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Okay, I'd like to call the meeting of the NOSIT Regional School Committee to order. It's Thursday, December 5th. We are, can be seen, item, also on Lower Cape TV, channel 22 and streamed on their website.

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What else do I have to say here? I've gotten, oh yes, as required.

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by the open meeting law. We are informing you that the district will be videotaping this public meeting.

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In addition, if anyone else intends to either video or audio takes this meeting, they are required to inform the chair.

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We do apologize for our delay here. We seem to have technical glitches. None of us at the table had anything to do with it because we know nothing about technology.

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So agenda changes, as far as I know, there's just one,

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the mass conference report we are going to put off until our next meeting.

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When Mr. Draper can join us, he was delayed in getting back from his trip,

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so we will do that on the evening.

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Okay. No other changes. Okay. All right. So we're ready for public comment. If there's

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anybody out there in the audience that would like to participate in public comment, you

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have three minutes.

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And under the open meeting law, I just want you to know that the committee

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is unable to reply, but we will certainly listen to what you say.

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So if there's anybody there to speak under public comment, we need to raise your yellow

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hand.

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Okay.

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Laura, can somebody bring Laura Baguette in?

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Oh, you can.

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I don't want to build one.

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Oh.

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She's in.

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Hi.

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Can you see me?

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Can you hear me?

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We can hear you.

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Okay.

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Okay. It's pretty tough. I'm in the call. Okay. Oh, that's fine. It's I'm in the car. Oh,

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there we can see where you're off, but okay. You're not driving. Are you? No, no, I'm stopped. I'm

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actually at the middle school picking up my daughter. So okay. So, but I thank you for having me again

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and giving me the opportunity to speak tonight. I'm here once again to speak on behalf of the eighth

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grade students, including my daughter, regarding the ongoing issue of canceling overnight

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trips.

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As you may know, the eighth grade trip to Boston has now been canceled, leaving these

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students without any overnight trip at all.

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When I spoke here previously about the cancellation of Washington, D.C., I advocated for maintaining

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the tradition and ensuring these students have the same opportunities, which those who came

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before them.

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Unfortunately, it seems my concerns and those of other parents were not giving the way

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they deserved.

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The decision to change the destination to Boston was made with minimal discussion or

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apparent hesitation based on the rationale that a Boston trip would be more inclusive and

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better attended.

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In reality, only 40% of students signed up for the Boston trip.

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Why?

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There was little promotion or excitement generated about the trip within the school community.

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many families felt the costs similar to Washington C at $850 did not justify a trip to a destination

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they could visit independently from much less. Without clear communication about the trips

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I'd seen or error benefits it seems it seems destined to fail from the start. I can't help but

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feel this outcome was predictable if not intentional. As principal Cohen mentioned during the last

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meeting, it's not really about the destination, it's about the unity of the students being

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together. Unfortunately, that sentiment did not translate into enthusiasm or support

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among the students, families or the administration. I am deeply disappointed. More importantly,

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I believe our students are been let down. They were asked to fundraise with the understanding

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that those funds would support overnight trips, but these promises have not been fulfilled.

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I would like a clear accounting of where their fundraising dollars are going.

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Additionally, I was informed via email from the principal that other schools are dropping

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their overnight trips altogether.

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If this is true, I would like to know which schools are being referenced and the reasons behind these decisions.

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Are there logistical, financial, or safety concerns?

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If so, why weren't these challenges communicated to us parents in the process?

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clear in the process. Transparency is critical if we are to understand and accept such significant changes to long standing traditions.

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I understand that overnight trips are difficult to organize and run, but I also believe that we should not shy away from challenges.

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As a parent, I teach my children to persevere, to follow through on commitments, and to trust the adults in their lives.

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When decisions like this are made without adequate communication, it undermines these

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lessons and erodes the trust in the system.

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I am here tonight not only to express my sadness and disappointment, but also to seek real

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answers and real solutions.

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These eighth graders deserve the same experiences that so many before them have had.

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I urge the committee to reflect on the impact of these decisions, not just on the student's

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immediate experiences, but on their trust in the school system.

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Thank you for your time, and I hope we can work together to ensure the future classes

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are not left feeling the same sense of loss and frustration.

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And on top of that, I am a school committee member myself, and I am a little bit ashamed

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of being a part of this system right now.

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So thank you for letting me speak.

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Thank you.

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Thank you, Laura.

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Is there anyone else out there that wishes to speak?

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Raise your yellow hand.

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can you see I can see hang on there is one Rachel Rachel can we bring Rachel in

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Rachel you have to unmute yourself

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on my screen Rachel are you there you're muted so we

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can't hear you. I'm sorry can you hear me now? Here you are okay Rachel welcome. Hi thank you

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Laura for just saying what you said I don't think I can really say anything else and I agree 100%

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and everything that she said and I also am extremely disappointed and feel like our kids have been cheated

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and misled.

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You're taking something away from them that altogether that they've all been

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looking forward to and fundraise for, taking the time to also go to the craft fair and fundraise for

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their time to help raise money.

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Yeah, so I can't really say anything else that Laura didn't say that I

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I agree 100% with everything that she said.

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Also, my daughter is here and would like to say something quickly.

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She does not want to be on camera though, so I'm going to shut up with camera.

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But she would like to say something as well.

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She is an eighth grader at the moment.

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Great, she does not have to be on camera.

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I would rather not be on camera also.

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She has to be on camera.

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No, she doesn't.

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I don't.

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Here she is.

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Hi, I'm Natalie. As my mom said, I'm an eighth grade student. And I have, so when I first

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got into the eighth grade, I was expecting a class trip. And so when I was told that the

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DC trip was canceled, I was disappointed. But then I got a little bit more excited that

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we're going to do all that fun stuff at Boston, only to figure out that that was also canceled,

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which I find quite unfair because the only reason it was cancelled was because that like a lot of the students didn't sign up and I think a lot of the students didn't sign up because of the fact that we weren't going to DC in the first place and everyone's really upset about that.

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And speaking on behalf of the eighth grade body student body, when I like say that I find

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it unfair that you made it, that you made the decision that you did when you like that

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you didn't consider the students.

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And you misled all of us when we were told that we were getting a eighth grade class trip.

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I really hope that you guys reconsider your decision on canceling the overnight trip because

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day trips won't like won't match the experience we would have had if we went on

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to a overnight trip and as Laura said I believe I spent over six hours at the

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craft fair this year because I thought it would fund my class trip and help out

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and I also sold a lot of Reese to family and friends that that would fund my

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But it turns out it isn't so I find it really unfair and I really hope that you guys reconsider your decision and you allow us to have the experience that you have let other eighth grade trips have.

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Good job, honey.

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Thank you, Natalie.

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Okay. Is there anybody else out there in Zoomland that would like to speak?

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Seeing none. Okay. Thank you Laura, Rachel and Natalie. We will pose them public comment

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and move on to the consent agenda. We have gifts, grants, fundraising and approval of minutes.

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Is there any questions, comments on the consent of gender?

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So the only thing that I would like to know is that there was an extremely generous donation

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to the middle school music program.

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and I don't know that the individual wants to be named, so I will name it, but it was an individual

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donation. Extremely generous. And we are very, very thankful. The music program is a great program

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at the middle school, and this is going to, it will be well-used, I'm sure. So we have emotion and a

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second. No more discussion.

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Since we're zooming, we have to do low call

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votes. So we'll start with you in zoom land. Catherine, how do you vote?

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Or thumbs up?

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Thumbs up. Heather, how do you vote?

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Heather, are you there?

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I just don't know if she just thumbs up moral. How do you vote?

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Did I not have audio?

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Oh, we heard them. Just not.

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I'm not able to.

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I need it.

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You can't own new.

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All right.

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Tom, how do you vote?

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Kerry.

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Chris.

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I will.

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And oops.

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And Katie.

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You're right.

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We have.

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Katie's checking on that.

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Katie's checking to make sure that you can all

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on mute yourself. Catherine, can you unmute yourself? No,

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you're talking to me a lot about

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the technical difficulties continuing.

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Well, if you want to, we wouldn't have some of these

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people talk about that, so yeah, that's true, that's true.

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All right, and maybe having a vote,

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yes. Okay, so it's, uh, okay now, you're down to us. We can, there we go.

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All right, so we go on to

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priority business. Our student representatives, I saw somebody in a bell. There you are, in a bell

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in Savannah. Who can never get in first? In a bell, can you unmute yourself?

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Yes, there we go. Oh, here she is. It won't let me start my video.

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Oh, well, says the host has stopped it.

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I hope you all had a great Thanksgiving break with your friends and family.

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It's great to be back on school committee again and try and meeting yourself and try

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turning on your video now.

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She is onion.

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Oh, now she's going to be a bit of an onion.

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Onion.

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Onion and a bell.

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I'm turning it on.

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So I just want to start off with saying,

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NOSIT's winter sports started this past Monday.

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Most sports with afternoon and evening practices.

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At various locations, like Charles Morvina,

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Willie's Gym, NASA High School, Gym, and the outdoor track.

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I have swim practices two mornings a week.

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And three afternoons a week, Evelish, Jim. It's great to be back in the pool with my swim team again. And I'm sure many other athletes are at NASA that are also glad to be back with their teams again. Tomorrow's a half day at the high school as their parent teacher conferences this evening and tomorrow following school. This is the first year that parent teacher student conferences are happening. So the students have the opportunity to talk with their teachers along with their parents as well. The NASA Green Club is hosting a clothing swap and that actually happened today in the cafeteria at the high school.

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where all the students and staff bring in clothing

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and can switch theirs out with others they find.

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The Green Club always accepts the nations all year long.

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And so when you got the stairs from the cafeteria

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there's a whole rack in a bin of clothing from the Green Club

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where students can browse during the day

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and if they find something they're interested in

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they can directly pay the Green Club

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if they find one of the advisors or members.

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The Nosset Robotics team is hosting their first competition

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of the year for the Tricanian Kid Club Robotics Competition,

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them, which is going to be next Monday, December 9th, at the high school, where each robot

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from various school teams compete to pick up rings and other tasks before climbing

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a ladder in the middle of the field.

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NOSA had two teams make it to Regionals last year and are shooting for states or even

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further this year.

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So we wish them the best of luck.

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And the NOSA Shakespeare play is opening tonight at the Wellfleet Harbor Actors Theatre,

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which is known as what.

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And Mr. Clark said he plans to give you a review next meeting because that's where he currently

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is right now.

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I hope everyone has a great holiday season, and I'll see you in the near year.

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Okay, thanks Annabelle.

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Thank you Annabelle.

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Yeah, and we won't see you until 2025.

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Oh my goodness.

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Have a great holiday.

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Thank you.

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Hi.

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I'm Savannah.

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Hi.

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Hi, I'm providing some updates for NOSML school. Can you turn your volume up to be available?

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Okay, we're going to be able to close our air that way. Yeah, try that.

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Oh no, that's okay.

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Thank you for being here. Oh, that's someone's going to get the job.

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We've been doing lots of fundraising for the National Geography Society trip in January

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to Chicago, and we had a pasta dinner night sponsored by the Lost Dog.

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We had a big sale at Turo Vineyards, and we have another big sale this Sunday during the

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like Yarmouth, Port Stroll, and Winter Sports started this week

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and basketball trials are also this week.

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We are looking forward to a pack the gym night

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to cheer on the basketball team on December 16th at 4 p.m.

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I hope you all have a great holiday.

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Thank you.

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Thank you, Savannah.

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And you have a great holiday.

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Thank you.

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You bring the jar January, we can see.

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Thank you. Okay. Okay. Now we go on to be our director of Food and Nutrition Services.

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Sue, there she is. Here. Can you hear me? Hi, Sue. Yeah. Oh, awesome. So I did have some pictures,

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but they're not here, but basically I just want to piggyback on, I guess Mary Ellen came last

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last month to tell you a lot of stuff that we've been doing in the schools around food

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service.

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I have to say I'm very excited this is the first time next week we'll be fully staffed

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since before COVID so this is very exciting for us.

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We've been doing a lot around farm to school.

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We have teamed up and partnered with Hillside poultry and trurro so we've been serving some

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local chicken.

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We, um,

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that'd be great, Alan. So, um, we've also, um, have done local sourcing. So we've done some training. So this is, um, some photos. It's just real quick.

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We did training with, um, Chef Liam, who's up in Wellfleet with all the staff. We'd learned how to make, um, sauces from scratch.

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So everybody was able to go to NASA high school, the new brand new kitchen and did some training with we learned to they learned how to make pickles from scratch.

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Sauses all kinds of different things that were starting to incorporate into the menus.

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So this just shows you that everybody was working together doing some, um, photo, uh, some training, all at the high school.

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It's just some more pictures here.

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Of them.

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So I had not some middle school with fully staff.

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So they're, um, done some great stuff there.

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We've been serving local chicken, doing, uh, we did East Ham turnips in all the schools.

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We did some local butternut squash for Thanksgiving dinner.

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We're doing some taste testings.

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Yeah, so this just goes just some there.

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Some fresh fruits and vegetables that were serving the OD fresh.

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That's the next one.

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Just give it an idea of some of the food that's being served.

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They're doing a great job.

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And obviously at the high school, we're fully staffed.

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people now working there in this beautiful awesome kitchen

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that we have, all the nice equipment.

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The kids are liking it.

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We have a salad bar, tiny who's a new manager there

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is doing a great job.

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This just kind of gives you an idea of some of the stuff

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that we're doing homemade pizzas, Taco Tuesday, salad bar.

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In one of our grants, we have a nutrition intern

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that's gonna help start doing some tasteless

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we're doing on Monday and Wednesday next week at the mental school, some recipe development for breakfast,

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doing a lot of farm to school, and as everybody knows, lunch is free permanently in the state of

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Massachusetts, which is awesome.

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So thank you, Alan, those are the pictures that I just wanted to show you

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some of the stuff that we've been working collaboratively together with some other people,

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Some other communities and some great stuff going in the kitchen.

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I don't know if anybody has any questions about the lunch program because we're just doing some great stuff.

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I just have a couple of quick comments on this suit, so it's lunch and breakfast for our

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breakfast. Yes, thank you. So I just want to say too, you've done some great work with Mary Ellen

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read and I just commend you so much. Your managers and your staff are working

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over time to be innovative, creative, re-fresh foods and I think one of the

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things I've noticed I certainly noticed over the last four years is just the

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number of times you try to build relationships or successfully with local

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folks to bring in local foods to our kitchens like you were talking about the

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turnips and I was giggling thinking yeah we probably all know where the turnips

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I'm so appreciative of everything you do and I just know how hard you work and the fact that you can say finally, I think this is the first time that I know of that we have been fully staffed in my time.

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We have such a struggle and Sue, I've watched you run around this school district, all of the NPS schools, filling in here, there, everywhere, wherever you've been needed.

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and you've just been, you've been our nutrition services hero, and I just thank you so much

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for everything that you do.

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Thank you.

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We appreciate it.

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Yes.

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And the staffs and the managers do a great job.

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They do.

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Yeah.

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Awesome.

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Thank you, Sue.

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You're welcome.

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Anybody else have any questions?

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I just want to know.

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So do all the schools have a hydroponic lettuce now?

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Yes.

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I think very one of them and they just I just I was at the high school today and so they have one they have to they are one that's going to be harvested in the next couple of weeks and they started the other ones. So yes, all of them will have that all the hydroponics and them as well.

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I think it's awesome. We get about 25 pounds a month. Yeah, 25 pounds a month. Yeah, one tower from one tower.

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I have a totally trivial question.

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What do you think the most popular item on the menu is?

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Back on Tuesday.

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Yeah.

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For me.

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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Have a great day.

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Okay.

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Okay. The next we have a high school overnight.

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It's a little bit less, but it's, it's, it's, is it this one?

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Future is I think the teacher is online tonight. Is he not?

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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, thank you.

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I was just saying you're okay. Yes, you're here to speak today.

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Is that correct, Brad? I am. Yes.

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So fill us in and tell us all the details.

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Absolutely. So my name is Brella Bonty. I work at NASA High School. During the day I also coached football and baseball on the varsity baseball coach over the last year to I've made a relationship with a baseball coach.

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Another high school coach works at a school in Brooklyn, New York.

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and he invited us down for a weekend end of March.

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It would be, let him do a little jamboree with them and another team from New York City

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and other city championship team, really the whole goal.

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We're hoping that we get a chance to play on the Brooklyn Cyclone baseball field that's

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a minor league baseball field.

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So trying to give the kids an experience that maybe only a kid that might go into playing

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college will get, I played four years of college and the trips were maybe the best part

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of being on the team going to Florida and stuff like that.

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So trying to give some of these guys that work really hard that might not play at the next

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level of chance to go see a new city, play a different type of team, play on a beautiful

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field and get, you know, a weekend with their buddies in New York City.

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so that's kind of most of it. There's a competitive edge to it, two very competitive teams

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that both played in city championships at Yankee Stadium last year. They're hoping to come

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to us next year. So we're trying to make it kind of like a tradition where we go to them,

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they go to us, great school, John Jay High School, I think, or John Jay Prep. And if it's not at this

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field, we'll be playing at Lafayette High School, which is another beautiful school in Brooklyn,

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New York. The trip will be funded by us. We're going to pay for it out of pocket.

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Really, the hope is to take the fans. I talked to John about me and my assistant coach.

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She were both on the list to drive the fans to drive two of the fans out there. We have a small

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team, 14, 15 kids. The pricing that I had a month or two ago might be a little different now,

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but it was going to be about two, three hundred dollars a kid. I talked to all the kids. I put

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without the parents and said, you know, this is the plan.

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This is the idea.

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Lot of positive feedback.

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The kids are really excited about it.

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They come up to me almost every day asking me,

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if I know what's going on in it, and I tell them,

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I gotta do my presentation shortly.

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But I think it would be great for them.

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You know, I have 15 great kids.

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30 really, if you count the whole program,

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that work really hard and trying to give them something,

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you know, that most other schools around here don't get.

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Do

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you have a date, an exact date for this?

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Yeah, yeah, by do.

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So, there would be no school, I'm sorry, go ahead.

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There would be no school missed.

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We would leave Friday after school and Friday night Saturday night stay.

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Sorry, I'm just looking for the text conversations with the coach.

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So Brett, I think there is a standard form to fill out for overnight requests where all

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of this information we could have in one place and it would be institutionalized or whatever,

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not just in our notes.

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The number of kids, the cost, how the money is going to come, where you're going, who's

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I had talked to them the other day and they told me just to fill out that form and didn't

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tell me it.

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Oh, they told me to fill out the form.

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Yeah.

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And then I filled out the form that was given.

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And then I got an email saying if here's the request form of anything else is needed to let

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us know I never heard back from anybody.

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everybody? I have that email right here. We didn't get the

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request form. So, you know what, Brett? We can look into this. I know Arlene, you're listening here.

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So, Arlene is my administrative assistant. Can you make sure that Brett has the appropriate form and that it's filled out appropriately?

