June 11, 2026 School Board Meeting

001SBSD Helpdesk: Shane, that's how I even? SBSD Helpdesk: I'd like to call to order the June 11th, 2026 SBSD Helpdesk: special meeting of the South Burlington School Board. This is the rescheduled June 3rd, 2026 meeting. The first item on the agenda is a proposed executive session. SBSD Helpdesk: We will be talking about employment of a public officer or employee. We will be receiving confidential attorney claim. SBSD Helpdesk: Communication for the purpose of providing legal services to the board. SBSD Helpdesk: I believe that's all we'll be talking about. So I would entertain a motion to find that premature public knowledge of the topics we're about to talk about would be bad for the district. Dan moves. SBSD Helpdesk: Second. Alyssa, seconds? Any discussion? SBSD Helpdesk: All those in favor? Aye. Motion pass. I'd entertain a motion

002to enter into Executive Session. SBSD Helpdesk: I'll move the motion. Dan moves. SBSD Helpdesk: Alyssa seconds? Alyssa… or any discussion? SBSD Helpdesk: All those in favor? Aye. Okay, so we're going to executive session. SBSD Helpdesk: Yeah, we're going to be joined by Debbie Singiser? Singhizer. Singhizer, from, Vermont, from, Vermont School Board Association, and Joe Clark, Superintendent, and Joe McNeil, lawyer, and McLeady, lawyer, and Daisy, if… or not Daisy. I don't care. You think you want me out either. Okay. SBSD Helpdesk: I was wondering how this was gonna work with you all set up like this. I thought, oh man, we're gonna have to take all this equipment down for the Executive 7, but this makes so much more sense. Yeah, it does. Perfect. I'm gonna need that, yeah. SBSD Helpdesk: I'm excited. Momin Waqar: I

003think I'm implying… SBSD Helpdesk: Hala! Really well. SBSD Helpdesk: Is it… is it… is there anybody online? SBSD Helpdesk: Yes, it is. Okay. SBSD Helpdesk: I'm well, how are you? SBSD Helpdesk: I'm Seamus. SBSD Helpdesk: Yes. Oliver. Cookies, donuts? I thought I was kidding. I'm Dan. Love you today. SBSD Helpdesk: Explorer. SBSD Helpdesk: Am I gonna eat a banana with nothing to wash your hands? Oh, yes. Yeah. SBSD Helpdesk: 1, 2, 3. SBSD Helpdesk: They'll play musical chairs every time. SBSD Helpdesk: I definitely think I've moved the most of any board member. Yeah, I definitely have. SBSD Helpdesk: I hope it's not a personal thing. SBSD Helpdesk: Alright, I'd like to call the… are you… are we ready? SBSD Helpdesk: Okay, so I'd like to call the June 11, 2026 SBSD Helpdesk: special meeting of

004the South Burlington School Board back into order. This meeting is a replacement for the June 3rd regular meeting that we were not able to make forum for. We just exited executive session, apologies for the delay. SBSD Helpdesk: Now, the first item on the agenda is the Pledge of Allegiance. SBSD Helpdesk: 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. SBSD Helpdesk: The next item on the agenda is announcements. Does the board have any announcements? SBSD Helpdesk: So I have two quick announcements. So, Laura Williams resigned. SBSD Helpdesk: From the board, and so we will be, scheduling, filling the vacancy, so that's one thing. Another thing is that the superintendent and I were brought

005in to a meeting about a new youth SBSD Helpdesk: detention center, the Green Mountain Youth Center, I think it's called. And so, basically, the superintendent and I were brought in 3 days before it was announced to the public that the state was going to be looking to site, SBSD Helpdesk: this youth center here, and so I think the board will also ask SBSD Helpdesk: And we will be asking the state to come in and present to us, but SBSD Helpdesk: the early response that we have gotten from them is that their, the youth who are going to be at the center, if it eventually happens, would be educated by their home school districts, and so, as much as we'd like to have them in our district, they're not going to be our responsibility. So, more

006information on that in upcoming meetings. SBSD Helpdesk: Those are two announcements that I had. Okay, so reviewing the agenda, we have comments from the public, focused on student learning, a fortunately delayed community forum on the ENDS policy revision. We have a second reading of SBSD Helpdesk: Policy F5 wellness, a second reading of Policy F20, student use of cell phones, and then we have action items on continuous action plans. SBSD Helpdesk: Authorizing the superintendent to accept all state and federal grants. SBSD Helpdesk: possibility of a digital ends budget for the ENDS policy discussion. We have a modern report on 1.0 ENDS and 1.4 citizenship, and a modern report 2.0 on global executive constraint. And, SBSD Helpdesk: a possible action on the school board vacancy. So this is more likely to be a discussion of how we

007want to move forward on that than an action to actually do anything. Are there any amendments to the agenda? There is the amendment for that bid for the… SBSD Helpdesk: trying to think of renovations here… Oh, right. So I forgot to mention that we also, of course, have a consent agenda, and there is a late-breaking addition to the consent agenda, related to a renovation plan for the second floor of this building, so that it can be used for South Point. SBSD Helpdesk: Are there any amendments to the agenda? A question about whether we need to… to elect a clerk. By Title 16, we're required to let a chairman clerk. SBSD Helpdesk: Should we be… Do you guys want to vote on a clerk tonight? SBSD Helpdesk: It's not a question of want, it's do we

008have to? Well, it's also a question of whether there would be serious sanctions if we didn't. I mean, they probably would understand it. We don't have Jen here. SBSD Helpdesk: I would totally go for waiting for all board members to be present to do that. Should we just wait until next week? I think that'd be totally fine. I just wanted to bring it up in case it was a legal requirement that we had to do it the first meeting happened. SBSD Helpdesk: I, I… we could have an interim clerk if we wanted to do that. SBSD Helpdesk: No, I am… I am not worried, since nobody else here's hair's on fire. You're required to have a chair. I don't think… It's actually in Title 16, but the chair and a clerk. The vice chair is

009not a required. SBSD Helpdesk: Because the clerk is technically responsible for recording the, the meetings, or they're the official recorder, even though they don't really do that. Okay. SBSD Helpdesk: Last chance, do we want to add that to the agenda tonight, or are we satisfied doing that at our next regular meeting? Next meeting? Okay, great. That was the clerk's name. SBSD Helpdesk: Alright, yes. First item, or the next item on the agenda is comments from the public. SBSD Helpdesk: These comments can be about any topic. SBSD Helpdesk: This is the opportunity to, SBSD Helpdesk: speak to the board about any topic, and there's other opportunities to provide public comment, but they're only on the specific action that we're taking at that time, or the specific community forum that we're having. So is there any public

010comment? SBSD Helpdesk: Is there anybody online? SBSD Helpdesk: Okay. SBSD Helpdesk: All right, hearing none, then the next item on the agenda is, focus on student learning, and so I think we have some welcoming for you. SBSD Helpdesk: So, as I mentioned last meeting, we have two junior student reps this year. First, I'll introduce Oliver. Oliver's an upcoming junior. He's been in the district since elementary school. He attended Rick Marcotte, as well as the middle and high school. During the application process, we were really impressed with Oliver's diverse experiences and out of his personality. SBSD Helpdesk: He's a junior captain and coder for our robotics teams. He's helping start a hack club at our school, and stratacy a variety of opinions. SBSD Helpdesk: Walter, is there anything you want to add? Really looking forward to

011working with you guys this year. SBSD Helpdesk: And then I would also like to introduce Shahru. Sharu is an upcoming junior and has been in the school district since 7th grade, and she'll be attending Center for Ethics Technology's EMT program next year. During the application process, we were impressed by Shahu's thoughtfulness and honesty regarding issues in the district. SBSD Helpdesk: She's interested in karate and wrestling, and she often… and she often helps teach younger students at her dojo, and is proud to put herself out there as the only girl on our wrestler team. SBSD Helpdesk: Anything you would like to add? I'm just excited to get to know everyone and make a change. SBSD Helpdesk: Yeah, I'm really looking forward to working with both of them, SBSD Helpdesk: Alyssa, thanks for all the help with

012the interview process. Alyssa and Jen are helping us out. Is there anything you'd like to add? SBSD Helpdesk: No, I barely did anything. You guys, you two made it super easy. I just showed up, and so that was super awesome, but it was… SBSD Helpdesk: all of the students that we interviewed were very thoughtful about it. I enjoyed it. SBSD Helpdesk: Alright, well, we gotta talk to them now. SBSD Helpdesk: Alright, so some of the announcements. On Monday, the high school had Academic Awards Night, and this was a celebration of all the hard work that students in the high school are doing. Students were given awards for their academic achievements. Right now, that… oh, not right now. Sorry. Last Wednesday of the athletic awards ceremony also happened for the high school, where students received awards

013for their SBSD Helpdesk: athletic achievements, and we wanted to congratulate everyone who got an award. SBSD Helpdesk: The high school graduation will be tomorrow at 10 a.m. At the gymnasium at UPM. Students can bring any number of guests, and they're open by itself to the public, so get… but people should plan to arrive a little early to find seats, and congratulations to all the graduating seniors. SBSD Helpdesk: On Thursday, June 18th, the kindergarten class will be doing a When I Grow Up parade, like, where they will create uniforms for their future jobs, and march in a parade around school, which is fun. SBSD Helpdesk: During the month of May, our Special Olympics Unified Bockey team traveled to their first hockey tournament. SBSD Helpdesk: They combined high school and middle school students, which helped bring teamwork,

014friendship, and inclusion to our school community. And starting on June 4th, the K-12 Summer Art Show will be running all summer long, celebrating art created by students across South Burlington. Congratulations to everyone whose art is being on display. SBSD Helpdesk: What is Balthi? SBSD Helpdesk: I was like, oh god, there's a new… there's a new thing I don't know about. SBSD Helpdesk: That's great, thank you. SBSD Helpdesk: All right, the next item on the agenda is a community forum on the ENS policy revision. SBSD Helpdesk: And I think this has been described in lots of different ways, but it's kind of like the Constitution SBSD Helpdesk: Of our district, and it says what's important, and then it, you know, depends on the superintendent to implement it, but we as a board get to decide what's

015important. SBSD Helpdesk: Tonight is our fourth… SBSD Helpdesk: opportunity that we have invited the public to come in and tell us if they had any concerns. We had SBSD Helpdesk: A few great… SBSD Helpdesk: meetings already. We had a bunch of middle schoolers come in. We had a bunch of input from, community members, SBSD Helpdesk: So tonight is the last meeting SBSD Helpdesk: before the committee starts drafting any edits that we think might be necessary to the ends policy. And if you look at our website, it has a schedule of when we expect to produce the first draft, and when we expect to, present the first draft, and all that. So, after we draft it. SBSD Helpdesk: There will be 4 more meetings where the public can comment on the draft itself, but this meeting

016is meant to be the last chance to get the words in before SBSD Helpdesk: we… SBSD Helpdesk: start typing out what we think the changes should be. And, just in terms of the importance of this process. SBSD Helpdesk: our superintendent has said that he believes that in order to turn this district around in the next few years, forgive me, I don't want to put words in your mouth, but the way that I heard it was, he said, give me 3 years to… SBSD Helpdesk: to do some really good work here, and as part of that, we need to do a strategic plan now, and in order to have a strategic plan, he needs to know what the board wants, and so that's why we're doing the ENCE policy. SBSD Helpdesk: Joe, do you have any

017comments on that? Exactly right, I think that, SBSD Helpdesk: There's a ton of work to do, and we want to be guided, because we don't want to, you know, make plans for things that the board's not going to want in their next policy. So, thank you for, making this a priority. SBSD Helpdesk: So is there any other board comment before we ask the public if there's any comments? SBSD Helpdesk: I'm a little concerned about the process. I wasn't… I know that the subcommittee, which I'm a part of, meets weekly, and I wasn't at the meeting today. I had some other things, so I'm not sure exactly what was discussed. SBSD Helpdesk: I feel like we've gotten a lot of good feedback, but I don't know if we've gotten a lot of… SBSD Helpdesk: diverse feedback,

