001Good evening. Um, I'd like to call to order the school committee meeting for November 19th, 2025. Uh, roll call, please. Superintendent. >> Mr. Begley, >> present. >> Mrs. Cahill, >> present. >> Mr. Gatro, >> Mrs. Huby, >> present. >> Mrs. Lebo, >> Mrs. Perios, >> present. >> Mayor Ko, >> present. Quizzy High School student representative Mishi Malavia. >> Thank you, Mishi. >> We can stand for the pledge of allegiance. I >> aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> Memorial. >> Good evening everyone. Um, tonight we have one memorial. Uh, we would like to recognize Barbara Allen, a secretary for 30 years in the Quinsey public schools administrators administrative offices and at North
002Quinsey High School. If you could keep Barbara Allen and her family in your thoughts and prayers. Thank you. At this time, we have open forum, which is an opportunity for community input regarding the Quinsey public schools. Community in this context is defined as a resident of the city of Quinsey, a non-resident. >> Wave the reading. Nobody here. >> Okay. Is there anybody here? >> No. Okay. We wave the reading. Um, at this moment I'd like to uh ask for a motion to move out of order um a vote that we're going to be taking for um the reopening of the Amelio Delicia um childhood center. Um can I get a motion? >> U Mrs. Hubley and um Mr. Bgalie. So um also can we get a motion to do a roll call vote for the
003opening of the delegate? I actually have a um I'd like to object to us voting on this item tonight. Um at the March 26th meeting, uh Mrs. Lebo referred this to the teaching and learning and facilities subcommittee meeting for review and discussion. Um since we haven't had any subsequent subcommittee meetings discussing this, I don't believe it's proper or allowed for us to vote procedurally since it hasn't been voted out of subcommittee. >> Um Mr. Miy, what do we >> You're mo making a motion to table. >> Yes, I guess. Yeah. >> And the item is tabled to the next meeting. >> Okay. We'll table to the next meeting for December 10th, I believe. Correct? >> Yep. >> Okay. Thank you. >> Um, next on the agenda is the superintendence report. >> Thank you. Good evening
004again, everyone. As I shared with you earlier this fall, school committee member Paul Begali has been awarded the Massachusetts Association of School Committees Lifetime Achievement Award. Mr. Begali was unable to attend the dinner in person. So, mask operations and marketing director and former school committee member and city councelor Anthony Andronico and field services representative Sean Costello are here tonight to present the award. Before I ask um Mr. Andronico, Mr. Costello to take the microphone. I do want to recognize Mr. Begoli's family who are here, his son Patrick and his son Christopher and his granddaughter Eden. Good to see you all. Thank you, Eden, for joining us tonight. With that, um, if I could have Mr. Andronico and Mr. Costello, >> and she's in red ball. >> Thank you, Superintendent Mulby, Mayor Ko, Vice Chair Cahill,
005members of the school committee, and of course, Clerk Laura Owens, it's all it's good to see you all again. Uh, to Paul, on behalf of the Massachusetts Association of School Committees, uh, we're very proud to honor you with the Lifetime Achievement Award uh, of the organization for 2025. I'd also be remiss if I didn't mention that you were joining your colleague to your right, Emily Lebo, who was bestowed that award last year. >> Thank you. So, just very briefly, I mean, 36 years within education itself, 34 within Quinsey, started out as an elementary school teacher, moved on to become a guidance counselor, and if I have this right, I think you coached every single support that was offered throughout the years. Um, just wanted to say thank you for your service to Quinzy uh and
006beyond. You've made a really great impact. And uh I'll pass it over to Sean, the official presentation, and then I'm sure we'll get a few photos as well if your colleagues would like to say a word. >> Great. Well, first of all, congratulations. I I've met many of you before. I'm your new field rep. I've been on for just less uh than a year, but for my prior job, I actually worked as the staff director for Representative Bruce Ays at the state house. So, I'm very familiar with Quinsey. And I say that because I'm very familiar with Paul Regali. Um, I've seen the impact that you have on students. I've seen the impact that you have on the community. Um, and you and I have gotten to chat many times throughout the year because I
007know you're friendly with my former boss. Um, and I remember the first conversation we ever had was at Quinsey Access TV and I told you I was from Marshfield and you immediately told me how many times you had beaten them in various sports over the years. It was once >> it Well, >> I didn't I didn't want to put you on on the spot like that and tell you it was only once, but you did you knew right off the bat. Um, and you were very proud of that. So, I remember I always remember that. That was the first thing out of your mouth. And that to me speaks to the pride that you have for the community that you serve and the kids that you've worked with over the years. So, we're very proud
008to award this to you. We only award a few lifetime achievement awards every single year. There's thousands of school committee members in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts as hundreds of superintendents. Um, so the fact that you were one of how many this year? Like three or four? Yeah. Like three or four statewide to receive a lifetime achievement award, especially, you know, after last year where where Miss Lebo had received one last year. It's very unusual for there to be two in a row, but it speaks to the the quality of school committee members that you have here in Quinsey. And again, it speaks to you and and your long career of service to your city and to the students. So this is a lifetime achievement award presented to Paul Bgalie in recognition of your years of
009service to the children and families of Quinsey as a school committee member and community advocate for public schools and it was presented by the Massachusetts Association of School Committees in 2025. Congratulations Mr. Bgalie. Usually I'm not at a loss for words, but um this is a little overwhelming. It means a lot to me obviously. Um, when I was in fifth grade at Goodly Bryant School, Pat Drew had a tremendous impact on me. From then on, I knew I wanted to be a teacher and a coach. and in Quinsey. Um, I've met so many great people in my career. Um, many of whom are on the school committee right now and past members of the school committee. Uh, past members of the um, superintendent leadership team and and current and obviously the superintendent and prior superintendent
010who is both have become good friends of mine. Um, and I'm very happy u that someone called my two kids to come here, my two sons, because I was uh totally surprised. And my beautiful granddaughter Eden, who's the smartest girl in Brainree and the prettiest, right, Eden? No, this is really a a special award and u uh the mayor just said to me earlier that it means that you know they give it to you a couple years before you hope that's not true but uh but I really am I'm you can I'm emotional person anyway but this is u overwhelming for Today I'm very proud to have served the city 34 years and I thank the people of the city who had the faith in me to give me an opportunity to do this and
