001yeah okay participation so we're welcome to public participation method speakers limit their comments in three minutes because may offer objective comments and school operation programs that concern that and we are going to a maximum of 30 minutes [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] so it's on the reporting [Music] [Applause] so I just returned from joy celebration it was a ceremony that celebrated all that can be good with citizens corporations parents teachers Board of Education members and even students work together this project however was the brainchild of teachers who saw a need that wasn't being met by our city in actuality it took the stalwart determination of one amazing special education teacher who passionately believed that all of our students deserve and how to write into a playground that is accessible for all children leave in the ATO
002an employee of the Danbury Public Schools for nine years a teacher that invested in our community through her hard work and commitment to our students made this playground a reality and now leave at the Ottawa dawn she left teaching in every public schools to teach in a district where she can earn more as a single mom to provide for her family kids to college she left that so many others have left to seek out employment in a district where efforts are valued and she's respected as a professional leaves departure is surely danbury's great loss but there are many other teachers just lightly who are leaving Danbury for similar reasons we're no longer an attractive district for new tourism ranking dead last in the state for investment in our students and our teachers it can't continue
003at this rate of decline so tonight on the eve of our mediation session for a brand new negotiated contract we want you to know that our commitment to this district can only be sustained as long as you are willing to commit to us to value us to value us by providing us a fair wage increase and maintain our health insurance benefits to value us through demonstrations of respect and trust in us to value us as veteran teachers as leaders and to grow our new teachers through dedicated support we are an investment for this community when you invest in us you're investing in our tools when you invest in us you're investing in our community if we as a community refuse to invest in our teachers we are revealing to our students how very little be
004valued them we're saying to our students that they are not worth keeping the best teachers to educate them the board knows this and they know that the way to improve strengthen and build prosperity within a community is through strong public education the board is already agreed to invest in administration you've shown that through agreeing to more than fair ranges for administration and by continuing bolstering administrative positions but teachers these teachers wear the boots on the ground we're the people doing the important executive work the people actually educating our children we deserve an equal investment in us it's not more for as the cornerstones of the educational process your teachers deserve the respect and fair pay for the demanding work that we do we deserve a fair contract investment in teachers benefits all we've heard the
005each issues with ECS formula and how the city points the fingers back at the state but at the end of the day it's our board in our city that has a duty a duty to fill the financial void and work on long term investment in our kids our teachers our good hearts in our passion for public education aren't enough to keep us here anymore we need you to invest in us invest in the high quality teachers that stand before you in this room let's not lose another me the liana denver and public school teachers deserve a fair contract [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] and then develop our curriculum based on test scores have left teachers and students completely out of the equation the folks who administer our professional development again seemingly solely based on data collection
006I've lost sight of what it is the educators actually do in reality teachers figure out what it is their students need whatever it is then help them to reach their potential every day we enter our classrooms ready to help our students learn how to become healthy and productive citizens the world that takes a commitment and a dedication beyond anything else I have ever chosen to do in my life I have an impassioned plea that must hear our Bridget's our wrenched our bodies are exhausted and our hearts are broken that damage has been done because we are not given the respect and the trust that we deserve what I am asking you tonight is to prove that you understand that you appreciate what it is we try to do each and every day but please do
007not try to prove you understand the intensity of our work with lip service do not placate us with mere platitudes instead show us with action in our district can afford to give some of its employees time to do their jobs with decent salary increase and good health benefits then surely our district can do the same for the people who actually work with the children [Applause] [Music] thank you it's all people up now on the list is there anybody you did not put their name on the list that would like speak anybody so I'm gonna keep it short because I get emotional it takes a lot of work for what we're doing what I began teaching here I wouldn't eat lunch with my colleagues and we would talk about buses now I sometimes see them in
008a whole unit of an Apple because there's no time to stop and eat lunch we are working so hard all day many of you have seen me today earlier you've seen teachers earlier it's not just this day all the time we're all stretched thin and I don't want to get emotional but we can take the thinnest were being stretched please think about what you're doing to support us all the same [Applause] [Music] anybody else thank you so much thank you all for coming out and showing your support for each other moving on the consent calendar seconded by mr. Matt Rena and you discussion hearing none all those in favor both standing and one abstain motion carries with one abstain from mr. dinelli Oh and the Oregon Charitable Foundation presented to Western and their result adult
