School Committee Meeting - 3/27/2025

001all right good evening hollison and welcome to the uh March 27th 2025 meeting of the hollon school committee um before we uh begin our official agenda which I also need to bring up um just a couple quick things um I first just want to uh address some rumors about staff cuts that we're uh going about yesterday um we are going to be doing a budget presentation today I just want to be very very clear with everyone that there are not going to be any staff cuts for Budget or high school schedule reasons or any schedule reasons no one is going to be losing their jobs because of the budget or because of the schedule period [Applause] okay and that was true yesterday the day before yesterday and still today um secondly um can you just

002bring up that that page so we sent out an email um five years ago when how many days ago is it Tuesday Tuesday so two days ago okay um uh just to update the community on some some things that we've been working on with with the hft uh regarding a potential new schedule um I just want to bring that up quickly no one's going to be able to see it because the fine print but [Music] um so earlier today this afternoon just a few hours ago um we we did receive a counter uh proposal from from the hft um due to the timing we haven't had a ton of time to to review it but we we have given it a uh a high level um review and and you know we say thank you

003very much we appreciate it um we believe it's a step in the right direction uh we think we are we're close um to to having an agreement on a on a 7 drop two schedule and we will be uh you know having further uh conversations um as soon as we can uh get all of our thoughts together but um you know just to be clear to the community if we are able to ratify this schedule it would be for the 2026 2027 school year so we are not talking about a change for the schedule next year here we're talking about the 26 27 school year uh furthermore the in our letter on Mon Tuesday uh you know we we did commit to um returning to the block schedule for next year if this seven drop

004two schedule is ratified um all right well at this point it's it's too small so just pull it down and minut yeah so with that said we'll get into our official agenda um so this point I will entertain a motion to uh approve our consent agenda which includes our um minutes from last uh week in addition to a number of executive session minutes as well as three uh executive session minutes that are um partially redacted and are we're approving for release uh of those redacted versions um in addition to warrants and uh some some gufts move by Don second can I just want to ask those executive session minutes are ones that we had already approved for release an executive session cuz I don't you don't approve you don't I don't know that we had

005voted on them in executive you do not approve minutes in executive session you you do not approve you do not approve executive session minutes in executive session so but let me just take a step back for a second I did a something Sarah of participating online and so before we get to any any uh actual things I just need to read the the uh the remote meeting statement purs to the governor's and it's all updated anyway now but Pur to the governor's July 16th 2022 act relative to extending certain covid-19 measures adopted during the state of emergency suspending certain provisions of the open meeting law mgl uh c3a paragraph 20 the hon school committee will using remote participation for this meeting the audio of this meeting is being recorded and will be posted to the

006town's website as soon as possible in accordance with helping to keep the public informed of actions uh during this meeting at this time a roll call of attendance will be taken Frank yes Hillary yes Joe here Cynthia yes uh Don yes Sarah he can't hear you sir but it lit up so she's not muted she's saying something you probably can't hear it check the Vol Sarah can you try again can you can you put your thumb up or oh there's no sound Dan at the bottom of the computer right here no duck there you go all right Sarah can you can you try one more time hold on Sarah D you got to change the speaker on zo hit audio one more time sir yes I'm here all right there you go y okay and

007I am here as well so we are now officially uh called to order okay um can I just ask that you hold out the executive session please and we can do it next time so um these have been requested by the town clerk um we are supposed to approve executive session minutes in Open Session do you want to discuss the content of them yes all of them yes okay we can hold one week well we're not meeting again until 10th well then we could always discuss SCH a meeting in between to discuss it so you want to withhold all the executive session minutes well they're not linked so they in they're in the executive session fold them any any of the folders in the drive let me show you what if we go back to

008this just go back to it go back to it give her a chance to review it Direct sure all right reports from our student Representatives maybe if you're better commun care this here right up here sorry sorry um senior showcase was last Wednesday spring Sports started this week There's a field trip for the arts department um they're going to Boston and doing a bunch of different things there the French emersion students participating in the French Exchange program left last week for France the Global Citizens program trip to Italy is going to be during April break and sophomore and freshman semi was last week and went well one of our Juniors from the Hollis and chorus and band Department Adele Bas is going to States chorus Festival um we had a presentation about an addiction Survivor

009yesterday his name was Stephen Hill and that went very well 10th grade mcast English was Monday the 24th and Tuesday the 25th investment club with Mr Mullen started last week term three ends next week and AP finals are also next week there's also been some confusion about the AP science classes and how some of them are to credits now it's just been going around the school we we we'll talk about that in a little bit when we get to to the program of studies we can Mr list can address that um we actually just had a question about that um so you're You're Not Alone um were you able to cover everything okay perfect thank you very much all right uh now we'll get to school committee individual comments grab the I don't want to

010steal your thunder but I did attend uh grease this weekend last showing uh this Sunday it was um nothing short of incredible uh really our students have immense talents and that's clearly demonstrated and and the investment we're putting in the theater and the Arts is clearly apparent Full House I believe every uh showing um surprised to show up at Sunday and there was people actually standing you didn't hear that Chief Cassidy um but um it was a great show uh and I look forward to the next one no comments for me no comment um no comment for me no comment I to enjoy Greece my my daughter was in it but uh you know I appreciate you bringing it up as a more uh you know independent uh she did great everyone did we do

011need yes all right so we will now get to um public comment check online um if there are people that wish to make public comment that are on uh the zoom if you could just simply raise your hand and I will sort of rotate back and forth between the room and and those are on the call can someone let um de I love those okay um so again if you're on the zoom and wish to make public comment please use the raiseed hand function I don't think anyone's on their phone but that's use okay um we're going to do two minutes for public comment um we've got a lot of public comments so we're going to try to stick to the two minutes um and we will start with an Bucky for public comment I'll

012just raise my hand and give you a 30 second warning too okay I do appreciate you sticking to the two minutes Indian Road I'm one of many parents who took the time to review and submit detailed feedback on the multiple schedule operators the that was subsequently stopped from progressing and an AB schedule posed as the way forward I attended the school committee meeting two weeks ago and listened to many students expressed concerns over the ab schedule that it was inadequate that it was rushed and there was no communication Mr Alfred you invited some but not all students who spoke during public comment to share what they would do to improve an AB schedule one student presented a thoroughly thought out option which was glossed over the main takeaway from public commment was to put a

013Hal to the rapid turnaround the administration advised that the technological backend was underway and anything other than AB was dismissed last week at Mr List's information session there was more of the same my concern specifically has been with a deterioration from a collaborative approach to one which has seemingly been unilaterally decided upon by the school committee and deemed to be meeting the demands of the teacher contract I followed up with Mr list and was en to hear that he had solid plans Improvement plans within the parameters of the ab that same day an email indicating that AB is now in question was issued when will this back and forth stop when will students be able to focus on their studies without wondering how their day-to-day will look next year and Beyond and when will our

014school leaders be in a position to act upon directives with confidence the mindset that AB is the only option has been drilled into us why are we facing another change and how long before another option is on the table every time this happens our confidence and Trust Falls with our leaders my message is simple for us to slow down to do do the due diligence to cover every angle and to focus on the issues at hand we need stability and focus and to provide a solid education for all our students in the way they learn the best thank you thank you no one on the zoom so again if you're on the zoom and wish to make public comment please raise your hand use a raising the raise hand function um bar Ryan may I

015have four minutes I have a PTO no no okay I'll go sorry that's okay I'm going to pass this to you all if you don't mindry if you if you want from for the PTO we can add you to a future agenda if you'd like to make a couple comments cuz I just want to thank the community keep one of those bar reach out if you do want to do a PTO update y thank you barar Ryan for place I just first want to say thank you uh for having me this evening thank you to the leadership that's here thank you to students and teachers that are here tonight um quickly I really want to thank the generosity of this community we have raised um everything we need to meet for the PTO for the

01624 to 36 R month Runway we've set for ourselves and in two weeks our generous Community not only um performed about 2200 acts of kindness we raised $51,000 so thank you and that directly goes to the support of our enrichment programs supplies all these good things so I will come back and tell you more thank you um I come from a place rooted in community and curiosity I am trying to understand the origin story of how we got to AB schedule or whatever schedule is now being thought about 7 minus 2 and I still I'm trying to wrap my head around what that really means I'm a product of public education and educator so I believe in process and I also hear Equity audit but I think the origin is the neasc and there are

017four PRI five priority areas and four of them data driven driven decision-making stakeholder communication involvement systemic collaboration um and again data decision um making our one two and um four and the high school bell schedule certainly was part of that recommendation um in my professional life um it feels like a soup sandwich or trying to nail Jello to the wall and so I think slowing down um I know there's a one April in the teacher contract that if if the parties will reconvene in an effort to work out remaining issues to bring back for another vote ratification votes will be held by this April I don't think anything's ever set in stone I think respecting the voices of students and teachers and Educators who are in the trenches doing the work um need to be

018heard I also know we can do better thank you and I thank you for considering all the voices here and I think we need to slow down and take pause and really find a thoughtful way forward thank you Sor is it is it Sai oh there um I just want to say thank you for giving us the opportunity to speak um but I also want to say that I still don't know what's going on um as a student of the school I feel like this is unacceptable though there have been I think more of an effort to include us in at least some decisions that have been made already I still don't feel like that's enough through watching this meeting as it's just now happening and watching the last one on YouTube or whatever um

019I heard through this with the emails also that I've said conversation everything I heard a lot about rumors that students have been hearing but rumors only happen in the absence of knowledge and I really don't feel like the students have been kept in the loop enough um I've heard certain things and then I've heard contradicting things and I've heard just now that the schedule is being pushed to next year which is what we wanted but we also didn't I didn't know that was happening I've gotten the emails and stuff and everything but I don't feel like we've been incorporating decisions like where were we when we needed to hear about the hft coming up with something or why haven't students been incorporated as much even when last meeting this was addressed and I I just

020don't feel like this is fair that these decisions affect us the most but yet we haven't been here for any of the decisions really um thank you yeah I just want to clarify one thing nothing has changed right now yes but it was going to correct no no we're still with the ab okay but it's being pushed to not this upcoming school year I I I appreciate your confusion um it's it's it's not easy to to keep track but right now there's multiple things going on and so currently we're proceeding with with the ab we are also having conversations with with the hft about an alternative for 2026 for 2026 yeah which which if that were implemented would eliminate the ab from next year we' go back to the block schedule for a year for

021one last year okay I just want to say I don't feel like that has been clearly communicated the students I hear you understood thank you thank [Applause] you Jordan Kylie hi I'm Jordan Kylie so I write poems when I'm passionate about something and I wrote a poem cuz it's easier for me to say words when I write them so I wrote one about this cuz it's stressing me out what about the kid who sits in the back of the class working hard to barely pass before school was a place of security now as we grow older it's a place of scrutiny what about the teacher pushing through three classes a day with kids who yell and berate them all day grading until the sun no longer shines you want to give the under paid more

022as they waste their personal time we all have issues we all have problems but rushing to change will never solve them you are fixing broken glass with a sledgehammer school is already tough for a kid like me ADHD depression anxiety I panic about one test and now you want to add six more what makes this seem like a fair score my anxiety is already high and the changes being made won't help it Go by worries in my head keep me from focusing and paying attention getting home to drown myself in my covers continuing this mess of my education I wish you all would actually listen to us because we are the 's going through it where what happened to the trust but like the world says we're just kids who don't understand even though we're

023trying to speak up we are the ones we are the ones going through this it will affect us more than it will affect a lot of other people I understand I I couldn't go to the last school meeting but I watched it on the live someone said well maybe you guys should you guys can do hard things but why should we push into doing hard things currently we're only taking four classes at a time pushing that up to eight will stress out so many people including myself and also my ADHD will mess up because I need consistent learning and doing that 85 minutes every other day for for a bunch of different classes is going to be so confusing for many many people thank you Jord [Music] [Applause] my name is Al Brown I live

024at 66 Winthrop Street I'm a junior here uh two weeks ago students came to the HSC angry and hurt by your actions as a committee we were left out of communications about our preference on which the schedule for the school should use in fact this committee didn't even know what the student and family con ensus was on the AP schedule from the December survey in the first place as a committee your ignorance of our voices is unacceptable I hope you all realize the damage that you've caused and continue to cause after many of my peers stood up against the misrepresentation of students and were ignored even as the hft has presented a possible solution to the ab schedule the email informing the community was never even sent to students students have also not received a

025chance to review and give their opinions on the schedule my disgust for this committee cannot be put into words the HSC is supposed to represent students and make them feel Hur disregarding the student body the way you all have is disrespectful disruptive and unacceptable your actions have lost all and of the little respect that I already had for this committee since this committee has proven to be incompetent in communication with the body that it represents I will gladly remind you all if you cannot come with ter to terms with the fact that you are not dictators of this school I strongly suggest finding a new position stop the conflict stop the negligence and do your jobs Thank You Caroline Rory before I would begin I'd like to request that you guys allow the teachers to

026speak their whole statements as they solely get two minutes every two weeks to share their thoughts and administrators and school committee can send out emails seemingly whenever they would like so I'm just going to say unfortunately we're going to keep the two minutes okay good evening my name is Caroline Roy and I'm a chemistry and physics teacher at hollon high school I had the privilege of going through the Holliston Public Schools and graduated in 2015 I received my bachelor's in chemistry and English from Holy Cross and my Masters in Education from Boston College I wanted to come back and teach in Holliston because I loved going to school here I loved my peers my teachers my principles the opportunities I was afforded because of the hollison innovates initiatives and the visions of a graduate and

027the widespread program of studies being in this building was fun motivating and palpable that HHS was a good place to be that energy is no longer palpable and it as a result of leadership and decisions being made without considering the input of key stakeholders the students the community and the teachers I do not say this to shame you or degrade you truly I do not I say it to ask you to call on you to beg you to do better for your students your teachers and the community The Narrative that is being perpetuated about the high school teachers regarding the schedule change is disingenuous degrading and is honestly getting out of hand I'm making this statement tonight to remind District ad administrators in the school committee and members of the community that we care deeply

028deeply about your kids not only your kids their academic success their emotional success their social success let me be loud and clear the teachers of Holliston High School are not opposed to a schedule change this has been said not only in public comment but on social media as well although it seems like no one is listening let me again state that the teachers are not opposed to a schedule change the teachers are on the front line of your children's education we see them every day we know what they're skilled at what they need more practice with we know if they actually did their homework the night before or if they were truly prepared for their test the teachers have been repeatedly referred to throughout all discussions regarding the schedule change as the hft continually referring

029to us as an acronym makes it easy to villainize the only group of people who have firsthand knowledge and comprehension a schedule will change and affect your children's day today if you want to speak badly about me use my name stop trying to blame Union leadership Thank You [Applause] Caroline good evening my name is Amanda Rivera I proud to call Caroline Roy one of my former students I recruited her to teach here you're welcome I been teaching chemistry here at hollon high school for the past 15 years I am speaking tonight with respect to the email sent by the school committee on March 25th showing comparisons between the positions of both sides this email fails to include the context by which the teachers came to our position the teachers offer of a seven drop two

030schedule with Provisions necessary to do our jobs effectively is a compromised position the majority of the staff does not even want a seven drop two schedule as we believe there are better and more creative options that schedule was offered only because you the school committee chose to implement an AB schedule that you admit is not ideal for students when when principal list met with staff after your vote to move forward with the ab he referred to it as a bag of rocks yet he must be so afraid for his own job that he presented it to you as a feasible option without elucidating the Myriad of downsides associated with it let me offer you an analogy to illustrate how teachers feel about what has transpired putting forward this AB schedule off as a threat it

031feels like you have put a train on the tracks started up the engines and aimed it right at our students who will suffer the consequences of this Choice offering the seven drop two schedule is analogous to your teachers jumping in front of that train on behalf of our students your email stating that teachers should accept what you believe to be a a reasonable counter proposal is like saying gee the train is going to run over all of these students unless the teachers come to their senses and do something about it all the while pretending that you aren't the train conductors who could simply throw the break and stop the train I will send you the entirety of my comments and I'll move to the end I don't think that what the teachers have proposed is

032unreasonable I asking you to please accept the teachers offer and stop the train [Applause] uh Alex strum English teacher and Union vice president uh last March this committee asked the high school principal if he thought an AB schedule was a good idea and we're told no I can't help but notice that this time around the committee did not ask if you thought it was a good idea simply if it was feasible suggesting they did not prioritize if it should happen just if it could be done well here we are earlier this week department leaders were informed that Juniors and seniors would be permitted to take one fewer class perhaps as a way to ease their transition into a new schedule this looks like nothing more than a bribe to Plate students who are angry with