011um I just appreciate it so much. Thank you gentlemen for taking time out of your night to come here and do this for me. Uh it won't be forgotten. Thank you. And thank you to all of you guys and my colleagues as well. set superintendent. >> Yes. Okay. Thank you. Uh congratulations again, Mr. Begley. Uh moving on to staff recognition. Another positive uh piece of information, principal longevity. With the annual review of student achievement underway through the school improvement plan presentations, I want to take this opportunity to recognize our outstanding Quinsey public schools principles. The longevity of our principles is very unique to districts of our size, and it is consistent with Quinsey's position as being number one in the top 30 largest school districts in Massachusetts for educator longevity, which is really amazing. 10%
012overall throughout the state. Uh the principal's dedication to their school communities, mentoring staff, and building family connections is integral to the success of our students in our district. Of our 19 principles, three have served for more than 10 years. Victor Christopharo 11 years, Margaret McNeel 12 years. Robert Morera 13 years, and seven have completed 15 years or more. Nicah Hearn 15 years. Jim Hennessy 16 years. Dan Gilbert 17 years. Steve Sylvia 17 years. Christine Barrett, 18 years. Renee Melvesty, 18 years. Peter Dion, 19 years. Of course, when you see these educators in the next few weeks at their school improvement plan presentations, please join me in congratulating them for their achievements. So, congratulations to all of our principles. And you'll also see them uh they've been invited to a to the December 10th uh recognition
013uh as well. So, you'll see them there as well. Um, at the October 28th 29th Massachusetts School Building Authority MSBA board meeting, all four accelerated repair program projects submitted last March were accepted into the MSBA project pipeline. The projects are partial roof replacements for Atlantic and Broad Meadows Middle Schools and Parker Elementary School, Point Webster Middle School receive new windows and doors in addition to a partial roof replacement. The design phase of these projects is expected to begin in March of 2026 with the work being completed in summer 2027. We are thrilled to be awarded these projects with the MSBA um which traditionally reimburses around 65% of the costs for uh these projects and of course we look forward to keeping you updated on next steps. A special thank you to Laura. Owens who works
014closely with Paul Hines, our um commissioner of public buildings, uh to file all the necessary paperwork and it is voluminous paperwork. Um but we were able to get those successful votes. So we're looking forward to the completion of those projects in the years to come. The John and Abigail Adams scholarships. Congratulations to the over 200 graduating seniors in the class of 2026 who have been awarded the John and Abigail Adams scholarships for scoring in the top 25% districtwide on the MCCAST assessments. The scholarship covers eight semesters of tuition at any University of Massachusetts State University or community college campus. Again, congratulations to those amazing students. Uh fall uh high school athletic update. Congratulations to the QNQ girls cross country team who captured the Patriot League Fisher Division Championship this fall. Uh we'll be having a
015detailed review of fall high school athletics from director Kevin Mahoney at an upcoming meeting, but I wanted to be sure to recognize the team for their great championship season. So congratulations to the QNQ girls cross country team. And again, you'll be hearing more about that at the athletic uh subcommittee. I want to extend my gratitude to all who participated in uh this past Saturday's city of Quinsey school emergency response exercise at North Quinsey High School. This was a significant undertaking that took a year to plan and its success is a direct reflection of the professionalism, dedication and collaboration of everyone involved. to the Quincsey Police Department, Quinsey Fire Department, Brewster EMS, FBI, and Massachusetts State Police. Thank you for bringing your expertise, your commitment to public safety, and your willingness to train side by side
016with our school community. To the Quinsey Public School Superintendent leadership team, including Dr. Eron Perkins and Director Michael Draio, as well as North Quincsey High School Principal Dan Gilbert, thank you for your leadership, coordination, and unwavering focus on student and staff safety. To Mayor Ko and members of the Quinsey School Committee, thank you for your continued support and for recognizing the importance of proactive preparation such as this event was. And of course to our custodial staff, our other general staff that were um present at the building as well as observers and volunteers. Your behind-the-scenes work made this exercise possible. We are truly grateful for the time and effort you contributed to the day. Saturday's exercise was a tremendous success. It provided an invaluable opportunity for Quinsey's first responders in Quinsey public school security administration to
017train together, strengthen communication, and refine our coordinated response in the event of emergency uh in one of our schools. This was the first exercise of its kind in our district, and it makes an important step forward. As we move ahead, we plan to conduct similar trainings at other schools throughout Quinsey, making improvements based on what we learned on Saturday and continue to build a safer, more prepared community for all. Thank you again for your dedication, your collaboration, and your commitment to the safety of our students, staff, and families. Together, we are making a meaningful meaningful diff difference in the district. So, thank you to everyone who participated. Know if anyone had any questions on that, but >> thanks. Um, yeah, I attended the event and it was fantastic. Um, the the the um the response
018exercise was professional, so well planned. um and uh realistic. It had um you know, everyone work together, the Quinsey police, Quinsey fire, EMS, top-notch, all across the board as we already knew, but coming into this situation, it was really fantastic to see everyone work together and have our um security staff there be able to, you know, sort of see what that looks like in real time. So, I really appreciate the work that went into it. It was definitely a lot of planning. Um and I'd love to see this take place again at Quinsey High and other schools as well. So, thank you to all who part who set that up for us. >> Lebo, >> I just wanted to speak a little bit about the MSBA stuff. I don't believe there's a municipality in the
019state that has worked harder or gotten more out of that program than we have. And it's because of the cross town collaboration. It's the school system working with the city. And it's just it's an amazing thing. I mean, big districts that I know of have not been able to pull this off. So, I'm just so proud of the fact that we have that kind of collaboration, and I don't think anybody's done as well as we have. >> I agree. Agree. >> Thank you. Uh, upcoming Quinsey Public Schools and City of Quinsey events. Quincy High School's drama club is presenting The Women of Troy on November 20th and 22nd at 7:30 p.m. in November 22nd and 23rd at 2 PM in the Lloyd Hill Auditorium at Quinsey High School. Um, the entry fee for the play
020is $10 for adults, $5 for students, and the drama club wanted me to remind everyone that it is cash only for those tickets. So, so please keep that in mind. On Thanksgiving morning, the Quinsey and North Quinsey High School football teams will meet for the annual competition. Uh, kickoff is at 10:00 a.m. at Veterans Memorial Stadium. And I'm happy to report that the marching band will be playing the halftime show this year and you should take the time to see that performance because it really is amazing and our staff have done such an amazing job with our marching band. Uh thank you to them and to the students of course. The winter holiday season officially begins in Quinsey the next day with a weekend of events capped off by the 72nd annual Christmas parade on