018or, like, feedback from, like, the broader community, so I am a little worried about that. SBSD Helpdesk: And then… SBSD Helpdesk: I probably should have said this during the week announcements, but it's the end of the legislative session, and so conclude. SBSD Helpdesk: things just passed. And so we are going to have to look at merging and consolidation and things like that, and I think that should really be… SBSD Helpdesk: thought in our mind as we're doing ends policies and strategic planning and things like that, and I don't know, so… SBSD Helpdesk: Those are just some concerns of mine. SBSD Helpdesk: Any other words, comment? SBSD Helpdesk: to follow up on, what Alyssa said, there's now a schedule that we have to follow, where we have to, SBSD Helpdesk: we have to have discussions with…

019I think it's Winooski and Burlington. Yes. So, we have to, over the next year. SBSD Helpdesk: our board has to have serious good faith discussions with Winooski and Burlington about merging. And those discussions basically start in September, October, and stuff like that. And so it actually dovetails if we can get SBSD Helpdesk: if we can finalize this process and update any ends that we want to say are important to South Burlington, then we would be going into the, SBSD Helpdesk: Merger discussions with SBSD Helpdesk: a document that we had just ratified, rather than a document that's 10 years old. So I think in some ways, it adds to the urgency of, SBSD Helpdesk: talking about this, and I think something on the agenda for tonight is, digital ads now, you know, but… SBSD Helpdesk: it's

020like a lever to get more diverse representation sooner, so I… I definitely agree that there is a concern there. We've discussed with others. I think essence is also a lever. SBSD Helpdesk: We're not limited. We can merge with anybody, I think. It's just that we must talk to a deal. I'm calling it that now, so now I've forgotten what the word is. SBSD Helpdesk: But there will be a CESA board, and a DM Eastern. SBSD Helpdesk: Well, right, so we can talk to more people if we want to, but there's certain people we have to. But there's a step that happens before that, too. There will be a CISA board in each of those defined regions in the legislation, and we do have to nominate within 30 days of the governor's signature, assuming that's going

021to happen. SBSD Helpdesk: a member of South Burlington School District. It doesn't have to be a board member, it could be the superintendent, it could be a board member, it could be some other designee, but we have to put somebody on that board. SBSD Helpdesk: And that board is going to be responsible for that, that larger CESAP. And I'm sorry, I'm not remembering what those are. People are probably looking up. Cooperative Edge. The merger study… SBSD Helpdesk: is a different thing, and that begins… we need to identify somebody to participate in that by September 1st, I believe? SBSD Helpdesk: And the first meeting will be scheduled… that will be organized and kicked off in October. Right. So I agree, I think the ENS policy update SBSD Helpdesk: actually supports that effort, as opposed to who

022uses it. It does… SBSD Helpdesk: whatever you just said, kick into high gear or something. I, like, I think that it, like… We have to get that representation. That's what I think that it really, like… Yep, we gotta get it done. And I did join the meeting this morning, and that was kind of the center of the conversation, is how to do that. And so, I think that was similar to the conversation we had. SBSD Helpdesk: Last week, when Seamus and I weren't available. So, yeah, so we did a little bit of follow-up on that. We're using a kind of, what we call snowball approach. We talk to one person, get ideas about who else to talk to, and just try to keep that branching out. SBSD Helpdesk: So, yeah. And the process is not

023done, right? This is not… this is not something that ends next week, or even in two weeks from now, because there will be that period of comment on actual language, which I honestly think… SBSD Helpdesk: that's going to garner a lot more feedback. Right. Just because it's… that's typical for policy discussions is, what do you want to see? SBSD Helpdesk: I don't really know. It's hard to talk about something that isn't really… what do you think you're going to put out, right? So when we put that language out, I think that gives people a really concrete thing to react to and tell us, no, that's not at all what we're saying or what we want, or maybe just tweak this, or, you know… SBSD Helpdesk: I think the discussion will change, and it'll be a

024little more focused. Yeah, and just to clarify what, we were just talking about, is that in addition to having these community forums, we also have hired a SBSD Helpdesk: A consultant who is doing focus groups, and we've already had, what, 3 focus groups? SBSD Helpdesk: we've already had 3 focus groups, and we're trying to use those focus groups to find other people to focus group. And there's… and there, you know, whereas in a forum like this, we're asking people to come to us. In the case of the focus groups, we are going to them, and SBSD Helpdesk: And we are very intentionally designing it to maximize representation. And it has some diversity, but we are missing groups that we want to target. SBSD Helpdesk: Absolutely, so we're looking at ways to… continue to work. SBSD

025Helpdesk: So… this being a community forum, is there anybody… SBSD Helpdesk: online, or anybody in the audience who wants to comment. SBSD Helpdesk: I don't know if you decreed it, but… SBSD Helpdesk: Shouldn't be anywhere from $80,000. SBSD Helpdesk: That's, Keith gave a few words. SBSD Helpdesk: Should we just read that? Yeah, because people can't see that. Yeah. Okay, yeah, so Keith… SBSD Helpdesk: I have it open. Keith wrote, thoughts on what is important to me. Produce thoughtful, kind, career, college-ready humans, which require real skills, i.e. critical thinking and soft skills. SBSD Helpdesk: Career skills speak the basic skills center of the real world, like showing up on time and managing stress and anxiety effectively to persevere and contribute to society. SBSD Helpdesk: Sounds a lot like what we heard in our last meeting. SBSD

026Helpdesk: About growing beyond just the academics, but… SBSD Helpdesk: Yeah. Thank you, Keith. Keith, would you like to say anything live? SBSD Helpdesk: If you want to say something live, all you have to do is raise your hand. SBSD Helpdesk: on the, SBSD Helpdesk: I'll give you a couple seconds to figure that out, and otherwise, we'll just keep… we'll maybe analyze your comment a little bit. SBSD Helpdesk: Okay, well, if you do… if anybody does want to comment, they should just raise their hand. So, I think a very interesting thing in what Keith raises is, SBSD Helpdesk: this idea of soft skills, and I think this is something that the board is going to have, is going to have to deal with over the summer as we think about if and how we want to

027change the ENS policy, because the ENS policy right now contains a lot of SBSD Helpdesk: what I would call, kind of, soft language. SBSD Helpdesk: you know, like, perseverance. You know, like, we want perseverance. Well, how do you measure, you know? And my personal belief is that SBSD Helpdesk: if you… if we were to really cut down on what was in that document to really just the hard things, I think that if you put that in the hands of a competent teacher, they're gonna teach the soft skills. SBSD Helpdesk: And so I think that, for what it's worth, I think that the board is going to have to grapple with this question of, like, to what extent do we want to list out soft skills? SBSD Helpdesk: Versus having a simple, short, document. So, something

028that that brings to mind for me. SBSD Helpdesk: I agree, there's going to need to be a balance between generality and specificity, right? And it's hard to say that things SBSD Helpdesk: that have that more general sound to them that are hard to measure. It's not that they're not important, it's not that they don't have a place. Like, one that I always use as an example is, you know. SBSD Helpdesk: create lifelong learners. Well, of course, we want to create lifelong learners, but Is that specific enough? SBSD Helpdesk: for what we mean. You know, does it mean that… SBSD Helpdesk: It means very different things, I'm not going to go for examples, because they will sound silly, but it means different things to different people. SBSD Helpdesk: And so, to the extent that we can…

029SBSD Helpdesk: really isolate those… well, first of all, taking all of this feedback we're getting from the community, we can already see themes, and by community, I mean students. SBSD Helpdesk: Parents… SBSD Helpdesk: many other community folks in university, folks from career tech, recent graduates, you know, we've been reaching out to a lot of people, and really common themes are coming out of that, and so it's… it'll be a challenge, like, this is not going to be easy to make sure that these SBSD Helpdesk: the words that we use reflect the intention of the community in ways that they can see their influence in there, and that also work with building an instructional system around that, and hitting whatever those ultimate goals are, right? So it's… SBSD Helpdesk: I don't believe it's going to be

030easy to do this, and I think it will take some iteration on that language. SBSD Helpdesk: I also think that a way of respecting the wishes of the community, again, if you think of the N's policy as a constitution, is you look at the U.S. Constitution, which is short and sweet. SBSD Helpdesk: And then you look at constitutions that have been built later, you know, like Constitution of India, Constitution of Chile, like the EU, whatever the EU has, and they're just these, like, 300,000-page SBSD Helpdesk: every possible interest group is represented, the language is very Florida, and so you could never teach a child what is in the Constitution, or even much less, like, a Bill of Rights. It's only one page long, you know? So, SBSD Helpdesk: I think that one way to honor

031what people have said is to really SBSD Helpdesk: try to put it into as plain language as possible. And so, again, to go to what Keith said, unfortunately, the Q&A disappeared, but it was about, like, homework, like, showing up on time. And so, like, I'm gonna put it out there that I don't think it would be crazy for us to have something in our SBSD Helpdesk: in our ENS policy, like, kids will do homework, and kids will show up to class on time, you know? And it's like, that's directly measurable, and it is a hell of a life skill, you know? So… and it's easy to understand. You know, we're not talking about SBSD Helpdesk: accountability and promptitude. We're talking about show up to class and do your homework, you know, if you have to

032work. SBSD Helpdesk: At the same time, I would argue. Okay, so this is how it is going to be hard to write, because I would say that's too specific. I would prefer the word accountability, and then it's up to the professionals to determine how that happens. I personally have never been a fan of this no homework thing. I think it's done… SBSD Helpdesk: Some harm, in that students, you know, that is the mechanism through which they become accountable and manage their schedules. SBSD Helpdesk: But I don't think that matters, right? Like, I wouldn't want to put that in an ENS policy. But now we're getting, I think, into the weeds. I think the goal is to… Oh, awesome. SBSD Helpdesk: Keith, please. Keith: Hello. SBSD Helpdesk: Can you hear us? Keith: Yeah, can you hear

033me? SBSD Helpdesk: Oh, you're very quiet. One second, we'll raise the volume. Keith: Maybe… maybe this'll be better. SBSD Helpdesk: Oh, now there we go. Keith: Okay. I guess in response to the last comment about being specific or not, I think the… Keith: The challenge of, saying to hold people accountable, and leaving it up to the educators is… Keith: That it doesn't feel or come off as, like, an official Keith: maybe policy? And they, like, they end up getting stuck in between being pressured to move kids forward and to graduate. Keith: and then hold them accountable. SBSD Helpdesk: Yeah, that line is going to be hard to walk. Well, I mean, and I will just, again, like. SBSD Helpdesk: In discussions with fellow community members, I don't… I have not met a single person SBSD

034Helpdesk: likes the fact that we don't have homework. So I feel empowered as, like, an elected representative to say, hey, yes, we are going to require homework, because that is the sense of it. There's some common sense community things that might override SBSD Helpdesk: the, you know, advanced ed theories on one side of the house, you know what I mean? So, like, I think that, like, if we hear things consistently, like… and we also heard it from the kids themselves, this is not about homework, this is about the… SBSD Helpdesk: you know, life skills. You know, a lot of the kids said, I want to learn, like, real life things. And I think that, SBSD Helpdesk: that… It'll be challenging to turn that into an example, but, like, showing up on time for class. SBSD

035Helpdesk: is, like, a very concrete… nobody that I know, again, all the people that I know in the community. SBSD Helpdesk: the thought that, like, kids wouldn't be held accountable for not turning their homework in on time, or not showing up for class, drives them crazy. And so it's like, there could be concrete things that I think we should feel empowered to add. SBSD Helpdesk: That's a question. Always. This might be a silly question, but… There are no silly… this is actually good. SBSD Helpdesk: For our new representatives, you can always ask a question, and there are no similar questions. SBSD Helpdesk: like, the way I feel like we've talked about the ends in the past, we've talked about them as being, like, goals for what we do, and then the, like, policies under that

