001cool e e 2025 eastline Board of Ed regular meeting to order for those of you can stand stand for the Pledge of Allegiance United States of America the and justice for first order of business we do have a special recognition and I'll and for that representative ni is here thank you for being with us uh so um Mr Maru you run a few minutes late but let me read this because we're gonna recognize both and Tanner um who are right Tanner Gracie yes Gracey yes okay just make sure we got the right great folks so let me just uh read this quick and I'm gonna turn over to you so we can and sure everybody knows what we're recognizing here so let's start with Gracie uh Gracie is a two season athlete competing in field
002hockey and softball and she earned all EC and all state honors uh in field hockey and her sophomore Junior and senior years as well as receiving the ECC sportsmanship award in softball on 2024 one men many aades uh she is here tonight to be receiving the um recognition from our representative as a cast CIA scholar athlete so we are are happy to have her with us and then Tanner uh just a brief uh piece about Tanner Tanner is a three- season athlete participating soccer basketball and baseball uh in this past fall he earned all EC all ECC honors as part of the boys soccer team um and they had won their third straight ECC championship this past year so among many many accolades about both of these individuals I really want to kind of give
003uh a representative of the chance to uh read a citation uh about both of them turn it over to you okay yeah I want to thank both of guys for being here and I want to make sure we're on this so I've got this I have discovered that there is only one size that they do these let's see so on behalf of myself as uh state representative Nick Bas I am hereby known to all the Connecticut House of Representatives and hereby offer sinc serious congratulations to I'll do each one of you individually but if uh Gracy if you want to come up for this one they say Ste Lloyd in recognition of your outstanding achievements as a student athlete at East lime High School your dedication to Excellence in field hockey and softball earning all
004ECC and all state honors as well as your leadership in academics and Community uh service sets a remarkable example for others best wishes as you continue your journey at marac college and pursuing nursing this entire membership extends your very best wishes on this memorable occasion and expresses the hope for your continued success given this day the 3rd of March 2025 the state capital Hartford and behalf of speaker mat RIT and Secretary of State Stephanie Thomas congratulations picture yeah that whatever you'd like to do he's gonna come right back up yeah you're okay right there graci if you want to say than all right and Tanner this would be a little s but we have one for you so as on behalf of the general assembly uh I want to introduce this this myself uh representative
005Nick menapace be hereby known to all the Connecticut House of Representatives hereby offers serious congratulations to Tanner O'Brien in recognition of your exceptional success as a three sport athlete at eastl high school your leadership on the soccer field basketball court and baseball diamond along with your dedication to academic achievements reflects your commitment to Excellence best wishes for your future studies in Biochemistry and your aspirations in medicine the entire membership extents its very best wishes on this memorable occasion and expresses the hope for continued success given this day the 3rd of March 2024 at the state capital Harford Connecticut um by Speaker Matt Ritter and SEC here sure if you want you guys can just stand app come in front of the sign okay there you go yeah sorry I'm very new to this perfect we
006go excellent someone great congratulations congratulations to both you both of you achieving both the classroom and whether it's a sport or activity and excelling in both phenomenal so to see you and congrats both and best of luck in your next Endeavors thanks to representative uh Nick menes thank you for coming and and presenting I really appreciate that um and you if you have things to do you're more than welcome to say uh but you are also more than welcome too thank you take care next order of business is public comment public comment absolutely public comment any public comment hearing none we'll close public comment move on to special reports and we have our two High School Representatives D and Dave here um Okay so freshman and sophomores are going to be taking the PSAT on
007Thursday and the juniors are going to be taking the actual sat no many juniors are a little anxious about the upcoming test um because it's your first time taking the SAT um the annual blood drive is going to be happening this Wednesday on the 5th and it's ran by full Senate in a collaboration with the Red Cross a lot of people are excited about the upcoming 5day weekend um 17th 18th and the 19th sure not next week but the week after are all half days for a parent teacher conference um the spring break or no just the spring musical is Freaky Friday and that's going to be shown in the auditorium March 21st 22nd and 23rd which is a Friday Saturday and Sunday senior Mikey tempano just reached um a th points in his high
008school basketball career and he's now of one of 14 to achieve this in all of East slime boys basketball history so that's pretty cool um boys basketball had a victory against torington on March 1st the marching band has been promoted to the Open Class of the competition by us bands which so now they're representing the nation's top marching ensembles spring Sports registration is now open and sports are going to start up on March 22nd is senior class trip is set for Thursday March 27th senior prom is set for Saturday March 31st senior dinner dance is set for Thursday June 5th um the juniors are hosting their prom on May 10th at uh Porton starburn the annual Safeguard hypnotist show is happening on Thursday March 27th at 7M in the auditorium I know this this is