021Sunday, November 30th, beginning at noon in Quinsey Center and featuring floats and local marching bands, including our own Q andQ marching band and color guard. On December 3rd from 5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m., North Quinsey High School photography students will be hosting the annual holiday art show and seal to to benefit Boston's Children Hospital at Quinsey High School. Uh, in the spirit of the holiday season, Mayor Ko and the Quinsey School Community Partnership are once again sponsoring Tis the Season Symphony and Song on December 4th at 7 PM in the Quinsey High School auditorium. The concert features the Quinsey Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Auchi Udigawa and performances from Quinsey Public School students, musicians in the John Adams Orchestra and the Combined High School Coral Group as well as our musical staff. And finally,
022winter concerts are scheduled for all schools, some in December and others in January after the return from winter break. A copy of the schedule was shared in your packets and will be posted on the Quincsey Public Schools website and social media. With that, that concludes the superintendent's report. >> Okay, great. Um, and now we're at old business where we have the superintendent's goals 2025 2026 for a voice vote. Um, all in favor? >> Motion to approve. as >> as amended >> and Mrs. Hubley >> on the motion >> uh I just like to make a couple of comments because I I know we work very well together uh but I just want to say publicly this superintendent who uh really was broken in during the co uh tough time um has done an outstanding job
023leading the school system and I would say it's the dynamic duo with Dr. Perkins at his side. Uh, remarkable between the two leading our system and so that's a credit to all the members of the superintendent leadership team. So, I'm proud of where we're at. I thank you for your service. >> Thank you, Mr. Mayor. >> And thank you, team. >> Um, and we just do a >> I always You need a motion. Oh, we already second. So, all in favor? >> Yep. All in favor? >> I >> Thank you, everyone. Um, new business. Did you guys want to >> go? You going to stay for the whole meeting? >> I'm giving you an out. >> Thanks, Pat. >> So, new business. We have the um English learner education program improvement plan with Miss Wick
024Wick, Miss Stone, Miss Mr. Laauo, Mr. Tongue, and Mr. Woo. Welcome. >> All right. Good evening. >> I think they work. >> Do they work? >> Just tap it. >> Good evening. Maybe I'll lean down. >> Good. Keep it close. >> Lift it up. >> Up a little. All right. Good evening. All right. It is my pleasure on behalf of the English learner education team of teachers, family liaison, and central registration staff to present our program improvement plan. I'm here with members of the district-wide family liaison team who implemented specific goals highlighted in this plan. Sitting on the far left hand side of me is Ray Lao. Next to Ray is Moshi Don. Sitting on my immediate right hand side is Ben Wu. And next to Bin is Laura Tong. Also, I'd like to mention
025the sitebased family liaison who also helped to improve family engagement at the following schools. Paulino Padre at Quinsey High School, Emily Kerry at both Atlantic Middle School and North Quinsey High School. So, this dedicated team of family liaison are greatly appreciated. This presentation will begin with demographics, follow with reflections on last year's goals, then the family liaison and I will present goals for this school year. The presentation will conclude with examples of the family liaison's activities. Let's begin with the demographics on page five. In Quinsey public schools, there are 83 languages identified. Our current family liaison team speaks Cantonese, Mandarin, Portuguese, and Spanish, which are the most commonly spoken languages after English. You will notice Vietnamese is the same percentage as Portuguese and Spanish. So at this time, our Vietnamese speaking colleague at central registration
026is participating in professional development to support the Vietnamese speaking families beyond the registration process. >> On page six, there is a breakdown by grade level of the English learner education program, which embraces 1,71 students with the largest population at the elementary schools. The English learner education program included four goals last year. On page 28, goal one is listed. Addressing student success plans, which assistant superintendent Dr. Eron Perkins addressed at a previous meeting. The overall district percentage making progress is 51% which is 7 percentage points above the state at 44%. Five schools increased their making progress percentage by doubledigit percentage points. 12 of our 18 schools beat the state's percentage making progress. Another important data point comes from the seal of biiteracy on page 26. 71% of the 2025 seal of biiteracy recipients were current or
027former English learners emphasizing that the majority of the recipients are students who have developed proficiency in English while maintaining their heritage language. So a special thanks to the teachers for their continued advocacy, dedication and efforts which made this remarkable growth beyond the state possible. On page 29, we have goal two listed addressing the ESL curriculum implementation at both the elementary and middle school level. During this initial year of implementation, the teams focused on understanding and applying the new curriculum with fidelity. A special thanks to these teachers. Then on page 30, goal three is listed, addressing the language access plan. The completion of the language access plan represents the culmination of a six-year systemwide effort to strengthen equitable communication and engagement with families who need interpretation and translation services. This plan integrates all supports developed since
0282019 into a unified framework that ensures accessibility across the district. I would like to thank all of QPS employees for making this plan a reality. A special thanks to the district-wide family liaison who live this plan on a daily basis and worked with me to put in our incredible work into the language access plan. Special thanks to Katie Delaney for placing this content into a professional document with the formatting and thoughtful design and visuals. Also to you school committee for supporting all our efforts. So thank you. On page 31, goal four is listed, addressing scheduled interpretation. The total number of requests increased slightly, reflecting the steady use and continued awareness of the process among staff. And this consistently demonstrates that staff are increasingly recognizing the importance of language access in making efforts to ensure all
029families can participate fully in meetings and school events. This ends the reflections for last year's goals. All right. At this time, the family liaison and I will share the four goals for this year. On page 32, goal one is listed addressing the student success plans for the proficiency targets increased by 5% in grades 1 through 12. Also on page 32, you can see more detailed information about the action steps addressing the assessment data review, individualized goal setting, and the family engagement in order to set goals, interventions, and raise awareness. At this point in the school year, these steps have been completed and at this time all teams are implementing interventions and collecting documentation. On page 34, goal two is listed. By the end of the school year, 100% of the family liaison, central registration staff,
