9/9/25 School Committee Meeting

001puzzle to solve. >> Just a puzzle to solve. >> Okay, everybody. I don't have a hammer. >> I'm glad about that. >> We might need it. >> I'm going to be seated. >> I'm scared. You might need to >> I'd like to call this meeting of September 9th to lean up a little bit >> of the public school meeting to order. If we could all stand for the pledge of >> allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. All right. >> Thank you. Okay. If we could begin the meeting with our mission statement, Margaret. >> Okay. Um mission. The found public schools create world class student learning experiences. Our clip clippers are empowered to

002pursue their goals with curiosity, integrity, and resilience. Clippers are creative, inquisitive, and engaged learners who participate in their community as socially responsible citizens. Clippers effectively communicate and solve problems that impact the world around them. Okay. Thank you, Margaret. Okay. Um, I would like to read the recording statement. This meeting of the FMA school committee is being recorded in accordance with Massachusetts open meeting law. Anyone who wishes to make an audio or video recording of this meeting must first notify the chair. Please raise your hand and make your presence known. If you intend to record the meeting. Okay. Thank you. All right. So now we will move on to public comment. Um I would just like to make a statement about public comment before we started tonight. This summer we spent a lot of time um

003looking at other schools in the district, working with our MASC govern um governing advisory body and um got some suggestions on how to streamline the meetings and make things um as equitable as we can. So we have um purchased a clock that is behind you. We put it there so that um we can be aware and the public can be aware. they may not be able to see it if it were somewhere, you know, in this area. So, we're trying to emphasize equity and whenever the 20 minutes is up or the 20 the two minutes is up, I will say to you, please finish your sentence. Um, and we're trying to make it so that everybody has that exact two minutes because people have insinuated or stated before that some people get longer than others

004and blah blah blah. So anyway, it's our attempt to be equitable to everybody. We always welcome you. In addition to the new clock, we also have a dropbox that is you may have seen on the table outside. If you wrote a statement and you don't feel like you'd like to read it in public, you can put it in the dropbox. We just ask if you do to include your email so we can get back to you. It will have the same process as if you emailed us. always we encourage emails because it gives us time to reflect on what you have said before our meeting. So anyway, we hope you'll um find this equitable and um doable. So we will now begin with public comment. What we're going to do is um just read down

005the list of people who signed up. So um the first person who on the list is Megan Tony. So, will you come up please and some kind of regulations now? You should say your street address too, please. >> Thank you for this. I appreciate it a lot. >> Um, I'm Megan Zodily and my street address is 812 Carriage Shop Road. I'd like to ask you to reflect on the values we uphold as a district and whether our current approach to uniforms at Lawrence School truly aligns with them. As educators and leaders, we encourage our students to be true to themselves, to self- advocate, and to feel comfortable and safe as they discover who they are within the Clipper community. Yet, by limiting their clothing choices, we are sending a conflicting message. Ask yourself why. As

006a district, we would choose to go against the recommendations of the ACLU and settled case law in Massachusetts, which clearly state that uniform policies such as the one at Lawrence, open the door to subjectivity, discrimination, and financial burdens for low-income families, as well as violate freedom of expression. Ask yourself why. During the years when we most want children focused on learning, we're encouraging to them to wear clothing that is restrictive rather than relaxed. Why is it that we allow freedom of choice K through 4, 5 through 6, 9 through 12, but not 7 and 8? Why should these two years of secondary school stand apart from the rest of a student's educational journey? And yes, Lawrence is a secondary school according to Desessie. I urge you to consider whether enforcing this uniform policy places us

007on the right side of this decision. Let us be consistent in our values, fair in our practices, and supportive of every student's individuality. There have been multiple requests from many parents and school committee members on this committee asking for a direct review and vote specifically and only of the Lawrence school uniform. and once again asking for this and for the removal of the Lawrence school uniform and for consistency throughout our district to allow all of our students their right to choose their own clothing. Your statement, we are listening, is wonderful to see in writing. I wish that it could really start happening in practice. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Sorry. >> Working on it. It's my first night. Everyone, please go with me. >> I didn't get mics. Thank you. Perfect. All right, we're

008going to have a >> Okay, the next person um who would like to speak is Jen McCarthy. Hello, my name is Jennifer McCarthy. I live at 58 Marav Vista A Extension. Hello everybody. I'm uh happy to see you all and I do want to talk about um I want to ask that we hear from the SRO's about the eighth grade going in to the high school. I know that a presentation is coming, but I just want to make note that in May at the building needs, Dr. Taylor stressed the importance of addressing community concerns and having a concrete plan on how the administration is going to keep the students safe. When discussing having the eighth grade in the high school, it is worth noting that a representative. So, the SRO that spoke was against this

009um exposing eighth graders to high school problems. So, I am in favor of the eighth grade going in, but I want to hear it all. I want to hear the pros. I want to hear the cons. I want to hear what an SRO with experience has to say about this. Um, if the district is serious about improving communication and transparency, it's important that parents are informed about their discussions about when this will take place and that Sorry, my husband sent me some talking points. Um, I just I think that it's important to hear all of this. it wasn't recorded at the building needs and it's a meeting that I wish I had attended to hear to hear all the things that were talked about. So, I just want to put it out there that I

010want to hear all of it and um the good and the bad and then make a decision and um and I also just want to put a little plug in for Mors Pond. I want to make sure that, you know, we're taking care of that school as a whole. I have two daughters in Morse Pond and they really like it and uh and things seem to be going really well for them. So, thank you. >> Thank you. Wow. Under the two minute mark. >> Okay. Thank you very much. That completes our list of signatures for wanting public comment. So, the next item on the agenda will be the reading of the Wampaog land acknowledgement. So if you would public schools acknowledges that we are gathering on the unseated ancestral land of the Wampaog nation. We

011recognize and respect the Wanog people including those of Sakanesset, Wakoy, Cypoiset, Tatakutet and Chapoy as original stewards of what is now known as the town of Falmouth and honor their enduring relationship with this land. This land acknowledgement is an intentional act to counter the eraser of indigenous people and to demonstrate respect for their sovereign rights. We are committed to educating ourselves and our students about the long-standing history of the Wampaog people in alignment with the core values of the found public schools. We pledge to build an ongoing partnership with the Wampaog nation. >> Thank you, Sue. Okay. And the next item on our agenda is an update from our superintendent. So Lori, take it away. >> Thank you, Terry. All right, so um first I'm going to do an update on our new employees um

012that have been hired as of um 92. So I'm going to pass this around um so you can see all new employees. Um none of our new positions um but they are um new employees um to the district. So there's a number here. Um you know, we have an early u childhood special education teacher. um a grade one teacher and a music music teacher and adjustment counselor at East Felma. At high school, we have a food service um worker, secretary, special education onetoone uh aid uh and a teaching assistant. At Lawrence, we have a new social studies teacher, special education onetoone uh aid. At uh Mullen Hall, we have our new principal. Um at uh Mullen uh Morse Pond we have uh two new teaching assistants at uh North Fmouth we have special education 1:1

013and a special education teach teacher and tip at teach ticket uh we have a grade two uh teacher grade three teacher librarian DLCS teacher at principal um I'll talk more about that in a little bit uh special education one to one aid special education uh two special education one um at our um coalition for children. We have a new administrative assistant uh bookkeeper and um sorry, we also have a building assistant at TT. Um that's more have been added on here. Uh Lawrence, we have a special education one to one aid, Morris Pond, another teaching assistant and custodian. And then we have four new coaches this year as well. So our head football coach, our assistant football coach, head uh girls hockey coach, and the technical director for the band. Um, so and this as

014uh as of um uh September 5th. So we still have um a couple positions still open that we're we'll be hiring for, but I'll give you that update um at another time. So announcing um some new administrators as you know, Steven Capulkus, our new principal of Ticket Elementary. We have Shannon Carlson, Ticket of um Men Hall. There's Shannon. Uh Rose Moran is the principal of East Falmouth and she has two um uh new administrators. Uh Andrew Sullivan uh is the uh AP SIBA for K to 4. Um you may know Andrew, you've seen him many times because he was the teaching and learning specialist uh in the teaching and learning office uh which that position is still open and we are looking um for someone. We also have Crystal Andrews that is the preschool siba.

