001We're going to call the meeting to order. I'll rise for the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. All right, welcome everyone. We are going to begin with public comment on agenda items. Do we have anyone here who would like to participate in public comment? Good evening. Aaron Hobbs, 8 Heritage Drive. I am here first as a parent, but I'm also an instructional leader and educator for over the past 20 years. Like many parents, I was heartbroken to hear about the overnight field trip turmoil. I admit I do not watch every meeting, but I will watch and read the minutes when there is an issue of concern. I
002did watch the past two meetings, and I was surprised the overnight field trips have been a topic of discussion since October. I then began reading the minutes. Nowhere in the minutes could I find this information. Therefore, I want to take a moment and remind the board that your official records are your minutes. To be honest, after watching the past two meetings, I was slightly horrified. First, the committee and school district's definition of inclusion is skewed. I heard a great deal of discussion about equity for all students. The thing is, inclusion does not mean removal of opportunity for the sake of equity. Inclusion means the removal of barriers such as money and access to increase opportunity for our most marginalized students. Instead of removing or replacing opportunity, you increase them. Making sure every student has access
003to both academic and extracurriculars. 21st century schools find creative ways to make this happen. And their greatest asset is this community. Therefore, it's frustrating to continually continually hear from the schools and now the school committee that parents are not engaged. I know many of the parents in this community and I contest that they are active, dedicated members. Engagement was evident with the outpouring of support when this committee deemed overnight trips a financial issue. But parents were quickly redirected to the PTA instead of engaging them. School committee meetings are not the place for community engagement. In my experience, this is the last place you want community engagement because when families are showing up here, it's never under good circumstances. Best practice around community engagement includes bringing parents, teachers, and students to the table to discuss issues
004and make decisions on how to improve the schools at a convenient time. This can happen in a variety of ways. All you have to do is ask. School leadership needs to form a committee and just ask. We will show up. If your if our efforts matter, they currently don't. Lastly, I can stress can't stress enough transparency and and trust are important. At the last meeting, it affirmed my distrust in this SAU. Coming to this meeting tonight, I can't stop myself from wondering how the narrative around the trips on the agenda are going to be manipulated. Was there a small DC incident that will be blown out of proportion, or are they going to force a vote without any family feedback? It is clear to me that this community is losing trust and they are tired
005of asking nicely for constructive change. Two dedicated school board members were replaced in March for a reason. If this community doesn't see positive change soon, I would anticipate continued change to this school committee and eventually the administration. Thank you. Jennifer Clifford, 1018 Street. Your district goals start with to create and maintain an open dialogue and active listening with all stakeholders. The academy shares this goal, too. This doesn't mean listening to your frequent flyers or your favorites. This means two-way communication. The example of overnight field trips just highlights a lack of our two-way communication channels in this district. I want to remind everyone here that SEU90 accepts federal entitlement funds. Title one requires a family engagement policy that's reviewed an annually with families using their input to revise as needed. Family engagement is not the same
006as directing parents to join the PTA. And that's no offense to the PTA. They do amazing work. But there's other things that parents should be engaging in in this district. Boards, school or district councils, committees, working groups, surveys, and open questions. Those are all examples given on the New Hampshire Department of Education family engagement guidance page three. We need to think about those opportunities for families in our community. Thank you. Thank you. Would anyone else like to speak? I wasn't going to, but um I just wanted to I guess reiterate that I agree with the two that just spoke up. What's the matter? Just your name. Sorry. I mean, we know Megan Hullbrook. Sorry. It's okay. I know I'm a problem parent. I know. Just for the minutes. Um but I one other thing I
007I know that there is going to be something about overnight field trips on the agenda. I'm actually a little bit concerned that we are missing one of our schoolboard members who was actually in support of these field trips. So, I'm just a little bit going back to distrust and mistrust and wondering what's going on here. The fact that she isn't here to vote to me is a little bit concerning. So, I almost question whether or not there even should be a vote without her being present because I know a lot of parents voted her in because we trusted her. We wanted change and that we know that as someone who has children in this district that she was looking out for us as parents and as students. So, I just have to I have to
008voice my concern about that whole thing because I know several members up here were not in support of backing off of this agenda, but I know that she was. So, that's all I'll have to say. So, one, although we don't usually respond directly, we will say that um Mrs. Elliott is out tonight due to illness. She had intended to be here. We certainly are not preventing her from being here. Um however we do have to continue. We have a quorum and we do have to continue with our meeting. We will decide what if we are going to vote on things or not. Um but the meeting will continue. So we actually are going to have a short a small rearrangement in the agenda and Mrs. Curtis um because she does have commitments elsewhere is going
009to go next. Oh, I'm so sorry. I'm sorry. Do we have more public comment? I'm sorry. Come on up. Yeah, it's okay. Um, Jessica Sarski. Um, I have a eighth grader and a sixth grader and my eighth grader just went to Quebec and DC and I will say she had an amazing time at both of them. So, I would love for them to both stay as a parent. Um, I know it's a lot of work and I know there's a lot of things that go into it, but I know that there was no issues and they all had an amazing time and like everybody came back dramafree and grown and just loved everything about it. So, if we could keep them for the upcoming classes, that would be unbelievable. So, thank you. Do we have
010anyone else who would like to speak in public comment? Good evening. Uh my name is Chris Light. I have the privilege of serving as the vice president of the American Youth Foundation, which is the organization that runs Camp Marav Vista, which is where the environmental camp is based out of. Um since 2010, so for 15 years, we've had the privilege of working with the Hampton community. um and working with thousands of Hampton young people to come to Camp Marav Vista uh and develop their community and to be immersed in the natural world and to learn more about themselves, their capabilities uh and develop their relationships with one another, strengthen their community. Uh the mission of the American Youth Foundation uh is to create opportunities so that young people can discover the very best within themselves
011and then to confront the issues that they identify within their communities to make their communities a stronger place. And when I watched the video of the last schoolboard meeting, I saw this alive and was especially moved by the young people who rose to speak in defense of these experiences. That is everything we aspire to do as an organization and everything we aspire for the young people. We believe fundamentally that it is not our job to tell children what their problems are. We believe in children and we believe if they have the opportunity to learn more about themselves and what they can do, they will rise to confront the issues in their community, they will work to make their communities a stronger place. And that is what I saw in that video last year. And so
012or last last uh weeks. Um what I want to say today, I'm not here to persuade. I'm not here to try to sway. What I am here to say on behalf of the American Youth Foundation and Camp Marav Vista is that whatever obstacles are confronting your community in bringing young people to these experiences, we want to partner with you. We want to work with you to remove those barriers, to remove those obstacles. We hope to be in continued partnership, continued conversation. Every year we have taken a look at this program. We have adjusted this program every single year based on the feedback of the Hampton Academy staff, the Hampton Academy students, and our own observations. Our commitment is to make it what you want it to be and how you need it to be to
013strengthen your community. And we hope to have the opportunity to continue that partnership for the next 15 years. Thank you very much. Do we have anyone else here for public comment? Okay, seeing none, that was about 10 minutes of our 30 minutes. We will table the rest of the time until the end of the meeting. Mrs. Curtis, thank you for letting me go um a little early. I'm doing tri-state New Hampshire asbow. Um, tonight we go and start for our training with um, Maine and Vermont and um, get all the new laws and up-to-date information. So, um, it takes about two and a half hours to get there, so I appreciate letting me leave a little bit early. Um, I would like today just to go over it's uh April, so I have up to
014the end of May completed and really need to start closing out um our accounts and looking at funds and items for this year and next year. Um so with that said, I got um information from the state that indicates um what our retainage could be for fiscal year 25 um and what we retain for fiscal year 24 and what we elapse back to the taxpayers in 24. Um I gave that to you in your your um packet. Um so for fiscal year 25 we could retain 1,469,488 for emergency use. Um we have to date only retained [Music] $58,79. Um we at the end of this fiscal year that retainage goes back to the fund balance. you have to recalculate it and come up with numbers for how we want to retain that fund um for
015this year. Uh that just wanted to give you the information probably won't be coming until the a guesstimate in the next packet and then um a vote for July or August depending on when we meet. Um but with that said, I have been looking at our budget and um accounts and would like to discuss some of them and have a vote um on how we could um spend those funds. So the first one is buildings and grounds and security services. We um have 170,867 left in ground buildings and that's account 26220s and then security services 2660 for 10,600. Those two um funds have yet to um be spent. one, the security services, they have not set up that program for us and um it hasn't been completed and we're not going to pay for that
016item. Um, so those items, uh, I've been talking with the new facilities director and we have laundry lists of things that have been on the back burner and some things that we've had planned, but they're big items and we want to make sure that it is okay that we utilize our funds that were set up for facilities um, for these items. So, one is for the center um school roof. We have a huge um roof repair that needs to be completed. It's leaking. Um that would cost about $90,000. Uh the neck room at center school, the heater burst and um is needs to be replaced. That's 16,285. The center school has quite a bit of flooring that's hazardous. Um, that's going to cost about 48,000. Marson School repair flooring that is hazardous is about 2,500
017that needs repaired. Um, Marson school has the office has a mini split that is in dire need that that needs to be repaired. 6,250. Um the Marston room exhaust fan failure. We have quite a few of them that need to get completed. That's 6,740. Um we have to repair the buzzer that's between Marston and the SAU office. If you somebody is trying to buzz in one section and then trying to get into the other section, it completely goes off. Um that's 4,876. We have um an upgrading for the control panel at the SAU and Marston. It's not functional. That's 60,549. Um and then center school, the HVAC program that we've been working on. There is a new SB209 that now um anything over a certain amount of money has to have a project manager involved.
018That's not ours. So, um if we had any leftover funds, we would like to utilize that for that. Um and then we have some other small repairs. Um and the center school, we'd like to have the engineer look at the boiler room because that boiler is um close to failure. So, those are the facility items um that I was looking at to utilize the funds that's already in facilities for those items. Um and then we have if you if you look at the accounts 1,200 special education we are over um in that account due to we had some positions that we could not fill um and had to utilize professional services for them. And so if you look at related services that is um other way around. So related services we um have the funds
019in in for tuitions that we didn't have. Special education we were over because we did not have the teachers to fill those positions. So we had to get professional services. So that kind of offsets each other. And then the rest are just um small amounts. But we do have one um account that is um has money over and that's the 1100 and that's our regular education and that's a lot due to we had three positions that were not filled that we could not fill. Um and then we had two 14 teachers leave last year. So when somebody leaves or retires and you rehire, there's a difference usually in pay. So all of that um is adjusted in that regular education and the guesstimate is 176,148 in that balance. Um so we are requesting if we
020could take um that funds and utilize it for um technology to p purchase 135 Chromebook devices and licenses with shipping for about 117,325 um because they are not in our circuit of um refreshes And next year we are not sure where the funds um depending on IDA if the funds will be there um for some of our positions that we would not purchase technology in that line item and utilize that for salaries. So we before tariff and everything else we'd like to utilize those those funds in this budget year for that. Um, so those are the items that we would like to adjust and then um if we could make a decision on that that would be great. Page 70 by the way. Yep. Page 70 in your um books. I think our concern too
021is we have the HVAC project at center school and we know that that is over budget um given the fact that there was a little bit of a a lag and when we were able to start it and so we're recognizing that um we're not going to have anything really in our facilities account. So, this is what we're trying to do and be proactive and take care of those things that are um front burner things related to safety, things that are related to um you know, exhaust, buzzers, just things that are of high priority. And I think that Tim Harrington has done a really great job helping to prioritize the needs that we can take care of at this time to ensure that our buildings are in good working order. And I think we talked
022about the technology. We are concerned about that as well. So, just trying to be proactive in our planning. I'd like to make a motion to um accept the superintendent's recommendation to spend down a portion of the estimated fund balance to take care of the items that Mrs. Curtis has has listed for us. I'll second that. Does anybody have any more questions for Mariah before we vote? No. Okay. All in favor? All right. Thank you. Um and then the only other thing is um this week they did say that Title One and IDA and IDA preschool we will definitely get funds for that. Um it's going to be flat and not sure exactly how much money we will be getting that but title two um and title four most likely will go away. Yep. Um, so
023those are a few items just to put in the back burner and um, so that's I mean it's good and it's not because title two idea is what we really were hoping to get um, and title one because that's really for our students and um, special education. Can I can I ask a question? When will you probably have an idea about those funds? I don't know. They were unsure um when they told us the update the other day. I mean, in theory, it's September, right? Isn't that when it roll Doesn't it roll over? Don't the federal funds roll over in September? Um that's when their new fiscal year starts. We can start actually building the grants in July. So, we usually have an idea before then, but they did not. They were had no date
024for us, but they said that definitely plan on getting funds for IDA and title one, but most likely not title two and title 4. Yeah. Moving forward. Okay. Um, but I'll find out more information this this week hopefully. Um, and all of the new bills will we're having um information on the bills and a day of information with the lawyer on the bills. So, it'll be I should come back with some good information hopefully. Um, saw my grant information in there for you. Um, I will update that again at the end of the month. We're getting close to closing that out, but everything's allocated. Um, I gave you a complete breakdown of all accounts, but if there's anything that you would like to me to bring back and go deeper in, I will do that.