033an Abrupt change and I can't imagine the committee will support this idea after we heard how important it was that we add 15 minutes onto the school school day to increase time on learning only to now turn around and cut kids Loose as they haggle over a few minutes of prep time with the teachers it's a liability issue and it lowers the bar earlier today students informed teachers that some science courses would now be two credits next year instead of one not only does this require restructuring of schedules created just one day earlier and manufacture barriers to accessibility but more importantly it demonstrates that the administration is making up Solutions as they go and do not have the foresight to anticipate issues the ab schedule creates before they arise this is week one of scheduling

034they say to measure twice and cut once we however have discarded the ruler in exchange for two buds saws and it won't be the school committee who has to spend their days cleaning up the resulting mess come September while the 7 drop 2 schedule proposed by the teachers is not our first choice we recognize the stress and Chaos that the school committee's forcing of Navy schedule is having upon the students and we are seeking a compromise that is in their best interest the only concession I've seen thus far from the HSC is maybe pushing back the schedule change of year but at this point that's not a concession that's common sense the ab schedule is not contingent upon any other agreement and can easily be delayed or rescinded as we continue to work to find

035common ground on what's best for students which I hope can be our Focus rather than one group of adults trying to score a win over the other that's why I join 98% of responding Federation members who are opposed to the school committee's decision to implement the ab schedule at the high school for the 2526 school year and ask that the school committee reverse their decision thank you are [Applause] good evening Ann kenon I'm a resident in Holliston um I feel like I've spent my life here with you many weeks um and I shouldn't have to but I really feel strongly about advocating for our students and I just feel like people aren't listening I don't have anything prepared I did I didn't write anything up I um was walking to the school and I said

036to myself I am going to speak tonight because I'm embarrassed right now to be a member of this community I've lived here for almost 40 years I've worked in the school system for 25 years and it's never been like this it's like we're throwing spaghetti against the wall to see what's going to stick and it's not okay after listening to the students at the last meeting like you have to hear them you have to hear what they're saying there's stress anxiety we don't know what's going on how are they going to know what's going on again people have brought it up this morning I have my ninth graders you're saying to me Mrs Cy AP physics is going to run two two semesters two credits so I have to switch my schedule like there is

037no solid plan in place and you have to understand that I actually built the scheduling system I built the power school scheduling system we are so far behind to even make this happen for September we I can remember Matha devau being in at meetings saying like why don't I have my kids schedule why in at the end of July we don't have the infrastructure I don't believe that the infrastructure has been started because Administration just went to training last week there's just no way that it's going to get done and I just like everybody else 30 seconds in we need to slow it down we made the decision for school start time changes very quickly we're changing this you guys are changing the math algebra at e8th grade Cambridge School System with a lot more

038money than us has tried to change that they can't do it we need solid plans and if we don't have solid plans it's the students that suffer and all these decisions that we are making should be about the students and they're not and I just wish you'd consider slowing down the high school schedule change and the math program thank you go please Kelly 216 rolling meow Drive I just wanted to be another voice of concern at the rate at which we're moving to make such a huge change and big decision for our children I know we all sit here and you work very hard for your kids that's why you're sitting on this committee that's why we're all here to embrace our kids take care of our kids educate our kids the best that we

039can I don't have all the data about the schedule I don't have all the background about why the schedule is being AB s Dro to all I know is that asking these teachers to move at the rate we're asking just does not make feasible sense to me as a parent I know that my own children are looking at this schedule trying to figure out how they're going to wrap their heads around it by the Fall we can't ask teachers to without pay plan a whole new curriculum for each of their classes between now and September they need a year at least and I really implore you to just considered the idea of us we've had this schedule for a long time one more year isn't going to make or break and enforcing the only way

040that this becomes a possibility as if we ratify a contract and come to an agreement feels like actually our children are being put at stake they're not what's important it's just about ratifying a contract that becomes important as a vehicle for forcing a schedule so I'm just asking you to really consider the gravity of a decision which will in inevitably if we force it through for the fall of 2025 just hurt our kids and I am open to the idea of a different schedule here that may be the right path forward but let's do the diligence to make sure we're doing it in a way that's going to be effective for these wonderful people who my children show up for every day because they adore and for our kids cuz that's what we're all here

041for our kids [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Michael crle McBride bride Junior hollon High School 104 hland road coming straight from work I haven't prepared a long statement for tonight but I did want to ask one question I don't want it to come off with any disrespect or to feel like a jab at the hollon school committee but rather a question to make all involved think hard give a clear answer and this is the question why haven't students and teachers voices been heard in this battle for a schedule why have the most important people those who show up to educate help and sometimes the highlight of a student's day had their voices heard and why have those who it will affect on the day-to-day also been overlooked this isn't a statement to speak out but it's a

042statement to get get answers so I'll ask again why thank [Applause] you M D um good evening full disclosure I do not live in Holliston any longer I served on two um strategic planning committees while I was here I lived here for 37 years um I happen to be the mother of two teachers in Holliston Caroline Roy who you just heard from and my daughter Victoria Roy who's a math teacher in the high school both of my daughters went to school here the reason as Caroline noted she returned was because of teachers like Amanda Rivera in full disclosure my husband was a beloved teacher in Foxboro for 30 s years he died seven years ago and I still to this day fund four scholarships every year for teachers for students I'm sorry because I believe

043in public education and I believe in what these teachers bring for these students they are the lifeline to you know when my husband died I got messages from students who told me the reason they were not either in jail or an addict or dead was because of what my husband provided for them he was an art teacher who taught these kids above and beyond everything about life and education and that's what you have with these teachers in hariston they are fabulous they care about this community they care about these kids I am just asking you please to listen to them to listen to these students and do what they are asking you to do please if you need to bring in a professional mediator I'm a lawyer by training okay I I can tell you

044that they actually do help you need to come thank you you need to come to closure on this you are hurting the town you are hurting these students and you are hurting these teachers the backbone of this community thank you for letting [Music] [Applause] me just to be clear you don't need to be a resident to come to public comment so you're always welcome I know and thank you I appreciate that I just want I want a full disclosure thank you appreciate it um Andrea she on she signed up on paper right no I got to I got to text that she want to speak okay uh then we'll move to our I think is there anyone else on Zoom who wants who wishes to uh make public comment I can't can you can you

045put that no I I got yeah so but can you undo the trans you just all right and then man you can unmute hi sorry um I was hoping to make a public comment about uh the proposed math changes is that allowed right now yes okay perfect um I'd like to strongly oppose the proposed changes to the middle school math curriculum specifically the move towards deleveling the elimination and the elimination of advanced math courses as a parent of two Elementary School students here in hollison and a ninth grade physics teacher in a neighboring District I believe this proposal would not be in the best interest of our students and could have long-term negative consequences for their academic growth and future success first and foremost offering advanced math courses in Middle School gives students who are

046ready for more challenging material the chance to really Thrive these courses let them dive into more complex Concepts build a stronger understanding of math and develop critical thinking skills that will be essential for success in high school and Beyond taking away these opportunities would limit the potential for many students to reach their full academic Potential from my perspective as a high school physics teacher I see firsthand how fundamental math skills are to success in more advanced subjects such as physics Middle School is a crucial time for students to build the mathematical Foundation that will support their success in high school and Beyond by eliminating advanced math courses we risk depriving students of the chance to develop the skills necessary for success in higher level stem subjects and future careers in fields like engineering technology and

047data science furthermore the notion that deling would benefit all students is misguided while it's important to ensure that all students have success have I'm sorry have access to high quality instruction we must also recognize that students have different learning needs and abilities a one- size fits-all approach where all students are placed in the same math class regardless of their skill level may result in St students being left behind While others who are capable of excelling are not challenged it's crucial that we maintain opportunities for students who are ready to advance course work who are ready for advanced coursework to continue to grow and challenge themselves I urge the school committee to reconsider any proposal and this proposal and explore alternative solutions that would allow students to pursue math courses at appropriate levels whether that be

048Advanced for those who are ready or with additional support for those who may need the extra help it's essential that we support all students regardless of their acemic level by providing the opportunities and resources they need to succeed thank you all right and I think finally we have a lawn hello good evening my name is Alan Yari I'm a 273 Hollis uh quite a bit of passion this evening this I'm not here to talk about the same subject everybody else has been um I I'm speaking for myself this evening and for several of my neighbors uh although not all of my neighbors I want to make that clear not representing everybody that lives near the high school uh on this evening's agenda is the kfca policy which uh deals with the field and part of

049the way the field is used um coincidentally in this past week one of my neighbors uh was detained by the police uh after trying to go down and speak with the coaches about of what he thought was a violation of the policy uh there's been a uh the policy allows for 20 night game events during the year um not counting night games this past year there's been over 20 uses of the field at night uh and that's why when the lights were on again this past week he went down to talk with them and they wound up calling the police rather than listening to him uh which is part of why I'm here this evening I've spoken with quite a few of the neighbors and the lights aren't the issue for us necessarily um the

050big question is uh what comes with the students being allowed to use the fields at night uh there's a certain amount of disturbance and noise uh when you got a lot of kids out on the field sometimes without supervision at night um it comes with a lot that goes with it um we would like to be included in the discussions of policy that is being uh discussed this evening and otherwise and we ask uh to be included that in the future if you could delay the decisions that you make tonight uh I think that with our input you may find a lot more relaxed of a policy than there was allowing the more use of the athletic field in general um what we really are looking for at the end of the day is respect

051and courtesy from the students and from the users of the field thank you thank you before we move on David you just want to quickly uh address the science credits or do you want to do that later yeah so why you come up to the mic sorry all right so in looking at all of the schedules they brought forward one of the concerns have been about the um the lack of ability to get labs completed for science classes um and in some of the work that we're doing on the back end um to build the schedule what we were able to do um was fix many of the issues that existed with ow school and um our the technical piece um and so we're breaking out the a the AP Sciences so that they would

052have a an AP science component of the AP Labs because matter what schedules you run AP Sciences like if you go across to any schools around AP Sciences have AP lab time built in so we need to consider that in no matter what schedule we offer um if you look at something like right now comparable even though the AP exam is done you have something like it's called like chem apps like right now um and many of the chem students take that so we had to look at doing that and as we build these components we have to see um those impacts across and so when you look at um addressing some of those times I went and spoke with the science teachers and um one of the components that we're going to have to

053have in our schedule no matter what is decided eventually are these AP Labs um and making up some of that time for that to happen so um we were working on building that piece into uh the the AP schedule um and as we do that we have to make adjustments across the board but that's part of this the the build process um and that part was built in and then we made those pieces but the back end the back end of the ab like the the technical piece the back end of the ab has all been built so that's ready to that's ready to go um and then we're meeting with students um next week myself the other admin counselors um in order to go through and look at any sort of give that final

054um here is what we have here is everything everybody needs to look at here's how your schedules are going to look and make sure everybody's on the same page with what they need to do um with their schedules okay but specifically in power school right now any of the AP Sciences might say two credits as opposed to a one credit course5 opposed to one as opposed to 1.5 okay but if you were going to register next year for AP Chemistry or AP Bio it would say two credits right no yes what does the ACT what would that actually look like so that would be all year with the lab component because we have to build that into the we have to build that in no matter what and so we had the part of the

055idea behind the build and the work that has been going on behind the scenes to make this ab work this has all been built out already um like the in the back end of power school that stuff that part's done like the ab build piece that that part's been done um what we have to be able to do is be able to use it and adjust it so that part is there so when they build that so it and then we look at the impact of that across the board against students and so there the the students will have to go on those students and make possible adjustments and then we have about 330 kids who were fully registered um and then those students will they'd have to make adjust to what their requests their

056requests are so are you saying that you would have AP cam every day for the entire year yeah we'd have to pull yes we'd have to have AP cam for the entire the every day for the entire year yeah okay in order to build that out other um 1.5 classes like an AP Statistics or an AP Calculus what would that look so those classes would still be the three term classes um and again the reason for that is looking at the the need for the lab based components across the board and looking at what other schools are doing we have to be able to adjust our credits for that okay so what would it look like that that would be the every that would be every day first semester every other day second semester okay

057can I ask Mr list question was oh hi um I know there's been a lot of frustration for students just because especially those have already like selected their schedules for next year having to go back and change that Chang possible way that the deadline for course selection can be extended to give students more time to consider that yes and just so you know in terms of like the class selection piece the numbers are looking on par with what they would have been in the current in the current like the the uh the students student courses they're selecting look on par from what they did in previous years okay but that's the that's all the backend piece so that part's all been built out great thank you bring you back up and are we ready to

058go back to the consent agenda yes yes what I still would like you to pull so so typically when we have executive session minutes we review them in executive session and then decide if these are accurate and then we say are we going to bring them that and then we so we didn't review them in executive session I didn't bring them up because I thought we were going to be doing that in executive session but are do you have any changes that you want to discuss so maybe yes so can you explain to me what the UR I don't know the backstory of the urgency here so I'm trying to understand why why request for for information about what we discussed so we can hold it one more week because it's going to be till

05910th right unless we have a meeting before then unless we have a meeting before then um so there she's just asking for so again like I I wasn't even able to go like three go through all of them to go oh we're going to discuss these my my understanding was we going to discuss the accuracy of the minutes and then decide what ones we need to keep what what we wanted to retain and which ones we wanted to put out that's okay I mean just if we could C it down to like three or four executive minutes and we took a break before we adjourned for the night do you want to see if you have changes for it or do you want to hold it for two weeks I just I don't I would

060like to hold it but you can vote out not go ahead and vote without me then I'll just abstain from it what if you want to do can can I say something yeah go we can hear you I just so just based on all of that do we have this on our agenda for the next couple of of meetings just to as things move along so that we could possibly vote on whatever we said any agenda yet for the next meeting so we could it be on like for the I don't are we having the third and the 10th right now the 17th or right now we're going to be the 10th and the 17th but we can also I'd like to see I'd like to see something about high school schedule potential vote just

061to have that as a placeholder okay sure so Sarah we were just talking about the executive session minutes okay oh I'm sorry that's okay apologize no is there any reason why they can't wait until the 10th I mean ultimately no it's just that you know the town clerk has asked uh right this my point is if it was that important to get them out why not communicate that separately to us like I didn't I didn't know that and I assumed we were going to talk about the executive session minutes cuz we get a chance to review them for accuracy beforehand and then we're just voting for them I'm like I don't I don't get that like there's no access for me to do that I hear I mean I think the agenda list if it

062was something you wanted us to do then that would have been important for me to know ahead of time that's all I'm saying no and I know the agenda listed a number of minutes but because it's really just three that we're looking to uh release and so there's three of them there's three so I guess what I'm asking can we pull the other ones and just at those three can we get through the agenda or get a little fur further tonight if we take like a break and you have an opportunity to review if you have no Chang it's that important then yes can we just pull out the like the most crucial ones that we need to put out and then we'll just hold the rest of them that's fine we can come back

063to it okay we push those off again we can vote on the rest of the consent agenda if you want no we just we'll just hold just don't let me forget um I just want to there was a lot in public comment today tonight um yep I don't want to lose the fact that personally for me I I believe we should have an April 3rd meeting and I side with Sarah that there should be a decision on the current state of schedule for next year well I think we have to see how conversations play out over the next you know few days I mean totally fair both sides great that's fine but I think it's reasonable to put it on the agenda whether we decide on to vote on it or not it needs to

064be on right now we're not having a neighbor if we have it on there's a potential but it just allows it right for us to have that discussion no no yeah I understand but right now we're we're not going to have an April 3rd meeting so the question is do we have an an extra meeting because we were going to have an April 3rd meeting um but as a budget hearing but that's now on the 10th we have well we already had we we can discuss scheding offline but I I'm saying I'm not I'll certainly put it on our next agenda that we have well I think that we already have an April 3rd we already had an April 3rd meeting in our calendars we already had to be fair Dan the agenda needs to

065be updated cuz it does I understand it was posted before we found out about the uh the and we're already doing heing right hearing on the 10 abely important do it we've heard the community the last two week two meetings all right we we figure out a time to meet so that we can discuss [Music] um Mr your name good evening hello how are you jerio all right all right so let me get my screen shared here my to know I didn't bring my charger CU it was a [Music] no no your speaker on you have to turn the mute on are you [Music] muted here there J M M he's muted but his speaker is still that's weird it's weird I'm muted okay yeah I think you're good now all right talk about an