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And we can, because you don't have to have this approved tonight, right? So, we can have it approved once

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the appropriate paperwork has been done and we know who the supervisors are, that kind of thing.

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So, we're meeting again in two weeks on the 19th and we'll put it on the agenda then and I

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don't foresee any problem. It sounds like a great opportunity. It does, it sounds like a wonderful

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a lot better than they did.

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Other than the fact that I'm sorry because I, we had said, there's an email from Wendy should sent it out saying here's the paperwork. And if we need anything else to let us know when we can get anything back. So that's why I didn't know. Not a big deal. We can't follow that up tomorrow and just make sure that you've got everything because the committee has to have certain things in front of it before it can approve it. So just bear with us and we'll make sure that we get that from you for next time. Yeah. And we'll definitely have it on the agenda.

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Yeah, plenty of time for March.

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Yeah, thank you so much for that.

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I was welcome to have a good night.

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Thank you guys.

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I appreciate it.

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Thank you for staying with us.

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Okay.

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We'll turn on.

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Okay.

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All right.

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So if we then go on, we have the high school report.

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And I think as Savannah said, a principal clerk is not here tonight.

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But we do have.

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Oh yeah, who is here to tell us the principles report, don't worry.

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Good evening.

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I appreciate everyone's time.

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Bill and then for principal Clark as he has applied and together some principals at parent teachers, student conferences.

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So two points that Annabelle didn't really touch on building projects.

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Fabulous, moving along.

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Kids are adjusting to new routines, faculty as well, seamlessly which is awesome.

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everything that you want to see in education.

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We've started the conversation both with our staff and our IELT team

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with graduation requirements, working with Kristen Anderson,

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and from now until late winter or early spring,

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we'll kind of wrap that up and then have a proposal for you folks to look at.

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Tonight, we have some student voices.

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I hope they're on there looking at after-school clubs and activities.

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It's essential in terms of high school experience we know positive things happen after school in terms of students connectedness, academics, attendance and practicing all the competencies of the profile to graduate.

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So it's three different clubs, good model UN.

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We have green bread, green club, and we also have chess club.

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Okay, about 20 and rising number of clubs.

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And we're going to talk a little bit about what they do.

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Perfect.

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Okay, who's up first?

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Who's here with the green club?

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chess club.

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What was the other one?

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Why were you in?

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Why were you in?

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Why were you in?

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Is anybody out of line?

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We're flying in the streets.

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Yeah.

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Right, no hands up, I'm not sure.

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Raise your hand if you're here to speak up.

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What can you do to stay chat the way?

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Stay chat the way you were.

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There's the age there.

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We've got awesome.

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I need for self and hello.

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OK,

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Sage.

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So Monia is a club where we set in shoes and ambassadors

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of different countries to discuss plans that are made

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in actual UM meetings to resolve global issues.

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like global warming, gender discrimination, things like that.

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So for this year, we've gone to one single day conference in Boston in a four-day conference

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at Princeton in New Jersey, and we also plan on going to the National High School Conference

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in New York City, and hopefully holding our own at the high school for middle school is

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from NRMS in Charter.

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The National High School and Middleton Monia and members would hold leadership roles within

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this conference including the president who organizes and runs the entire conference

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and the chairs who direct each from the delegates. All conferences are optional and it's a safe

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environment for competitive students to better their writing and public speaking skills.

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It's also fun social activity because we spend a lot of time with students from other schools

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and even other countries but most importantly anyone can join anytime and there's a great

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experience for those who choose who choose you awesome great um so have you done did you do

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model you went before uh yeah I did model you in for a year in middle school did you awesome

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this is great great report and they're cute you're going to Chicago

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uh where's the next one is going to New York

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New York. New York. Yeah.

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It's kind of a good idea.

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I can't help you.

465
00:34:41,730 --> 00:34:44,410
That's what I was looking forward to exactly.

466
00:34:46,070 --> 00:34:48,310
All right. Thank you so much.

467
00:34:49,210 --> 00:34:51,570
So tell me, how many people involved in the High School

468
00:34:51,570 --> 00:34:53,210
Provements? Just anything to do?

469
00:34:53,670 --> 00:34:56,870
I think about ten-ish.

470
00:34:57,330 --> 00:34:58,190
Excellent. Excellent.

471
00:34:58,190 --> 00:35:00,970
Well, it's tough, it's a great experience.

472
00:35:02,730 --> 00:35:04,590
All right, and when is the trip to New York?

473
00:35:07,230 --> 00:35:08,010
In the spring.

474
00:35:09,330 --> 00:35:11,250
OK, great, great, great time to go.

475
00:35:12,310 --> 00:35:12,890
Thank you.

476
00:35:13,070 --> 00:35:13,630
It's February.

477
00:35:13,870 --> 00:35:14,130
Thanks.

478
00:35:15,050 --> 00:35:15,910
Thank you very much.

479
00:35:15,950 --> 00:35:16,290
Good stuff.

480
00:35:16,850 --> 00:35:18,010
Thank you, thank you.

481
00:35:19,170 --> 00:35:23,010
Olivia Richards is on for the Green Club, Olivia.

482
00:35:24,150 --> 00:35:24,750
Thank you.

483
00:35:24,750 --> 00:35:32,190
So she's up a minute ago. Here she is. She's here. I'm new to yourself if you would.

484
00:35:38,380 --> 00:35:41,460
Yeah. Our share of technical challenges tonight.

485
00:35:46,540 --> 00:35:46,720
Yeah.

486
00:35:49,610 --> 00:35:51,970
You can't have new to yourself. Is that correct, Olivia?

487
00:35:53,170 --> 00:35:55,670
No. Okay. Give us one second. We're working on it.

488
00:35:58,680 --> 00:35:59,940
What is safe?

489
00:35:59,940 --> 00:36:05,160
Oh, it's been a long time, but I'm not seeing that.

490
00:36:06,920 --> 00:36:07,280
Can

491
00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:24,120
you, Olivia, can you,

492
00:36:26,330 --> 00:36:27,110
I can't hear you.

493
00:36:27,270 --> 00:36:28,510
Go with your volume up.

494
00:36:35,890 --> 00:36:36,910
So I can't hear you.

495
00:36:40,700 --> 00:36:42,740
Well, Olivia, maybe turn your volume up.

496
00:36:47,220 --> 00:36:48,260
Yeah, yeah, so it's just,

497
00:36:57,110 --> 00:36:58,270
that's really too bad.

498
00:36:58,530 --> 00:36:59,610
Yeah, but we haven't heard.

499
00:37:00,270 --> 00:37:02,730
Hey, maybe you log off real quick and log back in.

500
00:37:05,660 --> 00:37:08,130
So say something.

501
00:37:08,290 --> 00:37:09,070
I mean, we can hear you.

502
00:37:11,750 --> 00:37:12,750
No, we can't.

503
00:37:12,750 --> 00:37:12,990
Sorry,

504
00:37:20,120 --> 00:37:27,720
just think the last one is Liam, I don't know, I'm not seeing him on there, I do not see him, Liam.

505
00:37:28,680 --> 00:37:29,680
Liam, take it, let's see.

506
00:37:31,220 --> 00:37:42,620
What's interesting is the cross-pollination between clubs and then there's acting that's really nice to see the multiple facets students are involved in.

507
00:37:42,820 --> 00:37:49,820
So, when we're talking about the clubs, these clubs and activities, this is a very nice write-up on them actually,

508
00:37:49,820 --> 00:37:51,940
is this up on the website?

509
00:37:52,600 --> 00:37:56,200
I mean even students can go see in what's there

510
00:37:56,620 --> 00:38:02,840
because I know, like freshmen, how did they know what that was?

511
00:38:03,260 --> 00:38:06,640
One of the kids was talking about that on the podcast,

512
00:38:07,060 --> 00:38:09,500
the variety that we have.

513
00:38:10,200 --> 00:38:10,840
I want to try chess.

514
00:38:11,220 --> 00:38:14,260
It was fun one week and maybe that's my group that I find

515
00:38:14,260 --> 00:38:16,380
or maybe I want to try something else.

516
00:38:16,380 --> 00:38:20,760
like I want to try and that's for mom so I want to try a heart club or ceramics

517
00:38:20,760 --> 00:38:25,160
or whatever it is. It's not locked in though. And everyone's super accepting of all right,

518
00:38:25,360 --> 00:38:27,580
someone doing this. So I'm going to do it now.

519
00:38:30,570 --> 00:38:31,630
I'm going to do this back here.

520
00:38:31,710 --> 00:38:37,190
I'm going to do this back here. Oh, she's on the phone. It looks like this now. There we are.

521
00:38:37,750 --> 00:38:44,730
Can you hear me now? Yeah! Yeah! You've got the technology down. You know how they do this.

522
00:38:44,730 --> 00:38:45,570
I know.

523
00:38:45,810 --> 00:38:46,070
Good stuff.

524
00:38:46,290 --> 00:38:46,730
Thank you.

525
00:38:46,970 --> 00:38:48,450
Creative, flexible.

526
00:38:48,990 --> 00:38:53,370
Those were parts of the profile of the Toronto and I think she's got it from Solving.

527
00:38:53,910 --> 00:38:54,850
There you go.

528
00:38:55,450 --> 00:38:56,070
Welcome Olivia.

529
00:38:57,630 --> 00:38:57,890
Okay.

530
00:38:58,210 --> 00:39:03,730
So I'm one of the co-presidents of the Gnostic Green Club and we're the Environmental Club

531
00:39:03,730 --> 00:39:04,390
at Gnostic.

532
00:39:04,870 --> 00:39:09,490
So some of the things that we've been working on recently our big success of last year was

533
00:39:09,490 --> 00:39:12,470
implementing reusable silverware in our cafeteria.

534
00:39:12,470 --> 00:39:18,470
And then we've also partnered with the Surfrider Foundation to make a chapter at our school.

535
00:39:19,230 --> 00:39:22,890
We also attended the Cape Cod Climate Change Collaboratives Net Zero Conference.

536
00:39:24,650 --> 00:39:29,590
Currently we're working towards implementing a composting system and sort of bettering

537
00:39:29,590 --> 00:39:31,270
our current recycling system.

538
00:39:31,910 --> 00:39:36,830
And then we also, like Annabelle said earlier, green threads, we have a thrift store inside

539
00:39:36,830 --> 00:39:38,670
the school and we did a clothing swap today.

540
00:39:38,670 --> 00:39:44,870
And then one of the recent things that just happened is we won the Youth Stewardship Award

541
00:39:44,870 --> 00:39:48,070
from here for the Keith and Islands, which was really cool.

542
00:39:48,690 --> 00:39:53,850
And so that was for our initiative for getting single-use plus few tonsils out of the cafeteria

543
00:39:53,850 --> 00:39:54,930
and switching to silverware.

544
00:39:55,310 --> 00:40:00,650
And as a part of that, we got a year-long membership with Keith.

545
00:40:05,000 --> 00:40:07,340
Can you say the name of this group again?

546
00:40:08,060 --> 00:40:08,260
Okay.

547
00:40:08,480 --> 00:40:09,840
You got the membership too?

548
00:40:10,860 --> 00:40:13,680
Yeah, Cape Cod Young Professionals.

549
00:40:14,820 --> 00:40:16,720
Cape Cod Young Professionals.

550
00:40:17,320 --> 00:40:17,500
Good.

551
00:40:18,880 --> 00:40:19,480
Very good.

552
00:40:21,500 --> 00:40:22,340
All right.

553
00:40:23,520 --> 00:40:24,620
Always good stuff.

554
00:40:24,800 --> 00:40:25,080
The green.

555
00:40:25,580 --> 00:40:27,420
Where did the silverware come from?

556
00:40:27,800 --> 00:40:29,140
Do you guys have to purchase it?

557
00:40:30,440 --> 00:40:37,200
So originally we were working with care for the Cape and Islands to get it free from an organization

558
00:40:37,200 --> 00:40:43,220
that wanted to donate it to us but eventually the cafeteria just ended up using their own

559
00:40:43,220 --> 00:40:59,120
silverware that they were able to. We already owned our silverware. I think they might have

560
00:40:59,120 --> 00:41:01,840
like found it after the construction or something like that,

561
00:41:01,920 --> 00:41:02,620
I'm not really sure.

562
00:41:03,060 --> 00:41:04,500
But we also, we also found it.

563
00:41:04,740 --> 00:41:08,220
So we do all the boxes, but that's great.

564
00:41:08,440 --> 00:41:10,460
And also with the new cafeteria,

565
00:41:10,460 --> 00:41:14,980
there's great dishwashers and so you can reuse all of this.

566
00:41:15,240 --> 00:41:18,620
So what a great idea and good inspiration for you

567
00:41:18,620 --> 00:41:19,700
to find there.

568
00:41:19,960 --> 00:41:22,740
Keep opening the boxes until they find the silverware.

569
00:41:22,840 --> 00:41:23,380
That's awesome.

570
00:41:23,780 --> 00:41:24,160
Nice work.

571
00:41:24,520 --> 00:41:27,960
I know that a lot of towns have been concerned

572
00:41:27,960 --> 00:41:32,780
about Styrofoam and plastic and things like that so whatever you can do when

573
00:41:32,780 --> 00:41:37,340
the schools might be a good model for some of the towns. Thank you. Yeah, thank you.

574
00:41:37,920 --> 00:41:43,040
That's great. So in your composting program are you composting all the food

575
00:41:43,040 --> 00:41:49,460
scraps? So we haven't got it started yet but yeah it would be food waste and we

576
00:41:49,460 --> 00:41:53,040
would also have to separate the liquids out of that so we're still working out

577
00:41:53,040 --> 00:41:54,700
the logistics for it.

578
00:41:56,800 --> 00:41:57,820
Oh, good luck.

579
00:41:58,140 --> 00:42:00,820
That's a great thing to do.

580
00:42:01,140 --> 00:42:02,700
I always find it a lot of work.

581
00:42:03,080 --> 00:42:05,900
But they have better chief.

582
00:42:06,040 --> 00:42:06,860
More than I have.

583
00:42:06,980 --> 00:42:07,820
Well, we're meant.

584
00:42:08,620 --> 00:42:12,860
Okay, thank you very much for coming and sharing that with us.

585
00:42:12,880 --> 00:42:13,720
Let me help you.

586
00:42:13,900 --> 00:42:14,700
Okay, thank you.

587
00:42:16,240 --> 00:42:17,860
This is not true.

588
00:42:18,940 --> 00:42:20,980
Claire, this is probably more for you.

589
00:42:21,260 --> 00:42:22,720
Claire, I don't know if you can hear me.

590
00:42:24,340 --> 00:42:32,860
can you hear me? Yes, so the fundraising has been approved, so there's no need for you to stay on.

591
00:42:40,540 --> 00:42:41,420
Can you hear us, Claire?

592
00:42:44,190 --> 00:42:49,190
Okay, we can't hear you. Thank you. I'm just trying to hang up. Thank you so much.

593
00:42:50,510 --> 00:42:52,230
Thank you for being here, Claire.

594
00:42:52,230 --> 00:42:52,750
Hi, Lydia.

595
00:42:52,750 --> 00:42:53,150
Hi, Lydia.

596
00:42:55,990 --> 00:42:56,770
All right.

597
00:42:57,130 --> 00:42:58,350
So we got through that.

598
00:42:58,890 --> 00:43:02,690
One thing on the graduation requirements.

599
00:43:03,810 --> 00:43:15,000
This was for those of you who are relatively new to the committee.

600
00:43:15,740 --> 00:43:21,920
Three years ago, the school committee requested a review

601
00:43:21,920 --> 00:43:29,160
of the graduation requirements because they hadn't been reviewed for a while and it will

602
00:43:29,160 --> 00:43:31,040
always, it's always good to do that.

603
00:43:31,720 --> 00:43:36,840
And we also became aware that our graduation requirements, we knew they hadn't been

604
00:43:36,840 --> 00:43:43,500
reviewed for a while because they do not meet the mass core requirements, they meet the

605
00:43:43,500 --> 00:43:47,360
mass minimum requirements for graduation but not the recommended.

606
00:43:48,560 --> 00:44:04,920
So this is this has been a while in coming really glad to see that it started at Clark did bring it up at the school council meeting last week and and there was a great discussion on it.

607
00:44:05,240 --> 00:44:14,060
And I think there's more than just the graduation requirements per se because it's, you know, are we going to have this?

608
00:44:14,060 --> 00:44:22,120
this, you know, why, and there may be a set of not a requirement further on the curriculum.

609
00:44:22,720 --> 00:44:26,480
So it's just, I think, a really good discussion that is taking place.

610
00:44:27,140 --> 00:44:36,720
And I did say at the school council meeting that it would be great to have the

611
00:44:41,110 --> 00:44:42,450
crew come

612
00:44:42,450 --> 00:44:54,370
And talk to us kind of when you had preliminary ideas before anything became too set so that we could have a discussion about it.

613
00:44:54,370 --> 00:44:59,970
And because I believe you'll get some...

614
00:45:07,540 --> 00:45:29,400
Thank you. And thank you for bringing this up in tonight's presentation. So a question because with the new ballot question about eliminating

615
00:45:29,400 --> 00:45:35,400
plays into this whole action. I don't think we're there yet. We're just looking very much as

616
00:45:35,400 --> 00:45:41,600
the mass core, what we currently have, a hair from all staple voice to kind of get a handle where we're at.

617
00:45:42,160 --> 00:45:49,340
I think baby steps, so we're just at the early early stages of this, right? I think it just started like last month.

618
00:45:49,520 --> 00:45:53,520
Oh, okay. And I think the state's probably providing guidance for community needs.

619
00:45:53,640 --> 00:45:55,220
They have not yet, but I'm sure that they will.

620
00:45:55,220 --> 00:45:56,500
Thank you.

621
00:45:56,760 --> 00:45:57,560
Thank you.

622
00:45:58,520 --> 00:45:58,920
Okay.

623
00:45:59,140 --> 00:45:59,740
Anything else?

624
00:46:00,720 --> 00:46:00,860
Oh.

625
00:46:01,260 --> 00:46:01,660
Tomorrow?

626
00:46:02,360 --> 00:46:02,760
Yeah.

627
00:46:02,940 --> 00:46:04,940
Jesse and I probably have our hands up for the same reason.

628
00:46:05,360 --> 00:46:08,940
He, I think, was also on the fundraising consent agenda.

629
00:46:09,240 --> 00:46:10,400
So you're all set.

630
00:46:10,540 --> 00:46:12,840
Jesse, if that's what you were here for, that was all passed.

631
00:46:14,850 --> 00:46:15,750
It was all good.

632
00:46:15,830 --> 00:46:15,950
Yeah.

633
00:46:16,250 --> 00:46:16,650
Yeah.

634
00:46:16,970 --> 00:46:19,190
I just want to make sure I'm bouncing back.

635
00:46:19,330 --> 00:46:20,510
If you want to do anything else.

636
00:46:20,550 --> 00:46:22,590
I just want to make sure I didn't miss anything.

