001forty thousand people he asked if you keep that and make it back from the of course we agreed to and then in addition they'll still be on reserved 960 thousand dollars so when you add those four things up the reserve should be about 5.4 million after the drawback so the reason Reserve got higher than anything in uh looking for the two years when we're not in session 100 of the time in 19 20 year 19 2019 20 20 21. first of those schools closed in March and when the close the books and Records it was 2.4 million unencumbered primarily from staff detail it is the following year we did not open a full-time in September it wasn't until January and when uh back and so there were fewer costs as well okay and so in
002that second covert here uh 2.8 million volts on the covered at the end of June and in both cases those monies gone back to the city and that that's what cool City to Resorts I'd like to think that it's it's those monies that were growing down really for pandemic reasons because we've had trouble filling the positions someone argue with the recent health insurance claims are higher it's because there wasn't as much preventive care during the I understand people weren't going to adopters as much and we are seeing a number of more individual high cost claims than we normally would our our Brokers tell us that's one of the reasons it was so high and so I think I think it's all connected but it's those two years it brought the money thank you the new
003reading program wasn't decided on until part of the United States if there were two other mandated voters that made a choice and they chose the one that has been standard but of course there's because it couldn't jump around here and it might want to take advantage of communication and they really wanted it to go from Cake to cry that just came into being affects your device it's done correct it is so this is the reading program right and and Louisa I mentioning the other things because because we didn't realize those savings then the combinational reading programs and these other outstanding issues the money so I believe paid for it we have two big bills essentially in front of us the 23-24 items does overview plus the lead program the reading program certainly a development typically
004the reserves are available or unexpected costs and this certainly leads the criteria for that we thought initially with the savings computer throughout I paid for this internally uh we we can't do those we can't the same thing that we did not realize plus the reading program we can't control the cleanest way is to regardless of the reserve levels and find another way to pay for all of it so we have over six million dollars that you've made up for 23 24 to reading program how do you have to pick up so we have to make up six million so we have three so so it's really a college approach to get to those 4.7 million um we're asking partly for reserves to be drawn down but we're also working to reduce our plans and primarily
005in three areas some of the supplies and materials you can plan to purchase within a before that we're going to reduce our utility budgets that was at the suggestion of the City Finance director utility costs utility prices will come down a little since February were really peaking and then some staffing positions that because of the enrollment shifts we don't think we'll need we're going to put those three things together to come up for 1.6 million of called fortnite so we'd like to think we're doing our part you're not asking the city for everything a combination approach yes John can I just ask one question I just want to make sure I'm clear on this you mentioned four aspects of the um the reserves dollars that have been kept in the last one I think we
006said it was 960 000 or so or can you clarify what that is if you talk about the workers around if you talk about the EPL and you said yeah it's just what was left we're going to need to ask for it [Music] are basically for insurance um and claims workers um so that so we're taking some of the reserves for our insurance Banks under a reserved form was established when we started to self-insure correct yes but but that will remain you won't take that down what was really taking down our votes balances we've given back the last couple years oh that's the way my question would be um we're making this functional Delight requests yes [Music] the answer is yes to that um trying to get some political work with the finance record and
007one representative for the mayor's office Albertson joined us for that the laid out the problem and explained uh why it happened and why didn't happen and uh the police and mayor's office and the finance office are supporting our request so if you think we're we're in as best shape as we can be going to the city council and this looks it's already standing at me it will take place at home I'm sorry I it is it is our understanding that that meeting will take place in August 180 dollars and my final report please um so because there's so much is I guess you might find a question as we talk about the reason that we know that we need this within our students to use men when we put together the budget was that amount
008included no it was I mean not okay thank you so the discussion of drawing down on The Preserve already took place to draw so they're aware that we're going to come up with this request they are so they're different we need to have them already and so this was already a part of the conversation you feel more more than that they gave me some homework to do they asked you to go back and look at all the utility projects so I gave along with Chipotle University they asked us to confirmal for the health insurance broker so I think that too and with those two homework assignments are you ready to move maybe three weeks ago thank you okay so I just want to make sure given that we're asking for the three million dollars at
009one time funding source is the intention to spend this on the the degree program which is going to be a one-time expense so it's like a transaction that way we're not short compared because we did some of that money in that Friday oh excellent happens um who's a broker consultant calendar and onward Cigna our area to uh on much larger number of individuals with claims more than fifty thousand dollars to call those high cost points and when they look at the number of people that's historically not close to what we usually have so we've impressed them if they think that would continue they did not say yes right now we're thinking it's a canal uh really related to the pandemic yes any outside real quick at the end of May I believe you just have
010to say that your school system was pulling 100 150 totally fine and that was not true right so you know I think everybody should have been hell yeah you know everything is great but it was just for this year so we're still sure so you know that word poorly funny I don't know who came what what but we need to be very clear as to what was fun what we're going into the next section with and what we're going to be needing so to say is an American breakdown to the Board of Ed who is birthing us he did watching based on what our professional team here put forward that would totally front us which was which was the ask right that was what he asked for the mayor did give what we asked for
011so I believe we weren't fully funded they saw from our request from the night if you'd like okay so two two different things what happened after was we discovered that we're sure so we improved the budget as a board we put a fourth to the may we asked for 9 million he gave the 9 million so he fully funded our repressor I'm not one of the defense anymore you guys know that but the fact is that we asked for it he gave it so he wants one is going to say the problem lies a couple months later but later hopefully you know we didn't we didn't find this we didn't find out so at the time of the budget that we proposed it was awarded the full act so that's where everybody gets to fully
012follow from right so describe just for clarification so I like to move forward with this whole um so we had second we have discussions or all those in favor any folks okay upstairs all right discussion The Closer by attendant goals assuming that's why I've got two different schools in here they know our 10 minute rules presentations yes yes yes and we're all RV discussion uh this evening so I just wanted to quickly say to the board typically our goals are discussed and agreed upon somewhere between November and I think this evening we're well positioned with some anticipating momentum in this meeting let's open up a school year with goals to hip-hop 2016. we have what you received on Friday was 20 plus action steps that the team and I developed over the last few weeks