030and sitebased multilingual staff used for interpretation and translation services will complete the self-guided language ambassador training and assessment, ensuring compliance with state requirements. Our goal is to have interpreters to support families at formal meetings and language ambassadors to support families in informal interactions. So your interpreters are specialized to participate in IEP meetings, 504 plan meetings, disciplinary hearings, and other specialized meetings. Our thirdparty vendor in district-wide family liaison are trained for these meetings. Meanwhile, our language ambassadors are the bilingual school employees who can assist families in their preferred language with basic communication about school related matters like school attendance, field trips, parent pickup. This training provides fundamental information about interpretation, including ethics and standards of practice. Thank you for your continued support of the English learner education program. And at this time, I'd like to introduce
031Moshi, who will share goal number three. Good evening. Thank you, Heather. Um, on page 35, goal number three is listed addressing raising awareness of the language access plan through district communications, accessible resources for families, and opportunities for families to learn about the plan at a minimum of four parentmies across four languages. Also on page 35, you can see more detailed information about the district communication steps needed in order to raise awareness of the language access plan. At this point in the school year, these steps have already been completed. You can also see more detailed information about opportunities for families to become become aware of the language access plan. At this point in the school year, the plan has been shared with the families through the community notices newsletter. The family liaison have also shared information
032about the plan during the first ELPAC meeting and the first parent academy of the year. The family leaison will continue to share this information during future ELPAC and parentmies of this school year. Now continuing down on page 35, you can see more detailed information about the accessible resources for families. We plan to check in with school secretaries to see if they need any support learning how to use the language line and also check in with families about their experience requesting interpreters when calling the schools. In addition, we plan to check in with schools about displaying the printed resources available to families who visit a school's main office, such as the language identification resources listed on page 17 of the language access plan. Thank you for your time. And now I would like to introduce Rey
033who will share about goal number four. >> Thank you Moshi. Good evening everyone. At this time I would like to share information about goal number four. On page 36 goal number four is listed. addressing our plan to establish a parent mentorship program in partnership with the English Learner Parent Advisory Council, also known as LPC. The purpose of this program is simple but powerful parents helping parents by the end of the school year. Our goal is to have 25 mentor parents, all of whom are current or former English learner parents matched with new year families who are just beginning their journey in our schools. To briefly walk through the steps, first we will create a program framework and define clear mentor mentee criteria. We want everyone to know what the mentoring relationship looks like. expectation, boundaries
034and goals. Next, we will recruit mentors through announcements, flyers, and alpaca outreach. And yes, we all know snacks help, but the real motivation is community. After recruitment, we will match mentors and mentees based on language, grade level or school. Think of it as matchmaking, but instead of romance, we are building confidence and connections. Once parents are matched, we will hold a mentor orientation covering communication skills, confidentiality and district resources. Then we will officially launch the program and encourage monthly check-ins. This can be quick chats, phone calls, or even meeting over coffee, whatever helps parents feel supported. Finally, at the end of the school year, we will collect feedback from all participant to measure the impact. If family tell us things like yes, I finally understand Aspen or I feel more comfortable navigating the school system,
035then we know this goal is doing exactly what it's meant to do. Overall, goal number four strengthens our district commitment to equity by turning family experience into leadership and mentorship into empowerment. Thank you for your time again. Now I will I would like to introduce Bean who will share more about our activities. >> Thank you Rick. Good evening school committee. My name is Bing. On page 43 a list of districtwide families ongoing activities is provided. We provide individualized support for families utilizing communication methods that works best for the families. This approach bridges the gap between the famil family's current communication method and the district's emailing method. We are trained interpreters offering interpretation support to ensure families can fully understand and and participate in their preferred languages. We help families and the school discuss student progress
036with with the clarity during all formal meetings. For families who rely on WeChat and WhatsApp to stay in touch with loved ones and may not be familiar with email, our social media outreach helps keep families well informed and connected to school resources such as calendar reminders and school supply list to prepare for the new school year. We post about sale of biliteracy and summer programs. These platforms serve as an effective ways to share flyers, newsletters, and other essential information by updating phone numbers, email addresses, and language access icons. We enter these Aspen updates to ensure student uh school can communicate with families quickly, accurately, and in their pref preferred languages. For new families who need language access to maybe and may be unfamiliar with the uh district culture, we provide a welcome packet with the
037school information and aspen introduction, a calendar and other helpful resources. We also guide families through through a new parent orientation to help them understand school expectations. Our translation support provides families with a clear and equitable access to important student uh school information by training by translating forms, school flyers and school calendars. We provide families with access to information about events, programs and announcements. Thank you very much. Uh my colleague Laura will continue to share information about family leazison activities. Please. >> Thank you, Bean. Good evening everyone. I'm Laura and I will continue by sharing the families on activities on page 44. Let's start with the beginning and end of the school year because those are the moments when family need us the most. At the start of the year, we help families get settled by
038guiding them through important steps. For example, the transportation application. We also provide interpretation on the first day of school. So families feel welcomed and supported. And of course, we want our new parent orientation, including support for kindergarten orientation to make sure new families understand their next steps. As the year transition into summer, our focus shift to keeping families engaged over the summer. We help with outreach and support for summer program registration and we make sure the next school year calendar is translated so families can plan ahead. Another big part of our work is helping both families and staff feel more knowledgeable and equipped for families. We offer learning opportunities like parentmies and ondemand office hours. We also support students and families during high school course selection lights which can be challenging with the language support.