015She was a preschool teacher and now she's the preschool uh SA for East. At Lawrence School, uh we have a new assistant principal, Stacy Wilman, and we have a new department head for science, uh Heather Goodman. All right. Um convocation, we had great uh energy. Um one of the things that we said that we like to listen to what uh staff said, they said they wanted they like opening up each school year, coming together and having some fun. Um the word on the street is that we were able to accomplish that again this year. It's getting tougher each year to do that, we'll say, but we we're trying. We're out there trying to do um our best to that, you know, kick off the year. We had a number of our own staff members that

016actually um showed their talent on stage, which was awesome. They were really good. Um, so, uh, the priorities for the year was also talked about, but I'm not going to talk about them right now because in just a few minutes we're going to hear from our awesome admin, uh, team when we present this year's goals. So, we'll hold off on the the priorities uh, for that. Um, and then we did something new this year. We had heard from our teachers that we're not necessarily um, there's a lot of new new things for new teachers, right? new teacher um recognition, you get your professional teaching status, but when we get into the upper years, we're not necessarily recognized. So, this year, we did something a little different and we had uh come up with the 25-year

017clipper uh and we uh did presentation. So, after convocation, um everyone in the district was presented with their 25-year clipper. Um and then we did everyone 25 years and up. So, we literally had 71 uh gifts that we gave out um for 25 years and plus, which I think is pretty exciting that we had 71 that we gave out. Um I'm extending that um or including uh either an employee um that uh so employees obviously were current employees, school committee members that may be 25 or plus or combination of an employee and school committee member. So Terry and please show your little applause to you. >> So we we went with this. We thought we'd give a lot of t-shirts out um through the year, but we went with that because that's something that our

018teachers can, you know, or all of our staff can set on there. Um, this was this was for all staff. They could sit on their desk and they could always rewind and people could walk by and they could they could do that. So, >> so thank you very much. >> Thank you. >> It's a lot of years of the business. >> So, here's my ask for the rest of you. Please stay. So, I got mud saved you. So, please stay and uh and we'll give out 25 years. >> All right. Um, so next I want to uh do a couple recognitions. Um, first Sandy Capsson Bellis uh was nominated and accepted on the um executive board of the Massachusetts Administrators of um for special education. >> So executive board members um serve for two years

019and so she will serve until um July of 2027. Uh she is a southeast representative. Um there are two from each region of Massachusetts. Um the board is actually leading statewide nonprofit association uh dedicated to advocating, supporting and educating on all matters pertaining to special education administrators. Their mission is to empower those responsible for supporting students with disabilities across the continuum of services and programs ensuring um that school districts fulfill their mandate to provide a free appropriate um public education to our Massachusetts students with disabilities. It is an honor to have the position and I am so glad they recognize and see in Sandy what we do. So, thank you. >> Congratulations. >> I'm looking forward to it. >> Um also I want to recognize um Henry St. Julian, he was accepted into uh DESIS

020influence 100. Uh the goal of influence 100 is to increase the racial and ethnic uh diversity of superintendents in Massachusetts to create more culturally responsive districts and leaders across the Commonwealth and to promote better outcomes uh for students. So again, that is an invite only. Um and so one of the commitments is he gets to shadow me all day long uh one day a month and uh which will be fun. And then a school committee and myself um uh attend u four meetings throughout the year quarterly uh and Margaret uh as the adviser uh to our DEIB group and that uh has accepted the the position to uh serve uh the school committee in that role. Thank you. [Applause] >> All right. So, um some of you have been asking and I said that I

021will provide uh updates on the federal policies and fundings and funding. And so, um here's my my first of many u updates that I will be given. Um first, there's two ways the new uh federal bill could impact our districts. Um, one is the voucher program that they're talking about that would has a start date of 2027. I will say it is run by the Treasury, not by DESIE. Um, so when you look at vouchers, I did a um a review of two states that have this in place. And in both states, um it tends to be um the people that are using the vouchers tend to be uh families that either are already um uh in private schools um that are taking advantage or um in in the in the uh state of Arizona

022that I looked at, it was more than 75% of vouchers went to students who were already enrolled in private uh schools. Uh and then another state um that there's um uh information on uh was in Oklahoma um similar to this. Um basically um 30% went to families making between 75 and 150,000. 17% went to families making 150 and 225,000. Roughly 20% went to families making over 225. The median household income is 60. And so again, it tends to go, you know, so here's just two states. There's not a lot of states that already have the voucher program. I'm just starting to take a look at it. Um, and we'll we'll see what happens when it, you know, if when it comes to Massachusetts, if it's accepted at the state level, it is um it is

023a choice by state whether um they they take that. So that has not been decided. Just wanted to give a little that could change some of our um landscape for um the district. The other is the the um cuts to Medicaid and SNAP. And even though it's too um early for us to know exactly how it'll affect uh student eligibility, um they are predicting 2 to three million kids will lose SNAP benefits. Um nearly 1 trillion in cuts are planned to Medicaid. So again, on the horizon, I'm paying attention to it and I'll give you updates um uh as as I find out about them. Um some funding updates. Um Massachusetts won their multi-state lawsuit against federal administration uh and uh the entire federal funds are expected to be released on October 3rd to Massachusetts.

024Um however, there is still discussion in the House um at the federal level to cut the education uh budget for the current year. I don't know how the two uh will work. um if the one happens um you know does the lawsuit win out will we still have cuts that's still up in the air and I know you're going to hear me say that a lot I just I'm going to follow things and give you updates as I know for the FY26 um budget u that affects our um 2627 school year so not this one that's what they're trying to settle now it is predicted um that uh it'll be a 66.7 billion budget which is a 7 billion ion dollar cut from our current um budget uh at 78.8 million. Uh so it could

025we could see an impact on next year's um budget. Uh the Senate bill, just to to give an update, the Senate bills uh level funding for most K to2 education programs with modest increases to title one and IDA. Um uh and they're asking to send the funds to the states and schools on time. This was really supported by bipartisan um uh so um that is um hopeful. Um and then we have the the House bill that is scaling back in in their proposal. They're scaling back on the future Title One and IDA investments and they're cutting off funding for um English learners. And as you know it, you know, the first would be whether um would be September 30th. It rarely ever gets settled that early. Um, so it'll probably be continuations. Um, it it'll

026be months before we we really know how the the House and the Senate actually um work that out. But um but that's where we are right now. Uh so uh the other uh uh piece at the federal level um is the recision of the uh 2015 dear colleague letter um regarding the um ELLL students. And the 2015 um letter basically uh was ensuring that English learners uh can participate meaningfully and equally in educational programs and services. Um the uh it was citing the Supreme Court in title uh six of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 along with Congress and Equal Education Opportunity Act. Um the recision is basically saying that um that it was unlawful and that we um no longer um will be providing language development for multilingual learners. um it's no longer our

027focus. Uh to um and to support this um or alongside of it uh the funding for title three is slated to be eliminated uh which are the funds that um used for the education of multilingual learners. uh in Massachusetts um there is a commitment that we will continue um practices uh as we have them now and certainly I am committing to you that we will continue to provide um instruction to multilingual learners uh in our district today was a very exciting day um for uh Paul and I. We uh and where's Tom and Tom Mr. Bushy. There's Mr. Bushy. We were um uh we were part of um the meeting along with the town m manager and the CFO of uh we met with the MSBA today. Today was our scheduled review meeting and tours.