066entrance right okay um well thank you for having me um so we were just here right I was just here about six weeks ago when we presented our midyear updates we kind of did a midyear update with our principales in our central office um and I was on the calendar to kind of um present and when I was thinking about what to present um one of the things that I was reflecting on is often times when we do our mid year updates it's jam-packed with a lot and what you're hearing is a an overview of a lot of check-ins of what we're doing but what you don't get to hear is kind of a stop of a deep dive into into something in particular so what you're going to hear from me or are two

067pieces where I'm going to kind of take you a little deeper into some meaningful work that I think is really important for you to know as school committee members about some of the work that's happening that I think um really speaks to the sustainability long term of what we're trying to move in the district and although I think you know we just had um some really passionate conversation here about some people that really care about this District um the work that I'm also going to be sharing with with you today also speaks about some of that work that has been 3 four years in the making of people who really are passionate about the social emotional learning the mental health the safet and support of school work that's happening in our district just as well

068um so that's what today's about so um so today one of the things that um what I have on the agenda today is a couple things I was when I first arrived um I'm going to talk a little bit about re-anchoring us um I was really intentional when I arrived talking about safe and supported schools um and I want to re-anchor us back in that language and even though that language never went anywhere I want to reintal make sure that we're using that language because I think it's going to be even more useful as we head into the climate that we're in today the definition of what a safe and flored school is it brings into culmination all of the language that we're going to have to bring together in today's climate um I'm going

069to one of the things that I think is really important for all school committee members to know is exactly what is the safe and supportive School mtss leadership team doing which is a really cross- sector team of Educators um just like we had in the room today of Educators from across all of our schools who are helping me lead this work right um I can't do this alone this is Teachers counselors administrators who are helping move this work um and then I'm also going to kind of give some updates on what is some of the work that's happening that came from the equity audit work and how are we trying to embed this work into the Strategic not just only the Strategic plan but how are we embedding this work into the saving support of

070school work and that's what I wanted to share right because I think it's important as school committee that you have a breath of what that work is looking like and when we did our updates it was more of an overview right so that's really what today's about so um one of the things that I think um you've seen um and this came as a direct recommendation from um not just audit not just from the equity audit but also came from desie when they did a curriculum audit but also when they came and did an audit of student services they talked about the need for us as a community to get better at the way we use data um also as a school committee you guys had asked for us to incorporate data more into the

071work we've been doing and I think if anything we've seen um that we're incorporating data more into the the work that we're doing right and I think it's even evident um as you can see in the slide progression our last presentation midy year you saw all of our principles using data in the conversations you saw them targeting the way that they're measuring their work that wasn't happening two three years ago right that to me tells us we're progressing towards that work that is what we the work this meaningful work that is the progression in the right direction so framing the shift um and it's not a shift like new shift but it's a I want to recalibrate the L language we're using safe and supported schools is a language that's used all the time but

072I want to make sure when we use it in this space we're using it in the right direction one of the things that's important and I think when once this PDF is put back online you guys probably have it that that PDF document should link you to the Desi document um the Desi framework for safe Flor school does a really great job incorporating the concept of equity Mental Health Data leadership all into their framework right basically what it says is it in order for a school district or a school to live out the vision of a safe and qued school you have to incorporate all five of these elements into practice right in many ways when I arrived in this District three and a half years ago director of and Equity many people were like

073what does that mean I was really intentional and saying to me what it means is I need to help our district move towards safe and supportive schools now you never arried there right there's never a rubber stamp that says you're are now safe and supportive move on like you're like you're a grade a stake right you never just arrive there it's always like an ongoing mission to always strive to be a safe support of school right but to me I think as we move forward as a school committee as a as a community we this should be the language we use and as we move together in a in a culture as a society as we start to use this language and we think about how do we embed the equity work that the equity

074audit called us to do as we think about mental health andal we need to purposely utilize this language of safe safe and supportive schools and instead of siloing this language this language allows us to bring it all together so as I move forward and I start doing presentations instead of me doing one presentation you'll you know instead of having a let's say a separate school committee presentation where today I'm going to report out on the equity work and then another presentation where I report out on Mental Health to me my presentation should be on safe supported schools where I report on on all this work happening in an embedded way using this framework as how this guides our district so I just wanted to reenter that so it provides for us a framework of how

075we speak about this word so so in many ways you might ask so how does this look like well it starts by to be honest me chicken scratching on a white board and this is what this looks like it's it's it's in many ways if people have worked with me um in many ways it's me whiteboarding and I'm I'm those are buckets and I'm kind of like chicken scratching and I'm thinking about like all the resources I have and then you have desie up top and I'm in I'm taking that the equity a steering committee I'm folding them in into possibly this leadership team and then I have students at the bottom and I'm saying how does how does Rams advisory help me with that right I'm kind of like envisioning how this work comes

076together cuz this work takes Vision there is no standard protocol that says do a and then do B and then do c because if there was you just would copy that there is no standard standardization for how to do it the reality is you have a framework you have your District reality and then within that you bring in amazing people like the team I'm going to talk to you about you've seen this braided concept right so you go from that Vision on the board and then you start to think about okay you've heard me talk about PBIS you've heard me talk about the Partnerships with Leslie you've heard us talk about a data culture you've heard us talk about professional development so each one of those are threads that we start to build across our

077district right and then each of those threads we start to weave together to build a braided rope and here's the thing about that braided rope as we start to build a braided rope the hope is you build that rope across the district that starts to kind of build connections from school to school and then it becomes really hard to break that braided rope but if it just stays a thread and you don't braid that together any one of those threads at any point is bound to break an administrator leaves an amazing teacher who was leading that initiative leaves funding goes away that initiative is gone so part of this mtss work calls us to braid these initiatives together to build them together across the schools to build through lines that then build sustainability so then

078it stands the test of budgets people leaving long-term sustainability which in today's age we must do so this leads us to this safe and supportive team so before I describe this this to me has been the biggest piece that I think is important for you guys to to see this team is is made up of 20 members there's uh this team has ESL teachers direct student director student supports math School Specialists elementary teachers guidance counselors School adjustment counselors uh District curriculum coordinators uh we have EDC specialist May Institute specialist um hings and family um outside Partners sitting at the table um High School teacher montor teacher teacher Spanish teacher from across the district people who wanted to come together and say I care about this work I want to join you but it's voices from

079across the district providing feedback around this work and here's what this does it provides not only a sounding board to me but it provides sustainability right because if if this work is being led by me at any point right I I can almost you lose touch of the work at central office I'm not on the ground every day with students seeing what this work feels like sounds like taste like I need people who are there every day touching each one of those threads providing feedback to say this is how it's working it's not working we need to tweak this we need more resources Etc that's what this board number one does this board also starts to provide feedback around when things are going well when they're not going well it also starts to provide feedback

080around I can't tell you how many how many times I'm getting emails for new products new this new that we should try this this board also starts to provide say that we don't need new we need to get good at what we're doing right it provides a a a like protection around what we're doing so this team is a cross-discipline team it provides uh ideas and thoughts around professional development into the Future IT enhances the team and I think one of the pieces that's important to acknowledge is every single school and you heard it probably when they presented has a similar team so every school has a similar team they may call it something different but it's operating in their building because every single team is operating those similar threads in their building helping them

081move the work in their building but here's the thing every building is working hard to move it in their building and their building and their building what we also needed is how do we make it work across our district right we need that braided rope across the district and and think about it if each one of you right knows how to work your system best within your homes but imagine we're trying to build something across all of our homes everyone needs to have the autonomy to figure out this is going to work in my home but not your home but how do we build something across each of our homes that's the hard part so as a as a district it is my role to help them help us unite across the district for efficiency

082for systemization for professional development for funding for all that work while giving them autonomy for for cultural pieces for efficiency to give them what they need at the school level while the Systema while systemizing that's what this team is meant to do but it also to be honest invigorates them because they feel that efficiency to say we have ownership at the at the like the local level while also providing feedback at the higher level around where we go right the other piece I wanted to share is that they we each as a team we crafted our mission and although I won't um read it but for those that are that are home or watching on YouTube you should be able to see it um and you might be able to see it on your screen

083I just wanted to highlight for you while I take a drink of water the things that are highlighted in color are to be the things that the people in the room felt that were the strongest messaging um in the mission statement and these are the things that the people in the room felt were um the things that resonated with those in the room so I'll just give you about 30 seconds to just see these are the things that I think we are most passionate about that we're working towards and I'm going to go for so the other thing that we did um is unlike a strategic plan we did a logic model and um for those that are unfamiliar with a logic model so a logic model is basically um we we kind of put

084on paper all of our inputs so all of the things that we're doing we then um we then said okay if we do all these things what are the things we should get out of it so almost like a computer like if you feed it all these things what should we get out and then we said if we get these things out what should our what should our shortterm what should our shortterm outcomes be what should our midterm outcomes so like six year six months to a year year and a half to two years 3 years and as a group we came up with these now it is going to be overwhelming so we call this our social emotional gumbo and this is what this is what this looked like and this was an activity

085of like poits all over the wall okay um and but but for them and for us not it was overwhelming but it also was enriching because we got a chance to see all of the work that we were doing but also to see this is where we want to be in three years right so I'm not going to have you look at that chart and we'll look at this chart so here's what it is in a short shortened way the short term we want to have mtss structure which is structures in place that we can measure across all schools in across the district right but the midterm which is in a year and a half to two years this is where we we want to start seeing decreases across the board right and and this

086is what if you'll notice that pink at the bottom then I want to take a second to highlight because when you when we when we measure when we put that logic model out when you when you start creating goals that people have that people get a chance to kind of like um Envision together it actually starts creating creativity because they got a chance to voice the goals together and create goals so that last and I and I purposely did it in pink it says improved HPS adult staff Wellness systems perspective approach in other words let's not just do one andd around staff Wellness like let's all get in a room and let's like do yoga for an hour now go home now do you feel better this meant let's take a systematic approach to how

087we create Wellness among staff because our data tells us people are stressed right so like let's take a systematic approach to that and this is what they said so and I'm going to come back to but you don't have the slide because I just literally did this today um because I never stopped working but um I literally got this email yesterday and I just literally wanted to share with you I asked for permission from the staff member and I created this slide because I just felt like this spoke so much to um what having a goal creates so I had a teacher sent me this yesterday and it says um just yesterday I received this email this teacher was reflecting with a colleague not as a part of this initiative just because she cares deeply

088about our staff and our culture her question was simple hey Jerelle why don't we have why don't we just create a wellness bucket like the buckets we created in our Initiative for our Educators in previous districts I saw teachers leading after school sessions like yoga mindfulness y Zumba and it's made a real difference in morale and culture and and I and then I said and what moved me about this idea is that is that she wanted to make it one of our buckets this wasn't prompted this was her talking with a colleague 4 weeks after we had this meeting she was still thinking about how she builds a better District based on a goal that we had created in a meeting she was still she was still like churning on how do we build a

089better district from a goal we had created and from a an objective that we had made in a meeting together so then she said could is this something that we could add and measure to think about how we improve our Wellness across the district Jerel do you think there's something here we could build into our initiative in our leadership meeting she sent me this yesterday I said to her I think this is something we could do let's meet on let's meet on Tuesday I said Monday and she said well that's a day off I said okay let's do Tuesday right because we don't we don't work on Monday right so um am I right about you guys are looking me right we don't we don't have school on Monday right okay okay all right thank

090you I I saw D looking at me right okay so um it's yeah so um so I said so so and saying that thank you Ashley for leading from within right reminding us that if we focus on the right work like the work doesn't stop and I just I I just wanted to share that because in US literally creating a goal in in having Educators in the room 3 4 weeks later she's having a conversation it leads to a thought and initiative of something that she wants to create in a school she told me that she had had a conversation about this with another administrator just yesterday she pitched the idea and I think it's something we could do right this is like this is the work um and and think about the Buy in

091long term of it if these ideas come from our Educators they're not coming from from me the administrator it's more likely to have buyin more likely to be moved more likely to be sustainable right this is in in in actuality the long-term sustainability of leadership work leadership sustainability work of this work coming together so just wanted to point that out so how do we move this work those were the goals how are we bucketing it we bucket we we're now those those were the the outcomes we want to see we're putting it into three buckets the three buckets are mental health tier capacity building social emotional support alignment so how do we align the work and then data progress monitoring so those are the three buckets that are happening in the room got my papers

092out of order so those are that's the work happening in that in that uh MTS mtss align work so now um I want to share some of the work happening in the equity recommendations and as I said as I move forward outside of today when you see me do presentations I won't have like a separate document that says these are the equity recommendations they will be embedded within but um one of the things I wanted to share because I think that when we talked about and and shared when I when we did our presentations I wanted to make sure that the community understood this in our midyear reports and even our strategic plans one of the recommendations that came from the um Equity steering committee that we shared in last June was we incorporated all

093of the recommendations into the Strategic plan so they actually all are in the Strategic plan but one of the things we did was any of them that found them way that found themselves in the Strategic plan they're let out with the initials EA and they're bolded so you could you may not be to see in this picture but I right under in this bullet it does say EA so anyone who ever wants to go back to cic plan or to the the like the word document that Dr Cusco also puts together any of them that came from that recommendation from the Ser committee you will see them in EA right and that will be the document that anyone can go and see how we progressing in that I just wanted to make sure the community

094understands that that's a place where we could go see that recommendation so but that was a recommendation could we make sure that those make them into into the Strategic plan and they did another recommendation was could we start to move the district in a space where we are using data and um that we're building up our data usage and integration and as I said that is 100% happening not only is it happening in the way we're using it but we're we've been building um our data literacy and building um our professional development amongst all of our Administration um and using that time this year and also um our our curriculum our curriculum coordinators and our other uh staff members have also been building up their data literacy as well and using that to drive interventions

095across the district as well so that's been happening um we've also been working on data processes and protocols on how are we going to be using data it's one thing to just have data tools it's another thing to think about how do we actually use data um and what are the protocols that we will use when we're actually driving um tools for use of that data as well the other piece that was also really important is that um the recommendations around the equity audit didn't just sit in the house of the director of sale and Equity so if you go if you actually go into the Tre plan um there was recommendations that were also for teaching and learning there was recommendations that were also fell into other like other departments also owned recommendations within

096that work as well so um I just wanted to point that out for the community as well um another reality of the recommendations is um when I came back this year um the reality of I tried to reconvene the team people were stretched really thin this year it's been really hard to reconvene the team this year um I've tried several times to bring the committee and and I add to survey that committee and what the committee told me um one just because of attendance but two they the capacity was not there this year to be able to meet in person so what the capacity what the team was able to tell me was that they'll be able to continue to meet and provide feedback but they just wouldn't be able to meet in an in

097person way um so what I've been able to do um I personally had two things that I've had to move um move in a sense like two projects that I'm working on myself um and they were updated in the midyear um in the midyear goals that we said and they're slated for updating this March one is um respond the responding to hate and bias protocol and what I've been doing is I've been updating that protocol I've been having stakeholders giving me feedback on that protocol and I the next part is to bring back the steering committee virtually because they're unable to kind of come in person to give me feedback on that protocol I'm also working and I forgot to there was a picture in there um this year I actually took on an intern

098um it's so this year I had a student intern um and that intern is helping me um also create a safet and supportive student board um that I'm hoping to launch as well to have like a student side to provide me feedback on like sa Board of school work but one of the reasons I also want to have a student board is to also provide me feedback on things like a a protocol um so I'm also looking to have students provide me feedback on like a responding to hate and bias protocol because when things like a hate incident occurs um it affects adults and students equally so I want want to make sure that if we get to place where we have to respond to um hate and bias that that's been given I've had

099feedback from hate from students and adults um the other P the other protocol that I'm working on is the equity decision making checklist both of those were in the presentation I did last May um that checklist was more about um what would we want any review team to it's almost like a checklist of things we want them to go through before they make recommendations um you know they looked at data that they've crosschecked this that they've thought about unintended consequences that they've thought about um that they've looked at all these perspectives um that checklist is more for adults um so that would be one that I'm most likely going to be bringing to our curriculum leads to make sure that they get a check get a look that and they give me feedback on that