013these goals are largely connected to our strategic plan retaining goals and we wanted to make sure there was some goals available for discussion this evening because I think this will really help us to land on some readathon goals for that school at the same time I'm hoping that I'm just going back to one of our discussions and student evaluation meeting wanted to make sure we had an opportunity to talk about our Workshop schedule for next year and give the feedback from the board to potentially Identify some areas that we really want to hear about and then we can also make sure that we kind of underline and highlighted those areas as well to make sure we're providing a deeper understanding for you in our workshop model there's kind of a worksheet or Store card if
014you will in front of you one is the free handout with our three students on South Street this is superintendent proposed goals but then there's another handout and at the top it says goal selection and feedback worksheet for the special ed median the first page that says teaching of learning in a little something like this and on the left hand side of the document on the actual proposal goals for next school year on the right hand side of the document or really simply yes or no this is a goal we should be focusing on you know superintendent goals for the next year and then underneath that um yes or no but this is something new and respectable board members would like to have a deeper conversations with at our workshops so what I've asked the
015team came back to do is I will briefly go over all six goals and then if you have any questions at any point either myself or the team and I can provide providification so you clearly understand what we mean by some of the actions here and so there are six strategic areas that we focus on teaching and learning staff development School climate medical collaboration and resource allocation there are a number of action steps underneath the airport proposed those typically who does that have this many as part of the superintendent goals package and so the idea is try to provide a number of additional like areas you like to crafts with us and then new discussion down to a more mannerable number for 22.4 frankly the team and I will be focusing on all of them
016I've definitely superintendical some would kind of sick inside the Strategic type regardless but we want to make sure we extract the area he wants to public sector this year and then if every expectation that we would share your feedback and maybe goals for my office with all of my departments across the district and that will also play your welcome to the chiefs of the goal setting and school recruiting Finance from our schools as well as so any questions about just kind of the activity itself and then I will just when the system left no I think um it will be appropriate as we go through um I'll quickly brief you on the six areas and as I'm going through feel free to write the comments or some questions that you might have and then we
017can go back in and as we go along it's like oh this is what I absolutely think we should focus on absolutely efficiently at Workshop um yes so yes and we'll just continue to vote on the document people just kind of just kind of talked about it so Ken I understand you also have this on the board for the board and the public as well as your presentation sorry I haven't turned around yet and on page one it's gold more area of teaching and learning and it's going to pay out quickly walking through the four proposed both benefits develop articulated program to study for all career Pathways and so there's considerable amount of work that needs to be done we've already curriculum development and creating kind of being a pathway uh this sequence of courses
018in every pathway for 9-12 students and talking to some discussions that certainly is going to impact our curriculum office but also it's going to directly impact on the future experience through the high school frankly I think that's kind of exciting of 1.2 engage board event and current DPS staff and deeply of understanding of the national standards of practice necessary to make the academies of Danbury a national model and so there's a criteria in place for the academic model if we're really really doing this well and of course our expectations that we will we will be kind of given the ribbon as a national model and so I I understand this is not Nashville Tennessee but it is Danbury Connecticut and so regionally we've built potentially attract Regional waste of schools to our district come watch
019Danbury in action to give feedback from our board to give feedback from our constituents in the city but it's not until we've been selected as a national model to kind of given that Rhythm can we participate in that time be on this side of the table T so just as an expectation we would like to walk forward through but also the constituents in the city what does it take to get there one part of retrained staff and implement the new are for a free reading program I know our board members have been part of the curriculum committee I've heard several presentations about this and 23 24 will be a big deal airport employee staff development and last but not least we're both on establish a collaborative team to reconceptualize and redesign Middle School programming and
020common experiences and let me just explain to the planet are going to detail everything as part of our proposal the board Might Recall it's not only a new physical a new high school because it's also carved out a building for middle school because we could do the 65 students and so we need to come up with what the theme is going to be for that building how kids are going to get there but and then whatever happens there we need to talk about all four now of our middle schools and we need to really think to what this can be through the entire city so the idea is given that we have some opportunity to be able to just do Middle School which is part of the projection I talk about all about middle schools
021to make sure that what we don't want to have is West Side here School of Danbury Career Academy that's cycle here to comprehensive schools here that we have a middle school operating that's totally different across the city of Danbury so we want to make sure there's an opportunity for all of us to discuss what different look like students so I will pause there and see if there are any questions or feedback of course to devices goal 1.3 cake and three I understand it is 145. yes and that's just for you just in terms of it's really about capacity trying to get to all the future at once and so it's being free now uh okay so if our kids and anybody approaches second or third grade test staff will be trained now that you would
022get in front of the day just a question on that so we have the cave at five are we looking to add up to 80. so I know we've had we've been talking about the fake and file and we can't discuss it one time before they're going to try to get back I'll be able to purchase that in the next like it was at considering I think Kelly's going to help me I think the reading program is just going to 6.5 but it is something else in the first piano yeah so it'll be a two-year rollout first will be paid three and then four and five after um one of the decision-making factors for this program is it does have the ability for an atom at the middle school level so as we continue to
023roll it out for Robbie Elementary we will come back to the decision of middle school and we did like this program because we do feel that we should be looking for a common so the short answer is as they roll it up that's going to be part of our decision making games three or four thousand for a grade or something like to extend it it is not as expensive I think that might be her classroom but I'd have a little bit maybe exactly thank you you're welcome okay let me just add more control things that's kind of questions [Music] and so we don't have to unpack the new program and learn the new language not to be confused with it but a written language but a new language in terms of a program so we
024can find that consistency part is that assessment though so I will um I don't see any more questions I don't want to go to um they ask if you could just take a minute to try to be comments or questions and given the briefing we could also write yes or no and start with people like it should be a focus area for us on our Workshop ideas so obviously all these things are underage controls are important so from your standpoint lawyer water what criteria are you using to sort of assess out what these super chemical is specifically that should be Okay so I don't want to downplay this in any way I think for example 1.4 reconceptualizing Middle School all of them are important I think this is the type of goal that you want
025us I would think this is the one one of the clothes that are undergo one and definitely want us to talk about because if my kid is going to middle school next year I want to know what was going on that's not to suggest that I want to know about what's been here before but I think it would be important because the positions to answer any questions or is that a quiet questions like that might be out there so given that that might be in a good way for more to help determine whether or not this is something worthy of workshop and I frankly if it's really really important to our families I think it's giving of you and more likely to be engaged and kind of connect with the presentation I I would anticipate
