001As a reminder, this meeting is being recorded, both video and audio, and it will be posted on the district website. The first item on the agenda is discussion and approval of the minutes from the May 7th, 2025 Zoom meeting. Is there any discussion around those minutes? Hearing none, I'll entertain a motion to approve them. So move second. There's a motion and a second. Desire, would you please pull the committee? Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Motion passes. The next item on the agenda is the approval of the minutes from the May 13, 2025 meeting. Is there any discussion around those minutes? Hearing none, I'll entertain a motion to approve them. So move. Second. There's a motion in a second. Desire, would you please pull the committee? Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Motion passes. And the next item
002on the agenda is the superintendence report. Mrs. Pangeli couldn't be with us this evening. So joining us this evening is uh Dr. Mai. Good evening, Dr. Mai. Good evening. Um and and I'm happy to be here in in place of uh Superintendent Pangelie. Um first off was a personnel update. Um there are no retirements at this time. There are no new hires at this time. no resignations and no transfers at this time, but hold on because I'm sure we'll have some soon. Um, we do have some vacancies. Park Avenue currently has an ABA.4 and 1.0 position available as well as two positions for instructional assistance, a grade four teacher, um, a 1.0 0 ABA at WMS, uh, an instructional assistant at BHS, an ABA at BHS, and a district school psychologist. I although I think
003we are, um, we have a solid candidate to put forth. Um, if I could just ask someone to go to the door to see if there's a student here because we were expecting one student. Um, for the instructional update, we I know that Mrs. near might talk about Saturday school a little bit, but I'll just give you a brief update. We have grown and grown and grown some more. Um, we are very proud. I think if I have to think back to like an accomplishment this year. Um, it's Saturday school that, um, we have brought more and more students in. The last one before Memorial Day had almost 130 students just from Bartlett and nine students from WMS. Um so we have one more to go and that is this weekend and um we have
004seen an expanded use of Saturday school time. Um and we have some ideas about how we can keep growing next year. Um and I'll let Mrs. Neves elaborate on that in a little bit. Sila by literacy was also done this year and we are proud to award the seal of bi literacy to four new students this year. Um, students typically take the SEAL as seniors, uh, the SEAL test as seniors, and it usually is students who are learning Spanish, uh, in our classes, our world language, or students that have, uh, grown up speaking a different language or have moved here from a different country. And so for the four students, they are either heritage speakers or um, native speakers of a different language. We have uh we're happy to award the seal to Tiffany Aong
005who is um who demonstrated proficiency in English and in tree as well as uh and her family is from Ghana. Um as well as Eveina Begdana Vichuti and whose family is from Lithuania. So she demonstrated proficiency in English and Lithuanian. Um, we have Emiliano Calderon who is um a native Spanish speaker and we have Jeremy Marillo Penna who is also um I believe he's considered a heritage speaker so not born there but learned it through family um and so we're very proud and we'll present them more at the awards ceremony um on senior night but I'm very happy to um support and and award this big honor to these um to these students more and more colleges are order or are awarding credits. So, it's a big deal if you're um if you have that
006that dual um language um capability. Um for access results this year, we had not going to get into the the full thing, but last year we had few students. We only had 18 students who are were considered fells and that means that they reached a 4.2 2 overall score and a 3.9 in literacy. And this year we have 32 students. So we have been analyzing like what's making a difference. A we have steady staff. We've we're fully staffed. This year was the first time in I don't know how many years that we were fully staffed. And um we've also been implementing with Fidelity a program called Flashlight which help helps students practice their speaking and their writing. Um and so um I'll give a special shout out to grade five six because in grade five
007and six 100% of the students made progress on flashlight which then made progress on on access. It's pretty amazing. Um another item on the agenda here is summer school. Um summer school programming will take place between July 7th and August 1st. We're doing four weeks five days a week. programs will include jump into kindergarten which we will do um parents will choose one of two sessions um at the beginning and the first two weeks of July they'll choose one week or the other where we'll have um incoming students practice like walking in line getting to the cafeteria getting a snack the routines of school um and we're hoping that that makes a difference for our transition to school we're doing the traditional 21st century pass program at at Park Avenue. Um we're doing a focus
