out to students because eventually we are going to have to roll this out to students um and what does that look like but we're we're a ways away from that but we are onboarding staff um we're hoping to have it a soft roll out in the next couple weeks and then going to uh the full staff either right before April break or on April Break um we have some computers excuse me that we got uh for staff to redeploy those are going to replace all the high school teacher devices and then uh we're going to start making our way through the middle school and the Elementary School uh

082to placing uh replacing computers that are kind of on their last legs are running slow and then kind of filling that in and then hopefully at the end of this year we can purchase some more to fill in uh any holes that we have left the cellular booster at the high school uh was one thing that when we moved in here there was no cell reception um and that was a problem we were able to secure the money to get that done that was a big project the installation is complete um we have one more visit from the vendor to come back and they're just going to make sure they want to get some data in the system to see what antennas are working what antennas could be maybe moved or modified um so we

083have one more visit from them to kind of fine-tune the system but that is in a good spot um cyber security is ongoing we're constantly working on procedures and updates um we're starting to plan upcoming tabletop activities inside the IT department uh in the case of a crisis what happens who's notified what's the first person you call um what's the vendor that we're going to call to assist us with this the big thing with a cyber security attack that they're saying is it's not if it's when um they're happening all across the country they're s they're shutting down massive districts they're also shutting down small little districts so we want to make sure that we're on the top of uh we're on the edge of our seat we're ready we're looking forward uh and we're

084making sure that we're staying current everything's patched making sure that we're keeping up with all of our vulnerabilities um and we're able to move forward with that um conference wrap up over the last couple weeks I've had the uh opportunity to attend a couple different conferences um as we start to talk about Ai and how AI is going to become part of school um at this moment we have everything blocked for AI so we're not allowing students to use chat GPT we're not using Gemini things like that on the school network the the main reason why we started with this is because we need to be able to teach our teachers and teach our students what the appropriate use of AI is we're not saying don't use AI at all we just need to make

085sure that we have an understanding of what's going on and then we can give that to our teachers and we can give that to our students um AI is a very dangerous thing if you don't know what you're doing with it especially when you're dealing with personal information the last thing we would want is a teacher to take an IEP and throw it in chat GPT and say summarize this for me well you've given all the you've given the kids' name you've given maybe where they live you've given all of the the things that are in that that sensitive information in there so we want to make sure that we have a policy and a procedure we've created an AI committee um that's going to start meeting in the next couple weeks um at the

086conference I had the opportunity to meet with different vendors uh that do a variety of things a lot of them are AI driven and then also talking to different people all across the country of what they're doing um we've learned I learned a lot of different things for um that necessarily might not be my department but things that I can bring back to other other members of the executive leadership team um we continue to streamline our account creation this is one of the things that we've kind of struggled with um there's been holes when a new student comes in the the immediacy of being able to get them an account get them a device I think we've grown Leaps and Bounds from where we were maybe a year and a half ago two years ago

087but I think there's always room for improvement and we're continuing to look at that and then uh keeping up with um ongoing procedures to make sure that we're improving all of our systems making sure that we're not stagnant making sure that we're staying up with the latest and the greatest um that's all I have i' open it up for questions um for the roll out of the two-factor authentication is there a like a cost associated with with devices or are you doing everything with you know apps that aren't going to bring additional costs to the district so there there isn't there was an initiation an initial fee uh that we paid I don't have the fee off the top of my head I'm sorry um one of the things we did with the two- Factor

088authentication is uh a lot of the the push back that districts have been getting across the country is that you're requiring a a staff member or a teacher to put an application on their cellular device um it's their device we shouldn't have to have them do something on that um our workaround for that is a it's almost like a bingo card um so it has like one through six on the top and a through e on the bot on the side um and when the two Factor pops up it says like A6 and you go A6 okay 35 and you plug in 35 and that card is associated to that person so every person gets a new card they'll stick it in the back of their badge um and then once they every 24 hours

089when they're asked to authenticate um they'll just kind of do that and go through with that but and that's one of the the significant hurdles of rolling things out to students as well as you know how many of them are going to those little some don't bring their computers so I can only imagine bringing a little card yeah um so yeah that is that's one of the things with with the student roll out that we're we're kind of looking at and who knows if that's what student roll out looks like if that's a a system we keep there's the little um key fobs that give you the number that was one of the things we looked at when we were talking about rolling this out to teachers to alleviate the use of a cellular device

090um but the cost of those is very high the ability for them to get lost is very um so we did buy a couple of the the little uh fobs but a majority 98% of our users are going to be the bingo card okay and then um in terms of just our our Network vulnerability and things like that um we do we have you know regular nightly backups and and all of those things for I'm sure using Google there's there's kind of built-in backups to that process but I know we have a lot of other systems that we use are are they all kind of part of a a regular process so yeah for security reasons I won't go into that but yeah we do have um we do have server backups we do have