637
00:46:24,330 --> 00:46:25,870
You can stay for a meeting now.

638
00:46:25,890 --> 00:46:26,110
Yeah.

639
00:46:28,270 --> 00:46:30,410
I like to hear about all the clubs and everything, it's great.

640
00:46:33,070 --> 00:46:36,370
Thank you so much. I just want to make sure I was going to go on in the right spot and

641
00:46:36,370 --> 00:46:36,490
all that.

642
00:46:37,170 --> 00:46:38,010
Thank you, Jason.

643
00:46:38,170 --> 00:46:40,270
Thank you so much. Have a great night.

644
00:46:41,850 --> 00:46:42,190
You too.

645
00:46:45,420 --> 00:46:47,920
So, Lauren, did you have anything else or was that it?

646
00:46:49,020 --> 00:46:49,680
That was it.

647
00:46:49,920 --> 00:46:50,160
Just trust.

648
00:46:51,080 --> 00:46:51,380
Okay.

649
00:46:53,220 --> 00:46:54,700
Chris, I have a quick question.

650
00:46:54,700 --> 00:46:57,640
And who was the family advisor of the model you were in at the high school?

651
00:46:58,060 --> 00:46:59,280
I was Anna Smith.

652
00:46:59,280 --> 00:46:59,700
Anna Smith?

653
00:47:00,640 --> 00:47:01,400
She's on it.

654
00:47:02,360 --> 00:47:07,620
She's showing both the middle school and the six, she just started the sixth grade.

655
00:47:07,640 --> 00:47:08,180
The sixth grade?

656
00:47:08,800 --> 00:47:09,000
Great.

657
00:47:11,680 --> 00:47:13,440
She teaches at the middle school right?

658
00:47:13,740 --> 00:47:14,580
She's a parent educator.

659
00:47:14,860 --> 00:47:14,940
Yeah.

660
00:47:15,880 --> 00:47:16,020
Yeah.

661
00:47:16,180 --> 00:47:17,740
She doesn't need to stay on either.

662
00:47:18,280 --> 00:47:19,060
I think time's back.

663
00:47:19,060 --> 00:47:20,180
Maybe she likes us.

664
00:47:20,340 --> 00:47:20,460
No.

665
00:47:20,600 --> 00:47:21,000
I'm sure that.

666
00:47:21,300 --> 00:47:23,020
What is not to love about us?

667
00:47:23,020 --> 00:47:23,660
Reel again.

668
00:47:23,940 --> 00:47:25,320
It's a long meeting.

669
00:47:26,700 --> 00:47:27,980
I'm enjoying the meeting.

670
00:47:28,120 --> 00:47:30,000
OK, great.

671
00:47:30,180 --> 00:47:32,780
But we'd love to have you with us, Anna.

672
00:47:32,900 --> 00:47:33,940
Thank you.

673
00:47:33,940 --> 00:47:36,840
There are people out there that appreciate us.

674
00:47:36,940 --> 00:47:37,380
Of course.

675
00:47:37,680 --> 00:47:39,920
Or maybe not appreciate us out the word.

676
00:47:41,260 --> 00:47:44,480
Anyway, OK, so anything else with the high school?

677
00:47:46,000 --> 00:47:47,220
OK, Peter, it's you.

678
00:47:47,740 --> 00:47:50,080
All right, so Brett Costello is here, hopefully,

679
00:47:50,080 --> 00:47:55,600
really without technical difficulties, she'll be sharing some information, but we wanted

680
00:47:55,600 --> 00:48:01,060
to share with you how we utilize data, there's a data platform that we use called Panorama

681
00:48:02,340 --> 00:48:08,240
and it's really helping drive decisions, it's helping us catch it in real time when students

682
00:48:08,240 --> 00:48:13,740
are either struggling academically, maybe have attendance issues, which are often correlated

683
00:48:15,720 --> 00:48:18,700
over on the social emotional learning side of things.

684
00:48:19,120 --> 00:48:21,860
It also can track results through surveys

685
00:48:21,860 --> 00:48:23,880
and things like that as well.

686
00:48:24,440 --> 00:48:27,260
And so among our goals this year

687
00:48:27,260 --> 00:48:28,920
is to reduce the number of students

688
00:48:28,920 --> 00:48:30,600
at the middle school that are failing classes.

689
00:48:31,120 --> 00:48:33,660
To do that, we wanna catch them

690
00:48:33,660 --> 00:48:34,980
when they're starting, they're greater

691
00:48:34,980 --> 00:48:36,500
starting to trend in the wrong direction

692
00:48:36,500 --> 00:48:39,820
in real time to be able to then put interventions in place,

693
00:48:39,820 --> 00:48:46,520
provide scaffolding so that they can be successful and also because we're

694
00:48:46,520 --> 00:48:53,340
catching kids early in the process we're preventing kids from jumping into

695
00:48:53,340 --> 00:48:57,420
the special education world prematurely before trying other interventions that

696
00:48:57,420 --> 00:49:01,680
we can do that are available to any student so so that's going to walk you through

697
00:49:01,680 --> 00:49:10,260
a little bit of how we're able to identify kids that are struggling in some way, including

698
00:49:10,260 --> 00:49:16,860
place, intervention plans, and have teachers of faith as champions for these students

699
00:49:16,860 --> 00:49:20,240
to get them on track and keep them on track.

700
00:49:20,740 --> 00:49:24,440
So we have a better sense of kind of globally our students are doing, but also at the individual

701
00:49:24,440 --> 00:49:28,660
level, intervening for students to keep them on track.

702
00:49:28,660 --> 00:49:34,140
so that by the time they are sent up to the high school, hopefully we've been able to help them develop

703
00:49:35,060 --> 00:49:40,760
positive skills to be scholars, good citizens, and rest been working with the whole district,

704
00:49:41,740 --> 00:49:47,600
the elementary principals, and the principals of the high school. She's kind of by default,

705
00:49:48,080 --> 00:49:54,500
because she started asking questions last year, become our resident expert on panorama, so

706
00:49:54,500 --> 00:49:58,720
So threats and whatever are just outstanding as the principles and show walking through

707
00:49:58,720 --> 00:49:59,540
the process tonight.

708
00:50:00,360 --> 00:50:00,600
Good.

709
00:50:00,820 --> 00:50:01,360
Welcome, Brett.

710
00:50:02,680 --> 00:50:03,400
Hi, everybody.

711
00:50:03,580 --> 00:50:04,280
You can hear me, OK?

712
00:50:05,760 --> 00:50:06,240
Yeah.

713
00:50:06,540 --> 00:50:07,080
So beautifully.

714
00:50:07,960 --> 00:50:08,440
Terrific.

715
00:50:08,960 --> 00:50:10,140
So, yeah.

716
00:50:10,560 --> 00:50:11,360
Thank you, Peter.

717
00:50:11,480 --> 00:50:14,160
That was great framing for what we're doing with Panorama.

718
00:50:15,440 --> 00:50:19,460
Is it OK if I share my screen with you to show you guys a couple of slides?

719
00:50:20,340 --> 00:50:20,560
Yes.

720
00:50:21,160 --> 00:50:21,580
Absolutely.

721
00:50:32,740 --> 00:50:33,300
So yeah,

722
00:50:36,320 --> 00:50:41,100
so you know, when we saw, you know, like Peter said, I was the one who started

723
00:50:41,100 --> 00:50:47,080
asking questions about this and really appreciate that our district has this platform available

724
00:50:47,080 --> 00:50:53,320
because I think it's really powerful for our teachers and really the result is a lot of leverage

725
00:50:53,320 --> 00:50:59,480
to improve our student engagement and you know our student skills so that they're ready

726
00:50:59,480 --> 00:51:06,000
for everything they need at high school. And so you know as you all know in education we have so

727
00:51:06,000 --> 00:51:11,480
many different pieces of data that exist and it's all over the place and any particular student

728
00:51:11,480 --> 00:51:16,360
might look really different at any particular time of the day or in any particular classroom

729
00:51:16,360 --> 00:51:22,680
kind of like you see with, you know, what you see here that some teachers might see something

730
00:51:22,680 --> 00:51:29,140
that looks like a spear or a rope or a tree and in reality that kid is, you know, somebody who could

731
00:51:29,140 --> 00:51:34,420
be struggling in their math class or they could be, you know, really outstanding in a music class

732
00:51:34,420 --> 00:51:40,000
or they could be struggling with an attendance issue. And so what Panorama does is it sort of puts

733
00:51:40,000 --> 00:51:45,460
all of this in one place and helps all of the people who are working with the student to like leverage

734
00:51:45,460 --> 00:51:50,520
the information so that they can hopefully get to the core of whatever the issue is for the kid.

735
00:51:51,460 --> 00:51:56,440
And it helps teachers and students and parents see, you know, where students are

736
00:51:56,440 --> 00:52:01,020
having strengths and where they're having struggle. So this model of a thermometer is really

737
00:52:01,020 --> 00:52:15,440
consistent throughout. And this pulls data from sources we already use like ASPIN or are

738
00:52:15,440 --> 00:52:17,880
read with some codes like this.

739
00:52:18,060 --> 00:52:20,920
You can see dark green as kids are on track.

740
00:52:21,980 --> 00:52:23,300
And light green is on track too.

741
00:52:23,800 --> 00:52:25,380
When you start to get into the yellow and the red,

742
00:52:25,520 --> 00:52:28,840
just like a stop light, you start to have some concerns

743
00:52:28,840 --> 00:52:30,000
about how a student is doing.

744
00:52:30,000 --> 00:52:32,200
And that gives you the reason to jump in

745
00:52:32,200 --> 00:52:36,000
and try to intervene and see what is it that is needed.

746
00:52:36,640 --> 00:52:38,400
So at the middle school every week,

747
00:52:38,400 --> 00:52:40,840
our student success team meets.

748
00:52:41,120 --> 00:52:43,040
And that's been really consistent all last year

749
00:52:43,040 --> 00:52:43,800
and into this year.

750
00:52:43,800 --> 00:52:51,980
So that's our principals and school psychologist and counselors or adjustment counselor or evaluation team leader and interventionists sometimes so they join us as well.

751
00:52:52,700 --> 00:53:00,020
And what we're doing in those meetings is we're looking at this data and looking at these thermometers and seeing okay, where are some students who we need to support.

752
00:53:00,720 --> 00:53:13,280
We know that about 80% of our students will get their needs met through the regular classroom instruction and the regular messaging throughout the school, you know, but this really is helping us to focus on what to do with that other 20%.

753
00:53:13,800 --> 00:53:21,020
So just a couple of graphics just to give you like a case study to look at is when we do our regular

754
00:53:21,020 --> 00:53:27,540
screenings for the eye ready in reading and in math. Panorama puts in this really nice format,

755
00:53:27,540 --> 00:53:33,840
so that it's not just a number. It's really a way to measure student progress over the course of

756
00:53:33,840 --> 00:53:40,820
the student's school career. So in this particular case, you could see the student's partially meeting

757
00:53:40,820 --> 00:53:45,400
their expectations for the MCAS on ELA and you can see that they've had

758
00:53:45,400 --> 00:53:50,320
sometimes with that green graph there that they've been on grade level and then

759
00:53:50,320 --> 00:53:54,160
they've slowly had some decline so this would be a student that we would

760
00:53:54,160 --> 00:53:58,800
target for an intervention. We can see the same data for math and in this particular

761
00:53:58,800 --> 00:54:04,160
case the students needs were greater in reading. So with our interventionist on

762
00:54:04,160 --> 00:54:09,540
staff, Panorama gives us the opportunity to create a plan and it's a quick

763
00:54:09,540 --> 00:54:14,340
easy plan and this one was done by a reading interventionist and she's really

764
00:54:14,340 --> 00:54:18,700
specifically looking at the student's comprehension and their fluency and as

765
00:54:18,700 --> 00:54:21,660
you can see the students making progress with their fluency and the hope

766
00:54:21,660 --> 00:54:26,440
here is that either by mid-year by the end of the year we're able to close the gap

767
00:54:26,440 --> 00:54:29,880
for the student and having them be a more fluent reader helps them be more

768
00:54:29,880 --> 00:54:33,700
successful not just in their reading class but also their social studies their

769
00:54:33,700 --> 00:54:39,240
science and exploratories and math where reading is also needed so that's a

770
00:54:39,240 --> 00:54:44,700
a little bit of a deeper dive into some of the ways that we can leverage the data to help us

771
00:54:44,700 --> 00:54:50,760
really target interventions for skills to improve student academic skills. Again, like Peter said,

772
00:54:50,900 --> 00:54:56,500
our goal here is to really reduce failures and school-wide. You know, this one is a little bit

773
00:54:56,500 --> 00:55:01,980
more specific in terms of the intervention, but for a lot of teachers, the stashwork can also create

774
00:55:01,980 --> 00:55:08,000
a way to look at, say, their nosset time. And in a very easy format, they're able to see which kids

775
00:55:08,000 --> 00:55:10,420
are struggling in which classes, all on the same page.

776
00:55:11,140 --> 00:55:16,220
So that helps them in that sort of built-in time for students every day to say, oh, so

777
00:55:16,220 --> 00:55:17,940
and so you really need to work on your math.

778
00:55:18,100 --> 00:55:18,960
How can we help you do that?

779
00:55:19,100 --> 00:55:21,700
Did you sign up to meet with your math teacher this week during the onset time?

780
00:55:22,300 --> 00:55:28,280
So all of that helps us to reduce the failures for courses and also helps to close the gaps

781
00:55:28,280 --> 00:55:37,980
so that there's fewer special ed referrals and if we catch kids sooner we don't have

782
00:55:37,980 --> 00:55:42,800
So just the last piece that I'll share with you is that one of the things that we looked

783
00:55:42,800 --> 00:55:47,720
at that I thought was really surprising here was not just looking at specific skills and

784
00:55:47,720 --> 00:55:51,720
taking a deeper dive into how students are doing in their classes, but just looking

785
00:55:51,720 --> 00:55:57,520
at overall attendance and our counterpart makes the Liberto's rate at managing attendance

786
00:55:57,520 --> 00:55:59,000
and talking to students about it.

787
00:55:59,280 --> 00:56:05,260
And it was sort of expected us to see some growth with students coming to school more often

788
00:56:05,260 --> 00:56:10,920
especially with chronic absence issues, what I didn't expect which was really great to see

789
00:56:11,900 --> 00:56:16,900
because you can look at the same thermometer for attendance and dive right into students who are

790
00:56:16,900 --> 00:56:23,580
you know at that 95% attendance or 90% or 80 and then below 80 as we looked at some data this year

791
00:56:23,580 --> 00:56:30,220
in the first quarter and then we compared it to last year's first quarter attendance for our students

792
00:56:30,220 --> 00:56:34,960
and while we still in both quarters had about the same amount of chronic absence

793
00:56:34,960 --> 00:56:40,860
issues. What happened was the top end of that thermometer grew a lot. So the 95% attendance

794
00:56:40,860 --> 00:56:46,120
went from 55% of our students to 74% of our students. And I thought that was a really

795
00:56:46,120 --> 00:56:50,660
great jump and I was really glad to see it sort of is that whole idea of the rising tide lifts

796
00:56:50,660 --> 00:56:55,500
all boats. When you start messaging out consistently we need students to be here. We want you to be

797
00:56:55,500 --> 00:57:01,680
here, you know positive reinforcements to celebrate quarterly perfect attendance, excellent attendance,

798
00:57:01,680 --> 00:57:06,360
and staff attendance, when people are realizing that it's noticed, what you're doing then

799
00:57:06,360 --> 00:57:12,120
usually set nice growth for it improves, and so we hope that same piece will just tie right

800
00:57:12,120 --> 00:57:17,720
over into our instructional strategies, and we'll be able to catch that 20 percent that might not

801
00:57:18,320 --> 00:57:23,260
have no success in the regular classroom setting, but we can help close that gap and get them back

802
00:57:23,260 --> 00:57:31,060
on track sooner. So again, it's all about the conversations that we're having, so we realize the first plan

803
00:57:31,060 --> 00:57:36,400
might not work but we realized it at least gives us enough information to pivot in a more successful

804
00:57:36,400 --> 00:57:42,340
direction and so we might have to try a second plan but all of this helps us maintain a record of

805
00:57:42,340 --> 00:57:46,860
what we're doing and having good solid data collection so that gives from fifth to sixth and

806
00:57:46,860 --> 00:57:52,840
gives from eighth to ninth we keep track of what was tried and what didn't work and what did work and

807
00:57:52,840 --> 00:57:58,960
we have more consistent supports throughout and hopefully use it as a way to also manage communication

808
00:57:58,960 --> 00:58:05,560
of parents so that parents are our collaborators every step of the way. So, I'll kind of pause

809
00:58:05,560 --> 00:58:09,400
there and you guys can have access to the slides but let me know if you have any questions or any

810
00:58:09,400 --> 00:58:09,820
concerns.

811
00:58:11,980 --> 00:58:17,600
Right, can you talk a little bit about teachers as champions? Yeah, definitely. So,

812
00:58:18,440 --> 00:58:23,900
what's great is that any teacher could be a champion for any kid so it doesn't have to be

813
00:58:24,800 --> 00:58:27,860
you know, an ELA teacher or a math teacher.

814
00:58:28,040 --> 00:58:30,200
If there's a music teacher who has a good connection with a kid,

815
00:58:30,460 --> 00:58:31,820
it might be that music teacher who says,

816
00:58:31,820 --> 00:58:34,300
yeah, I'll meet with this kid once a week and check in with their grades

817
00:58:34,300 --> 00:58:35,620
and we'll talk during the offset time.

818
00:58:36,180 --> 00:58:38,880
And then they just make a note of how that conversation goes

819
00:58:38,880 --> 00:58:42,240
and if they see kids making good improvements

820
00:58:42,240 --> 00:58:45,440
and talking to the kids about what did you do to get that improvement

821
00:58:45,440 --> 00:58:49,160
and that really helps them, the kids then can replicate that

822
00:58:49,160 --> 00:58:51,380
not just in that class but hopefully their other classes

823
00:58:51,380 --> 00:58:56,220
and they're learning those executive function skills and they're learning you know the skills of

824
00:58:56,220 --> 00:59:01,900
reflection and and applying their success in any area that they really need to focus on.

