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Be wonderful to see the high school or something, get involved in something like this. So basically what it does sets up the conversation, because it takes some, you need training, actually, to start that conversation, because you can actually hurt the problem when you can help it if you don't know how to do it.

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So, get the conversation going, locate resources in your own community, invite the families in, because sometimes the families are in hurt and worse than the veteran is, because they won't talk to anybody.

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And then get them on the road to recovery with it down the road that can go for professional help.

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But that's really what we're doing.

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It's really taken off all over the nation.

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We sponsor a race car with Indie car racing.

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We call the be the one car that came in as a championship this year.

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We've partnered with the VA with the be the one logo.

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Now we have access to 99 million veterans that are enrolled in a health care system.

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And we signed a coalition with USAA in insurance company.

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company, you know, they're basically all veterans that get their insurance there.

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And we joined a coalition with them called face-to-fight, which is exactly the same thing

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we're doing.

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So it's really expanding well.

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bases all over the United States.

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VA, health centers, I was an open-hour, I visited a six or seven bases there and went

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to Pearl Harbor to do the same thing there.

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Military bases all over the United States.

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And I found out the Legion already knew about this, but I found out there's a quality of life situation with service members families, in the adequate housing with mold with contaminated water with just not livable things like that food insecurities.

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So we were able with the Department of Defense developed a program called base, base assessment, service member experience.

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And we were able to set up an assessment team that goes to military bases all over and does

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count holes.

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Get see information from whatever is going on here.

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Bring it before Congress.

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House on services committee and get you the funding or get what they need to put them back

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on track because we actually consider this as national security issue.

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If you're out and you're deployed and you're trying to focus on your mission and you

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you have your family at home that may possibly be drinking contaminated water, you can't focus on the mission.

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So that's basically, I'm talking about the military now.

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Our children youth programs, a lot of you know about them.

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Boy, state, girls, state, or historical contests.

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I was in order to talk for a chairman for nine years, so a great program.

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And if you get up into the national finals, you can actually get some big scholarships.

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We have 22,000 scholarships for the top three winners in the article.

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Mark Lee's in baseball, I was just there at the World Series and a team from me and actually made it.

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We got 29 hundred teams and a team from Ellsworth actually made it into the finals.

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So that's basically a redest digest version of a year.

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I'm thinking about writing a book, I meet her.

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But thank you so much for the leave of absence and thank you for having me here tonight.

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Appreciate it.

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Thank you, Jim.

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We would love for you to come up onto this stage and we'd also love to invite our students who have something to share.

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Thank you.

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Jim, we'll have you just go across the front if you can.

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And just we'd like to give you a heartfelt hand shake.

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And we have some of your superfan riders who want to

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present you with something else else.

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Abby, if you just come up that way.

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Before we close out the recognition segment of our evening, I do want to highlight the upcoming

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Veterans Day Assembly at the High School, our Music Department and National Honor Society

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hosted this event annually and it's an important moment on our campus when we pause and honor

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service members of our own community and beyond. Veterans and their families are invited to join us

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at the high school starting at 1 o'clock on day of and we will begin to live stream the event

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at 1-15. There's also a brief reception with refreshments following the event. So stay tuned in

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principles, notes, and through social media, we'll be making a number of additional announcements

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about this assembly, which will be held on the 9th Thursday.

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So thank you very much.

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Thank you, Gretchen.

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Millen Abbey.

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So last week at the high school was a spirit week and I'm coming, both were an incredible

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success, bringing our school community together, and showcasing our unity and spirit.

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A highlight was Wednesday's spirit, anything but a backpack day, where students were encouraged

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to carry their school supplies in the most unconventional ways imaginable. Students arrived at school

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with items like inflatable rafts, laundry bins, and even many wagons all filled with books,

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notebooks and other school necessities.

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The energy and enthusiasm displayed throughout

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spirit week carried over into the homecoming football game,

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pep rally, and the homecoming dance.

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While celebrating success and positive energy surrounding these events,

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it is essential to acknowledge the concerns

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raised by our students regarding communication between

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students and staff in planning these activities.

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Whether it is the frustration of unanswered emails

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or other communication barriers, there's a genuine issue if the kids are trying to make the

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most out of their spirit week and homecoming but the staff holding them back by being

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Lastly, for this month's report, I would like to propose the installation of an additional

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school zone sign in the middle of the school zone.

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So basically at the exit of the parking lot of the high school parking lot.

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Currently, drivers leaving the parking lot cannot tell whether the school zone lights are

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active until they reach the end of the school zones on either side.

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There have been cops controlling what of a road and regular, regular leave, stopping drivers,

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and by not having something to indicate the lights are on, exiting the law.

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It leaves those drivers at a disadvantage and more likely to be pulled over.

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Some might argue they're on at the same time.

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And once I got to the end of the schools on, I noticed that. So I could have been pulled over by a police officer and having no idea I should be going 15 miles per hour.

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By placing these additional schools on science, we can ensure that drivers are promptly informed about the school's own status.

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This proactive approach will enhance safety, making our school environment even more secure.

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Thank you very much, continuing our highlight on communications, Gretchen, our cross campus service learning.

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I am thrilled to invite John Carter and Jen Bush to come to the podium who are going to provide us some updates on the huge amount of service learning activity that's already been happening on campus this year.

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Good evening everybody. I would like to second Jamilo's request. I think it would really help

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to have that notification had a similar problem. So John Carter and I are here today to talk to you all about

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a service learning and what's happening within our campus. Lots of things are always happening off campus,

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but one of the many benefits of having the one campus is there's lots of opportunities for students to go into other buildings

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and provide support to our family schools community.

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Next slide, Nate, thank you.

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So we're going to just sort of run through a handful that are happening, and if anybody

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has questions, feel free to let us know.

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One of my most favorite is called Dream Dancers, that's been going on six or seven years

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high school students down to the elementary school to work with the C's students, the special

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ed kiddos, one day every week. So we go down after the high school is ended but the elementary

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school still has another 45 minutes left in their day and the kids get matched one on one so

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then their buddies throughout the entire the year. The timing is such that it works even when

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kids are in sports they're able to squeeze it in and continue so that the kids the high school

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aren't coming and going. It's a structured 30 minutes. It's always run by a senior to. Sometimes

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for a senior project. Sometimes just because they love it and I've been doing it since

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they were freshmen. It's a super popular and very fun program. There's some photos up there.

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That's what those photos are from. Another popular program for the high schoolers, particularly

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the freshman and sophomores are recess mentors. So if you were to happen to be on the

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email list for the elementary school building you would get like seven emails a day saying like we did help

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it recess and um so we now send high schoolers down to help out at recess and it um for kids that are not able to leave campus

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during their study halls. It's become quite popular if they happen to have a study hall in the time frame when recess is happening

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They go down. They check in with the teacher and find out how they can be helpful and

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playing, sometimes they're kind of refereeing fights on the football pitch, but they always come back

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sort of laughing and red-sheeked and really enjoying sort of getting to do recess again.

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Pre-K, we have lunch helpers, which has been really fun. The administration at the elementary

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school reached out and asked for help with Pre-K lunch, because it was a bit chaotic, and so we have

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high schoolers that go down and help serve the lunch and then sit at the little tiny tables and help

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kind of teach how to have conversations, which is incredibly cute, and I sometimes walk them

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down because I like to go down there, and then classroom volunteers. So we often will have

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high schoolers who really fondly remember an elementary, it's often an elementary school teacher,

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and would like to go back on a regular basis. So this is for kids who have a study hall,

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and have a little bit of free time, and they'll sign up. We'll reach out to whatever teachers

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they've asked us to reach out to and often we can find some commonality in their schedule

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and then they'll go down on a regular basis and so they start to develop relationships with

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the students as well as start to become more and more helpful as the year goes with the teacher.

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So those are a few and then John's going to talk about some others.

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Yes, and we have a couple of new programs. One program is called Elevate.

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and from 839 they elevate their heart rate, we do lots of exercises, we do lots of group

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games with the idea, with the idea being that they're just much more engaged in class,

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you know, honestly when I was a classroom teacher, I had this idea for for many many years,

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and I was just never able to pull it off, but I'm fortunate enough with this position. I said,

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you know, I can finally do it. So, you know, the high school kids also love going down there.

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We have about five that run on Tuesday and Thursday and then the next week it's another group and there's about 10 fifth graders.

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So we've been running it for about two weeks and it's going great.

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We have some heart rate monitors so we're talking about, you know, what does the target heart rate zone mean?

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It's off to a great start.

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and that is eighth graders tutoring and mentoring fourth graders that actually started today.

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we had more tutors than fourth graders today.

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and the kids walked in and the eighth graders got up

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and they walked over and they introduced themselves

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and they immediately made the kids feel welcome.

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just have to sign up.

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So we have a service club that meets every Thursday.

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It's very active at the high school.

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We have over 100 members.

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and to volunteer once a month.

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So about 110 students will kind of descend onto the other

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I'm at your school campus from about 145 to 220, and the volunteer in classrooms.

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The high school students are very excited about that.

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We'll greet the elementary school students in the morning.

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which was a tad intimidating with some

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of the big linemen right in front of the school.

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It looked like it would.

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All right, guys. You got to relax, you know, and the kids just loved it. They just get swarmed. We have the volleyball team, everything. So that's that's off to a great start. We have someone something planned on on Friday for lightning thief. We'll be there on on Friday. And then we have the changemakers. So I gen and I are going into a third grade classroom and we have some. That's a great group of of students and they're identifying a problem in the community.

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and what we can do to help solve that problem.

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to help with the flood that happened in the middle of July.

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We made s'mores and fire and everything.

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And so we worked hard on Saturday, you know, like mucking streets and things like that, and then we drove back and we have also a volunteer group a service trip going to main huts and trails the first weekend of November so also trying to do some local things because we have also some other trips that general tell you about.

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Yeah, so in addition to the local ones we have the usual two week long trips for the high schoolers applications are actually available right now so the kids have been grabbing those.

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Habitat for Humanity, we always go somewhere that's been impacted by a natural disaster.

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They're a really wonderful affiliate. They have housing and for the volunteers, which makes it a lot easier

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for us to navigate during the week and so we're going to go back and help them some more.

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So really looking forward to that trip.

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safe passage in Guatemala, that's back in February.

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We were the first trip, the first support group to go back after COVID last year.

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It was a film with group, because films developed a really wonderful reputation with

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safe passage over the 15 years they've been going.

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We were masked.

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We weren't allowed to interact with kids that much.

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And then they've loosened up a lot.

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So this group will have a totally different experience than last years.

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and I'm really excited they'll have that and then John and I have been talking more about just

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having more mini trips because they are they are they're easier to do one of the weekends

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they certainly don't involve missing school and then the price tag is significantly less

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so it opens it up to a lot more kids for a lot of different reasons and we've had a lot of

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interest in this habitat check we have coming up so I mean in the, sorry I mean Hudson

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Chelsea that's coming up so we're looking forward to doing more of those in the spring.

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Any questions we can answer?

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Any questions?

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Are you, first of all those are just all so wonderful.

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Thank you so much.

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Are you specifically trying to target each grade?

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Or are you just, are you building the programs and then finding the appropriate grades?

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I just wondering if like, is every grade get a touch or just,

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or that's building towards that?

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We meet.

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So in the beginning of the year we meet with every team.

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So we've met with all K through five teams.

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we've actually met with everybody at this point, right?

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So we've met with everybody K-3.

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And the goal pre-COVID, we had a program, like grade-by-per-gram,

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and every single grade, and then we lost it.

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And so we're trying really hard to build that back.

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So when John set up the student's helping students

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see intentionally picked fourth grade, because that was a grade

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where we didn't have anything going on.

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So we do have like the, some of the outwardly-faced services

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coming back where some classes will start

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going to do senior living visits again, and we're trying

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get the land trust back in the mix and some things with the digital cameras.

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So we're trying to slowly get every grade, but it's hard and then the teachers have additional

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things on their shoulders that they're trying to juggle.

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Right.

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And then some of the first and second grade teachers have reached out.

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They want to start going back to Ocean View, going back to the Baron Center.

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And then seven to eighth grade, we've lost eighth grade, what's Discovery Week?

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We're hoping to bring that back and then seventh grade change makers.

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with changemaker, so we're hoping to bring that back as well, and that's at the end of the year.

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Oh, fantastic. Any other questions? It really does, you know, it speaks to what an asset

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it is that we are on one campus and that we're able to do this and have that cross-learning.

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It's, it's, we really are fortunate for that. And fortunate also for you for just making terrific

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programs for all the kids. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

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All right, item number seven, our superintendent report.

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Thank you very much.

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I want to start tonight by acknowledging the students' families and community members who've been and continue to be impacted by the attack on Israel last week and the war that is now underway in the Middle East.

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We know that ongoing wars in Europe and throughout Africa also continue to impact our community.

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Our school services teams have reached out this time and will continue to make themselves

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available to our students who may be struggling these latest events.

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We have also forwarded resources to staff.

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In light of questions from several of our community meetings, it seems like an appropriate

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it's time to remind folks about some of our safety protocols in the schools.

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We receive all updates and alerts from the Maine Information Analysis Center.

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So that means central location for collecting and sharing intelligence information from

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the federal government to state agencies.

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We're also in regular contact with Chief Kilbride and other members of the FALMIF PD, who

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stay on top of national state and local concerns that could impact our community.

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If there are any known increases in alert levels or known threats to our region or our

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town, we are informed. We know of none at this time. But we will, if and when we learn

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about any such thing, respond and communicate with our community accordingly. The district

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safety team regularly reviews our protocols.

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And as the district and school,

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we continue to have zero tolerance

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for any form of anesthetism, Islamophobia, or discrimination.

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We hope this goes without saying,

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but we just wanted to make sure that our community members knew these things.

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So my board of report stands this submitted tonight,

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and there are a few items I'd like to draw attention to.

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First, the goals and action steps that we reviewed at the last school board business meeting have been added to the website's mission and strategic vision page.

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These items were collaboratively developed and designed to advance our progress in the five priority areas identified in the vision.

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So they can be found by going to the strategic vision site.

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And then there's a length that says action steps for school year 2324.

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Thanks for watching, and I'll see you in the next video, and I'll see you in the next video.

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Next, we are very much looking forward to Lawrence Alexander, our newly signed-on equity consultant who will be joining us on campus on October 30.

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He will be meeting with our leadership team and several community groups in the afternoon and then he'll be here in the evening for a special school board workshop at 6.30 p.m. that will be here in the theater.

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following the conversation with school board members.

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Mr. Alexander will take some questions from the community.

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For those who are unable to attend the event,

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we will be live streaming and we've also set up a form

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to collect questions that community members may wish

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to share in advance if they're unable to attend

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or if they don't wish to speak in the live context.

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The link to the form is in my board report,

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but it's also posted on the equity and inclusion page of the website.

