1
00:00:13,490 --> 00:00:21,870
Of the Dover School Committee, today is September 22nd, 2026, and we are meeting in the, sorry,

2
00:00:22,090 --> 00:00:32,310
Dover School Library, the time is now 631. So, personal agenda is community comments. We have

3
00:00:32,310 --> 00:00:36,910
provided a virtual link for those who wish to make a comment, but for whom it is not possible or

4
00:00:36,910 --> 00:00:44,970
prefer to attend in person. Are there any community comments? Okay, before I, before you go,

5
00:00:45,390 --> 00:00:51,470
I want to read something. Please remember that community comments are an opportunity for members

6
00:00:51,470 --> 00:00:55,990
of the school committee to listen to members of the community. As chair of this meeting, it is my

7
00:00:55,990 --> 00:01:01,710
responsibility to facilitate this communication between the public and the committee present this

8
00:01:01,710 --> 00:01:06,170
evening. I personally believe the communication is a critical element to assist the members

9
00:01:06,170 --> 00:01:14,050
of this elected body. To effectively facilitate this discussion, I encourage anyone providing

10
00:01:14,050 --> 00:01:18,070
comments to consider that the volunteers that comprise this committee are your neighbors,

11
00:01:18,290 --> 00:01:22,310
friends, and fellow community members. We welcome all points of view, but I would respectfully

12
00:01:22,310 --> 00:01:26,650
ask that all you treat these committee members in a manner consistent with that in mind.

13
00:01:27,050 --> 00:01:31,470
Collectively, we are here to support the administration who in turn assist our educators and support

14
00:01:31,470 --> 00:01:34,710
staff to educate, care for, and invest in, and it's a fire of children.

15
00:01:35,830 --> 00:01:39,250
Community comments are not a forum for answering questions or engaging in debate.

16
00:01:39,470 --> 00:01:43,350
We respectfully request that you please make your comments brief no more than three minutes

17
00:01:43,750 --> 00:01:46,270
and that you move the discussion forward by adding new information.

18
00:01:46,810 --> 00:01:49,290
Please try to avoid repeating points that have already been made.

19
00:01:49,770 --> 00:01:53,970
One of the public, once the public comment section of the meeting has concluded, we'll move

20
00:01:53,970 --> 00:01:58,670
to other business and unsolicited comments for the community will no longer be permitted.

21
00:01:58,670 --> 00:02:01,950
this is standard operating procedure in school committee meetings across the

22
00:02:01,950 --> 00:02:05,670
three school districts. If you desire more information or have specific questions

23
00:02:05,670 --> 00:02:10,270
contact information for committee members on the district websites and I will

24
00:02:10,270 --> 00:02:15,330
note that generally we limit these to Dober residents and understand you're

25
00:02:15,330 --> 00:02:17,770
not a resident but we will welcome your comments. I appreciate you.

26
00:02:19,450 --> 00:02:24,050
We're ever you feel comfortable maybe just so we can sort of see you.

27
00:02:24,050 --> 00:02:25,730
I'm sorry to put the phone down.

28
00:02:27,930 --> 00:02:28,730
So, good evening.

29
00:02:28,950 --> 00:02:29,710
My name's Joey Ford.

30
00:02:30,370 --> 00:02:32,010
I'm an independent educational watchdog

31
00:02:32,010 --> 00:02:32,970
and reformist.

32
00:02:33,130 --> 00:02:34,670
I call myself Parent Data Force.

33
00:02:35,410 --> 00:02:38,090
So, I go district to district throughout the state

34
00:02:38,090 --> 00:02:39,690
and I try to find patterns

35
00:02:39,690 --> 00:02:42,610
and just bring some helpful information

36
00:02:42,610 --> 00:02:45,310
from what I'm discovering in different places

37
00:02:45,310 --> 00:02:46,670
and bring it back to the committees

38
00:02:46,670 --> 00:02:49,670
and hopefully giving you guys some valuable information

39
00:02:49,670 --> 00:02:52,110
to work with, and only better yourselves.

40
00:02:52,110 --> 00:02:59,970
So, my latest project, I've submitted so far forty-three different public records requests

41
00:02:59,970 --> 00:03:02,990
in different districts asking them for their settlement agreements.

42
00:03:03,490 --> 00:03:07,890
So, this is for like special education, regular education, stuff that involves educated

43
00:03:07,890 --> 00:03:10,890
up students, not the educators themselves.

44
00:03:11,490 --> 00:03:14,630
I don't want anything to do with staff or anything like that, that's something else.

45
00:03:15,050 --> 00:03:19,850
So, this would be like memorandums of understanding, memorandum of agreement, mediation agreements,

46
00:03:19,850 --> 00:03:22,190
and stipulations, consent agreements, side agreements,

47
00:03:22,490 --> 00:03:23,770
side letters, similar ethnic agreements,

48
00:03:24,070 --> 00:03:24,950
that sort of stuff.

49
00:03:26,270 --> 00:03:28,150
Superintendent McCoy, I sent it to you,

50
00:03:28,350 --> 00:03:29,210
to be in your box.

51
00:03:29,810 --> 00:03:30,950
I just want to let you guys know,

52
00:03:31,110 --> 00:03:32,910
this isn't meant to be something hostile.

53
00:03:33,230 --> 00:03:34,990
I'm doing this simply for research purposes,

54
00:03:35,510 --> 00:03:37,310
and to be able to compare the different districts.

55
00:03:37,810 --> 00:03:40,270
Dover Sherwin has a very well-known reputation

56
00:03:40,270 --> 00:03:42,870
for being one of the best districts in the country.

57
00:03:43,610 --> 00:03:45,970
So I really want to see how you guys compare

58
00:03:45,970 --> 00:03:48,110
to some of the less wealthy districts

59
00:03:48,670 --> 00:03:52,130
and seeing how things operate behind closed doors.

60
00:03:52,390 --> 00:03:54,990
And as a special education parent myself,

61
00:03:55,270 --> 00:03:56,630
I understand that a lot of these contracts,

62
00:03:56,890 --> 00:03:59,070
you know, they're not something that's done maliciously

63
00:03:59,070 --> 00:04:00,390
or in that phase a lot of the time

64
00:04:00,390 --> 00:04:02,630
and these things are done to get children what they need.

65
00:04:03,130 --> 00:04:04,810
But just to help other parents

66
00:04:04,810 --> 00:04:06,250
and not really get an understanding

67
00:04:06,250 --> 00:04:08,670
of how these things work, that's why I'm doing this.

68
00:04:09,150 --> 00:04:10,350
So I just wanted to let you know,

69
00:04:10,510 --> 00:04:12,050
say you're not my god, you know,

70
00:04:12,090 --> 00:04:14,470
we're under attack, I swear I got a piece.

71
00:04:14,830 --> 00:04:16,330
Thank you, thank you so much.

72
00:04:16,610 --> 00:04:16,950
Thank you.

73
00:04:19,090 --> 00:04:23,230
Any other comments in the other online comments?

74
00:04:24,570 --> 00:04:25,750
Thank you so much.

75
00:04:28,110 --> 00:04:28,710
Okay.

76
00:04:29,270 --> 00:04:30,870
That is a cool close community comments.

77
00:04:34,020 --> 00:04:36,580
Next on the agenda are the superintendent comments.

78
00:04:36,900 --> 00:04:37,240
Thank you.

79
00:04:37,640 --> 00:04:41,760
I only just want to have a specific thank you this evening to our

80
00:04:41,760 --> 00:04:43,920
tickering community for a smooth opening of school.

81
00:04:44,560 --> 00:04:47,740
So thank you to our parents, our bus drivers, our leaders,

82
00:04:48,180 --> 00:04:50,280
our educators, of course, and our students.

83
00:04:50,280 --> 00:04:54,520
It's been a great positive opening of school of have an opportunity as this

84
00:04:54,520 --> 00:04:58,580
Heather to get into some classes to attend the all school assembly. So lots of

85
00:04:58,580 --> 00:05:02,660
positive great start and we're going to keep that momentum going. So thank you

86
00:05:02,660 --> 00:05:07,580
Dr. Reineman. I'm thinking this at consent for all of your hard work. And other than

87
00:05:07,580 --> 00:05:11,140
that just a reminder that open house is on Thursday at 5.30. So it's your turn to

88
00:05:11,140 --> 00:05:15,380
read your time to return to school and meet the teachers that we look forward to

89
00:05:15,380 --> 00:05:19,240
seeing you then. Otherwise, happy to take questions, comments, feedback about

90
00:05:19,240 --> 00:05:27,260
anything. We got great update in joint support many many times. Oh thank you. Yeah well you're up to date

91
00:05:27,260 --> 00:05:30,960
up to date on all the happenings and I agree with all the smooth opening. All right,

92
00:05:31,220 --> 00:05:37,140
now I want to thank you for the weekly why. I think this is a great initiative and I saw you have a

93
00:05:37,140 --> 00:05:43,580
lot of hearts on it and I hope people read it and like it and submit questions and we'll have

94
00:05:43,580 --> 00:05:49,180
suggestions of course later but I think it was a great way to have a targeted

95
00:05:49,180 --> 00:05:52,620
information like a small snippet of something that people are asking about.

96
00:05:52,840 --> 00:05:56,980
Thank you. I usually don't get a lot of positive feedback but I did get a lot

97
00:05:56,980 --> 00:06:00,500
of positive feedback from staff and from families. Great. And a lot of hearts you know

98
00:06:00,500 --> 00:06:03,140
it's just a thing. It's not about the heart. I only have so many hearts.

99
00:06:04,020 --> 00:06:08,480
No I think it was a great initiative. Thank you. The Moose was popular.

100
00:06:11,420 --> 00:06:12,920
No one's

101
00:06:12,920 --> 00:06:18,500
I remember the first, when we first launched Parent Square, there was this self-consciousness

102
00:06:18,500 --> 00:06:20,520
about people not liking the post.

103
00:06:20,940 --> 00:06:22,440
I think we've gotten over that.

104
00:06:23,140 --> 00:06:23,760
We're getting there.

105
00:06:23,840 --> 00:06:24,100
Yeah.

106
00:06:24,520 --> 00:06:27,700
There probably is not a lot of activity at any point.

107
00:06:28,640 --> 00:06:30,140
It's a great form though.

108
00:06:32,800 --> 00:06:33,140
Thank you.

109
00:06:33,840 --> 00:06:34,160
All right.

110
00:06:34,860 --> 00:06:38,600
Next on the agenda are financial reports, starting with the work report.

111
00:06:39,000 --> 00:06:39,120
Yes.

112
00:06:39,300 --> 00:06:39,640
Thank you.

113
00:06:39,820 --> 00:06:40,420
Good evening, everyone.