036are, like, what helps to achieve that. So, my question more is, like, I feel like homework, or saying, like, we require homework, is almost the policy under what does homework, like, do for students. Like, in the ends, it would be, like. SBSD Helpdesk: I don't know, time management or whatever, is the ends, and then the policy within that, that, like, Dr. Clark and others try to create would be the homework helps towards that goal. Do you know what I mean? That… that was the point I was trying to make, but you made it much better. Yeah, so there you go. SBSD Helpdesk: It's a very sophisticated point, that in policy governance, technically. SBSD Helpdesk: policy governance would have us ensure that everything in our ENS policy fits 3 goals. It's like, it has to say

037who it helps, why it helps them, and… SBSD Helpdesk: It's like, there's three… what you're saying? Yeah, there's, like, three qualities that every end is supposed to have, and I think that we're going to be in tension with that, because again, some of that leads to language that nobody can interpret. SBSD Helpdesk: And we might have to… SBSD Helpdesk: It's gonna be hard. So anyway, those are my thoughts for… based on what Keith said. I don't know if other board members have any other thoughts. I was excited to hear what the new board members might have. I know they might not know really what we're talking about, but I thought maybe if we… James, if you could remember, or if we could give the, sort of, the prompt that the other students who were here

038a couple weeks ago SBSD Helpdesk: Had, and then… Basically, what… what have you… SBSD Helpdesk: What do you want to get out of your education? What's going to help you be successful? When you leave the school, what do you hope you have… SBSD Helpdesk: learned and gained through your experience here. SBSD Helpdesk: And you don't have to answer at this moment. Yeah. Just think about it. SBSD Helpdesk: And it's another thing, the Q&A. SBSD Helpdesk: Well, great. SBSD Helpdesk: Right, Diane. Diane is saying, requiring homework is too specific. Some learning may be demonstrated in other ways. The ENDS policy should be aspirational goals, and not going to the weeds of how to achieve them. SBSD Helpdesk: And I think that is certainly a perspective. SBSD Helpdesk: that the ends have to be very much separated

039from concrete examples, but the more time I've spent with this, I don't necessarily agree with that. SBSD Helpdesk: I wonder if there's another place for the aspirational language. So what I've been thinking about is we also have, I think, that overall… I think we have a mission statement, I think, that's on the top of our agenda. SBSD Helpdesk: there's… SBSD Helpdesk: an opportunity in that kind of statement for… for aspirations, right? And the ENS pulses can still point to those things, but to task the superintendent with SBSD Helpdesk: Demonstrating that we've created lifelong learners is… SBSD Helpdesk: Is so far removed from what is… SBSD Helpdesk: that can be demonstrated to the community, in any practice? Well, if there's stuff in here, like, superintendent, demonstrate that, students can SBSD Helpdesk: Use mixed media as appropriate.

040SBSD Helpdesk: That's an example of a current N that we have. SBSD Helpdesk: It's an N that we have? That's an N. It's using mixed media appropriately. Yeah, so there's already really specific language in there that… But, right, but it's so random, I mean, it's just like… The issue that I guess I'm having is… SBSD Helpdesk: Like, the egg that we… SBSD Helpdesk: monitored at one point recently. It was, like, resilience, and… Was this position for learning now? Living responsibly, living responsibly with confidence, resilience, and adaptability. Resilience, and adaptability. And, like, and I think someone was like, I like those words, and it's like. SBSD Helpdesk: Those are, like, what we're hearing from the community, right? It's just, like, kind of needs… SBSD Helpdesk: To be more actionable and more measurable, which is… SBSD Helpdesk:

041what we've also heard. But, like. SBSD Helpdesk: Adaptability, resilience, like, like, that has to do with, like, what Keith just said about learning how to manage stress and anxiety effectively. Like, that is adaptability, so it's just… SBSD Helpdesk: I don't know, I don't think that we have to, like, redo the entire ends, but I do think that the wording and the way we measured already. SBSD Helpdesk: I don't bees and toxic. SBSD Helpdesk: updated. Yeah, and one test we can apply to it is, like, what is the reading level of this document? Like, I bet if we put this into an analyzer right now, this is probably 13th grade. SBSD Helpdesk: You know, and it should be, I would expect, something more like 8th grade language. SBSD Helpdesk: when I started working here, I was

042like, what does this say? Like, I… like, these words are not, yeah, so… Yeah, I think a lot of these discussions will also come through the strategic planning process, because if it is something that's a little more global, like resiliency or accountability. SBSD Helpdesk: Then when we're setting our goals that would meet these, then that's where you get specific about SBSD Helpdesk: How are we going to make sure that kids acquire these skills or these traits before they SBSD Helpdesk: graduate, and that would be part of that discussion. So I think what you're saying is. SBSD Helpdesk: guys, it's actually okay if you leave a little wiggle room, because we'll figure it out in the strategy. Yeah, I would not get as, direct as, you will have homework, and you will have perfect attendance, and

043you will have that kind of thing. But I think, what are the skills that we want our kids… our skills and our traits. SBSD Helpdesk: For our kids to have when they are done with us. SBSD Helpdesk: And just be really specific, and not… not just throw in lots and lots of words that maybe mean the same thing, or they're repeated, or they just sound good, but let's be really, really careful about what do we actually want our… SBSD Helpdesk: our kids to be able to do. That's also what I was going to ask, is that, like, with the end policy, isn't it something that, like. SBSD Helpdesk: we listen to the community and say, okay, this is what we want, but that isn't enough to, like, the superintendent to kind of interpret that and

044care, you know? Yeah. In a way that we monitor. I know it. SBSD Helpdesk: I half-joke often that what I really want when kids leave here is to be able to move out of their parents' basement, right? I want them to be able to go and find a job where they can SBSD Helpdesk: pay their bills, Have healthcare and a retirement plan, right? SBSD Helpdesk: That's what I want them to be able to… I don't care if it's in a trade, or if they're going to college, I want them to have some sort of skills so they are not going to have to rely on the basement. I want them to go. And so, what does that mean? What kind of skills do you need to be able to do that? SBSD Helpdesk: Well, great.

045Is there any other comment? Board comment? Community comment? SBSD Helpdesk: Just a question. Please, could you come up here? Thank you. SBSD Helpdesk: It's up to you. I'm Kristen Kelkini. First off, where do you even find the ENS policy? SBSD Helpdesk: It's on the… so it's linked to from the… school board, website. SBSD Helpdesk: It's under Policy Governance. Google Policy Governance, it'll bring you to… for South Burlington, it'll bring you to that PDF that is the list of policies under governance. Okay. So, yeah, it's not searchable really well on the site. So I guess that's… SBSD Helpdesk: just something to think about. Like, how to… if we're being asked to kind of weigh in, it is helpful to have a working document of what I'm weighing in on. SBSD Helpdesk: than what I think… Oh,

046it is linked on the, on the site. Right, it's harder. Yeah, it should be easier if I… to find it, and we're asked if we can provide… SBSD Helpdesk: feedback on something that's difficult to track down, I guess, like, that's just one piece about accessibility and looking for a more, like, a diverse perspective. SBSD Helpdesk: There's… that's one piece. The second is… how often is the ends… SBSD Helpdesk: How often are they really, SBSD Helpdesk: I don't know, like, observed or checked in on, like, I guess from the superintendent's perspective. Monitor, thank you. Like, is this a yearly process? Yeah, annually. Annually, we monitor reports on every… we've got two of them tonight. But how do you monitor if they're being met or not? SBSD Helpdesk: Like, if the goal is perseverance, how are we

047monitoring? How do we do that? Like, how is that currently happening? SBSD Helpdesk: It's… so the… there's actually a really specified process for that. So we have… we have the policies, and there are 1.0, 1.1, 2, 3, and 4 that are what we call those ends policies, and the ends are the big ones that we talk about that are the… set the big goals that we're trying to hit for student outcomes. SBSD Helpdesk: Then, the monitoring reports are the superintendent's responsibility, or delegated to staff as appropriate, to talk about how we are meeting those outcomes. The key piece of that, though, is that the superintendent SBSD Helpdesk: inserts the interpretation of that policy that's being acted on. So, here's the policy, then the superintendent says, this is how I understand this policy, this is how

048I intend to… this is how we will know when we have achieved the goals that are in this particular… And so concretely tonight… And so that's how they're written right now. Concretely tonight, this is the one we're looking at, it's about… it's about citizenship. SBSD Helpdesk: Students will understand the impact of history, government, and law. SBSD Helpdesk: And then we've got the superintendent's interpretation, like Michelle was saying, and then we go through and have a… SBSD Helpdesk: Point-by-point evaluation of, you know. SBSD Helpdesk: to what extent are social responsibility and civic action being taught, you know? So that's the way that they're monitored. SBSD Helpdesk: And then we respond to them and rate them with these scorecards that Shelby come up with. Are they collecting data on that somehow? Yes. SBSD Helpdesk: But it is

049new, like, we don't have a historical way to go back, because this wasn't… SBSD Helpdesk: There is a historical way to do it. You go back and you listen to the recordings of school board meetings, and you can make a spreadsheet. We're trying to be a little more intentional about that, and actually, whenever we make a score, we put it on the website. SBSD Helpdesk: it's hard. And they were also just compliant, not compliant, which had a kind of, you better, you know, people felt they better be compliant, as opposed to what we've got going now, which is… SBSD Helpdesk: a more formative approach, where there's… there's room for growth. There's room for honesty, and there's room for growth. It's not punitive. It's about… SBSD Helpdesk: setting those targets and getting better over time. So

050trends are a big part of what, as a board, we've decided we want to suit. SBSD Helpdesk: Yeah, and I think when I'm thinking about ends, right, there are so many different ways to look at it. One of the pieces that I have talked to McCarter about, and others, is really around this conversation around river, which I'm sure you've heard a lot of when you've been asking for feedback. SBSD Helpdesk: And I think, like, we really have shifted, in my opinion, to trying to just… SBSD Helpdesk: Go from this equity-based… SBSD Helpdesk: Sensible, just take things away to make it equitable, rather than thinking about how we're going to challenge kids. SBSD Helpdesk: And that's a, like, significant concern to me. I have an 8th grader who'll be a freshman next year. She went to,

051a math 2 class, and she walked away from it saying, like, I can do all this. SBSD Helpdesk: She is not alone. SBSD Helpdesk: there are many kids who can be pushed. There are kids who we're not targeting who can be pushed. Like, I think this is of a big concern, so… SBSD Helpdesk: I want to hear that. I mean, I've got… I've now… I have 3 friends… SBSD Helpdesk: And obviously, I've got 3 friends who have pulled their kids out of our district. SBSD Helpdesk: Because of concerns like the math in the middle school, and that is extremely… that's a… SBSD Helpdesk: extremely concerning side. Yeah, and I think the data is not great. SBSD Helpdesk: We're getting that as feedback from a lot of different directions, that those expectations aren't set as high

052as many would like to see them, and it was my experience as a parent as well. SBSD Helpdesk: just not on… in my one case, or my two cases, right? Yeah. The encouragement to, seek that higher level. SBSD Helpdesk: It's kid-driven. Well, of course, today she was going through all of her assessments with me, and she's like, vision, provision, you know, standing, whatever, and then she goes, well, we're just going for average. That's what we go for, is just average. And then it's on her, because we encourage her to… SBSD Helpdesk: try to survive for itself, regardless of if it's achieved or not, because it's a good skill to learn. SBSD Helpdesk: And similarly, I think another case, and I'm getting specific here, but this is a chance to provide feedback, is, like. SBSD Helpdesk:

053I don't know… I was looking at the exam schedule, which I thought was really interesting that there were 3 exams scheduled. SBSD Helpdesk: for, I think it's this week, I don't know if you all can speak to that. I don't think exams are actually happening, but one thing I feel really passionate about is at some point, kids need to practice, regardless if you're going to be a plumber, or you're going to be a doctor, how to take an exam. SBSD Helpdesk: Because you need to be able to pass the exams to be able to earn a livable wage. SBSD Helpdesk: So… SBSD Helpdesk: Yeah. We need to do something different, because what we're doing is a lot. Well, and the… and again, this is just my opinion, this is not the official word of the