091uh sis backups all of that um yes great thank you anyone else have any other comments questions thank you very much thank you guys if you have any questions you know where I am all right and with that I'll turn to uh my next item which is the fy2 grant update um that I referenced earlier um well first of all I want to begin by wrong slide I want to begin by thanking um a host of people there were several members of the school committee that uh jumped right into action after last meeting reaching out to legislators deese the governor's office um so I want to extend a big thank you that advocacy I think was very helpful I also want to extend a thank you to the select board the town of Middleboro and

092also the town manager who both went you know all all kind of went to the state level to uh shine a light on what was happening with this grant um and I'm happy to share that uh through actually Court action the town manager called me last week to say that we would be um funded for all expenses through February 20th of this year so we while we would still not be a recipient of the Grant in the way that they had initially intimated in November um they have now taken the position that since money was expended from that time through the first notification on February 20th we'd be entitled to anything that we've expended to that date so director avitab and I were going through what we'd expended we believe we are at roughly 61,000

093of that 7 it was a little over 73,000 of that Grant um director Peron and I talked about that remainder we feel like we can absorb that difference that is a very different figure than a $73,000 figure um the business office is in the process of submitting those expenses Town manager mcgrael also felt confident that it's possible we will get all of the grant back because of um actions the town is taking regarding the um MBT communities act um so this is great news all around um and that's really the update for fy2 I didn't know if there was any questions about about that item anyone have any comments or questions just a comment I just want to Echo uh kudos to the town manager and the select board for uh both the actions that

094they took but also the way that they have informed the public about um what is happening uh and articulating uh middle boro's stance and why uh I think that it really has been exemplary yeah um I just want to say I I reached out to our state reps I State s and the governor's office um um and I heard back from the state reps and the state senator and they were all in agreement with us that we should should not be penalized because of the uh NBTA communities act um the governor goes on uh NPR once a month and I was on hold for about 45 minutes hoping I could get through but she didn't take my call but uh I'm I'm happy that we got 61 I don't think it's enough I think we

095should be reimbursed for the full 73 because we were granted the Grant and um to resend it in that manner is reprehensible okay so um with that I'll move into the next item um and the next item is actually a uh goals update so before I go into before I go into the goals update I wanted to say a couple of things um the first is that earlier today I sent members of the school committee my evidence and a memo outlining um my progress on my goal for this year so you have that information if you have any questions or need additional information please let me know I have lots of information so if you're feeling like you're not sure something exists or if I can explain something further just let me know um and

096before I kind of launch into the goals update I it is critical that I thank um several people who assist not just me every day but work very hard for this district and that would be members of the administrative council members of the district leadership team and members of the executive committee so that's all of our coordinators curriculum and special education and alternative Pathways that's all of our assistant principles that's all of our um principles in our district it's all of our directors director Markus director uh hilly director Siciliano director avat I think a lot of people think that the superintendency is this sort of wizard behind a curtain that does all the things and while I'm certainly plenty busy there is no District that fun without a team um and our efforts are are

097a joint effort very very much so I'd be remiss if I didn't point that out and I also wanted to take a minute to just shine a light on the efforts of these people they work extremely hard they work day and night um and they're very talented we're lucky to have them so with that I'm going to launch into hopefully a somewhat brief update um by way of review what you'll see at the top is the the newest piece about the strategy which are our brand our branding icons for the four strategic initiatives of our strategic plan so I'll get into the plan in a little bit but when you look at the goals we cultivated the goals in July of 24 they run through really the end of the school year so you know

098this is progressed to to March of 25 but I'll have more as we approach June um my four goals have different Focus areas the first one is on District Improvement meaning the strategy the second one is on student learning meaning student progress um the third one is on professional practice and how I'm being developed as a professional and then I added this fourth goal this year for communication and community relations so those are the sort of four major areas that my goals um focus on so to get into goal one which talks about effectively monitoring our strategy um we wanted to focus on human resource management and development data informed decisionmaking and instruction that meets the needs of all Learners so those were the three Focus areas that we sent Ed on this year and

099I'm just going to briefly recap the key actions that have already occurred and and or are still to occur retention efforts were a major Focus teacher and and all educator retention efforts you'll see kind of robust information when you go over the evidence um additional adjustments to our mentoring and induction program the cultivation of a new leadership pathway for educators in our district um additional Awards recognition messages to really build a culture of an environment where people want to work and continue to work um and I'm sure I'm missing a couple of other things but that Recaps kind of the retention efforts component the vision of a graduate is something that every high school has to undertake for accreditation through the nas process Middleboro to its credit has made a commitment to taking that vision

