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All right.

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Calling to order regular meeting on Monday,

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September 14th at 7:00 pm.

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Can I please have a roll call? You may.

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Good evening everybody. Robin,

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Michelle Clancy here. Craig Flynn is present.

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Maggie Fogarty here.

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Micaela.

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Elizabeth Goldman here.

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Seana Berkley Hallberg here.

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Okay.

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Craig, would you please do this in the Pledge

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of Allegiance?

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I pledge allegiance

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to the flag of the United States of America.

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And to the Republic for which it stands.

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One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty

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and justice for all.

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Can I please have a motion

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to approve tonight's agenda?

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Seana and Liz seconds.

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Any discussion?

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All those in favor?

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Motion passes 6 to 0.

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At this time, opening citizens forum.

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Citizens forum is the opportunity for community members, business owners,

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property owners, parents of students from sending schools to speak.

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Comments will be limited to five minutes.

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And please teach your name and address for the record.

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Seeing no one at this time

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suspending Citizens Forum,

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can I please have a motion

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to approve the minutes from our August meetings?

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So moved.

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Michelle and Maggie seconds.

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Any discussion? All those in favor?

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Motion passes 7 to 0.

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And then moving on to

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our Superintendent's Report.

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The only thing I wanted to flag for you is I did put in there for you

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the years of service and the names of our staff

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who have reached 20, 25, 25 plus years of service for the district.

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So, I just wanted to recognize them.

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There are a lot of collective years and a lot of collective wisdom there.

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The other thing I would flag, and it's on your consent agenda,

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but it's also in my report, there were some nominations.

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Not nominations. I'm sorry.

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Some, donations made.

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And I just wanted to flag that there's an annual golf tournament

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that's sponsored by Nootro, and that's a company owned by two former

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Dover High students.

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And it benefits our unified athletics program.

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And they raised over $4,000 to go directly to unified athletics.

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So we're really thankful to Teddy Lipinski and Judah Payeur

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who have made that possible.

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And they do that annually and they do a fantastic job.

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So you.

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Want to say the total amount that was fundraised.

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$4,267.34.

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That's awesome. Thank you. Yeah.

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Okay.

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Any questions for Dr. Boston on the superintendent's report?

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I'll just say I thought the years of service was really cool

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because 25 years ago, I was at that school, so to see,

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Eric Goodman,

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our athletic trainer, who's amazing is the name that stood out to me the most.

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So it was it was really good to see him still on there.

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I think he's a great guy.

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He helped me through several injuries when I played football here.

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But no, it was really cool to see that and look through some of those names

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and think back to, you know, the first time I met some of those people.

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I noticed the city council does it monthly and we hire everybody annually.

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So I'll just keep doing that annually so you all can see the names

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and recognize them. Great. Thank you.

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Moving on to the consent agenda.

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Can I please have a motion to approve the consent agenda

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with the amended nominations list that we received on our desks?

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So moved.

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Michelle and Seana. Second.

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Any discussion?

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Always really happy to see people replacing

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open positions, especially for para educators.

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And I wanted to ask if board members can join the trip to Italy.

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Because it looks awesome.

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I think we all should chaperon. Yeah.

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I did want to note for you in the packet

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the, the permission slip at the very end

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has the date of February vacation on it.

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That changed from the time of their initial approval.

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So it's actually April vacation break.

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So Mr.

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Driscoll's letter in support is correct. Okay.

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Thank you.

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But in a year, date shifted a. Little bit.

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Any additional discussion?

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All those in favor?

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I can pass this 7 to 0.

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Do we have a new student?

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Do we?

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We get a new reappointed student each.

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We have Connor Sprague stuff. Okay. And he is not here.

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But he left me some notes if you'd like me to share.

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Awesome. Thank you.

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So he wanted you all to know that all four fall sports

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have started up and have been going hard since August 17th.

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Freshman orientation went very smoothly.

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Clubs like the National Honor

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Society will be starting up in the upcoming weeks.

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This year's homecoming theme is A Night in Rio.

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That is September 26th, and the homecoming

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football game will be against Keene High School this year.

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Students wanted to make homecoming a chance to give back.

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So the students, part of planning homecoming, decided

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to donate a dollar of every ticket sold and cuts off.

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So I can't see where it's being donated to.

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I apologize. I'll find that for you.

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Classes have been had a good start up

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the first couple of weeks, and, that's what he shared tonight.

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And he hopes to be back. But at soccer practice to me. Yes.

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Thank you.

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Connor.

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Okay.

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And moving on to our financial report.

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It's new format.

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Yes. You see a new format that we have this month.

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I tried I, I presented the information in two different ways.

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The start, and then the revenue kind of comes out the same.

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But I wanted to put percentages on the right and kind of make it

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a little more understandable and readable.

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To the average person.

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So I didn't know if this was something you were looking for to continue.

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Do you like do you want a broken down a different way?

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Do you like this way to know.

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I will say I like the percentage used.

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At the end of each table.

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I think that gives a nice visual illustration of where we're at.

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like the table that shows the budget broken out by each location.

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I don't think we've seen it presented that way before.

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And, you know, sometimes online rhetoric is we are

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we paid like half our budget is to administration and administrators.

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So I think it's really great to see that actually,

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the majority of our budget is allocated to the high school.

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But I really liked that format

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and seeing it broken out that way.

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Robin, just relative to that,

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the budget item that's called district wide, what does that cover.

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Which are you on the second.

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On the,

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where the the second, the second, second location.

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District wide is basically anything that's not, set to a school.

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That could be our IT department, that could be maintenance, that could be,

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any facilities.

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Facilities. Okay. Yep. Would be under there as well.

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So food service is also district wide.

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So thank you like that.

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But that's not attached to a school directly or a program directly.

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Any other questions

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or feedback on the financial report? No.

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Very legible. Yes. It is really helpful.

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And just so you know, when you see 631 and 632 on the second one,

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the high school and storage buildings, those are all those are

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electric bills for animal sciences and our maintenance building.

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So it's not if you wondering why it's such a small number, that's really all it is.

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All the other parts are included in other areas of the budget.

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Makes sense.

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Thank you.

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Okay, moving on to policies,

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I please have a motion to.

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Table our policy changes at first reading.

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So moved. Michelle and Maggie.

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Seconds.

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Any discussion or comments on those,

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policy revisions?

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Looks like we are,

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clarifying

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and streamlining some of the policies quite a bit.

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how low our threshold was with bidding.

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So he's been working with Josh Wyatt, the city attorney,

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to bring our policy in alignment with the city's policy.

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And then the others are changes due to legislation.

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Thank you.

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Any additional discussion?

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Just that the policy committee did review.

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All of these as well to.

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Right? Right.

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All those in favor?

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Motion passes 7 to 0.

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our first round of policy adoptions.

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These will be policy adoptions

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at first and second reading, for legislative changes.

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And I have a motion to approve those policies at first and second reading. Liz

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and and Micaela seconds.

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Any discussion on

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those policy changes?

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Those all looked to be legislative related.

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They are.

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And these are more timely.

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They deal with students and students under phase

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who might be wanting to take some classes here or bullying

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or searches, and we really want to have these approved and in place.

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Can I ask a question about JFBC

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under a one?

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What if a participating students

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shall be permitted access to what?

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What does it mean specifically?

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Instruction up to 50%.

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Is that 50% of an average course load or.

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50% of US school day.

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So they can take 50% of a course

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load and not and not be removed from the EFA roster.

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Okay. Wow. That's a lot.

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That's in the response.

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Direct response to new legislation that just passed.

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Okay. So last. Have no say in it.

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Last school year it was if you were an EFA student

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because you had taken the EFA funds and no adequacy was blowing to the district.

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We charge parents fees.

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Your old policy for those classes.

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Now, we are not allowed to charge fees up to 50%.

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And this, for those who are keeping count, is an unfunded mandate.

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Yes, yes.

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What unfunded mandate by the state.

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And in some ways a defunded mandate because you're giving out the EFA dollars?

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Yeah, I would agree with that.

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So it's as irritating as I thought it was I just.

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It is.

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Any additional discussion.

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All those in favor.

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Motion passes 7 to 0.

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And then lastly motion

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to approve policies in their second reading.

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So moved Michelle and Seana

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seconds any additional discussion on those policies.

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We reviewed them at our last meeting.

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No. All those in favor?

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Motion passes 7 to 0.

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Okay.

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Moving on to all the business.

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Just revisiting our proposed, draft budget

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preparation, schedule for our upcoming budget season.

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Or do we need to vote on this? Tonight is finalized.

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Yes. I'd like to finalize. Yeah.

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Okay. Sorry.

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I'm still scrolling through the 500 page.

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I know.

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For tonight, 109.

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Thank you.

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So. Okay,

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so we reviewed the proposed budget schedule at our last meeting.

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I think we didn't have any significant changes.

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We were in agreement with the timeline that proposed

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recognizing that some of the city dates

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and deadlines will change as they finalize their schedule.

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So motion to approve the,

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the budget adoption

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schedule for fiscal year 2028.

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Seana and Liz seconds.

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Any additional discussion?

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Grateful that we're not doing public hearings over a school vacation this year.

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I know this is in response to a lot of feedback from the public, and.

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Those are tentative.

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But I have reiterated our request to the city manager's office

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as of last week as well.

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I appreciate that. Thank you.

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All those in favor?

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Motion passes 7 to 0.

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A and then diving into new business.

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First up is a research proposal

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for the peer recovery model.

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So we have Bob Faghan here.

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From Live Free Recovery.

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Bob runs a peer recovery program at Dover High School.

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He is also our licensed alcohol and drug counselor there.

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He does amazing work for the district and has for years,

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and I am pretty sure that the hours he builds us

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for isn't even close to the hours he's actually providing.

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Linda, I'm probably not supposed to actually say that out loud.

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That's Bob's wife with him.

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But Bob is going to come up and talk a little

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about what he's asking permission to do.

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His program has been recognized by the center for excellence

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as an innovative program,

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and they're looking to do some research to start to look at how they might

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replicate that. So.

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Great.

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Everybody, welcome.

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Thank you for having us tonight.

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I'm just here to help with the slides. Yes.

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My wingman.

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Right.

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So, yeah.

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Like Dr. Boston said, we've been doing,

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we've been doing services with the district for about 14,

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15 years now back in the old building

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since post-pandemic we've been doing a peer group as well.

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We always kind of used with dovish, but it was used more as an afterthought.

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So now that they finished talking with me or they're done with the group,

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read about them to keep coming to kind of because

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in New Hampshire there's not a lot out there for people

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kind of need that higher level of care for adolescents.

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So that's how it evolved.

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During the pandemic, during the shutdown, my office was allowed to stay open

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and we would bring dovish students who were at high risk. So,

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the social worker at the school,

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they would recommend students we would have brought to our office

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and our peers would at the time would I noticed

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they would come wandering over to me and be like, can you check on Jen?

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She's having an issue.

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And it kind of started to click that.

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Maybe that we're missing something by not getting them more involved.

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And over the years, it's kind of evolved into what you're going to see here today.

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It has been accepted by the Center of Excellence as an integrated program,

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which means, they end the drug and alcohol services.

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Believe what we're doing here

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in Dover should be replicated across other schools in New Hampshire.

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And the data we're going to talk about tonight is all observational.

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But we'll explain that a little bit more when we get to the slide.

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And then any questions please jump in.

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And he is a very. Humble man.

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It's a big deal that they've been recognized.

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So kind of the whole premise

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his students notice we actually call this the awareness response gap.

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Students are going to notice things before it gets to us as staff or as adults.

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So think about where we were in school.

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We would always tell our friends things before we'd go to adult.

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Students don't want to go to adults

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because they're afraid they're going to get, their friend in trouble.

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They're afraid they're going to be ostracized by their friend group.

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So what this whole peer program does and what the training we're going

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to be given to students is, hopefully in what

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we've seen over the last couple of years is it's really kind of shrunk that gap.

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So we're getting information, a lot quicker now

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because the students are trusting

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us and staff to bring us information sooner than they would have.

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So basically we're going to train students.

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So we want to make it very clear they're not doing counseling.

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They're not doing therapy.

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They never act alone.

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I'm always the editor in the group.

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I am there when they're meeting with the students.

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So when we do an intake with the student, I try to have a peer there.

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If it's on a with that class.

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So the peer can kind of explain their role.

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But they are not counselors.

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They will run into kids in the hallway and they will hear things.

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And that's part of what actually works for this program.

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But they are trained, it is pounded into their heads constantly.

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What to do with that information?

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Really

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this we're not going to let the students handle this on their own.

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They're not going to be by themselves.

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They're always going to be supervised.

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So again, here's what it is.

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It's the student's going to notice.

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They're going to have a conversation with the other student.

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And then they're going to bring it to a trusted adult

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who is then going to the level of care that it needs to happen.

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The right kind of help is going to happen.

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Is it just a referral to the group?

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Do we need to bring it to the social worker

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because there might be suicidal ideation?

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So the students not dealing that on their own,

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they're making their fellow student more comfortable coming to us

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so we can help decide where the help belongs.

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For those of you

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who are familiar with the NAMI Connect suicide prevention program, this.

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This is very much like that warm hand off to the next right supporting person.

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Great, great.

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Again, this is repetitive, but adult supervision is always.

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And there's clear rules of escalation.

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What do you do if this happens?

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Who do you come to?

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And even this year

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we're going to try to train staff into what do you do when a student does this?

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So now there's no confusion where, maybe a student goes to their favorite teacher.

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And now but now the teachers got to have clear.

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And actually, the high school does an excellent job of this anyway.

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But, if there's a gray area, there's going to be no question whatsoever.

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So especially with the substance abuse issue, I addressed the staff today

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at the staff meeting.

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They all know now how to get Ahold of Bob if if a student is bringing

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substance abuse concerns.

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Five simple

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principles recognize, supervise, clarify.

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What's the timing? We don't want to wait some of these things.

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We really can't afford to wait on.

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Some of the things brought to me last year.

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We're considered critical in crisis, in the moment, without a peer,

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something that we are able to intervene on immediately.

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And direct the help in the right direction could have snowballed.

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Until now, it's an actual crisis.

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Crisis where staff is involved.

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They're looking for hospitalization, something like that.

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So this is all based on peer reviewed research,

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the research on peer influence.

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There's a lot of it out there.

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The big thing that this program will address,

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that was something I came across constantly in the research

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is what they call school connectedness and not do the kids have,

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are they playing on a team or do they have good school spirit?

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It's more about do they believe the adults

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in the building care about them and their welfare?

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And if they do, the research is very,

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very clear that that helps with mental health, substance abuse issues.

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That's where this program is going to come in.

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And when students see the older students, the peers trusting staff,

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that kind of gives staff instant credibility.

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Maybe we can go talk to Bob.

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Maybe we can go talk to principal if we have something going on.

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So where it stands, where you recognize as an innovative program,

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Keene State College has been,

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contracted by the Center of Excellence

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and your drug and alcohol service to kind of oversee.

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So, for lack of a better, the,

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analogy I use with the curriculum committee was

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if dove is doing a dissertation on this, Keene State College is the advisor.

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So everything that I put in front of them on this is what we want to check for.

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This is the satisfaction survey I'm going to use with staff.

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That's all gone through Keene State College and been approved.

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So it's really passive operational.

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Everything that we check for is up there.

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Referrals, how many referrals

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where those referrals come from, are they self referred itself referred to.

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They go to a counselor or did they get self referred

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because one of our peers or other students has said them?

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Last year we had 43 self referrals, 26

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I believe, or a direct result of a peer or someone in our peer group

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telling them that they should come see us.

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Escalations.

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Again, we've talked about where are we going to bring that?

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We're going to we're going to we're going to document that.

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So how many times did it come to me where I felt like

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they needed to go somewhere else?

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How many times did it come to another staff member

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where they thought they'd had to go somewhere else, help seeking behaviors?

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Basically just what it says.

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Are they reaching out to help?

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Last year we had, I think it was 87.

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Time for student contacted me off balance

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because they were having they were struggling.

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That's things we going to keep track of

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that has significantly increased since we started the peer group.

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So we're thinking that will happen again.

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And then the service engagement, whether a referral led to real support.

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We had 98 referrals last year, probably 20 of those kids.

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I never saw him after the first time.

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So that's a referral.

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Is that really engaging?

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No. Does it put our face in front of them?

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And maybe so when they're sophomores and juniors, they'll remember,

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let's go talk to that guy we met freshman year.

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Maybe, but that's not we're not going to count

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that as engagement for purposes of of the study.

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Then we keep track of basic intake demographics.

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Fidelity will be given to like, did this run the way it was supposed to?

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So, How we run the training with staff,

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there'll be a list where they're going to check off.

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Did Bob do this?

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Did Bob do that?

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Did Bob do that?

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And then the only thing that isn't observational would be a satisfaction

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survey.

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There'd be one given to any staff that takes on training

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to be one to any peer who does our training.

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And then we always would like to give that at the end of the year,

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people have participated in the group that would be voluntary

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and it would be anonymous, and there'd be no repercussions

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if they said, I don't want to do this.

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So this is,

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you know, basically we're growing the capacity.

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It's already what we're doing is every year we're not looking to hire

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a create more work for the councils that are already there.

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I know for me, running a group, things were brought to me

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multiple times last year that I was able to observe,

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that I got to before my student really kind of chaos.

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So it running that group 35 minutes a week during flex actually saves me time.

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And then we can move.

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Maybe all those students don't have to be weekly individual anymore.

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Maybe they can just come to the group

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and then I can see if they're kind of spiraling.

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I can bring them back in.

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And then with the peers they're going to observe in the hallway,

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they're going to see, hey, she's skipping class, he's in the bathroom too much,

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and then I'm going to rain that person back in.

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That's it.

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I do want to point out that,

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we are in front of the board for a couple of reasons, but this program

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has been running for a while in Dover, but we did bring it in front of Curriculum

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Advisory Council during the summer, and it is an approved intervention,

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for our system.

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That was an anonymous vote for approval.

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Any questions?

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Do you have a question?

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I was hearing you talk about the voluntary

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survey and wondering,

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for students who may be given

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the survey, would parental permission be required?

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Which kind of brought me to another question.

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Which is do and family members always or

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sometimes or never know that students are involved in this program.

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So sometimes.

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And the reason that is, is because you Hampshire law, anyone over 12 years old

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can seek substance abuse treatment without parental consent.

516
00:25:39,033 --> 00:25:43,367
So by law, if a student comes to me, I have to allow them to participate.

517
00:25:43,567 --> 00:25:47,100
My goal with every one of those students is to get the families involved.

518
00:25:47,200 --> 00:25:50,934
And it goes 1 or 2 ways, either the families, you know,

519
00:25:51,133 --> 00:25:52,500
I'm afraid I'm going to get in trouble.

520
00:25:52,500 --> 00:25:55,033
I love to hear that because I can work with that.

521
00:25:55,033 --> 00:25:58,400
We do have some students who their home life is horrific.

522
00:25:58,400 --> 00:26:02,800
We had one kid last year who was beaten so bad with a belt.

523
00:26:03,233 --> 00:26:04,634
He had welts all over.

524
00:26:04,634 --> 00:26:08,166
His parents did not know he was coming to me well until we reported

525
00:26:08,166 --> 00:26:09,533
to DC, but.

526
00:26:09,533 --> 00:26:13,433
So, yes, for that survey, it's not a clinical survey,

527
00:26:13,433 --> 00:26:17,900
so we usually don't ask for parental consent only because of

528
00:26:18,900 --> 00:26:21,867
if a student is there without a parent knowing.

529
00:26:21,867 --> 00:26:26,033
If a parent does know, I would certainly be willing to ask for consent.

530
00:26:26,033 --> 00:26:29,834
But that type of survey in New Hampshire does not require consent.

531
00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:33,233
What I normally do is I would put the survey on the table, say,

532
00:26:33,233 --> 00:26:35,233
you guys hold this out, did not put your name on it.

533
00:26:35,233 --> 00:26:38,767
I leave the room and then the surveys have put there.

534
00:26:38,767 --> 00:26:41,767
I have no idea who we answered who did it.

535
00:26:42,166 --> 00:26:45,900
So I think if we're doing it in the school during the school day.

536
00:26:46,533 --> 00:26:46,900
Yeah.

537
00:26:46,900 --> 00:26:50,266
So the other thing about Bob is that we work really closely together

538
00:26:51,333 --> 00:26:54,300
and have been for a couple of years, because some of the stuff he does is under

539
00:26:54,300 --> 00:26:56,700
title for. So we can talk about the survey.

540
00:26:56,700 --> 00:26:56,967
Yeah.

541
00:26:56,967 --> 00:27:00,300
I would want to make sure we follow the, the law on that.

542
00:27:00,500 --> 00:27:03,500
I appreciate what you're doing

543
00:27:03,500 --> 00:27:05,767
is, is that way on purpose right.

544
00:27:05,767 --> 00:27:08,266
Is to take down barriers for kids, which I think is great.

545
00:27:08,266 --> 00:27:11,266
We just want to make sure we follow on our end too,

546
00:27:11,266 --> 00:27:14,100
but also make sure you get good data for the work you're doing.

547
00:27:14,100 --> 00:27:16,734
So I think we can work with that and make sure we're following

548
00:27:16,734 --> 00:27:18,066
the the legal requirements.

549
00:27:18,066 --> 00:27:24,166
And because it really is a big deal to have your work recognized like this.

550
00:27:25,300 --> 00:27:26,367
Yeah.

551
00:27:26,367 --> 00:27:29,800
And as far as the survey that kids would take for the training,

552
00:27:30,100 --> 00:27:33,800
we're going to ask the parental consent for a student to do the peer training.

553
00:27:34,033 --> 00:27:37,033
And I will make that part of the consent

554
00:27:37,400 --> 00:27:39,066
survey afterwards. Okay.

555
00:27:39,066 --> 00:27:40,333
I appreciate it. Thank you.

556
00:27:40,333 --> 00:27:43,800
Does everyone do the peer training or just students who are interested?

557
00:27:43,934 --> 00:27:48,433
So even the way I have done it is I've students

558
00:27:48,433 --> 00:27:51,734
who keep coming, students who we're not looking for,

559
00:27:52,834 --> 00:27:55,500
we're not looking for goody goody, for lack of a better word.

560
00:27:55,500 --> 00:27:56,634
Are they honest?

561
00:27:56,634 --> 00:27:57,533
When they get caught,

562
00:27:57,533 --> 00:28:01,400
do they come to group and talk about it, or are they trying to blame their friends?

563
00:28:02,867 --> 00:28:06,233
When the dean catches them doing something, do they give the Dean attitude

564
00:28:06,300 --> 00:28:11,400
or do they accept it and own their stuff and take their punishment?

565
00:28:11,500 --> 00:28:15,867
And we've had students over the years who we had one senior last year,

566
00:28:15,867 --> 00:28:19,033
and I am not going to use her name, but she has given me consent to kind of

567
00:28:19,066 --> 00:28:22,100
tell her freshman sophomore year, Junius

568
00:28:22,100 --> 00:28:25,367
suspended every year for stuff senior year never got suspended.

569
00:28:25,467 --> 00:28:28,467
And her attitude went from blaming the deans to,

570
00:28:29,867 --> 00:28:30,734
giving them hugs.

571
00:28:30,734 --> 00:28:34,300
A graduation last year so that she became a peer

572
00:28:34,300 --> 00:28:37,300
because over her time,

573
00:28:38,467 --> 00:28:41,700
we recognize that behavior the way it is now.

574
00:28:41,700 --> 00:28:44,300
We have three seniors who have met that criteria.

575
00:28:44,300 --> 00:28:48,467
They will do the training I'm going to look to because we're trying to expand.

576
00:28:48,467 --> 00:28:49,834
I'm going to look to staff,

577
00:28:49,834 --> 00:28:53,033
teachers, administrators, councils to recommend students.

578
00:28:53,166 --> 00:28:56,467
They will get the training, but then this year they will be observed

579
00:28:56,467 --> 00:29:00,834
of how they handle their role in the group and in the school community

580
00:29:01,100 --> 00:29:04,100
to see if next year they qualify to become peer.

581
00:29:05,166 --> 00:29:06,467
I ask a question.

582
00:29:06,467 --> 00:29:10,166
How do you obviously a lot of there's a lot of precursors

583
00:29:10,166 --> 00:29:13,100
to substance use disorder, right? And a lot of trauma.

584
00:29:13,100 --> 00:29:14,367
A lot. Of.

585
00:29:14,367 --> 00:29:16,033
A lot of narrow divergence.

586
00:29:16,033 --> 00:29:20,333
So my question for you is with a peer model, how do you respect

587
00:29:20,333 --> 00:29:24,367
confidentiality, especially when relationships have been,

588
00:29:24,367 --> 00:29:28,800
fractured for a lot of people who use substances, they might have trust issues.

589
00:29:28,800 --> 00:29:31,266
And then you're having peers report on other peers.

590
00:29:31,266 --> 00:29:36,266
I'm just curious about how to protect the the people in your programs.

591
00:29:36,300 --> 00:29:39,467
So anyone I meet with individually,

592
00:29:41,100 --> 00:29:42,500
I don't offer the group to

593
00:29:42,500 --> 00:29:46,900
automatically, if I think there's any significant trauma.

594
00:29:46,967 --> 00:29:49,967
One of the things I want to see out of that respond immediately.

595
00:29:49,967 --> 00:29:52,934
You have two girls in the group

596
00:29:52,934 --> 00:29:55,233
now, unfortunately have

597
00:29:55,233 --> 00:29:57,266
horrific trauma histories

598
00:29:57,266 --> 00:30:00,767
before they come to the group and decide they want to come to the group.

599
00:30:00,767 --> 00:30:02,800
I explained to them what it's about.

600
00:30:02,800 --> 00:30:04,033
There are going to be peers.

601
00:30:04,033 --> 00:30:06,233
If they see concerns, they're going to bring them to me.

602
00:30:06,233 --> 00:30:10,667
And then before they come to the group, they sit down again with me and the peers.

603
00:30:11,467 --> 00:30:15,333
These are your peers, his, you know, his your confidentiality.

604
00:30:15,400 --> 00:30:18,667
However, if they see you struggling, they will come to me.

605
00:30:18,667 --> 00:30:22,500
They will discuss, what your issues

606
00:30:22,500 --> 00:30:25,567
are, what you've been through, what you talk about in group.

607
00:30:25,567 --> 00:30:28,867
I've never had a peer violate confidentiality.

608
00:30:29,033 --> 00:30:32,600
Last year, we did have a student in the group violate

609
00:30:32,600 --> 00:30:38,066
somebody's confidentiality in a meeting to try to get herself out of trouble.

610
00:30:38,066 --> 00:30:40,967
And she was discharged from the group immediately.

611
00:30:40,967 --> 00:30:43,934
She wasn't allowed back. So that's kind of how we have.

612
00:30:43,934 --> 00:30:45,333
But I'm very sensitive to that.

613
00:30:45,333 --> 00:30:48,333
Absolutely. Because unfortunately, it's

614
00:30:50,200 --> 00:30:51,734
it's so prevalent.

615
00:30:51,734 --> 00:30:54,533
It's it's pretty sad.

616
00:30:54,533 --> 00:30:58,266
Disgusting is the right word what some of these students have gone through. Oh.

617
00:31:03,333 --> 00:31:05,500
Do you have another question?

618
00:31:05,500 --> 00:31:06,000
It's fine.

619
00:31:06,000 --> 00:31:06,934
Are you sure? Yeah.

620
00:31:06,934 --> 00:31:08,166
I can reach out to you. I'm just.

621
00:31:08,166 --> 00:31:11,200
I do this work clinically, so I'm just.

622
00:31:11,367 --> 00:31:14,266
I'm just curious about stuff, but it's not anything for right now.

