001All right, looks like we're we're back and ready to go. So, we just finished up our board workshop um with the strategic strategic planning with the leadership team. And now we are moving along in the agenda. We're going to move to approval of minutes. Can I have a motion to approve the minutes of the July 17th, 2020 2025 meeting as presented? >> So moved. >> Thank you, Kim. Can I have a second? >> Second. >> Thank you, Sean. Any questions or comments about the July 17th meeting minutes? All right. Hearing none. All in favor? Great. It's unanimous. Thank Okay. Now we have public comment. Um I think I get everyone who is interested in speaking signed up. Wonderful. So um we welcome and recognize the value of public comment to ensure public comment is fair
002and orderly. We follow procedures outlined in policy BH. Um residents and staff members are always given priority. Um please if you ever have any questions or concerns about the school or district, don't hesitate to reach out to any of us directly. Um um for public comment we ask speakers to use the designated podium when making their comments and speak into the microphone. Comments for individuals are limited to a maximum of 3 minutes in a meeting and a clock will be visible on screen to keep time. Um when you uh come up to the mic, please state your name and town of residence before beginning your remarks. Um lastly, we are neighbors here. Please be kind of the audience. um comments should be directed um at myself. Please do not direct comments um at or about
003individuals or in our communities or schools. Um and I will note that I'll stop any comments contrary to those rules. So again, thank you for those uh who are here and have signed up. I'm going to ask David Nunan to please come to the podium. Good evening, Dave Nunan. There it is. Dave Nunan, nine metal lane, uh, Cumberland. My comment tonight is just around the, uh, timing of the finance committee meeting. The first one was, I believe, last Monday at 2:30 in the afternoon. The next one is October 3rd at 2 in the afternoon. Um me being a taxpayer love to join fortunately I have to work during those times so I can't really take time off to join those meetings um like I would want to. So I believe most of the town uh
004finance committee meetings are at night where just like this one I'm able to attend finance committee times and meetings. Um and then also follow if we can please have some of them at night so taxpayers like myself who work during the day can actually attend them. So I'd really appreciate that. My email is in the school system. So I'd really appreciate that uh information. I'd appreciate it. >> Great. Thank you. And I believe our finance chair along with great and we have Jenny Eastman. Um my name is Jenny Eastman. I live in Cumberland. Good evening and um thank you so much for all that you do for our children and for our community. Um, I live here in Cumberland and I my business here in Cumberland because I care deeply for the community and the
005people that are in it. I want to be clear, I am an advocate for public. I own the Willow School just down here on Route 9. Every child in MSED 51 deserves access to early childhood education. My hope is that we can expand public prek in a way that strengthens what already exists rather than unintentionally making it weaker. Right now, community providers in Cumberland and North together to 130 preschool spots. The district plan for four prek classes could serve anywhere from 64 80 children on a full day or as as 160. That would between 30 and 85% of the preschoolers. The reality is that preschool programs subsidize infant and toddler care. I'm going to say that again because it's really important. Pre programs and talk. If preschoolers move, entire schoolers move over to the public
006system, we'll have no the cost of what that care is. Without preschool tuition, those programs don't hold together. Just a few children can equal that last year. I had three students leave for full-time prek and um as a business you take that hit but it's a reality of what's happening right now with our best intention wraparound care is often mentioned as a solution but it doesn't replace the loss revenue a few hours before afterare does not equal full enrollment and cannot sustain those classrooms or those jobs based on the country's mark based on Cumberland County's market rate it would be about 1,200 per month. A four room could mean as much as 8 for here. If that model to a two session, right? So, if we had and 20 students in every one of those
007classrooms, we could lose up to 1.7 this the hard way. But here in Maine, districts like Gorum and South Windom own partnership models that are possible. That's the path I hope that we take a collaborative roll out. That's Thank you. Did everyone okay? Do you need Okay. >> Thank you. All right. There you go. >> I was like, where is now to our presentations? Um, we're going to start Julie Olsen. Sure. Share. We are here to um share our district SIP plan regard both instructional support and academic services. So generally speaking we come on the night that shares the district sips along schooling andology but we given that we are instructional support and academic services our departments. So any in our district regardless of their needs or what services they might be accessing are some
008point or another we are talking about them. We are collaborating. We are working with building administrator and so our SIP really makes most sense for us to start our presentation tonight to start the presentation particularly as we discuss our SIP related to and I are really focused year and in coming years on um MTSS, our multi-tered which for those of you that have been around for a while was previously our response intervention program. Um and this is our focus is really staff and our phase one of a multi plan around our comprehensive plan for systems of support and Mari's going to talk more specifically about the that really lock both our arms to support our students but also lock arms with all of our um colleagues in the buildings along this work. So in terms
009of the MTSS framework, there are several key areas that will be focused. So for multi-tered systems all of us in a vision for TSS and supporting the work to realize it at various buildings. Um it means collaborating with the build especially settings to engage in nonlinear work of implementation. It means encouraging among staff in regular education education to ensure that that the district decided to go forward with a pre comprehensive um source this year for literacy um called knowledge language arts EKLA. Um and so for the first time in a while we have one program across our elementary schools which by design this is a it's also a lot of workers learning a whole new and doing their best implement with fidel in our similarly our sequence work that we started last year we have
010a draft and are in the process it's not quite there yet getting there so easily this year and so that work is and then finally you've heard me say before that if not here we can't teach and so the good news couple of years over 8.3% Um and that's good news still represents a chunk of students or more and effective temp about 18. We know that the best way to address is developing relationships general education classroom. So we are probably that the focus students are because 80% should we questions um the absentee thing. So >> yes >> what obviously there's incentive but what is the other team what are the consequence of that is >> a districtance team that we're looking at student um data building has attendance teams where they're looking at student on
011a basis they typically meet weekly some phone calls are absent and that's missing a lot of schools. So as we're approaching there are a lot of interventions in place that are how are we going to get student to school similar to the next piece of paper. Um so the numbers a little We're hovering around that eight. >> Thank you. >> Can explain to me. >> Yeah, that's great. want to do it or do you want me to get what they regular of their of their schooling in academic is behavior. um need something more in addition to then% of intensity instruction um in alternate setting for that particular learning area. Does that help? about reducing cell phone devices and laptop. top center. How are we getting that balance reduce the screen time? >> Sure. Exactly. Are
012you asking about reducing screen time CKLA using some intervention program called boost but that's maybe in a in a direct discourse happening with the students about what or that's being a topic knowledge examined in T. I think techn the class kids get the quite a bit less and it's >> technology use that we are on a good trajectory where or do you think that we're still going use less or point or using more. >> I wouldn't good student and not introducing You don't have the answer to this. It's totally fine. The narative certainly much effect relationship. that really support about um working throughout all of meal health support higher or a higher or behavioral educator or an MTSS behavior depending what is presenting and trend is real happening Or are you behavior is getting the
013direct certainly we wouldn't lessly to that. And we have plenty of cases. And so struggling as well as the students too. of the diamond. Ow us to present less challenge for our build and really huge shout this year. really had to do talk about kids and plans and data and signed our early Wednesdays and week. Our teams now have a chance to talk about data There I