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Additionally, reminders will be sent out in principal's notes this week.

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And next, so stand a look out for those.

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I also want to highlight the special education review

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we're undertaking with Dr. Kate McCloud,

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and our team from the University of Maine Farmington.

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The purpose of this review is to identify areas of strength

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and areas of need in relation to our MTSS, otherwise, known as our multi-tiered system of support.

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That includes RTI, Special Education, 504 GT. It will overview the implementation of referral

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interventions and assessment processes and hopefully inform more effective, inclusive, educational

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practices and structures. The team will be on campus on October 26 to begin meeting with staff

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and to visit classes. They'll also be conducting surveys, examining data, and doing

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a range of stakeholder interviews over the next couple of months. We hope to receive their

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observations and recommendations fairly early in the new year. Last, I want to thank our

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technology and communication teams for creating a new page on our website that's called live stream,

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which can be found under the Community tab.

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This page allows for real-time viewing of our live stream events, as well as access to previously

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recorded events and meetings, including all school board meetings.

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So we are very much looking forward to the opportunity as this new equipment affords us, but

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also really appreciate the ease of access that has been set up by our technology and communications

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folks.

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So, any questions tonight?

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Very thorough.

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Thank you.

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All right.

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Item number eight, leadership team reports.

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For FAMET Elementary School, we'd like to welcome Principal Peg Armstrong.

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Thank you and good evening.

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So, our report also stands as submitted.

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I did want to highlight our campus point south points around coaches and our

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Covers 6 professional development.

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As somebody who's been here now two weeks, I'm still learning and getting to know all the

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people and the procedures and all of that that are in place and I was just very impressed

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with the October 6 professional development, several of our teachers designed and facilitated

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learning sessions for our teachers, and I attended two of them, and I chose to attend the

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ones that were facilitated by our two new coaches, and I was very impressed with what they had

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to offer. I've also experienced our coaches in our team leader meetings that we have with the

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level teams and the professional development that they've been bringing to those forms as well.

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And I just wanted to say thrilled to be in a district that supports coaching because I think it

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makes a huge difference for our teachers to have that embedded professional development.

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Do you have any questions for me?

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Good.

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I have a question about and I'm not sure if you're the right person to answer this yet, but about

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coaching cycles. I'm just wondering how the teachers access them, how long are they,

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kind of what are the stated goals, or is that decided between the coach and the teacher?

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cycles between now and our December break.

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They're about four to six weeks, and teachers access them either as small groups where

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they may be working on a similar goal or on a one to one coaching basis where they're identifying

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a teacher goal based on the individual teachers needs, as well as student performance indicators.

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Thank you and I just had a minor suggestion in the communication department just I know there's a lot going on especially with the older kids like in the mornings with bands and choir and things and

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I just wanted to see if we could see how we could implement something of a little calendar in the principles notes or

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There's just different teams that sometimes you have questions, and it's like the weekend, and you're thinking, does my kid go to school on Monday at 7.30 or so, we can talk about that later with different things, but some things are missing, and I think they could be added there just for parents FYI, there's already so much information.

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Yeah, thank you for that. Thank you. But they're always very great to read.

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Thank you.

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Go ahead, Laura.

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Hi.

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Welcome.

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Thank you.

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I was wondering if the plan was if you thought the I ready results would be ready in time

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to provide some of that feedback to the parents with the November conferences.

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I am going to defer to Jen.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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I have a quick question, clarification.

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Welcome.

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Thanks a lot.

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Thank you for coming tonight.

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If you could explain, break down the difference between the differentiated and the explicit instruction,

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because I see that that's part of the coaching.

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And I think that's something that parents would also benefit from understanding the difference.

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the different ways we're trying to get in with the kiddos.

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Yeah. So, explicit instruction has to do with your basic teaching methods.

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So, really identifying what are the key learning targets and what...

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We're getting the exact information that they need and they're getting the right practice that they need so that we can go from a, we do, I coach you, you're able to do this individually kind of model.

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And then differentiated instruction is targeted towards really understanding the different levels of need in the classroom.

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So, you know, there's a bell curve in terms of how students learn and and some students learn at different rates than others.

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So, developmentally, we want to be able to teach to all of our students, which means that some of the techniques we might use with one student are not the appropriate technique.

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We want to be able to change them up or differentiate them so that we're meeting the needs of all of our students. Does that make sense?

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Yes. It does. Thank you.

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That's great. Any other questions for Peg?

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Thank you so much.

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Thanks.

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All right, for family mental school.

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We'll have Jan Adams come.

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Good evening.

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The middle school report stands as submitted.

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I did want to come in on a few things.

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First of all, this substitute situation in all of the buildings is pretty grim.

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We, you know, as I mentioned in my report, we are generally, well, so far.

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We've always been able to cover classes by having colleagues give up their planning or prep time

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to cover a colleague's classroom, it's far from ideal, it puts a teacher in every classroom,

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but it obviously isn't the best thing for students.

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So I just wanted to bring that to everyone's attention.

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It's on our minds and it's a stressor.

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So that's there.

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I know that we're doing all we can to get more subs.

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And so I recognize that.

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We now have our intercom and bell system back.

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So we're happy about that at the middle school.

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Still a handful of classrooms that don't have a working intercom.

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It can be heard in the hallway or it can be heard from next door, but they're still investigating why there's just random rooms that still yet don't have their intercom system fully back or it's very faint so that is being looked into worked on actively as we speak.

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I also wanted to just give a plug for our staff and their attention to their own wellness.

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Right now we had at least two or three staff members who ran in the main marathon.

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One of whom was the woman who placed fourth in the whole state.

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So congratulations to all of the people who ran, but that kind of motivated a lot of people to say,

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hey, why don't we put a relay your team together for next year's marathon?

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And so right as of right now we have 12 or 13 staff members who are going to participate in next year's marathon.

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In the relay, so they're already gearing up and training for that.

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It's not only, you know, physically healthy thing to do, but it's emotionally and mentally great for this to have to get together that way.

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So that's exciting and it's kind of a goal that a lot of people have and we're we're cheering them on

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So there's that I also wanted to

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Let you know that on the middle school portion of the website under the families tab

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There is information about homework. It's just some bullet points that we have put together and I wanted to reiterate that

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teachers support homework. For middle school students, we also support kids having

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ample family time and ample downtime for their own mental health. So there's always

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a balance with that. And so, you know, our sixth graders may get less homework

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than our eighth graders do. That's developmentally appropriate. There is a place for

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homework in middle school as it reinforces the executive functioning skills that

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we're teaching explicitly and homework is not only a way to support and

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But to promote planning, prioritizing and task completion, which are things that kids need lots of practice with.

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So there's that. Any questions I can answer right now?

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I wanted to thank you.

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I didn't see it in your report. I'm glad to hear you bring it up.

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The homework page under the Families tab for the middle school.

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I think that's a great overview, it's a great way to kind of,

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but there's a lot of information on our website,

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but this is a very specific question that I get asked before I was on the school board,

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just having a couple of kids who've already gone through the middle school.

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And it reminds, you know, the one hour of homework kind of reminds me of the old school.

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I have no idea if it's still an effect of like the ten minutes per grade kind of thing.

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Yeah, which I get is the genesis of that, or I assume,

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just probably the genesis of that time management,

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but also acknowledging the different supports

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that are in the school in the website kind of breaking down

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the homework club, the Whip WIP's whips,

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is that I haven't used that acronym with my kids.

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00:35:38,550 --> 00:35:39,710
I think that might be a new acronym

442
00:35:39,710 --> 00:35:42,210
from the last time I had a member of the school or now.

443
00:35:42,210 --> 00:35:49,490
But anyway, but breaking down not just, yeah, homework happens, but here is how it happens.

444
00:35:49,890 --> 00:35:57,350
This is the expectation around the time management, and also I'd use my microphone to

445
00:35:57,350 --> 00:36:04,290
remind parents that if this is a great time, middle school is a great time for kids to

446
00:36:04,290 --> 00:36:09,310
figure out that if you don't chip away, it may be the 45 minutes hour every night.

447
00:36:09,310 --> 00:36:15,930
there could be a night where you have three or four hours and that's not optimal and not

448
00:36:15,930 --> 00:36:22,170
what anyone's team up here. So thank you very much for that. I appreciate that for you put into

449
00:36:22,170 --> 00:36:28,090
that and getting that up on the website for everyone to to be able to access and reference. Thanks.

450
00:36:29,790 --> 00:36:37,090
Hello. In your board report, you mentioned the learning about the high impact teaching strategies

451
00:36:37,090 --> 00:36:40,310
and I was wondering if you could give an example of one of those?

452
00:36:40,750 --> 00:36:40,830
Sure.

453
00:36:41,590 --> 00:36:46,490
This comes out of the work that John Haddy's research on learning.

454
00:36:47,610 --> 00:36:54,190
High impact strategies are things that teachers do that have a high impact on student learning,

455
00:36:54,710 --> 00:36:55,890
that hence the name.

456
00:36:56,930 --> 00:37:03,730
And when they're done with integrity, they enhance the effect that the teachers action to have on student learning.

457
00:37:04,670 --> 00:37:10,650
And there's tons of them, and they range all the way from things that have very, very high

458
00:37:10,650 --> 00:37:17,250
impact at things that have very low impact, so there's a whole wide range of strategies

459
00:37:17,250 --> 00:37:20,250
that teachers use, but some of the ones that are the most powerful.

460
00:37:30,000 --> 00:37:41,220
That are a professional development day on the six direct instruction, teaching vocabulary in context, providing targeted feedback.

461
00:37:43,560 --> 00:37:49,680
Space versus mask practice, like having students, learn something practice, learn something practice, learn something practice,

462
00:37:49,680 --> 00:37:57,820
is a high impact strategy, reducing anxiety for students by having things be predictable and

463
00:37:57,820 --> 00:38:04,520
routines in place is a powerful strategy, formative evaluations, teacher student relationships.

464
00:38:06,080 --> 00:38:06,560
That's a handful.

465
00:38:09,070 --> 00:38:09,210
Thank you.

466
00:38:09,330 --> 00:38:09,850
You're welcome.

467
00:38:13,200 --> 00:38:13,520
Thanks, Dan.

468
00:38:13,840 --> 00:38:14,300
Thank you.

469
00:38:19,960 --> 00:38:23,880
We'll welcome Dr. Gowers up for the Family High School report.

470
00:38:37,390 --> 00:38:40,210
My report stands a submitted just a couple of highlights.

471
00:38:41,030 --> 00:38:46,290
I want to take a moment to thank assistant principals, Spencer Libyan, Vicki Deca,

472
00:38:46,730 --> 00:38:49,750
for the work they're doing to bridge the gap between administration and students.

473
00:38:50,050 --> 00:38:54,270
This last Friday, they hosted their very first lunch with the APs.

474
00:38:55,470 --> 00:38:58,730
We're trying to get away to connect with some students who may not be on student counts,

475
00:38:58,930 --> 00:39:03,130
who may not be on executive boards to try to have a bit of spectrum of guests.

476
00:39:03,130 --> 00:39:07,530
students were talking to a listening to. At this stage, they're responding to that invitation

477
00:39:07,530 --> 00:39:12,030
if you like to the students who've showed acts of kindness, either to each other or that

478
00:39:12,030 --> 00:39:16,690
they've seen or they have been relayed to them, to bring those students into a chance to have

479
00:39:16,690 --> 00:39:20,490
lunch with the AP. So I know that a reward for kindness may not be thought of as having lunch

480
00:39:20,490 --> 00:39:24,810
with a Vicky in Spencer, but the very nice people I enjoy lunching with them as well, but it's

481
00:39:24,810 --> 00:39:28,930
a great way to show that we are not only trying to find ways of listening to our students, but also

482
00:39:28,930 --> 00:39:34,070
simply to respond to when they are kind to each other, and that's a great thing for us as a community.

483
00:39:35,370 --> 00:39:41,770
And also just a shout out to the folks today, today was in WEEA testing, had the high school,

484
00:39:42,370 --> 00:39:45,830
which went well only because of the massive amount of ordering, arranging,

485
00:39:45,950 --> 00:39:49,470
proctoring, and managing it that happened over the weeks prior.

486
00:39:50,010 --> 00:39:55,150
So particularly a big thanks to Monaco and Dan and to Norm and Sharon, a few of the people I'm probably going to forget,

487
00:39:55,150 --> 00:40:01,070
thank you for putting that off. And at this stage, having listened to Dr. Adams and the middle

488
00:40:01,070 --> 00:40:05,770
school, on behalf of the high school, I currently make no statement about the high school

489
00:40:05,770 --> 00:40:13,030
participating in the main marathon. I wish the middle school would best next year. Can I answer any

490
00:40:13,030 --> 00:40:14,010
questions about our report?

491
00:40:16,650 --> 00:40:21,530
Any questions? Great. Thank you, Richard. Thanks.

492
00:40:25,510 --> 00:40:26,830
What do we have next?

493
00:40:28,190 --> 00:40:30,290
Susan Prince, director, special education.

494
00:40:35,090 --> 00:40:37,790
I always go after tall people.

495
00:40:38,110 --> 00:40:39,730
Good evening, my board reports.

496
00:40:39,850 --> 00:40:40,710
The answer is submitted.

497
00:40:41,330 --> 00:40:42,730
Just a couple of highlights, Mark.

498
00:40:42,950 --> 00:40:46,690
And I are so excited about the review that we're going to be doing

499
00:40:46,690 --> 00:40:47,650
with Kate McLeod.

500
00:40:49,070 --> 00:40:51,570
And then the other piece kind of piggybacking on what Pat

501
00:40:52,150 --> 00:40:53,790
shared, I mean, Jan.

502
00:40:54,030 --> 00:40:54,410
I'm sorry.

503
00:40:54,750 --> 00:40:57,370
Jan shared about staffing and subs.

504
00:40:57,370 --> 00:41:01,410
In the last two days I've lost an ed tech a day.

505
00:41:02,410 --> 00:41:05,850
I hire two, I lose two, I hire three, I lose one.

506
00:41:06,350 --> 00:41:10,390
So just keeping that on there, and I'm trying everything.

507
00:41:11,570 --> 00:41:12,770
So are there any questions?

508
00:41:16,600 --> 00:41:18,920
You know, obviously we can't share confidential information,

509
00:41:19,500 --> 00:41:21,360
but are we losing them to other districts?

510
00:41:21,680 --> 00:41:23,180
Or are we losing them for personal reasons?

511
00:41:23,680 --> 00:41:24,680
It's a combination.

512
00:41:24,900 --> 00:41:26,420
One today that was really sad.

513
00:41:26,420 --> 00:41:34,300
She's young, she wanted to do the Apprentice program and she's driving from Oxford and her car can't make the distance.

514
00:41:35,740 --> 00:41:41,980
And because she's at a lower, it doesn't have the education, she's only making, I think, like, $15 a now.