009usually as good as it turns out for the seniors and a lot of people enjoy the show um people are excited for that a lot of a lot of seniors have already committed to colleges with others still waiting for their um acceptance letters some seniors are very anxious and nervous about this because it means that they have less time to decide um where they're going to go uh some colleges are getting back at the end of the this month however uh the overall feeling around the school right now is people are getting really excited for um spring and pretty much um because it's prettyy much here and they feel that the rest of the school is going to like fly by kind of get like that spring kind of fever um and the junior ball
010recently hosted the uh the junior Senate recently hosted the winter ball and uh this year it was actually pretty successful questions thank you thanks so much thank you guys hey we have next order bus um um next order is we have our consent to approve anyone want to make a motion to approve to approve second all those in favor say I I post need the consent agenda consists we for those of you at home who are keeping score um we did modify end of last year we approved to modify our consent agenda so meeting minutes instead of having separate approvals of each of our meetings where there's four different meeting minutes that we'd approve which just takes time we have those in our consent you can always pull it off consent if you had a
011change but if other otherwise we also have our first readings of our policy which again we used to have to read through each one but those in consent again we can always pull them off and then the other big item is a field trip High School field trip to Europe going to Austria Hungary and Germany the three locations so those were the three U sections of consent aend items that we just approved uh next door of business we have a good crowd uh for the discussion action items instruction eastl Middle School presentation turn it over to Jeff and Claudine yeah I'm gonna actually turn it right over to um Claudine who's gonna introduce Mrs nry and uh we're gonna get go the our Middle School pres so Kell give a little bit of a background
012for good evening everybody um middle school students 10 to 14 years old have diverse needs and interests making important for us to offer a variety of of opportunities Beyond traditional inter Scholastic Sports um our clubs provide opportunities for all students and reinforce the values of teamwork problem solving and Leadership while also creating an environment for personal exploration when possible we try to avoid limiting the number of students by by creating additional Club sections uh many of our clubs we try to make a direct connection to the work that occurs in the classroom and the majority of our clubs are taught by our faculty at eastl Middle School um Elms also provides a late bus three days a week to ensure that all students have access to Transportation which helps um to support participation clubs at
013Elms are f a fantastic opportunity for all of our students to try new things practice social skills and engage with peers to which they might not otherwise be exposed to tonight you're going to hear from students and from Mrs nry the club adviser for a new club that we began um at Elms called C perch you're going to hear from the students and Mrs nry about this club to give you a little bit of background um myself and the elementary principles back in November of 2023 met with Mr fulo and Jessica Wilson from electric boat um and we started we wanted to learn more about what this club could offer at each of the grade levels um bringing this Pathways initiative to eastl Middle school um Islam high school at that time was already involved
014in a partnership with Bo for the next generation and the we were excited to expand and to learn about how we could incorporate and bring this into our building so at the middle school level it's called the SE perch Robo nation and it's a program that allows um our seventh and eighth grade students the opportunity to utilize the following skills and some of them include Machining soldering welding pipe fitting and electrical to complete a submersible Ro robotic device this is initiative allows our students to focus on the trads and is tied directly to the ngss standards as well as common core and you're going to hear from our guest students very shortly about their experience and their progress to date um you know after we did meet with Miss Wilson from electric boat um we
015were able to um have Mrs nastri commit and go forth and she participated um Mrs Nast is one of our grade eight science teachers um and uh she participated in eight-hour training uh at Three Rivers College as well as a two-hour Zoom training after her experience she came back excited and jubilant to begin and start this new club so I want to thank both Mr fulo for helping us connect and both to Mrs nastri and our partnership with electric boat to making this happen and now I'm going to let you hear from our students they're going to come up and introduce themselves so if you want to just state your name i isra p Israel look great are you okay what do you have with you I have um a model that we're making is
016made out of PVC pipes it's called the vwing [Music] and what what we're gonna so what we're going to use this this is our the base of our robot and as you can see we have drilled holes in it and we've used um the PVC pipe cutter to make sure like it fits all all throughout and to make sure that it's substainable and it floats in the water pretty what it is my name is Tristan this is the uh PVC pipe cutter uh we used it many times in our club um we use it for cutting pipes after when we measured them and drill holes in them so they can fit together properly um this is the book that we uh pretty much gave us the directions of how to do it those directions of