100either one of both of those protocols my goal is to bring it to this school committee for this spring um for final vetting and then to have those protocols go uh and be active for this upcoming school year um would be the hope of those and then as we move forward into the future would be for the equity work to be embedded within my uh safe and supportive mtss steering committee work and then as I move forward the equity Works going to be embedded within all my safet support of school work and then that's the update was to go deeper into kind of both of those spaces and then to kind of frame our work so as I head forward into the savings for school work so we had that fra we would have that

101framing moving forward so with that if there's any questions how how can we as a school committee support better support the work that you're doing is there input that you would like for us to see because we also impact the system as well right so well you talk about um how we can build buckets like we have a lot of influence on those buckets too so is there interest in having school Committee involved in those teams or yeah um you don't have to answer it right now it's more of like a just a thought yeah I I think so with challeng in is and I think um I think I need time and I say this respectively anytime um school committee school committee has like Authority and it comes with like um not rules but

102um rigidity and I don't mean that in a negative way but like there's an authority to it and I think there is this Flex there is this like authentic flexibility to that mtss team because it is their space that I that like I've created that team to be like this is your space where we bring the mess because it has to be a space where they can bring the mess and they can bring the like I can't stand this about this thing right like they have to be like it has to be an authentic space where they could just be fully honest about what's working and what's not and I would wonder right could they be fully honest about that stuff with um with school committee at the table right because I think that um

103all even the conversations we've had today right about the passionate discussions we've had today um I don't know where the culture is um for you guys to be at that table right now not to say we can't be but I think there's there's there's work to build that sounds fair and if there are opportunities for your team to Showcase some of the work that they're doing um and you feel comfortable inviting us please do 100% yeah or vice versa that maybe we need to hear more from you about how the decisions that we make are impacting the work that you're doing yeah so we have that feedback yeah 100% in in terms of with the mtss some of the target outcomes things stop sharing and leave it up I'm sorry yeah um increase family engagement

104or reducing bias in sports what are some of the things your team have just talked about in order to get there incre family one of the things working for instance the reduced bias of sports so one of the things we started with um and I'll give uh principal list credit on this one is that um uh his athletic director and uh Dr Kusa and principal list attended some trainings with MIAA around reducing hate in sports um they then had Northeast Institute against hate um came and did some trainings with their coaches one of the things I was going to do with our this leadership team was leverage some um Mental Health Equity funding to think about how to systematize and train some of our staff so we would have some in-house ability so we wouldn't

105have to go longterm and have to go find others to have that capacity so in other words um we'd want to get to the place where in the holl and public schools it's an expectation where all of our coaches know how to handle when hate occurs on the sports field right so we'd want to but we want to own that ourselves in other words like us all of us know how to do that training and we could do that for all of our coaches right now um we had to bring in trainers right so what we're thinking about is how do we become trained in any of those Concepts so that we can do that into the future building the long-term sustainability of that so we kind of um have that capacity so that's what

106that piece is is to work with probably Northeastern so that we can kind of um build that up that skill set here um and then longterm we can kind of build that up within our coaches with our athletic programs um and have that expectation and but I already start like it started but build the long term of it and then the other part the part about increasing family engagement what were some of the ideas to so some of those ideas for instance is I don't know if you saw that but um um there's an upcoming next Wednesday um a flyer went out to the community about um executive skills executive functioning um so that's one example um that's coming from some of the like seal funding that I received from Desi um around executive skills

107so it's around um you know providing more um uh family engagement opportunities around anxiety executive skills mental health um things but being purposeful um around all of those what the data is telling us um but leveraging our team to come up with some of those ideas and suggestions right because I think the other piece too is um I'm one person so it's also if I have a team how can my team help right and that actually could also be when you said how can we help mhm that's another piece of how can we help is like how can how can we spread the work of that as well um because when we think about mental health when we think of some of these pieces these are all of our kids right these are all of

108our families so um how do we kind of expand how we get families in the door right when I think about just yesterday Stephen Hill was here that was around mental health that was around I think even substance abuse right so how do we do more of these things um we got to connect with more families we got to connect with more students um as of I think yesterday when I looked I don't know if that many will show up but I think there was like over 100 family signed up for the executive skills um Workshop I don't know if that many will come but that's a lot a lot um but that might tell us like there's a lot of interest in that area right so things like that I have a big p

109big picture question then kind of a little picture question but so the big picture wondering if you can um help me understand like how does this fit into our the rest of the mtss so how do the social emotional and um behavioral tiered supports fit in with the academic supports kind of integrate to support the whole child in Hollen yeah um yeah so I you know what I would say is um so I mean I I think number one um each of our schools have an mtss model Happ happening that they you know fully operate right so um number one we're working at the district level to data was a big missing piece of that um we as a district had not built up our we didn't have data practices built up so how do

110you have an mtss model when you don't have data to leverage in that our each of our schools have for a long time had an mtss model in full operation I think one of the pieces that I think um um has been happening this year um and I know Joan's been working with her curriculum leads is they've been definitely leveraging her curriculum and she probably could speak more of that her curriculum coordinators have been pushing in and doing interventions um I don't want to speak for her since she's nodding her head maybe she could speak to that but um they've been doing um interventions um around that ncss model um um around that piece so I I definitely know that that's happening on their side I know on my side um the mental health side

111we've been kind of fully going on the mtss side like this piece for about two three years now because of desie has been really intentional on their acmy that they've been offering so like through PBIS EDC we've been doing the mtss model for a while um but I know Joanie and a lot of her people have been doing that for a while so she probably can speak more to that I'd be a Miss if I spoke for her so and I think we'll get into that in our update I don't want to give away like all the detail I'll have specific details and data for you for that I was just wondering it's so linked for kids so AB power combining them yeah absolutely so my my little question kind of goes with us is

112that um when you visit classrooms what are the changes that you're seeing um for in the instructional experience for kids or if we're not there yet what are the changes that you're hoping to see yeah um well some of the changes I see well it's funny cuz some of the changes I see is sometimes you'll walk in and they're actually doing an SEO lesson so that's a direct change that was wasn't happening always um for instance what was it um when we did a walkr at Miller I just happened to walk into one where they were doing a ruler lesson and the teacher was acknowledging um that you know it was okay to have emotions and was acknowledging her emotions it was modeling for the students her emotions and that you know um I think

113it was a Monas story classroom and they were all kind of like journaling emotions Etc so they were doing like a ruler lesson um but if it was a regular classroom what I want to see um especially like for instance if we're using ruler is at any time it can be embedded into anything you do for example um it could be eded into a school committee and maybe we can do ruling here someday so um we transition from a really charged meeting to me right that transition we could acknowledge the emotions that needed to be transitioned we could acknowledge the emotion that was in the room we could acknowledge the the the the charged meeting we could name the emotions that needed to be named um but we probably would have had to do some

114pre-work so that people understood the language of emotions in the room there probably would be some education that occurred if this was like a younger classroom if there's an older classroom and you came up through our system you probably would already have the emotional vocabul language Etc but that would be built in already to my lesson if this was a uh a chemistry classroom this was a super hard lesson that I know all we kids struggle maybe I build this into my classroom that I know that when I bring this lesson kids struggle and I'm ready to have some type of emotional language built in right so I say that to say I want to get to the place and this is where my mtss team is is really helpful that as we get better

115at doing this work we can start to think about where this integrates and how or they can say to me we're not doing this well what do we need right we're about to just in the next coming weeks start talking about what PD do we need to do next year this is where that team helps me come to the table and say hey jerielle this is the kind of PD we need because we're doing this well and we're not doing this so well and this is where like they start to help inform me that gets to your question around I see this and to be honest like anything like any boss you walk into a space of some sometimes like anyone sometimes you see what they want you to see right sometimes also an Mt

116like this team will sometimes say hey I know you sometimes see it's not happening all the time right so like I think this team also will help me give me real honest feedback to be honest with me and tell me like it's not always happening all the time we need to get better at that too um so I'm seeing evidence of it I see um because also this work isn't always about what you see it's also about how students experience and how they feel it's also about the structures we have in place it's also about routines um because this is about systems and structures as well one of uh your midterm Target outcomes is about increased sense of safety yeah do you get the sense that our students don't feel safe in hallon public schools

117um no I I actually would say from the for instance for the climate surveys we've had for the past years I would say a good majority of our students do feel safe um I mean have the data in front of me for instance but what I would say is um in any school district for instance um there's always some students who don't uh and what I would say is that if there's ever students who don't I'd always want to work to make sure that those kids who don't do right um for instance um and I'll just give you one data point um for instance if like I think it was let's say 24 now I just give you a data point this has nothing to do with safety but let's say 20 let's say 20%

118of our kids feel anxious in our schools right then that means that I want to make sure that I can decrease that 20% so if I EXT extrapolate that for safety even if 10% of my kids feel unsafe then part of my SE work would be how do I decrease that so this work is about decreasing our our climate survey actually does say a good majority of our kids do feel connected to school but our data says that as kids get older they actually feel less connected now that's true about most schools so younger kids feel connected as kids get older they feel disconnected I also feel that why does that have to be our truth right like there's a part of me that feels we should keep working at that and why does that

119have to be the truth of holl and public schools there's a developmental part that says kids are also going to be kids but there's a challenge in that to say like we can actually continue to work at that and why couldn't like if it's 75% of like if there's 30% of our kids at the high school who don't feel connected to an adult at hollon high could we decrease that to 25 and the next year could we decrease it to 22 that's the kind that's what I mean by that so moving forward um that's a goal for us is like every year how do we have more kids feel connected and less kids feel unsafe does that make sense but I also don't want to litter a data like a presentation full of data either

120what are some of the measures that you're looking at so we would look at um climate and culture surveys we'd look at the menal West Health survey um we'd look at attendance data um we would look at discipline referrals although we don't have discipline referrals like the jump out the page per se um we would look at um probably would start there we also would look at um adult because we we we when we do climate and culture Serv we also do like staff surveys we' look at that as well and we've also done family uh climate surveys and we use those as well um because those also like pulses of the district as well um and we start there anyone else thank you very much thank you thank you great thank you shifting to

121other charge topics policy um okay so I have um actually I'm going to pull um jld medication for tonight um there was a yeah anyway there was a snafu so the policy was supposed to be was approved by Dr zlat but then there was like a dangling section where that we weren't sure we were supposed to keep that section or pull it out so and Brenda Barton can't get back to me till tomorrow so I just figured we just pull it for the next meeting um AC start with acab yes of course I didn't print that one can we put it up on the screen is that possible my computer's dying I printed that you know what I can put it in front of you too sorry so which one AC sexual harass so um

122it's actually just kind of a carbon copy of our Title 9 policy so um I'm not going to read through the whole policy because it's it's a it is an established policy it's not a new policy um but it is mimicking exactly what Title 9 is now and it does the only thing that's different from it is it says it names the director of doesn't give her actual name but it says the director of student services there's no actual difference from our Title Nine so um if you've all looked at it already then we can just approve that change cuz it's literally a whole sale like we had to just cut and paste what was in there into our own policy can I remove the question down by policy yeah the question marker says it

123is that does is relevant I did say that it is just cut cut that out I don't have oh yeah I do okay I'll pull it I can also just tell Lisa to take care of it okay which I did but she wasn't on why am I not signing in my computer won't sign in it's okay okay so um does anybody have any questions about this policy it had to be updated by law so there's no editorializing within the policy it's strictly just um following what the law is and then we just added that director of student services so I will entertain a motion to approve the amendment to AC a sove uh that requires a roll call vote Frank yes Hillary yes Joe yes Cynthia yes Don yes Sarah we put the volume off

124um uh BG I can actually have that one printed so you don't have to I just had I had PR them all I must have dropped one and I'm a yes okay thanks um the next is um policy BG school committee policy development so this one um the reason why we're updating this policy is because we were trying to reflect the work from the town side that they did on um envisioning future Holliston and wanting to talk about how our policies need to reflect our our mission our values Etc so we just want to make sure that as we develop policies for our community we make sure that they reflect the values missions and Mission and strategic plan of our HPS community so I added in the green and I'll just read it out loud

125just the green section well it's for me it's green maybe it's pink for you um so in the second paragraph I we added uh the policy development process will reflect the mission values and strategic plan of the HPS Community HPS committed to providing a safe and supportive environment where every student can Thrive academically socially and emotionally so is there any and just to be clear we're not this is not tying us to the town it's just simply no it's just reflecting what you know what we believe our current practice and continuing practice should be it's basically codifying what we're already doing sure any questions concerns comments okay I just ask you to look at the wording of the first sentence just as policy is the primary responsibilities I I think you should say one of

126the primary responsibilities yes it should maybe something got cut off one up I'll make sure that Lisa makes that change uh Hillary just it's one of the primary legal or something I don't know resp change anything else so that just got cut off somehow all right so um I'm how about changing the policy review date to today 2019 I'll just change that real quick yeah I just put amend it on okay I usually don't do that until after we do it I S off to her okay so I will a motion to approve uh the amendments to policy BG uh school committee policy development so second Frank yes Hillary yes Joe yes uh Don yes Sarah yes and I'm a yes thank you um and then policy um EA on Transportation of students um I

127know that we had pretty recently yeah we did in December updated this policy however because then we voted to put both both um Miller and placentino together we had to change the language because we had started saying like K1 and two as a grouping and then you know 3 four five as a grouping so we need to just edit you know and change that revise that language so that it was reflecting um that change that we made um so if you can see the highlighted portion um in the bullet points um mention um a designated uh walk Zone um in the second bullet point and there's an added third bullet point that says grades K through six who live outside of the designated walk Zone and 2 miles or less from their school will be

128subject to a transportation fee that's following state law but the designated walk zone is something that we've created um or I should say the district has created the the Administration has created with um Dr Jordan um and Kim sexon uh along with holes and decided on a an area that will be designated it's called the designated walking Zone obviously and um that will live at you central office so that people can see where they are and that that there's like an actual map that shows where that designated walk zone is and so those people that are in that design walk Zone will not be eligible for transportation but anybody that's outside of that would be put onine publishing it yes we're publishing it yes just a quick so why are we going K through six

129rather than K through five just think the schools right the sixth graders in the uh because K through 6 is where we're legally required to provide transportation no no I mean but for like as far as the designated walk Zone oh oh that's for the transportation fee I'm sorry okay it's for the fee um AR the exception of those living in the Des the designated walk zones are by Schools they're by schools that's schol there's a high school specific one that's 9 through 12 and then there's or it should say technically it says it's 7 through 12 but but yes okay so all all children in each school will be treated they have a designated Zone yeah there's a Zone a and Zone B essentially as long it's not weird like the sixth grade Adams

130kids are different than the seventh and E so it's fine um and then there's uh grades 7 through 12 are entitled transportation services with the exception of those living in the designated walk Zone according to the HPS Transportation Maps available on the district website um to the school as determined by the superintendent and or should say their designate sorry I'm going make that change um grades 7 through 12 who live outside of the Disney walk Zone will be subject to a transportation fee and that is the only change that we made from December okay any questions comments concerns okay hearing none I will entertain a motion to approve the amendment to um policy EA Transportation student okay okay a roll call Frank yes Hillary yes Joe yes Cynthia yes Don yes Sarah yes and I

131am a yes and then lastly um we do have the policy about um the operation of town uh Tower lighting for committee and field policy kfca um and I know that we had a neighbor that came to speak about his concerns about the policy it wasn't so much about actually the lights itself but about being respectful of noise Etc and we do clearly state within the policy that we need to we have requirements by the town bylaws in terms of sound of noise and that when we talked in policy subcomittee with um uh the athletic director Matt Baker and Mr list um we talked a lot about making sure that our students understand that when we have the lights going that we have to be respectful of our neighbors um but I think one of

132the issues of why they brought this forward is because now in Tri Valley a lot of this the the schools are ending later and the day or they're starting early starting later and so they're ending later so it's just making it necessary for us to be able to use the lights more than we had in the past and that's going to continue so having us say that we're only going to have 20 events and it was 20 events was meaning actual um games it wasn't including practices so that was the idea about events but we felt that that was not really practical at all to have a number but that we need to be mindful that we only use it as we absolutely need to um and that we that is reflected in the policy

133and what I would say is that I think that for any of the neighbors like Mr Yari or others if they have concerns about um how the policy is being implemented that they need to talk with Mr list and our Administration about what things we can do in terms of um making sure that we are being respectful of our neighbors at all as much as we can be I mean um but they do live near a school so we can't change our location so and schools tend to to do things that schools do yes yes yes and we and we we have are going to have games and we're going to have practices but we're not I don't think that it's used being used excessively or unnecessarily um now if they have issues around noise