515
00:41:42,200 --> 00:41:46,040
She can't drive from Oxford here, so she was, it was sad reading her email.

516
00:41:49,680 --> 00:41:50,380
Any other questions?

517
00:41:53,480 --> 00:41:53,640
Good.

518
00:41:53,920 --> 00:41:54,340
Thank you.

519
00:41:58,100 --> 00:41:59,840
Director of Learning, Jen Kelly.

520
00:42:07,350 --> 00:42:07,470
Hello.

521
00:42:07,830 --> 00:42:08,250
Good evening.

522
00:42:08,870 --> 00:42:11,710
My report stands as submitted for the most part.

523
00:42:11,750 --> 00:42:12,750
I just wanted to make a note.

524
00:42:13,150 --> 00:42:17,910
We were a couple of days behind our aspirational plan to get the NWA,

525
00:42:18,510 --> 00:42:21,870
spring 23 reports the May 3 year assessment out.

526
00:42:22,130 --> 00:42:23,690
They actually went out today to family.

527
00:42:23,990 --> 00:42:26,190
So families can check those through bright arrow,

528
00:42:26,330 --> 00:42:28,950
which is linked in power school.

529
00:42:30,110 --> 00:42:33,250
So, and then I want to touch based on Laurel's question

530
00:42:33,250 --> 00:42:40,330
around the I ready, just reminder that it's only grades one and two right now.

531
00:42:40,410 --> 00:42:44,190
It's just across the schools that are doing the testing.

532
00:42:44,390 --> 00:42:50,510
We're doing some spot use in other grades and grades three through five

533
00:42:50,510 --> 00:42:52,250
and then at the high school.

534
00:42:53,530 --> 00:42:58,670
That data, we've gone through that testing at the elementary school.

535
00:42:58,770 --> 00:43:00,570
We have a lot of testing going on right now.

536
00:43:00,570 --> 00:43:05,930
We're in this film in the middle of the fall NWA testing at the elementary school.

537
00:43:07,150 --> 00:43:11,390
So, I already reports can be available during the conferences.

538
00:43:12,050 --> 00:43:15,490
We're not mandating that teachers do that.

539
00:43:16,510 --> 00:43:20,670
I want to leave that open to teachers and families, right, because the conference is about their students.

540
00:43:22,310 --> 00:43:37,190
The NWA data, one of the, one of the interesting complications from the, through your report is that the teachers can't access the same report that the parents are accessing.

541
00:43:39,330 --> 00:43:42,930
The report doesn't provide a whole lot of information to begin with.

542
00:43:43,870 --> 00:43:47,970
So, we're working on trying to figure that out, the state is trying to get an answer from

543
00:43:47,970 --> 00:43:53,550
NWA on that, because the testing, what happens is teachers are assigned to their testing

544
00:43:53,550 --> 00:43:53,830
here.

545
00:43:53,850 --> 00:43:58,170
So, they're assigned to a class in the spring when they administer the test.

546
00:43:58,270 --> 00:44:03,830
Well, now they have a different class, so they're still assigned to, so they can see who they

547
00:44:03,830 --> 00:44:08,390
tested that they can't see who their current kids are in that platform.

548
00:44:08,390 --> 00:44:23,010
So, working through that, however, they will have some of the fall data, but the window there's still some flexibility with the fall data until the window closes on October 27th for the stage.

549
00:44:23,270 --> 00:44:30,310
So, you don't have all of the comparison data and so there's a little bit of wiggle room there, but for the most part the scores are pretty stable.

550
00:44:30,450 --> 00:44:33,050
So, that is available. Teachers can access that.

551
00:44:33,050 --> 00:44:36,070
And we do plan on sending those reports out.

552
00:44:37,510 --> 00:44:41,390
We're thinking window member, the window ends October 27th.

553
00:44:41,490 --> 00:44:43,890
We need a few days to make sure it's all there.

554
00:44:44,130 --> 00:44:44,830
Make-ups.

555
00:44:45,310 --> 00:44:46,490
And then get those reports out.

556
00:44:46,490 --> 00:44:47,150
Those reports.

557
00:44:47,730 --> 00:44:51,310
I think families will find more useful because they look like the old reports.

558
00:44:51,790 --> 00:44:57,630
We're also thinking that it looks like that spring data point will also be included in the reports.

559
00:44:57,630 --> 00:44:57,770
.

560
00:45:00,000 --> 00:45:01,560
That's where we are with the testing.

561
00:45:01,720 --> 00:45:02,180
Thank you.

562
00:45:02,320 --> 00:45:09,020
I know we're all really challenged by this process with the state and the VA.

563
00:45:09,980 --> 00:45:15,920
But I wondered, I mean, I printed out one of my kiddos assessment because

564
00:45:16,620 --> 00:45:21,660
and I agree doesn't give that much information in the form that was submitted today,

565
00:45:21,720 --> 00:45:24,860
but I also understand what we're up against here.

566
00:45:24,860 --> 00:45:34,320
But, you know, I have a couple questions, but one is, you know, everybody has a three-digit student score in the breakout area scores.

567
00:45:35,680 --> 00:45:40,640
But there's no, unless I'm missing something, there's no rubric, what these scores are isolated in space.

568
00:45:41,000 --> 00:45:44,860
Like, my kid's score of Yadiyada, what does that mean?

569
00:45:45,420 --> 00:45:53,880
Great question. So pay attention to that continuum, that the whole purpose of this test is to be a criterion reference test.

570
00:45:53,880 --> 00:45:58,460
the criteria that they're referencing other standards for the grade level, so that's why it's

571
00:45:59,180 --> 00:46:05,160
they're either on above below or exceeds the grade level. So that's the whole point of this change.

572
00:46:05,640 --> 00:46:11,380
They had to do that in order to meet the federal requirements for funding. So that report,

573
00:46:11,940 --> 00:46:19,800
primary, the only real information is whether the student is at above beyond or exceeds grade level,

574
00:46:19,800 --> 00:46:24,400
which is the purpose of it. It's not really useful.

575
00:46:25,940 --> 00:46:32,100
We were between, do we continue to wait until we get something better,

576
00:46:32,140 --> 00:46:35,520
or do we send this out and say this is what we have?

577
00:46:36,960 --> 00:46:40,060
I reached out to other districts to see what they were doing,

578
00:46:40,160 --> 00:46:41,960
and it was a mix. A lot of people were like,

579
00:46:41,960 --> 00:46:45,040
we're waiting, we're not touching this, and others were like, well, we just sent it out.

580
00:46:45,040 --> 00:46:55,780
So we decided, this is what we have here, and we in a couple weeks will have something that we think will be more informative.

581
00:46:57,040 --> 00:46:59,520
I don't, I hope that answers somewhat, Sarah.

582
00:47:00,000 --> 00:47:06,180
It looks like from what we can tell they've added 1,000 points to the old red scores, not sure, but that's what it looks like.

583
00:47:06,180 --> 00:47:19,180
That's wild. Okay, and um, is there any way just trying to assess, you know, what we've all been given today and I understand, you know, and I wonder if you might consider sending a follow-up email to today.

584
00:47:19,840 --> 00:47:21,020
Like, hold on. Absolutely.

585
00:47:21,360 --> 00:47:21,380
Yes.

586
00:47:21,900 --> 00:47:29,360
So, as if we get any more information, and this isn't, we're not the only school that's frustrated by this.

587
00:47:29,420 --> 00:47:33,260
We're getting a lot of conflicting information first or saying this, and then, um,

588
00:47:34,000 --> 00:47:45,920
If I would love some more information that I could share with families, I think that would be really helpful to teachers as well, you know, we're putting them in a complicated situation.

589
00:47:47,120 --> 00:47:59,300
Do we have, are we able to access, again, we might just, are we able to access the growth reports from the spring, the map growth reports?

590
00:48:01,300 --> 00:48:03,260
That's a great question.

591
00:48:04,480 --> 00:48:09,300
So the state hasn't completely, so there was a problem

592
00:48:09,300 --> 00:48:12,060
with the high school data, the standard error of measurement

593
00:48:12,060 --> 00:48:13,900
was uncomfortable.

594
00:48:13,900 --> 00:48:18,040
Higher than NWA would like and higher than the DOE was comfortable

595
00:48:18,040 --> 00:48:20,800
with that hasn't been remedied.

596
00:48:21,120 --> 00:48:23,380
So that's still sort of out there, right?

597
00:48:23,900 --> 00:48:26,400
The comparison data from the state.

598
00:48:27,040 --> 00:48:31,620
We got the data from the state on October 2nd on October 4th, we were told, well, the comparison

599
00:48:31,620 --> 00:48:36,300
data from the state is preliminary that could change, I don't think it's going to change

600
00:48:36,300 --> 00:48:44,380
our data, but the comparing to the rest of the state is not finalized yet.

601
00:48:46,060 --> 00:48:52,980
So, yes and no, Sarah, I mean we have, I understand, a number, but it doesn't have a whole

602
00:48:52,980 --> 00:48:53,980
lot of meaning behind it.

603
00:48:53,980 --> 00:49:02,620
I hear the pain in your voice, and I know this has been very frustrating, so I think one of the messages that I'm taking away is hold on tight.

604
00:49:03,020 --> 00:49:10,840
It's coming in November, there will be some comparison and you'll be able to look at your child's progress in a better way from this future report.

605
00:49:11,160 --> 00:49:17,060
The one that sent out today doesn't reflect that, so perhaps sending some messaging, you know, that says,

606
00:49:17,060 --> 00:49:23,920
Which you did but I think we could do more I think because I got a little unsettled just reading it

607
00:49:24,700 --> 00:49:28,420
Thinking of as even though you had prepped us, so I think

608
00:49:28,420 --> 00:49:35,700
Yeah, but I know it's a lot and I'm sorry it's been that the state and W.A. hasn't been able to really get a handle on this

609
00:49:36,240 --> 00:49:42,740
Thanks for your work. Unfortunately, and I long for the days when the state would just send the reports to families. That was those were nice days

610
00:49:44,620 --> 00:49:45,500
Thank you

611
00:49:45,500 --> 00:50:14,420
And our teachers, we have conferences coming up so I imagine parents will be coming in, you know, bringing that or talking about it and so is there some format or something that teachers are, you know, made aware of this and can talk through this so before I sent the reports to families and we checked to make sure the teacher access that was one of the weights for us because we're like the teachers can act at these reports and we're going to send it to families and then they're going to get questions and that could be very stressful.

612
00:50:14,420 --> 00:50:23,640
So, I took the personal information out of a report and sent it to teachers and said this is what families will see.

613
00:50:24,580 --> 00:50:29,320
And I also sent them the language that I sent to families so they could see what you're getting.

614
00:50:33,710 --> 00:50:36,070
What we could do is print all their reports and give them to teachers.

615
00:50:36,230 --> 00:50:38,870
It just seems like such a waste for so little information.

616
00:50:39,850 --> 00:50:41,610
And I don't know that it's worth it.

617
00:50:41,610 --> 00:50:45,210
if parents want to come in and say, here is this report and the teachers will say, well,

618
00:50:45,930 --> 00:50:48,470
yep, they're on, I would agree. They're on grade level.

619
00:50:50,870 --> 00:50:52,350
I mean, maybe you could say parents

620
00:50:52,350 --> 00:50:56,290
feel free to print out and bring your report. Absolutely, that's a good idea.

621
00:50:59,040 --> 00:50:59,680
Yeah. Go ahead, Alicia.

622
00:51:00,840 --> 00:51:05,200
Well, you mentioned that it's that what the information is used when the teachers look at it.

623
00:51:05,460 --> 00:51:12,600
They're looking if the student is on grade level or what is it's just a metric that's not that's not

624
00:51:12,600 --> 00:51:19,380
teachers look at it all right actually the whole NWA was developed to be a growth measure because

625
00:51:19,380 --> 00:51:26,060
people were not happy with criterion based measures 20 years ago hence why NWA rose up in

626
00:51:26,060 --> 00:51:31,680
popularity so now they've taken the NWA and tried to fit it into a you know around box into a square

627
00:51:31,680 --> 00:51:40,760
hole not working um they tried um so no teachers don't look at the at honor above what they look at

628
00:51:40,760 --> 00:51:46,540
are the sub scores which are not included in this report. So like looking at math, for example,

629
00:51:46,660 --> 00:51:52,340
whether it's numeracy, geometry, or what area of math the kids are doing well in or struggling in.

630
00:51:53,860 --> 00:51:58,720
Okay, great. And then my understanding is in December we're going to be

631
00:51:58,720 --> 00:52:04,520
workshopping to look at the data. Look at the data and we'll be able to analyze whether our data

632
00:52:04,980 --> 00:52:07,240
is, you know, our students are doing better,

633
00:52:07,860 --> 00:52:10,280
or scores are going down, et cetera, yeah.

634
00:52:10,580 --> 00:52:12,880
Well, we can look at all the other what we have.

635
00:52:13,320 --> 00:52:14,140
Yes, yeah.

636
00:52:14,880 --> 00:52:15,900
OK, OK, thank you.

637
00:52:16,000 --> 00:52:16,760
Sure, I'd love.

638
00:52:17,620 --> 00:52:20,780
So I just want to play back what you've told us many times, yeah.

639
00:52:30,000 --> 00:52:35,220
The NWA assessment was done to measure the progress of growth.

640
00:52:35,500 --> 00:52:40,620
So how quickly are you progressing in this learning, where maybe are you not learning as quickly,

641
00:52:40,960 --> 00:52:44,820
so that teachers could impact those growth areas?

642
00:52:45,720 --> 00:52:54,480
May, through your assessment, was designed to satisfy the federal requirement that students are

643
00:52:54,480 --> 00:52:55,740
performing at grade level.

644
00:52:56,320 --> 00:52:56,340
Right.

645
00:52:56,340 --> 00:53:01,100
So they kind of mashed it, forget about how fast you're learning, are you meeting these standards?

646
00:53:02,320 --> 00:53:02,960
All right.

647
00:53:03,280 --> 00:53:03,880
Thank you.

648
00:53:03,880 --> 00:53:03,920
Thank you.

649
00:53:04,200 --> 00:53:05,080
It doesn't adjust.

650
00:53:05,420 --> 00:53:10,740
So the older version, the version that they're having in the fall, has an adjustment that's unlimited,

651
00:53:10,980 --> 00:53:16,980
high, unlimited low to find the students' actual achievement or growth area.

652
00:53:17,300 --> 00:53:20,940
Whereas the criterion references cat both at the high and the low.

653
00:53:21,340 --> 00:53:23,920
So that it can measure the grade level equivalent.

654
00:53:24,360 --> 00:53:26,360
Thank you.

655
00:53:26,360 --> 00:53:27,020
Sure.

656
00:53:30,100 --> 00:53:31,180
Do we have any other questions?

657
00:53:33,680 --> 00:53:37,860
Jen, I just want to follow up a workshop in October which was all about literacy.