017how to solder and uh pretty much just put everything together hello my name is Zach and this is a solder or solder I should say uh you would plug this into an outlet and it's used to melt solder to Circuit Wards to um not complete them to uh weling together pretty much kind of like a welder but for a circuit boards uh didn't you feel like you hold this thank you we passing around yeah I was thinking no pass they're different sizes for different hands um not that I know of I haven't used one before this what was one of the things that you had to learn when you started utilizing had to be responsible with it obviously is it hard to use not be careful yeah you get burned right everyone in eth grade
018uh he's a seventh grader and he's a seventh grader you guys enjoying this class I like it awesome hands on stuff that do day what what other club do we get a melt metal in than [Laughter] do you have a question yeah is a presentation done or there there's a couple more students that are still gonna come um hi I'm Dominic chivers and I'm a eighth grader before we could solder what Charlie's gonna show you the chips for our controller we had to learn how to solder in general so one day we took a break from building and we watched a slideshow on how to properly solder how to not safe how to not solder safety how to look at the um instructions and how to follow them and we the next week we made
019the everyone made one of these it's called a weevil we um it's pretty much a chip and it has we soldered batteries LED lights resistors and at the back here there's a light sensor so when it's in the dark the lights should blow up and if it doesn't you did it wrong you have to fix it and um yeah just helped us learn out of solder make sure we were doing it right any of you want to see it sure pass it around pass it around thank you um once we learned how to solder we built this control this controller thing here with the sticks and all sorts of buttons to get our boat robot moving um and right now we're building this wire to connect it to actually power it and we soldered everything
020inside here um and um this is the panel that we soldered everything on and um this was uh very fun to make as a group and we had to like divide and conquer and get this done and it was honestly my favorite part just building this because I think we've all used some sort of controller in our life and it's pretty fun to make it by yourself so after you build the controller you got to build the or connect the motors to it right now that's what Zach and I are doing um I soldered the first motor on yeah we kind of need to pull apart the wire so we can get the other ones to solder it on and we're gonna think after we do this we're gonna wax the motors to make them
021waterproof and put them on the r how long did that take you to do minutes oh okay okay and your Club usually meets on Mondays right for an hour after school just me just you okay I can't tell you how excited these guys were I was meeting with them last Monday and I knew that we would be coming here and I was like any volunteers and like their hands all shot up so I can't tell you um just a quick thing the C perch project this is the one that I created when I went to that eight hour training I thought I think it took more than eight hours to put together but you know it's like a learning thing I'm not very good at soldering uh myself and I knew what was going to
022be coming a along the line for them um so uh it's just been fun uh we get together um it's kind of like organized chaos where they're like all doing different things and I have to sort of Clone myself so I can watch what's happening and make sure that we're all still able to walk out with 10 10 digits on our hands and um you know but they have a lot of energy enthusiasm and we're looking to finish the club hopefully by the end of March and um we'd like to try them out in your pool happen we will make that available the kids the kids kids oh yeah so um when we met at the beginning we had to figure out how we were going to run this club and there are 12 students
023although I'm not going to say anything but the number kind of is a revolving door I think I have 14 kids but on any given day it's like 12 or there so um we said that was going to be the starting number and electric bow is really great because they want this to work for future people to get into that um you know career and so they Supply they Supply um a box is not very big that has most of the components for the r there's a um battery in there for like a motorcycle battery that they'll use to power them um and then not only do they get this kit to build out they also get a huge toolbag um it's better than some of the tool bags I have at my house there's
024like a power and the soldering iron and stands there's pliers there's screwdrivers um what other tool oh uh the the PBC pipe cutters the list goes on and on um but all the tools that they require to put one together pretty much comes in the box or the bag um so it's sort of like you know neat to un unpackage the first day we got to explore the bags and I thought it was like Christmas you know the kids are pulling things out and they're so excited so does any of the board have any questions for the students or for TR one question you already answered it looks like you you as a group went through some kind of safety training so you know so you know it looks like you guys are all okay
025so it's a safety training was good but I had one question you know it you know there's a lot of um things that you know um you know there's this is a very interesting project and and maybe even within the project there were things that were more interesting so how did how did you decide who will do what you know what was there clamoring to do the more interesting things or or people were fairly collegial and agreed to do some of the more mundan things and and move the project along so how did that work up um so there are four four of us in a group each and we each decide what roles we would take beforehand like let's say the day before Miss nashy would say oh we're doing this we would decide