134and we can't control people who are driving down the road and beeping their horns just because they feel like it um but we do actually put in our policy that they're not allowed to use air horns and any of those kinds of things are already existing in the policy so um I just I just want to I'm just read the section of it just because I want to reiterate to to folks that um it's already in the policy but except during urgent or unforeseen circumstances tower lights shall not be illuminated Beyond 9:30 p.m. on week nights and 10 p.m. on weekends um and however in all instances they should be turned off at the earliest time practicable no later than 1 half hour after the contest ends so I just uh I feel like we're

135trying to be really reasonable and we also make sure that we're only allowing the lights to be on for um Holliston Public Schools teams we have been approached in the past by a number of outside organizations that want to be able to use our fields and we have said no because we're trying to be you know mindful of our our neighbors so um looking into that but but I think one thing is can we find a way to communicate this to our neighbors I know we've done it I don't know if there's a way that we could set up either an email box that people could could send concerns if they have them I just you know it's it's I don't want them they have to call the police because you know the lights are

136on uh so I I have heard concerns from Neighbors that compressed air horns and other electrical devices have been used uh under Section six uh it says that actions will be taken as deemed appropriate by the superintendent or the superintendent designate have there been any actions that have been taken to prevent that or to remedy that I would say that they would need to be reported and I've not gotten anything reported and so if they are reported to David uh Mr list or reported to myself then that's something we can address but um I think if if you've heard from from Neighbors or you've heard from people and they have some explicit examples um they can for that on to either myself or Mr list um you know to address that all right thank you

137but they have made sure to say you know like we talked about um Matt Baker had said that you know kids used to be able to put like they put the music on and they say you know we're going to have to face that a different way or we're going to have to turn it off at a certain time so they he's they are being mindful of it but I think that we're reminding them that we need to be mindful of it is important too so do you think it's worth throw a letter to to the neighbors just sort of giving some information what to do if or what we what you know suggestions to I mean again it seems well that's what I'm saying is that if there is if they have concerns they

138can they can contact right so what I'm saying telling them that that's how they can yeah do that so they don't call the police well they I mean I they can always call the you're not you're not taking that but if they feel like they have an alternative way of of reporting it maybe they don't I don't know that they do have another way of reporting it other than to Mr list you mean in real time well if someone blows an air horn they're never going to you know they're not going to in real time you know by time the police get there the person will have more than likely gone anyway so it's hard to fix it through policy right that's it it's not something we yeah I can't there's no way that it's

139an Enforcement issue we already we already have to have a police detail there when we expect um you know like when we have big football games and we're required to have you know police presence anyway and that's part of the policy already but I don't know I mean I've lived in hon for 15 years I have roosters in my backyard so I have blackout Shades and I have white noise machines because otherwise no no I'm not I'm not suggesting any sort of enforcement I'm just suggesting that if we communicate how they can sort of report something so at least that they feel like if something's going on they have a mechanism for there's youth events sometimes there's right it's not just a school no no I'm just but just if people feel fine no I

140I I actually thought that he was still going to be here for this so I you know but that's it's okay okay I wasn't planning on giving them your cell phone like you know no you know you can report inent said you can set up an inbox text David or we can just put we can just put text David List well I just I also just want to remind folks that like one of the reasons why we got like that whole back stop and everything was because there was like what balls going into other neighbors as I mean we needed the new de back stop but but it does protect some of that as well right I mean it's there's there's things that we've done you know pretty systematically to make sure that neighb communicating

141with our neighbors a mechanism for them to communicate with us do you me as a I don't know I'm not asking I'm not asking you no no no sorry I I I didn't mean this to you I mean was more for uh for the administration to think about something about sure well then they can think about yeah sure I think if it was if it's a high school event they should reach out probably to Mr Baker right or Mr list I think the hard ones are going to be if it wasn't our event we'd have to let the rec department know they look up but they're not allowed to have lights but that's that's what I'm saying though it's about noise and that's not with covered really I mean it is covered in policy but

142it's not part of the policy it's about lighting staying for what it's worth my suggestion would be to go and run in a Butter's list at the at the assessor's office get a list of our our neighbors and just send them a letter about what our policy is linked to ourc our policy and here's a way to to report an issue or contact somebody and and it does not need to be anyone's personal email address or cell phone it can be something you set up just that would that's my suggestion but take it for what it's worth would you like Mr Jordan Dr Jordan to write in as a facilities and operations person is that what we that that's that's that's your uh your call I'm that would be great Dr Jordan or David have

143some or DAV you know I mean he is in charge of facilities after all I'm just saying in operations J Dr J okay so um so can I can we approve this please thanks oh yeah I was going to get there okay I'm just my my trying to move quickly here okay it's already after 9 well what what policy is K kfca so I'll entertain a does anyone have any other more okay I will entertain a motion to approve the amendment to kfca operation of tower lighting Committee in field second Frank yes Hillary yes Joe yes Cynthia yes Don yes Sarah yes sorry know fine I'm yes as well and like I said jlc CD will add to next week's meeting or whatever uh if think it uh now move on to central office uh

144admin update I apologize I'll be right back yeah I just have two quick updates I think to um one is uh I was principal for the day last week at placentino and then yesterday was it just yesterday at Miller and I did have a great day and I did speak to the teacher that Jerry was met mentioning I will say we did have actually ran a yoga program for Staff last year we were hoping to get more people coming to it it was a very small group I'm very open to trying again um I just you know if we we have to try to find people to do it and then hopefully we can get people to sign up because we had a sign up procedure we've talked about trying to do Zumba and mindfulness

145again but I'm always open to trying that to get anything to try to engage staff after school so that's something we certainly can work on further and I just did just want to clear up one thing we keep hearing a lot about that word ding at the middle school and yes um I did give you a um just sort of the timeline of the discussion that's happened the last couple years around that there was a recommendation made based on Equity audit and MTH study group 2D level but then after that we determined we were not going to D so there are still two levels in eth grade that's the way it's been for at least the last five plus years um it the only difference is it's I just want to reiterate because people seem

146to think we're we're taking more levels away we haven't added any levels we're taking the higher level grade 8 math and making it Algebra 1 based on school committee um input and vote last May but we are not deleveling we have not proposed deling any further than just that one recommendation that was not um moved forward so hopefully we can get that put that to rest and continue to have I know that that's something you be talking about later tonight as well Susan can I just piggyback on that just for a second though um cuz CU I've gotten a lot of feedback from folks asking about you know what are we going to are we going to Del we're not going to have math levels anymore we're not going to differentiate instruction and I just

147want to reiterate what is our goal like if our goal is for all of our students feel to have a pathway to get to calculus maybe that if is that the goal and I'm just going to say that from my personal experience I have three kids that have gone through the district they've all had very different experiences um and very different you know aptitudes to math um and all of them have been able to have that pathway to get to Calculus if they wanted to so whether they were taking so I have a sophomore that's been taking with the equivalent of two full years to get through algebra one and geometry but he could take honors Algebra 2 and then also pre uh pre-algebra I'm sorry pre-calculus and then get to calculus senior year if

148he wanted to he doesn't want to but if he wanted to he could do it and I have one that's taking calculus right now he did he did get an honors class in in uh eth grade so I'm just saying like just because it's a different pathway doesn't mean you can't get there so three different kids three different experiences all had a pathway to calculus so I just don't want people to think that they're going to be blocked off the whole point is to open up more opportunity not to close off opportunity sorry juste and I think we get to it later on the agenda too we do yeah we do I'll lose St all right so I want I move on to Joanie yes Joan's going to give a quick PD update from um

149yes March 14th so March 14th we had a very full day I'm going to very quickly go through what was offered so for everyone in all schools we had a landmark training that J spey was able to arrange and then breakout sessions afterwards it was a follow-up session from our January PD that they had with them and Lamark worked with them really on how to incorporate language based support for reading into all contents um and afterwards they had a building based breakout session me go to the next slide placentino Miller also had I ready training they continue that training really looking at now they've had the second Benchmark so really analyzing how they look at the first and the second and compare it and then figure out what the next steps are to support all

150the students based on their growth and placement you can move on placentino and Miller also had some other sessions integrated um preschool obviously at placentino had training in the process for writing IEPs called the bloom method prek worked on hegerty data um that's ronic awareness resource and they had Continuum training unified Arts programs uh K through six excuse me K through five um looked at preparing training for special Educators and Paras and then also curriculum mapping and OT and speech worked on coursework next at Rams we had um math differentiation um for their math lessons OT slps in special ed worked on the new IEP and next generation of special education testing unified Arts um worked on preparing training for special Educators and Paras a lot of special Educators and Paras really don't understand what

151unified arts does so they were doing some training developing training for them they also worked on curriculum mapping and assessments our ELA teachers social studies science L and computer looked at um revisiting and applying Tech updates next um Rams in high school this is really exciting the social studies and some of the Rams ELA teachers were able to have Facing History in ourselves come and present that was funded by the Desy genocide Grant so they really appreciated it um it went very well the high school also had brought in from Framingham State University a writing workshop and that was very well received and they're interested in continuing working with Framingham State hollon High School also the unified Arts worked on common Assessments in curriculum mapping the science technology math and business teachers worked on curriculum

152mapping and special education worked on transitioning services to a new schedule continuing um had their own ped that Jess puts together they worked on curriculum mapping adverse childhood experiences training podcast and reflection work student criteria and transition process and they really are um in the feedback they are loving that they are having this time together the district nurses had CPR recertification training emergency response preparedness medication admin plan they worked on and cyber security training because they missed the other training so they were able to receive it SSP providers just to remind you all those are school counselors School adjustment counselors board certified Behavior analysts School psychologists they worked on Executive functioning skills to promote School Success so I just wanted to thank all the variety of people that put this together it's a huge uplift

153um and we had a lot of great feedback we met with PD console last night um so we will take that all into going into tomorrow we have uh a bunch of us working on PD plans for next year really looking at what the needs are and starting that planning um also Switching gears you asked um me to talk to the teachers High School teachers about Delta math so Dean myself Tina Cordis and Leah Barton were um were able to work uh excuse me to meet with Bob tiffon once and then the high school teachers once and they did a wonderful job of explaining to us what the differences are right now um until we can find out fromel and other platforms that we use if they can do the same thing we will continue

154using Delta math for next year thank you yeah you're welcome so we were able to talk to them um another exciting thing just yesterday our um we had visitors from Denver Colorado to observe our French immersion program so our French immersion program um success is known far and wide and they literally are coming from across the country um I was able to spend a good amount of time with them yesterday executive director principal and a math teacher came they have a um existing K through 8 um Chinese immersion program a Spanish Immersion program and they're starting up a French immersion program so just coming observing observe classes ask teachers questions ask administrators questions so it's really nice to share knowledge and we got ideas from them too so it's a really nice exchange so kudos

155to all the French immersion teachers and Ida Papas for arranging that I'm sorry find us oh there is a group that's across the country I mean there are you know like sealed by literacy groups there's French immersion groups there's you like educator very specific groups and they kind of talk online a lot but um this is I want to guess maybe the fourth or fifth time since I've been here that different groups have come to observe so they're doing a very nice job that's cool that there's more interest in that glad to hear it before I hand off to you can I just I did forget to um ask you I know you had asked um principal Manning to put together just some of the work the teachers have done regarding math and I know

156you're going to have the math subcommittee up do you want me to share what she shared with me at that time or I can share it with you electronically I'm could just sharing it electronically okay I'll send you what I'll putting it together it wasn't 917 well that's why I thought i' least get it to you since she took the time no no that's no I appreciate that um uh this weekend uh is the hollon High School athletic Hall of Fame ceremony um so the uh congratulations to the 2025 inductees so the 2006 golf team uh coach Paul rolls coach Ed monteno uh Joe Fish from 1956 uh Michael uh kassi from 1984 Alison Martin 1995 um Stacy hour 1996 Kim Thalman 1998 Dave duban 2012 and Kylie renen 2015 congratulations to all okay good

157thank you um we don't have any Personnel is uh matters today so we'll go right to the reports of our subcommittees Communications Sarah can we [Music] update sorry sorry that know I don't have an update for now okay py I just did policy so I don't have another date yet meeting in April budget and budget met again today at 5:30 um and voted and we'll do our presentation shortly super Evo nothing more we have another meeting I think next next week next week all right let's get to the good stuff um uh school calendar for 2025 2026 Sol this today we are SAR Sarah Sarah did a great job putting together two trft schedules and I know Dr C has some things she wants to share [Music] um passes around I just I printed out

158um what the would would be with this half day is on there SAR we don't leave until we solve this is this electronic speak for yourself challenge I don't know I it is I it's a puzzle that it's a puzzle and I don't I mean I I know there are things I don't know about how the halfway work I just was hoping we could try and get Summon to try and almost all of the districts around us have a January second off and finish by the 18th so I can tell Mo start on the 17th or even the 16th yeah so I mean there's two things that we have on our plates we have a a number of days for students and a number of days contractual for staff as well so our calendar for

159staff is 185 days students must attend a minimum of 180 days so when you look at the opening day plus four full PD days plus the 180 days for student that's where it's 185 and that works out really nicely now I did talk to the principal as if we stay which we still are recommending for full day PDS and I'll explain more why um it makes sense I mean it definitely makes sense as far as efficiency for PD we've been able to do much more meaningful PD um if Mr vene were here he would tell you the only reason to be able to get the work done around is because with those full days getting we have all these small groups from four different buildings with currently three different schedules which which will go down

160closer to two make it a little easy but you're still not going to get the whole District together when you have half days it just doesn't work at all same thing with par professionals just um plans most of the par professional PD and again with those different schedules getting them all together it limits our opportunity so this year we were able to much more effective PD by going back to the full full now apparently number of years ago there was some request to try some combination of full and half so when they did that you still need to meet the contractual 185 days so there was an agreement and this came from Mr Beday and I may have it somewhere as a side agreement I'm not sure but when the PD Council agreed long before

161us to then if you're going to do a combination went to three full days and then four half days but then when you went to four half days you're actually cutting into more less time on learning for students and less instructional days and you still have the 185 day U contract for teachers that's when the district went to 1 days for students to make up for the loss time on learning and to beet the contractual 185 so anything less than what I propos whether it's a half day or full day we we're still at the same end date regardless however I did talk to the principls on Tuesday in my meeting with them and um because like with the snow days we had one snow day this year one snow day last year um it's

162not ideal but to have the January 2 off I think that we still think that better to go with January I'm sorry June 22nd as the final day which would be a half day knowing that it's pretty likely that we'll have one snow day and it'll be the 23rd would be the half day again there's no ideal here it really gets back to the number of holidays we've added but to meet all of those criteria there's no other way to get that to happen so so Sarah put together an interesting calendar where she split one PD into two and then put one PDD on on on E and um so get say the second off and ending on the 17th I mean could we make I mean could we make 17th a full day for

163students and then could we make the 18th the last day for for teachers so then we'd have to make it a PD day for teachers no just you could have you have the PD day I don't know if I had the so you do three full day PDS and four four half days can we do that yeah that's been the model because the students have 181 days in that model I I I would three full days and and two half days I don't know why you that's a reduction in the in the PD time right now we have 24 hours of PD and in the past mon we about 27 and the teachers have the PD Council six a half day and a half day is days it's not really a half day okay so

164a half plus a half does not equal I'm not so one day it's plus 6 * 3 is 18 it was about when we had the four half days and the three it's about 26 hours for teachers 12 hours for par in either model and it's also um on the four full days it the it's 24 hours so we really C we can't cut into the they don't want to lose PD time the PD Council that's part of the agreement we have with them as well so I did look at both of the other um examples I mean you can I know there was one that you I I did suggest that last year that you could we we had a full PD day in March and we could move it to Eid I will

165say though I don't know how that would be received now given that it was just added I think that could be problematic what if we did I mean what if we did one PD day on E and one PD day on Russia I think that's you're stepping on the third rail of what you're doing yeah but I'm stepping at my own third January day we know because it's one day why wouldn't we consider putting a p on that thing which one January they're not going to come we School we're having school I think that's why I we're having school we're going to have the same is I think we're all in agreement that January 2nd is not a good day to have schools or PD with that rather June 22nd would have to be and