026in middle school so that's an example I think that's a good one um again not to suggest but not all important but the staff development I don't know what we're going to hear about community I guess my power would be are you expecting that of course for for the board excuse me workshops that we choose one Associated Food Connection rules so I'm I'm thinking if we had put this lesson plan together we're thinking if everyone at this table May pick and maybe some commonalities so we would report back overwhelmingly this is what we heard about the war for the most part wants to hear about Middle School right reconception like the middle and so we will make sure one of the workshops actually a focus on that and understood climate we have we see it
027at the board um really wants to see an update on the court of conduct and how the issue is responding to the issues about students and so if you want to see something on that page get overwhelming that's what we see that we will report back and then talk about the Cadence for our workshops uh and kind of report that again you can ask if we have seen so going from the goals themselves and then report back and say this is what we put together and then also looking at workshops that report back and we won't take that and just put the other sick and see if it wants an agreement because for example I I heard in one of our previous meetings I want to hear more about the academics and as we've been
028looking at it we work around one we learn very quickly at the Academy work is pretty much found in almost every strategic area but if primarily the board wants to hear feedback updates on what's going on for Academy World in terms of preparation it may not fit necessarily be in in all of them and that's okay in the board must be here mostly about you know Kevin how are you and your team working to grow up all around for a condo and we're dressed in I guess who is the support of the district you know that that those two focuses alone might just be two goals it may take up three or four minutes and I forget that it's important for the board and also a significant impact in terms of adults asking you about
029clarifying questions that we already know about importance because it is also I think we need to have a discussion about you know we have the space for presentations um to the ones that you can feedback from the board around the workshops then we can talk about or what do we want to do think how about from you and so Caroline is different people are coming to talk about data presentations but we don't have to have her in the workshop model we can have her as one of the neighborhood introducer the media presentation about how people live here um so that's my long way of saying no I don't I don't think it has to be as streamlined to Syracuse Minnesota yes yeah that's what that's out though not that this is a great to go
030over but I've been able to a board in Tacoma list of things that we want to see as far as it doesn't have to be in in the goals whatever where it is at an academy and the academy touches a bunch of these girls like you said so we want a presentation on our Workshop by the academy what's the structure what's the what's what's the organizational chart what do we offering stuff like that um it's on security so I think I think I think this is great as far as goals but I think as far as workshops of where we're going to spend our time I think we should come up with the Lord should come up with independently of what is preservative if that makes sense yeah I mean it's so Ridley yeah and
031we're working on those all year long these are something that works out and we get one out of every presentation up there but I think the workshop model was really it didn't work really that well yeah yeah the thing is to drill down on specific topics that the board as a as a whole like [Music] these questions and so yeah I guess I went to church but even looking at a question of like you know probably more into how much camera here so that if you have the whole listing that sort of touches on something that I think you could work out really that you could go down here's the broader suggestions almost specific absolutely yeah right there's a lot of them right so well there are two goals all right uh for this evening
032and that's one of our handballs in 2024 um and as part of that conversation will also help us land on potentially to create an outlaw for pork chops so I think it's still some opportunity here and reviewing the proposals the next year getting feedback from the board on which one completely focus on what type is number four so we're not waiting until November again um do you anticipate us to complete this tonight and that is document already so we can do it a couple of different ways we will hoping to go through this evening and get feedback on after the presentation as we're going through that our members would check yes this is something I'm interested in learning more about yes this is something I'd like to focus on for next year and then we
033will provide that feedback for you in another meeting so to see if you can't get closer because it's going to be a part works okay that's and then you know some of the comments it might take a while to cook together you know you need to look at them yeah for me it's just like I'm not comfortable from doing this thing yes you know yes because we have three four of them they're not even here so you know Anthony ever hold on assessment I know that's not your fault but now I I'm just more comfortable with some time that I can look at this and prepare myself to prepare an answer that I'm confident with and that's going to continue to help uh lead our district forward and repeat the goals um to continue doing
034uh moving our education of 64. I'm just not and maybe it's just me today we say yes you know let's continue um thank you so exciting continue on with your goals in your presentation and then maybe recycle that happens too that people would digest the Sheep maybe you can also come up with this kind of a list of what three point workshops we've obviously going forward another thing we're going to accomplish that at all tonight um go ahead and so go to exact development and these two 2.1 develop a comprehensive played at priority side prioritizens professional learning sessions for school leaders to enhance their skills and performance and so I'm outside construction system is important it's difficulties professional development to address the learning needs of all staff and ensure that it pays allocated foreign there
035is a need for us to revisit the availability of staff to meet together and it's going to require us to get really creative and I'm going to ask again just to speak to unpacked 2.1 and 2.25 these goals for gold area two staff development center around the systems and construction so what we wanted to do in terms of looking at the data throughout the course of the Year both from the lens of disciplinary academic attendance I wrote a part about that structure so that we could have more frequent needles and in terms of principles assistant principles curriculum administrators for Department of leaders that we're all on the same page on providing that sort of a problem prior testing time so that we can meet we know these goals and looking at our system as we
036focus on data um but also we're looking to provide their assets are going within an organizational personalize our goals to do that we've got to look at the current Gap we're seeing what we are and where we need to go so I look at this in multiple ways prioritizing professional learning for everyone to learn more about local superintendo level cabinet level of principle all administrators because if we're all informed about what's going on at one Council uh principal pocs staff after school on Tuesdays their apartment after a structure which will require some Congress hubs to some additional subs and support during the course of the school day to the pool of teachers to our professional learning communities with friends Awards and with the teachers on Tuesday after school time or at a collaborative needles to
037have our PBIS meetings to have our school Improvement Plan reviews to have our professional learning about our core K3 so we're going to be luster or not you need support through the five in the implementation for that program but this is going to be not going to process rather than inquiry but also involved in this is our instructional allowance to explain that overall professional learning system which is in the world going to process everybody in this room and all the Departments within the district so it's going to be elected in terms of popular Subs number one and also providing or creating that space to meet people during the school day and outside the school day oh wonderful things in terms of the structures that most of the items that you've seen listening [Music] areas have