825
00:59:05,760 --> 00:59:11,040
Yeah so what is we're seeing a big difference is the conversations that are taking place

826
00:59:11,040 --> 00:59:17,500
Brett and I and Mike Silverton we attend the grade level team meetings and the conversations

827
00:59:17,500 --> 00:59:23,660
with the teams have really shifted this year where we bring up a student we're not sort of taking

828
00:59:23,660 --> 00:59:27,640
that old school approach, like when we taught it, they just didn't get it, like, oh well,

829
00:59:28,060 --> 00:59:32,420
then we move on, that we're figuring out, like, what can we do to make sure that we're

830
00:59:32,420 --> 00:59:37,400
not leaving anybody behind in that, like, we talk about the slot spoiler, like it's on

831
00:59:37,400 --> 00:59:41,900
us, the adults do something different, if the first time we teach it, the kids aren't getting

832
00:59:41,900 --> 00:59:47,900
and so being able to look at this data in that color coded manner allows us to pretty easily

833
00:59:47,900 --> 00:59:52,820
identify kids that need to have some of these interventions. Most of the time is our advisory program,

834
00:59:52,820 --> 00:59:59,520
So each teacher has a group of no more than 15 students so on a Monday they can look at those 15 students

835
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:28,380
So our advisors will be with each of their 15 students on a Monday to say, this week, here's the teachers you should access for extra help, or if they're on track, you can put them other things that they can work on during that time. But it's a lot of us to leverage the time we have built into the school day to keep track because the attendance piece is really key component as well because there often is a direct correlation between attendance and achievement, almost like.

836
01:00:28,380 --> 01:00:31,860
We don't want to, we don't want to.

837
01:00:31,900 --> 01:00:32,260
Exactly.

838
01:00:33,480 --> 01:00:42,060
And so, you know, we can really zero in on some strategies for helping the kids because

839
01:00:42,060 --> 01:00:48,000
those kids' attendance issues often are in a place after school where they're going to be able to really accomplish

840
01:00:48,000 --> 01:00:48,460
much.

841
01:00:48,840 --> 01:00:53,380
And so the more we can support them while they're with us in school, the better the chance for success.

842
01:01:02,640 --> 01:01:08,500
I just want to say, you know, when we brought in panorama, we knew the capacities and we

843
01:01:08,500 --> 01:01:14,800
knew that what we felt it could do within the district, but we didn't have somebody

844
01:01:14,800 --> 01:01:22,100
take it by the reins and run with it the way that you have and just for everyone's benefit

845
01:01:22,100 --> 01:01:22,640
to know.

846
01:01:22,640 --> 01:01:25,700
know, I mean, Brett has really taken this and run it.

847
01:01:25,800 --> 01:01:28,680
He's when you say she's our guru, she really is.

848
01:01:28,760 --> 01:01:31,140
I mean, right across our district, I mean, you did a fabulous

849
01:01:31,140 --> 01:01:34,240
presentation this summer for our administrators.

850
01:01:34,800 --> 01:01:37,820
And I just, I'm just so proud of the work that you've done in

851
01:01:37,820 --> 01:01:38,360
this area.

852
01:01:38,360 --> 01:01:41,540
And I see the difference that it makes in your building.

853
01:01:41,960 --> 01:01:45,480
And so just so grateful, Brett, for all that you do with this

854
01:01:45,480 --> 01:01:46,560
particular software.

855
01:01:46,740 --> 01:01:47,200
Thank you.

856
01:01:48,400 --> 01:01:48,840
Thanks.

857
01:01:48,980 --> 01:01:51,060
It's been really exciting to learn about it and really nice

858
01:01:51,060 --> 01:01:54,340
that we have people who are here who are willing to engage in it.

859
01:01:56,330 --> 01:02:04,670
You know, data isn't really very good unless you use it, so in fact, it can be harmful

860
01:02:04,670 --> 01:02:08,330
because you think you've got it, but you're not using it, Catherine.

861
01:02:12,280 --> 01:02:19,420
Yes, first off, I think that your data about the attendance and your improvement in attendance

862
01:02:19,420 --> 01:02:28,300
should be applauded. That's great, that level of improvement. And I guess my follow-up question

863
01:02:28,300 --> 01:02:36,640
would be, what do you attribute the dis-improvement in attendance to, or?

864
01:02:41,300 --> 01:02:46,620
Yeah, I mean, Peter, you might want to add to this, but, you know, we have a few different

865
01:02:46,620 --> 01:02:53,220
ways that we're really trying to help support the students and to just help them see that we notice

866
01:02:53,220 --> 01:02:58,080
and we care about it and we're reinforcing that it's important that you be here and we do have

867
01:02:58,080 --> 01:03:02,500
those conversations like Peter said when we can with panorama we can look at the grades and the

868
01:03:02,500 --> 01:03:07,180
number of days you're absent from that class and it's so clear to the students to see that correlation

869
01:03:07,180 --> 01:03:11,440
how if I keep being late and I keep missing math that might be why my math grade is lowest.

870
01:03:11,440 --> 01:03:18,280
So I think the reflection that the students have about it, but also then the positive reinforcement.

871
01:03:18,720 --> 01:03:27,420
And we gave out awards in the cafeteria so kids got to see their peers getting an award for, you know, excellent attendance or for perfect attendance for that quarter.

872
01:03:28,200 --> 01:03:36,380
And having the conversations with the kids who aren't showing up and just and the parents to and asking what's the barrier, why aren't you showing up.

873
01:03:36,380 --> 01:03:38,080
is there a problem we need to help you with here?

874
01:03:38,080 --> 01:03:38,840
What's going on?

875
01:03:39,020 --> 01:03:41,500
So that they know that we care about them being there

876
01:03:41,500 --> 01:03:44,300
and that we're listening to them.

877
01:03:44,740 --> 01:03:48,600
So if I always think of my job as being a problem solver

878
01:03:48,600 --> 01:03:50,680
in the school, so what's the problem?

879
01:03:50,720 --> 01:03:52,080
Let's help you solve it because we know

880
01:03:52,080 --> 01:03:54,720
that your attendance at school is going to highly correlate

881
01:03:54,720 --> 01:03:56,820
with your success and your employment in the future.

882
01:03:57,020 --> 01:03:58,740
And we want you to have lots of choices with that.

883
01:03:58,800 --> 01:04:01,300
So that's why we care about you showing up in sixth grade.

884
01:04:01,300 --> 01:04:02,220
Yeah,

885
01:04:05,130 --> 01:04:10,990
the only way I would add is we're just we're regularly like pounding that drum we're regularly messaging

886
01:04:10,990 --> 01:04:15,630
how important attendance is there's messages are all out of the school we talk about it with

887
01:04:15,630 --> 01:04:21,310
kids a lot it's in many of my newsletters there'll be some kind of reference to the importance of

888
01:04:21,310 --> 01:04:28,110
attendance we're just we're just talking a lot about that that's like sort of the simplest positive

889
01:04:28,110 --> 01:04:33,810
of staff each student can take is just come to school. From there we can then go build

890
01:04:33,810 --> 01:04:39,770
from that, but if they're not there, it's so easy for them to fall behind. I was talking

891
01:04:39,770 --> 01:04:46,350
to another principal today, another principal principal on the cake, they were saying, you

892
01:04:46,350 --> 01:04:51,190
know, we're finally feeling it. I've said the same thing that we're kind of shaking off

893
01:04:51,190 --> 01:04:57,710
the impacts of COVID where it was like school was optional during those early days of COVID

894
01:04:57,710 --> 01:04:59,170
and that kind of stuck.

895
01:04:59,790 --> 01:05:01,670
And so now we're really starting to get back,

896
01:05:01,910 --> 01:05:06,370
get our group back up like the basic necessity

897
01:05:06,370 --> 01:05:07,990
of just showing up.

898
01:05:09,070 --> 01:05:12,730
How do you get parents involved in that conversation

899
01:05:12,730 --> 01:05:16,490
because I'm assuming a sixth grader

900
01:05:17,450 --> 01:05:22,230
doesn't go without the parents knowing their missing school.

901
01:05:22,590 --> 01:05:25,070
So how do they get involved?

902
01:05:25,110 --> 01:05:27,090
That's essential on both the attendance line

903
01:05:27,090 --> 01:05:31,630
and the academic side, or the first steps has to be to look at the parents and be communicating

904
01:05:31,630 --> 01:05:36,710
with them so that we're working together as a partnership. So Mike Solberto has kind of taken

905
01:05:36,710 --> 01:05:41,370
on the attendance side of things and so he at the start of this year went back to last year's

906
01:05:41,370 --> 01:05:46,870
data and over the month of September had meetings with kids that struggled with attendance last year

907
01:05:46,870 --> 01:05:52,470
and met with them and their parents to set up like a success plan for this year. And then as kids

908
01:05:52,470 --> 01:05:56,150
to have popped up on our radar with this thermometer.

909
01:05:56,930 --> 01:05:58,530
If you're in the guidance counselor for that,

910
01:05:58,630 --> 01:05:59,890
we'll do the same thing.

911
01:05:59,930 --> 01:06:01,190
They'll have conversations with the kid,

912
01:06:01,790 --> 01:06:04,470
the parents in, have them in for a meeting as well,

913
01:06:04,950 --> 01:06:06,490
and make a plan for game to school.

914
01:06:06,790 --> 01:06:09,950
If it's a charty-ness issue of getting school on time,

915
01:06:10,410 --> 01:06:11,350
or if it's an attendance issue,

916
01:06:11,570 --> 01:06:12,870
getting to school it off.

917
01:06:15,390 --> 01:06:16,350
Kerry, yes.

918
01:06:16,770 --> 01:06:21,270
This is so impressive, Brad, and Peter.

919
01:06:21,270 --> 01:06:29,190
It really is an amazing amount of data and having the kids to be being involved in looking

920
01:06:29,190 --> 01:06:34,830
at their own data and seeing the connections is very, very strong, it's a strong message

921
01:06:34,830 --> 01:06:35,250
to them.

922
01:06:36,210 --> 01:06:37,050
A couple of questions.

923
01:06:37,470 --> 01:06:44,270
One is when do parents get involved in terms of our SST, your student's 14s, probably not

924
01:06:44,270 --> 01:06:50,510
initially, but eventually do parents get kind of letting in on the fact that you have some

925
01:06:50,510 --> 01:06:54,350
concerns and you're discussing and you're creating together a success plan for them.

926
01:06:54,770 --> 01:07:02,390
Yeah so if if often what happens to the teacher at a team you'll say you know carry struggling

927
01:07:02,390 --> 01:07:07,450
and everybody else seeing that and so then we'll have a conversation and say and the first question

928
01:07:07,450 --> 01:07:14,450
we ask is we reach out to carries parity and so as early as possible in the process we loop them in

929
01:07:14,450 --> 01:07:17,330
and that they're starting to mess a couple of assignments

930
01:07:17,330 --> 01:07:18,890
or assessments.

931
01:07:19,090 --> 01:07:22,650
So early on, if we create one of these intervention plans,

932
01:07:23,190 --> 01:07:24,950
they're looped in that we've created this,

933
01:07:25,270 --> 01:07:27,610
and we let them know the champion is,

934
01:07:27,810 --> 01:07:29,890
and then that person sort of gives them progress

935
01:07:29,890 --> 01:07:30,770
off dates periodically.

936
01:07:32,920 --> 01:07:34,120
It sounds great.

937
01:07:34,240 --> 01:07:36,140
And it, obviously, it sounds like you also

938
01:07:36,140 --> 01:07:37,800
have the date of it to show that it's working.

939
01:07:38,260 --> 01:07:39,960
It's just very valuable.

940
01:07:41,160 --> 01:07:42,500
So two more questions.

941
01:07:42,720 --> 01:07:45,080
One is, what other schools, I guess this is for group?

942
01:07:45,080 --> 01:07:49,960
what other schools are using this platform and how effectively are they using it as effectively

943
01:07:49,960 --> 01:07:57,500
as Brett you are in the medical school? Well I think Brett you've connected with all I mean all

944
01:07:57,500 --> 01:08:04,280
of the other schools have access to being able to do this right but I think right now would have

945
01:08:04,280 --> 01:08:10,760
be fair to say that you're really taking the leadership role in this particular you know using it

946
01:08:10,760 --> 01:08:12,500
to the extent that you are.

947
01:08:12,800 --> 01:08:16,020
I think the middle school right now would be our rock star,

948
01:08:16,020 --> 01:08:18,020
so to speak, at this point in time.

949
01:08:18,480 --> 01:08:20,700
But all of their schools have access to it,

950
01:08:20,800 --> 01:08:24,500
and they have had access to it for that since I came here.

951
01:08:25,020 --> 01:08:27,800
So I think it's just that Brett has really taken

952
01:08:27,800 --> 01:08:30,280
on leadership role with this,

953
01:08:30,300 --> 01:08:32,500
and I think it's just doing outstanding work with it,

954
01:08:32,760 --> 01:08:34,540
but know all of our schools have access to it.

955
01:08:34,760 --> 01:08:35,140
That's great.

956
01:08:35,520 --> 01:08:36,960
And that goes to my next question,

957
01:08:37,140 --> 01:08:39,620
is talking about referrals to special education.

958
01:08:39,620 --> 01:08:45,080
What's very valuable about this data is that when a student does need specialized

959
01:08:45,080 --> 01:08:50,620
instruction or it's decided by the team that you need to go down the path of referring

960
01:08:50,620 --> 01:08:57,580
to student special education, having that data is so important because just as you're

961
01:08:57,580 --> 01:09:05,580
making data-driven decisions in terms of the regular ed approach, once students are referred

962
01:09:05,580 --> 01:09:10,920
just special as any decision that's made or any services that are provided should also be

963
01:09:11,580 --> 01:09:18,200
based on data as well. So, sounds like this platform would be helpful for all students, no matter

964
01:09:18,860 --> 01:09:26,660
what services that they're receiving. So, I'd love to see that happen more often, even if it's

965
01:09:26,660 --> 01:09:32,960
part of, especially for all. If I might give you a chair, and I think just to spring from that for a

966
01:09:32,960 --> 01:09:36,180
And I think for those school committee members who have been around this table for the last

967
01:09:36,180 --> 01:09:42,080
four years too, you should be hearing some key words and key terms, you hear tier one

968
01:09:42,080 --> 01:09:43,500
extra instruction.

969
01:09:43,760 --> 01:09:49,760
Remember when I said, we want to put the same TSS, we want to do this with fidelity, and

970
01:09:50,180 --> 01:09:51,180
you should be started.

971
01:09:51,520 --> 01:09:54,280
For those of you who have been around this table a couple of years now, you should be starting

972
01:09:54,280 --> 01:09:57,040
to see all the stuff, coming together now.

973
01:09:57,040 --> 01:10:04,140
So for me, so to hear, this is a beautiful thing, you know, it really, it bread it truly is.

974
01:10:04,320 --> 01:10:08,060
I mean, it truly can smile, but it really, it's a beautiful thing to watch.

975
01:10:08,580 --> 01:10:16,180
And I just think that we are having so many kids not fall through cracks that could have

976
01:10:16,180 --> 01:10:22,160
otherwise fallen through cracks as a result of the level of attention and detail that you're

977
01:10:22,160 --> 01:10:24,620
providing right now, both you and the high school.

978
01:10:24,620 --> 01:10:28,600
You know, when we're sitting around the table talking about the regional schools.

979
01:10:28,760 --> 01:10:32,960
I mean, both schools right now are working extra hard to make sure nobody falls through

980
01:10:32,960 --> 01:10:33,280
the cracks.

981
01:10:33,280 --> 01:10:37,940
So it doesn't mean that it doesn't happen from time to time, but it's certainly much more

982
01:10:37,940 --> 01:10:38,940
limited right now.

983
01:10:39,400 --> 01:10:46,140
If I may just to piggyback on that, that was like really a priority for us.

984
01:10:46,400 --> 01:10:51,400
And so in asking our student information system, when Kim's name shows up if they're on an

985
01:10:51,400 --> 01:10:55,980
IP and there's a little icon and you can just scan your roster as a teacher and be like,

986
01:10:56,040 --> 01:10:59,200
oh, that's a student on an IP right from the first time you get your roster.

987
01:10:59,900 --> 01:11:01,760
If a kid has a 504 plant, same thing.

988
01:11:02,800 --> 01:11:05,220
These panorama plans, there wasn't that.

989
01:11:05,440 --> 01:11:09,940
So what Grant has been able to do with our tech department is create a little icon that pops

990
01:11:09,940 --> 01:11:13,440
up when there's one of these general education plans.

991
01:11:13,760 --> 01:11:19,200
And the reason that's important is we don't want regardless of skaters or what teacher

992
01:11:19,200 --> 01:11:19,840
has as a kid.

993
01:11:19,840 --> 01:11:24,480
We all know on teachers to not know that this is a kid that needs some additional scaffolding.

994
01:11:24,560 --> 01:11:31,800
No one has to leave it to chance that any teacher won't know that that same level of kind of urgency is there to make

995
01:11:31,800 --> 01:11:38,780
sure you're doing something different for these kids. The IEPs, the 504s, there's the gallery round making sure you

996
01:11:38,780 --> 01:11:46,800
meet those guidelines. With these plans, this is just good teaching often, but it's it must be done for these kids to be

997
01:11:46,800 --> 01:11:50,220
successful. Eventually we might be able to scale it back if they get on track.

998
01:11:50,600 --> 01:11:56,100
They're doing it on their own, but that point that Prutus made is essential. We just don't want any

999
01:11:56,100 --> 01:12:00,900
kid to just sort of be able to be invisible during the middle school years, and then all of a sudden

1000
01:12:00,900 --> 01:12:05,900
they show up to oh yeah, and he reaches out to us. I hope that this body get through.

1001
01:12:06,120 --> 01:12:13,160
How is it possible? Yeah, and just you know what, it's you're plugging the crack exactly.

1002
01:12:13,160 --> 01:12:25,620
And I was thinking about that that all of this work is being done in the middle school and in Aspen so that the student receives student support intervention plan is really putting that in Aspen.

1003
01:12:25,900 --> 01:12:34,280
So any there's no, it's not hidden. It's right there. So as kids go into the high school from middle school, you're going to be able to see that in Aspen.

1004
01:12:34,280 --> 01:12:43,840
And a good review of a student's record and student's part should have all of that information.

1005
01:12:44,220 --> 01:12:45,240
So bravo.

1006
01:12:45,920 --> 01:12:46,040
Awesome.

1007
01:12:46,980 --> 01:12:47,860
More on the class.

1008
01:12:48,220 --> 01:12:51,960
Yeah, just quickly to Brooks Point about hearing about this for the last couple of years.

1009
01:12:52,280 --> 01:12:57,320
And then I actually remember sitting in a mask conference a number of years ago, probably

1010
01:12:57,320 --> 01:13:00,820
five or six years ago, and learning about panorama and being so excited about it.

1011
01:13:00,820 --> 01:13:05,140
So when I started to hear that, you know, that we're using at the school and then to hear tonight

1012
01:13:05,560 --> 01:13:08,880
What Brad is talking about in Peter and reading about it in the packet

1013
01:13:08,880 --> 01:13:13,460
It's just so exciting to see this happening and the data that we're getting out of it and how we're able to use it

1014
01:13:13,460 --> 01:13:16,860
So kudos to all you guys. It's it's awesome stuff. I

1015
01:13:20,250 --> 01:13:22,450
think I just have one question

1016
01:13:24,050 --> 01:13:32,170
And it's because I think all this stuff is great and it's it's great to see data used well and effectively

1017
01:13:32,170 --> 01:13:39,210
that's what it's all about. But I have a question about something once years

1018
01:13:42,120 --> 01:13:43,780
ago we were talking,

1019
01:13:43,900 --> 01:13:50,520
started talking about all the high stress level and the anxiety and we were doing surveys of

1020
01:13:50,520 --> 01:14:03,020
students and showing that they, this very high anxiety stress levels so that the kids that are in

1021
01:14:03,020 --> 01:14:09,010
80% that don't show up on any of these things.