100of a graduate and pairing that down to what are the skills we want every child to acquire as they go through our school system system and we have taken that vision of a graduate and stretched it down all the way to the mech which I think is a great thing one because it builds Unity within our school Community but two it also builds that consistency so that you as a parent understand what's the expectation for my child at five what about 11 what about 17 and so um you'll see in the packet you'll see in the information the ways that we got together got vertical with members of um all all members of our well not all members of the district but representative from every building in our district um and then we paired it

101down to defining what those skills are that we want to see in six pillars and then what do those individual pillars look like so when I say self- advocacy that looks very different at kindergarten than it might at 12th grade as an example so the vision of a graduate was a focus area this year um professional development on specially designed instruction actually director Healey recapped some of that I actually had the opportunity to see that professional development in November that she gave with uh specialed coordinator Kim oric and it was outstanding um so we did provide that professional development and really then some um the youth works and mass hire program as you heard last meeting is alive and well with over $119,000 in grant money um this program I'm hoping will continue to grow

102in the years ahead um and you can see evidence of that at secondary uh 6 through 12 now just if you're thinking well what about our our younger students the next bullet is on Alternative Learning Pathways and so things like the Futures fair and building our Futures Academy programming I'll have um I'll have coordinator Lacy Foley here in a couple of weeks to talk a little bit about what's been going on at Futures Academy I think you'll be excited to learn really what this what these key actions are about is just cultivating multiple Pathways for students to find success this is also aligned with our district Vision the first initiative is personalized success for all students personalized learning personalized success for all students it's really important that we're not sending the message to children that

103there's only one way to be successful so that's what these efforts point to you heard about the community evening School assessment because it was presented during the last meeting and you have a copy of the assessment and the evidence um the only thing that is not completed to date through this school I mean when I say completed I want to be clear about that so much of this work that I'm going to talk about tonight is ongoing so it's very much like the laundry it is never done um that said I do want to certify that we have undertaken efforts that I can point to but none of this work will ever be done nor should it be because it's something we should continual continually review and improve upon um the final item is that

104progress report that I I usually do at the last meeting in June so I mean at some point in June I'll come back to you with a formal report on the year two of of the strategy monitoring process the teams we have four different teams led by various administrators across the district um but I want to call all that by the end of the year and give you a formal report so we can talk about okay what progress are we making what are the specifics that we're seeing and how is that translating to actual student performance and data I think you would find that helpful so that's still coming the only reason it's not ready is because it's March and not June um so with that I'll head into goal two goal two is looking

105at improving student outcomes and Equitable learning opportunities for all for all students through improved instructional practices supported implementation an expansion of social emotional learning and effective inclusion and cod te practices so what you can be hearing in that is curriculum focused work student service focused work and special education work that was deliberately designed that way so some of the key actions that we've undertaken and this is a very curriculum heavy um although not exclusively goal really looking at professional develop development of instructional Frameworks teaching to the standards and making sure that is aligned to the instructional Frameworks has been a major Focus this year we actually began the year with PD in this area which you have in the in the um evidence packet we also after going through this professional development you have to

106actually observe it you want to make sure your teachers understand this and so we attacked this I don't want to say attacked we addressed this through um a kind of a multi-pronged approach we had uh learning walks that happen within each building learning walks that I do with uh with principles uh walkthroughs and then we also have instructional rounds which I kind of surprised I didn't write on this slide but instructional rounds were new this year this is where the entire administrative team really looks at a focus area on a given day and goes through most of the classrooms in the building um so I've recapped that in the flashes but that's really how you're going to see that that information at play there's been PLC management alignment and um reignition in some cases here's

107information from all five buildings about how we are um attacking plc's this concept of the professional Learning Community what does it look like what does that mean and what does it translate to for students the vertical articulation teams again a lot like I mean not to drwn the same analogy but again the concept of laundry you're really taking a hard look at scope and sequence making sure that what is happening in grade five actually translates to what's happening in grade six um this is work that has a different Focus each year it's been ongoing this year it will continue in the year following hopefully every single year you will hear about um bat teams the district data team is brand new I'm very proud to talk about the district data team this year because it's

108the first in my experience in Middleboro where we have a cross-section of administration across the district several of them sitting here in the audience tonight um the first thing we had to do was get our arms around common vocabulary and then actually understand what what does it mean to analyze data what does it mean to interpret that data and then most importantly how are we going to use that data communicate it out with our staff our families our students and then make decisions based upon that data um you will it will come as no surprise to you that the state has a very kind of builtup framework for us to follow and that's very much what we're using um we have spent a lot of time over the fall learning and we're now into the

