Quincy School Committee: (March 12, 2025)

001again welcome to the Athletics and uh Wellness subcommittee meeting of uh March 12th uh tonight we have several meeting uh items on the agenda uh a High School athletics update with our um athletic director Mr Kevin Mahoney and start with uh you Kevin thank you Mr bolie the rest of the committee thank you for having me here tonight um I will like to start the presentation just as a to offer my congratulations to the north quiny girls basketball program um very impressive run in the state tournament uh unfortunately had a defeat last night but uh for them to make the final four is extremely impressive we we think it might be the furthest oh thanks we think it might be the the furthest uh that a a girls program from North quin's gone that far

002um just a really great Testament to coach Cunningham her staff and what they've done over there so um hats off to uh North quiny girls basketball um wanted to start tonight by just reviewing our fall and winter season um from our 2024 25 school year thus far um I was able to provide the uh participation numbers for um for our Sports and the sports that we've the teams that we were able to offer through the winter season at this point um so those the the participants at the bottom there is a is unique participants for the school year so if a kid played uh two sports let's say that they're not counted twice so we have in the district you know roughly over 780 student uh student athletes participating between the both both high schools

003um whether that's them playing one sport or two um like to jump into the fall review that we had fall in Winter just go by high school so starting first with quinsey high we had over 260 students participate this past fall season uh we had with the eight sports that we offered uh we had 10 Patriot League Allstars that were selected um one of our girls volleyball athletes was selected as the MVP for for the division that quinsey high is in in The Patriot league and then she went was also selected as a Boston Herald all Scholastic Destiny Francis um we had seven other fall athletes selected as Patriot Ledger and Enterprise all Scholastics for The Fall season our girls volleyball program at quinsey high uh won the fiser division of the Patriot League went

004on to the Mia tournament and they were number 15 seed in division one they lost in the round of 32 um but obviously impressive for them to get in qualify for the state tournament um another impressive program that we had this fall was our combined Quin quiny North quinsey girls cross country program um hats off to Jeff Jeff Hennessy and his staff they went undefeated in their their uh four meets that they had amongst the Fisher division they won the Fisher division title um they went on to the divisional race with the team overall placs ninth amongst uh the rest of the state in that um a student athlete at quinsey high school at a Cody finished first uh during the season in a sophomore girls 5K Invitational at had um and she would would

005go on to the Mia meet of Champions I'll touch touch up on a couple of north quiny um cross country athletes when we get to them um in quinsey High football qualified for the state tournament this year as well uh where they earned the 16 seed and eventually lost to uh Catholic Memorial and the boys golf program was awarded the uh Team sportsmanship award for the Fisher division um I do include the final records there for for uh for reference um um with the sports that uh compete amongst uh the fiser division in The Patriot League uh shift and gears to the winter season at quinsey high school we had a little over 180 students participate 184 to be exact across the 12 sports that we offer um at the high school level uh seven

006of those Patriot uh seven of those student athletes were selected as Patriot League Allstars um those meetings just wrapped up amongst the uh League coaches who vote on those um our girls basketball program at quinsey high qualified for the tournament state tournament had a great season um they were the number seven seed they they won their first round match up against Marshfield and then fortunately we're defeated by King philli in the round of 16 um our boys basketball program and uh the combined boys swimming program received the sportsmanship award for the Fisher division um and then in our indoor track program from quinsey high specifically we had three females five males that qualified for the Mia um championships and one of our seniors in particular Jaden Francois quinsey high would uh finish fifth overall in

007in the long jump and then he would advance in the hurdles um for the me of Champions which in the 55 meter hurdles uh finished eighth in that and um final final records uh for reference as well for our um teams that compete in The Patriot League fish division shifting over to North quinsey for review U of the fall and the the winter season really impressive fall season um at at North quinsey High uh we had uh actually yeah close to four of our teams end up qualifying for the Mia state tournament um participation wise had little under 300 students participate um 293 across the eight Sports 13 of which were selected as Patriot League Allstars we had two MVPs over there in the fall season both females uh Jackie Jacqueline Manning for girls soccer

008and mattye mcgilla cudy for girls cross country um Jackie was selected as a Herold all Scholastic as well as a ledger all Scholastic Michael gallagan UM quarterback for football was a um Harold and glob ball Scholastic Patriot Ledger as well well um included within a total of nine fall athletes at North quinsey who were recognized by the Patriot Ledger and the Enterprise as all Scholastics um once again to to talk about the girls cross country program um Q andq the north quiny side Matty mcgilla cudy finished first in all four of those races um that we competed against the fiser side very impressive um would go on as I said to to be selected as the MVP from the coaches in the league um and then her along with Zoe Nelson would qualify for the

009Mia meet of Champions race at the end of the year uh football qualified for the tournament they won they earned the 10th seed in division two and would lose in the first round to Barnstable girls socer qualified for the Mia tournament um I think for for a while now I think Paul could be wrong on that one but um 2016 um but they would earn the division uh in division two they dur in the number 30 seed um would lose a tough one in overtime to Drake it in the fir in the preliminary round girls volleyball would also qualify for the Mia state state tournament this year um as they've done in recent years uh they earned the 16th seed in division two and would lose to Walpole in the first round and our boys

010golf program at North quinsey also qualified as a team uh to compete in the cell sectional tournament those and those final records as well for for ref reference of our false fall teams and then for our winter teams at North quiny High School um another impressive season um obviously highlighted by our girls basketball program that that just wrapped up last night um but we had a lot of uh three of the teams qualify for the state state tournament uh we had close to 20 or over 250 student athletes participating across the 12 Sports at North quinsey High uh 14 of which were selected as Allstars um we had two MVPs in in both girls and boys basketball over at North quiny M powers and aen McGrath were both selected as MVPs um girls basketball program

011would win the uh fiser division overall in The Patriot League um qualified for the state tournament defeated uh hangam first uh Archbishop Williams and then Notre Dame Academy and Hingham to get to last night's the final four and un fortunately lost to Medfield um but once again just a very impressive run by that team boys basketball would also win the fiser division on their side uh of the Patriot League uh would go on to qualify for the Mi state tournament they were number 10 seed in division two um they would be upset by middleb in the round of 32 Boys Hockey program at North quinsey High would qualify for the state tournament uh they were the number 24 seed in division three and would lose in the round to 32 against drait uh the north

012quiny program for hockey and once again our our boys q and Q swimming program were voted as the team sportsmanship Award winners for the Fisher division um and then some of our other uh combined programs we had three wrestlers that all from North quinsey High that would be sectional medalists in the cell sectionals um in our girls swimming relay uh one of those girls was from quinsey high school the three others were from North High um they had an impressive showing at U the division one States finishing eighth in the medley relay and then to continue about track we had four females from North quinsey High three males that competed at the division 2 championships and Maddie once again um she ended up finishing first overall in the 600 meter in the division 2 indoor

013tracks would advance to the meet of Champions where she finished ninth and then would go on to new englands where she would put fourth so Maddie has had a exceptional season in cross country and track um only a junior so impressive future ahead um and then final records for North quinsey High on there as well um I would like to to take a time to highlight some achievements that stood out throughout the uh this school year so far um obviously um one for the ages our Thanksgiving Day football game game that we had um between quinsey and North quiny pouring rain um just unbelievable game goes to overtime and then uh North quiny ends up winning in overtime but uh our game was featured on ESPN sports center was pretty impressive thing got got a

014lot of good publicity on that end um we also this this fall we introduced unified basketball at North quinsey High uh with our learn Learning Center students over there um the uh Special Olympics partners with the Mia on this and um two of our teachers over at North quinsey High introduced um the sport of basketball to uh to some of the learning learning center students um integrated some of our uh student athletes that weren't playing a fall sport to to practice with them and be a part of it and um schedule games with them so that was a uh really rewarding experience to see um especially for those kids um during the basketball season we had Alyssa Hops at quinsey high eclipse the a th career points record um her last game that they lost

015in the playoffs she she ended up tying Bonnie hurdle which is um she'll go B Alyssa will tie her for the all-time leading female scorer at quinsey High um Kobe nen at North quinsey High on the boys side I think tonight he's on the agenda as well he'll be honored um he eclips th000 career points at North quinsey High um first time in the boys program at North quinsey High since 2006 so congratulations to both those student athletes um from a coaching standpoint we had at quinsey high the girls basketball coach Sarah Conlin she reached her 100 career wins Total Kevin Barrett the head coach boys basketball at North quiny eclipsed uh or reached 200 career wins um and Jackie niosi the quinsey High girls volleyball coach at quinsey high reached 300 career rents um

016so three accomplishments that uh felt that needed to be highlighted tonight um as I mentioned throughout a lot of these bullet points but uh we had five Patriot League MVPs um between both schools between both seasons four four of our teams won Patriot League Fisher division titles and 10 of the programs qualified for the state tournament um so I wanted to um highlight those those specifically uh here tonight any any um talk about the spring yes okay yep shift to the spring just a y quick review quick preview for the spring um our season will start up on Monday um March 17th signups are aren't underway at this point um those are the sports that I put down there that we currently offer in the spring um we'll have to we'll assess the numbers once

017they become kind of final within the first couple days but um for the majority of our teams here listed we'll have multiple levels across all of them um some of our Q andq programs will only have the one level just because that's what what is offered but a lot of our numbers look good um participation wise still obviously waiting for some students to finalize their registration but things are looking good um pray for good good weather and we'll get be outside um Parks departments are obviously on top of everything with the the city of quiny and getting the fields up to up to shape so um hope to be outside next week okay thank you anybody have any questions of Kevin on the update um The High School athletics Mrs Leo thank you m m

018Kevin I have a question how many which of our Sports at our high schools what I'm also how many in which of our uh Sports programs at both of our high schools are in a different division different division um and what are they I'll do a rundown um football both school is division two uh boys golf both school is division one South boys and girls soccer both schools division 2 girls girls vol quinsey High division one North quinsey High division 2 um cross country division one hockey uh boys and girls basketball North quinsey High division two quinsey high division one is that girls girls and yep boys and girls y um boys and girls ice hockey boys quinsey high division two North quinsey Division 3 ice hockey girls combin q and Q division two uh

019swimming division one both boys and girls indoor track division two wrestling division one uh skiing is just one um one group of them so can you explain the rationale to me schools are about same size same type of population why is that different because it really makes a difference to the teams if they're playing against division one schools yep so they so the Mia sends out uh their tournament alignments uh it's a two-year cycle now in the past it used to be a four year cycle so you review it every two years um the numbers are based on enrollment uh the Mi does look at what's called the competi competitive Equity tool where they might look at um specific you know like Urban schools which which we might fall under and um other factors that

020they take into play and get kind of an adjusted value um and then they'll align based on just a number um at this point in time looking back at the last cycle what you can do is actually appeal those to the Mia um in the last cycle North quiny happened to be approved for a lot of the um appeals to go down to division two um what we've discovered now in the after going through the process for the ne so the next cycle actually be 20 this upcoming school year coming up 2025 26 26 and 27 um they've sent out the fall alignments and the winter alignments at this point um at quinsey high specifically uh we've had a bit of trouble to um appeal down to division two um myself and Mr Ford have

021appealed it it's gone to a second level of appeal where we actually pres make a presentation to Mia um and we've been denied majority of the time um what we've been discover what we've ended up doing a follow-up meeting with Mia on it um um what we've been told is that a lot of it is just based on numbers at the end of the day they just looking at the number um the enrollment numbers correct and North quinsey has more kids than quiny but still north quinsey is playing down and quin's being forced to play up yep so the division uh North quinsey in the last cycle because they were granted lower division of division two the Mi is basically grandfathering those schools that appealed and were approved into that division so you're looking you're

022you're absolutely right you're looking at a school enrollment size that are the same that are in separate divisions and there's nothing else we can do not that outside of that appeal process no find that hard to believe we can't make noise somewhere maybe we can get a something in The Ledger about it how unfair it is in the sun I I just think it's um it's really unfair yeah especially when they get into tournament play it's very unfair okay thank you this PR um I do have a couple of questions like I just want to correct me if I'm wrong but I thought North quiny girls won the Patriot league in in its entirety entirety this year yes you are correct Paul Mr sorry um we have you you have before us the um numbers

023of kids who are participating what is the uh participation rate I think that's more relevant rather than just draw numbers because you know if you have 1500 kids and you only having 200 kids go for for sports that's really not helpful for for the sport teams yep um we did more recently have to run a report um in its entirety for last school year um where we ran that those numbers those unique participants numbers which is basically a student student that maybe they played one sport but they they somebody could have also played three but they only counted once right so that number there um quinsey High 363 um North quinsey 418 um in last school year we were quiny high at 500 exact North quinsey High was closer to 550 so we're looking at