623
00:31:14,266 --> 00:31:17,567
I mean, I can't even get consent from the students sitting in a group if you want.

624
00:31:17,600 --> 00:31:18,867
Oh, amazing.

625
00:31:18,867 --> 00:31:19,634
Yeah.

626
00:31:19,634 --> 00:31:23,767
I just I my brain is just thinking about all of the, Yeah.

627
00:31:23,800 --> 00:31:24,667
Just interesting.

628
00:31:24,667 --> 00:31:27,300
No, there's, there's and it's

629
00:31:27,300 --> 00:31:30,233
this group is well beyond just straight substance abuse.

630
00:31:30,233 --> 00:31:31,700
And if you walked in,

631
00:31:31,700 --> 00:31:35,433
you wouldn't even hug, wouldn't even recognize it as a substance use group

632
00:31:35,433 --> 00:31:39,333
because the majority of the students that end up in that group

633
00:31:39,333 --> 00:31:44,834
to see the mental health, disciplinary, academic, there's something else

634
00:31:44,900 --> 00:31:48,634
that, needs to be addressed as well.

635
00:31:49,867 --> 00:31:51,066
Yeah.

636
00:31:51,066 --> 00:31:53,500
Okay. Thank you, thank you. Yeah.

637
00:31:53,500 --> 00:31:56,433
Thank you.

638
00:31:56,433 --> 00:31:58,900
So we need to know

639
00:31:58,900 --> 00:32:01,900
we need to vote about whether or not we can,

640
00:32:02,734 --> 00:32:05,100
kind of continue with this study

641
00:32:05,100 --> 00:32:10,266
because this is a research project which we very much support.

642
00:32:10,333 --> 00:32:13,333
So we need to make sure that that's approved by you all.

643
00:32:13,500 --> 00:32:16,533
Okay. Just last call for questions.

644
00:32:16,533 --> 00:32:19,600
Is there a duration for this study like a specific end date.

645
00:32:19,800 --> 00:32:20,166
Yeah.

646
00:32:20,166 --> 00:32:21,567
So I should have said this.

647
00:32:21,567 --> 00:32:24,433
So right now we're in greater program at the end of this year.

648
00:32:24,433 --> 00:32:26,266
We're

649
00:32:26,266 --> 00:32:29,266
we're considered we're kind of a

650
00:32:29,634 --> 00:32:31,266
I'm going to meet with Keene State next week

651
00:32:31,266 --> 00:32:34,667
where we're going to be designated a promising practice, which is phase two.

652
00:32:34,800 --> 00:32:37,834
I don't want to jinx it, but and then

653
00:32:38,433 --> 00:32:43,367
the hope would be, not this year, at the end of next year,

654
00:32:43,433 --> 00:32:47,533
if everything goes according to plan, we'd be designated a evidence based practice

655
00:32:47,567 --> 00:32:51,133
nationally by the Bureau of Drug and Alcohol Services.

656
00:32:51,700 --> 00:32:53,133
That's amazing.

657
00:32:53,133 --> 00:32:56,133
So would your data collection be limited to this school year

658
00:32:56,400 --> 00:32:57,600
or would it go into next?

659
00:32:57,600 --> 00:32:59,900
So the hope would be next year.

660
00:32:59,900 --> 00:33:02,834
I can come back and say, hey, we want to continue this again.

661
00:33:02,834 --> 00:33:07,333
And if it goes well, then we'll be back next year.

662
00:33:07,400 --> 00:33:10,333
If it doesn't, then you'll know why you don't see it.

663
00:33:11,834 --> 00:33:12,867
I think it would be great to

664
00:33:12,867 --> 00:33:15,433
have you back for just a little follow up, maybe towards the end of.

665
00:33:15,433 --> 00:33:17,634
The year. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah.

666
00:33:17,634 --> 00:33:22,467
I mean, I can even present those stats if you would like, at the end of the year

667
00:33:22,500 --> 00:33:23,367
and kind of show.

668
00:33:23,367 --> 00:33:24,800
You where it. Yeah.

669
00:33:24,800 --> 00:33:27,166
Can you break out to like if you can.

670
00:33:27,166 --> 00:33:31,433
Maybe kids that are in special education if that's possible.

671
00:33:32,133 --> 00:33:35,100
So worried about the cell size on that.

672
00:33:36,100 --> 00:33:38,233
Could I give a just a number rather than.

673
00:33:38,233 --> 00:33:39,934
We have to see what the data looks like

674
00:33:39,934 --> 00:33:43,100
before we can promise because of the enzymes.

675
00:33:43,734 --> 00:33:46,066
Oh okay. Yeah. Yeah.

676
00:33:46,066 --> 00:33:48,066
We just wouldn't want to mistakenly identify a.

677
00:33:48,066 --> 00:33:49,734
Student. 100%.

678
00:33:49,734 --> 00:33:52,900
The co-occurrence though for individuals that have hidden disabilities

679
00:33:52,900 --> 00:33:55,333
for substance use disorders, disproportionate.

680
00:33:55,333 --> 00:33:57,033
So a lot of people. Use.

681
00:33:57,033 --> 00:33:58,600
A lot of people aren't identified.

682
00:33:58,600 --> 00:34:01,867
And so my brain is going, I wouldn't want to miss a trauma.

683
00:34:01,967 --> 00:34:06,700
Essentially important to understand, but so is neurodivergent in this population.

684
00:34:07,166 --> 00:34:10,033
I actually have a grandson and a stepson, a virgin.

685
00:34:10,033 --> 00:34:12,934
So that's something I make sure I try to stay right up on.

686
00:34:12,934 --> 00:34:13,700
That's kind of what I was.

687
00:34:13,700 --> 00:34:17,867
I would hate to miss any of that really crucial information that could be,

688
00:34:17,934 --> 00:34:21,634
vulnerabilities to be in this population.

689
00:34:21,667 --> 00:34:23,433
So yeah, and I will say numbers.

690
00:34:23,433 --> 00:34:25,567
But we had several last year. Yeah.

691
00:34:25,567 --> 00:34:26,567
That's what I would suspect.

692
00:34:26,567 --> 00:34:30,300
But yeah obviously respecting there as well.

693
00:34:30,834 --> 00:34:31,533
But yeah.

694
00:34:32,634 --> 00:34:35,634
And this is a prevention based program.

695
00:34:37,867 --> 00:34:38,934
Thank you thank you.

696
00:34:38,934 --> 00:34:40,266
Thank you thank you.

697
00:34:40,266 --> 00:34:40,900
You do.

698
00:34:40,900 --> 00:34:42,500
Did you do the I'm.

699
00:34:42,500 --> 00:34:45,300
Yeah I'll do a motion.

700
00:34:45,300 --> 00:34:48,033
Can I please have a motion to approve the

701
00:34:48,033 --> 00:34:51,433
or accept the peer recovery model research

702
00:34:51,433 --> 00:34:54,433
program Seana and Maggie.

703
00:34:54,433 --> 00:34:56,967
Second any additional discussion?

704
00:34:56,967 --> 00:34:59,967
Just thank you so much for the work that you're doing.

705
00:35:00,066 --> 00:35:04,200
It takes a very special person to work with kids in tough spots like that. So.

706
00:35:04,200 --> 00:35:05,400
Thank you.

707
00:35:05,400 --> 00:35:06,233
Yeah.

708
00:35:06,233 --> 00:35:09,233
All those in favor? Motion passes 7 to 0.

709
00:35:09,600 --> 00:35:10,600
You get to Art.

710
00:35:10,600 --> 00:35:13,166
Thank you, thank you.

711
00:35:13,166 --> 00:35:16,500
Okay, the next item is

712
00:35:16,500 --> 00:35:21,533
the coherence counts research proposal, and it it doesn't look like we have.

713
00:35:21,533 --> 00:35:23,867
Materials for that one. Do you want to speak. To that?

714
00:35:23,867 --> 00:35:26,333
Yes. Director Krans will speak. To that. Thank you.

715
00:35:26,333 --> 00:35:27,934
It's me again.

716
00:35:27,934 --> 00:35:29,900
Jen Krans, Co-Director of Curriculum, Instruction and

717
00:35:29,900 --> 00:35:30,667
Assessment.

718
00:35:30,667 --> 00:35:33,934
The reason why you didn't have

719
00:35:33,934 --> 00:35:37,367
the materials is because I actually met with them again.

720
00:35:37,367 --> 00:35:40,467
Because I wanted to make sure I had all of the answers to the questions.

721
00:35:40,533 --> 00:35:41,000
That's okay.

722
00:35:41,000 --> 00:35:44,000
I just wanted to make sure I wasn't skipping over anything.

723
00:35:44,166 --> 00:35:48,767
Yes. So this is a huge opportunity that came our way

724
00:35:48,767 --> 00:35:51,900
a couple of years ago, and then we didn't have enough teachers to participate.

725
00:35:51,967 --> 00:35:54,467
And then it came again in a different format.

726
00:35:54,467 --> 00:35:57,600
And so this is the American Institutes for Research, AIR.

727
00:35:57,767 --> 00:36:03,133
And they are conducting a study called Coherence Counts about supplemental

728
00:36:03,133 --> 00:36:04,533
material for

729
00:36:04,533 --> 00:36:08,100
our math curriculum at the middle level, which is Illustrative Mathematics.

730
00:36:08,266 --> 00:36:12,867
This could not come at a better time for us, as we're sort of saying,

731
00:36:12,934 --> 00:36:15,967
you know, we've gotten quite a bit out of the curriculum, but, you know,

732
00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:20,400
let's work on getting our numbers heading with more growth.

733
00:36:20,400 --> 00:36:25,700
So we're looking for opportunities to study what could help with that growth.

734
00:36:25,700 --> 00:36:28,700
So AIR, the American Institutes for Research,

735
00:36:28,867 --> 00:36:31,634
there, a nonprofit, a very large

736
00:36:31,634 --> 00:36:34,700
nonprofit that is seen as a neutral, data driven partner.

737
00:36:34,967 --> 00:36:39,533
They work with a lot of school districts on, a lot of different projects,

738
00:36:39,567 --> 00:36:40,800
a lot of assessment projects.

739
00:36:40,800 --> 00:36:44,934
But one of the biggest things that they do is to conduct studies,

740
00:36:44,934 --> 00:36:48,934
some RCT studies, but, all different kinds of studies

741
00:36:49,066 --> 00:36:52,700
to see the effectiveness of instructional practice particularly.

742
00:36:53,500 --> 00:36:57,000
So, to say that I was excited,

743
00:36:58,166 --> 00:37:00,934
is probably an understatement.

744
00:37:00,934 --> 00:37:03,300
You curriculum people. Yeah.

745
00:37:03,300 --> 00:37:05,934
I might have, really screamed in

746
00:37:05,934 --> 00:37:08,934
Director Bickford here.

747
00:37:08,967 --> 00:37:10,634
Okay.

748
00:37:10,634 --> 00:37:13,967
So, the challenges that would be addressed by this project,

749
00:37:13,967 --> 00:37:17,100
this project is happening across the country.

750
00:37:17,100 --> 00:37:20,333
But, in schools of different sizes,

751
00:37:20,333 --> 00:37:25,567
with the adoption of standards- based curriculum such as Illustrative

752
00:37:25,567 --> 00:37:30,233
mathematics, teachers are finding that they have a broad spectrum of students

753
00:37:30,233 --> 00:37:31,300
in their classrooms,

754
00:37:31,300 --> 00:37:35,100
and they can have trouble meeting all of the needs at tier one.

755
00:37:35,300 --> 00:37:36,734
A lot of you have heard this

756
00:37:36,734 --> 00:37:40,634
before from me, from teachers at the Curriculum Council.

757
00:37:40,634 --> 00:37:44,934
And so it's not always really easy to figure out how to support all earners

758
00:37:44,934 --> 00:37:48,000
in a mathematics classroom, to maintain the rigor,

759
00:37:48,000 --> 00:37:50,567
to make sure that tier one is being addressed,

760
00:37:50,567 --> 00:37:53,567
and also to meet students where they are and fill those gaps.

761
00:37:54,233 --> 00:37:58,533
Teachers report widespread report.

762
00:37:58,767 --> 00:38:00,066
And these are AIR slides.

763
00:38:00,066 --> 00:38:01,767
Just so you know, if they say AIR at the bottom,

764
00:38:01,767 --> 00:38:06,266
I didn't make them, they report needing additional practice problems.

765
00:38:06,266 --> 00:38:10,900
This is a huge thing that comes to me all the time as teachers saying

766
00:38:11,066 --> 00:38:14,700
there's just not enough practice in any curriculum these days.

767
00:38:14,700 --> 00:38:18,767
They report difficulties implementing digital math products

768
00:38:18,834 --> 00:38:21,867
effectively because they have this,

769
00:38:22,734 --> 00:38:25,934
standards aligned curriculum and they need coherence.

770
00:38:26,467 --> 00:38:28,967
So coherence in math curriculum is everything.

771
00:38:28,967 --> 00:38:32,900
It's the way that we build upon the progressions so that students are able

772
00:38:32,900 --> 00:38:36,867
to really get those skills in a timely manner.

773
00:38:37,033 --> 00:38:40,033
And so this project is meant to address that.

774
00:38:40,133 --> 00:38:45,066
So they have two they have two products

775
00:38:45,066 --> 00:38:49,634
that they're testing out alongside Illustrative Mathematics.

776
00:38:49,867 --> 00:38:51,900
Both of these products are,

777
00:38:53,800 --> 00:38:57,166
computer programing, their computer programs.

778
00:38:57,333 --> 00:38:59,634
One is called Snorkl.

779
00:38:59,634 --> 00:39:01,200
And the. Other yes.

780
00:39:01,200 --> 00:39:03,000
And the other is called MATHia.

781
00:39:03,000 --> 00:39:07,667
So this study is interesting because a lot of times when you do a study

782
00:39:07,667 --> 00:39:10,433
with an organization like AIR, they might say,

783
00:39:10,433 --> 00:39:13,667
well, we're going to do a random sampling and only some of your students

784
00:39:13,667 --> 00:39:16,667
will participate and some will do business as usual.

785
00:39:16,734 --> 00:39:19,900
And, we know that that's a good study model,

786
00:39:19,900 --> 00:39:23,667
but we don't love it because we're like, oh, we got to leave some kids out.

787
00:39:23,667 --> 00:39:25,033
This study is not like that.

788
00:39:25,033 --> 00:39:28,967
They're going to compare data from the previous year to this year

789
00:39:28,967 --> 00:39:32,567
so everyone can participate, which I was pretty pumped about that.

790
00:39:32,567 --> 00:39:36,800
So what they're studying is interesting.

791
00:39:36,800 --> 00:39:40,100
They're studying not only how effective

792
00:39:40,166 --> 00:39:43,400
the supplement is, but also do teachers like it?

793
00:39:43,433 --> 00:39:44,200
Do they use it?

794
00:39:44,200 --> 00:39:46,634
How does it work for them? How is it coherent?

795
00:39:46,634 --> 00:39:50,066
Do kids like it and does it help with the problem.

796
00:39:50,066 --> 00:39:52,667
So they have this study to do that

797
00:39:56,266 --> 00:39:56,734
math.

798
00:39:56,734 --> 00:40:01,600
So I went to the middle school and said, hey, does anyone want to do this?

799
00:40:01,667 --> 00:40:05,033
We only need one grade level with all three people to agree.

800
00:40:05,100 --> 00:40:06,967
And they immediately all said, we will all do it.

801
00:40:06,967 --> 00:40:08,467
We're excited, let's do it.

802
00:40:08,467 --> 00:40:11,767
So we have the whole six through eight team ready to go.

803
00:40:11,767 --> 00:40:15,433
They're pretty excited and therefore I am very excited.

804
00:40:16,166 --> 00:40:19,567
And they met and they looked at Snorkl and they looked at MATHia.

805
00:40:19,600 --> 00:40:22,634
And they feel that MATHia is the better choice for them.

806
00:40:22,900 --> 00:40:25,333
They know that it can fit into their instructional time

807
00:40:25,333 --> 00:40:27,734
and they feel like it will address their needs.

808
00:40:27,734 --> 00:40:31,500
So MATHia is the platform that they would be using.

809
00:40:31,500 --> 00:40:34,567
It does have an agreement for student data privacy

810
00:40:34,567 --> 00:40:38,367
with other states, I'm sorry, with other school districts in this state.

811
00:40:38,367 --> 00:40:41,333
So I'm confident that we'll have an agreement as well.

812
00:40:41,333 --> 00:40:44,734
And it's very strongly aligned to Illustrative Mathematics.

813
00:40:44,734 --> 00:40:48,233
So there's not going to be a lot of drifting.

814
00:40:48,233 --> 00:40:51,266
Sometimes when you're supplementing, you're really trying to pick and

815
00:40:51,266 --> 00:40:52,500
choose, and it can be really

816
00:40:53,667 --> 00:40:56,667
tricky speaking from experience there.

817
00:40:57,700 --> 00:41:00,467
So this project really

818
00:41:00,467 --> 00:41:04,333
is asking a lot of our teachers, the teachers will participate

819
00:41:04,333 --> 00:41:07,333
in an orientation session to learn how to use MATHia.

820
00:41:07,667 --> 00:41:09,567
They're going to use the digital products with their class.

821
00:41:09,567 --> 00:41:12,867
They're going to try to use it 30 to 40 minutes a week.

822
00:41:13,367 --> 00:41:14,266
Now, what if they don't?

823
00:41:14,266 --> 00:41:16,066
Well, that's part of the study.

824
00:41:16,066 --> 00:41:19,634
If they don't use it 30 to 40 minutes a week, that's one of the things

825
00:41:19,667 --> 00:41:21,066
AIR is looking at. Like what happened?

826
00:41:21,066 --> 00:41:22,700
Why didn't you do it?

827
00:41:22,700 --> 00:41:25,033
They're going to complete logs that are going to document

828
00:41:25,033 --> 00:41:29,266
the use of Illustrative Mathematics and the digital product, which would be MATHia.

829
00:41:29,467 --> 00:41:31,033
And the teachers will complete surveys

830
00:41:31,033 --> 00:41:32,600
at the beginning, middle and end of the year.

831
00:41:33,834 --> 00:41:35,900
They are welcome to join focus

832
00:41:35,900 --> 00:41:40,066
groups and share more of their experience through the focus group.

833
00:41:40,133 --> 00:41:42,500
And they're going to support the study team.

834
00:41:42,500 --> 00:41:46,934
And I will also support the study team in getting the data that they need, because

835
00:41:46,934 --> 00:41:51,834
part of this is making sure that we keep everything confidential and anonymous.

836
00:41:52,133 --> 00:41:55,600
The students will

837
00:41:55,600 --> 00:41:58,600
first of all, just to be right up front.

838
00:41:58,600 --> 00:42:00,834
Everything is FERPA compliant.

839
00:42:00,834 --> 00:42:02,634
This is the American Institute of Research.

840
00:42:02,634 --> 00:42:08,133
They have, very clear outlines that show that they are compliant.

841
00:42:08,133 --> 00:42:09,834
They will get parental consent,

842
00:42:09,834 --> 00:42:13,600
informed consent before doing anything with students.

843
00:42:13,967 --> 00:42:16,767
And, so in order to do

844
00:42:16,767 --> 00:42:20,834
the survey, students would have to consent if their parents would have to consent.

845
00:42:20,834 --> 00:42:23,834
And then they go a step further and the student needs to consent.

846
00:42:24,533 --> 00:42:28,400
So because this is a research study, they have like an internal review board,

847
00:42:28,567 --> 00:42:32,433
really monitoring to make sure that what they're doing is ethical.

848
00:42:32,567 --> 00:42:35,533
Is that just for the survey or to participate in the

849
00:42:36,400 --> 00:42:38,100
supplemental math lessons. As well?

850
00:42:38,100 --> 00:42:40,033
Really glad you. Asked that. It's just for the survey.

851
00:42:40,033 --> 00:42:40,634
Okay, great.

852
00:42:40,634 --> 00:42:44,233
It's not for the supplemental math lessons because that would be inequitable.

853
00:42:44,567 --> 00:42:46,867
So everyone will be able to use the product

854
00:42:46,867 --> 00:42:48,767
whether or not they consent to the survey.

855
00:42:48,767 --> 00:42:49,934
Great, great.

856
00:42:49,934 --> 00:42:51,233
Thank you for asking that.

857
00:42:51,233 --> 00:42:52,867
I wasn't going to. Say it.

858
00:42:52,867 --> 00:42:56,000
And then students will have an opportunity if they want to,

859
00:42:56,367 --> 00:42:59,066
to participate in focus groups, but not during the school day, probably.

860
00:43:00,233 --> 00:43:02,867
I'm going to say definitely not during the school day.

861
00:43:02,867 --> 00:43:05,867
Can you say more about what that would look like then?

862
00:43:06,533 --> 00:43:09,133
I think it's on zoom, and I think,

863
00:43:09,133 --> 00:43:13,433
that would really need even more parental consent, okay.

864
00:43:13,500 --> 00:43:16,133
Because at that point it's not anonymous.

865
00:43:16,133 --> 00:43:19,233
When we're having a conversation, you can see it's me.

866
00:43:19,734 --> 00:43:23,433
So that's a and we don't have to have students in the focus groups.

867
00:43:23,433 --> 00:43:24,800
That's an option.

868
00:43:24,800 --> 00:43:25,600
That's an option.

869
00:43:25,600 --> 00:43:29,000
One of the things about working with AIR is they're like,

870
00:43:29,433 --> 00:43:33,467
if anything in here isn't okay, we won't do it.

871
00:43:34,433 --> 00:43:37,900
It's not like you're signing a contract and like, you can't, you

872
00:43:38,033 --> 00:43:41,033
can, consent or not consent at any time.

873
00:43:43,667 --> 00:43:47,367
What we will give them is de-identified student data.

874
00:43:47,433 --> 00:43:51,834
That means it will be completely no names, no identifiers whatsoever.

875
00:43:51,900 --> 00:43:56,100
That data will come through us to them so that we make sure

876
00:43:56,100 --> 00:43:58,000
that it's completely de-identified.

877
00:43:58,000 --> 00:43:59,200
That is essential.

878
00:44:01,200 --> 00:44:02,367
And that will be the

879
00:44:02,367 --> 00:44:05,367
state math assessment scores,

880
00:44:05,400 --> 00:44:07,367
STAR scores and,

881
00:44:07,367 --> 00:44:10,834
demographic data, if applicable.

882
00:44:10,834 --> 00:44:15,300
If it has two small size, obviously we're not giving it to them for the 23,

883
00:44:15,333 --> 00:44:18,433
24, 2425 and 2526 school year.

884
00:44:19,000 --> 00:44:23,667
Also, if applicable, scores on IM-aligned assessments in 2026-27.

885
00:44:23,734 --> 00:44:25,300
We do use those assessments.

886
00:44:25,300 --> 00:44:26,900
We will see if that is something

887
00:44:26,900 --> 00:44:29,934
that we're able to provide in an anonymous and confidential way.

888
00:44:30,900 --> 00:44:33,867
This is the big slide right here that you've got to pay close attention to,

889
00:44:33,934 --> 00:44:35,667
because this is really what we're agreeing to do.

890
00:44:35,667 --> 00:44:39,200
And I want to make sure that we all agree.

891
00:44:41,367 --> 00:44:41,700
All right.

892
00:44:41,700 --> 00:44:44,600
Here is the part that I was like, what?

893
00:44:44,600 --> 00:44:45,433
What's happening?

894
00:44:45,433 --> 00:44:49,266
The district will get a third $3,000.

895
00:44:50,734 --> 00:44:51,533
It's not a stipend.

896
00:44:51,533 --> 00:44:52,500
It's like a basically

897
00:44:52,500 --> 00:44:56,634
like a payment for our extra work that we're putting into that.

898
00:44:56,634 --> 00:44:58,033
And that will just go to the district.

899
00:44:58,033 --> 00:45:03,800
Like Christine will be able to decide it is for the completion of this project.

900
00:45:04,000 --> 00:45:09,233
So it's not just like found money, but, if people needed to be compensated

901
00:45:09,233 --> 00:45:12,233
or we needed to do something, that money is for that

902
00:45:12,333 --> 00:45:15,367
teachers get compensated for their time outside of school

903
00:45:15,400 --> 00:45:20,266
because they have to fill out these logs and they have to do some reflection.

904
00:45:20,400 --> 00:45:23,934
And so AIR is going to compensate them for that.

905
00:45:24,700 --> 00:45:27,767
When they complete their surveys, they're going to be compensated for it.

906
00:45:28,066 --> 00:45:32,900
And they also are compensated if they choose to participate in focus groups.

907
00:45:32,934 --> 00:45:35,567
There is an opportunity for students to be compensated.

908
00:45:35,567 --> 00:45:36,533
We have to talk about that.

909
00:45:36,533 --> 00:45:38,133
I don't know if we can do that or not,

910
00:45:38,133 --> 00:45:40,333
but that is something that happens in other places.

911
00:45:41,533 --> 00:45:42,533
I know it's weird.

912
00:45:42,533 --> 00:45:45,767
We never talk about compensation for studies, but this is one.

913
00:45:45,767 --> 00:45:49,567
It's such a big study that they are doing that they really need the data.

914
00:45:49,800 --> 00:45:52,800
Well, and I think it's good to if the teachers are

915
00:45:52,834 --> 00:45:55,266
I mean, our teachers already spend so much time,

916
00:45:55,266 --> 00:45:57,700
if you like, outside of the regular day doing work.

917
00:45:57,700 --> 00:46:00,700
So recognizing that this adds a little bit more

918
00:46:01,367 --> 00:46:03,367
and being compensated for that.

919
00:46:03,367 --> 00:46:06,333
So I will also tell you, because I feel like I need to say this,

920
00:46:06,333 --> 00:46:09,667
they did not know about this compensation before they excitedly agreed.

921
00:46:09,800 --> 00:46:13,266
So I'm very happy. That it can happen.

922
00:46:13,333 --> 00:46:17,000
It's the 975, just a flat fee upfront for all time.

923
00:46:17,000 --> 00:46:20,266
Or is it up to 975 depending on how much time they spend on it?

924
00:46:20,300 --> 00:46:21,600
No, that part is for

925
00:46:21,600 --> 00:46:25,233
like the logs completing the logs, each one is connected to an activity that.

926
00:46:25,266 --> 00:46:25,600
Okay.

927
00:46:27,000 --> 00:46:30,000
So that is really my presentation about this.

928
00:46:30,266 --> 00:46:32,200
There's a lot more to be said.

929
00:46:32,200 --> 00:46:35,166
But really what I need to know is if I can do. It,

930
00:46:36,233 --> 00:46:37,700
I think.

931
00:46:37,700 --> 00:46:40,200
And I know we're getting academic data in a little bit,

932
00:46:40,200 --> 00:46:44,834
I think it would be really interesting to see what our data looks like

933
00:46:44,900 --> 00:46:49,567
at the end of next year after adding some supplemental tools.

934
00:46:49,567 --> 00:46:52,567
And I also I

935
00:46:53,433 --> 00:46:56,000
recall a teacher last year

936
00:46:56,000 --> 00:46:59,400
making a comment to me about not loving the math curriculum.

937
00:46:59,867 --> 00:47:04,734
So I think it would be really interesting to see what the feedback is

938
00:47:04,734 --> 00:47:08,433
using these different methods, and then incorporate that

939
00:47:08,433 --> 00:47:11,433
in our decision about what makes sense to do going forward.

940
00:47:11,867 --> 00:47:14,066
You are really saving my life tonight, because the.

941
00:47:14,066 --> 00:47:15,166
Other thing.