038an impact so everything you see listening teaching learning has some impact on us [Music] or something um so in all of the areas that you see listed um almost all of the areas that you see with schedules from the superintendents um here have an impact on staff development so if you go back into learning and you see each of those items that are listed there they all have a personal learning component here and whether you be able to find a few more professional learning each of those so it's really critical that we're pretty describe her that doesn't overwhelm teachers are trying to learn new things but we're able to roll that out in a way that makes sense allows them to process the information and then influencers for the programming as we go about you
039see the art core program which referred to that that's that's going to be about in terms of Staff they all have just understand the conceptual knowledge behind it but also the implementation of it um there and that devotes to each of the goal areas you'll see a heavy impact on professional learning so it's really good it's just creates a structure in which the markets are not including against building any consensus as well thank you um do you plan to be here uh what these sessions are going to be or is it Fitness yes there is considerable questions in case of what that looks like it sounds like yes that's so important for the last week we've got about the past Narrows Department in the critical areas that are going to really take the most time
040and how being more on a schedule around that so that everything is not continued against one or the other thing a piece of that thing to enrollment Grace forms automatic program next year I was continuing in that room that's getting paid free so a lot of their professionals are in 5th grade four five GP 2019 and professional work so we're well enough the literacy piece so that could be in very large is there [Music] so we all do work together to make sure that we're not overwhelming teachers but it will be thoughtful approach to each other any other questions after reading the survey that was taken this year there seemed to be uh teachers faculty didn't seem to be expressed that they've had enough professional learning sessions and I was just wondering if something gets
041published so they know this is what's happening and to address their concerns because I was kind of surprised if you've always seemed to be uh teachers can you know professionals that experience every year and that's what I was dancing even if it's sales piano yes you just leave the team and I we did look at this feedback if I could be concerned about the feedback it's not a lack of planning and habit of feeding counter out for any type of school year you might have had been being around our team that we never heard of a day right now but I think some of the things that we've gotten away from that we've talked about is just as recent news last week as you know it's there's something to be said about having some kind
042of a district office or the CRC office going in and leading the professional development and but also making sure there's opportunities for some of our lead teachers teachers and giving a close-up as soon as they can give them their peers I'm also the professional development and so I think it's important for the district for us to be more intentional about putting their peers in front of them and only this year again from people the experts Act without some things that you got into it so we just talked about this last week and finding ways to do that um with this opportunities I think it would put a bit better received by our staff but that's only one one strategy but I think we need to be constant about things like that because I think what's
043happening exactly is this kind of a top-down to peuge results and I appreciate that rehabilities to be a little bit more impossible Chris I was just going to say a lot of the learning stuff from our instructional allowance people there's a middle school where 678 a basis in particular the three middle schools worked across the various schools to look at map categories in Pacifica and I think organically that came out that they wanted to have an opportunity to watch other teachers to look at practice another classroom I think the only way to to Really increase your own advocacy in terms of practice in the classroom is to see Masters teachers teaching um it's one thing to hear about it it's one thing about presenters to say what great natural starts with it is and part
044of our instructional rounds this year but also will be a strategic Focus next year is getting into classrooms but we see such outstanding practice that it would be neglishment on a part not so you can have that category perform the rest of our school district whether you're doing such wonderful things we all need to learn from them there's classrooms we go and I just take works I can do it for hours because we also need to talk as students at that level so really high library and show foreign with our school psychologists partnering with to make sure we are PBIS teams to really um to support everyone in the school district and it's not necessarily that everybody wants to do a great job my class feel something we don't have any breakfast bar not had
045certain experiences I mean that we need to develop and we need to block improve upon our borders to really you know actualize our our abilities thank you so let's go three Talent acquisition recruit employers that work to be invested towards their educational needs to our students so we have three goals for next year continue to advance along with improve it and build on the success that we had this year at 3.2 we did an enhanced communication education by employee benefits to informed staff about the added value of work with EDS the 3.3 establishing committee to identify best practices and develop Partnerships with new teacher programs to attract and retain a more diversity support thank you can talk about 3.1 to start with maybe be able to release questions [Music] um so we're going to focus
046on a couple of things and remember from last week we talked a lot about the recruiting and routine and talent and that continues to be a great focus of the group and so each of these little areas slightly different place the first one with regard to marketing recruitment one of the challenges we continue to face is the depth of us now well both among certified and non-certified staff so we continue to look at places where we're going to Market and to be more aggressive and how we attract um can't be sent to the district we're looking also an incentives so we talked about a little bit of current Educators this year but we're looking at Alternatives and incentives and this leads a little bit into the retention we've done a couple of things this year
047that we'd like to leverage for next year as well for example um our town so our town is a program where our existing teachers can go through a program to get across the University of education and we have provided a way for them to enter the program and we've made a modest amount of the tuition for them and those teachers come out according to the commitment to us so there's two years remaining in the district and they helped with know the shortage area so we're going to continue to look at opportunities to continue to build on those um there's sort of small Financial costs to us about very large rewards in shortage areas so partnering with different departments do that that's one big area a second big area in terms of how we recognize and
048recruit folks is going to be the how we roll out the structure of the career academics so we're about to enter into some negotiations with the SAA about the structure and with NAA about the structure for teachers and those contemplate kind of a breadth of responsibility of training but also recognizing some criteria or some certifications of specialty areas now again we want to recognize teachers who pass something that's a little bit unique in terms of the academies and their children's learning study that will allow us to retain and reward and retain those members of our faculty so those are two big areas the last primary area is going to be looking continuing our March through this inquiry into the DVI and we use our Workforce continuing to reflect the democratives of our students one of
049the places you have to remember that we talked a little bit about that there's a role for coming years boys so look at where candidates of color have fallen out of our iron pipeline so the third area of initiative for us is going to be to try to gather data as best we can and where we're bringing in candidates and then where is it in the screening in the interviewing the selection we're in the process our candidates and so one of the recommendations for rules will be to put together a study group that can look a little bit more in more detail about the New York candidates follow-up and then look at things like how can we make our selection process more continuous across all of our buildings you'll remember that our hiring results decentralized