114
00:06:40,420 --> 00:06:46,720
one in your packet tonight are your approved boards closing up fiscal year

115
00:06:46,720 --> 00:06:51,260
26 and then what we've done to date to fiscal year 27 and I will continue to

116
00:06:51,260 --> 00:06:56,280
thank Jesse for stopping by town hall and signing. It's actually being passed

117
00:06:56,280 --> 00:07:04,640
wanted to go. So yeah, next time I get the email to sign, I will sort of loop

118
00:07:04,640 --> 00:07:09,280
going into the process and we will have a smooth hand. Perfect. Thank you for

119
00:07:09,280 --> 00:07:11,240
me. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you.

120
00:07:13,900 --> 00:07:19,160
And moving on to your budget close out. So this is the sort of where

121
00:07:19,160 --> 00:07:24,380
we ended fiscal year 26. She had a pretty good synopsis when we last met in June, but things

122
00:07:24,380 --> 00:07:30,240
happen over the summer and we close the books. And so tonight in your packet I provided sort of a

123
00:07:30,240 --> 00:07:37,140
summary of each of the budget category salaries, expenditures and out of district. As you can see,

124
00:07:37,140 --> 00:07:44,560
salaries. We were right at budget. There are some variations that I explain at a high level.

125
00:07:44,720 --> 00:07:50,300
Remember you can go back into your monthly report if you want to dig into more of the specifics,

126
00:07:50,300 --> 00:07:54,800
but I tried just to hit the highlights. On the expenditure side, I think that the driving

127
00:07:55,300 --> 00:08:01,940
force there was, if you go back up to salaries, we actually took outside services for our SLP,

128
00:08:01,940 --> 00:08:08,720
are speech language pathologists and turn that into a position in the contract so that when

129
00:08:08,720 --> 00:08:13,020
we built the budget we thought it was going to be outside services so you see the savings there

130
00:08:13,020 --> 00:08:19,500
of about 50,000 that helps take care of the $48,000 negative. So you've got to look at that as we

131
00:08:19,500 --> 00:08:23,900
had it in the budget we just didn't we had it in different places now. Other than that everything

132
00:08:23,900 --> 00:08:29,560
else was here and there when we did transportation services last year remember we did a contract and

133
00:08:29,560 --> 00:08:32,880
And so we had a higher number in the budget than where we settled.

134
00:08:33,400 --> 00:08:37,780
We've left that in there and it really helped you not have as big of an increase in fiscal

135
00:08:37,780 --> 00:08:38,460
year 27.

136
00:08:39,020 --> 00:08:45,960
So when you see the $20,000 in transportation, it was really because we had a reserve that

137
00:08:45,960 --> 00:08:46,960
we didn't have to use of all.

138
00:08:48,360 --> 00:08:52,620
Looking at out of district, so that's where a lot of our volatility was.

139
00:08:52,980 --> 00:08:58,000
And as you know, the way that the town budgets, we have all a circuit breaker to fall back

140
00:08:58,000 --> 00:09:05,000
on when we have the unexpected happen. So we did dig into that a little bit but also keep in mind

141
00:09:05,000 --> 00:09:10,620
we made a conscious decision last year not to increase the budget for all the placements because we

142
00:09:10,620 --> 00:09:16,400
knew there was going to be a placement that was going to age out. It was a larger placement so we

143
00:09:16,400 --> 00:09:20,720
didn't want to gross the town's budget up too much knowing that we would have circuit breaker to cover it.

144
00:09:20,800 --> 00:09:26,880
So we knew and going into this if nothing else changed we were going to be negative almost a half

145
00:09:26,880 --> 00:09:30,700
million dollars for that one placement. So take that into consideration when

146
00:09:30,700 --> 00:09:34,460
you look where I say we're over $800,000. We already knew we were going to be

147
00:09:34,460 --> 00:09:39,720
almost $500,000 over. So we did have a little bit of unexpected but it was also

148
00:09:39,720 --> 00:09:43,980
offset by a little bit, some negative unexpected and some positive unexpected. So at

149
00:09:43,980 --> 00:09:51,300
the end of the day, we are still turning back to the town $778,000. Keep in mind

150
00:09:51,300 --> 00:09:57,100
And that's also even net of almost the $400,000 and $37,000

151
00:09:57,100 --> 00:10:00,680
that we kept at the region to start building the circuit

152
00:10:00,680 --> 00:10:05,380
breaker preserve for those students that are aged six

153
00:10:05,380 --> 00:10:09,300
through, or six grades, or 22, who reside in those who's

154
00:10:09,300 --> 00:10:11,040
now in account of the region.

155
00:10:12,160 --> 00:10:14,700
So all in all, it was a good year.

156
00:10:15,520 --> 00:10:17,940
And that we didn't, some years, we have very little circuit

157
00:10:17,940 --> 00:10:20,500
breaker that we turn back to the town.

158
00:10:20,500 --> 00:10:26,440
So that will be the last year you see numbers like this your numbers are going to be much smaller when we start

159
00:10:26,440 --> 00:10:31,540
start talking about fiscal year 27 and budgeting for 28 because you're only responsible now for

160
00:10:31,540 --> 00:10:36,180
the pre-K35 and we have very few placements at that age group because of the wonderful

161
00:10:36,660 --> 00:10:39,800
special ed programs that we have already built into. That's a great sign.

162
00:10:40,620 --> 00:10:44,120
Don, don't just for the newer people at the table or for those of us who might need to refresh our

163
00:10:44,120 --> 00:10:48,200
can you explain how do over budgets for this and that I turned back of $700,000? Exactly.

164
00:10:48,200 --> 00:10:54,920
So as you know, you won't get a million nine, so $1.9 million in circuit breaker reimbursement.

165
00:10:55,000 --> 00:10:58,700
When the town does their budget, they assume you're getting zero circuit breaker.

166
00:10:59,300 --> 00:11:01,020
So they're budgeting for everything.

167
00:11:01,360 --> 00:11:06,160
And it's always been a conservative methodology that they use because if you've been over long enough,

168
00:11:06,380 --> 00:11:13,100
you'll realize that the town always uses some free cash towards the budget every year to sort of offset

169
00:11:13,100 --> 00:11:16,080
that's what they're being taxed to the taxpayers.

170
00:11:17,240 --> 00:11:20,200
And a lot of that was that comfort level of knowing

171
00:11:20,200 --> 00:11:21,740
that the circuit breaker was there.

172
00:11:21,940 --> 00:11:23,740
So we always have these big turnbacks.

173
00:11:24,340 --> 00:11:26,580
And when you used to look at the numbers

174
00:11:26,580 --> 00:11:28,600
when they would present like in the blue book,

175
00:11:29,620 --> 00:11:33,260
it would say, okay, dover's budget is 12 million.

176
00:11:33,440 --> 00:11:36,700
But last year's actual, it was 9.5.

177
00:11:37,040 --> 00:11:40,060
And it's because that budget number is always grossed up,

178
00:11:40,340 --> 00:11:42,260
assuming there's no circuit breaker.

179
00:11:42,260 --> 00:11:47,420
But your actual that report is reported is taking that circuit breaker into account.

180
00:11:47,620 --> 00:11:52,940
So there's always that delta there that always bothered me, both on school committee and

181
00:11:52,940 --> 00:12:00,280
where I sat because I felt like it was misleading to the public so we were always pressuring them

182
00:12:00,280 --> 00:12:04,820
to put an asterisk next to it and say this is not circuit breaker, this is not net circuit

183
00:12:04,820 --> 00:12:05,160
breaker.

184
00:12:05,540 --> 00:12:10,460
So now that will actually sort of go away because Dover, if you remember this year when

185
00:12:10,460 --> 00:12:14,380
they've resigned, it looks like they had like a million dollar adoption. And that's because

186
00:12:14,380 --> 00:12:19,100
the circuit breaker thing is now gone. We can't budget that way anymore. You said it's

187
00:12:19,100 --> 00:12:22,740
like gone, but it actually is gone. There's no circuit breaker, right? No, there is circuit

188
00:12:22,740 --> 00:12:29,920
breaker, but it's not. Everything is net now. So the way that we had to budget at the region

189
00:12:29,920 --> 00:12:35,900
is like, we said, okay, you owe us $2 million for out of district, but we know we're going

190
00:12:35,900 --> 00:12:42,140
get $1.2 million in circuit breaker. From the state. From the state. So we're only going to assess

191
00:12:43,280 --> 00:12:48,440
over for $800,000 and that's the assessment. Whereas before we would put the whole $2 million

192
00:12:48,440 --> 00:12:53,520
in the budget. Got it. Right? Yeah. Yeah. So the money's still there. It's just it's just

193
00:12:53,520 --> 00:12:59,080
it's clear in a way. Right. It's cleaner. Yeah. It's a little bit cleaner. Yeah. And as long as I

194
00:12:59,080 --> 00:13:03,620
have enough money on the region to pay for everything. But yeah, so it's it actually cleans up the accounting

195
00:13:03,620 --> 00:13:09,820
a little bit and it then what happens is that and we had, you know, we had been telling

196
00:13:09,820 --> 00:13:15,700
the towns this was going to happen, especially at Dover because that was a guaranteed turnback

197
00:13:15,700 --> 00:13:20,340
in free cash that they always then turned around and applied that free cash to the budget.

198
00:13:20,960 --> 00:13:25,460
So now they don't have as much flexibility to do that, but the budget is lower.

199
00:13:26,520 --> 00:13:27,440
So it's sort of...

200
00:13:27,440 --> 00:13:28,420
So it all sort of...

201
00:13:28,420 --> 00:13:29,620
Yeah, it sort of washes out.

202
00:13:29,620 --> 00:13:34,940
So this will be a transition year for 27 to see how it all plays out.

203
00:13:35,580 --> 00:13:41,900
It was important to us at the region to at least have some additional circuit breaker other

204
00:13:41,900 --> 00:13:46,820
than what we expected to get this year, which is why we had worked with those towns in the town of

205
00:13:46,820 --> 00:13:54,140
Sugar and retained the circuit breaker reimbursement in the fourth quarter. That was, that comes to remember,

206
00:13:54,220 --> 00:13:58,500
the circuit breaker always came to the region and we had to turn around and give it back to the towns

207
00:13:58,500 --> 00:14:03,540
because they were accounting for the out of district and that's when the Department of

208
00:14:03,540 --> 00:14:09,180
Ed said, what are you doing? You need to account for the regionage kids at the region.

209
00:14:10,220 --> 00:14:15,980
So now we still get circuit breaker and we identify by the scistovers and the scissorburns

210
00:14:15,980 --> 00:14:19,660
and we have different accounts in our general ledger now for dover circuit breaker and sherboard

211
00:14:19,660 --> 00:14:27,000
circuit breaker. But we don't have the methodology that dover used to have where we had all that

212
00:14:27,000 --> 00:14:29,700
that fall back in case things, the unexpected happened.

213
00:14:30,600 --> 00:14:32,120
So that's why we try to hold some.

214
00:14:32,340 --> 00:14:35,760
So we have, like I said, it feels comforting to know

215
00:14:35,760 --> 00:14:39,660
that in Dover, we're starting with what we assessed Dover

216
00:14:39,660 --> 00:14:43,260
plus this extra $437,000.