054school board or the school district or anything, this is just my opinion, but in the category of things that drive people crazy, this proficiency thing, and I have, you know. SBSD Helpdesk: superintendent has told me, listen, don't tell me how to grade my students, and that's fair, because he's the expert and I'm not, but… SBSD Helpdesk: proficiency grading drives people crazy, and I think that the school district needs to have an answer for that. I don't know, maybe we keep proficiency. SBSD Helpdesk: grading, but it needs to come from a place of, this is why we're doing it, and we understand the criticisms of it, like you just said, that it's just shooting for our… like, the impression of it is just shooting for our hair. So, we need to ask hard questions, and I

055think SBSD Helpdesk: I think our superintendent's up to giving us the hard answers, but it's… it should all be up for her. Yeah, I think, like, in an equity lens, right, like. SBSD Helpdesk: what, because she has parents who are saying, you gotta try. Like, there are kids who don't, but they're just as capable as she is. Like, I don't… I don't know, I don't think that that's really… to me, that's not looking that instrument in that face, so… SBSD Helpdesk: Anyhow, this is just my perspective, so when I'm thinking about what we want, I think it's more rigor. I also would like more accountability from decisions made at the principal level. Like, when we're making curriculum decisions that are just being sent in an email to the curriculum instructor or director without any input,

056that's a problem to me. SBSD Helpdesk: So, I don't know where that belongs, but I think there has to be some sense of, like, how are these curriculum decisions being made, or how are principals able to just make SBSD Helpdesk: Fraud-based decisions, and it's like… Where's the feedback? SBSD Helpdesk: So… Yeah, I don't know where that goes, but I think it needs to go someplace. SBSD Helpdesk: Thank you for your input. SBSD Helpdesk: I have another comment on mine. SBSD Helpdesk: So, I'm reading another comment from Diane. I have 3 now-adult children who graduated from South Burlington High School. If someone had said they would know how to complete homework and attend class when they graduated, and that was the end, I would have been very concerned. SBSD Helpdesk: What are the larger goals and

057generalizable skills they could take with them beyond high school, whatever path they choose to take? SBSD Helpdesk: So I read that as, again, advocating for making sure that the ENDS policy is SBSD Helpdesk: High level enough, you know? SBSD Helpdesk: Yeah, which I… I certainly respect that opinion. Yeah, it seems like there's a whole bunch of, you know, high-level and also aspirational with, you know, rigor and… and then also understandable and measurable. So it's a… it's quite a… SBSD Helpdesk: It'll be a more tangible conversation when we have, like, put our heads together and put things, you know, put things down on paper. SBSD Helpdesk: I think it'll start to become really obvious where… And it's all good things, but yeah, it's, like, hard to… And I think they're all equally important. Exactly. That's the

058thing, I see. Yes, yes, yes, yes, but then actually bringing that all together is gonna… is a challenge, but that's why we're talking about it, right? So… SBSD Helpdesk: Is there any other board comment on this? Any other… or should we move on to the next agenda item? SBSD Helpdesk: I'm happy to move on. Good deal. Alright, so the next item in the agenda is a discussion item of policy, SBSD Helpdesk: F5 Wellness. This is a second reading, and so we do have the wellness experts in the room with us if there's any, SBSD Helpdesk: Questions from the board. SBSD Helpdesk: So, this again is the wellness policy. SBSD Helpdesk: my understanding, Joe, this has been developed just to update to the latest SBSD Helpdesk: Would you… would you give us the 30-second version of

059the why? SBSD Helpdesk: We spoke about at the last one, but just for anyone who wasn't… who wasn't attending last time, or needs a refresher, it'd be great to hear again. SBSD Helpdesk: Yeah, I can tell you, as she's walking, I can tell you we're required under law to have a wellness policy and the, SBSD Helpdesk: AOE has a model wellness policy, and that was kind of the framework for what we did. Added some things and changed some things, and really where the rubber meets the road for most of it is not actually in policy, it's in the procedures that come with the… after you, you know, adopt the policies. SBSD Helpdesk: Thanks, Dr. Clark. Yep. Sounds like you're the wellness expert, actually. Yeah, you can tell. SBSD Helpdesk: Yeah. SBSD Helpdesk: basically… SBSD Helpdesk:

060Schools are required to do a triennial assessment, but no schools were doing that because it was due during COVID. SBSD Helpdesk: all districts were kind of behind, and then the AOE started to, SBSD Helpdesk: come knocking on doors and just send out messages, let's get this done. So that's what we're doing. SBSD Helpdesk: So it's really just… Updating our policy as we are required. SBSD Helpdesk: Is there any board question on this? SBSD Helpdesk: I apologize, I can't quite remember exactly… I'm sure you highlighted last time some… some of the things that maybe were… are a little bit different this time with the refresh, but would you mind just touching on that a little bit? SBSD Helpdesk: Sure. Do you want to speak to, like, the… SBSD Helpdesk: model policy changes, and I can talk

061about the other… Yeah, and so there have been different requirements. So, you know, originally, wellness policy was designed, for all schools that have, that participate in the National School Breakfast and Lunch Program. SBSD Helpdesk: And, their requirements were much more minimal. They were just, like, physical activity and nutrition was kind of where they wanted to go. SBSD Helpdesk: Then they expanded that and added more pieces, and then Vermont has added a piece that's not required nationally, which is the stuff about health education. So that's not in the national requirements, but it is in ours. And that's why it looks weird why it says nutrition education, it has a section by itself, and then a health education, because nutrition education is part of health ed, but it's the only one required by the federal law, and

062they need to see it. SBSD Helpdesk: Separated out like that, whereas we don't separate anything else out like that. SBSD Helpdesk: But yes, that's essentially it, and every 3 years, there has to be a trannual assessment, there needs to be an annual review, and you're essentially looking at 3 things. You're looking at, what does our policy say in writing? SBSD Helpdesk: And does it, like, meet all of the requirements of wellness policy in writing? And you're also looking at, like, is it actually what we're doing? Like, are we able to fulfill this policy? And then the third thing is. SBSD Helpdesk: are there best practices that we could be considering, or what are some things maybe that we're already doing that aren't in here that would make it stronger? What are some things maybe we're

063not doing that we're seeing as gaps that we could make improvements on? So that's essentially the goal of the triangle assessment. SBSD Helpdesk: And then some other things that vary a little are… is, if you look at the other school-based section of the policy. SBSD Helpdesk: Yeah, so everyone is required to put something in the other school-based activities to promote wellness section. That's not something that the SBA, like, writes out for folks. However, there is a wellness policy guide that they put out, so you have… we had that as a reference for some of the ones that are in there, and others were based on, SBSD Helpdesk: challenges that we were noting that were happening in our community, for example, and that the district wanted to address, and so those, those pieces got put into

064other school-based activities to promote wellness. SBSD Helpdesk: Some of it is also work that we're already doing, and we wanted to highlight. SBSD Helpdesk: Jean Marie and her team did a lot of work. SBSD Helpdesk: With environmental health this year, and over, actually, the past year, so we wanted to include that as well. So a lot of it is highlighting things that the district is already doing to support wellness. SBSD Helpdesk: And then when the policy is reviewed, it's a stronger policy. So, you know, when you do the rubric to rate your policy at rates higher. SBSD Helpdesk: It's always nice. SBSD Helpdesk: Is there any other board comment or question on this reading? SBSD Helpdesk: All right, well, thank you very much. I'm sorry to keep you late. SBSD Helpdesk: And we'll have a

065third reading of this soon, which will be our action on it. SBSD Helpdesk: Great. Thank you. So the next item on the agenda is, Policy F20, which is student use of cell phones. SBSD Helpdesk: This is required under law, and you are required as a school district to adopt the state model or something stricter. It cannot be any less strict, so we are adopting the state model, and that will give us some flexibility operationally to determine SBSD Helpdesk: like, where kids are allowed to, say, store their cell phones during the day and whatnot. So, my recommendation is we just adopt a state model, and don't go further than that. So, to clarify. SBSD Helpdesk: You're not allowed to use a cell phone unless… SBSD Helpdesk: It's required as part of your individual healthcare plan, individual

066education plan, IEP, or 504. SBSD Helpdesk: or… You have been granted specific permission by an administrator. SBSD Helpdesk: for the most limited use reasonably possible, or you require a cell phone for compliance with McKinney-Vento homeless assistance. So, but except in those three exceptions. SBSD Helpdesk: Bell to bell, that's what they call it. Yep. You're not allowed to have a cell phone. You're not allowed to have a cell phone. SBSD Helpdesk: Right. SBSD Helpdesk: And, just to be clear, are you… you're allowed to have it in your backpack out of sight? So that's where we have some flexibility with what our procedures are, right? So yes, what we do is we allow kids… we don't take the cell phone from the kids, we don't buy the bags that they store them in, we don't not let

067them bring them. They are allowed to have them. They keep them on them, or they keep them in their, bags, or a locker, or whatnot, but we are not… SBSD Helpdesk: And nor do we want to get into the practice of storing them full kits. SBSD Helpdesk: Okay. So, like, right now, we don't have phones, in the school, and the practice that's done, the teachers are told that they should also try not to use their phone, get to model the same thing for us. SBSD Helpdesk: So, what I understand, this new policy is that it's phone and other non-school electric devices, so, like, MacBooks, AirPods, whatever else. Would that also apply to teachers, or the student there? SBSD Helpdesk: My belief is we should be modeling what we're expecting from students, yeah. SBSD Helpdesk: really

068interesting that, under this policy, you would be allowed to have earphones if they plugged in, but you can't have wire into your phone, because this is for wireless devices, so it doesn't always make sense. Plug them into your pocket? Yeah, I guess so. I don't mean, like, the phone in your pocket, I mean, like, the actual… Yeah, so, yes, is the answer to that. SBSD Helpdesk: Yep. Any other board comment on this second reading of Policy F18? SBSD Helpdesk: Great. Then we will move on. So, the first… okay, so there's… A few things here. SBSD Helpdesk: I think maybe what we should do, if the board's amenable, is to actually move the question about the school board vacancy, to be before the monitoring reports. So let's just try to get through the next SBSD Helpdesk:

069three items, plus the school board vacancy quickly, and then the… and then do monitoring. Is the board amenable to making that slight change? SBSD Helpdesk: Yes? Yes, yes, okay, great. So, first we'll do continuous improvement plans. SBSD Helpdesk: My understanding about these is that this is a federal requirement for us to get money, is that the board has to review continuous improvement plans that the district presents to us, every year. So, SBSD Helpdesk: Is there any… for Superintendent, do you want to make any presentation around that? Yeah, I have a short presentation. Well, I could have a really, really long presentation if you wanted, but I'm going to try and keep it short if you prefer. SBSD Helpdesk: Okay, so what you're looking at now is the… this is a draft. This is not the

070document that we submit. You do have access to all of the documents that we submit, but this is the shortened diversion, just for a brief discussion. We… yes, we are required to provide, create a continuous improvement plan, in order to… and this is where we spend our Title I dollars. SBSD Helpdesk: So this is a federal requirement that we have this plan. We are required with this plan to involve, school community members, not districts. So each school has their own CIP, and they involve their own stakeholders to come up with a plan. SBSD Helpdesk: Each plan is basically the same. They all have a math goal, they all have a reading goal, and they all have a culture goal based on the data that the teams at each school analyzed. SBSD Helpdesk: Schools are given

071money based on, SBSD Helpdesk: how many students they have, and poverty rate of students that they have. So that's how the money is divvied. So each school gets this pot based on this formula, and then they decide, this is how we're going to spend it to meet these goals. So as you scroll through this. SBSD Helpdesk: You'll see what each school… what their goals are, which are all pretty similar, and how they're going to spend their money, their title money, to make this thing happen. We had been… so, SBSD Helpdesk: there'd been a lot of talk locally about, this has to be approved by June 30th, has to be approved by June 30th. We found… we found that that's not true. These have to be approved by September, 30th, so you have time on this,