028Uh so um the working meeting covered facilities, programs, enrollment. Um this was followed with a tour of Lawrence School and the Morris Pond School. Um, just as a reminder, um, we are on the, uh, MSBA timeline. Uh, so we don't really know anything yet. Um, the meeting went well, but that, you know, that doesn't necessarily mean that we're accepted in. So, we will be notified in December if we're accepted in the program. That's just a reminder that that's the uh, process. And then the next step after that um that they had reminded us today would be we would uh we would do a uh conduct a comprehensive study of the Lawrence school. Um this cannot be done in advance. Um even if you do one in advance uh we did a um we did a

029a small study that actually informed our a statement of interest but nothing that's con uh before you're accepted can be used. you have to have the study done afterwards. And so if um we're accepted in uh that would be our next pro process is to um go to the town um for funding for a comprehensive um study of the line school which includes facilities, programs, enrollment um options. You know, you have to look at a comprehensive view um of the school. And so, um, we will, uh, I will just keep, uh, regular updates, um, and let you know where we are, uh, as soon it'll probably be, uh, be in December before we hear any anything else at this point. So, >> thank you. >> Questions? >> Sure. >> Oh, yeah. I'm sorry. Anytime. You

030can always >> um in regards to if we get a positive reaction from M MSBA, will we be able to go to town meeting in May um to go forward with that money for the uh study? >> Yes, April. >> That would be April. >> Yeah. April meeting. >> April town. And then it would that have to be go to the ballot in May or just at the town meeting? >> It wouldn't go to the ballot. It would only be about 2 million. Okay. Just the initial uh funding. >> Okay. Thank you. >> All right. And then um also on the uh town warrant in November um you'll uh see a best use study for the Morris Pond. So the the town um has presented to the select board and to the finance committee uh

031for 150,000 to study the Mors Pond school uh for the best use for the for what the town may use the building for. So they are uh moving forward and so um we uh will have uh no more after the town meeting uh for that. Two found events um I want to talk about the 300 uh committee annual meeting uh and 40th anniversary celebration was in July. Um one of our own Carmela u Meski was um presented with the special places award and they don't give that out to um every year. um they only give it out when they actually find someone that's deserving. And um the work that they do together and our partnership um it was um tremendous just tremendous the nice things they said about Camela and how she's working for our

032students and that connection um with the 300 committee. So I want I just wanted to mention that also um they also talked about um the the the um potential new trails. They have been uh doing trail educational trails um you know at at almost all of our schools. Some schools aren't great connected. So you have to maybe walk down the street a little bit to get on a 300 committee um parcel of land so that they can they built the trails. Um but with the new parcel that they've purchased uh in north uh will be close to the school and they are talking about being able to do trails where the students can connect. Um and these are all educational. It's learning about the um environment uh whether you know it's the ground, flowers, trees,

033um you know uh wildlife uh in that. And so there's um it's great. They do the QR codes that the kids can you know get on. they actually have um actually the talking and reading both um about the educational piece. So, I just wanted to point that out. Um the other I wanted to mention was the farming fountain uh ribbon cutting event at the patch uh in August. Um it it's just absolutely beautiful. There were like over 200 people there. It was absolutely remarkable. Um they've done a great job. the Bmouth High School is just right walking distance. And so we've already uh started conversations about um how to connect that with um the food justice initiative and having students having more opportunities um actually on um those grounds. And then Carmela again is been

034in conversations um setting up field uh field trips for one of our grades. She's just reviewing the standards and trying to ensure which grade level will be able to um go to the patch as part of their field trip. So adding in something else as all of our um field trips um we uh look at the standards. There's pre-work in the classroom, there's the field trip, and then there's postwork in the classroom. So it is tied to the standards. It's tied to the work, but it's getting our students out into our living classrooms. So that's um great. Um speaking about um our awesome students um just want to talk about um three uh Fmouth High School students um just this afternoon were panelist um on at the we the people civic engagement for Cape Cod

035conference. Um so uh Liliana um Alietta uh was presenting reasons for student civic engagement. Remma uh Petroian uh sharing her own example of civic engagement and Katherine Ferranti uh addressing barriers uh students face in civic engagement. Um just another opportunity for our students that builds excellence and our clippers experience uh experience here was just uh their dynamic conversational styles public speaking uh when you're sitting on a panel with experts and then engaging with the audience. And so um great skills for our students to learn and um just another way um that we are providing that uh equity and excellence for our students. And my last update um is pretty exciting. Um the US and World Report high school rankings are out for the 2526 school year. I really want to congratulate our Clippers. Uh we

036are 76 in M Massachusetts um out of 352 high schools. We are second in Barnstable County um just behind NSET. Uh if you include charter schools um then we'd be in in third. Um, Sturgis um continues to hold that number one uh spot uh in charter schools um number four in the in the state um and but uh this year we we ranked the number two. I want to talk a little bit about um h how do we actually get that ranking right and so um we specifically excelled in the number of students who take AP courses and students who pass with a three plus in two different areas college readiness. So, it's the proportion of 12th grade students who took and passed at least one AP uh or IB exam and for us it's

037the AP. Um passing is worth three times more in their ranking than just taking course and we rank very high in the number of students that are are passing three or plus. Um it's also the breadth of the curriculum which is um the proportions of 12th grade students who took and passed AP uh in multiple areas. So more exams um are valued higher than fewer exams um up to a maximum of four and then we have quite a few students that actually take a number of AP courses. Uh and then of course they have to be passing those um AP testing. We also ranked extremely high in our reading proficiency and we ranked 56th in the state um in our aggregated scores on state assessments um compared with the US u news expectations given the

038proportions of students who are um in the categories of black, Hispanic and lowincome students um and we have 24% um in those categories and so um the score 56 is extremely high in the state. I just um >> go clippers, right? [Applause] >> All right. Thank you very much for listening to all those updates. Yes. >> Yes. Um >> go ahead. >> Um so getting back to our new hires. Um, so I I'm wondering how many of them are former Clippers. >> At least one principal. >> I can see a couple here actually. >> There are a few. >> I see Peter Cook. I see Stephen Kapulka. And I I'm sure it was just a quick accidental um overlook, but the high school girls varsity field hockey also has a new coach and she is

039also a great Curtis. Yes, Rachel Curtis. And I'm sorry they missed that when they they picked that one up. >> It's okay. >> Yeah, we have a couple. Lily Peterson. Uh um >> and um I'm just trying to see the ones that I might know, but yeah, we do have a a number here and I will we will look that up. >> And I um so I would love to know that number. And again, I and I also want to shout out to Felmouth High School Field Hockey who um is playing the Barnstable this evening. Although I know that the game is over. I don't know what the score was. >> Yeah. Okay. All right. So, let's go ahead. Um, first I just want to thank you for giving the um overview of the landscape

040of the federal um happenings and um that I think that's very helpful to me as a committee person and I think that it's important for us as as a committee and for the community to know that things that are happening I mean it's it has always been things that are happening in on the federal level impact us but particularly now. Um, and I also just want to thank you for reiterating the commitment of the district to English language learners despite this really catastrophic news um about cutting the funding. Um, I think that that's just devastating and um um but it's going to take the state and local districts in Massachusetts to um head things off and guarantee the rights of these children. So, thank you. >> Any other comments? Okay. I'd like to thank you

041for what I dubbed was and you liked the year of the Clipper. Um, by Clipper meaning bringing forth examples of Clippers success and exceeding. Um a few couple years ago we had a a field agent from MASC who told us you should say something in every meeting about the success of students because that's what you're supposed to be working towards. So and I forget the name of the high school teacher who um played um >> Sullivan >> and when one of his lines that he was if they win >> we win. So, uh, it's great to hear the success of all those students that you mentioned. Thanks. >> Okay. >> You're the clipper. We're going to have some every meeting. >> Yeah. >> It won't be hard. >> Nope. It will not be hard. >>

042Okay. So, we're actually two minutes. I don't want to jinx myself ahead of the agenda time. So, >> and we had a fast. Now we have something that we all look forward to every year is the district goals presentation >> by our >> famous or infamous. You picked the adjective. You sure you're okay being? >> Yeah. No, of course. Of course. [Laughter] We'll do our half circle here. Henry, >> I think the cow went to Henry's head. Look at him. >> so part of you were in a convocation. Part of the convocation is that we added a little glitter at Golden. So tonight we were um trying to show our little glitter tonight too a little bit. So um anyway, all all in the spirit of of what we've been doing. So tonight we present

043our continued commitment to excellence for every student. We are on a good path and we will stay the course. We have adopted a high quality math and ELA curriculum that aligns to standards and is designed to meet the needs of all students including our students with disabilities and our English language learners. Um the ELA program uh meets the standards of the science of reading. We have provided training uh for teachers and implemented protocols to ensure every student who needs additional tiers of support receive what they need in their targeted areas. We are meeting each student where they are and engaging them in meaningful learning. We are providing equity so all students can achieve at a high level. This year we will refine our practice and since oh I'm sorry that was okay. Here we go.