039For staff, we provide district-wide professional development session and support whenever they need help communicating with multilingual families. And to make sure we are always improving, we gather feedback from both families and staff throughout our language assess survey. Their input help us understand what's working and where we can grow. We also work closely with ALPAC across the school year such as providing interpretation, coordinating meetings and coordinate the mentor program and even when school is out we are still busy during the summer. with support programs like cam can do and swell run the new parent orientation for families ley enrolled in QPS and handle Aspen data entry so everything is ready when student return our support isn't limited to certain moments is consistent by staying engaged all year we ensure every QPS family has the access and
040support needed for their children to success That's all. That's what we wanted to share with you today. Thank you so much for your continued support. We would like to invite you to offer any comments or question for our team. Thank you. >> Your your work is invaluable for our school system and we're very fortunate to have you. Heather, I know you travel a long way every day to get here and we appreciate you. So hope does she get guy gas mileage? >> Well, she should. >> Mr. Gutro, >> thank you very much. Uh, excellent presentation. I I always appreciate the presentation. Um, phenomenal plan. Um, you know, I'm blown away every time when when I hear 83 languages, 1700 students, and and really the the vast scope of what you do uh as family liaison.
041And I mean, I I went through that checklist and I couldn't think of anything else that I would add to it. Um, it's it's really incredibly comprehensive. I had um two questions. um on past parentmies what's the participation like or does it vary? Um so we've seen from the beginning of we when we started the parentmies the participation has increased. We usually have um around 100 participants in total. That's great. Yeah. >> Yeah. >> Excellent. Okay. And uh I love the idea of the mentor program. I thought that was great. Has the recruitment started? And if so, what's the schedule for all of that? >> And and how confident are you that you're going to be have plenty of receptive mentors? >> Then we are very confident. >> So actually maybe after tonight's presentation, we
042will start the recruitment process. >> So >> say that again. >> So after tonight's meeting, tomorrow we will start the recruitment process. to start the process. Excellent. Okay. Uh those are my questions. Thank you very much. Thank you. >> Thank you all for being here. And just to second what Mr. Begali said. Um just invaluable work you're doing. Um it's just such it must just be such a help for these families coming in to just have someone be able to speak their language that understands and and can speak to the culture as well and help them out. Uh I think the mentor is just an ex expansion of that. um to just sort of have someone who's gone through it, who's walked before them to help them out with that and answer other kinds of
043questions that they may or may not feel comfortable asking you guys. I think that's fantastic. Um the number it was actually surprising to me just how many EL students we have. 1700 is a lot and that's um that's it's great and just you know having four family leaison plus I think you mentioned one or two others um that's a small team. Do you guys feel like that like we need to be thinking about um supporting that at all or in with additional staff or is it something that you're managing and making sure we're meeting everyone's needs? >> Right. So that's why I kind of on page six there with a Vietnamese piece. I'd really like to make that transition of having a colleague a Vietnamese family liaison. I would welcome that if that's something we
044can >> look forward to. But >> Oh, thank you. I I appreciate the opportunity to know what you need and um that's great. uh and just the number of minutes. I was also surprised on the uh number of minutes of interpretation and that's not what you guys are covering. It's like five 550 hours. We use the outside translation communications and I it's just fantastic that families are using it. They're seeing the value um and the investment that we're making budgetarily to it is is supported. I think this shows the data and I really appreciate that. Um I just had a couple kind of high level questions. the rebuild. I know the the ELPAC we're either this year or last year was kind of a rebuilding year. Um can you just speak to how that's going?
045How if you've had meetings um just sort of what what you're seeing on the ELPAC side? >> Sure. Sure. Sure. So um at first we were so proud to have more than like 205 participant for our first meeting. So this year um I have already recruit like two school representative uh from uh Cry Marshall and also from Point Webster. And then we are still searching for more parents with different language or different background hopefully to you know to have all the you know all 1819 schools representative and also you know some of the board members. So um but uh we are working on it and then uh we always share the alp information in all our uh new parent orientation parentmies and um I'm pretty sure before the next alpad meeting we can have a
046little bit more people to join us. >> You're very ambitious. I love that. I love that. Just the the amount of um support services you give our families is fantastic. I mean high school course selection night is confusing for native English speaking like you know families. So I just can't even imagine navigating it uh without English being your first language. Um are you seeing the needs of EL families changing at all? Are you kind of providing different supports or you kind of seeing year to year you're sort of handling the same questions or the same concerns? >> I like how the microphones slide this way. I think that's what helped develop for the team for them to put forward the mentorship because we're seeing some questions we've never seen before. So now we're wondering okay
047is do we need more of that one-on-one kind of piece because we have the general questions that actually created the original um parentmies and now we're wondering if we need to fine-tune it. So, we're hoping through the mentorship this will address some of that and then we can add some additional parentmies going forward if need be. >> That's great. Um, and it would be great to collect some of those questions that the mentors are being asked so that if there's a frequently asked questions or some kind of resource that you could provide families that aren't um able to ask that question that may also have that. That's great. Um, and lastly, uh, did we gather any information from parents on the language access plan? Were e families um, did they see this? Did they have
048any input into this at all? >> I was going to say we had some we had you Ray because you're an AEL parent. We had a fell a parent of former English learners look at it too which was good and then I had everyone who was involved in interpretation and translation in the system look at it. The e teachers were the ones that started the original document that was shared with school committee a few years ago. So, it was kind of a building process to this point, which was, I think, great. >> Yeah. No, I I'd love I I think it's great. I'd just love to see families um take on it, too. So, if you had like a survey form for families to just take a peek at it and if they do to
