4/5/23 Board of Education Workshop

001okay I like to call the meeting to order at seven Workshop to order at several degrees thank you foreign what Terry present Michelle Kate your Gladys come here Jesse Julie here Ralph president oh Bridget sorry okay so before um more Spotlight in school I just wanted to say something and just just publicly that um we got the good news last night about the budget and wanted to thank um mayor Esposito uh all the council members that attended the workshop and really um you know heard us out um a finance committee led by uh Mr alamuso with the vice Chair King kineta Kevin and his um and John and the whole Finance team here really put a lot of in all the important members on the finance committee and the importance also and especially the the

002parents and students and teachers that all went out and you know let their voices be heard and advocate for um the budget so we do we all take a lot of time and effort and take it seriously and put a lot of time and and make some hard decisions where we're putting through the budget process and um it's it's refreshing that uh you know where the voices were this year and I'm happy to be a part of that and I just want to thank everybody for their role um in that process so so thank you guys [Music] [Applause] thank you um so Spotlight at school East Town Elementary come on [Applause] good evening thank you for having me here this evening [Music] thank you for having here this evening surprised by some of my teachers

003back here so I just wanted to thank them for joining us this evening as well [Applause] so I'm just going to briefly introduce you to my school and highlight a few things so um I have our our core value statement of their his town is an equitable and Safe Community of empathetic courageous respectful and responsible Learners and we are proudly the haystown dragons we are a category 2 School of Distinction this year or from last year of high growth our needs in ela we also have our second year in a row of one of our fourth graders winning our fire prevention contest District winner 2022 and 2023. uh I wanted to share our growth for our last links which is our assessment that we use in the district for our English language Learners it's a

004yearly assessment and as you can see the blue is our growth rate and the green is our average percentage of Target achieved so we see that and it shows we're doing some nice work there to just share our data over the last from 2017 2018 and then 2021 as back growth and you can see the last is post-pandemic blue is our school um the beige yellow is the district and the purplish is the state and our group is above average of those other areas above the state of the district as well in our growth in both the LA and Japan just to highlight some of our compute Community Partnerships we have a food pantry at hayestown that we are very proud of it's quite large and that is a partner with Stop and Shop we

005also work closely with the Lions Club for our eye exams and also they you know donated many things to our school over the past few years we have an active member a venture program within Danbury student and Business Connection several of our students participate in that the Knights of Columbus provides brand new wonderful coats many many coats for our students and that is we actually have a closet that we use and we are also partnering with Jericho to support our students in after school and with a lot of activities and special events that take place at hagestown I just highlighted a few this year we had three extremely successful math nights broken up to k12345 the month of January February March uh attended by over each of that had over attendees we also had a

006very successful trunk Retreat we do a monthly spirit days students and staff we have our PBS program called Dynamite dragons which the students love there are extrinsic motivators you know prizes but one of the things that seems to be the most popular is when they can get to do things with either me or other other staff members visit classrooms they had clipboards they go around and that seems to be very popular we We Do seasonal drawer decorating contests which are kind of fun teachers and students get very competitive about those we so to come to Haze down you can see it's a big deal there um we had a fantastic starts with a low week our support staff works great with the parents and the teachers to organize this we need to address like a

007book character day in the fall we have several family activities that this the students do with their parents and then bring them into showcase the big one this year was our leprechaun traps that the students did with their families and then we put them all over the school to try to catch leprechauns um we have a we had a very successful food drive in the fall last night we had a fitness Night American Heart Association the gym was packed parent-teacher conferences open house and then we have a special program going on right now with parent University grade two math focusing on some of our new newcomer families so how to support our our families who are not native English speakers with navigating their children in the area of math oh so I have a little

008video that will end my presentation but I did want to highlight so we had zero indoor out-of-school suspensions at all last year and we currently have non-ess of today and that is hard work of the staff and since the taste down so just enjoy our little presentation there was music that the audio is now currently working now and we just highlighted the different events like this was the 100th day of school this is some of our math nights math nights and they were centers the parents walked through the centers that the students do in school I don't know if the chairman deaf and teachers and students wore their ugly sweaters which is always interesting because the kids don't think they're ugly [Music] this is one of those eligible and the kids have to read their

009books we have to guess the book characters so it's it's pretty fun the older students go and read or we have other people go read the books for the kids if it's not a book at their life and then you can see the kids which is great because they come in and they're in their little kiddos [Music] Trunk or Treat parent participation we had to stop cars we had to cut them off we had so much involvement and for all of these activities we've utilize parent Square on our monthly newsletter and then a week before and then during the week to make sure parents are aware of what's going on to start to flow our Bean is let kindness be your superpower so that was our theme for this year [Music] I may or not

010may may or may not be the orange character I can't confirm original [Music] and this is haystown [Music] [Applause] thank you so much thank you um just explain quickly on the pancake pantry you guys have this what that means for you and your staff the pantry that you guys have at this point when you walk us through what that means and yeah so that's something you just have to work on yes so last year and mean um you know approached approached me about starting closet that's that's how it's kind of presented you have a closet that we can start you know like a mini food pantry and um so I don't I don't do anything small so the closet became yes but I have a room so we actually um and and some some board

011members have seen it I invite you to you know come and check it out but so what we do is we have um partnership with Stop and Shop where there are gift cards through a grant and uh and we shop um my social worker my family liaison are really the the two that Junior will say this and they shop and we speak with different members of the community families and we kind of like surveyed what the food items were that we needed we have everything from toiletries to to Rice to peanut butter to bread we sometimes have fresh vegetables but we know exactly who's coming to pick up that food um but the community outreach has been amazing I mean we get donations I mean the Dallas secretary knows who just shows up in haystown

012for people in the community that heard about this and so all of our families um they can access it on Friday so we have times during the day my family is on calls family said we've identified and then also teachers connect with families so we have served anywhere from 11 families a week to 22 I think families in a week and what's great about it is um I think for the families is we don't ask any questions so someone says they need something short time short term then we're there for them we have some families that we've been supporting a good part of their groceries for a couple of months and that's fine too so but I mean it is wonderful and our staff and their families the donations that have come in it it's

013amazing so president Elena what just one more quick confirmation would be great and what I would thank the staff for coming out this evening it's really wonderful to see you so thank you and I don't know if you can be honest with this principal collection did anyone get hurt in the leprechaun trap activity I'm still trying to understand what that is for them yeah but there were many sightings [Music] thank you so much thank you I don't know if the board has any other questions too let's go um I would just like to ask a question because I've seen this on a presentation before what part does Jericho Center place in dealing with the youth and how many staff member is it from Jericho Center that deals with the student at age time so the