044Um and since we are focused on equity and excellence we are following our educators goal format this year with a student learning goal, a professional practice goal and a district bro grow growth goal. And now I will turn it over to my esteemed colleagues to provide you with the details of that work. Um, next up is remarkable Rebecca and Terrific Tom. Thank you very much. Nice to see everybody. Uh, like Dr. Dor said, uh, meeting the kids where they are is extremely important. And, uh, the instructional leaders in the district as well, uh, last year as well as over the course of the summer, uh, were engaging and, uh, really digging in and came up with some shared understandings here for, uh, the student learning goal. All students are general education students first. uh students

045learn that they feel they belong and see themselves in what they are learning. Multi-tered systems of supports is a system and process teachers use to meet the needs of all students. Student success is a shared responsibility in pursuit of excellence. Again, like Dr. Dur said, meet the kids where they are and provide them with the tools necessary to support them and the resources necessary to make sure uh we're recognizing and honoring every student every day. This work is not new though. You'll hear over the course of this presentation. Our colleagues believe that all found public school students can achieve excellence. And at this time I'm going to turn it over to Marshall. >> Excellent. Um so thank you. we have came to those common understandings, the shared understandings and it also then pushed us to

046talk and and think about some actions that may follow those understandings as we were in uh the process of developing this goal. So some of those shared um actions and um pieces that you'll see in our um work over the course of the year is we are going to continue to engage in our professional development with our new curricula that we have introduced but we also in a phase of monitoring. So making sure that we have that consistency and some of those other pieces. So as we're growing, we're continuing to, you know, keep that growth um growing with the pieces that we've already started. We're also, you know, just really making that commitment that it is a whole team effort. So that is the support through our general education teachers, our special education teachers, our

047specialists, our EL teachers. So it's a whole perspective of expertise coming to support the students. um in their growth. We're always working with our partnerships. We never want to lose sight of those partnerships. So, we continue to highlight that as an important action. So, continuing to nurture that partnership and as Tom was saying, you know, there is the MTSS or the multi-tered support system that we have uh developed our understanding of our shared understanding and now we need to advance that work and continue to push that forward. So to then kick off what our final goal is, I'm going to kick it over to the superb Sandy and Stephen. >> Thank you. I take this opportunity to say I'm really happy to be here. So I appreciate appreciate that. Um but our student learning goal

048that we worked on all over the summer and through this process is that all students deserve a safe, supportive, and inclusive learning environment to access high standards and achieve excellence. Through our coordinated system of support, we provide opportunities for learning in the three areas. Number one, academics. Number two, behavior. And number three, social and emotional learning. >> So, this is uh this is a continuation of the goals one and two that we were working on last year. So, I think a lot of these things seem familiar, but we're really looking at making sure that we're implementing consistent systems to identify the students who are at risk and thinking about those evidence-based interventions that we're putting into place, making sure that we're collecting the data, reviewing the data, and then making determinations, you know, about moving

049forward, but also making sure that these systems are implemented with fidelity across the district. So we'd like to introduce now the dynamic Dr. Alan Harris and the shining principal at Mall. [Music] >> Yes. Excuse me. Sandy and Stephen, could you move be then we can see we're trying to read the >> Now that I'm done. >> Thank you. >> We're trying to see the screen behind you. So thank you. We do want to see your love face, too. >> All right. Excellent. All right. Well, to start off with, we want to talk about our professional practice. Very happy to be here. Um, I'm very proud to be part of this team. And when we thought about our professional practice goal, we were thinking about those key understandings and number one, first and foremost, is that

050everyone has a voice. And when >> Thank you. >> Would you like me to Because you're the new principal, >> you get to try sitting down. >> I'll sit to the side so that you can still see the screen. Does that work for everybody? All right. Excellent. Thank you. All right. So, going back to that everybody has a voice because we want to make sure that our communication is not only consistent, but it's also accessible to all members of our staff, our community, our families. and we want to ensure that that communication um is accessible and shared. Uh so then we also want to build off of our practices and continue to expand them um with our feedback loops that we've established. Um, namely thinking about some examples of every Friday sending out information to

051our families from all of our schools so that they can know exactly what's going on. They have access to it and then they can provide that feedback to through that. And that at all of our events, we also have opportunities to seek feedback as well from those who participate in them. And that feedback can be shared in various different forms, QR codes, links. The point is is to make sure that that's a continuous loop of information and shared information with all of everybody. And then we recognize too that there is a need for uh an annual district survey so that we can gain even additional feedback and insight, analyze that, and make plans moving forward. So, I'm going to turn it over to Dr. Harris. so he can share a little bit more about that.

052>> Hello. >> Hi. >> One of the one of the great things about being part of this team in this district is the continuous learning that happens on a regular basis and as you know two years ago part of the equity audit was getting a community feedback and I think we learned from that and and the growth from that and appreciate Dr. Der's leadership in saying how do we make that happen then on a regular systemic and continuous basis. And so one of the big goals we have in our professional practice is to work on developing a task force that would develop a quality way to survey all of our partners in a in an annual meaningful way uh knowing how we reach them, how we get meaningful feedback, and then how the task force

053can then help take that feedback and help us learn what the community is telling us about how we reach our goals. So a a big objective this year is to work on that, have that in place and then a process in place as developed by the task force to use that on an ongoing basis. So we you know I think we've been in this practice but want to continue the plan do study act in a meaningful way that takes meaningful feedback from all of our partners, families, staff, and our and our students as well. And uh it's a I think it's a big step for us and and an important element of what we're doing this year. And with that, it's time to turn it over to Persevering Paul and Harmonious Henry. Okay, I do

054want to remain my coolness by changing my glasses. I hope it's okay. Okay, so um so in this part, it's really our why. Uh I think Fick Public Schools remains deeply uh committed to the ongoing mission to advancing equity and excellence by providing a world-class learning experience. We we have that in our mission state worldclass um learning experience. And so therefore this number two the why for this professional practice is very clear. We want to it's very important that we continue to continue the things that we did last year to improve our our communication practice. not only to continue but to expand. The goal is to move beyond temporary in uh initiatives but have it embedded effective and communication strategies that are sustainable year after year and that they uh they are practice that will

055strengthen our district and so this this is a lot Paul you want to take it to the next part >> just adding on to the uh the statements that Shannon and Allen and how many have have just gone through. But the uh the second half of this goal is to seek the feedback from staff, students, and families to gain a better understanding of the impact and effectiveness of our actions and determine areas for improvement. And again, this is providing multiple avenues where people can respond to staff letters that may be going out or to the uh to letes letters from the central office etc. and do it in a timely efficient way and that we can gather that feedback and analyze it ourselves. So with that I think of my >> radiant radiant uh rose

056and dapper >> Tim. All right. Tremendous. Tremendous. [Laughter] >> We're going to teach Henry about alliteration later. [Applause] >> All right. >> I guess we'll review alliteration later. Um, so you have been honored to be here. Thanks for having us at the committee. Um our district growth goal was one that we started discussing in the summer and it's a really exciting I think meeting of a lot of initiatives as they come together and um really speak to learning um shared understandings for this goal that we have. There will be a strong connection between academic learning and practical experiential learning. Um there's always a connection between what we're learning in the classroom and what's happening out in the wider community. And students can make a meaningful impact as they learn to take ownership for their actions