109kind of ignite mode um and you can expect to not just see more action out of the district data team but the long-term goal is and by longterm I mean next year we'd like to see those District data teams now give rise to building based data teams um and cultivate these sort of regular processes where data is not this sort of unknown concept but something that we are using all of the time the comprehensive uh mental health system you heard a pretty robust recap from director avat last meeting um these in iives are still alive and well Erica's Lighthouse the Nan project car Solis and and they're not all um they're not all contracted out Services the development of our clinical teams the oversight of those clinical teams and the alignment of those clinical teams

110through the student service department has been truly remarkable to watch as someone who previously was PPS and oversaw this department this is in my opinion one of the biggest areas of growth over the last several years um the PBIS Academy work um has continued through through all buildings pretty much um PBIS is at positive behavioral um intervention and support system I think I may have just boted that to be honest with you but what it's really looking at is as a building how are we managing student Behavior what messages are we sending to students about expectations and how do we address that as a community rather than singling out a particular student on a given day and so those pbism already have teams so we're we're further into the implementation we're a little further behind

111at the nickels only because the Nickels started after the elementary levels but the work is alive and well you can see it in things like um the ticket system at mkg um I know the Berkland has the school you know there's all sorts of school store incentive programs the lunch Legends at at um the Middle School these are all mechanisms of PBIS so when you're hearing that it's not just kind of a a catchy idea there's a science actually behind that um you heard tonight from director Hy about the new IEP model implementation and outgo and ongoing Outreach you know for years in this District I've heard families come in and be very confused by the special ed process in general but specifically that document and so kudos to the state for like really putting

112this together and reforming I'll be curious to hear parent feedback about if they think it's more accessible and usable um but the special ed Department really has put in a true concerted effort to break down those walls and talk with families about that so that they can better understand the process and build that collaboration um professional development as I mentioned before the inclusive and co- te practices is really connected to specially designed instruction um director Healey who's way too modest was also trained by a district consultant years ago on exactly these practices so we have in-house an expert in these areas so I included those slides in the evidence packet so you could see some of of what the training was um there's a few pieces still ongoing that I italicized in the bottom I'm

113sorry that it's run into the text the school committee presentations are almost complete part of the goal was to make key actions was to hear from all parties um Dr Martis will be presenting at the very next meeting so the 27th um and then those will be complete and then we do need time for final data analysis there's some data analysis in your packet but because we are in March there's just there's just more school year to go so I anticipate having that for you in June as well goal three is my professional practice goal and my completion of the third year of the new superintendent induction program this looks at strengthening skills and collaboration Unity of um District leadership team instructional leadership and Alignment alignment of this District Vision um and professional culture through

114the use of the consultancy protocol that's really been the focus of EP this year every session is an opportunity to practice the consultancy protocol so the key actions for me have been I've attended all the sessions that were scheduled I've completed all the assignments I've um presented problems and I've been a member whether you're presenting the problem or not you have an active role in this exercise there's no way to really passively participate um I've consulted with my coach regularly and then I also drafted an kind of applicability of the consultancy protocol one of the big questions out of the committee was hey what are you going to do with that and so I gave you the schedules of uh the district leadership team and the executive committee and my assessment of how I see

115this sorry I think that was me that was I stepped on some um just the applicability of this model how might how might we approach using this and I can tell you from working with this team now for a number of years they learn best from one another they really do and when you give them situations actually we just came from a professional development this evening where the team was unpacking hypotheticals not only is it good as a brain activator but it gets them thinking on their feet so I'm excited for the consultancy protocol and also the uh collegiality that it builds that's something I've seen in the nset program uh since the beginning so I'm excited to bring it here and I think the team's going to do very very well with it um

116the only two pieces that are not completed yet you requested an end of your reflection about this year and then an end of program I'm not quite done I think I have one more session but neither way I wanted to not just finish those sessions but bring that to you in June once I've had time to reflect yeah exactly I mean I could I didn't want to rush through that and I didn't want to um miss the opportunity to really think about the program as a whole because I I do think it's been a very powerful program um so I will have that for you at my job we call that an in progress goal it is an inog schedu to be met not able to be completed at this date because it needs another

117dat exactly exactly uh and then the last goal is the you know engagement with staff families caregivers to share information regarding developmental guidelines for students development of healthy relationships mental health practices technology and social media these are a whole host of ideas um invitation of Engagement efforts with the school district and assistance in understanding special education so we humbly have created the one Middleboro learning together project and Sam if you just want to pull that up for a minute I just want to show you where it is on the website I think it's helpful for those of you following along at home and if you scroll down just the introduction you don't have to play that and then if you keep going you're going to see all the resources and segments that have been recorded