049just to make it to build on it. I know it's a Desi Grant, and I'm glad you're leading the way on it. So, thank you. Appreciate it. >> Thank you all for being here. Thank you so much for the presentation. I was gonna say one thing I was going to not say to Mrs. Peros's point. I had to jump on the Zoom for your last alpac meeting. Oh, nice. >> And that was wonderful to meet the board and and how it was translated in so many different languages and and that was really wonder and there was like over a hundred people there. It was amazing. It was Yeah, that was really really wonderful. So, thank you for all that you do. >> Oh, thank you. I have a question. Um, you know, there's so many
050actually, um, I think Mrs. Hubley might have been one of the the people who started the Quinsey Mom's um, Facebook page and, um, and Elpac has a page, right? Has a Facebook um, page and is do you find that do you get a lot of questions from from people who like you you're going to do a mentor program, right? But do you find do people ask questions there? you know that might they have certain questions that they might throw up on the Facebook page looking for someone to answer. >> Uh not yet but because I think um we did not uh promote it you know using social media a lot but you know um for the mentorship program we are going to use like um uh Facebook Instagram um yeah at least those two social
051media to uh to expand the network to let people know. So I'm pretty sure that um there will be questions asking you know how to join or you know yeah >> you know what's what's the criteria you know all this stuff. So I believe that you know once we start using more of the social media and um besides Instagram and uh Facebook and also we can use our wechathat and WhatsApp to u to promote our new um new mentorship program. So I think you know uh we always welcome a lot of questions and we always want to help the parents to answer those question right away. So I believe that when we're using more they will have a lot more attraction. So um so parents question will be coming coming. >> Yeah. Yep. It's I
052think it's an easy just an easy way for people maybe have something and they can throw it up there and then they they either help each other answer the questions or if you're monitoring it y >> you'd find ways to answer them. So absolutely >> it might be a good option. >> Thank you. >> But okay we're great. >> Motion to approve. >> Oh we need a motion to approve. >> Motion to approve. Um Mrs. Hugley Mr. Gutro. All in favor? >> I. >> Okay. Thank you. Thank you so much. >> Thank you. >> That's what it says. That's the district review. Dr. Perkins. >> Yes. Well, thank you very much for having me here tonight. Um, so I just wanted to give you a little update on uh something that will be coming down
053the pike for us in Quinsey. So, uh, we have been selected, lucky us, uh, to participate in a district review. Um, we've been chosen to participate in this district review because we have not had a comprehensive district review in the last five years. This is different from a tiered focus monitoring review which um, you know, you may remember some of you have talked about those before. So, those typically focus on special education or um, civil rights uh, things like that. So, this looks at everything. It's a um it's a pretty massive review. Um and it is a law, so we do not have an option. Um it's a Massachusetts general law. And so what will happen um is they the Department of Education will be coming to the district in January, the week of actually
054of January 26. We cannot opt out and we cannot delay it. you know, we can't ask for a delay to the next year. When they do come, um there's there's multiple parts to the review. So, they actually hire a consultant from a company called AIRIR, which is a consulting firm that the Department of Education uses quite frequently. Uh so, they will actually be conducting the majority of the work on the review. there is a preparation that needs to go into the review and then there's the on-site week and then there is the follow-up activities um that will recur occur as a result of the review. So in order to prepare for the review they do have extensive document requests and so that's kind of the period that we're in right now. We are preparing the
055document requests and um getting all of those things in order. The information that they require needs to be submitted to them about uh just about two weeks before they come on site. And that includes schedules. They want u maps of the school, every single school. They want sk every single individual teacher schedule. Um they want building overall schedules. Uh they want summitive evaluations for our educators. Um there's a laundry list of items that we need to submit prior to them coming into the district. Um and so that's the preparation period. Once they come, there probably will be about eight um people from AIR that will be in Quinsey for the week. They will visit every single school. They did a review most you know last year in Fall River and they did 920 observations in
056different classrooms. So it is very very extensive. Uh in front of you I believe you have the handout that um shares the um class observation tool which is the protocol they will use when they're on site. So in addition to the observation, they will also conduct um focus groups, interviews, um things like that and with a wide variety of individuals. And so just to speak for a minute about the class um observation tool and I do just want to thank Gail Cavalo who's here tonight, the QA president, who actually sat in a meeting with me with the AR consultant to review the observation tool to make sure that our teachers were comfortable. Um and so the teachers cannot refuse to be uh observed. Um so that they do have to participate. They can refuse to
057participate in a focus group or an interview if they're not comfortable. So they can say no to that. They can opt out of that. Um and so you can see on the class observation tool, it it it's by grade level. It's broken down by grade level. So there's a prek to three band and then there's an upper elementary and secondary um ele uh education uh domains. And so it's broken down into domains and dimensions. And so for both areas it looks at emotional support, classroom observation and instructional support. There's some differences depending on the grade bands but for instance um the dimensions in emotional support. It looks at uh positive climate, negative climate, teacher sensitivity, and regard for students perspectives are just some of the examples of the things that they'll be looking for. Um
058you can see the different examples in the classroom organization and then also in instructional support. um you know at the high at the upper um elementary and the secondary level in they're looking for in instructional support more examples of things like um instructional dialogue and and things like that um instructional learning formats. And so when the observer comes they'll rate each dimension on a scale of 1 to seven. They'll be in the classes for approximately 20 minutes. If a teacher um is you know at out for the day, they will not observe that classroom. They'll just move on to the next classroom. The information that they collect will be aggregated over all of the different classrooms. So you won't we won't necessarily know uh they won't release information regarding individual classrooms or individual teachers. It
059will be aggregated. And we do have the fall river report which we can certainly um share with you. Uh it's public information. It's posted on the department of ed education website if anyone wants to take a look at it. Um and so that's that will be the observation. They will also schedule focus groups and interviews as I mentioned. They will interview students at the high school level, staff, um parents, administrators, um teachers. the QEA president, ourself as the leadership team. Um, so they they'll be doing a wide range of interviews and focus groups. Um, they are what they assess us on is you have this other handout in front of you is the district standards and indicators. So you can see that it's broken down into a couple of different standards. It they'll be looking