026who would do the main parts and who would help out so that's how we kind of decided who was going to do what right also to add on what he said um we all had we all like shared our interests to the group in the club like one of my friends he who isn't here tonight he said he wanted to solder but I ended up being much better at him that too so we kind of switch jobs it's just who's best who wants who's interested in what and it's just split it up from there rotating skills so everybody gets a chance to try new things yeah that's great that's that's great that's that's great teamwork I applaud you for for your efforts and this is great thank you so I'm wondering about um it's handson
027and you're learning to use your hands and understand things have you ever made mistakes that like how does that go when we were putting together um what Israel has made here and what Miss n's model the PBC pipes like if somebody made a wrong cut or something we would have to like stick it in a different way or redo because we did have some extra pieces and we just had to kind of just go back and try to fix our mistake or like get an extra part or ask for help from the sers and how did you learn from that uh we learned how to like um not everything's going to be perfect and we learned how to like adjust and improvise a little yeah I just was wondering uh how many kits did they
028did you get are you working with one for the group or are they building multiple ones so we have three kits that are going right now um it was recommended that one kit would work well for about four students um personally uh that's pretty good number I see these students working together um like Dom said they kind of figure things out and share responsibilities and you know it's kind of like a learning curve for all of them um and so I feel like if you had a smaller number there wouldn't be a safety that you have when you work with more people like oh I can't solder but my friend can or oh I made a mistake on this cut it got caught by one of my groupmates who noticed that we have one extra
029piece that we're not supposed to have or you know it's just extra eyes to help make the job easy and Bill when the when the club had started when we initially met way back in that first November um Jessica had suggested to us that we kind of cap it at around 12 no more than 12 and that it predominantly should be comprised of seventh and eighth graders just for the advisor to be able to maintain the safety you know of students extremely familiar with seat Birch I've been doing it for a million years and I have a ton of extra resources if you need anything give me a shout I'll you out um I was just and there's so many Avenues you can do buoyant density buoyancy you get covering DC circuits there's a ton
030to cover there it's really great program so I I think it's a great thing to expose these kids too I think it's super super glad to see that it's happening yeah um and feel free to reach out if you need anything good to know and I just want to say thank you to our students you are our first group to go through this club so thank you for helping us to get this off the ground and to Mrs nry for stepping up and and being the adviser and um really just the passion that you've brought to it I do appreciate great have a couple more questions if that's okay I I don't know if I'll put my sales point for bill for the eighth graders Bill does do a robotics club for Lio lime and
031East Li so if that's something when you go into the high we we need people who know how to cut and solder that's and then Alisa that was actually a good segue to my question so it sounds like the club ran from November and we wrap up end of March is that okay and is the plan to um offer the same Club next year with the same kits are there you know once we launch the robots and try them out in the pool is there another Ty of build or kit we could do what does it look like to scale this is the perfect venue I'm gonna speak up go ahead because I've talked to Mrs Kelly about this um I think these skills are skills that everybody regardless of what your career path is
032should try at least once in their life because most of the time you don't get the opportunity um and I feel like um some place to go and and experience what it's like to solder or use a drill or um you know cut pipes I mean we all have houses when we're older some people might want to go into that field um I just think it's great I I would personally like to run the club again and not saying that it's free so you know I I would hope that with what you see here tonight that maybe purchasing the kits in the future I don't know how often EB is willing to supply the kits I don't know how that works but I would really say it's an opportunity that should be given more than
033just this once that's me you want to add um like Miss like Miss nashy was saying uh it's a good thing that I feel like everyone should try out in life because you don't know like let's say you want to like I say become you want to become a football player like do whatever you want in life and that doesn't work out and you know a skill that you learned early like early on in your life that like oh I can get into this and like I've seen like many things out there on the news like that people are like like over here doing protests for like random stuff but yeah something that we should like get people should know to do could continue to be running this club for so I appreciate the presentation