009education and continuing education [Applause] clarification I am sitting here representing the new American Dream Foundation as its vice president [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] second by mr. Petofi society discussion hearing none all those in favor I proposed we're stayin oh she's second if I any discussion all those in favor I propose stain or she carries for attendance report and get more than uh from the kids in this just last week we are getting about 14 attack but as the right now as of October 1 women send them to the state our official numbers we have not certain at this point but the exact color will be - was anybody contested in schools removal by October 1st but as the courthouse what mission to fix my personal staff challenge to that specialized staff and which work I
010slowly you overload her TriMet pieces aside fine by my orders the next board meeting I'm giving officially the overall the numbers that the alimentary are lower than they were last year levels are higher school has dissipated those at all all of them out the first look at see all you get here we hate walking around watch the hot birthday and [Music] [Applause] whether they don't even look at it a school on you know civilization and any schools that are approaching the fifteen percent have finally look at a district average for our my heart account for the account and there's a fairy three exceed for your purpose about the fifties we have to start talking about possibilities every 25% then acid Ares take some other actions right now there are two schools one school is over
011the fifteen percent seventy percent so all of our schools that are above 50 percent the district is required that a plan in place which is why we put a library up there on the side composition at fifteen percent but they close up double digits as well Westside is under double digits we thought this would be a good time to address website as well so we plan to start engagement plans for a I guess there are regulations that we found with the crew but for our pitcher and thinking about that conversation was the outcomes but there are pros do it sensibly that would be the approach for all of the fifth graders and through a selection process and there's one potentate that's one way of trying to ensure that of course the schools are integrated a
012way of having two Affairs down pay is a little more difficult because as you know which games seats some options and they call the state is it with her okay but they ran into difficulties and I make those suggestions well right now I just put it out on paper just for discussion dr. Silas is currently placed her suppose I how do we assign a particular model was that voted on or the second select traditional model so you just follow that I think the kind of decision okay it's [Music] many school office they don't look but the OCR for senior feds is this something you need to affect on the board you have a policy that speaks to access analogy even OCR wasn't in the picture there are some compensation in fact we've talked in my
013boots research console who actually do over a state the state gives us better fingers right after probably their 70 movies 75 75 right out of town and say has only ladies look at counts mostly architecture right Loretta compliance with that everybody has that supersedes state regulation we did founders I think that one of the share on the use of the word of those who have stated eyes no matter what the state or federal is she's an assistant principal everything you do in the district were about succeed whether a measure is what is a federal and state level so acceptable she needs to fall back once that statement we use it as a guiding tool and decision [Music] the language actually we have some strategies around the equal of collaboration strategies that dr. sound we talked
014about for Westside would certainly be a lot easier for the different to our challenges yes and I'm talking about the district's out of town it's in town trying to work to the war making sure the composition of areas of Denver beside misrepresented and so we have to figure out we have to figure out a way to do a better job to get families families and two three four years old so when they both register they already think I can so there's a funny question he I was asked about the allegation the EECS money was startling that was money that the governor started some years back - yeah Lucy 2.25 announcements plus most of the matrix we had $5,000 from the stage yes it was mania but actually there's no money being healthy money that's being
015held all Sounders in there babe I will say that's for you but each year that is fun now they put this entity passwords if you look at our brand finally almost my language of grandeur teachers are trying to close the gap bility numbers that's just evidence that money is good news for the city that's already nonfiction money came in bangs school again the city has given us $600,000 especially through the last Bank assistance that we had they talked this first game based on the 1.5 Jones's findings chairman I just want to interrupt for one second a lot of people have to go do lesson plans and get back to their children so we want to make a polite exit if that's okay absolutely [Applause] we are coming in outside only where you probably got rocking-horse
016red shirts [Music] this is diamond silver that's driving around the park on see stand up there shaking everybody's man like a graduation got a protection before t gets announced Chairman's before I just want to reiterate the Pembroke playground thing was terrific and thank you so much everybody there [Music] it's alright used to it someone dropped the Bible [Music] leave it open for the air for the air it's just okay maybe I'm gonna Park to you yeah wait give it a second [Music] after on that chair many more fantasy yeah class full of mountains pictures early child development excellent last Saturday and American rewards crowd the theater program did a wonderful job b2 b3 interpretation of Pendleton they brought down the house absolutely beautiful so incredibly proud especially how much of your department has grown over