025But it's just near the end of the year and closing up and trying to do cleanup with all accounts and um making sure that we are in balance. Oh, one other thing before I do let you guys go. I did show you I did an updated revenue and the revenues um we completely return back to the taxpayers. Um these revenues are tuitions that we get in um interest on investments which is interest from our bank account. um cable franchise fee revenues, rentals of facilities, um and then cat aid that we work really hard and try to get all the information on expenses and so that we can get um a percentage back um rate that we file for and Medicaid reimbursement. So right now our revenue is $171,19562. So um most likely there will be
026more tuition, more interest, and more Medicaid for the next two months in that. Thank you. So at this point we are giving back to the taxpayers at the least. At the very least $171,195 at the very least. Yep. All right. Yep. That is it for me unless anybody has any questions. Anybody have any more questions for Mrs. Curtis? You are released. All right. Thank you so much. I appreciate you letting me go early. No problem. Much appreciate it. Thank you. Okay. School board member updates. Does any basically does anybody have anything? Um, Mrs. Shepard, do you have anything for curriculum? I know some you had been to, but some you had missed, which is fine. Okay. Okay. In a math, they'll give you an update on the fine. Molly, is there anything going on with
027CIP? Okay. Have we made any progress? Has there been any discussions about the toll farm road property? No, that's fine. U we should at some point touch base on that again because that is something we need to to figure out, but that's No, no, that's okay. Um uh Mrs. O'Neal, would you like to talk at all about legislative stuff we have going on? I mean, it's a lot. I think everyone's sick of hearing me talk about this. No, I'm just kidding. I'm not. Uh, no. I think we're just waiting to see what's going to stick at this point. I mean, we all know the issues. It's, you know, the vouchers, the open enrollment, etc. And we just have to see what sticks and then Yep. Yep. I think we're basically waiting. A lot of stuff
028is crossed over. We're waiting to see what the budget looks like. We're waiting to see what the governor signs, what she doesn't sign. We shall see. Um, okay. I don't think we had anything big. I think you guys missed the PTA meeting last week because we had the conflicting meeting. Do you know if we've got anything from the PTA that we need to report on or I don't have anything. I know that um it was proposed that that be an opportunity for some parents to come and speak about the overnight trips. I don't think there was um much attendance for that right issue. Not much going on with the recreation department. Did you have something? I was going to mention party on the park. Yes. So, don't forget that that that big event. Um I
029believe it is June 7th, the first Saturday and um just an opportunity for community to come together. It's in the afternoon. So, I know BJ Hickman is going to be there, the food trucks will be there. It looks like it's going to be a great a great afternoon. Y does anybody have anything else under board reports? No. Mr. Robot, please join us. Uh, good evening everyone. Um, I'm also hoping that after I'm done my report, the math PD committee could speak on their um, process for the school year. Yep, no problem. All right. Thank you. Um, so I just wanted to recap a few events that happened before April vacation that were uh big successes at center school. We had our celebration of learning on April 23rd. Um, so I just wanted to thank my
030staff for putting together a nice evening for families to come out and reflect on all the great work that the kids did this year. Um, also participate in our book fair. It was a lovely evening. Uh, we appreciate all the family support that came out as well. Um, I'd also like to just discuss real quickly, we had our kindergarten information night on April 15th, which was well attended. U, we've been holding our K registration meetings um, since we've gotten back from April April vacation. Um, so it's been a wonderful opportunity for our our incoming K class um, to get used to the building, meet some meet with some staff, and have parents uh, have an opportunity to have their questions answered. So, um, it's been nice to see the new new crew of kindergarteners coming
031in. Um, Week of Wonders is coming back to center school this year. So, we have been sending out flyers um in my newsletter and standalone flyers um that that's going to be returning this year. The week uh actually next week, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. Um each day, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday has been slated for one grade level. Um so, we have grade two on May 27th, grade 1 on the 28th, and kindergarten on the 29th. Uh we are keeping signups open just a little bit longer. So if parents have any interest in that um there is a sign up genius and that can be found on the the Facebook page um and via my newsletter. Um and then the PTA is also supporting us with that. So we appreciate it. Um our end of the year ice
032cream social will be tomorrow from 3:30 to 4:30. So looking forward for families coming out for that event. And uh we've just been busy with end of year benchmarks beginning. So, we're looking forward to grabbing all that data um you know, looking at it and making decisions, you know, to see what programs were successful this year um and how we can hit the ground running in the fall um with our returning students and also prepping the Marston staff with their new third graders. Um and then again, we just have a lot of field trips and special events coming up. So, I'll continue to keep the newsletter updated weekly on Fridays. Um field trips, concerts, special events. So, it's just busy time at center school. So, um, that's it for my report. If any board members
033had any questions and then I'd love to welcome up the, um, some committee members of the K to5, uh, math team. I think we're good. All right. So I would like to welcome up from center school Julie Elwood, Crystalian, and from Marson School, Lindseay O Rearden and Gretchen Niles. Um so this team has been working over the last couple of school years. obviously some new membership um this year with new staff um including myself but um it has been it's been a very interesting process as we have been looking at a math program um to hopefully fit the needs K5 um and offer consistent uh programming for our students in the district um as a team we have found that that would be you know a very essential piece of moving forward mathematically um we
034spend a lot of time on literacy uh this you know a big piece of this group was to make sure math had its fair shake um and also just make sure that there is good dialogue and discourse um you know up the ladder K to five. So I'm going to turn it over to this team to talk a little bit about our process. We've just recently come to um a decision. However, we have not um we have not finalized make uh you know establishing a contract with the publisher yet. So um you know information will go out to the staff once that those things are signed up. Um, and then we'll start talking with families about our new program selection once everything is official. Um, but the team would like to talk to you about
035their process this evening. Thank you. Hi, thank you Mark. Um, as he said, I'm Lindsay Orian. I work at Marston School. I've been there for 14 years. Um, and it's been really humbling just going through this process with our team and I feel very connected to math and the curriculum after going through this. So, it's been I appreciate, you know, the opportunity for doing this. So we will start with just looking at um the purpose like we kind of started what what is the purpose of doing this? Why do we have to get this team together? So the biggest thing was to just ensure that all students can develop a strong foundational math skill aligned with the current standards research and instructional best practices. And the most important thing was we wanted continuity across K
036through five so we would could catch those holes or just things that kids were missing. So our goal in piloting the new program, first thing was increase student achievement. We wanted to do that through highquality math instruction. We wanted to be able to support all learners within Hampton um with materials that provide accessibility, differentiation, and rigor. Um we wanted to strengthen teacher capacity with embedded professional development, user-friendly resources, and to align to state standards of course and the latest evidence-based um instructional practices. So, when we first put together this group last year, we just really started diving into what are we doing currently in Hampton K through 5, what does our curriculum look like? Um, we we put it into a big grid. We we looked across to see where are their holes? Um, what
037are we doing well? What do we need to do better? And we kind of just took a deep dive into like just our teacher created sort of um math curriculum. And then from there, Jacqueline through demonstrate demonstrated success, she sort of put together some math program names that she thought might um might align with what we need here in Hampton. And we just started sort of going online, playing around with just their platforms, looking at what they had to offer. And that was kind of just step one. So then step two, So step two was taking a little bit of a better look at those math programs. We looked at four to start. Um the first one was envisions. We looked at Eureka, Bridges in Math, and also um Illustrative Math. And we were able
038to meet with um representatives of those companies as well as other um teachers from different schools who were able to use those programs, which was nice for us as a team. Um and then as a team we also asked to have everyday math brought to the table and we had their representatives come and share out about their program as well. All right. So the selection process was um very long. We met a handful of times. So um like Julie said the company either came out or we did a virtual presentation. Um they sent materials to us. So, we got to see the teacher manuals, the um the, you know, workbooks of the children, assessments. Um, a couple companies even sent us the actual like u manipulatives that the kids would use. So, we got to,
039you know, deep dive in that. Um, and it was great that we had K5 because, you know, I I obviously worked with Lindsay as my grade level person, but then we got to go across like the grade levels, too, to see like, oh, this is where they're coming from, this is where they're going. Um and then after each deep dive into the programs, we went through an extensive evaluation. This is just one of the what like five pages of um things we had to look through. So some of the things that we were assessing uh you know essentially in these programs was is it aligned to the standards? What do the assessments look like? Some assessments are like really huge and overbearing for kids, but you know we wanted to make sure it was a
040good balance. um can we take you know what they are assessing and you know retach or enrich based on those um we wanted to make sure that the programs were engaging for the kids. Um and a big one that um Crystal will talk more about is the differentiation piece. We wanted to make sure that it would be accessible to all of our learners and for us teachers how easy was it to use? Um, you know, there were some programs that it took like an hour for each program just to like teach one or like each lesson and that's just too much. You know, we just wanted to make sure like are we reading a novel before we have to teach one lesson or is it something that we can easily just, you know, go with.