034this was uh for bringing this to us really exciting and interesting and my question for you is um Mr around Wells gets to hear hear about this and and see it are there plans to kind of do a update after you know it goes in the pool to the broader school or to just kind of expose you know the other other kids and and the parents and you know to to what is happening what's happening in this group so to evoke some of the interest within our building Mrs nastri had come on uh we will share information with families we call it a five out five so she was one of our guest speakers that came on to try to kind of um you know encourage uh participation for the club so that's how the
035club started I think you know it would certainly be a great way for her to come back on and to share out an update with regards to the outcome once they get to the pool and how how the devic is Flo a video we got to do a video absolutely absolutely share it yeah a great thing to get some press coverage John from day well the thing about the pool um one difficulty that I found I reached out to find out but what the availability would be to bring the students over and it was sort of limited TimeWise like when we could use the pool for whatever reason um it would be during a school day so you know there's things that have to figure out logistically to see what happens next but it would
036certainly be fun to see well first of all if they work cu I don't even know if mine works and to see if they work and you know that's another whole layer figuring out how to get it to stay not on the top of the pool and not at the bottom of the pool but where do you want to be the sweet spot in the middle right and how to make it move and you know that's a whole thing in its own we'll see how it goes we I'm looking at the model that you're holding the like turquoise pieces what do they do all right so theoretically um the pool noodle is so that when it's filled with water because that's what the holes are for it will have a small amount of buoyancy to
037allow it to be propelled forwards and up and down and side to side by the motors what yep share the video I don't know yet we'll figure out the logistics to get you we will bring scissors and extra pool noodles yeah so we're we're we're definitely committed to make sure you can get in the pool we'll make sure that happens there there's available we'll make it happen find I think um and and I think some of the learnings if some don't work which is is experimentation and is things work and some some things don't and then you figure out from there so that's that's a learning in itself and then lastly um you know public speaking is I see Jamie has a question too we public speaking is one of the most feared things for
038people if you ask what's your biggest fear so were phenomenal uh getting up here and answering questions and everything that is uh that is great it's great for you to do that so really appreciate it let me see Jamie has a question not a question so much as a if you're G to make a video I know electric boat does post um what they do in the schools on the EB General Dynamics website so I'm sure they would love to have like a picture or video of the kids doing that to post on their website so that they can put that out there on the form for other schools to know about great thank you I appreciate you sharing that super thanks to uh EB to for doing this so we're excited so we're hoping
039to continue the partnership and to be able to run it again next year as well I do have um on here and I'll pass around this is just uh gives you an idea of the different clubs throughout the year that we do offer can we get a picture with like unfair work congratulations up that time can I just give one last okay the last thing that I just wanted to share is um you know first of all I just want to say thank you to the board for supporting uh the increase to our athletic department uh throughout the course of the year I just want to give a special recognition to Kathleen kulanka who is serving as our uh in the role of assistant athletic director um she's done a tremendous job in her outstanding
040efforts and supporting and overseeing all of our athletic programs she's worked tirus tiously to create a positive and inclusive environment um for our student athletes um she's buil she's helping to build a strong um Athletic program um to provide New Opportunities um not only to engage in athletics but to also again Foster teamwork discipline um in a sense of community she has exceptional attention to detail establishing clear protocols um and she really has helped assist in really making sure that these additions have been successful and a rewarding experience for um for our student inloes um they've our program have quickly become a highlight of our school's offerings and I think is really um continuing to be a solid feeder program um as we as a students Embark up to the high school um so and
041thanks to Kathleen's leadership we've seen significant growth and participation enthusiasm as well as skill development um among all of our young athletes um so I just wanted to make sure that you recognize her hard work and um how it's really enhanced our building and our climate culture as a whole so thank you for your continued support thank so much appreciate the update that closes our discussion and action items for tonight and moving on to Administration report yeah a few um items um we just uh came through this afternoon from the board of selectman um to come down Wednesday uh this coming Wednesday to provide a um overview of our budget uh the board of beds adopted budget so we'll be doing that Wednesday evening um 5 5 or 5:30 I think it's 5:30 and then