017the past years do you like that okay I'm going to talk about that yeah the accreditation process is gonna be coming in to dinner I stole this Walt it's late November I'm the role that you have in most members of the work as well as all the staff is always going to go through all to discuss yeah so what is the presentation process it's a 10-year cycle it comes in three phases happens once every 10 years the first part is like yeah works for yeah that allows us information allows us gives us information from an outside view which allows us to make decisions so why do you do it it's finish the research phases and practices that we already have we're gonna look at improving as we always do the policies programs and practices of
018our school the outside group identifies strengths and needs of our school we have seven standards and it basically will drive our school improvement plan for probably the next five years I'm gonna say until we have to do a five-year report so the self-study or people already completed a cycle T driven administration only takes on role as people that really want to go get information for them for example you know nice facility for shall we put of teachers in contact with them input from the faculty parents suits you numbers as in the form of Endicott Survey which is provided to us by yes it's a lengthy survey before giving multiple languages that open house things like that - you know 2,500 last year 2,500 entries to the battle it kind of needs to be salsa story
019or school as I mentioned earlier you know 18 people come into my school for three days is not the entire picture my school so there's a lot of information that we have to provide for them faces visit for days like I said remember 17 to 20 and 17 this is Sunday when it kicks off and starts and it basically says how about the VHS meets the standards and then phase 3 for follow-up it's the Commission report these just arrived for our conversations and your conversations I'm rehearsing these super group and the admins we prepare the reports on the two-year five-year progress reports so if there are some strong recommendations that they're requesting lost in two years we have to follow up with that for the paybacks there are seven standards and that's the other handout
020that I gave you just so you can be familiar with it the number of next school or we call indicators so for size beliefs and learning expectations there are four different indicators for each one's like school help from leadership if there's 12 different indicators that we are measured against when this committee comes here so you can take a look at that I'll briefly show you how it kind of works and some of the key languages in that's gonna be interesting new yourself three these indicators and the self study for example core values beliefs and learning expectations we've got a lot of work in high school around portrait of a graduate we actually started that in two years ago school governors council reviewing and going over and then move to a district level and that's kind
021of where it is now so if you look at you know measurable where we're going to run into some sort of problems are words like school town as challenging mental 21st century learning expectations for all students that that's fine the key words like Civic and measurable Civic criteria for success are things that we don't have right now so that'll knock us down we haven't had finished product school graduate graphic all that stuff looks like so we can't make the criteria to assess something or not so you may see something like that if you go to number two it's about curriculum and the keywords and ones like that are design curriculum for all classes we really do have a line in between the ribbon o'clock terrific them but wherever you get you know conversations are going
022to come around with our vertical articulation between us and middle schools no it's probably not as strong as the so things like that supplies materials equipment fair warning a lot of this report will be reflected on you know how teachers and feel about budgeting support technology support those are not things that are our so how it looks again this is all done by our staff and they did an absolute fantastic job many of which we're here tonight this was done a lot of times during our PD time which is kind of a catch-22 and the fact that you have to do this during school hours on the 1-hour releases and TV days so let's stop City and the work that we're doing for the past year the way this works well big public thanks to
023the steering committee especially might will retrace the book actually help me this PowerPoint in and those are the people that are sort of the different seven standards and every single staff members so it's uh for educational in the yes process you're all invited to the panel presentation on Sunday November 17th and we'll take out our cell phones weren't that the calendar a good time you do it this is true Johnson or his designee will Allah say a couple words about the makeup and vision of the Board of Education and things like that some of the board members if not all of them come participate in our interview with the committee some prefer not do some pendants I'm happy but someone has to go we've actually been a mobile at least four so it's probably going
024to be that Sunday seventeenth around three o'clock in the afternoon and then there's a hour-long reception it'll be all the advice depending on some dignity I'm not exactly sure yet the committee sent it to me yeah I can tell you it starts at like the parts that you have a booth there for me to do I mean you know that's a wide note beautiful part that's just like soft but every extended was different and the visiting chair button talking to I send him my draft with one a what a schedule should be and he finalized these sometimes as soon as I get those which should be by one poly next we're meeting we will be able to give you a definite time I would also ask that dr. South long has a copy at the