166I please please please I'm requesting for the unified Arts people advocating for them that we would not mess with that November date that's the um voting date just because that's when we can get together with surrounding districts right and provide specialized PD for our teachers there's no voting going on this year no no it's still yeah everybody still does that on the it's a day that a lot of districts right even if it's not a non-presidential election but I don't any share resources timing of it so Frank brought up a idea of doing PD on Friday January 2nd do we want to talk about that how how do people feel about that now we don't move the date June 23rd we're we're having school on January second I agree with Cynthia sorry what was what

167did Cynthia say I want to hear she think it's a bad bad idea what about okay December 24th is a half day but the concern is that it's a bad idea because people won't come is there a certain percentage of students that if they don't come it doesn't count as an instructional day correct do we are we at risk for that on Janu yes there is under state law you have to have you have have C student percentage here so they W and if that happens on January 2nd we add a day what do we do I pretty much we'd be back to um I don't know what happens in that situation I've never been in it okay PDM Memorial Day yes Dad that January 2nd no but that's why I actually Mr list was

168there and there was a consensus from the principales that we we have lemons we're trying to make lemonade and probably the best lemonade would be to still have January 2nd off and hold school on Jan June 22nd was the consent no one's coming on Jan they're not no one's coming on June 2 count they're not coming this year on June whatever it is 2 of kids okay what if we did a half day on December 24th I unfortunately I think people might have already planned trips for that day well they might have already planned potentially January 2nd I guess so I mean I I don't know like which one's a sour more sour lemon well what if thing was to suggest going back into August I said that for teachers for teachers not for what

169about Dan's suggestion of having P days on two holidays but I don't think we should just select you know two of the religious holidays we should to rotate we can rotate year I I chose Russ this year because Russia and yum kapor both fall on on school days this this year so they're both off so and since I'm Jewish I also feel like you know third rail that one right I think it's a bad idea I think if you put out something to say this is what we're thinking about doing for another year that that makes I mean we're also talking about two school day like I get the energy what I will tell you3 the teachers fairly overwhelmingly from the Daya I've seen are are in favor of having school on the religious holidays

170so I mean so that that's also sort of in in the back of my mind much larger conversation though Dan no no I'm not suggesting we have school in the religious holidays I I was I'm not going there right now please I'm just I'm suest suggesting that for p there there is a neighboring District that um does observe religious holidays but did choose to have school on a good Friday I mean not school PD they're doing PD on on Good Friday that's true just and so that's and I did mention that last year when you were adding um the holiday that the teachers can take off you know there is contractual language on that but then it would decimate the PD if a lot of people took it off Good Friday having grown up Catholic

171myself it's a it doesn't start till after noon or whatever it is to but but either way well I would say that i' prefer to desm PD then decimate the uh you know the classroom I mean God qu paying money though that's where that's part problem now we don't know the days no still still if we're we're paying money I'd rather impact PD than impact the you know the student learning don't ser meet that day if but if teachers don't receive the PD that's direct directly negatively impacting student learning and that's the whole purpose of right that's the purpose of PD this is a no- win situation so we have to try to go the least impactful and that okay I'll I'm going to get backlash with this like most things I suggest with no

172easy options this is your time to not say that with no easy options cuz we could argue January 2nd Y and Z how awful would ending June 23rd be it will be June 22nd it'll be June yeah we're just planning for June 22nd well with the snow day will be 23d we don't have a snow it's you're saying don't hold school on on January 2nd and kick school all the way well I mean we need to have a constructive debate we're saying no one's coming on the second what's the likelihood people are going to come on the 22nd just as likely as can we can we go back and talk about the 24th having half day on the 24th yeah that's where I'm at sah and the reason no but the the vacation is going

173to be so long exactly it it is the problem is though Sarah people are traveling they've already booked that they're planning it it is Christmas Eve yeah exactly I get like we should have if we did this 6 months ago probably okay sorry I get it I'm sorry I don't have amazing sound here so yeah no worries Sarah of too I I guess Frank I'm thinking if you ended school on the 23rd the impact is you're either having your um you'd have a final on the 22nd you'd have kids in taking finals well that's only in the case if there is a snow day which no it would last would be the 22nd right now I'm just saying no no no I was sorry I was saying what Susan was saying 22nd yend mhm anticipating

174we'll have a snow day like put the final on the final would be yeah 17th 18th the latest so that's probably the safest situation right now and then you do want to think about like if you're going to make a big change it would be the following year if you're considering all holidays of them yeah I mean I can't I'm not in that state yet I can't imagine people there's probably more travel book for January 2nd then June 22nd no well it's not just even the travel it's just people start camping yeah camps will start then what are the end dates for the other districts s do you have that I know we were sent they do different PD well some don't start till after Labor Day so you matter you're going to find District

175that probably would ended to us and on the 16th but the districts that celebrate Tali and e um are and on the 18th did you have any that started after Labor Day that would go later too I think there's people there's districts that still start after Labor Day so that they um yeah just Franklin and Medway start after Labor Day everyone else starts on the 27th that was the a lot of them have full day PDS on the 25th and 26th yeah so that yeah it just doesn't change the end date to do that right but it Tak I'm going to put probably unpopular opening day for staff could that be a PD day no okay this criteria that we have to meet they get time in the classrooms time in the classrooms reviewing over

176I believe it or not I've dealt with this a long time and I really have thought through we've thought through it's just it's this is just like one of these odd years Frank that it's a little bit so if we're dealing with an odd year and we can't wa this is an odd yearin odd year we're going to be picking this up at the beginning of next school year don't remember the last time we voted on a the end do we say June 22nd I mean I we could sit here arguing and we will for as long the January 2nd half day Christmas Eve none of those are optional or optimal June 22nd not great why is is it because I'll be honest to if we have three snow days next year we're going to

177Mid June so I think we're not going to though I mean my preference I would rather have us in on the January 2nd than have bringing kids in on June 22nd and if we end up with several snow days I we've lose kids who are already gone for camp or already uh left for vacation yeah I just we're not going to have people nobody's going to show up the problem is if we if we have the second and we don't get what is the numbers we have to have to count it as a day I don't know we were just thinking about that because there is a a number I know like if you have the flu and you only have a certain percentage it doesn't count but then we're going to June 22nd anyway

178so exactly i' rather plan this issue came up on was getting I I I think a half day on the June 22 is probably the least impactful at this point because we kind of that's what I'm thinking as well just what what the 22nd the 22nd be the last day okay the January 2nd off January 2nd off yep I mean I I get what you're saying Don I'm a no on that but that's I'm more an easier about this than em know if if we didn't live in New England and we often have one or more snow days I think it's um but that will push it anyway though yeah right like where we're at right now we have a snow day we if we end on the 18th and the last half day is

179Monday uh June 22nd then you're still making your finals um if you bump it into that next week some of these kids have left for camp and I and it they might not be able to make up their final for months after that the concern being though if we don't have enough kids come in on January 2nd absolutely then you might have to revisit what you're going to do for the remaining calendar right and I just I don't know how that works cuz then you're penalizing all the people that showed up on January 2nd I would rather honestly I know we're late but I'd rather tell people when the last days versus take a risk with January 2nd and have to push it anyway right like that I mean to be fair to anyone booking

180a trip right now booking the week right after school snow dates could impact that they all everyone knows that so I again I bite my tongue with this because it's there's no there's not many options actually I like Sarah's draft too but that's just I mean I know it doesn't quite get the full PD we are in odd year so maybe we just have to we just have to deal with the odd year like this is a messed up well this year's kind I know that's all I can say Sarah what do you think sorry no I was just looking for your thoughts too oh um I don't know I think the 22s after late [Music] um I still like half day PS some some of them but if it doesn't it's not really helping

181the situation then I will say though half day PDS just speaking from parents that have younger children you you now create more issues and find child that's why we went back that's why we did that's one of the reasons too that we went back in particular talking about if we surveyed the community gen nothing would be ideal but finding the child care in those days cuz now we're going to have four of them right right so then you have then you have the three full day PD days plus four half days so it's seven days disrupted right now it's the four a lot of other districts do it every single month like they have a half day every single month which can help with scheduling kids appointments and having teacher myself I hated it they

182do that's what I was saying my my kid School growing up had every Thursday was a half day and I had to find day here for just that block of time and you imagine what it's like just for 3 hours every week to find daycare um my other worry about in April 10th and May 5th half day is that's during the mcast uh calendar so that's two last days that we could students and that's tough sometimes I've got a weird idea what if we had a teacher work day on the 18th we did it we did so we did one day on a holiday and take Rush Shan and then if we don't e two half days we have a teacher work day on the 18th but that day is for IEP meetings sorry what's

183the 18th June 18th not all of them but you know like just oh end of year end of year right at the end of the year seriously be a couple of them right what would we do a marathon I mean look the select board holds a budget hearing on a Saturday now and they go through all their budgets in like 8 hours really efficient if we went that way yeah sure everybody I'm a little something Saturday no no I'm not no no hold on I'm not actually suggesting it Saturday I'm just suggesting if we do that the 18th what is that it's not ideal implicate the last student day would be the 17th okay but so where we making up to 180 yeah we're losing a day we're losing a day we're still going to

184school January 2nd what if last students day is 17 we're still going to school January 2nd we have one less student day you've got two half PD days you've got we're going with that you got a PD day on a holiday that should be 180 days a PD day on which holiday I'm going to I'm going to volunteer r no speaking everyone je it's not just you're you can't do a Federal holiday AAL federal holiday State fedal I get the statement two half days are not are a full day but that's not true we need to have four half days to make up one P day so it's it's when it was four half days it was a little bit over what we're getting now the teachers agreed to give that up because what we're

185gaining by the efficiency of getting all these groups together has been more beneficial for Paras and all staff and then less disruptions for students those four half days like I said that just has so all right none of these are any better how about we just get rid of April vacation oh my God we just do a long weekend instead we already have Fe vacation we get rid of that then we gain a couple of days what do we need it for let's just close the schools Cyn I mean I nobody wanted to go with my March pilot so to be fair yeah if we do that we need feedback from the community um we talk about this last year we didn't listen to surveys anyway why are we going to see very close community

186and I would want to hear from but that was the March one I guess we're coming down I get it Dawn Sarah does not like me on this one at least June 22nd least disruptive [Music] it's it's it's a crappy year as it is a crappy year I mean let's chalk it up to that I don't think we found any better Solutions I I suggest we just stick with the schedule proposed and and revisit the following year schedule a lot earlier well yes the that should be with theot earlier that should be with the vote schedule proposed you mean the one where we end school on June and we school on January the one that I'm holding in my hand the one that has going to school on January no sorry no school on January

187I don't know where where is the one where no school in January I have not given you that you wanted me to show you where the half APD no you don't so we would just take we would you're confusing every January 2nd now becomes a day off and then that moves the final day to says draft the I'll tell you okay what about if a teacher work day for IPs on the on the second on that's not no it's not p no it's not but what about all teachers there's a lot of teachers that don't have to attend IEP meetings that would still End School on the 22 still have a school [Music] day whatever um Dan you called this a grenade before but they got rid of non-federal holidays and maybe gave excuse absences

188to students who need to observe can we just talk about the high school schedule can we do it next I think that I I would to much time throw that out there um and I think it I think it needs to be you have to engage the community more on that and really get some feedback and while it might sound ideal that we're going to give excused absences I think you have to understand some of the ramifications of that like games might still be scheduled practices might still occur um don't worry everything's fine if you miss I I just think I there could be some pressure and maybe you'll decide to do that anyway but but I think you should engage the community before it does come down to if not enough people I just

189want to say in the time that I've been on here we've done that probably at least three times since I've been on the school committee where we've engaged with you know doing surveys I know Dr Kusa has one that you just did like what a year ago or something where we asked about this and um it's everything becomes out kind of non-conclusive like everybody has their own pocket so it's pretty split and very strong opinions but there's no consensus dep so that makes it it's paralyzing like you can't move the needle if we're all kind of yeah so it's it is a little frustrating this year sucks okay someone make a motion for something I will make a motion Frank make a motion that we go to school on the second and then we get

190out on the 22nd no school on the second I just say go to what time is it all right I am going to make a motion to amend the not the schedule I think the one that's on the one that's V3 marking January Friday January as a day off for parents or students and teachers and ending the school year on June 22nd Monday 2026 but V3 has an ending you don't you you don't want V3 you don't want V3 I want the one that we reviewed last Meek it's the same one that I had it's the one we were looking at with except changing January 2nd to day off June can we make Sarah has to vote on this can we make sure she knows what schedule we're voting on to be don't so the

191motion is to have no school on the second and push the last school day to the 22nd yes s did you get that keep all other all other stays the same all other holiday stay the same all other holidays and PD days stay the correct right all you have to do is vote the beginning and last day of school you don't have to vote we already voted the first day we just have to vote the so the motion is to to make the last day of school June 22nd on purpose Monday June yes on purpose 2026 on purpose okay move by Cynthia let's go Frank second thank okay that requires a roll call vote Frank yes Hillary Hillary yes C Joe just me Cynthia yes Don no Sarah yes and I'm a no so we

192have something sorry I'm sorry it's not like the happiest I'm not always going to get to yes guys I know it's a crappy crappy all right hold on moving on to the next cheery subject me just our whole time spent on the section was on the the oh my God Mr list is on our schedule to talk about this again I wonder why this is easy but I thought it was just like a you still should know okay this is easy this is it's good stuff this is good stuff good I'm so sorry here you have like do you have electronically for Sarah it's up I think no it's I know that was cruel and unusual let's just make just to all the i in one day one day seriously that was crazy we'll bring

193air conditioning [Music] seriously are you going to walk through this or do we [Music] just where's micro now so um couple things so what you're looking at here um are mostly like name changes and and some movement in the programmer studies um so I'll just very quickly like these something like the first is inro global citizenship the cp1 level already exists they're adding an honors level to it so that's just adding a level to the class that runs concurrently so it's not a new class it runs in the same time um a lot of times in your fine arts department you you are running classes based on your hire and who you have in that position um a teacher left at the the start of the school year we hired a new teacher um and

194his background is more in graphic design and graphic arts um and marketing type work and so actually that is going to connect with our our uh The Innovation Pathways Business program so be able to offer classes there those are classes that existed already we're just bringing those back into uh being offered at the high school um the AP um economics so when you have the AP econom I either micro or macro that has lived in our business I mean in our math department but those are actually listed under social studies as who actually is the the licensed to teach them um so the that's just being the the class still exists it just is different header it's under social studies okay um so that's going to that's where that's just the change in Department listing

195um the English 1112 um so what if you look at the middle uh column there it was four different classes that students all took over two years that run in a cycle um to prepare students uh for what's next in their lives um and so right so here it'll be an English 1112 so instead of just having those four classes cycle it's just English 11 12 and that follows up on a change from last year where the um English classes there were a lot of different um Senior English classes you could take they all had different names and they combined and made English 12 so this just follows in that same vein um the essay writing that class that you know that's the the class that um is the requirement before the end of sophomore

196year um it's a name change the foundations of writing because that's really what it is it's not really just essay writing it's really about note-taking strategies different types of writing academic writing what's expected of students throughout their time in high school um and so that's that's the the name change um the and then as you go down you can see the next two they're listed with um the acronym pltw um so we were very excited I think Dr Kusa shared it that we got a grant for pltw I would compare pltw classes um if you imagine like AP um AP is a network as it's a curriculum Then There are a network of teachers and trainings um that exist and um we'll be offering classes through pltw um and uh said and our teacher has

197gone through uh pltw training the grant funds um equipment uh funds training for teachers um and so those are changing to the names that exist through the pltw program so we already offered architecture technology now it's civil engineering and architecture because that's the pltw name for it um same thing for intro to engineering design um then the uh principles of physics um those are name changes um forensics is a name change again the pltw work just a name change um what's I think what's nice about this is these are classes that we've offered here at hollison for a long time um this then will create eventually as the grant moves forward Pathways for students in this so they can take you know an intro class and then move on to the next level or the

198next and so um that's where the the biomedical science classes will change names um that's those to um climate change climate Solutions versus climate campaign um we talked about the Civic actions before in the financial literacy um and then the final one is the the only new class that that came along um with the with the grant um that we haven't offered is the principles of engineering and it's really a spin-off of the intro to engineering it's so you start with the intro and then you move on to the principles we had done it together in our class but it's it's broken off here um so those are the name changes there um something else that I couldn't really write out because we don't have the signed agreement yet um but we are going to