024um close to third like 30 to 33% to you know 30 to 35% of uh participation follow up to that how does that compare to the other schools in The Patriot League are we at the bottom I'd say we we're on the lower end yep the botom I would say so yeah so the other schools are have more participation in their Sports um ducksbury Marshfield Hansen Etc so that makes it more even more difficult to um to compete yep correct correct um it's just something we should keep in mind because um sometimes it's like shoveling against the tide and it's very frustrating for coaches to go into that position and knowing that they're going to have a difficult time competing yeah uh for a number of factors and that's one of them I'm not not

025casting aspersions on you I'm just totally trying to let people know what what uh what's going ont uh combined teams how many do we have now quite a bit um I can run through them uh we have our girls boys and girls cross country combined in the fall in the winter season girls hockey combined boys and girls swimming programs combined boys and girls indoor track and field combined wrestling combined skiing combined uh looking ahead for the spring softball combined boys lacrosse combined girls golf combined uh sailing doesn't necessarily fall into Mia but sailing we have a combined c-ad yeah and um spring indoor track and field combined would easier to say how many don't we Emily just say it's easy to say how many we don't have we don't um maybe we should combine the

026high schools just a thought um in hockey I know that that's a um why some people are here this evening um you know we're we're in we're in tough a tough situation at both schools Quincy more than North right now corre but you know that's it's just a matter of time uh before North is is bitten by whatever is happening Wy High School um in The Patriot League correct me if I'm wrong is there a waiver that's granted so that eighth graders can participate at the high school level we could apply for one yes yes and do other uh teams in the Patriot League apply for that across across Sports they do yep so do you think that would be helpful to our two programs if we applied for that waiver and brought some eighth

027graders up to play possibly the you know JV level to fill out the bottom tier of uh of teams and and then obviously then move them up as they as they improve and and go up in grades so yeah totally um we offer the eighth grade waivering girls hockey uh we have the one team so it makes it a little bit um easier if you will um you know when in eighth grader where they live it wouldn't necessarily matter like because we have the one program um the way the eighth grade the eth the way the middle L midlevel waiver Works um is to your point it is um offered to the lowest level um so what we actually see in Patriot league is they're a lot of those schools are getting eighth grade waivers

028so that they can fill out a JV program let's say or or even a freshman program if they offer that um in in our situation it very well could benefit us um as an option for sure right so it puts them at at an advantage because they've had that option that they've they've asked for that W yeah they play five years um I don't think the eighth grade year that's a good question in terms of Eligibility uh there are four years of eligibility in high school yeah so if you're granted that eighth grade waiver does that take away one of your eligibility years I do not believe so no okay because we've had some girls hockey yeah Emily so I I think that could be a great solution but I would really like to talk

029to quiny Youth Hockey y to see how many of those people there are out there because if that's not the solution we have to find a different solution yeah and so I think we need to talk to those people to see what what that population looks like sure that will be coming up to us I um if I could I share some data like that I get um so I want to run down at least kind of the where we stand at the moment um quinsey high this year we had 19 rostered on the team quiny high is going to lose eight seniors out of the 18 they're going to lose how many eight seniors soal Le leaving them with 10 um remaining North quinsey on the other hand uh 29 rostered they did have

030a JV program where some of those kids played um they'll lose 10 seniors in the program so down to 19 um this has definitely been a topic for the last couple years that we've we've um we've as you know my communications with the coaches and whatnot in the off Seasons um heading into this school year in particular we kind of we had these numbers in front of us that were projected you know numbers um there is uh there's also a few steps that we would have to take um if we if we're on board to do the co-op um great um when we can we can certainly look that way we can look at the eighth grade option um there is a process to each of them as Mr regoli said is basically the same

031process to an eighth grade waiver as there would be for a co-op so um we'd have to apply to the Patriot League a patriot league would have to approve it and then at that point I would then just have to submit paperwork to uh Mia majority of the time Mia pushes those through after getting the league approval um but they also could um they technically have the final say at the end of the day but um and with a lot of these going back to the alignment what the Mia looks at is those numbers um the thresh old number for a co-op for boys hockey is 15 so is that a hard 15 no it's definitely not there there definitely open to communication every program is different everybody's going through you know that you can't

032just look at 15 and say that's that's too bad you know um so you know quin's obviously under 15 10 kids is drastic uh completely drastic for a boy hockey program um 19 not even as not great either but um is it above 15 yes but same you know you're looking at the program in general you know um and we we've been able to get some Quinn's youth numbers thus far um incoming eighth graders where we have um this could be a give or take too depending upon you know private public um prep schools is all this this this whole hockey situation is that's that's what happens but um we have in we have nine total from Total nine total in the district that would potentially come up in play that's deadly so from a

033long long-term standpoint it's definitely not ideal um we do have some numbers for seventh grader seventh grade two which might be like maybe a little bit bigger than nine but it's not it's not like a drastic number number um I I've heard maybe the girls side has a lot of good numbers at the seventh grade level potentially but um so from a number standpoint things yeah certainly aren't ideal by any means so that's where things kind of stand at this point I really worry about we've recently had a discussion about Open Enrollment doing away with open enrollment that means all these kids from quiny high school don't have an opportunity to play hockey and that would be completely unacceptable to me yeah so we either have to combine the team un unless you think those

034nine those eight how many nine kids nine8 n total that split between like yeah who knows which school Y and if somebody decided to go private to you could potentially lose nine got I have superintendent first to clarify Point yeah there's just a data point my was to the right of you you're thanks just an important data point that everyone should know with regard to overall um percentage of participation so there there there has been incremental Improvement obviously we have more work to do to encourage students to participate in sports um but just so everyone knows that about 10 years ago uh we were in the low 20 percentage rate the low 20s for percentage in participation so we're now at around 33 to 35% so Kevin and the team are making incremental uh improvements

035but obviously we would like to see it um improve even more but um I just want the committee to know that 10 years ago we were in the low 20s for uh participation rate thank you I let me get over Mr peros first I'm I'm replying you're replying I'm reply okay reply um I think that might be part of the reason why um our our teams aren't competitive a lot of our teams aren't competitive so they're not it's not that attractive to go out for those teams so I think that there's two things we have to do we have to get the competitiveness up yeah and if it's if it's because they're in the wrong division we need to fix that um or if we need help with the coaching I don't know but um

036I think if we had more if the teams were more competitive we might have more kids participating I think I'd like to play for a winning team I do play for wi team right I'm sorry this is make sure thanks um so yeah definitely hearing the um I was most interested to hear about the numbers coming up um and so how you you got in contact with quiny youth hocky and got those numbers yeah I know John mcneel's here and I know he's really involved in quiny youth I assume you're concurring with that those numbers those look accurate is there any kind of like I don't want to say covid blip but are you seeing like real young kids at Quincy High the number or I mean I quinsey youth going um up more or

037is this still a continuing Trend if I could ask some Mr McNeil in the audience just if you're just to are you seeing it yeah bump up younger yeah so the numbers continue to stay stagnant for at least four grade Cycles you about the third or fourth grade level you'll see an uptick okay um but it's going to based on where people live now and the registration data that we have available it'll swing so it'll it'll move from North quiny Centric to quiny Centric enrollment that's what is that's what we see for the population of quiny growing up okay thank you um so I guess what I'm what I'm concerned about or what I was going to ask about is if we do do the co-op um and then numbers kind of you know things

038are bulked up again is how difficult is that process to reverse if we get to a point where we have a huge number of kids and you know I worry a little bit and the reason I'm asking is I worry a little bit about ice time I mean you can only have so many kids on the ice at a right and you're really focused on those like three or four two three four top lines and so you get deeper into that bench and you know you're going to have kids sitting and I worry about their skill development during practice time and all that stuff but I know we have a JV situation too but um so that's really where my concern Comes Is there a way to reverse that if numbers do get better yeah

039so you um typically with the waiver process is you could ask for a one year two-year Co-op um majority of the time I just we typ I just typically asked for the two-year um just to kind of cover us and then um we've you know you could basically you could backtrack after the two years the whole the goal of the co-op is to to build the program right so um to make it more you know um for our you younger kids that are in Quinn's youth maybe more um I don't know like appeasing to them to come up and put you know potentially play and stuff um so that's the goal to try to grow the numbers grow the participation see where we're at in two years and then continue the conversation if we have

040to at the at the the league level um so there is that that option in you know two years or whatever if we had to um re you know bring it up again potentially that's great yeah no it's good to know it's not kind of forever and what about what is the situation on the JV team who does Quin quiny doesn't have a JV team and North does is that yeah quiny did not um with the 18 they they rostered all 18 on on Bary this year uh to fill out the the roster um North quiny having 29 they we threw together a JB program um I think in conversations with the coaches um if it was to go even a Co-op level it's not necessarily that we um quote unquote allowed to have a

041JV but I think that's more conversational that I can have at the the league level about that um because if we do combined obviously that that's going to be a good number to have I think like if you look at any Patriot League school that number if you combine our teams is probably what they have or if not more right so um I think looking at that JB option for some of the kids even if we were to combine it could be uh allow them to continue to De develop at that point and get them ready you know so yeah I definitely think a JV team is really important when you get to that level especially because the quinsey High kids now who are playing if you're combining some of the kids that you know

042the the better kids will will keep skating um on those top lines but some of those other kids won't so I worry about their you know their experience of now they were playing you know a lot and often and now they're going to be kind of so that's that so if there was a a robust JV program I'd be totally on board just to make sure that those kids are still learning too um and still growing as players as well even if uh just so that there's an opportunity for them um but I think and um I just wanted to also ask about um before you were would apply for a co-op in The Patriot League what type of communication goes to parents do parents get do you have a parent meeting to talk about

043make sure parents are on board or hear concerns from them or how how does that communication go or do you just make that decision and just tell them yeah we um majority of these programs have like always been Co-op so we haven't really been at the Forefront of that um the newest one has been softball that we just instituted last year um it's more or less like I try to get just from par like talking to parents at events and things like that we we didn't do any sort of survey or um a meeting beforehand but um and then obviously talk talking to both sides of the coaching staffs and seeing what their numbers look like um and then at that point um at least present it to you obviously make sure that our Administration

044principles and all them are on board with it before we take the next step but right I I just um I think you know where we haven't had this before and there's so many parents that are involved in the hockey program I think you tend to you know you really get I I have I'm a hockey parent myself you tend to get really super involved and um you're there at the ranks with the kids as they're growing up so it's uh I think that they're really an involved group and I think if you're going to combine I would I would recommend having that meeting to just get concerns before any of that um application goes through to the Patriot League just to hear concerns and try to mitigate and have kind of a comprehensive plan

045as you're going forward uh just so everyone's voices are kind of heard there um but yeah I mean numbers are numbers right so definitely don't want no no hockey program at quinsey high so absolutely yeah yeah is is the JV now Cooperative uh this year the quinsey all the kids skated for varsity only um just because to fill out the the the lines that they had um North quinsey had a separate JB program that they offered um um question about the um process when does the Mia have to be apprised of whether or not we're applying for a co-op team uh so they can have their alignments in order there's no I wouldn't say there's a hard deadline line um we we've even in within the league have seen some pop up even at the

046start of the school year um the alignment cycles for the winter have already come out at this point so it would be a situation of um you know one one would be considered the whole school the other one would be considered the guest school they would fall in line um at that point where I would think I would hope that they would maybe fall in line with North quinsey as the the host school because they have the more kids but um there is no hard deadline on on the application process the the de I think the the timeline of it that that we should consider is um from a league standpoint as we try to prepare the league schedule both you know obviously if you would to have two separate programs both coaches have to

047now start creating a schedule reaching out to contacts and reaching out to coaches um to schedule games outside of the league so um which typically happens especially in hockey before the school year even ends a lot of developments in practice I mean that's that's where you make your progress from day to day my my charge to my kids were always you want to be better today than you were yesterday yeah and that happens in practice my concern about hockey is you only get 50 minutes of ice time correct a day y um it's really hard to to get better in 50 minutes I mean you can only do so many drills yep in that amount of time so and I know it's expensive yes I know the program's expensive so um there are a lot

048of things that are that are going that go into this to uh make this right and um we need to we we need to talk about it ASAP Emily just one on a thought uh to Mrs pio's point if you can't have that meeting I would suggest that you survey the parents through at least through the coaches maybe sure um and get some feedback from them and I'm sure our friend the data guy would help you write that survey yeah we've already talked about it we've already talked about it oh you have great great yep and is there any um thought been given to uh grant writing to um beef up the amount of monies that go into say the hockey program because it is so expensive um has that been a it it has

049consideration I've never heard it before but it was brought up by a that I spoke with and I thought it was a pretty good idea I know we we write grants for everything else in in QPS we tried to so just a thought and I thought it was a good idea um just just one other question qualification actually two qualification criteria for tournaments purposes MH I think it's gone to the bizarre stage I I looked at a at at one of the brackets and there was a team that qualified for the tournament I think it's a 20 something seed they were 2 and 18 yeah no team should be in a tournament that's 2 and8 I'm sorry and I'm not sure if that is a money thing for the MIAA where they can get an