942
00:47:15,166 --> 00:47:19,567
That I wanted to say is that a benefit to us as a district is that,

943
00:47:20,800 --> 00:47:24,000
the the researchers will meet with our teams and say,

944
00:47:24,033 --> 00:47:26,600
this is what we're noticing, this is what we're seeing going on,

945
00:47:26,600 --> 00:47:28,400
and then they'll give us that data as well.

946
00:47:28,400 --> 00:47:31,400
And I want that.

947
00:47:31,867 --> 00:47:33,500
Great the student data.

948
00:47:33,500 --> 00:47:37,600
Will that be by teacher or how will it be organized.

949
00:47:37,634 --> 00:47:39,300
It's completely de-identified.

950
00:47:39,300 --> 00:47:43,166
And then the students are assigned a research number which only I know.

951
00:47:43,867 --> 00:47:45,333
And then they'll be linked.

952
00:47:45,333 --> 00:47:46,367
So there will be a link.

953
00:47:46,367 --> 00:47:47,567
Everything will be destroyed.

954
00:47:47,567 --> 00:47:51,433
But basically like there's a research number associated with the student

955
00:47:51,700 --> 00:47:53,133
and it's not identifiable.

956
00:47:53,133 --> 00:47:55,033
It's only for this. Excellent.

957
00:47:55,033 --> 00:47:55,734
Thank you.

958
00:47:55,734 --> 00:47:58,734
I spent a lot of time clarifying that

959
00:47:59,266 --> 00:47:59,900
okay.

960
00:47:59,900 --> 00:48:02,800
So if we approve this tonight, what is your

961
00:48:02,800 --> 00:48:05,166
what is the timeline for implementation?

962
00:48:05,166 --> 00:48:09,233
If you approve this tonight then we're going to get started

963
00:48:09,233 --> 00:48:13,133
with an onboarding meeting right away and then implement as soon as we can.

964
00:48:13,133 --> 00:48:16,133
After that we want to get up and running as soon as we can if if you approve.

965
00:48:16,133 --> 00:48:17,433
It okay, okay.

966
00:48:19,567 --> 00:48:22,600
At the end of this tenure, which is it?

967
00:48:22,667 --> 00:48:24,700
Is it the academic year?

968
00:48:24,700 --> 00:48:25,700
That's a ten year.

969
00:48:25,700 --> 00:48:28,433
So at the end of it,

970
00:48:28,433 --> 00:48:31,433
what specifically will the district get?

971
00:48:31,634 --> 00:48:34,800
Is there a report? Yeah, there's a report.

972
00:48:35,033 --> 00:48:38,600
I am not very clear on exactly what

973
00:48:39,033 --> 00:48:42,333
data is in there, but they're comparing

974
00:48:43,066 --> 00:48:45,934
how students did in the previous years

975
00:48:45,934 --> 00:48:48,934
to how they did with this new,

976
00:48:49,467 --> 00:48:50,166
model.

977
00:48:50,166 --> 00:48:52,033
So we'll get all of that.

978
00:48:52,033 --> 00:48:55,867
And they're going to be meeting with the teachers, the,

979
00:48:55,900 --> 00:48:58,600
the teams and kind of sharing with them what they're seeing.

980
00:48:58,600 --> 00:49:01,600
We'll get a copy of what they do.

981
00:49:02,200 --> 00:49:03,066
Okay. Thank you.

982
00:49:03,066 --> 00:49:06,066
And typically you get to see,

983
00:49:07,200 --> 00:49:09,200
what was collected.

984
00:49:09,200 --> 00:49:12,200
Will we be able to to see.

985
00:49:15,333 --> 00:49:16,300
Down to

986
00:49:16,300 --> 00:49:19,967
maybe the time teachers were able to implement the intervention

987
00:49:20,200 --> 00:49:21,467
and the outcome of the students

988
00:49:21,467 --> 00:49:25,400
and compare based on the time students spent in the intervention.

989
00:49:25,467 --> 00:49:27,900
That is some of the data they're collecting.

990
00:49:27,900 --> 00:49:30,100
I don't know how they're going to organize that data,

991
00:49:30,100 --> 00:49:31,834
but that's some of the data they're collecting

992
00:49:31,834 --> 00:49:34,834
is how much time did you actually spend on this?

993
00:49:34,867 --> 00:49:36,133
And then, like we have.

994
00:49:36,133 --> 00:49:39,767
I would like to see the differences between implementation time and outcomes.

995
00:49:40,100 --> 00:49:40,767
And they're really

996
00:49:40,767 --> 00:49:42,567
what they're really doing is comparing

997
00:49:42,567 --> 00:49:44,500
they they're looking at both of these products.

998
00:49:44,500 --> 00:49:45,800
They're comparing them.

999
00:49:45,800 --> 00:49:48,367
And then they're seeing how do they impact coherence.

1000
00:49:48,367 --> 00:49:50,400
Are they are they a coherent supplement.

1001
00:49:54,433 --> 00:49:55,233
And that is their

1002
00:49:55,233 --> 00:49:58,867
goal to provide the district with their curriculum based on their.

1003
00:49:59,066 --> 00:50:03,300
No. AIR's goal is to publish studies that I read, not just.

1004
00:50:03,300 --> 00:50:06,667
Me, but okay that. Educators read.

1005
00:50:06,667 --> 00:50:08,567
So of the American Institutes for Research.

1006
00:50:08,567 --> 00:50:10,767
They publish tons of studies.

1007
00:50:10,767 --> 00:50:13,767
We're kind of super fans of there, so we're a little bit excited.

1008
00:50:13,834 --> 00:50:16,100
They're really awesome. I used that work a lot. Okay.

1009
00:50:16,100 --> 00:50:17,700
Yeah okay.

1010
00:50:17,700 --> 00:50:20,600
Yeah they are they are a straight up research agency.

1011
00:50:20,600 --> 00:50:25,700
So you know, it's not the intervention so much as does this intervention work.

1012
00:50:25,700 --> 00:50:27,233
Can we contribute to the evidence

1013
00:50:27,233 --> 00:50:30,333
based behind this intervention or are we saying it's not effective.

1014
00:50:30,367 --> 00:50:32,533
So cool. Cool. Really cool.

1015
00:50:32,533 --> 00:50:36,066
The type of research that you then bring to us years later to say,

1016
00:50:36,567 --> 00:50:39,567
we would like you to fund the implementation of this new curriculum.

1017
00:50:39,567 --> 00:50:42,567
And here's the research that backs it up like this is

1018
00:50:43,166 --> 00:50:45,333
we get to go behind the curtain for that.

1019
00:50:45,333 --> 00:50:46,667
And does it target all students,

1020
00:50:46,667 --> 00:50:50,433
or is it typically the general education classroom or does it do they?

1021
00:50:50,567 --> 00:50:55,100
Every student gets tier one service so every student will be part of it okay.

1022
00:50:55,967 --> 00:50:57,100
Right.

1023
00:50:57,100 --> 00:51:01,033
Even if their parent doesn't want to consent to some of the data collection,

1024
00:51:01,066 --> 00:51:04,634
they can still participate in MATHia and they'll still get that instruction.

1025
00:51:08,800 --> 00:51:10,900
Any additional discussion?

1026
00:51:10,900 --> 00:51:12,367
Thank you. Okay.

1027
00:51:12,367 --> 00:51:15,934
Can I please have a motion to approve

1028
00:51:16,133 --> 00:51:19,834
the coherence counts research proposal?

1029
00:51:19,867 --> 00:51:22,867
So move to Shell and Liz. Seconds.

1030
00:51:23,166 --> 00:51:24,500
Any additional discussion?

1031
00:51:24,500 --> 00:51:25,934
Thank you, Jen, for that presentation.

1032
00:51:25,934 --> 00:51:28,934
That was great. All those in favor?

1033
00:51:29,033 --> 00:51:32,033
Motion passes 7 to 0.

1034
00:51:33,367 --> 00:51:36,000
And next up, we have a motion.

1035
00:51:36,000 --> 00:51:39,000
An MoU for

1036
00:51:40,400 --> 00:51:42,667
The Granite YMCA.

1037
00:51:42,667 --> 00:51:45,333
Can I please have a motion to approve

1038
00:51:45,333 --> 00:51:49,066
the MOU between the Dover School District and The Granite YMCA

1039
00:51:49,100 --> 00:51:53,100
before and after school childcare for this current school year?

1040
00:51:53,567 --> 00:51:54,600
I can make a motion.

1041
00:51:54,600 --> 00:51:57,000
Seana and Micaela.

1042
00:51:57,000 --> 00:52:00,233
Second, Any discussion?

1043
00:52:01,433 --> 00:52:03,200
This is just.

1044
00:52:03,200 --> 00:52:04,600
What's the program at Woodman Park?

1045
00:52:04,600 --> 00:52:07,600
Because this just says Garrison and Horne Street. So this is Garrison, and,

1046
00:52:09,834 --> 00:52:12,333
Woodman Park uses the SOCC.

1047
00:52:12,333 --> 00:52:12,734
That's right.

1048
00:52:12,734 --> 00:52:16,100
In the afternoon, and we have not had enough families signing on

1049
00:52:16,100 --> 00:52:19,800
and subscribing to the Y to run a Y before care program.

1050
00:52:19,834 --> 00:52:22,834
Okay, great.

1051
00:52:23,133 --> 00:52:25,033
Any additional discussion?

1052
00:52:25,033 --> 00:52:26,467
All those in favor?

1053
00:52:26,467 --> 00:52:29,467
Motion passes seven zero.

1054
00:52:30,500 --> 00:52:31,967
And then moving on.

1055
00:52:31,967 --> 00:52:35,767
This one I'm excited about, the Dover para

1056
00:52:35,800 --> 00:52:38,800
educators contract.

1057
00:52:40,233 --> 00:52:41,033
We have.

1058
00:52:41,033 --> 00:52:43,767
Ratified by the DPA at 407, the staff.

1059
00:52:43,767 --> 00:52:46,033
Hot off the press.

1060
00:52:46,033 --> 00:52:50,900
We had a successful, end to our negotiation a couple of weeks ago.

1061
00:52:50,900 --> 00:52:53,400
So excited to,

1062
00:52:53,400 --> 00:52:57,467
get this one done and offer them a three year contract.

1063
00:52:58,233 --> 00:53:01,800
If you approve tonight, I'll be going to City council on Wednesday night with it.

1064
00:53:01,934 --> 00:53:03,500
Great. Okay.

1065
00:53:03,500 --> 00:53:06,500
Can you give top, top lines?

1066
00:53:07,000 --> 00:53:07,300
Yeah.

1067
00:53:07,300 --> 00:53:10,300
So we have a summary on our desk today.

1068
00:53:10,567 --> 00:53:13,033
Do you want to you want to go over it or do you want me to.

1069
00:53:13,033 --> 00:53:15,033
If you would like to. That's fine. I mean, you were on. The committee.

1070
00:53:15,033 --> 00:53:18,133
I had the pleasure of being on the negotiation committee.

1071
00:53:18,133 --> 00:53:23,200
I think the biggest thing in that we made changes to is the wage scale.

1072
00:53:23,333 --> 00:53:27,467
It's a small increase for year one.

1073
00:53:27,867 --> 00:53:32,133
The reason for that is, in addition to the wage scale,

1074
00:53:32,133 --> 00:53:37,333
we added a new stipend for extensive, extensive needs,

1075
00:53:37,333 --> 00:53:42,100
recognizing the very specialized work that some of our characters do.

1076
00:53:42,166 --> 00:53:46,700
And some of our students require a lot of extra specialized care.

1077
00:53:46,700 --> 00:53:50,767
So we added an extensive needs differentiated

1078
00:53:50,834 --> 00:53:54,867
differential for parents who are working

1079
00:53:54,867 --> 00:53:58,266
with students who meet the criteria to receive that additional stipend.

1080
00:53:58,333 --> 00:54:01,834
And then in year two and year

1081
00:54:01,834 --> 00:54:06,133
three of the agreement will see an additional 4% increase. To.

1082
00:54:06,266 --> 00:54:08,934
Their salaries. Right.

1083
00:54:08,934 --> 00:54:11,333
And then the last big change that we made

1084
00:54:11,333 --> 00:54:15,033
was an increase to their longevity bonus

1085
00:54:15,033 --> 00:54:18,133
for recognizing their service with the district.

1086
00:54:18,367 --> 00:54:20,166
And then there were some other,

1087
00:54:21,533 --> 00:54:24,033
just policy language tweaks,

1088
00:54:24,033 --> 00:54:27,200
but these were the big financial pieces that we agreed to.

1089
00:54:28,834 --> 00:54:29,700
Thank you.

1090
00:54:29,700 --> 00:54:32,200
Thanks for.

1091
00:54:32,200 --> 00:54:33,333
Did I miss anything?

1092
00:54:33,333 --> 00:54:34,567
No, I don't think so.

1093
00:54:34,567 --> 00:54:38,100
The only other thing I would highlight is there's a new base scale here.

1094
00:54:38,100 --> 00:54:42,200
We had worked to equalize the differences

1095
00:54:42,200 --> 00:54:46,066
between steps and classifications, particularly steps, though.

1096
00:54:46,200 --> 00:54:49,200
What happens is when you give a 4% increase

1097
00:54:49,967 --> 00:54:53,734
over every square of the contract, the higher squares

1098
00:54:53,767 --> 00:54:55,600
get more of an increase in the lower squares,

1099
00:54:55,600 --> 00:54:58,834
and after a few years it gets a little inequitable.

1100
00:54:59,000 --> 00:55:02,000
So we made an adjustment there.

1101
00:55:02,800 --> 00:55:03,600
Yeah.

1102
00:55:03,600 --> 00:55:06,433
What are the differences between the classes? Yep.

1103
00:55:06,433 --> 00:55:07,700
You don't have to go deep on that.

1104
00:55:07,700 --> 00:55:09,700
I'm just curious because I wasn't involved.

1105
00:55:09,700 --> 00:55:11,166
Just what you're doing.

1106
00:55:11,166 --> 00:55:15,734
So, class two and three are really your special education pairs.

1107
00:55:15,867 --> 00:55:16,367
The difference

1108
00:55:16,367 --> 00:55:19,800
between class two and three is if they have their para two certification,

1109
00:55:19,967 --> 00:55:25,200
your class fours are, maybe tutoring positions, things like that.

1110
00:55:25,200 --> 00:55:28,433
That also might require some teaching certification.

1111
00:55:28,533 --> 00:55:29,934
Okay. Thank you.

1112
00:55:32,333 --> 00:55:35,967
Any additional questions?

1113
00:55:36,734 --> 00:55:37,100
Okay.

1114
00:55:37,100 --> 00:55:41,734
Can I please have a motion to approve the Dover Paraeducators' Association

1115
00:55:42,000 --> 00:55:47,400
Collective Bargaining agreement for school years 2026 through 2029.

1116
00:55:47,800 --> 00:55:50,467
I haven't up so fast

1117
00:55:50,467 --> 00:55:52,233
on the negotiation team. Yeah.

1118
00:55:52,233 --> 00:55:53,400
And the second.

1119
00:55:53,400 --> 00:55:56,400
Yeah. Any additional discussion?

1120
00:55:56,400 --> 00:55:57,734
Roll call. Vote, please.

1121
00:55:57,734 --> 00:55:58,033
All right.

1122
00:55:58,033 --> 00:56:00,533
Robin? Yes. Michelle Clancy. Yes.

1123
00:56:00,533 --> 00:56:01,734
Craig Flynn. Yes.

1124
00:56:01,734 --> 00:56:02,567
Maggie Fogarty.

1125
00:56:02,567 --> 00:56:04,433
Yes. I got Micaela, I believe.

1126
00:56:04,433 --> 00:56:06,634
Micaela. Yes.

1127
00:56:06,634 --> 00:56:07,867
Elizabeth Goldman. Yes.

1128
00:56:07,867 --> 00:56:08,800
And Seana Berkley Hallberg.

1129
00:56:08,800 --> 00:56:11,834
Yes. Seven passes. Great.

1130
00:56:12,100 --> 00:56:12,400
Okay.

1131
00:56:12,400 --> 00:56:15,400
I couldn't tell if you had a question or if you were just enthusiastically

1132
00:56:15,734 --> 00:56:18,734
putting the motion forward.

1133
00:56:18,800 --> 00:56:19,266
Great.

1134
00:56:19,266 --> 00:56:23,400
And so then this will go to the city council for my.

1135
00:56:24,367 --> 00:56:25,900
Great, great.

1136
00:56:25,900 --> 00:56:27,333
You're up Bret. Next.

1137
00:56:27,333 --> 00:56:30,033
Go to prove it.

1138
00:56:30,033 --> 00:56:33,734
Well, the good news of this is this is within our budget this year. Yes.

1139
00:56:34,734 --> 00:56:35,600
Yeah.

1140
00:56:35,600 --> 00:56:37,867
Okay.

1141
00:56:37,867 --> 00:56:41,000
Moving on to the

1142
00:56:41,000 --> 00:56:44,533
our annual review of our sports injury action plan.

1143
00:56:45,500 --> 00:56:48,233
So this is by policy.

1144
00:56:48,233 --> 00:56:49,967
We need to review it every year.

1145
00:56:49,967 --> 00:56:51,233
Bring it back to you all.

1146
00:56:51,233 --> 00:56:54,700
Our athletic director and athletic trainer reviewed it.

1147
00:56:54,700 --> 00:56:57,834
They did not see any changes that needed to be made.

1148
00:56:57,867 --> 00:57:00,867
What they wanted me to highlight for you is,

1149
00:57:01,634 --> 00:57:03,533
they're hoping you approve this tonight.

1150
00:57:03,533 --> 00:57:05,300
They also wanted to let you know that

1151
00:57:05,300 --> 00:57:09,033
when the new field comes online, they will be bringing changes to you.

1152
00:57:09,066 --> 00:57:11,266
Okay. So one of my questions.

1153
00:57:11,266 --> 00:57:12,667
So. Yeah.

1154
00:57:12,667 --> 00:57:15,667
Okay.

1155
00:57:15,700 --> 00:57:20,233
Because I saw on the table the last update was March 26th.

1156
00:57:20,233 --> 00:57:23,767
And so I wasn't sure if the items that were bolded were changes or not.

1157
00:57:23,800 --> 00:57:25,233
So that makes sense.

1158
00:57:25,233 --> 00:57:28,300
No, but they will be bringing as we bring that new field online.

1159
00:57:28,300 --> 00:57:30,166
They will have updates. Great.

1160
00:57:31,567 --> 00:57:31,867
Yeah.

1161
00:57:31,867 --> 00:57:36,266
I think we've seen some community concern about field temperatures

1162
00:57:36,433 --> 00:57:37,700
with the turf field.

1163
00:57:37,700 --> 00:57:42,700
So, And that we would actually follow our existing temperature.

1164
00:57:42,700 --> 00:57:44,734
Because we have something in place.

1165
00:57:44,734 --> 00:57:45,900
So it doesn't matter if

1166
00:57:45,900 --> 00:57:49,967
it's x number of degrees on grass or turf, we would not play on it.

1167
00:57:49,967 --> 00:57:53,700
And I was going to highlight that for, for those in the community

1168
00:57:53,700 --> 00:57:56,734
did have those concerns throughout this process.

1169
00:57:56,767 --> 00:57:59,533
We've told them that we already have this policy in place.

1170
00:57:59,533 --> 00:58:01,600
It is in here extensively.

1171
00:58:01,600 --> 00:58:04,033
There's 5 or 6 pages breaking that down.

1172
00:58:04,033 --> 00:58:09,000
And also in this I appreciate in this plan that we have all these external fields

1173
00:58:09,000 --> 00:58:11,834
that we've been using as home field stuff, this process listed in here as well.

1174
00:58:11,834 --> 00:58:14,700
So we then just pass that responsibility off to other schools.

1175
00:58:14,700 --> 00:58:17,667
We took ownership of that and the fields that we've had to use

1176
00:58:17,667 --> 00:58:20,567
and been fortunate enough to use during this process at our off site.

1177
00:58:20,567 --> 00:58:23,367
So I really appreciate seeing that and there as well.

1178
00:58:23,367 --> 00:58:26,600
I do think we're going to have a need for a policy about the,

1179
00:58:28,667 --> 00:58:29,734
g max testing

1180
00:58:29,734 --> 00:58:32,734
frequency and what our parameters are for that.

1181
00:58:32,800 --> 00:58:35,600
I think we should probably have. That.

1182
00:58:35,600 --> 00:58:40,667
Ready to go before we play, for any significant amount of time.

1183
00:58:40,867 --> 00:58:42,700
Okay.

1184
00:58:42,700 --> 00:58:44,000
That holds us to it.

1185
00:58:44,000 --> 00:58:45,133
Right?

1186
00:58:45,133 --> 00:58:49,100
So we don't end up like Nashua and having to close the field

1187
00:58:49,100 --> 00:58:52,100
suddenly because we didn't take proper care.

1188
00:58:52,667 --> 00:58:54,934
I have nothing, I think we would do that, but.

1189
00:58:54,934 --> 00:58:57,000
Added a to do right now.

1190
00:58:57,000 --> 00:58:57,734
Thank you.

1191
00:58:57,734 --> 00:59:00,734
It would be amount of money we're investing into this field.

1192
00:59:00,734 --> 00:59:04,634
I think we should follow whatever maintenance protocol agreed.

1193
00:59:05,667 --> 00:59:07,667
That situation with the closed field, they

1194
00:59:07,667 --> 00:59:10,667
they were supposed to repair or replace at a certain time.

1195
00:59:10,800 --> 00:59:12,266
They chose not to.

1196
00:59:12,266 --> 00:59:16,066
And it was years, years and years beyond lifespan and they lost it.

1197
00:59:16,066 --> 00:59:19,200
So, I don't anticipate we'll put ourselves in that situation.

1198
00:59:20,900 --> 00:59:21,867
Yes. Are there any

1199
00:59:21,867 --> 00:59:24,867
data on on incidents, number of,

1200
00:59:24,900 --> 00:59:30,533
of times that emergency medical care necessary?

1201
00:59:30,934 --> 00:59:33,300
I don't have that tonight.

1202
00:59:33,300 --> 00:59:35,634
I could get that from our athletic trainer.

1203
00:59:35,634 --> 00:59:38,634
It's going to vary by sport and by season.

1204
00:59:38,934 --> 00:59:41,400
But I can get that for you and bring it back to a later meeting.

1205
00:59:41,400 --> 00:59:44,867
Or maybe even bring that back when we bring the policy update back

1206
00:59:45,100 --> 00:59:46,000
for the new field.

1207
00:59:46,000 --> 00:59:48,934
Okay. Thank you. Okay.

1208
00:59:48,934 --> 00:59:49,333
Okay.

1209
00:59:49,333 --> 00:59:52,834
Motion to approve the annual review

1210
00:59:52,834 --> 00:59:55,834
of the sports injury action Plan.

1211
00:59:57,467 --> 00:59:58,867
And Micaela seconds

1212
00:59:58,867 --> 01:00:01,867
any additional discussion?

1213
01:00:02,200 --> 01:00:03,800
All those in favor?

1214
01:00:03,800 --> 01:00:05,600
Motion passes 7 to 0.

1215
01:00:05,600 --> 01:00:07,533
It wasn't sure if that was a roll call.

1216
01:00:07,533 --> 01:00:08,667
No. It's not okay.

1217
01:00:08,667 --> 01:00:12,767
Moving on to our AI plan draft.

1218
01:00:13,500 --> 01:00:16,634
So we have Director Rup and Director Mehalek.

1219
01:00:16,634 --> 01:00:18,967
Or just director. I don't know how you've

1220
01:00:20,500 --> 01:00:22,900
the lone wolf tonight, my friend.

1221
01:00:22,900 --> 01:00:24,734
That's all right.

1222
01:00:24,734 --> 01:00:27,734
To talk about our generative AI use plan.

1223
01:00:28,100 --> 01:00:30,700
So, Thomas Rup, Director

1224
01:00:30,700 --> 01:00:33,700
of technology for this school district.

1225
01:00:33,900 --> 01:00:38,367
This is a plan that we're looking for approval from the school board

1226
01:00:38,567 --> 01:00:43,066
to put in place for the 2627 school year.

1227
01:00:43,333 --> 01:00:48,266
This was something that was developed and written by Director Mehalek and myself.

1228
01:00:48,266 --> 01:00:51,467
It has been thoroughly vetted and approved

1229
01:00:51,467 --> 01:00:55,333
by many different sections of the school district,

1230
01:00:55,333 --> 01:00:58,667
including a task force that was developed

1231
01:00:58,800 --> 01:01:02,533
including parents, teachers, counselors

1232
01:01:02,533 --> 01:01:06,567
from all schools, and from the SAU as well.

1233
01:01:06,567 --> 01:01:11,600
We also went in front of the Dover District leadership team

1234
01:01:11,800 --> 01:01:16,567
to look at this and understand where we're going with our AI plan.

1235
01:01:17,000 --> 01:01:20,834
First is the why, beyond the fact

1236
01:01:20,834 --> 01:01:26,567
that our generative AI policy states that we need to have a plan in place

1237
01:01:26,767 --> 01:01:30,433
in order to effectively support that policy.

1238
01:01:30,433 --> 01:01:35,233
We felt that Dover needed an individualized,

1239
01:01:37,734 --> 01:01:38,133
I don't want

1240
01:01:38,133 --> 01:01:41,567
to say plan again, but an individualized path

1241
01:01:42,066 --> 01:01:46,800
to success to utilizing, AI within our school district.

1242
01:01:47,033 --> 01:01:50,467
This was heavily influenced by the framework that was created

1243
01:01:50,467 --> 01:01:54,266
by the state of New Hampshire that was created mainly by

1244
01:01:55,767 --> 01:01:59,233
influences from Pinkerton in Bedford, in those schools.

1245
01:01:59,300 --> 01:02:04,100
We are starkly different than the way those schools are constructed.

1246
01:02:04,133 --> 01:02:08,166
We don't have digital learning specialists or technology

1247
01:02:08,166 --> 01:02:12,667
coaches to be able to help teachers, better understand

1248
01:02:12,834 --> 01:02:16,200
this policy and this plan and how to effectively use AI.

1249
01:02:16,567 --> 01:02:20,133
So we wanted to do this and make it something

1250
01:02:20,133 --> 01:02:23,433
that is very uniquely ours, which is why we have

1251
01:02:23,433 --> 01:02:26,767
students and educators at the center of this whole plan.

1252
01:02:26,767 --> 01:02:28,600
Yes.

1253
01:02:28,600 --> 01:02:31,033
Administrators are involved in this as well too.

1254
01:02:31,033 --> 01:02:35,667
But really, it was about counselors and teachers and students

1255
01:02:35,834 --> 01:02:38,834
and how they can effectively utilize AI

1256
01:02:39,400 --> 01:02:43,767
to help broaden our students learning experiences.

1257
01:02:44,734 --> 01:02:47,800
All these slides are in

1258
01:02:47,867 --> 01:02:51,433
the plan, which is in your packet of materials,

1259
01:02:51,634 --> 01:02:54,000
probably somewhere around page 200 or something

1260
01:02:54,000 --> 01:02:56,634
with all the policies that you guys have to go through that.

1261
01:02:56,634 --> 01:02:58,533
163 yeah.

1262
01:02:58,533 --> 01:03:03,200
And, what we have here is we've taken some of the bulleted points out of there.

1263
01:03:03,200 --> 01:03:07,667
So there's some subsections within there that these are directly out.

1264
01:03:07,834 --> 01:03:10,834
So you'll be able to reference back to this at any point in time.

1265
01:03:10,834 --> 01:03:13,834
We're going to try to blitz through this as fast as possible.

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01:03:13,834 --> 01:03:15,467
So that way we can get to everything.

1267
01:03:15,467 --> 01:03:19,333
Except use obvious points of this.