072but, SBSD Helpdesk: But we have to start planning to spend the money before that. And also, if the board were to, reject these plans, the board has no authority to change them, because it has to be the local school that changes them. So, it's really, I think. SBSD Helpdesk: I'm going to be a little bit cynical here, maybe because it's 8 o'clock already, and I have a little headache, but it's a little bit of, of bureaucracy at its best, that make these plans, have the board approved the meeting with the Board has no authority, and then, SBSD Helpdesk: And we'll give you your money so you can come do these things. SBSD Helpdesk: I'm sorry, that's too simple. No, I'm sorry, thank God. SBSD Helpdesk: democracy dies in darkness. Yeah, it's… they fall under federal

073accountability and the state's implementation of federal accountability. The board has no authority here, but somehow state law says we have to approve it. You have to approve it. So, well, you provided the documents in the board packet. I think that that checks… SBSD Helpdesk: Yeah, that you have produced the documents in the first place. SBSD Helpdesk: You have written, you know, you have a spreadsheet that says, by spring of 2027, 65%, etc, etc. So, like, it does prove that you've done. So I'm not going to say it's… you're not… you're in good faith. Awesome. I am in good faith. And I would also say that that's not… I don't want to belittle these goals. I think it's very important that we work on math, and that we work on literacy, and we work on these

074belongings. SBSD Helpdesk: That… that falls under RN's policy, and it falls under just good education. So, they're good plans, but it's one of the… we're going to do this, whether we had to do a CIP or not, we were still going to do that. SBSD Helpdesk: So this is how we get our title verified. SBSD Helpdesk: Is there any board question about the continuous improvement plans that were prevent… provided in the board materials? SBSD Helpdesk: Just one. Should ATSI be, you know, TSI or ATSI be checked for the district level? Because ATSI? Because of designation? SBSD Helpdesk: In the CIB plan? SBSD Helpdesk: Yeah, there's a space at the top. I will… I'll tell you this. SBSD Helpdesk: There's a space at the top that says, Title I, CSI, or TSI, ATSI, and we were

075identified. We were, but that's on hold because Vermont had the reporting problem that they're still coming up with their… Oh, I thought they… I thought they made their final designation. I don't believe that they have. SBSD Helpdesk: I might be wrong, Michelle. I thought that they were still working on the report that they were going to submit to the feds about how they were going to adopt this, and I know that moving forward, we're not going to have that designation going into next year. There was an update in the update, where I thought it had come, here was the prior, here is the new calculation, and yes, we're still identified. SBSD Helpdesk: So, Cheers. I will ask that question of Nicole, who's at… her son's graduating, so she's out today. I will make sure I

076ask that question of her, and she will check that box if it needs to be checked. SBSD Helpdesk: Bye. SBSD Helpdesk: It's… it's a federal designated… well, it's… SBSD Helpdesk: it's implemented by the state, but it falls under Title I, which is the accountability… the federal accountability for SBSD Helpdesk: For schools. It's where the testing is mandated, all of that. So, where, SBSD Helpdesk: achievement gaps, if you will. There are lots of words we can use for that. They… I hate to actually call it… they do a calculation about, almost like the four-fifths rule, where when the differences between student groups and outcomes are so large and persistent. SBSD Helpdesk: There's actually extra money attached to that to remedy the… SBSD Helpdesk: the, the issue, right? And South Burlington was identified for either TSI or

077ATSI, for student groups. And I can tell you, I do know that Chamberlain, gets most of our title funding, at least the smallest element. SBSD Helpdesk: Yeah, and Vermont calls it equity 1, 2, and 3, instead of GSI and ATSI, but the SIP… SBSD Helpdesk: I will make sure I ask that question on the call, because she's… SBSD Helpdesk: she is the guru of this, and I said, I will present it for you happily. Yeah, no, I think they look great. They're really… it's just… SBSD Helpdesk: you know, one of those weird, obscure things that I know about, so I noticed that it wasn't SBSD Helpdesk: So I would entertain a motion to approve the continuous action plans for all schools in the district, and for all schools in the district and the district itself.

078SBSD Helpdesk: So… Michelle moves. SBSD Helpdesk: A list of seconds, is there any discussion? There's a public, comment section now, because we're talking about an action item. SBSD Helpdesk: All right, all those in favor? Aye. Aye? Okay, the motion passes. SBSD Helpdesk: The next item in the agenda is to authorize the superintendent to accept all state and federal grants for fiscal year 2027. SBSD Helpdesk: Do you want to provide any background? Yeah, this is just another one of these things that the board needs to approve so that we can get our title funding and other grants, and SBSD Helpdesk: Is there any, board comment or question about the authorization? SBSD Helpdesk: I would entertain a motion to authorize the superintendent to accept all state and federal grants for fiscal year 2027. SBSD Helpdesk: Emily moves?

079Second. Michelle seconds. Is there any discussion? This is a public comment section, because we're taking action. SBSD Helpdesk: All those in favor? Aye. Aye. To remind our new folks that you are voting. Yes, you're allowed to vote. They're allowed to have stain. So, yes, the motion passes. And please do remind me also of SBSD Helpdesk: Okay, the next item on the agenda, I would… SBSD Helpdesk: Proposed that we deal with is the, SBSD Helpdesk: digital ads budget for the ENS policy. So, in a previous meeting, the idea for budget for radio ads came up and was rejected. The ENS committee is coming back to the board with another request for funds, but this time more tilted towards digital ads. That was the advice that we got. SBSD Helpdesk: from Daisy. Also, some of the board

080members who have experience with this felt that that was a more effective way, and the purpose of asking for money for digital ads is, again, to increase the representation and thus increase the confidence we have SBSD Helpdesk: In the, edits that we're gonna make. SBSD Helpdesk: around our ENS policy, and also to inform the community that we are editing it so that they don't feel like we're, you know, doing something behind their back. SBSD Helpdesk: Wasn't there a question about being able to allocate funds for this brief? SBSD Helpdesk: I think that's… there's an operational question of how the funds will be allocated, but that's not… that's either above or below our pay grade, depending on how you think about it. I just meant, like, is it possible to even say, like, give money to

081any… I think that if we voted ourselves money for this, and the superintendent said it was impossible. SBSD Helpdesk: then it would be impossible. Yeah, you could… we… they're actually starting to take, SBSD Helpdesk: purchases for starting July 1. Yeah, so you can spend it after July 1, and we've got the one after. Okay. SBSD Helpdesk: So, I think the, proposal that I would make is that we spend $5,000, on digital ads. SBSD Helpdesk: When we got, some initial bids for the digital ads as part of the radio ads, SBSD Helpdesk: There was kind of a combined cost of… SBSD Helpdesk: something around that, and so we're just, I think, taking out the aspect of radio ads, which was the objectionable part, as I understood it in the last proposal. SBSD Helpdesk: And this is

082to try to get people to participate in the ends, SBSD Helpdesk: policy. Focus groups, community forums, and just generally know that, like, the school board is actively SBSD Helpdesk: Seeking the community's consent in the policy that we're making. SBSD Helpdesk: So I haven't moved that, so… I don't know what that $500 looks like. SBSD Helpdesk: What do you mean? Like… SBSD Helpdesk: 30-second entry bag, or, like, SBSD Helpdesk: No, I… I think that the ends committee would then… it would be our job to SBSD Helpdesk: properly spend that money, up to that amount, just approving them the amount. Yep. SBSD Helpdesk: So, well, I would entertain a motion to authorize the ENS Policy Update Committee to spend $5,000 on digital ads to increase community representation and awareness. SBSD Helpdesk: of the process. SBSD Helpdesk: You

083guys don't have to take that, but that's my thoughts. SBSD Helpdesk: Michelle moves. SBSD Helpdesk: I'll second. Emily seconds. Is there any discussion? And this is an action item, so it's a public comment. SBSD Helpdesk: Therapy. SBSD Helpdesk: Wondering, is… Vermont, is this $5,000 budgeted for, or… SBSD Helpdesk: Like, do you have… do you have… do we have this money? SBSD Helpdesk: Available. SBSD Helpdesk: Yes, it's the… I mean, I can't speak for you. Yeah, and there's money in, like, a PR line and those kinds of things that could be put in that… for that. SBSD Helpdesk: Okay, and it's for what kind of digital ads? SBSD Helpdesk: So… They are… Whatever is recommended to us. SBSD Helpdesk: What content's being developed right now, or social media, and… So… Digital ads. If you don't mind

084me asking. So, last time we did… last meeting, or at one meeting, we made a motion for radio ads, and we had that discussion. Yeah, yeah, like, why? SBSD Helpdesk: I didn't necessarily agree with that, or why that person failed. SBSD Helpdesk: And so, in my mind, and that's what I was just asking of what that $5,000 goes towards, is that… SBSD Helpdesk: you know, like, what is… what does that look like for that, I guess? It seems like the subcommittee of the policy will discuss that. My understanding is that, like. SBSD Helpdesk: different companies, like Vox Media is one of them, or, like, different companies, they have geofencing, so, like, we can put SBSD Helpdesk: ads within South Burlington for, like, if people are watching YouTube, or people are watching Poomaloo, or if people

085are listening to Spotify within South Burlington, or if they're registered maybe within South Burlington, their account, that app will pop up. SBSD Helpdesk: Are you talking about, like, Facebook stuff, Facebook ads, that kind of thing, too? We would need the advice of experts, who would be willing to, I think, give us the advice, you know, like. SBSD Helpdesk: Because… that's part of the media vibe, right? That's what, yeah, like… We're not hiring consultants, right? I've worked with, like, Vox Media before, and they, like… SBSD Helpdesk: Here's $5,000, and, like, they will give you a package of, like, what? SBSD Helpdesk: works best for what you're… Right, we will lead with that in our email. I mean, if they… if they, if they look at our school board reportings, they'll be able to figure out what

086the budget is, but that's not how we approach it. And you don't think it's something that the board could do on its own? SBSD Helpdesk: So, good question. We have spent, the three of us have spent SBSD Helpdesk: Dozens of hours inviting and trying to create the community representation that we still feel is lacking. SBSD Helpdesk: Is there a, like, a school board? SBSD Helpdesk: Instagram page, or Facebook page that's, like, just the school, like, your own? Are you allowed to do that? SBSD Helpdesk: That's not, like, you guys reaching out on different community forms, but, like, your page… I mean, I run the district's Facebook page, and it has an Instagram account. Right. I feel like there's been a lot of questions about whether or not we're allowed to have a Facebook or Instagram

087as a school board. That's just been, like, we haven't been able to SBSD Helpdesk: decided that's, like, allowed, so we haven't done it yet. And there's… and there's also the aspect of representation, is that we don't… SBSD Helpdesk: I'm sure that there are groups in our school community that have not yet been adequately represented, and we would be able to reach through those channels, but there are also people who just have nothing to do with the schools, and would have no reason to be paying attention to our own social media, that are also of interest. SBSD Helpdesk: this would help reach those people that you don't think you're reaching now. Hopefully. That's the reasoning. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. I just… I know that this board is concerned about SBSD Helpdesk: spending, you know, money responsibly. I

088just… SBSD Helpdesk: wanted a better understanding of what it is going towards, because I know $5,000 is still… SBSD Helpdesk: $5,000 for a food. SBSD Helpdesk: Thank you. Thank you. I don't, I don't mean to ask this question rudely, but are we supposed to be having conversations? SBSD Helpdesk: This wasn't a public forum, this was an action. Oh, we… we just made a motion now. SBSD Helpdesk: So, it's a public comment, and there's some question as to whether, during public comment, we want to allow board members to respond. We can discuss that. We can discuss that. SBSD Helpdesk: I was being, SBSD Helpdesk: a little bit more lax. I'm… I'm not objecting to it, I just want to point… Sure. It wasn't the comment, it was the back and forth that you were talking about.