041Um, and then we put it to a vote and these were our two top programs. So, we were able to then take Envision and Everyday Math and pilot them. Oh, I guess this is kind of us, too. I don't know who's doing this one. Yeah. So, at center, our team um in kindergarten, we did uh envisions was addition, and for everyday math, we chose to pilot subtraction. First grade did place value and adding, comparing two-digit numbers. For envisions and everyday math, they chose shapes and fractions. And then in second grade, they looked at measurement and data. Uh and then for everyday math they chose geometry and arrays. So each one of those is a unit in that curriculum. And then just moving forward, same thing at Marston School, every grade level just chose a particular
042unit to focus on depending on where they were in their scope and sequence of the school year. So third grade, Gretchen and I, we taught area and perimeter for envisions and then we taught fractions for everyday math. Fourth grade did fractions with envisions and decimals for everyday math. And then fifth grade did fractions. Kind of cool. We all did fractions somewhere. I kind of like that we can look at that. And then area, perimeter, volume for everyday math. So we had a good range of just a couple different um units and just practicing using the manipulatives. And we really got to see we were the guinea pigs. We told our students they're the guinea pigs with us. It was really fun to do this with our students and I think we all we all had
043a great time. Yeah. I think it's actually us. Yeah, it's us. It's us again. Um, so we just wanted to highlight a couple of the things that we liked from each of the programs. Um, for envisions the um, it was it was wordy, but it really pushed our students to think. Um, a lot of our homegrown lessons that we use are just like, "Let me teach this, you try it out, now you're on your own." Which is great in itself, but like, you know, sometimes we forget to really push them, which, you know, comes out in SAS testing for us, not so much for them. But, um, K3 or K2 also noticed that it really pushed their stu uh, the students to think. Um, it asked them to apply math skills in real life situations,
044which was awesome because they're obviously we're always teaching them like, you have to know this. like it seems weird, but yes, you're going to use this when you're a grown-up. So, that was embedded into that program. Um, it had cute little videos that the kids could see. Um, each grade level, you know, changed to, you know, meet the, you know, excitement of each grade. So, that was cute. And then it was easy for us to prep the lesson. And then everyday math. Yeah. Um, some positives for everyday math. Differentiation was there. Um, we felt like we could challenge a student. We felt like we could, you know, retach. There was a lot there that we could use. the lessons flowed beautifully like you know being someone that was piloting but also teaching all the other
045subjects. This was something that I felt flowed right into my classroom and didn't feel um like it was a pilot like we were just trying something randomly. It felt really good. It had great materials. The student um student workbooks had a lot of space for the students to do work. As a young, you know, elementary teacher, like that's what we want. We want them to draw out what they're doing. Show, you know, show your work, prove it. um again going into that workbook and then there were tons of games which my students absolutely loved and they could do them in person with the manipulatives and there was a lot of online games as well that they really really took to so it's great. Okay. Um I piloted some intervention pieces which were really important to
046the team. Um we want that common language as we talked across the schools but also within groupings of tier 2 and tier three. Um, so we did the envision. Some highlights were they had a diagnostic placement that you were able to keep going until the students, you know, tested out of that and then you would bounce back to the one they tested at and you were able to use um they had a lot of worksheets and again it was a bit wordy but it was nice to do in a small group for those kind of things. Um, we also had access to the full pilot of Envision. So I was able to go into the classrooms and see what they were doing. And then because we were piloting, I wanted to put my hands on
047the the tier one lessons, too. So for the kids that maybe needed some more fact practice, I was able to access that um and pulled lessons maybe from the beginning of the year that they might have if we were essentially doing it in class, I could have gone back to some lessons and repeated. Um for the kids that were piloting it in class, it was nice for them because they were used to the language, they were used to how I was presenting it. Um, and we could just I felt that if we went that way, we could always use the general ed lessons with the intervention piece because they did a lot of the common language, the common the way they presented their materials. Um, everyday math had a whole separate piece that it's actually
048called number worlds and it's a whole tier 2 intervention, but it aligns with everyday math. So um the way they present the materials the language again all was familiar to students what they're seeing in their core classroom but then when they came to me um like for example like number lines some teachers might call them number pass but they all they would be used to the same language which was really helpful because when we take tier 2 tier three they come from different classrooms so sometimes it's like you're spending your time going over what I'm talking about um but if they are used to the same language and the same tools um it really makes our time more su successful in class. Um, Number World was very colorful, engaging. It also became with its own
049notebooks that you do at the end of each lesson and it's just a quick check-in. Um, lots of games. The lessons were lots of games and then they repeated themselves and um, they got more rigorous as they went on and it was very easy to follow for me and for the kids and they were really excited, the kids that were piloting in their own class to kind of see it come back to us. And that is it from us. Yes. Um so I don't know if the board has any questions. This is pretty fresh. Um obviously like I said um we're still you know the the committee did make a recommendation that is now being presented to um the SAU and you know making sure that we can establish the contract that we're hoping to
050um with the publisher of one of these programs. So I'd love to I would love to come back. I don't have to you guys don't have to come back. Um but just talk to you in June about how we finalize things and hopefully wrap things up and uh planning future professional development to get our staff ready for the fall um of 2526. But um if the board had any questions for the process um I'm sure the teachers be happy to ask. How many te because I know I kind of know the answer but I think people might want to know how many teachers were involved with the pilot because I think it's good for people to realize that although there are only four people standing in front of you tonight there were many people involved.
051So how many were involved? I think it was like 15 or 16. Yeah we had two from each grade level except for third but three from each grade level. Sped teachers um the math the math interventionists uh principal Yeah. two administrators. So it was it was a big group. Yeah. Yeah. It it was it was it was over 15. Yeah, it was a good group and um the one thing that I was noticing during my walkthroughs is I was talking to students about it and students had real strong opinions about the program they preferred which I thought was very interesting um to hear the students talk about which one they liked and why. So very interesting to hear even from the students um during the pilot. So I don't know if that weighed into it
052but they certainly did have an opinion. So, well, it matched ours. Well, no, I appreciate that and I I thank you. I know it's it's a huge it's a huge decision and it's one that we live with for a while. So, I do appreciate your work on it. So, thank you. Thank you. Yeah. Thanks, All right. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you. Yeah, that's great. Yeah, it's very cute. All right, Mr. Sadler. Hello. Hello everybody. All right. Um May May and June. Here we go. Um so right now we've completed tomorrow SAS testing except for a few makeups. So that feels pretty good. Um our students are probably relieved to have that um behind them and look forward to some of the more memorable things going on this year. Um the same kind of thing Mr.
053Robbitai said if caring adults just check our Facebook and website and pay attention to those Sunday calls and all the texts. And I know sometimes it feels like a lot of emails, but they're important emails and there is stuff in there that you'll want to see. Um there's a lot of upcoming things with field trips and end of the year celebrations that you're going to want to know about in advance. Um for example, this Friday we're going to have our annual Memorial Day assembly. We've invited in um the Post Legion troop and commander Burke Bennett. And then any local or area, I mean, you don't even have to live in Hampton, just veterans. We're looking forward to having anyone come and and celebrate with us. Um it's less of a celebration and more of a
054remembrance and honor at at Memorial Day, but um it's the same kind of feel we have at Veterans Day. It's just great to connect with the community. Um and then um for caring adults who are our incoming third graders, we have our 23 info night on May 28th. We've just had to adjust our start time a little bit. It's going to be 6:15 instead of 6:00, but um we're going to send some communications over to center school to get out to our second grade families and just let them know about that. Um but otherwise, you know, just a lot of really great stuff going on, a lot of really exciting learning events um happening within the building. You know, author visits and guest speakers coming up here at the end of the year. So, we're
055really looking forward to it. All right. Have a fantastic night. All right. Thank you. Thank you. All right, Dr. Campbell. All right, everyone. Uh, all right. So, we're wrapping up the school year. We had a great last month. Um, we want to congratulate our eighth graders for a third place in the Tucker Mountain Challenge maple syrup contest. Excellent. We got a vapor vapor evaporator, something like that. Some coming in where So, we're hoping to upgrade our maple syrup production for next year. So it's pretty uh pretty amazing that we got third place for um the the methods in which they're using. Um we had Portzman naval ship naval shipyard in um a couple weeks ago to build um sea perches which are underwater um robotics. Um all the seventh graders participated where they were in
056hands-on. They were uh soldering, drilling, cutting and working as a team to create um underwater robots that were designed and developed by at MIT. So it was pretty great. In the coming weeks, we're going to have them racing. Uh so we're going to bring Ports with Naval Shipyard back. We'll have a big setup. I believe we're doing it on the the basketball field. Uh and then we'll be able to test them. Um we want a big uh our bikes for books began. Um we want to thank Hampton Masons for their donation of two bicycles. Two sixth graders can earn raffle tickets for every book they read until June 16th. Um and then they can earn them. On May 28th, uh we are going to have a fifth uh sixth grade parent info night. We have
057moved our time to 5:00 uh so that we can accommodate the info night over at Marston. Um also on May 28th, we will have another coffee and conversation here at the uh community room. Moved it to 9:00 so that people who have drop offs over at Marston can attend. Um we had a we had one last month. It was great. This Friday we will have our uh Memorial Day uh cere assembly. Um and as we wrap it up, we have our Scholastic Book Fair in the library coming June 2nd. Uh, seventh grade has got a whole bunch of field trips coming up. Our field day will be June uh 11th with a rain day on June 10th. And yeah, final assembly will be on the 16th, 6 p.m. that do we have any questions? I'd
058just like to ask if I noticed in each one of your reports that there's been zero um substantiated bullying reports. These reports are done weeks in advance of us receiving them. And I'd just like to ask that if like in the time frame between when we when these are done and when you come to us if there are any that you let us know absolutely about that when when you come to us. Okay. Yep. Perfect. 100%. All right. Thank you. You got Does anybody have any questions for now? Okay, we will see you back up in a few minutes. Okay, Dr. D Silva Napton. Good evening. Um, so you do have my report and our numbers in special ed, they keep ticking upward. We are at 21.5% now for the district um with uh 202
059identified students in the district. Um we are working through staffing for next year and you've been approving the people that have been contracted this year. We are nearly there. Um if anyone's listening, we are still looking for a school psychologist, a full-time position at the Hampton Academy. In the meantime, we will move forward with a contracting company. um we'll sign on with them right now and then there'll be a a you know get out clause if we do find our own school psychologist we can uh terminate with a contracted employee but we have moved forward with signing a contract with that company and uh we had a really awesome I don't know if anyone was able to get there but um a literacy event on April 12th you did see a few pictures in there
060it was just I I 250 people attended this with over 95 families it was the place was packed. Um it was at Winnaconet High School and um it was sponsored by our Hatch Alliance as you know was a year old and um the Children's Museum of Dover and we just had a great time. It was really um phenomenal. That will be an annual event um moving forward. Um at Dr. Costa's request, we have a group of stakeholders that have pulled together u before my exit to do a special education audit of our policies, procedures, staffing. Um just kind of looking at everything. We've had some really great meetings with the all the right people around the table and we are uh really kind of finalizing um systems and and setting up, you know, kind of
061looking at what's been there, looking ahead to see what we need or could do differently. Um and uh we are going to be wrapping that up by the end of the school year. That's been going really well. And then um in the grant world, um the consolidated grant is a new system that the state put in last year and um they had had a due date of June one. They've since moved that to July one, but that's in essence um it's a a snapshot of all putting in all the information for all of the grants. It's kind of odd because we don't really know what's going to happen with title two and four. like you heard, we do know what uh one and idea will be. So, uh we'll just write that um including everything
062and then if it comes, we'll use it. If it doesn't, and I'll just flat fund everything and uh we have a stakeholder group that helps us decide on um how to spend our grant funds and that's part of our PD committee. So, they've already given me the ideas and I'll get that all in on time. Other than that, do you have any questions? I have a number question. Okay. So, we are up net 13 students in the special ed programs since the beginning of the year. Yep. I remember talking about the um case managers at the middle school trying to keep their their cases to 14 or 15. I believe we'd like to keep it under. I just I it was actually staffing that I was sort of wondering about. I mean, I understand that
063that is not all in one grade that it is spread out across the grades, but I'm wondering about staffing for case managers for next year and if we're going to have enough. Um, I have looked at everything and I've I meet with the, you know, principles weekly and I meet with the staff and Dr. Ca and I and of course at budget time we review everything and and we look at the, you know, the projected numbers. At this time, I'm can confidently say that with the numbers we have now, we will have and the new hires of the the new case managers throughout the district. Uh we will have our case loads will be under 20 in all of the buildings and much closer to 15 for everybody. So, we really will uh be staffed
064for the teaching staff quite well. Um, and we're also looking at the pair of educators and how many we have in each building, what we're using them all for, and we're um looking at their role and and having some professional development around that, too. And that was the audit that you were talking about, right? So, we'll hear more about that. Yeah. At the June next month. Perfect. All right. Does anybody have any other questions for Dr. Dilvin? Nope. Okay. All right. Thank you. Thank you. All right, Mr. Smith. Hello. And thank you all for supporting the movement of those funds because it will really help us out with trying to procure some technology in advance of next year with who knows what's happening. Um, other than that, uh, you have my board port in front
065of you. I don't have too much to add. We've been looking a lot at subscriptions and working with administration at each of the buildings to identify any areas where we might be able to trim subscriptions that aren't really being utilized to try and save some money for the coming year. Um, we've also been working with the facilities department on starting to set up their um online ticketing platform um just like we use for tracking all of our inventory and everything like that in technology. Um, so that's going pretty well. And then other than that, we're just really looking ahead to where we can pause stuff for the summer so that we can start working on things for the rollover for next year. So with that, any questions? I think we're good. All right. Thank you.