050extra game in and they can charge uh their their absorb prices uh to get into the game yeah but um I don't think it should be run like a college program that's just my own bias I think if if there's a set qualification criteria in terms of percentage I think that's that works for everybody but to have teams that have losing records uh going into a tournament and just to fill out a bracket is I think is absurd and I blame the Mia for that yes Mrs Leo my my last thing I would just like to make sure we come back to this either at a regular school committee meeting I don't want this to go on too long before we come back to it I don't want to wait for another athletic meeting but

051bring it to the full committee M Pros thanks um to Mrs Leo's point do you have like what are your next steps what what's your time frame what are your next steps on kind of what you're thinking um you would do just for the parents here that are probably wondering like what the timeline line is for you yeah yeah I mean obviously wanted to give uh give you that the school committee the numbers um wait for admin to to let me know what the next step if you if the if the goal is to to go Co-op then we can start that process ASAP um essentially we meet monthly as Patriot League ads um and essentially you know we just we create an agenda and there could be a vote at that point uh point

052in time um and then at that pointed would then like I said I'd have to file the paperwork of Mia but um you know it's a simple form that you fill out and you know with the attached the league minutes to it with the with the league vote on it so basically how the process so that survey and that parent meeting would happen before that step I do yep yep absolutely okay all right that's great um and just to Mr bol's point about the grant um I feel like it's a great idea I feel like hockey is one of those sports that when you get to the high school level if you've if you haven't played if you haven't skated you probably aren't going to I don't know if a Grant's going to help at

053that point I know it has higher user fees and I was thinking myself you know could we do something to offset those higher user fees but I mean from your kids growing up in the hockey program the hockey fees for the high school are way less than they are for quiny youth just for a whole season so it's actually cheaper um when you get to that point so I don't know if it's really a cost prohibit I don't know if the cost is what's keeping kids out at this level I think it may be when they're younger um but it's just always you know been an expensive Sport and it continues to be but um so I think it's a great idea to look into grants I just don't I'm not sure if that's what's

054preventing people from kind of entering uh the program at the high school level though thank you and and thank you and and one last question about the unified team uh that was started at north quiny um the coaches who are doing that are they are they paid or are they volunteers I I I missed the first part of I'm sorry the unified team is is that a paid position for the coaches or is it volunteer I can't I not actually 100% sure on it okay um they went through like the more of the school end of it um I helped them with the scheduling and transportation and stuff like that I think it's a great idea yeah it it was a it was like amazing like so rewarding to watch these kids I watched one

055of the games on QA TV yeah it was uh it was terrific I think we should do more of it um you know track in the spring and you know they offer um they offer track as well yeah yeah anyway uh we haven't even finished we did boys ice hockey even though we didn't introduce it uh last thing for you was the uh athletic coaches evaluations yep so we um we instituted the this uh this tool that and shared with you um was able to get some feedback from some of the ads in our league and see what they were kind of doing on their evaluation end um and kind of compiled uh compiled what they what they're doing into into this tool here to make it um a little bit more consistent on our

056end and and across the board and and more more of a formal um to do at the end of the season rather than just our typical kind of sit down with the coaches and go over how the season went and what we what we're looking forward to in the off season next year schedule equipment needs things of that nature so um I think this will be effective for us as we as we continue to move forward um to have this tool here um after at least talking to some of our my colleagues in the league and what they what they do in their districts um the other the other part that um I know superintendent just mentioned um to miss Leo we we were were um considering including a a parent survey at the end

057of the seasons um to get feedback and input from the parents um like kind of see how through their lens how they felt the season went um you know pretty brief and short couple questions or whatnot but just to get some some feedback as as we move forward in in the evaluation process of not only the coach but just the programs in general um I think that's important as as we move forward yeah we um just on the surveys Mrs kaleel and I had a discussion earlier in the week with in just prior to my meeting with Kevin and scalea suggested that a c surveying the parents after each of the um Seasons would be a good way but we also talked about surveying the obviously the hockey parents to see what their will would

058be with regard to consolidation so uh I do want to make sure that I give Mrs k a shout out for that Mr L one smart alec question do you have a rubric for this evaluation um no it would I guess for me it would be more um a lot of the like for me majority of the evaluation I I think is um being present with at the practices and games and really um honing in on and watching the coaches and how they interact with the students and um their program in general how they run practice games things of that nature um and then go back and and and make that with them um as I fill it out how much does personality um enter into the uh evaluation of a coach I think it

059plays a big role um we obviously we're we want we want positive role models for our student athletes um at the end of the day uh we want that the student athletes to feel comfortable and and really like you know feel safe welcomed and uh just overall have a good positive experience playing the sport um goes well beyond wins and losses at least from my standpoint so I agree with that um it's pretty up I'm sorry thank you that's okay um so you filled this out for all the coaches is that correct yes correct and is this for head coaches only or all the coaching staff or t typically I meet with the the head coaches yes okay and then kind of get an idea from them like I think one of the points in

060there we put um their support staff so you know their freshman JB coaches and they see how they they felt that they um how they handled it obviously if if I'm at JV games um I'll Have Eyes on that as well um and I can offer my feedback to to the head coaches um as well about about their support staff um and see what we if you know moving forward what the situation looks like if we have to um if that coach is coming back plan on coming back things of that nature so and um do you feel that and I I you have a lot of sports to stay up with and in in games to go to do you feel that you know the coaches that you you get a you have a

061good sense of each of these I mean this is an awesome um evaluation form it's just do you do you feel that you um can can answer these in a comprehensive way that you've seen all the coaches throughout the season that much that you can do that I hope to um that would be the goal um obviously can't can't be everywhere but right do my best to to get to as many games and practice as I can um using using the uh my assistant ads as well and offer their feedback our our athletic trainers who are at a lot of games too um see how the coaches interact with them from a medical standpoint um and same with my assistant ad how they're communicating with them on a daily basis uh not only just with

062me too um so and then obviously I I think the parent piece is huge um and I I really was it was Miss kahill's uh idea and I I would love to run with it um I also just I as many times as I see kids in the hallway or whatnot I try to try to pick their brain too and and get some feedback from them um if they're willing to offer it okay no this is great I think um this is really comprehensive if you can you know as long as it's not just a a check you know become like a check box if it's really you know useful like that um and just you know an area of just comments might be helpful too just oh yeah adding some kind an area where

063you could you know maybe elaborate on any of the things if you've seen something that coaches are doing particularly really well like you could kind of expand on that or um that type of thing I think that would be helpful for coaches as well to get that feedback but um thank you for doing that it's a lot of work thank you Mr Bly thank you um just one of the point point the biggest issue I think is is for parents and kids is pling time and that's you know all kids want to play and there the vision or the [Music] the the vision the um perception of a coach is different than a parent and uh the parent sometimes sees their if you look at a pyramid the parent sees their child at the top

064of the permit they the most important thing coach doesn't see it that way the coach sees the players at the bottom of the pyramid and the team at the top of the pyramid and I think that's where um sometimes conflicts arise where that um there's a conflicting view as to where the kid should be is he at the top of the pyramid well yeah in in your eyes he would be but for the coach it's a team sport and it's everybody works together to make it uh to make it one so that's that's just my um view from many many years of coaching sure and just to the other part of this evaluation I was the one who initiated this way back when and one of the components that I uh wanted to have in

065place was a progress report for the student athletes so there was not a surprise at three weeks four weeks in that Johnny's um failing three subjects upstairs Y and there's been no communication uh to the coach that right he's not he or she is not doing well so I I think that needs to be still part of this um and uh um I think it's I think I think it's as important because what we're really supposed to be doing is is educating our kids uh both on the court on the fields but particularly in the classroom if they're not doing the job in the classroom then what are we doing you know so we need to really hyperfocus because a lot of our coaches are not in the building correct yeah yeah so it's really

066difficult for Kevin Barrett to run around upstairs and check on all his kids to make sure they're doing the right right thing in school so it's this is a it would be a helpful tool yeah we' like to we we do um we'll review the interims when they come out and share that you know kids in danger and whatnot but to your point like you know potentially weekly bi-weekly progress reports could go a long way I think I think weekly is a little much but it's like um something um that would help hold the kids accountable and let the parents know as well mhm you know that their kids are not doing the job in school Emily so one of the things I think would help too is if the teachers knew who was who

067were playing a sport because when I was teaching if I had a problem with a kid I went directly to the coach even if it was a behavior problem or an academic problem I went to the coach and it usually straightened out so I think if the if the teachers knew what teams who was playing on what team this semester they might actually search up out the culture yeah you were tough though I was tough right yes were I was scar um so I think that wraps that up we're gonna go to the athletic budget super thank you m Mahoney thank you for your work and for your teams work as well you um next on the agenda at the request of Mrs Leo is the athletic budget coach diens um the stiens themselves as

068you know um very uh wrapped up in the QA contract uh so I it would be my recommendation we do have an executive session contract session to uh go to later today if we could move it there for discussion sure and I'm going to recuse myself from that discussion because I have a family member who's in that unit but my that was not my this was not really what my question was I think that's what I said but what I meant was we have JV coaches who are not getting paid and the booster clubs are supposed to raise money to pay them on some teams right J JB we have stiens yeah but not for all teams not for all teams corre so there are JV coaches who are not being paid by the district

069who are traveling with kids all over the cell Shore and the parents are coming up with the money and that's unacceptable to me so that will be one of the items we're going to discuss but I don't want I can't talk about the rest of this because of so thank you thank you thank you Mr H you're all said Thank you thank you superintendent else meeting a j have a few minutes Pres can we stand for the Pledge of Allegiance please pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic stands na indivisible andice for all thank you do we have any memoriams okay thank you no memoriams tonight at this time um we'd like to open the open for Forum session which is an opportunity for Community input regarding

070the quiny public schools community in this context is defined as a resident of the city of quinsey a non-resident parent of a student who attends the quinsey public schools or a non-resident employee of the quinsey public schools after giving his or her name and address each speaker may make a presentation of No More Than 3 minutes to the school committee an individual may not exchange their time or yield to others residents or non-community persons May submit written statements of up to 300 words to the school committee at QSC openen Forum at quiny publicschools.com by 4M of the day prior to the posted school committee regular meeting written statements will be posted on the school committee section of the Quincy public schools website by noon on the day of the posted school committee regular meeting at

071this time do we have anyone who would like to um speak at open Forum good evening mayor Mary C nice haircut uh and fellow school committee members uh my name is Kylie from 42 president a in the past couple weeks through QA TV I learned about the plans for the new Al School in West quiny by Crescent Street at the February 12th meeting superintendent report included the 2025 2026 enrollment projections and showed several of our elementary schools near or above capacity resulting in limited open enrollment opportunities the new school is in the planning phases and will help alleviate pressure from the existing schools uh and help address the growing needs of our student population as well as ensuring every child has access to high quality learning environment as a deeply involved parent and an active

072member of our community I'm especially invested in the progress of this new school it's encouraging to see steps taken to address our District's growing capacity needs and to ensure students have the space and resources they deserve this initiative is a great interest I and to follow and to be part of thank [Music] you anyone else like to speak tonight okay thank you we're all set with open Forum this time we have superintendent report thank you and good evening everyone hope everyone is doing well the first item on my agenda tonight is the student athlete recognition I do want to recognize North quinsey High School senior basketball Captain Kobe Newen he's School his 1,000th Career Point on February 12th in a game against dery High School Kobe is the 12th basketball player in North quinsey High

073School history to reach this great milestone of course congratulations to Kobe and his family on this amazing achievement again congratulations Kobe next is North quinsey High School's Air Force Junior RC's unit assessment report was shared with the school committee in your packets the unit scored a 93 and earned a rating of exceed standards of course congratulations to our dedicated efor Master Sergeant Sergeant John De Lorenzo and all the ourt students who accomplished this great task again congratulations to the north quinsey RC in honor of Dr Seuss's birthday last week Elementary School students across quiny Public Schools celebrated read Across America which with March Madness bracket reading events where students pick their favorite books visits from local authors and guest readers including special thanks to the 10 arella Insurance employees who visited at the Lincoln Hancock

074Community School to read to our students so again thank you to our very generous business partners and of course everyone responsible for making this a successful successful event for our students at the recent Massachusetts music educators Association Easter District senior Festival High School band students andrees echelman Edward Giza zzing Lee Justin Zhao and Owen V and High School choir students Nathaniel Baza kala Jones Michael Romeo Finn Solano Joselyn Walt and Amy woo competed alongside TP musicians from high schools across the region a highly competitive and a rigorous audition process so congratulations to all of these students congratulations in particular to Owen V Nathaniel vaza Finn Solano and Michael Romeo who are all selected for the mmea All State Festival which culminates in performances at Boston Symphony Hall h on March 22nd grat congratulations to these