008of ELA and math at WMS and we're doing our credit recovery program at the high school. Um we will continue doing a transition program for grade 8 going into nine, but this year we're focusing solely on ELA and math um and and hoping to follow those students to see if that creates an impact for them. Um, special education also has its ESY, its um, extended school year programming, uh, that will take place during the same four weeks. In other updates, uh, we're entering our busy season of grants, closing grants, writing grants, um, writing data reports on grants, progress monitoring. Um, to our knowledge, the information that I have is that the FY26 grants will remain the same, though they might level fund our grants this year and next year, but what's unclear is what happens
009the following year, FY27. So, that's what we're hearing from DESIE. Um, we've talked a lot throughout the year about SEB, meaning the social emotional behavioral academy that we've participated in. Unfortunately, there were some drastic cuts in SEB funding and so we've completed our first year. We're going to continue but in a more limited fashion in order to continue with the PBIS support that will now be locally funded or not locally funded. I'm writing a a different grant to be able to fund uh to fund PBIS um so that we can continue with those efforts. Our schools have made a lot of gains um with PBIS and thinking about multi-tered systems of support and we don't want to lose that momentum. Um on May 14th, Mrs. Pangeli and I attended a presentation at the request of
010um Assistant Deputy Gordon Wentworth and Chief Mike Shaw. We went to Nicholls College um to um a law enforcement class and their guest speaker was uh Scarlett Lewis. Um Scarlet is the mother of Jesse, a victim of the Sandy Hook shooting and founder of what's called the Choose Love Movement. Mrs. Pranguli wanted me to share this information with you because we feel strongly that this is something that we could latch on to um here in Webster. Um what it offers schools is um a comprehensive prek to grade 12 curriculum. She talked about like not liking the words anti-bullying because you're also talking negatively, but choose love offers a choice of how to respond to big things and little things. Um, and it's aligned with castle, which is the social emotional learning paradigm that's adopted by
011the state. Um, it it's it's aligned with ASCA standards. It incorporates character and social um emotional development. It um it was a a powerful powerful message about the impact of a conscious choice to react in one way or another. And so the big message is teach kindness and choose kindness and choose love. And so I would love we would love to see to explore with our counselors that's something that's coming to explore with our counselors how we can um incorporate something like choose love into our seal programming um and see where that goes. It is completely free which is a big that's a big deal as we enter our um you know fiscal issues and um I know that there is going to be a presentation is that later are you doing that later okay
012great so that at this point concludes the superintendent report. Thank you, Dr. Mai. Any questions or comments from the committee? Hearing none, the next item on the agenda is the business manager report. Good evening, Mrs. Condos. Good evening, everyone. We're going to start off with some updates on the Bartlett High School renovation project. Um, phase two demo activities are continuing as well as site work across the premise. Um what we're hearing is that there's a good possibility that we'll get our central office parking back by the end of the summer. Uh they're working very rapidly to try to get that addressed so that we can at least regain some parking which will be extremely helpful. Phase one punch list items. So a list of punch list items were developed either by uh the district ourselves
013after moving in or by the architect and OPM before we moved in. any of those urgent items that required immediate attention have been addressed. The remaining items will all be addressed during the summer. That way, we don't have to coordinate for evening work or Saturdays to get that work done. It's all planned to be completed this summer. As you may recall, uh with phase one, the auditorium was not completed. We had a target date of May 16th for completion and unfortunately it was not completed and we were extremely disappointed and frustrated and shared our dissatisfaction with the fact that they were not able to get this completed. The one sticking point at this point still continues to be with steel connections in the auditorium predominantly around the balcony area. Uh, and what they're working on
014right now is still back and forth between the steel structural engineer and the architectural structural engineer of record that signs off on everything to agree with calculations about how they welded it versus bolted the steel connections to make sure it doesn't impact the rest of the building. So, that was extremely disappointing. Uh, Miss Neves as well as uh Mrs. Panguli uh worked hard to get things rescheduled and moved elsewhere and we're very sorry to all the students who we know were looking forward to using the auditorium. Please send our apologies about that. Uh and we shared that with the uh GC that we were extremely disappointed. Any questions before I move on? I'm going to move on to other maintenance updates and give you some updates about fiscal year 25 capital improvement projects that we