066All right, Mr. Yep. There's Mr. Harrington hiding in the back. Come on down. Good evening all. Um just wanted to touch base about uh center school HVAC. Give you a little update on that. We had a meeting today um uh with the management team over there. A lot of people there's about 12 people um from one company. Um but just talk about them about the timeline, what they're looking at, when they're going to be able to start, where they're going to start, floor kind of top down. um because we still have to get in there and do what we do in those areas. So, um by the sounds of it, it's a good team, so it should go pretty well. Um and quick, I hopefully. Yeah, fingers crossed. Um and I want to give an
067update on the Marson School neck room. Uh we've had the ball rolling on that. Uh furniture has been ordered. Um had conversations with Gage Builders who built the one over at Center School. Um I've had conversations with Whites Welding to get them on board. Um I'm going to have them do a walkth through um just to double check at center school and then we'll bring them over to Marston. Um and the boards for the things have been ordered also. It's a little different configuration than over at center school. So um but it should be pretty straightforward I hope. Another one of those. Um other than that we had uh April break. We did quite a few things April break. Uh a lot of PMS on HVAC equipment but nothing major came up. small things here
068and there. We did some tile work here at Hampton Academy. Some of the tiles were popping up at the gym entrance, a couple doorways. We had that all repaired. Um, incident IQ, we've been having meetings about that every week. Another one tomorrow to get um I went through and did a list of assets in the building to get those into there. It'll be great down the road, honestly, for any type of reports that we need. I'll be able to pull up uh when stuff when we put stuff in, when stuff was repaired. I'll be able to keep track of all that type of stuff. So, that should be awesome, actually. And that's it for me. Any questions or how are we doing on custodial staffing? It's a great question. Do you need to start asking?
069Yeah. No. Uh, so we just had somebody give their notice. Um, but I do have a couple applications that came in. Okay. Um, so I'm going to hopefully set those up and start talking to some people uh fairly soon. And I've been um um possibly pilfering some people that worked for me in Stratum over the summertime. Good plan. Nice. Um so a couple college kids. So just for summertime help, just trying to get a feel of what we're going to need um at center and Mars. And here is is pretty straightforward. There's not a lot of no stripping of the floors or anything like that. So it's more center and and uh we're going to be moving some people also. Um I had somebody today request if they could go back to nights instead of
070daytime. So I'll be shifting some people there, too. So, okay. But I think a couple people hopefully we could use another one here full-timer here. So, um yeah, we'll be all right. I think sounds good. Good. Andrew. All right, Mrs. B, please join us. Okay, good evening everybody. So, uh, food service, we're just busy, busy, busy. Field trips, field days, barbecues, end of year stuff. Um, we had some generous donations last month that Dr. Costa will go through in her report. Very generous donations. Thank you. And I would love to just remind folks, if your student owes lunch money, please send in a payment. We take cash check. You can pay by credit card at myschoolbox.com. Um, that's it because the end of year comes quick. So, please send in the money. How are we
071doing on our student lunch day? We are uh districtwide $30 to $150. Okay. If you want, I could break it down, but that's and that's for 109 students. Okay. So, we're And Emily Fixler, I'm still working with her. She's taking the top half $50 and above. I'm taking the bottom half 50 below $50. So, we're still working together. Did you meet with Hanniffords recently, too, to talk about their program? We were uh had a date set up for yesterday and Emily Fixler was uh ill. So we did reschedu for Thursday, not this Thursday, I think next Thursday at 11 o'clock with Hannerford. So if they could help with donations and we'll set something up. So we do have a meeting next week. That's great. That's it. Anybody else have any questions about lunches? No. Thank
072you everybody. Thank you. All right, Dr. Costa. Um, I'll go through my report and then we'll do donations. We have quite a few donations. Y um I think the principles talked about it, but we did um celebrate our staff the week of May 9th when we came back from the April break. And it was nurses day as well on that Wednesday, May 7th. Just an opportunity for all of us to recognize our teachings staff and to um honor them. In fact, the PTA was more than generous as well as I know that the principles do a number of things and we as an SAIU provided bagels to the staff each day. So, it was good it was good to be able to do that and to recognize them. Um, you noticed in my report that
073there's some events that we we were busy busy in involved with including the Toast to the Coast event that we assist the Chamber of Commerce at that we enjoy doing that. um myself, Susan Antico, we we do our small part, but it's just a way to get out there and to be part of the community and do these events. The other thing I want to highlight is we yesterday we had a wonderful ELLL event um here at right here in this space from 4:30 to 6. It was well attended and people really seem to enjoy that opportunity to get together with the families for all of our students and it was a wonderful time. Uh we are wrapping up some of our district committees setting goals for next year. I'll talk a little bit about
074that in just a bit as we think about our strategic plan and thinking about input. I know one of the things I heard was um how can we provide input? So I want I'll talk about that too. I want to give people an opportunity to be a part of strategic planning. We do invite people in. I think sometimes it comes at the time of the year where we're probably all very busy, but just by virtue of setting goals, it does happen over the summer and then in August, September. So, I'll talk about that in just a minute. We also want to remind you that we sent out a feedback survey on May 9th with my newsletter to just ask for your input. What's going well? What do you want to see change? Other feedback that
075we should be thinking about. Um, we do this annually just to hear from everyone. I am always curious to know what it is that we need to be working on and that helps us as a leadership team in the summer to look at that feedback and to think about how can we take that use it and to elevate your voices. So just a reminder to complete those. You have until June. We leave it open. It's not long. It's three questions and we hope to hear from folks that have something to share with us. Um, looking at our second goal, which is specifically related to um, physical emotional safety, we we talk a little bit about the HVAC system that's going on at Central School that I know our facilities manager Tim Harrington spoke about. Um,
076just that Turnstone Corporation was awarded the bid and that we are anxious to begin that in June. We're gearing up right now with all of the paperwork that needs to be put in place to ensure that we're ready to go. We participated in the National Walk Bike to School Day on May 7th. Lots of people that participated. We're glad that we were able to get that day in. It was between the raindrops. It wound up being a pretty nice morning. So, we'll take it given the rainy the rainy spring we've had. The wellness team did meet on May 8th to talk about some of our initiatives just ensuring the health and wellness of our staff which is part of our um insurance program that we are required to do. On June 4th during our release
077day our mental health team will participate in training from the An Center which is grieving children and families out of Manchester. We are happy to partner with this um program which is out of Manchester. There will be a backpack program that all of our mental health team includes our counselors, our psychologists that will participate in and just another resource for us in the area that we can tap into. And then on June 7th, a number of administrators and first responders, myself included, will participate in a re reunification course offered by Homeland Security and emergency management, which will take place in the Pelum School District 9 to5. We're looking forward to that. And continuing on into curricula professional practice, just to let you know that over the spring break in April, I did review all renewals
078for licensers and was able to um reertify all of our staff. So, we were able to take care of that. So, staff is in the process of paying for those renewals and um making sure their certification is on par with the state. It was great to see the abundance of hours. Our staff is required to have at least 75 hours um 30 in their endorsement areas, additional 45. So 75 30 for every endorsement areas, but staff had hundreds of hours and I think it again it speaks to the level of commitment and dedication that our staff has to their professional professions. Um, we know that extended year will take place from July 1st to the 31st, Monday through Thursday. That will be um coming soon. We talked about our math pilot. Appreciate all the work
079that was done on that. We know that our students in grades 3 through 8 are participating in our New Hampshire SAS assessments. Um today I had the opportunity to participate in the data studio training that was offered by the department of ed in exit New Hampshire. So data studio will um replace performance pathways or performance plus which was the data storing house for New Hampshire. It is now being replaced by data studio. So more information is coming from from them. But today we had a nice introduction and it was very similar to performance pathways. Just another way to look at data and to ensure that we are focusing on closing those achievement gaps and being data driven with our decision- making but also with our instructional practices. So excited about that and all of our
080staff will have the opportunity to tap into that through the New Hampshire DOE single signin. So it's pretty user friendly. So I was excited to see that. And then of course in addition to that students will be participating in the STAR assessments which is another assessment that we give as a benchmark. We give that in the fall. We do that in the spring and then for any students we're concerned about we do the midyears as well just to progress monitor all of our students and ensure they're growing as we want them to grow. Our obviously Marsen school is preparing for the neck program which we are excited to see next year at Marsden. This allows our students to stay in their home district. Those students that are coming up from center school um will be
081able to stay in their home district. This is a win for our kids. This is a win for our community and our district. And we're excited to see the expansion of the neck program next year at Marsden School. um you know that we have a number of step up days and final assemblies. So please please u make sure you're looking for those weekly newsletters or those weekly calls from your building principles that will give you the most up-to-date and accurate information. We are obviously very busy with hiring, scheduling end of the year summitives and exit interviews with staff and really preparing for the end of the school year. So we are excited for the next few weeks. It is a time to bring closure to our students and to ensure that um every child ends
082the year on a high note and being intentional about what that means. So I'm I can go through my goals if you'd like. You want to do that now? Yeah. Why don't I do that real quickly? That's fine. So the goals that we have come up with and I know that this came as a question like where do the goals come from? How do we decide on those goals? What is it that the district is working on? And I can tell you that um probably about four five years ago there was a committee that got together that worked under the direction of Dr. Ays and Dr. Greenberg who are two former superintendent that took the district through what we call a visioning process and they met with a number of focus groups to talk about
083what it is that stakeholders wanted to see. So what is it that was working? What is it that wasn't working? And from that um a vision was developed, a mission was developed, values were looked at and of course a motto came to be. And then there were focal areas that came out of that um work. So the four goal areas that came out of the work were communication, physical and emotional safety, professional practice, which is curriculum, instruction and assessment, and then equity as well came out of that work. And so each year we have looked at those goal areas and we've talked about what it is that we want to do as a district to ensure that we're continuing to move the district in the right way in the right areas. Obviously taking into consideration
084what the needs are of the community. We um do this with your feedback. We do this um twice. We actually look at this at our leadership retreat, but then again in August, September, we invite stakeholders in to look at where we are to determine where we want to go next. So, we're trying to be very mindful of what are the goals, what do we want to do, and it was, you know, a former school board member who would say to me, but what's new? But what's new? But what's new? And I appreciated that comment because it's true. How are we going to make things different? How do we make things better? How do we make things change? So for example, under the first goal which is around communication um it was to create and maintain
085open dialogue and active listening with all stakeholders. How specifically can we do that? And we want to improve parental support for learning. But how are we doing that? And are we doing in a in a way that is meeting your needs? And if we're not, then we really want to hear from you. like if there's something that you could suggest we do want to hear from it. So one of the things that we've done is this year is we developed the hatch which Dr. Dilva Napton talked about which was the the the early childhood program for children that we have started this year that has really taken flight. We also um with with feedback from the community, we now have a way to have our families access our written communication in their home language through
086reach my teach. So that's new this year. So Reach My Teach is new this year. One of the other things that came to our attention as well is that the program that the nurses were using, they were concerned that it was not HIPPA compliant and that they wanted to be in alignment with Winnate High School. So, we implemented the SNAP program, which is a way for recording and reporting student instances under expanded partnerships. One of the things that we heard was we needed to we wanted to have more pathways for our educators or our paras to become certified. So we developed a partnership with the national collaborative for digital equity and we developed an apprentice program for those parah educators to become um licensed educators through a career pathway getting their associates their b the
087bachelor's or their master's degree. So, we partnered with the National Collaborative for Digital Equity and we have many parents right now, at least 12 that are enrolled in these programs, which could be a way for them to get their degree. Then hopefully those um expand the pool of candidates spec specifically in special education. We also partnered with the Cook Center this year. We know that the mental health of students has been something that's been on this board's mind and on the community's mind as it relates to bullying, as it relates to suicide prevention. So, we partnered with the Cook Center to provide our families with another resource that they could use to um to help them. So, the Cook Center is new new this year. We also partnered with C and CESPA, those are our
088unions to um pass contracts this year and we were able to pass a three and a four-year contract. We also partnered with the Lane Library for the first time on a book study of anxious generation which was um a huge success where we had anywhere from 30 to 45 participants um over four sessions. We also are working with friends of Ane for our for grieving families. That's another partnership that we have um encouraged or that we have started this year which is a way to um look at grieving families. One of the things that we're always looking at is how do we address the changes in laws. This is something that will be upon us especially with what's going on with the legislative committee. As Candace alluded to, we do anticipate there will be changes
089in laws. That might mean we'll have open enrollment. It might mean there'll be vouchers. There might be just a number of things. So, how do we ensure that we're staying on top of that? We continue to work with the New Hampshire School Boards Association to ensure that we're getting those updates. We are monitoring those and we are updating our practices to reflect those changes. We update our policies to reflect reflect those laws. We obviously are keeping our leadership apprised of those laws and then finally we are sharing them out with the staff. So the third goal is around physical and emotional safety. We continue to implement responsive classroom which is probably our oldest running initiative. It's about 20 22 years old and and that's our way in terms of making sure that children feel included
090making sure that learning is joyful and um responding to the needs of our students. We know that the advisory is something that the middle school continues to work on to refine. We also uh looked at behavior response training with Hampton Academy. I know they've worked with some consult outside consultants this year as well as attending the NELM's con conference as well. We are also working with the department of ed to look at those multi-tered systems of support as it relates to behavior. That will be an ongoing goal. Physical safety is always a priority given the world in which we live with. We know that um we were pleased that we finally were able to complete the SA90 security door. We're thrilled with that. The sign is up. It is done. It took a while, but
091it was it was well worth it and we're really pleased with that. We are trying to improve the indoor air quality at center school in Marsden with the Warren article and we continue to work with our officials on that. As I mentioned that June 7th, we will be going to the reunification training in Pelum, New Hampshire as our way of ensuring the physical safety of our students. We talked about the resources including the cook center. We added a preschool playground to center school. We cut the ribbon of that in October. We also have a comfort dog, Gus, who is just a wonderful community member. Um, not just at Hampton Academy, but he does visit many, many, many areas, including the senior center, but just a welcome addition in the Hatch program. And then of course
092our mental health team continues to look at anti-bullying programs and suicide prevention strategies which will always be um front and central just based on policies and the world we in which we live in. And then of course internet safety is important to us as well. And we talked a little bit about anxious generation. Moving on to curriculum and professional practice. Considering our response to intervention and how do we look at data and how do grade level teams analyze that data, recommend support using a tiered system, how do we utilize our staff to expand our team with an emphasis on how do we differentiate instruction? How do we personalize learning? In writing, we're obviously concerned with what's going on with CATG GBT. This is something that has entered our world. We want to make sure that
093we are being mindful of that as well. Mathematics, we are looking specifically at the piloting of that program, but also how do we align our methods, materials, how we identifying gaps in our learning, how do we ensure that our instruction is differentiated to meet the needs of our students. in social studies due to House Bill 1160. We had to ensure that we had assessments that aligned with our social studies curriculum and we were able to do that as well. So again, responding to those changes in laws that mean a change in our practice. Title Nine and Title Six. There was been changes in those laws as well. Ensuring that we're staying on top of those laws, ensuring that our staff has had the training to um ensure we're upholding those laws. That's important to us.