075students and best of luck uh at the Boston Symphony on March 22nd uh next is upcoming quiny public schools in city of quiny events they include the following quinsey north quinsey drama presents music man with performances on March 14th March 15th March 21st and March 22nd all at 7:30 p.m. in the quinsey high school Lloyd Hill Auditorium so I would encourage everyone to attend the uh work on the set is amazing and I know it will be another great performance by by our students High School course selection events are being held at both high schools this week to assist parents and students in undergoing the process of choosing classes for the next school year quinsey high school held there uh night last night in North quinsey high schools will be Thursday March 13th at 6

076PM the Middle School Citywide swimming and Diving meet will be held on Saturday March 22nd at 9:00 A.M at the Lincoln Hancock community pool the annual credit for Life Fair will be held on March 27th at the Terrell room starting at 9:00 a.m. special thanks as always to our quinsey school community business partners for putting together this important annual event for over 200 high school students it's an amazing event and the ATL the Atlantic Middle School players are presenting the musical Mean Girls on April 4th at 700 pm and April 5th at 2 and 6:00 p.m. in the school's Auditorium few more things very busy scheduled in the the city of quinsey uh in the next couple of months in this this next month or two uh in celebration of Quincy's 400th anniversary there will

077be a historical Family Walk on Saturday April 5th starting at 9:00 amm from adamsfield students and family staff and community members are invited to join as we explore 15 local landmarks so that should be a very fun event and I encourage as many people to participate as possible the next Parent Academy on Behavioral Health Navigator will be held on Tuesday April 8th at 6 p.m. on zoom and feature local community partner Bas State Community Services and last but not least finally congratulations as Mr Mahoney had indicated earlier to the North quiny High School girls basketball team and Coach lyanna Cunningham for their outstanding season the team bowed to number one seed Medfield High School in last night's MIAA tournament division 2 Final Four game but we couldn't be more proud of them for this season

078in their tournament wins against Hingham High School ash Bishop Williams and Notre Dame Academy again congratulations to the north quinsey girls basketball team with that that concludes my superintendent's report mayor coch uh Mr superintendent if I might um perhaps for the next meeting but we could look at the calendar I'd like to get a report from you and your team on the future use of the delek ASA Center uh I know that the building has some needs I'm working with Mr Hines on uh some of those challenges and needs most of them HVAC mechanical systems um but it'd be nice to get a plan in place we can follow up with the commissioner of public buildings uh maybe get this in place for September um I know there's been informal discussions and we may have

079had a couple of discussions on the school committee but if we could put on the next agenda maybe make a presentation with the data and backup and then we can open up for discussion I'll put it in committee certainly we can present a full presentation on March 26th at this new school next school committee meeting thank you okay um at this time we will be looking at Old business first on the agenda is school committee policy 557 motor vehicle idling on school grounds for discussion and eligible for a vote on March 26 Mr gutro that issue discussed sub sitting here until we cast the vote unless there's any discussion tonight this party thank you um so I just had a couple questions on this um the policy itself I think is seems valid and um

080I'm I assume that this was recommended by language from the MC is that right the masc was the one that recommended this language yes yeah that's correct okay um so I just had a couple questions on it though um so the audience for this is really um bus drive and parents picking up their kids right is that kind of the target audience so I'm wondering when I was reading this this was difficult for me to understand and follow um especially if you're not exactly sure I feel like maybe we should be defining what idling means and what queuing means uh I think that it was a little unclear in here didn't really spell out exactly what that was and um that you know when you're waiting for your kids you're idling right um so this

081actually impacts parents every day or families every day that pick up um in bus drivers so uh so I thought that it didn't read extremely easy to understand um so I thought maybe we could look at the The Way It Was Written um and add in some definitions of idling and queuing just so it's a little bit more clear um for instance there's a phrase in here turbocharged diesel engine cool down or warm up I have no idea what that is but I would read this and think oh that's not me I don't have a turbocharged diesel engine so maybe this doesn't apply to me so I thought maybe we could look at the language to make it a little bit more um accessible to families that are waiting to pick up their kids uh

082to understanding that and um the uh the actual meat of this right is not to exceed three minutes in any 15 minute period or one minute in any 15minute period for other Motor Vehicles I'm sorry buses is not to exceed three minutes other Motor Vehicles is not to exceed one minute in any 15minute period um so in addition to looking at the phrasing I think it's kind of buried in there so I'd like to kind of uh pull that out a little bit and sort of just make it a little bit easier to see that and also just sort of outline who's who's supposed to enforce that I don't ever see anyone out there kind of watching if if cars are idling who who enforces that so if we're going to make a policy I'd

083like to sort of understand what what it is we're going to do about it if people um violate that I guess um because I know during the winter I probably you know violating that for waiting for my kids for more than a minute um so I didn't know if we could start with those I had a couple other questions but maybe we could start there if that's okay to open that up for discussion Mrs leel when I've had a concern about this Mrs pios I called super I called the superintendent who sent Mr drao over right away and Mr drao enforced it and he went up to all the people who were idling and made sure including the bus drivers that they were not doing it so that's what has has happened in the past

084I don't know if that's the typical response yeah it's typically Mr Drake here we do we can employ the assistance of the uh school resource officers to assist they generally assist us anyway with traffic uh issues relative to congestion and moving people along after drop off and also traffic control so between Mr drao and our school resource offices that would be the means by which we would um enforce this so I sort of feel like the bus drivers this can certainly be um communicated to them internally right this is this is something that they should know and have you know access to it's just more I don't know if parents even know this so I I just don't know if there's a way that we can sort of simplify that first paragraph to sort of

085not bury the lead that this is you know idling this is what idling means and when you're picking up your kids you shouldn't be idling your engine for longer than that so um so sort of that and also are we communicating that in any other way um to families like through principles or should principles be communicating this a little bit more simply just again so that they understand because I wouldn't want to enforce something and have you know someone come and you know hand slap if they don't even understand what it is that we're well first of all we haven't even approved it yet right this is a new a new policy for us so the idling and the school sorry so I think once we approve it we can give a general simplified you

086know meaning of the policy and communicated to parents what it would mean to be you know at the beginning of the school year whatever information we give them please know that we have a new policy in place on idling which means you cannot be out in front of the school for you know whatever one minute every 15 minutes like idling your car waiting for your students and and and basically it's a health you know a health initiative and um so we can communicate it that way you don't have to show them the whole policy unless someone has a a question but we can just give them a simple understanding of what the policy means every year before the school year yeah I definitely think that that's what's going to be needed because I think especially

087in the winter I don't think this you know we can communicate it really well in in September right when it's nice and warm and people are fine with that but in January when you're sitting out there waiting for your kids I mean you know there's that I would think that every school every day is going to have people just idling because it's freezing right so um so that's kind of I think we need to do um some good communication on that um as I say I it's it's for I Married an environmentalist I'm I understand the point of um not having so many cars and vehicles idling it's not good for the air it's not good for the kids coming out um but we definitely need to do a lot of communication and um you

088know we're going to need to have some people kind of walking around making sure that that's happening if this is brand new thank you to Mrs P's point I mean I'm fine with the whole having somebody go and have Mr drao go and say you need to move along is one thing but to enforce penalties of $100 I mean it's kind of a how are we able to write that are we able to do that or believe that would have to go through our school resource officers okay so Mr drao could not do that that's that's what I'm trying to when I'm talking about enforcing that's that's the part that moving along is one thing Mr drao could do that because he is actually a deputized law enforcement officer in the city he can just

089like he writes any other ticket um so uh he could uh our school security officers can they are also deputized as well as uh school resource officers okay so to write a ticket and come up with this we wouldn't be something we would have to go through the police department to get verified that that would be something that we can do that we can just it would be included on the ticket book I believe just like a parking ticket or a um mostly our school security officers and Mr drau issu parking tickets so um I but I believe that that would have to be issued through the police department so it wouldn't be something city council will have to approve um I believe it's already a state law okay all right so that's something that

090would be enforced through the police department okay thank you mayor Coke just at the risk of beating a dead horse um I think this comes down to just common sense and courtesy this isn't going to be a pun we're not going to be walking up and down and writing tickets for people this is a thing for the environment we encourage it we hope people cooperate uh if you got some bad violators and we'll we'll talk to them but I I think we're making more of it than we need to and I and I and just to um reiterate what the mayor saying I don't think our I mean if someone's out in front of the school and we have our security officers and you Mrs peros is sitting out there for 15 minutes idling they're

091come on and say you know we have a policy you can't idle and again I don't think anyone's going to be you know given tickets so um and just communicating in simple terms when it's time with our parents I think is common sense approach to the policy Doug if you I I just want to say this is just a codification of state law and best practices by the mass Association of school committees and and and correct me if I'm wrong is that accurate M that's correct okay and and um so the language is you know invented by mask the the question I think that the vice chair got to was that we can in plain language communicate this at the beginning of school years to the parents at at a variety of different schools and

092just to let them know that it's codification of state law we've adopted the policy and the best practice a mask this is the way that we're handling it you know and and I agree with the mayor 100% in terms of enforcement you know you use a little bit of discretion and Valor around it and you you deal with a diplomat atically I mean I remember when I was on the city council and somebody proposed an increase in the fines for pet waste pickup and I asked the law enforcement folks and the Animal control officer how many tickets have we written in the last 10 years around pet waste and the answer was Zero you know but there are opportunities for folks to chat with offenders that where you can diffuse the situation and correct the

093behavior so adopting it will bring us in compliance with state law with best practice and will allow us as a school committee to set up a policy that sets a system in place that says that we're looking and we'll communicate educate agitate and when necessary call somebody out on it just because it is a public health isue we need more pet waste fee um so do we have to make a motion to move it forward or we just it sits it would sit tonight unless you you want to uh I'll sits tonight and we vote on the 26 peros if if we can work maybe over the summer to come up with the language that we want to communicate to the parents and and F with that that would work more appropriately than amending the

094the um stock language that we got from mask the only last point I was sorry the only last point I just wanted to make was the um I I did I actually didn't talk about the um penalties kind of until the second round but the um you know if it's going to be in there you know we do there is always the the ability for someone as you know the mayor said there is ALS the ability to write that ticket and $100 for a first events is kind of a lot especially if like that's where the communication piece comes in right so if if someone were to you know maybe be a little overzealous and wanting to write that ticket that is quite a bit so I was gonna I kind of cringed a little

095when I read that $100 for first offense and $500 for second is that state law state law is that that's state law okay so that that's why I was going to ask where those numbers came from something we could amend okay so I just want to make sure that the so the communication is going to be key on that just so that we don't have parents getting issued anything by any overzealous people wanting to um you know apply these fines and just have it be a burden to families if they didn't know yeah yeah I don't want to say that we're going to set a policy that no one's going to enforce so trying to not say that can I just offer an observation so my experience when I was on the city council is

096that you know uh to have fundamental fairness you you adopt these mechanisms that have some enforcement and some deterrence around it but um in enforcement can be discretionary and you know up up to the good judgment but it's often when I was a ward counselor if it was on street parking I'd often get calls from Neighbors that would call and say hey you need to ticket these cars on the street and then you call the police department and the police department's responsibility is to ticket all cars on the street same thing with pet Wass you know if you're going to go up to adamsfield you're going to talk to all the dog owners uh about pet was you're not targeting somebody specifically so this is just designed to be fundamentally fair and the communication roll

097out is going to be important set set okay so we're going to move it to the 26th for a vote Yes all right um next in new business we have the career Vocational Technical education Student of the Year by Mr sagala check Keith check the mics [Music] perfect thank you Vice chair kill and good evening everybody uh tonight we celebrate in honor Quincy's 2025 out Vocational Technical Student of the Year you'll also hear from three amazing students who are also nominated for this distinct award these students didn't not not only represent the 1300 plus students at quinsey High School in the district uh but they represent the very best of career vocational education in quinsey public schools special thanks to our principls for their exceptional leadership uh Dan Gilbert North quinsey High School who's here

098this evening Keith Ford quinsey high school as well as our assistant principls Ed Smith quiny High School who's also here and Norine harand of North Quincy High and our CVT Department shairs Marian Collins of North quiny High School and Jill Bernardo of quiny high school special thanks to our CVT instructors the 35 committed and dedicated professionals who share their expertise in their cvd programs every day instructors provide the necessary skills and knowledge so that their students are successful Beyond High School including post-secondary education the workforce the trades uh as well as um the military and so we're very very proud of them and they're just amazing individuals so at this time what we're all here for is our very special students good evening my name is Joyce luell I attend quinsey high school I'm an

099alumni of wallon elementary school and Central Middle School and my career Major is criminal justice and for the past four years I've been learning under Mr pearlstein he couldn't be here tonight due to familial obligations but I owe a lot of my hard work and success to him I chose this major because I've always had a passion for public speaking and helping others and upon cycling through our freshman seminar program which is an exploratory program for the trades it became apparent that criminal justice was for me and I realized I wanted to become an attorney some skills I've obtained through the criminal justice program include improved critical thinking World awareness debate deescalation public speaking leadership communication and Technology some certifications and credentials I've obtained are CPR and AED for infants and adults career safe the