057and impact the world around them. So truly I think the vision for this goal is you know to connect life to learning and learning to your life. Um we want to guide all students with experiences that extend beyond the classroom um and lead to lifelong learning careers civic engagement and truly this forms I think the powerful core of what tier one instruction speaks to. Um and to give you some specific actions that we'll be taking around this goal like to turn it over to Rose. >> Thank you very much. >> Absolutely. >> Thank you for having me. Thank you for letting me be part of the team and I'm still here. >> I have a mug too, Terry. >> Some of the actions that um this goal um how we im implement this goal through

058actions is we have increased connections between our facility upgrades and classroom learning. We've aligned the district capital plan with sustainability planning. We have also aligned the districtwide sustainable dual sustainability planning with relevant local workforce opportunities for our students. We're creating internship opportunities to provide m meaningful learning in experiences in which students have voice in district projects and can readily apply their learning. We are hosting the 20 26 Capan Islands Big Blue Conference focused on the local blue economy. We're strengthening the Clipper Compost program with a webbased data dashboard and we're making use of student collected data across grades and subjects. And I can speak to the elementary level about the Clipper compost um programming. We're starting green teams. Two of our buildings have green teams with our students that will go around and collect the

059recycling, measure the compost, collect that data, and hoping then we're sharing it with the upgrades to analyze that in a meaningful way, real life data that relates to their learning. So, um, on and upward, and we'll spread the gold. Thank you. >> Oh, who am I? I'm introducing the lovely >> super. >> All right. So, um I think that uh as we look at our district growth goal to advance the work that we've already started in sustaining and expanding sustainability practices and ensuring our collective work is anchored and aligned to our comprehensive curriculum. This goal really gives us an opportunity as my colleagues have shared to cross all disciplines and to bring forward both the voice that we talked about in our second goal, our professional practice goal, but also meeting students where they are,

060building off of their interests and giving them choice. So whether it's through their civics projects that we uh spoke to earlier in um Dr. Drew mentioned opportunities that our students are engaged in today. Um the work that we're doing with Carmela, the opportunities that we've had under our recognition for Green Ribbon or um now that we've gone green, the opportunity to shift and go blue and really look at the coastal systems as we're building out internships and other opportunities. We just have a wide array of different experiences our students can take on that may fit their individual uh interests and choices um or may cross others, but they can find themselves in internships on our campuses and impacting our work and really understanding uh even more deeply what it means to to be a Clipper.

061And so with that, I would like to turn it back to the dynamically dedicated Dr. >> Dor. [Applause] But >> she was laughing a lot of times. >> Sonia was an English teacher. >> She has an alliteration button. >> I I hope that through the presentation you've seen the commitment. Um this is three years running. We're getting we keep refining. we keep going deeper and uh making more of a difference for our students and it is a commitment um you know not only from us but that commitment is filtering down and so that says a lot for the for the district. I think we're focused on the the right things. Our staff is telling us we're focused on the right things. So um we're going to keep moving forward but thank you um and uh

062thank you to all of you. >> Thank you. >> Okay. >> All right. While we're moving back, can I just, you know, we have talked about the clipper um uh the experience we'll continue to add. So, we kind of continue to learn about Sorry, thank you um about um what each of uh our uh letters and clipper means, right? And this is from kindergarten, preschool um clear through um uh 12 plus. Um we all of these are in the schools and this was a piece I want to add. We had these last year um and we wanted to bring those back as well in English and in Portuguese office and as you one of your goals has been uh is to create u bulletin boards was one of the things you talked about and so

063we have dedicated two spaces for you. They are magnet strips with magnets. Um so as you want to collect and and you can add here under each one you can add other things that you're doing. Um, you actually did beautiful work over the summer in in everything in the the front. If you wanted to put any of those up or whatever, we can add over the year um things that that you'd like us to put up or you can ask us to do things. We're always happy to to add things, too. That's important. I just wanted to to point out that we continue to try to take steps um with the school committee recognition as well. >> Thank you. They are ever upbeat, aren't they? our administrators. Thank you guys. Okay, so now on goals.

064Oh, um we will have a report from the evaluation committee about the superintendent evaluation timeline. >> Um well, our report is the timeline that's in the agenda. It's the dates. Um, we've already had two very, I think, um, productive meetings in August. And, um, tonight we're going to have the, um, superintendent present her goals, which were the product of our conversations. And then the rest of the dates are just, um, they're very similar to what um, the committee did last year in terms of timing. And um there it's here for your review. >> Do you want to emphasize this meeting? >> Oh, okay. Um so on January 19th to the 30th, that's when um we will be meeting with this each of us will be meeting with the superintendent to um review her um midyear

065cycle. And then on April 24th, you will um submit your evaluations. And then um on the 27th to the 1st, each of us will meet with the superintendent to discuss our evaluations. And then uh May 1st is the very last day to submit any changes um to your individual evaluations. >> Okay. Are there questions? We'll start with our rotation. Margaret, you have any questions? >> Katrina >> about this stage? No. >> No thanks. >> I do. >> Okay. So, um I don't I don't think it particularly matters for this version, but since we used this year's to build next year, um over the last I don't know how long it was, 10 days or something, Lori had sent out an opportunity for everybody to review her goals ahead of tonight. Um and I thought that

066was awesome because it gives us a chance to the subcommittee already has that opportunity, but we vote on them as a collective. So, um I I I think it would be great to capture that um you know in the August 26th to September 9th that um individual school committee members are able to meet with the superintendent. Um that way it'll get carried over to next year and be a continuing practice. >> Good good suggestion. >> Okay. So, thank you very much for um putting this timeline together and getting ready for us to look at the actual goals. >> Can I just also mentioned that um Chris Lumping and Margaret Suza are and myself, we are the um subcommittee. So, I just wanted to acknowledge that there >> our work. Thank you for the work you

067guys have done all year long. You have benchmarks to meet and everything. Thank you very much. Well, I just want to say thank you to Glenda for kind of leading leading our group. So, thank you. >> Okay. Margaret's no comment. >> Nope. She's just glad to work with them too, I'm sure. Right. Yeah. Okay. So, now we will hear from the superintendent on presentation of her goals. >> All right. Thank you. >> All right. So um the valuation timeline u from September um through the end of March um because of the calendar and the way it felt uh fell it's a little bit shorter this year. Um so goal one the student learning goal um one thing I want to talk about a little bit as the role of the superintendent um is really to

068uh provide direction oversee the process um uh in in order to support um whatever whatever that goal and direction is. So in in goal one um in the way of supporting student learning I am going to provide oversight um and direction and I'll talk about that in specific areas of the student achievement data analysis MTSS and IST analysis and the development of school specific specific objectives for student advancement. Um the standards um that I identified um are uh cover all four standards. um the data informed decision-m uh in the instructional leader um section scheduling and management uh and management information systems uh in the standard two um sharing responsibility uh in the family and community engagement and two uh areas in the professional culture standard for commitment to high standards and continuous learning. Just one

069second. I got to move this because it's there. Okay. Um, so, uh, some of the key action steps, we, uh, will review and analyze student reading and math benchmark data, uh, in grades K through 8. Uh we will review and analyze the MCCAST data grades three through eight and grade 10 and other achievement data uh such as AP honors uh career technical education uh SAT scores um with the administrative council in September, November, and February. Um I will be meeting monthly with the director of teaching and learning and the director of student services to review MTSS and IST process and documentation review. Um so that uh the processes happen in the school but we will be uh taking um that uh information and reviewing it um which will um guide us in um what further