658
00:53:39,380 --> 00:53:45,100
There was a report for the elementary school talking about phonics and how Aaron Valley is

659
00:53:45,100 --> 00:53:51,400
in working, you know, coaching teachers refining the approach to phonics and how there's

660
00:53:51,400 --> 00:53:56,560
the team that's going to be led by her hunting for a new phonics curriculum.

661
00:53:56,560 --> 00:53:58,240
So, just a couple of questions.

662
00:53:58,620 --> 00:54:01,500
One, are we using a phonics curriculum right now?

663
00:54:03,680 --> 00:54:07,040
And, obviously, you must feel like it's outdated.

664
00:54:08,460 --> 00:54:14,240
And two, I do feel like there needs to be this sense of urgency,

665
00:54:15,420 --> 00:54:16,680
you know, for K through two.

666
00:54:16,760 --> 00:54:20,320
We've got these readers that have this finite amount of time

667
00:54:20,320 --> 00:54:22,240
that they can master reading.

668
00:54:22,700 --> 00:54:24,120
And we know it's before third grade.

669
00:54:24,120 --> 00:54:31,460
And so, if I know there are lots of curriculum programs available, I am not comfortable

670
00:54:31,460 --> 00:54:36,020
really waiting another year, especially after the exit from COVID.

671
00:54:36,940 --> 00:54:40,420
So I just want you to talk a little bit about that.

672
00:54:40,820 --> 00:54:43,900
Sure, so sounds easy, right?

673
00:54:44,020 --> 00:54:50,200
Let's just pick a curriculum and go an actuality that's not how it plays out.

674
00:54:52,260 --> 00:55:00,060
So, several factors are a play, so first we need a rubric, which we can do quickly, not a problem, like how we're going to judge these curricular.

675
00:55:01,480 --> 00:55:05,380
There aren't a ton out there that meet our needs, we've kind of already done that.

676
00:55:05,660 --> 00:55:12,840
So, we have narrowed, we have probably five that we're looking at three, probably seriously.

677
00:55:14,520 --> 00:55:16,760
teachers need to be involved in that process.

678
00:55:17,800 --> 00:55:19,880
We feel very strongly about that.

679
00:55:20,620 --> 00:55:25,300
If not, if we take something off the shelf and we're like,

680
00:55:25,340 --> 00:55:28,020
this is the best I promise do it.

681
00:55:28,900 --> 00:55:31,680
Again, it's about the implementation.

682
00:55:32,080 --> 00:55:35,840
You can have a fantastic curriculum resource

683
00:55:36,920 --> 00:55:40,340
and teachers not knowing how to implement it

684
00:55:40,340 --> 00:55:49,160
are going to turn against it because it feels like they can't be successful or be implemented

685
00:55:49,160 --> 00:55:53,480
without integrity, which could be worse because then you're teaching misinformation.

686
00:55:55,360 --> 00:56:02,760
So your first question was, are we still using a curricular resources? Yes. We are. Erin

687
00:56:02,760 --> 00:56:09,920
is actually, she has a scope and sequence with the K team that they are following. And if you

688
00:56:09,920 --> 00:56:14,940
resources and you look at a case scope and sequence. They're going to be mostly similar,

689
00:56:15,540 --> 00:56:22,740
developmentally. The ordering is going to be different depending on your publisher. But for

690
00:56:22,740 --> 00:56:29,560
the most part, they're going to be similar. She's doing that same work with a great one team. I forget

691
00:56:29,560 --> 00:56:34,060
if it's this week or next week, she has an appointment with them. They selected, I think it was three,

692
00:56:34,100 --> 00:56:39,900
maybe four different scope and sequence to look at with a rubric to determine the scope and

693
00:56:39,900 --> 00:56:45,300
That's that systematic piece, the scope and sequence that's fundamentally important.

694
00:56:46,180 --> 00:56:49,120
And is the foundation to a solid phonics program.

695
00:56:50,460 --> 00:56:54,620
The next level of importance for a solid phonics program is that implementation.

696
00:56:54,940 --> 00:56:59,300
The teachers really need to understand the different syllable patterns and the rules.

697
00:56:59,700 --> 00:57:04,340
If they don't understand them themselves, and I'm not saying that we have to wait until they all know,

698
00:57:04,640 --> 00:57:07,100
but that's part of our process this year,

699
00:57:07,100 --> 00:57:12,360
is so that they know what to look for and appreciate in a curriculum so that they can pull out

700
00:57:12,360 --> 00:57:21,500
the jams that they are supposed to teach and focus on. So that the kids aren't getting gaps

701
00:57:21,500 --> 00:57:32,100
because the teachers are just sort of cherry picking without the appropriate guidance. So I agree

702
00:57:32,100 --> 00:57:38,860
with the sense of urgency, and we are moving as fast as we can without pulling the rug out

703
00:57:38,860 --> 00:57:45,460
from our teachers and causing undue stress. That is so that we have to be very mindful of.

704
00:57:45,680 --> 00:57:53,040
I mean, there's in their second year of their math program. We're trying to align science, social

705
00:57:53,040 --> 00:57:58,300
studies, there's a lot happening. There is a lot happening and actually one thing that is

706
00:57:58,300 --> 00:58:03,520
to see is the curriculum on the web site so I would like for you to talk about that for

707
00:58:04,000 --> 00:58:09,420
yeah that's a long time coming and a lot of people worked on that.

708
00:58:09,740 --> 00:58:13,580
Like every teacher at the middle school had a hand in that.

709
00:58:13,580 --> 00:58:16,660
Every teacher at the elementary school had a hand in it.

710
00:58:16,760 --> 00:58:18,740
We're at different stages in the development.

711
00:58:19,880 --> 00:58:25,020
For example, the math web page at the elementary school has already been

712
00:58:25,020 --> 00:58:30,680
second draft now because we had the first one done and nothing else was ready and now this

713
00:58:30,680 --> 00:58:36,220
one's been revamped already. So that will continue to happen and we still need to add we're

714
00:58:37,520 --> 00:58:44,460
revamping the outdoor learning page. Place-based learning to showcase some of the great units

715
00:58:44,460 --> 00:58:49,780
that are happening at the middle school as far as outdoor learning at the high school within

716
00:58:49,780 --> 00:58:58,320
new if this land could talk class among others so yes we're psyched it it's at a point

717
00:58:58,320 --> 00:59:05,040
where we can put it out there it feels good yeah and hopefully we can direct parents there

718
00:59:05,040 --> 00:59:13,460
because there is really good information there so yeah thank you for that yes Emily I had

719
00:59:13,460 --> 00:59:14,400
Hi, how are you?

720
00:59:15,920 --> 00:59:19,760
I had three questions about the NWA that were answered

721
00:59:19,760 --> 00:59:22,720
in the information that came out.

722
00:59:22,860 --> 00:59:24,920
I have some new questions, but I can't even,

723
00:59:25,000 --> 00:59:27,760
this is a very confusing topic.

724
00:59:28,080 --> 00:59:29,820
I can't even fully articulate my questions.

725
00:59:30,900 --> 00:59:31,980
Stand by, I tell November.

726
00:59:35,380 --> 00:59:39,680
So, but I did, I did one to second without backtracking

727
00:59:39,680 --> 00:59:40,180
too much.

728
00:59:40,180 --> 00:59:48,320
It did want to second the sense of urgency but acknowledge the difficulty of threading the needle

729
00:59:48,320 --> 00:59:57,020
in a relatively large human organization with lots of knowledgeable to be respected professionals.

730
00:59:57,020 --> 00:59:57,980
and

731
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:29,980
That we have, we're kind of measuring different groups of kiddos. And where were they, when COVID hit, where were those, where was that year and a half, two years of when COVID hit. And I want to, with all due respect, second, analysis, notion that, that there is a finite amount of time for these kids that we hear about it.

732
01:00:30,000 --> 01:00:39,240
a lot and from different from parents and from teachers. I know you're working hard with the curriculum

733
01:00:39,240 --> 01:00:46,800
getting up. I had some platitudes about the great Kirk come online. Thank you. She took that from me.

734
01:00:49,520 --> 01:00:59,980
But is there without using, I mean, calling something a band aid kind of feels like a bit of a

735
01:00:59,980 --> 01:01:05,740
are these with the questions that Peg answered about the explicit learning?

736
01:01:06,980 --> 01:01:13,720
Are these are their kind of phonics band-aids that teachers like the K through two teachers

737
01:01:13,720 --> 01:01:23,220
are in the time that you're finding the right curriculum and getting the professional steps

738
01:01:23,220 --> 01:01:24,520
in place to implement it?

739
01:01:24,760 --> 01:01:28,840
Are there kind of phonics band-aids that are being applied now?

740
01:01:28,840 --> 01:01:31,220
I would say it's more than band-aids.

741
01:01:32,140 --> 01:01:33,580
I mean, not for lack of a better time.

742
01:01:33,620 --> 01:01:35,680
They have a lot of resources.

743
01:01:36,000 --> 01:01:39,960
In, for example, the K team was two years ago,

744
01:01:40,680 --> 01:01:44,600
they were trying to pull in some other programs,

745
01:01:45,440 --> 01:01:48,720
because they recognized the need for more explicit instruction.

746
01:01:49,280 --> 01:01:51,660
So two years ago, the K team said,

747
01:01:51,660 --> 01:01:54,120
you know, they started, they went to a different school.

748
01:01:54,280 --> 01:01:58,340
They did an observation of a program that is now no longer one

749
01:01:58,340 --> 01:02:04,040
that we're considering for, because it doesn't meet our criteria, but that process started.

750
01:02:05,300 --> 01:02:11,820
Last year, they took a class, all of them, about the shifts needed to make, take away

751
01:02:11,820 --> 01:02:12,800
the curricular resource.

752
01:02:13,100 --> 01:02:14,040
It's about that instruction.

753
01:02:14,460 --> 01:02:23,780
So the whole team has taken a course on shifting the phonics, it's called the six shifts, shifting

754
01:02:23,780 --> 01:02:25,020
the balances, what it's called.

755
01:02:25,020 --> 01:02:29,500
And now that KTM is also taking a course on teaching sight words.

756
01:02:30,280 --> 01:02:37,320
So they are informing and educating themselves with that course comes a sight word list

757
01:02:37,320 --> 01:02:38,940
so that they're all doing the same sight words.

758
01:02:39,400 --> 01:02:45,500
They have a scope and sequence and they have an articulated explicit lesson pattern they're doing.

759
01:02:45,760 --> 01:02:51,540
So for every say vowel team, they have a lesson sort of framework that they're plugging it into.

760
01:02:51,540 --> 01:02:57,360
The first grade team and the second grade team similar but a little bit different, because

761
01:02:57,360 --> 01:02:58,040
an easier different.

762
01:02:58,520 --> 01:03:03,940
So what they have done is they have really leaned into the decodable text that Aaron and

763
01:03:03,940 --> 01:03:05,400
Robin spoke about.

764
01:03:05,920 --> 01:03:10,480
So rather than pulling kids to do level of reading groups, they're leveraging the kids and

765
01:03:10,480 --> 01:03:14,580
applying the skills that they've learned into the decodable text so they're doing a lot

766
01:03:14,580 --> 01:03:15,320
more processing.

767
01:03:16,160 --> 01:03:16,400
Yes.

768
01:03:17,120 --> 01:03:17,280
Yes.

769
01:03:19,020 --> 01:03:19,580
Yes.

770
01:03:19,580 --> 01:03:22,200
is everybody all the time?

771
01:03:23,360 --> 01:03:23,620
Okay.

772
01:03:23,960 --> 01:03:24,140
Great.

773
01:03:24,580 --> 01:03:24,720
Thank you.

774
01:03:24,860 --> 01:03:25,060
Sure.

775
01:03:25,560 --> 01:03:25,560
Thank

776
01:03:27,740 --> 01:03:28,100
you.

777
01:03:28,180 --> 01:03:29,540
Well, now you're provoking more questions.

778
01:03:31,020 --> 01:03:40,340
So, too, I assume the literacy coach is also playing a part in the not band aids, but

779
01:03:40,340 --> 01:03:41,860
real support in the moment.

780
01:03:42,300 --> 01:03:46,980
And then just out of curiosity, are there any particular criteria that we're looking

781
01:03:46,980 --> 01:03:51,020
for that sounds like we're holding some of these curriculums to a higher standard?

782
01:03:52,900 --> 01:04:00,380
Yes, so looking at the language that they use and looking at the ordering that they teach,

783
01:04:01,900 --> 01:04:08,640
those are all indicators for us for, we have several rubrics that we're looking at,

784
01:04:08,760 --> 01:04:12,160
put out by the reading league, et cetera, I can share those with people,

785
01:04:13,080 --> 01:04:18,480
but essentially looks at every piece of phonics like how much time do you spend on

786
01:04:18,480 --> 01:04:22,100
with these teach valid teams at the beginning of the middle of the year.

787
01:04:22,440 --> 01:04:25,540
You know like it's literally a checklist for us.

788
01:04:29,220 --> 01:04:37,220
The reason I'm trying to think the program that we sort of dismissed after seeing it looked good from the start, very teacher friendly, very friendly.

789
01:04:38,140 --> 01:04:42,900
But some of the language wasn't explicit enough.

790
01:04:43,220 --> 01:04:48,620
It was very sometimes with the elementary materials.

791
01:04:48,620 --> 01:04:57,140
you can get into this sort of kitty language speak. And we don't want that. We want the words

792
01:04:57,140 --> 01:05:03,160
for the actual meanings of what we're doing, right? Because that's transferable. If I say

793
01:05:03,160 --> 01:05:10,460
snap words and you say, you call them this word and we all have a different like kitty term for it.

794
01:05:10,840 --> 01:05:16,960
The kids aren't. They're going to be confused. So language is a big piece of these

795
01:05:16,960 --> 01:05:27,350
resources, another one, so fundations is off of or in Gillian Wilson, very popular in some places,

796
01:05:27,570 --> 01:05:35,150
one of the downsides of that, and it's super, like very science-based, huge teacher prep.

797
01:05:35,870 --> 01:05:41,430
That's a deficit. So we're trying to find that balance of really quality curriculum,

798
01:05:42,510 --> 01:05:45,710
less teacher prep, because they don't have a time.

799
01:05:50,120 --> 01:05:56,680
What is your, we all have our plans, you know, as in the, and then we have the reality.

800
01:05:57,060 --> 01:06:01,760
What we see, shaking out, what is your, what's your timeline?

801
01:06:01,960 --> 01:06:12,000
Is it to narrow this process down to find curriculum to start assuming implementation next year?

802
01:06:12,000 --> 01:06:17,520
But would it involve some or work like what's your kind of not holding you to it?

803
01:06:17,520 --> 01:06:24,740
I get your saying it into a microphone, but what's the timeline you're hoping for?