1022
01:14:09,630 --> 01:14:12,970
They're getting the grades, you know, they're learning

1023
01:14:14,630 --> 01:14:17,950
but they're having really high anxiety doing this.

1024
01:14:18,810 --> 01:14:23,650
How do we identify these kids, how do we help them?

1025
01:14:25,030 --> 01:14:28,730
Yeah, so Panorama has a survey feature built in

1026
01:14:28,730 --> 01:14:32,950
and so we're using that to periodically survey students

1027
01:14:32,950 --> 01:14:39,490
about do you have trusted a dollar in the school? Do you experience dressing things right?

1028
01:14:39,790 --> 01:14:45,590
Like all these kinds of targeted questions and that panoramas program will then have

1029
01:14:45,590 --> 01:14:49,070
there's another column on there there's the economics of the attendance and there's the

1030
01:14:49,070 --> 01:14:54,870
behavior instance and there's an SEL column and that's where that falls in and so we can

1031
01:14:54,870 --> 01:14:57,950
and incorporate that into the mixier.

1032
01:15:00,000 --> 01:15:26,270
And this is done. At least annually, at our level, I'm not sure at the beginning of the year. But I know we've usually been here. Okay. And at the high school, are they doing that? Are you doing that also? Not in a row. We use desa. We do it. We send and then after midpoint, we do it the next day, just because it's a semester sometimes.

1033
01:15:28,420 --> 01:15:29,420
Okay. Thank you.

1034
01:15:32,920 --> 01:15:34,140
Okay. Anything else?

1035
01:15:36,380 --> 01:15:42,080
I mean, I understand all the talk about attendance, but the object is if you create environment

1036
01:15:42,080 --> 01:15:47,000
that students want to come and be a part of, they will, you know, it will help attendance

1037
01:15:47,000 --> 01:15:47,720
this first one.

1038
01:15:47,840 --> 01:15:49,580
So I think you've done it all.

1039
01:15:49,740 --> 01:15:51,980
I've done a great job in the school of that for one.

1040
01:15:52,420 --> 01:15:55,200
The other thing I think the data is excellent.

1041
01:15:55,200 --> 01:16:00,000
But I think one other thing that it does is provide the teachers with the information

1042
01:16:00,000 --> 01:16:03,720
that allow them to be more effective in the time that they spend.

1043
01:16:04,460 --> 01:16:05,580
And that's kind of a critical tool.

1044
01:16:05,740 --> 01:16:09,980
I mean, that is, I mean, that's, you know, what the profession is about.

1045
01:16:11,240 --> 01:16:13,580
So that's what, part of what makes it such a good thing.

1046
01:16:14,700 --> 01:16:19,060
It's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's winning for everybody.

1047
01:16:19,560 --> 01:16:20,620
So it's good stuff.

1048
01:16:20,780 --> 01:16:22,960
I'm like, thank you for the effort and the energy.

1049
01:16:23,320 --> 01:16:23,520
It's good.

1050
01:16:26,110 --> 01:16:26,510
Okay.

1051
01:16:27,110 --> 01:16:28,290
All right. Anything else?

1052
01:16:29,450 --> 01:16:35,030
Well, I'd like to thank you for coming and I will end this just a little bit of a happy

1053
01:16:35,030 --> 01:16:41,150
note, just to note that both the middle school and the high school happens to be the

1054
01:16:41,150 --> 01:16:46,610
chess club at the high school and the change makers to record that right at the middle school.

1055
01:16:47,870 --> 01:16:54,610
Great articles in the latest edition of the province town independent, very nice on

1056
01:16:54,610 --> 01:17:01,650
on what those are doing and the earth keep earth keepers of the southern

1057
01:17:01,650 --> 01:17:07,710
thread course. It wasn't it was on the earth keepers. But very good about

1058
01:17:07,710 --> 01:17:15,230
experiential living and learning it was it was just really really nice to

1059
01:17:15,230 --> 01:17:19,910
hear you'd like to hear more about that. I just want to not make it a negative but

1060
01:17:19,910 --> 01:17:22,610
and I would just like to hear feedback,

1061
01:17:22,770 --> 01:17:24,210
I guess, on this Boston trip.

1062
01:17:24,350 --> 01:17:26,250
More just because I've heard some wanted,

1063
01:17:27,050 --> 01:17:30,310
but it's not something that we should run away from.

1064
01:17:30,630 --> 01:17:34,990
It's something that we should, it's not on our agenda.

1065
01:17:35,250 --> 01:17:37,410
It's in report and something's happening in his school.

1066
01:17:37,610 --> 01:17:41,950
It's not a topic, it's the school report.

1067
01:17:45,560 --> 01:17:47,440
It's not an agenda item, it's...

1068
01:17:53,710 --> 01:18:04,790
Could we put this discussion on our next agenda so that for the 19th so that we could give the school some time to process?

1069
01:18:05,590 --> 01:18:06,430
Sure, good idea.

1070
01:18:06,610 --> 01:18:07,310
I'm not bad.

1071
01:18:07,750 --> 01:18:09,750
I wasn't going to put you on the spot.

1072
01:18:10,050 --> 01:18:13,230
No, I don't want to, not follow the protocol.

1073
01:18:15,670 --> 01:18:19,930
We don't want to, we don't want to get opening violations.

1074
01:18:21,030 --> 01:18:26,970
okay so thank you thank you very much thank you for stuff and we are going to go

1075
01:18:26,970 --> 01:18:33,050
right into talking about enrollment we have our enrollment numbers as of

1076
01:18:56,680 --> 01:19:02,300
So I'm just going to bring out the three items that are on the report tonight budget development

1077
01:19:02,300 --> 01:19:08,340
just to let everybody know that all of the first drafts of all of our gossip budgets are

1078
01:19:08,340 --> 01:19:15,780
done now and we're starting to meet with all of our school committees with regards to where

1079
01:19:15,780 --> 01:19:20,300
each school is at. I know that we have a meeting at the night with our budget finance committee

1080
01:19:20,300 --> 01:19:26,480
for the region. I thought it was an excellent meeting and just so that our folks at home know

1081
01:19:26,480 --> 01:19:33,200
again our budgets are not made in isolation. It's not made just through the central office.

1082
01:19:33,760 --> 01:19:38,320
There are a lot of people involved in these whether you know as somebody like Matt Kravitz for

1083
01:19:38,320 --> 01:19:45,500
special education or Dr. Taylor Rye with our technology. Kristen Anderson with curriculum and

1084
01:19:45,500 --> 01:19:50,380
development. I know Deirdre, the Italian was there the other night even though she didn't have

1085
01:19:50,380 --> 01:19:55,420
anything to bring to the table because no question came to her. She's heavily involved in this and

1086
01:19:55,420 --> 01:20:01,200
she's one with all the streets when we're doing the meetings. You know, I think everybody works so

1087
01:20:01,200 --> 01:20:07,720
hard at this and of course you've got Giovanna and her team that bring their points into this and

1088
01:20:07,720 --> 01:20:14,280
pre-populate where it needs to be pre-populated. So I think everybody's worked really, really hard. I

1089
01:20:14,280 --> 01:20:18,220
I know Tom, as chair of the group this year,

1090
01:20:18,340 --> 01:20:21,020
you've asked for a lot of different pieces of information.

1091
01:20:21,740 --> 01:20:23,840
And our team, I think worked really hard

1092
01:20:23,840 --> 01:20:25,640
to make sure that you got everything you needed

1093
01:20:25,640 --> 01:20:27,120
the other night, that you'd ask for.

1094
01:20:27,580 --> 01:20:30,440
So a lot of that work is going on behind the scenes

1095
01:20:30,440 --> 01:20:31,300
for the region.

1096
01:20:31,880 --> 01:20:34,120
For the elementary schools, the elementary schools

1097
01:20:34,120 --> 01:20:36,620
will be starting next week to go through

1098
01:20:36,620 --> 01:20:38,760
and roll out the first blush draft.

1099
01:20:39,200 --> 01:20:40,740
And I think it's important to keep in mind

1100
01:20:40,740 --> 01:20:42,800
that first blush doesn't mean where we land.

1101
01:20:42,800 --> 01:20:49,400
this is where we sit effectively right now. I just want to also preface and say this is incredibly

1102
01:20:49,400 --> 01:20:56,160
early for us to be putting out budgets, incredibly early. In fact, you know, like I said a note around

1103
01:20:56,160 --> 01:21:01,960
to our TATMs and saying, like, what are the percentages that you're looking for us to kind of in?

1104
01:21:02,300 --> 01:21:08,500
And I got back, we haven't even decided yet. We're not even quite there yet. So we're kind of a little

1105
01:21:08,500 --> 01:21:15,080
bit ahead. So anyway that's going on right now just so that everybody knows. So

1106
01:21:15,080 --> 01:21:20,660
hats off to everybody involved in that. The high school project, you know, I've

1107
01:21:20,660 --> 01:21:24,220
got some details in my report that you can take a look at. I won't read it

1108
01:21:24,220 --> 01:21:29,480
because of the lateness of the hour, but holding it in a nice job of that. So

1109
01:21:29,480 --> 01:21:34,540
basically kind of where you would expect things to be. Phase one, I mean kind of

1110
01:21:34,540 --> 01:21:50,100
finishing off the, you know, the punch list with phase one, phase two, the work is at all kinds of different stages, whether it's wrapping up the demolition, whether it's putting in new footings, whether it's locking things up and buttoning things up.

1111
01:21:50,220 --> 01:22:01,680
I mean, it's at the different stages. We've always got a lot of folks working on site, and I don't know if there's anything on missing here that you want to add, but I think that's kind of what's in a nutshell where we're at.

1112
01:22:01,680 --> 01:22:03,040
So, okay, awesome.

1113
01:22:03,720 --> 01:22:08,000
The only other thing that I want to add tonight is just the notion of cyber security.

1114
01:22:08,700 --> 01:22:17,320
A couple of the schools on the Cape, but many schools on the other side of SAG more as well are experiencing issues with cyber security.

1115
01:22:18,520 --> 01:22:22,760
The situation that happened with us this week wasn't targeted for NOSID.

1116
01:22:22,860 --> 01:22:28,360
It just happened that some of that stuff came into our systems.

1117
01:22:28,860 --> 01:22:36,620
I want to give a shout out to our staff, especially Dr. Taylor Rye and Ralph who were just fabulous

1118
01:22:36,620 --> 01:22:40,900
and I mean just running around to all of our computers to make sure that everything was shut down

1119
01:22:40,900 --> 01:22:48,840
or unplugged or whatever to make sure that no major damage was done. I know that Brewster got some

1120
01:22:48,840 --> 01:22:55,160
of those as well, the planning committee got some. I mean, a whole bunch of us got these and some folks

1121
01:22:55,160 --> 01:23:00,780
opened up. It was a very smart virus, this particular one. You know, I won't go into details,

1122
01:23:00,800 --> 01:23:06,860
but it was, as Ralph would say, Ralph Cramer would say, you know, it was, it was a smart one

1123
01:23:06,860 --> 01:23:16,220
because it was able to replicate itself even through real email addresses as well as, yes,

1124
01:23:16,220 --> 01:23:24,400
lessons and other generated emails so it was so we were down the other day for

1125
01:23:24,400 --> 01:23:29,660
a couple of hours but thanks to our crew at Christina everybody got us back

1126
01:23:29,660 --> 01:23:33,900
out from the next morning so very very grateful you will see us ask our school

1127
01:23:33,900 --> 01:23:37,620
committee members now to go to step-off indication which is what we've done now

1128
01:23:37,620 --> 01:23:42,820
with all of our our school stuff as well we did that earlier this year and I think

1129
01:23:42,820 --> 01:23:46,660
in light of what's just happened. I think we'll go that extra step now to whether

1130
01:23:46,660 --> 01:23:51,320
school committee members too. But I think it's just something that's timely just to remind

1131
01:23:51,320 --> 01:23:57,100
yourself it's something doesn't look right. Don't open it. But it just looked so right.

1132
01:23:57,360 --> 01:24:04,340
This looked so right. I mean, this looks so right. It was a challenge for sure. So that's kind

1133
01:24:04,340 --> 01:24:08,740
of my report in nutshell, but happy to respond to anything else or any other questions you might

1134
01:24:08,740 --> 01:24:17,340
out just one thing the auditorium should be ready to be occupied next week we'll see I know it says I

1135
01:24:17,340 --> 01:24:27,260
think the infamous word there to take special notice should let's be cautious with that yeah I

1136
01:24:27,260 --> 01:24:32,120
think that we're we're going in the right direction it is moving in the right direction I mean it's so

1137
01:24:32,120 --> 01:24:38,780
intricate that auditorium is so intricate it's just phenomenal so any other question

1138
01:24:38,780 --> 01:24:45,560
is celebration you know it'd be great anything else Chris I just want to thank

1139
01:24:45,560 --> 01:24:51,260
the superintendent central office staff and Tom that budget presentation for the budget

1140
01:24:51,260 --> 01:24:56,860
finance of committee meeting was more than anything I think twice as much as any I'd ever see

1141
01:24:56,860 --> 01:24:59,900
And so it was really, really, really well done.

1142
01:25:00,280 --> 01:25:00,680
Thank you.

1143
01:25:01,060 --> 01:25:02,480
I mean, I think one lot was learned.

1144
01:25:02,760 --> 01:25:04,780
I mean, it was just really, it was incredible.

1145
01:25:05,120 --> 01:25:07,480
So I sort of think a lot of effort went into it

1146
01:25:07,480 --> 01:25:10,020
to both of you, so we could stuff.

1147
01:25:10,160 --> 01:25:15,280
But I think it was, again, for those of us

1148
01:25:15,280 --> 01:25:17,360
who have especially been on the subcommittee

1149
01:25:17,360 --> 01:25:21,300
for a long time, and it was like, oh my God,

1150
01:25:21,560 --> 01:25:25,200
it just kind of all came together for the first time.

1151
01:25:25,200 --> 01:25:29,560
and I really came out of there feeling very well informed

1152
01:25:29,560 --> 01:25:33,100
and digging a little deeper into those budgets

1153
01:25:33,100 --> 01:25:36,300
has proved valuable.

1154
01:25:36,940 --> 01:25:38,380
I was going to say very fruitful, yeah.

1155
01:25:38,620 --> 01:25:42,020
And I think you've got principles right now

1156
01:25:42,020 --> 01:25:44,220
in place that are understanding their work

1157
01:25:44,640 --> 01:25:46,220
and understanding how to budget

1158
01:25:46,220 --> 01:25:50,520
and understanding how to shift their thinking.

1159
01:25:50,840 --> 01:25:53,200
And if they can put something together from over here

1160
01:25:53,200 --> 01:25:58,300
to hear they'll do it, you know, in terms of class sizes or they are always thinking about

1161
01:25:58,300 --> 01:26:03,660
class sizes, always, especially at the middle and high school. So, I think our principals

1162
01:26:03,660 --> 01:26:07,860
and somebody like Pam's still there at the middle school who's been helping out for years

1163
01:26:07,860 --> 01:26:13,860
and it was so nice to have her at the meeting, you know. And she deserves kudos for the amount

1164
01:26:13,860 --> 01:26:19,420
of work that Pam has put in over the years. So, I would agree with Judy. I thought it was

1165
01:26:19,420 --> 01:26:23,780
awesome meeting. I really didn't think you Chris, that you're paying worth. I really appreciate

1166
01:26:23,780 --> 01:26:30,220
that. And just, and again, having experienced this process from the town side, I think, again,

1167
01:26:30,460 --> 01:26:37,080
kudos to be done this early in that done, but in process this early, with the amount of depth

1168
01:26:37,080 --> 01:26:43,940
that has, I understand, has gone on in this bunch of finance. I think it is impressive. And I think

1169
01:26:43,940 --> 01:26:51,020
the towns will appreciate that you beat them to the punch when you said so what's our

1170
01:26:51,020 --> 01:26:51,680
percentage?

1171
01:26:52,080 --> 01:26:52,420
What's our target?

1172
01:26:53,180 --> 01:26:54,240
What's our target?

1173
01:26:54,500 --> 01:26:55,080
So thank you.

1174
01:26:55,220 --> 01:26:56,120
I appreciate it.

1175
01:26:56,160 --> 01:26:56,640
I thank you.

1176
01:26:56,760 --> 01:26:57,380
Again, Kudos.

1177
01:26:57,520 --> 01:27:04,200
And I think that one thing this year is by starting it now, I mean of course the subcommittee's

1178
01:27:04,200 --> 01:27:13,440
being like every, every, every, we always, you know, but I think we don't feel pressured.

1179
01:27:15,080 --> 01:27:32,100
We don't feel that we're behind, you know, that we have to play catch up that we're, you know, making things, you know, forcing things along. I think this has been really good.

1180
01:27:33,020 --> 01:27:38,380
So it's great to have the time to dedicate a session in the middle school.

1181
01:27:43,560 --> 01:27:51,920
And then the following week will, I answer all the questions we'd have if we can get closer

1182
01:27:51,920 --> 01:27:52,900
to the final round.

1183
01:27:53,380 --> 01:27:58,660
That was a great suggestion to separate them out and do a session and I think that's

1184
01:27:58,660 --> 01:27:59,080
really nice.

1185
01:27:59,280 --> 01:28:00,460
You didn't get jammed.

1186
01:28:00,620 --> 01:28:00,760
No.

1187
01:28:01,060 --> 01:28:01,160
No.

1188
01:28:01,820 --> 01:28:05,200
As you said, I always, you know, we didn't feel pushed into a quarter of the day.

1189
01:28:05,200 --> 01:28:05,340
Right.

1190
01:28:05,640 --> 01:28:06,400
Which we have.

1191
01:28:07,420 --> 01:28:24,160
And I think a shout out to our FinCon members who joined us that night too, that was for them there that night, and that was nice, and kind of once the meeting was over, they had their own questions, we were able to kind of deal with, so I just thought it was good all around.

1192
01:28:24,440 --> 01:28:25,160
Yeah, good.

1193
01:28:26,040 --> 01:28:26,480
Congratulations.

1194
01:28:27,760 --> 01:28:30,240
All right, put the formula in for next year.

1195
01:28:32,200 --> 01:28:40,600
Well, I mean, I mean, that's a lot of a lot of what Tom is trying to do and now it's

1196
01:28:40,600 --> 01:28:45,360
to because we've done this, so hit and missed over the years, we've gotten a little bit

1197
01:28:45,360 --> 01:28:49,680
better at this, then we get a little bit better at this, but it's now trying to actually

1198
01:28:51,400 --> 01:28:58,180
institutionalize it, and we've got a calendar to follow it, so I think it's nice to be dealing

1199
01:28:58,180 --> 01:29:05,580
with highly intelligent, motivated people who come to a prepared and ready to go and ready well

1200
01:29:05,580 --> 01:29:14,340
again as well. Thank you. All right. Okay. All right. So our last item here is we have our October

1201
01:29:14,340 --> 01:29:16,060
first enrollment data.