217
00:14:43,320 --> 00:14:47,240
But it will make your budget a little easier to understand

218
00:14:48,040 --> 00:14:51,220
because that was always a big number on top of your industry

219
00:14:51,220 --> 00:14:53,460
than it was confusing to the public.

220
00:14:54,120 --> 00:14:57,500
because I was like, oh, why is the Dover School budget so big, right?

221
00:14:58,000 --> 00:14:59,720
So now it really will represent.

222
00:15:00,000 --> 00:15:28,740
It's sort of your population, your population. And the true cost. And the true cost on both sides now. Yeah, at the region and at the dover. What percentage of our special education needs are actually met by circuit breaker versus our own taxpayer funds. So it is a formula that is based on each individual student. So it is calculated by each out of district student. And the needs in this part, in this position.

223
00:15:28,740 --> 00:15:36,140
So there's a threshold, so you have to, the town has to pay the first, say, $54,000, right?

224
00:15:36,280 --> 00:15:42,800
So whatever costs that we have for an out of district student, the first $54,000 is the town's

225
00:15:42,800 --> 00:15:53,000
responsibility. After that, the state reimburses you 75%. And then on top of that, about four years ago,

226
00:15:53,000 --> 00:16:00,000
they added transportation into that formula and that's been the unknown as to what the reimbursement

227
00:16:00,000 --> 00:16:06,340
it should be 75 but they don't always have funding for the 75 but that was a huge benefit

228
00:16:06,340 --> 00:16:12,300
to all districts because even in Dover our out of district transportation could be somewhere up

229
00:16:12,300 --> 00:16:19,200
to like 400-500 thousand so the fact that we were getting any reimbursement now is huge and if you

230
00:16:19,200 --> 00:16:25,440
had a student who say was at $50,000, you add transportation that gets them over the

231
00:16:25,440 --> 00:16:29,400
54, then you qualify for some circuit breaker reimbursement.

232
00:16:29,500 --> 00:16:35,400
And we're and you say we're aging, there's a student that has a higher than expect or higher

233
00:16:35,400 --> 00:16:42,540
than normal funding requirement that will be aging out and so the expectations are low.

234
00:16:42,560 --> 00:16:45,900
Yeah, that the student did age out in fiscal year 26.

235
00:16:46,560 --> 00:17:08,360
So we'll give you your sort of this is what we budgeted, this is where we stand when we need an October and we'll do the same for the region, but now you'll just be seeing a much smaller piece of the population because the Dover residents who are 6th grade and older, now the regional school committee meeting or so committee will be talking about them.

236
00:17:09,400 --> 00:17:13,680
This is um, this is a big change and sounds complicated.

237
00:17:14,060 --> 00:17:14,180
Yeah.

238
00:17:14,820 --> 00:17:22,400
Do you think there needs to be a method of communication to the general public to sort

239
00:17:22,400 --> 00:17:22,640
of?

240
00:17:23,140 --> 00:17:24,520
I don't, I don't think so.

241
00:17:24,800 --> 00:17:24,940
I don't.

242
00:17:25,220 --> 00:17:30,700
If you look at it in comparison to that total budget for the dope powder, it's, it's not.

243
00:17:30,900 --> 00:17:31,900
It seems big.

244
00:17:32,140 --> 00:17:36,440
There's not going to be a sticker shock and like in a good way, but like they've already

245
00:17:36,440 --> 00:17:36,900
seen it.

246
00:17:36,900 --> 00:17:40,300
They've already seen an action when they approved the fiscal year 27 budget.

247
00:17:40,880 --> 00:17:43,480
So that's already rolled out. We didn't get any questions.

248
00:17:45,440 --> 00:17:49,820
And I think they did provide, if you remember, Michael Blancher, the town administrator,

249
00:17:50,220 --> 00:17:52,840
said they're going to change their accounting. This is a number you're going to see.

250
00:17:53,760 --> 00:17:59,020
And it really, from the, from the, at the end of the day, it doesn't, the money is still the money.

251
00:17:59,240 --> 00:18:01,840
It's not changing. It's just where it's being accounted for.

252
00:18:02,000 --> 00:18:04,660
And there's a little bit of a change in that it's not gross stuff.

253
00:18:04,660 --> 00:18:08,160
see can we give the presentation together as with the

254
00:18:08,160 --> 00:18:11,800
region okay so it's over I think the hard part's over with now we did that

255
00:18:11,800 --> 00:18:17,920
fiscal year 27 so now we'll just be ready to roll and the the issue we're

256
00:18:17,920 --> 00:18:21,960
going to have is what happens when we don't have enough money from it that the

257
00:18:21,960 --> 00:18:26,660
towns have already given us at their region when we when we exhaust all of

258
00:18:26,660 --> 00:18:31,360
that we're going to have to figure out how we go back to the towns to ask for

259
00:18:31,360 --> 00:18:36,560
what we still need. They're not keepers served. Yeah, we'll probably have to

260
00:18:36,560 --> 00:18:40,600
like we'll have to fund it and then add an additional assessment when the

261
00:18:40,600 --> 00:18:44,680
region does their budget for $28, saying we didn't quite give us enough. Now you've

262
00:18:44,680 --> 00:18:52,100
got to give it to us in the $28 budget. So cross that bridge when we come to it, but

263
00:18:52,100 --> 00:18:56,300
that is what you know we've been counseled by the Department of Ed who asked us to

264
00:18:56,300 --> 00:19:00,240
please change our accounting that we really should build up a year's worth of

265
00:19:00,240 --> 00:19:06,420
circuit breaker for each town at the region level. So we have that safety net. So we'll try to

266
00:19:06,420 --> 00:19:13,660
strive towards that. But as you know, the towns are under financial pressure. So to have extra money

267
00:19:13,660 --> 00:19:19,800
that is just sitting there for, I'm going to say a rainy day fund, but we might have other needs for

268
00:19:19,800 --> 00:19:30,300
that. So it'll just be sort of a building. I mean, I felt really good. I do agree to give us

269
00:19:30,300 --> 00:19:36,480
as much as they did. We should be hopefully in a good spot, but you can see how much you can be over.

270
00:19:36,760 --> 00:19:42,740
So ignore the one placement that we knew. We were still hundreds of thousand dollars over.

271
00:19:44,200 --> 00:19:47,020
That's where we were going to be, so that's where it gets a little scary.

272
00:19:47,640 --> 00:19:50,820
This is a residual cough from a cold last week, I promise.

273
00:19:53,080 --> 00:19:59,580
All right, that's it. And then so we'll start talking about 27 in October,

274
00:19:59,580 --> 00:20:02,600
and then you'll actually get your fiscal year 28 budget in a matter.

275
00:20:03,060 --> 00:20:05,900
Great. Thank you. I don't know a bunch of questions.

276
00:20:08,180 --> 00:20:14,560
How do we, or do we plan like long-term planning for building maintenance and like facility

277
00:20:14,560 --> 00:20:19,480
improvements that might be necessary like at some point we'll need to do elementary school?

278
00:20:20,140 --> 00:20:25,140
I don't know when. Well, I think it will not be. So it's actually fairly new.

279
00:20:25,300 --> 00:20:27,540
Right. In the world of schools. Yeah.

280
00:20:27,540 --> 00:20:31,400
So we have a long-range capital plan, and we do a five-year.

281
00:20:31,580 --> 00:20:35,980
So when you get your budget book, there'll actually be a five-year outlook of capital.

282
00:20:36,200 --> 00:20:36,400
OK.

283
00:20:36,820 --> 00:20:41,360
So I think what we had on, potentially, for fiscal year, to ask for 28.

284
00:20:41,700 --> 00:20:46,800
So we're in that sweet spot right now at Chick-Ring, where it's over a little over 20,

285
00:20:46,960 --> 00:20:48,960
you know, it was open in 21.

286
00:20:49,120 --> 00:20:50,520
So we're like 25 years.

287
00:20:51,140 --> 00:20:53,960
We haven't had to do major capital.

288
00:20:54,080 --> 00:20:56,780
So the biggest thing we did was we replaced all the floors.

289
00:20:56,780 --> 00:20:59,860
and we did that in segments, right?

290
00:21:00,400 --> 00:21:02,140
One is, you can't do it all in one year,

291
00:21:02,220 --> 00:21:05,800
but it also helps sort of give a more constant request.

292
00:21:06,500 --> 00:21:09,180
So we've had, we've had one or two years here

293
00:21:09,180 --> 00:21:11,880
where we don't have anything that we, is critical

294
00:21:11,880 --> 00:21:15,460
because if you listen to the town talk right now,

295
00:21:15,720 --> 00:21:18,860
they are in a huge capital crunch right now

296
00:21:18,860 --> 00:21:20,160
with everything else they're doing.

297
00:21:20,380 --> 00:21:23,300
So Chikrem was able to not add to that plate

298
00:21:23,300 --> 00:21:25,580
because the region has to add to that plate.

299
00:21:25,580 --> 00:21:27,880
So we've made a conscious decision to say,

300
00:21:27,880 --> 00:21:30,100
what can we do to sort of help this process

301
00:21:30,100 --> 00:21:32,620
and put some of our stuff off,

302
00:21:32,680 --> 00:21:35,540
and we're not doing any harm to the building at all.

303
00:21:36,040 --> 00:21:37,800
There's still life in everything that we have.

304
00:21:38,100 --> 00:21:40,620
So I forecast one more year

305
00:21:41,020 --> 00:21:43,080
where we're going to have one small project,

306
00:21:43,080 --> 00:21:44,180
I think, we'll bring it forward.

307
00:21:44,600 --> 00:21:47,840
And then we will start doing the larger replacements

308
00:21:47,840 --> 00:21:48,800
of your HVAC.

309
00:21:49,340 --> 00:21:52,440
But there is a 20-year long-range capital plan

310
00:21:52,440 --> 00:22:01,380
that we have in place, that gives us a roadmap to what's forecasted to be as a useful

311
00:22:01,380 --> 00:22:01,760
life.

312
00:22:04,910 --> 00:22:05,530
Great question.

313
00:22:06,690 --> 00:22:07,550
Yeah, it's really well done.

314
00:22:07,910 --> 00:22:10,930
It's really helpful to see all the things coming up.

315
00:22:11,490 --> 00:22:11,590
Yeah.

316
00:22:12,150 --> 00:22:12,270
Right.

317
00:22:12,610 --> 00:22:12,690
Yeah.

318
00:22:13,330 --> 00:22:14,690
You're fortunate that we haven't had.

319
00:22:15,530 --> 00:22:16,230
I'm not going to say anything.

320
00:22:17,710 --> 00:22:18,710
I'm not going to say anything.

321
00:22:18,710 --> 00:22:19,170
I'm not going to say anything.

322
00:22:19,310 --> 00:22:19,610
I'm not going to say anything.

323
00:22:19,610 --> 00:22:19,630
I'm not going to say anything.