118and available sometimes these segments are paper and they go home in the Tuesday folders sometimes they're posted online sometimes it's a webinar I gave you the whole thank you when you when you get a minute you can go back I gave you the whole schedule of what one Middleboro learning together is but it is in its infancy it is brand new and I can tell you for sure um I we started this with a whole host of ideas and I have content for probably another two years so I didn't get through the concepts that we initially laid through laid out and I'm glad I didn't because I also need a little more time to collect the metrics I'm really interested to see what the engagement is um I want to see if I can tap

119into what remember the the premise of this concept was to meet families where they're at so if it's more convenient to have this on in the car while you're driving to events or have it on while you're cooking dinner at home great but if you're not accessing it at all then we've got to go back to the drawing board and say is this is this really what we should do um I I gave you all sorts of evidence about how we talked about this how we developed it how I launched it at convocation actually um uh Su you were to actually see that um so you have that but in including an invitation for for Content so I have people that are ready kind of willing and able but I really do think looking at

120the the the usability now becomes important um I and I just I think it's Sean and I were actually talking about this earlier today how are we going to gauge you know the clicks and you know how many times are people accessing it I what I'm also going to do is send out a survey I I know surveys are not always you know super helpful but I have to ask I have to know if people are finding this helpful are they using it and if they aren't hey is there another medium that would be helpful for you or is there a preferred way to engage um I do want to thank all the content creators the other part of one middleb is that I wanted as many voices as possible I didn't want the same

121one I didn't want to be on it and two I didn't want the same voices to be throughout I wanted people to be hearing information from their teachers and people that they know and have known for a long period of time um and that's really the update on the goals um I anticipate coming back to you in June with more information and like I said any questions that you have um with the package just let me know any comments or questions no I on maybe and I'll contact you as I we go through the information you sent but not at this point sure so just a a reminder for the next steps I put a reminder in that I will send out to everybody the um link to the evaluation form um and I will

122send a link to um MEC has some tips for for filling out just a reminder um the first couple pages are designed as summary pages to be completed after you have done the bulk of the evaluation um on like Pages three and moving on um and as discussed at the last meeting um and I'll put it in the email just asking for everybody to have those back by Thursday April 3rd so that they can all be back um and I can start the um compiling process into the uh single evaluation um and then we'll have a a subcommittee meeting at that point um for the evaluation before we bring it back in public session just Miss cens yeah I just had a question about the the middleb the one middleb we're learning together um I

123find it just to be like why is it on the web page and not like on a social media page like um I don't know that I go looking to the web page for information but when you post things on your social media page it comes up and alerts why is the choice to put it on the web page where somebody has to stop take time go to the page not know if there's new content like why to choose that way and not like a social media page where you know you're just like oh look there's something new and interesting yeah thank you for that question it went in the it's on the newsletter every single week for every single building so I didn't want people to have to dig for it at all so

124every week uh the principal send home um a weekly news read the newsletter um but it's not going to so I'm already reading a whole lot of content right so I I read Paul's newsletter every week I there's a lot of information that's like redundant it's there every week and the redundancy I'm scrolling right past so I'm saying as a user I would be more likely to click on something if it was on your social media page versus in in in the newsletter or um on a web on a web page and I think then you can actually gauge how many people are engaging with that content and whether that content is useful or not and some of it you may find like this was a really useful like tons of people clicked on it

125and you got lots of feedback cuz people are actually going to give you feedback like commentary and sometimes you may say like yeah I guess that what's kind of flat like nobody engaged with it I just don't understand how this like this is just more work like this is another thing I have to do to go look and hunt and dig even if it's in the newsletter yeah I just thought since you already get it it would be one less step because then you have to go to social media to click on it versus something that's people are already on social media they're already doing that so so that's I just don't understand what the rationale was to bury it in um either the web page or a newsletter versus something that people are already

126really looking at you get the metrics you get the feedback you understand what what ones are you know resonating with people and what ones aren't resonating with people um same thing with these even these meetings they went from being on Facebook and people really access them and people could see them much quicker versus really going to the web page and trying to find it now it seems almost buried um so that was something that happened for years where it was just on Facebook um and it just you almost got you could get a push notification if you wanted so I don't any other comments questions thank you very much okay and so just I'll Advance one more slide uh but it's really the policy Committee of date um just just asked so that and Sam

127if you don't mind clicking in yeah there was a topic seven first I think uh to just mention the annual Town election yep annual Town elections are coming up uh first Saturday in April it's always the first Saturday in April just so everybody understands that when they say I didn't know the elections were coming it's always the first Saturday in April and this this April is April 5th so please get out and vote subcommittee updates all right Jess so uh this is this is me um so thank you to uh Zeke and sue for uh joining the subcommittee update uh Bridget thanks for joining one of our meetings as well um and sharing your feedback uh so as a committee we've put together three documents today two our policy one is a guideline based on