070refinement we might need uh at each individual school and then meet with each principal to determine the individual school objectives for student learning for continued student learning. Okay. Um, goal two is my professional practice goal. Um, and that's improved communication with staff by increasing information sharing and opportunities for feedback and collaboration. Um it was um discussed last year among staff um through the um FEA uh survey that um they want to see improved communication with me as a superintendent uh which is certainly fair and with um the central office um team. So, um, the standards here that I'm going to, uh, are all in standard four, professional culture, commitment to high standards, communications, and continuous learning. And so, the areas, um, that I'm going to focus on is increase periodic emails um, uh, to bi-weekly

071emails, the staff, focus on timely information of district and school initiatives. This is uh we have uh now uh named it as news um from central office and each one of the departments at the central office will be giving updates and this is going to happen every other week. Um I'm going to increase my walkthroughs from two times a month in each school to three to four times a month. I'm going to offer the first of two onetoone sessions with the superintendent at each school in the fall. Um, I usually do one session through the year. It came back that they would like to see me twice a year in each school. So, the um since the timeline ends in March, I'm only going to get the fall one in on this. Um, I'm certainly

072going to do a second one in the in the springtime. Um, attend fall staff meeting at each school specific to specifically to listen to concerns and answer questions. That's one of them. within the time frame of the evaluation outside of the evaluation. Um I'm also going to be uh doing that with uh my team uh in the spring. Uh along with my team, we are going to hold a midyear um volunt uh Terry staff meeting uh at each school for open discussion and collaboration. And certainly as I say it's voluntary, but um people would have an opportunity to talk with the entire team three times um this year. And then we are going to provide uh in those every other week surveys there's going to be a survey question. Um we're always going to have

073the continued uh survey question. how are we doing with our communication and what would you like to you know what would you like to see uh in addition and then there will u be um a second question periodically on our district initiative so we can see how we're doing um that may be the implementation of the new um ELA curriculum it could be um the equity teams and and how we're doing it could it could just be about any anything that we're we're doing we want to see certainly a lot of the goals that we're doing we will be focusing on that work um to make sure that um you know that we're getting feedback and and it's constant feedback loop on that. So those are the um action steps for that. And my goal

074three uh is the district growth goal and that is monitor and communicate finance and policy changes at the federal and state level and take appropriate action as needed. Um and I will um part part of that you'll see is the communication and and I started that tonight. Um the standards that I'm going to focus on are um two and uh the management operations standard two uh law ethics and policies and the fiscal systems. Uh in standard three uh it's family and community engagement will be around communication and standard four professional culture is around communications. So um steps that uh action steps I'll be taking is monitor the financial changes at the federal level and prepare for potential loss of funds, monitor key state legislation affecting the schools and develop policy and or practices to ensure

075compliance. Uh communicate updates and changes to the school committee staff and families as appropriate and involve staff meter staff stakeholder input as needed. Sorry. Um one um such item I will just give at the state level um is um the potential uh implementation of a um statewide cell phone ban. And so the communication on that and getting stakeholder input will be a part of that process. Um as the time is appropriate, if it hits this year in the right time, I will do it whether it's in the the evaluation or not in the evaluation because it's the right thing to do as we move forward with that. So um this year I'm going to have a second district growth goal. So there'll be four goals. This is to develop an implementation plan for the vision

076of navigating the future together. Um we are um still in discussion and uh depending on the um school committee uh decision- making there is going to be work to do and I think that was a goal last year and I think I'd be remiss if I didn't focus on this as well this year. um three uh three um indicators in standard three uh family and community engagement is engagement, communication and family concerns and in standard for um professional culture also um communications. So, I'm going to oversee the process for the potential Lawrence school renovation. Um, pending a decision with Lawrence School grade configuration, develop a 2 to fouryear process plan for developing changes at Lawrence School and either Fountain High School or the elementary schools depending on how the decision-m goes. I I put in

077the word process plan. I want to be clear, there's no way I can do all of that work by the end of March, right? since the decision-m is just this fall. But what what I will put together is a plan of all the elements that need to be decided over the next two and uh two to four years and how those decisions will be made. So it will be a process plan um that I'll have ready um in uh developing a plan for expanding prek with or without an early learning uh center. Um I have got to figure out how to do that. Um it is a need for our families. Uh and then pending the decision for an early learning center um develop a process for moving attendance boundary lines across the other elementary

078schools if that works out. So um so uh that certainly a lot of that is pending whatever the decisions are. So it was kind of hard to to um be real specific but I can do that as time goes on and update this and then of course communicate status and plans um to to stakeholders as part of that. And uh and that concludes my four goals for the year. So, thank you very much. >> Okay. Are there any questions? It's this side. Kelly is first. >> No, I think I already gave all my input when I had a chance to meet. >> Thanks, Chris. >> Nope, I'm good. >> All set. Um I just wanted to um kind of put everything in a in a in a framework here that um when we met as

079a subcommittee with Dr. door. We had expressed um some of the uh we we had talked about some of the feedback that we had had as a committee and also from the community that um it would be um helpful to have goals that centered around uh student student data um communication integrating staff feedback and a financial component. And Dr. Dor came back I think with with goals that really do that. So I I think that that's um that's wonderful. Um and also last year that there were three goals and this year you've um provided us with four goals. So you've kind of raised the bar for yourself in doing a strategic planning goal. So um so I appreciate that you um incorporated some of the um comments that we passed along to you and you

080really um responded. So thank you. >> Welcome. Thank you. Thank you for the committee. um great collaboration um during our last meeting and it was very helpful. So, thank you >> Melissa. >> No, thank you. >> Um is it is a attendance boundary lines is that redistricting just like a euphemism for redistricting? >> No, it is that it actually um there is a definition for redistricting um and moving boundary lines is is a bit different which I can get into it at some point >> you want me to get into. Well, actually, it's at some point when I do a presentation later, I'm going to get into that. So, that very thing. >> Okay. >> Yeah. Not not presentation tonight. When I said later, I meant like later down the road, not later tonight. >>

081Um, I somehow missed your email, so I this is my first time seeing the presentation, which I regret, but um I will hopefully meet with you and talk about it, but I really do appreciate the emphasis on feedback and surveying and being more more present with the staff and all of that. It's really um really appreciated. Margaret. >> Okay. So, um could you could we get a copy of this to look at before the process this for us and the st uh public to know is that we listen we listen it consider them and then at the next meeting we vote to accept these goals. So, could we get copies of that? Um >> I don't I was just waiting to see if there was any additional feedback tonight before I put that in writing.

082>> Did we get a copy of this one in an email or was it the district both >> that you both of them would be good? We could have both of them. >> No. And Kelly was saying that we got a chance between August 26th and now to review. Was that this presentation? >> This it was this presentation. >> That's what it >> All right. Thank you very much again. Thank you to the work of the evaluation committee. Okay. So, next we will have an update from the office of teaching and learning. >> All right. So, >> Sonia. Oh, no. >> Oh. Oh, you wanted to say something and you and you warned me to. >> All right. >> I'll just be quiet. >> All right. Dr. Tier, she's going to be providing us with

083um some regular updates throughout the um school year um on AI. Um, DESIE has provided districts with guidance um and it's been it was made public in May and so we are spending this year uh really focused on that making sure teachers um review the guidance, research best practices um and then create a feedback loop. Uh so I really appreciate all the work that Dr. Tyer has put into this and her plans for the year. We're going to have a um a brief introduction to that this year, but I really want her to provide ongoing updates throughout the year. So I appreciate that. and then um and then she's also gonna provide us a brief update on our new curriculum. So, Dr. Teller >> um so thank you. As Dr. Dor shared uh the department

084of elementary and secondary education released their guidelines and so they had convened a task force of educators from across the Commonwealth to help shape their guidelines. Um and then um Mr. Mr. Sullivan and his role as teaching learning specialists and I joined Desi uh between last March and May and we got to participate in some experiences with them and now we're excited to to carry that work forward into the new year and look at what that means for our continued professional learning um and how we develop AI literacy both for ourselves as professionals um across our staff and for our students. um AI or artificial intelligence as it grows in its scope and its use has sort of morphed and I think there's three large categories that we often uh use to talk about it.