089Okay, I was… SBSD Helpdesk: Take it back and check, because we don't let other people do that. Yeah, it's basically, like, do we treat action items as community forums, or do we treat them as public comment? Yeah, valid for… SBSD Helpdesk: So the motion is still on the table. Discussion is still open. Board… Common is welcome. SBSD Helpdesk: I guess I have a comment. I don't really know all the politician versus what to work with. SBSD Helpdesk: One thing I'm wondering about is would it be helpful to get a quote from some places before deciding to allocate the money in that way? SBSD Helpdesk: I have gotten quotes. Oh, you have? So you feel like $5,000 is enough money to do a digital campaign? Yes. That will be… Yes. …actually encompassing? Yes. Go ahead. Thank

090you for asking. SBSD Helpdesk: Oh, practition, for me. SBSD Helpdesk: It's about fairness. No, I just think it's… Yeah, no, no, that's why we're all laughing, because it's like… SBSD Helpdesk: We would rather have conversations every single time. SBSD Helpdesk: Okay, we can stop. Any, should we take the vote? All those in favor? SBSD Helpdesk: I am in one. SBSD Helpdesk: Say again, sorry? Okay, so the motion passes. Alright. Alright, and then we're going to move the school board vacancy action before the monitoring report. SBSD Helpdesk: So, in the past, what we've done about school board vacancies is that we have informed the community, we've provided a web form to let people submit their interests, and then we've interviewed people, and then we've gone into executive session to select somebody, all in the same meeting.

091SBSD Helpdesk: So… is that how the board wants to approach this? SBSD Helpdesk: I got a quick question. So, I was wondering this, because, like, we are in the process of redoing ends, and it's really important that we have a super representative board who's making these decisions, and… SBSD Helpdesk: I was wondering, is it possible for us to, like. SBSD Helpdesk: get a line item on one of the… either the August 11th primary or the general election in November of… for, like, voting in a new school board member? Or does it… It… that will happen automatically. Oh, okay. But not November. Oh, in November. Oh, okay, sorry. I mean, like, is it possible to… SBSD Helpdesk: If they're already running an election, and if we want to have someone voted in, rather than we pick,

092SBSD Helpdesk: someone to fill in. The board's required to appoint somebody within 30 days, say, or fill that, and then that position will be eventually up for election. So I guess, yeah, that would be… I like your idea. That sounds like a better idea. Yeah, to close the gap to… SBSD Helpdesk: having a populist of our… elected by the… SBSD Helpdesk: Yeah, because I, I agree, I think that has actually been… SBSD Helpdesk: Not a great thing in the past few years. SBSD Helpdesk: Because there… there's an inherent bias in that selection process. SBSD Helpdesk: Okay, so, I don't think we have to take action on this. I think, SBSD Helpdesk: But we could. So, SBSD Helpdesk: Why not just post the position like we did last year? SBSD Helpdesk: Just run it like you

093did last year. Okay, so… Post it the same way, give the same amount of time. SBSD Helpdesk: interview. Okay, so this essentially becomes a scheduling discussion, not an action item. Great. Okay, so we will… that's what we'll do, is we'll put it out on the school board website, we will put together the web form, we'll ask SBSD Helpdesk: you know, we'll put it through all the normal channels, and then at the next school board meeting, we'll have interviews, and then we'll have executive session after the meeting. Not the next school… As far as… Next week. Yeah, you're not gonna… So, not the next one, but the one after that? How was it done? SBSD Helpdesk: I'm trying to… I don't remember the time frame for the… I don't think we gave people a week. I

094think… We probably had, just accidentally, more than a week. SBSD Helpdesk: You know what I mean? We probably had two weeks, and so that was probably fine. But in this case, we only have one. You have 30 days for the vacancy, so that… did you count the vacancy when she sent the email, or tonight when you announced them? I think June 3rd, so we have to do it by the end of July, or by the end of June. SBSD Helpdesk: We don't have another… when's our next week? When's the next week? I know we have it on the 17th. 17th, not until July 8th. SBSD Helpdesk: to my… so there would have to be a special meeting here before them, just for that. SBSD Helpdesk: So, I mean, I think that… my experience is… You

095said we have less than a week till the next meeting? We have less than a week, but on the other hand, frankly, not a lot of people SBSD Helpdesk: are gonna know about it the longer that we do it, you know what I mean? The word's gonna go out, and like… SBSD Helpdesk: Maybe if we had an extra week, we would get SBSD Helpdesk: how much more. So, I would say we should just keep it simple, make it for the next meeting. SBSD Helpdesk: And just try hard in the next week to tell people, by the way, if you want to be in the school board, come to our next meeting. SBSD Helpdesk: Kit, can you add that to the digital lens? SBSD Helpdesk: No, I'm not making that motion. I don't think it's enough

096time, but… I didn't say I have more money, just… Okay. So does that mean that we need to schedule a special meeting at the end of the month to do that? Or, when did you say the next meeting is the… July 8th, which is, like, 5 days within the… count it from today. Sure, sure. Nobody is going to come after us. That is not, SBSD Helpdesk: We're not making any monumental decisions between now and July 8th. Actually, we had one meeting. So, yeah, I think we're in… we're within this, like… Right, it's unclear when we should count it. SBSD Helpdesk: Right. Oh, you mean… so we're just going for July 8th, then? July 8th? I think… I… I think that's… I… I think that's better. I think it's better to give folks more time. And

097then a special meeting could be, like, batch of the evening. Better than vacancy per day. SBSD Helpdesk: The first meeting since. SBSD Helpdesk: Sure, makes sense. Great. SBSD Helpdesk: Okay, well then that's what we'll do. Joe and I will work on. SBSD Helpdesk: giving that on the agenda and posted wherever it needs to be posted. Okay, the next item on the agenda, we have arrived at the monitoring reports. So, SBSD Helpdesk: Modern Report 1.0 ends, specifically 1.4 Citizenship. SBSD Helpdesk: Yep, stop letting me share my screen again. SBSD Helpdesk: Okay, so this is the, the format that Jen brought to us, and she would like, so I'll start with the SBSD Helpdesk: start with the ends, and then we'll go into the details. So the monitoring report for ENDS Policy 1.4, Citizenship, I just want

098to make the board just another reminder that this is the… for the first time, we are breaking out all of those subcategories in 1.0 and doing them separately, and that this is also a policy that has not been monitored since 2022. SBSD Helpdesk: So here we go. Our citizenship, and Jen, her, her, SBSD Helpdesk: slides that she wanted us to use, and just talk about what is board policy governance, and why does it exist, etc, etc, and then you can see all the different policies that we have to monitor. SBSD Helpdesk: And that we are monitoring 1.4 citizenship, tonight. SBSD Helpdesk: So… SBSD Helpdesk: when we look at the citizenship Monitoring Summary, what you're going to find is that I am recommending that we are rated approaching compliance. Our big gap is that we have

099not monitored this policy for 4 years. SBSD Helpdesk: We definitely have citizenship-related practices in place across the district. There's no doubt that we do. What we don't have yet are clear procedures, common expectations, or consistent reporting structures for documenting SBSD Helpdesk: the work that we're doing. So, as a result, we can point to many good examples, but we can't show yet systematic evidence of growth over time, equity across student groups, or consistent implementation across schools and grade levels. SBSD Helpdesk: So what I believe we need to do to improve is we need to determine the measures that will be used for each component of Policy 1.4, develop a clear timeline for data collection, review, and reporting, have principals submit the citizenship-related evidence and data to me annually, and so I can use that data to

100report it to the board. SBSD Helpdesk: In plain English, these are the key takeaways. Policy 1-4 focuses on students becoming informed, respectful, ethical, contributing citizens. SBSD Helpdesk: This is the first time that we're monitoring these separately. This has not been monitored since 2022. We absolutely have many citizenship-related practices in place. SBSD Helpdesk: And it's… here are some examples, right? We have civics instruction, we have student school board reps, we have student leadership, programs, we have service learning, restorative practices, digital citizen… SBSD Helpdesk: Digital citizenship, we've done the Screen Agers, film, we've done the Lost Boys film, Cultural Learning, Stuart, all these things, that promote civics instruction. SBSD Helpdesk: So it is happening, but we are not, we don't have really consistent measures to determine, how well we're doing, or if there's been improvement over time.

101SBSD Helpdesk: So… Stop that, Chair. SBSD Helpdesk: Any questions about… and that's just a quick overview, and I'll show you now the… SBSD Helpdesk: a little more detailed. SBSD Helpdesk: Report… So, in other words, there is no longitudinal data. SBSD Helpdesk: There is no… I would say that there is some longitudinal data in some things. Like, we do the panorama… panorama survey. SBSD Helpdesk: that could give us some data, but there's not a structured overall, these are the ways that we're going to do it. I can pick and choose to say, oh, we have this many kids who are involved in this program. We have this many kids that did this many community service hours, but we haven't had a thoughtful discussion about, this is what the ends are asking us to do. SBSD Helpdesk:

102So, how are we going to measure that, pay 12, and then put together structures to do it? SBSD Helpdesk: So… Make sense? SBSD Helpdesk: All right, so this is the policy being monitored. Citizenship. Students will understand the impact of history, government, law, and the economy on self and society in order to contribute to their community and participate in local, state, and federal government in an informed manner by… SBSD Helpdesk: Understanding and expressing how diverse cultures and people enrich the human experience. Engaging others with honesty, humility, kindness, and good humor. SBSD Helpdesk: Yeah, that's… we're talking… when we talk about nebulousness, right? How do we measure that they can engage others with good humor? SBSD Helpdesk: And what… and are you bad if you don't have a good sense of humor? Right, right. SBSD Helpdesk: If

103that's not your style. Right. So, demonstrating respect for self, others in the environment, supporting, participating in, and or initiating socially responsible actions to benefit the local community, practicing ethical behavior in all environments, including as a participant in the digital community. SBSD Helpdesk: And being proud of our shared experience and having fun along the way. SBSD Helpdesk: So what is my interpretation? Well, we'll be in compliance on this policy when we can demonstrate that students develop the knowledge, skills, and dispositions to participate as informed, respectful, and ethical members of their communities. SBSD Helpdesk: As evidenced through curriculum-aligned learning experiences, student work and performance tasks, observable behaviors, and other valid qualitative and quantitative measures over time. SBSD Helpdesk: Combines includes district-wide evidence across grade levels of schools. SBSD Helpdesk: review of results for equity across student groups,

104and documented continuous improvement action when gaps are identified. So again, if you asked me, I could give you a list of all the things we're doing, but that's what we were talking about trying to avoid in future SBSD Helpdesk: Monitoring reports. So let's have something systematic instead of just, hey, we're doing this and this, and this and this. SBSD Helpdesk: So, these are the different components, and you can see what the definitions are. I'm not going to read through these, but it's, you know, there's… part of it is definitely educational, civic knowledge, history, government law, economy, cultural understanding and inclusion, honest, humble, kind engagement with good humor, respect for self and others, the environment. SBSD Helpdesk: Social responsibility, ethical behavior, belonging, pride and joy, growth over time, equity of outcomes and access, and continuous improvement

105response. SBSD Helpdesk: So I did put together a bulleted list of some of the things that we are doing that are tangible examples of us, SBSD Helpdesk: A's meeting this end. SBSD Helpdesk: But again, the reason I'm recommending approaching compliance is that our evidence system is not yet strong enough to support a proficient rating. We have plenty of good examples, but we do not have a consistent district-wide measures that allow us to show growth over time. SBSD Helpdesk: Analyze equity across student groups, and document cycles, improvement cycles in a systematic way. SBSD Helpdesk: So, for us, the next step is to move from examples to a stronger monitoring system. SBSD Helpdesk: So we need clearer evidence of where citizenship is taught in the curriculum, examples of student work and reflection, student voice, belonging data, that's

106where the panorama surveys would come in, participation data, digital citizenship indicators, all of those sorts of things. SBSD Helpdesk: So, when we get to the rubric. SBSD Helpdesk: Again, I find us approaching compliance in this, in this, end, and so most of the components, I have as approaching compliance. SBSD Helpdesk: Again, not because we're not doing these things, just because we don't have a structured way of SBSD Helpdesk: And, Jeff, on there, would you go up a little bit? Yes. SBSD Helpdesk: like… That one. SBSD Helpdesk: Honest, humble, kind engagement, good humor. Clearly, that is super important for life. Out of curiosity, where is that language from? SBSD Helpdesk: That's from your end policy. Yep. SBSD Helpdesk: That's the policy, and how… which is wonderful. It's great. We want to also want everybody to have