100US Department of Health and Human Service fishing training um cops cops training portal drug identification mandated reporter training National Association of drug Corp professional e-learning as well as Department of Homeland Security FEMA trainings which include introduction to Homeland Security plan planning introduction to incident command system workplace security awareness active shooter what can you do and certificate of Occupational Proficiency in criminal justice my future plans are to attend suffk University or Emanuel College majoring in law or political science and my career path as an attorney and now I would love to present my project for you all criminal justice is a particularly interesting and unique trade being a more education and classroom based trade the criminal justice program excels in a very particular way within criminal justice not only have we been able to learn specifics

101that pertain to our future career paths but we've also learned valuable information that we can use on a regular basis from personal rights to Civic duties the criminal justice program has informed and shaped me and others on how to navigate everyday life and upcoming adult life my project presentation is a case study that went wrong due to due process not being followed now imagine yourselves younger how many of you had even a slight comprehension of the legal system in your teen years that knowledge could have been very useful to the Central Park [Music] 5 on the evening of April 20th 1989 Trisha mey was attacked br brutally beaten and repeatedly raped in Central Park New York she remained in a coma for nearly 2 weeks and retained no memory of the attack on that same

102night a group of around 30 teenagers were hanging out in Central Park some causing trouble and harassing homeless people this attack led to public outcry and a quick arrest the first two arrested within this case were 14-year-olds Kevin Richardson and Raymond Santana soon followed by 15year olds Antron McCrae Yousef Salam and 16-year-old Corey wise the boys were interrogated for at least 7even hours deprived of food water and parental supervision before four of the boys made videotape confession to detectives all admitting they touched Andor restrained melee while one or more of the others committed the assault after sending for DNA at the scene to be tested it was found to match one of the boys yet the case progressed with the prosecutors relying solely on the coerced confessions from the initial interrogations after being released from

103the interrogations the five took back their statements stating they had been coerced and forced by the police to give false statements after two trials the five teenagers were found guilty of offenses including attempted murder rape assault and robbery they were convicted to 6 to 13 years in prison in 2002 new DNA a evidence and a confession from convicted rapist Matias Reyes proved the boys now men's innocence but after so much damage had already been done this case went wrong in many ways the police under pressure from the public during a tense time in New York history were haste and careless in their handling of it all from inconsistent storylines to no witnesses to chus confessions and no DNA this case more specifically these young boys should have been released from the moment they were assumed

104suspects though DNA is not an end all Beall in determining alleged criminals it is certainly a big part same goes for witnesses as in cases as well though Witnesses are not 100% reliable and human memory is not 100% reliable especially when placed in traumatic situations they do serve an important Purpose with the victim in the coma at the time of the investigation there was nothing of value to help the police determine the true perpetrator and one of the biggest problems within this case were the confessions as the police coerced and forced the confessions out of these boys they violated their rights not having told them their Miranda rights or had an interested adult in the room as the children were minors the conventions were not Vic voluntary intelligent and knowing and to add on to

105the fact that these boys were minors an interested adult should have been present had these boys known their rights and especially had the police not taken advantage and abused their power a severe wrong in our legal history history would not have happened knowledge of your basic rights should not be a privilege but rather a given because an injustice anywhere is an injustice everywhere thank you any [Applause] questions I didn't have any questions I just wanted to say um Joyce that was great and congratulations um uh I'm so excited to hear about your future plans I know how phenomenal you are of a public speaker at quinsey high just from seeing you involved with student council um and I think that just your confidence and your comfortability speaking is going to help you present client cases

106and um just the knowledge that you have of of Criminal Justice already so I'm excited to see where you go and congrats thank you very much thanks I was just goingon to say you have a great speaking voice and you very authoritative and I think you're going to go very far as an attorney congratulations thank you it's wonderful congratulations I'll just say I would never want to go up against you and go right quin's oh sorry quin's outstanding Vocational Technical Student of the Year interview process the selection criteria consisted of a 3.5 grade average technical competence excellent attendance leadership qualities vocational related work experience extracurricular activities Community involvement and a recipient of the John and Abigail Adams scholarship the interview Pro for the interview process cbte teachers nominated students deserving of this award and forwarded

107their name to quinsey selection team after reviewing student qualifications the field was narrowed down to nine nominees good evening my name is n jenden I am an alumni of Beachwood n Elementary and Central Middle School my career Major is engineering technology which I have been taking for the past four years with Mr Tully who is here with us tonight I chose engineering because during my freshman year I wanted to try a new elective and I decided to take the intro to engineering course which I loved and so I continued to take engineering classes throughout my educational Journey at quinsey high school some of the skills I've obtained in the engineering program include learning about the engineering design process 3D modeling creating engineering drawings 3D printing using milling and CNC machines presentation skills programming and Robotics

108some of the certifications and credentials I've earned include OSHA 10 construction project lead the way credits and certificate of Occupational Proficiency in engineering technology next year I plan to go to either renier poly Technic Institute or Rochester Institute of Technology to study mechanical engineering and now I would like to present my project so this year I am taking engineering design and development which is the Capstone engineering course and this class focuses on a year-long group project where we identify a problem and then design a product to solve it so this is my grandma she has neuropathy in both of her feet and struggles with mobility and often has to use a wheelchair to get around and something I've noticed is that when she tries to get out of the wheelchair she often struggles with that

109a lot and multiple people often have to assist her so when I was presented with the opportunity in engineering to design a product to solve a problem like this I decided to go with this as my project some of the first ideas I came up with include a inflatable seat cushion pictured in the top right top left and a raisable seat pictured in on the bottom right other ideas included an extendable armrest and a device that changes the angle of the seat which is pictured in the on the bottom right so we decided to go with the idea of creating a device that changes the angle of the seat to move the user up and out of the wheelchair my group as a whole created three mockups this is the one I worked on it's

110made Vex Parts like um and it involves um gears and when you turn it um sorry it slides a mechanism that lifts the seat upward to help the person stand up so this is our final prototype we went with a similar idea as the mockup but we realized that the gears in the mockup would not be able to support a full person on a bigger scale so we've decided to use an inflatable device instead to help lift the person up when the device is inflated are there any [Applause] questions he's he's G to ask for one of those go ahead can you adaptive for this chair uh not only a great student but a terrific basketball player as well congratulations on your season thank you and that well done thank you anyone else here I'm

111please yeah I'm just um thrilled that you did something for your grandmother and so many people could use something like that and um I love the brainstorming that's really cool but this is this little device here I think it actually might work it has worked so far it has worked yes very cool maybe you should get a patent yeah we we'll think about it [Music] I was just going to say congratulations it's a great great idea and I love um as Mrs Leo said the concept coming from your your experience and watching your grandmother so um certainly would help a whole lot of people including Mr boli so um so I appreciate that and congratulations on that thank you I just wanted just want to say that you um you could probably be on Shark

112Tank with an entrepreneurial idea like that that's pretty um pretty exciting I bet a lot of people would be interested and You' perfect it so congrats well done thank you for that excellent um oh you have to do the rest go ahead quin's outstanding Vocational Technical Student of the Year interview process students were interviewed by members of the quinsey school Community Partnership who included Arbella Insurance Foundation Bas State financial Granite telecommunication hail Family YMCA quinsey College State Street Corporation Stop and Shop companies and wesling Architects uh good evening my name is a Ki I go to North quiny High School I'm an alumni of Montclair Elementary School in Central in Central Middle School uh for my career Major I'm in the healthcare Tech uh Healthcare Tech uh program at North quiny High School I've been

113going to that program for 3 years under Miss Norton who is here tonight um I chose it because as a child in Morocco my grandfather was in a serious automobile accident where I witnessed that he did not receive the care he needed and sadly passed away making me want to be a part of the healthcare Tech field uh skills I've I've obtained are body mechanics monitoring and recording food intake activities of daily living bed making Vital Signs range of motion bed bath Oral Care a safety education time management effective communication and Leadership certifications and credentials are certified home Aid uh basic life support certified nursing assistant Dementia in Alzheimer's training de inval medical terminology in career safe oia training my future are to attend UMass Boston's nursing program um hopefully furthering my education getting my

114master's and then going to their Nurse practitioning Program uh for a major of Nursing and now I'd like to present my project my project is about cultural uh competence in clinical practice uh patient centered care for this evening's presentation I would like to correlate my technical skills of obtaining a patient fatal signs while I identifying the importance of understanding the diverse populations we care for at clinical with the multitude of religions and cultural differences that impact their care the religion I decided to focus on was um Islam um one of the most important aspects of this religion is the hijab it is one fir modesty uh it protects one's faith and serves as a means of respect and protection um another important factor that Healthcare professionals should take into consideration was is the covering of

115the body all parts of the body except for the face and hand should be covered to protect one's dignity in different communication Styles and cultures is direct versus indirect communication Styles it may vary across different cultures um and In some cultures in the Islamic culture it is unacceptable for a woman to make eye contact with a man that's not a part of their family uh gender specific care a healthcare professional should always request permission before for uncovering any part of a woman or a man's body and exposure should be limited if a covering should be removed it should be done without anyone present in the room um before starting my skill I'd like to introduce my most important prop which is my sister um her name is Jenna kii she's a freshman at North Quincy

116High School um and she's going to be my patient today um well the first Vital sign I'm going to be explaining is temperature there's two different types of ways you can take the temperature there's temporal and oral thermometer um this is a temporal thermometer it is easier to use when you have exposure in a head area and this is the oral thermometer when you don't um for this start the button take your temperature her temperature is 97.5 which is good because the average temperature for a body is 98.7 degrees fhe uh the next Vital sign is radial pulse um for this Vital sign healthc Care Professionals should know that it is very limited skin exposure and if there is any you would want to let the patient know about it always explain the procedure before

117doing any skill that's very important step um you when doing the radio pulse you want to track the thumb area I can show track the thumb area and with two fingers you would press down a little and you should hear the heartbeat uh the heartbeat for a a patient that is normal is 65 to 100 beats per minute and now for blood pressure this is a blood pressure cuff when putting this on um it there is a lot of skin exposure if you if they're not wearing something that's too thin you can do it over shirts if you um if that's acceptable in that moment um you always want to let them know about the procedure and when putting it on you want to make sure that the cuff is the right size approximately like

118two fingers width um should be left when putting it on you want to make sure that it's tight and when when you start pushing on it for the air you want to make sure it's tight and you don't want to go over 160 so blood flow is normal um when putting it on it should also be on the braak brachial artery of someone okay um her blood pressure is 110 over 70 which is good because the regular blood pressure range is 120 to 180 thank you for being my patient um in closing Healthcare professional should be be aware of cultural and religious factors that help provide cultur cultural competence and appropriate promotion of healthc care services to all populations my goal as a future nurse is to educate the Islamic teachings and how to provide

119quality care to Islamic patients are there any questions thank you I was just going to say congratulations thank you so much for all the the tips it was great advice to give everybody and nursing is such a great field to go into so I applaud you on that as well and I'm very happy that your assistant is healthy and that was very relieving to hear and um and thank you so much you did a great job thank you thank you um just wanted to say congratulations and what a way to honor your grandfather I'm really sorry to hear his story but um just taking that experience and what a way to bring that forward um and really have that as a pass for your future that's fantastic um and how timely with the diverse population

120we have um to be able to understand patient cultures and their concerns so that's um just a really great way to view uh your kind of future in nursing so I applaud you for that congrat thank you so much it was wonderful I'm a nurse still a nurse um and I think that I've learned something from you tonight as a nurse uh so I appreciate that I really appreciate that and I think it's going to be so important to have that cultural competence in nursing we talk about it in education but sometimes you it gets lost in and especially in in the tenseness of what's going on it could get lost and I I think that if I were doing it again I would try to remember to say is there some way I can

121make you more comfortable while I get your Vital Signs so they would tell me what they need know depending upon what the culture is I'm not going to assume that everybody has the same cultural things so I really appreciate that thank you thank you thank you thank you um Quincy is outstand outstanding Vocational Technical Student of the Year interview process nominees were questions about their career Major skills learned credentials earned and contributions made to their high schools and Community as well as postgraduation plans in addition nominees demonstrated their technical competence by sharing a slide or video presentation in their major hello I am krie blue and I am honored to be selected as quiny public schools 2025 outstanding Vocational Technical student of the year I am a Quincy High School student I am an alumni