014number differs based on the parent enrollment so last year we had the start of the earth I think three three or four students that went to their just their after-school program that went on they were picked up and transported by a band and then there was another handful whose parents brought them later in the day this year all of our students go to their after school it's like a homework technical program but they're all transported the band doesn't come and pick the kids up anymore so um because the parents didn't need the transportation help so it depends on what the what the parents say so I don't have an exact number of this year like I have names in my head of who I know goes but there could actually be a greater number okay

015you would have that back in East town thank you I I really just wanted to know but Jericho quiz in the field and if I'm hearing this right it's more about mentoring and supporting students that need help am I right along so for the students that that I'm aware of that go it's academic support and some I don't want to call it child care but you know maybe you know they spent an hour to two hours there after school and for our students the mentoring doesn't come through them it comes from the um that's who we use okay but there could be mentoring going on at Jericho but not for the students that I'm aware okay thank you and you're welcome thank you have a nice evening [Applause] thank you so we have one more

016question sir always it's not a question please with the food pantry so many folks are struggling and I want to add my thanks to the team for the acceptance success environments thank you very much thank you thank you [Applause] all right public participation so the boardwalkman's public participation as the speakers please look at their comments in three minutes speakers may offer objective comments or School operations and programs that can serve them the board of government and the expression of personal complaints on the film touring comments about Board of Education personnel students more against any person connected with the Danbury School we have one name on the list Alicia Malone Maloney [Music] so I just wanted to I know for a minute I wanted to quickly tell you how I almost lost myself into choking yeah

017I just wanted to quickly tell you how I almost lost myself but um he was in the kitchen and I was in the living room and I heard him muffled and I knew where it was something was wrong with me right over to him and I could see her always reaching because he was only like you know just almost two of that like going like this so I grabbed and I told my husband I said please grab and flip them over back rules do what you want to do with Grandma nothing nothing more to try to get in his mouth couldn't get anything out so when I was pregnant I decided that I was going to buy the strange old device called a letter back and I took it out after the mask on pretty

018long space pushed down and pulled and his head would be a little bit and I thought I should come out for now and I looked and he had put the ice cube into the front of his mouth he sent it out started crying sir who were called crying in the kitchen before so fast forward to him going to preschool at granco she wanted him to have this at school and it's a special needs preschool I think that it should be interested already I have to go to the doctors now I had to you know do all the leg work to just have it in the nurse's office we spoke to the nurse about it I said you know I think this belongs to you like you know you guys need this you have special needs

019children here and they all choke you know at one point or another and she said you know it's a little long tasks so it has become my mission to get it into our schools and I actually worked with Senator Kushner to try and get a bill put together and it was actually done we would have built for schools police fire ambulance and everything and it never left the desk so um I'm gonna go to uh kathyodo um she said that I should come to the meeting and talk to you guys because you guys kind of do your own thing as a district and don't necessarily need um you know the state to do anything so I wanted to start with you guys I want to give you guys a life back so you guys can

020look at it I brought you and you know I'm just looking to see if we can get this here in all of our schools I mean there's children's who are special needs that think about you know the kids in the high school who might be in a wheelchair anywhere too large to lift up in high life we can take the mask there's a bigger masks than this one put it on their face as they sit there put it please help and save the child that way anything to the universe's offices they there's been children in schools down the South who's eight years old and he's in school and put a rubber ball in his mouth adjusting these are avoidable things and we need to do to protect our face [Music] thank you there is [Music]

021they would do a different price of like whatever they you know I I don't work for the company I just know like I'm working hand in hand with others to get to work out but they would do like a price and they're so like you know they whenever they I say like I need life back give me something like you know they send it right over I mean no questions asked like they're just the ones giving people and it's just I love advocating for them because they are just an amazing woman and they seems like it so like you know how people bronze shoes I want to bronze this thing so thank you all right thank you so much [Applause] foreign okay any student Representatives here today come on up hi my name is [Music]

022um quarter three ended up on 3 30 and April 3rd was the first day of court before cars will be available on April 10th a theater production of Once Upon a mattress was held on March 30th March 31st and April 1st spring Sports have started Black History Month celebrated in Hamburg High School through three consecutive games and Appliance programs with different objectives last night danborough students launched an initiative Express concerned back to school funding course registration has been completed for great students as well as incoming fresh informed public May 12th is Junior Prom and May 26 the senior prom senior award tonight is June 5th Ward Fest was today on April 5th and tomorrow on April 6. casilla baller is testing testing 2019 after Springfield the National Honors Society where people like Mr DHS after

023spring break on April 24th and all proceeds will go to scholarship peer leadership voice for Change and passionate projects robotics for the senator Southern New England Champions that are now traveling 155 X competitions in Dallas Texas AP testing is during the first and second week Sunday and surveys from the state of Connecticut went out to students this year [Music] [Applause] thank you good eve good evening everyone oh wait we have some more student Representatives oh okay come on up foreign [Music] students [Music] creating horse funding from both the district and the state for our Public Schools it seems that the funding for Charter Schools seems to be empowers has some comparison to the funding for our Public Schools providing two buses for Charter Schools would remove six hundred thousand dollars from our public school scholarship

024those 600 000 could have been better spent on funding the order credit always for discussing an unusable bathrooms or if you're paying for the Overflow classrooms and for our overboard teachers it could have been better spent on buying supplies and textbooks for our classrooms through using the more app copiers or providing is not Humanities for sequence personally I've experienced the shortcomings of the school spontane one of my classes consists of more than 30 kids all taught by one teacher let's go evident that the schools under South for me I feel like it and here's my academic growth that I can't do anything about it it's hard for me to feel comfortable in such a large group of students since the school cannot afford to hire more or even attract more teachers large classes have become

025the norm additionally during that time as a student athlete we have several various fundraisers throughout the year for our team because the school did not provide enough funding for sports and social warned us that without this funding we were not able to have team t-shirts which recognizing us as a productive team dealership with funding for their own fundraisers as well as from our approaches for personal subject we are finally able to buy a new equipment there's some equipment and apparel benefit our team is always in one issues and I'm quite familiar with all of a lot of them because I'm active within a lot of the school's laws it can become difficult to run as a result the school's likely investment high school so does UNICEF which I'm the treasurer of Houston collectors because otherwise

026they want to even be able to find in addition before we even think about raising money for others we have to raise money for ourselves the school didn't provide any sort of financial acting for us to support ourselves with furthermore teachers in the other districts are alive are paid for advising clubs where the teachers in Denmark in the school systems do not receive this I think that it's unfair that artists teachers spend the same amount of work and effort into these centuries are a lot more reward for their work although of course not enough to have my dad driving to and from online studies some students enough for this luxury and can send after school meetings as a result since the school does not offer enough Transportation students are deprived opportunities across the same as