128a policy um so the first one is policy bdb which is for the school committee officers uh so the goal with this update was uh when we had the unfortunate cancellation of uh some meetings due to lack of Quorum there were some questions that arose about the items that we approve at school committee meetings and were they at risk because of meetings getting cancelled um and so the first uh that brought a about the review of of many of these policies so this policy is specifically looking at um adding basically a time sensitive Clause so you can see at the top um if you notice something that we have um highlighted the blue Highlight just shows we made a revision to be more in line with uh masc which is the Massachusetts Association of school

129committees in this instance not student councils because it's the same pneumonic um policy guidance um and then um striketh through would be the current language that we were removing and then any yellow highlight are some additions that we as a subcommittee wish to make so everything in the beginning is pretty much the same um going through and just talking about the role of the chair um and it's just kind of the standard responsibilities when you get down to the second page you'll see the big big section that we added um and I'm going to go ahead and not read it from there because my eyes do not want to make that visible to my yellow highlight sorry if it doesn't work too well for all of you either um but we are putting in in

130the event a posted school committee meeting is cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances such as a lack of Quorum or weather event the chair is authorized to act on time sensitive routine items included but not limited to school trips expecting travel to occur um between 12:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m listed on the cancelled meetings posted agenda that is specifically there because those are trips that the school committee has to approve because they are late night travel time sensitive items are those listed to occur prior to the next scheduled school committee meeting that requires school Committee Action the chair is also authorized to act on requests not yet posted on an agenda provided the requests are submitted and scheduled to occur between school committee meetings but only when meetings occur more than three weeks apart that is

131there because occasionally we have that meeting that will fall on Thanksgiving and we're not going to have a meeting more than four weeks apart and something comes up that's a great opportunity for students that we didn't want to risk students missing out on because it required approval chair action is only permitted if a time-sensitive item has already been approved by the applicable building principle and with the support of the superintendent um and then if you go down to the duties of the vice chair we just clarified that the vice chair can um is authorized to carry out the duties of the chair in the absence of the chair which is already there we just made it a little clearer um and then because we were at it um and I did check with our wonderful

132clerk to make sure uh she was on board with this um we just had outdated language referring to the office as a secretary and not a clerk and so we just updated this um clarifying that uh the additional role will be the clerk and they'll basically have to do everything that the law says they have to do um and in addition just noting uh we were uh kept language that if the clerk is unable to perform uh the clerk's duties the committee May appoint a temporary clerk until the appointed clerk is able to resume or a new clerk is duly appointed just in case we need a substitute um so the rest of this would just be um marking it as updated um so this is considered the first read There is uh the need

133to bring this back two times before we vote on it um so this is your introduction if you have any immediate questions please feel free to ask if not we'll bring it back up on the next agenda for continued discussion all right the next policy is policy JJ which is student fundraising activities um so with this one um again we us this because of the the same question of we don't want to risk a fundraiser not being approved and we also wanted to make sure it was very clear who needs to approve what um in the instance of student fundraising activities we found that the current posted Middleboro policy was very outdated um it did not match the language in the model policy that masc maintains and so we looked at this policy and said

134you know it would be really nice if we in general updated to match the masc policy but in so doing we found that there were a couple things that could be clarified a little bit better so this is more personalized to um the needs we felt of our district so in terms of the beginning uh the first paragraph basically just talks about you got to do fundraising we don't want the students to be exploited everybody has different resources and we don't want any fundraisers to highlight those different resources we do support students being involved this is the second paragraph in the sale of tickets um and other school events where sales are needed uh School Publications which require the sale of advertising to sustains themselves and serve the student body and the community it's okay

135if students are involved in the sales of that advertising uh charitable fundraising activities where funds are raised to support a service organization or program are encouraged provided such proposals are submitted to and approved by both the building principal and the superintendent so taking the school committee if a group at a school wants to raise money for the Special Olympics for the American Heart Association as long as the principal and the superintendent approve which trust you and we uh encourage our students to do such types of charitable activities student fundraising activities that utilize a third-party organization such as sale of cookie dough or wrapping paper shall be submitted to both the building principal and superintendent for approval so again local level just making sure that um the the company that's being worked with is reputable and