042at 7 o' that's a special meeting they're finishing up their deliberations Bo select on the town budget um and then at 7 o'clock uh I think I mentioned before we' the aquatics route uh the final hopefully uh approval of that increased cost so those two items are on for Wednesday night um the uh and I put in the weekly update the Cap Caps proposal um so we submitted uh Dave ful U submitted to do a uh a presentation for next year in November gab caps um on our EMT course and the work that's gone into that so hopefully we'll get selected and we do another presentation we didn't do one this year but we've done them in previous years so um stay tuned we'll let you know if you get awarded that um other items
043um wanted to just flow we were talking um I say least to talk with pedac um this past actually the end of last week and then I talked with one Union today we are looking to potentially at the end of the year right now our last day of school is a Monday um which is the 16th of June um kind of rough to come back on a Monday sort of thing and have graduation on a Monday now ABS all this we easily could have graduation on Friday if we didn't do this but we're we're thinking about bringing the calendar back to the bull so I just want to load it for you to think about um to use we have three snowflake days embedded one is coming up if we don't have any inclement weather
044this week um Monday the 10th will be a off of school for for students and staff offices are still open um and then our other one is May 23rd so if we don't have any inl weather on May 23rd we'd like to uh make that a actual half day of school for kids that Friday and then we would not have to come to school on Monday the 16th seemed to make a lot of sense um so seen a lot of kind of nods of of yes U people we've talked to um obviously the caveat is we don't have any more inclement weather days you mean March is a long month but um everyone could finish then on Friday 13th of June rather than coming back on Monday 16 makes a lot of sense H to
045yeah so that would be the why would that be a half day because on the we were to the snowflake day in May make it a full day but Memorial Day it's more weekend so that was one of the reasons and one of the yeah can you sure the last day of school supposed to the last day of school is a half day for kids so we make it a half day um for families to maybe get an early start um graduation would be Friday graduation would be the Friday the so lot of sense so see some heads nodding so I think we'll bring the calendar back um in April and the agenda to vote we can make that change and we can notify parents uh and then for that May 23rd date which is
046right before that would become up know other places where I've lived and worked in these kinds of situations they would maybe extend the day by 45 minutes is that too confusing to make up for the time ex um oh if we were to it might be it probably would with busing and everything else Sports yeah it'd be too crazy yeah yeah I've seen that happen before yeah um nonetheless we still could and whatever happens if we still you if we have an inlit web day um we still at have graduation on Friday um seniors you know we have 181 days in our calendar only need 180 by State Statute so we can have seniors and Friday and high school will still be open on Monday for 9 10 11 so it would still we can
047still do that but it would be nice everybody could finish on Friday so stay tuned we'll bring that back and the last piece um The High School vision committee we have our next meeting tomorrow evening um and we uh We've now visited um three um three districts and uh we've got uho Tech coming up we had to reschedule that one um we have a plan to talk tomorrow night about you know next set our other high schools we want to go see this is all part of again that potential plan to either renovate this building new behind this building um or do something some other configuration in between so uh some good discussions some good great visits um districts have been very open we're down in wargan last week in hon um Lis is from
048and that's a beautiful school school yeah really beautiful School uh with a lot of nice touches and a lot of use of space kids so um lots to think about so uh can you just repeat the three you just did here CL so we we looked at New London uh the new their new magnet school that they just finished we that was a renovation we went and looked at Waterford Waterford is a little older but um we wanted to see uh waterford's configuration um they've got a Fieldhouse uh large um umit thank you um and then we saw Clinton oh Morgan down in Clinton Morgan the Morgan school and then grasser Tech is on our list and then uh you know there's other Guilford branford's got a newbody so there's other on we're going to
049talk about so just to keep you in the loop it's public meeting well welcome to you know to to join us and listen in if you want there's no public comment but uh you know anybody's welcome to uh have and listen in so we're in this room tomorrow night just comment one one just one thing on the where what's kind of interesting is going to Waterford which is 2013 or 14 like 10 years ago and you can easily reflect on how much the world has changed in those 10 years um and as you're thinking about doing something new here you have to do something that's good for today you also want to look out and 20 years of what things may change so you know it's as simple as power like having enough Outlets in
050the library so there's not you know so the outlets are all on the wall but the tables are in the middle so you all have your laptops but you can't charge easily charge them without wires all across how would they have known in 2013 that you're were going to go to onetoone Computing and covid and everything else that happened you would never know that so these are things are really hard to predict but anyway that was just something that was very Ober you know as I looked at I was like wow this is really hard uh because there's no way they could have known that they couldn't have predicted it but it's a big change um and so one of the things that I heard from the different is you know try to do things