050so building administrators here at the waiver more on how to hire interior buildings and we think that there's some really great practices in some buildings that we could replicate with other buildings and we have a little bit better result in terms of equity and higher so those are kind of the main initiatives that we're going to have for this year um thank you so Kim quick question so I noticed three entire English from last week seemed to be around the same time again every year right yeah we haven't seen this year more people leaving the district for the jobs or any more than on average no it feels anecdotally so but when we looked at the numbers it really isn't extremely so um you know we're only mid on that end of June we'll get
051another kind of flood of resignation into retirements in the coming months so I'll be able to look at that a little bit better what sometimes you always hear me remain on the Tyler parade but one of the great things about Tyler is a direct retention report so that we can see um who's how many people are saying how they were going the retirees we saw were really big burst redgraph so a lot of people they think you were close went right over it was not going to retire um what we are seeing though in our exit survey which we started running this year is people are a lot of people are living in a professional adaptation they're not necessarily leading us to those someone else to teach okay not some of the data that we
052solved we need to prevents in survey all right how much uh the hiring that we're doing is replacing um open spots that we have and how much of that is foreign levels really it was replacing the last 10 sections of the elementary school again this year um but it's really the most like the higher ones in the high school they were not sure it is okay right so well I actually keep a document our military started causing not so much because I'm not part of reasons so I have a really loads of Google spreadsheet um more or less it looks like um I would say some buildings Elementary were done are in real good shape um the high school has quite a bit of hiring to do this year so we're still kind of making
053our way through Specialists they're working hard but again we're getting people we're having trouble bringing people in because of the shortage area um non-certified borrowers and we still have it here foreign but I would say we've probably about foreign [Music] coaches that were brought up and I've had spoken with Michelle from Britain about getting a model I guess they have an actual small chart of how they support a student I'm assuming that it's different than the current we have and I'm wondering how you know do we have the same kind of numbers I know that things would have shipped can we get that you know how many people will require it to like that touch as a student in this new program yes that's probably a very messing our question more than a compression of
054the general paintings again um but I will say this that um in talking about how we formulate the administrative structure that's the one that's kind of throwing in the front of our minds right now that's the one that we'll start talking now with um dsaa about that will look comparable to whether it's in Nashville with Academy leavers slash director principles whatever the name is and so we have some real structure work to do in negotiations because that's a mandatory subject they're bargaining for us about the titles the Penny Lane the number of days of the year reporting responsibilities um and how they're higher the selection process will be once we settle that we'll have the overarching structure and then we'll layer um teaching and changes that may not to happen for Teacher assignments and again
055how it impacts the bargaining unit but I think with those you'll see that it probably is fairly consistent from place to place so when you need to have your core teachers you need to have your coaches whichever you're supposed to say whichever PPS stuff so it probably was pretty comparable I think the big thing that I heard was class size or cluster size um there's considerably smaller than ever here hello just haven't spoken again it just seemed to have a lot of teams that supported one student at many different levels there was a lot of it seemed like a lot of touching that student so it just seemed like I don't know because I had asked that question I didn't handle it she goes we have a lot of gaps that we need to fill
056in so I wanted to see what we currently have as far as what we usually have in our setup assistant to you know support our students and then this new model they've definitely does change so I just wanted to get an idea for obviously we're talking about budget and you know coming down the line you know that we've committed obviously to the Career Academy but what does that really look like when we're looking at the numbers and we're looking at positions you know on a similar situation to the current obviously this is going to be a big lift so just wondering if we can get just start to get an idea of what it looks like obviously it's going to be develop and take its own life right High School yeah thank you the questions
057okay at least that I wonder if there's a way to have a conversation with City officials to see people incentivize teachers who are not currently part of our community and can come to another Community um I know that this has been the stuff most important before but the idea that if anyone support you don't need that some of the house like that comes out of that account you know an asset that could help us resolve some of these sad issues and two not realizing like hey there are because of our expenses of Liberty district there are lots of things like um student local refinancing way through Tesla or consumable we welcome our teachers at one time the presidential mortgage rates but I agree I think California uses teacher housing and okay I will call what
058you just basically wondering and if it's a child to the questions that you ask um thank you more about what that means for Danbury so we'd be happy to put together a crosswalk and where we are now is the national model is a real life being together because we need some kind of a discussion production goal area four School final promote a safe and support learning environment that after the social emotional growth and the Civic responsibilities for all students families and staff so we had four will also secure this required implementation of water conduct and parental multiplication system this is followed up to this country we've had previously the school year Implement trainings training and systems for PBIS across all schools pre-kb to keep an understanding and establish structural material supports this would be a
059goal of year one or three 4.3 which makes them Implement aperture SEO speed and data assessment to identified sports that they need to enhance their regulus for learning strategies to create awareness of the importance of attendance and address contact using behind schools and last but not least operations system operating system operating system management and this is a follow-up to some of the priorities we have to outline that in communities before that makes you look at optimization about the previously in Phoenix that signed up on it uh we will update that and use parent squares to do something similar your software Progressive name and please sit down and Report the direction of my candidate for next year which kind of requires more training staff and Avatar the PBIS Chris Anna Kelly had provided any updates before
060the last meeting is going to be really important for us vacation students at all schools for many people are tier four and kind of a positive model versus background on that absolutely this is some something that is being sponsored by the State Department of Education and what it does is Advance teachers the ability to rate and Screen all students in their classroom and what it's looking for is strengths or assets that students have as far as coping and Readiness for Learning and then identify any areas that students are lacking those skills that need to be accepted when they talk so this is not a means of identifying any negative or bad behavior it's really looking at proactive approach of what skills are lacking maybe a student is not being able to work successfully in a