136all of that um other fundraising activities that involve students including PTA fundrais ERS shall be submitted to both the building principal and superintendent for approval so basically we out of the process you do not need to come to the school committee for fundraising processes um we would love to hear about them we would love to uh commend the the students for all that they're doing um but in general the current expectation is that school committees do not need to approve fundraisers and so we are hoping to expedite the process make it easier for these activities to occur um the rest of the policy doesn't change I learned that activities such as canning is not what in my head is canning you're not like putting fruit in a jar it's walking around asking for money um

137outside of the grocery store and daughter doll sales are strongly discouraged and that um you cannot collect um no money collection can be held in the schools without specific consent from the superintendent so anything like the um wear jeans donate a dollar fundraiser kind of thing it's already in there that that kind of thing would um go through the superintendent but that kind of thing if the money is coming in at the school you want to make sure that's there yep and then just to note there's crafts reference at the bottom uh policy kha which is public solicitations in the school that one is queued up for review in the next bucket did you ever figure out the booster question like because I didn't see it reflected we were talking about like Massa like the

138sports boosters where their students are involved in in raising money for these booster organizations who within the school approves there so if the students are involved in the activity it should still come through the principal and the superintendent if it's the boosters raising the money themselves through an event like the um like they sell the the golf event and that kind of thing or when they're at the football game and they're selling gear and it's all being done by members of the boosters that doesn't need uh principal or um superintendent approval because it's not a student doing the fundraising all right so then the booster if it's that's what we had talked about the student participation in the booster fundraising would have to go like where their like uh PTA fundraiser section is oh okay

139will that be updated to say I would be happy to update that I'll double check with Ryan to make sure there's no concerns but yeah for the second read there a new booster you said too you were talking about earlier tonight um so there's now the um the Athletics boosters and there's the perform middleb performing Performing Arts boosters that's nice okay yeah right I'd be happy to clarify that thank you Jess just a quick question so to Bridget's um question so if the adults are doing the fundraising it doesn't have to be submitted correct so if like a PTA held like a comedy night nothing has to come through correct okay for to do the fundraiser there's other processes for the process of the money coming in right and we're getting to those in the

140next round of reviews but to hold the fundraiser if you want to hold the fundraiser as long as you're not asking students to sell the tickets for the parents to show up and it's all coming adult to adult then you do not need approval to do so okay thank you can can I just wa in I would just say um if it it Ashley if it involves any space you would still reach out like say the PT wanted to use the a cafeteria you would do the space but at that point you know that's as as simple as organizing and renting that space But beyond that yeah I was talking more like outside sure like if you met somewhere yeah like the the the the 5K that I think got organized last year through prep

141Farm if that's completely done by the PTA and there's a sign up but the students aren't responsible for um soliciting funds then it should be fine all right right we'll bring it back up again if you come up with any other conditions feel free to message me so that I can research them before we have the second read okay um so the the last item that we have for today is the communication guidelines for families so this is not a policy but there is a policy which is policy ke which is um uh public complaints um so that is a official policy that's there but it's written in you know policy language and it's kind of abrupt and doesn't have all of the details necessarily specific to our district um so this is based on

142uh the document that um Carolyn and Shan put together a number of years a couple years ago with um just a guideline for how Middleboro will communicate with families and through what methodology um and then also based on some information I learned about through uh meeting some other school committee members at the conference um so this is a guideline for uh families to communicate with Middleboro Public Schools um so it is based on existing policy as well that no member will be denied the right to bring their complaints to the school committee but we do believe that complaints are handled best and resolved as close to the origin as possible and that we want to give the staff in our district the opportunity consider the issues and attempt to resolve the problem we're not ready

143to do the read yet right correct this this is one that's still in process this is the this is not it doesn't need an official read because it's not a policy this is bringing it forward for everybody to begin to review and to discuss and we can bring it again at another meeting but if we don't want to vote on it today yeah it was my understanding at the end of that meeting that this was one we were still working on and that we would uh finish that and then bring it forward we did have a couple things that we were still discussing um but uh since there was no response to the questions I thought it was best to bring it forward and to start the process of everybody getting involved and then we

144can continue to make tweaks I would prefer that we don't noted um it is already shared so everybody can continue to read it um but the the gist of this is that there are requests for uh just remembering that patience is appreciated assuming positive intentions and understanding confidentiality requirements and then it just goes through to help guide people of if a concern is X contact why so when to go to a teacher when to go to a school counselor when to go to the school principal or assistant principal when to go to the the district Department staff directly so if you have a question about uh student services you're going to go to student services department and have them help guide you through the process and then um items to connect with the superintendent as

145well as the school committee at the end there's information for how to find um the staff directory uh the district Department listing as well as the listing for the school committee members as well as a link to the policy that this is based on um and then um in addition towards the beginning um there's information that references student handbooks and to help with that it's right there that link um Sean was kind enough to make a centralized page where all the student handbooks are listed so rather than having to go to each building to find their handbooks all the handbooks are now centralized in one location so that you can get to them and and find the handbooks all at the same time so based on uh Sue's preference um I think we'll withhold any