051as flexible as you can um if you don't lock things in then you can adjust as time goes on so those are like learnings that they had so it's interesting to to look in um let's see yeah yeah that was it emise um so read Across America week this week I know Olivia was in schools today um but it's a a very busy week uh with lots of friends coming in to share the love of rating on Friday uh we have a full day PD day so at the elementary level that will be predominantly um uh a day of planning for elementary teachers for wit and wisdom we like to just give them space and time to get into the modules and use the time to plan they've really um benefited from that and given
052with the new program and the heavy lift um most teachers will have time to do that our K1 teachers will be in a play um based learning professional development it will be the last session of the year which will then um kind of wrap up our all of our K1 teachers at that point excuse me all of our K teachers and our grade One Pilot teachers will have been fully trained next year we'll wrap will Loop in the rest of grade one and start thinking about grade two for our next level of work and play um at the middle school and high school levels we have some really um robust Ed Camp um uh days scheduled so um for those of you who don't know what an ed Camp is essentially it's a um it's
053a professional development opportunity that um colleagues are offering for one another and and folks come in and they choose their sessions where they want to go on the day and they're not necessarily um tied to the session that they initially choose they have flexibility if it's not necessarily align to their needs or they they can get up and walk out and go to another session it's very loose and flexible but um really proud that um it's all being sessions are being all offered internally by our staff in areas of that they have a special unique Um passion around expertise um Andor something special to share um and some of the sessions will offer some Wellness opportunities some opportunities to come up take a breath have some fun with colleagues build relationships tied to some of
054our culture and climate work so there's a combination of those Wellness activities and professional learning tied to our our district calls but once that happens I'll share I'll put all that in the update for you so you can see what sessions were offered try to get some pictures in there for you too I won't be here on Friday but we'll Jeff out on a mission to take some pictures if he remembers do staff get stiens for being instructional leaders in that capacity well our coaches you know if our coaches receive sttip in uh and our cil's receive stiens a lot of the sessions are offered by those staff members um but no um just scheduled on 17th we're going to start our uh working with uh Tyler to roll on payroll hopefully so obvious so
055January 2020 f is is not uh available so we're going to do I uh July 2026 so and we'll just be my office doing on his f with another system that closes Administration reports moving on to committee reports and we had a CCI CL at culture and Innovation previously known as triple a uh meeting so yeah we we covered two things primarily we were looking at the uh generative AI Guidance uhal the draft of that that's going to be to us shortly um we also looked at the survey results from um Le put out it or the group The Tech group put out a survey to all the faculty um on you know having them take a look at the AI and and ask some questions about how it's being used and you know whether
056the guidelines speak to what they think should be in the guidelines and um some recommendations so it was you know the results were as expected kind of whenever there's a new technology like this some people are already in the pool and others are reluctant to jump in um but I think we're we're in a good place with what we have to move forward um and the other topic we covered was uh just some updates on climate and culture work and we we've got um printouts and and we're taking a look at what each of the buildings are doing for their individual work with regard to um climate and culture what their Improvement plans are so and it looks and I'm happy to see that it looks like the the three elementary schools are kind of
057aligned with what they're doing which is nice so that Unison with their efforts and um there's some good stuff taking place in across the district I think so we're excited about keeping that rolling we got a couple more surveys to go out this year we also um just update at at the districtwide climate culture committee we had some more input about how how we can tweak our surveys and how we can improve um participation particularly with parents we're gonna we put some stuff forward to try to get more parents to give us feedback on that did I missed I bill we had a policy meeting not since the last meeting but I don't think we reported out last week although we did all the last week anything yeah we reported last week yeah we been
058last week but might been the last meeting we did report okay since the since the policy meeting there was a report out okay thanks for yeah was one previously I just couldn't remember okay excellent um KY anything from K the only thing I have is C's day on the hill is the 12th of this month it's next Wednesday if anyone is interested and going let me know and I will let cave know we'll set up some appointments Jamie and had a meeting since reported out next either this Thursday or next Thursday will be our next Lee um that closes committee report moving on to board comments and future agenda item that I have I have two comments I the first comment I is uh with respect to how our students are doing and in respect