122in Quin Catholic Academy uh my career Major is metal fabrication and enjoying Technologies with Mr delin who is great thankfully here today and I chose it as a because as a young girl I always beli it was important to solidify my own independence and I want to do that by learning a skill after going through um The Freshman seminar classes we had um freshman year I kind of did coin foot between plumbing and welding and I got heads and it was probably the luckiest coin flip I had in my life has led to me [Music] accomplishments the skills I obtained are Mig and stick welding blue reading CNC plasma cutting computer Aid design oxy fuel cutting hand plasma cutting grinding Fini and finishing fabrication layout metal fit up and assembly and Shop safety and equipment

123maintenance the certifications I have are stick and MIG welding certifications my OSHA 10 construction safety certification my hot works um and my M Apprentice sheet metal worker and a c and certificate of operational Proficiency in Welling technology my future plans are to either attend Wentworth Institute of Technology or Woodchester po Institute of Technology I want to Major and mechan Engineering with a minor and biomedical engineering and I'm very excited to show you um my project um this is her baby unfortunately the mother her name is blue that I've created was 8 and 1/2 ft long and would not fit so we brought in baral mu which is probably the first draft of blue today and welcome to welding a dinosaur next slide please um the process is as follows uh we start by designing the

124uh file in CAD and then we created it into a G-Code profile cut it with the CNC plasma cutter um cleaned off the pieces and then finished by welding the pieces together we originally found the um file for the Ross Raptor as a Pinterest image it was like this really small woodworking project and I wanted to take it and make it my own so I made it as big as possible um and it was turn out half fet long we put it into a cad zign profile and I had to kind of transfer like the wood to kind of what metal would be like and because the metal was so thin it was 1/8 I had to go back and make all the slots and holes that 1/8 inch which was really tedious but it

125worked out in the end next slide please and then um we created after finishing the cad profile we made it into a G-Code which is kind of like a translator between the design and the computer it's so the computer can read what was created and cut it out and cut it out like efficiently after we created a GCO profile was just getting it sending it into the computer um so the machine can cut it out it took around 44 minutes which kind of gives you the scale of the project um a plasma cutter is efficient it's known for quick cutting and this was probably the longest thing it has ever taken in my three years of using it after doing so we had to clean off the pieces things like burs paint and um rust

126can affect a welding integrity and make the final project less solid I'm a perfectionist of nothing else so it was really tedious work and repairing the edges was really important so we can handle it safely fortunately um I was able to have a team of people to help me again this was more than probably 50 60 pieces that we cut out all together because it was such a huge project and because I had a team something that have taken me a week and a half took me a class period so I'm really grateful for that and here came the fun part though I can share grinding I will not share welding I am very very un passionate about it we used Mig assembly to weld over the 50 pieces of metal um we aligned it

127and Tack welded to make sure everything was kind of perfect and then we Mig welded the joints very meticulously um to give the Raptor a lifelike appearance and make sure that was the structual integrity was ensured um the wrap up includes it took about four minutes to the plasma to call the pieces we used six different disciplines of CAD design coating machine finish work fabrication and layout and Welding we used one SPO Spoonful spool I can never pronounce this word I'm so sorry we used one spool of Belding wire um three 4-in setting disc one one broke sorry Mr delin um and then we used 4 by8 onea sheet sheet of metal that we cut into two it has taken four classes of 540 minutes roughly and that's all again I want to thank my

128team Christian Odin Adrian tagil Madison Miller and joshuaa I'm not an easy person to work under again I am nothing if not a perfectionist and they have taken everything that I want to do and this was a big project and they probably I was crazy they taken everything I want to do and just help me make it into reality I want think Mr delin for kind of like again not easy person to work with but he's like taking me head on and all my stubbornness and has taught me everything I know I'm really appreciative that my family and I will be attending the 39th Annual outstanding Vocational Technical Student of the Year award ceremony on Thursday April 10th 2025 in mechanics Hall Worchester Massachusetts 56 recipients for 56 districts across Massachusetts will join me any

129questions [Applause] I I just want to say that is phenomenal did you say that that's the small one and there's a large one the large one if you look at the picture left I can barely like put my hands around it's 8 and 1/2 ft long from nose to tail and it's probably 4 feet high like my baby brother's that height so it was a really big project for me to do and I was probably crazy for doing it but know it's spectacular and we wish you well on Wester and to I guess to Mr sagala the um are these students in any way you know is there a place in the high schools for through the remainder of the year to profile the amazing work that they've done or display some of this that

130so that other students can really see the remarkable work that takes place absolutely what we'll do is we'll um create a video and we'll um circulate that through Quincy High School great excellent and North and North as well yes thanksor great thanks um awesome that's it's so great um so what happens to Blue now do you get to take him home or does he stay quiny high what happens to my mom really wants him my mom I want I mean really really wants him but unfortunately he's going to get sold all the money that gets sold from the things I make goes back into the program that helped me so much um so I'm happy to have him I love blue dearly but I love this program entirely more and I want other girls like

131me to have the opportunity so I'm glad that he is getting sold and put into something like the money's getting put in something that like will make the community better that's fantastic I um I just I love hearing I'm a perfectionist too and I love hearing just your ownership and pride of the whole project and just how you really you know embrac the entire project and I can't even believe that you built an entire eight and a half foot dinosaur in four classes i' it's crazy to me um so just congrats to you um for sure and all actually your you know Mr develin and all of the cve teachers that um we have uh represented here and also the rest in our program because it's just amazing amazing opportunities that you guys get to

132to do this stuff in high school and uh I'm just super proud of you and your your teachers so thank you so I just want to said like congrats I know like a lot of them they're my best friends and they're so deserving and like I'm so glad that you guys got this and honestly thanks for school Community to like honor high school students in front of you guys I think they really love that and I really love seeing that so just congrats and I did see the dinosaur in the hallway I was like who built this and now I know amazing um yeah so thank you and congrats again to all the four of you thank you so much this is just amazing I just want to say up front that three of the

133four people up here are non-traditional students in other words they're in career Majors for males predominantly for male not for males but heavy with males and so they're non-traditional students which is even harder thing to be it really is a harder thing to be to go into a shop where you might be one of two girls in the whole place it's harder so I just want to commend all of you for having done that uh just an amazing group of people and I'm so so proud of them and so proud of the the CTE teachers who are who have been with you for four years and seen seen this kind of growth and uh I'm so grateful for them and so proud of them and so proud of you for taking advantage taking advantage of

134all the great stuff that quinsey public schools has to offer besides great academic education all the other stuff that you can do so I'm just I'm very proud of you for taking advantage and it's rep representing us like you wouldn't believe this needs to be on the front page of the paper oh one other question how much is blue going for two grand um right now actually we just talked we just talked to Mr Ford we are trying to find so right now it's in the hallway outside of welding um displayed where everybody can see when they walk through uh we did talk to Mr Ford he came down the other day and he would like to find a permanent place to keep it somewhere on display um we we kind of joked about it

135selling it because it is huge and awesome we have had some people come by and ask how much it is but I would really like to keep it somewhere and and put it somewhere cool so we're hoping that we can figure out somewhere for right now it's living outside of Welden and like I said kind of like a giant trophy so I think you should have centry make a trophy case cry make you a trophy case for the front hall that's what we were we were discussing so we we would like to collab and maybe figure out something that we could both make and do it together I would like to see it stay either with I agree I agree we we can sell the little guy we don't have to sell any but they

136are really cool um like I said she worked so hard on it um and this one she spearheaded with our junior class as a TA to so this was the pro prototype and then she took it and ran with it on the big one so very impressive like she took control of that team wh them into shape I mean four days to build an 8 and2 dinosaur which is 50 plus pieces all the welding um and it was a lot it was a lot we were down to the wire on the last day trying to get it done um so it was an awesome awesome project it was an awesome experience and I think we had a lot of fun and I'm very very proud of you thank you you're welcome I just want to

137say congratulations I was hoping you were going to bring the big one with you but I understand that you couldn't so I may have to stop by the school just to take a look just in case it does go someplace just and I want to make sure I see it before it goes anywhere because I think I saw the picture in here and I was like wow that is impressive so um just completely amazing and congratulations thank you so much for sharing this beautiful artwork with us thank you thank you madam chair uh I would have called it Paul but um I would have too I lost the vote okay sorry go ahead uh nice job I just want to say to all of you um I I don't always look forward to come in

138school committee meeting some days are very long with all due respect to my colleagues and the team at all but I always love looking forward when I see on the agenda we've got kids before us because this is what it's all about to really hear and enjoy your success that's that's what we're here for um so I'm so excited for each of you your families uh the QPS family you're part of the QPS family you're making us proud so congratulations to all of you I don't usually get to speak till the end so most of my colleagues really said what I would like to say um I would like to say one thing having a team at the age of 18 working under you is pretty impressive having a team he just started having a

139team a couple years ago doing the work where you give and and and thankfully the way the mayor works is he always acknowledges the people and the team under him that makes all the work happen so that's really important to be able to recognize people for the help they give you because you're success isn't always your own you know but I always I also want to say and my father was a welder whole career and um some of the things that you learn through the year you know your years here the safety the OSHA the um how to how to you know use your tools effectively would have saved him and his team and people that worked with him a lot of physical and um hardships that happen to your body and the work the

140type of work you do but to the mayor's Point um the when you know even if we have you on the front page of the paper it does not translate to how proud We Are of you and how you are poised and the work that you do and and how well you do it um you know so coming in front of us I it's if anyone questions the quality of our students of the work that we do in our schools they have not had an opportunity to see you in action and um in all our classrooms and across the board so um I want to say thank you for sharing because it really does make it a difference for us to see you and um and to your point about thanking your team we want

141to thank all of your teachers and everyone who um gives you the the tools you need to be successful so thank you so much for being here with us tonight um Mr Mal no just I want to just say Obviously congratulations to our students you have all done really amazing amazing work I do want to give a special shout out to a potential future suffk law school graduate being one myself I wish you all the best and that I do recommend the trial practice program there which I think you'll be amazing at so um but I also do want to recognize our dedicated staff because none of us none of you would be here but for them and their dedication to you and our students in particular the staff that are with us here tonight

142and of course all of our CBT staff at quinsey high school and North quinsey High School but a special shout out to the staff that uh came tonight to show their support for you and for the programs Scott develin of course Quincy High School um Paul Tully Quincy High School Julie Norton at North Quincy High School Jill bernado our director over at the uh Quincy High School and of course our executive director Mr sagala as well so can we have a round of applause for all of our teachers again thank you for everything you do for our students every day and our families every day and again congratulations to all of you and best of luck at the finals so congratulations thank you okay next on our agenda we have the um Early College High

143School pathway Dr Perkins Mr sagala and Miss Jova Vanoni did I get that right you did okay thank you welcome follow but this is also really wonderful stuff so we we do have that going for us but before I begin um I do want to introduce who I'm joined with here tonight so as Miss kahill said uh I'm here with Megan Joe venon who is the vice president of Student Success and partnership at Quincy college and I'm also joined by Kei sagala who is the executive director of career vocational and Technical education and I do just want to take a minute before we begin to also thank um Dr christop Faro who president of christofaro who is not here this evening we are so fortunate to have the partnership that we do with quinsey college

144it provides our students with amazing opportunities that they would not otherwise get um and it also and we'll hear about that tonight can potentially save them a lot of money in their future uh College Pursuits so we are very very lucky and I feel very fortunate to have the partnership um and the collaboration that we do so tonight we'll talk a little bit about our um partnership uh we'll talk a little bit about the Early College program the enrollment the demographics some of the course offerings and how much credit students are able to earn uh the funding opportunities some will also go over some of the program elements um for instance the parent advisory team and some scholarship opportunities we do have some new initiatives to share with you we have the Early College High

145School prep program um Early College High School alumni uh that have been working with us and also we will share a little bit about what we've very excited about an addition to the Early College program which is the accelerated associates degree program which has been an amazing success so far and we're um really looking forward to continuing to watch those students grow and then the Early College High School summer Academy so just to remind you and the public some of the wonderful Partnerships that we have um with quinsey college so we have a really robust dual enrollment program which provides wonderful opportunities for many of our students uh we also have what we're talking about tonight the Early College High School pathway we have opportunities for students to earn credits while they're participating in the

146cvte pathways programs we have the accelerated associates degree which is new this year and something we're very very excited about um we have which is near and dear to my heart which is the LEAP program at quinsey College which has been a tremendous success and provides our students with just amazing opportunities um we work with quinsey college on professional development initiatives um we have program advisory team members that are from quinsey college that uh work with us Quincy college offers a college college night they attend and also financial aid night um and then because of our relationship they do offer on the spot admissions as well so just to go over a little bit about um The Early College path pathway enrollment and the growth that we've seen over time so you see it has

147grown tremendously over time and for those that attended the Symposium I think it was very clear how successful this program has become um and really the amazing work that they've been doing and so it start in 2022 2023 we had about 204 students and we're really happy to report that we are now at 304 students overall and for the first year uh we have also Incorporated grade nine and you can see really great work I know that Megan and Keith did a ton of recruitment effort um with the middle school guidance counselors and principals and as a result we have 64 students already participating in Early College High School at the ninth grade level which is really exciting so um just to look at it in terms of a split by school it's pretty even