146additional discussion at this time from this but it's here uh for your review and feel free to share any comments you have with me and then I will bring those back to the subcommittee um in terms of next goals um as I mentioned there's the the cross references um one of the uh policies that we are reviewing currently is about uh trip tips trips and travel um there is a lot that is state law that we need to make sure we follow in terms of trips um and then late night which is at 2:00 a. to 6:00 a.m. and overnight um but in reviewing the law that I could find it's very specific to the window of travel and I couldn't find anything that differentiated instate versus out of state but once we get everything

147written up we'll definitely have legal review um but I'm looking to make it much more clear when a trip requires what level of approval because even now if the trip is during the school SCH day and it will not require late night travel it does not require approval of the school committee um it only requires approval of the school committee if there will be travel during that 2 12 a.m. to 6:00 a.m. window or it is going to require an overnight stay and that applies to domestic and international pretty much equitably um but I found some good guidance about hey maybe if it's the same trip we do every year we don't have to approve it again and again um we only have to approve it if there's going to be substantial changes so I've

148put that information together and we'll be discussing um and just kind of clarifying the types of trips and travel and when it needs approval by the school committee versus when it can just be approved between the principal and the superintendent so more on that and then um there were requests for um review the teachers requested a clarification and review of our policies related to gifts donations and crowd sourcing um so those actually tie into some of these anyway so you follow the cross reference Maze and uh so that is in the the the cue for up next review as well all right any questions about the policies themselves I have a comment yes not withstanding my interrupting you uh I really want to commend the work that Jess has done on this her research her

149attention to the detail um and keep pushing all of this work forward really uh represents a lot of work and and good work so I want to commend you for that thank you you're welcome I absolutely will second that uh for you Jess for you Sue and Zeke as well I know you guys have spent a lot of time on the policy the budget and the negotiation subcommittees and uh it's absolutely absolutely appreciated thank you very much all three of you um all right with that I think Bridget has a question yeah sorry I just did I want to thank you guys for um I did attend the policy subcommittee I look forward to the next one it was it was a good working group um it was a very productive working group you stay

150on task and you do a lot of research Ione me like I don't know like that's a lot of digging down into a lot of other stuff to do a lot of that um it's tedious so but it was a good working group and I look forward to the next and we haven't set the date for the next session yet because we are on the negotiations too and we've got a lot of those meetings that uh are very important so just trying to figure out how to get all those meetings scheduled and then we'll look at what's left for if you don't mind emailing me I will look forward to that um if I I will attempt to remember but the other thing Bridget is I can um show you on the if people don't

151know I don't on the Middleboro Town web page their new agenda Center when you go to their agenda Center there's a little envelope icon on the right hand side that says notify me if you go into there you can set it up so when the town posts an agenda to any committee that you are interested in you will get an automatic email notifying you that an agenda was posted for that group it's fantastic I've set it up for a bunch of things so that way you get that kind of push notification that you were mentioning earlier that there's something coming up so it's a backup but we'll try to keep you in the loop as well I'll try to do that I'll YK I'm not very I showed I I told Sue and Sue likes

152it come on so that is uh where we're at now and again we'll come back next meeting with the second read of the two policies and go from there thank you all right uh for the I would entertain a motion to approve the consent agenda as presented so moved second a motion a second to approve the consent agenda as presented I'll go through it real quick we have a fundraiser for the for the mech PTA Spirit Weare store uh we have a school committee meeting minutes of February 1 February 13th uh 2025 and February 27th 2025 uh donation from Vision Inc DBA Okana Studio to hbb donation from the target corpor Corporation donation from the central United Methodist Church women to the Family Resource C Center and a donation of prom dresses to redistribute to

153Middleboro high school students um do I have a motion a second all in favor I oppose passes unanimously I a motion to Allen before you do can I just um kind of tried to I tried to get that by quick well bump up the prom um the prom dress donations so um if anybody has a um a dress hanging out in a closet that you think would be um a wonderful opportunity for someone else to wear um Kaye gadell in um the pupul and Personnel Services office is leading the efforts to do that um so I'm sure you could contact Kevin avat as well so if anyone happens to have something hanging out in a closet that nobody's going to wear again please do consider uh the donation of any of your past prom dresses

154I don't think mine from Junior Prom is usable anymore but I'll check it out I'll see everything old is fashionable again right it might be all coming back um with that Iain a motions with joh so moved second I have a motion a second any comments or questions all in favor I opposed passes unanimously thank you very much have a good night