107this. Yes. How do I have Ogre, right? Sound like Ogre saying, yeah, that's probably not good policy, right? Because it's not good policy, but it is… SBSD Helpdesk: good to have, right? Maybe hook kids up to some sort of machine and read jokes from a joke mailer. Yeah, it's not that it's not valuable, it's just… it ends up being busy work to put this together, because you're not able to… SBSD Helpdesk: tell us anything about. Yes. So, 80% of the students have a good sense of humor. 80%? 80% have a good sense of humor. SBSD Helpdesk: 74% are silly, 33% are shenanigans. Enjoy yours. SBSD Helpdesk: So, growth over time, that's where we're really struggling. Measures, limited and consistent, and the terms are unclear, and the evidence is not routinely disaggregated disparities. And, again, this

108is… this will be our work for next year, unless the board changes, it's following them, that'll change what we're measuring. I'm hopeful that some of this maybe gets changed. SBSD Helpdesk: So we are approaching compliance, and there again is the ways that we will, move that to proficient next year. That's by identifying the incommon evidence and clarifying where things happen. SBSD Helpdesk: the… Developing a clear indicators and a monitoring cycle. SBSD Helpdesk: Of course, yep. And so, I think you mentioned Panorama a couple times. Is… so, is there… sorry if I'm being dense about this. SBSD Helpdesk: Are there questions on Panorama that would SBSD Helpdesk: let you collect a data point that then you could graph out over multiple years? Or, like, is that… or, like… SBSD Helpdesk: are not. I can tell you

109that I don't… I know that the panorama survey we use for things like belonging, and I don't know SBSD Helpdesk: this is another… Monica would have been doing this report. And so I don't know if the panorama survey answers all of these questions, but we absolutely do have SBSD Helpdesk: that survey, in addition to other surveys that we do, that will give us some data. But so much of Panorama is how do you feel, but this is, you know, citizenship is also, like, what do you… what are you able to do? SBSD Helpdesk: Yeah, a panorama would absolutely not give us every SBSD Helpdesk: information on everything is… it would be one component of it. You guys… We will be separate questions, actually. Okay. My question is, like, seniors are required to take PWAT, but

110high school, which is, like, Public Institute's World Affairs. SBSD Helpdesk: Like… SBSD Helpdesk: Can you use data from that at all to go towards modeling reports? Yes, so that would be… yeah, and that would be one that I could list here, or next year we can put together this… SBSD Helpdesk: talk more, definitively about, this is what we're going to look at. These are the… how many kids are taking them. This is what their scores are. This is… we could look at the formative assessments, the summative assessments, to show where the strengths are. Yeah, so that would all be appropriate. One thing I was thinking about is… I mean, I recently… we were looking at the panorama data, and one of the things it mentions is, like. SBSD Helpdesk: how comfortable do you feel having

111conversations about things going on in the world, like, within your classrooms? Like, how often do things come up, and, like, stuff like that, which I feel isn't exactly, like, how well informed are you, but it kind of touches on, like, how is the school doing and making you feel comfortable talking about things, which is… SBSD Helpdesk: kind of what I feel like the policy of getting at. That might be helpful. Thank you. Thank you. SBSD Helpdesk: Does the board have any questions about the monitoring report? SBSD Helpdesk: I would entertain a motion to monitor… Monitor Report 1.0N's 1.4 citizenship using the policy monitoring rubric provided in the board materials. SBSD Helpdesk: I'm out. SBSD Helpdesk: Emily moves. SBSD Helpdesk: I'll second. Michelle seconds. Is there any discussion? SBSD Helpdesk: For the first, like, two meetings,

112they're not gonna go on the monitor reports, just so they're gonna get a feel for it. SBSD Helpdesk: Do they have a rubric? It's a lot, yeah. And send me an email if you ever want to talk, I'm happy to meet. We could Zoom, and… Yeah, Michelle designed all this. She's excellent at captioning, so she… SBSD Helpdesk: Okay, so again, there's 3 things that we're going to be voting on. There's the monitoring report itself. SBSD Helpdesk: There's the district outcomes. SBSD Helpdesk: Like, how well things are going, no matter how it's being reported on, and whether the compliance plan, such as it is, is acceptable. SBSD Helpdesk: So I'm gonna go around and start with MOMIN, and then everybody's gonna give me a score for the monitoring report between 0 non-compliant, to 4, advanced compliance.

113SBSD Helpdesk: Yep, third, first one, I said 2. SBSD Helpdesk: Allie? SBSD Helpdesk: Curry. SBSD Helpdesk: So… SBSD Helpdesk: Now, it's me, and I am on a 2, because it's lacking longitudinal data, primarily. Because if it's a topic that I don't understand very well, the best way for me to see whether it's going well is to just compare it to the past. SBSD Helpdesk: I'm gonna say 3. SBSD Helpdesk: Melissa? I'll say to everyone. SBSD Helpdesk: Michelle? SBSD Helpdesk: Dan? Okay, now the next one is district outcomes. This is basically us saying, to what extent is stuff going well? SBSD Helpdesk: Right? SBSD Helpdesk: Based on the information here. So, I'll start with Lowman? 2. SBSD Helpdesk: Allie? SBSD Helpdesk: I'm a 2. SBSD Helpdesk: Emily? 2. SBSD Helpdesk: Alyssa? 2. SBSD Helpdesk: Michelle? SBSD

114Helpdesk: Damn? SBSD Helpdesk: Great, okay. And then, MOMEN compliance plan acceptable? Yes. SBSD Helpdesk: valid. SBSD Helpdesk: I'm a yes. SBSD Helpdesk: Emily? Yes. SBSD Helpdesk: Alyssa? Yes. SBSD Helpdesk: Michelle? SBSD Helpdesk: Dance? SBSD Helpdesk: Great. That concludes our monitoring of 1.4. The next item on our agenda is monitoring 2.0 Global Executive Constraint, Superintendent. SBSD Helpdesk: Let's share my screen with Norton. SBSD Helpdesk: I think, Ms. Calcane, I think this is, it'll be interesting, I think, in that there's… first of all, there's the ENS policies, which we just did was one of the ENS policies. Now, there's a whole bunch of executive limitations, so these are all the things that I'm not allowed to do. SBSD Helpdesk: in order to get us to have those added. In, policy governance, they say you can do anything.

115SBSD Helpdesk: if it's not excluded through these executive limitations. So, we're looking at this one, which is the global executive constraint, which is the big picture one. So, again, using Jen's template there. SBSD Helpdesk: What is policy governance? SBSD Helpdesk: Et cetera, et cetera, and we are looking at Executive Limitation 2.0, the global executive constraints. SBSD Helpdesk: I'm going to, at the end of this, tell you that we are approaching compliance. The big gap overall, as we've been saying through a lot of these, is we do have practices in place, but not yet organized, into a coherent monitoring system. SBSD Helpdesk: The big, big gap that we've talked about is special education. We have had special education noncompliance. SBSD Helpdesk: For years now, and we need to have corrective action. The TSI identification requires stronger

116equity monitoring. SBSD Helpdesk: We need clearer procedures, documentation, trend review and follow-up, and we need more consistent complaint tracking and accountability. SBSD Helpdesk: The path to improvement, I believe, is to address special ed compliance… education compliance through corrective action, assign responsibility. SBSD Helpdesk: Progress monitoring and regular reporting. I think we know that we are… that's high on our list for this coming school year. SBSD Helpdesk: They include TSI improvement planning, equity and continuous improvement work, identify key evidence sources for each component, clarify complaint pathways, timelines, documentation, strengthen documentation of trainings, drills, incidents, corrective actions. SBSD Helpdesk: Use annual department and principal reports for future monitoring, and build a consistent system for identifying trends, addressing recurring issues, and documenting improvement. The key takeaway is we do have core systems in place. SBSD Helpdesk: But special ed

117noncompliance and TSI identification require stronger corrective action, equity monitoring, documentation, and follow-up. SBSD Helpdesk: And the rest is just a repeat, really, of the… Of the last policy. SBSD Helpdesk: For the last slide. SBSD Helpdesk: So, any questions about this one? SBSD Helpdesk: Didn't share a key… Oh, sorry, didn't know what I meant to do. SBSD Helpdesk: Okay, so here's the, more detailed report. You can see the executive limitation being monitored. And it's a short one. Global executive constraint. The superintendent shall not allow any practice, activity, decision. SBSD Helpdesk: Or organizational circumstance that is unlawful, unsafe, imprudent, or in violation of commonly accepted educational and professional ethics and practices. SBSD Helpdesk: The superintendent shall not fail to provide a continuous improvement process, including a complaint process. SBSD Helpdesk: So, we will be in compliance on

118this executive limitation when we can demonstrate, through documented systems, practices, and outcomes that district operations are lawful, safe, prudent, and consistent. SBSD Helpdesk: With commonly accepted educational and professional ethics, and that a functioning continuous improvement process, including an accessible, timely complaint process, is a place used to periodically, evaluated for effectiveness. SBSD Helpdesk: So you see the different components, legal compliance, safety and risk prevention, prudent decision-making and management, ethical conduct and professional practice. SBSD Helpdesk: Instead of capital there, executive constraint, procedure, alignment, or implementation. SBSD Helpdesk: The CIP, complaint process, monitoring, accountability, and transparency, equity, and consistency of the practice. SBSD Helpdesk: So, this executive limitation, this is the board's global executive constraint. It establishes the broadest boundary on the superintendent's authority by stating that I shall not allow any practice, activity, decision, or organizational circumstance

119SBSD Helpdesk: That is unlawful, unsafe, imprudent, or in violation of commonly exempted professional ethics and practices. SBSD Helpdesk: Again, because this is an executive limitation, the purpose of the monitoring report is not to list every operational activity of the district, it's to determine whether we are operating within the boundaries established by the board. SBSD Helpdesk: So, as I scroll down, you will see, again, I can give a long list of things that we're doing to show that we are SBSD Helpdesk: this is… you have to kind of prove a negative, right? So these are the things that we're doing that we're showing that we're not being, unethical or illegal. Regular consultation with legal counsel. SBSD Helpdesk: Board executive constraint review and administrative attention, required state and federal reporting, annual audit processes, budget development, safety drills,

120building and district level attention to facilities, employee trainings, all of those kinds of things. SBSD Helpdesk: But the bold one at the bottom is special education procedures, IEP processes, evaluation timelines, and Student Support Systems. SBSD Helpdesk: Because we have not been compliant for two consecutive years, so this becomes our, our big, our big goal. SBSD Helpdesk: When I get down to the rubric, SBSD Helpdesk: I give us a beginning compliance for legal. SBSD Helpdesk: for legal compliance because of special ed. We are violating the law in how we are working in special ed, and we need to get that compliant. SBSD Helpdesk: Safety and risk prevention, really good. We have, really good, safety management programs and teams and all this kind of thing. Prudent management decision making, yeah, controls exist, but they're uneven, decision discipline

121is inconsistent some places. SBSD Helpdesk: Ethical conduct, I believe we have a highly ethical… I have ethical standards in, that among our staff. SBSD Helpdesk: Executive constraint, and as that's beginning, continuous improvement process. Some improvement cycles exist. I think we took a good step today by approving the CIP, and I think it'll be, SBSD Helpdesk: implement with fidelity, so I'm sure we'll be moving up next year on that. Complaint process. We do have a process that exists, there's a timeline, etc. I don't know that it's readily as accessible and published as it needs to be, so that's room to grow, too. SBSD Helpdesk: Monitoring, accountability and transparency is beginning. Equity and consistency in practice, we have some reviews, that occur. So, overall compliance, again, approaching, we're approaching compliance. SBSD Helpdesk: And the next step is