1268
01:03:19,467 --> 01:03:23,100
One of the things I want to point out is when it says acceptable use

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01:03:23,100 --> 01:03:24,533
for district employees.

1270
01:03:24,533 --> 01:03:25,033
It does.

1271
01:03:25,033 --> 01:03:28,634
On that first, Bolen points a lesson planning and differentiated instruction.

1272
01:03:28,767 --> 01:03:32,266
We do have some very specific guardrails about how we view that to go.

1273
01:03:32,433 --> 01:03:35,433
We do not want teachers to specifically just say,

1274
01:03:35,800 --> 01:03:37,800
create me a lesson plan for today.

1275
01:03:37,800 --> 01:03:42,100
We want teachers to be able to utilize this to have their lesson plan

1276
01:03:42,100 --> 01:03:43,800
and then send it in to AI

1277
01:03:43,800 --> 01:03:47,033
to give them some talking points, or to help them draft the outline of how

1278
01:03:47,033 --> 01:03:50,233
they want to be able to take that plan and deliver that students.

1279
01:03:50,233 --> 01:03:52,567
So it's utilizes a tool.

1280
01:03:52,567 --> 01:03:55,734
AI and technology is our tools.

1281
01:03:55,734 --> 01:03:57,200
It's no different than a hammer.

1282
01:03:58,200 --> 01:03:59,600
However, a hammer

1283
01:03:59,600 --> 01:04:03,166
can be utilized to build a wall, but can also be utilized to destroy a wall.

1284
01:04:03,367 --> 01:04:05,333
It's the same way with technology and with AI.

1285
01:04:05,333 --> 01:04:08,600
That's why we want to ensure that we're utilizing this to build those walls,

1286
01:04:08,700 --> 01:04:09,867
not tear them down.

1287
01:04:09,867 --> 01:04:15,333
Students, very succinct on our points here.

1288
01:04:15,700 --> 01:04:19,000
Brainstorm ideas, practice writing, and we're going to get into this

1289
01:04:19,033 --> 01:04:22,834
a little bit more when we show you an example of where the high school plans

1290
01:04:22,834 --> 01:04:27,333
to go with this and what their thoughts are on utilization of AI in the classroom,

1291
01:04:27,433 --> 01:04:30,867
and we have all the way up to administrators

1292
01:04:30,867 --> 01:04:34,133
how we would utilize this with our everyday lives.

1293
01:04:34,166 --> 01:04:38,200
For instance, Brian may utilize this to help him much more quickly

1294
01:04:38,200 --> 01:04:39,166
and efficiently.

1295
01:04:39,166 --> 01:04:43,100
Look at the differentials between last year's budget and this year's budget

1296
01:04:43,100 --> 01:04:44,567
when it comes to building the budget book,

1297
01:04:44,567 --> 01:04:47,634
and be able to help identify those points fast.

1298
01:04:47,634 --> 01:04:50,900
So that way he doesn't have to rebuild all the code in an Excel spreadsheet

1299
01:04:50,934 --> 01:04:56,133
to, to, you know, something that AI can utilize can do very quickly for him

1300
01:04:57,100 --> 01:04:59,967
with those accepted acceptable uses.

1301
01:04:59,967 --> 01:05:01,734
There's obviously prohibited uses.

1302
01:05:01,734 --> 01:05:04,734
These are very, very

1303
01:05:05,734 --> 01:05:08,800
necessary, but they're also kind of common sense.

1304
01:05:09,266 --> 01:05:09,800
We're not trying

1305
01:05:09,800 --> 01:05:13,166
to reinvent the wheel for anything that we want to prohibit with AI.

1306
01:05:13,600 --> 01:05:18,000
But we don't want to focus on the punitive side of it.

1307
01:05:18,033 --> 01:05:21,467
We want to focus on building proper digital literacy

1308
01:05:21,467 --> 01:05:25,834
and digital citizenship for the use of AI in our school district.

1309
01:05:25,867 --> 01:05:28,934
So these are all, again available on that packet

1310
01:05:28,934 --> 01:05:31,934
that you have.

1311
01:05:32,533 --> 01:05:33,900
One of the really big points

1312
01:05:33,900 --> 01:05:37,700
that we wanted to make about this is that AI helps us with equitable access.

1313
01:05:37,767 --> 01:05:40,800
We want to ensure that what we approve

1314
01:05:40,834 --> 01:05:44,533
for software and AI tools are available for every student.

1315
01:05:44,533 --> 01:05:49,166
They can be utilized and have no language barriers, no learning barriers

1316
01:05:49,967 --> 01:05:52,800
that anyone would be able to utilize this to be able to have success

1317
01:05:52,800 --> 01:05:53,834
in the classroom.

1318
01:05:53,834 --> 01:05:57,600
It's also going to become very important for our English

1319
01:05:57,600 --> 01:05:59,467
as a second language learners.

1320
01:05:59,467 --> 01:06:02,900
They are going to be able to utilize AI to help translate

1321
01:06:03,033 --> 01:06:06,166
what is going on in the classroom very quickly and easily into their

1322
01:06:06,166 --> 01:06:10,867
own language, to help them be able to much more quickly and easily

1323
01:06:12,000 --> 01:06:12,634
be able to

1324
01:06:12,634 --> 01:06:16,133
succeed in the classroom, just as every other student can hear.

1325
01:06:17,000 --> 01:06:20,533
We've been looking into this a lot over the past couple of weeks.

1326
01:06:20,567 --> 01:06:24,500
As we start looking at, you know, how we want to go forth,

1327
01:06:24,500 --> 01:06:28,300
we're getting a much, much more diverse population here in Dover.

1328
01:06:28,400 --> 01:06:31,133
So we want to ensure that we're utilizing the tools correctly.

1329
01:06:31,133 --> 01:06:34,133
So that way everyone has the information they need.

1330
01:06:34,867 --> 01:06:36,634
And feel free to stop me

1331
01:06:36,634 --> 01:06:39,634
at any time, especially as we get into this part of things here.

1332
01:06:40,233 --> 01:06:43,667
This is actually appendix C of that documentation.

1333
01:06:43,667 --> 01:06:45,200
It's really towards the end of it, but we felt

1334
01:06:45,200 --> 01:06:49,600
it was more important to address this a little bit earlier in this presentation.

1335
01:06:49,834 --> 01:06:54,567
We really wanted to ensure that we have not only a reason for this plan,

1336
01:06:54,567 --> 01:07:00,200
but an actual grade based section out area here

1337
01:07:00,300 --> 01:07:03,600
so that we know what we believe is appropriate use

1338
01:07:03,634 --> 01:07:07,033
in appropriate use, and where that we should develop

1339
01:07:07,033 --> 01:07:11,667
those good habits in those learning skills throughout the school district.

1340
01:07:12,567 --> 01:07:17,300
We're taking this with a very top down approach, meaning, because the high school

1341
01:07:17,300 --> 01:07:21,133
will be utilizing this a lot more than most of your other grade levels.

1342
01:07:21,233 --> 01:07:25,667
That's where our focus is on this years, to really ensure that we have that,

1343
01:07:26,600 --> 01:07:29,200
to understand how students want to utilize it and understand

1344
01:07:29,200 --> 01:07:30,634
how teachers want to utilize it.

1345
01:07:30,634 --> 01:07:35,033
That way, we can build those students up as they go through their grade levels

1346
01:07:35,033 --> 01:07:36,500
for effective use of AI.

1347
01:07:36,500 --> 01:07:39,200
When they get into the, into the high school.

1348
01:07:39,200 --> 01:07:41,066
You're going to see in one of the following slides

1349
01:07:41,066 --> 01:07:44,867
that was developed by Dean Lapoint, the Dean of Instruction at the high school.

1350
01:07:44,867 --> 01:07:50,333
How they want to have students utilize this in an effective way every day.

1351
01:07:50,667 --> 01:07:53,333
And we feel this path right now

1352
01:07:53,333 --> 01:07:56,600
is very solid in developing those skills for students.

1353
01:07:56,600 --> 01:07:58,133
So that way they enter the high school.

1354
01:08:01,400 --> 01:08:03,233
So, you know, pre-K to two.

1355
01:08:03,233 --> 01:08:06,300
There's a lot of other conversations surrounding technology

1356
01:08:06,300 --> 01:08:07,400
in these grade levels.

1357
01:08:07,400 --> 01:08:11,867
So we really want to limit AI to a standpoint of really this teachers

1358
01:08:11,867 --> 01:08:14,667
just mainly talking about it, that it's out there.

1359
01:08:14,667 --> 01:08:18,533
We'll do some digital citizenship and some digital literacy based on it,

1360
01:08:18,533 --> 01:08:21,934
but it's not going to be anything where students are hands on with with AI

1361
01:08:21,967 --> 01:08:23,567
in any way, shape or form.

1362
01:08:23,567 --> 01:08:27,600
We'll get into grades three and five and we'll use them beginning level

1363
01:08:27,634 --> 01:08:31,967
AI tools, some things like that we have in Khan Academy or other areas

1364
01:08:32,033 --> 01:08:37,567
where we can really drill this down into effective use for those younger levels.

1365
01:08:38,066 --> 01:08:42,066
The point of that grade level is for that 3 to 5

1366
01:08:42,333 --> 01:08:45,333
is to ensure that this is teacher led, okay.

1367
01:08:45,400 --> 01:08:48,634
This is something where the teacher mainly will be up on the board

1368
01:08:48,767 --> 01:08:52,333
and utilizing maybe, instruction to say, look,

1369
01:08:52,367 --> 01:08:56,533
this is how you can differentiate your studies by utilizing this tool.

1370
01:08:56,667 --> 01:08:58,166
But it may not be necessarily

1371
01:08:58,166 --> 01:09:01,200
that we're going to put this tool in the students hands.

1372
01:09:01,200 --> 01:09:04,967
That probably won't happen until we start getting into grades six through eight.

1373
01:09:05,166 --> 01:09:07,266
That's the area where we're going to really start

1374
01:09:07,266 --> 01:09:11,266
giving some good, solid digital citizenship and digital literacy.

1375
01:09:11,266 --> 01:09:15,600
So that way they understand the dangers of utilizing AR AI.

1376
01:09:15,634 --> 01:09:19,467
Today in the state of New Hampshire, actually, there was the very first

1377
01:09:19,634 --> 01:09:20,600
deepfake case.

1378
01:09:20,600 --> 01:09:26,133
A 22 year old was actually found not guilty of a deep fake

1379
01:09:26,166 --> 01:09:30,066
of using AI on a police body cam footage that was released.

1380
01:09:30,066 --> 01:09:33,600
And so, you know, we wanted to ensure

1381
01:09:33,600 --> 01:09:37,233
that our students are not going involved into these types of things.

1382
01:09:37,233 --> 01:09:41,200
So, you know, grade six eight is going to be a

1383
01:09:41,200 --> 01:09:45,567
lot of real instruction about the appropriate use of it.

1384
01:09:45,600 --> 01:09:48,600
And then grades nine through 12 will be more.

1385
01:09:48,667 --> 01:09:49,066
Okay.

1386
01:09:49,066 --> 01:09:51,100
You should know how to use it.

1387
01:09:51,100 --> 01:09:53,233
We want you to use it effectively.

1388
01:09:53,233 --> 01:09:55,533
But these are the guardrails of where we want to do it.

1389
01:09:55,533 --> 01:09:57,066
And we're not forcing any teacher

1390
01:09:57,066 --> 01:09:59,867
by any stretch of the imagination with this to utilize AI,

1391
01:09:59,867 --> 01:10:04,000
or that they have to teach AI, or that they have to put it in the students hands.

1392
01:10:04,200 --> 01:10:05,500
It's going to be up to the teacher

1393
01:10:05,500 --> 01:10:07,533
and how comfortable they feel utilizing it,

1394
01:10:07,533 --> 01:10:09,767
and how they're going to be able to teach it.

1395
01:10:09,767 --> 01:10:14,000
Unless you're teaching Stem, then you're probably going to have to teach it

1396
01:10:14,000 --> 01:10:17,000
at some point and become pretty affluent with it.

1397
01:10:17,233 --> 01:10:22,700
This here is the actual language which is in the handbook,

1398
01:10:22,734 --> 01:10:26,634
the student handbook at the high school, as well as

1399
01:10:26,634 --> 01:10:29,266
some information that has been put into their syllabi.

1400
01:10:29,266 --> 01:10:34,300
Each teacher this year was asked to put in language

1401
01:10:34,300 --> 01:10:38,233
that defined how that they may or may not utilize AI

1402
01:10:38,333 --> 01:10:41,834
in their classroom, that students may or may not be asked to use.

1403
01:10:42,066 --> 01:10:47,867
Utilize it, and it will be accepted, based on a scale system

1404
01:10:47,867 --> 01:10:51,433
of how much they feel that the students should be utilizing AI.

1405
01:10:51,667 --> 01:10:57,634
This is in a little bit farther down in the documentation

1406
01:10:57,634 --> 01:11:00,734
where we gave you all the whole plan where the high school is going with this.

1407
01:11:01,100 --> 01:11:05,667
Once this plan is approved and how we want to put it in there correctly.

1408
01:11:06,100 --> 01:11:08,934
Second bulletin is the one that I really want to point out with this.

1409
01:11:08,934 --> 01:11:11,133
This is when AI is permitted.

1410
01:11:11,133 --> 01:11:15,233
Students must use it transparently, verify its accuracy,

1411
01:11:15,433 --> 01:11:17,066
protect private information,

1412
01:11:17,066 --> 01:11:20,734
and ensure that the final submission reflects their own understanding.

1413
01:11:21,033 --> 01:11:22,634
That was very imperative.

1414
01:11:22,634 --> 01:11:26,567
As Dean Lapoint and I discussed this and how to actually

1415
01:11:26,600 --> 01:11:30,700
deploy in high school this year was to ensure that no matter

1416
01:11:30,734 --> 01:11:34,567
even if they were utilizing AI, it was still their own authentic,

1417
01:11:34,634 --> 01:11:38,333
unique work and not just obviously plagiarized.

1418
01:11:38,333 --> 01:11:40,166
Copy and paste out of there.

1419
01:11:40,166 --> 01:11:43,100
You'll see when we get to the next slide.

1420
01:11:43,100 --> 01:11:47,233
We have some sections here which we felt

1421
01:11:47,233 --> 01:11:50,900
were very important, and this was all solely developed by Dean

1422
01:11:51,000 --> 01:11:52,133
Lapoint.

1423
01:11:52,133 --> 01:11:55,233
She was the impetus of doing all of this.

1424
01:11:55,500 --> 01:11:58,300
One of the teachers actually showed this to their students in

1425
01:11:58,300 --> 01:12:01,166
the student went up to Lapoint a little bit later today and said,

1426
01:12:01,166 --> 01:12:04,934
this was you, this we could tell that this had the figure prints all over it.

1427
01:12:04,934 --> 01:12:07,000
And she's. Yeah, absolutely.

1428
01:12:07,000 --> 01:12:10,433
It was very important to her that she's modeling the behaviors

1429
01:12:10,533 --> 01:12:14,600
for these students to say, I didn't have a I create this for me.

1430
01:12:15,066 --> 01:12:19,400
It was something that I wrote because I feel deeply in the fact that

1431
01:12:19,400 --> 01:12:22,133
now she did have some help by saying, like,

1432
01:12:22,133 --> 01:12:24,066
you know, with some word changes and things like that.

1433
01:12:24,066 --> 01:12:27,000
And that's reflected throughout this whole,

1434
01:12:27,000 --> 01:12:30,367
scale system that they're going to be utilizing in Dover High School.

1435
01:12:31,367 --> 01:12:34,367
So for instance, zero is AI free.

1436
01:12:34,367 --> 01:12:37,300
This is something we utilize during finals time.

1437
01:12:37,300 --> 01:12:41,734
Principal Driscoll has asked me last year on both finals during midterms

1438
01:12:41,734 --> 01:12:44,634
and during the end of the year finals to turn off AI for students.

1439
01:12:44,634 --> 01:12:47,667
So that way we could ensure that the work that they were doing during

1440
01:12:47,667 --> 01:12:49,333
those finals was authentically their own

1441
01:12:49,333 --> 01:12:51,200
and they weren't allowed to go to the sites.

1442
01:12:51,200 --> 01:12:54,333
So we go into Aristotle K-12.

1443
01:12:54,367 --> 01:12:56,667
We shut off all AI usage for students.

1444
01:12:56,667 --> 01:13:01,367
They can't get to those websites, and they're able to just do this on their own.

1445
01:13:01,867 --> 01:13:04,634
We feel this year that most teachers and students

1446
01:13:04,634 --> 01:13:08,533
will fall into the category one and two section, which is AI assisted.

1447
01:13:08,533 --> 01:13:12,133
I think that's where the staff is going to be very comfortable

1448
01:13:12,200 --> 01:13:17,100
this year, to be able to ensure that they have the start of this AI plan.

1449
01:13:17,467 --> 01:13:20,300
So they're going to use it to brainstorm and spark ideas

1450
01:13:20,300 --> 01:13:23,300
and use it like a tutor to understand concepts.

1451
01:13:23,400 --> 01:13:27,200
The idea is to develop this throughout this year, next year, and probably

1452
01:13:27,200 --> 01:13:32,400
the third year to get to 0.5, where you can utilize AI throughout the process,

1453
01:13:32,400 --> 01:13:36,967
but be able to detail every point of it that you used effectively.

1454
01:13:37,033 --> 01:13:40,400
So that way you still understand that this is my own authentic work,

1455
01:13:40,467 --> 01:13:43,467
but it was influenced by how I did research through AI

1456
01:13:43,834 --> 01:13:46,834
that that's the the ultimate goal here.

1457
01:13:46,867 --> 01:13:50,100
Again, we're not telling every teacher the high school that they have to do this.

1458
01:13:50,166 --> 01:13:54,567
This is not you know, you can sit in section 1 or 2

1459
01:13:54,634 --> 01:13:57,600
for your entire career, and that is perfectly acceptable

1460
01:13:57,700 --> 01:13:59,333
because you want to have

1461
01:13:59,333 --> 01:14:02,533
your students utilizing things in a way that makes sense to you.

1462
01:14:02,867 --> 01:14:06,033
And when they give out an assignment, they'll have this check sheet.

1463
01:14:06,033 --> 01:14:07,934
And they can say, you can go up to level

1464
01:14:07,934 --> 01:14:10,367
two with this, which is I use it like a tutor,

1465
01:14:10,367 --> 01:14:14,000
and you should not have anything in there that is undocumented from AI

1466
01:14:14,033 --> 01:14:15,600
coming forward for this.

1467
01:14:15,600 --> 01:14:19,033
It's a very, very in-depth plan that Dean Lapoint has come up with,

1468
01:14:19,066 --> 01:14:20,634
and we're very appreciative of the hard work

1469
01:14:20,634 --> 01:14:24,266
she put in to have this set up for the high school to use this year.

1470
01:14:26,567 --> 01:14:29,367
As I said, I'm trying to blitz through this as fast as possible.

1471
01:14:29,367 --> 01:14:32,133
Obviously with this comes from professional learning.

1472
01:14:32,133 --> 01:14:34,700
We really wanted to get this into your hands today.

1473
01:14:34,700 --> 01:14:38,400
So that way on the October 9th, PD day,

1474
01:14:38,467 --> 01:14:42,567
I will be going out in front of the staff and trying to help them understand

1475
01:14:42,867 --> 01:14:47,667
where this fits into each grade level and what what our expectations are again

1476
01:14:47,667 --> 01:14:48,600
for this year.

1477
01:14:48,600 --> 01:14:52,533
It's going to be a lot of the expectations is utilizing professional development

1478
01:14:52,533 --> 01:14:55,266
to understand where you sit in the world of AI,

1479
01:14:55,266 --> 01:14:57,834
not necessarily putting it in the hands of students.

1480
01:14:57,834 --> 01:15:01,166
We were going to continue to build into that all the way

1481
01:15:01,166 --> 01:15:04,166
throughout the next three years for sure.

1482
01:15:05,500 --> 01:15:09,066
With this, obviously, I always have to talk about that.

1483
01:15:09,066 --> 01:15:10,767
There is accountability that will be held.

1484
01:15:10,767 --> 01:15:14,867
If you do fail to follow the guidelines to stay within these guardrails

1485
01:15:15,066 --> 01:15:17,900
for students, obviously you could lose access to it

1486
01:15:17,900 --> 01:15:22,834
as much as following our policies for plagiarism, if that's what happens.

1487
01:15:22,834 --> 01:15:26,700
Every single one of these does state in there that you could be referred

1488
01:15:26,700 --> 01:15:29,700
to authorities if law is violated, i.e.,

1489
01:15:29,967 --> 01:15:32,634
if you decide to dig a deepfake of somebody,

1490
01:15:32,634 --> 01:15:34,867
you can now be prosecuted in the state of New Hampshire

1491
01:15:34,867 --> 01:15:38,367
for that, as we found out today with that first case,

1492
01:15:38,734 --> 01:15:41,867
and all of us are going to be held accountable, even myself,

1493
01:15:41,867 --> 01:15:45,133
if I do something wrong with AI, I fully expect Dr. Boston

1494
01:15:45,133 --> 01:15:48,166
to come up to me and address me and say, why did you do this?

1495
01:15:48,233 --> 01:15:51,233
And, you know, whatever consequences would come from it.

1496
01:15:52,066 --> 01:15:53,900
First, I'll have to realize you used AI.

1497
01:15:55,333 --> 01:15:57,834
I rarely use when it comes to that.

1498
01:15:57,834 --> 01:16:00,867
I only do it really for data manipulation for the most part,

1499
01:16:00,867 --> 01:16:03,133
sometimes for creating graphics.

1500
01:16:03,133 --> 01:16:07,667
But, so this is this the endpoint

1501
01:16:07,700 --> 01:16:10,767
we're going to go through this year and understand how this worked.

1502
01:16:10,767 --> 01:16:12,767
And if there are any tweaks.

1503
01:16:12,767 --> 01:16:16,266
And we plan on coming back to the school board next October

1504
01:16:16,367 --> 01:16:19,266
with a review of how we felt the last year, when

1505
01:16:19,266 --> 01:16:22,467
and where we need to make some changes to best identify

1506
01:16:22,634 --> 01:16:27,266
how to continue to implement this plan for the next years to come.

1507
01:16:27,433 --> 01:16:30,900
There's going to be some legislation that comes out from the state based on AI,

1508
01:16:31,033 --> 01:16:34,033
based on screen time, based on all these other factors.

1509
01:16:34,033 --> 01:16:36,033
That is going to change this over the next year.

1510
01:16:36,033 --> 01:16:40,367
We fully anticipate that, and we're willing to make whatever changes

1511
01:16:40,367 --> 01:16:43,934
we need to to understand the best way to have our students ready

1512
01:16:43,934 --> 01:16:47,433
for college or wherever they go in life, where AI will be used.

1513
01:16:47,433 --> 01:16:51,200
Again, the ultimate goal is to have them to that that five section

1514
01:16:51,333 --> 01:16:53,033
where they can go out into the real world and say,

1515
01:16:53,033 --> 01:16:57,033
I used AI, but it wasn't AI written, it was me.

1516
01:16:57,033 --> 01:16:57,767
Authentically.

1517
01:16:57,767 --> 01:17:01,100
AI helped me gather the research in a way that made sense.

1518
01:17:01,367 --> 01:17:05,266
So that's it for this, I say, trying to get this done

1519
01:17:05,300 --> 01:17:08,333
as quick as possible so we can get into the data review as well.

1520
01:17:08,333 --> 01:17:11,333
So any questions? Yes.

1521
01:17:11,967 --> 01:17:14,634
I just pulled that policy EHAG.

1522
01:17:15,800 --> 01:17:16,967
I'm struggling to

1523
01:17:16,967 --> 01:17:20,300
understand how these two documents interact with each other.

1524
01:17:20,433 --> 01:17:23,767
The age is the policy that is our overwhelming.

1525
01:17:23,800 --> 01:17:28,000
This is what we expect to see from our staff and our students.

1526
01:17:28,233 --> 01:17:31,000
This is what we hold people accountable against.

1527
01:17:31,000 --> 01:17:34,800
The plan is how do we implement this, how we get to the point where

1528
01:17:34,834 --> 01:17:40,033
students are utilizing AI effectively within the parameters of that policy EHAG.

1529
01:17:40,266 --> 01:17:42,467
Okay, so. Policy directed us to have a.

1530
01:17:42,467 --> 01:17:43,834
Plan, right? Got it.

1531
01:17:43,834 --> 01:17:45,166
Policy action plan. Yeah.

1532
01:17:45,166 --> 01:17:48,166
Perfect. Got it. Thank you.

1533
01:17:48,567 --> 01:17:50,467
I saw in the plan

1534
01:17:50,467 --> 01:17:53,500
there's a list of approved AI.

1535
01:17:54,100 --> 01:17:56,233
Yeah, we didn't want to go over that right now.

1536
01:17:56,233 --> 01:17:59,333
Because we wanted to ensure that the.

1537
01:17:59,634 --> 01:18:03,767
That was a list of possible approved AI.

1538
01:18:04,066 --> 01:18:07,066
The ones we're currently looking at now,

1539
01:18:07,066 --> 01:18:10,066
like there is AI embedded in HMH's CKLA.

1540
01:18:10,233 --> 01:18:11,834
And a lot of the curriculum software

1541
01:18:11,834 --> 01:18:14,967
we're utilizing, it already has an AI agent built into that.

1542
01:18:15,133 --> 01:18:19,066
The new one we just approved to correct the research project is.

1543
01:18:19,567 --> 01:18:19,867
Yeah.

1544
01:18:19,867 --> 01:18:22,133
So those are the areas where we know that it's going to be there

1545
01:18:22,133 --> 01:18:24,867
and those are going to be approved software anyways.

1546
01:18:24,867 --> 01:18:26,967
It's really looking at some of the other generative

1547
01:18:26,967 --> 01:18:30,000
AI products and how they would best fit our students.

1548
01:18:30,066 --> 01:18:34,634
For instance, no offense to ChatGPT, but I'll never approve ChatGPT.

1549
01:18:34,834 --> 01:18:35,266
Well, so.

1550
01:18:35,266 --> 01:18:36,367
That's my student.

1551
01:18:36,367 --> 01:18:38,367
Data privacy students will never be able

1552
01:18:38,367 --> 01:18:41,433
to use it in my standpoint, because they're they will sell off data.

1553
01:18:41,467 --> 01:18:41,834
Right.

1554
01:18:41,834 --> 01:18:43,100
And so that's my question.

1555
01:18:43,100 --> 01:18:47,333
As far as so the school issued devices,

1556
01:18:47,400 --> 01:18:50,967
they cannot download other applications outside of.

1557
01:18:50,967 --> 01:18:51,500
Okay.

1558
01:18:51,500 --> 01:18:57,367
Within I use copilot minimally at work because I don't like it. But

1559
01:18:59,100 --> 01:19:00,967
but for like Google Gemini.

1560
01:19:00,967 --> 01:19:04,467
So I think my concern is do

1561
01:19:05,967 --> 01:19:11,033
do our software monitoring tools also work on these AI tools.

1562
01:19:11,033 --> 01:19:16,000
So like if a student is having an inappropriate conversation with the chat,

1563
01:19:16,600 --> 01:19:19,200
that gaggle is going to catch stuff like that.

1564
01:19:19,200 --> 01:19:20,600
Yes. Will it.

1565
01:19:20,600 --> 01:19:23,467
Is working on keystrokes more than it is actual, like

1566
01:19:23,467 --> 01:19:26,467
rereading the content for something like AI.

1567
01:19:26,567 --> 01:19:28,900
Gaggle has to keep up with this.

1568
01:19:28,900 --> 01:19:31,100
It's very difficult, right?