1202
01:29:18,340 --> 01:29:24,520
It's all out there. It's there. I don't know if there's anything you want.

1203
01:29:24,520 --> 01:29:27,040
Well, so actually, yeah, a couple of things, I think.

1204
01:29:29,300 --> 01:29:34,100
So each community kind of sees its own different trends.

1205
01:29:34,140 --> 01:29:35,540
I think, you know, we'll sleep this year.

1206
01:29:35,540 --> 01:29:37,080
We're seeing a little bit more of a dip.

1207
01:29:37,580 --> 01:29:41,940
And, you know, not quite as much of a dip, for example,

1208
01:29:42,080 --> 01:29:45,980
in Brewster, not quite as much of a dip in Orlea.

1209
01:29:46,160 --> 01:29:48,900
So each community kind of has its own thing happening.

1210
01:29:49,640 --> 01:29:51,800
But I do wonder.

1211
01:29:51,800 --> 01:29:56,300
And I did talk to Judy earlier today.

1212
01:29:56,700 --> 01:29:59,960
And I think sometimes I've talked to her.

1213
01:30:00,000 --> 01:30:17,220
We looked to the person coming back in behind me and he said, okay, what are things that we can do to make sure that that person has what they need at their fingertips? This is part we didn't talk about. This is Brooks thing. But, you know, what are things that can help guide,

1214
01:30:19,440 --> 01:30:31,360
facilitate with the real needs that are within the district for the next amount of good work that needs to be done? Because I feel that this administration has done some really, really good work.

1215
01:30:31,360 --> 01:30:34,660
and it's a case now of kind of helping us set up

1216
01:30:34,660 --> 01:30:36,980
and that landing strip for that next person,

1217
01:30:37,380 --> 01:30:38,920
what else needs to happen?

1218
01:30:39,020 --> 01:30:41,120
And I know I talked to Judy and Tom,

1219
01:30:41,320 --> 01:30:43,140
I can Chris and I've talked about this too

1220
01:30:43,140 --> 01:30:44,100
about the business office.

1221
01:30:44,220 --> 01:30:45,620
Like it's one thing that we need to do

1222
01:30:46,080 --> 01:30:48,080
to have somebody come in and take a good look

1223
01:30:48,080 --> 01:30:49,080
at for best practices.

1224
01:30:49,120 --> 01:30:50,660
Is there another way that we can do this?

1225
01:30:50,800 --> 01:30:53,020
Is there Carrie and I've talked about communication.

1226
01:30:53,360 --> 01:30:55,200
Okay, can we set up a plan here?

1227
01:30:55,480 --> 01:30:57,520
Well, that plan could help us for this year,

1228
01:30:57,600 --> 01:30:59,340
but I'm looking beyond this year and say,

1229
01:30:59,340 --> 01:31:03,920
Okay, so what are those, I'm always looking for the through lines, right?

1230
01:31:04,920 --> 01:31:05,800
And what are those?

1231
01:31:06,000 --> 01:31:11,920
And so even with this, you kind of look and say, okay, our numbers are still down at

1232
01:31:11,920 --> 01:31:14,060
the high school in general.

1233
01:31:14,740 --> 01:31:19,760
So you say, are we needing the needs of all of our kids, the way that our communities

1234
01:31:19,760 --> 01:31:20,800
want us to?

1235
01:31:21,020 --> 01:31:22,060
And maybe the answer is yes.

1236
01:31:23,200 --> 01:31:24,640
Maybe the answer is kind of.

1237
01:31:25,080 --> 01:31:25,940
Maybe the answer is no.

1238
01:31:25,940 --> 01:31:31,080
I don't for for some section of kids the answer is clearly no because they're leading

1239
01:31:31,080 --> 01:31:37,620
to either the charter or somewhere else and so is this an opportunity that's presented here

1240
01:31:37,620 --> 01:31:43,160
that we look at this and say maybe it's time now for us to take a little bit deeper look.

1241
01:31:43,760 --> 01:31:49,640
I don't sit here tonight with answers but I do and this is what Judy and I are talking with earlier today.

1242
01:31:49,820 --> 01:31:52,180
I do wonder and I know she does too.

1243
01:31:52,180 --> 01:31:54,800
is there an opportunity for us to create,

1244
01:31:55,180 --> 01:31:57,620
and I don't have this to lay out to you tonight,

1245
01:31:57,620 --> 01:31:59,980
but sometimes I'm an advisory group,

1246
01:32:00,320 --> 01:32:02,600
or do we involve Peter and Pat in this,

1247
01:32:02,640 --> 01:32:06,220
as we're looking through that horizontal vertical line,

1248
01:32:06,520 --> 01:32:08,120
or whatever this looks like,

1249
01:32:08,240 --> 01:32:11,300
and say, okay, are there things happening

1250
01:32:11,300 --> 01:32:12,720
at the middle school, for example,

1251
01:32:12,840 --> 01:32:15,200
that we should definitely be carrying over to the high school?

1252
01:32:16,540 --> 01:32:19,320
For example, one of the things that we're seeing

1253
01:32:19,320 --> 01:32:21,340
a lot of success with is entrepreneurship,

1254
01:32:21,340 --> 01:32:26,300
But on some of the courses that Pat has started in his reign, do we do more of that?

1255
01:32:26,600 --> 01:32:32,180
Like, do our electives working, our electives maybe falling a little behind and maybe we

1256
01:32:32,180 --> 01:32:32,880
can bring some others?

1257
01:32:33,040 --> 01:32:34,180
I don't know.

1258
01:32:34,700 --> 01:32:39,320
But I do think that there's a piece of that that we might want to take a look at.

1259
01:32:39,780 --> 01:32:43,900
I think that ties in with the graduation requirements, you know, I talked about that earlier.

1260
01:32:44,140 --> 01:32:48,800
I know that's been out there for years, but since before I came, that this is something

1261
01:32:48,800 --> 01:32:53,040
that we want, you know, say that we're not even meeting that's poor, that's kind of

1262
01:32:53,040 --> 01:32:59,600
years behind. Do you know what I mean? So it's timely right now, I think, for us to look

1263
01:32:59,600 --> 01:33:05,920
at this. And maybe that gives us an opportunity to say, okay, what is our philosophy? What

1264
01:33:06,320 --> 01:33:11,000
are our strengths? Who are we? I don't know that it all has to be answered right now or

1265
01:33:11,000 --> 01:33:15,420
even this year, but I do wonder if this isn't the year to kind of start to take a little

1266
01:33:15,420 --> 01:33:20,120
a bit deeper look. I still think, and I know that I've talked about this many times, I still

1267
01:33:20,120 --> 01:33:26,760
think we'll see more of an influx as the school comes on stream fully. But is it a chance

1268
01:33:26,760 --> 01:33:32,620
for us to just kind of stand back and just do a bit of a larger look? I just say, are we

1269
01:33:32,620 --> 01:33:37,180
what we think we are? Or do we need to make some changes? So I just offer that up tonight

1270
01:33:37,180 --> 01:33:44,560
for some thought, you know, happy to take whatever input you're thinking is on this. And if

1271
01:33:44,560 --> 01:33:46,760
She thinks it's completely unnecessary, that's fine,

1272
01:33:46,880 --> 01:33:49,280
but it just seems to me that there's still

1273
01:33:49,280 --> 01:33:53,980
a collective group out there that we are not reaching.

1274
01:33:55,680 --> 01:33:58,640
I think that just to follow up on that

1275
01:33:58,640 --> 01:34:02,840
and our conversation, it's like reviewing

1276
01:34:02,840 --> 01:34:04,400
the graduation requirements.

1277
01:34:04,640 --> 01:34:08,340
There are a lot of things that just haven't been reviewed

1278
01:34:08,980 --> 01:34:09,620
for a while.

1279
01:34:09,620 --> 01:34:18,340
and I think that this, the enrollment issue gives us a chance to take a look at these things.

1280
01:34:18,820 --> 01:34:23,440
As Brooke said, our electives what we want them to be at the high school.

1281
01:34:24,980 --> 01:34:26,880
Do we have a philosophy there?

1282
01:34:28,320 --> 01:34:32,240
Are the questions of, why are we losing kids to charter school?

1283
01:34:32,760 --> 01:34:36,700
I mean, they've always gone out to charter school, but more are going.

1284
01:34:36,700 --> 01:34:44,220
So there's a trend here. It's up to us to figure out if there's a reason for that trend. Or if it's

1285
01:34:44,220 --> 01:34:46,120
I mean at the high school

1286
01:34:46,920 --> 01:34:52,520
You go off to Sturgis. Let's rate it. Second or third in the state. That's that's hard competition

1287
01:34:53,460 --> 01:34:57,900
And we shouldn't be in competition with them. But we need to ask ourselves

1288
01:34:59,080 --> 01:35:04,760
Are we are we the best we can be and and should we do more of this?

1289
01:35:04,760 --> 01:35:12,160
if you said or less of that. And I think the enrollment is just kind of like a trigger point.

1290
01:35:12,240 --> 01:35:18,720
That's a trigger point that tells you it's time to stop and take a deep look. And maybe

1291
01:35:18,720 --> 01:35:25,380
we'll find, as she said, that this is it, but maybe we need a little push there or whatever.

1292
01:35:26,260 --> 01:35:32,360
So I think an advisory group, we've talked about it. I just think would be,

1293
01:35:32,360 --> 01:35:35,860
I think it's time to have the conversation.

1294
01:35:38,190 --> 01:35:43,010
Yes, I agree with everything that you both just said and I do have some questions about

1295
01:35:43,010 --> 01:35:47,190
little details of this but when I look at the middle school, it's down 30 students

1296
01:35:47,190 --> 01:35:53,370
from last year and I look at, you know, the high school, it's actually just down 8 students

1297
01:35:53,370 --> 01:35:53,910
overall.

1298
01:35:54,210 --> 01:36:00,850
So, you know, there's something that's better, they're doing better and maybe it's because

1299
01:36:00,850 --> 01:36:01,910
is how the school is done.

1300
01:36:02,930 --> 01:36:05,590
But I look at from the communication lens as well.

1301
01:36:06,070 --> 01:36:08,030
I mean, we just had an incredible presentation

1302
01:36:08,030 --> 01:36:09,130
by the middle school.

1303
01:36:09,330 --> 01:36:10,870
And I looked at their down 30 kids.

1304
01:36:11,530 --> 01:36:13,690
Do we get the information out there

1305
01:36:13,690 --> 01:36:16,730
that that school has gone through a huge transformation?

1306
01:36:17,630 --> 01:36:18,730
But I didn't know.

1307
01:36:19,290 --> 01:36:22,070
So again, that kind of goes back to looking

1308
01:36:22,070 --> 01:36:24,730
and thank goodness we have our communication subcommittee

1309
01:36:24,730 --> 01:36:27,710
and we'll be looking at how to get the good news out there.

1310
01:36:28,350 --> 01:36:36,390
because I think that we need to make people, or help people, realize that it's an incredible

1311
01:36:36,390 --> 01:36:41,850
school, and it's built. And these wonderful things that Rhett and Peter talked about tonight

1312
01:36:42,380 --> 01:36:48,890
are happening for all kids. So getting the word out of it is really important. I would agree.

1313
01:36:49,050 --> 01:36:52,470
And even the electives, to people really know what the electives are.

1314
01:36:54,510 --> 01:36:55,550
And the AP courses.

1315
01:36:58,730 --> 01:36:58,850
I mean,

1316
01:36:58,850 --> 01:37:04,970
Like you said, maybe there's things that we could be tweaking in order to make it more appetizing for folks.

1317
01:37:05,590 --> 01:37:08,730
So I don't know if you want specific questions, you want to stay?

1318
01:37:09,330 --> 01:37:11,830
I don't, I don't think anybody has specific answers.

1319
01:37:11,830 --> 01:37:16,410
This is, yeah, this is the idea of general, but it has to happen this year.

1320
01:37:16,650 --> 01:37:17,690
And it has to happen.

1321
01:37:19,450 --> 01:37:21,870
This is why this is why we've been talking.

1322
01:37:21,870 --> 01:37:27,390
would work is here she because she knows she knows the scene she knows the

1323
01:37:27,390 --> 01:37:32,010
player she knows the lay of the land to have this conversation and kind of

1324
01:37:32,010 --> 01:37:38,530
lead this conversation rather than having somebody new coming in cold. I mean

1325
01:37:38,530 --> 01:37:46,450
of course I'm coming in. I think so too. I think it's a piece of data that's

1326
01:37:46,450 --> 01:37:50,490
missing is where are our kids going when they choice out?

1327
01:37:51,330 --> 01:37:52,550
It's on the way.

1328
01:37:53,070 --> 01:37:54,250
Just bring in up just where

1329
01:37:54,250 --> 01:37:55,350
you'll get a little bit of

1330
01:37:55,350 --> 01:37:57,530
milk and be.ison

1331
01:37:57,530 --> 01:37:59,970
it that away.

1332
01:38:09,310 --> 01:38:09,870
Kids

1333
01:38:12,010 --> 01:38:14,310
that don't go to our school

1334
01:38:14,310 --> 01:38:15,650
can be changed out to

1335
01:38:15,650 --> 01:38:22,890
another district. And many of them both are promised. I think we have 15 of them. So there are, I

1336
01:38:24,780 --> 01:38:34,200
mean, what's nice is in this chart on this chart, that's what it numbers. It has, as of October 1st,

1337
01:38:34,280 --> 01:38:43,020
children's attending by hometown, it tells where they're coming from. And I believe it says where

1338
01:38:43,020 --> 01:38:47,320
they're coming from to come in. But I'm wondering where are they going when they go out?

1339
01:38:49,220 --> 01:38:54,060
Like are they going to Monomoi? Are they going to farce of Ola? They don't want to say

1340
01:38:54,060 --> 01:39:02,820
we're middle school? We have so we have we have we've had that we have that data. But yeah so just

1341
01:39:02,820 --> 01:39:11,000
they include it in this part. Arlen has weighed in. Arlen thank you. Arlen thank you because this

1342
01:39:11,000 --> 01:39:17,060
is her area. She's the one who tracks all this. She says it's not quite ready yet. She says

1343
01:39:17,060 --> 01:39:22,040
but it will be next month. Is that right? Send me a thumbs up if I got that right.

1344
01:39:22,680 --> 01:39:27,560
Yeah, that's correct. That's right. Okay, thank you. Okay, I wish you some dates.

1345
01:39:27,800 --> 01:39:32,940
I think it's that the chart that does see that. So I think that's exactly what she's just saying.

1346
01:39:33,160 --> 01:39:39,140
The last one that comes in. Okay, it's never in at this time. That's exactly what she's saying.

1347
01:39:39,140 --> 01:39:43,480
And it's kind of painful to you, but you could figure it out.

1348
01:39:43,840 --> 01:39:50,480
And when we've done that, if you've looked at those choices now, you've got a number

1349
01:39:50,480 --> 01:39:55,400
of them, a high number of them that go to Providence Town Middle School.

1350
01:39:56,200 --> 01:40:03,470
And you also, in their high school, I think it's mostly in high school, you've got kids in

1351
01:40:03,470 --> 01:40:09,550
virtual schools. That's also where you'll get, I can't pull at least, other than that,

1352
01:40:09,770 --> 01:40:14,150
it was just kind of hit or miss. I don't know, because mom and dad works in some places.

1353
01:40:14,570 --> 01:40:19,570
But Arlene does track, especially, yes. So she has to come to you and we'll get it back.

1354
01:40:20,410 --> 01:40:26,990
And also, just to note publicly that our choice into high school is the lowest, seven events in

1355
01:40:26,990 --> 01:40:31,230
two that since 2009. So just so people know.

1356
01:40:31,230 --> 01:40:31,490
A

1357
01:40:34,950 --> 01:40:39,770
couple of quick points, I guess first of all, the advisory committee, I mean, it's

1358
01:40:39,770 --> 01:40:44,350
almost something that we have all the time, I mean, we should be looking, the high

1359
01:40:44,350 --> 01:40:48,570
civil rule should be looking at the quality of its education regularly. I mean, you're

1360
01:40:48,570 --> 01:40:52,350
meaning, you know, you talk about adding and minusing or whatever, but, you know, what's

1361
01:40:52,350 --> 01:40:57,230
the environment and what, how do we improve it? What do we do? I mean, it should be a constant,

1362
01:40:57,450 --> 01:41:00,290
and it shouldn't just be something that's brought about because of population.

1363
01:41:00,290 --> 01:41:05,030
You know, I don't remember my different things, but it should be something that's part

1364
01:41:05,030 --> 01:41:06,510
of a process all the time.

1365
01:41:07,030 --> 01:41:13,690
If you look at the numbers here, we've got, let's see, we're talking about the 30 students

1366
01:41:13,690 --> 01:41:18,210
who are down in the middle school, we are down, I believe, 39 actually in the high school.

1367
01:41:19,430 --> 01:41:29,050
We, though in our towns, we have 239 students that don't attend classes, and I'm sorry, it's

1368
01:41:29,050 --> 01:41:33,030
just some of the answers, not putting the other, the choice out for the others.

1369
01:41:33,230 --> 01:41:41,030
It's just including the data we have here, but there's 239 students that live on our district, but don't choose to go there.

1370
01:41:41,810 --> 01:41:46,290
The lowest, so the data that we received, the lowest point was 100%.

1371
01:41:46,290 --> 01:41:47,070
Where do you see that from?

1372
01:41:47,190 --> 01:41:48,150
I just added it up.

1373
01:41:48,310 --> 01:41:49,510
I totally agree.

1374
01:41:50,530 --> 01:41:51,410
From what?

1375
01:41:52,170 --> 01:41:52,530
From where?

1376
01:41:52,650 --> 01:41:55,230
You can go through the numbers to figure out.

1377
01:41:55,470 --> 01:41:55,970
I understand.

1378
01:41:56,130 --> 01:41:57,590
Can you just walk us through it?

1379
01:41:57,590 --> 01:42:02,650
I just did the total with the talk because I actually I couldn't have done it when this was on the agenda.

1380
01:42:02,910 --> 01:42:07,770
Last time because it was top of my mind, but I put this in that I had done the work then.

1381
01:42:08,770 --> 01:42:13,270
But because it's relate to the subject, I'm not fresh on it.

1382
01:42:13,990 --> 01:42:14,890
Chris, I can help you.

1383
01:42:17,870 --> 01:42:21,830
I think you added up the if you just added up because I was just doing the same thing.

1384
01:42:21,830 --> 01:42:29,350
the like the very last page of the packet, the 2024 line of people leaving the district.

1385
01:42:29,670 --> 01:42:31,810
I think that's where your number is coming from.