324
00:22:20,170 --> 00:22:22,370
Okay, we have no discussion items tonight.

325
00:22:22,370 --> 00:22:25,870
So we're going to move into action items and the first on the agenda is the checkering

326
00:22:25,870 --> 00:22:26,970
school improvement plan.

327
00:22:27,070 --> 00:22:28,070
It's the second read.

328
00:22:35,420 --> 00:22:38,800
Actually, I want to note that I forgot to put the school's name in the header, it really

329
00:22:38,800 --> 00:22:39,280
is ours.

330
00:22:39,700 --> 00:22:40,780
My version has a correct answer.

331
00:22:41,380 --> 00:22:42,880
I assume that it could be.

332
00:22:42,900 --> 00:22:43,980
I know we fixed it.

333
00:22:44,200 --> 00:22:44,840
Oh, you did fix it for me.

334
00:22:44,980 --> 00:22:45,180
Thank you.

335
00:22:48,720 --> 00:22:52,280
We start working on our improvement plan last spring with the help of our school advisory

336
00:22:52,640 --> 00:22:53,000
council.

337
00:22:53,140 --> 00:22:55,680
So Kudos and thanks to that group that helped us work on that.

338
00:22:55,680 --> 00:23:02,620
And then over the summer, Alison Gellingsrude, who's the principal at Pine Hill, and I work

339
00:23:02,620 --> 00:23:06,820
to make sure that our goals are very similar, because I think it's very important that the

340
00:23:06,820 --> 00:23:11,580
schools are similar when it makes sense, and yet each maintain our uniqueness.

341
00:23:13,340 --> 00:23:16,880
I jumped right in, I wanted to give you an update, for instance, we started, I know that gave

342
00:23:16,880 --> 00:23:22,160
us a welcome, but I think it's kind of interesting to look at some of the new, because this has

343
00:23:22,160 --> 00:23:24,220
been a very new year for us.

344
00:23:25,060 --> 00:23:31,400
We have 473 students, which we had about 458 last year, so we're up a little bit, which

345
00:23:31,400 --> 00:23:32,000
is exciting.

346
00:23:33,080 --> 00:23:38,360
As Don will recall, when we opened the building, we had over 600 students, so it's just

347
00:23:38,360 --> 00:23:40,780
interesting to look at the ebb and flow of the population.

348
00:23:40,900 --> 00:23:47,780
But we have two new specialist teachers, one new special educator, five new classroom

349
00:23:47,780 --> 00:23:55,140
teachers. A new preschool special ed coordinator, who we share with Payneal. A new assistant principal,

350
00:23:55,340 --> 00:23:59,680
a new office person whose name conveniently is Kelly, makes it a little bit easier when you call in,

351
00:23:59,820 --> 00:24:07,140
so it's the same name as our previous office admin. Eight new educational assistants and 20 new

352
00:24:07,140 --> 00:24:11,840
students, all the kindergartners are new, so they don't count. But 20 new students that moved in

353
00:24:11,840 --> 00:24:17,100
and two registrations that came in this morning. So we are just, we are flying houses,

354
00:24:17,100 --> 00:24:23,060
are selling and people are enrolling and thank you for your generosity in supporting us as we look

355
00:24:23,060 --> 00:24:27,920
to add classrooms last spring. Remember this is a long discussion. We hit back and forth. We had

356
00:24:28,620 --> 00:24:35,120
seven new first graders and six new second graders move in over the course of last spring and into

357
00:24:35,120 --> 00:24:39,380
the summer. So we are grateful to have that extra space in those rooms. So thank you.

358
00:24:39,560 --> 00:24:44,540
Do you expect that we can make that permanent? That was the biggest hit decision. I think that we made

359
00:24:44,540 --> 00:24:45,800
It has a school community so far.

360
00:24:46,060 --> 00:24:46,760
People loved it.

361
00:24:47,860 --> 00:24:49,900
We start the dance in November.

362
00:24:51,640 --> 00:24:55,340
The place with, yeah, so we will look at how many students in each grade,

363
00:24:55,600 --> 00:24:59,420
what makes sense, how many, you know, if we've got four now, do we roll the four?

364
00:24:59,540 --> 00:25:00,280
Do we change to three?

365
00:25:00,980 --> 00:25:01,680
Yeah, we'll get that.

366
00:25:02,560 --> 00:25:04,700
Think about what you talk about in migration, not migration.

367
00:25:04,700 --> 00:25:09,960
So if we took 20 new students and that's going to make your numbers project,

368
00:25:10,520 --> 00:25:12,940
right, higher, assuming that that might be the trend.

369
00:25:13,340 --> 00:25:18,960
So that's all worked into the formula when we look at, we look at, we use the numbers

370
00:25:18,960 --> 00:25:21,860
that are in the school right now to run the numbers.

371
00:25:22,640 --> 00:25:26,460
But what patterns is going to make those, so those numbers are going to look different

372
00:25:26,460 --> 00:25:27,100
than what we have.

373
00:25:27,180 --> 00:25:28,760
We don't just roll up second to third.

374
00:25:29,320 --> 00:25:34,120
We look at the projections and the three-year history and the one-year history, and then

375
00:25:34,120 --> 00:25:36,500
we take the highest, and that's how we build the budget.

376
00:25:37,160 --> 00:25:41,840
So if we are, yeah, if we draw, if it's great, then actually an accident with growth.

377
00:25:41,840 --> 00:25:42,400
It's kind of excellent.

378
00:25:42,460 --> 00:25:42,560
Yeah.

379
00:25:42,740 --> 00:25:43,500
It's very much.

380
00:25:44,760 --> 00:25:47,240
They have five classrooms, right?

381
00:25:49,950 --> 00:25:49,990
Yeah.

382
00:25:50,530 --> 00:25:50,790
That's great.

383
00:25:51,070 --> 00:25:54,430
I would have to solve that one tonight, but I know that.

384
00:25:54,710 --> 00:25:55,910
That's on our October meeting.

385
00:25:56,250 --> 00:25:56,330
Yeah.

386
00:25:56,450 --> 00:25:57,050
The study.

387
00:25:57,490 --> 00:25:57,790
Okay.

388
00:25:57,970 --> 00:25:58,450
I'll work first.

389
00:25:59,190 --> 00:25:59,710
All right.

390
00:25:59,890 --> 00:26:00,330
Thank you.

391
00:26:00,970 --> 00:26:02,550
So with those.

392
00:26:03,310 --> 00:26:03,930
Lots of new.

393
00:26:04,130 --> 00:26:08,810
It's given us a great opportunity in the building to think about how we do things and what opportunities

394
00:26:08,810 --> 00:26:09,310
we have.

395
00:26:09,890 --> 00:26:13,570
The simplest example I can give is that in the office, one of the things we do is still

396
00:26:13,570 --> 00:26:19,110
keep paper folders for every student and they are sorted by class.

397
00:26:19,410 --> 00:26:22,350
So all of the kindergartners are in with the kindergarten teachers and the first graded

398
00:26:22,350 --> 00:26:25,610
with the first grade teachers and our new admin was coming in.

399
00:26:25,750 --> 00:26:28,470
I said, well, one of the things you need to do is you'll have to graduate everyone.

400
00:26:28,610 --> 00:26:31,390
So you can take all the kindergartners out and put them into all the first grade folders.

401
00:26:32,230 --> 00:26:35,030
And Marie Merkel says our nurse sister principal said, why?

402
00:26:36,470 --> 00:26:37,630
Because that's how we do it.

403
00:26:37,630 --> 00:26:41,270
And she said, well, why don't you just go A to Z for the whole grade?

404
00:26:41,790 --> 00:26:44,890
And then next year, you have to use the change to the label on the front of the drawer.

405
00:26:48,070 --> 00:26:49,970
So it's little things like that.

406
00:26:50,510 --> 00:26:54,710
And it's big things looking at curriculum, Chris and Christine's grade level team meeting today.

407
00:26:55,270 --> 00:27:01,530
And it's such an opportunity, it has so many new staff and new adults in the building to look at what we're doing in, is that a best practice.

408
00:27:02,070 --> 00:27:04,770
So it's been very exciting, as we get started.

409
00:27:05,010 --> 00:27:06,150
Now, the reason for my weekly why?

410
00:27:06,550 --> 00:27:06,710
Yes.

411
00:27:07,670 --> 00:27:09,050
Questioning why we do things that we do.

412
00:27:12,770 --> 00:27:16,150
So back to the school improvement plan in my excitement.

413
00:27:16,790 --> 00:27:21,770
The first goal near and dear to Heather's heart is our ELA curriculum review.

414
00:27:22,310 --> 00:27:26,210
Many of you have lived through the math curriculum review, so a lot of this is familiar.

415
00:27:27,170 --> 00:27:29,330
We are piloting two programs, as you know.

416
00:27:29,470 --> 00:27:35,050
We're piloting a fish tank and emerge and across the two schools.

417
00:27:35,410 --> 00:27:41,470
So, for example, in first grade, if we are doing fish tank, pine hill is doing a merge.

418
00:27:42,950 --> 00:27:49,890
All the way across, so that way we get lots of data across, both schools and lots of student results.

419
00:27:50,110 --> 00:27:55,490
So, many grades we have two, we always have at least one, but often two teachers who are piloting as well.

420
00:27:55,590 --> 00:27:57,210
So, we're getting lots of data and looking at that.

421
00:27:57,370 --> 00:28:04,770
So, that whole first goal is the work that we will do, which will the structure will match very much what we do with the math pilot.

422
00:28:04,770 --> 00:28:08,250
So you'll get updates from us and we'll have the teacher input and student results.

423
00:28:08,670 --> 00:28:12,750
The big question I heard from parents was the worry that if I was in a pilot classroom,

424
00:28:13,830 --> 00:28:17,750
my student would get a different experience than everyone else.

425
00:28:18,270 --> 00:28:21,670
And we go back to, everyone is taught the standards.

426
00:28:22,190 --> 00:28:26,850
So whether you get them through, emerge or whether you get them through our current ELA program,

427
00:28:27,070 --> 00:28:31,670
everyone will have the same instruction and experience by the time we get to the end of the year.

428
00:28:32,230 --> 00:28:38,170
So, and all of the pilot teachers are being supported by Priscilla Steffan, our literacy

429
00:28:38,170 --> 00:28:38,950
coach.

430
00:28:39,590 --> 00:28:40,910
So, it's been very exciting.

431
00:28:42,270 --> 00:28:42,330
I think so.

432
00:28:43,090 --> 00:28:43,230
Yep.

433
00:28:43,830 --> 00:28:45,930
Do we comment by goal?

434
00:28:46,210 --> 00:28:46,670
The CRE?

435
00:28:47,310 --> 00:28:47,690
Sure.

436
00:28:49,510 --> 00:28:53,570
I think that is a question that comes down for the question that has come back a lot, too,

437
00:28:53,650 --> 00:28:58,770
is, are we fixing something that's broken and like, why are we changing?