1569
01:19:31,100 --> 01:19:34,634
AI is always two steps ahead of anything that's trying to review it

1570
01:19:34,700 --> 01:19:38,467
to ensure that we're we're doing everything in a correct and safe way.

1571
01:19:38,533 --> 01:19:43,967
However, any AI conversation with Gemini is owned by the Dover School District.

1572
01:19:43,967 --> 01:19:48,000
Therefore, we have the right to be able to understand what is being inputted into.

1573
01:19:48,000 --> 01:19:49,900
Gentlemen, I at any given time.

1574
01:19:49,900 --> 01:19:52,934
It is a core service of Google, which is one of the reasons why

1575
01:19:52,934 --> 01:19:56,033
that would be one that we would approve, because we could ensure

1576
01:19:56,033 --> 01:19:59,500
that we were still keeping kids safe within the utilization of that.

1577
01:19:59,867 --> 01:20:00,467
Okay.

1578
01:20:00,467 --> 01:20:03,467
And as far as the

1579
01:20:03,667 --> 01:20:07,166
so the data that they input, Dover owns that.

1580
01:20:07,166 --> 01:20:12,433
But then can Google or Microsoft do anything with that data to improve their.

1581
01:20:12,433 --> 01:20:13,333
Model, the agreements,

1582
01:20:13,333 --> 01:20:16,900
if they sell any of that data off, if they do anything with that data

1583
01:20:16,967 --> 01:20:22,033
other than utilize it internally for their own use, then we have the right

1584
01:20:22,033 --> 01:20:26,634
to cut that contract and actually sue them for for inappropriate use of that.

1585
01:20:27,834 --> 01:20:28,900
I appreciate this

1586
01:20:28,900 --> 01:20:31,900
plan, and I appreciate the care that went into,

1587
01:20:32,734 --> 01:20:36,667
recognizing what's age appropriate to learn for each level.

1588
01:20:36,767 --> 01:20:42,166
And then the chart about the different levels of AI usage.

1589
01:20:42,166 --> 01:20:44,033
I have some coworkers who would benefit

1590
01:20:44,033 --> 01:20:47,266
from having something like that to assess their work against.

1591
01:20:47,266 --> 01:20:50,266
But I really appreciate

1592
01:20:50,266 --> 01:20:53,367
the level of detail that went into this to make sure that we are

1593
01:20:54,266 --> 01:20:57,634
teaching our students how to use this technology responsibly.

1594
01:20:57,667 --> 01:21:02,467
We fully understand as well to that the community probably would benefit

1595
01:21:02,467 --> 01:21:06,266
from some instruction and some help about where these products are going

1596
01:21:06,300 --> 01:21:10,066
in the different and essentially how to raise children in this digital age.

1597
01:21:10,066 --> 01:21:13,700
I've sent some information over to Dr. Boston that we will be

1598
01:21:13,700 --> 01:21:19,200
looking at very soon to hopefully, start giving some different ways

1599
01:21:19,200 --> 01:21:23,767
to have parents understand the threats that are out there in this world.

1600
01:21:23,767 --> 01:21:28,166
But we're we're not we're near ready to, to release any of that right now.

1601
01:21:28,166 --> 01:21:30,700
But it is something we are investigating.

1602
01:21:30,700 --> 01:21:32,333
I think it might be helpful.

1603
01:21:34,233 --> 01:21:36,300
I don't know if there's a way to quantify,

1604
01:21:36,300 --> 01:21:41,333
but just maybe getting some information at the end of the year about where

1605
01:21:41,367 --> 01:21:45,100
everyone, like staff, is feeling a comfort level with AI usage,

1606
01:21:45,100 --> 01:21:48,500
where most folks are using it and like what mode

1607
01:21:48,867 --> 01:21:52,233
based on this chart, they're using it in most frequently.

1608
01:21:53,533 --> 01:21:56,567
There's some scary headlines out there right now about AI in the world

1609
01:21:56,567 --> 01:21:57,400
ending in ten years.

1610
01:21:57,400 --> 01:22:01,600
So I just whatever we do, you've put great care into this plan so far.

1611
01:22:01,600 --> 01:22:03,867
So I just want to continue down that path.

1612
01:22:03,867 --> 01:22:08,567
We appreciate that Director Mehalek has put a lot of her hard work into this as well.

1613
01:22:08,567 --> 01:22:14,033
We we intentionally, we're very

1614
01:22:15,500 --> 01:22:18,500
specific with the people that we asked to be on our

1615
01:22:18,500 --> 01:22:21,834
AI task force, people that were

1616
01:22:23,800 --> 01:22:24,166
to try

1617
01:22:24,166 --> 01:22:28,166
to say this is diplomatic as possible, but they were not necessarily

1618
01:22:28,200 --> 01:22:32,600
heavy users of AI, nor do they plan to be heavy users of AI.

1619
01:22:33,033 --> 01:22:36,467
And we wanted those voices on our task force as well to.

1620
01:22:36,467 --> 01:22:41,266
And we felt that was to us actually succeeding with this plan

1621
01:22:41,266 --> 01:22:45,834
and hopefully being able to do this in a careful and responsible way.

1622
01:22:47,300 --> 01:22:48,533
One quick question.

1623
01:22:48,533 --> 01:22:51,533
I'm looking on plan page ten,

1624
01:22:51,567 --> 01:22:54,967
which for us is agenda page 172.

1625
01:22:56,066 --> 01:22:58,967
Since this is am I understanding correctly,

1626
01:22:58,967 --> 01:23:01,967
this is a brand new document.

1627
01:23:01,967 --> 01:23:02,834
Yes. Yeah.

1628
01:23:02,834 --> 01:23:05,800
So it just it references that a board

1629
01:23:05,800 --> 01:23:08,800
like I think all the dates need to be shifted 12 months into the future.

1630
01:23:08,867 --> 01:23:12,233
It references like a border port coming out October 1st of this year

1631
01:23:12,500 --> 01:23:15,900
and fiscal year 2526. We shifted.

1632
01:23:15,900 --> 01:23:19,900
That was our original intention for that to come out this year.

1633
01:23:20,500 --> 01:23:21,333
At the beginning of the year.

1634
01:23:21,333 --> 01:23:24,600
But we couldn't get this in front of you all until now.

1635
01:23:24,900 --> 01:23:27,800
So it was a little difficult for us to be able to do that.

1636
01:23:27,800 --> 01:23:30,867
So yeah, there should probably be a couple of small amendments to it

1637
01:23:31,333 --> 01:23:31,967
with those dates.

1638
01:23:31,967 --> 01:23:35,166
But as you see from the plan that we have here,

1639
01:23:35,667 --> 01:23:38,700
our data is going to be coming out October 1st of next year.

1640
01:23:38,800 --> 01:23:38,967
Yeah.

1641
01:23:38,967 --> 01:23:42,800
Well, I saw the 2027 in in the slide presentation,

1642
01:23:42,800 --> 01:23:45,800
which is what kind of made me wonder about that.

1643
01:23:46,000 --> 01:23:47,600
That difference. Yeah.

1644
01:23:49,166 --> 01:23:49,767
There's kind of

1645
01:23:49,767 --> 01:23:52,767
a funky start to the school year too. So.

1646
01:23:56,567 --> 01:23:59,600
Any other questions or discussion?

1647
01:24:00,200 --> 01:24:01,567
Thank you Tom.

1648
01:24:01,567 --> 01:24:01,900
Thank you.

1649
01:24:01,900 --> 01:24:03,233
Thank you very much.

1650
01:24:03,233 --> 01:24:06,166
Motion to accept the AI

1651
01:24:06,166 --> 01:24:09,066
plan for the school year.

1652
01:24:09,066 --> 01:24:11,500
Micaela.

1653
01:24:11,500 --> 01:24:13,300
And the second.

1654
01:24:13,300 --> 01:24:15,734
Any additional discussion?

1655
01:24:15,734 --> 01:24:17,700
All those in favor?

1656
01:24:17,700 --> 01:24:19,634
Motion passes 7 to 0.

1657
01:24:19,634 --> 01:24:24,533
And then moving on to our academic data presentation.

1658
01:24:25,300 --> 01:24:29,333
So this is, end of year data

1659
01:24:29,367 --> 01:24:32,433
from last school year academic data.

1660
01:24:32,433 --> 01:24:37,634
And I just want to preface this with there will be another presentation

1661
01:24:37,834 --> 01:24:41,166
probably November, where we go over the statewide assessment data.

1662
01:24:41,166 --> 01:24:44,900
The data you're going to see tonight, we've had the opportunity

1663
01:24:44,900 --> 01:24:48,166
to share with our leadership team this summer.

1664
01:24:48,166 --> 01:24:51,634
And then we had the opportunity to share with the full faculty

1665
01:24:51,667 --> 01:24:53,400
on the first day back.

1666
01:24:53,400 --> 01:24:56,166
So they have seen all of this as well.

1667
01:24:56,166 --> 01:24:58,533
Can you advance one slide for me?

1668
01:24:59,934 --> 01:25:02,934
Thank you. So.

1669
01:25:05,100 --> 01:25:06,767
And I think this is small

1670
01:25:06,767 --> 01:25:09,634
for you to see, and I don't believe it's in your packets.

1671
01:25:09,634 --> 01:25:11,367
So I will circulate it for you.

1672
01:25:11,367 --> 01:25:15,367
But what this shows is that is a three year progression.

1673
01:25:15,400 --> 01:25:16,166
Oh, there you go.

1674
01:25:16,166 --> 01:25:18,500
A three year progression.

1675
01:25:18,500 --> 01:25:20,266
Way clearer than that screen.

1676
01:25:20,266 --> 01:25:22,000
It is. Really looking. Over there.

1677
01:25:22,000 --> 01:25:25,000
Get that focused in.

1678
01:25:25,934 --> 01:25:30,533
So this shows by academic pillar where we've been over three years at this point.

1679
01:25:30,634 --> 01:25:33,533
So you can see reading achievement 2024.

1680
01:25:33,533 --> 01:25:36,333
We started at 54% proficiency.

1681
01:25:36,333 --> 01:25:37,367
Our target is 80.

1682
01:25:37,367 --> 01:25:39,166
We're up to 59 this year.

1683
01:25:39,166 --> 01:25:43,066
Well being we started at 55%.

1684
01:25:43,233 --> 01:25:45,667
We are now at 57.

1685
01:25:45,667 --> 01:25:49,433
However, we were at 60% last year, so we dropped a little bit.

1686
01:25:50,066 --> 01:25:55,500
That I believe a lot of it is based on our feedback score, which

1687
01:25:57,266 --> 01:25:58,033
staff do a

1688
01:25:58,033 --> 01:26:01,467
Panorama survey where we talk about culture and climate.

1689
01:26:01,467 --> 01:26:06,166
And one of the things we noticed is that staff's perception of quality

1690
01:26:06,233 --> 01:26:07,700
feedback is low.

1691
01:26:07,700 --> 01:26:11,000
That was, I think, our lowest score on that scale.

1692
01:26:11,000 --> 01:26:13,734
So we'll talk more about that in a bit.

1693
01:26:13,734 --> 01:26:19,433
Continuous improvement in winter 2019, we had 9% capacity.

1694
01:26:19,433 --> 01:26:25,100
We are now at actually more than 43% at this point.

1695
01:26:25,100 --> 01:26:28,166
And our target goal was 56%.

1696
01:26:28,200 --> 01:26:32,166
So we are on pace to meet that goal before the end of the strategic plan.

1697
01:26:32,200 --> 01:26:36,233
We may need to adjust that goal a little bit further out.

1698
01:26:37,634 --> 01:26:39,133
Math achievement.

1699
01:26:39,133 --> 01:26:41,300
We started at 39%.

1700
01:26:41,300 --> 01:26:44,200
We're now at 45% proficient.

1701
01:26:44,200 --> 01:26:46,900
This is measured by,

1702
01:26:46,900 --> 01:26:48,533
the NH SAS and the SAT.

1703
01:26:48,533 --> 01:26:52,000
That number will change a little bit in November when we get updated numbers.

1704
01:26:52,000 --> 01:26:54,767
Our target is 65%.

1705
01:26:54,767 --> 01:26:56,266
Why is that lower than reading?

1706
01:26:56,266 --> 01:26:59,266
Because we started at a lower level in mathematics.

1707
01:26:59,567 --> 01:27:01,767
Equity and inclusion is pending.

1708
01:27:01,767 --> 01:27:06,433
I need to quantify some of that and some of our activities last year.

1709
01:27:06,600 --> 01:27:09,500
I will say we were not as aggressive

1710
01:27:09,500 --> 01:27:12,900
with equity and inclusion last year as we have been in past years.

1711
01:27:13,100 --> 01:27:16,700
It took a little bit of a backseat to academics.

1712
01:27:18,533 --> 01:27:20,233
And then team approach.

1713
01:27:20,233 --> 01:27:22,000
This is one we're really happy with.

1714
01:27:22,000 --> 01:27:25,266
This is our guiding coalition, essential actions.

1715
01:27:25,400 --> 01:27:31,400
We started at 20% in 2024, and we're now at 74% with a target goal of 90%.

1716
01:27:31,667 --> 01:27:35,734
I would flag that team approach and also continuous

1717
01:27:35,734 --> 01:27:39,000
improvement as precursors to everything else.

1718
01:27:39,233 --> 01:27:41,900
As we see those numbers get more solid.

1719
01:27:41,900 --> 01:27:44,033
We're going to see more improvement in other places

1720
01:27:44,033 --> 01:27:46,834
because our structures and things have taken hold.

1721
01:27:46,834 --> 01:27:48,934
So that's a high level overview.

1722
01:27:48,934 --> 01:27:52,767
When we presented to staff this,

1723
01:27:54,200 --> 01:27:55,967
past couple of weeks for the opening,

1724
01:27:55,967 --> 01:27:58,967
it was really great to be able to present

1725
01:27:59,166 --> 01:28:02,166
the places that we've been so successful over the past year.

1726
01:28:02,166 --> 01:28:05,867
You know, with our some of our academic growth,

1727
01:28:05,900 --> 01:28:08,300
certainly we had the education scorecard.

1728
01:28:08,300 --> 01:28:11,333
That was a great boost for us as well.

1729
01:28:11,400 --> 01:28:15,533
But that continuous improvement in team approach, where things that we were

1730
01:28:15,533 --> 01:28:20,066
really proud of, high level overview, Director Bickford will go deeper,

1731
01:28:20,066 --> 01:28:23,934
and I believe his CIA colleagues will also be supporting.

1732
01:28:24,133 --> 01:28:25,700
A number of guest stars this evening.

1733
01:28:25,700 --> 01:28:27,800
Excellent. Okay.

1734
01:28:27,800 --> 01:28:32,233
So before we get into actually looking at

1735
01:28:32,233 --> 01:28:36,200
we have K through a universal screening data for you this evening.

1736
01:28:36,200 --> 01:28:41,166
So we do universal screening three times a year fall winter and spring.

1737
01:28:41,200 --> 01:28:43,233
So use analogy. It's like,

1738
01:28:44,433 --> 01:28:47,000
taking a temperature check, you know, if you're feeling

1739
01:28:47,000 --> 01:28:50,934
well or you're feeling sick, you do a little quick temperature check.

1740
01:28:51,133 --> 01:28:56,100
Just tells you if like if everything's okay or you need to do something about it.

1741
01:28:56,100 --> 01:29:00,200
The reason why we do these things that are called universal screeners

1742
01:29:00,200 --> 01:29:03,333
or standardized assessments is they help us.

1743
01:29:04,133 --> 01:29:06,600
They give us a roadmap if we're on pace or not,

1744
01:29:06,600 --> 01:29:10,000
related to how we might do on the NH SAS.

1745
01:29:10,033 --> 01:29:12,500
So English language arts or mathematics.

1746
01:29:12,500 --> 01:29:14,800
That's the end of the year.

1747
01:29:14,800 --> 01:29:16,600
Some big Semenov.

1748
01:29:16,600 --> 01:29:21,266
After a year of learning, how are students doing on state standards?

1749
01:29:21,467 --> 01:29:25,967
So our universal screeners, what they're looking at is things like

1750
01:29:26,233 --> 01:29:30,333
early literacy skills, reading achievement like your foundational reading.

1751
01:29:30,333 --> 01:29:33,433
So word level reading, reading comprehension

1752
01:29:33,433 --> 01:29:36,533
vocabulary general knowledge kind of things.

1753
01:29:36,767 --> 01:29:38,033
Mathematics. Same thing.

1754
01:29:38,033 --> 01:29:42,467
We're looking at early numeracy skills calculation skills problem solving.

1755
01:29:42,800 --> 01:29:46,367
So typically when students take these universal screeners

1756
01:29:46,467 --> 01:29:51,500
they are correlated with success on a state sort of like end of year

1757
01:29:51,533 --> 01:29:54,867
subnet, like the NH SAS, like the ELA or mathematics.

1758
01:29:55,767 --> 01:29:58,767
Research has shown us like in general,

1759
01:30:00,500 --> 01:30:02,400
a score above the 40th percentile.

1760
01:30:02,400 --> 01:30:04,266
You have a good likelihood.

1761
01:30:04,266 --> 01:30:05,867
Doesn't mean always will.

1762
01:30:05,867 --> 01:30:09,667
But you have a better chance than not scoring proficient

1763
01:30:09,667 --> 01:30:14,967
or above proficient on on the statewide assessment in ELA or mathematics.

1764
01:30:15,033 --> 01:30:20,233
So that's kind of our our cut score that we use for low risk in the district.

1765
01:30:20,300 --> 01:30:22,934
Okay. So

1766
01:30:22,934 --> 01:30:26,867
any questions about universal screeners why we do it.

1767
01:30:26,867 --> 01:30:29,867
Fall. Winter is spring.

1768
01:30:29,967 --> 01:30:32,333
Okay cool.

1769
01:30:32,333 --> 01:30:36,600
We've shown you this slide in past presentations.

1770
01:30:36,600 --> 01:30:42,166
But we just want to read that when we talk about students and growth.

1771
01:30:42,166 --> 01:30:47,967
Sometimes when we look at fall to winter or winter to spring or fall to spring,

1772
01:30:48,133 --> 01:30:52,900
sometimes the the percentage of proficiency kind of stays the same.

1773
01:30:52,900 --> 01:30:55,834
And if you didn't know that the expectation

1774
01:30:55,834 --> 01:30:59,266
expectations change throughout the year, you might say, oh,

1775
01:30:59,400 --> 01:31:03,033
they were at 60% in the fall and they're 60% in the spring.

1776
01:31:03,266 --> 01:31:05,934
Students didn't grow. Well, that's not actually true.

1777
01:31:05,934 --> 01:31:09,734
So as expectations get increased around a year,

1778
01:31:09,734 --> 01:31:14,400
we're going to use a third grader who we're measuring oral reading fluency.

1779
01:31:14,400 --> 01:31:17,000
Just basically I put a passage in front of you.

1780
01:31:17,000 --> 01:31:19,934
You got to read it as quickly as you can in one minute.

1781
01:31:19,934 --> 01:31:24,066
So if we do that in the fall of third grade, the current norms.

1782
01:31:24,400 --> 01:31:28,266
So like basically to get a score at the 40th percentile,

1783
01:31:28,667 --> 01:31:31,667
you have to read 65 words per minute. Okay.

1784
01:31:31,900 --> 01:31:36,133
And then in the winter time when we sort of give you a same passage

1785
01:31:36,133 --> 01:31:40,967
of similar difficulty, you're now expected to read 91 words

1786
01:31:41,233 --> 01:31:43,967
and then to get the 40th percentile in the springtime.

1787
01:31:43,967 --> 01:31:45,600
Now you get to read 109.

1788
01:31:45,600 --> 01:31:49,834
So you're growing over time, but you're you're standing

1789
01:31:50,000 --> 01:31:54,667
when you compare yourselves to other kids is still at the 40th percentile.

1790
01:31:54,734 --> 01:31:57,867
So you're just making expected growth at that point in time.

1791
01:31:58,500 --> 01:32:01,400
Any questions about that?

1792
01:32:01,400 --> 01:32:02,166
Okay.

1793
01:32:02,166 --> 01:32:05,033
So I think we're going to go over some reading data first.

1794
01:32:06,033 --> 01:32:09,133
Yep. All right.

1795
01:32:09,133 --> 01:32:10,367
So we have.

1796
01:32:10,367 --> 01:32:10,900
In front of.

1797
01:32:10,900 --> 01:32:13,900
You here our district level.

1798
01:32:14,467 --> 01:32:16,467
Reading proficiency K to eight.

1799
01:32:16,467 --> 01:32:19,634
We have for elementary

1800
01:32:19,667 --> 01:32:24,233
we use M-class as a universal.

1801
01:32:24,233 --> 01:32:25,834
Screener for elementary students.

1802
01:32:25,834 --> 01:32:28,834
So this kind of shows you the example of what,

1803
01:32:33,166 --> 01:32:36,133
Oh, okay.

1804
01:32:36,300 --> 01:32:37,133
Do you need it soon?

1805
01:32:37,133 --> 01:32:38,500
Did you guys. Need it? It helps.

1806
01:32:38,500 --> 01:32:40,800
I just emailed it to everybody too. So.

1807
01:32:40,800 --> 01:32:43,767
Thank you. Okay.

1808
01:32:43,900 --> 01:32:46,900
So you can you can see there are growth.

1809
01:32:46,967 --> 01:32:49,967
Last year from fall, winter and spring,

1810
01:32:50,500 --> 01:32:53,033
on the M class.

1811
01:32:53,033 --> 01:32:55,867
And at the middle school, instead of,

1812
01:32:55,867 --> 01:32:59,333
like, the elementary school, They used STAR Reading.

1813
01:33:01,133 --> 01:33:02,800
Different for different.

1814
01:33:02,800 --> 01:33:04,500
Level of students.

1815
01:33:04,500 --> 01:33:08,100
And I just want to point out, you might look at

1816
01:33:09,400 --> 01:33:14,100
this area with the green bars and the line, and you might be like, oh, okay.

1817
01:33:14,133 --> 01:33:17,166
That's exactly what Travis was just talking about.

1818
01:33:17,166 --> 01:33:22,367
That's showing that's expected growth that it might look like it's stable there.

1819
01:33:22,367 --> 01:33:26,467
But remember, as the year goes on, that expectation is higher.

1820
01:33:26,734 --> 01:33:29,600
So. When you see something that's sort of the same,

1821
01:33:29,600 --> 01:33:32,767
they're growing as we're expecting them to grow.

1822
01:33:33,000 --> 01:33:36,200
So that's a that's positive. It's good.

1823
01:33:38,900 --> 01:33:41,467
Questions on those slides.

1824
01:33:41,467 --> 01:33:46,700
So by extension if I'm looking at KK4 does that mean they're growing at a pace

1825
01:33:46,700 --> 01:33:49,700
that's faster than we expected.

1826
01:33:50,700 --> 01:33:52,300
The district side.

1827
01:33:52,300 --> 01:33:57,066
Yes I would think from fall to spring if we.

1828
01:33:57,100 --> 01:33:58,400
Were you see it going up.

1829
01:33:58,400 --> 01:33:58,533
Yeah.

1830
01:33:58,533 --> 01:34:02,867
In the fall where it was 61.6 and in the spring is 69.

1831
01:34:03,467 --> 01:34:06,133
I, I see that as a more significant growth.

1832
01:34:06,133 --> 01:34:09,900
That's faster than expected, more growth than expected.

1833
01:34:10,100 --> 01:34:13,100
And remember this is our third year,

1834
01:34:13,266 --> 01:34:15,767
our third year with our new curriculums.

1835
01:34:15,767 --> 01:34:21,266
This is the year where I'm we're hoping and expecting to see growth like that.

1836
01:34:21,433 --> 01:34:25,500
We have incredible teachers and very hard working students as well.

1837
01:34:25,767 --> 01:34:29,166
And we're very fortunate to start seeing this growth a little early.

1838
01:34:29,367 --> 01:34:31,467
You're saying the third year is. This year that.

1839
01:34:31,467 --> 01:34:34,333
We have just begun. Now this year. Correct. Right.

1840
01:34:34,333 --> 01:34:36,133
So we're looking at year two data.

1841
01:34:36,133 --> 01:34:38,767
This is your two. Yeah. Fantastic.

1842
01:34:38,767 --> 01:34:39,934
That's great.

1843
01:34:39,934 --> 01:34:41,734
Just to clarify. To M-class doubles.

1844
01:34:41,734 --> 01:34:45,266
Is really looking at word level reading fluency reading skills.

1845
01:34:45,834 --> 01:34:47,300
STAR Reading. Is.

1846
01:34:47,300 --> 01:34:49,500
Is more of the application side of things.

1847
01:34:49,500 --> 01:34:51,867
We do implement STAR Reading.

1848
01:34:51,867 --> 01:34:54,600
In at the elementary. Level. Second.

1849
01:34:54,600 --> 01:34:56,367
Third. And fourth grade.

1850
01:34:56,367 --> 01:34:58,266
So it's just that it's.

1851
01:34:58,266 --> 01:34:59,867
Not a measure that we have for K.

1852
01:34:59,867 --> 01:35:02,166
For because we use for that.

1853
01:35:02,166 --> 01:35:03,967
So that's it's just. A different measure.

1854
01:35:07,634 --> 01:35:08,333
This is a.

1855
01:35:08,333 --> 01:35:11,200
Look at our subgroups within this.

1856
01:35:11,200 --> 01:35:15,533
We're certainly curious about a lot of the findings here.

1857
01:35:15,533 --> 01:35:20,000
We are very pleasantly pleased with the performance

1858
01:35:20,000 --> 01:35:24,300
of some of our historically marginalized populations.

1859
01:35:24,300 --> 01:35:27,066
And we have some curiosities about that

1860
01:35:27,066 --> 01:35:29,433
that we aren't prepared to speculate around.

1861
01:35:29,433 --> 01:35:31,166
But it's certainly catching our attention.

1862
01:35:31,166 --> 01:35:34,166
We want to know more about that.

1863
01:35:34,233 --> 01:35:38,400
Likewise, we want to know more about some of our students who are not

1864
01:35:38,567 --> 01:35:42,367
in a subpopulation that's not performing where we would expect.

1865
01:35:42,533 --> 01:35:47,867
So this just allows us a deeper dive into our student performance by subgroup

1866
01:35:47,867 --> 01:35:52,667
so that we can start to, learn about the things that are working

1867
01:35:52,667 --> 01:35:55,667
well for our students in some areas where we need to target.

1868
01:35:57,634 --> 01:36:00,700
I'm having a hard time understanding what I'm looking at.

1869
01:36:00,700 --> 01:36:04,533
So when it's a growth in a gap.

1870
01:36:04,867 --> 01:36:07,500
So you're looking at their performance.

1871
01:36:07,500 --> 01:36:12,567
The, the percentage of students who are in tier one in the fall versus

1872
01:36:12,734 --> 01:36:16,400
did they stay that way into the where they in tier one in the spring.

1873
01:36:18,333 --> 01:36:18,734
So that

1874
01:36:18,734 --> 01:36:21,734
means if you're looking at, for example,

1875
01:36:21,734 --> 01:36:26,667
female students, 62.8% were in tier one in the fall

1876
01:36:26,667 --> 01:36:30,533
and in the spring, 72.9% ended in tier one.

1877
01:36:30,600 --> 01:36:33,000
Okay. That means that some of our students.

1878
01:36:33,000 --> 01:36:37,467
Who were needing tier two or tier three interventions didn't no longer need them.

1879
01:36:37,500 --> 01:36:40,500
Yeah. Okay. Thank you.

1880
01:36:40,867 --> 01:36:42,166
And that trend was.

1881
01:36:42,166 --> 01:36:44,133
That. Is such.