804
01:06:24,940 --> 01:06:28,780
Yeah, because I think that's a finite answer that a lot of people would like to hear.

805
01:06:29,420 --> 01:06:29,580
Absolutely.

806
01:06:30,320 --> 01:06:36,460
I would like us to have something in hand and like excited about ground running by next year for sure.

807
01:06:37,400 --> 01:06:41,980
But if we can do it earlier, there's one that we really like that literally just came on the mark.

808
01:06:41,980 --> 01:06:48,120
It's $1,600 a classroom, just saying that's super expensive when you have 24 classrooms.

809
01:06:48,740 --> 01:06:51,120
That's a lot of money. Yes, we can afford it.

810
01:06:51,340 --> 01:06:56,100
But I want to be careful if that's the right thing before I spend the spend amount of money.

811
01:06:58,530 --> 01:07:00,750
I think that's what we're going to be spending a money on now.

812
01:07:00,750 --> 01:07:01,190
I'm sure.

813
01:07:03,850 --> 01:07:04,970
Thank you, John.

814
01:07:05,410 --> 01:07:09,890
I'd like to take a moment to thank all the administrators that come and do this.

815
01:07:09,890 --> 01:07:15,930
This, you know, we had a big conversation tonight with you and we never know exactly where it's going to go.

816
01:07:16,330 --> 01:07:26,630
And this is something we've been doing here for a long time with our various administrators and it's part of what pulls other areas kind of into the world.

817
01:07:33,400 --> 01:07:43,580
I would like to thank everybody for coming tonight and extending your work day and there's real benefit to it and it's grateful for it and it's valued.

818
01:07:44,200 --> 01:07:44,480
Thank you.

819
01:07:44,860 --> 01:07:47,120
Thank you, Jen.

820
01:07:50,360 --> 01:07:52,360
James, James, coffee, our athletic director.

821
01:08:02,650 --> 01:08:03,150
Good evening.

822
01:08:03,650 --> 01:08:04,790
My report stands as submitted.

823
01:08:05,610 --> 01:08:08,810
There were a couple of things I just wanted to highlight really quick.

824
01:08:08,810 --> 01:08:15,950
First being that our golf team is state champions. Again, so congratulations to them and the last four years

825
01:08:15,950 --> 01:08:22,230
They've won the Class A state championship twice and they've come become runners-up two of the years as well

826
01:08:22,230 --> 01:08:27,990
So we have a great thing going on on our golf program right now, and I just want to congratulate the team and AJ Simakitis

827
01:08:27,990 --> 01:08:30,870
who's our head coach in a film, a graduate,

828
01:08:31,590 --> 01:08:35,770
who played golf here on a great season.

829
01:08:36,170 --> 01:08:38,850
And then our participation numbers for middle school

830
01:08:38,850 --> 01:08:40,250
are in the report this month.

831
01:08:40,810 --> 01:08:42,070
Last month you had the high school numbers,

832
01:08:42,310 --> 01:08:43,270
this year you have middle school.

833
01:08:43,470 --> 01:08:44,130
Last year you had me this month,

834
01:08:44,190 --> 01:08:44,870
you have middle school.

835
01:08:45,530 --> 01:08:47,610
And the third thing, just being,

836
01:08:48,050 --> 01:08:50,630
I thought homecoming was a great last week.

837
01:08:53,190 --> 01:08:55,210
I've been here for eight years now,

838
01:08:55,210 --> 01:09:00,070
And I remember, they're used to not always be a homecoming.

839
01:09:00,090 --> 01:09:01,490
It was called fallfest.

840
01:09:02,010 --> 01:09:03,930
And we didn't really have a pep rally.

841
01:09:04,030 --> 01:09:06,450
We had this thing called fallfest, which is kind of just

842
01:09:06,450 --> 01:09:09,750
a one-day event that was not what it is today.

843
01:09:11,230 --> 01:09:14,930
And so for a lot of people in here that were never

844
01:09:14,930 --> 01:09:17,330
a part of it, fallfest was the different thing altogether.

845
01:09:17,670 --> 01:09:19,610
And it wasn't the most welcoming environment

846
01:09:19,610 --> 01:09:20,950
from most students.

847
01:09:22,270 --> 01:09:30,430
And so I saw a little bit of that, my first year here and over the years things have changed and the student council has been great.

848
01:09:30,750 --> 01:09:36,750
And this administration and prior administrations have done a lot to really get it to be a more inclusive event.

849
01:09:36,950 --> 01:09:44,470
And I will say I thought personally that at least the pepper alley portion last week was the best one we've had.

850
01:09:44,470 --> 01:09:51,310
and I give all the credit to the kids because they made the environment fun, so it wasn't

851
01:09:51,310 --> 01:09:57,950
a aggressive, in-your-face thing that it used to be years and years ago, it was a really

852
01:09:57,950 --> 01:10:02,230
fun environment and the games were fun and it was light-hearted and the kids deserve a lot

853
01:10:02,230 --> 01:10:07,270
of credit because they were awesome, so I thought it was great, so nice job.

854
01:10:09,830 --> 01:10:14,270
So that's my report for this month, and can I answer any questions?

855
01:10:15,290 --> 01:10:16,130
Any questions?

856
01:10:18,440 --> 01:10:19,200
Go ahead and move on.

857
01:10:19,560 --> 01:10:19,960
Hi.

858
01:10:20,280 --> 01:10:23,100
Let's talk about the survey for the student athletes.

859
01:10:23,940 --> 01:10:26,460
And the seasons are wrapping up.

860
01:10:26,500 --> 01:10:29,440
Golf is over, but a lot of the seasons are wrapping up.

861
01:10:29,520 --> 01:10:31,400
It was one of the strategic priorities.

862
01:10:31,520 --> 01:10:31,720
Yeah.

863
01:10:32,220 --> 01:10:36,380
We had a chance to talk about your other one at the facilities meeting with the turf.

864
01:10:38,120 --> 01:10:41,840
And I'm curious to know where you stand on that.

865
01:10:41,920 --> 01:10:42,980
I'm bringing that back.

866
01:10:43,420 --> 01:10:44,980
How are you going to roll it out?

867
01:10:45,200 --> 01:10:47,780
You've got the most Instagram followers

868
01:10:47,780 --> 01:10:49,560
of all the filmist school's pages.

869
01:10:50,340 --> 01:10:53,120
So you've got access, congratulations.

870
01:10:54,800 --> 01:10:56,600
And I'm wondering what it's going to look like.

871
01:10:56,760 --> 01:10:59,380
It's going to look like the old survey, what data

872
01:10:59,380 --> 01:11:04,020
you're hoping to collect, and the different ways

873
01:11:04,020 --> 01:11:09,520
You're going to kind of, I mean, we're all, we're found with residents and they just did their

874
01:11:09,520 --> 01:11:15,600
town survey and they pushed real hard and got 500 people to answer it.

875
01:11:16,060 --> 01:11:24,400
So, so it's obviously, it's hard to get responses to surveys, that's part of getting feedback

876
01:11:24,400 --> 01:11:30,660
of any sort of, but that's also part of the management process, right?

877
01:11:30,660 --> 01:11:35,660
So I'm curious where you stand with that part, that portion of your strategic background.

878
01:11:35,900 --> 01:11:40,640
So the seasons are wrapping up, but we still have play after you still have things to go.

879
01:11:40,780 --> 01:11:49,860
So I'm thinking sometimes it will be probably mid-November when this goes out before the winter season, but definitely in November.

880
01:11:49,860 --> 01:11:55,860
I've collected several surveys from schools in the SMA and the Western

881
01:11:55,860 --> 01:12:01,780
Inc. Conference of local schools. I have prior surveys and then I've started to

882
01:12:01,780 --> 01:12:06,040
collect those all and I started to put together like a rough draft but I'm

883
01:12:06,360 --> 01:12:09,700
working with certain people within our district leadership team who have a

884
01:12:09,700 --> 01:12:15,140
lot of extensive survey results so I'm working with them to kind of help me

885
01:12:15,140 --> 01:12:18,800
out with that piece of it too and just to get second third opinions and things

886
01:12:18,800 --> 01:12:21,800
like that, so I'm still in the draft phase,

887
01:12:22,060 --> 01:12:24,360
but I'm hoping that I'll have something finalized,

888
01:12:24,440 --> 01:12:25,820
I don't know, in the next week or so.

889
01:12:27,640 --> 01:12:31,580
And James, so how is it going to be like,

890
01:12:31,620 --> 01:12:33,660
will parents be made aware of this

891
01:12:33,660 --> 01:12:36,220
so that they can like encourage their student athlete

892
01:12:36,220 --> 01:12:37,980
to fill out the form?

893
01:12:38,300 --> 01:12:40,240
I mean, just how will it be rolled out?

894
01:12:40,460 --> 01:12:45,640
Yeah, I hadn't thought that much into how I'm in a blivered out.

895
01:12:45,640 --> 01:12:47,480
Obviously we'll put it out in the nav's news.

896
01:12:47,480 --> 01:12:53,760
I can talk with Mr. Gowers about principles and notes and things like that.

897
01:12:54,360 --> 01:12:59,040
We can send it out. Obviously, I can send it directly to our student athletes at the high

898
01:12:59,040 --> 01:13:03,640
school to be email. There's a lot of different ways I can deliver it and encourage them to

899
01:13:03,640 --> 01:13:09,560
participate in it. And I can even have our coaching staff, you know, push that point as well.

900
01:13:10,520 --> 01:13:15,480
And I don't know. So we used to do surveys, used to do them, right? What was the student

901
01:13:16,200 --> 01:13:21,400
great of like return. I mean, I know our parents have great, they're great about doing surveys.

902
01:13:21,900 --> 01:13:26,960
I know we have a high rate of parents who will do a survey, but do you know what it was for students before?

903
01:13:28,340 --> 01:13:32,100
I can't give you a specific number. This is probably four or five years ago now.

904
01:13:32,880 --> 01:13:39,550
But my first couple of years, it was a high participation number and then it waned off almost completely by

905
01:13:39,550 --> 01:13:46,430
a 2017-18, it was really, something that's more to do.

906
01:13:46,850 --> 01:13:47,830
Yeah, sure, we get it back.

907
01:13:48,050 --> 01:13:53,390
It was really only a select few and two distinct directions.

908
01:13:56,390 --> 01:13:57,890
But yeah, we'll definitely push it hard

909
01:13:58,670 --> 01:14:02,370
to our different channels to try to get student athletes to take it.

910
01:14:05,470 --> 01:14:06,230
Yeah, yeah.

911
01:14:06,270 --> 01:14:10,210
Yeah, I think the world's become more extreme,

912
01:14:10,210 --> 01:14:17,250
So it's difficult to find that middle ground, but I think we've got to do our best.

913
01:14:17,310 --> 01:14:18,310
Yeah, everyone needs it.

914
01:14:18,710 --> 01:14:18,990
Right?

915
01:14:19,630 --> 01:14:21,790
And I'm sure you want to hear it all.

916
01:14:23,050 --> 01:14:27,970
And you know, there are a lot of different extracurricular activities that are happening in our school.

917
01:14:29,910 --> 01:14:35,870
Visual arts, performance arts, and we have math and science clubs.

918
01:14:36,430 --> 01:14:43,270
And all the athletics are an extracurricular activity that really, that have a really high rate of participation.

919
01:14:43,650 --> 01:14:48,130
I mean, I'm sure by the time we get into another season and have new kids participating in new sports,

920
01:14:48,670 --> 01:14:50,990
we're looking at half of the high school population.

921
01:14:52,630 --> 01:14:59,870
And, but the athletic department is the only extracurricular that has an administrator running it.

922
01:15:00,180 --> 01:15:13,280
With that comes the sense of care that we've got to have with the experience our students have, but also just encouraging them to become young adults that are using their voice.

923
01:15:13,620 --> 01:15:25,460
So finding that, getting creative to find ways to get them back to responding to those surveys is one way we can show them and encourage them that their voice matters.

924
01:15:25,460 --> 01:15:31,440
not influences the overall culture in the entire school so thank you for bringing this back

925
01:15:31,440 --> 01:15:36,580
and thank you for working hard and I know the fall is busy and I look forward to November

926
01:15:36,580 --> 01:15:41,780
and hearing more. Thank you, James. Okay. Thanks, James. Thank you.

927
01:15:44,540 --> 01:15:46,200
Director of Technology, Nate Barnes.

928
01:15:52,980 --> 01:15:55,400
Good evening everyone. My board report stands

929
01:15:55,400 --> 01:16:01,520
this submitted. I'll just highlight this evening. We did apply for and get a $20,000 grant for

930
01:16:01,520 --> 01:16:06,720
security that we're using to implement a ransomware system and big thanks to Matt Vanneberg.

931
01:16:06,940 --> 01:16:10,360
He did all the work on that. Any questions for me this evening?

932
01:16:13,840 --> 01:16:17,680
You've been busy. Thank you. Thank you.

933
01:16:17,720 --> 01:16:19,800
Thank you for giving us all of that.

934
01:16:20,360 --> 01:16:23,960
And finally, Director Finance and Operations, Dan Osteck.

935
01:16:31,490 --> 01:16:33,330
Evening reports, stands as submitted,

936
01:16:35,910 --> 01:16:39,490
items of note, October, busy month, and the finance,

937
01:16:39,770 --> 01:16:41,710
end of things, audit preparation.

938
01:16:41,990 --> 01:16:44,570
I didn't mention the day, but it'll be the last week in October.

939
01:16:45,670 --> 01:16:50,470
Same auditor does the auditor for the town and the school.

940
01:16:50,650 --> 01:16:55,530
We typically alternate weeks and have to balance with the town.

941
01:16:55,530 --> 01:16:59,390
We don't manage our own cash checks.

942
01:16:59,870 --> 01:17:03,750
We go through the town, so there has to be reconciliation process between the two.

943
01:17:04,090 --> 01:17:09,190
It's a great work in relationship, and not kind of what I have, so don't have to keep us

944
01:17:09,190 --> 01:17:11,010
in balance, which is excellent.

945
01:17:12,070 --> 01:17:17,130
But that process for those that don't know is review of our financial statements for the

946
01:17:17,130 --> 01:17:19,270
year ending June of 2023.

947
01:17:19,270 --> 01:17:25,390
We have the general fund, which is the fund supported by local taxes.

948
01:17:26,410 --> 01:17:29,990
Special revenue funds probably have 10 to 12 of those.

949
01:17:30,550 --> 01:17:36,230
We're also on agency oversight for scholarship funds and booster funds as well.

950
01:17:37,310 --> 01:17:39,550
The food service fund is in there as well.

951
01:17:40,370 --> 01:17:46,690
It enterprise fund, which essentially runs on its own as its own self-balancing fund.

952
01:17:46,690 --> 01:17:50,350
So that doesn't get any help from the general fund to operate,

953
01:17:50,370 --> 01:17:53,210
which is very unusual in a school service environment.