438
00:28:59,230 --> 00:29:00,250
We just changed math.

439
00:29:00,250 --> 00:29:05,810
and so so I this is just a conversation that questions that are asked so I think in a future

440
00:29:05,810 --> 00:29:11,230
weekly why that could be a good a good topic which is explaining because we had all these

441
00:29:11,230 --> 00:29:17,370
presentations that then you did and not everybody so that's Sherburnt TV. Do we're Sherburnt TV as

442
00:29:17,370 --> 00:29:23,450
much as I do so I'm not sure that everybody's time but a quick tip just to explain that and then

443
00:29:23,450 --> 00:29:31,990
And my other question is when I read the, I guess I'm just wanting more clarity on how

444
00:29:33,410 --> 00:29:41,190
I don't see like how you, I see observed classroom, a lot of observation, but is there

445
00:29:41,190 --> 00:29:46,210
like a standard test that gets passed to all three and we see, again, who does better?

446
00:29:46,270 --> 00:29:51,070
Like how do we evaluate which one I'm assuming student engagement?

447
00:29:51,410 --> 00:29:52,150
I'm just wondering.

448
00:29:52,150 --> 00:29:55,350
I'd like more detail on that if possible.

449
00:29:55,530 --> 00:29:59,690
Yep, so I can do short answers to just feed your curiosity a bit.

450
00:30:00,000 --> 00:30:08,160
We can come back with more. So the first is the why is we have been working in with ELA programs

451
00:30:08,160 --> 00:30:14,900
referred to as Lucy Hawkins or the units of study, which was a strong ELA program when it came

452
00:30:14,900 --> 00:30:21,020
out and it has great advantages to it and many disadvantages to it. It also happens to be a program

453
00:30:21,020 --> 00:30:25,840
that's no longer approved by the Massachusetts Department of Education, which would be a really

454
00:30:25,840 --> 00:30:31,020
a reason not to use it anymore. I am personally very excited that we're going to look at this

455
00:30:31,020 --> 00:30:34,940
more comprehensive way of teaching, which is called Science of Reading. So it's a whole philosophy,

456
00:30:35,380 --> 00:30:40,180
which we can go back to slide decks which Danny presented, but basically it's a much more holistic

457
00:30:40,180 --> 00:30:46,240
look at how we read, write, use our speaking and language skills, which are all part of the Department

458
00:30:46,240 --> 00:30:51,660
of Ed. And so these two programs are approved by the Department of Ed and ways to get to that.

459
00:30:51,660 --> 00:30:51,720
Yeah.

460
00:30:52,380 --> 00:30:53,120
I miss anything.

461
00:30:53,420 --> 00:30:54,220
Do you want to throw anything on that?

462
00:30:54,660 --> 00:30:59,020
What I guess, I mean, I read through the lines from Laurence's questions like, how do

463
00:30:59,020 --> 00:31:00,300
we determine which is more successful?

464
00:31:01,600 --> 00:31:04,620
So we have a few different measures for that.

465
00:31:04,980 --> 00:31:12,840
We are using some common assessments that we have for that assess fluency and comprehension.

466
00:31:12,840 --> 00:31:21,460
And then we also have some, the teachers that are piloting the program.

467
00:31:21,680 --> 00:31:34,900
We have both some quantitative and qualitative data from them as well as far as the rubric that is being used about what needs to go into high quality instructional material.

468
00:31:34,900 --> 00:31:41,420
And so it is, they have to kind of talk about the engagement of students, the supports that

469
00:31:41,420 --> 00:31:45,220
are given, the usability of the materials, the pace.

470
00:31:45,660 --> 00:31:50,800
So there's all those kinds of criteria that we will be assessing as well, kind of ongoing

471
00:31:52,400 --> 00:31:54,540
as frequent as a weekly basis.

472
00:31:55,180 --> 00:32:02,380
And then we have meetings to try and talk about those points with the teachers that are

473
00:32:02,380 --> 00:32:03,520
pioneering across the district.

474
00:32:03,520 --> 00:32:11,340
So we have some of that quantitative data that we are using, but some of that qualitative as well.

475
00:32:15,630 --> 00:32:23,110
It's about the how the teacher can implement and how the ease of teaching it or the ease of understanding for the children.

476
00:32:23,570 --> 00:32:27,230
If we are asking both, you know, how were the students engaged?

477
00:32:27,530 --> 00:32:29,690
What was the learning that the students got out of it?

478
00:32:29,690 --> 00:32:35,150
So we have questions that are talking about the implementation, but also the learning

479
00:32:35,150 --> 00:32:36,050
that's taking place.

480
00:32:36,950 --> 00:32:41,550
And we ask it regularly for both programs at each care bubble.

481
00:32:42,150 --> 00:32:43,210
But there's no testing.

482
00:32:44,310 --> 00:32:49,870
Is there, do you test, because my question, I guess, where I'm trying to get to, is what

483
00:32:49,870 --> 00:32:56,490
is that program that we have right now that is not acceptable by the state anymore?

484
00:32:57,630 --> 00:33:05,710
What if they get better grades with that program and that turns out that how do we see if it's a better program?

485
00:33:05,930 --> 00:33:17,210
So during our pilot we have baseline assessment in divils which assesses their fluency and their comprehension.

486
00:33:18,110 --> 00:33:22,430
And so everyone takes that whether they are pilot classroom or non-pilot classroom.

487
00:33:22,430 --> 00:33:28,770
And then they are, we will look at those results again at the end of the pilot as well.

488
00:33:29,110 --> 00:33:37,150
So that would be one measure that we're looking at as far as how each of the emerge classrooms

489
00:33:37,150 --> 00:33:43,950
do, the visiting classrooms do and the classrooms that are not piloting this year.

490
00:33:44,530 --> 00:33:52,170
There's a whole rubric that we go through that looks at student performance, engagement

491
00:33:52,170 --> 00:33:56,790
teacher engagement and so there's a whole metric from the state that helps us

492
00:33:56,790 --> 00:34:01,630
to figure out which curriculum will best meet the needs of our students so it's

493
00:34:01,630 --> 00:34:05,950
it's elaborate. It's the same rubric that we use with the math program.

494
00:34:06,590 --> 00:34:12,650
I don't know. Stay tuned. I know. I think that student data is part of it. I just wanted to

495
00:34:12,650 --> 00:34:16,190
think we're introducing something else not broken but it is broken because the

496
00:34:16,190 --> 00:34:21,390
program's not acceptable. Well fortunately because of politics the program has

497
00:34:21,390 --> 00:34:26,290
evolved to include science reading, but because there are certain companies with agendas

498
00:34:26,290 --> 00:34:30,550
and there's a wait list to be audited to determine if you meet the state criteria, Lucy

499
00:34:30,550 --> 00:34:32,870
Caucus has not been audited yet, so it's not on the list.

500
00:34:33,290 --> 00:34:34,790
That's where we have to choose something else.

501
00:34:35,570 --> 00:34:39,670
Work that we've been doing with kids, thanks to the teachers bending over backwards and adapting

502
00:34:39,670 --> 00:34:44,090
the program and catching up with the new materials is meeting the needs of kids, but because

503
00:34:44,090 --> 00:34:51,270
it's not on the state list of acceptable programs yet, or if ever, because of politics.

504
00:34:53,310 --> 00:34:57,190
So we've started with that and then we've pieced on empowering writer, we've pieced

505
00:34:57,190 --> 00:34:58,270
on foundations, right?

506
00:34:58,330 --> 00:35:00,930
We've added all these pieces that we felt were missing from the core program.

507
00:35:01,310 --> 00:35:08,570
So we have this multi-armed L.A. program that is based here in Lucy Caucus, but those other

508
00:35:08,570 --> 00:35:09,430
programs as well.

509
00:35:09,930 --> 00:35:14,250
So wouldn't it be nice if you had just one big clear program with a really clear vertical

510
00:35:14,250 --> 00:35:14,630
alignment?

511
00:35:14,950 --> 00:35:18,170
I think that, to me, the piece that's missing is that really clear piece about, this is

512
00:35:18,170 --> 00:35:19,410
what happens at each grade level.

513
00:35:19,410 --> 00:35:21,290
So that's the goal.

514
00:35:21,650 --> 00:35:22,810
That image really helped me.

515
00:35:27,950 --> 00:35:30,670
I understand better where she did.

516
00:35:30,930 --> 00:35:31,610
Thank you.

517
00:35:32,530 --> 00:35:34,450
My question on goal one.

518
00:35:34,910 --> 00:35:36,090
Ready for goal two?

519
00:35:37,170 --> 00:35:37,750
I don't have a question.

520
00:35:40,050 --> 00:35:41,050
Goal two is one.

521
00:35:44,430 --> 00:35:51,270
Goal tool is the one that is our chance to look at all of the changes we made in the schedule.

522
00:35:51,790 --> 00:35:56,150
We did a lot of work last year, teachers did a ton of work last year to make changes,

523
00:35:56,330 --> 00:35:59,290
look at time on learning, look at minutes and classrooms and on content,

524
00:36:00,270 --> 00:36:05,890
and we've added in our health and wellness, we're adding in music workshop, we've cut back on Spanish,

525
00:36:06,790 --> 00:36:11,070
We've done, there's a lot that's happened and we're expanding library and technology.

526
00:36:11,750 --> 00:36:17,030
So we really want to give ourselves the grace and time to, this is a goal for this

527
00:36:17,030 --> 00:36:20,170
year is to live the schedule and look at what's working, what isn't working.

528
00:36:20,690 --> 00:36:22,490
We've already made some tweaks and changes.

529
00:36:23,910 --> 00:36:29,370
We're looking at, you know, half day Wednesdays and how do we use those and how do we look at

530
00:36:29,370 --> 00:36:32,470
professional development as matched to the needs of the school.

531
00:36:32,470 --> 00:36:42,130
So this is just a big piece to do like let's just live it for the year and then as we go along what changes do we need to make we've already started with changes for the schedule for next year.

532
00:36:42,250 --> 00:36:51,770
Oh, that's going to change too. Let's live music workshop right so that opportunities just do that work. Live that work from last year.

533
00:36:51,770 --> 00:36:59,030
This might be coming up with a curriculum night, knowing how big of a community discussion

534
00:36:59,030 --> 00:37:05,450
the Spanish decision was, is there an opportunity to sort of refresh what parents should expect

535
00:37:05,450 --> 00:37:08,450
the overall curriculum to look like to say, like this is-

536
00:37:08,450 --> 00:37:08,910
For Spanish?

537
00:37:09,510 --> 00:37:13,970
No, holistically, because we were to Spanish in favor of adding other things, and it'd

538
00:37:13,970 --> 00:37:20,290
be nice to kind of give that nod to what is being added and why we're so excited for it.

539
00:37:20,290 --> 00:37:27,850
I agree. It might require it. It might require it. Yeah, I lied. I actually had question on my second page.