1882
01:36:44,133 --> 01:36:48,367
An increase that it's we see that as an accelerated growth.

1883
01:36:48,567 --> 01:36:51,767
Yeah. Not just as a growth. Yeah.

1884
01:36:52,066 --> 01:36:53,200
Thank you.

1885
01:36:53,200 --> 01:36:55,734
Those are those are really high numbers.

1886
01:36:55,734 --> 01:36:58,700
Very happy.

1887
01:36:59,967 --> 01:37:02,967
Other questions there.

1888
01:37:07,400 --> 01:37:07,900
Likewise

1889
01:37:07,900 --> 01:37:11,233
you're looking at our district math performance.

1890
01:37:11,233 --> 01:37:13,734
You'll notice that it's grades two through eight.

1891
01:37:13,734 --> 01:37:15,433
We are going to address

1892
01:37:15,433 --> 01:37:18,567
kindergarten and first grade and why they aren't represented here.

1893
01:37:19,333 --> 01:37:22,367
At the end of this presentation, that's one of our takeaways.

1894
01:37:22,934 --> 01:37:27,233
We will also address why we don't have the high school represented here,

1895
01:37:27,233 --> 01:37:32,800
and what we plan to do about having some more timely data for them.

1896
01:37:32,800 --> 01:37:34,867
As you can see,

1897
01:37:35,900 --> 01:37:38,600
math, the

1898
01:37:38,600 --> 01:37:42,100
data isn't quite showing quite the growth that we're seeing in reading.

1899
01:37:43,166 --> 01:37:46,033
It is kind of expected.

1900
01:37:46,033 --> 01:37:50,567
But what we really want to see is 80% of our students being served by tier one.

1901
01:37:51,100 --> 01:37:54,433
So, right now that is not what we're seeing.

1902
01:37:55,166 --> 01:37:57,033
The it's pretty stable.

1903
01:37:57,033 --> 01:37:58,266
It's pretty expected.

1904
01:37:58,266 --> 01:38:01,367
But the one that I did notice at the middle level

1905
01:38:01,367 --> 01:38:04,800
that you might want to look at is the spring bar there, where

1906
01:38:04,834 --> 01:38:09,100
only 4% of students were in need of a tier three service, according to STAR.

1907
01:38:09,100 --> 01:38:14,400
And I think we said, but this is all STAR for math.

1908
01:38:14,400 --> 01:38:16,433
We don't use doubles. We use the store.

1909
01:38:16,433 --> 01:38:17,467
You said that.

1910
01:38:17,467 --> 01:38:17,967
Okay.

1911
01:38:17,967 --> 01:38:22,533
So, you can see that that number did decrease,

1912
01:38:22,700 --> 01:38:25,533
which we we like to see that number going down.

1913
01:38:25,533 --> 01:38:29,634
Right.

1914
01:38:30,600 --> 01:38:30,867
Yeah.

1915
01:38:30,867 --> 01:38:33,467
And then likewise. This is a similar.

1916
01:38:33,467 --> 01:38:35,133
Subgroup report.

1917
01:38:35,133 --> 01:38:37,433
For our math performance.

1918
01:38:37,433 --> 01:38:41,400
Some differences here with what we were seeing in our reading,

1919
01:38:42,066 --> 01:38:44,934
proficiency with our subgroup population.

1920
01:38:44,934 --> 01:38:47,333
And, and again, we have some things

1921
01:38:47,333 --> 01:38:50,667
that are certainly catching our attention that we need to dig into further.

1922
01:38:51,233 --> 01:38:54,266
And we do have some thoughts around that and some action

1923
01:38:54,266 --> 01:38:57,567
items around that that you'll hear about, in a few minutes.

1924
01:38:57,867 --> 01:39:01,967
In fact, we have things in place this year that are happening right now.

1925
01:39:01,967 --> 01:39:04,634
So we will tell you about those.

1926
01:39:04,634 --> 01:39:07,634
But this is,

1927
01:39:08,533 --> 01:39:09,667
not what we want to see

1928
01:39:09,667 --> 01:39:12,667
when we have subgroups decreasing.

1929
01:39:15,600 --> 01:39:18,600
Do you have any questions about that.

1930
01:39:19,066 --> 01:39:21,700
Is the the unknown race

1931
01:39:21,700 --> 01:39:24,700
which is a really remarkable achievement.

1932
01:39:25,033 --> 01:39:27,934
Is that a small population or how is that.

1933
01:39:29,533 --> 01:39:33,000
Well it's reportable so it's big enough that we can report on it.

1934
01:39:33,000 --> 01:39:35,533
But it's also self-identified. Okay.

1935
01:39:35,533 --> 01:39:40,567
So somebody when they register they say my race is unknown.

1936
01:39:40,800 --> 01:39:43,066
Sometimes people pick that for all different reasons.

1937
01:39:43,066 --> 01:39:46,066
Okay.

1938
01:39:46,467 --> 01:39:49,467
Question.

1939
01:39:52,900 --> 01:39:54,033
So we have

1940
01:39:54,033 --> 01:39:57,166
two more early morning indicator slides to show you.

1941
01:39:57,467 --> 01:40:00,467
So we want to give you also a

1942
01:40:00,934 --> 01:40:04,100
year end look at our attendance risk monitoring.

1943
01:40:04,400 --> 01:40:09,533
So this works different than the reading and math standardized data.

1944
01:40:09,600 --> 01:40:12,734
So with a standardized data we can dipstick

1945
01:40:12,834 --> 01:40:16,367
sort of fall winter and spring at three specific time points.

1946
01:40:16,367 --> 01:40:20,300
But when we're monitoring attendance we do continuously throughout the year.

1947
01:40:20,333 --> 01:40:23,333
So it's more of a rolling percentage kind of thing.

1948
01:40:23,600 --> 01:40:26,600
So overall for the district,

1949
01:40:26,900 --> 01:40:31,433
we hit the mark of what you want to focus on is the high risk

1950
01:40:31,433 --> 01:40:34,433
because that is your chronically absent population.

1951
01:40:34,433 --> 01:40:37,767
And so the federal definition for chronic absenteeism

1952
01:40:37,767 --> 01:40:41,333
is a 10% or more of scheduled school days.

1953
01:40:41,900 --> 01:40:45,266
So when we look at a student's attendance, they don't have to be here

1954
01:40:45,266 --> 01:40:46,500
the entire year.

1955
01:40:46,500 --> 01:40:47,333
They could be

1956
01:40:47,333 --> 01:40:50,967
like only here for one semester, but we can get a chronically absent

1957
01:40:50,967 --> 01:40:54,333
percentage based on the number of days they attended

1958
01:40:54,533 --> 01:40:58,734
and the number of days that were scheduled that for that period of time.

1959
01:40:59,700 --> 01:41:00,834
So we're

1960
01:41:00,834 --> 01:41:04,333
right at the target where we want to be as far as chronic absenteeism.

1961
01:41:04,400 --> 01:41:05,967
And you can see there are some

1962
01:41:05,967 --> 01:41:09,367
variations between elementary and secondary buildings.

1963
01:41:10,433 --> 01:41:13,467
I'm curious if you bump this against actual

1964
01:41:14,600 --> 01:41:16,967
like their academic performance,

1965
01:41:16,967 --> 01:41:19,967
because not all kids who are absent.

1966
01:41:20,133 --> 01:41:23,133
Will be. Will struggle. For academic, right?

1967
01:41:23,400 --> 01:41:27,333
So I'm just curious, like how much of the maybe in the yellow.

1968
01:41:27,667 --> 01:41:30,567
Yeah yeah yeah yeah

1969
01:41:30,567 --> 01:41:32,200
yeah. That would be interesting to look at.

1970
01:41:32,200 --> 01:41:32,600
Yeah.

1971
01:41:32,600 --> 01:41:36,000
We just knew we had a big agenda tonight, so we didn't want to load you up with

1972
01:41:37,133 --> 01:41:39,834
too many geeky slides.

1973
01:41:39,834 --> 01:41:40,667
Any questions?

1974
01:41:40,667 --> 01:41:42,967
Any other questions related to the attendance?

1975
01:41:42,967 --> 01:41:46,467
Why do we think attendance at the middle school is

1976
01:41:48,233 --> 01:41:51,834
more high risk than the high school?

1977
01:41:51,900 --> 01:41:54,700
Because being at 12, 13 and 14 year olds really hard.

1978
01:41:54,700 --> 01:41:57,000
So it's really it's really hard to,

1979
01:41:58,567 --> 01:42:00,533
Just say.

1980
01:42:00,533 --> 01:42:02,467
Bring it down to like a sole factor.

1981
01:42:02,467 --> 01:42:04,767
What could be contributing because it's

1982
01:42:04,767 --> 01:42:08,233
there are internal things that we can control from our standpoint,

1983
01:42:08,233 --> 01:42:11,967
from the school district as far as like instructional programing, how our students

1984
01:42:11,967 --> 01:42:15,000
are connecting with our faculty, our staff or administrators.

1985
01:42:15,066 --> 01:42:18,467
But there's also a lot of external factors that can come into play.

1986
01:42:19,266 --> 01:42:22,433
Health, student health, access

1987
01:42:22,433 --> 01:42:25,433
for student and family services in the community.

1988
01:42:25,667 --> 01:42:28,100
Jobs for families

1989
01:42:28,100 --> 01:42:31,166
shift their variations and things like that.

1990
01:42:31,200 --> 01:42:35,700
So, it can give us a signal of, like, what's going on.

1991
01:42:35,700 --> 01:42:39,834
But the root cause may have a several different explanations to it.

1992
01:42:40,734 --> 01:42:41,133
Am I.

1993
01:42:41,133 --> 01:42:45,033
Correct in remembering that this is historically what we see for attendance?

1994
01:42:45,033 --> 01:42:46,734
Middle school is always.

1995
01:42:46,734 --> 01:42:49,533
So coming out of Covid nationwide.

1996
01:42:49,533 --> 01:42:52,266
We saw a temporary boost in

1997
01:42:52,266 --> 01:42:55,300
sort of like chronic absenteeism

1998
01:42:55,300 --> 01:43:00,100
decreased coming out of it was much higher coming out of the the pandemic,

1999
01:43:00,166 --> 01:43:04,000
but it's kind of settled into a new norm.

2000
01:43:04,767 --> 01:43:07,567
So it is higher than pre-pandemic levels.

2001
01:43:09,600 --> 01:43:12,767
Interestingly enough, our attendance, our student

2002
01:43:12,767 --> 01:43:17,033
attendance is better than national trends and better than statewide trends.

2003
01:43:17,233 --> 01:43:19,166
It's not where we want to see it.

2004
01:43:19,166 --> 01:43:23,800
But we are doing better than the state average.

2005
01:43:24,233 --> 01:43:26,600
But this is something. That.

2006
01:43:26,600 --> 01:43:29,634
Even on,

2007
01:43:30,467 --> 01:43:31,066
My list

2008
01:43:31,066 --> 01:43:34,967
that I gave to you this year, in terms of my evaluation, attendance

2009
01:43:34,967 --> 01:43:37,967
is something that I really want to dig into.

2010
01:43:41,333 --> 01:43:42,300
And the second

2011
01:43:42,300 --> 01:43:45,834
indicator, early warning indicator, is behavior risk monitoring.

2012
01:43:45,834 --> 01:43:49,734
So that is calculated by looking at behavior

2013
01:43:49,734 --> 01:43:52,567
incidents or office discipline referrals.

2014
01:43:52,567 --> 01:43:57,767
So if there's like a a student violates a school wide rule or expectation,

2015
01:43:58,567 --> 01:44:01,600
that an office discipline referral could be filled out

2016
01:44:02,033 --> 01:44:05,066
and that's submitted to review for administration.

2017
01:44:05,066 --> 01:44:08,734
So there are like things that our teacher manage in the classroom

2018
01:44:08,734 --> 01:44:12,700
and may not warrant a like an office discipline referral right up.

2019
01:44:12,967 --> 01:44:17,233
So these are the ones that administration would take a look at.

2020
01:44:17,767 --> 01:44:21,400
So again, I will have to say looking at the winter

2021
01:44:21,400 --> 01:44:25,133
slide deck in comparison, we were healthier in the winter.

2022
01:44:25,133 --> 01:44:29,567
And I'm just wondering if the if the spring semester in the

2023
01:44:29,767 --> 01:44:34,533
the 60 days of March has anything to contribute to that.

2024
01:44:35,100 --> 01:44:36,433
And then it's 300 and.

2025
01:44:36,433 --> 01:44:38,967
60 days. Of March. March.

2026
01:44:38,967 --> 01:44:41,867
So we did see sort of more

2027
01:44:43,066 --> 01:44:45,400
office discipline referrals come in.

2028
01:44:45,400 --> 01:44:47,567
And this is spring only, or.

2029
01:44:47,567 --> 01:44:48,533
This is the entire.

2030
01:44:48,533 --> 01:44:49,266
Entire year.

2031
01:44:49,266 --> 01:44:52,233
Yep. Okay. Yep.

2032
01:44:56,200 --> 01:44:58,834
Any questions there?

2033
01:44:58,834 --> 01:45:01,834
One of the things when I was talking to staff is,

2034
01:45:02,300 --> 01:45:05,533
you know, okay, 13% are at high risk,

2035
01:45:05,533 --> 01:45:08,567
but for that 13%,

2036
01:45:08,700 --> 01:45:11,667
it feels like a lot more to staff.

2037
01:45:11,967 --> 01:45:14,967
You know, when you have kids that have six or more.

2038
01:45:15,033 --> 01:45:20,600
So I can say that the range of, one of the high risk

2039
01:45:20,767 --> 01:45:25,333
can't remember which particular school, but that cut is six plus.

2040
01:45:25,600 --> 01:45:29,100
And there was there were a couple of students that were above,

2041
01:45:29,734 --> 01:45:32,233
the 75 mark.

2042
01:45:32,233 --> 01:45:33,567
So you can see like that.

2043
01:45:33,567 --> 01:45:37,900
Like, so if we have students with that many office disciplinary referrals,

2044
01:45:37,934 --> 01:45:43,300
it has an impact on staffing as far as like the tiered levels of service.

2045
01:45:43,333 --> 01:45:44,867
So like your behavior specialists,

2046
01:45:44,867 --> 01:45:48,367
your administrators, your social workers, psychologists.

2047
01:45:49,066 --> 01:45:51,767
It's like there's a need there.

2048
01:45:51,767 --> 01:45:54,200
So that's when when Dr. Boston says like

2049
01:45:54,200 --> 01:45:57,200
that, that number can feel more.

2050
01:45:57,300 --> 01:46:00,066
That's that's why that intensification

2051
01:46:00,066 --> 01:46:03,333
is probably felt amongst staff. To.

2052
01:46:03,367 --> 01:46:06,166
That point. Is there?

2053
01:46:06,166 --> 01:46:09,567
I don't know if they're ethical considerations

2054
01:46:09,567 --> 01:46:15,000
to working the data this way, but would there be, a usefulness

2055
01:46:15,100 --> 01:46:18,133
to running a metric that's like

2056
01:46:18,400 --> 01:46:21,867
incidence per student, per campus? Yep.

2057
01:46:22,066 --> 01:46:25,066
So there's a couple of different ways you can summarize this data.

2058
01:46:25,900 --> 01:46:29,467
We're just summarizing it based on sort of our cut scores and risk.

2059
01:46:29,900 --> 01:46:32,634
If you want to do year to year comparisons, that's

2060
01:46:32,634 --> 01:46:36,867
when you use like a ratio number, like, a rate per

2061
01:46:36,867 --> 01:46:41,233
100 kind of thing because enrollment changes year to year.

2062
01:46:41,266 --> 01:46:45,767
And so if you want to compare like let's say seniors,

2063
01:46:45,900 --> 01:46:49,900
like how many like how many seniors, have,

2064
01:46:49,900 --> 01:46:53,567
you know, sort of office discipline referrals year over year.

2065
01:46:53,867 --> 01:46:58,433
But I think whatever your question is, you would need to use a rate per 100

2066
01:46:58,467 --> 01:47:01,600
because the the enrollment of those grades are different.

2067
01:47:01,900 --> 01:47:05,700
So like one one year might be we had 200 incidents

2068
01:47:05,700 --> 01:47:07,867
and then another year might be 175.

2069
01:47:07,867 --> 01:47:10,000
But because the enrollment was different,

2070
01:47:10,000 --> 01:47:14,600
maybe the 175 is actually a higher rate per 100, right?

2071
01:47:15,734 --> 01:47:18,734
Good question.

2072
01:47:19,266 --> 01:47:21,233
Okay.

2073
01:47:21,233 --> 01:47:22,300
No other questions.

2074
01:47:22,300 --> 01:47:25,266
I'm going to move on.

2075
01:47:25,967 --> 01:47:27,233
So at the beginning, Dr.

2076
01:47:27,233 --> 01:47:30,500
Boston showed you a slide that had the six pillars.

2077
01:47:30,500 --> 01:47:34,600
And one of the pillars is related to team approach

2078
01:47:34,767 --> 01:47:39,667
and guiding coalition is one of the the teams in our system.

2079
01:47:39,667 --> 01:47:43,567
So guiding coalition if you're paying attention

2080
01:47:43,734 --> 01:47:48,500
to try to guide and coalition is responsible

2081
01:47:48,500 --> 01:47:52,333
for a lot of the work that goes on here in our framework.

2082
01:47:52,600 --> 01:47:54,700
So this is what we call tier one.

2083
01:47:54,700 --> 01:48:00,100
And so anything in this like gold ultimately is the responsibility

2084
01:48:00,100 --> 01:48:04,667
of the sort of like the guiding coalition and the leadership team in the building.

2085
01:48:05,600 --> 01:48:08,700
So that can include support from the SA,

2086
01:48:08,834 --> 01:48:12,300
that can include support from our educational specialists.

2087
01:48:12,900 --> 01:48:16,900
But what we're looking at is over time, when we officially decided

2088
01:48:16,900 --> 01:48:22,133
to implement our framework, the first year that we did a

2089
01:48:23,233 --> 01:48:26,700
fidelity implementation rubric, we were only at 20% of

2090
01:48:26,700 --> 01:48:30,233
the essential actions of that guiding coalition installed.

2091
01:48:30,567 --> 01:48:34,800
So your central actions are these colored bars that are in green,

2092
01:48:34,800 --> 01:48:35,934
yellow and red.

2093
01:48:35,934 --> 01:48:39,266
And over the past three years, we've gone for 20%

2094
01:48:39,266 --> 01:48:42,266
installed to 74% installed.

2095
01:48:42,567 --> 01:48:45,800
The things that are green are kind of like the structures

2096
01:48:45,800 --> 01:48:49,033
and the routines of our professional learning communities.

2097
01:48:49,734 --> 01:48:52,300
So those are pretty solid in place.

2098
01:48:52,300 --> 01:48:55,533
General rule of thumb is I want to see things above 80%,

2099
01:48:55,533 --> 01:48:58,567
because that tells me things are installed enough

2100
01:48:58,734 --> 01:49:02,967
to get the known outcomes from what we're expecting sort of thing.

2101
01:49:02,967 --> 01:49:03,767
Okay.

2102
01:49:03,767 --> 01:49:08,166
So if it's below that, then we we have a much harder time deciding if

2103
01:49:08,567 --> 01:49:12,100
if it was like by chance, like we got the results or we didn't

2104
01:49:12,100 --> 01:49:16,033
get the improvement that we want, the areas that are queued for.

2105
01:49:16,934 --> 01:49:20,634
I would say like priority in the future are going to be sort of teaching

2106
01:49:20,634 --> 01:49:26,266
essential schoolwide social and academic behaviors across K through 12.

2107
01:49:26,900 --> 01:49:30,533
And then the other part is proactive prevention supports.

2108
01:49:30,533 --> 01:49:33,567
So this is how I use my cursor.

2109
01:49:33,567 --> 01:49:36,700
Again like these tears. This is tier two.

2110
01:49:37,033 --> 01:49:38,433
This is tier three.

2111
01:49:38,433 --> 01:49:41,934
How these tears are sort of like structured organized

2112
01:49:41,934 --> 01:49:45,233
and how we deploy our resources within those tears.

2113
01:49:46,100 --> 01:49:48,233
So that's that's the priority.

2114
01:49:48,233 --> 01:49:49,634
I would say we're at a point

2115
01:49:49,634 --> 01:49:53,433
where we can start focusing on the tier two and tier three essential actions,

2116
01:49:53,433 --> 01:49:58,266
because there's enough of a base in tier one to start looking at that.

2117
01:50:00,767 --> 01:50:03,767
Any questions there?

2118
01:50:04,600 --> 01:50:05,900
Okay.

2119
01:50:05,900 --> 01:50:07,333
And then on the right hand

2120
01:50:07,333 --> 01:50:11,333
side of our triangle we have the collaborative teacher teams.

2121
01:50:11,433 --> 01:50:15,233
So these could be your grade level in elementary school your grade

2122
01:50:15,233 --> 01:50:20,700
level teams middle school are going to be your your teams of four

2123
01:50:21,867 --> 01:50:22,834
department teams.

2124
01:50:22,834 --> 01:50:26,700
And the high school also has content and department.

2125
01:50:26,934 --> 01:50:28,066
Yep. Okay.

2126
01:50:28,066 --> 01:50:31,367
So the dark Navy is our district overall.

2127
01:50:31,467 --> 01:50:33,934
Again we're close to that 80% threshold.

2128
01:50:33,934 --> 01:50:37,767
And then we have bars in green and yellow.

2129
01:50:37,767 --> 01:50:41,400
And again tier one as far as like

2130
01:50:41,500 --> 01:50:45,800
infrastructure and the collaborative collaborative structures

2131
01:50:45,800 --> 01:50:47,333
those are in place.

2132
01:50:47,333 --> 01:50:48,967
Now it's time to kind of like

2133
01:50:48,967 --> 01:50:53,133
focus on more of the tier two aspects of of that framework.

2134
01:50:53,166 --> 01:50:58,433
So this golden sort of outline sort of shows that,

2135
01:50:59,433 --> 01:51:00,433
collaborative teacher

2136
01:51:00,433 --> 01:51:04,367
teams, they take the lead on essential standards

2137
01:51:04,367 --> 01:51:08,100
that we're focusing on early literacy, numeracy.

2138
01:51:08,367 --> 01:51:12,967
We're also focused on the standards related to like ELA, mathematics.

2139
01:51:13,166 --> 01:51:15,166
It could be science studies.

2140
01:51:15,166 --> 01:51:18,967
Those teachers take the lead on the initial instruction instruction

2141
01:51:18,967 --> 01:51:24,300
that all students get if they're entitled to a mandated learning plan or not.

2142
01:51:24,767 --> 01:51:28,300
And then we have students that are going to need supplemental support.

2143
01:51:28,367 --> 01:51:31,333
And so that supplemental support could be they need

2144
01:51:31,400 --> 01:51:35,433
they're missing some prerequisite skills related to the essential standard.

2145
01:51:35,934 --> 01:51:39,133
Or they might need Extension or Richmond.

2146
01:51:39,300 --> 01:51:42,233
So that's part of the cycle that we need to work on.

2147
01:51:42,233 --> 01:51:45,533
Next is more that sort of that supplemental part.

2148
01:51:48,400 --> 01:51:49,700
The questions about the teacher

2149
01:51:49,700 --> 01:51:52,667
team essential actions.

2150
01:51:52,867 --> 01:51:54,200
Okay.

2151
01:51:54,200 --> 01:51:56,467
So what are we doing about all this now.

2152
01:51:56,467 --> 01:51:57,200
Okay. So

2153
01:51:58,266 --> 01:52:01,667
because we track we use process related

2154
01:52:01,667 --> 01:52:05,266
assessment to monitor what is installed and what's not installed.

2155
01:52:05,500 --> 01:52:11,066
We also grab the academic data from universal screening and the NH SAS.

2156
01:52:11,166 --> 01:52:14,533
That helps us make data informed decisions about projects

2157
01:52:14,533 --> 01:52:18,400
that need to be sort of cued for priority for the district.

2158
01:52:18,567 --> 01:52:21,600
So we have a variety of things that are

2159
01:52:21,600 --> 01:52:24,600
currently happening in the district right now.

2160
01:52:24,967 --> 01:52:26,233
I'll quickly go over them.

2161
01:52:26,233 --> 01:52:29,133
So M-class math K1.

2162
01:52:29,133 --> 01:52:32,567
You might have noticed that Director Krans pointed out we have a gap

2163
01:52:33,467 --> 01:52:36,700
on the mast side where it only shows grades two through eight.

2164
01:52:36,867 --> 01:52:39,867
So we're closing that gap by bringing in a K

2165
01:52:39,867 --> 01:52:42,867
through one early numeracy screener.

2166
01:52:43,000 --> 01:52:46,166
So that will be in place until the end of this strategic plan.

2167
01:52:47,033 --> 01:52:49,767
At the high school, Principal Driscoll, myself.

2168
01:52:49,767 --> 01:52:50,800
Director Krans.

2169
01:52:52,967 --> 01:52:54,000
Director Mehalek, we

2170
01:52:54,000 --> 01:52:57,767
worked together to talk about bringing star up to the high school,

2171
01:52:57,800 --> 01:53:02,634
because what's challenging is getting timely, universal screening data

2172
01:53:03,133 --> 01:53:06,500
to help inform the health of tier one at the high school level.

2173
01:53:06,667 --> 01:53:11,734
We only have the the school day sat, so it really makes it hard to cover those

2174
01:53:12,333 --> 01:53:15,800
ninth graders, those 10th graders, by the time they're taking that, it's it's

2175
01:53:15,800 --> 01:53:16,700
too much of a gap.

2176
01:53:16,700 --> 01:53:19,867
So this year we're going to bring STAR Reading and Math

2177
01:53:19,867 --> 01:53:23,033
to the high school two times this year.

2178
01:53:23,033 --> 01:53:26,800
So I believe November administration and then the high school

2179
01:53:26,800 --> 01:53:29,834
also administer in the springtime with the other buildings.

2180
01:53:29,867 --> 01:53:33,734
FastBridge progress monitoring.

2181
01:53:33,767 --> 01:53:38,467
We are we're trying to find a solution just y k through 12

2182
01:53:38,700 --> 01:53:42,700
to have a common progress monitoring system that's going to assess,

2183
01:53:43,433 --> 01:53:46,600
sort of like skills related to reading and mathematics.

2184
01:53:47,233 --> 01:53:51,467
The proxy monitoring is typically done with like a one minute quick probe.

2185
01:53:51,734 --> 01:53:53,767
It's called a curriculum based measurement.

2186
01:53:53,767 --> 01:53:57,734
And these need to be administered either weekly or by weekly kind of thing.

2187
01:53:57,767 --> 01:54:01,700
So we are trying to find a user friendly system.

2188
01:54:01,700 --> 01:54:06,233
The one that we have currently is it's gotten some I would say,

2189
01:54:07,734 --> 01:54:11,000
there's been some challenges with the usability of the platform.

2190
01:54:11,000 --> 01:54:15,233
So we're looking for a better solution, and we're starting with the high school

2191
01:54:15,233 --> 01:54:18,500
this year because of priority projects.

2192
01:54:19,066 --> 01:54:22,700
Is not going to allow us to do that with K through eight at this time.

2193
01:54:22,700 --> 01:54:24,967
Do do do do.

2194
01:54:24,967 --> 01:54:29,634
One thing that we are trying to solve going forward in the future is,

2195
01:54:30,500 --> 01:54:32,700
when students transition from elementary

2196
01:54:32,700 --> 01:54:36,300
to middle school to high school, we want to have an intervention history.