061group so what do we need to do and explicitly to teach that child so that they can they can achieve that problem with success so every teacher will do a quick rating or streaming of um it depends on the grade level but anywhere between about 10 and 14 questions on the student and then if there are identified areas of need there is a more extensive rating scale that can be considered by a team of teachers um and really the rational for doing this is what we can identify specific areas of support that we can then explicitly teach students so that they make positive games and growth which ultimately would have sex success um and so children will be rated following during spring so we'll also it'll be the first time we'll actually have a measurement
062tool to see growth across those SEO scale which is what we really need and we'll also be using this in conjunction with our PBIS our your support system-wide structures in schools for successful learning for students constantly understand how to go about doing school and we'll also be partnering this with our absenteeism data to see if the student is lacking is that one of the reasons that maybe they're avoiding around how we struck those skills so they're all kind of working at the opportunity to ultimately support students like attending school feeling seeking secure at school and wanting to work and stuff okay we were talking a few months back about some sort of reward system who is her classes and put in Texas is there anything um or something like that yes so Chris you guys
063speak to this talk about about U.S or comments in the next 50 years so yes that would be something that would be on the docker director of PBIS or incentivizing incoming the school would be the alternative see behaving on the systems instructions schools and their overall attendance on the floorboarding like foreign [Music] students and then remember if there are to another sometimes that's based on future expectations sometimes that states about the confidence um so if there is a relationship with that child that teacher would be most appropriate to do so it's a teacher that you know has a student um maybe for a lot of their Flex classes on a regular basis or something like that um but we will pick one of the four content Area Teachers to not confirmative any teacher most of
064our Middle School and High School teachers have 120 students on Facebook um so it may be that all you know if we had blocked one and say every teacher that has a child in Block one is when they completed and then as there's these that rises to the top we can then walk across a wider variety shut up yourself successful I will ask if I can give a full benefits okay thank you the data will be able to share itself thank you yes I know that um last year so it's expensive theater where it is thanks and I'm thinking since I'm a grandma some of these young somebody young kids starting in elementary school and I want to call a person of America and I don't know how you work this into what's pursue their
065behavior change a grandpa and say okay he's gonna work with you for a couple of weeks to make it to change her attitude and I think if I could start in their elementary school because one what I'm saying by the time you get to the high school we don't have people knew mentoring appetizers some of them and uh yeah but you know you know and I know when we came up there was a different version of how you respect people so uh you know it's just something I've been thinking about a long time I don't know if something more every minute you you have to help other people come in but then how will you go to these people to sign it up so first thing Johnny has to be better and [Music] behaving and
066things like that one of the strategies we currently use as mentors with dsadc um we also identify mentors at the school there are you know check-in checkout systems that are used regularly so there's not trust for adult on those reward systems for students in a trusted adults who are always a NATO anymore um so I I idea of something we're currently doing but certainly could expand upon them um but it the the notion of this is really to be very proactive so that we can put some skills plates before we get to the point that we're really trying to kind of replicate a negative situation I'll take 100 minutes [Laughter] we we definitely can come up with some type of celebration of Secrets what purpose and perhaps Awards superintendent Awards of the principal Awards and
067it would be appropriate that we saw celebrating season and finding our own recycle celebrate students who are I only want things that are important for the war with the subway and you know how we work with the board meetings I don't know but I I think all of our schools our teachers go find me the book collaboration Department of families communities and public and private sectors in schools and collectively create opportunities for you to engage every student learning and success sold out 45 I'm sorry for proposed goals for next year to continue to leverage Community Partnerships to support student achievement and before a collective ad initiative 5.2 we established a robust adult education program our seminars classes open to the public I.E ESL High School the department of completion citizenship an array of programs requested
068by the community so we'll talk about adult day we're also talk about continuation issues 5.3 is Dan Family University program to improve Saturday and explore and learn new promise and Champion programs to celebrate families who attend 5.4 of the last one rollout rate level Community great love through training sessions and school-based open houses to increase student academic achievements and so 5.1 I know briefly Julie Bridget through different agencies for part of the collective hack meetings yeah and most recently Michelle was part of the one one or two meetings but and you can just kind of get a brief very brief overview about Collective impact kind of intentionality behind it you know the collective impact and some things we would focus on and I think it's also important that important to say that it's it's not
069our Collective impact however we do play a role in kind of getting it off to grab one that's off the ground and trading rules are off it's yourself so thank you um so the collective impact was in response to a request for a proposal that the never made the foundation put out about almost two years ago now and so we put in a Community Driven all moving in One Direction as a city around certain goals to impact students in their families and so through the meetings that we've had so far we have come up with three main goals or pillars as we call them or goal posts is to reduce absenteeism increase mental health and support really really childhood education and that was from surveys that we have had done over the last few years
070in putting this grant in and through our different other surveys that we've done reducing expertiseism is something that the district will benefit from but families will benefit from that too because there's root causes the absenteeism that we know that food housing just security for students impacts their ability to be at school so it's not just a school issue but it's a community issue and so where we are today right now and the selective impact is we have a community group we now have the start of three to three workers and we have just put up an ad with our backbone agencies United Way for its first executive director and so that's where we are coming so far thank you 5.2 is I'm sorry I don't know I just don't I just want to comment on
071the recent survey um foreign so our program is currently under subscribed in which is working very hard to learn animal about our programs and into the city programs that are being offered foreign [Applause] and then eventually get to those High School preparation Greg is also partnered with Andrew a program to learn yourself and how many students research [Music] as of right now I think we were 50 people that are about ready for graduate tomorrow and also you know for two disciples the parents coming in looking at ways that we can engage their parents and the future and learning it in controls but one of the other pieces that we're supposed to program many years ago it was theater Northwest program we went through a lot of development programs like Spanish for teachers um buildup classes
072so Rick is really making a commitment to learning that program and he's very excited about it we're very excited about what he's running into the Department of Community as well as you have all of the support thank you so given the board's experience with the family program at the University a great little breakfast extension or a connection to our literacy of University mindset and finding a better way to connect that to the neighbor's office and that's about 5.4 are there any questions about you know the collaboration of these guideline projects okay it's resource allocation established a transparent coordinary and efficient budget process that shows equitable distribution of resources allocated to support and sustain their distribution initial 6.1 code construct the Standalone budget the Danbury Career Academy 6.2 identify specific Workforce developing funds and particularly the