015had planned. As you may recall, these were projects that were approved not at this past town meeting but the prior town meeting. So, we had a project to replace the glycol in our HVAC system at Webster Middle School, and that has been completed. And the final capital improvement project was to add additional cameras at Park Avenue, and that is scheduled for the week of June 23rd. So, we'll be wrapping up all those projects uh in time for this summer. Any questions? Okay. In other updates, uh, two weeks ago, I attended the MASBO conference. That's a conference for business managers across the state. I was there for two and a half days. I attended a variety of sessions ranging from the end ofear report, special education, maintenance of e efforts, special education, transportation, MTRS. There were
016a variety of topics you could choose from. Uh but the highlight really of these two and a half days is the networking that you get to do across the district and within the central mass region. We were able to connect with many uh business managers and really collaborate on a lot of things and I think the biggest topic for all of us was special education transportation and what we can all do collectively to work together. We have been using using Sutton as one of our providers. Um, and they're going to try to work more closely with all the surrounding districts to see how we can leverage them as well as Tantasa to use the fleets that they have to help support some of the challenges that everyone has been having. Uh, many people in the
017Asabet area have been struggling with Vanpool as their provider. Uh, and they're having challenges with the contracts and invoicing. So, it it is a real heavy topic across the state that everyone is faced with as we continue to address our compliance needs to transport students either out of district or within district. It was really uh very beneficial and always very um therapeutic to talk to other business managers to hear that they're going through similar things and be able to share ideas on how to accomplish tasks. So, that was super helpful. And my last update is just an update on the power school cyber security incident. Interestingly enough, a 19-year-old student from Assumption um actually um has agreed to plead guilty to one count of cyber extortion conspiracy, cyber extortion, um unauthorized access to protected computers,
018and aggravated identity theft. So, it was a little surprising to find out that it was right in our own backyard. Uh, and apparently this student comes from Sterling, Mass. Uh, and it was a major disruption to many school districts ac across the country as well as nationally. So, uh, I think they're still waiting for a p hearing to be held. But, uh, at least they found out who was at at the source of it and they were able to address it. Unfortunately, for this young man, that was a clever use of computer skills, but poor decisions in terms of execution. So that's what I have for this evening. Any questions? Thank you, Mrs. Gontos. Any questions or comments from the committee? I just want to circle back quickly uh with regard to the delays in
019the school building project. Were we able to hear any reasons behind these extended delays in the completion of the for the auditorium? Right. It really comes down to calculations and back and forth about trying to prove whether or not it addresses the concern. So rather than going in and just fixing those connections and making them bolted connections, they're continuing to redo calculations about how they welded it. And so there's when I say they, it's the engineer from the the structural steel company does that and they submit it into the architectural structural engineer and they have to be willing to sign off on it. So they've submitted a variety of papers that prove what they did will not compromise the building in any other areas. So the amount of time that it takes to prepare those
020calculations then review them questions back and forth has elongated it. Might have been faster to bolt them. That's how I feel. without a contractor. What does this say with regard to the impact of the overall project and the timelines for completion? This will not be impacting phase two. Okay. Right. They're they're fairly confident that they'll be able to get through with these calculations. If not, they will have to get in there over the summer and fix those steel connections. Phase two continues as as planned. No interruptions there. Great. Thank you for clarifying that. Members, so is it like a safety issue then? like the integrity of the structure of the so there's no imminent safety issue at this moment what it is over the long term the impact it has on all the connections across
021the full building and just thank you for bringing that up so just as another point of clarification if I understand correctly the engineer from the steel company claims or is confident that there's no structural issues but we they're not they because of the type of project we of the person that gets to sign off on it is the architect. The architect structural engineer. So, and and that's where we're at. A bit of an impass there. Yep. Okay. If they actually followed the design and did the bolted connections from the beginning, we wouldn't be in this situation. So, it's really an issue of non-conformance as well. Okay. Thank you for clarifying. Welcome. Hopefully, they'll be able to get that rectified sooner rather than later. Agreed. Moving right along. Any other questions or comments from the committee?