060for leadership examples of leadership and governance. They'll be looking for at examples for curriculum and instruction, assessment, financial asset and management, student support and human resources and professional development. Um and you can see under each of the standard is individual indicators. Those indicators have massive components to them. Um so you know which is why this is quite an extensive project for us. Uh, so after they come, so they'll they start with the document collection. They come, they do all of the work that I just told you about. They'll be here for a week um and moving all around the district. And then after they come, just about two weeks later, they will call us with a debrief and kind of let us know what are the trends that they saw. um you know what of
061the give us some idea of some of the recommendations that may be coming down the pike and then three to six months later they will provide us with a report um and that we'll have an opportunity you know the superintendent and the leadership team will have an opportunity to review the report make any factual corrections if anything is just incorrect we'll have an opportunity to respond and correct any incorrect information and Then shortly thereafter the report will be public. And so at that point then we would obviously present the results to the school committee. The results get posted on the department of education website and um also obviously we'll have it on our website as well. Um there are questionnaires that that people also need to complete. Um some of that's due ahead of time,
062some of that is due, you know, when they come. Um, but I believe I brought the maybe I didn't bring the Fall River report just so you can um get an idea of the extensiveness of the report. It's quite extensive. So, uh, they after they do the review that it's really incumbent upon the district as to how they use the information. So, you know, they obviously recommend that districts use the information to identify, you know, areas in need of improvement in the future or um areas maybe that we want to look at in terms of like budget, you know, when um if there's things that you know, curriculum materials that need to be purchased. I don't expect that that will be the case because we actually have brand new curriculum materials in many areas and
063they are all high quality, which is what they look for. Um, but just as an example, you know, that you the the committee may want to take some of that into consideration as we plan for the budget moving forward. Um, and so I know that's a very quick snapshot of what uh we will be experiencing when they come to do the district review, but um that is basically it in a nutshell. And I'm happy there's a lot to it, so I'm happy to answer any questions. >> Thank you. Um, so I understand we have no choice. We have to have them come. Um, will we be getting any of their um, credentials, background, will they background checks, that kind of things done so that we have that information if they're going to be in our
064schools? >> Good question. We are currently in dialogue with them regarding that. Um so because they are quarried through um AIR and the department of education they uh feel that they are under the umbrella of the department of education and therefore do not need to participate in a quarry and a fingerprint through us. So, um, we're having some spirited dialogue around that and, uh, you know, we have consulted with, um, our, uh, our attorneys as well. Um, and I Sarah is, you know, is great and obviously is going to be helping us with that. So, a compromise that we did have is that they did recently send us their quaries. um because the other piece is when they are in the building, they take the map and they go um and so they're not necessarily
065escorted by anyone. And so we obviously have significant concerns around that. And um so we are in dialogue around the the whether or not the quaries that they sent us are acceptable. Uh we're we'll take a we're going to take a look at those and we'll make that determination and then um working with them to talk about the idea of the fingerprinting of the people that come because we don't know these people. >> Okay. Thank you very much. >> Yeah. >> Thank you. Um so wow. Yes. Fun. Um >> just because you didn't have much else on your plate. So um I'm so so glad you need to spend so much time getting all this together. Um but it so there was no um sort of reason that we were selected. It's just sort of
066random. It doesn't come from any local or any other day. Okay. >> Yep. It's random. It's if you they look at people who are not having So we're not having we don't have a special education audit this year. We we don't have we not we don't have NIA this year. So they look at those things to make sure you're not doing like one of those other things and then it's randomly selected. They do I don't know about 10 districts a year and we just got lucky. >> Yes. Yes. It feels like we just finished NEAS like >> 13 seconds ago. But yes, um I'm not worried the um I aside from the piece of how much work this is um for you guys, which I'm I'm sorry for and I feel bad about. But the
067um I'm not worried about what what they're going to find. I you know I mean it's it's difficult when outsiders sort of come in and they and everyone gets really anxious and nervous but we have top-notch schools top-notch principles top-notch educators. I'm not for a second I don't worry about anyone going into any classroom at any time and seeing what's going on. I don't >> everything's um as far as I'm concerned um top-notch. So I don't I don't have any worry for that. I do um you know I know that there's going to be some anxiety I'm sure around the educators but so I'm glad to hear Miss Kav Kavalo is on the call with you um to sort of manage that um so I I would try to assure them that you know we
068have the utmost confidence in them and to not be too worried about it. Um does does anyone from DESI the Department of Ed come back to check that any of their recommendations from the report have been implemented? Nothing. >> No, it's really it's really up to the district how you use it. um you know and how extensively you use it. But no, they it's not it like it's not like a special education audit where or a tiered focus monitoring is what they call it now that they do that you have periodic check-ins. So they they have a finding and then you have to develop a corrective action plan and then you have periodic check-ins over time. this they give you recommendations as to areas in terms of what where they think the district needs to
069improve and then it's really up to us whether whether we want to implement it or not. I mean obviously we could you know use it to develop district goals in the future. I think that would probably be um recommended and and something that we probably want to look at. Um but but it's really it's it's on the district to whatever the recommendations are are to work on those. >> That's great. I'm I'm glad it's not punitive or any kind of um anything like that. >> Supposed to be helpful. >> Yeah, that's good. Um so maybe something good will come out of it. Um and thank you for having that spirited dialogue around the safety of the kids um because I shared Miss Cup's concern about that. So thank you. Appreciate it. Good luck. Thank you.