2197
01:54:36,333 --> 01:54:40,233
So if I was a student in second grade that was meeting with a reading

2198
01:54:40,233 --> 01:54:44,433
specialist, and I got an intervention, and then as a sixth grader,

2199
01:54:45,166 --> 01:54:48,166
I'm struggling with some reading related kind of challenges.

2200
01:54:48,266 --> 01:54:50,700
I should be able to, like, click into a student history

2201
01:54:50,700 --> 01:54:54,066
and see that they had an intervention back in second grade kind of thing.

2202
01:54:54,233 --> 01:54:58,934
So that's one of the things that we're trying to do is, from a system standpoint,

2203
01:54:59,467 --> 01:55:03,333
provide a case history for student if they had an intervention or not.

2204
01:55:03,333 --> 01:55:08,367
And one of the benefits of doing that is that we can have progress

2205
01:55:08,367 --> 01:55:11,600
monitoring data tied to the intervention plan and see how they're doing.

2206
01:55:11,767 --> 01:55:14,634
So that's another initiative that will be going on throughout the year.

2207
01:55:14,634 --> 01:55:17,233
Two. To two.

2208
01:55:17,233 --> 01:55:22,467
As far as instructional programs, Director Hemphill is brought in a English

2209
01:55:22,800 --> 01:55:26,300
language development program called HMH English 3D.

2210
01:55:26,400 --> 01:55:30,900
I believe that's a pilot that was approved by the Advisory Council.

2211
01:55:32,033 --> 01:55:34,500
Within the past month,

2212
01:55:34,500 --> 01:55:38,333
we're really excited about a new math intervention program.

2213
01:55:38,333 --> 01:55:41,767
So you've kind of seen our math scores kind of their stable.

2214
01:55:41,767 --> 01:55:43,767
So kids are making growth, but we need.

2215
01:55:43,767 --> 01:55:47,133
We noticed that we had a gap in our intervention program for math.

2216
01:55:47,400 --> 01:55:49,934
There's a ton of stuff out there for reading math.

2217
01:55:49,934 --> 01:55:52,667
There's less things that are evidence based.

2218
01:55:52,667 --> 01:55:55,667
So we we're very fortunate to find a evidence

2219
01:55:55,667 --> 01:55:58,667
based intervention program called accumulative.

2220
01:55:58,734 --> 01:56:01,634
It's by an organization called JUMP Math.

2221
01:56:01,634 --> 01:56:04,734
And that's going to be available K through 12 for tier

2222
01:56:04,767 --> 01:56:07,767
three in IP intervention services.

2223
01:56:08,133 --> 01:56:11,133
Then

2224
01:56:11,400 --> 01:56:14,734
I feel like Director Krans your math lab with the high school.

2225
01:56:14,734 --> 01:56:16,567
This is your the. Yeah.

2226
01:56:16,567 --> 01:56:18,400
I don't want to take a lot of time. Yeah.

2227
01:56:19,533 --> 01:56:21,533
So this is

2228
01:56:21,533 --> 01:56:25,166
a huge project that Dean Lapoint, Principal Driscoll,

2229
01:56:26,166 --> 01:56:29,567
and Dean Lyndes at the high school have been working on.

2230
01:56:29,667 --> 01:56:33,500
We have some co-teaching going on at the high school, meaning that there's

2231
01:56:33,500 --> 01:56:36,634
a special educator and a general educator working together, team teaching.

2232
01:56:36,667 --> 01:56:40,433
And this is the Math Lab, which has a general educator,

2233
01:56:40,433 --> 01:56:45,767
math teacher, and a special educator teaching algebra one together on one day.

2234
01:56:45,767 --> 01:56:50,967
And then on the alternate day, they are, supporting students in a lab

2235
01:56:50,967 --> 01:56:53,967
that is providing tier two and three support.

2236
01:56:54,133 --> 01:56:57,634
So this is and they're using a cumulative to help with that, as

2237
01:56:57,634 --> 01:57:01,066
well as our tier one programing and some other resources that we have.

2238
01:57:01,066 --> 01:57:02,900
So we are very excited.

2239
01:57:02,900 --> 01:57:07,333
This has huge potential to really make a big difference for our students.

2240
01:57:09,667 --> 01:57:12,634
Yes I can take the next to Yep.

2241
01:57:12,634 --> 01:57:15,567
So also we're focusing on math instructional practices.

2242
01:57:15,567 --> 01:57:21,133
Director Hemphill has brought instructional practices to the,

2243
01:57:21,133 --> 01:57:24,867
elementary that are going to be rolled out two at a time per trimester.

2244
01:57:24,967 --> 01:57:28,333
So they're going to be kind of focusing at two instructional practices,

2245
01:57:28,333 --> 01:57:32,100
high leverage research based at the middle school.

2246
01:57:32,200 --> 01:57:35,367
We took a different approach because the teachers only teach math.

2247
01:57:35,567 --> 01:57:38,533
So they're going to be selecting,

2248
01:57:38,867 --> 01:57:41,533
which of the high leverage practices

2249
01:57:41,533 --> 01:57:44,834
they choose to focus on as their personal goal or their team goal.

2250
01:57:45,734 --> 01:57:49,066
And then we are bringing supplemental math fluency.

2251
01:57:49,433 --> 01:57:51,867
I can speak to grade five specifically.

2252
01:57:51,867 --> 01:57:54,467
Dean Brickley and Principal Dube have worked really hard

2253
01:57:54,467 --> 01:57:56,834
to put a section into the school day every day.

2254
01:57:57,867 --> 01:57:58,934
Focus on

2255
01:57:58,934 --> 01:58:02,200
math fluency for fifth graders, which we are very happy about.

2256
01:58:02,200 --> 01:58:03,567
That is a big need.

2257
01:58:03,567 --> 01:58:05,900
And you have it for elementary, too.

2258
01:58:05,900 --> 01:58:08,066
I don't really know as much about that.

2259
01:58:08,066 --> 01:58:11,100
For elementary math fact fluency,

2260
01:58:11,133 --> 01:58:14,800
this this is one of the big predictors for future math success.

2261
01:58:15,133 --> 01:58:19,900
It sets you up to do math word problems, skill application.

2262
01:58:20,567 --> 01:58:24,133
So we have brought in curriculum advisory Council last year

2263
01:58:24,166 --> 01:58:29,100
approved a program called Reflex and Frax, which is an independent student

2264
01:58:29,533 --> 01:58:34,066
platform where it's got some game based math fact fluency.

2265
01:58:34,433 --> 01:58:38,967
It has one of the highest effect sizes in the landscape in the field.

2266
01:58:38,967 --> 01:58:42,834
As far as student in on mathematic fact fluency.

2267
01:58:43,467 --> 01:58:46,033
So most of the to give you

2268
01:58:46,033 --> 01:58:49,734
some context, most of the field has these programs at a

2269
01:58:49,800 --> 01:58:54,133
like a point 2 to 0.3 effect size.

2270
01:58:54,333 --> 01:58:57,500
The programs that we brought in were 0.7 to 0.8.

2271
01:58:57,567 --> 01:59:01,734
So more than double the field standard as far as the fact size.

2272
01:59:01,967 --> 01:59:03,800
So we're. Super. Excited about that.

2273
01:59:03,800 --> 01:59:08,367
And then finally but last but not least, I should say,

2274
01:59:09,000 --> 01:59:12,634
each of the five buildings has made a sort of end of year

2275
01:59:12,667 --> 01:59:16,400
goal related to tier two, those social behavioral interventions.

2276
01:59:16,500 --> 01:59:18,433
So that could be a variety of different things

2277
01:59:18,433 --> 01:59:21,934
related to I'm a kiddo that might need some.

2278
01:59:22,333 --> 01:59:23,800
I have some unfinished learning

2279
01:59:23,800 --> 01:59:27,433
regarding social skills, and I need to learn some social skills.

2280
01:59:27,867 --> 01:59:29,934
It could be organizational skills.

2281
01:59:29,934 --> 01:59:32,900
It could be emotional regulation skills.

2282
01:59:32,900 --> 01:59:37,533
These are typically interventions that last between 8 to 10 weeks.

2283
01:59:37,567 --> 01:59:39,433
They are very skilled focus.

2284
01:59:39,433 --> 01:59:43,266
This is not clinical mental health counseling because we're trying

2285
01:59:43,266 --> 01:59:46,467
to teach positive behavior skills kind of thing.

2286
01:59:46,467 --> 01:59:50,367
So they would be run by an intervention provider likely either a,

2287
01:59:51,100 --> 01:59:54,700
a psychologist, a school counselor or a school social worker.

2288
01:59:54,700 --> 01:59:57,700
And administrators have provided these interventions.

2289
01:59:58,100 --> 02:00:01,433
They're typically with students in a group of 3 to 5 students

2290
02:00:02,066 --> 02:00:07,133
and role playing, direct instruction and sort of progress monitoring is expected.

2291
02:00:07,133 --> 02:00:08,166
Out of these.

2292
02:00:08,166 --> 02:00:10,700
Are those teacher selected groups.

2293
02:00:10,700 --> 02:00:13,767
Teachers can make a referral to our site intervention team,

2294
02:00:13,767 --> 02:00:17,634
and the site intervention team will match the student to an intervention.

2295
02:00:17,700 --> 02:00:18,634
We have some,

2296
02:00:19,800 --> 02:00:22,467
kind of like with reading, you can do a diagnostic to match

2297
02:00:22,467 --> 02:00:25,667
where the, the skill, the underlying skill need is.

2298
02:00:25,900 --> 02:00:30,233
We have kind of the same thing with our, our behavior interventions.

2299
02:00:30,400 --> 02:00:32,634
They'll tell you like what is the priority.

2300
02:00:32,634 --> 02:00:35,300
And a team would have to decide okay.

2301
02:00:35,300 --> 02:00:39,333
Like out of these eight topics what is the top priority for the student

2302
02:00:39,333 --> 02:00:40,567
at this point in time.

2303
02:00:40,567 --> 02:00:43,567
So they might need like multiple interventions.

2304
02:00:43,567 --> 02:00:47,400
But we can't we can't give them all at the same time

2305
02:00:47,400 --> 02:00:49,600
because they just wouldn't be in class kind of thing.

2306
02:00:49,600 --> 02:00:53,400
So teams might have to prioritize the intervention cycle for a particular skill

2307
02:00:53,400 --> 02:00:58,533
and then move on to the next skill once they've mastered the initial cycle.

2308
02:00:59,200 --> 02:00:59,834
Thank you.

2309
02:01:01,033 --> 02:01:03,700
While we were sitting here, I pulled up the presentation

2310
02:01:03,700 --> 02:01:08,133
from last fall to look at the behavior incidents per 100 students.

2311
02:01:08,500 --> 02:01:11,667
You are right. March is right up there.

2312
02:01:11,667 --> 02:01:14,900
But I made a flag in it to,

2313
02:01:15,834 --> 02:01:19,133
put the rest of the 2526 data in there.

2314
02:01:19,133 --> 02:01:23,266
Bring it back to you next month so you can see that comparatively.

2315
02:01:23,400 --> 02:01:25,233
And we can run that slide annually.

2316
02:01:25,233 --> 02:01:30,066
So we can start to have some longitudinal data that you have in the same format.

2317
02:01:30,166 --> 02:01:31,934
So you're comparing apples to apples.

2318
02:01:31,934 --> 02:01:38,734
And this data all goes on our website under the accountability tab.

2319
02:01:38,934 --> 02:01:40,734
We post the presentations there.

2320
02:01:40,734 --> 02:01:43,734
Anybody can look at it.

2321
02:01:44,900 --> 02:01:45,934
Just to be transparent

2322
02:01:45,934 --> 02:01:48,967
about where we are and where we aren't.

2323
02:01:49,333 --> 02:01:52,066
Can I ask a question on the first or second slide,

2324
02:01:52,066 --> 02:01:55,667
then the the data that's pending for equity and inclusion.

2325
02:01:55,667 --> 02:01:58,967
Did you say like what the what's a workable timeline for

2326
02:01:59,600 --> 02:02:03,100
some data for 2026 in that category.

2327
02:02:03,100 --> 02:02:05,700
Yeah. So I need to go back.

2328
02:02:05,700 --> 02:02:10,500
So that is a less clean metric in that we have to take

2329
02:02:10,734 --> 02:02:14,467
building reports of activities and then quantify it into a number.

2330
02:02:14,734 --> 02:02:19,367
So I can aim for probably by November.

2331
02:02:19,367 --> 02:02:21,266
I can have something for you. Great.

2332
02:02:21,266 --> 02:02:26,834
I'm not expecting a lot of growth in that category this year, in part

2333
02:02:26,834 --> 02:02:30,967
because it was a little less of a focus with the academic piece, but also

2334
02:02:31,033 --> 02:02:34,066
because there are several areas that we've identified.

2335
02:02:35,000 --> 02:02:37,500
We're not going to be able to move the needle

2336
02:02:37,500 --> 02:02:40,834
without some help from our state and federal partners.

2337
02:02:41,734 --> 02:02:43,066
When we talk about

2338
02:02:44,066 --> 02:02:46,500
hiring and retention

2339
02:02:46,500 --> 02:02:49,500
of a more diverse workforce,

2340
02:02:49,767 --> 02:02:51,400
we have policies.

2341
02:02:51,400 --> 02:02:52,934
We have plans.

2342
02:02:52,934 --> 02:02:56,100
Mr. Boodey worked with a subgroup that worked on that to,

2343
02:02:56,900 --> 02:02:59,600
make sure we had things in place to retain

2344
02:02:59,600 --> 02:03:02,600
and attract a diverse workforce.

2345
02:03:02,634 --> 02:03:06,767
But if people aren't moving to New Hampshire, we're not getting,

2346
02:03:07,667 --> 02:03:11,233
you know, even the opportunity to hire a diverse workforce.

2347
02:03:11,233 --> 02:03:15,934
So there were some things like that that we looked at and went, we're ready.

2348
02:03:15,934 --> 02:03:19,367
But some of our, you know,

2349
02:03:19,900 --> 02:03:22,900
what's happening in the state is not helping us.

2350
02:03:23,734 --> 02:03:26,734
So there's a barrier there that's hard for us to address.

2351
02:03:27,400 --> 02:03:29,767
But you're not saying

2352
02:03:29,767 --> 02:03:34,033
that some of the state and federal aversion to equity

2353
02:03:34,033 --> 02:03:38,467
and inclusion is affecting our goals here as well, or is that also.

2354
02:03:41,667 --> 02:03:43,033
If I think

2355
02:03:43,033 --> 02:03:46,600
it would be difficult to not have it impact that, yes.

2356
02:03:46,800 --> 02:03:47,200
Things. Are.

2357
02:03:47,200 --> 02:03:50,200
Being flagged, certain words are being flagged.

2358
02:03:50,934 --> 02:03:53,433
I will say the work

2359
02:03:53,433 --> 02:03:56,266
that is being done in Dover,

2360
02:03:56,266 --> 02:03:58,900
if anybody is attracting

2361
02:03:58,900 --> 02:04:01,900
people interested in that, it's us.

2362
02:04:02,634 --> 02:04:06,033
You know, and we've had people say in interviews and things

2363
02:04:06,033 --> 02:04:09,033
like that, or when I meet with them or when we do the new,

2364
02:04:09,200 --> 02:04:12,367
new teacher induction, they talk about that, that's something

2365
02:04:12,400 --> 02:04:13,367
attractive to them,

2366
02:04:13,367 --> 02:04:16,967
that everyone is welcome here and everyone is recognized here. So,

2367
02:04:18,033 --> 02:04:20,834
but yeah, it's a challenge if we can't get people to

2368
02:04:20,834 --> 02:04:23,634
cross the state line between Massachusetts and New Hampshire.

2369
02:04:23,634 --> 02:04:26,266
I don't have any hope to hire them.

2370
02:04:26,266 --> 02:04:29,266
So yeah that's challenging.

2371
02:04:29,367 --> 02:04:32,367
Thank you.

2372
02:04:32,900 --> 02:04:35,433
I was trying to be as easy as possible. Yes.

2373
02:04:37,700 --> 02:04:39,600
I need

2374
02:04:39,600 --> 02:04:40,166
feedback.

2375
02:04:40,166 --> 02:04:41,834
Thank you.

2376
02:04:41,834 --> 02:04:44,834
See I a office as always.

2377
02:04:47,033 --> 02:04:50,033
The last item for new business tonight is

2378
02:04:51,033 --> 02:04:54,867
the New Hampshire School Boards Association policy proposals.

2379
02:04:55,300 --> 02:04:57,934
Micaela, you had brought this agenda item forward.

2380
02:04:57,934 --> 02:05:01,033
Can I interrupt for one minute? Yeah.

2381
02:05:01,266 --> 02:05:04,400
I'm proposing that we're letting everyone go.

2382
02:05:04,400 --> 02:05:08,166
That does not want to stay for the school board association stuff.

2383
02:05:08,166 --> 02:05:09,300
Because we all have kids.

2384
02:05:09,300 --> 02:05:11,934
But along meeting and you have to be at work early tomorrow.

2385
02:05:11,934 --> 02:05:13,834
So though.

2386
02:05:13,834 --> 02:05:16,834
It is riveting work.

2387
02:05:16,834 --> 02:05:19,000
It's all. It's all state policy things.

2388
02:05:19,000 --> 02:05:21,000
So please,

2389
02:05:21,000 --> 02:05:24,000
you can't leave though.

2390
02:05:25,200 --> 02:05:26,300
Thank you.

2391
02:05:26,300 --> 02:05:29,300
Not that I don't want you to stay, but,

2392
02:05:31,767 --> 02:05:33,567
So, Micaela, my understanding was

2393
02:05:33,567 --> 02:05:38,967
you were looking for board feedback or, I guess, consensus.

2394
02:05:39,166 --> 02:05:42,200
Or as far as the.

2395
02:05:42,367 --> 02:05:45,367
Were you looking for feedback on all of the proposed

2396
02:05:45,967 --> 02:05:51,367
changes at NHSBA and, and NHSBA is making as far as how

2397
02:05:51,400 --> 02:05:54,567
meetings are structured, or are you just looking for feedback on the,

2398
02:05:55,634 --> 02:05:57,667
resolutions?

2399
02:05:57,667 --> 02:05:58,033
Yeah.

2400
02:05:58,033 --> 02:06:01,033
So I mean, October 17th is the annual delegate meeting.

2401
02:06:01,066 --> 02:06:04,066
This will be third or fourth year going.

2402
02:06:04,867 --> 02:06:08,533
I cannot vote on behalf of the school board unless we have an on

2403
02:06:08,533 --> 02:06:12,367
the record statement of the school board's opinion on these 15 proposals.

2404
02:06:12,367 --> 02:06:15,400
So this this process is,

2405
02:06:16,033 --> 02:06:19,800
a slightly augmented version of what we do every year,

2406
02:06:19,800 --> 02:06:24,967
only because they are proposing kind of like throwing out the book

2407
02:06:25,000 --> 02:06:28,433
and rewriting it this year when it comes to how they do the proposals.

2408
02:06:29,066 --> 02:06:32,066
I'm going to propose that we start with

2409
02:06:32,100 --> 02:06:35,634
just going through the 15, resolutions

2410
02:06:36,333 --> 02:06:39,467
so I know how to vote based on how the board has voted.

2411
02:06:39,500 --> 02:06:41,567
And I'd love to move through these, like quickly. Yeah.

2412
02:06:41,567 --> 02:06:42,433
And I'm so I'm.

2413
02:06:42,433 --> 02:06:46,100
Going to propose or suggest instead of going through them

2414
02:06:46,734 --> 02:06:49,333
one by one because there are 15 of them.

2415
02:06:49,333 --> 02:06:55,066
We all had the agenda materials to review ahead of time. So

2416
02:06:56,166 --> 02:06:57,166
I think if

2417
02:06:57,166 --> 02:07:01,667
there's any resolution that anyone wants to flag in particular

2418
02:07:01,700 --> 02:07:07,000
about having concerns about or not agreeing with the

2419
02:07:07,000 --> 02:07:11,133
NHSBA recommendation, as far as the resolution, I think maybe

2420
02:07:11,200 --> 02:07:15,734
let's just address it that way instead of going through each one one by one.

2421
02:07:16,867 --> 02:07:19,500
Does that work for everyone?

2422
02:07:19,500 --> 02:07:23,734
I and I think I can say I read through them all.

2423
02:07:24,166 --> 02:07:28,634
I agreed with the responses from NHSBA on all of them.

2424
02:07:29,033 --> 02:07:33,634
I wanted to call out for number 14, which was in relation

2425
02:07:33,634 --> 02:07:36,634
to the open enrollment.

2426
02:07:36,800 --> 02:07:40,033
I think the response was no position.

2427
02:07:40,033 --> 02:07:45,367
And so the only one I made on that one was just to clarify that we're going to

2428
02:07:45,967 --> 02:07:49,100
it said to stick with the 2025 continuing resolution,

2429
02:07:49,100 --> 02:07:52,300
which is that NHSBA opposes state mandated open enrollment.

2430
02:07:52,500 --> 02:07:53,734
Which was ours to begin with.

2431
02:07:53,734 --> 02:07:56,734
We were the one forward last year, so two years ago.

2432
02:07:56,734 --> 02:08:01,333
But other than that, I agreed with the NHSBA response

2433
02:08:01,333 --> 02:08:04,400
on all of the resolutions that were in the packet.

2434
02:08:05,400 --> 02:08:06,667
Agreed.

2435
02:08:06,667 --> 02:08:09,233
So the one that I do want to bring forward

2436
02:08:09,233 --> 02:08:12,233
is our resolution, which is resolution number two.

2437
02:08:13,667 --> 02:08:17,066
The reason why I would like the board's

2438
02:08:17,066 --> 02:08:20,066
permission to move forward with

2439
02:08:20,967 --> 02:08:24,567
disagreeing with the board's, not our board,

2440
02:08:24,934 --> 02:08:28,634
and be a board position to not support,

2441
02:08:29,533 --> 02:08:32,200
is because I think there's a fundamental difference

2442
02:08:32,200 --> 02:08:36,233
in how they're reading it versus how it was intended to be written.

2443
02:08:36,967 --> 02:08:40,066
I, I'm just going to read the notes I wrote because it's faster.

2444
02:08:41,166 --> 02:08:43,800
I wrote, well, my handwritten notes.

2445
02:08:43,800 --> 02:08:47,333
HB 1300, which is, you know, the, the bill

2446
02:08:47,333 --> 02:08:51,033
that will put the ballot question, on our ballot this November.

2447
02:08:52,700 --> 02:08:55,700
Does not enact a state mandated school tax cap.

2448
02:08:55,700 --> 02:08:58,200
It just puts the question on the ballot.

2449
02:08:58,200 --> 02:09:00,900
So those are two really important distinctions.

2450
02:09:03,033 --> 02:09:05,000
So only partially relates here.

2451
02:09:05,000 --> 02:09:10,767
The provisions of that bill will sunset anyway in fiscal year 2031.

2452
02:09:11,000 --> 02:09:14,000
So they're temporary to begin with.

2453
02:09:14,200 --> 02:09:16,767
The resolution that I had proposed and that we agreed on

2454
02:09:16,767 --> 02:09:19,734
was simple on purpose because it,

2455
02:09:20,734 --> 02:09:23,734
it talks about enacting a statewide school budget cap,

2456
02:09:23,734 --> 02:09:29,233
not putting a ballot question on a ballot, which is which is different.

2457
02:09:29,233 --> 02:09:33,333
And we have seen in the past that our some legislators, not all of them,

2458
02:09:33,900 --> 02:09:38,834
have proposed legislation that enacts a statewide mandated budget cap.

2459
02:09:38,834 --> 02:09:44,600
And that, to me, is a completely separate lane than what HB 1300 is currently doing

2460
02:09:44,600 --> 02:09:47,600
right now, which is putting the question before communities.

2461
02:09:48,367 --> 02:09:53,634
So I with with the board's approval, would still like to advance this forward

2462
02:09:53,634 --> 02:09:58,867
because having something on the books that says we oppose legislation

2463
02:09:58,867 --> 02:10:03,533
that enacts a statewide school budget cap is a different conversation

2464
02:10:03,700 --> 02:10:07,934
then than what we're seeing currently happen.

2465
02:10:08,900 --> 02:10:09,567
Potentially,

2466
02:10:09,567 --> 02:10:12,567
potentially happen, depending on the lawsuit.

2467
02:10:12,834 --> 02:10:15,533
On our ballot this November. Yeah.

2468
02:10:15,533 --> 02:10:19,233
So that's the only one that that for me, like, rises up to a discussion standpoint.

2469
02:10:19,266 --> 02:10:22,000
Other than that, Robin, I agree. I,

2470
02:10:22,000 --> 02:10:25,000
I agree with everything that we,

2471
02:10:25,333 --> 02:10:26,500
what was proposed by.

2472
02:10:26,500 --> 02:10:27,900
I think that point makes sense.

2473
02:10:27,900 --> 02:10:29,333
If you I would feel comfortable

2474
02:10:29,333 --> 02:10:32,567
if you want to make that point at the meeting and see what happens

2475
02:10:33,367 --> 02:10:34,467
as far as the resolution.

2476
02:10:34,467 --> 02:10:37,634
Make that clarification about the statewide versus the local control.

2477
02:10:37,934 --> 02:10:39,934
I'm seeing everybody's head nods.

2478
02:10:39,934 --> 02:10:41,300
Does that feel like concurrence?

2479
02:10:41,300 --> 02:10:44,967
I mean, they they say in a lot of them that they already have

2480
02:10:45,567 --> 02:10:47,967
resolutions against things, whereas this one, they don't say that.

2481
02:10:47,967 --> 02:10:49,600
They just say they advocated against it.

2482
02:10:49,600 --> 02:10:51,000
So to your point, they

2483
02:10:52,033 --> 02:10:53,667
just because this is there now

2484
02:10:53,667 --> 02:10:55,200
doesn't mean it's the end of the road for this, that

2485
02:10:55,200 --> 02:10:59,233
there's not going to be attempts beyond what they already have or in a couple

2486
02:10:59,266 --> 02:11:02,867
of years, if this fails a couple times, that they don't have a new approach to it.

2487
02:11:02,867 --> 02:11:06,033
So it wouldn't be the worst to still try and get something in there.

2488
02:11:06,166 --> 02:11:10,133
Well, and it was such an egregious bill to begin with, and its original form that,

2489
02:11:10,166 --> 02:11:14,133
you know, like it said, there they they vehemently or vigorously

2490
02:11:14,133 --> 02:11:16,000
whatever the word was advocated against it,

2491
02:11:16,000 --> 02:11:18,834
even though there wasn't a policy on the books.

2492
02:11:18,834 --> 02:11:21,333
Okay. So

2493
02:11:21,333 --> 02:11:22,867
like zooming right along.

2494
02:11:22,867 --> 02:11:26,266
Does anybody have anything else where they would be different

2495
02:11:26,266 --> 02:11:29,400
than what the board recommended for their

2496
02:11:31,300 --> 02:11:34,066
action, their position?

2497
02:11:34,066 --> 02:11:35,634
So speedy. Love it. Okay.

2498
02:11:35,634 --> 02:11:38,767
The other thing we need to talk about, because I will have to also vote on this,

2499
02:11:38,767 --> 02:11:42,700
is do we agree with the like pretty sweeping comprehensive

2500
02:11:42,700 --> 02:11:47,066
change to how all of this happens starting next year?

2501
02:11:47,200 --> 02:11:51,233
It was my reading of it, which is that instead of going through this process

2502
02:11:51,233 --> 02:11:54,533
every single year and proposing new ones

2503
02:11:55,266 --> 02:12:00,066
and retaining the ones, the long, long list of ones that already exist,

2504
02:12:00,233 --> 02:12:04,266
that instead, every two years at the start of the legislative session,

2505
02:12:04,300 --> 02:12:06,600
they wipe the slate clean or not wipe the slate clean,

2506
02:12:06,600 --> 02:12:09,400
but they go back through and they they have to kind of re-up.