540
00:37:28,050 --> 00:37:35,170
But I was wondering because a lot was said to about the changes in the schedule to accommodate

541
00:37:35,170 --> 00:37:40,710
transition times and that time was wasted and this survey was passed on to the teacher where they were

542
00:37:42,710 --> 00:37:49,010
telling you what their ideals would be and the things are we going to compare in your evaluation

543
00:37:49,010 --> 00:37:54,670
of it, are you going to reissue that same survey and see if that effectively met their

544
00:37:54,670 --> 00:37:55,030
needs?

545
00:37:55,270 --> 00:37:56,410
Is that part of that?

546
00:37:56,550 --> 00:37:59,850
We'll do a similar survey, I think there were some flaws in the way that we gathered

547
00:37:59,850 --> 00:38:02,350
all the data in that one, but we'll be looking at those pieces.

548
00:38:02,690 --> 00:38:07,370
So there's an example of these transitions, which is because there weren't many, but it seems

549
00:38:07,370 --> 00:38:12,250
to be a piece that people are hanging out to, is you might, in the old schedule, have come

550
00:38:12,250 --> 00:38:16,390
out of the lunch and you had this weird 10 minutes before you had to go to Spanish, right?

551
00:38:16,390 --> 00:38:20,430
and it's just kind of the way the whole blocks are author because most of the items in the schedule

552
00:38:20,430 --> 00:38:26,630
going 45 minute blocks, except lunch didn't exactly, and now it does, so there's like, so

553
00:38:26,630 --> 00:38:31,390
those weird 10 minute pieces are like moving them in. Well, if it's winter time in your first grade,

554
00:38:32,030 --> 00:38:35,850
you're getting your snow pants off and on, right? But in other grades, so there's like those little,

555
00:38:35,950 --> 00:38:42,830
some of those little weird 10, 15 minute pieces have been absorbed other ways by moving pieces around.

556
00:38:43,530 --> 00:38:45,690
changing like when specials start in end.

557
00:38:45,870 --> 00:38:50,870
I think it stayed in people's mind because that was the argument used during your presentation.

558
00:38:51,910 --> 00:38:52,770
It was real.

559
00:38:55,070 --> 00:38:55,470
Okay.

560
00:38:55,670 --> 00:38:56,550
And the other thing.

561
00:38:56,690 --> 00:38:58,970
I know you said at the end of the year, you're going to live.

562
00:38:59,250 --> 00:39:02,490
I think it just seems like a lot to wait till the end.

563
00:39:02,650 --> 00:39:06,010
Will you update us using quarterly or half the year?

564
00:39:06,190 --> 00:39:06,530
Or does this.

565
00:39:07,130 --> 00:39:07,530
Yes.

566
00:39:07,530 --> 00:39:14,170
So we'll need to have a lot of our responses and reactions to this sooner.

567
00:39:14,390 --> 00:39:18,350
We start rebuilding the schedule in March, so we, like when we start doing placement

568
00:39:18,350 --> 00:39:22,470
and then we start, there's also a peril scheduling committee, so a lot of that work starts

569
00:39:22,470 --> 00:39:23,170
up in the spring.

570
00:39:23,510 --> 00:39:23,650
Okay.

571
00:39:23,950 --> 00:39:24,030
Okay.

572
00:39:24,930 --> 00:39:28,150
And there might be small shifts to the schedule, but I think when we were discussing this,

573
00:39:28,290 --> 00:39:31,830
we all agreed that we're going to have to live with the new contents and content areas

574
00:39:31,830 --> 00:39:33,590
and specials being what they offer at least a year.

575
00:39:33,590 --> 00:39:38,650
I don't think it's fair and to decide now that we need less technology that we

576
00:39:38,650 --> 00:39:41,790
anticipated, with not even having met the standards through June yet.

577
00:39:41,990 --> 00:39:42,610
Oh no, totally.

578
00:39:42,950 --> 00:39:43,670
How did you do it?

579
00:39:44,050 --> 00:39:45,910
Always good to communicate if it works well.

580
00:39:46,250 --> 00:39:46,570
So, yeah.

581
00:39:46,730 --> 00:39:46,870
Oh yeah.

582
00:39:47,130 --> 00:39:49,670
So I think there'll be a different pieces of different times.

583
00:39:49,950 --> 00:39:52,310
And has the health and wellness has that launched?

584
00:39:53,230 --> 00:39:57,730
So, how many times a week are the different, like roughly how many times a week are the

585
00:39:57,730 --> 00:40:02,590
different, or months are the different grades, getting, I just, I miss Mr. Karnes, I didn't

586
00:40:07,210 --> 00:40:12,850
So, two parts of that. So, everyone has six specials now. So, everyone has one day

587
00:40:12,850 --> 00:40:16,430
a week where they have a double special, all the students. Health and wellness sits on

588
00:40:16,430 --> 00:40:23,130
top of that and Jim splits between Pine Hill and Checkering. So, roughly he's at Pine Hill

589
00:40:23,670 --> 00:40:29,710
Monday Tuesdays and with us Thursday Fridays. And then his whole schedule is broken into nine

590
00:40:29,710 --> 00:40:35,050
week chunks, so he'll be with K2 and I'm going to get this grades wrong.

591
00:40:36,510 --> 00:40:40,550
Three of the grades, K2 4 would say for now. He'll do nine weeks with them,

592
00:40:40,650 --> 00:40:45,810
so he'll go in and do a half an hour lesson in those classrooms, and then the

593
00:40:45,810 --> 00:40:49,430
next nine weeks he'll do the other three grades, so he flips like that through

594
00:40:49,430 --> 00:40:57,090
the year. So if you don't have health now you will in nine weeks have half an

595
00:40:57,090 --> 00:41:02,070
health lesson once a week. Okay. That makes sense. Thank you. And then I have to fill the

596
00:41:02,070 --> 00:41:06,230
dollar stuff now. Yes. Yeah. It's in the classroom time. Yeah. And this is just curiosity. What is

597
00:41:06,230 --> 00:41:06,850
character strong?

598
00:41:09,360 --> 00:41:14,720
So good one. It is. So character strong is the SEL curriculum that we adopted. I'm sorry

599
00:41:14,720 --> 00:41:22,740
to put you right back. That we adopted last spring. Okay. It's Pine Hill and Chickering. Use it as

600
00:41:22,740 --> 00:41:29,340
well as the middle school and high school. It is a social emotional curriculum which we heard

601
00:41:29,340 --> 00:41:34,120
from teachers and parents alike that we needed to bring something in responsive classroom is

602
00:41:34,120 --> 00:41:41,520
a way of framing your day and framing your classroom and how you respond and react to your peers

603
00:41:41,520 --> 00:41:46,780
and others. Character strong is that piece that like the unit for September is kindness.

604
00:41:52,120 --> 00:41:52,720
It's all

605
00:41:52,720 --> 00:41:57,680
kids, and so they're very engaging, and there's lessons and games, and it feels very

606
00:41:57,680 --> 00:42:01,160
much like a responsive cluster, but is that very specific piece about like someone is

607
00:42:01,160 --> 00:42:05,060
saying at a table by themselves, how do you go over and say hi, right? So it's like

608
00:42:05,060 --> 00:42:10,920
that really basic, how to be a kind person. Next one, all October is respect. So it's

609
00:42:10,920 --> 00:42:22,380
we're slowly rolling it out. It's set up, so you do a few pieces in September, and

610
00:42:26,740 --> 00:42:26,860
then

611
00:42:26,860 --> 00:42:30,440
I hit it yet. They have not signed. They've not started yet.

612
00:42:30,700 --> 00:42:32,560
They haven't started, but they haven't started.

613
00:42:33,380 --> 00:42:36,440
So we, not, it's sort of low, I'll be honest.

614
00:42:36,740 --> 00:42:37,380
It's like, so it's what?

615
00:42:37,700 --> 00:42:37,840
Flow.

616
00:42:38,220 --> 00:42:38,420
Flow.

617
00:42:38,680 --> 00:42:42,080
Yeah, but we're running on Spanish.

618
00:42:42,360 --> 00:42:44,240
We're running on one on one, two during time on Spanish.

619
00:42:44,380 --> 00:42:44,860
No, not quite.

620
00:42:45,040 --> 00:42:47,720
So they'll run a class with at least eight,

621
00:42:47,900 --> 00:42:50,020
and we've asked them to run a class with at least six.

622
00:42:50,280 --> 00:42:50,440
Okay.

623
00:42:50,740 --> 00:42:56,340
So we are doing K2 French, K2 Spanish.

624
00:42:56,340 --> 00:43:03,340
Spanish and in 35 French and 35 Spanish. So we're running all of them but we

625
00:43:03,340 --> 00:43:08,500
definitely have still space. I think that Christine Deely is sending out I think

626
00:43:08,500 --> 00:43:13,060
Friday she's on out at are you you know we're still looking people want to sign

627
00:43:13,060 --> 00:43:20,640
up and so we're running everything that we published. I will say I think at

628
00:43:20,640 --> 00:43:25,140
pineal was the only place we had to we had to collapse too because we didn't have

629
00:43:25,140 --> 00:43:31,380
enough, but we are running everything that was. Now, it could be that we'll still run

630
00:43:31,380 --> 00:43:36,960
them in the winter, because we'll be able to either continue and also add new sections

631
00:43:36,960 --> 00:43:42,840
so we'll be able to sit back and see. I know that part of Community Ed's drive to is to

632
00:43:42,840 --> 00:43:48,480
bring other new things to you. So I think she's worked really hard to add some new classes

633
00:43:48,480 --> 00:43:55,180
And we're, you know, seeing great response to who's weightless for a couple of the classes.

634
00:43:55,360 --> 00:44:00,920
So I think it's variety, but we're definitely, um, have offered that for those who want

635
00:44:00,920 --> 00:44:01,460
to participate.

636
00:44:01,680 --> 00:44:05,920
And then I think the information went out through Parent Square, uh, if you don't want to

637
00:44:05,920 --> 00:44:06,640
do it after school.

638
00:44:06,640 --> 00:44:11,580
Here's some other options that parents have if you want to sort of fill that in.

639
00:44:11,700 --> 00:44:13,060
I think it's an important initiative.

640
00:44:13,320 --> 00:44:15,040
I'm disappointing that attendance is low.

641
00:44:15,200 --> 00:44:16,300
I suspect it'll grow.

642
00:44:16,700 --> 00:44:17,020
Yeah.

643
00:44:17,020 --> 00:44:23,860
but it was a very difficult decision and I know we promised this to the community and it's really

644
00:44:23,860 --> 00:44:28,300
it's like I'm really impressed that when I when I saw come through I was really pleased that it had

645
00:44:28,300 --> 00:44:35,960
and yeah well global global child was here before we had yeah in school as much as I was

646
00:44:35,960 --> 00:44:45,640
a relationship that we had and they predominantly then administer classes through public school so

647
00:44:45,640 --> 00:44:49,700
Native has I think a pretty big global child program. They have lots of

648
00:44:49,700 --> 00:44:53,620
languages. That's why we did the survey to see what people wanted. I will say

649
00:44:53,620 --> 00:44:59,680
the results back from Chickering were like 73% when it's Spanish. And then the

650
00:45:08,660 --> 00:45:29,980
So, that meant that was great that we could do the same languages in both because that was sort of a desire of the clients of the community. So, I'd be curious to see, hopefully, I mean, it's a well established program. They have their own curriculum. I think it's really good.