073city that can be utilized to fund their verification career testing program 6.3 develop a multi-year financial Outlook to improve capacity for long-term planning and 6.4 conduct efficiency studies of people's transportation and shared services to identify cost savings so those are the four areas that we prioritize for next year the idea of code construction a standalone budget some of the board members Might Recall at our council meeting is able to request to have ongoing discussions uh with the board around our question next year specifically to um The Academy of Danbury work and so our idea was of course any budget is also wanted to throughout High School we want to make sure that we've itemized specifically the work of the high school and do that with the city of Danbury and any other institutions Museum table
074to make sure there's clear understanding of what the needs are uh obviously for these two questions together to Simply requests to be fully understood the Workforce Development funds okay so there are grants out there to help support initiatives that are a Workforce needs around a regionally but also around the state of Connecticut and so the Hopeless is that given the the mayor's office focused with increasing their capacity and Grant Office so that we can work with them for some grants that can also support our students but at the same time but we really support the need of the city for our in our region I think the multi-year financial outlooked capacity of the hotel claim is somewhat self-explanatory that I think at the minimum we need to put together a three-year Financial outlook for the
075boarding for the city of Danbury and last but not least conduct on proficiency studies certainly transportation is one of them I've been given that we are talking about adding the high school adding a middle school in addition to the challenges that we already have any possible that we can find so we think it's important we have some type of stuff that we've got to do to see if there's opportunity to facilities so I will pause and see if there are any questions before we started over to the next thing about it again um I guess the question is my question is um you wanna when you start the budget functions we must do our project it's strictly for the Career Academy I think it's important that we have a budget for the entire system but
076I think it needs to be itemized either way so everyone can clearly understand this is for specifically for the Academy to Denver you just make sure everyone understands that this is it's part of the entire budget specifically for the high school this is the cost associated with with evil so with the with the um Finance director and yourself so I and I'm trying to Envision this popcorn they can hear from everyone pictures it will just be a book parties and what you need to do your cabinets and it's not going to be emerged without regular budget so I think we're envisioning it would be heard however we would bring specific attention to if it's involved as an example but we will bring attention to the high school piece of the budget and say this specifically
077this page and so we have 100 in 60 million dollar budget this year and so 25 million hypothetically could be Danbury High School for both campuses and we would have that itemized in a way where when you go to page 37 in a book which means it page 37 and 45 that's itemized all the costs associated with the high school and the parts that were projecting and this year next year giraffe can be wrapped in the United States thank you anything else yes so given that feedback this evening um I will I can follow up with your Warfare regarding the goals themselves on how we want to move forward on the feedback from this and again we will table that now but I think just kind of giving the overview that was provided this evening
078I hope this helps us land on both to help people here versus depends on everything we have in November so I appreciate your engagement this evening okay so I I want to take this opportunity also take this opportunity while I have the full detention and obviously the character in this year as well high school and in the article they spoke to frankly your superintendents both prematurely about what was happening at overclock at at the high school and how that was potentially being depressed the reality is I just want to walk to the board a freaking timeline in January mid-January of 2023. I requested a meeting with the mayor to really speak about my concerns about really the safety of the building giving the projections for 24-25 live in the news that the building the new
079building will not build and so the meeting was I don't want to say productive it was certainly a good meeting in that City Hall certainly understood our concerns but you know we have typically 900 plus students in Captains here at any given time during the school day building that was essentially made for 3 000 or maybe 2800 is will be close to 3 800 by the time 24 25. and so in January we had that meeting really without any answers Beyond yeah I was reminded this weekend and this is my mistake because I thought Rob was actually a disabled City officials who might be protesting Rachel who was at the table and that was really at that time it's a conversation between the end of January and December I received a call um Dr Stephen
080Chang who was the president of the University of this colleges during the state of Connecticut and I did apply at school thank you for and he made me aware that a legislator in our community and maybe that could not resonate with me because of the names and shared the challenges around all the crowded here in the community and that perhaps there could be a solution right here in town at a restaurant and so there was a meeting in February to see if there was any potential and so I told them I appreciated the Outreach and uh certainly a meeting with the appropriate for all their president that was fine I called him immediately I said well I don't know if you came and he just called me and uh said we should be so Paul
081said let's do it and you never know so we had what I'm calling the exploratory meeting to see if there was a fit so what we learned in that meeting is that what's on is being challenged with the timing involvement wow Danbury public schools is continuing to experience an increasing role and so what I noticed quickly is that Dr Chang was trying to bring us together to see if there was an opportunity here and so I I didn't ask well can you also bring his name's office because it December in January and frankly if this thing can be funded it has to be the mayor it was like in cave or whatever and so at that meeting it was mostly for Paul and myself example and you know really just listen just trying to understand
082what our needs were so it was us the mayor's office amazing most of us I think asked messages that we won't be what would be what we want to get get and really to ask was just tell us how many classes you would need if this could work I mean bathrooms you would need it just to work on the office you would need be said to them which is uh thought it would be probably writing the paper this weekend this really could only work if we could move an academy over because it would be no officer would be no efficiencies found um outside of them so that meeting was in February and it was a compact send us some information and send us some information and you know we can follow along that follow-up meeting
083what really was restoratory meeting just to see if there's a match here was not scheduled until yeah so again given that this meeting so that the person who set up the meeting is not the chain and trying to get all the talented um lined up again this is not for the 23 24 school year this is for the 24 or 25th but what has not changed from January until in June is that there's and I'll go and group the board on to eat today but there's no earmark money for any of these issues and so it was immediately told today in that very different from what we had at the school in Brookfield during the 21-22 school year and immediately we had to provide upgrades to the entire facility to make it ready for kindergarten
084Lutheran University well it's not K-12 ready and we need to make you awareness you know studies it would you're probably looking at North 300 000 just to walk the building because it's not great for baseball students it's a different standard again while we're just talking about our basic needs [Music] there is no answer transportation a couple hundred thousand dollars to to say 700 000 support between the kids because they have to sleep lineup we have never posted anything out in terms of Staffing additional costs or a union meetings and you know labor impact because we at this point is really exploratory so we're in this meeting on this exercise 12 30 today and until I get there and I and of course I have the president of locals and state colleges in the conversation of