027their loss even though we have received an additional payment it can't just be a one-time thing as we have a lot of ground to catch up from to catch up on from the last decade there has to be constant improvements in the GPS system this budget increase can't just be a one-time thing our education needs to keep improving which is only possible through the infuses in our school's positive [Applause] so I think if if we can state your name because I think this bowl I think this belongs on the public park because the student representative section is for the um you know high school student um yeah um so we'll just if you just say your name we you can just take it hello I'm Ella orgero and I am a junior high school and

028I wanted to take the classroom education today and I'm quite active amongst our school to participating in three Varsity Sports and multiple clubs sorry guys short um and especially UNICEF which led the rally yesterday at the Sleep Hall with this the funding among stairway pipeline has been prevalent to me since I was a best friend because three years since professional year and specifically with my field hockey team we have consistently struggle to gain the funding to making the equipment put hold games at our home stadium as a team you have to hold fundraisation between spendings or game balls not broken that's and knee paddings for new players without the funding of NR sports teams students who are economically disadvantaged and intimidate to join new sports in the expenses that they make is unable to subside

029another topic inability to find coaches to voice the costume to struggle to find a place and to continue their 2023 season but thankfully to considering before their ending the season to start they had found a replacement no member of any sports team should have to worry about these aspects But Not only would they pursue on the field these Finance also essential and civilizing the area ritual in the sports two students that should all have the accessibility to participate in outside of the classrooms which is why we need to pressure enough not only the district but the state needs to fund our Public Schools specifically since Dairy is the largest school in our state High School's room population is 3 340 students which has substantially increased by nine percent over the past years primary funding for

030those additional students is only decreases the new Charter student Summit is alone will move 600 000 from the public schools budget using our budget within our Public Schools integrate with implement but PlayStations and classrooms a student detective ratio is according to the 1601 whence the Sleep average is only 12 to 1. this is 25 more than our state's average for example in one of my classrooms at the beginning of the year we have problems getting enough chairs in these desks to ensure all students have a seat there was basically three students to a table which basically happens table at one point and students shouldn't have to worry about finding a place in the classroom they should only be concerned about their education especially for those who mandatory forces such as Civics and Capstone that are

031overflowing with students just when I tell Tina imanson graduate funding is not only needed within our classrooms but most recently aligned with me personally so I don't know if you've seen this this is my wonderful Grace right here I had just under my ACL reconstruction not even two weeks ago one type I had chosen to go back to school I was welcomed to the industibility of Danbury High School between broken elevators and given being given keys that didn't even work for the first few days that's been definitely a struggle that it's on top of coming back from surgery there needs to be accessibility for all students including temporary Arts yay but for the students who don't do not have the privilege to be like as well as the fact that all students deserve the opportunity

032to be educated without having to worry about those simple aspects of getting around to the classroom this deals with the caution and inability feel safe in school whether the irking experiment of wondering if I'm going to make it to class endocrine or if I'm going to get pushed around in the hallway due to overcrowding thirteen thousand one hundred twenty three per student is not enough we are so much more than collecting from our city we deserve the recognition from you the Board of Education and our state representatives as we all just want to fulfill our high school experience to be well-rounded students for my extracurriculars such as Sports and clubs for classrooms that open A New Path for PhD and knowledge thank you for your time thank you for your family and consideration I hope

033this is a new step to our beginning a new beginning that is interpre solution for just one year it needs to be permanent for it to actually make a change thank you guys [Applause] hi my name is Eileen um I'm a UNICEF officer at Danbury High School but most importantly I represent the significant portion of students of the student body in Denver high school for a first generation low-income students I'm speaking on behalf of students involved in the public school system when I say that your primary focus should be on already established public schools that lack basic necessities and services like guidance rather than expecting 600 000 on charter school buses you should fund the necessary academic and emotional support for students in public schools all students need to have the same opportunity regardless of

034economical and social see all the sociological factors yet the students at Danbury High School are not afforded that opportunity because despite having 3340 students Danbury High School only has 13 counselors at DHS 300 students are assigned to one single counselor which is contrary to the American Council association's recommendation of a 250 to 1 ratio it is even worse for the middle school students who have one counselor for 375 students more so at the high school the distribution of the students is inconsistent so some counselors take on a greater number of students the classes get overloaded and frequently one at a time to meet with the students the excessive amount of students prevents counselors from fulfilling each student's needs this increases the burden on students in high school particularly during the college application process even if

035a student can get by without a counselor throughout High School they still need to establish a connection with them for college recommendation letters however many many students fail to do so which puts them at a disadvantage when applying to colleges in addition to failing low-income students Denver High School is now fulfilling its El population we help students make up one-third of the student body at Denver high school because there is a significant language barrier in education for English Learners they require extra attention only two of the 13 counselors work with the ell population this is shocking because Danbury High School takes pride in its diversity yet we are feeling the students who are from other countries and we are not providing their resources last but not least high school can be a pretty intimidating environment

036as we become more conscious of the world the world around us we are more prone to up to facing problems and our teenage hormones only make the situation more stressful High School is meant to be a safe a safe place where we can discuss these issues and come up with Solutions yet without guidance from responsible adults these issues spiral out of control and become much greater issues as evidenced by the rise in fights and social emotional issues at Danbury High School students deserve better mental health support at DHS that can currently be provided with insufficient staff to adequately counsel students as it is how will the school be able to address behavior issues many of these fights might have been averted if someone like a counselor or a social worker have the time to listen

037to the student's concern or form group discussions will run social emotional Circle groups or Council students one-on-one even more significantly students would feel safe in their learning environment think for yourself thank you good evening professional and use a paper but I have a conservation um hello board members I'm a junior at Denver high school so first I do want to say that we appreciate your time and consideration on the financial decisions meeting the very things that make us up as a student body the very things that allow us to express ourselves and grow into responsible adults adults that overcome representatives of Denver on a personal level I'm a part of theater at Denver High School you may be familiar with last year's sales assistant or this year's recent collection of constantly mattress I came into

038high school at a quarantine completely confused theater was a place that I could express myself and my compassion for music and feel free to be the person I am but to imagine something the whole fall apart because a lot of fun for all of you something that motivates something that gives you fulfillment so think for a moment what it would be like to lose that to get it taken from you because of something that you lack or something that your community lacks something that Community can't can hear me [Music] you said here today because deadly should be a community where students can come and receive resources that allow them to crush we need funding for our ell students we need toilets that work and don't flood the bathroom floors we need AP classes that get