085The first is predictive um which is probably how many of us have come to learn about AI initially then generative and agenic. I'll walk through those aic nicro t sorry um predictive AI is just that it makes predictions. So, if you think about watching Netflix, when you finish binge watching a series or after you've watched a movie, it makes suggestions. It predicts what you now might like to watch and it offers you something to think about. Um, when you think about generative, it's creating something for you. So, something like chat GPT, which we've seen a lot in the headlines or even tools within Canva, where you can describe what you want a picture to be, but you can't find it anywhere in your picture library and it'll create something for you. And then the agentic

086AI starts to make decisions and it can change based on information. So um in large part I mean that's the type of AI we often think about when you think about uh autonomous vehicles like um Tesla's models right that drive themselves or some of the other features. So those three different levels of AI continue to develop and they develop really quickly such that sometimes when we receive guidance or if we're accessing materials from a professional organization like um publications from corwin or working with the ASD the association of supervision and curriculum development within 12 to 18 months they already have to update them right so we're trying to keep pace at with technology that exceedingly uh gets ahead of us so as we're doing that we're really using Desi's guidance as a blueprint to walk

087through exercises and use it to inform decisions about responsible and ethical use um attention to equity around access to tools and resources and the impact in teaching and learning. And it's really a comprehensive effort that stretches across uh all departments. It stretches across all grades and it's definitely going to present some new opportunities and some new challenges for us. Um and so throughout the year as Dr. or shared. I'll continue to provide updates and I'll continue to provide information because a lot of it's going to come from the feedback and the information that our teachers are sharing with us as they try out different experiences and join us in the professional learning. So then to continue on to EL education, our new ELA curriculum. Um just to to wrap up the update, uh as you

088know complication week, we open with our uh full day of PD. There was a second um professional development session that we had had with representatives from EL education. Uh they divided our teams up. So we had a K2 team, a grade three, four team, and then a 56 team. And so for part of the day it wasn't only the grade level teachers who are teaching the curriculum but they were joined by special educators, reading specialists, our library and DLCS teachers because the classroom libraries have shifted which is impacting right the relationship and some of the titles that we have in our libraries. they all came together and had an opportunity to work with the publisher to clarify expectations, ask questions, and really dig into all of the resources that um had been delivered to the

089district over the summer and and were waiting for them when they got in their classrooms. So, it's a great opportunity. Um I got to visit different sessions and listen to the conversation, the experience, and um see people in their grade level teams or crossrade teams and and really starting to um get excited about the planning and the resources. So, um, definitely builds new learning routines. You heard that sort of echoed in our goal as we as we go through the professional development and implementation. But, um, all of that also builds off of we had a team that came together this summer. Um, many of whom were our grade level leaders to just help advance that implementation and help make sure that clarifying questions that needed to be answered from the spring or from the May

090PD um, they had prepared answers so they could get a really good start um, on the new year. Uh and and special shout out to Dr. Ern Cassidi who's our elementary literacy manager uh for helping to guide both the selection process and to continue to shape our ongoing uh professional development. >> Thank you. >> Questions on the update. Melissa, >> no. >> Thank you. >> That was very fast, but I think I don't have anything. >> Mar I actually had a session on AI. So, we'll have some communication with you and maybe bring some of the ideas. >> Okay. Thank you, >> Kevin. >> No, I'm good. Thanks, Chris. >> I'm good. Thanks. >> Okay. Thank you. I'm really personally interested in AI. >> Ever since we learned about it, I've just been wondering how

091it's going to impact, you know, first it was considered cheating if kids used AI, right? Um, >> but now it's more of like how do you use it to help yourself and all that. Well, thanks. I'm looking forward to these. Okay. The next item would be to act on the budget timeline. Um, just as a reminder, um, you did a first read in July. Um, and so tonight, um, we actually act on that timeline. There is really no significant change to the previous reading. >> So moved. >> Thank you. I'll second. Okay. All those in favor? >> I. >> Any opposed or um abstaining? >> None. Okay. Unanimous. Thank you. Next would be to act on the MASC delegate uh volunteer or person. >> It would be whoever wants to put the name forward and

092then um vote on that. >> Okay. Is there anybody who would like to be the um MASC delegate first? >> Could I nominate I think Margaret did in the past and I'd like to if she's willing to I'd nominate her again. If I'm wrong about that, I apologize, but either Margaret or Kelly. I don't know who it was. >> It was Margaret. >> Thank you. So, I stand by nominating Margaret to do it. >> But actually, Linda did it last year, but I'm not sure. >> But I'm going to second your >> There we go. >> There you go. Okay, let's vote quick. All right. Did you accept? >> It's too late. We voted. >> Okay. Um, all those in favor say I. >> I. >> Any opposed or >> You can't oppose it. Marvin,

093don't we usually have an alternate to just Yeah. >> And nominate Glenda? >> Yeah. >> Um, I'm not sure I'm going to be able to attend. >> Okay. Well, I think that's the question is who's going to be at the meetings? >> I mean, the question would be who is going to be at the conference. >> Yeah, I can do I'm going to be there so I can be an alternate. >> And can I say that there's a number of resolutions that's going to be voted on um this fall and I'm happy to to set and talk with um >> Okay. >> So, we can talk through those. Um it's coming forth for a vote at the conference. >> Yeah, I think that's important because in previous years we really have not had those discussions

094for the whole committee. It's hard to represent the committee if you don't know what they're thinking is. >> Right. Right. >> Okay. Thank you. Um, next item is to act on the Hershey Park field trip. >> Did we have to vote to make >> We did. We did have to. >> Oh, I'm sorry. All >> is there a motion? >> I nominate myself. >> Second. >> Okay. All those in favor? >> Any abstaining or No. Okay. >> All right. Oh, sorry. Did you say the next one? Yeah, I can. >> Yeah, the Hershey Park. Yes. Okay. So, the Fmouth High School, I'm really excited. They're um planning a trip um to Hershey Park. Um so, it's it's been a couple years since the band's actually been able to take a um trip. So, um this

095is exciting. I'm really impressed with our new band director, um Andrew Hick. He's um the students really are responding. It's a it's a young growing team uh or band. I guess they're a team. Are they a team? They're a team. Could be a team, right? Um so um the the um band performers um so they would be um actually performing at the music in the parks festival. This is a um nationwide um festival. it's uh very high level and so they will be competing uh and they will also get to see um the talent uh and excellence um from across the country that anytime you could have those opportunities um again it just you know continues to grow your own um achievement uh and excellence as well. So um I fully support um the band

096getting to take this three-day trip to Hershey Park. like to make the motion to approve it. As a former band kid and somebody who's been on a few of those trips, I'm happy to see it come back. It's a great uh experience for the band and for the everyone. So, I'd like to make a motion. >> I'll second it. >> Sorry. Any other comments or anything? >> Um I just have a couple questions. Um will the eighth grade be included on this or No. >> Um I uh >> It's okay. >> They're I'm not sure. I'm looking at if she if she knows that. I don't know that >> if not in the past. I was just wondering for numbers. >> Okay. >> Um, eighth grade is participating more than they did the past. So,

097>> does it m make a difference on your vote? >> No. Absolutely. >> But I can get clarification and let you know. >> It's fine. Not a big deal. >> I'm going to put it on my to-do list. >> Don't put it on. It's okay. >> It's good for us tonight. >> Okay. All right. No other comments or questions. So, all those in favor of the motion I >> I. >> Any abstaining or saying no. Okay. Next on the agenda is to act on a vehicle surplus. >> All right. We have a 2014 Ford um eco van that has 250,000 miles and I'm pretty sure the engine's under. But um but other than that um so we are ready to surplus. This really should be taken off the road. Um there will be a notice