022All right. Well, hearing none, the next item on the agenda is our principal report. Joining us this evening from Bartlett High School is Miss Gina Neves. Good evening. Good evening. Um, the first thing I want to talk about is our student representative. Um, tonight is Hope's last night with us and we are moving on to a new representative. So, I want to thank Hope for being here and I know we all thank you for being here and, you know, sharing with us every Tuesday night that they meet. So again, thank you. Moving forward for next year, um Aiden Cruz will be joining us. Aiden is a junior. Um loves playing tennis and soccer, is planning on going to college. He's quiet, he's polite, he's you name it, Aiden's that person. Um so he will be
023joining us moving forward for next school year. Um the first thing after that is our attendance. We continue to see improvements. Right now we are still averaging about 91% um each day which um is an increase of 1.4%. And our chronic absent rate is down 10.8% from where it was last year. We are sitting at 22.8% right now. Um we still struggle with tardies. we are um I don't have the number here but we that's one of the ways we've been using Saturday schools is a direct um relation as so many tardies equals Saturday school and they have gotten better since we have put that into place um so hopefully right from the beginning of the school year next year that you know we'll continue to see that less and less we are in the
024middle of a very busy testing season um at our school currently the seniors are doing their final exams paired with Um, I already math going on and next week starts by all jamcasts and then the following week after that we start our underassman EOCC exam which is the end of the year exam for our project lead the way classes and then our underassman final exams as well. Miss Mai spoke about the Saturday school. Um, I can't believe the numbers of the students that are coming. And it's not because they have to, it's because they want to. Our numbers have grown from two the first week to over a hundred this past week. I have parents and students asking how they can get there this week. Um, you know, reaching out and saying we should have
025done this from the beginning. And I know that's on the plate to do from the very beginning of the school year for next year. We have a few updates. So, our team is working on the schedule for students and teachers. We've got our section numbers. We're planning, you know, how many of each class that we need that's actively going on right now. Um so, we can start to plug those in um within the next week or so. We are doing the final um touches on our program of studies since our schedule has been formally adopted. we can present those to you hopefully in the next meeting as well as we are updating in the process of updating our school handbook for next year. Um, on top of all of that, we are finishing up or
026polishing off the school's self-reflection for our NEAS visit that will happen next December. I have a lot of events and I know Hope has them on hers too. So, I will not take away hopefully most of them from her. I'm gonna let her talk about the senior ones. Um, but next week, in addition to our banquet, right before the banquet, we are going to have a small ceremony for the International Thespian Society. Last year, they did it in a classroom. I said, "Let's put these students on stage. They participated in the drama club all year long, and they have awards to earn." So, we're going to do that before the um honors night, before the awards night. Um, on June 4th, we have our grads on parade. Our graduation is on the 5th. And then
027after that, we have two other events. They're PBIS related. We have a dodgeball extravaganza where it's student versus student. And then I don't know if they're going against the staff, but they can watch the staff play against the staff. And then on the 18th, we also have planned a block party for the underassmen with the barbecue on the last school day. That's all I have. Thank you, Miss Davis. You're welcome. Any questions or comments from the committee? I just want to say through the chair, members, um you weren't here at the last meeting with Buopico, but so I haven't seen you since, but the Easter egg hunt that you guys put on, unreal. Thank you. and the donations or the baskets that were provided the I couldn't believe all those um like um tickets to
028the different um I'm blanking but like the places around the Ecotarium, Old Serge, the Boston I think science museum or the uh New England Aquarium. I couldn't believe um the raffle baskets. Yeah, the community definitely came out and donated to the to the students in the community. I was not expecting that. And you guys, so it was a great event and my family had a insane amount of time and I'm still throwing away candy that they're finding. So am I. So we don't eat it all. But that was awesome. Thank you. Through it to cheer me. Um, where in Bartlett is the senior awards going to be? So, we had to change it. We are going to have it at the Webster Middle School gym. Okay. Going to be at the gym. Yeah. Should we