039our students to excel we need our clubs where we feel United with our school water fountains that don't pour hot water stairs that aren't probably never cheerful one of them is we haven't been holding rallies Gathering petitions sending social media posts and attending meetings atomologists to have fun we are here fighting for the funding that we deserve that our school deserves not only for us but your kids our kids our grandkids your grandkids and a community as a whole so we asked you tonight to make the right decision and find us we can continue to be 169 at 116 School thank you anyone else left in the audience that would like to come up with participate so wheelchair before I jump to the general Lefty when I take this opportunity again to myself this last

040night but I also want to say this evening thank the students for their advocacy for the for the general budget or the Danbury public school district amazing example of Civic discourse over these last couple of days and really appreciate your participation in this process so a couple of General updates for the board and for the community let me just start with adults and continuing education we have a new director starting with us in May as we need this main course that May 5th his name is gray reducci thanks his name is and he is reducing and Rick is from Milford Public Schools and you joining us on in May like I said we he's been in District with us for the last few days working on a submission of the grant to the state of

041Connecticut really excited about his arrival in town he has a currently working in Milford as a part-time teacher and part-time Adult Ed director knowing that we had a full-time position available here I think that's why we were able to secure them here at Danbury excited about his arrival he has a currently we spoke with his uh advisors number one they shared with us whenever we were getting a gym a director but also shared with us that it's going to be very they couldn't imagine how they were going to fill these shoes so their loss is our game and looking forward to finding time for the school years out to introduce them to the reward um the the next item Danbury High School attentive graduation date so short of any unexpected whether related delays during the

042break or when we first come back we are projected to have our last day of school on January 15th season okay sorry yeah last day of school is June 15th and high school graduation will be June 14th again those are tentative um we will be back in front of the board in our first board meeting in our first board meeting in our next board meeting in this campaign sorry April 26th and at that time it will be up with more consideration to the boys consideration to adopt so again last day of school tentatively is June 15th and high school graduation in just June 14th so I'm really excited about those two deals and last but not least many of our board members are already aware of this we have some new board members that may

043not have been familiar with our Coda event encoder Festival that happens here in the district annually every year and so last year first year as a superintendent year I had the pleasure of working with with these two young ladies who were in the audience they're going to come up and talk about Coda they are our department heads one through a music and one for Fine Arts k-8s and that's Rachel way in jail Russell and they're going to come and talk to us about Dakota event in which all of our board members are certainly invited but they can share the details with us and we're already there one there's only one chair there so you guys are going to prepare people on the other space as he was staring at the microphone please come on up

044thanks [Music] and she was introduce ourselves but I think that you call this one it goes younger good evening thank you for having us here many of you from other faces I am Rachel Lee Ka department head Joe Russell Center music department head for the past two years Joe and I really have taken the lead organizations yes please we want to hear everything in yourself normally no we're still in front of children um so we've taken the lead on organizing Coda and it continues to be an amazing event and though Kevin already invited all of you we were going to importantly invite you to come on May 20th it is now back at Danbury County school which we really feel is the place event that is K-12 so it represents all of our students in

045the district we continue and I've been in the district for 20 years when we were first but at first evolved or when I came in it was a Marjorie Chapman show so only the video so it really has evolved over the past 20 years to an amazing celebration of the visual music DTE ROTC we have our Community Partners that support us through this event they come out and we want so um what's really exciting about this is that we are you know we're talking about student Community event and that's what um and that's what the Arts do they run the community every member of last year we just need to do the feeling of joy to encoda and bringing everyone together and we're excited to bring that back together and have a lot of the

046community vendors our former career till 11 has a Care Group and it runs from fatherson read hello [Music] um what is the date again thank you it's a great great it's a great event I'm glad it's back at the high school but that's a that's a great venue to have today you'll be if you've never attended the constant concerts and and stuff going on there it's it's pretty pretty amazing thank you [Applause] all right and so while two chief of schools are joining us this evening to talk about their work with our principles this revive typically 8. this goal is 2.2 for the superintendent goals and answered under professional development and then secondly they will be talking about updates the code of conduct thank you superintendental health and Board of Education I appreciate you allowing

047us to speak 10 on behalf of the support that in schools and talk about the start of the division of the Danbury public schools because I think it supports around the work in division and what your vision is for a public school system the first position orders application as far as we're here um it talks about advancing all Learners right so a condition has I guess it's always eluded us as the alternate uh reality is the identities of the currency is what we're striving to accomplish right so if we look at that through the lines of all students and we look at each subsequent side of this presentation through the lens of all students being successful I think that will help us around the work in alignment with this content of schools so the purpose

048today is we're going to talk to you a little bit about the work that the chiefs of schools are doing that'll be followed with a code of conducts perhaps consideration and approval or consideration and then we'll talk a little bit about all the work that we're doing our customers so with that in mind if you can look at each slide we'll go through this a little bit through the lines of the visions of our focuses [Music] good evening everyone so tonight we are going to discuss how the work of superintendent's goals aligns with with our vision and Mission along with our strategic plan we are our Focus this year is on free of the superintendent's goals welcome to plan a new process to provide feedback on systems goals and strategies engaging principles in professional learning

049and updating control of the content policy to reflect focus on increasing the positive School climate and equity so you do a copy this presentation in front of you um that will Aid in and following them off and send us on the writing will be small but um next time we're going to talk about enhancing principal advocacy and when we talk about food so after consumer talk about the impact on our whole losses and achievement in the building um through the lens of leadership practice with that we ask the question Dr Rocco about constantly asking principles and asking ourselves is the school is the organization better because we lead it is the school better because the principal needs it and the answer to that is he has to remove it in the right direction the answer

050to that is if you don't know that we've got some work to do right so we're looking at through the lens of culture and climate creating a collaborative environment a safe space a place for principles to share their practices um and talk about Focus acts of improvement versus random accident Improvement having feedback detective evaluation uh conversations as principal supervisors and support that would be that and rather than focusing on 7000 initiatives focusing on a few high levels High impacts Focus areas of improvement for our school muscles so a lot of our work is focused on jobs and professional development for principals we are working very diligently this year to provide opportunities for all of our administrators to come together and have a facilitative conversations with the colleagues around highly diverse leadership practices we have spent

051time this year studying the PLC Playbook the tax attorney s we are using the podcast outliners in education with the center for educational Effectiveness we are using the work that we are doing through the center for Equity diversity inclusion and all of that work is grounded in the data wise process so we are in schools just about every day we are working side by side with all our administrators and our administrative teams and that's really the exciting work that we've been here today personality kind of at some point in time and it's used in a far ride or somewhere along the way but we're sharing the things that we're seeing in schools the great practices they're having in our classrooms the great practices that our administrators are immersing themselves in and we're excited to have