094And then of course um we talked a little bit about this earlier, but expanding the um the the Zor room or the neck program at Marsen School. And that's just like I said a win for all of us. And then you'll notice that underneath my goals, you have Cent's goals, Marsden's goals, and Hampton Academy, which align nicely with these goals. So with that said, um the next step would be during our retreat to look at those goals and to figure out how are we doing? What does the what does the data show? What does the what are those New Hampshire SAS tests reveals? What does the STAR assessments reveals? Where are the strengths? Where are the opportunities? And what do we need to do differently um to ensure that we're meeting the needs of our
095students? And then of course in August, September, we will open this up for all stakeholders who are interested to come and to have those conversations to tell us what they think. If there's something that we're missing, we want to hear. What is it that you would like to see us doing and taking that into account as we plan for the year? So, um, is this are these I think I know the answer, but just in case other people don't know the answer, are these district goals posted on the website? Yes, they are. These are posted on the website for all to look at. Um, and the other thing is I believe I heard you say earlier that you had sent out a maybe a survey or three questions. Okay. So again, under communication, which is
096the first of the goals here, it appears to me that we probably have to find some strategies to improve dialogue, especially with parents of um of our middle school students. And maybe the survey questions that you sent out will um help us get some suggestions to put into these district goals. And again in August and September, um now that we've heard from people here, um we want to make sure that the people specifically that have spoken up that we reach out to those people specifically and make sure that those stakeholders um reach out to those specific stakeholders and let them know that this is the time for you to come and speak um and help us make sure that we have your input into these goals and that we have done what you are asking
097us to do. Um and so that's what I wanted to make sure we clarify that. Thank you for doing that. I know that um the schools offer the coffee chats and I I wonder if those are offered at a time that meets people's needs. I wonder if there's something else we should be considering. I wonder if that's something if there's something I should be doing. The other thing I would love to know is this is the first year we've done the Cook Center. I'm very curious as to the feedback on that. Um, was it helpful? Did people access it? I will try to collect data from the Cook Center to see did people find the calendar of events, was it helpful? Was it not helpful? Um this is something that that SAU21 has reached out
098to me about and they are they are willing to partner with us on a piece of this. It would be the coaching but it would not be for the calendar of events. So they do not offer this calendar of events that you all get from from us which basically it allows you to you know ask a therapist live. it allows you to participate in that calendar of events. But um I don't I'm just curious. I would love to know if anyone has feedback on on that because that would really determine which way we go. So it's you know it is a cost factor. So we need to know if it's valuable, if it's not valuable. Um would love to hear people's thoughts on that as well. And again, if people aren't sure what Dr. cost
099is talking about um I don't know if you can see it from where you're sitting but these are the papers and I don't know if it is on the it's also on the website wellness and I would highly encourage you if you have not looked at them to make sure you do look at them these were all free uh webinars and call-ins for um you know different therapists y um I don't know are these given out I I during like PTA meetings and things like that perhaps This is another venue where we can get these out to parents. Um maybe we're not doing enough of getting these out through PTA and maybe we need to do more of that. Yeah. Yeah. If there's a better way of of getting them out. Um obviously, you know,
100I'm trying to be mindful of how much do I put in your inbox. I think last year I was I was doing weekly newsletters and that's never an issue for me. I'm happy to do a weekly newsletter, but one of the piece some of the feedback I heard and I heard it from multiple people was the letters are redundant. It's hard to keep track of your letters, the principal's letters, and everything else. So, I went down to once a month this year, but I would love to hear your feedback if you have thoughts about that. I'm not trying to flood your inbox with um you know, paper you don't want or information. So, would love to hear the feedback on that as well. Um, if I were doing like a weekly newsletter, I could attach
101it every, you know, every month or I could attach it every week, whatever people want. But I'm just trying to be mindful of, you know, how much information do you want coming in your inbox? I get it. It's it can be it can be a lot. It is a lot. And it's, you know, it's it's good that our aim is to improve communication. And Andrea, I really appreciate you taking a minute to sort of point out exactly where some of this stuff can be found because I don't know to be honest as a parent. I'm kind of speaking more as a parent from this perspective. What's a little bit challenging is there's a lot of different places we have to go for information. Um, and like speaking as someone who has kids at three different
102tiers of of school level, that gets challenging. um if there's a way we can take a look at maybe centralizing all of this information so it can be found in one spot as opposed to you know I have to log into this program to get that information I have to look for email for this I have to you know reach out by text or phone for this it it does get a little challenging I would just add on the your question about the coffee chat I think it's um amazing that our school offers that and I think it's a a really important dialogue that a lot of people would like to participate in the challenge we have in this community is I think a high number of our families or two working parent households. Um,
103I know for myself, I can't get there at that time. I would love to, but I can't. Um, and hopefully with technology being what it is and the resources we have, we can find another way to allow parents who can't physically be there for those coffee chats to be able to engage. Yeah. I mean, and I would love to hear is there a better time, you know, if coffee chats don't work, like, you know, is it, I don't know, five o'clock, six o'clock, 7 o'clock, what is the time? I know the PTA has really struggled with this. Um they too, they've gone to from 7:00 meetings to 5:00 meetings. You know, they've done six o'clock meetings. I think we've we've seen the gamut, right? And they're just not sure what what's the magic time, right?
104What is the magic time? I'd love to hear what that is. Um I think, you know, I think I kind of joke about it. I'm I'm really open to do what meets the needs of people. We just need to know what that is. Just to quickly follow up, um I think the challenge um coming off of I was part of the PTA back when we used to meet at those later times and that was great for parent engagement, but then it wasn't always fair to the principles and the teachers um because now we're asking some of them who don't live in Hampton to stick around for a long period of time and I know that that's hard. So, it's I think we maybe need to leverage technology in a way to bring these two voices
105together because it's it's not fair to ask our, you know, our administrators to stick around till six o'clock, but in reality for most of us parents, that's that's how late it is before we're free, if we're free, you know, given sports and all that. So, I I think if it were done once a month, right, I think we just it's about what's meaningful and what's manifable. And that's what I that's always my two key two key things, right? So, I think it's um I think it just depends. I think if it's really that important, I think it needs to be a priority. Yeah. Um and I I think the important piece that I'm hearing is like a good time and wanting feedback, but I think we have such a diverse community of people in different
106professions. There are pe no one's ever going to there's not one time that's going to be perfect for everybody. I think it's important to keep that in mind like our perspective of the world is not the perspective. Um, but I didn't realize that between the schools there was one place you have to log in for info and then another only sends an email. I was always under the impression that it was all sent through email. Do we have different practices between schools? Well, I mean, we have Alma, right? Yeah. And I know some parents don't use Alma. I have heard um I think certainly I'm sorry I'm not the right person to speak to this because I don't work in the schools but I know some teachers send emails I'm guessing some send messages through
107Alma is that reach my teach reach my teach oh that's right reach my teach and and Google classroom some teachers thereist yeah but our administrators are all following the same practices, right? As far as getting info out between schools, I think so. I think all three schools send out emails. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. With like newsletters that attached to it for everything that we've talked about today. Okay. So, like the highle stuff is all is all in the same place. But it does if you've got more than one kid. Yeah. Right. And you've got especially once you hit the middle school, right? So, you're dealing with multiple teachers and teams and all of that. It's that's challenging and I don't I don't know what the the exact answer is for that, but we could work on
108streamlining it. Sure. Absolutely. Yeah. I can tell you the intentions are there and so if we're missing the mark, we need to know how to hit it. I think the intentions Yeah, absolutely. I think I'll maybe this is what you're trying to get to, Molly, too, is having a landing spot where Yeah. that's going out by email and that's great. But if you missed it because your inbox is flooded, you know, you can go to this one spot and there's center Marson and newsletters are all right there that week. Um, I do have a number of donations. Should we do those next? Sure. All right. Let's see. I have So, we're going to start with center school and it's the one that I hand carried. They got a gift from the PTA, which we're very
109grateful for, for $14,211 for enrichment. So, I'd like permission to accept that one. And a big thank you to the PTA. That's amazing. J, I have a motion to accept. Sorry. Sorry, Candace. Motion to accept. Okay. Do I have a second? Okay. All in favor? And a huge thank you to the PTA for that. Thank you. Um I also have a check for $3,000 from S from the Sandra J. Blake Trust to Hampton Academy as well as an $81.70 check from Boxtop Tops for Education. Can I just ask the one from the trust, was that intended for a specific purpose or is it just a general donation to the school? It was a general donation to the school. In fact, I received that probably well, you can see it was dated April 28th. Um, we
110think it came out of somebody's estate. Okay. So, maybe a former student, we thought, which was again a lovely donation. Okay. Yeah. Really very nice. Yep. Awesome. All right. Do I have a motion to accept? Molly. Okay. Thank you. Andrea has a second. All in favor? Okay. And then Mary Borg had a number of donations. I'm going to start with Hunger Walk from the First Congregational Church of Hampton for $1,923.15. Again, a wonderful generous donation from First Congregational Church to the Hampton School District food service program as well as Jackie Kennedy. Um $100 donation, big thanks to her. and $1,000 from the Rotary Club, which is their second donation for $1,000. So, big thank yous to all of those folks that are donating to our food service program. That's awesome. I'll move to accept those.