1386
01:42:32,190 --> 01:42:35,810
So I think this is like, how's the search that's intact this time?

1387
01:42:35,830 --> 01:42:37,470
Yeah, that's up line.

1388
01:42:37,750 --> 01:42:38,950
Yeah, okay, right.

1389
01:42:41,630 --> 01:42:42,370
That's my guess.

1390
01:42:43,870 --> 01:42:45,850
But then when you thank you, you're like,

1391
01:42:47,030 --> 01:42:53,330
by my accountant. But the other point is that you need to note that at the lowest point

1392
01:42:53,330 --> 01:43:02,010
from the data that we received, 113 students went out. And there, we've got 111, whatever,

1393
01:43:02,210 --> 01:43:07,170
20-some odd students that we could get, you know, the potential back in our system.

1394
01:43:08,050 --> 01:43:12,230
We were talking about the choice numbers, the choice numbers are down. I think they're up

1395
01:43:12,230 --> 01:43:16,410
slightly it now they're down in the middle school as well. Are you trying to

1396
01:43:16,410 --> 01:43:21,510
kid's that choice out in the middle school? Choice in, but we don't have what in

1397
01:43:21,510 --> 01:43:25,510
the choice out numbers that will be actually this part of the discussion will be

1398
01:43:25,510 --> 01:43:29,530
helpful to have when we have those of how many kids actually are in the pack.

1399
01:43:29,690 --> 01:43:35,810
So the thing is so that here's too often the conversation has been that we are

1400
01:43:35,810 --> 01:43:40,290
lacking students that they somehow there's not enough kids in our neighborhoods

1401
01:43:40,290 --> 01:43:45,170
and blah, blah, blah. But if you look at the elementary schools, they were up one student

1402
01:43:47,830 --> 01:43:53,130
from last year. So the kids are coming into the system.

1403
01:43:56,010 --> 01:44:00,090
So it's our job to see to it that

1404
01:44:00,090 --> 01:44:04,490
they understand the quality of education available to in the middle school and high school.

1405
01:44:04,890 --> 01:44:10,030
And much work has been done under Brooke, leadership and so forth in both schools that we've got

1406
01:44:10,910 --> 01:44:15,090
quality going on. So it's, I mean, I feel, we're moving in the right direction.

1407
01:44:15,470 --> 01:44:20,030
Once you've got some negatives, new jack schools, a negative, I mean, you've got all these

1408
01:44:20,030 --> 01:44:23,150
things going on. High school building project is a negative. It's going to keep people out

1409
01:44:23,150 --> 01:44:27,130
and when they make their decisions hearing about it, you know, it's a solid decision. They

1410
01:44:27,130 --> 01:44:32,830
don't come back, you know, so that's your kids are gone and you've got to wait for the next

1411
01:44:32,830 --> 01:44:36,810
round to come through. So I just, uh, and I'm not trying to use it as an excuse, but it

1412
01:44:36,810 --> 01:44:40,870
without a doubt it is impacting the population of our system.

1413
01:44:42,190 --> 01:44:45,370
I think in general, this is good news in that

1414
01:44:45,870 --> 01:44:47,610
populations aren't as low as we thought.

1415
01:44:48,030 --> 01:44:49,730
We're not standing on school choice

1416
01:44:50,230 --> 01:44:53,550
and we've got opportunity to pull a student back in.

1417
01:44:54,650 --> 01:44:55,910
But I think that's a good thing.

1418
01:44:56,770 --> 01:44:57,430
All right.

1419
01:44:57,490 --> 01:44:58,350
I think that's a nice summary.

1420
01:44:59,170 --> 01:44:59,310
Yeah.

1421
01:45:00,000 --> 01:45:14,940
Judy did an excellent analysis last year that she presented to Orlean's income. Oh, I did. I did. It was excellent. I agree. And Washington began to know.

1422
01:45:18,020 --> 01:45:28,100
was that when you add all the numbers up, we aren't demographically people aren't going

1423
01:45:28,100 --> 01:45:34,960
away. The numbers were holding solid as to the total available students, but they were

1424
01:45:34,960 --> 01:45:41,360
making choices of going elsewhere. And that movement was what was going around. So what

1425
01:45:41,360 --> 01:45:46,620
What it did was just define what a competitive environment that we are in for students.

1426
01:45:48,300 --> 01:45:56,220
In my business as a hotel restaurant, we always looked at as people showed their satisfaction

1427
01:45:56,700 --> 01:45:58,400
with your product, with their feet.

1428
01:45:59,360 --> 01:46:02,620
If they stopped coming in, they walked away.

1429
01:46:02,880 --> 01:46:05,740
If they weren't happy with your product.

1430
01:46:06,300 --> 01:46:11,620
So, in some way, shape or form, I think the track that you want to take us on is great.

1431
01:46:11,740 --> 01:46:13,020
I think we've got to look at it.

1432
01:46:13,500 --> 01:46:15,100
We also used to do it.

1433
01:46:15,180 --> 01:46:20,080
I think the Judy Hood business is the same thing, what you call a SWOT analysis.

1434
01:46:20,940 --> 01:46:27,080
We did it every year to improve our business and to see if we were competitive.

1435
01:46:27,360 --> 01:46:31,620
It was strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats.

1436
01:46:32,360 --> 01:46:39,480
And we just wouldn't take an in-depth look at how we operated on a very simple way and

1437
01:46:39,480 --> 01:46:45,240
we started tweaking those things and looking at what segment of our business we may be

1438
01:46:45,240 --> 01:46:50,260
alienating, you're not appealing to, you know what I'm saying, we wanted associations

1439
01:46:51,240 --> 01:46:57,320
who are rate sensitive, but we are charging them a premium rate, so surprise, surprise,

1440
01:47:01,580 --> 01:47:01,600
you

1441
01:47:02,520 --> 01:47:15,300
I just think, you know, I've always said, I think it's great that students here have choices because it's not one-size-fits-all, it's great that they have choices.

1442
01:47:16,320 --> 01:47:27,420
However, we have to make sure as Brooks said that we are meeting the needs of today's students and their expectations and where they're going.

1443
01:47:27,420 --> 01:47:33,780
and this takes some self-reflection and takes a look at it.

1444
01:47:34,520 --> 01:47:39,500
And so I think that that's, it's time to do that.

1445
01:47:40,060 --> 01:47:40,500
Mora.

1446
01:47:41,600 --> 01:47:44,360
Yeah, just quickly follow up on Chris's point.

1447
01:47:44,460 --> 01:47:48,560
I think as part of this discussion, just making sure we have the demographic data

1448
01:47:48,560 --> 01:47:52,660
that's appropriate for this age group to make sure we're capturing that too.

1449
01:47:52,660 --> 01:47:56,820
because as he said while the population's going down, it's not going down as

1450
01:47:56,820 --> 01:47:59,480
significantly as some people are talking about. So I think it's an important

1451
01:47:59,480 --> 01:48:02,380
data point to include when this discussion is happening.

1452
01:48:06,310 --> 01:48:07,310
So I just, on the

1453
01:48:07,310 --> 01:48:13,370
subject of population, three of our towns don't ask me why I went and looked at

1454
01:48:13,370 --> 01:48:20,490
this. Three of our towns except for Wellfleet have about the population as they

1455
01:48:20,490 --> 01:48:30,150
had in 2000 and 2020, more or less the same, a little bit more, but a few hundred, more

1456
01:48:30,150 --> 01:48:32,290
or less the same, well fleet has grown.

1457
01:48:33,570 --> 01:48:42,570
So we then need to break that down and to look at the age level groups because if this

1458
01:48:42,570 --> 01:48:49,390
is staying the same, but the age, the kids are going down, it's getting older.

1459
01:48:49,390 --> 01:49:09,150
And what I've always said is, you know, we're going to find ourselves to be communities of old people and tourists and you're not going to have anybody that's going to support that group because the tourists aren't going to be providing support for the old folks and the old folks aren't going to be up there.

1460
01:49:09,770 --> 01:49:20,130
We know, okay, we have already, this is the group that we need, and we need to keep

1461
01:49:20,130 --> 01:49:25,050
them here, and not have them have the support travel over the grades.

1462
01:49:25,630 --> 01:49:28,990
Yeah, I just, so just a quick comment on that.

1463
01:49:29,190 --> 01:49:30,610
I think two things.

1464
01:49:30,830 --> 01:49:34,090
First of all, I would totally agree with you on this, this comment.

1465
01:49:34,130 --> 01:49:36,950
In fact, I would agree over here, and I have a similar discussion today.

1466
01:49:36,950 --> 01:49:40,830
you need this age group with the children through the schools for the

1467
01:49:40,830 --> 01:49:45,290
vibrancy of your communities. You don't want to lose that. And so it's just

1468
01:49:45,290 --> 01:49:51,190
critically important. I also think that Carrie's earlier point, and again I know

1469
01:49:51,190 --> 01:49:54,530
that we've had certainly Judy, Chris and I have had this discussion at a number of

1470
01:49:54,530 --> 01:49:58,070
occasions, the notion of putting information out, but sometimes it's just not

1471
01:49:58,070 --> 01:50:02,070
being received, right? And so I think getting back to Carrie's point, sometimes I

1472
01:50:02,070 --> 01:50:10,570
wonder if we're not using the right vehicles. Yeah, the right tools. And just to give an example,

1473
01:50:10,870 --> 01:50:18,370
you know, and my previous life, it was nothing for me to have a thousand followers on Twitter.

1474
01:50:19,210 --> 01:50:25,110
Here I couldn't get beyond like 30. It's just a different vehicle. And people say, we don't

1475
01:50:25,110 --> 01:50:35,170
Well, I'm not especially not now, but I don't know how to say that because there's a difference

1476
01:50:35,170 --> 01:50:39,970
between the communities and I remember sitting in Brewster at Brewster meeting and saying

1477
01:50:40,430 --> 01:50:47,670
we use Facebook, okay, so I thought I just came in thinking Twitter was what we would

1478
01:50:47,670 --> 01:50:53,230
be using it and so I do think there's a lot to be said about taking it and then depth look

1479
01:50:53,230 --> 01:50:56,710
at our communication and how we're doing it, the vehicles we're using.

1480
01:50:57,270 --> 01:51:02,090
So I think that ties in nicely with this, but then I also think the graduation requirements,

1481
01:51:02,570 --> 01:51:08,090
getting the proper message, like the panorama, the work that we're doing with panorama, is

1482
01:51:08,090 --> 01:51:09,570
just wonderful.

1483
01:51:10,350 --> 01:51:12,830
And parents need to know that this is happening.

1484
01:51:13,830 --> 01:51:18,810
So I think this is part of a broader, but for me this is part of a broader picture right

1485
01:51:18,810 --> 01:51:19,050
now.

1486
01:51:19,750 --> 01:51:20,370
This is a piece.

1487
01:51:22,170 --> 01:51:22,650
Okay.

1488
01:51:22,650 --> 01:51:27,150
Hey, um, anybody else, you could put on a lot of discussion

1489
01:51:27,150 --> 01:51:30,490
going on on the sidelines and soccer games and whatever.

1490
01:51:30,790 --> 01:51:30,970
Really?

1491
01:51:31,430 --> 01:51:34,950
And that's how you mean sometimes it's not always accurate.

1492
01:51:35,250 --> 01:51:38,030
A wonderful amount of parents are happy in their schools

1493
01:51:38,030 --> 01:51:40,050
that tell them their friends and whatever

1494
01:51:40,050 --> 01:51:41,450
whether on the sidelines.

1495
01:51:41,550 --> 01:51:43,070
And it does get hurt.

1496
01:51:43,310 --> 01:51:49,590
I mean, you know, when we talk, I brought up and I brought it up

1497
01:51:49,590 --> 01:51:51,070
before and I know it's very difficult.

1498
01:51:51,250 --> 01:51:53,430
But when kids leave the district, wouldn't it be great

1499
01:51:53,430 --> 01:51:58,510
to have some kind of exit survey like why are they calling just so we get some feedback and I know

1500
01:51:58,510 --> 01:52:04,010
it's hard because it's I don't know how we actually have done that. We have done pieces of that.

1501
01:52:04,170 --> 01:52:11,410
I don't know that we've done it with fidelity and I don't. But within NASA, the umbrella of

1502
01:52:11,410 --> 01:52:17,470
NASA public schools we have actually had a principal phone every single pair of childhoods love.

1503
01:52:17,470 --> 01:52:20,210
So we do have principals who are leaning into that.

1504
01:52:20,210 --> 01:52:23,710
But on that presentation, you might ask,

1505
01:52:23,970 --> 01:52:25,670
there are students that come back.

1506
01:52:25,990 --> 01:52:27,650
There are students that have left,

1507
01:52:28,050 --> 01:52:29,410
started to come back and do not.

1508
01:52:29,450 --> 01:52:29,790
That's true.

1509
01:52:30,090 --> 01:52:31,370
Ask them why they come back.

1510
01:52:31,770 --> 01:52:33,970
Ask them, you know, the students are,

1511
01:52:34,250 --> 01:52:35,670
they know.

1512
01:52:36,250 --> 01:52:37,030
They will tell you.

1513
01:52:37,250 --> 01:52:38,630
Just one thought on that, too,

1514
01:52:38,690 --> 01:52:40,630
is that like certain places,

1515
01:52:40,930 --> 01:52:42,110
especially in my mind,

1516
01:52:42,110 --> 01:52:42,670
when they give,

1517
01:52:42,970 --> 01:52:44,990
offer something that is so different.

1518
01:52:45,270 --> 01:52:47,070
But is there a way

1519
01:52:47,070 --> 01:52:51,470
that we could have students in law and not sit but take advantage of some aspects of

1520
01:52:51,470 --> 01:52:57,930
tech so is there I mean that's like that's just something to think about down the road is like

1521
01:52:57,930 --> 01:53:03,630
it can we collaborate with other places where we get the enrollment but then there also to keep

1522
01:53:03,630 --> 01:53:12,280
benefits from other places could be a discussion to have there was some discussion Chris would probably

1523
01:53:12,280 --> 01:53:21,520
remember some time back no and it was like because it was looking to strengthen

1524
01:53:21,520 --> 01:53:27,320
their some of their core courses and so there could be some some something

1525
01:53:27,320 --> 01:53:29,700
that's a that's something that's something you want to be

1526
01:53:29,700 --> 01:53:35,180
grouply right there was a collaboration there was a collaboration on airplane

1527
01:53:35,180 --> 01:53:39,520
the kids I think going to plants and it was tech as well as

1528
01:53:39,520 --> 01:53:46,600
lots of high school students but it is something that you're going to have to be sensitive to

1529
01:53:46,600 --> 01:53:52,140
because DESE is pretty strict about who belongs to what and who does what because

1530
01:53:52,140 --> 01:53:59,160
monies are tied to a community. So you have to really, like that may have fallen under

1531
01:53:59,160 --> 01:54:04,900
the rain. I don't know. They could just have to be cautious with that. I don't think it's

1532
01:54:04,900 --> 01:54:08,660
not a good idea or not something to take a look at. I'm just saying it's something

1533
01:54:08,660 --> 01:54:10,560
we would have to be cautious.

1534
01:54:10,900 --> 01:54:13,340
And I think just to talk about that,

1535
01:54:13,380 --> 01:54:17,220
that the tech does provide a very different environment

1536
01:54:17,220 --> 01:54:19,780
and different services for kids.

1537
01:54:20,320 --> 01:54:23,120
It's a different education, which is really needed.

1538
01:54:23,360 --> 01:54:24,940
I mean, gosh, oh yeah, absolutely.

1539
01:54:25,160 --> 01:54:28,660
These trades folks and for them to even use

1540
01:54:28,660 --> 01:54:32,960
as a springboard to go off to whatever other trainings

1541
01:54:32,960 --> 01:54:34,800
that they do after they graduate from there.

1542
01:54:35,180 --> 01:54:37,420
But we also have to celebrate what we offer

1543
01:54:37,420 --> 01:54:41,040
and maybe even package that in a better way.

1544
01:54:41,380 --> 01:54:43,740
So I love the idea of the advisor committee

1545
01:54:43,740 --> 01:54:46,340
and for what I can help I with.

1546
01:54:46,820 --> 01:54:47,820
Great, great, thank you.

1547
01:54:48,440 --> 01:54:50,480
All right, so anything more?

1548
01:54:51,300 --> 01:54:56,000
Okay, so we'll just end up with any summary reports

1549
01:54:56,360 --> 01:54:59,000
we talked about the finance fee.

1550
01:54:59,100 --> 01:55:00,160
One talks some more about it.

1551
01:55:00,560 --> 01:55:02,060
Onto more mundane stuff.

1552
01:55:06,220 --> 01:55:09,780
We've, currently, we've reviewed the person I already

1553
01:55:09,780 --> 01:55:13,640
represented as we reviewed the Central Office budget.

1554
01:55:14,520 --> 01:55:19,000
There are a few things that we found that Chibano's

1555
01:55:19,000 --> 01:55:21,460
going to go back and take a look at.

1556
01:55:22,040 --> 01:55:24,720
We're going to meet again the 19th.

1557
01:55:25,140 --> 01:55:29,940
And probably what we'll try to do is then

1558
01:55:29,940 --> 01:55:33,760
and get that budget in your hands to look at to see.

1559
01:55:34,560 --> 01:55:36,300
I know there's an approval process

1560
01:55:36,300 --> 01:55:38,920
with it where it goes before the entire region,

1561
01:55:39,580 --> 01:55:41,920
or the entire union 54 of the region,

1562
01:55:42,360 --> 01:55:46,200
but at least you'll be versed when you're asked to.

1563
01:55:47,440 --> 01:55:49,260
We got stated, you were talking about one

1564
01:55:49,260 --> 01:55:51,500
that had the central office budget before

1565
01:55:51,500 --> 01:55:55,080
of the region only budget was finalized.

1566
01:55:55,420 --> 01:55:57,380
And so that is what we're working towards.

1567
01:55:57,380 --> 01:56:06,160
So there were two things with the central office is number one that our committee got to see it before we went to the

1568
01:56:06,160 --> 01:56:14,780
Joy school committee whatever on the calendar and number two that we saw the region only budget before we

1569
01:56:14,780 --> 01:56:25,870
approved before we approved the central office of being driven when it happens the other way we still get we still have

1570
01:56:26,910 --> 01:56:33,590
items in the region only that need to be moved and that's, but that's happening this year.

1571
01:56:33,850 --> 01:56:33,930
Right.

1572
01:56:34,110 --> 01:56:34,210
Yeah.

1573
01:56:35,150 --> 01:56:37,730
The other of we...

1574
01:56:37,730 --> 01:56:38,050
Wait a minute.

1575
01:56:38,290 --> 01:56:38,630
I'll try.

1576
01:56:39,310 --> 01:56:39,470
Sorry.