199have access to the entire I think I shared this before the entire course catalog of UMass Dartmouth online yeah um students will be able them waiting on the documentation from um dment there was a meeting that we had earlier in the year um and we said we needed to just wait till our program of studies and so I'm just waiting on the the final documentation from them but we're going to be able to offer um students the opportunity to take um online classes um it three credits will cost $540 total um and those will be those are transferable credits it's a fouryear yeah it's a huge bargain um it's a huge bargain um and then part of the grant that we got is money to offset for students who can't necessarily afford the $540 we'll

200have um some scholarship money available um for students uh who can't afford that um another ask sorry I just ask is that can you take that on top of your regular course load too or is it run simultaneously during during the school day how does that work so the way it works now for our online classes is that we require in our current schedule we require students to take it as a part of their schedule in the AB Model again it would be a class that they that that they could take um but it it it plays to do it differently I I think one of the cool Parts about this um actually is that students can take summmer classes as well and get credit and it's still that $540 so there's the ability not

201only to take the um the classes during the school year which are online classes um but also take summer classes May master classes so they'll have lots of opportunities to to do that um so that's a really neat partnership there um The Innovation Pathways business um we should hear tomorrow but we were invited to a seminar for people who got the grant we just haven't gotten the official we've got the grant yet but we were invited to the except we were invited to thear was for people who are receiving the grant so I'm hopeful some spam folder somewhere I I looked but I I didn't see it was very we weren't sure what to do with it because we were like do we sign up for it like I or did we get this by

202accident but um supposedly we'll hear it tomorrow but what that does is um we uh the state has different pathway programs for for high school students and um the one that we're starting with is our business program um and so students will have right now students take a business classes it's kind of random you just you take them throughout um here students will be able to start and go through a pathway through business starting with an intro to business class then a Management Systems class um then they have classes in entrepreneurship uh classes in marketing graphic design um and then it ends with um a more extensive internship like we have a great internship program and uh Miss Stone does an amazing job in finding internships for our students um and so anybody who's still

203up and listening we're looking for partners for you know our students who are going to be part of this program um to do internships in business um and we chose business because it's it's a it's sort of a wide swap um we thought we'd be able to find Partnerships where some of these Pathways we talking about like manufacturing like that's a harder thing to find so we wanted to be able to uh bring in as many students as possible um so students will be able to follow through in that pathway and it ends with I said that internship and then a Capstone where they're doing a full project um that they then present to the community um additionally as part of it um the UMass Dart myth were're we're not eligible for what's called Early

204College um that just requirements our district doesn't meet um and so what we're going to be able to do is if you take like that management the management system Mis Management Systems class um um that whole class will be eligible for the college credit as well um so our teacher then works with a professor who teaches that class ensures that it aligns with what we teach our teacher teaches it um the professor is available for students to want access but um and then every student in that class will be eligible to get college credit as well um and we have as I said we have um money in the grant to help support students who may not be able to afford the $540 um for those classes so I said it's good stuff thank you

205that's great yeah it's very exciting that's all that's happening so and I know there might have been other questions that folks had about you know do you want to ask I mean the program studies is about the uh changes we're doing to the high school schedule do we any questions about things that have come up um Mr list you mentioned the number of courses Juniors and seniors are would be required potentially is that would that be in the handbook of the programmer studies so our program of studies lives online as like uh lots of different pages so you're not worried about within the program of studies online it does talk about the required classes um and graduation requirements there so it kind of lives in both places um the the piece about the one of

206the biggest concerns for students you know has been about taking eight classes um and so in order we you know what was being talked about is having um saying to students that uh a junior or senior would only be required they could if they want to take eight but would only be required to take seven credits um and they could use the other time um to to study um I know that was concerned and as we think about and and listen to students about some of their concerns um that was was one of them so um wanting to address that and and and most schools that run the a type schedule um students are Mo most students take eight credits but uh students have the opportunity to do seven um if they want so that

207was just something that um you know we we had talked about enough to graduate sorry sorry sus I just didn't know that he wanted you toan that that yeah yeah we vote on the program of studies with that other piece or not like yeah I mean that I didn't know folks I would have questions about that but that was a question as well as requiring Junior and seniors to have seven credits versus eight they're going to meet their requirement for graduation right easily yeah so that's what I'm saying like if if they're meeting the criteria that we've already set for graduation yeah then I don't know if it the way we work our credits like I talking to a parents the other day they were like well my kid has 13 electives they have to

208take like it's you know if you take the right right classes freshman sophomore junior year you have a senior year that's that's pretty allows opportunities to try new things well that's where right that's where you get to do all these cool electives that we have and the internship programs and to take part in senior projects that's why we have such a robust program because our seniors are able to do those those pieces there um but you know just in thinking about some of those students who are um loading up on some of their APS and doing that time in there to study because it will be different for them and we do have to acknowledge that um that this will be different than what they're used to especially for our Juniors and seniors who have

209had this schedule for you know for a few years now so the current schedule so yeah so um you've been doing a lot of work over the last few weeks on on things um where do things stand I mean I think earlier you said you've got the schedule built out the back end and everything so the back end um is built up so all of the the work that our our our counselors um and Dr cff did in order to make sure that everything was ready um the scheduling process what they were able to do was was have it run in the same way that students have done in previous years um our our our incoming ninth graders their process will start on Friday um for picking classes um and they've been able to actually

210clean up a lot of um just over the years things get messy on the back end of of uh um School Management systems and so theyve that work has been done I've been working with individual teachers um to um alleviate um concerns over storage um and supporting that work and met with Mr blood over the Ceramics and we we talked about the Kil and making and that you know is confidence in in having enough um supplies and support and space to do that uh Miss balker with Marine Bio and making sure that we have the right the fish tanks and what room they're going to go into so that you know she can run her classes as she likes so all of that is being done um and we're we're you know we're we're in

211a uh in in a place in a good place with the sort of the backend technical aspects of of the schedule and um I think I shared before we have um 330 students who are fully like picked their classes um I know it doesn't sound like a lot but what happens is that like sometimes a kid doesn't pick an English class or a kid doesn't pick an elective and so what happens over the next couple of weeks is that the counselors look through go into classes small groups make sure students are picking their picking correctly picking what they need to uh and then they uh will uh you know start to call students down oh you forgot to pick an English class you got to pick a science class um and take part in that

212um you know we're running things just like we did last year we have we have an acceleration process for kids in math because that's a popular uh thing to do uh the override process all of that is is is um working as it usually does at this time for the scheduling uh the scheduling process but it's 330 kids of about 600 right because it's just the n9th through 11th grade it's 3 330 out of 600 correct because n because incoming ninth hasn't started yet but that's as I said it's not crazy because you have as I said like there the kidss you know a kid misses a an elective or a gym class or something like that so that's like fully like everything is perfect in the in the system and then we still have

213um you know I know a student asked before about extending that if the window if we needed to we can absolutely extend that window um but we still have you know our counselors are still pushing into to classes um to to get kids all signed up and then as I said that the in nth grader will start on Friday 10: a.m. what are other space constraints like uh science labs and things like so the way that we're working with that is you know one of the things that we can do on the back end of power school which has been an issue you know when you have the four classes um running is every day is that everything gets sort of uh becomes a traffic jam of space um we're able to do some work

214on the back end so that as um power school schedules you know it's putting teach one teacher here but then not that same period so we're dealing with eight periods versus four periods um and to place those class CL um and so that's how you kind of get around some of those space constraints that we have um and you know luckily power school is able to do a lot of that work um I know that Dr Kiff and uh Miss Taylor um and Miss Andrews were able to do a lot of that backend work to to help you know ensure that we're um able to you know do that puzzle of of where classes are during each period there was an ask to end the enrollment timeline um which you answered very quickly yes will

215there be an official I guess decision Andor communication yeah so I'm meeting with so I'm having class meetings with uh um next week um with folks and then um our plan is tomorrow um because the counselors will have done their pushing into classes uh is to look at where we are look at all of our data look at where we are and then make a determination a lot of times I mean I've been through scheduling processes for many years you make those windows tight because you want you know want folks get it done if you if you make it a month long totally agree with the change though the quick I mean it was yeah the one were quick but it was it was change that happened recently and I think there's a lot of

216stress as as we've heard that would be one thing that wouldn't Solve IT necessarily but it would help well some yeah so we have we have it built in that we can you know if we need to extend we can and so it s you know that's something that we have it's it still has another week left in the scheduling process so Friday is the last day next Friday Tech technically is the last day and if we need to you know what we do is look at it talk to kids have those meetings and then extend it if necessary yeah be clear just because if we were to vote to require students to only carry seven credits during their junior senior year or senior year only they could still take eight credits yes and and

217majority of our I mean the majority of our students will I mean they these are you know academically minded kids and they and they end up you know the kids like doing the senior projects the internships um and one of the things that any any year-long schedule will allow us to do is to extend sort of the opportunities for students to explore and and take on internships um so those take up those can they can choose to have like right now those are like one term so it's just that quick one term one class so this is something they can extend over the semester over the year um but yeah students can take eight credits I don't know do we have to vote I don't know if we have to vote on that we vote

218on our graduation requirements I don't know if we have to vote on you know how many classes students take would just be part of the program of studies if you vot if you vote on the program of studies with the changes that he's recommended tonight and that addition it would just be vote in entirety just once we vote on something then that we have to vote on it every time if we're going to be changing schedules right I'm just saying I voted for the I mean obviously the yeah I know what you're saying to hold off see know what I'm saying want to hold off on that one yeah we just vote for the program studies that's yeah that's what I'm saying does that make sense just the document I gave yeah yeah yes any

219more questions uh list nope any other things you think we should know issues you might want to address I mean I I as I said you know part of the goal was to to build this backend so that we can have you know confidence for the for the students um in in what they are their schedules will work yeah you know in this system and they'll be able to take the credits they want and the the classes they want and that so we will you know that we're confident in what's no we just don't take it we have the the agenda does not say vote for the program studies I'm not sure how we missed that I think we can discuss whether we approve it we can think about it we can put it on

220for a vote the next time I everyone has any issues no no it's my fault um because we don't have what there's no vote on no so we we but if you if you are is if you can demonstrate that you're okay I'm I'm in favor it as well and we'll re add it as a v oh thanks um okay all right thank you we'll get on as a as a vote next time for next week is he done yeah oh I no we got to get you back something yeah I don't think does he have to talk about DEA right no that's items of information oh good yeah all right um are you okay good right so we move on to our um our 2026 budget update which we can keep relatively um quick

221in the sense of we've basically well there have been some changes but um good changes though good changes mean lower number changes lower numbers let's go noct oh it's only 10 n come on we're good Dam we hours um this version is always the one that's I'm pretty sure that Hillary gets up at like 5:30 is that about right okay who Hillary oh Hillary oh I'm sorry we we have a POS lar so um okay do you work from home Joe's got to go okay so um quick budget update not quick budget update budget update um for a recommended budget if you could uh I guess SK skip to the slide skip to the slide so skip to slide um four so the the uh the budget subcommittee voted uh met this afternoon or this

222evening whenever and uh voted to officially set our recommended budget to 44,500 [Music] $1,699 which is a $1.5 million increase rounded uh or 3.58% um however however what there's no however uh our level service budget that we voted which we'll get into in a second is 3.26% uh next slide please so as we looked into the budget and we're going to get into sort of our our recommendations for Budget reductions to get us to this number um we were looking specifically at enrollment Trends and the and the changes in enrollment um and you know one of the things that sticks out at you obviously is the is the the decline in the placentino enrollment however the good news about that is while last year was a well last year was a certainly a low for

223kindergarten enrollment at 141 uh the the work of the administration and sort of just engaging where things are that we still haven't close we don't where are we with kindergarten enrollment still they just had the presentation the other night and in the process of enrollment so based on the best data we have today the we're expecting 170 uh students next year that's where we're sort of projecting so that would be a nice significant increase though still below the kind of the 200ish average that um we we normally had per class and so one of the things that you'll see as we look at the budget is how do we sort of deal with some of the shifts in in enrollment so if you go to the next page please um so to get to the

224uh the the uh 3.26 um we are recommending based upon the the uh administration's recommendations a reduction in sort of our open par professional positions unfilled position unfilled positions so these are not there are no people there they're just unfilled positions that um due to shifts in enrollment as well as student needs um we don't believe will be NE necessary next year and so that's going four unfilled positions um there are still going there are still the last number we had is we currently have nine openings and so there will still be significant you know room for positions and and look obviously we have a a legal requirement so if we ever needed um more we would have to to to do that so um this is more just a a budgeting exercise than anything

225else um next we're uh expecting to see $65,000 uh in savings from retirements that were not built into the original budget and so what this is is not a position but is a if a person retires in they at a high step high Lane they're replaced by somebody at a lower step Lower Lane this is the Delta between the the cost of the retiring teacher versus the the new teacher and this happens every year um and we had a few additional retirements over the last few weeks and um that's the the number that we're at right now then there are enrollment driven um position eliminations of 2.5 positions and we're still working given that we haven't had kindergarten enrollment yet and still seing some some shifts in some additional staff either resigning or retiring so

226we haven't fully um agreed to what the exact positions will be however it would be someone who is retired or or resigned their position would be filled by someone already in the district in a spot that would not be um we don't need because of enrollment shifts they would be offered a position in in a different spoted to the class so like if a kindergarten teacher was leaving that been in the district for 20 years and then we don't have enough kindergarteners but we can take that teacher and have them go to they so they left sorry a fourth grade teacher second grade teacher yeah or let just keep it in the same doesn't matter whatever so a fourth grade teacher has retired uh we don't need as many third grade teachers a third grade

227teacher who's to fill the fourth grade position and the third grade position is just not backfield right so everyone keeps for example yes for example and I and that I don't have any clue that's real we haven't made a so I'm just throwing and this is before we do things like school choice this is before we haven't we have not bu in any school choice we have not um open yet correct as noted in bold it will not result in any right so as I said at the beginning of the meeting as I say now as I will continue to say over and over and over again there will be no staff reductions due to budget or due to the high school schedule um and then just finally um we hadn't built in initially into

228the into the uh into the budget uh Lane changes we now have a better idea of what exactly the cost of Lane changes are just for those at home who are still watching at 10:15 at night um in in the contract when a teacher attains a higher level of Education they change lanes which is a increase in in in costs um based on their additional education so I think that what's important here is that you know in 2024 when we were going through the override process we committed to getting to 3.25% for our budget MH at the time we said that there were a number of different ways that we would be able to get there this was the way that sort of we weren't talking about it because there were other ways but this

229was sort of the way that I expected to to get there which was through turnover and um um enrollment shifts um and so I think it's a it's a really big deal that we were able to to meet our commitment and um do so without any you know negative impacts on on current employees while also maintaining our student uh student and staff ratios you know everything like that I mean I think if you if you look at the news a lot there are districts that are laying off teachers left and right it is it is quite bad and hollison is in a really good position um largely because of the support of the community last year with the override um as well as good fiscal management um over the years this is the outcome when

230Community comes together it came together last year we got we solidifi the override and we kept our promise correct or commitment commitment we made a commitment to Our Community Partners that we would come in at 3.25 and we're doing it correct so next slide please so the next slide just sort of shows it uh all kind of um together [Music] um there are and we'll get to the breakdown uh we we've reduced the prior needs by 60 ,000 to 139,000 um the underlying level service budget is 3.26 um so met our commitment I I'll take the the one basis point and um if if need be I'll I'll put it in there um but um overall budget request right now is 3.58 and that's what we will thinking to the finance committee and sharing with

231them this breakdown um but as you can see this is in line with sort of you know where we were um expecting to to go and it is you know we've obviously had more information since our override projections last year Dr cusco's uh budget back in February at this point um so moving on this we can pass this one I just updated it for the new payroll number but it is it is the same we're going to also we'll get this postage to the website too so anyone at home can can pull it up um this is a very busy sheet um I think that the takeaway though from it is if you look at the percent increase this year for for payroll over the prior two years we are at a lower increase this

232year than we have been over the past 3 years um all those the prior three years are inclusive of any last year we actually did you know at least one you know job elimination you know people there were people that were were cut due to the budget um obviously not happening this year um but so we've been able to aain a lower budget than than in the past I it's a a good story to tell um and to remind the last year or this year I guess is was at 4% Cola next year year was at 4% Co it this is 3% plus $1,500 new TOP Step next year will be the that's next but this is the budget we're talking about yeah no I okay y 3% what's on the right the 3.72% is