070Well set. >> Um to reduce their anxiety are the teach of what uh they're going to be evaluated for uh when the people come into their room. >> So that's why I asked Gail to be a part of the call so that that so that we can make sure that we're communicating that what exactly they're going to look at. I I mean I do I do agree with Miss Pertios's um comments. I don't have any worries about our teachers or our schools or our educators. I do recognize and we've talked a lot extensively about this how anxietyprovoking it can be, you know, having been a teacher to have someone um that you don't know come in and it's a district review and they're coming in to observe you to rate the district. That's a lot
071of pressure. Um you know, but I I honestly I think our teachers are absolutely phenomenal. I don't worry about any of them. I think they're going to kill it when they come. I think they're they're going to be impressed really. Um, but we we've I've been in in the superintendent. We've been in communication with the principles. We've updated the principles with everything that we know. Um, they all know when they're coming. I know Gail has also talked to her rep counsel um and let them know. So, I mean, any support that we can give them, you know, we will. But we we do have the sheet that that you that you know that we handed out that says exactly what they're looking for. >> Um so you know it just I think our message to
072staff is just just do what you do every day and you are going to be don't change a thing. You should just act like it's a normal day and pretend they're not even there. Um because we know you're doing great things. I have no doubt about it. Um you know my children go to the school system and I'm proud of it and I wouldn't have them any other place. And so I think we just keep on doing what we're doing and I'm sure we're going to do phenomenally. >> Okay. Thank you for that. >> Um is there any kind of communication that will be going out to students just again for um having strangers, people they don't know in the building and I know how off how anxiety producing that can be um also. So
073is it will there be some communication about that? Yeah, that's a great question and we will be notifying the the families and the community that this will be happening in January. This is the beginning of it, right? Um but then we will also send out a communication and we'll also be reaching out to families to potentially participate in some focus groups and some interviews as well as students. Again, people don't have to do it. They can absolutely say no, but um we'll be we will be reaching out in terms of those communications. So, that will also be included in our communication. >> Okay. And families are asked about the student participation in the focus group, not the students directly. >> Right? There's an informed consent. Um, so they will not do anything without an the
074informed consent of the parent. >> Thank you. >> All right. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> Yeah. >> Next on the agenda, we have um QPS nurse appointment. Superintendent Maldi. >> I think it's the mass conference. >> M. >> Oh, sorry. Mass conference resolution. There you go. Skip right over. >> No problem. >> So, we attended the Mass Association of School Committees um delegate assembly. There were two resolutions. Um the first one was the one of um removing BMI testing from schools which um our committee um voted for me to add an amendment to, which the amendment was passed. Um what um our director of nursing recommended us add in was the um be it further resolved that MASC urges the express banning of BMI screening in all public schools except when a student's health
075care provider requests the screening with parent guardian approval and that was added was approved the amendment and the amendment did pass. Um the other amendment was just the um collection of amendments that were um the collection of resolutions that were already being um worked on and that was passed to have them continue working on on those resolutions and that was the end of it. End of my report. Thank you. >> Okay. Thank you. >> QPS nurse appointment. >> Thank you. Um before you is a um nurse applicant that requires a uh vote of the school committee for approval. She is obviously certified as a indez certified uh school nurse. Her resume is there before you. Uh we're requesting a um a motion to approve a second and roll call vote. >> Discussion. >> Mr. Pagoli.
076Yes. >> Mrs. Cahill. >> Yes. >> Mr. Gro, >> Mrs. Hubley. Yes. >> Mr. Lebo, Mrs. Perios. >> Yes. >> And Maya Coke. >> Yes. >> Thank you. School improvement plan. >> Moving all of the school um the school improvement plan facilities needs from all of our school improvement plans directly into the facilities transportation and security subcommittee as we normally do. This is just moving them there. >> Thank you. Okay. Next we have um one, two, three, four memorandums of agreement. The first one is a memorandum of agreement between the Quincy School Committee and the Quinsey Education Association units A and C for Sikbank. Um roll call vote. Is there a motion? U Mr. Begali second. Mrs. Perios, any discussion? Um roll call vote, please. >> Mr. Begley, yes. >> Mrs. Cahill, yes. Mr. Gro,
077Mrs. Hubley, yes. Mrs. Lebo, Miss Berios and Mayokus. >> Next, we have a memorandum of agreement between the Quinsey School Committee and the Quinsey Education Association, units A and C for salary scale placement for chapter 74 educators. Um motion, Mr. um Gutro. >> Second by Mrs. Hubley. Any discussion? Uh roll call vote, please. >> Mr. Pgoli, yes. Mrs. Cahill, yes. Mr. Gro, Mrs. Hubley, yes. Mrs. Lebo, Mrs. Perios, and Mayor Ko. Next, we have a memorandum of agreement between the Quinsey School Committee and Quinsey Education Association units A and C for educator evaluation rubrics for licensed educators. >> Motion to approve. >> Mrs. Hubley. Second by Mrs. Pertios. Any discussion? Roll call vote, please. >> Mr. Begley, >> yes. >> Mrs. Cahill, yes. >> Mr. Gatro, Mrs. Hubbley, >> yes. >> Mrs. Perios, >> yes.
078>> And Mayor Coke, >> yes. >> Thank you. And next we have a memorandum of agreement between the Quinsey School Committee and the Quinsey Education Association units A and C for educator evaluation rubrics for department heads and team administrators. >> A motion Mr. Begley, second by Mrs. Hubley. Any discussion? Roll call vote. >> Mr. Begley. Yes. >> Mrs. Cahill. Yes. >> Mr. Gatro. Mrs. Hubley. >> Yes. >> Mrs. Perios and Mayog. >> Yes. >> Okay. >> Thank you everyone. >> Thank you. Um, next we have a consent agenda. Um, which requires a roll call vote. Is there a motion? >> Uh, Mrs. Mrs. Hubley, second Mr. Begali. Any discussion? Uh, roll call vote, please. >> Mr. Begley, >> yes. >> Mrs. Cahill, yes. >> Mr. Gro, Mrs. Hubley, >> yes. >> Mrs. Perios. And Mayor
079Ko. >> Yes. >> Thank you. >> And next, we have additional business, which there is none. Communications. All meetings in the Cardington building, school committee room. Upcoming school committee meetings at 6:30m December 10th, January 7th, um January 21st, and February 11th. Upcoming subcommittee meetings November 24th, December 1st and 3rd, teaching and learning. December 8th, teaching and learning, special ed, and EDI, all starting at 6 p.m. Uh reports of subcommittee, Mayor Ko to report on the October 22nd, 2025 quarterly budget and finance committee. Yeah, we had our quarterly meeting. A few questions for Mr. Melany, but everything is uh in order, so people can see it on the website if they want to look at the minutes. >> Okay, all set. Um executive session, we are none. Okay. And um motion to adjurnn. >> Before we
080do that, >> just happy Thanksgiving to everybody here. Uh to the public in general. Uh hopefully you see at the stadium and at the Christmas festival next weekend, but happy Thanksgiving everybody. >> Thank you. >> Thanks everybody.