122to, SBSD Helpdesk: really to strengthen our systems, right? Number one, address special education compliance. We have to do that. There's no excuse for us not to be compliant with special education law. SBSD Helpdesk: Identify key evidence sources for each component, clarify the complaint procedures, strengthen procedure, again, alignment, improve documentation, review internal controls. SBSD Helpdesk: Develop a clearer continuous improvement cycle, and use annual reports from principals and department leaders to report on this next year. SBSD Helpdesk: Again, we're doing a lot of good stuff, it's just not really well organized at this time, and… and Special Ed is our big, our big, SBSD Helpdesk: our big color blue. This one has a, an appendix. None of the others do. This is created by us. It's not created by the state. Not created by me. This was

123part of the system. And so, SBSD Helpdesk: If you mark any one of these things. SBSD Helpdesk: In this box, you have to be non-compliant. And… SBSD Helpdesk: when we get into the substantial legal violation occurs and timely corrective action remains ongoing, that is our special ed. I can't say, in good… in good faith that we aren't violating the law. We are. SBSD Helpdesk: And so that's why I marked that, which means that we are entirely, not in compliance on this report. SBSD Helpdesk: And you can see, SBSD Helpdesk: The main issue is special education. SBSD Helpdesk: And how long have those letters been going to the district? SBSD Helpdesk: At least 2 years. It's 2 years. SBSD Helpdesk: And I told you, I think, earlier, I think that we will probably SBSD Helpdesk: still

124be non-compliant next year because of the stuff that had been going on earlier, because of timelines that we met, and their year… their year in arrears. So, it could be another year before we can get full. SBSD Helpdesk: It is, as you know, we've been talking about this ad nauseum, it is number one on our priority list. SBSD Helpdesk: Is there any other board comment or question on this? SBSD Helpdesk: So, in this case, this is a monitoring report where I wouldn't expect to see longitudinal data. It's more like what you were saying, it's more like there's nothing. You want to see nothing. Yes. You want to have, like, no check marks. SBSD Helpdesk: you know, you want to get to zero. Yeah, these executive limitations were not… these are all the things you're not

125allowed to do, so I'm going to show you that I'm not doing it. The checklist is a really good way to manage the… the view of outcomes, right? To characterize outcomes in a negative. SBSD Helpdesk: I would entertain a motion to monitor SBSD Helpdesk: 2.0 global executive constraint according to the policy monitoring rubric in the board materials. SBSD Helpdesk: Timer. SBSD Helpdesk: Emily moves. SBSD Helpdesk: Second. SBSD Helpdesk: Dan seconds, is there any discussion? SBSD Helpdesk: All those in favor? SBSD Helpdesk: Aye, hon. Aye. SBSD Helpdesk: So this time we're gonna start with Dan. SBSD Helpdesk: So the first one we're asking about is the monitoring report itself. SBSD Helpdesk: Right? Does it report out on what we're talking about? So… Sweet. SBSD Helpdesk: 3. Michelle? 3. Alyssa? SBSD Helpdesk: Great. SBSD Helpdesk: Emily? 3.

126SBSD Helpdesk: I'm also 3. SBSD Helpdesk: Allie? Great. SBSD Helpdesk: Moment, ready. SBSD Helpdesk: Great The next item is, district outcomes, so this is, like, actually how things are going. SBSD Helpdesk: So, Dan, we'll start with you. SBSD Helpdesk: Michelle? SBSD Helpdesk: I'll do a one just because there is the very serious unlock the check one. SBSD Helpdesk: Alyssa? Awesome. SBSD Helpdesk: Evelyn? Two. SBSD Helpdesk: I'm also 2. Allie? SBSD Helpdesk: Moment. SBSD Helpdesk: Oops. SBSD Helpdesk: Okay, SBSD Helpdesk: Can I get everybody? Five? Yes, five of us, okay. And then, compliance plan acceptable to him. Who else? SBSD Helpdesk: Michelle? Alyssa? SBSD Helpdesk: Emily? Yes. And I'm a yes, moment. SBSD Helpdesk: Yes. SBSD Helpdesk: And Allie? Yes. SBSD Helpdesk: Very great. SBSD Helpdesk: Great. Well, that concludes our monitoring of 2.0 executive constraint.

127Our next item on the agenda is the superintendent's report. Superintendent… Yeah, I didn't put anything in there. I thought you'd hear me talking enough. SBSD Helpdesk: Graduation's tomorrow, I'm looking forward to it. I did, you know I'm doing this podcast, and I'm very grateful Ollie was able to help me gather some seniors to, be on my senior… I call it the senior showcase, something I did in my old district, so we had four seniors. SBSD Helpdesk: on the podcast on Tuesday, we talked about, what's your favorite teacher? What are you going to miss about South Burlington? Are you ready for school? And I'll tell you what, one thing that came up was SBSD Helpdesk: you know what? We absolutely feel ready, because we take this class where they teach us how to do our taxes,

128and how to do our… I'm like, yeah, that's great! We talk about that all the time. Anyway, that should be, SBSD Helpdesk: We recorded Tuesday, it should be out in the next few days, and then I'll get it out there, but it's a… it's a good show. SBSD Helpdesk: That's all I have. SBSD Helpdesk: Enjoying your first SB graduation, right? SBSD Helpdesk: Alright. SBSD Helpdesk: So the next item on the agenda is the consent agenda. SBSD Helpdesk: Is there any objection to the minutes of May 20th, 2026? SBSD Helpdesk: Hearing none, it's approved by consent. SBSD Helpdesk: Is there any objection to the accounts payables? SBSD Helpdesk: Hearing none, they're approved by consent. SBSD Helpdesk: Is there any objection to the hires? SBSD Helpdesk: Hearing none, it is approved by consent. Is there any objection

129to the payroll warrants? SBSD Helpdesk: Hearing none, they're approved by consent. Is there any… Objection to the resignations. SBSD Helpdesk: Hearing none, it's approved by consent. All right, so now onto the action items. SBSD Helpdesk: Yes, now we have the best. So… SBSD Helpdesk: The Lease for the Schools Out program. SBSD Helpdesk: Do we want to hear… do you want to say anything about that before we take action on it? SBSD Helpdesk: You know that we are moving the Schools Out program and South Point out of that building by the airport. South Point's coming over here. There's not space for schools out, so they found an office to rent. SBSD Helpdesk: It comes out of there, but they are self-funding, like the cafeteria does, so they will be paying their rent, so they have all

130the space. SBSD Helpdesk: I would entertain a motion to approve the lease for the Schools Out program. SBSD Helpdesk: Alyssa, whoops. SBSD Helpdesk: Second. Michelle, seconds. Any discussion? SBSD Helpdesk: All those in favor? Aye. The motion passes. SBSD Helpdesk: So we have two bids. Sorry, we're going a little bit out of order here. SBSD Helpdesk: the bid for the Air Handler and the Chromebooks. SBSD Helpdesk: And the renovations. I was gonna do that separately. SBSD Helpdesk: Is there any… do you want to say anything about the bids for the air handlers of the Chromebooks? SBSD Helpdesk: Nope. SBSD Helpdesk: Okay, I would entertain a motion to approve the bid for the air handlers. SBSD Helpdesk: A motion. SBSD Helpdesk: Dan moves. Second. Alyssa seconds, any discussion? SBSD Helpdesk: All those in favor? Aye. I would

131entertain a motion to approve the bid for the Chromebooks. SBSD Helpdesk: Michelle moved? SBSD Helpdesk: Alyssa, seconds. Any discussion? SBSD Helpdesk: All those in favor? Aye. SBSD Helpdesk: The motion passes. SBSD Helpdesk: Did you want to say anything about the renovation of 577? Sure. SBSD Helpdesk: So this is a bid that was amended to the agenda at the beginning of this meeting, and it is regarding our renovation plan for the second floor of this building, 577 Dorset Street. SBSD Helpdesk: Yep. SBSD Helpdesk: You took most of what I was gonna say. We will be doing mostly interior work. We're adding a restroom, adding a second kitchen area, and retrofitting the second floor, as educational space for the South Point program. Their intent is to have the classrooms in the center of the building, and have

132SBSD Helpdesk: We'll be bringing middle schoolers into this program, so their intent is to have high school students on primarily on one side of the building, and middle schoolers on the other side, and have the classrooms in the middle so they can enter them from either side. SBSD Helpdesk: We worked really hard on the plan, went through a couple different renovation, a couple different iterations of the plans, and worked with the current director of the South Point program, Kate Cunningham, to create the design. SBSD Helpdesk: We have an incredibly tight timeline. We're moving the team out of this building on June 30th, and we need to move the South Point program in here on August 15th, so we… SBSD Helpdesk: really hoping that that goes as smoothly as possible. We did get sort of a

133ballpark. We had a, firm SBSD Helpdesk: come through to give us sort of a ballpark on what the price would be, and then put the whole project out to bid, and unfortunately, we only had one bidder. That bidder is Aaron Goldfield Construction, and Aaron is an SB grad and an SB resident, and is incredibly excited to be a bidder on this project, and has said to me several times, I know my pencil has to SBSD Helpdesk: to be really sharp. So, he gave us, a bit a little higher than what we initially thought it was gonna be, but, SBSD Helpdesk: sort of is what it is. I mean, part of the reason why I am pushing on getting, like, the Chromebooks through and the lap posters, the price just on many things goes up, sort

134of, from week to week, so… SBSD Helpdesk: So we're excited to, work with Aaron. I think he's gonna be a good… he's, like, really an eager beaver, and know… understands what our timeline is. Gratefully, Katie Cunningham, also understands and is, SBSD Helpdesk: you know, hopefully we don't have to ask for any adjustments on the other end of this project, but that's it in a nutshell. Does anybody have any questions? Yeah. Yes, Michelle. Will the conference room still remain? Yes, the conference room will remain. Everything else will… SBSD Helpdesk: will, be turned into the South Point, program, and they will primarily use, the entrances on the back of the building as their main entrance into their space. So that'll still be, like, the executive session space? Yeah, yeah. The only work that will be done, sort

135of, outside of that space is the handrails on the stairways need to be brought up to code, so… SBSD Helpdesk: But it'll be done as well. SBSD Helpdesk: And this room is staying the same, so… Yeah, this room is staying the same, so the meetings will still remain here. The space that we reserved for the staff that are on the second floor of this building is at 462 Shelburne Road, and it's a really great space. I like it for a variety of reasons, one of which is a first floor, easy and plenty of parking, and first floor, which makes it SBSD Helpdesk: Much more accessible to folks. SBSD Helpdesk: But it's… we're kind of packed in there, and we have one tiny little… SBSD Helpdesk: office that doesn't have any windows that we're going to

136use as our meeting space when, like, our central office leadership team needs to meet, or when we need to meet on-site, but we anticipate that we'll come over here pretty frequently, so this space will remain the same. SBSD Helpdesk: Any other board comment or question? SBSD Helpdesk: I would entertain a motion to approve the bid for the renovations to 577 Dorset Street for the South Point program. SBSD Helpdesk: Hi, Moo. Emily Mu? SBSD Helpdesk: Second. Michelle seconds. Any discussion? SBSD Helpdesk: All those in favor? Aye. Aye. Great. And, I think… oh, we have one more. SBSD Helpdesk: So, I would entertain a motion to approve the AP voucher checks to Vermont Mechanical. SBSD Helpdesk: in the amount of $113,593.99, and also to Vermont Mechanical, $79,984.91. SBSD Helpdesk: And another check to the Howard Center in

137the amount of $149,799.75. SBSD Helpdesk: Dan moves. Alyssa seconds. Any discussion? SBSD Helpdesk: All those in favor? SBSD Helpdesk: Aye. The motion passes. SBSD Helpdesk: I will handle scheduling for the 17th meeting with you asynchronously over email, so I would entertain a motion to adjourn the meeting. SBSD Helpdesk: I move. Emily moves. Second. 10 seconds, any discussion? SBSD Helpdesk: All those in favor? Aye. We're adjourned.