233a 3% Cola yep with $1,500 on the top step um but keep in mind that the 3% Cola does not include steps does not include Lanes um and this is after all of that and that is this is after all of [Music] that um all right let's vote come on we got go through priority needs we got a couple couple more things no we're just hitting the highlights no we got we got to vote the priority needs prioritization of priority needs anyway um so since last week um uh working with uh with Dr kesa and Dr Jordan and Dr Bernard we uh have sort of collapsed the 2.5 El positions in across Miller and placentino into 1.0 now that the schools are uh operating on the same schedule we hope that uh they can they

234can operate with with one Higher at the same time there's Flex if we need to there's there's flexibility to split that up but uh um that is the sort of top priority that is something that we need for um to meet our legal obligations and and so keep our our ourselves on on on sides um so that will be the that is our recommendation for the top priority need second is a is a the ma a math tutor Rams um and the two is signifies a footnote down here partially due to math limits obviously not to math tutors for that Pur no no it's a priority hence the the header one two three yeah um um then our fourth priority skipping is is the the High School academic Development Center tutor um the third priority

235would be the 0.25 uh FTE increase to the high school course and Performing Arts uh staff number um and then just quickly looking at Capital couple changes from last week um as Mr list and Dr Jordan dug more into the cost of the uh needs for supplies for for the high school schedule change that number has gone up um percentage wise quite a bit but but still a relatively modest number and so that's now 48,3 um and then we added it on because I I apologize Mr Cloud I forgotten your your classroom technology and iPad Fleet for October so it's just on there we're not voting on that tonight but um that will be for a request for next that is anticipated to be a request for October um and then you don't have to

236go there but the last slide is just our is just our our busy busy um busy I just put it there because that was what we talked that is the exact same slide we used you can pull it up online you can pull it up online and you can really dig into it and please email me all the questions so that I can delete them um kidding uh so what we need to do tonight is we need to vote our Capital request we need to vote total budget and then our you know the the priority needs and with the prioritization list so at this point I'll I'll entertain a motion to what why do we have to vote for the prioritization list we can just vote for our number is that because if we had

237other funds that we would actually then fund the other piece that we were missing the bridge to give the to give the finance committee sort of the knowledge of what our priorities are so that if there are additional monies that we can potentially get them the hope is that you know if if we go and they say well we don't have the 139 we can get to 124 I think it is important to they typically ask us no I know I'm just articulating for the community to know why we do that okay okay so first if I would like to entertain Mo and oh keep in mind so this of the of the capital we're expecting that with the Wi-Fi uh upgrades at at Rams in the high school at $75,000 of which we expect

238to get $30,000 back that $30,000 will go to uh our our steakhous dinner we have at the end of the year umow no seriously it will go back to the capital fund it is not ours it is it is um back into the capital fund of the Town not not our own but finance committee will keep that in mind when they the finance committee will will include that thought when they when they everything it goes back to the municipality I know it's kind of a drag it should just go back to our line you know what the worst part is the worst part is any money that we have in you know our our revolving accounts the interest generated by that cash goes to the town does it it does I didn't realize that he

239needs to charge them for it um no well it didn't of years it wasn't such a big issue when interest rates were like you know and in addition to needing the Rams and high school Wi-Fi upgrades another great reason to do it is because that rebate does exist right now it's not certain use those funds for something else that's needed in the district right I mean right classroom technology iPad Fleet or the town or something else in the town you know what I'm saying cuz power Wi-Fi for the town Town Wi-Fi I'm to bury in sidewalks um Town Wii I would love sidewalks any so motion I will entertain a motion to uh to accept the the subit recommendation for our Capital request of$ 1, 47,300 for for Maytown meeting wait can I repeat moved

240by Cynthia 1 million second you V on this too late just start voting any questions no I'm I'm just yes I'm good Frank yes Hillary yes Joe yes uh Cynthia yes Don yes Sarah yes and I am a yes okay moving up to the priority needs slide 12 a motion to adopt this as our as our priority needs and prioritization move by Cynthia second Frank yes Hillary yes Joe Cynthia yes Don yes Sarah yes sorry okay and I have a yes as well moving on so I'm doing small to well no I no any that's that one um Moving on Up Moving On Up uh so I will entertain a motion to uh adopt our new budget request which is reduced from the budget request we voted last week to 44 mil 51,0 uh $69

241move by Cynthia second go Frank Frank yes Hillary yes Joe yes Cynthia yes Don yes Sarah yes and I am a yes so we we have a budget we excellent that's nice present that to the school committee school no whatever that next committee is finance that one um I did want to say something regarding the budget Dan if you don't mind I mean we vot what no I just wanted I mean Jess is here I did want to thank Jess for and her team for all the work they did I mean special ed is always tricky from a financial perspective it's always a red herring in terms of who comes in who goes out what services they need um and the creativity and thoughtfulness for for our students has been incredible while staying within a

242meaningful budget don't cringe we just voted on it um so thank you thank you good thank you Jess very much that was well said Frank what [Music] I why is she still here she here all right so um we have a budget wonderful and so just well it says on the agenda that our budget hearing will be April 3rd small staff boo our budget our budget hearing will be on April 10th and again this will all be posted this will all be posted in um are we posted now officially we have the the budget not no believe has gone out uh it's posted yes okay so we are we're good to go um so the last thing uh well like guess no technically two L things so uh the math gum subcommittee um Hillary uh

243provided me with a document that is in your uh Drive she worked on with who did you work on this uh Ron Taylor and uh car Manning okay and I also I think I put in the um the timeline information for you to have there and I think I put that in there as well so we put together some guiding questions for um the leveling the maath leveling subcommittee um do you want me to read through all each of them okay uh what are the key findings and Rec recommendations from the study group and the math curriculum Review Committee how can the district provide opportunities for all students to succeed in math considering their diverse learning styles and needs while also ensuring access to advanced math opportunities in high school what does student Readiness for

244algebra mean and how is it currently defined by hallson public schools how can we support more students in becoming ready for algebra by grade 8 how can we identify students ready for an accelerated Pace in a way that is unbiased and Equitable how can the middle school math standards be compressed effectively without compromising rigor and depth of instruction um So based on that we talked about um Gathering a group of no more than 12 people that would include a middle school and high school administrator uh middle and high school math teachers and probably one elementary teacher um a school committee representative which is myself um District administrator we are also we're hoping that Jerelle will be part of this group um and Community representative um Ron is working on developing um a brief questionnaire survey

245to start to um elicit that staff and Community representation um we also want to look at some key data including mcast iel and I ready and high school math enrollment data and look at that for different student groups um look at the comparison of algebra Pathways and instructional models in some of our neighboring districts and look at the Desy math Frameworks for grades 6 through 8 and algebra um we're proposing a timeline of starting this spring and summer and meeting monthly um and then next year meeting twice a month or as needed um by reviewing findings from the sub Comm the previous curriculum review and study group reviewing some of the current model and standards progressions proposed by desie researching the algebra Pathways and instru instructional models in our neighboring districts analyzing the math student

246data in Holliston that I talked about and then coming up with a recommendation by January um to the school committee for a middle school math Pathways that includes an accelerated opportunity for students and addresses the scope and compression in Middle School standards um for the following Year's implementation um Ron and Karen suggested January would be most helpful as they think about building out schedules and preparing teachers for the following year and then following that they would also like to develop some plans for professional development to support that area um communication to families on the different path Pathways for advanced math courses similar to what you had um said earlier Cynthia that if students are doing grade 8 um math in middle school there are other Pathways to get to calculus but how are we communicating

247that to our middle and high school families and then um the process for identifying the students for Accelerated middle school math some of this work has already been started the middle school but looking to build on it and review it two questions Hillary y um maybe three actually um over the summer for a lot of the folks represented here are teachers are they aligned to be attending over the summer months or yep we worried about that as well so we talked about getting the group together in the spring um so that we are ready to go for next uh school year and hit the ground running but also hoping to carve out um a day or two and I know uh Karen Manning will be looking at um uh some ways to compensate teachers for

248their time outside of their instructional day got it okay if we do that yeah how can we keep the community involved there's a lot of feedback on this right we've we've heard a good amount um throughout this process obviously as you work through this there's going to be different steps Milestones you guys reach I would assume uh how can we keep the community engage not engaged but A Ware of what's going on so we don't get to January cuz we're really trying to solve for communication gaps right and it's I'm super impressed with how we're thinking about this and doing this on a timeline that makes sense but if we go dead from now until January it's going to feel to the community we rushed it and it's not aware people weren't aware so so

249Frank what we can do is we can add it to the agenda under the other subcommittees have some updates for updates it doesn't need to be anything crazy but just things that we're working on and then Sarah maybe we can also talk about in communication next year too the around communication to the community after school committee updates clarifying question is it you and Sarah that are on it or just you was the one school committee brought I think I was the one that did you vote two last time I think there were two we did have you and Sarah um I'm okay with that I'm also okay if you want to want to take it it's sort of more [Music] thank you for saying that cuz I forgot I thought it was two but I

250just wanted to make sure see how everybody felt about that the other part um I I think it might make sense to have two Community Representatives too yeah um and I know we set a maximum it wouldn't be a bad idea to set a minimum yeah um and I I think you I think maybe he at the maximum do it feel 13 it's an odd number sure okay so if it's sub it has to have a quorum correct so you have to be mindful of that and I know that there's some other committees that have had problems being able to meet because they're not able to meet their cor but something to make the folks aware of that are to be clear they moving from 12 to 13 does not no I'm just saying overall

251even just with the 12 like that can be cumbersome I'm just saying but but just moving from 12 to 13 doesn't actually change the quum the quum would still be seven no I I know but even it doesn't matter the 12 or 13 can still be hard to get correct yeah absolutely you need and we'll have to once we have the uh the once we have the names we we'll submit them to um uh to town clerk yeah um so but but I just have a question Hillary about just scope wise so did you talk about like goal like your goal is to get algebra but in 8th grade but for what well the guiding questions I get the guiding questions but then it's that's fine but like it says to to improve oh sorry

252um support students to becoming ready for algebra in grade 8 but I don't what like I don't know why that's the magic why is that the magic like what's the whole goal as a k to2 model like why are we keeping it at that or is it just because you have to focus on the scope of just middle school but at the same time as I Illustrated earlier like there are Pathways to get to calculus whether you did accelerated math in middle school or you didn't so is the goal for I'm just asking open-endedly for you to ask the subcommittee or not like is that the goal is the goal for all kids to be able to get have a pathway to calculus is that ultimately the goal and the only way they perceive that

253we can get there is making sure that all students have algebra it's it's a question it's not so we talked about kind of thinking about in terms of opportunity like you're phrasing it that kids have an opportunity to take those Advanced courses whether they start in eth grade or later correct um but also looking at for students that are ready for Accelerated Pace in Middle School making sure they have those opportunities too and then we kept this thinking about what we thought would be possible for next year we tried to limit this to middle school but we did talk about that there may be some questions or areas of focus that might arise out of this that you know Ron might want to look at for high school um or that maybe the elementary teacher

254might want to bring back to look at at Miller additionally depending on what schedule we end up with uh certain schedules you you make are much more difficult to get to Calculus if you do not get to algebra have Algebra 1 and A3 what's going to be the process to select some of these members of this committee the community Representatives we need to draft a a communication to to the community about what we've done um and um we need to to solicit uh statements of interest and then we'll so like we did go the start yeah including the teachers or um I'm going to let uh I think we should let uh um Karen Ron and and and uh and Hillary sort of s so figure out how to solicit the teacher interest that makes

255sense is do we have two school committee members on this yes Sarah we've decided okay I think we voted that in the last meeting are we an agreement to get two Community Representatives on it or two is important I think it's a lot would be important it's a lot to have one I'm also okay if if we get we do want to make sure that we have enough you know teachers represented on there so if we needed to move one of the school members to a sort of an associate role or something you know sort of a this could allow up to seven teachers the way we have it outlined right now five you have Middle School administrator you've got three administrators well we say teachers but how many does that mean I don't three

256administrators two School Comm members is five two student Representatives is to 13 so okay six we did two Community reps okay I just saying like depending ont in a committee of 13 we're talking about six is that enough voice what was the size of the previous math survey committee 18 oh have the Review Committee was like 18 or 19 I think and then the study group I think was six or seven something like that the study group was six or seven yeah I remember thank you for putting all this this is great this is like this is perfect I agree with what you presented this is I wish we had this for start times stop equating this to that this is totally different process well if we had this it might okay um so I

257I will um entertain a motion to uh create a leveling subcommittee of the hollon school committee uh with this scope of work and so we setting this as the charge uh amended only to include 13 members um Max of 13 Max of 13 correct um max of 13 yes um and um really appreciate that work of you Karen Ron um and I think we should definitely come up with the communication to get this out to the community and um I look forward to seeing the work progress because I think this will be exactly what we need so anyway I'll entertain that motion so moved Frank yes Hillary yes yes Joe yes Cynthia yes Don yes Sarah yes and I am a yes okay okay last uh hopefully quick item of business is as we discuss

258we'll we'll reappoint uh the hfc bargaining subcommittee I think when we spoke it was going to be Don uh Hillary and myself is everyone so good with that okay so I will entertain that motion so moved second uh Frank yes Hillary yes Joe yes Cynthia sure Don yes Sarah yes and I am a yes um then we have a a item of information the overnight field trip uh deck at Nationals yeah I just want you to be aware because normally when it's overnight field trips you vote those but there is language in the policy that if it was time sensitive I can approve them but that's why I wanted to come back and just share with you that the students will be attending Deca um because when they win something they don't have time they

259have to start paying for the A and all that but we knew that when we approved correct so they will be sh Miss cun and Miss Roy will be shaoting students they leave for Orlando Florida on April 25th and return April 30th and it's the fifth consecutive year students from hollon Deca have competed in the international competition and my daughter and her Deca tee will be there as well so so who who you rooting for both okay back up to our consent agenda um forgot we what do we we're only going to we're going to proove the three redacted executive session minutes hold on hold I'm almost there almost there so as as they're getting there um just to be clear at the bottom it says that our next meeting will be the budget hearing

260on April 3rd budget hearing will be on April 10th um watch uh your if you're signed up for the emails uh for our agendas watch for those to see we may have a meeting on April 3rd there may be other meetings if you don't know how to um uh subscribe to agendas for anyone still watching at 10:42 uh you go to the town of holliston.ma email address in you can get the town manager newsletter you can get uh agendas for all the different boards and committees um I think there are a few other things that you can sign up for as well and that way anytime a meeting uh agenda is posted of a meeting you will get a uh an email alert for it the town manager newsletter comes out I think there's other

261when the town manager's week bi-weekly update um is sent out so it's a very useful tool um we want to make sure that there are more than I I actually have to ask but it was shared with us at the S board meeting on Monday that only 92 people were getting the select word newslet uh select word agenda um I'm going to check the school commit we just want to make sure we're above that um what about finance committee no one's watching I can attest um but we want to be above them too okay I'm I'm I'm can't go on anymore guys okay a goat a sheep and a a okay two minutes okay so I just I don't that's not my collection of that okay so you want to hold the 213 not this

262one the other one but you want to hold the 1126 are you okay with 11:14 and 213 yeah these are the three 11:14 11:26 2 saying didn't hold on this piece okay 11:26 I actually read want to amend 112 for what well it's executive session so I'm not going to talk about okay so you know what approve 114 and 11 and and 213 if something was ready to vote on that and then the world won't end if we address it in a okay so I will entertain a motion to approve the consent agenda with the executive sessions uh removed except for the uh redacted versions of the 14th and February 13th 2020 November 14th 2024 and February 13th 2025 and those are uh approved for uh release move by John second pass Hillary yes Joe

263yes Cynthia yes Don yes Sarah Frank was first did you he just okay and I am a yes um so with that we do have a reason to uh have executive session we're actually going to also return to our prior executive session which we re which we uh adjourned uh with the potential to return so at this point I'll entertain a motion to return to Executive session for the purpos of discussing strategy with respect to question of bargaining or litigation of an open meeting law may have detrimental effect on the bargaining litigating position of the public body and the chair so declares and this is related to the high school schedule committee and um for the same purpose but for the for litigation related to the hft at the second re so move second okay

264Frank yes Hillary yes Joe yes Cynthia no okay Don Sarah do you guys want to go to exective another does not have to be unanimous so we stand a journ thank you very much