954
01:17:54,830 --> 01:17:58,370
And then in addition to giving us

955
01:17:58,370 --> 01:17:59,870
audited financial numbers,

956
01:18:00,070 --> 01:18:03,670
the process includes an evaluation of our internal control systems.

957
01:18:04,570 --> 01:18:07,390
So everything from approval processes for purchases

958
01:18:07,390 --> 01:18:11,150
to how we manage cash receipts,

959
01:18:11,890 --> 01:18:14,450
how we process accounts receivable accounts payable.

960
01:18:16,690 --> 01:18:26,810
You name it, anything financial there, and then in particular grants that we receive a lot of federal funding for, and primarily that's a local entitlement,

961
01:18:26,810 --> 01:18:38,730
special education federal funding, they get a separate audit called the Single Audits, called the Single Audit Act, which is a more specific audit geared just for federal programs

962
01:18:38,730 --> 01:18:45,070
because they're restricted in use and purpose, so the audit there verifies that any expenditures

963
01:18:45,630 --> 01:18:50,350
made are in line with what's approved to be spent for that grant.

964
01:18:50,730 --> 01:18:55,830
That's a whole separate thing, in addition to a normal reporting DOE, which is the other

965
01:18:55,830 --> 01:19:02,150
thing that we do in October as we're gearing up for the budget process, the Magic ED279 report,

966
01:19:02,370 --> 01:19:08,650
which is our state funding for education relies on most of the stuff that we submit in

967
01:19:08,650 --> 01:19:16,030
October, so it'll be our October one enrollment figure, which is by grade. Other factors

968
01:19:16,030 --> 01:19:21,330
are Neo, it's called Neo. I don't know, that's probably a text thing, the Neo system.

969
01:19:23,490 --> 01:19:29,950
That's complete staffing of the district. So every teacher would education, they have what

970
01:19:29,950 --> 01:19:36,510
experience they have, how many years have been in the district. All ed text, regular red,

971
01:19:36,510 --> 01:19:42,230
special ed, so it really gives you, we provide the demographic of the district to the state.

972
01:19:43,010 --> 01:19:47,670
And all those figures are included in the calculation of the essential programs and services

973
01:19:47,670 --> 01:19:53,470
funding model, which generates in the end, are funding back to the local district,

974
01:19:53,550 --> 01:19:57,090
so at least they're best guessed by typically the start of February.

975
01:19:58,390 --> 01:20:03,150
And we wait very eagerly for that number to help us in the budget process.

976
01:20:03,150 --> 01:20:03,910
I

977
01:20:05,960 --> 01:20:08,700
think that's the other than making a plug for substitutes.

978
01:20:09,860 --> 01:20:11,220
It's not like the old days.

979
01:20:11,460 --> 01:20:13,880
If you're interested in setting, you've got control.

980
01:20:14,320 --> 01:20:19,400
It's not, you don't get called in the morning out of the blue and assign any job.

981
01:20:19,400 --> 01:20:21,120
It's very proactive for this set.

982
01:20:21,300 --> 01:20:27,360
So you sign up and say, I'm available Monday, Wednesday, Thursday.

983
01:20:27,440 --> 01:20:31,200
I want to work in this school with this age kids.

984
01:20:31,620 --> 01:20:33,240
I do want to be called at home.

985
01:20:33,240 --> 01:20:34,380
I don't want to be called at home.

986
01:20:34,380 --> 01:20:36,840
I want to be contacted by email or text.

987
01:20:37,460 --> 01:20:39,680
And the jobs pop up on the screen for you.

988
01:20:39,800 --> 01:20:42,640
So you can just pick and choose if that's what you want,

989
01:20:42,780 --> 01:20:44,260
or you can work every day.

990
01:20:44,880 --> 01:20:48,040
But the power is really in the given us off

991
01:20:48,040 --> 01:20:48,700
for an hour days.

992
01:20:48,880 --> 01:20:52,320
It's much more in the hands of the substitute hunter.

993
01:20:54,100 --> 01:20:55,040
Please do apply.

994
01:20:56,900 --> 01:20:57,880
We need you.

995
01:20:58,000 --> 01:20:59,640
We do need you.

996
01:20:59,900 --> 01:21:00,500
Any questions?

997
01:21:02,120 --> 01:21:04,360
I'd like to.

998
01:21:05,200 --> 01:21:10,800
principal notes and to to to to to to to to put to our parent body or

999
01:21:10,800 --> 01:21:14,500
me please I'm in principal notes before we're starting to use

1000
01:21:15,520 --> 01:21:20,700
Stephanie modern's expertise to social media much more aggressively we've had some real

1001
01:21:20,700 --> 01:21:25,640
good success with some recent ed tech a little more pizzazz on our marketing

1002
01:21:26,600 --> 01:21:31,740
assess the students will have to revisit that as well. I just feel like maybe some

1003
01:21:31,740 --> 01:21:37,380
parents in our community knew we were in a sub-crisis that they might be able to help.

1004
01:21:39,020 --> 01:21:40,220
We'll do that. We'll hit that.

1005
01:21:43,850 --> 01:21:45,550
That's great. Any other questions for Dan?

1006
01:21:46,730 --> 01:21:47,230
Thank you Dan.

1007
01:21:47,410 --> 01:21:47,990
Good. Thanks.

1008
01:21:50,770 --> 01:21:55,370
Moving on to item number nine, items for information.

1009
01:21:56,130 --> 01:22:01,350
I think we can put it up on the screen, but I just have you draw your attention.

1010
01:22:04,190 --> 01:22:12,190
We have a list of our current openings, and obviously we're still in search for some well-qualified folks to fill these positions.

1011
01:22:12,630 --> 01:22:16,610
The positions are all listed on the career page of Family Schools.

1012
01:22:16,830 --> 01:22:17,790
Thank you.

1013
01:22:18,610 --> 01:22:23,090
Also, the district had some success over the last month with filling some district wide available.

1014
01:22:30,000 --> 01:22:37,720
Reminder that the Board votes publicly on staff who are included in the teacher contract, as well as new administrative staff.

1015
01:22:38,600 --> 01:22:49,740
So item 10, when we move on to committee and project status reports, before we get to the individual committee reports, I'd like to first thank each of our committee chairs for preparing the minutes of each meeting.

1016
01:22:50,160 --> 01:22:57,900
As I mentioned last month, we've been working on getting the committee meetings posted up on our school board website under the school board committee tab,

1017
01:22:57,900 --> 01:23:00,620
And I'm happy to report that they are now up

1018
01:23:00,620 --> 01:23:03,080
so they're there for everyone to review.

1019
01:23:03,860 --> 01:23:05,420
So thank you for the committee chairs.

1020
01:23:06,660 --> 01:23:08,180
And also in our continuing efforts

1021
01:23:08,180 --> 01:23:10,540
to clearly communicate and inform the public

1022
01:23:10,540 --> 01:23:13,600
for our work we ask you to continue to follow us

1023
01:23:13,600 --> 01:23:17,660
on family schools, on Facebook, Instagram or X,

1024
01:23:17,820 --> 01:23:20,600
formerly known as Twitter, for all our upcoming school board

1025
01:23:20,600 --> 01:23:23,640
meetings and workshops and our community meetings,

1026
01:23:23,640 --> 01:23:25,460
those are updated each week.

1027
01:23:26,260 --> 01:23:27,380
So with that brief overview,

1028
01:23:27,380 --> 01:23:31,840
I'll turn over to committee reports, finance committee chair Nicole, would you like to give us

1029
01:23:31,840 --> 01:23:32,220
report?

1030
01:23:34,390 --> 01:23:35,070
Thank you.

1031
01:23:36,190 --> 01:23:42,070
The budget season really doesn't kick off for a little while yet, but the town and the schools

1032
01:23:42,070 --> 01:23:47,110
have been in communication planning the budget calendar for the year.

1033
01:23:48,490 --> 01:23:53,730
The town is just about ready to finalize that on their end, and so once that's done we'll

1034
01:23:53,730 --> 01:23:58,730
get that up on the website and we'll be ready to roll at last just as much as you can.

1035
01:23:59,550 --> 01:24:00,570
Thanks, Nicole.

1036
01:24:01,830 --> 01:24:03,970
Next, Laurel Regan for Facilities Committee.

1037
01:24:05,870 --> 01:24:06,490
Thank you.

1038
01:24:07,130 --> 01:24:10,750
So, the Facilities Committee toured the campus on September 22.

1039
01:24:11,550 --> 01:24:14,670
Thank you to Superintendent McFolty, Dan Oche,

1040
01:24:14,970 --> 01:24:17,470
Topper West, James Coffee, Chris Hughes,

1041
01:24:17,470 --> 01:24:21,890
Jan Adams along with many accommodating teachers and staff.

1042
01:24:22,450 --> 01:24:25,670
We had additional board members join us as well as some community members.

1043
01:24:26,350 --> 01:24:27,950
So that was fun morning.

1044
01:24:28,170 --> 01:24:31,490
We saw the wood chip boiler at Phelmeth High School,

1045
01:24:32,550 --> 01:24:35,150
which then takes every opportunity to remind us

1046
01:24:35,150 --> 01:24:37,350
who can heat our whole campus with renewable energy

1047
01:24:37,350 --> 01:24:39,430
and saves us plenty of money.

1048
01:24:40,050 --> 01:24:41,890
But it's also cool to see that was really built

1049
01:24:41,890 --> 01:24:43,430
to facilitate some learning.

1050
01:24:43,430 --> 01:24:50,610
So it's, you know, it's little portals and to conveyor belts and, I guess, things that interest

1051
01:24:51,370 --> 01:24:52,410
of right of people.

1052
01:24:54,010 --> 01:24:59,230
Then we went through a film with high school, looked at some of the fine art spaces, the science department,

1053
01:25:00,070 --> 01:25:04,430
many examples there of where some of our spaces are

1054
01:25:06,250 --> 01:25:10,650
undersized and maybe not meeting the real, the needs of those groups.

1055
01:25:10,650 --> 01:25:18,890
We also looked in at the technology center in the library and that's a real jam, a really unique program I feel for our school.

1056
01:25:19,470 --> 01:25:26,350
And then we toured the common spaces which some are repurposed for some tutoring.

1057
01:25:27,270 --> 01:25:39,590
Then we moved on to found with middle school parts of which we know our approaching 70 years old, connected by some unique twists and turns and a lot of stairways to the newer sections.

1058
01:25:40,290 --> 01:25:46,850
And that presents clearly you can experience it and see some of the challenges with that building.

1059
01:25:47,830 --> 01:25:52,370
And about we ended on a high note in our beautiful gardens and green houses.

1060
01:25:53,230 --> 01:25:55,090
Unfortunately, the pizza oven was cold.

1061
01:25:55,670 --> 01:26:01,650
We were not greeted by the pizza, but we were greeted by, I think, we all had an Asian pair.

1062
01:26:01,890 --> 01:26:02,430
That was nice.

1063
01:26:03,650 --> 01:26:09,210
So, next steps in the master planning process is really to finalize that assessment that was

1064
01:26:09,210 --> 01:26:14,270
facilitated by Oak Point, including, you know, creating a cover letter with a purpose

1065
01:26:14,270 --> 01:26:19,230
statement, a scope statement, an explanation of what next steps could be.

1066
01:26:19,530 --> 01:26:25,450
That master plan assessment document is really kind of an integrated collective set of projects

1067
01:26:25,450 --> 01:26:26,550
and recommendations.

1068
01:26:26,670 --> 01:26:32,150
It's not necessarily hard commitments or it doesn't include dollars and timelines, but

1069
01:26:32,150 --> 01:26:43,590
It's really meant to kind of put all the needs in one place so that we can move forward and start prioritizing those projects and putting together more planning.

1070
01:26:44,510 --> 01:26:51,670
So while that continues to be finalized, meanwhile the school continues to plan for general maintenance and capital improvement projects,

1071
01:26:51,670 --> 01:26:57,510
items that the districts planning and getting quotes for include resurfacing the turf

1072
01:26:57,510 --> 01:27:04,550
and the track, increasing cooling spaces in our schools, the middle school is particularly

1073
01:27:04,550 --> 01:27:08,810
challenged during that heat wave we had at the beginning of the school year, and we're

1074
01:27:08,810 --> 01:27:13,450
also reviewing options to update bathrooms to foster increased personal privacy.

1075
01:27:14,430 --> 01:27:15,350
Any questions?

1076
01:27:19,070 --> 01:27:23,750
Your next meeting is, our next meeting is Wednesday morning at 730 in the greenhouse.

1077
01:27:26,970 --> 01:27:32,990
Next, we have policy committee, Whitney is our chair, but she's absent, so I'm going to ask Sarah to contribute.

1078
01:27:34,490 --> 01:27:43,910
Policy committee continues to me twice a month. We have policy BEDH tonight, a second read and approval, which I'll address in new business.

1079
01:27:43,910 --> 01:27:51,330
In addition, the Policy Committee is working on the development of BED-A, which will allow

1080
01:27:51,330 --> 01:27:57,350
for online submissions of public comment, which will be posted with meeting minutes.

1081
01:27:59,290 --> 01:28:05,770
The Policy Committee continues its important work on policy A, B, A, A, A, A, a policy

1082
01:28:05,770 --> 01:28:08,970
for supporting transgender and gender expansive students.

1083
01:28:08,970 --> 01:28:28,530
Earlier this month, Whitney the Policy Chair and myself, as Wellness Committee Chair, met with the district equity leaders to hear their thoughts on similar policies from neighboring districts, from neighboring districts, and we're going to continue to meet with stakeholders and different groups from within the schools over the coming weeks.

1084
01:28:29,210 --> 01:28:30,430
Thank you.

1085
01:28:31,310 --> 01:28:32,590
Any questions for Sarah?

1086
01:28:37,670 --> 01:28:38,950
Thank you.

1087
01:28:38,950 --> 01:28:40,270
But you weren't here.

1088
01:28:42,290 --> 01:28:45,950
The next policy committee meeting is November 8th.

1089
01:28:50,530 --> 01:28:55,910
Wellness committee met September 29th with two agenda items.

1090
01:28:56,590 --> 01:29:02,170
We discussed the emergency operations plan, which I will talk about in new business.

1091
01:29:03,010 --> 01:29:08,490
And then we also discuss the committee's roles and responsibilities for the year.

1092
01:29:08,950 --> 01:29:15,750
And as a group, we discuss changing the name of the advisory committee to client-climate,

1093
01:29:16,410 --> 01:29:22,570
safety, and wellness to reflect the more expansive work the committee is doing as well as

1094
01:29:22,570 --> 01:29:28,590
to differentiate it from the wellness committee wellness council, which will be meeting to discuss

1095
01:29:28,590 --> 01:29:33,570
nutrition and physical education, so I just wanted to kind of pull apart those two committees

1096
01:29:33,570 --> 01:29:35,910
and some language around that.