059to that I had requested end distributions of of of the scores and N had sent them sent them to me and um and in one of the updates those those those distributions were included I think we should probably as a board take a look at look at those distributions for the math and Ela scores and kind of understand what's what's behind those data and because that to me because that's the first time I have seen those distributions for our schools uh represents the Baseline you know for for the PO because if we are going to implement policy if you are going to programs there has to be Improvement in those distribution and I think we as a group should probably discuss those and um understand those so that what what actions we take toward towards
060improving those distribution so that's that's one comment uh and pause and see if anybody has questions but that's my request to the board all right the second one is of all I don't know one of you like is it possible for us to have more detailed information I know we've asked about it I provided it yeah was in the weekly in back I mean I can put it I can resurface it in the next weekly update if you like you put it in the again in the Friday update and everybody look at it and then see we can have another agenda we can have an agenda item those agend items we tend to take a fair amount of time to go through it's interesting uh with lots of questions so if it's something that people
061are interested we can have another um little bit deeper dive into it and then your normal updated one is like in the May June we do sort of a preliminary look at the end of the year and then the official you know Summit of assessment is in the fall because we don't in in the spring we don't have the official results sort of an unofficial report out based on whatever the goals it are like last year I brought you the fifth grade date on the spring so we can talk about what what data do we want to look at in the spring based on the board goals maybe we can hold yeah a little bit of a deeped and yeah that might work my my intent is to use that to say use those data
062to say well what what else should we be doing to get get get our toing body to improve so that's that's that's the r now right we need a board goal update too that's a c we got a tie that into so maybe for that April 7th we need we need to do a review supposed to be in March we don't have any meetings exactly fin this is the last March meeting right that's right um okay so have to we'll do that in April 7 yeah second second comment is you know the last meeting there was this discussion about high school preparedness of the school um I'm I'm resurfacing that discussion because I don't think we ended in in a way where we we really had consensus on what what what if anything we should
063be doing I'd like to see again um all of us as a group discuss that topic um and if the conclusion at the end of that is yep now we are doing everything right that's good but I because I but I I felt that we didn't we didn't end the conclusion U that discussion I'm just bringing it up I think we R visit that issue and consensus that action needed or no action needed thanks and I think the discussion was at the time was more of a brainstorming I don't know that we were looking to get to a specific inclusion but it is still just thoughts out there of things that could be done differently and I know there's things that g anal cling are thinking about with like e8th grade and things like that
064so there's things that maybe will get updated on um maybe and then building off of that I think having those conversations in tandem is really helpful to be able to use the data to inform because I think one of the places where we got stuck a little bit last meeting is you know we all have different kind of hypotheses and ideas on kind of what potential gaps might exist but um I think rooting kind of the the biggest challenges that we want to tackle in the data is important and based on kind of what uh our actual practitioners are are saying because like I have you know my opinions on this but like I actually want to make sure that we're grounding our uh ultimate decisions and the folks that are actually driving that work
065on the ground you're on mute Jamie darn it sorry um I just wanted to say to Nix Center School and the staff and the kids thank you for letting me read today in your classrooms it was a lot of fun it's one of my favorite things to do during read Across America week is to get in with the kids and have some fun and some Giggles with some new books and that is it I'll Echo that so I had the opportunity to go to the elementary schools today um I started at Flanders went to third grade and then I went to Lily B and read to third grade and then second grade and then I went to nanic Center School and to second grade it was amazing such a great experience and I was really
066impressed by just how respectful and knowledgeable the students were and the teachers and it was it was a really wonderful experience board comment I'd like an update on the food scrap program it's coming in April okay y yeah April or May one of the two it's on the agenda okay we got it uh we got it queued up so you by the end of the year you will have it it sounds like it's going well though yeah it's going well Le and I were in the cafeteria two weeks ago I think it's it just is sort of seamlessly existing very yeah kids kids are four stations work in the stations so and they're learning they're understanding the importance of it the the whole Community is it I mean I I just spoke to the two
067students who were you know just asked them how often do you volunteer and you know so I didn't really get into the those details with them but I would suspect that that's a part of the project is understanding the environmental impact they're having by I hope so we currently dump our a lot of our trash in p psylvia and Ohio in Connecticut we haul it off it's two states away so it's really interesting that we teach our kids better yeah yeah n this has done a phenomenal job May 19th May 19th got May 19th soone want to make the motion to turnour remember we have a committee at the all there no move second