052those conversations every day because Chris has a set of schools and I have set of schools there are portfolio schools as every person but we're seeing some great practices coming out of schools we're having opportunities to highlight those practices and share those practices with administrators bringing them together and facilitated conversations so they can have more collaborative and financial conversations we feel like we're doing that more than ever before having come out of buildings we know that particularly the elementary personal strip is a very isolated one because we don't have a leadership team you don't have a lot of other people to talk to on a daily basis about things as they are rolling out so by bringing people together we're seeing a lot of commonalities across schools and that's really a guy named our work

053and it's informing the work in the district the district departments District leadership on the budget process it's very informative process and we're very excited about it so one of our major emphasis this year is on instructional records in data performed decision making so we've had the process of instructional rounds and showing uh shown up there for you and what we start at start with is by looking at data sets so we might start by looking at Esther data I ready data Devil's data we might look at the Lost scores from our English language Learners look at student work one of the things we spend a lot of time talking about with administrators and really everything so when we see our kids in the morning and we watch them as they get off the buses and

054come in and watching their affect Disney entrance available for my state so it's driving us to make instructional decisions based on the students sitting in front of us so sometimes it comes from that mirror but they know that wanted to the freedom and sometimes it's from that qualitative data we'll begin sense of appeal from from our kids but it is always grounded in data so we start by looking at our data sets we start with some notices we wonder about things we can start from the comfortable point of curiosity why might we be seeing this what might be affecting this and then we take that or with a side by side with our Administration our building principles assistant principals who have them sometimes our coaches and our district leadership team so today for example we're

055doing a building and it was myself Cara wander who used to see a lot of Art District elementary supervisors work with us that principal had invited principals from other schools to join us in those instructional realms and we went into classrooms um teachers knew we were there as a team coming through today they didn't know exactly when we were coming um but that's been another thing we have teachers are opening their doors they're very excited to have us in um they're asking for feedback what are you soon can you give me some feedback they're asking for things um like ways you think they can improve into practice so we go through in a very structured way um with noticing some orderings looking for things that the teacher is doing what is the instructional practice that

056teachers are engaging in how are students responding to that instruction and what's evidence do student learning so if those are really the three high level questions that we want again what is the teacher even instructionally how are students responding to the instructions and what's that um today I think we visited 16 different classrooms when we join better together as a team we come back together and we discuss what are we seeing the strikes that we're seeing we're at areas that we want to dig a little further we have medical questions about what we saw what particular practice we saw we're in the curriculum that fell and we can ask teachers while we're in there we spend a lot of time talking with kids what are you learning today what are you working on do you

057have a goal for your learning today and kids are very eager to share that with you they're very excited they have they don't hesitate for a second when you ask them what they're learning okay sometimes it's not the exact same thing the teacher might tell you an hour today um but the kids are excited to share is it done as a team and we do what we call it people trying to look at the strengths that you see areas where you want to look a little further and then we ask the crystal what do you think this information is telling you where is it leading and what decisions is it leading you to make next instruction is for your teacher teams what are the needs that you think from this does this solidify what you're

058thinking does it make you think something different do you want to explore another area or look at something so that all is in the hands of the principle that they do without just that information that they have at the time we're there to support them in the decision making and we're there to help them look at resources that they might have available to them in the building also resources that we can provide residents that's really what guides the next level of work and that's what feeds that PLC process so I'm going to talk we've done work in the PLC plus process our principles are participated into the certification training so as well as certification I'm leaving a lot of this process in their buildings but this work within the instructional rounds really feeds that so

059for example the principal that we were with today happens to have appeals since tomorrow so I was able to then have a conversation with that principal this afternoon saying what came out of these instruction around us this morning that you think you want to now take back to your teacher kids tomorrow when you're sitting with them and we were able to talk through that what resources might you need we want to connect approach with you during this time is there something that I can help you with the other piece that this work guides us to is not just the work within the building but it really helps us to look across schools so we have all of our schools Chris is into middle schools and animal City Elementary Schools I even do work in Ace

060and some more of the Hill Ed but it helps us to really kind of tease out trends that we might see are we looking at systems that might need to be ReSound are we finding that there might be a common issue across schools it really is a professional development issue to see you know teachers need more work in this area because they just don't have the knowledge of a new program or a new support that they have so we need to provide more professional development for teachers um it could be curriculum related so we've seen post-pandemic that some students are coming in lacking some foundational skills so we take that information back and share that information to the Paris team Paris team and some of those participating in the walk through the instructional rounds but

061they use that information to then make the curricular decisions so it's really a cohesive process that that really feeds information to all of our systems we look at teacher practice are there areas where we can provide instructions our support to teachers to kind of treat instructional strategies that like better meets student needs it's an ongoing process but it is very informative so it really informs everything that's going on in the schools it informs our work as she's kind of influence [Music] so when we started this work it was sometimes it was like why are you coming in here what are you looking for are you going to tell you what I'm doing wrong so we wanted to share with you is what instructional rounds are and what instructions so what instructional rounds of R is

062really a professional process it's looking at high leverage practices and practices that we see and accelerating large scale instructional Improvement so when we see practices that are in place there are really moving kids we want to really bring those practices to scale and the best way for teachers to respond to a practice is to see another teacher engaging in that practice and seeing such interest Australian celebration at AIS why don't you go over and take a look at that entrepreneurs we work within totally in relationships across schools and principals and having them engage with the same processor the process is focused on the instruction report so it's really helping teachers to understand what the standards are and then great little standards some kids might need more help in those standards so they might need more

063scaffolding they might need different access points um if complements our current Urban strategies it's not a separate thing it's not one-off it's not one more thing it really is the coefficient process so all of the things will be doing right now it's collegial and inclusive it's all about shared practices and understanding when it is not is cancer we never go into a class from a safe and secret why are you doing that or you should do something this way we'd never do that um it's not about isolated topics we've been teaching it's about seeing good professional practices and being able to roll them across the schools across it is not evaluative so we do not go in through any value to funds with teachers that's a customer's responsibility they might Point things out to a

064principal that they might want to have conversations with the teacher about their order and grow a teacher's practice um but not in any evaluative manner it's not just a checklist so we don't go in and say are there are there anchor charts check you want to know is the teacher using supports for students and what are those supports are they meeting students so it's really not just a checklist it's not absolutely isolated it's not a One-Shot table you don't go in and say you're in your classroom for 10 minutes and this is what we saw we were in your classroom for 10 minutes and this is what we saw tell us about what you're doing tell us about what you're excited about right now for your learners um we don't but we use that when