1097
01:29:36,470 --> 01:29:38,330
And we're next meeting.

1098
01:29:44,770 --> 01:29:46,170
No, November 3rd.

1099
01:29:46,290 --> 01:29:46,550
Thank you.

1100
01:29:46,770 --> 01:29:48,590
Yes, November 3rd.

1101
01:29:50,270 --> 01:29:51,230
Thank you.

1102
01:29:52,090 --> 01:29:52,670
Thanks, Sarah.

1103
01:29:52,750 --> 01:29:53,150
Any questions?

1104
01:30:00,430 --> 01:30:08,450
Thank you. So the paths and WRVC advisory committee met on Thursday, October 12th.

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01:30:09,870 --> 01:30:16,630
Gretchen McKinalty and Chris record from Cablezbith, our chair and co-chair of the paths advisory committee.

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01:30:17,250 --> 01:30:24,530
I attended along with Dr. Gowers in a school counselor, so I think found this can really be proud of the support and interest we share in that program.

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01:30:24,530 --> 01:30:30,010
In Roman is strong in most of the programs at Pats, they did note that there were some, this

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01:30:30,010 --> 01:30:34,250
is not necessarily regarding Falmouth students, but there were some higher summer drops

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01:30:34,250 --> 01:30:39,630
than they were used to, so they're still analyzing those reasons, which could include things

1110
01:30:39,630 --> 01:30:45,610
like cold feet moving out of district, great performance at their sending school, but regardless

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01:30:45,610 --> 01:30:50,820
Pats would like to improve their communication with students over the summer in the hopes of

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01:30:50,820 --> 01:30:54,220
keeping their interest and sense of welcome.

1113
01:30:55,680 --> 01:30:57,260
There was some discussion that Portland

1114
01:30:57,260 --> 01:30:59,660
as a school district is working on an application

1115
01:30:59,660 --> 01:31:02,060
to create an integrated high school,

1116
01:31:02,240 --> 01:31:06,820
which would include the Career and Technology Education Center

1117
01:31:06,820 --> 01:31:08,220
that's a CTE.

1118
01:31:08,440 --> 01:31:09,540
I'll be using that acronym.

1119
01:31:11,560 --> 01:31:13,240
That's in very early stages.

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01:31:14,420 --> 01:31:16,160
There are a lot of infrastructure challenges

1121
01:31:16,160 --> 01:31:18,640
at the path's building right now that reduces

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01:31:18,640 --> 01:31:23,760
ability to expand some of the more popular programs, especially welding, which uses a lot of

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01:31:23,760 --> 01:31:29,580
electricity. Meanwhile, Portland has been completing their portrait of the graduate. For 2030,

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01:31:29,800 --> 01:31:34,260
they ask sending schools to review if their students align with that portrait. It is very well

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01:31:34,260 --> 01:31:42,580
aligned with Falmouth's portrait of our graduate. And then they mentioned that legislation

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01:31:42,580 --> 01:31:48,960
was passed the summer LD436, which would require schools to establish equivalency agreements

1127
01:31:48,960 --> 01:31:54,520
with CTE centers, to award students' credits in course subjects when they're enrolled

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01:31:54,520 --> 01:32:00,180
in CTE programs. An example would be get a math credit for participating in a carpentry

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01:32:00,180 --> 01:32:05,040
program. That really won't change what we do in practice with the Foundlet Schools. We already

1130
01:32:05,040 --> 01:32:11,640
award our students' equivalency credits as recommended by paths per program. It may require

1131
01:32:11,640 --> 01:32:13,460
for the board to formalize that agreement.

1132
01:32:14,340 --> 01:32:17,860
Our next meeting will be November 16th in Westbrook.

1133
01:32:18,140 --> 01:32:18,500
Any questions?

1134
01:32:21,390 --> 01:32:22,450
Thank you all.

1135
01:32:23,390 --> 01:32:25,770
Item number 11, we have no unfinished business.

1136
01:32:26,130 --> 01:32:28,530
So we'll move on to item 12 for new business.

1137
01:32:28,690 --> 01:32:31,150
This evening, we will entertain public comment

1138
01:32:31,150 --> 01:32:34,450
on the first two items under new business.

1139
01:32:35,190 --> 01:32:37,510
So our first item under new business

1140
01:32:37,510 --> 01:32:40,470
can I have a motion for the second read

1141
01:32:40,470 --> 01:32:45,010
of policy BEDH public participation at board meetings.

1142
01:32:45,750 --> 01:32:48,230
Thank you, Alicia, for the motion is there second.

1143
01:32:48,910 --> 01:32:49,530
Thank you, Nicole.

1144
01:32:50,410 --> 01:32:52,290
Before we take public comment on this item,

1145
01:32:52,470 --> 01:32:54,610
I'm going to turn the mic over to Sarah.

1146
01:32:55,750 --> 01:32:57,650
And she can walk us through what is transpired

1147
01:32:57,650 --> 01:32:59,950
with this policy in the last month.

1148
01:33:00,610 --> 01:33:01,110
Thanks, Sandy.

1149
01:33:01,550 --> 01:33:04,930
This policy is not a substantial difference

1150
01:33:04,930 --> 01:33:08,670
to the policy that was presented for first read last month.

1151
01:33:08,670 --> 01:33:21,750
However, after listening to comments from the board and during public comment, the committee chose to add two phrases outlining the rationale for limiting visual aids and comments and applause from the audience during public comment.

1152
01:33:23,390 --> 01:33:29,450
Both of which are to provide equity to all speakers and attendees, not to limit or restrict voice.

1153
01:33:30,370 --> 01:33:36,110
And this applies policy, applies both in person and via live stream or video recording.

1154
01:33:39,760 --> 01:33:50,400
Thank you, Sarah. Now, I'd like to invite any member of the public who wishes to offer comments about policy BEDH to please come to the podium, state your full name and your address.

1155
01:33:51,100 --> 01:33:55,440
Individuals are welcome to speak for up to three minutes on this agenda item.

1156
01:34:10,700 --> 01:34:18,520
All right, Joe Campbell, five-year-old, and I just wanted to say, regarding the no visual

1157
01:34:18,520 --> 01:34:23,900
aids, I still strongly object, I guess, to that clause, I, you know, participated in

1158
01:34:23,900 --> 01:34:28,680
Saturday or a lot of these meetings, and it seems like we're solving a problem that doesn't

1159
01:34:28,680 --> 01:34:29,100
exist.

1160
01:34:29,180 --> 01:34:34,560
I've never seen it become a problem, and any of the meetings that I have attended, and it seems

1161
01:34:34,560 --> 01:34:39,060
like any good governing body we're solving for a problem that doesn't really exist in restricting

1162
01:34:39,060 --> 01:34:44,720
and people's rights to bring information here and share it and communicate it.

1163
01:34:45,000 --> 01:34:53,440
And just because one person may not be able to participate in maybe having all the information,

1164
01:34:53,660 --> 01:34:59,780
we're going to restrict everybody's right and ability to bring something here just for the sake of equity.

1165
01:35:00,160 --> 01:35:01,020
And it's not right.

1166
01:35:01,020 --> 01:35:09,220
and you should vote against tonight the passage of this public participation board and fix

1167
01:35:09,220 --> 01:35:17,220
that before you pass it. I think it needs to go back to another revision because it's not

1168
01:35:17,220 --> 01:35:20,140
right. Thank you. Thank you, Joe.

1169
01:35:22,490 --> 01:35:24,750
Is there any other member for the public who would like to speak

1170
01:35:24,750 --> 01:35:25,790
on this policy?

1171
01:35:35,630 --> 01:35:38,930
Seeing none. I'm going to close public comment on the topic and we'll open this up

1172
01:35:38,930 --> 01:35:40,770
for board discussion.

1173
01:35:46,030 --> 01:35:46,790
Go ahead and call.

1174
01:35:49,910 --> 01:35:55,730
This policy has been looked at and revamped really extensively over the last few years.

1175
01:35:56,850 --> 01:36:02,390
And one of the reasons it's been brought back so many times is because COVID was really

1176
01:36:02,390 --> 01:36:08,930
a catalyst for garnering interest and participation from the community in a way that we never

1177
01:36:08,930 --> 01:36:09,690
saw before.

1178
01:36:09,690 --> 01:36:21,790
And it's so valuable and important and that is absolutely one of the silver linings of what came out of COVID is people coming and wanting to participate more in our schools and in our board meetings.

1179
01:36:22,590 --> 01:36:25,890
So I am very confident and comfortable with this policy.

1180
01:36:26,490 --> 01:36:38,130
There's been a lot of research done looking at how other school districts have handled this and are handling it. There's been advice from attorneys. There's been advice from the main school board association.

1181
01:36:38,130 --> 01:36:46,710
And just a lot of depth of conversation among three or four different school board make-ups in

1182
01:36:46,710 --> 01:36:47,030
Falmouth.

1183
01:36:47,370 --> 01:36:54,130
So, I am very confident that this has been well thought out and we'll satisfy the needs

1184
01:36:54,130 --> 01:36:55,670
of our district for the time being.

1185
01:36:55,830 --> 01:37:02,010
I'm sure we will revisit it as more things come to light, but for right now I support this.

1186
01:37:04,000 --> 01:37:04,800
Thanks Nicole.

1187
01:37:06,000 --> 01:37:06,780
Any other comments?

1188
01:37:08,510 --> 01:37:15,850
I mean you make a great point, this was adopted originally in 2007, it's gone through three revisions, this is the fourth one.

1189
01:37:17,050 --> 01:37:25,170
I will really, you know, I commend the committee for adding the paragraph if you've looked at this online with the link anything that's been added is in green.

1190
01:37:30,000 --> 01:37:50,840
e-mail, or even regular mail, which people have done. In terms of the, you know, bringing the visual aid, I also think, if there is something you want to share with the board, electronically send it to us so that we all have access to what you're talking about, which really does help us.

1191
01:37:50,840 --> 01:37:59,060
And I think I also would add because I was on the board for six years a decade ago when this policy came to be.

1192
01:37:59,600 --> 01:38:06,840
And just as a community I am really grateful to the public for showing up so much because

1193
01:38:08,320 --> 01:38:13,000
whatever you feel, whatever your opinion is, it's really clear that you care.

1194
01:38:13,000 --> 01:38:21,160
You care about your students, you care about your community, and we're here to listen and hear what you have to say.

1195
01:38:21,260 --> 01:38:28,980
And I also would say that, you know, there's a lot of material out there right now in the press about public participation meetings.

1196
01:38:29,760 --> 01:38:36,380
There are many districts surrounding us that cap public participation at 30 minutes.

1197
01:38:36,380 --> 01:38:49,680
Some don't even allow public comment and so I'm glad that we're able to do that and that's a lot of that is really due to our public who comes here and is really civil and

1198
01:38:51,200 --> 01:38:57,580
Very good with you know very good with their time. We don't have to worry about I hope I'm not going to be eating my words at any at any point

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01:38:57,580 --> 01:39:03,880
But there's always a good civil discourse here. So I really appreciate that and

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01:39:03,880 --> 01:39:09,800
I'm happy to support this policy, and I have no doubt that it will go through a revision at

1201
01:39:09,800 --> 01:39:10,740
some point again.

1202
01:39:10,920 --> 01:39:16,760
But for now, I think this is our best policy in place, and I'm happy to support it.

1203
01:39:21,230 --> 01:39:24,570
I don't know whether it comes, then I will call for the vote.

1204
01:39:24,830 --> 01:39:29,670
All those in favor of adopting policy BEDH, public participation at board meetings,

1205
01:39:31,940 --> 01:39:32,060
and

1206
01:39:32,060 --> 01:39:37,060
post, this policy passes a 6-0. Thank you.

1207
01:39:38,240 --> 01:39:40,980
Moving on to our second item under new business.

1208
01:39:41,300 --> 01:39:45,160
May I have a motion to approve the District Emergency Operations Plan

1209
01:39:45,160 --> 01:39:48,060
for 2023-2024 year.

1210
01:39:49,400 --> 01:39:52,160
Thank you, Nicole, and a second. Thank you, Laurel.

1211
01:39:52,560 --> 01:39:55,960
Gretchen, would you like to give the public some background on this plan?

1212
01:39:57,740 --> 01:40:21,080
So, the emergency operations plan, which is required to be voted on each year by the school board, was developed collaboratively by our district safety team, which is composed of members of the FOMET Fire and Police Department, student services team, health services team, and district leadership team.

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01:40:21,080 --> 01:40:27,660
a lot of teams. The plan provides a framework for this school district to use in performing

1214
01:40:27,660 --> 01:40:35,700
emergency response functions before during and after a natural disaster, technological hazard

1215
01:40:35,700 --> 01:40:44,660
or any other kind of violent or destructive event in our schools. Importantly, it helps us ensure

1216
01:40:44,660 --> 01:40:51,060
we're on the same page with our emergency response agencies and regards to the language

1217
01:40:51,060 --> 01:40:54,440
that we're using as well as our protocols and approach.

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01:40:55,600 --> 01:41:01,020
The plan also includes updated information related to infrastructure, facilities, use, and

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01:41:01,020 --> 01:41:01,600
staff.

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01:41:02,920 --> 01:41:09,180
The district safety team needs regularly and as needed, such as after any kind of event, for

1221
01:41:09,180 --> 01:41:14,820
the purposes of debriefing and continuing to hone our prevention and response efforts, and

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01:41:14,820 --> 01:41:17,680
we update the plan as needed throughout the year.

1223
01:41:18,300 --> 01:41:24,780
At this time, I would like to acknowledge Colin's say, our Deputy Fire Chief, thank you for being here.

1224
01:41:24,880 --> 01:41:27,860
Colin, have I left anything out that you would like to add?

1225
01:41:29,320 --> 01:41:30,040
All right.

1226
01:41:31,060 --> 01:41:33,440
So at this point, I will turn it to the board.

1227
01:41:34,780 --> 01:41:35,660
Thank you.

1228
01:41:36,920 --> 01:41:40,940
At this time, I'd like to offer any member of the public who wishes to come up to,

1229
01:41:40,940 --> 01:41:44,080
offer a comments on this item to come up to the podium,

1230
01:41:44,080 --> 01:41:47,060
state your name and your address, and you have up to three minutes.

1231
01:41:52,880 --> 01:41:57,860
All right, seeing none, I will bring it back, close public comment, bring it back to the board for discussions.

1232
01:41:58,220 --> 01:42:04,180
Sarah, do you want to comment a little bit because wellness, I think, has looked at this and it's quite a bit of work.

1233
01:42:05,000 --> 01:42:05,760
I'd love to, thanks.

1234
01:42:07,520 --> 01:42:18,820
So we, again, in September at the Wellness Committee meeting, we met with members of the district safety team to do the boards work of the annual review of the emergency operations plan.

1235
01:42:18,820 --> 01:42:20,180
as per school policy.