148we have 151 students who are participating in Early College uh high school at North and we have 153 at Quincy High School so pretty similar numbers it's a little bit different in the grade levels uh depending on the different grade levels but in general we have about the same Stu number of students participating at both schools and then just a look at the demographics um so you can see obviously again the breakdown by grade level and also uh the representation from different demographic areas so I think one of the most impressive numbers is that we have 136 students that are would be considered lowincome or economically disadvantaged who are participating in the program which is exactly what this program really was designed for um in addition to El and special education students and then you

149can see the breakdown there by race and race and ethnicity and then just a little bit of information about who our students are that are participating we have 168 female students participating in Early College High School and we have 136 males 108 of the students who are currently participa participating our first generation which I think is a really impressive number um and 143 of the students also are participating in our cvte programs which is excellent and with that I think I'll turn it over to Mr sagala thank you Dr Bergens this next chot illustrates um post EIC plans of members of the class of 2024 92 of them 22 um are degree seeking Quincy college students taking full advantage of the the scholarship for the full year so we appreciate the generosity once again of

150quincon college 63 enrolled in a four-year institution while four are pursuing roles in the workforce of Trades and and three enlisted in the United States on forces can you me good yeah okay the next slide you'll notice next slide you'll notice is um course offerings for the 20242 as Dr Perkins indicated this year for the first time we offered uh two courses in grade nine introduction to Early College pathway which is a non credit program for students um that the program is is is designed for study skills time management leadership getting kids acquainted with Early College High School our our transition coaches our counselors are very involved in that program um and then as they do very well the first semester they're invited to to participate in introduction to computer science which is a three

151College course that just started just recently you'll notice the other courses again grade 10 traditional the introduction to criminal justice and music Across cultures grade 11 intruction environmental science as well as US History 2 and then if you're in grade 12 you would take three courses English comp one English comp two in statistics this this chart highlights um the number of credits you would see receive per grade level you receive three in grade nine six in grade 10 seven in grade 11 and nine in grade 12 for a total of 25 quinsey college credits if you participate in all four years all students enrolled in the program must earn a 73 a c or better to earn college credit students also have the additional opportunities to earn college credit available through dual enrollment and early

152early college Summer Academy and many of our students take full advantage of those those two programs thank you Keith and good evening everyone it's great to be here I want to highlight a few of the Early College path way program elements many of which you see up here on this slide um folks I know are familiar with a lot of these but just a few to highlight as Dr Perkins mentioned at the beginning um some new initiatives including the acceler um accelerated associate degree pathway program The Early College Prep program which we'll talk a little bit more about that's happening on Saturday mornings here in quinsey and then our Early College High School alumni initiative which we're really excited to share with um you all more about that also ongoing programs which again folks are

153familiar with but we will be highlighting again include our Early College High School summer Academy our parent advisory team which continues to grow and really flourish here in the city as well as our fourth annual Early College High School Symposium which we had just last month this next slide we wanted to share the funding opportunities for 2425 uh there's a variety of grants that we write with the Department of Education you'll see those on on the slide the Early College support Grant as well as a college capacity Grant uh that Quincy public schools um writes and we are spending that money pretty fast and rapidly uh we're very proud of our partnership with State Street um the foundation um you'll notice that they provide $550,000 a year to the college who's the lead and in

154turn provide $150,000 for our counselors and they the funding goes directly to college tuition we're pleased this year uh that the state Tre Foundation has extended Ed their partnership for additional two years 1.2 million beginning next next year so we're pretty excited as well as this summer um a third summer in a row the department of Ed provides additional funding for summer opportunities for our students in Early College High School we're thrilled to um offer our parents and advisory team uh through the leadership of Eli Stewart and Dan G our early college transition coaches they established a parent advisory team in the fall fall of 2022 and there's an opportunity for for current and perspective Early College parents to connect share program Insight assist in coordinating events provide recommendations and contribute to the Early College

155program uh as as a whole there are currently 10 parents participating in the program you'll notice there's four meeting dates um listed there on the on the slide uh we do meet for to five we traditionally meet in person or virtual with the parents we did set three goals parent advisory team goals for the early college is to continue to increase team membership and create engagement opportunities continue to raise awareness of Quincy's Early College pathway program at both high schools offer a series of Early College parent advisory team events and initiatives which include parent acms student orientations which they are part of they're part of a panel talk to other parents which is which is fabulous they also participate in a variety of workshops whether it's FAA how to pay for college they particip in

156the early college Symposium back in February 7th and they also attend our Middle School poo meetings both February March so in addition to the parent advisory team um Quincy College continues to offer a ful year scholarship to any quinsey early college high school graduates who choose to continue their educational career at quinsey College again at this um Year's Symposium the announcement was made that students who graduate this coming June as part of the early college program will receive full tuition scholarship to quinsey college for the 2526 Academic Year which will cover up to 24 credits fees and textbooks so typically students will take 12 credits a semester and that right now is valuing um at just shy of $122,000 and as most folks again in this room know um quinsey College continues to remain very

157financially competitive with their tuition and fees so if you kind of think about that um with our other state schools or larger universities the value is of course even higher through the Early College funding and through Quincy College we're we're pleased to offer our e8th grade students an opportunity to participate in a Saturday morning prep program it's a five week Saturday morning 67 students from Southwest Middle School participated uh in October and November 44 students are participating now at Point Webster Middle School uh their College and Career Readiness sessions which include community ations leadership statistics science technology College and Career Readiness as well as community service the instructors are early college instructors so we're thrilled to have six to eight of our instructors from the early college program meeting with our students on Saturdays five

158Saturdays um in the fall we'll have the program at um Central Broad Meadows and the winter will be otic middle school so we'll hit all our middle schools within the two years and also as a new init itive we have started um this semester actually quiny College's Early College High School alumni initiative as a way to really create and make sure that students who have graduated from um the early college program at quinsey high or North quinsey High stay connected to that Community which can be so powerful so whether they're continuing their education right here in quinsey or locally in Boston or other neighboring towns this is a way for them to continue to be connected and to receive the support and resources from quinsey college where it may be difficult to kind of um

159you know look for those and explore those opportunities on their own as a new college student so we're very grateful to the work of our two early college transition coaches Eli Stewart and Dan Gould as well as support from quinsey college as well to create these workshops we had our first Career Connection Workshop um on March 5th and we had 10 students attend um that first Workshop we focused on um resume organiz ation and building creating an online presence through Linkedin and other um Online ways to keep in touch and really stay connected with the community students had great questions were able to kind of create um relationships with folks that they may or may not have worked with before and other opportunities that we plan to provide these students include career mapping internships and

160also some social outing so what the goal is is that each month from now in March and through the end of the school year is that students will have opportunity to attend one workshop at quinsey College focused on um career exploration and then there will be a social outing as well everything from a college tour to cultural events and um Museum visits dining or sporting events is a way to kind of help students connect off- campus as well um and like I said 10 students currently enrolled we're looking to continue to grow that and just um think that we're really tapping into something that not a lot of early colleges um College Programs do do yet in the state and just really fortunate to be able to um explore this a lot further and so

161we'll now shift the focus a little bit to the accelerated associate degree program that Dr Perkins mentioned earlier um so this is our first year of this program and um this kind of started um I think last spring really early discussions of it of saying we have students for the Early College Symposium who are sharing their experiences with all of us who have earned upwards of 30 35 close to 40 college credits by doing the early college program and then also taking advantage of as Mr sagala said dual enrollment Summer Academy why can't we find a way to formula um really formalize what they're already doing and put them on a path for them to fully complete an associates degree at the same time that they graduate from high school and so with a lot

162of work with um Dr Perkins and Quincy public schools obviously and here at the college we were able to create a pathway that gives these students the opportunity to earn 62 college credits while they are still in high school and to be on track to graduate with their associates degree um in Liberal Arts General Studies at quinley College at the same time now um this program this year has been offered to grade nine students we spent a great deal of time over the summer recruiting students but more importantly interviewing and me meeting not only with students but their families to let them know what this commitment would look like um it is no cost to students and families and we currently have 14 students who are enrolled in this opportunity this is an exceptional opportunity

163for our students who are made very aware of what um the schedule will look like and kind of what that commitment is currently we have all 14 grade n students taking one class at quinsey College on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 3:00 to 4:15 they say hello they're some of the more friendly students on campus I'll say or they recognize me at least and they say hello um they're in class they're um enjoying themselves and we've also had our early college coaches checking in with them to see how things are going so um the opportunity for this pathway was made possible through looking at what we're already offering with Summer Academy with Early College with dual enrollment and then also with these courses that are being offered at the um quinsey college campus so just very

164appreciative and I think it's a perfect example of the collaboration that we um are so fortunate to have with quinsey Public Schools Quincy public schools in collaboration with Quincy College hosted fourth annual Early College pathway Symposium which was held on Friday February 7th the Boston Marriott many of you attended so thank you very much for being there uh 360 guests had the opportunity to celebrate and reflect Quincy's fourth year of the Early College pathway acknowledged and recognize Quincy's um partners and key stakeholders that that morning um early college students had the opportunity to participate in a variety of interactive leadership workshops designed to support their college experience students also had the opportunity to meet uh Early College alumni uh and as well staff members participated in a day of professional development and training and on

165July 7th we'll be kicking off our third Early College High School summer Academy at quinsey College um this year we again like last summer we'll be making these courses available to incoming grade 10 11 12 students as well as graduating seniors last summer we actually had 30 graduating seniors who chose to take summer classes before going to college so if we'll let that just sink in for a minute pretty impressive um these students are just full of life and really add a lot of energy to the campus um on it during a time when there's usually not as much going on um program wise this summer we'll have a variety of course offerings including fundamentals of Business website design and intro to programming which we included last year General sociology nutrition pre-calculus intro to biotech

166intro to forensic science and we'll also be adding inter to social work and writing for professionals this summer these courses are designed to be classes that students have an interest in or have expressed interest in and it's a collaborative effort when we come up with these course offerings between the Early College guidance counselors transition coaches and the college this program like last summer will include free tuition fees textbooks and MBTA Charlie cards for students to get to and from campus last year we had 210 students participating um and we are projecting certainly at least 225 if not closer to 230 240 so we'll be excited to report back on what those numbers look like but very much looking forward to it we'll also have an orientation for all of these students on June 30th and

167July first to make sure that they're up and ready to go for the start of the summer and this final slide uh just highlights The Early College resources and materials in your folder a variety of uh newsletters and flyers uh just promoting Early College throughout the community and with that we' have questions thank you um I view this as a smashing success you know and anything Megan and Keith are involved in is usually a big success but the you know in in a few short years you've the numbers have grown steadily the course offerings have grown the demographics and and the the balance between the high schools you know it's it's pretty phenomenal and and the fact that when there's all this noise at the federal level around education that you have financially been able

168to sustain this to get the commitments both through the state as well as the State Street Foundation I think this is just a home run for the students in quiny and super I think QPS is super lucky to have quinsey college as a partner and and State Street and Desi and others and it's just remarkable and I do look forward to hearing from the alums of the program as to where they ultimately end up and what they do and and the parental participation and all of that moving forward but I think in short order it's really grown and impressed me so thank you thank you thank you can you grab wait oh I think I think this one works does it work yeah oh is it coming through okay okay yeah just speak right into

169it uh I have two points so um my first point is that I'm really glad to see like as Mr guto mentioned like the um the oh okay um just his presence um I'm glad to see that there's an incentive and a financial incentive to join this program um so one of the reasons I personally never did it was um the credit system at the schools can get a little confusing with GPA and how I think ECS goes in as honors which um because I guess it's kind of playing against the AP program which charges like $100 a course um I guess a last or not AIT but like a question is that because this is not I think this course is higher than an honors course per se but it is going in as

170the same weight as an honors course but I guess you can't really qualify it as an advanced course because you have like AP so you can't really detract from that but like an in between because I think these students should be getting a better GPA boost than necessarily an honors course and while you might not I don't know what goes on behind how you wait I know I know how courses are weighed by like rigor and difficulty and I think I just think that um to incentivize more people which I know like certain people who are afraid of honors courses sort of detracting from their GPA might not take this which I I don't I don't know if there's that many people out there but just sort of giving them a slight boost for being

171in the ecchs program as a opposed to because they are doing more than a normal normal honors course so they should deserve that in compensation in terms of GPA and rank and how it all plays out but that's yeah that was my point so thank you for considering it I just want to just to clarify um the courses you're right are all honors but there's there's not a different weight for being an early college high school so or like won't it weigh differently in your rank right because it will yes yeah so you it's the difference between an advanced and an honors class so it's not it's not that Early College High School is weighted differently it's that there is a difference between the weight in your GPA between if you take an honors class