111Do I have a second? Okay. All in favor? Okay. And I think we missed box tops. We um it's it's under the uh Oh, I did it I did it together, but I can say I just did it together for Hampton Academy. No problem. Okay. Okay. Thank you. All right. You're welcome. Have anything else? No. Okay. So, Dr. Campbell, I think we are ready to talk about field trips. All right, [Music] everyone. Um, okay. So, hey, just I just wanted to follow you guys uh to fill you guys in on the process of what is going on since our meeting on on April 22nd. Um the next day I sent out an email to our staff um letting them know that field trips would be uh field trip forms uh would be accepted and then
112proposed to you guys. That's going to be our process moving forward. Um we received uh several uh we we received the the field trip request that we received. we will be proposing tonight. We would like to focus on the overnight field trips that would be impacting all the grades here. Uh so we will start off with Miss Bullard who is proposing uh environmental camp. Hi, good evening. Hello. Um we've been going to camp since the 70s. We originally went to camp in Peter, New Hampshire, Sergeant Camp. When that camp was getting sold, we wanted to find a camp that had the same values, that had year-round staff, that had a full-time kitchen, and that could really listen and cater to our needs and our desires. We did an extensive search, and we found Camp Marav
113Vista. They have been amazing. Thank you. They are so accommodating. any needs that we have, they have transitioned with the times with all the needs that we've had. So, we are continuing to stay with them and after COVID, we did look to transition from the four nights to the three nights. Um, along with that, one of the biggest changes from Sergeant Camp to Marav Vista was the counselors did the overnight sessions with the students so the teachers could at least sleep. um during those times and with Marav Vista we actually take on that responsibility that we are with the students in the cabins which has been helpful especially with the changing times and and children's needs. Um one of our biggest obstacles now is the amount of medications over the counter that parents want with
114melatonin and things and how can we transition that because it's not manageable. Um but other than that um students we have a very small number of students that choose not to go whether for medical reasons or family reasons and they do have a camp here that they um we do create for them and um it is just something that's invaluable that we are hoping continues on and Dr. Campbell will talk about the money portion of it, but if you have other questions, I have been attending camp for a very long time, so happy to answer any questions that you might have about it. Okay, thank you, Laura. Um, so yeah, just looking at our books, um, you know, we want to make sure that we fit underneath our fit our budgetary reasons. So um given
115115 students are expected to be coming in next year, the price for uh the price uh for Camp Mirror Vista total would be uh $60,655. We are going to have to raise the price for for staff. I mean sorry for students um just so that we can fit our budgetary needs. Um and so that would be raised up to $325. Um there's been tradition that we had keeped it under $200 uh for a number of years. Um we are hoping to ensure that we can support um everyone who wants to go. Um and so in order to do that we need to raise the costs. Uh the uh SAU will be budget will from the SAU budget we will be allocating $22,000 200 $200 for this camp. Um the reason being our camp Mura Vista
116is in the is in the spring and it doesn't give us a lot of time to be fundraising. um something that we need need to examine moving forward and how we can incorporate um uh bringing students up from from uh Marston or um you know with the tools to raise the money so that we can we can make sure that everyone can go. Um we are going to be holding fundraisers for individual needs to lower that cost per person um while raising money for the general funds so that we can ensure that we have the money for students who are not able to go. Um, we estimate that the total cost of the families would be around $32,000 and a need for us to fund raise would be about $5,600 for that. Do we have
117any questions? I'm wondering if we could address each of these individually. So, for instance, we could talk we could do something about this now. I agree. Is everybody okay with that? Then I'd like to make a motion that we accept this proposal and go ahead and vote to allow the environmental school to continue as it has in the past. Second. Does anybody have any questions before we vote? All in favor? All right. Excellent. But thank you very much. Um All right. All right. So, the next schoolwide um trip that we are going to be talking about is our eighth grade trip. Um here we have two proposals. Um one would Oh, and I will let Miss Dutton lead the way here. Hello, I'm Andrew Dutton and I've been running the Washington DC trip for a
118few years. I've been going for more than that. Um I did put two proposals together with the same company. One is a DC trip for four days and three nights, the same that we did this year, same itinerary. Um the other one we would look at going to Boston and Rhode Island for three days and two nights, so one less night um closer to home. The price is based on 80 students. We have eight chaprons and we get a nurse and admin included in that. And they would both be overnight trips staying at embassy suites um different places obviously and all meals and tickets and everything would be included in the trip price. So there would be no extra money involved for the kids. This is a DC trip um similar that to what we
119just took. Um the first night we get there we travel pretty much all day. Then we do night m uh night monuments and do the tour. And then the second day, Wednesday, is you know, we hit the ground running and we do a ton of stuff. The cemetery, the cap, we have had um talks with Congressman Papus that day, a museum of natural history, a ghost tour, of course. There's meals, lunch, and dinner in there. Breakfast at the hotel. And then you can see Thursday some more monuments and memorials. Holocaust Museum, American History Museum, dinner cruise. The dinner cruise is the highlight of the kids trip. Uh I just went through some of the reviews and that was the number one thing. And then um the ghost tour and the Holocaust Museum. So those were
120the top three events this year. And then the last day was the White House and the zoo. So this would be for DC um the trip prices and then you can see that we require insurance for all the kids. So then under um we would be looking at quads for all the kids but I did get both of those prices so I thought I would put that in there. Um Dr. Campbell will talk about more pricing in a moment. The Boston, Rhode Island trip would include um driving down on Wednesday the 6th and going to the aquarium, Quinsey Market, Duck Tour, and a dinner cruise again. And then um that Thursday going to Newport, Rhode Island, Cliffwalks, um the Breakers Mansion, Battleship Cove, Level 99, and then the last day going to Fenway. I have
121a tour at Fenway, lunch, and then Blue Man Group. So, that's the two trips that I put together for you. Those are the initial prices for the Boston Rhode Island trip. Anyone have any [Music] questions? Thank you. All right. Um, thank you very much, Miss Dunn. All right. Um so yeah, obviously these trips are a little more expensive, a little more price uh for the families. Either way um we go, I have no doubt that we'll be able to cover the cost. We have an exceptional team um who's uh able to raise ton of money. Um Miss O'Neal, I do uh want to work with the parents who are willing to um to help us and fund raise. Uh the idea behind the PTA was just to organize our efforts um you know get a
122pro get a point person so we can kind of have have time to meet and really discuss how we're going to plan moving forward. We will be accepting donations if you guys um you know in in any form um to help out of this fundra for the fundraising um to break down the costs uh based on the cost um per and the number of families that were going uh and everything included. looking at roughly $100,000. Um we use the quad price, the four students in there just because that's what we've done traditionally. We wanted to keep that the same. So the cost per student would be the the $1270 there. Um we would allocate $10,400 um to help out offset that cost. Um and so our families would be kind of lifting the burden of
123of of 83 $84,000 there. Again, these are estimates. Um we're looking to raise about we would need to raise uh again around $16,000 there just to make sure that we uh we have anyone who wanted to go who was unable to go. Money is the big thing for us. We just want to make sure that that money is not the barrier for us. So um we just you know to again focus our energies and how much how much money we want to we're going to need to raise for these events. This is kind of the ballpark on where we are for the cost of Washington DC. um just to move it over to the Rhode Island exam. Um that's going to be a little that's going to be much less there. Uh we but again
124because we are cutting off a night um and the price per student would go down um to we used again the quad pricing. So at $955, we would then allocate the same amount of money there so we can help offset those costs uh for those students again. So we wouldn't take because the night went down, we wouldn't take that money away. We would hope to continue to to fund that money there. Uh the goal over the next four years is to make sure that all the money that we have is equally balanced between the two trips. Um and like we said, uh fundraising would be in and around $10,000 there. Uh to make sure that we had enough money to uh help offset some costs for fair families who might need assistance there due to
125the initial price tag there. Will there or is there any thought to having um opportunity for parent input on either or both? I think both of these sound like amazing trips and I I appreciate you putting the effort in to prepare them. Um but given what we've heard over the last couple of weeks, is there an opportunity for that feedback? Yeah, I would welcome uh your opinion on ways to do that on on those two trips. Um you know, we just kind of want to make sure uh we are brand new to this new process right now. So, um, outside of presenting the information to you guys, um, and allowing you guys to vote on which one you guys want to allocate the the SAU funds, that would be great. Um, but that's I'm going
126to leave that to you on how we want to get that out if that's something that we want to have right now. Um, or uh, you know, that's a I would say, you know, you would you would might know best in that convers. I'm really not very tech-savvy, but um is it is it burdensome to use like a Google survey or um just to send to parents and give them, you know, a week or two to respond? Um I let me follow up with the tech team on that. I just know that when we send surveys thing, there's there are there's certain methods that we need to do that, but that could be just on the kid kid end of things. Um I could follow up with an email tomorrow regarding um our process moving
127forward with that. I do just want to check in with with Tim Smith and and make sure that we have everything that we we don't send out something silly that we're not able to get some feedback from. So, I'm sure we can use the same form that Dr. Costa is using right now to get that parent feedback. Um, I do just want to uh reiterate that we do need to nail that down these dates. um we have them reserved but we do need to make sure that we move forward with these companies um to make sure that you know they aren't kind of sitting with their hands on you know with their sitting on their hands and holding these dates and we don't end up filling them. So what is your goal for when you'd
128like to book? Um quickly as possible would be great. Um you know I think the next board meeting would be pushing up against the end of the year and there are a lot of things that are coming up. Um you know I think ideally as soon as possible would be awesome. So, with the quad pricing, are we still looking at students potentially sharing beds or sleeping on the floor? Correct. Okay. Yeah. There there are two beds and a pullout couch. Yeah. So, two beds, two beds on two beds, a pullout couch, and then the option to either share a bed or, you know, students creatively bring CS. Um and then they bring you know either they'll they'll uh you know create a create a bed or you know share with a buddy. Okay. The other
129thing is I just want to make sure you know that the price difference is when we go to DC all those museums are free. So that's why there's a you know Boston seems so much so much more expensive when you compare it. You know it's less of a drive and stuff but it's because we have to pay for everything in Boston and Rhode Island. Just something to think about. Would anybody like to say anything or have any comments? I'll put myself. You'll start. Thank you. All right. All right. The conundrum is we as a school board have a re have there's there's I'm going to be wow really out there. Do it. take a risk. Our responsibility of a as a school board is for hiring is for budget is for policy policy. We have
130somehow gotten ourselves into an area that really isn't part of our part of our responsibility. Yes. And we're trying I think it's because we care so much about our students and and they're our kids and I know they're your kids. and we worry because we're parents and grandparents and we we see so many sides of this. But I have to be honest with you, I think you need to put it back with the parents and the parents have to make this decision. And whether we agree or not, I think this has to be on the parents to make to make this decision. I mean, the ramifications and the liability. Yeah, it'll come back on on the school and we're just going to have to accept that. And there are a lot of liabilities here. We
131have gone over that. But this isn't part of our this is not one of the three things that a school board is elected for. Am I wrong? No. It comes back to us, I would say, through budget and policy. Budget policy. Yeah. I was going to suggest under new business for next time that we actually look at the um field trip policy and make a separate policy for overnight trips. Absolutely. Yes. Because we're we're now going into a an area that we don't really even have a policy on. Yeah. There's what there was a there were a couple of paragraphs, right? I was even going to go as far as looking at it and saying cut out the word class trip. If you want to make this a trip where you take everything that you've
132done and have the parents take care of it through a um travel agency travel agency like for instance the Quebec trip and make it that way make it all through a travel agency and leave sort of us kind of out of it then we don't have to have necessarily a say one way or the which we kind of don't because it's not part of our it's really not part of our say. Does that have anything to do with Camir Vista? That vote was just on No, I don't think so. I mean, I I think we voted on Mara Vista. It's approved. I think for next year is good. The way I look at it and again only because I've been around this for so long. Meera Vista is a different animal because it is an
133environmental school program. It is yes it is a class trip in in some respects but it is also a school program. It is more of a a a curriculum. It's it's taking the school program and just putting it in a different setting, which makes it different than a class trip, per se. And maybe I'm not making sense on that. And I only know the difference because I've been on those trips and I've been on class trips and it's a it's a much it's just a different animal. It just is. Laura, do you understand what I'm saying? Well, it's self-contained. It is self-contained. It is very much more um I don't know. Like I know from teaching all of those lessons and things like that. It's just it's just a different it's just different. I I
134I wish I could explain it better. The kids are younger. They go, they stay in one place. They come back. It seems like the potential for problems is less with the younger kids. Yes. Would that be fair for my teachers? It's it's within it's within an hour and a half, you know, if there's an issue or a problem, but mostly it is an an it's an environmental school program. It is a curriculum. It is a set course that you take for a week as opposed to a class trip. And again, that word class trip is where I guess I have a problem class. But again, it's not really part of our issue because we've got three things that we are elected to take care of and this really doesn't fit into it. So now I've
135just put myself right out there. You did not. It was fine. Sorry. So I guess of course. No, go right ahead. I was just peeking at our policies and I just wonder as a way of sort of like mirroring what Andrea's point is in terms of this kind of falls back to more the administration and the parents, but also giving Dr. Dr. Hamill and other administrators an easy and sort of um a framework to be able to communicate with parents that doesn't involve having to reinvent the wheel every time maybe he's seeking that input. Do we have authority? Because I I'm looking at a couple of our policies and it seems like we can create some sort of parent advisory council. Um has that been done in the past? Is that something we could explore