1236
01:42:21,820 --> 01:42:26,020
We learned about safety updates, we learned about safety upgrades that took place over the

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01:42:26,020 --> 01:42:26,300
summer.

1238
01:42:26,920 --> 01:42:31,880
We reviewed and gave feedback on some of the language of the plan, and we learned

1239
01:42:31,880 --> 01:42:36,800
about some of the staff training that took place as well as some of the other, you know,

1240
01:42:36,900 --> 01:42:38,440
confidential components of the plan.

1241
01:42:38,840 --> 01:42:48,800
All of our questions were answered and will continue as a board to check in with

1242
01:42:48,800 --> 01:42:56,820
The plan sometimes doesn't follow the practice since what's written on paper and you know what happens in

1243
01:42:56,820 --> 01:43:04,280
Relife sometimes doesn't align exactly having said that I'm very confident that our administration has done great work on this plan

1244
01:43:04,280 --> 01:43:06,320
And I'm very happy to support it

1245
01:43:07,820 --> 01:43:08,940
Thanks, Sarah

1246
01:43:08,940 --> 01:43:11,620
Any other discussion or questions from board members?

1247
01:43:13,020 --> 01:43:18,780
All right, seeing none I will call for the vote all those in favor of approving the district emergency operations plan

1248
01:43:18,780 --> 01:43:29,220
for the 2023-2024 year, I'll post none, thank you, the motion carries 6-0.

1249
01:43:30,120 --> 01:43:35,080
And item 3 under new business, can I have a motion to approve Lisa Hild as our speech

1250
01:43:35,080 --> 01:43:40,100
language pathologist for the 2023-2024 school year?

1251
01:43:40,480 --> 01:43:41,540
Thank you, Laura, for a motion.

1252
01:43:41,780 --> 01:43:42,140
A second.

1253
01:43:42,400 --> 01:43:43,060
Thank you, Sarah.

1254
01:43:43,540 --> 01:43:44,160
Any discussions?

1255
01:43:45,340 --> 01:43:46,200
All those in favor?

1256
01:43:46,900 --> 01:43:49,880
Thank you, the motion carries 60.

1257
01:43:51,320 --> 01:43:55,000
All right, moving on to item 13 comments from the public.

1258
01:43:56,020 --> 01:44:01,300
The Family School Board finds great value to public participation and access to our school board meetings.

1259
01:44:01,440 --> 01:44:10,420
The school board allows public comment at its meetings to enable individuals to address the board on matters within the scope of the board's responsibilities.

1260
01:44:10,420 --> 01:44:17,540
are policy, BEDH, state that comments made at this time must pertain directly to the

1261
01:44:17,540 --> 01:44:23,020
specific operations, management, policies, and governance of the FAMAS school department.

1262
01:44:23,700 --> 01:44:29,960
We ask that you please refrain from public comment regarding individual employees or students.

1263
01:44:30,420 --> 01:44:35,600
At this time, I'd like to invite members of the public to speak to come to the podium.

1264
01:44:35,600 --> 01:44:42,040
Please give your full name and your address and individuals are welcome to speak for up to three minutes.

1265
01:45:00,000 --> 01:45:05,760
That a parent petition had been submitted to the school board that petition directly against the safety and rights of trans kids.

1266
01:45:06,800 --> 01:45:16,400
I was able to read this petition via four requests and saddened to read that these parents felt unsafe, allowing trans kids using bathrooms that align with their gender identity.

1267
01:45:17,640 --> 01:45:21,540
Let me be clear, trans kids and non-binary kids are not scary.

1268
01:45:22,620 --> 01:45:29,980
As part of the LGBTQ community myself, I'm confident to say that trans students want the ability to use the bathroom safely without fear of bullying.

1269
01:45:29,980 --> 01:45:35,380
or violence. As I stated last meeting, the statistics and studies show that these children

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01:45:35,380 --> 01:45:39,360
are safer when allowed to use the bathroom that aligns with their gender identity.

1271
01:45:40,320 --> 01:45:45,080
And as a member of this LGBTQIA community, it isn't news to me that the vast majority

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01:45:45,080 --> 01:45:49,880
of parents here at Phelmath are heterosexual and cisgender. It isn't news to me that

1273
01:45:49,880 --> 01:45:55,060
majority of you on the board are heterosexual and cisgender. So why is this important

1274
01:45:55,060 --> 01:46:04,980
Well, most times, it is heterosexual cisgender people who create and vote on policies that our LGBTQA families and children will have to live with.

1275
01:46:05,880 --> 01:46:13,340
Many of these policies have been harmful and, most recently, through advocacy and support from our heterosexual allies, they have been hopeful.

1276
01:46:14,660 --> 01:46:17,020
I want to give you a personal perspective so you understand.

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01:46:17,720 --> 01:46:25,260
As a family, my partner and I were finally allowed to marry only after three votes, nationally, at three votes in the state.

1278
01:46:26,120 --> 01:46:32,220
By the time I could legally marry my partner, we had been together 15 years, and our child was six years old and ready for kindergarten.

1279
01:46:33,640 --> 01:46:37,820
December 29, 2012 was the first opportunity we could legally marry.

1280
01:46:38,200 --> 01:46:43,740
This was extremely important to us, and we felt it was important to our child, so we made the plans to marry that very day.

1281
01:46:44,420 --> 01:46:48,360
The morning of December 29, 2012, the Falmouth Police called.

1282
01:46:50,540 --> 01:46:55,320
They recently received threats that warned them, and so they asked us to get married in the police station.

1283
01:46:56,720 --> 01:47:00,500
We were fearful and stunned, but also thankful for the police to keep us safe.

1284
01:47:01,660 --> 01:47:06,500
We could not fathom the hate that would inspire somebody to threaten violence in such a small town.

1285
01:47:07,340 --> 01:47:12,220
We felt strongly that we did not want our first steps to, as a married couple, to be taken in the police station.

1286
01:47:12,220 --> 01:47:15,440
So we asked that it was done if we could in another place safely.

1287
01:47:16,400 --> 01:47:21,460
Despite the threat of violence, the film with town clerk and deputy town clerk and the police

1288
01:47:21,460 --> 01:47:26,700
bravely opened the town hall at midnight December 29th, 2012, and we were married.

1289
01:47:27,760 --> 01:47:34,580
I'd like to mention that even at that time at midnight the door was kept locked because there was a man there protesting and wanting to get in.

1290
01:47:35,200 --> 01:47:36,800
So here we are again, fear.

1291
01:47:36,800 --> 01:47:45,200
Fear over trans kids trying to use the bathroom, fear over a policy that's already been in place for years without issues from these kids.

1292
01:47:45,900 --> 01:47:50,800
We're not scary, we're actually LGBTQIA folks that are vastly outnumbered.

1293
01:47:51,920 --> 01:48:01,820
We live our lives in fear that those of you who are not LGBTQIA will come up with additional harmful policies or laws that will deny a dignity and basic human rights.

1294
01:48:02,420 --> 01:48:02,980
Thanks.

1295
01:48:02,980 --> 01:48:03,960
Thank you.

1296
01:48:29,550 --> 01:48:34,670
Thank you for giving me the opportunity to speak. My name is Bonnie Rodden.

1297
01:48:34,990 --> 01:48:43,230
I live at Ten Shoreline Drive. I'm the mother of a former Falmouth student and I am a former

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01:48:43,230 --> 01:48:51,630
town counselor. I'm aware that there is petition signed by some parents in Falmouth that have

1299
01:48:51,630 --> 01:48:59,930
submitted to the school board. Some students, according to this petition, feel vulnerable

1300
01:48:59,930 --> 01:49:07,850
and unsafe sharing bathrooms with students of the opposite biological sex. I'm curious.

1301
01:49:09,130 --> 01:49:17,790
What exactly are they afraid of? Is there any evidence that trans students who

1302
01:49:17,790 --> 01:49:29,650
who trans students would identify as girls or those that identify as boys have actually heard someone.

1303
01:49:31,050 --> 01:49:40,170
These parents are speaking on behalf of anonymous students who the parents say are afraid to share their feelings openly.

1304
01:49:40,170 --> 01:50:07,630
for, and I quote, fear of being labeled targeted and retaliated against, they feel being labeled targeted and retaliated against, and yet transgender students are brave enough to be public about their gender identity and are willing to suffer humiliation and retaliation for being true to themselves.

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01:50:07,630 --> 01:50:21,870
This kind of fear-mongering is not supposed to be happening in a school system where we teach students to be tolerant, courageous and compassionate as they go out into the world.

1306
01:50:23,150 --> 01:50:27,210
The solution that has been offered is supposedly a compromise.

1307
01:50:27,210 --> 01:50:34,450
restrict the use of bathrooms to students of their biological sex and provide some sort of

1308
01:50:34,450 --> 01:50:37,330
alternative for students who are transgender.

1309
01:50:40,000 --> 01:50:43,040
This only segregates transgender students

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and emphasizes that they are different, which is exactly the opposite of what students

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learn in history class. Our forefathers wrote in the preamble to the declaration of

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independence that we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,

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that they are endowed by their creator with certain unaliable rights that among these

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our life's liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

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I hope that students will learn that the unsadstantiated fear that is behind this proposed policy

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is the kind of fear that has poisoned our country in the past and sadly, the vices now.

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Thank you for the opportunity to speak.

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Thank you.

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No applause.

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Please.

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When else like to speak?

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My name is Carolyn Thomas, and I live at 13 just in our road.

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It's not often that...

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I'm at loss it for words, but after reading the open letter to the policy committee, regarding the

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safe path from locker room use, I confess, I am. Should I start with the section that states,

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there are females who are expressing that they do not feel safe sharing this space with biological

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males, and although speculative, it seems likely that the sentiment would extend to the

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biological females using the male breast rooms.

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As the parent of a non-binary child, I would tell you that I am more afraid that the cis-gender

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children in the school will be living daylights out of my child for using either restroom,

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than I am worried that any trans or non-binary child will hurt your child in the restroom.

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I think what bothers me the most is the insidious

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insinuation that because a child is transgender,

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they are sexual predator.

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Just like all children, my kid is going to the bathroom

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because they need to go to the bathroom.

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No other reason.

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Transkids are no more sexual or aggressive than any other kid.

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That is all fear that has been whipped up in some parents' minds.

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I do wonder if it occurred to any of those who signed this petition.

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The psychological or physical damage that would be done to these kids by requiring them

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to use a restroom in conflict with their lived agenda.

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Picture, if you would, telling a child that has lived as a girl for five or ten years,

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They suddenly have to use the men's restroom.

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Picture them dressed as a girl going into the men's room.

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What do you suppose would happen to them?

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Day in, day out.

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If they lasted that long, without harming themselves,

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or being beaten, or worse.

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Yes, that could happen here in famine,

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just as it's happened around the country.

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Or maybe you just want to crush their spirit and get them to transfer out of your town and away from your kids.

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Next, I wonder if anyone who wrote or signed the petition is familiar with Main State law.

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There's a 2014 Main State Supreme Court ruling, which makes what the petitioners are proposing illegal.

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So unless the petitioners are prepared for the district to be sued, this petition did nothing to build a bridge with the Trans and LGBTQ communities.

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communities. I want to thank the policy committee for working to bring forward a transgender

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policy that will keep all children safe as well as keeping the district in compliance

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with state law. I would remind the board that the 2014 Doe ruling stated that schools should

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ultimately be prepared to educate school staff and the broader school community about transgender

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issues. This petition suggests that the government has further walked work to do on transgender issues.

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Thank you.

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Good evening. My name is Guinness Clute and I reside at 79 Bavic Road. I'm here to support

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the work that the committee did. It relates to binary and trans kids. Our school's mission

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is to navigate creative pathways to courageous, compassionate, and fulfilling lives.

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One of the most important things to achieve this mission is to make sure that every child,

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each and every child that enters the campus is feeling home, welcome, and can be there

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as it's true self, if we can't meet them in their basic needs, we lie to ourselves and we don't meet this mission.

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Thank you so much for doing your work. I appreciate your time.

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I'm Amy Carr, 3606 Grayrod.

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I was made aware of the back of the water.

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That's just called a call at that.

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And I ask as well what are the students that these parents represent,

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afraid of.

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I also, voice the same concern that Caroline has,

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of the legality of it within the state and nationally.

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there's, it's ongoing, even almost looks like it possibly will go to the Supreme Court.

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And I personally feel it's a major setback for the positives we've made with the equity

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and equality report and in a district.

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Hi, my name is Libby Rideout and my address is for stream with Lane.

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Wasn't actually planning on speaking, but I have a 12-year-old bug in my ear that's basically

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telling me I need to get up here.

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I did have something short written down, but this is again about the bathroom letter.

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I was filled with fear after hearing about the bathroom letter.

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I understand that proposals like this one in Phalmyth,

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they're just smaller stepping stones to a larger scale attempt to attack trans people

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and trans kids in this case, just by pecking away at their basic rights.

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I understand that these kinds of policies or requests for policies start here in small settings

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and work to pull a larger scale to take away rights.

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Research shows that policies that force kids to use the bathroom and accordance to

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the false gender they were assigned at birth based only on body parts.

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Deny these kids the right to live their true identity and put these kids in the way

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of significant harm in terms of bullying and self-inflicted harm.

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Some people ask, well, what about a single gender neutral bath?

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Discipley, and has been had multiple instances of bullying in the bathroom from other

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cis boys. So he is choosing to use a gender neutral bathroom. He's never had an issue with

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any trans kids in the elementary school. But my point is that we've all learned in our

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education that separate is not equal. We should get to use facilities that match our identity.

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So as a parent to a non-binary child, my hope is that my child can go to school, be safe and be

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accepted and not have their basic rights taken away from them based on the gender they identify with.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Would anyone else like to make public comment this evening?

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All right.

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Seeing that.

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I will close public comment.

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Thank you.

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I'm a reminder to everyone that in two weeks, Monday, October 30, at 630 PM right here in the high school theater, the school board will hold our special workshop.

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As Gretchen mentioned in her report to the board, Lawrence Alexander, will be beginning his work with our district.

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This will be a workshop that is devoted to learning more about Mr Alexander and his work and also hearing questions from the public.

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We have set aside two hours for question and answer and discussion, and if you cannot attend, there is a link where you can submit your questions electronically, and we will ask them and Mr. Alexander will answer them.

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This workshop will also be live stream and recorded for future viewing, but I encourage everyone to attend.

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And then the following Monday, November 6th at 7 p.m. in the high school library right across the hall,

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we will have our November workshop where we have invited all three of our state legislative leaders

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to attend and update us on all legislative matters.

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So with that, can I have a motion to adjourn?

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Thank you, Nicole, and the second from Sarah, any discussion?

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All those in favor?

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Thank you, motion passes. The meeting is adjourned.

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And thank you all for attending. Good night.

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Thanks for watching, and I'll see you in the next video, and I'll see you in the next video.