172or if you take an AP class so I think what I don't want to put words in your mouth Amy but I think what you're saying is if you're a student who is traditionally an AP student and you want that higher GPA then you may not want to take an early college class because it's a considered an honors class and I wanted to say like AP classes are $100 a class and if you're taking a full schedule like I'll graduate and I'll have to pay like $1,000 which compared to the ECS is like free right so I feel like I guess it's like it kind of like topples like a seesaw almost and I feel like if some people had a greater incentive to take EC CHS without the fear of um like significantly detri

173menting not it won't be like a significant detriment like a slight incentive and they and you can still take I want to be clear you can still take advanced classes you might not be able to take an advanced class you'll have to take an honors in the class that is offered but you can take a combination of advanced and honors classes and I I really I I I totally hear what you're saying I think the wonderful thing about quiny public schools is that there are so many options for kids so you can Pur ipate if you're a student who wants the financial incentive of doing an early college you know you have that opportunity you can do early college and take some advanced classes you can do early college and participate in cvte you know

174you can do dual enrollment so we are so fortunate with our partnership with quinsey college and the work that Megan and Keith do every day that I think I I I hear what you're saying but the really the benefit of this is that there are so many options for kids and sometimes kids do have to make decisions and families have to make decisions about what class makes the most sense for them um but I I totally hear what you're saying and definitely you know something we can look at and talk about than sorry wait um not to I was just wondering if there was like I know for like Ry and band after school they kind of get like you know you're saying that they're taking like courses outside do they get that reflected into

175their um like do they get like the 2.5 additional or no credits if that makes sense you're referring to Quincy public school credit yeah so no they don't get Quincy Bob school credit if it is at the college or summer okay okay thank you hi um thank you for the presentation actually I think we have the same mablin because I was going to ask the exact same question but um I'm traditionally a student who like Advanced AP classes and I really wanted to take um ECS courses but that's like the reason I didn't because of the GPA I know it's not big effect but I know like I just want to risk it but um can I like I'm just not aware but can I know why it it's not like count of as an

176advanced like GPA credit worth I mean I definitely think it's something we can look at I think when it was initially and you guys could probably answer better than I can that it was um created as an honors level class MH it was originally created as CCI CCP through the recommendation of our staff teachers they made it honest because they're doing rigorous work so that's not honest that's a great question and I and I think we appreciate both of those questions because I think it also tells um the US the work that we're doing is something that students are seeking and that they're interested in and and again we the hope is that it's available to any student who wants to take advantage but I think you know in high school and and obviously moving

177forward you're going to be faced with these decisions of like okay what ways out you know the other but um it the intent as Dr Perkins said is not to take away from Advanced um placement courses not take away from that opportunity just to provide a different pathway yeah I totally agree with the real life choices because I guess we are going to face that in college anyway so yeah but thank you thank you for the presentation good thank you um this is great I uh I I remember back to the uh Symposium that I was fortunate enough to go to and um one of the speakers said that you know they hadn't actually they go across the state and they hadn't seen an early college program like we have in Quincy so it's awesome

178that we have so many Pathways um so I love that and I want to just start by a couple things that I really in particular love and then just I had a couple questions slash kind of um just ideas that I just wanted to put out there so um Dr Perkins pointed out the 136 um low-income students or economically disadvantaged students that this is uh impacting and this is how what I see the real you know base uh benefit of this program and this partnership is that those kiddos That Couldn't um that college wouldn't have been financially possible for uh this gives them a pathway to it so that to me is the main Crux of this program um and I'm glad to see that about half of the kids that are participating that's that's

179hitting them so that's great so whatever you're doing to kind of T you know whatever schools are doing to sort of find those kiddos and identify you know get that information to them that their families can take part in I think that we're doing a great job there um and just keep that up the full year tuition is amazing uh including the books and fees which I think is his own animal at this point in the game so um that's huge I love theum alumni initiative to get those kids to continue on i' love for that to be something we do and you know QPS in general just try to figure out ways to get alumni to be able to network and stay connected um and uh so I think those are really great parts

180of it um one question I had was what do we see so just um I think Mr G alluded to just this the way things kind of look at a glance now um nationally what do we do if that Desi Grant goes away for Early College do we have a plan to uh support this in any other way if something were to happen to that funding we actually haven't be honestly we haven't discussed it I know just with the the FED going on now this situation um I did learn today though that the funding is isn't from the Department of Ed it's from the state legislature okay all right so even though they're housed in the DZ and they're all DZ employees but the funding is separate to be honest with you okay um doesn't

181mean it won't go away and I don't know that situation this this okay so that's that's just a worry that I have as I'm sure you all everyone here is probably worried about funding for everything but um so that's one question and then I just had a couple concerns concerns might be strong but um so just having gone to the course selection night for Quin high for my little one as an eighth grade family um and I know a lot of the details of these programs that we have but when we're giving eighth grade families the information about the Summer Academy the prep program The Accelerated associates degree The Early College High School and the dual enrollment and the cve cvte programs it's a lot it's a lot for families to digest and understand what

182they are and I know we we sort of have like a separate pamphlet and handout and slide for each one but might be nice to sort of see like a graph of you know like what does the early like maybe like a some kind of um graph to sort of say this is what Early College High School is if you took part in dual enrollment you don't get that but you get this just sort of a way to compare the programs to see what might be the best fit for for the kiddos because I think that as a parent it's really confusing to sort of process this information along with just what's high school you know it's a big transition you're selecting courses and then the Early College stuff sort of complicates things and I

183think it's really difficult I sort of saw a lot of families like whoa what is all this when I was at that course selection night so I I don't know if there's just a more manageable way to understand it and process the the different opportunities we have uh but I think that would be great if we could find some way to make that a little more accessible um I am a little concern I love the associates degree program being an option um I'm a little concerned that it sounds really good but it does limit the amount of extracurriculars and and um things that kids can do at high school um a lot of the sports the the tryouts the practices are right after school and I think it's hard to sort of know what you

184want to get involved in um when you're going into the high school so I I feel like families aren't quite prepared um when you're trying to recruit them for the associates degree program just what they sort of need to give up to do that and I know that you're saying you explain it to them but um you know to our our subcommittee meeting before this point you know trying to get kids interested in sports trying to get them interested in drama trying to get them interested in um music and band uh those are big commitments too and you don't know what those commitments are until you start so I worry a little bit about the commitment that those kids are making that they're not going to fully be able to participate in all that the

185high schools have to offer them so I don't really know where that goes I just wanted to put that out there that I'm a little that makes me a little anxious that they're not really sure about that um I'm sorry I know I know understand your concern um however um students will have the opportunity I can tell you that the 14 students enrolled in accelerated Associates are participating in choir band drama uh they're on the debate club they're participating in computer science club two are on the basketball team one's on the volleyball team so they are participating this is grade nine okay so it is early but uh they do have the opportunity that's awesome that's good to hear that's really good to hear because I think when they um came to the U PTO

186at the middle schools I think it was it was you know there's a lot of commitment to that so um I'm glad that the coaches and and different directors of the programs are being able to accommodate that that's great um just checking in with our QPS instructors as the program grows and as the numbers grow to just make sure they feel supported that you know maybe they signed on and they felt comfortable when this first started as a couple um Early College High School courses but as it grows and gets bigger just making sure their feeling supported um I just want to know that we have a way of checking in with them and doing that are we do we have that I mean I think that I don't want to speak for Keith and

187Megan but I think they're in constant communication with um The Early College High School teachers um and then of course obviously I work you know very closely with the QA president if there's a concern you know she certainly will raise it to me um and then I'll work with with uh Keith and Megan to make sure that we address whatever is happening but I do know that they provide tons of support tons of time for you know working collaboratively with the college teachers and I mean that is definitely Incorporated in the work that they do um and the stien that they get okay that's good to know I just want make sure that on our end we're we're taking care of them um I don't if you want to add anything but I'm good yeah

188yeah and then lastly to Amy's Point um and it's probably a separate conversation but just the seeing that this is such a financial uh benefit for students for this program um you know certainly as we see that uh program getting that benefit the AP courses there really is kind of I mean it is a $100 when you take those AP CL um exams that you have to take and if you have three or four AP classes you're paying three or $400 for that so maybe there's a way we could find you know some kind of funding or some kind of Grant opportunity that could help some of the AP kids with that um because we do have a we are offering a program that is a financial help for them but if we have kids

189that want to stick to the AP program maybe there's some way we could find um to help them out as well because I think that you know we don't want to discourage kids from taking AP classes as well um so if there's a way we can do that just sort of separate conversation but I thought since you brought it up it's a good point I do know that at the high school level that they do they do have some funds I mean it's not you know they do have some funds that they use to support if they know that students are having a financial hardship in order to take the AP exam um you know we don't we do not want that to be a barrier um from students taking the exam so we will

190help them you know if if we if we're aware but I understand what you're saying yeah okay thank you thank you appreciate thank you uh the demographics are awesome I mean we have a lot of programs in the school where we try to get to a more diverse population and we're not doing it but you guys are certainly doing it here it's it's awesome to see the demographics here it really is and the the first generation college going kids is incredible and where the graduates went is also incredible and this is really a great program an opportunity that I can't believe um I'm really excited about the accelerated High um associates degree because so many times kids will take AP courses or dual enrollment and they won't they won't build to anything just individual courses

191they might not help the kid ever but this will help those kids they will actually get that associates degree and then they can move on with that so I think that's I think that's going to really grow I really do think that's going to grow because it's an opportunity that no one should Miss to Amy's point though I we do want to say that this course is a college course that's offered in one semester an AP course is offered in a full year and yet the AP course is waited for more and I find that a little hard to take there might be some reasons for it but I think because you can take an advanced class in the ninth grade at quinsey high that's not AP are people taking advanced classes at at 12th

192grade that are not AP I don't believe so this could be that I think this could be that I think yeah the college board ones the College Board ones yeah but anyway I I just think it's amazing it's a partnership I can't I I do a lot of work around the the state I don't know anybody who's got a partnership like this with a college are none I've never seen anything so my thanks to Dr D christar and to all of you for making this work I'm good thank you thank you team um and of course I've been well with you guys along the way and and just see these opportunities for our young people it's incredible um and uh I want to give a a couple of shout outs uh this started with a

193conversation with Katherine Craven she's a chairman of the K to2 uh board of education for the state she's uh does everything at at Babson without the president title um and she brought this to us and uh we had a conversation which then expanded to Dr Christopher and superintendent Mal we sat through it she made it happen at the state level and she put us together with State Street and I want to give Joan Crystal a shout out from State Street uh State Street we were celebrating our 400 years in the city this year State Street since 1971 has been in North quinsey a little history for those that may forget the city was a manufacturing City when manufacturing left and went South the city went through a major transition State Street was the first one

194to put the flag down when the north quiny t station opened which led to thousands of jobs for quiny people and Beyond in addition it provided a lot of taxes would helps fund the teachers in the classroom the firing on the trucks etc etc so I want to uh I want to thank both Katherine Craven and John Crystal from State Street uh and of course you guys make it happen each and every day the staffs the teachers and all so it's another great opportunity to our kids in the city so thank you for the good work thank you guys thank you okay right next on the agenda we have the consent agenda which um requires a roll call vote um motion to vote second on the motion y just question $200 from the state Treasures

195is that the financial literacy yep okay thank you good y anything else anyone else okay um superintendent roll call Mr M yes yes Mr yes yes yes um additional business there are none Communications upcoming school committee meetings 6:30 p.m. on March 26th April 9th May 7th and May 21st June 11th subcommittee meetings 6 p.m. on March 19th teaching and learning on April 30th we have special education teaching and learning those subcommittees are at 6:m reports of subcommittees Mrs Leo to review the February 5th teaching and learning subcommittee meeting thank you Mrs kahill um senior director Mara pel gave us an overview of what the school high school adjustment counselors do um they're fairly new to our to our district I think this is the second year we've had at school adjust councils and we just

196wanted to get an idea of why they were different than a than a guidance Council they have a different license but they also support students emotional social psychological well-being do some group group group counseling and Crisis Intervention referrals are made by the student support team um and they they feel like they have a handle on the on the case load so this is all going to be online so you can read it there the the coordinator of math Kim Quinn um so spoke to us about the targeted high do tutoring for grades 4 and8 that is being offered from a grant from the Department of Elementary and secondary education where students get into a virtual it's not virtual I guess it's an online not virtual they're really T they're really with a with a teacher

197uh for 30 minutes three times a week not out of their math class in that they are seeing the post um assessment post tutoring assessments are showing a significant range of improvement from 14 to 34% the last thing on the agenda was we reviewed the superintendent goals for this year and we approved it and this is on posted online okay thank you um so we um need a motion to go into executive session and we will not be returning correct we make a motion going to execu a session uh for the purpose of negotiation contracts and with the caveat we will not be returning to regular session Mr yes Mill yes Mr H Leo yes thank you everybody thank you everyone