136so that each time they don't have to go through this process that they can we could I mean I kind of think that's what the school I'm sorry on that's a little bit what the school board is. I mean, we have been elected kind of to do that. Um, I don't I think it I I'm I'm making it seem like I am posted opposed to there being a parent council. I I'm I'm not I don't know what it looks like and who was in charge of putting it together. Um, but I it I just don't know that it's the school board's job to put it together. kind of going back to what Andrea said about policy and and budget and hiring. It doesn't mean there can't be one. I just don't know. There have been
137parent advisory groups in the past. Okay. And and they have been a separate entity and they have brought suggestions to a school board, but it's very much parents have done that. They've gotten themselves together. What I see happening, it's awesome. I think parents wonderful. They should do it. It would be great. But you run into the same problem that I think you see now. Like when do you have the time to do it? When do when you know when can people get together? Well, I can do it now. I can do it then. I'm not blaming anybody or or anything like that. I get it. I totally get it. And again, if parents want to come together and do it, more power to them. That's awesome. 100%. Yes. Absolutely. Yep. and we have had it
138in the past and they have come to board and said things. So I think like what you're just to really make it really clear for everybody watching at home, I think what we're talking about is parents organizing themselves as some sort of 501c3 or booster club that's going to support if they want to raise money. I would say if they don't want to raise money, if they just want it to be moreformational, then that's getting organized, figuring out who it's going to be and figuring out times to come in and and meet with administration. So, yeah, I think that would be great. Um, none of this tells Dr. Campbell what we want him to do. Um, I don't know. We have I have a few options. We can kick the can down the road. We
139can do nothing. It's not what Dr. Campbell's asking us to do, but we can wait until next month. see if they've had some chances to talk to the community, to talk to parents. Um, there was concern about us missing a a board member and, you know, hopefully we'll have everybody here next month, but you know, kids get sick, people travel, and so we don't know. We can't guarantee that. Um, we can vote to approve both trips, let them take that approval, decide whether they want to talk to parents, talk to staff, we can approve one, we can approve the other, we can approve I I want to move that we approve that they can go with either one of the trips um but ask that they talk to parents and come to a decision after
140that. So, we're going to basically Sorry, go ahead, Neil. So, I just, you know, like I said, we're coming up to the end of the year. So, if we're moving forward with this trip, I'll reach out to Miss O'Neal on how best we can communicate these things because it seems like we're missing the mark on several ways that we're communicating. So, uh, my hope is to is to connect with the board on how we can how we can present this information to the staff, get some input, um, and then you and then make a make a decision based on the information that we have um, in transparency. We can present that information to you guys um, at the next board meeting. Um, but Andrea, if you got something to say, did you want I'm just
141really confused, I guess, because I was asked to come up with some proposals, and if it wasn't going to be a proposal, then I'm not sure why I did it. So, I'm just trying to get clarification on this whole thing. Yep. That's what And that's what we are trying to figure out. Yes, we want to offer you. You're right. And I threw the spanner in the works by clarifying what our position as a board is. And I apologize, Andrea, but I agree with Molly that I think as a board I would second what you say that we agree that either one of these trips we would go along with contingent upon you all come together as parents and teachers decide what you want and if you come up with the plan that you want then
142I know that's that leaves that leaves the administration in a little bit of a tough place. We'll touch base with Miss O'Neal tomorrow. We'll uh we'll make sure that you know we're in and the board and we'll make sure that we get them information out. My general taking is that we would go in a majority rule situation. These percentage of people want to do something. We can have a discussion with that at the next board meeting if it gets too close. I would just ask that it not be the percentage of people who respond, but it be the percentage of parents for seventh graders. Right? If you have if you have a response from 10 people and nine of them agree, is that actually a fair representation of seventh grade parents? How Yeah, I think
143it's their responsibility. I I know that that's not an actual All right. That doesn't tell you how to do it. That is just a concern of mine. Um, sorry. Go ahead. I think what the parents are asking for and I think I think we all recognize and agree with this though is the parents just want to have a a seat at the table but ultimately if the decision is made by the administration as to what the best fit for a trip is both of these options look fabulous. Um I think they just want a chance to speak and I think if you're I don't know that you have to define rules personally as to how you're going to reach that final decision but as long as you invite that dialogue I think that brings every
144everybody together. Okay. Yeah. So, uh, to that point, I do have my, uh, my coffee talk. I will send out a Google link, too, just so that anyone who's at work can zoom in. Um, just the piece of the technology, the Google, we will we'll send out that that will be on uh the 28th in the morning. Um, we will send out communication on how we can best send out a survey. we'll retrieve that message and then we will share that uh share that information um with you and make a decision on which uh which field trip that the community and the staff and the administration decide was best for us. So, a couple of things. So, number one, we haven't actually voted on anything. We declared we were all sort of in agreement, but
145we didn't actually vote on anything. There is that. Um I would like to say the one thing we haven't talked about is how the the trip was last week. They just came back and how did it go? We had concerns. Um I will let Andrew start off with that. I did not attend the trip. So I will let the three people who did attend the trip um who are here uh we'll we'll attest to that. She's got a slide here. Just before we do that, do you need us to like resend what we had said? I feel like we're still in discussion. Oh, okay. Yeah. All right. Hi. How how did you how did you feel it went? Um it was a great trip all in all. Um of course there was some bumps. There's
146always some bumps. Um they're eighth graders and they're still learning. Um reflecting on 2025. I put this in there. Students were physically more prepared this year. Not sure why or how that happened, but that was excellent. Um students struggled a little bit with coping skills and self- advocacy skills. Um, this year was the first year that we did not allow them to have phones a lot at all. They had them for about 45 minutes in the morning and then about 45 minutes at night. And the kids and parents feedback was that that was great. So even the kids told us like they were happy that they didn't have their phones too. So that was amazing. Um, and then you can see on the side some benefits of the trip. um real world connections. Um government,
147you know how it works, build resilience, they were able to order food on their own and manage some of their own money. Um but it was a great trip. So questions about the trip, of course. Um sorry, not an actual question for you, an administration question. Are we going to have nurses for our overnight field trips in 2526? Um I think we're going to have to reexamine what that looks like. Um not sure if one nurse is a feasible is feasible um with some information from our nurse. Um she is responsible for a lot of different things. Not onlyure ensuring the daily health care of the students but administering the proper medication. Um there were several instances that h that kept um herself and several of the administrators and teachers in uh up late at
148night. Um and so to ensure safety um of medications in the morning um we would have to alter what we're doing whether that would be someone a traveling nurse or bringing two nurses or whatever it might be. Um just there was an you know just kind of going over some of the notes. Um having one nurse really kind of uh requires this nurse to document this information. Um she was working constantly. Um due to the late nights uh there was roughly about four hours of sleep um each night. When they were in transit she was making sure that everything that she was documenting was on that was on there uh was in our uh snap platform. Um we had several documented events that occurred on on different days. Um and then kind of medication wise
149we were in the 60s about how many different medications were were distributed um throughout the day. So we just want to make sure that you know if people are entrusting us for something that we uh set up our nurses for success, their lensure is at is at risk um you know if they do make a mistake. um we just want to make sure that they are safe and so are our kids and we're not having someone who's super tired handing out medication in the mornings and documenting those. So, we are going to have to reexamine that um what that's going to look like. Um we'll have to probably reflect on how much it's going to cost and and and ways around that and willing participants and all those types of things. So, uh we just
150don't think that it was feasible uh to just send one nurse because of the demand at night and during the day. um our nurse did a great job doing it, but we just want to make sure that we're safe and making sure that our kids are safe. So, um that's what something we will be examining. So, we are potentially looking at two traveling nurses. Uh we are going to be looking at all options. So, yeah, a traveling nurse uh having someone from, you know, we'll see. We have to really uh approach those discussions, but yeah, um just sending one nurse would I think is uh was not feasible during this trip is my understanding. Would any of the administrators who participated, do you have anything to say? And if you don't, that's okay. The kids
151were great. They had a great time. It was a really great experience. They made a lot of friends and it was really wellreceived and you know, we did have our bumps along the way, but our staff was phenomenal. Love handling everything um that came up. So, I can't thank our staff enough because they really, you know, late nights, not a lot of sleep, and they handled everything amazingly with every situation that came up. So, we're really lucky staff that we have here. Okay. Um, I just want to say from the beginning of our conversations, I think the most compelling and concerning point for me has always been the nursing piece because we're talking about professionals who have lenture that they want to protect and we're talking about the safety of our children as a whole.
152And even two nurses um I want to make this trip happen, but even two nurses like with how many students? 110 11 how many we end up taking 95 took to this trip. Okay. Uh 115 will be going tenatively we'll be going to uh environmental camp and then uh we're looking at 80 for next year's trip for seventh grade. Sorry, seventh grade going into eighth grade. That's a lot and I just want the public to understand why that is a super valid important concern that we all need to be worried about. And my follow-up question to that is like we've already approved the budget for next year and now we're looking I would love if we can put the money in the budget to make sure we're fulfilling the medical needs of all of our
153students and reducing barriers, but what happens if a travel nursing is expensive? My little sister's a travel nurse. She gets paid a lot like and they're hard to find for trips like this. Like what happens if that blows the budget? Um I think you know uh I don't think there's going to be any obstacle that we can that we can't overcome. So um this community is very resilient. Um, I plan to make sure that we work uh collaboratively with the with everyone in the community, working with our stakeholders, community stakeholders, um, and finding resources to ensure that, you know, we are able to move forward with nurses and safely provide an opportunity for our kids to enjoy a trip wherever we may go. Does anybody else have any more questions or anything you'd like to
154say before we vote? I I think I would um I I first off um any opportunity I have to spend with children is just it's the highlight of my day and it's a joy. Um I loved spending the time with the kids on the bus. I loved being on the trip um with everyone. It was impressive to see um this group come together knowing this group from third grade when they entered Mars in school. In fact, we had some really great conversations with kids I've known for a long time and it was it was remarkable to see the growth and I have to say you're absolutely right um Andrea, Mrs. Dutton and Mrs. Lavine that children really rose to the to the challenge. Um but I would be remiss if I wasn't a little bit
155more forthcoming and so I I have to be a little bit forthcoming. Um it was great for most children. It really was. And the fact that um in speaking with some of you even tonight and speaking with some of you even that evening when you came to pick up or when we spoke between now and then, you shared with me what a wonderful week it was and you were just grateful and thankful and and I I feel the same way. But what you should also know um and what you're alluding to, Dr. Campbell is there were many of us, chaperrons included, that were up till well after midnight and getting up at 5:30 in the morning. So, we we we're used to that. We operate on a little bit of sleep and we can do
156that and we can do that well and we can crash when we get home. But there were some significant events um that really did happen. Now, did it did it ruin it for children? No, it didn't. Because to the tri to really to the credit of the team, um we worked through them. We did work through them. But I I will tell you that um there there was things like illegal paraphernalia that we had to deal with. We had weapons that we had to deal with under Safe Schools Act. There were mental health issues. There were there was a very serious life-threatening situation that we worked through. There was um a situation that required us to um displace students into chaperone's rooms at night for sleeping. Um we had some students that wandered off. We
157did find them. And to your point, we had a nurse functioning on very little sleep. We also had bus issues and didn't get home till 2:00 in the morning. We had um issues with roommates that we worked through. Um and you would never know about it because of how well it was handled. It was handled beautifully by all of us, by by these people here, but by everyone, by the children, by the staff, and by um just everyone who is involved. But those are the things that we worry about. Those are the things that probably keep us up at night because if anything goes wrong, it falls on our shoulders as the adults. So, I just want you to know that there's nothing I love more than these children. And we don't do this in
158punitive ways. It's not like we're trying to take something away from our children. We would never do that. That's not who we are. We want to give them every opportunity, every opportunity that we can. But there are some things that are just out of our control. Even with the extensive planning, bumps happen. It's not to say we can't work through it, but there's some significant bumps. Sadly, one child had to go home sick. It happened. These things do happen and those those fall under us. So, I just have to let you know that this is a serious decision that weighs heavily on the leadership team, that weighs heavily on the board. And I get it. I get it. It's a beautiful trip. It's a wonderful trip. It's my second time going. I love going. And
159I understand that the board is putting it back in their hands, but it's not an easy decision. for all the reasons I've just said. And so I just wanted to say that and I I I just want you to know that we we don't we're not doing it for effect. We're not doing it for we know our children. We see them every day. And even with the best of intentions, these things can happen. the they're middle schoolers. It's very different. We're taking them far away when when when unfortunately some parents are not in a position to just fly down or drive down and get their children when in fact some of them may not have might not have been should have been there. Right? And that's the stuff that weighs heavily on us. I appreciate
160every I appreciate your sentiments and I get it and I appreciate the work you do, Mrs. Dutton, and all of you, but these are big decisions that the board weighs in on, the leadership team weighs in on. So I just as I understand where you're coming from, I hope you can understand where I am coming from as a superintendent as someone who knows these children, who cares very deeply for these children, and shoulders the responsibility of their safety and well-being. That's all. Thank you. So, if we have no more comments, no more questions, we have a motion on the floor. Did you second? Did we have a second? Okay. All in favor of approving both trips. Correct. Both proposed trips with the administration to decide which one will work the best for our families. Okay.