2507
02:12:09,400 --> 02:12:10,600
You know, we have to vote again.

2508
02:12:10,600 --> 02:12:13,333
Like, does this still apply? Is it still relevant?

2509
02:12:14,300 --> 02:12:14,734
So that

2510
02:12:14,734 --> 02:12:17,734
happens in the even years, which would be,

2511
02:12:18,667 --> 02:12:21,567
intentionally right before the start of the new biennium.

2512
02:12:21,567 --> 02:12:24,500
And then in the odd years, you do something similar to kind of

2513
02:12:24,500 --> 02:12:27,467
what we have had before, more like learning.

2514
02:12:27,934 --> 02:12:28,834
It's just a big change.

2515
02:12:28,834 --> 02:12:31,834
We have to vote yes or no on it because it's a bylaws change.

2516
02:12:32,300 --> 02:12:34,300
Thoughts?

2517
02:12:34,300 --> 02:12:36,800
I think that makes sense.

2518
02:12:36,800 --> 02:12:37,967
The change.

2519
02:12:37,967 --> 02:12:38,266
Yeah.

2520
02:12:38,266 --> 02:12:43,300
Looking at it by annually, is that the correct term by biennially by any.

2521
02:12:43,500 --> 02:12:43,800
Yeah.

2522
02:12:43,800 --> 02:12:47,634
Well because that would better align

2523
02:12:47,634 --> 02:12:50,634
with the legislative session as it stands currently.

2524
02:12:50,834 --> 02:12:53,767
Yeah.

2525
02:12:53,767 --> 02:12:55,734
Any opposition to me voting.

2526
02:12:55,734 --> 02:13:00,100
I'm not going to lie I skimmed the changes to the articles.

2527
02:13:00,100 --> 02:13:02,100
I didn't read them all line by line.

2528
02:13:02,100 --> 02:13:05,100
So I'm going to go by your recommendation on this one.

2529
02:13:05,500 --> 02:13:05,867
Yeah.

2530
02:13:07,200 --> 02:13:07,967
Is it a less

2531
02:13:07,967 --> 02:13:10,967
deliberative process the change or.

2532
02:13:11,333 --> 02:13:14,333
No. The.

2533
02:13:18,333 --> 02:13:19,867
So what it says

2534
02:13:19,867 --> 02:13:22,867
in the kind of little primer about it,

2535
02:13:24,266 --> 02:13:25,567
and even years.

2536
02:13:25,567 --> 02:13:29,834
NHSBA will host a Legislative Policy conference meeting where the association

2537
02:13:29,834 --> 02:13:33,700
legislative priorities will be established by member school

2538
02:13:33,700 --> 02:13:36,700
boards.

2539
02:13:38,834 --> 02:13:41,500
These principles and policies will serve as to guide

2540
02:13:41,500 --> 02:13:45,066
the association in its advocacy activities for the biennium.

2541
02:13:45,867 --> 02:13:49,033
Legislative policy positions will be effective for two years

2542
02:13:50,333 --> 02:13:52,367
and therefore two legislative sessions,

2543
02:13:52,367 --> 02:13:55,367
but one budget biennium.

2544
02:13:55,367 --> 02:13:58,166
At subsequent ones, members may re-adopted

2545
02:13:58,166 --> 02:14:02,166
existing policies, introduce new ones, or remove existing ones.

2546
02:14:02,233 --> 02:14:06,133
So it's it's like how Dover votes for its school board every two years.

2547
02:14:06,166 --> 02:14:09,166
There's a potential for the whole slate to be changed.

2548
02:14:09,367 --> 02:14:09,934
You know what?

2549
02:14:09,934 --> 02:14:12,667
You what you keep you keep what you don't, you renew.

2550
02:14:15,066 --> 02:14:15,767
The thing

2551
02:14:15,767 --> 02:14:18,900
for me that was interesting is that it requires a two thirds vote,

2552
02:14:18,900 --> 02:14:23,634
which is more than, what is current, which I believe is just a simple majority.

2553
02:14:25,100 --> 02:14:27,900
And then in the odd years, they host an annual business meeting.

2554
02:14:27,900 --> 02:14:31,300
That's interesting because it's going to incorporate more learning

2555
02:14:31,300 --> 02:14:34,300
and collegial type stuff.

2556
02:14:35,900 --> 02:14:37,900
Professional development training conferences

2557
02:14:37,900 --> 02:14:41,200
with presentation, guest speaker opportunity for board members

2558
02:14:41,200 --> 02:14:44,200
to interact with each other, which is really cool.

2559
02:14:45,300 --> 02:14:48,200
That's that's the main difference right there.

2560
02:14:48,200 --> 02:14:50,700
They're also shrinking their board from

2561
02:14:50,700 --> 02:14:55,100
17 to 1413.

2562
02:14:55,300 --> 02:14:56,734
I forget the exact number.

2563
02:14:56,734 --> 02:14:59,734
They're taking a couple people out of the board.

2564
02:15:00,166 --> 02:15:00,934
Like 13.

2565
02:15:00,934 --> 02:15:03,033
Those are the those are the cliff notes. Okay.

2566
02:15:03,033 --> 02:15:05,567
Thank you. Yeah.

2567
02:15:05,567 --> 02:15:07,367
So we are we're all good with voting. Yes.

2568
02:15:07,367 --> 02:15:09,133
For proceeding with that.

2569
02:15:09,133 --> 02:15:13,567
Can I please have a motion to authorize Micaela to vote? Yes.

2570
02:15:14,133 --> 02:15:16,600
At the NHSBA meeting, as discussed.

2571
02:15:16,600 --> 02:15:18,567
So moved. Second.

2572
02:15:18,567 --> 02:15:20,767
Any additional discussion?

2573
02:15:20,767 --> 02:15:22,400
All those in favor?

2574
02:15:22,400 --> 02:15:25,000
Motion passes 7 to 0. Thank you.

2575
02:15:25,000 --> 02:15:27,533
Thank you for anyone. Who would like to come with me.

2576
02:15:27,533 --> 02:15:29,834
It's October 17th, and it's a pretty fun hey.

2577
02:15:29,834 --> 02:15:32,233
Dover Band show day. That's a big day.

2578
02:15:35,166 --> 02:15:36,934
Good point.

2579
02:15:36,934 --> 02:15:37,233
Okay.

2580
02:15:37,233 --> 02:15:39,367
Can I please have a motion on the bills?

2581
02:15:39,367 --> 02:15:40,100
You might.

2582
02:15:40,100 --> 02:15:44,200
I move to approve the submission of payment of bills in the amount

2583
02:15:44,200 --> 02:15:48,667
of $13,680,169.60

2584
02:15:48,967 --> 02:15:54,266
for the period of August 14th, 2026 through September 11th, 2026.

2585
02:15:54,634 --> 02:15:57,266
Seconded. Michelle. Seconds. Any discussion?

2586
02:15:57,266 --> 02:15:59,634
Roll call. Vote, please. Robin.

2587
02:15:59,634 --> 02:16:02,533
Yes. Michelle. Clancy. Yes. Craig.

2588
02:16:02,533 --> 02:16:03,800
Fogarty. Yes.

2589
02:16:03,800 --> 02:16:04,600
Micaela. Demeter.

2590
02:16:04,600 --> 02:16:06,133
Yes. Elizabeth goldman.

2591
02:16:06,133 --> 02:16:08,433
Yes. Seana Berkley Hallberg. Yes.

2592
02:16:08,433 --> 02:16:10,433
You passed seven. Nothing. You.

2593
02:16:10,433 --> 02:16:13,400
And then moving on to committee report. Yes.

2594
02:16:14,400 --> 02:16:17,200
The JBC.

2595
02:16:17,200 --> 02:16:19,567
First and foremost, we got some feedback from someone

2596
02:16:19,567 --> 02:16:22,567
in the community that they hadn't seen progress on the fields.

2597
02:16:22,800 --> 02:16:25,467
And I'm up here every week or every month saying lots going on.

2598
02:16:25,467 --> 02:16:26,400
What's going on?

2599
02:16:26,400 --> 02:16:29,300
And I realize that,

2600
02:16:29,300 --> 02:16:31,734
it's not always easy to see that I know what to look for

2601
02:16:31,734 --> 02:16:33,100
or what should be happening when I go through there,

2602
02:16:33,100 --> 02:16:34,800
and it's tough to see some of the changes sometimes.

2603
02:16:34,800 --> 02:16:36,300
So one thing that will help everyone

2604
02:16:36,300 --> 02:16:39,033
see what's going on in that field now is our old maintenance facility.

2605
02:16:39,033 --> 02:16:40,667
Building is down.

2606
02:16:40,667 --> 02:16:41,900
The new building is set

2607
02:16:41,900 --> 02:16:44,900
up, operational facilities maintenance has moved into there.

2608
02:16:44,934 --> 02:16:48,333
You get better visibility on the site, the football field itself,

2609
02:16:48,333 --> 02:16:52,433
the playing surface, excluding the goalposts, is ready to go.

2610
02:16:53,166 --> 02:16:57,533
On that field, lines are in turfs and in fills in.

2611
02:16:57,533 --> 02:16:58,433
Everything's in there.

2612
02:16:59,700 --> 02:17:01,834
And, scoreboard is on order.

2613
02:17:01,834 --> 02:17:04,100
That's the other piece that's missing there.

2614
02:17:04,100 --> 02:17:06,300
Bleachers up, lights up, all of that.

2615
02:17:06,300 --> 02:17:08,400
The baseball field has been a lot of work or.

2616
02:17:08,400 --> 02:17:11,634
Sorry, multi-purpose field has been a lot of work in the last month.

2617
02:17:12,300 --> 02:17:15,734
If you've gone by recently, you'll see that the light poles are up.

2618
02:17:16,266 --> 02:17:17,767
A really cool part of that, too.

2619
02:17:17,767 --> 02:17:18,967
If you look in center

2620
02:17:18,967 --> 02:17:22,700
field of that field, of what will be the baseball field portion of it.

2621
02:17:22,734 --> 02:17:25,266
You'll notice there's one pole with lights on both sides.

2622
02:17:25,266 --> 02:17:29,200
When we did this plan, we designed it so that we could use that single pole

2623
02:17:29,200 --> 02:17:33,033
for both fields, which saves the purchase of a pole and some electrical.

2624
02:17:33,266 --> 02:17:35,000
We didn't have the lights up there originally,

2625
02:17:35,000 --> 02:17:39,200
but it was designed so that lights for both fields could go on that one pole.

2626
02:17:40,400 --> 02:17:41,867
Which is is really cool.

2627
02:17:41,867 --> 02:17:45,867
Also, around that field, you'll see fence posts have gone up around most of it.

2628
02:17:46,033 --> 02:17:47,900
The backstop is about 30ft tall.

2629
02:17:47,900 --> 02:17:50,900
The rest of it looks to be about eight feet roughly.

2630
02:17:51,900 --> 02:17:54,700
That's going to be the perimeter of the field itself.

2631
02:17:54,700 --> 02:17:58,567
So it gives you a sense of where that field is going to be positioned.

2632
02:17:58,834 --> 02:18:00,266
You'll know this when you're looking at it

2633
02:18:00,266 --> 02:18:03,200
between the field and the animal science building.

2634
02:18:03,200 --> 02:18:05,634
A lot of empty space is going to be a nice green space.

2635
02:18:05,634 --> 02:18:07,166
The original plan was a parking lot there,

2636
02:18:07,166 --> 02:18:10,767
but we removed that in the late stages of the the project.

2637
02:18:10,767 --> 02:18:13,233
So it's going to be some green space.

2638
02:18:13,233 --> 02:18:14,867
Between there.

2639
02:18:14,867 --> 02:18:16,333
The field itself is being leveled.

2640
02:18:16,333 --> 02:18:20,934
There's some drainage that's going to get set up, and then they'll start working on

2641
02:18:22,066 --> 02:18:25,300
the concrete anchor that goes around it, like they did at the football

2642
02:18:25,300 --> 02:18:29,500
field as well, to prepare it for turf install there.

2643
02:18:29,967 --> 02:18:33,500
The track install I wasn't able to see today if it started today.

2644
02:18:33,533 --> 02:18:35,433
We were hoping to start this last week.

2645
02:18:35,433 --> 02:18:36,600
Weather delayed it.

2646
02:18:36,600 --> 02:18:39,900
We're at the point of putting the rubberized surface on the track.

2647
02:18:39,967 --> 02:18:43,033
It's a four week process to put that down.

2648
02:18:43,200 --> 02:18:46,200
It needs to sit for a period of time.

2649
02:18:46,333 --> 02:18:48,333
It needs to be lined.

2650
02:18:48,333 --> 02:18:49,734
I mentioned, I believe, last meeting.

2651
02:18:49,734 --> 02:18:51,300
There's like three families in the country

2652
02:18:51,300 --> 02:18:54,300
that do this one comes from Pennsylvania, so it's very specific.

2653
02:18:54,467 --> 02:18:56,467
And you need weather to cooperate during that window.

2654
02:18:56,467 --> 02:18:58,433
And the day we plan on starting, it was last Tuesday

2655
02:18:58,433 --> 02:19:00,567
and there was some rain last week.

2656
02:19:01,767 --> 02:19:02,567
Things like that.

2657
02:19:02,567 --> 02:19:03,834
So it got pushed back.

2658
02:19:03,834 --> 02:19:07,133
We're hoping that still, starts this week.

2659
02:19:07,133 --> 02:19:09,767
There was talk of falsely starting yesterday. It rained.

2660
02:19:09,767 --> 02:19:10,634
I drove by today.

2661
02:19:10,634 --> 02:19:11,834
I did see some more vehicles

2662
02:19:11,834 --> 02:19:15,367
in that area on the track, but I have I wasn't able to see.

2663
02:19:15,400 --> 02:19:16,867
I tried to drive around before the meeting,

2664
02:19:16,867 --> 02:19:19,800
but there was a bus unloading team in the backside of the school,

2665
02:19:19,800 --> 02:19:22,500
so I couldn't get in close enough to see it.

2666
02:19:22,500 --> 02:19:25,500
I just came straight to the meeting.

2667
02:19:25,634 --> 02:19:27,767
So that's where we're at on all of that.

2668
02:19:27,767 --> 02:19:30,967
In terms of budget, we're still projecting

2669
02:19:30,967 --> 02:19:35,266
the coming under budget on everything that we have going in there,

2670
02:19:35,367 --> 02:19:39,767
and when we will get on that field is still up in the air.

2671
02:19:40,467 --> 02:19:45,266
As I said, the field itself is if it was as simple as going on the football field,

2672
02:19:45,634 --> 02:19:48,634
throw the goalposts up that fields ready to play.

2673
02:19:48,800 --> 02:19:50,000
A lot of other factors.

2674
02:19:50,000 --> 02:19:51,467
The bleachers need to be inspected.

2675
02:19:51,467 --> 02:19:53,200
Bathrooms are not operational yet.

2676
02:19:54,400 --> 02:19:56,567
The concourse area in the entryway is still dirt.

2677
02:19:56,567 --> 02:19:57,600
That's not concrete.

2678
02:19:57,600 --> 02:20:00,166
And everything around it is an active construction zone.

2679
02:20:00,166 --> 02:20:01,166
So there's.

2680
02:20:01,166 --> 02:20:03,300
We need inspections to come through.

2681
02:20:03,300 --> 02:20:04,367
We we're still.

2682
02:20:04,367 --> 02:20:08,300
We signed a memorandum of understanding on the bathroom situation.

2683
02:20:09,533 --> 02:20:12,166
You know, if you remember, I mentioned this project

2684
02:20:12,166 --> 02:20:16,367
we were told needed something like 120 toilets based on the size,

2685
02:20:16,800 --> 02:20:19,600
and they base that on how much can this facility hold?

2686
02:20:19,600 --> 02:20:22,100
And they even include what if we had a major political figure

2687
02:20:22,100 --> 02:20:24,834
speaking here and we had 4000 people on the field?

2688
02:20:24,834 --> 02:20:28,033
So we had to put in pan of hardware in the gates for that.

2689
02:20:28,100 --> 02:20:31,100
So we came to an understanding on the bathroom situation

2690
02:20:31,266 --> 02:20:34,500
that we think is is manageable for the district.

2691
02:20:34,500 --> 02:20:38,634
And allows for upscaling if we do have those larger scale events.

2692
02:20:38,634 --> 02:20:42,200
But that still, I believe needs to be signed on the city side.

2693
02:20:42,200 --> 02:20:45,934
We've agreed to it, but we haven't gotten confirmation they signed it yet.

2694
02:20:45,967 --> 02:20:48,033
Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

2695
02:20:48,033 --> 02:20:48,467
Good sign.

2696
02:20:48,467 --> 02:20:48,867
Okay.

2697
02:20:48,867 --> 02:20:52,233
That's up to sign. Okay, so we have that.

2698
02:20:52,266 --> 02:20:54,033
Like I said, we have inspections on the bleachers.

2699
02:20:54,033 --> 02:20:56,200
Concessions isn't up and running.

2700
02:20:56,200 --> 02:21:01,000
The biggest hurdle we're going to have is getting a temporary occupancy permit

2701
02:21:01,333 --> 02:21:04,734
for that field to safely get people in and out.

2702
02:21:04,734 --> 02:21:08,166
If we were to have a game there this fall where it's an active construction zone,

2703
02:21:08,266 --> 02:21:12,700
and can we create an environment that separates those fans

2704
02:21:12,700 --> 02:21:16,433
in that environment from what's still going on in the multi-purpose field?

2705
02:21:17,934 --> 02:21:21,567
So we don't have any of the thing definitive yet.

2706
02:21:21,800 --> 02:21:24,667
We're still keeping those two dates in October where there's potential home

2707
02:21:24,667 --> 02:21:27,667
games. I want to say the 15th and 22nd.

2708
02:21:27,700 --> 02:21:30,600
I think those two those are the two Fridays.

2709
02:21:30,600 --> 02:21:32,867
If we can, we will.

2710
02:21:32,867 --> 02:21:34,734
But we're not positive yet.

2711
02:21:34,734 --> 02:21:38,600
And we want to make sure that it's safe and it's ready for public consumption

2712
02:21:38,600 --> 02:21:39,700
when we bring people in there.

2713
02:21:39,700 --> 02:21:42,767
So we hope we can still do something this fall

2714
02:21:43,066 --> 02:21:45,867
in terms of the football season that's going on.

2715
02:21:45,867 --> 02:21:49,000
But we don't want to risk anyone's safety or the

2716
02:21:49,000 --> 02:21:52,934
the outlook of the project itself to to force something.

2717
02:21:53,400 --> 02:21:56,834
We're also able to approve a pretty lengthy list of additional,

2718
02:21:57,433 --> 02:22:01,333
equipment purchases, because of where we're at with the budget.

2719
02:22:01,367 --> 02:22:06,433
So things that were what I advocated for was things were precipitated

2720
02:22:06,433 --> 02:22:11,433
by the field project, not just it would be nice to have a new ex,

2721
02:22:12,367 --> 02:22:13,934
pitching machines, for example.

2722
02:22:13,934 --> 02:22:16,567
I pushed really hard to pull those out.

2723
02:22:16,567 --> 02:22:18,467
You don't need those because of this project.

2724
02:22:18,467 --> 02:22:21,734
And I don't think that, you know, we should be doing it under that budget.

2725
02:22:21,767 --> 02:22:24,900
We don't want to capitalize those hurdles, things like that.

2726
02:22:25,200 --> 02:22:25,767
But we did.

2727
02:22:25,767 --> 02:22:29,867
We were able to do like all of the movable goals and the,

2728
02:22:31,667 --> 02:22:34,200
removable bases and all that kind of stuff.

2729
02:22:34,200 --> 02:22:38,200
The stuff that they really need, as well as the basic maintenance equipment

2730
02:22:38,200 --> 02:22:41,934
for the field that will be used by our

2731
02:22:42,000 --> 02:22:45,567
team, routinely, not by, you know, whatever

2732
02:22:45,867 --> 02:22:48,867
quarterly maintenance is done, but just the day to day maintenance.

2733
02:22:49,166 --> 02:22:52,767
And that was something we talked originally of outsourcing

2734
02:22:52,800 --> 02:22:54,567
some of the maintenance because of the cost

2735
02:22:54,567 --> 02:22:57,600
of some of these machines, but we were actually able to afford

2736
02:22:57,767 --> 02:23:01,000
the machines to maintain these fields within this project

2737
02:23:01,000 --> 02:23:03,967
so that our team can do that in a relatively minimal amount of time,

2738
02:23:03,967 --> 02:23:05,767
and we don't have to pay to outsource that.

2739
02:23:05,767 --> 02:23:06,967
And Michelle mentioned like new goals.

2740
02:23:06,967 --> 02:23:09,166
The reason we need some of those is when you get into the surface,

2741
02:23:09,166 --> 02:23:11,266
everything needs to be on wheels so that when you're moving it,

2742
02:23:11,266 --> 02:23:14,100
you're not digging up the carpet and things like that. So,

2743
02:23:15,667 --> 02:23:18,400
field hockey goals and soccer goals are going to have wheels on them.

2744
02:23:18,400 --> 02:23:22,467
So they're very easy to to just tilt back and roll on off the.

2745
02:23:22,467 --> 02:23:26,066
Surface on the field need to be removable for obvious reasons.

2746
02:23:26,300 --> 02:23:27,500
If you're not playing baseball.

2747
02:23:27,500 --> 02:23:30,000
So it's it's one of those things where again,

2748
02:23:30,000 --> 02:23:31,567
I drive by, I know what to look for.

2749
02:23:31,567 --> 02:23:32,367
I know what's been going on

2750
02:23:32,367 --> 02:23:35,367
so I can see it from the road, like, oh, that's that's really great.

2751
02:23:36,133 --> 02:23:40,634
But, there is a lot going on and we'll see the multi-purpose field coming up.

2752
02:23:40,634 --> 02:23:44,467
And I will say, as we get to this point, if anyone wants to see up close,

2753
02:23:44,467 --> 02:23:46,834
we could figure something out. We wouldn't do everyone at once.

2754
02:23:46,834 --> 02:23:48,834
But like, I've been able to go on to that

2755
02:23:48,834 --> 02:23:51,834
and we have a good relationship with them where we can go on site.

2756
02:23:51,867 --> 02:23:53,567
We, you know,

2757
02:23:53,567 --> 02:23:56,300
put some safety precautions in place because it is active construction zone.

2758
02:23:56,300 --> 02:23:59,066
But, if anyone. Did go in the high school library.

2759
02:23:59,066 --> 02:24:01,233
Yeah. You know, there's, there's. Ways if.

2760
02:24:01,233 --> 02:24:04,166
If you, if, if anyone wanted to see up close

2761
02:24:04,166 --> 02:24:06,000
or would come this far along, you've only seen it from the road.

2762
02:24:06,000 --> 02:24:07,200
We can absolutely accommodate that

2763
02:24:07,200 --> 02:24:10,200
because it's really exciting to see what we have going on down there.

2764
02:24:10,333 --> 02:24:11,934
Fantastic.

2765
02:24:11,934 --> 02:24:14,500
Thank you. Homestretch. Yep. Getting there.

2766
02:24:14,500 --> 02:24:16,100
Any other committee report?

2767
02:24:17,900 --> 02:24:18,400
School board.

2768
02:24:18,400 --> 02:24:20,300
Matters of interest.

2769
02:24:20,300 --> 02:24:22,867
I just I'm I wanted to say before

2770
02:24:22,867 --> 02:24:26,266
all the administrators left, but hopefully they're listening at home now.

2771
02:24:26,467 --> 02:24:27,066
Yeah.

2772
02:24:27,066 --> 02:24:31,033
I just wanted to congratulate everyone on a very successful

2773
02:24:31,033 --> 02:24:32,567
first couple of weeks of school.

2774
02:24:32,567 --> 02:24:34,967
No major incidences that we heard about.

2775
02:24:34,967 --> 02:24:39,400
So that's a good sign to me that, all our work in preparation paid off.

2776
02:24:39,400 --> 02:24:42,200
So thank you.

2777
02:24:42,200 --> 02:24:44,767
One quick thing to add, I'm not sure

2778
02:24:44,767 --> 02:24:49,500
how many on the board are aware of this, but two citizens did file a lawsuit

2779
02:24:49,634 --> 02:24:54,667
to block the language from HB 1300 from going on the ballots in November.

2780
02:24:54,700 --> 02:24:56,033
There was a hearing on Friday.

2781
02:24:56,033 --> 02:24:58,667
We don't know what the result is.

2782
02:24:58,667 --> 02:25:01,033
But it's something to pay attention to

2783
02:25:01,033 --> 02:25:04,900
because depending on whether they get the injunctive relief they're seeking,

2784
02:25:05,133 --> 02:25:08,133
it may or may not be on our ballots in November.

2785
02:25:08,166 --> 02:25:11,400
And it's, you know, and if it does end up being something

2786
02:25:11,400 --> 02:25:14,133
that goes on the ballots in November, I think it will be important for the board

2787
02:25:14,133 --> 02:25:17,533
to talk about, you know, how we engage with that conversation

2788
02:25:18,066 --> 02:25:23,000
within the seven of us and then also potentially community wide to think about,

2789
02:25:23,033 --> 02:25:27,734
you know, how to help our community members understand what that means.

2790
02:25:28,634 --> 02:25:28,934
Well.

2791
02:25:28,934 --> 02:25:30,600
Hopefully the Secretary of State

2792
02:25:30,600 --> 02:25:34,333
actually provides a legitimate response to our letter with all of our questions

2793
02:25:34,333 --> 02:25:38,567
about how this law applies to Dover and our existing tax cap.

2794
02:25:39,166 --> 02:25:41,000
So, Secretary, if you're listening.

2795
02:25:41,000 --> 02:25:43,567
We're anxiously awaiting your response.

2796
02:25:43,567 --> 02:25:44,333
A couple of weeks over.

2797
02:25:44,333 --> 02:25:46,834
You don't want to certify elections.

2798
02:25:46,834 --> 02:25:49,934
That decision on the on the lawsuit should be Thursday.

2799
02:25:50,467 --> 02:25:51,634
Thursday. Great.

2800
02:25:53,500 --> 02:25:54,100
Thank you.

2801
02:25:54,100 --> 02:25:56,467
I think the state had requested for a Tuesday.

2802
02:25:56,467 --> 02:26:01,166
So that's it's good to know that there's something maybe imminent.

2803
02:26:01,266 --> 02:26:01,934
Imminent?

2804
02:26:01,934 --> 02:26:04,934
Yeah. I'll be watching.

2805
02:26:05,500 --> 02:26:07,066
It's pretty development.

2806
02:26:07,066 --> 02:26:10,967
Any other matters of interest at this time?

2807
02:26:10,967 --> 02:26:13,967
Reopening citizens forum,

2808
02:26:14,200 --> 02:26:17,934
seeing no one else for citizens forum, can I please have a motion to end?

2809
02:26:17,967 --> 02:26:19,800
Citizens forum. And.

2810
02:26:19,800 --> 02:26:21,800
Kayla Liz seconds any discussion?

2811
02:26:21,800 --> 02:26:22,834
All those in favor?

2812
02:26:22,834 --> 02:26:24,266
Motion passes 7 to 0.

2813
02:26:24,266 --> 02:26:25,367
Motion to adjourn.

2814
02:26:25,367 --> 02:26:28,233
Shall are.

2815
02:26:28,233 --> 02:26:30,867
Michael, I lost the word. Gosh.

2816
02:26:30,867 --> 02:26:32,634
All those in favor?

2817
02:26:32,634 --> 02:26:34,300
Thank you everyone. Have a great.