025self-study just went into the whole portal so it was just a fling with all the edits it is not after public consumption at all so you can think of looking back so your knowledge of what self-study was talking about against those indicators that with you also so and after they're here Sunday Monday Tuesday night Wednesday Wednesday afternoon the chairman of the committee will give us a brief rundown what they found with highlights of what's going on at probably 220 230 at the high school when school's over the whole staff will come into the auditorium no presenting this is like half our version of what they believe is going to happen and what they see if strikes to eat this is real quick a detailed report that comes to probably about six months later isn't it
026it's in much greater detail awful easy to work on but everyone is invited to that it's not open to the public it's just for the staff they recommended yes they were they were portable you kind of nation it's important definitely I don't think clothes into jeopardy with athletes some things that we're gonna have to look hard ourselves and say hey this is important work the system he works mostly off you heard this the way IP works would be getting that in the document I wasn't pretty enough yes talk to me and poor beliefs what's the turnaround time that you're given to cure the recommendations there are seven categories of them there's an immediate ones that have to be done within two years and then there's five your once event a any any recommendations that they
027tell you right now looking at all that we have council it loads over 300 which is an absolute X for them which will be immediately put us there's different way from what we need to say we should be doing a lot more or certainly you would attest today that you should be doing a lot more funding that's prohibitive that you know my complaint is that we're just treading water and you got a bureaucratic system that comes in here once every ten years that says okay you this and you don't have the funds to keep the lights on with the harmony if the government doesn't know what he'll do on so it's not garbage together put the budget together we will just highlight those there is highly recommended it just gives us more conversation about sorry
028this video for our conversation is gone you know conversations on it so it gives us more support gives us more ammunition but unless we make an inverter do this for obviously coming currently frustrated imagine you guys and people and break I've been I'm a senior positions but it's just year after year it's the same just the same nonsense I mean it's you get these unfunded mandate you may not be the situation if we're making an inroad and be given an appropriation next year because we're not going to do we're going to put on some more FTEs or what I'm going to do this and all of a sudden this thing comes out people are somehow to decide you have to do something to do something pushing this back but I think we all are I
029once the same when I first joined the board we one of the first five thing yes on that job on board - what it is and that's why I think everybody included people rather mentioned and administrators particularly to set different areas to use whatever time frame is then problems you have existing every day you're focusing on something a critical period of time didn't stop everything breach week and go back to do more maintenance so maybe they should do things more frequently set of tankers you know do some sort I mean if they have so many categories what they do the categories on your tooth for the appearing get it one time this you mentioned that this is the last time they'll be doing it inside your cycle after that drops to a five-year cycle alerts
030a lot less right now this visit itself as cost additions [Music] mr. journal and it shopping bacon comment but I think that your frustration my comment you know me everybody else's this is a example of how the funding question is a multi-faceted issue that no one silver bullet answer because we fix one side respect with these processes for making sense is take money away from teachers and kids in classroom to then it create more steps for at the same time these process will protect us to be able to do the job over certain all right so it's always going to be the type of work some of these things so there are things that you need to know and look at and it's good to have outside opinion come in it's still moving forward as
031New England Association of schools and colleges credits colleges and accreditation in these Midwest has one and then the far south so there's three accreditation those standards as you applied to the colleges university puts a stamp on your transcript as imagine a body of your school relative to meeting standards so all of the schools are northeast go through this accreditation permits them to access both scholarships and other things but it simply speaks to the school standards that you're meeting the standard first is running the school without any standards as monetary I imagine you can say it's not mandatory but if you don't have it it's good to have that that long credits for example will be T transfer credits for students just from that from the time they finish this program into doing navigation and information
032would be processed and back by the stairs eight four six for probably four months so by the end of the school year if you start yeah it's far from doing do it near us and why facilities that go through it rotation agency then that's that's accepted from ourselves College School is usually attached to some sort of credit aid program online program for our homeschool program as long as their us we've students online the credit have to do something probably not okay so just so everybody knows October 16 special meeting or any agreements it's October 23rd at 5:30 is the workshop which my 16th at 6th really just one miss the movie will be here like 10 10 16 at 6 p.m. and 10 23 at 5:30 is the workshop the workshop will be on the