1577
01:56:40,070 --> 01:56:47,030
If I get a swing on that for a couple of things again, just to put this, not to be the naysayer,

1578
01:56:47,030 --> 01:56:51,310
but just to put it on the table, keep in mind that we don't get a lot of numbers.

1579
01:56:51,310 --> 01:56:55,710
numbers are numbers, the true numbers, the real numbers that we're going to have to run with

1580
01:56:55,710 --> 01:56:57,810
until January and early February.

1581
01:56:58,930 --> 01:57:03,170
So keep it at just like the towns don't get some of their numbers until February, because

1582
01:57:03,170 --> 01:57:09,670
some of it, like in place, frankly, for the, yeah, well, between the chapter 70, which will

1583
01:57:09,670 --> 01:57:10,350
come at the end.

1584
01:57:10,350 --> 01:57:13,510
I mean, right now, all we're plugging in there is our best educated guest.

1585
01:57:14,250 --> 01:57:21,190
But the chapter 70, the insurance, all of those at the end of January and early February

1586
01:57:21,190 --> 01:57:24,190
So keep that in mind, that's the first thing.

1587
01:57:24,270 --> 01:57:31,350
The second thing is we are looking seriously at some things that have for years.

1588
01:57:31,930 --> 01:57:37,890
Like we're talking over 30 years being in a budget that we're kind of questioning right now.

1589
01:57:38,530 --> 01:57:47,070
And so we are taking some actions right now to look a little deeper into that and see if there's a better place to house those things.

1590
01:57:47,070 --> 01:57:53,510
I don't know what the answer is, as I sit here tonight, but one of those things is that

1591
01:57:53,510 --> 01:57:57,750
I know Carrie and I've had this discussion, Judy, and I have Tom and you and I have about

1592
01:57:57,750 --> 01:57:58,270
pre-K.

1593
01:57:58,750 --> 01:58:00,470
Is it really in the best place?

1594
01:58:00,930 --> 01:58:02,610
I don't know if it's in the best place.

1595
01:58:03,350 --> 01:58:06,150
And so, you know, we are looking into it.

1596
01:58:06,230 --> 01:58:13,810
We are reaching out to D-E-S-E and E-E-C because that's really where pre-K falls is under E-E-C.

1597
01:58:13,810 --> 01:58:17,330
keep in mind that in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts there are three

1598
01:58:17,330 --> 01:58:23,790
risks of educational government, higher ed, D-E-S-E, and E-E-C.

1599
01:58:24,590 --> 01:58:32,570
Early in-education, yeah. And E-E-C center, I think it's center. And E-E-C really

1600
01:58:32,570 --> 01:58:38,730
is the one that where all of the younger kids stuff is dealt with. So I don't

1601
01:58:38,730 --> 01:58:43,590
know where this is gonna land but we are reaching out like as I speak with both

1602
01:58:43,590 --> 01:58:47,350
to both D-E-S-E and E-E-C on this one topic.

1603
01:58:47,810 --> 01:58:48,970
But that just gives you an idea

1604
01:58:48,970 --> 01:58:51,190
some of the background work that we're still trying

1605
01:58:51,190 --> 01:58:53,350
to push forward to see if we can.

1606
01:58:53,590 --> 01:58:55,490
I don't know if we can do it all this year,

1607
01:58:55,530 --> 01:58:57,150
if we can do some of it this year,

1608
01:58:57,350 --> 01:58:59,930
but we're certainly working hard to make sure

1609
01:58:59,930 --> 01:59:01,710
there's clarity around some of those things.

1610
01:59:02,310 --> 01:59:04,950
Well, I think the key point to it all really is,

1611
01:59:05,330 --> 01:59:06,530
it's not something where it appears,

1612
01:59:06,530 --> 01:59:08,990
but that is identified and it's an actual amount.

1613
01:59:09,310 --> 01:59:09,890
And it's enjoyable.

1614
01:59:10,190 --> 01:59:10,930
It's in one war.

1615
01:59:10,930 --> 01:59:13,430
in the past, so everything got just kind of fluffed

1616
01:59:13,430 --> 01:59:16,530
and everything, so paying off these people's pensions,

1617
01:59:16,530 --> 01:59:19,650
all these people's health care, and identified as

1618
01:59:19,650 --> 01:59:21,150
who they are and who is getting paid.

1619
01:59:21,930 --> 01:59:24,970
That's important because it makes it's much more difficult

1620
01:59:24,970 --> 01:59:27,470
to defend a budget and a budget increase

1621
01:59:28,050 --> 01:59:30,370
when you're not really looking at a range.

1622
01:59:31,750 --> 01:59:35,090
Yeah, I agree, and I think that that particular line

1623
01:59:35,090 --> 01:59:38,770
has been a line of question for a game line before I came here,

1624
01:59:38,770 --> 01:59:44,030
so I think it's just one of those things I'm trying really hard to try. I just don't know whether

1625
01:59:44,030 --> 01:59:50,050
I'll get there or not but we've got we've got action happening. I just want to make it clear

1626
01:59:50,050 --> 01:59:54,690
that just because you're talking about where things are in the budget doesn't mean that has anything

1627
01:59:54,690 --> 01:59:59,250
to do with the quality of the education that's going on. Oh nothing to do with it. I just want to

1628
01:59:59,250 --> 01:59:59,810
This is temporary.

1629
02:00:00,000 --> 02:00:09,760
Yeah, it's purely not a brand, yes, and I was leaving. Where, where's the money coming from? Where's it going and where's it? No, thank you for doing that. Yeah.

1630
02:00:12,020 --> 02:00:14,300
Sorry, thanks, Tom. OK, thank you.

1631
02:00:17,240 --> 02:00:29,620
We'll go over again. It was we had a great session with, uh,

1632
02:00:30,000 --> 02:00:36,360
With Matt and his team and the administrators everybody came prepared and the very collegial

1633
02:00:37,560 --> 02:00:40,260
But you know, we've stopped to start the business

1634
02:00:41,380 --> 02:00:47,260
Right now I've been a process of putting questions so I did I might just have to get them out

1635
02:00:48,560 --> 02:00:54,280
That stemmed at the budget that were concerns of both administration and

1636
02:00:54,280 --> 02:00:56,620
The subcommittee

1637
02:00:56,620 --> 02:01:08,920
What we plan to do is get the draft in your hand sometimes hopefully next week with

1638
02:01:08,920 --> 02:01:13,700
the minutes from the meeting so that you can follow along and see what was discussed.

1639
02:01:14,520 --> 02:01:22,740
And I'll probably put the questions that we asked are probing in our portion of it.

1640
02:01:24,940 --> 02:01:32,200
I'm always open to hearing more back from the team on questions on the road because we

1641
02:01:32,200 --> 02:01:40,020
will meet hopefully December 16th and kind of get our arms around all of that and being

1642
02:01:40,020 --> 02:01:44,760
in a real good position to make whatever decisions we need to make at that point in time.

1643
02:01:46,220 --> 02:01:54,480
But the team did a wonderful job and the subcommittee group was great in helping to develop.

1644
02:01:55,200 --> 02:02:00,840
You know, everybody's had their hands on this and had input, very valuable input.

1645
02:02:01,780 --> 02:02:05,460
We're hoping to continue to see great results for it.

1646
02:02:05,680 --> 02:02:07,060
But thank you very much.

1647
02:02:07,420 --> 02:02:07,760
Great job.

1648
02:02:08,380 --> 02:02:09,160
Is everybody good?

1649
02:02:09,580 --> 02:02:11,600
I just had a quick question about the minutes.

1650
02:02:11,600 --> 02:02:15,220
So, will those be posted on the website so folks can look at those?

1651
02:02:15,820 --> 02:02:16,900
Well, they're always posted.

1652
02:02:17,220 --> 02:02:20,160
Well, we haven't had our budget and finance.

1653
02:02:20,860 --> 02:02:22,400
Well, I don't think so.

1654
02:02:22,520 --> 02:02:24,760
I think they're always successful.

1655
02:02:25,000 --> 02:02:25,580
They're always available.

1656
02:02:25,840 --> 02:02:29,120
We have to find a place to put them all the subcommittees

1657
02:02:29,120 --> 02:02:32,040
and we've gone up on the website.

1658
02:02:32,260 --> 02:02:33,440
We've got so many of them.

1659
02:02:33,760 --> 02:02:34,980
I know there are so many.

1660
02:02:35,660 --> 02:02:36,620
But this is important.

1661
02:02:36,620 --> 02:02:40,960
So that's something that we should take a look at.

1662
02:02:41,400 --> 02:02:42,760
It's just part of the communication.

1663
02:02:43,920 --> 02:02:44,080
Yep.

1664
02:02:44,840 --> 02:02:44,920
Yep.

1665
02:02:45,780 --> 02:02:46,140
OK.

1666
02:02:46,320 --> 02:02:46,600
OK.

1667
02:02:46,820 --> 02:02:46,940
Good.

1668
02:02:47,060 --> 02:02:47,840
Anybody else?

1669
02:02:48,480 --> 02:02:49,560
Any other subcommittees?

1670
02:02:51,480 --> 02:02:55,900
The superintendent's search committee has been meeting.

1671
02:02:56,500 --> 02:02:59,440
We meet again on Monday.

1672
02:03:01,210 --> 02:03:02,720
The survey has closed.

1673
02:03:02,720 --> 02:03:19,380
first we received 250 some responses and we have a summary of those since they were

1674
02:03:19,380 --> 02:03:32,680
mainly open and it questions, there's a lot to read but it was good, it was a good

1675
02:03:32,680 --> 02:03:39,960
250 is good. It's a great response. I think, you know, I mean, if it were 450, then we're just

1676
02:03:39,960 --> 02:03:47,920
even more than ready. So just trying to figure out some of the trends and what they were saying,

1677
02:03:48,200 --> 02:03:56,260
but that that's good. So that's closed. So are we able to see them by or

1678
02:03:58,820 --> 02:04:05,180
no? We don't know,

1679
02:04:05,180 --> 02:04:13,720
600-age detail report on individual responses.

1680
02:04:14,280 --> 02:04:16,340
So the summary is a little bit shorter than that.

1681
02:04:16,620 --> 02:04:18,780
And then you can get individual responses.

1682
02:04:20,620 --> 02:04:25,040
And you can see if they were a parent, a teacher,

1683
02:04:25,340 --> 02:04:32,120
but sometimes it's pretty easy to figure out where they're from.

1684
02:04:34,400 --> 02:04:37,520
But no, you can't really tell it.

1685
02:04:37,600 --> 02:04:39,340
We didn't ask by town.

1686
02:04:43,440 --> 02:04:49,960
So that's that, and then we meet again the following week.

1687
02:04:51,400 --> 02:04:55,500
Applications close next week December 6th, 60th.

1688
02:04:57,580 --> 02:05:03,760
So the post thing has been off for Howell since November 13th.

1689
02:05:03,760 --> 02:05:05,620
So the post thing will be up for Howell.

1690
02:05:11,880 --> 02:05:21,540
We will meet again once before the House and we will select the semifinalists.

1691
02:05:22,300 --> 02:05:29,620
So I read on the agenda that was posted for next week's meeting that it's going to be the broader committee.

1692
02:05:29,620 --> 02:05:34,620
So, who can we ask who are the additional members of the church?

1693
02:05:38,220 --> 02:05:41,760
Kristen Anderson is representing the Central Office.

1694
02:05:43,700 --> 02:05:51,560
The administration that is a Elaine Pender from the elementary schools,

1695
02:05:53,100 --> 02:05:54,380
for the region.

1696
02:05:57,300 --> 02:06:12,340
Teacher Andrew Winston who is a kindergarten teacher at Stony Brook for the elementary schools and Amy Roberts, a Spanish teacher at the high school for the region.

1697
02:06:12,340 --> 02:06:13,140
kind

1698
02:06:19,670 --> 02:06:27,310
of parents, recollection here, I'm going to give you a lot of

1699
02:06:27,310 --> 02:06:31,870
email, no jean, no, no, you're just a major parent.

1700
02:06:35,520 --> 02:06:45,260
Anna Smith from who has a child, a girler boy at the high school, so a parent of a high school

1701
02:06:45,260 --> 02:06:57,540
student and Jennifer Fellows who has a daughter at Eddie and has a middle school

1702
02:06:57,540 --> 02:07:04,220
child daughter and two high school students. I don't know if I can get their

1703
02:07:04,220 --> 02:07:08,780
names, just two high school students, a girl and a boy.

1704
02:07:11,990 --> 02:07:13,010
And so yes, they will be

1705
02:07:13,010 --> 02:07:25,670
join in as for the first time on Monday and hopefully we won't scare them all away but yeah so

1706
02:07:25,670 --> 02:07:32,610
that's that and I don't think that any other so we're going to say regional and regional

1707
02:07:32,610 --> 02:07:42,070
agreement agreement is meeting next week the 10th and just really to get our hands on the new schedule

1708
02:07:42,070 --> 02:07:46,710
for what, you know, an adjusted schedule on what is scheduled because it changes the time

1709
02:07:46,710 --> 02:07:50,890
frame, and also just to discuss methodology more forward, how we're going to handle the

1710
02:07:50,890 --> 02:07:57,710
information what it comes in. So that's it, the deadline date is December 31st, so we

1711
02:07:57,710 --> 02:08:01,570
should start, I haven't seen anything yet, there's been no activity so far.

1712
02:08:12,240 --> 02:08:13,420
Actually, I

1713
02:08:15,980 --> 02:08:24,320
So let's see, yeah, that Capitol Acid Subcommittee met also, and we dealt with a range of topics,

1714
02:08:25,540 --> 02:08:31,080
dealing anywhere from the track at the middle school to a building at the high school

1715
02:08:31,080 --> 02:08:34,600
for all the equipment that they have.

1716
02:08:35,160 --> 02:08:40,900
And so there's all of those things of plans in place as well as also inside the sale of the trailers

1717
02:08:42,580 --> 02:08:47,620
So I will give a more complete update up, I'd like to bring my agenda so I can bang,

1718
02:08:47,700 --> 02:08:48,100
bang, bang.

1719
02:08:48,140 --> 02:08:49,480
And I did not apologize.

1720
02:08:49,820 --> 02:08:52,700
So I will give a more complete letter.

1721
02:08:54,980 --> 02:08:55,260
Okay.

1722
02:08:56,120 --> 02:09:01,540
Also, the Transportation Subcommittee is still meeting, still gathering information.

1723
02:09:02,540 --> 02:09:08,880
I think a clearer report on where we're going, we'll come out in January.

1724
02:09:08,880 --> 02:09:16,700
by January, but right now really gathering information on buses,

1725
02:09:19,340 --> 02:09:22,760
maintenance, etc, etc, etc,

1726
02:09:23,360 --> 02:09:28,300
but I think we're good for now. Our bus fleet is fine for now.

1727
02:09:30,220 --> 02:09:33,900
Communication subcommittee is meeting next week and we

1728
02:09:39,530 --> 02:09:41,030
think that's about it.

1729
02:09:41,030 --> 02:09:47,490
All right, it's a lot. So we're a busy group. Yes, we are. Anything else from you guys out there?

1730
02:09:48,830 --> 02:09:53,290
Anything else? And thank you, Mora for keeping your germs at home.

1731
02:09:53,930 --> 02:10:02,310
We appreciate it. Yeah, not that we don't like to have you here, but only under zero bad circumstances. So the future agenda item?

1732
02:10:03,510 --> 02:10:10,170
Oh, okay, future agenda item. So I just wanted to discuss maybe not now, but in the future about consent agenda

1733
02:10:10,170 --> 02:10:18,750
And I think it kind of came up with one of the members of zoom lands kind of hanging out there.

1734
02:10:19,370 --> 02:10:22,210
I wonder, and I don't know if it's anything I should just mention now,

1735
02:10:22,330 --> 02:10:28,010
I wonder in the consent agenda, we can list all the items on consent agenda instead of just saying a proof,

1736
02:10:28,170 --> 02:10:30,590
because grants of fundraising, can we be specific?

1737
02:10:31,230 --> 02:10:34,090
Like, the grant was a grant for that grant.

1738
02:10:34,230 --> 02:10:34,890
Well, look at this.

1739
02:10:36,110 --> 02:10:36,390
I don't know.

1740
02:10:36,390 --> 02:10:39,650
I only say a look at it because that could get tedious.

1741
02:10:39,650 --> 02:10:45,910
I know, but it's more transparent, and then in public comment, name and talent.

1742
02:10:48,530 --> 02:10:54,530
Generally they should be saying that we might not pay a little.

1743
02:10:55,330 --> 02:10:59,250
I guess because we know Laura, I didn't think that, but yes.

1744
02:10:59,710 --> 02:11:00,890
Oh, same name and talent.

1745
02:11:01,030 --> 02:11:01,730
Just one of the points.

1746
02:11:01,850 --> 02:11:03,510
The three to five minutes, I believe.

1747
02:11:04,450 --> 02:11:05,310
It's three minutes.

1748
02:11:05,630 --> 02:11:05,810
It's three minutes.

1749
02:11:05,810 --> 02:11:06,930
Somewhere it's written three minutes.

1750
02:11:07,990 --> 02:11:14,430
I actually did set the I set my clock for three minutes. Yeah, let me know just put having on the agenda

1751
02:11:14,430 --> 02:11:17,670
It's between three to five. I like to know. Yeah, Judy is

1752
02:11:18,730 --> 02:11:22,890
Giving you the phone, but that's part of the policy. The policy is three minutes

1753
02:11:24,550 --> 02:11:29,630
And you can't do that any of your minutes to anybody else. Yeah, there's no minute trading

1754
02:11:36,510 --> 02:11:50,350
I just wanted to confirm or make sure that we're at we are going to talk about the middle school overnight trips next meeting that will be on the agenda.

1755
02:11:50,350 --> 02:11:52,670
Yes, we will put a card and put that on the agenda.

1756
02:11:53,210 --> 02:11:54,250
Yes, thank you.

1757
02:11:56,100 --> 02:11:56,500
Yep.

1758
02:11:58,560 --> 02:11:59,800
All right, anything else?

1759
02:12:01,600 --> 02:12:03,780
Okay, then we have one more motion.

1760
02:12:05,020 --> 02:12:05,500
Move to the chair.

1761
02:12:06,020 --> 02:12:06,360
So I can.

1762
02:12:07,020 --> 02:12:07,860
All in favor.

1763
02:12:08,820 --> 02:12:08,980
Bye.

1764
02:12:09,540 --> 02:12:09,780
Happy hands.

1765
02:12:09,800 --> 02:12:11,100
Well, thank you.

1766
02:12:11,200 --> 02:12:11,780
Good night, everyone.

1767
02:12:12,080 --> 02:12:12,380
Good night.

1768
02:12:12,940 --> 02:12:13,240
Be kind.

1769
02:12:13,360 --> 02:12:13,640
Be good.

1770
02:12:14,080 --> 02:12:15,160
Feel better, Mara.

1771
02:12:21,410 --> 02:12:22,990
So there was no sound.

1772
02:12:22,990 --> 02:12:24,110
Don't keep doing this.