161All in favor? Okay. All right. Thank you. Thank you, Dr. Campbell. Um, we should address at least in in some way that there was one more um agenda item which was Quebec and the Quebec trip is currently being tabled until the fall. Correct. The the request is being tabled currently. Correct. Yeah, the request will be tabled. Um, we wanted to spend time to focus on uh where we are for um for these schoolwide field trips. Um so we'll figure out that process as well. Okay. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. So that does move us to 6.4 BEDH public comment and participation at board meeting page 2 B5. Okay. So I have to [Music] remember B5. Okay. So for anybody who is not sort of aware why we have this out and why we are talking
162about it um the public comment and partic participation at board meetings policy which is BEDH number five says in order to comply with the official minutes requirements of RSA 91- A2 Roman numeral 2 speaker shall identify themselves clearly for the record including name address and the group if any is represented. So, we did receive a request from a community member after our last meeting. Um, and for sort of personal reasons, um, this person did not want to provide their address when they spoke. We have a policy that requires it. Um, I believe I did go and check that RSA and I believe the RSA does not actually require the person's address. So I think we just wanted to see if anybody had any issues with amending that. Okay. So we are page 33. It's a
163little out of order. It's not with the rest of the policies because we were addressing it kind of individually. So it was closer to Lois's presentation. So page 33 if I could weigh in on that. Of course. They um so I was talking to some other districts what they do. I think what the person wanted was to make sure that their address was not included in the minutes, which I understand that one of the things that another district I know does is they can we can have people sign in so that they don't have to say their address and we don't have to put them in the minutes and then we would have it and that way um they could just say their name but we would have the address as proof of residence which
164is required. That might be a way around it. Just a thought for your consideration. I do like that. Yes, because I did understand she had very good reasons for not wanting to include her address publicly. Um, so does anybody have any objections to that? And if not, why don't we punt this to the policy committee and you guys can can make changes and come back and come back with a proposal. Yep, we can do that. That would be great. Yeah. Thank you. Okay. So, I believe we are at hiring and nominations. I have did we have any hand carried? I have one. No, I think all we have is what's in there. But I am going to ask you afterwards if I can have permission to hire before the next board meeting because we do
165have a candidate. I am meeting very shortly. We just don't want to lose anyone. Okay. But we'll we can go through the nominations first. Okay. All right. So, I'm on page 79. Yep. Um, so the first one is going to be uh seventh grade math teacher Stacy Leonard, who is going to be replacing Adam Goodwin. Um, and so I would like to make a nomination to nominate Stacy Leonard. Do I have a motion to accept the nomination? Candace. Motion to accept. Do I have a second? Molly will second. Okay. Any questions about this position? All in favor? Okay. Thank you very much. They were. My understanding is they did. I will. She can't hear. So, Andrea was double-checking to make sure that any candidates for uh these teaching positions who did not receive the the
166job were contacted directly to let them know that they didn't receive it. I I believe that um all of them were interviewed um that were qualified and they did first and second round first round second rounds and then they had a final candidate who they said to me. Perfect. Yeah. But it's a followup. We've been talking about that a lot because there's nothing quite like coming in especially for a second interview and then being ghosted, right? You just you wait, you wait and you never hear anything and then you hear through the grape vine that the job was filled. So that's that's and we try not to do business that way, but there's nothing wrong with following up and making sure that letters are being sent or calls are being made. Yeah. And that's part
167of our um hiring process that we've been very clear about. So I I will double check, but thank you. Thanks for bringing it to my attention. Um and then the next one, we had an unfilled vacancy um special ed teacher case manager at Mars School, Briana Roman. So, we'd like to nominate her for special ed case manager. All right, move to accept the nomination. Okay, I'll second. Does anybody have any questions on this position? I know that the staff will be very very happy to have this position filled. It's been a it's been a long year. Yep. Any questions? All in favor? Okay. Thank you. And then we're director of technology. Again, this was also unfilled this year. Y we'd like to nominate Tim Smith to serve as our director of technology for next year.
168I'll move to accept his nomination. I'll second. Okay. All in favor? Thank you. We are welcome Tim Smith. Yeah, we're um in the process of um now looking at the data person. He's so good at that. So yeah, but thank you. And I do so just a permission to um hire. Yes. Okay. Between now and I'd like to hire as I can because what will happen the time of year we need to hire people. So does anybody have any objections to Lois directly making offers? We She will bring them to us after so that we have the I will all of their information. Yep. Okay. I will. Thank you. That would be great. Yep. Okay. We are getting there. policy review. So we do have one, two, three, four, five, six first reads and so
169those can be moved to the next meeting. So everybody take a look at those, read through them. I do have one change I'd like to recommend on BEDC, which is quorum. Um, it's just an outdated word. Um, it is this spot right here. When when it's not reasonably practical for a member to attend in person, blah blah blah, may attend via telephone, Skype, or other electronic means. Skype doesn't exist anymore. How about virtually? So, we could just do virtually or Zoom or however we wanted to to word that. Y um video call, something along those lines. Um, so we will everybody take a chance to read those. We will look at those again next month. Um, I think we actually can go ahead and look at DFA and vote on that. I think Mariah probably
170needs us to go ahead and do that now. That is a recurring thing. We do look at that every year. So, it's not a change. It's just a review of the investment policy required by law. And required by law. So, does anybody have any questions about it? Do I have a motion to I guess we accept this approve? Reapprove. I'll vote. Motion to accept. Molly, thank you for mo. Les taught me to do that. He's like just point when you need someone. Candace, would you like to second the acceptance of that? All right. All in favor? Okay. So, that is approved again for this year. Okay, we are and we will touch base again on the other ones uh next month. All right, we are getting there. Consideration of minutes consent agenda. So we actually
171have I would vote we have these under consent agenda and this is something we've never really done. But one of the reasons we have a consent agenda is to streamline the accepting of things like minutes. There isn't any need I don't think for us to go through and accept them one at a time. We can vote to accept the consent agenda. So does anybody have any objections to that? Um, it would be minutes for the public meeting of April 8th, the non-public meeting of April 8th, and the special meeting of, let's see, I have meeting minutes of April 20, oh, I'm sorry, the legislative roundt discussion on the 21st, which did have a quorum, and the special meeting of April 22nd. I move that we uh accept the All right, I'll second that. All in
172favor? That's all of that. Do I need to say if there's any spelling errors? You absolutely feel free to It doesn't really What page? Yeah. What? My name is misspelled on 111 and 123. Okay. 111. Let's get it right. 123. And the only reason I say this is because People often m miss m miss m miss m miss m miss m miss m miss m miss m miss m miss m 49 years ago I got to I was told it's one P no H and an A and I had to memorize that. I have to look it up. I look it up regularly. I don't know how many times I've written your name. I had to remember look it up many times. One P no H and an A. Is that in the prenal? What
173was that in the pen? Okay, so we are right. Not a big deal, but Wharton, a certain person was looking these over and he said, "Hey, hey, hey." I said, "What?" He said, "They spelled our name wrong." I said, "They spelled my name wrong." He said, "Well, it's my name, too." Like, "Oh, please get over yourself and get away." Do that. Do we have anyone else who would like to um use any of the remaining public comment time? Megan Hullberg again, presidential circle. I just want to thank um I'm sorry, what was your name? Oh, Dr. Campbell. No. Thank you, Miss Dutton, for putting together these proposals. I know she worked really hard to do it. Yes. And I don't feel like we got a lot accomplished. While I do appreciate that we have put
174this back to the administration to reach out to the parents, I felt like there was a lot of commentary and back and forth going on here that almost felt like we were left even more confused than what we came in for. So, that's the only thing I want to say about that. But I also just wanted to say thank you to her for putting that together. And Dr. Campbell, there is a whole slew of parents that are just waiting for you to let us know what we need to do. Candace, if it means getting in touch with you to help with 503C or whatever we need to do, we're here. We want to make this happen. We want these kids to be able to enjoy something like DC, which while I appreciate Boston and Rhode
175Island, I will say I can bet most of the kids in Hampton have already been to every single one of those exhibits. Washington DC obviously is a very different experience. There's a lot of things that they may not even get to see if they don't come here. And I understand we're going to leave this up to the parents and I think that's great. I just wanted to make that comment there, too. So, that was it. I just wanted to say thank you. Please reach out to us because we're here to help you. All right. Do we have anyone else who would is here for public comment? All right. Good evening, Nathan Paige, 83 Hemlock Haven. I was at the accompanying my son on the trip to DC and I heard a a little bit while
176I was eating my supper that there were some issues. As as someone on the outskirts of the event, I saw no issues. I think Mrs. Dutton and the crew of chaperones did an outstanding job uh down there in DC. Um other than the the bus breakdown, which is not her fault. That's things happen and um it was a great time. I do have a question, a comment about um the security on the trip at the hotel and I'm not going to comment here. I'll talk to you individually after. Sure. But uh overall it was a great time and it was my son was very thankful that he got to go and he tried to get out of our room three different times. So, it was thank you all who uh I know it was only
177Molly and you three of you that were here last time around when I asked for permission and it was and thank you very much for granting it. He had a great time. He went he he get up in the morning went to the room where he would have been staying and hung out with his buddies afterwards. He went and hung out with his buddies in that room and then come back to our room at 10:15 and had a great time. And I want to thank you for that and hopefully those accommodations can be made in the future for other students as well. But the uh overall the trip I thought went went swimmingly and I talked to most of you after the the Mrs. Costa and the other chaperons after after they got back in
178the evening and everything seemed to be going great. So thank you for that and I look forward to hear you continuing the trips in the future. Yeah, thank you Nathan. And to be clear, there was never none of our concerns about what happened had to do with the chaperoons or the teachers. Everything that I have heard is that you guys did a great job. So we do really this is this trip is is above and beyond for middle school teachers friends. So we do really appreciate all that you do. You guys did a great job and we we heard you we heard you guys did great too, Nathan. So good job. So is there anyone else here for public comment? Seeing none, we'll close public comment. I do believe we have a couple of things
179we want to discuss in nonpublic. We could. Yep. We have a personnel. Okay. So, I'm going to move that we going to call non-public under RSA 91- A 32 A-m roll call. Ma'am, yes, Andrew. Oh, sorry. That's okay. Okay. All right. So, we are in nonpublic. We're anything anyway. Okay. We are out of nonpublic. Would anybody like to move to adjurnn? That's what I'm waiting on. Motion to adjurnn. Thank you. Second. All in favor? I adjourn.