065you see a couple of Snapchat of something that that's what happens in that classroom for six hours a day um and it really is not about independent teacher practice it's about building everyone's Effectiveness it's teacher Effectiveness it's student Optimum is students so it's it's an administrator offendedness but it's built really really about building professional practice for all of us as with both of our schools thank you so the purpose of these rounds in the the collaboration that goes into this is to identify best practices to enhance student outcomes sometimes words lie numbers don't so when we look at outcomes on tests that's that's what matters as we look as an achievement right so with respect to what I have on the screen right now Dr casimiro it was a brilliant move to bring I ready

066into the districts and what what we're seeing from this particularly at the middle school where they're really full force you know with my path at the in reading and math social security real-time intervention based on what they need when they need it during the course of Alaska and what we've seen is growth at a level that even the average representatives were chopped just being staggering and exponential levels of Positive Growth if you talk to doctors Lolita or any of the medical principals Connecticut Association of schools was that one of their meetings discussing data with them and they're just doing a phenomenal job looking at Middle School growth and middle school you know these other performance was and they took that as a challenge and they've been an amazing job as for our elementary school but

067what we have on the board I already is a diagnostic tool but like I said it's also an intervention and supplementary tools that help students it's also uh predict this it's got predictability meaning it it assesses what it seeks out to assess and it measures um in a way that should predict how students to inspire about successfully so if you look at all those numbers up there if something is over 0.70 or 70 it's it's statistically significant or it's the likelihood is very high as students will eat at the levels are predicted in those bar graphs so it's useful to predict success on Smart Balance but also as a Interventional results teachers are teaching and to provide levels of support right it's very challenging so my path will provide that support the students in a

068way that's impactful info as what they need at that Snapchat time to scaffold up to the real standards thank you next we go into Data again data doesn't lag um as we look at it this will help communicate and help really inform the mission of vision are we operationalizing are we implementing what we're we set out to do in accordance with the certain tennis schools and are we achieving that a level that we said who would achieve that it's important to note that mlkwonzer has presented as we've seen this a number of times but it's important for us to highlight success also to highlight areas of significant growth that we need to put in place if we don't we're complicit in the failure to to improve so it's important um what we need to know

069about this particular scorecard is Teachers excuse me students get report cards schools get report for those just get reports so we all have a snapshot of how we do it overall standards okay this is a year-long goal this is at the final exam for the school the final exam for the district this is how we did as we look at that bottom number it's not working right there um that would be the index or low index and if we can increase that certain percent that would be equivalent to one year's growth overall adding an additional years worth what we also need to know is this is based on this is a growth heavy index 42 or 42 is derived from just growing so everybody has an Eco likelihood of growing doesn't matter where we start

070with in terms of deficiency the growth is growth whether at a very available or a low level so that's an important relative like this um again this is a year where we've really brought significant certainly in focused data in a way that we haven't before and it's got a lot of collaboration a lot of discussion around meeting standards around students achieving around growth and it's important that we continue to emphasize this because only when we bring Focus to something that doesn't improve so some of the things that we've seen kind of deals online very closely with the research practices and the high leverage practices that we're seeing taking place in our schools are really the use of data to inform decision making and inform conversations about curriculum and instructions um in schools where that's working

071at the highest points that's where we're seeing the greatest success so we're really working to um help all of our leaders become much more data informed um learning how to use the data systems that we have now with our ready is a new platform so they're getting used to that our deals assessments um was a new platform last year but we're still working through that because it's a little interpret data to use for working readily on using estimate assessments and interpreting the data as an assessments and using that to afford decision making and really the conversations and principles are leading to plc's is centered on data so what again whether that's a an assessment that a student has taken or whether they're bringing student work to the table very often we see them come with

072what we call exit tickets students are really examining those exit tickets how many students were successful almost there when these students had a long way to go and then using that data to inform instructions so it's turning it right around to say the next thing we're going to do with these students or these students or all of these students is this and those conversations are really um encompassing everyone in the building so you at some places you'll walk in and see a PLC operating in a building and the ESL teachers are sitting at the table the srbi people are sitting at the table and everyone's a part of that conversation to see how can they best inform that instruction so that's to that particular student or that group of students are the most successful that

073they can be it's also um administrators are providing more specific and actionable feedback to teachers they sound like they're seeing in the classroom doing side by side walk through the certain point schools all the time and having conversations about how what we're seeing fits into there's no improvement plans that they identify the right problem practices the school Improvement plan um is what that we're seeing in the classroom mirroring the identify strategies and it's really thinking about how to build a positive School climate and culture not only the place where teachers are happy and kids are happy because we want that first and foremost right but we also want to make sure that there's a culture of high expectations for all kids so when kids walk in the door they know when I come to this

074place these people here are going to help me to be the best version of myself that I can do and they're going to elevate me and they're not going to give up on me and they're going to stick with me because it's hard and they're going to stay with me when it gets easy because it is going to get easy to perform so those are the leadership books that we're looking for in our administrators the teacher moves the mirror those moves so what we want is for teachers to be safe to inform those instructional decisions in the classroom we want teachers to provide specific and actionable feedback to students so students are clear I am here I want to get here this is my goal of having them set their own goals that these are

075the things I need to do in order to get to that place and teachers are creating positive clients to get their school in their classrooms and creating cultural students are feeling successful and know that the teachers stand your economy school and contribute to their success every single day and just to reiterate when we're seeing great examples of success and growth we're studying or you know working amongst our physical to get into those buildings to see what's going on so that the growth that achievement increases we keep putting uh School leadership a second so we'll go teaching practices in school in terms of the outcomes you know what else is up there too is but when teachers work for a principal that they have the greatest degree of respect for their credibility and even though they

076are going to move to school the school moves the teachers want to work there all right so it's a wonderful retention strategies are built for the mechanism for a school district at this point in time uh would pause before we get to the cookies because of conduct um but I think it's important just just lastly with respect to principles it's not what I'm doing this on a wishful thinking conjecture guessing and trying to figure out things on the class is focused in the same intentional and we are pushing schools to achieve at a level they have into them questions thank you very much a question is under leadership moves build a positive School climate and a culture of high expectations through a lens of activity what does that mean so it means a couple of

077things the positive School climate apart means that that's a teacher students families are happy to attend the school culture of high expectations means we value success and models and so she's at a really high level through the lens of equity means we serve all students if we do all students what they need what idea thank you again collecting data uh when will you have enough data to project success or failure of the programs for let's say a three-year period yeah so if we're talking specifically our Smart Balance it would probably at the conclusion of the year we'll have an indication of sourceful programs thank you any other questions move on to the closer conference we did that provide those for you on the tables we lost a lot of reading but um yeah just a

078number of arts and um a couple points that they've scored goodness if you miss Ed yeah I would love to uh these are not absolutes okay they're administrator there are some that are Guided by law all right there are others that are discretionary in terms of the principles uh decisions being found situational consequences on the Behavior Uh we're going to have a nuclear offender that we're working on we're going to have a stakeholder Group found in support this will provide not only consequences but also both upon the um you know the relationship he's into this students come back we want you know there are suspensions there are consequences for our actions we come back we need to find a way to Let's re-enter positively and come to school attendance goes up that you've got a