029be arriving early for the thespian society or we would like to. That's at 4:30. Okay. Not sure. We can but I can try. our the parents that are coming. Um we did it so the juniors and the senior parents can come and then the underclassman parents can leave and the senior parents can stay right for the awards night. Yeah, that's perfect. Yep. Thanks. And when is the senior parade start? Um we are going to leave Bartlett at I believe it's 10:15. I will double check and get something out to you guys. believe it's um Miss Millet, I'm going to have to check. It's actually 10:45, I believe, to arrive at Park for 11 is what I believe it is. And then you come back here, then we land back at Barlot last. Um how do
030one more question for the awards? Mhm. Um, is there any way to see a list of who's getting awards? So, I can see this is my last class, graduating class. Yes, I can get that to you. So, I'd like to see if any of them are receiving anything. Okay, I'll send it over. Okay, thank you. You're welcome. Usually, once we RSVP, we'll get the sign up for right for the awards giving. I'll check, but I'll definitely get it over before end. Thank you. You're welcome. One more. These Bartlett events are very important to us, as you can tell. The Grads on Parade. What's the date of that again? The fourth. The fourth. Great. Thanks. Any other questions for Miss NAS? No. All right. Great. Well, thank you for your updates. Nice to see you. Y.
031And the next item on the agenda is an update from our student representative. Good evening, Hope. Hi. Um, so I'm going to start with my updates for this the past few weeks. Um, my first update is that on May 15th, we had the Massachusetts State Police come in and they presented a course on teen safety while driving to the junior and senior classes. Um, as somebody who sat through the assembly, it was really, really entertaining. I think a lot of us enjoyed it. Um, I don't think anybody really had any critiques and I think a lot of people weren't expecting it to be as fun as it was. Um, and then I have that the high school Big Brother Big Sister participants were gifted brand new laptops as a thank you from Park A, which
032was really cool and I know a lot of the participants really enjoyed that gift. Um then I have that varsity baseball and softball held their senior nights this past week. Um there were there were some complications because the original game got rained out so we had to move it but luckily we got we were able to squeeze it in. Um then I have that we had math mcast which was held this past week for um the underassmen. Then I have that the varsity softball and baseball held a hope at bat game um to raise funds for the American Cancer Association. They were able to raise a total of $1,076 which was really great. Um, and then I have on that for coming up or incoming um, events, I have that on June 18th, Worcester's Polar
033Park is going to be holding a Webster town takeover um, to raise money for Webster Fast Pitch. Um, the tickets range I think the tickets range between 24 and $32. Um, and it's just an event to get to raise money for um, the town's fast pitch program. Then I have that the senior's last day of school will be this Friday, May 30th. And then next week will be rehearsals for graduation which will be held next Thursday at Indian Ranch. Then I have that um we had I testing in English and math this week and next week I believe one of them's next week or the week after. Um then I have our senior barbecue which is this Friday as well along with our senior overnight. Um I think a lot of the seniors are very
034excited for the senior overnight because I know a lot of effort has been put into it and a lot of people are really trying to donate as much as they can whether it be um like raffle rewards or just items to like snack on. Um, so I'm very grateful and I know my entire class is very grateful for everybody that has pitched in. That's all I have for today. Great. Thank you for your updates. Hope of course. Any questions or comments from the committee? Member Scarigia. Um, I just want to say thanks and I this is our first my first full year. I came in at the tail end um of the last student rep. So it went quick. Yes, it did. Really fast. Um but good luck at assumption. Thank you so muching and