085the same and so I I had to say about that pre-controlling I'm talking to the media about something frankly that was in a very early explored corporate stages and it should not happen right so let me just stop and then secondly and this is frankly part of what a lot of things that I'm trying to do on behalf of the district and there are I in January and February I really didn't have anything to bring to the award in terms of anything maybe to raise your attention but I also understand that this should have been a place where him updated you or something special that may or may not crystallize anything mean so I want to make a board aware of that we didn't have these discussions it was a discussion today and so they
086must have made 15 plus people on the call Wells from the construction Authority at the state of Connecticut folks from and they were really representing City education department the mayor's office is on call the to the customer who's on the call the president of Wisconsin was on the call although his assistants camera in Philadelphia and they're done with its own Paul or the technical questions and so we had sent the number of classrooms a number of offices of a restaurant that would be needed to clarify that we would need at least 30 40 50 buses to move students they it really depends on the timing but we made it clear that we would need to move to it for the entire city of the Empire science part of town and frankly but if this meeting
087say or the meeting we had before I did not leave the meeting terribly optimistic that this would turn in then again at our meeting today with the president who started Frank it is query and just said you know is there financing to support this if we didn't have answers because they were there are no answers yet and there was a question opposed to there were two legislators in the room that really was building one there when the impression was close to her said there will be a session in February and it's an opportunity then that you know a request to be made to additional money is given the Gap year 24.25 the school wasn't built and see it Mondays could be advocated for in that regard it as of right now there's an original internally
088I mean locally and you know folks from the state will also ask if they were at the people that was OPM have to get maybe the other organization Das is also at the table and both of those folks were at point blank in any money to be pulled together far away and it was also being very clear that we don't have monies available you know just in the days or something else so if we left the meeting today with uh president Chang uh asking that Paul and I get together with our respective teams and walk through the campus to see if this is even anything now logistically it's impossible because the point that he had raised was that you don't even know if it's possible because we don't even know if your ability to meet
089the needs of the school so so that was the problem and so he had urged all of us to do that sooner rather than later before we waste any more time he was just talking about it because we don't we don't know uh our respective case after they did encourage us to We Will Walk about it so we can see if you can see that possibly even both granted until one year but it would it would mean a lot and so Paul and I had agreed that we were revisit both of our Capital really soon and see see again see if this match so uh Paul I mean the president at West time is going to be with President James ASAP I'm going to enable it back to us they also had some as you
090might imagine that they had sort of strong concerns about having by the world essential concerns about our ability to isolate them from the college campus in the college community but they also had concerns about the campus turning into a high school versus being a college campus and where that would be what would be for their potential work instead of trying to build up and build up on evolvement at this school so again I I left the meeting today probably as indeed to me stay optimistic they really blasphemy and optimistic and again the President James to his credit that's a very straightforward questions about money and at this time people do not have answers for the cause associated with improvements including advancing this conversations is likely to be some questions that I anticipate that I didn't
091know this weekend so I don't know um whether we report a guy is information about my mistake was frankly responding as if I went to the meeting today and uh you know people at a meeting at my group there was there people like me was like you know we're just going to be clear this this is not a done deal you know this is far from it but you know um you know a certainly that would speak I think I addressed to elementary school I'm well aware that it'll be constructed that day a sports re I guess in that we had not committed to anything I mean why didn't our discussion um and again I I don't know what the report I had is information but I was responsibility very detailed questions he was asking
092responded that way and actually just one of us too much students so for anything for you because and so because we will have about 200 additional students the 24 25 it'll be around 36 this year with two yesterday I mean next year to see what we were exactly the issue is the reason why we came over this 450 number if this wasn't working is that for us to move 200 and then I can say of course you're going to teach two classes here like in about two three classes over there and then Chris is going to go wait a minute you want me to travel for the two four period so now I can only teach two year into there it's so now we have to find out a way how are we going to
093find another teacher to teach that one class that Chris that I'm traveling with that time it's just not cost efficient abroad it's a little 200 and not be report because we have an old Academy there we're all going to teach you today and so that that's that's what was it just would be conversation yeah I mean that's really broad struggle it's just going to be a hard position because it would be the first time the entire staff not to mention Services come from the special education services start from my ESL or 5.7 and so when we were trying to have discussions around this we really bringing it around which is really 400 it's really an academy or nothing because you know as it is it's going to cost the cost will be ridiculous um if
094we split it's really not going to be close exactly because by the way it's still with you it's going to give back to school so that's something any questions about it no I think I think you'll even take it with you or so without answer information in the meantime I'm going to try to get something together with some topics of but um yeah um what they think about like the cabinets your journey workshops you know something like that it's just this worksheet here was to determined right if we wanted to have one of these topics or goals as a workshop right yeah it's too cold so so one for the same goals and it's more appropriate than we can separate the two and maybe go back to this specifically making stuff on the walls itself
095and in the workshop how does this thing set about doing their confidence taking a test with a couple of steps and then you know I have no problem uh yeah Kevin and I will talk a little bit and we'll get get it out to us uh for the year of uh you know the school open and you start back at 14 in September because you know I'm really kind of getting to know it every time we have a meeting you can't hear from yourself however this diagram how we are sitting or four of them because you can't hear on this side and when someone's talking over there you can't hear what you're saying even if they use the mic and the people in the artists can't hear what you're saying and they'll know who he's
096saying or what so you know who we sort of look at oh I'm sorry use the right way I'm sorry so if we could sort of look at restructuring how was City or summer I I think I think the proper might etiquette I think we need a little tutorial on that maybe you can't put because it's like I always feel myself what a big mouth I'm like leaning into it I mean what's the proper Mike editing just right here and just call horrible into it yeah I I think that's one of the things we should because I I see like talking over here and with the mic's on but I I think we try that before you know yeah well you know either way because when you put that stuff tell everyone to suck back
097in our meetings if there's anyone interested in interviewing for sister principals on Wednesday we're actually doing four meals for four buildings um two candles in the morning two thousands in the afternoon we're trying to kind of see that I had administrators leaving for the summer and summer school teacher so if anyone I'm considering anytime we do appreciate it comedy foreign and they're doing two things in the afternoon starting around noon time for Middle School it's in my office is available email s all right Alex is an emotion to a journey pretty success [Music]