079high level so one of the superintendent schools is the update the code of conduct policy to the reflect the focus line and peaceful and positive Integrity in alignment with this reminds me attendance goals um kind of create a bridge which means a new code of conduct and the existing public contact so again not to say that there will not be consequences consequences reliable conduct um but what we're hoping to do is to bring that code of conduct those two kinds of codes of Conduct in alignment with an emphysical sign of teaching [Music] so Dr Rocco alluded to there are consequences there's a framework for Behavior we do have codes of conducts in place or our rules however we also have to do our part teaching what are the expectations for students how do we walk

080in the hallway what is the volume level of that sort of thing so we go back to this example of if a child doesn't know how to read we teach them that's good with the other examples if a child doesn't know how to behave we do we teach do we punished we do both right so that's an important point and something that we we have to do is something we've set out to work on with all principles and putting in a framework for the middle school and Elementary School in terms of teaching uh positive behaviors to students like how to walk in the hallway how to get gain positive care attention how to gain the attention of the teachers those are all things after the exclusively talk not assume that every student comes to school

081with that skill or whatever yeah so what we know for research is the generally there are two requirement causes of this context um one of them is what a skill deficit bumps up against sex meditation so we are expecting students to be enough particular way but they don't yet have that skill set to respond to off the students will react in a way to remove themselves from them or to get themselves attention diverted so for example if we're expecting a five-year-old to sit in a chair and attend to a teacher for a long period of time but that five-year-old isn't quite emotionally regulated yet to do that we have to first build that skill in that five year old similarly if you have a middle schooler who is in a social environment but they can't

082quite master that yet that comes up as a skill deficit hits up against Mexico for them to behave in a particular way we need to teach the skill set to that student to help them to be successful the other reason for this conduct often is an unmet need so if we have students who come to us with food insecurity with a lack of with housing instability with mental health issues we're just not feeling well on a particular day we know according to Maslow those needs have to be met first so behaviors are a prerequisite for academics if we have can't get through those behaviors and get students to be able to present sitting in a seat it's hard to teach it's hard for them to go as Learners so we first have to tackle those

083issues with students we have to make sure the skills are there to meet the expectations and we have to make sure that we have met their needs and their business to learn we do that by creating procedures and creating routines and structures for kids we know we know that repetition is the key to learning which schools skills for a child to learn something new it needs to be repeated on average eight times for a child to unlearn an old behavior and replace it with a new behavior that new Behavior has to be repeated on average 28 times and that child needs to experience success with that new behavior in order for it to take hold so as we move forward into this report of conduct we're going to be doing that with these things in

084mind along with Kelly and her team and collaborative stakeholders we're looking forward to developing again this bridge between the existing student code of conduct with its consequences and an instructional approach to success for all students so this approach would really guide what we want students to achieve socially emotionally behaviorally it'll deter the social skills and behaviors we expect all students to learn and display that will serve as the vision for what it means to be a model or successful student this setting a common set of expectations for students in our school so when you walk through our doors no matter what school you walk into at Rogers Park this is the expectation for our students when you walk into haystown this is the expectation for our students but we're going to help you to understand

085the expectation and we're going to teach you the skills to meet the expectation so what you see on that slide in your package is the list of six kind of guiding principles um looking at number four it's thinking about how this work will guide staff decisions about discipline and what that means is when a student does something that costs for lack of a better word violence the code of conduct we're going to look at it and say have we provided your expectations for the student so they understood clearly what the expectation was but how we taught into those expectations and have we supported the student in reaching the goal then we'll move to the code of conduct so it it is a bridge really between the existing code of conduct and consequences and setting the

086foundation for what we want our schools to look like and feel like and building that bridge so the students are successful and that's all students so those principles that were on the last page really moves us into what we call a multi-tiered system of support an ntss system all of the things that I've just talked to you about or the things the six things around us so I would live in that tier one core instruction as a common set of taught expectations and support behaviors that's what everyone will work on that one code and everyone the expectations are all there now there will be some students who can't really grasp it in that first time around or that second time around there's third or fourth and especially for our youngest Learners it could be our

087fifth sixth seventh week kind of intervention where students might be in small groups to have the anchors reinforced to be taught us to socialize with each other or whatever whatever the expectation is is not being met in small groups could be with the teacher could be with the principal it could be with the guidance counselor it could be with a social or school psychologist we may have a small subgroup of students who still have a hard time meeting the expectation and that would go to a tier three or intensive intervention that's more of a targeted intervention one-on-one um consistent monitoring for improvement of behavior positive reinforcements but this is all work that lies ahead for us um and we are very excited about this work because it is the right place for kids it is

088the right room for all of our kids to be successful who just to visit finally next year at a high priority Planet so we're great about that for that framework in place for all schools positive behavior with clear expectations that'll be a team approach and every student staff member will know what's expected of them as they arrive so if that's like traffic lights stop signs Universal rules right if we understand what's expected of us we've created the likelihood that we will follow the rules uh this will be the implications around here will be a joint Capital across departments at least in the PPS curriculum administrators ourselves principles and teachers all working in unison to help reduce the incidence of suspension and expose them to a clear expectations for positive behavior for all students I'm going

089to do this through convenient and community of stakeholders to meld the two systems one being addition more punitive code conduct consequences with the small theater system support knowing that our actions have consequences but when we come back we should afford to repair that relationship hopefully doing this will minimize suspensions explosions increase attendance and increase student outcomes so one of the things that we could recognize is that this year we brought together that memory stakeholders um with um some challenges in our schools with having enough support you know we've had trouble finding social cancers uh tutors things like that we felt that this was not the best time to move forward in the world this year next year will be a planning year because we know that it really begins going to take a lot of

090professional development for teachers and a lot of planning to make this successful we know next year we are rolling in new literacy curriculum the new math curriculum and it's going to be a heavy look for teachers to learn new contents working a high priority for this will be planning for this the current code of conduct will take us through next year but next year will be your priority planning for the following year of implementation so we are sticking with the same code of conduct that you have in front of you um but this is the work for the future for the direction of the in alignment with the superintendent school one good question can you give me an example or a situation where the new same situation how we deal with it now and how

091you propose to deal with it foreign [Music] but also the piece of our returns is for both in that relationship so that we don't have you know subsequences exactly so it's basically basically basically an addition some other kind of support absolutely the consequencing system but also the support to try to mitigate that and also want students come back to you know making sure that it doesn't happen again it doesn't become problem right because there are there are consequences in life that we want to make sure that uh you know they learn that and and while they're here in school to prepare them for the real world that's right and a lot of again a lot of the left is that terrible one is that that core piece where there are the expectations set in every