035you're going to be a great nurse. Thank you. Hope I too want to thank you for your many contributions not just to our meetings but really to our school community and our Webster community as a whole. um you're a bright light here in Webster and um you've you've made a lot of contributions just to um the various programs that you're a part of, the teams that you're on and of course offering the student perspective to this committee has been very much appreciated. Thank you so much for your time. Of course, we could always count on you to u bring that student voice. You were here reliably and you really uh embodied the role of a student representative really well. So, you did us proud and I know you're going far. So, but also hope I
036I know that you'll you'll find your way back. So, keep in touch with us. I'm sure I will. Thank you so much. You're welcome. Please. Um I feel a special affinity to um students like you. Um because I I I'm in a position now where I can see the end of the high school career, the end of the schooling career um in Webster. And I've had the privilege of of being with so many kids from the start. Hope being one of them. And so um I didn't have to spend a lot of time with you, Hope. And that that's that's good. That's okay. Although I love the time that I spend with all my students. But um it is so wonderful to see how you've grown and to uh to sort of have the light
037that you carry with you spill over onto those around you and just hold on to that light and make it spill all over the place at assumption. You'll be great. Thank you so much. So we have a little something to share with you. We should hope are is your name on the wall already? I think you are. I think she is. Look at that. Name's on the plaque already. As a token of our appreciation for the great job that you've done all year keeping us informed of all things Bartlett. Congratulations and good luck. Congratulations, Hope. Thank you again. Thank you. I I'm very grateful to have the opportunity that I got last year. So, I think it was a really good experience and helped me improve on my um public speaking skills a little bit.
038You did a great job and we're really looking forward to having you join us. I know um it can possibly seem a little bit intimidating now as you think about being the representative for this committee over the course of the next school year. I I know hope you can probably attest to the fact that it goes by very quickly. Um but we are very much looking forward to getting to know you and and hearing your contributions as well. I'm getting or I'm looking forward to all you I can prove with my Yeah, thank you for for offering to give up a portion of your second and fourth Tuesday over the course of the next year. Um, it is a commitment. And you're on the tennis team. You have playoffs coming up. They got moved, right?
039Monday. Oh, tomorrow. Okay, great. Well, um, can't wait to hear about how they've gone. I'm sure Miss Neas will keep us up to date on that and, uh, good luck. We'll see you again soon. All right. So, uh, moving on under we have no no business actually under old business. So, under new business, we have a couple of items. The first one being the endofear update for adult education. Good evening, Ava. Hello, everyone. Hello. Um, that almost made me cry. I'm Heyo. Hey. Never met you before, but congratulations to both of you. I'm over here tearing up. I'm like, I didn't even get the flowers, but um so hi. I'm very happy to be here. Um, this year I actually bought um or brought an adult education student with me. Her name is Tiana, and
040she's just going to talk about her experience in the program. Do we have another chair? Maybe. Um, Ava, can I trouble you for the chair that's just at that doorway there, just so that Tiana can sit in a regular Thanks. And then maybe you can put her right next to you and you guys can share a mic. Perfect. A little closer to the mic. Thank you for getting that. All right. Good evening everyone. Um, my name is Tiana Valz. Um very grateful to be here and share my experience. Um I am 23 years old. I my first graduating year was going to be in 2020. Um but sadly co happened and everything was very chaotic. Um so I unenrolled and here we are in 2025. um last year in November of 24 um I was
041looking into becoming a real estate agent and realized to do anything to change my career currently I needed a GED. Um so I found this program and I'm very very grateful I did find this program. Um online is very very hard for me to do. The teachers were very they were amazing. They encouraged me more than honestly I thought I could do myself. Um it wasn't bad at all. I started um this program January 7th and I finished my last test May May 1st. Um wasn't bad. I'm very very grateful for everybody to guide me along the way and I definitely don't think I could have done it as fast um without the help from this program. That's great. Congratulations, Tiana. Thank you. You know, it takes a lot of courage to come back and