098um in the paper uh for anyone that wants to to um bid on it. >> So moved. >> Second. >> Okay. Any comments or questions? All right. All those in favor say I. I. >> Any abstain or objection say no. >> Okay. We're rolling through these unanimous votes here tonight. Okay. Um, next we will have routine business, which means to vote to approve the minutes. Um, so first we have the minutes of August 12th. Do we usually put them together or we do them separately? >> We do them separately. >> Okay. So, uh, is there a motion to accept the minutes for August 12th? >> I'll make the motion. >> Second. >> Thank you. >> Okay. All those in favor say I. I abstain. Say no. Okay. Um, act on the minutes of October of

099August 19th. I'll make that one. >> Second. >> Any questions or comments or edits? No. Okay. All those in favor? >> I abstaining or nos? >> Not. Okay. Next, we will have some committee reports. So, Mike, >> I went to a couple of DEIB meetings. I forgot last time to talk about it, but today I remembered. So, we had a nice meeting. I think it was last week or so. And uh there is an indigenous people celebration coming up which is being sponsored by a bunch of groups in town including uh the DIB committee. And what else had a long was a long meeting. It was there was discussion of of uh the good work that uh Susan Lumping and the committee has done overall with uh equity, inclusion and belonging and um and they

100had a report at the select board meeting last night and that's all we have from DEIB. The most important thing was the indigenous people event happening. >> Thank you. >> Can you send it to us? Do you have >> the report? >> No, the information for the upcoming event >> that that happened yesterday. >> No, the the indigenous people event. >> Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, we can get some. >> That'd be great. >> Yeah, I don't know the details actually other than it's that >> probably that weekend. >> It's going to be that weekend and we'll get they get more information, but we'll make sure that sends out. >> Yeah, the DIB supported the the sponsorship of the event is what? Yeah, but it's happening. We'll Yeah. >> And you served well as technical support,

101so that was good. >> Yeah. on the Zoom. The Zoom is Z ify. That's it. Thank you, Terry. >> Okay. Thank you for the report. Any other reports, >> Glenda? Um, so just as a point of information, as as part of our ongoing effort to be more um communicative with the the public, Chris and I um have uh committed to holding dropin listening sessions with the community on the third Saturday of each month at the um main library um from 10:30 to 11:30. And we we are committing to be there. Uh, but we'd love it if other members of the committee wanted to join us as well. Um, so if you're inclined to grab a cup of coffee and join us at the library at 10:30, that would be great. If you could just text

102um, one of us to let us know because we don't want to run into issues with um, you know, a quorum. So, um, so thank you. I don't know if Chris wants to say anything else. >> Uh, no, no, just something that we've thought was very important just to reach out to the community. Um but yeah, I think we're looking forward to to kind of sitting down and hopefully, you know, spreading the word um that we're there and available and always always there to listen. So even if it's, you know, even if we can rotate through people if whoever is interested in doing it um you know, we're happy to do that, but but definitely Glenda and I are committed to being there. So thank you, Lena. >> Thank you. >> So is the third

103Saturday of the month? >> We're going to do the third Saturday of every month. Um at least through December, we'll see how it goes. um at 10:30. Um I've forgotten the name of the room. >> Bay room. >> The Bay Room in the U main library downtown. So grab your coffeeo, come over and >> and what kind of efforts to get this information? >> Um so we uh I'm talking to Terry about it. Social media, um flyers, word of mouth. Hopefully it'll be in the enterprise. >> Thank you. >> Okay. Um, nobody else has it. I just wanted to say I read that mass the MASC division 7 which is us is looking for officers. Um, so if any of you would want to be, you know, run to be an officer from that division,

104I will get you more information about it. I'm sorry it's kind of half baked information, but um, so think about it. Cal, >> um I just wanted to mention um we were looking the other way. So, in the spirit of being available and being um you know around where parents and families and community members are so we can hear from them. Um Margaret and I were at the back to school bash. And um first of all, that was incredible. Yay to the wreck and to the team here for putting that on. It was it was wild. I could not believe how many people were there and how much free stuff there was. I hope it happens every year. Um, so hopefully we can do more of those things because it was very wellreceived I think

105that you were there. >> Okay. I was also going to say um that there was going to be a um event on September 24th to uh is the public invited Sonia to this or is it just school committee members and to the thing for >> Yeah. I don't Maybe it's a capacity piece. I think it's at the >> Oh, the sister school. >> Yeah, the museum and cultural center. >> Yeah. >> Okay. I'll follow up with information about that. Um, another thing I wanted to follow up on is we heard tonight the goals from the district goals. We heard Lor's goals. And to remind you that next Tuesday night is our goals workshop. It'll be starting at 6:30. And another meeting that's coming up that will be um the agenda will be posted tomorrow or

106Thursday is for September 30th. We're going to have our first special meeting about navigating the future which will be the topic of which will be 8th grade. So um the agenda will be posted I repeat tomorrow or Thursday for the public to see. Just wanted to give a little extra heads up on it. Mike, >> I got something else in my brain. Uh PTO meetings. I know that Lawrence and Morris Pawn start Wednesday the 17th. I don't know about the elementary schools, but just in just for the parents that want to get involved, for any of us who want to drop by a PTO meeting, uh they're starting up again in two weeks. >> Okay. >> All right. Is there any a request for followup on anything? >> Um I have two things. One is

107um at our last special meeting on the 19th uh there it was not broadcast on FCTV and Dr. Der said that if special meetings are not typically broadcast. Um I would like to make a motion if I can at this time. Madam Chairwoman, um >> you have to say what? Uh >> oh, I just I didn't know if I could. Okay. Um, I would like to make a motion that we change that because we have seven special meetings coming up between now and December which are very important and I think it's critical that they are broadcast on FCTV so that we are held accountable and so that the public can review what we said um if they're not able to make it to the meeting. So, I make the motion that special meetings that are

108pertaining to districtwide concerns are broadcast on FCTV going forward. Okay. Is there a second to that motion? >> Can I second it for discussion? >> Okay, >> I'll second it. Yeah. >> Okay. So, remember last year um it's fuzzy about making motions because um I don't know that this is on our agenda tonight. >> Yeah. So, I don't know that we can do that. Um, I said I was going to research this. This didn't happen again. When I researched, that's what I found out. We can't make a motion about something that is not on our agenda. So, um, we will find a way to, um, get an answer to your question and your desire. Okay. But I don't believe we can do the motion. I'm just concerned because our next special meeting will not be

109available for the public to view. >> Are we having are we having discussion? >> No, you we can't we we just cannot. >> I withdraw my motion, but um I my request for followup then is that we um work to make FCTV um viewership possible at our next special meeting and ongoing special meetings. That's my request. I have another one. Um, I would like to add to the agenda for our special meeting that's upcoming. If uh if anybody else is interested in having this on the agenda to have a discussion about the timeline for our seven upcoming special meetings, uh we didn't have a chance to discuss that. It just was emailed out. So, I personally would like to confirm and deliberate amongst ourselves that we like this timeline, that we approve of the timeline,

110and that there's, um, nothing that we want to change about it before it's set in stone. So, um, if it's possible, I would love to have that added to our agenda so we can talk about it. >> So, you would like that added to our agenda for the next meeting? for our special meeting because it's part of that topic or or where I mean I don't know where it should go but we're having a special meeting and this is about our special meetings saying that so many times. >> Yes. I'm not sure exactly the proper legal way to do it but I will confer with our parliamentarian. Um we don't need to do this online. U Margaret and I will look at it over and figure out the way to properly do this. Okay. Can

111you just remind me do other people have to express that they want that in order for it to be an agenda? I can't quite remember right now how >> I don't think we have a definitive answer on that. We >> Okay, >> that's why I brought it up during the meeting. >> All right. >> Yes. >> Um I just wanted to make a suggestion that I'm concerned about um making a demand of FCTV when we don't run FCTV. Um, but maybe we could just make it available via Zoom so that it's accessible the meeting. Just throw that out there. >> Okay. All right. Is there anything else for tonight? >> Is there a motion to adjourn early? >> Second. >> Thank you, Mike. >> All those in favor? >> Abstaining or nos? Okay. Thank you.

112>> Thank you for a very nice first meeting of the year, guys. >> Wow. 40 minutes.