651
00:45:29,980 --> 00:45:35,220
think that the issue I struggle with is how that's going to work in with what our kids

652
00:45:35,220 --> 00:45:43,200
already know with Spanish and how it incorporates with what our Spanish program is still doing.

653
00:45:43,620 --> 00:45:49,320
So it's not conflicting to a student, so that time will tell for that,

654
00:45:51,440 --> 00:45:52,640
and they know that

655
00:45:52,640 --> 00:45:57,460
they have to adapt in the older grades that you've got students that already have some

656
00:45:57,460 --> 00:46:03,160
basis. So I think their first sessions will be just like, let's find out what we need and

657
00:46:03,160 --> 00:46:09,520
they will amend their curriculum appropriately. And French could is going to be all known because

658
00:46:09,520 --> 00:46:14,840
that's going to happen. Exactly. French is all known. And really it's the art of learning the language

659
00:46:15,660 --> 00:46:20,180
is what brings to the up. So your brain development, right? That's why we brought

660
00:46:21,060 --> 00:46:26,280
class back, or any world language into the school is the benefits that you're

661
00:46:26,280 --> 00:46:32,420
supposed to see in that, the ELA, just making your brain sort of learn that for

662
00:46:32,420 --> 00:46:34,720
it. So any of it's beneficial.

663
00:46:37,340 --> 00:46:39,640
So yeah, I'm sure we'll be, I'm sure community

664
00:46:39,640 --> 00:46:43,980
ed, we'll look at, you know, get a survey and just see if people like it and I'm

665
00:46:43,980 --> 00:46:49,380
sure the numbers will tell us that too. But yeah, everything's running and looking

666
00:46:49,380 --> 00:46:57,140
for space. I think just to take you back on the enrollment and everything, but I think

667
00:46:57,140 --> 00:47:01,960
just like we're testing this in the schedule for us this year, we should not take these

668
00:47:01,960 --> 00:47:07,300
numbers as an indicator. Oh absolutely. No, we're not. And we were ready for more. So we were

669
00:47:07,900 --> 00:47:16,800
nervous. So there is capacity and then there's capacity, you know, to even double. So we're

670
00:47:16,800 --> 00:47:23,720
very good thing. And then my other question on that topic is who runs the community yet? Is it us?

671
00:47:24,180 --> 00:47:32,160
It's the region. The region? Because the comment that we hear and we totally agree with is I

672
00:47:32,160 --> 00:47:38,140
didn't want to get paid. Like this stuff that they have is so hard. So it's a brand new system. Oh,

673
00:47:38,160 --> 00:47:44,900
is that it? Yes. So we moved to Arbiter scheduling, which is where you sign up and then the payment is

674
00:47:44,900 --> 00:47:52,300
going into unipay, which we use for so much, which is time we do taxes. So it is like it's

675
00:47:52,300 --> 00:48:00,980
two systems now, but we lost our old payments system, which was embedded in the registration.

676
00:48:01,520 --> 00:48:06,320
So we, this is both to brand new, well, brand new system for Arbiter. So we've had to build

677
00:48:06,320 --> 00:48:12,260
the schedule, and then we added it to unipay. So any feedback you have, let me know.

678
00:48:12,260 --> 00:48:15,380
Okay, I'll write here an email with how hard it was because you could register.

679
00:48:15,880 --> 00:48:16,080
Yeah.

680
00:48:16,080 --> 00:48:20,180
Then when I was just trying to pay, it took me like, yeah, I was just going to pay a lot

681
00:48:20,180 --> 00:48:20,460
of money.

682
00:48:20,880 --> 00:48:22,440
But it shouldn't be that hard.

683
00:48:22,900 --> 00:48:26,860
But it shouldn't be that hard though because you just go to unipane and there's a good and

684
00:48:26,860 --> 00:48:27,320
fine.

685
00:48:27,780 --> 00:48:34,240
You had to put D for it to pop, but if you put D over, you had to put D over dash or for it to

686
00:48:34,240 --> 00:48:34,560
pop up.

687
00:48:34,640 --> 00:48:35,240
No, not even.

688
00:48:35,560 --> 00:48:36,620
It's the only deal.

689
00:48:36,900 --> 00:48:40,860
Like we had to find a trick, like it was, yeah, I know because you can't make the place

690
00:48:40,860 --> 00:48:44,680
should take to you know pay and you have to come but it says I copy this and put it there or

691
00:48:44,680 --> 00:48:49,440
if you did that you could have paid so anyway I'll send you an email so yeah but I know I

692
00:48:49,440 --> 00:48:55,740
know I've done Christine's hearing you as well oh yeah but you know one by the time you figure it

693
00:48:55,740 --> 00:48:58,640
out though you'll be great because everything here at the region we pay I need to pay I need to pay

694
00:48:58,640 --> 00:49:03,220
there's no way I can go back okay I'm just gonna press that I haven't gotten a point from my

695
00:49:03,220 --> 00:49:08,800
soul and that because I'm normally the form guy maybe you have a pain it's possible to be a register it's

696
00:49:08,800 --> 00:49:17,880
finding the link, because you can't go to town at Dover, but I pay my excise tax, I need to pay for a town at Dover.

697
00:49:18,220 --> 00:49:22,800
So thank God Dawn pays attention to every detail because she realized that my family pay for parking twice.

698
00:49:23,460 --> 00:49:24,800
You can get a reimbursement.

699
00:49:25,340 --> 00:49:25,660
Here you go.

700
00:49:26,140 --> 00:49:27,180
I still have a pay school parking.

701
00:49:29,020 --> 00:49:30,240
I have to park in the room.

702
00:49:30,540 --> 00:49:30,960
We didn't know.

703
00:49:31,360 --> 00:49:34,260
I just wanted the print to go through.

704
00:49:34,820 --> 00:49:35,320
So we press send.

705
00:49:37,360 --> 00:49:43,700
So we will work, we'll try to work out those kinks, but it unipay is something that we use every day here at the region.

706
00:49:44,000 --> 00:49:51,200
So you'll be, you'll be ready to roll. But I know it's confusing because even when I go sometimes to see what the site looks like from.

707
00:49:51,820 --> 00:49:56,460
The user ends, you have to type weirdly to get to overshurbering to show up.

708
00:49:56,600 --> 00:49:57,460
It sounds about as a husband.

709
00:49:58,780 --> 00:50:00,280
That's true. It's a perspective there.

710
00:50:11,260 --> 00:50:16,400
So go through is looking at increasing student engagement through active responsive learning.

711
00:50:17,100 --> 00:50:22,120
So that is looking at how our students engage in the learning.

712
00:50:22,720 --> 00:50:25,220
It actually ties nicely the work we've been doing at the leadership meetings.

713
00:50:25,780 --> 00:50:37,780
All of the school leaders are working, have been working, I think every Wednesday since we started the school year at looking at how we align our observations and look at student engagement, what does that look like in the classroom?

714
00:50:38,980 --> 00:50:43,600
Are we engaged or are we compliant? Is really one of those big questions. So we're doing that work at our level.

715
00:50:44,580 --> 00:50:48,200
It's also including a screen time audit, which I'm very excited for.

716
00:50:48,200 --> 00:50:53,760
Yeah, that's wonderful because I've got any number of kiddos to go home and tell their parents that they were on their iPad all day

717
00:50:53,760 --> 00:50:57,420
And I can 100% guarantee that they were not on their iPad all day

718
00:50:58,000 --> 00:50:59,820
Partly because they haven't been out in some classrooms yet

719
00:51:00,580 --> 00:51:07,160
But it's just that piece of like how much are we using and are we using the screens purposefully right is it what's what's the purpose of that

720
00:51:07,160 --> 00:51:11,380
So Heather's leading up that group of Heather Brandon or leading that one up. So I'm looking forward to that one

721
00:51:12,260 --> 00:51:14,720
And then looking at all of the ways that we do instruction

722
00:51:14,720 --> 00:51:19,000
So it's using pieces from perhaps a pilot lesson, how do we use that in the classroom?

723
00:51:19,320 --> 00:51:20,380
Use a strategy across.

724
00:51:20,640 --> 00:51:25,800
So a lot more interprofessional development, we found that when we did that as a district

725
00:51:25,800 --> 00:51:31,260
when you have a local expert or a local person within speak and train, it's very powerful.

726
00:51:31,740 --> 00:51:37,340
So we'll be looking at project-based learning and looking at engagement across the school.

727
00:51:37,980 --> 00:51:39,040
We'll be sharing that with you.

728
00:51:39,580 --> 00:51:43,220
We will continue our learning walks if you recall that was one of the goals from last year.

729
00:51:43,220 --> 00:51:45,840
I'm sorry, but you just tell us a little about what is a learning walk?

730
00:51:46,120 --> 00:51:46,460
Absolutely.

731
00:51:47,020 --> 00:51:50,420
So learning walks can take different forms.

732
00:51:52,040 --> 00:51:59,240
Generally, it's an opportunity when a coach or a Marine or I will lead a group of people

733
00:51:59,240 --> 00:52:02,480
who are interested in looking at what does engagement look like in a kindergarten classroom?

734
00:52:02,960 --> 00:52:08,160
Or how do I, what's engagement look like in a book club in third grade?

735
00:52:08,760 --> 00:52:10,340
And you have three or four teachers who are interested.

736
00:52:10,540 --> 00:52:12,060
It might be the other third grade teachers.

737
00:52:12,060 --> 00:52:15,180
and we as a group decide what we're looking for,

738
00:52:15,240 --> 00:52:16,340
we go in and we watch a classroom

739
00:52:16,340 --> 00:52:18,400
and then we talk about it and discuss

740
00:52:18,400 --> 00:52:20,780
and perhaps that teacher who is teaching joins us.

741
00:52:21,340 --> 00:52:25,160
Or it may be, what does grammar instruction look like

742
00:52:25,160 --> 00:52:26,560
in fifth grade if I'm in kindergarten?

743
00:52:27,200 --> 00:52:28,420
So it's finding all these pieces

744
00:52:28,420 --> 00:52:30,380
that people are interested in, gathering groups

745
00:52:30,380 --> 00:52:33,360
and going in to observe and watch classrooms,

746
00:52:33,380 --> 00:52:34,500
usually a couple of classrooms.

747
00:52:35,100 --> 00:52:36,660
The hardest piece of it is a ranging coverage.