042and pursue finishing up your education like that. Of course. And and then also beyond that to come out and tell your story like this. Um, I want to applaud you both for finishing up your education, achieving your GED, and then also for, you know, singing the praises of the program and letting us hear a little bit about how it impacted you. Thank you. Yeah, you're welcome. Um, so real estate is on the horizon for you. Yeah. Um, I'm in Freedom Trail. Okay. Um, it's online. They have live courses. Um, it's really self-paced. you get the 40 hours done and when you get the 40 hours done you apply for the board exam. Um so that's my goal currently and for next fall of 26 I am already accepted to Mount Wuset for a nursing program
043as well. Oh that's amazing. Congratulations. Thank you. Well done. I'm really proud of her. I'm very very proud of her. Um, thank you for the good words about the program, too. I didn't tell her to say that, but um, yeah, Hiana is amazing. And so, that's why I asked her to come here. And she's accomplished so much in such a short period of time, too. And she is like the epitome of what we help students, but we also help them change their lives. So, she's going to be a nurse. She's gonna be making big bank. You're going to be a real estate agent. making big bang and I'm very very proud of you. Yeah. Um and you can also see Tiana again because we are having a graduation on June 12th. It is at Webster
044Middle School and it's to celebrate all of the students who have graduated or completed our program who've gotten their GED or their high as well as other student award recipients. I do have invitations if any I can give it to you and then she can distribute. Definitely. So, yes, that is June 12th, 6 PM Webster Middle School, the gymnatorium. Um, all righty. So, I don't want to lower the mood, but I do want to talk about FY26 budget. So, that this was a high point. Um, so we have received notice from the state director that our budget will be reduced by 20% going into FY26. So that takes us from around 40 422K to around 338 which is sizable. Um but we are still going to try to maintain all of the programming that we
045have in the best way possible because we have introduced a lot of programming, our summer conversational ESOL class, our summer GED high set boot camp as well as our self-paced program. So we are going to work to do the best that we can to uphold that. um especially because those programs have been successful for us. Um we had five high school equivalency completers coming out of our self-paced program this year. Um and we had two high school equivalency completers coming out of our summer boot camp this year. So we want to be able to continue doing that regardless. My mother always said when there's a will, there's a way. We have a will. So we're going to find a way and the only way through is through. So, that's what we're going to do. Um,
046to bring the mood back up, we do have 15 total high school equivalency completers for this year. And for the program that we have, we actually have a very small program, 54 students. 15 is very good. I think that's amazing. And Tiana is one of them. Um, we have 10 high school equivalency partial completers. So, those are people who are starting their journeys but maybe have not finished yet. We usually like to target them for our summer boot camp, get that momentum rolling so it doesn't there's no slump during the summer. We've also had five post-secary enrollments. So, one student has enrolled in a nursing program, which is actually Tiana. Um, another student has enrolled in a CNA program. Another student has enrolled in the healthcare program at QCC. One has enrolled in a behavior
047care technician program. and one has completed their CDL training. So, that's great. Um, and then as for our enrollment, our ESOL enrollment is doing very well. Um, yearly to date, we're at 102% which is great. um AB 85% that has been a consistent sort of retaining AB students has been a consistent concern that we've had since I've entered the pro entered the program and since before I've entered the program um in terms of so we actually also have some staff wins too so that's cool I wanted to make sure to mention that um five staff members attended a science of learning conference which is I loved it. It was amazing. Um, science of learning is something that of course we want to involve in education or is underpinning education, but we want to start implementing