033and we are - anybody have anything else that they need to add [Music] just so hard some hot yes thank you Mellie - yes this afternoon but apropos to pursue the ceremony there was a young student just ended to pepper into these in the fourth grade from the state he and the parents with the other book which is interesting explaining his is issued correctly but the parents did that so in school pretty much understand why he's there what was disability so and even so he's a little bit mark 7 and what was the whole point that this particular program was just for this one young prodigy to emulate today he was in a wheelchair he was able to roll onto the legal pad was able to really roll up and if you use it with
034somebody's they're just incredibly so in addition to the dream come true the background we actually the ability to see a child that's not typically share utilizes in here the focus is simplicity it's nice interest and I think Lisa board hang our hat be very proud to be part of this particular adventure I mean feel the state that have done this I think it's a nice you know it's a nice feather in our cap if somebody said you know what did you do rather I would say fanmeeting okay we accomplished this so I thank you all for any buddies thank you I missed the information section so the inter school food service in st. Peter's School has started service program 27 and the Director of Finance interviews or October 4th and October 7th and the board
035liaisons will be mrs. Carroll yes just a question absolutely no more interviews curious as to why standard policy that's a great question I think it was but what I was handed with here to participate and because it would have been virtually impossible to distinguish from a number of factors what we did was we broke you in two parties but the names might not have had to select with two observers just like me because somebody that I thought foreign policy was that the Chairman had final say selection of members in a house that's always gone you know but there was enough that was about everybody volunteer I just I the selection along party lines a little bit just bothers me because we all tend to work more party lines what we're trying to do the right
036thing okay I just wanna have two things I remember specifically not not share moment usamos was sharing there was a committee told me that the chair pose to pace they can't be the person for the article I have a plumber see that certainly for you know I didn't know how the public election came out yeah I think for now the best we could reinvest and I mean I'm just not sure what you do when you have you know you need to and you have stuff yeah yeah no I agree doesn't it I mean I just didn't I actually didn't know that that was an issue they were just looking for volunteers it's a consideration points well-taken to perhaps what we could do is to two board members that have been selected if there are eight
037volunteers it's about a problem in terms of making people however why don't we write our our say recommendations or our thoughts s with what qualities or what aspects we feel that they should and I think that that contained into account our opinions inclusive men come back and challenge and say you know why do you do this report we could look at it from the Finance Committee - that's the way it's probably done and then if there's not enough people that are on the Finance Committee that could sit on that that we can draw from come up with a few ideas and if there's a better way to do it let's just do that I mean I don't think it's that nobody was feeling excluded from a protocol question protocol right absolutely no question there it
038was the process considering every time poor gets together we're doing certain things it's through the chair okay so I just I don't want it to be processed all of these things except for this this but it's following a process around absolutely all right I'm you don't [Music] because I will but you are in vector notation you're on this board and you can make I think I think mr. Medina was saying that that wasn't a matter of okay so I'm just saying there's any suggestion that you want quite sure I can't speak for him that any you want us to have the special account before we finalize in question I agree they didn't wanna come out that way but also to your point there is that one question I've been around a couple ones I was
039on reporting put a 30 you know safe in consideration floods you know so to come up with opinions of stuff like that I think that step it's not we're talking here not only to talk to former finance issues directors in this different but also to talk to all of the people who work in the finance department this is not kind of a flying a couple people to get up early and show up at a wall this is a significant amount of work we're also crafting on demonstration tasks so we put together already people a project is pretty is pretty that process No [Music] are you ready Fred's not here to talk about our booking policy work so I'm going to just update Florida at the IHOP committee met last week to review McCain audit of
040the bylaws as they pertain to professionalize ation of the board we reviewed that half would be 108 ages and will continue to review through the policy committee we're forming again on October 2nd at 6:00 p.m. all of our members receive the 108 pages of the audit or death that's an August 26 and I just feel like it's a good review of benefit members who we've been through as well and in lieu of our board retreat the committee will coordinate a board workshop on roles and responsibilities in January after the election and the next ad hoc committee meeting we held on October 10th thank you and I think that wraps it up motion made by Mrs Cooper to add a second all those in favor all those in favor aye those carries thank you so much
041for all our help thank you guys I'm sorry between us the food services