748
00:52:37,080 --> 00:52:39,300
Later on, it's just the logistics of getting it set up

749
00:52:39,300 --> 00:52:40,860
so that I can steal two teachers

750
00:52:40,860 --> 00:52:44,200
to go watch a third teacher without any people with those, you know,

751
00:52:44,380 --> 00:52:48,000
it's one of those pieces of suspense. If we did the last year and got great acclaim,

752
00:52:48,320 --> 00:52:52,880
let's get people ready to jump in. So it's good. Thank you.

753
00:52:54,720 --> 00:53:01,220
The last questions on that one? No. The last goal is different from Pine Health.

754
00:53:01,360 --> 00:53:05,300
This is a checkering only goal right now. Think of who are the people in your neighborhood?

755
00:53:05,800 --> 00:53:09,540
Is really what this comes from. So we're going to use our school advisor counsel who asked

756
00:53:09,540 --> 00:53:14,100
for homework, so they'll have homework. And it's looking at making those connections across

757
00:53:14,540 --> 00:53:20,820
the community who are the people in Dover and Sherburn and Boston who want to come into the schools

758
00:53:20,820 --> 00:53:25,220
or might be interested in coming to share what their professional and personal experience would be.

759
00:53:25,520 --> 00:53:30,640
You might have some tinkerers in third grade and we have an inventor in town. It wouldn't be nice if

760
00:53:30,640 --> 00:53:36,400
we could set up a time for them to meet and share ideas and make connections. We might have a retired

761
00:53:36,400 --> 00:53:39,960
teacher in town who wants to come back and read to a classroom. Perhaps there's someone

762
00:53:39,960 --> 00:53:42,920
who said they should have been a teacher and they want to come back and read to a classroom.

763
00:53:43,540 --> 00:53:48,020
So this is looking at those connections for who's in the community and what desires do

764
00:53:48,020 --> 00:53:55,440
we have in the school to connect or reach out to. So we'll see how that plays out and what

765
00:53:56,020 --> 00:53:59,660
opportunities arise from that. So looking at that and looking at that.

766
00:53:59,760 --> 00:54:04,100
Sounds like something that maybe would have fostered something like girls in the run,

767
00:54:04,100 --> 00:54:06,240
which was a massive success.

768
00:54:06,600 --> 00:54:07,080
Yes, it was.

769
00:54:07,280 --> 00:54:09,040
Really, it was a really special program.

770
00:54:10,420 --> 00:54:12,580
And the stroke, like the integration,

771
00:54:12,800 --> 00:54:15,860
not with the woman who is the CEO living in Dover

772
00:54:15,860 --> 00:54:17,420
was like such a serendipitous street.

773
00:54:17,560 --> 00:54:18,320
It was really cool.

774
00:54:18,700 --> 00:54:21,160
Yeah, yeah, it was a great piece.

775
00:54:23,300 --> 00:54:23,860
There we are.

776
00:54:24,260 --> 00:54:25,340
I think we'll be busy.

777
00:54:25,720 --> 00:54:25,880
Yeah.

778
00:54:26,900 --> 00:54:29,360
So we're speculating your request to approval

779
00:54:29,760 --> 00:54:30,760
of our school performance.

780
00:54:31,460 --> 00:54:31,900
All right.

781
00:54:38,300 --> 00:54:47,360
action then so may I have my motion to approve the checkering school

782
00:54:47,360 --> 00:54:53,220
program plan second read take up the move we have a second and we're gonna take

783
00:54:53,220 --> 00:54:58,100
a roll call because goalie is first of all so goalie separate goalie

784
00:55:00,910 --> 00:55:00,990
is

785
00:55:00,990 --> 00:55:01,730
So there you are.

786
00:55:02,770 --> 00:55:03,070
Kevin?

787
00:55:03,550 --> 00:55:04,030
Kevin Bill.

788
00:55:04,150 --> 00:55:04,290
Yes.

789
00:55:05,050 --> 00:55:05,430
Okay.

790
00:55:05,630 --> 00:55:05,930
Cook.

791
00:55:06,090 --> 00:55:06,190
Yes.

792
00:55:06,930 --> 00:55:07,630
We're asking us.

793
00:55:07,810 --> 00:55:07,950
Yes.

794
00:55:08,270 --> 00:55:08,550
And Jesse.

795
00:55:08,690 --> 00:55:09,010
Oh, yes.

796
00:55:09,590 --> 00:55:14,010
The action item is approved unanimously.

797
00:55:14,970 --> 00:55:15,050
Yes.

798
00:55:16,290 --> 00:55:16,570
Thanks.

799
00:55:16,570 --> 00:55:16,850
Thanks.

800
00:55:17,150 --> 00:55:23,130
So the second action item tonight is the appointment of the meco liaison to the school committee

801
00:55:23,130 --> 00:55:27,110
who is Sally Princeton, who is joining us virtually.

802
00:55:28,450 --> 00:55:34,550
anything that you'd like to add. Now, I would just like to thank Sally for coming back

803
00:55:34,550 --> 00:55:36,410
and Sally, I don't know if there's anything you'd like to share.

804
00:55:37,650 --> 00:55:41,850
So, I just wanted to thank you again for placing me in the MECO liaison.

805
00:55:42,490 --> 00:55:50,130
I really appreciate this opportunity to continue again to share as a MECO family and also a member

806
00:55:50,130 --> 00:55:54,770
of the MECO parent council, which is our group of parents that mean once a month.

807
00:55:54,770 --> 00:56:00,230
I feel it's very important that we're able to have this role and be able to go back

808
00:56:00,230 --> 00:56:05,670
to our families and confirm them or all the decisions that are being made in our schools

809
00:56:05,670 --> 00:56:11,050
because I'm not sure they would have the opportunity to, you know, get this information

810
00:56:11,050 --> 00:56:11,770
otherwise.

811
00:56:12,270 --> 00:56:16,210
So we really appreciate the role and thank you for pointing me on the chair.

812
00:56:16,670 --> 00:56:18,070
We appreciate your time.

813
00:56:19,330 --> 00:56:26,690
All right, may I have a motion to approve Sally, for instance, as the Met Coli is on to the school committee?

814
00:56:27,630 --> 00:56:30,050
Kevin Belky, motion to approve.

815
00:56:30,430 --> 00:56:31,430
Do we have a second?

816
00:56:32,170 --> 00:56:33,170
The wrongs for Gelsky's second.

817
00:56:34,390 --> 00:56:37,030
Now we're going to do roll call starting with Goli.

818
00:56:38,190 --> 00:56:39,270
Goli is a very yes.

819
00:56:40,230 --> 00:56:40,470
Kevin?

820
00:56:40,730 --> 00:56:41,510
Kevin Belky's yes.

821
00:56:41,870 --> 00:56:42,850
Hey, take a guess.

822
00:56:43,530 --> 00:56:44,350
The wrongs for Gelsky's?

823
00:56:44,470 --> 00:56:51,850
And Jesse Hall, yes, the motion to appoint Sally Fernstein as the Matt Collieson is approved unanimously.

824
00:56:53,030 --> 00:56:53,170
All right.

825
00:56:53,390 --> 00:56:54,610
Thank you.

826
00:56:56,330 --> 00:57:02,070
Next on the agenda is consent items, which is the approval of building rental fees, the

827
00:57:02,070 --> 00:57:10,210
approval of FY 2027 non-resident tuition and the approval of DSC Minutes June 22nd, 2026.

828
00:57:10,550 --> 00:57:11,890
June 22nd, 2026.

829
00:57:11,890 --> 00:57:16,030
It makes sense. It's far down to give you a little bit of context about the first two.

830
00:57:17,790 --> 00:57:24,170
So we looked across all three districts at our building rental rates. We've

831
00:57:24,170 --> 00:57:28,950
tried to do it like every three to four years. We also one of the main drivers was

832
00:57:28,950 --> 00:57:33,510
the new turf. We wanted to make sure the rates that we were charging at the region

833
00:57:33,510 --> 00:57:37,410
made sense. So when we open up that can of worms you want to look at everything. We

834
00:57:37,410 --> 00:57:42,610
We also took some time to look at our neighboring communities to see where we stood with what

835
00:57:42,610 --> 00:57:43,290
we're charging.

836
00:57:44,290 --> 00:57:48,870
And we also realized that there probably was a benefit mainly at the region.

837
00:57:49,010 --> 00:57:55,870
We don't see that many non-town groups using Chigren or Pine Hill, but we did segregate

838
00:57:55,870 --> 00:57:57,010
and have two sets of rates.

839
00:57:57,170 --> 00:58:01,650
So if you're an in-town group, you pay a lower rate than if you're an out-of-town group.

840
00:58:01,650 --> 00:58:08,830
We are also one of our biggest renters is the basketball, the youth basketball program

841
00:58:08,830 --> 00:58:13,210
and you know we realize that there was some handshake agreements at some of the schools

842
00:58:13,210 --> 00:58:18,870
and the rates weren't really what we posted so we wanted to clean all that up so we also

843
00:58:18,870 --> 00:58:24,470
took time to make sure what is the fair rate to charge per hour at all of our gyms so that

844
00:58:24,470 --> 00:58:27,530
was also another piece that we wanted to sort of clear out.

845
00:58:27,530 --> 00:58:51,470
the last piece is that on weekends when schools not open you cannot rent the school without a custodian being on staff and obviously we just did a new contract for the custodian so we need to keep pace with their pay rates of what we're charging so that was the other piece that's which so we're asking each of the committees to approve the rates your rates are exactly the same as pine hills.

846
00:58:51,470 --> 00:58:56,510
The only difference is there's some spaces they have that you don't have vice versa, so it looks a little different

847
00:58:56,510 --> 00:59:04,130
but we kept the rates the same across both communities. On the non-resident tuition annually because you are

848
00:59:04,130 --> 00:59:07,850
running the connections program and we have students from

849
00:59:08,470 --> 00:59:09,030
Sherburn

850
00:59:09,830 --> 00:59:17,130
tuitioning in you have to at the school committee. So what that tuition rate is we follow our protocols. We follow the

851
00:59:17,130 --> 00:59:22,050
of per pupil expenditure based on the desi reported.

852
00:59:23,370 --> 00:59:25,210
It's actually coming from our end of the year report,

853
00:59:25,230 --> 00:59:26,970
but based on their website,

854
00:59:27,210 --> 00:59:30,270
what are most recent fiscal year 25

855
00:59:30,270 --> 00:59:32,070
is right, they're still trying to do the 26,

856
00:59:32,070 --> 00:59:33,490
we're actually doing 26 now.

857
00:59:34,190 --> 00:59:35,630
And so that is the base rate.

858
00:59:36,030 --> 00:59:38,690
Keep in mind that if there are additional services

859
00:59:38,690 --> 00:59:42,790
that those students obtain in addition to

860
00:59:42,790 --> 00:59:49,810
if they have a specified educational system support that is added to this

861
00:59:49,810 --> 00:59:54,190
base rate. So this is the base and then we add to that based on each individual

862
00:59:54,190 --> 00:59:59,470
students IEP. Well I have familiar with that program but it is a connection