048that a little bit more and making sure that all of our teachers are aware of evidence-based instructional practices and strategies. Um, and my personal pet project is the interplay between artificial intelligence and science of learning. So there's that. Um, and we've also implemented a professional learning circle which has been pretty good this year. We have talked about or we've engaged with artificial intelligence, but we've also been focusing more so on assessment and how we can use assessment to personalize experiences for students, individualize um their learning experiences as well as get better data on how we can promote student learning. Um so we are also in the process of post- testing. Um we feel confident that we will meet our program goals for both ESOL and AB but we are still in the process of doing
049that now. So that is the end of my wrap-up. It's a great report. There's a lot of progress being made. Lots of accomplishments on the part of your team and and your students. Thank you. Congratulations to all of you. Thank you. and and thank you really for the impact that you all are making on, you know, folks like Tiana who are coming back and saying, "Hey, this is my career path. How can you help me get there?" And it sounds like you're working together to create that road map and and get going on it. So, that's huge. It's life-changing for people. Yeah. I like to say, "Y'all have the babies, right? We have the parents." So, family literacy is really important. Um, and it affects the children when they're in school. So, if their parents
050can read to them more at night and we can help them read to them more at night, then I think we're all doing our job. So, couldn't agree more. You any questions or comments from the committee? Members, sorry, what did what's a Oh, AB, adult basic education. Sorry. Okay. So that's that's the GED high set portion of our program and then ESOL is for the English language learners. So Oh, so the adult adult basic education is that's that that's 85% enrollment. Yeah. I was just like I'm I know some acronyms, not all the acronyms. So I just wanted to make sure I was clear on that one. Any other questions or comments from the committee? Keep up the great work, Tiana. You're gonna come back when you finish your nursing uh program. Give us a
051shout. I'm sure I'm sure AA will be glad to see you, too. Great. Well, best of luck to you and thank you for all that y'all are doing. Thank you. The next item on the agenda is uh we have some donations here to talk about and to accept. Uh the first one being various health and hygiene supplies from the web, excuse me, from the Dudley Women's Club and they're being donated to the Webster Middle School. The next is $500 that's been donated from Webster First Federal Credit Union to the Bartlett High School teacher appreciation lunchon. And finally, uh, $12,265 from the Janet Mouser Humanities Trust to the library at Parkav Elementary School. Anything about those donations or just that's enough. Dr. Mai Santos, I think that as always, we're very appreciative of the donations that
052we receive and I will tell you that there is excitement about the Janet Mer one in purchasing new books for the library. We have that ready to go. Oh, great. That order is already ready to go and ready to be spent. That's great. Yeah. And actually one more that I that I almost missed is the uh office supplies that were donated from ReMax and MBA Mortgage and those were donated to the Webster Middle School. Um we couldn't do the work that we do without the generosity of the folks in our community. So uh I would like to thank all of the folks that have uh seen us as a worthy benefactor of their generosity and and thank you to each of them. Um, and with that being said, I'll entertain a motion to accept these
053donations as presented. So move. Second. There's a motion and a second. Any further discussion? Hearing none. Uh, Desire, would you please pull the committee? Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Motion passes. Next item on the agenda is the review transfer signing of warrants, bills, payroll, and vouchers. Uh, and there are two transfers. The first is a request to transfer. Um I don't have the amount in front of me actually. Um let me just get that. Yeah, thank you. I'll get back to it. I had it open a minute ago here. Uh the first transfer is in the amount of $20,188.7 and that's from the Bartlett High School activity savings to the checking account. And the second transfer request is in the amount of $4,920.19 going from the Webster Middle School student activity savings account to the checking
054account. Uh I'll entertain a motion to approve those. So move second. Motion and a second. Any further discussion on those hearing? Nine. Um Desire, would you please pull the committee? Yes. Yes. Motion passes. I'll entertain a motion to adjurnn. So move. Second. There's a meeting and a motion and a second. Desiree, would you please pull the committee? Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. Meeting adjourned. Good night everyone. That's what I said.