092school that every child should talk and how we teach into those expectations and support students to understand know and understand those expectations when something occurs and consequences are applied but then we also want to go back to re-teach at the same time excuse me thank you um will we be communicating the code of conduct of parents as well so they you know I know I know when my kids were in the school they could get you know something to take home with that that will be doing that as well so that's a large piece of this it is communicating with parents what the code of conduct is in our schools it is available for two parents now um but it's also helping parents to understand how this system works so what are the expectations in

093school for student behaviors afterwards and then how will we help your students and then how can you also about your students to understand what the expectation is in school and what the consequence will be if it can be better didn't mean to parents have to sign at one point my kids are only out a couple years no no I'll tell you at one point yes yes so so how do you know the parents get it our website okay is there any metric in place to reinforce parental buy-in of the program okay right at the moment to reinforce Jeremiah what I'd like to be looking for am I looking for parents in the auditorium and maybe for a meeting yeah kilometers into Podium the parents in the auditorium and trying to reinforce what we're trying to

094establish and we established that code of conduct with them call me skeptic a lot of things going around documents going to backpack and they never make it out of the backpack okay I think that that's an excellent point not something that will add for the stakeholder group that we need is how we can measure that over time by having parents I have a community coming to auditories if you suggest to talk about what it is that we expect one of the school expectations whether their parents um supports and again as we said there will be a new sort of combat that's going to move forward next year um but I think that's a key piece of the other parents that everybody the same room for that communication and uh you know multi-directional thank you thank

095you yeah I'm unfortunately I think about it and that that might be [Music] and I'm reading here about students who don't know how to behave how again how are you going to bring parents and and help students because just because a student does not know how to behave at some point punishment is not always the right answer you might make him get more agitated more discouraged about going to school if you want to punishment punish that person so I guess my course again it goes back to what was uh Anderson how do we work parents and students into letting them know okay this is not the right thing to do because pleasure is what we don't realize that a lot of parents are working and some of them don't even see their kids want to

096get up with them okay whenever they have time to spend with it and I have a five-year-old and I have to tell him listen when you're drinking juice and you're getting ready for your breakfast you get your juice you put it on the paper you put a napkin up under your juice so you won't spill it okay those things are taught and so now when you go to school and you have a little friend and you see it's using you on a Snapchat you know so it's it's your it becomes your juice so how do you work to to get these two pieces that come together I think my scope of the part that you just brought up that's really important because when you decided and drinking that drink is something that has to be

097taught like eight times the presentation right so it's got to be a specific talk and as you know like students will some students they um experienced a daycare setting for preschool and others it's their first time ever in a school setting right so so the expectation is we're going to teach all behavioral stuff to all students and then break families in for that discussion because it's in consequences obviously are proportional to the the age right so like taking a childish juice whatever it would not result in any kind of suspension but to your point I think it's important that um you know we don't take anything for that and teach students the expected behaviors whether we think they know them or not and also communicate to parents that bring us together right it's not about

098punishing a child but teaching those behaviors and those poor social behaviors up front so that you highest location thank you so now the question is Miss Cooper Cooper what happens what happens to a five-year-old yeah I remember I understand you know any other questions so I I did want to add as Chris and Anna were talking about next year will be an important year for planning I do think it's important that we're a little bit more intentional about the existing code of conduct that we have and given our experience these last two years kids coming back post pandemic but you think it's important that we're going to get more intentional about the code of being consistent code of conduct that we have and so I'll be talking to my team talking to principals in schools

099around the district sure we were sitting down with our kids and I think it's important as Anna and Chris walk us through talk making sure it's clearance with our students and they're aware of the expectations um I think we've gotten away from making sure we have a date where we review the code of conduct with our kids across the district they make sure we can find an opportunity to do that so it's clear those expectations are clear in our schools and then make sure part two well this is what our kids can do this is our teachers will support them but also make it clear to our families what they can do and how they can support them we have a means to get an increases point to reach all of our families that they

100have touched a button to appearance square and we could actually we will know really every single family who has hoping hope is part of our emails but I'm sure that there's also a way we can get them to click something from us to um indicate whether or not they agree or they have read it and so we will work with the team to make sure we have kind of consistent of what we've done once before where they've signed and they have reviewed the code contact so in the meantime what we're looking forward to in a couple of years that you will be a plan A year of the year after will be an implementation year but in the meantime I think you have to pay attention about the existing code of content where we have

101so if you're working with the teachers okay and I do want to say that a lot of these practices are going on in our schools it's not that none of these things are happening what we want to do is just bring more cohesive and comprehensive answer to it so that we know that it's happening in all of our schools in separate ways so that a lot of this work is occurring at this time but it's not occurring necessarily under a systematic way a very comprehensive way so the hope is that this work will make it more complex thank you so much guys thank you for the presentation by being part of all the exposure parents this past year I am as I've been told that we're currently have this many um anything being too way

102way all these instances I mean you're saying you're working at it but I know it's hard but the number of expulsions hearings is high-ended everyone sure hello sorry um testing my technology so um certainly the number of explosions that we've experienced I think last year and this year has been significantly higher um we are currently experiencing explosions about 20 annually right present to date um but I think we need to put that in context of the number of students in in our district um and also acknowledge that about half of those are due to community instance incidences that don't occur in our school district but pose some type of safety risk that we then need to follow through on um so certainly it's concerning the number that we have and we want to intervene so

103as a result of some of the expulsion hearings and receiving the board members feedback is making sure that our principals are having ongoing conversations adding it to their open houses adding it to their Community meetings in the school reinforcing it through Flex periods and things like that getting the message and reminders more frequently what Chris and Ann are referring to is an entire District reset um so right now it's being done kind of building by building by building and to have some uniformity across the district would be helpful um the other piece of it is really looking into the not just the consequence but what do we do we do or is the teaching component of that and and where's the intervention if needed um you know fold it into a mental health need an

104addiction something like that and so it's not so much just about the consequence but also about the follow-up care and we are seeing um right now just the behavioral needs of children in Dental not in Denver across the country uh post pandemic as a significant object so I you know I hear your concerns and I certainly share those concerns but I I have to say it is not due to a lack of follow-through or trying or behalf remorseful leadership team well I do want to say um you did a great job telling the parents if you see if the kids sneeze keep them home so they're hearing you and I think they got to hear more about what your folks are trying to do um part of this and sharing that information with the parents

105um but especially in instances which means expectations of the building we have to partner with Americans in order to help all right let's move forward it's just our foreign by Kate seconded by Al all in favor